Cooper, Artemis

Elizabeth Jane Howard.  A Dangerous Innocence

London, John Murray, 2016

First edition, first printing.  Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Signed by the author to the title page.  Laid in is ticket for the signing event.

Biography of the author Elizabeth Jane Howard.  Artemis Cooper interviewed her several times, talked to her family and friends and had access to all Howard's papers in the preparation of this book. 

Ford, David Nash

Mid-Berkshire Town and Village Histories

Wokingham, Nash Ford Publishing, 2020

First edition, paperback original. Fine as issued in colour-illustrated laminated wraps.

David Nash Ford's berkshirehistory.com is already a well-known resource for historians at home and abroad. This is the second book in the Berkshire History series, following East Berkshire Town and Village Histories.  

(N.B. This book will be posted direct by the author, so will not be subject to the usual stated delays.)

Ford, David Nash

East Berkshire Town and Village Histories

Wokingham, Nash Ford Publishing, 2020

First edition, paperback original.  Fine as issued in colour-illustrated laminated wraps.

David Nash Ford's berkshirehistory.com is already a well-known resource for historians at home and abroad. This is the first book in a projected series of books on Berkshire history.

(N.B. This book will be posted direct by the author, so will not be subject to the usual stated delays).

Treglown, Jeremy

V. S. Pritchett.  A Working Life

London, Chatto & Windus, 2005

First edition. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Biography of V S Pritchett:  journalist, author, critic, described as the finest short story writer of the 20th Century.

Adam Sisman

John Le Carre. The Biography.

London, Bloomsbury, 2015

First edition, first printing.  Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Written with exclusive access to David Cornwell, friends and family and to his archives.  Heavy book, may therefore be posted by second class mail within the UK.

Byatt, A. S.

Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time

London, Nelson, 1970

First edition.  Fine in dark brown cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in Near Fine dust jacket with minor creasing at head of spine.  No inscriptions, not price-clipped.

A. S. Byatt analyses the nature of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge at the time of great social, economic, political and literary change in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England.  Numerous monochrome illustrations.

Colvin, David

Aubrey Beardsley, A Slave to Beauty

London, Orion, 1998

First edition.  Fine in very near Fine dust jacket.

Aubrey Beardsley was the most famous and notorious artist and illustrator of the fin de siècle.  He was only 25 when he died of tuberculosis, but his work had a profound effect on his contemporaries, including Oscar Wilde.

Conradi, Peter J.

A Very English Hero.  The Making of Frank Thompson

London, Bloomsbury, 2012

First edition.  Fine in  Fine dust jacket.

Poet, war hero, intellectual idealist, lover of Iris Murdoch.   Peter Conradi tracks his short life and heroic death as a member of the SOE in Bulgaria.

Cope, Wendy

Life, Love and The Archers, recollections, prose & reviews

London, Two Roads, 2014

First edition. Fine in Fine dust jacket.  Signed by the author to the title page.

Wendy Cope achieved instant fame with her first collection of poems Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis.  This entertaining book comprises of writing drawn from published and unpublished work.   

Galloway, George

The Fidel Castro Handbook

London, MQ Publishing, 2006

Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with minor shelf wear (small format hardback).

Signed by the author.

The extraordinary life of Fidel Castro  -  from rural childhood, through guerilla struggle, to Cuban leader.  Liberally illustrated with monochrome photographs.

Greene, Graham (introduced by Judith Adamson)

Reflections

UK, Reinhardt Books, 1990

First edition. Fine in Fine (slight fading to spine) dust jacket.

/selection of previously published travel reports, essays and reviews.

Hare, David

The Blue Touch Paper.  A Memoir

London, Faber & Faber, 2015

First edition, first printing.  Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Signed by the author to the title page.  Ticket for the signing event loosely laid in.

Short-listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Biography Prize.

Powell, Neil

Amis & Son.  Two Literary Generations

London, Macmillan, 2008

Very Near Fine (minor shelf wear) in Fine dustjacket.

Purdey, Mark.  Purdey Nigel, editor

Animal Pharm. One man's struggle to discover the truth about Mad Cow Disease and variant CJD.

Clairview Books, East Sussex, 2007.

Paperback original.  Fine as issued in printed wraps.

The remarkable autobiography of Mark Purdey, an organic farmer from Somerset, who, convinced of the dangers of over-use of agricultural chemicals, achieved world-wide fame for the research which led him to challenge the orthodox line on the origins of Mad Cow Disease and variant CJD.

Shakespeare, Nicholas

Bruce Chatwin

London, Harvill, 1999

First edition, first printing.  Very Near Fine in Fine protected dust jacket.  Signed by the author to the title page.

Bruce Chatwin was a Director at Sotheby's, Sunday Times journalist, socialite, author and explorer, but was seen by many as an enigmatic loner.

 Nicholas Shakespeare was given exclusive access to Chatwin's notebooks, diaries and letters.

Summerscale, Kate

Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace.  The Private Diary of A Victorian Lady

London, Bloomsbury, 2012.

Fine in pale bue boards with gilt decoration and titles and without dustjacket as issued.

Tomalin, Claire

Thomas Hardy.  The Time-Torn Man

London, Penguin Viking, 2006

First edition, first printing.  Fine in  Near Fine protected dust jacket with wraparound band depicting "Signed copy".  Signed without dedication to title page.   Fascinating biography of complex author and poet.

Yorke, Malcolm

Eric Gill.  Man of Flesh and Spirit

London, Constable & Company, 1981

First edition.  Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.  No inscriptions and unclipped dust jacket.