Search Results: Biography from David Ford Books

London: The Nonesuch Press 1923 Edited and with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Edward Garnett. With a Photogravure Portrait and an Original Sketch. HB, 1st Ed, limited to 1,000 numbered copies of which this is number 958. Brown buckram with pale paper title label to spine (spare title label tipped to reverse rear endpaper). Some very slight darkening to board edges, minor bumping. Brown dust jacket has tiny chips to corners, 1.5cm loss to front fold. Dust jacket split along length of spine, chipping to head, lacks bottom 15cm with slight loss along front and back (now in protective sleeve). Laid in card from Arthur Ponsonby, British Consulate General. A VG copy in Good DJ.

London, Edward Arnold,& Co. 1936 Hardcover, First reprint, in dustjacket. A collection of about eighty articles, essays reviews and poems covering many subjects. A Very Good book in a Very good price clipped but striking dustjacket. Previous owners name and date to front end-paper. Pictures available.

London: Profile Books, 2006 First edition, first impression. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 198pp. Biography and analysis of Adam Smith which also argues that modern attempts to co-opt his philosopy by right and left are misreadings. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1991 First edition thus. Signed by the author to two friends, on title page. Paperback: pictorial card wrappers. 135pp. Eight pieces of writing, based on the author's life and experiences as a political radical in the San Francisco area, of which had previously been published in periodicals. Fine. Light rubbing to edges of wrapper.

Boston, London, Little, Brown and Company, 1995 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 662 pages with illustrations. The life of one of the greatest photographers ever and a leading figure of the visual arts in America. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949 First edition. HB. Black cloth, gilt title to spine and pictorial dustjacket showing colour imahe of Hatfield House, the family seat. 262pp. With 12 b&w photos and illustrations in plates. The author's life against the background of the political and social changes of the twentieth century, which he was involved at the League of Nations, as politician, and barrister. Good in Very Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Pages clean though with spotted edges and endpapers. Jacket also browned in places, and with some foxing; small losses to corners and spine ends.

London: Chatto & Windus, Secker & Warburg 1946 Hardcover book, second impression with dustjacket. A Selection from his works - South Wind, Siren Land Old Calabria, Alone and others. A Very Good-near Fine book in a Fine unclipped dustjacket, . No inscriptions in the book. Pictures available.

London: Boardman & Co Ltd 1950 A Biographical Study of Peter Kropotkin, Russian Revolutionary. Hard cover book, first printing, 463pp, endpaper maps, frontis of Kropotkin. Some very slight sunning to front top edge, silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket spine darkened, ight rubbing to spine fold of dust jacket with some tiny chips to top edge. A near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket.

London: Allen Lane, 1981 First edition. HB. Brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, and dustjacket showing colour photo of Eden to front. 528pp. With 13 b&w illustrations in plates. Detailed, mainly political, biography of Eden. A Fine clean copy, with slight colour fade to photo on spine. Photos available.

Leicester, brockhampton Press Ltd, 1964 First illustrated edition. Hardcover book . Yellow cloth lettered in black, and dustjacket 191 pages. Illustrated by Richard Kennedy. War-time farming life in Suffolk. A Very Good, near Fine copy in a near Fine unclipped dustjacket. No inscriptions pictures available. Nice copy.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. First edition A portrait of one of the great minds of twentieth century medicine. HB, 1st ed, xvi, 227pp, with b/w illustrations and photographs. V light edgewear to dust jacket. A VG+ copy and DJ.

London: Heinemann 1936 With a preface by Frank Swinnerton. 1921 - 1931. HB, 1st ED, xix, 329pp, frontis. Slight spotting along board edges. Dust jacket tanned to spine, sunned strip top back, some light chipping. A VG+ copy in still VG DJ.

London: Hutchinson, 1969 First edition of this Danube edition. Hardcover book, . Cloth and dustjacket.414 pages Grey endpapers. With Preface by Koestler. The first volume of autobiography by Koestler covering his first twenty-six years. A Fine copy, without inscriptions in a near Fine price-clipped dustjacket. Pictures available

London. Putnam And Company Limited. 1959. Hard Cover. First Edition. In dust jacket. 63 pages, 1 photograph of Henry Miller on pre lim page. This book is a triptych between three friends and writers, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell and Alfred Perles. A near Fine copy in a Very Good price clipped dustjacket. No inscriptions Pictures available.

London, Chatto and Windus, 1926 Hardcover book, first edition , 434 pages no dustjacket. Lewis's theories on such topics as Revolution and progress, Agricultural thought, The Small man,Vulgarization and political decay,family and feminism. A very Good copy with sunned spine and slightly faded colour of blue boards. Previous owners name and date and light foxing. Pictures available.

London, John Murray ,1932 Hardcover, First edition , 320 pages with illustrations. The History and events that occured during this historic time of book publishing by John Murray. Covering a period of world events and discoveries including Darwin's Origin of Species. A Very good copy bound in dark blue cloth with white title panel. lightly rubbed at corners foxing to prelim pages . no inscriptions. Pictures available.

London, Hutchinson & Co ,1936 Hardcover book, third impression in dustjacket. HisLife in his own words by the Author of the Father Brown stories. 347 pages, portrait frontis plus other illustrations. A Very Good copy in a Good but worn dustjacket with small edge losses and wear No inscriptions, Pictures available.

London, I. B. Tauris, 2003 An autobiography of successful barrister Sir Oliver Popplewell, tracing his upbringing, his time at Cambridge and his work at the Bar. Foreword by Stephen Fry. HB with dust jacket. xiii, 313pp. 23 B&W illustrations. Dedication signed by author on title page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: John Murray 2004 Diaries 1985 - 1987. Edited by Michael Bloch. Softcover 1st Edition thus, 258pp, Fine copy, no inscriptions, pictures available.

London: Chatto & Windus 1988-1992 4 volume biography. The Search for Love 1856-1989; The Pursuit of Power 1898-1918; The Lure of Fantasy 1918-1950; The Last Laugh 1950-1991. Pictorial endpapers and illustrations throughout. Volume 1 has previous owner's inscription to title page. Hardcover. A near fine set in VG+ DJs.