Search Results: Biography from Carnegie Hill Books

London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. Octavo. 324 pp; illustrations by Jonathan Barrow. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. The author's memoir of his youngest brother, Jonathan, who was killed in a car crash at age 22, along with his fiancee. Jonathan left behind the manuscript of a novel, "The Queue", in which, among other things, he prophesied his own death. Filled with fascinating and fantastical anecdotes, Animal Magic documents a heady and peripatetic childhood in Lancashire, the Lake District and Wiltshire, misadventures at home and school, and the early working life of the two brothers - on the lower rungs of show business, backstage at Claridge's, and finally in advertising.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Dial Press, 1996. Second printing. Octavo. 334 pp; b/w illustrations; b/w photos. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; bottom front corner lightly bumped, unclipped jacket with no creases or tears. The author is the oldest of Stanford White's great-granddaughters.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Viking Press, 1949. Octavo. x, 389 pp, illustrated with 16 pp of b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near fine/VG; jacket has small chip to top of front panel and near the heel and a couple of small closed tears and light edgewear. The chronicle of James J. Walker, New York City's 100th mayor, known to millions as "Jimmy".. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1995. First American edition, first printing. Octavo. 234 pp; 18 b/w illustrations; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A memoir of the circle of intellectuals in early 20th-century London known as the Bloomsbury group. The author writes candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister), Vanessa's lover Duncan Grant, and of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, and others who frequented Gordon Square in Bloomsbury and Charleston, the Bells' country place in Sussex.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2010. First printing. Octavo. 258 pp; 8 pages of b/w photographs; family trees; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, several early pp with red ink underlining; unclipped jacket with minimal wear. Laid in: book review clippings from several newspapers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Random House, 2011. First edition. Octavo. 625 pp; 16 pp color photographs; select bibliography; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket bright, slight creasing at head of spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Collins, 1964. Octavo. 255 pp. Gilt-lettered blue cloth, no jacket. VG. Historical novel set in the time of the Punic wars, as two Greeks traders negotiate their businesses deals and survive the conflicts between the Carthaginians and the Romans.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: William Morrow & Company, 1980. First edition. Octavo. 475 pp; numerous illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

VT: Steerforth, 1998. First edition. Octavo. 367 pp; b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine... First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Viking Press, 1967. First American edition. Octavo. 312 pp; illustrations by William Nicholson; bibliography; index. Burgundy cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, old dampstain near top of fore edge, only visible on 3 pp, else a bright, clean copy; jacket lightly chipped at spine ends.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 275 pp; a few b&w photos; note on the author. Cloth backed boards in unclipped dj. NF/NF. A loving tribute to the British writer Iris Murdoch by her husband of forty years.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. First U.S. edition. Small quarto. 192 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Front free endpaper has vertical crease, top corner gently bumped, else VG/VG. Biographies of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition. Octavo. xix, 407 pp; b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Letters written over the course of three decades shed light on Williams' works, his friends and colleagues, and his dependency on alcohol and drugs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Octavo. 403 pp; b/w illus. Blue cloth with gilt decoration on cover in dustjacket. VG/VG, bottom corner chipped, light edgewear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. Second printing. Octavo. Unpaginated, color illustrations throughout. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Random House, 2012. First printing. Quarto. 333 pp; well-illustrated with color & b/w photographs. Orange paper-covered hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy with tight binding; unclipped jacket with slight wear to bottom of spine. A memoir from Grace Coddington, Vogue's longtime creative director, and a former model.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. First U.S. edition. Octavo. 248 pp, illustrated with b/w photographs. Cloth with dj. VG/VG-, dj lightly rubbed, price-clipped. Laurence Whistler, British poet and glass engraver, and the younger brother of Rex Whistler, tells the story of his life with the actress Jill Furse.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First American edition. Octavo. x, 238 pp; b/w photographs; 4 drawings by the author; extracts from letters; bibliography; some books consulted; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket with moderate wear - 1-in. x 1-in. chip at top edge of front panel, spine ends lightly chipped, small loss at top edge of back panel, a few short edge tears, rubbing & two tears at front flap fold. Biography of novelist, poet, essayist, critic, playwright, cinematographer, and artist Jean Cocteau, which includes a critical history of his creative work. His friends included Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Satie, Picasso, Raymond Radiguet, and the Six.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Second printing. Octavo. 208 pp; frontispiece & 11 b/w photographs; index. Green cloth with gilt lettering in dj. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has light edgewear. Dame Edith Sitwell was 69 when she invited Elizabeth Salter, a young Australian, to be her secretary. Over the next eight years she became friend, confidante and aide-de-camp, in the thick of the crises, the controversy and the celebrity that surrounded the British poet and critic.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Octavo. xii, 210 pp; several b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.