Biografia

YOU'VE HAD YOUR TIME Being The Second Part Of The Confessions Of Anthony Burgess [SIGNED]

Anthony Burgess · 1990 · Dodman Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Heinemann, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Burgess' signature inscribed to title page. All in neat VG internal condition, with stock well toned and lightly dust-spotted to top of block. Dark red boards are VG with bright gilt titling to spine and very light bumping. D/j sho...

The Life Of Graham Greene Volume One 1904 - 1939

Norman Sherry · 1989 · Dodman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Block is in near fine internal order with just some minor marking to exterior edges. No inscriptions. Black boards are clean and smart with crisp gilt titling to spine. D/j is unclipped with price sticker to the foot of front i...

The Story Of Henry V

L Du Garde Peach · 1962 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

Loughborough, Wills & Hepworth, 1st Edition, Nice, bright, three colour map to front and rear pastedowns. Neat and tidy interior with minor spotting and signs of pencilled name to title page but otherwise VG. Beige boards have light bumping to foot at front and sharp blue titl...

Facing Up [SIGNED]

Bear Grylls · 2000 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London, Macmillan, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing, Third printing of first edition. D/j is clipped with light creasing at top of spine. Dark blue boards lightly marked to rear with some surface wear to front, and a little crushing to top and bottom of spine. Upper board leads a lit...

Memoir Of Bishop Mackenzie

Harvey Goodwin · 1864 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Cambridge, Deighton, Bell, And Co, 1st Edition, First edition, complete with frontispiece, fold-out maps and coloured lithographs, though part of fold-out view of Lake Shirwa is missing. Otherwise and bar light toning to stock, all is in VG, clean and bright internal order. No...

TOSHER ELLIOT (Lt-Col Walter Robert Elliot MC)

His Friends And Family · 1964 · Dodman Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Privately Published, Memorial volume to military man and initiator of numerous international welfare initiatives. Presentation copy to Brigadier B Chichell Cooke "with every good wish from Tosher's family" and signed by G B Ellliot to half title. Stock toned, but otherwise all...

WHIRLPOOL HEIGHTS The Dream-House On The Niagara River

Julia Cruikshank · 1915 · Dodman Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st Edition, Charmingly written account of life in a barn by Niagara Falls, and the Edwardian 'dream house' that was never built. Not that Cruikshank minds, taking delight in the solitude and natural surroundings of her acre by the whirlpool and t...

August Strindberg

Martin Lamm · 1971 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

New York, Benjamin Blom, 1st Edition, First English language edition, translated from the 1948 Swedish imprint by Harry G Carlson. Stock toned and lightly spotted to block edges, moreso to top, but pages are clean and bright internally. No inscriptions. Light shelfwear to deco...

OOTLIN A Memoir [SIGNED]

Jenni Fagan · 2024 · Dodman Books

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,693)

London, Hutchinson Heinemann, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Well regarded memoir, signed by Fagan to title page. All in VG+, crisp, clean and bright internal order. Smart green boards showing very light shelfwear only, with bright gilt titling to spine. Upper board leads slightly...

The American Ideal

Arthur Bryant · 1936 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Longmans, Green And Co, 1st Edition, Biographies of leading Americans. A few minor spots to block edge, but these rarely intruding on to pages which are otherwise in VG clean and bright order. No inscriptions. Light wear and a little marking to red cloth, dulled to spi...

Paths Of Happiness

Lord Mottistone (General Jack Seely) · 1938 · Dodman Books

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,693)

London, Hodder And Stoughton, 1st Edition, Memoir focused on finding happiness in all of life's activities, often, in Mottistone's experience, involving horses. Light toning to stock, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Colour plates showing well. No inscriptions. Light we...

Whereas I Was Blind

Ian Fraser · 1942 · Dodman Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Edition, Fascinating and well written memoir from Fraser, blinded in the First World War, subsequently MP, Governor of the BBC, successful businessman and life peer. Stock lightly toned with minor spotting to edge of block and endpapers, but oth...

HELL'S CARTOGRAPHERS Some Personal Histories Of Science Fiction Writers

Brian W Aldiss; Harry Harrison (eds) · 1975 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st Edition, Autobiographical musings from Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, and the editors Harrison and Aldiss. Some minor marking to edge of block, but internally all is in VG order. No inscriptions. G+ unclipped...

The Innocent Eye

Herbert Read · 1933 · Dodman Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Faber & Faber, 1st Edition, Well regarded account of Read's rural Yorkshire childhood, attractively illustrated with two wood engravings by De La Mere and a mono plate from Marc Chagall. Some spotting to edge of block only occasionally intruding onto pages which are ot...

The Life Of Graham Greene Volume Two: 1939-1955

Norman Sherry · 1994 · Dodman Books

£13.75 (€16.48 | $18.17 | ¥2,902)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1st Edition, Greene at the height of hos powers. All in VG+, crisp, clean and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Very light wear only to smart black boards with bright gilt titling to spine. VG+ unclipped d/j. This is a charity sale for Friends of M...

CRAZY SUNDAYS F Scott Fitzgerald In Hollywood

Aaron Latham · 1972 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1st Edition, First UK edition, and bar spotting to edges of block, in VG, clean and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Smart red boards with bright gilt titling to spine. VG unclipped d/j, lightly worn to edges and a little marked to rear. This i...

THOMAS WOLFE A Biography

Andrew Turnbull · 1969 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, The Bodley Head, Well regarded biography of Wolfe. Bar light dust spotting to top of block all in VG internal order. Smart black boards with bright gilt titling to spine. Good unclipped d/j showing a little edge and surface wear, moreso to rear. This is a charity sale...

Home Before Dark

Susan Cheever · 1985 · Dodman Books

£11.75 (€14.09 | $15.53 | ¥2,480)

London, Weidenfeld And Nicolson, 1st Edition, A personal memoir of John Cheever by his daughter. A little dust spotting to top of block, but otherwise in VG, clean and bright order throughout. No inscriptions. Smart brown boards with bright gilt titling to spine. VG+ unclipped...

JAMES JOYCE A Definitive Biography

Herbert Gorman · 1949 · Dodman Books

£37.50 (€44.96 | $49.55 | ¥7,914)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 3rd Printing, Third impression of this well produced Joyce biography with its attractive G R Morris photo-montage illustrations. Spotting to block edge, but this rarely intruding onto pages, which are in VG clean and bright order. No inscript...

THE INVISIBLE WRITING Being The Second Volume Of Arrow In The Blue An Autobiography

Arthur Koestler · 1964 · Dodman Books

£9.25 (€11.09 | $12.22 | ¥1,952)

London, Collins/ Hamish Hamilton, 1st Edition, Spotting to edge of block, but internally all is in VG order, bar offset toning and minor spotting to endpapers. A little edgewear to red cloth, with bright gilt titling to spine. Good clipped d/j, a little worn and grubby. This ...