Biografia

According to Dora

BRYAN, DORA IS ASSOCIATION WITH KAY HUNTER · 1987 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: The Bodley Head, 1987. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Pp 198 + 16pp monochrome halftone photographs. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Spine sunned else Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust-jacket. .

A Monkey Among the Crocodiles

THOMPSON, BRIAN · 2000 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London, Harper Collins, 2000. First edition. Paperback. The Life, Loves and Law Suits of Mrs Georgina Weldon. 1st edition. Uncorrected proof copy in printed wrappers. Very Good+.

Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence

DENT, ALAN (ED) · 1952 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Victor Gollancz, 1952. Hardcover. 1st edition. Minor spotting to fore-edge else a nice copy in publisher's red cloth stamped in gold on spine. dust-jacket a bit worn at edges and spotted at the folds. .

Edgar Wallace: The Biography of a Phenomenon

LANE, MARGARET · 0 · The Glass Key

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London, William Heinemann, nd. First edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Pp xii + 423 with frontispiece and 48pp of plates. Green cloth a little rubbed and edges slightly spotted else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding without dust jacket. Very Good .

Portrait of Churchill

EDEN, GUY · 1946 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, London: Hutchinson, nd (1946?), nd [1946?]. No edition stated. Hardcover. No edition stated. 8vo. Pp 144 + frontis & 10pp monochrome halftone plates. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Cloth faded and marked especially the spine. Very Good without dust-ja...

The Two Villages

ELTON, LORD · 1949 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, London: Collins, 1949, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 8vo. Pp 190. Grey cloth boards stamped in green on the spine. Very Good in slightly edge-rubbed dust-jacket. Very Good/near Very Good.

Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw a Correspondence

ST JOHN, CHRISTOPHER (ED) · 1931 · The Glass Key

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Constable, November 1931. Hardcover. 2nd edition (reset). Blue cloth stamped in gold on the spine. Fore-edge uncut. A nice copy without dust-jacket. .

Writers' Gallery: Biographical Sketches of Britain's Greatest Writers and Their Views on Reconstruction

BROOK, DONALD · 1944 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London, Rockliff, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 8vo. Pp 168 + frontis and 22pp b&w photographs. Includes Vernon Bartlett, Vera Brittain, Noel Coward, Compton Mackenzie, J. B. Priestley and H. G. Wells. Black cloth boards stamped in white on the spine.^ A clean,...

Frank Harris

PULLAR, PHILIPPA · 1975 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 8vo. Pp xii + 419 + 16pp of monochrome halftone plates. Inscription by previous owner in ballpoint pen on flyleaf scored through in black felt pen else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and spine-su...

John Bull's Schooldays

INGLIS, BRIAN (ED) · 1961 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Hutchinson, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Pp 160. Tan cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Very Good without dust-jacket. Very Good .

The Blood Rushed to My Pockets

FOA, G. R. · 1957 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: John Calder, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton. Blue cloth boards faded at edges otherwise a Very Good copy without dust-jacket. Very Good .

Memories of John Galsworthy

REYNOLDS. M. E. · 1936 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Robert Hale, 1936. Second impression. Hardcover. 2nd impression. 8vo. Pp 128 + frontis & 23pp tissue-protected monochrome halftone photographs. White cloth spine stamped in gilt with sides of blue cloth on boards. Very Good without dust-jacket. Very Good .

The Second Mrs Hardy

GITTINGS, ROBERT AND JO MANTON · 1979 · The Glass Key

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London, Heinemann, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 8vo. Pp x + 150 with monochrome illustrations throughout. Burgundy cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Slight wear to top corners of front free endpaper and half-title else Very Good in Very Good price-cli...

Oppenheimer: The Story of a Friendship

CHEVALIER, HAAKON · 1966 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Andre Deutsch, 1966. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Pp xvi + 219. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket. .

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

ALI, TARIQ · 1988 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Fontana, 1988. First printing of this edition. Paperback. 1st printing of this paperback edition. Pp viii + 280. Rear cover is scuffed and light reading creases to spine else Very Good in printed wrappers. near Very Good .

Mozart's Letters

BLOM, ERIC (ED) · 1968 · The Glass Key

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. Paperback. 3rd impression of this mass market paperback edition. Pp vii + 277. Cover rubbed and reading creases to spine else Very Good in printed wrappers. .

Looking Backwards - and Forwards

LANSBURY, GEORGE · 1937 · The Glass Key

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Blackie, 1937. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of the cheap edition. 8vo. Pp xi + 243 with frontis. Cream cloth boards stamped in red on the spine and the upper panel. Ink inscription of ownership on ffe else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight bi...

An Edmund Wilson Celebration

WAIN, JOHN (ED) · 1978 · The Glass Key

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Oxford, Phaidon, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 8vo. Pp x + 182. Grey cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Includes contributions from Clive James, John Updike, Angus Wilson and Larzer Ziff. Near Fine in near Fine dust-jacket. Near Fine/near fine.

The Dead Beat: The Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries

JOHNSON, MARILYN · 2006 · The Glass Key

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London, Souvenir, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Pp vi + 247. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Fine in Fine dust-jacket. Fine/fine.

Maestro : Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom

WOODWARD, BOB · 2000 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Pp 269 + 16pp monochrome halftone photographs. Blue cloth spine with sides of blue paper on boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine in near Fine dust-jacket. .