Biography - English Authors from Goldring Books

London: Faber and Faber, 1994. A near Fine unmarked copy which has age toning to closed edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 417 pages. 51 illustrations. The book includes the diary Alan Bennett kept during the production of his first play, Forty Years On, which starred Sir John Gielgud, together with hilarious… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 324 pages. 22 illustrations. Facsimile letter of Swift to endpapers. Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer and wit, Swift is best known as the author of 'Gulliver's Travels'. In this biography, Victoria Glendinning investigates the main events and relationships of Swift's life… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1972. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION. 275 pages. 21 plates, endpapers and 8 sketches by E.H. New circa 1900 and 19 maps and plans including one large fold out map (which is in Fine condition). This is the first comprehensive survey of the Thomas Hardy country… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 346 pages. 54 photographs. The publication of Kingsley Amis's Memoirs is, of course, a major literary event. But reading them is also like a fascinating evening's talk in the pub in the most congenial and entertaining company. … Read more about this item

London: Secker and Warburg, 1960. Silver title on blue boards, spine faded, a Boots label to front but generally clean and unmarked. Internally darkened endpapers and some foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. A story of a passenger ship before the Second World War, it's interesting passengers and it's sinking later by a German submarine. … Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 2009. A near Fine unmarked copy in a dustjacket which has a little creasing to top edge and is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xiv + 706 pages. 102 illustrations. A diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful obesrvation, providing a compelling record of… Read more about this item

London: The Quality Book Club, 1964. A Very Good unmarked copy with Very Good dustjacket which is not price clipped. 224 pages. Nancy Spain put the finishing touches to this enchanting book only a few days before the tragic day of the Grand National, when she took off in a small plane with Joan Werner Laurie, and they… Read more about this item

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1987. A Fine unmarked coy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 192 pages. 84 illustrations. From Palm to Pine offers a new approach to one of England's greatest writers, Rudyard Kipling. Kipling travelled extensively and his poetry, stories, novels and leters are imbued with the sights and sounds of East and West.… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. 530 pages. 42 illustrations. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) was a comic writer of genius best known for Bertie Wooster and his omniscient manservant Jeeves; the pig-loving Lord Emsworth - and a regiment of aunts and butlers. But although Wodehouse and his work have become… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 2018. An As new copy in As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 311 pages. 26 photographs. The novelist, who, at the age of five, decided that she would become a writer, describes her idiosyncratic childhood. Her father was a famous actor and film director , her mother was known… Read more about this item

London: Headline, 2006. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped.xv11 + 302 pages. 64 illustrations. Catherine Cookson (1906-1998), the illegitimate daughter of an Irish barmaid, was born in a two room apartment in a run-down area of dockland on the south bank of the Tyne. Forty four years later her debut novel 'Kate Hannigan'… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjaket which has small repaired closed tear. xiii + 398 pages. 39 illustrations. The captivating and beautifully written memoir follows Adams from his birth in 1920 to the end of the Second World War. His childhood was a happy one and his father was a keen amateur naturalist, and from him his… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 1979. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 208 pages. 74 illustrations. Second impression corrected for errors in the first edition. Lord David Cecil's book is intended neither as a straightforward biographical narrative of Jane Austen's life, nor as a study of her as author; but rather as an attempt, with the… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1988. 3 VOLUME SET. Gilt title and facsimile signature on black boards. All volumes Fine and unmarked with Fine dustjackets, one of which is price clipped. Volume I - viii + 486 pages. 37 illustrations ISBN 0701133325 Second Impression 1988. Volume II - ix + 422 pages. 38 illustrations ISBN 0701133503 First Impression 1989. Volume III… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Courage, 2000. Gold titles on blue boards which are unmarked with a touch of shelf wear to lower edge. Internally unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket by T. Kirk is also VG+. A large format volume of 192 pages. Illustrated throughout. J.R.R. Tolkien's admirers form an international community of writers, scholars and artists. This richly illustrated anthology… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton, 2015. A new unread copy with new dustjacket which is not price clipped. However there is a very small flaw to the front of the dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. xxv + 310 pages. 14 black and white and 10 colour illustrations. In this unique and lovingly detailed biography of a literary family… Read more about this item

London: Doubleday, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 524 pages. 43 illustrations. Robert Graves (1895-1985) was one of the greatest poets and polymaths of the 20th century whose long life matched the intensity of his imaginative output. This new biography, published to mark the centenary of his birth, is made with the… Read more about this item

London: Eyre Methuen, 1980. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from an inscription to front endpaper) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 338 pages. The book is not a conventional sequel to Christopher and His Kind but it begins in 1939 when Christopher Isherwood arrived in America where he was to meet Swami Prabhhavananda, the head… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1985. a near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small indentation to lower front) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 215 pages. The Letters of Oscar Wilde were highly acclaimed when they appeared in Rupert Hart-Davis's magisterial edition in 1962. They won new admirers when a selection was published in paperback… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiii + 178 pages. 17 illustrations. Famous in his time as 'the handsomest young man in England' and the heroic soldier-poet of World War I, Rupert Brooke is a classic example of a man undone by his legend. Having inspired… Read more about this item