Works on Paper . The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
by Holroyd, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0316856789
- ISBN 13
- 9780316856782
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Little, Brown & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316856789 . Black boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. There is very light tanning to the top page fore-edge, otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. (xiv) + 319 pp. Overall, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, 'Fine' copy. "Michael Holroyd opens this volume with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then goes on to examine the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of fiction in biography, and the revelations of some extravagant autobiographers, from Osbert Sitwell to Quentin Crisp - to which he adds some adventures of his own. In particular, an important and unpublished piece, "The Making of GBS", a story of internecine literary warfare. The book ends with a series of satires, celebrations, apologias and polemics which throw light not only on Michael Holroyd's progress as a biographer, but also his record as an embattled campaigner in the field of present-day literary politics." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 112148
- Title
- Works on Paper . The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
- Author
- Holroyd, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0316856789
- ISBN 13
- 9780316856782
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0316856789, Works On Paper . The Craft Of Biography And Autobiography;, Michael Holroyd;, Katherine Mansfield; Rudyard Kipling;, E. M. Forster; H. G. Wells; Evelyn Waugh;, Anthony Powell; Bernard Shaw; Bloomsbury;, A Passage To India;
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- Eng Lit, Lit Crit & Shakespeare;
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Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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