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29580 A O J Cockshut
THE IMAGINATION OF CHARLES DICKENS
Collins, London - first edition 1961 Blue cloth bound hardcover 8.5" x 5.5" 192 pages Demonstrates the continuous development and enrichment of Dickens's mind and art from Pickwick Papers to Our Mutual Friend (excludes his unfinished Ed...
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39533 Alan Sillitoe
LIFE WITHOUT ARMOUR, An Autobiography,
Harper Collins, London - ISBN:0002555700 1995 hardcover, 6¼" x 9½", with dust jacket 275 pages Alan Sillitoe's reputation as novelist, poet, and short-story writer has increased in stature in the decades following the success of his classic nove...
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29831 Albert Glover Dr. (Intro)
THE WORKS OF D H LAWRENCE
Wordsworth Poetry Library, UK 1944 Softcover 7.75" x 5" 352 pages The poetry of D H L, first published in 1928 in two volumes, now here as a single paperback volume; arranged by Lawrence 'to make up a biography of an emotional and inn...
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38226 Alison Waley
A HALF OF TWO LIVES,
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London - ISBN:0297781561 1982 hardcover, 6" x 8¾", with dust jacket 326 pages When renowned oriental scholar, translator, and Bloomsbury Group member Arthur Waley died in 1966, it came as a shock to even his oldest friends to fin...
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35184 Alison Waley
A HALF OF TWO LIVES,
McGraw-Hill Book Company, publishers, New York - first US edn. ISBN:0070678073 1983 hardcover, 5½" x 8½", with dust jacket 326 pages When renowned oriental scholar, translator, and Bloomsbury Group member Arthur Waley died in 1966, it came as a shock to even his oldest friends to fi...
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40211 Angela Bull
NOEL STREATFEILD, A Biography,
William Collins Sons, London - ISBN:0001950444 1984 hardcover, 5¾" x 9¼", with dust jacket 254 pages Noel Streatfield has received praise and recognition for her children's books for over fifty years. After ten years as an actress, she began a new car...
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29692 Ann-Marie Moodie
LOCAL HEROES: a Celebration of Success and Leadership in Australia
Prentice-Hall, Sydney © 1998 Maroon cloth bound hardcover 9" x 6" 308 pages With gold type to spine, and dust jacket. A series of interviews with prominent Australians, including writers Bryce Courtenay (8 pages), Elizabeth Joll...
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36955 Annabel Farjeon
MORNING HAS BROKEN, a Biography of ELEANOR FARJEON,
Julisa MacRae Books, publishers, London - ISBN:0862032253 1986 hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dust jacket 314 pages Eleanor Farjeon once wrote a hymn which became a huge favourite in its time - 'Morning Has Broken' - it went on to become a popular music hit. But of ...
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37993 Anne Summers, with Foreword by Ruth Park
DUCKS ON THE POND, An Autobiography 1945 - 1976,
Viking / Penguin, Melbourne - first edition 1999 White cloth bound hardcover, 9½" x 6", with dust jacket 438 pages With type to front, gold endpapers and translucent dust jacket. An award-winning journalist, prime ministerial adviser, founding memb...
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31043 Annie Commire
SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR Facts & Pictures about Contemporary Authors & Illustrators of Books for Young People [3 vols]
Gale Research Co., Detroit 1971 & '72 hardcovers, 11 1/4" x 8 1/2" 780 pages Volumes 1, 2 & 3. Illustrated board covers, light-blue endpapers, literally hundreds of b&w photographs and drawings. These volumes provide an almost personal i...
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29583 Arthur Manning
LARGER THAN LIFE, the Story of Eric Baume
A H & A W Reed, Sydney - first edition. 1967 Black cloth bound hardcover 8.75" x 5.5" 184 pages With gold type to spine, and dust jacket. Biography of journalist, radio commentator, war correspondent, novelist, and TV personality Eric Baume. Th...
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29785 Arthur Miller
TIMEBENDS, A Life
Methuen, London - corrected edition 1988 Softcover 7" x 4.25" 614 pages Here's Harold Pinter's summation: "A book and a half. Arthur Miller is that very rare bird, a truly independent man. His autobiography is a beautifully structured narra...
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29610 Axel Madsen
HEARTS AND MINDS, the Common Journey of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre
Morrow, New York 1977 Fawn boards 9.5" x 6" 320 pages With gold type to salmon spine, red endpapers; and dust jacket.Many photographs and extensive Bibliography. Here are the most renowned & accomplished couple (50 years ...
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30779 Brenda Niall
MARTIN BOYD, a Life
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1988 hardcover, 9.5" x 6.25", with dust jacket 268 pages Red cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, fifty-six b/w photos, Notes on Sources, Bibliography, Index. Biography of complex, Anglo-Australian...
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29851 Bruce Grant (ed)
ARTHUR AND ERIC, an Anglo-Australian story from the Journal of Arthur Hickman
Heinemann, Melbourne - first edition 1977 Brown cloth covered hardcover 9.75" x 6" 214 pages With gold type to spine, and dust jacket. Postumously published diaries of journalist Arthur Hickman (UK literary life, etc) and his relationship wi...
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29669 C P Snow
THE REALISTS, Portraits of Eight Novelists
Macmillan, London - first edition. 1978 Black cloth bound hardcover 8.75" x 5.5" 254 pages With silver type to spine, and dust jacket. C P Snow turns his attention to the greatest 'realistic' writers - Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky...
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34547 Cecil Edwards
THE EDITOR REGRETS, City Extra,
Hill of Content, publishers, Melbourne - first edition ISBN: 85572045 1972 hard cover, 6¼" x 9½", with dust jacket 212 pages Inscription to title-page SIGNED BY AUTHOR ("To Win, This should bring back memories, Your loving brother, Cecil'). The author was Editor of the Melb...
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37247 Charles Burkhart
HERMAN and NANCY and IVY: Three Lives in Art,
Victor Gollancz, publishers, London - ISBN:0575023449 1977 hardcover, 5½" x 8¾", with dust jacket 126 pages Here they are! Three incongruent, extraordinary Arts personalities … Herman Schrijver with his extravagant charm; Ivy Compton-Burnett, so alarmingly d...
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33525 Charles Osborne
THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF AGATHA CHRISTIE,
William Collins Sons, London - first edition ISBN:0002164620 1982 hardcover, 6¼" x 9¼", with dust jacket 256 pages Charles Osborne has compiled a 'professional life' of Agatha Christie, providing authoritative information on each book's provenance, on the work itse...
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38852 Christine Sutherland
ENCHANTRESS, Marthe Bibesco and Her World,
Farrer, Straus & Giroux, New York - ISBN:0374148147 1996 hardcover, 6¼" x 9¼", with dust jacket 318 pages Born at the turn of the twentieth century in Bucharest, Princess Marthe Bibesco had looks, talent, and a cosmopolitan education. This courageous, unco...
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