Search Results: Biographies & Memoirs from Ripping Yarns

Rochdale: Ernest Collinge. Hardback. Good. Green boards with gilt lettering to front board. Corners and spine bumped. 57pp. Black and white plate to frontispiece. Published c. 1913. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

London: Heinemann, 1935. 1st Edition . Maroon boards 336 pp. b&w illus. Faded spine otherwise good.

North Carolina: BookSurge, 2008. 1st Ed. . Paperback. Very Good. Paperback, 234pp. ''as tidied up and adapted into English by Frank Gagliano'. Dedicated and signed with his initials by Gagliano on ffep. Spine indicates unread.

London: Putnam, 1959. Hardback. Good+. With an intermission by Henry Miller." Red cloth boards, 5½ x 8½ inches. Gilt lettering to spine. 63 pp, list of works by Henry Miller at back. Photograph of Henry Miller as frontispiece. Boards slightly bumped at corners, neat inscription by former owner to ffep; otherwise a very good tight copy.

Melbourne: Black Inc, 2004. 1st Edition. . Paperback. Good+. Large paperback, 371pp. Slightly bumped at some corners and ends of spine. Good+ clean and unmarked.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardback. Good. Blue cloth spine, red boards, 211pp. mempir by the radical writer and recorder of 1960s campus politics. Dedicated and signed by Rader. Ex-library book with usual stamps and cardholder to final pastedown, faded at spine. Good tight copy.

Hulton Press, 1957. 1st Edition . 'Illustrating varieties of experience in the lives of the illustrious and the obscure'. Arranged alphabetically by subject matter. Grey boards 445 pp. A little faded on the spine otherwise very good.

London: Hammond, Hammond & Co., 1947. Brown boards 295 pp. WH Smith library copy. Good.

London: George Allen, 1949. 1st Edition. . VG-/Poor. Yellow cloth boards, 5 x 7½ inches. Upper panel of dustwrapper laid in. Foxing to title page, slight spotting to page edges.

Jonathan Cape, 1970. 1st UK Edition. . Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth hardback with dustwrapper. Boards and dustwrapper slightly bumped at edges, some ink stains on back of dust wrapper, back board and page edges, some folded page corners, otherwise very good

London: Chapman & Hall, 1911. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good. Black cloth boards with green & gilt design of serpents round an apple tree. Small price stamp and green decorated label on front paste-down. Boards slightly scuffed, rubbed at edges, frayed at bottom of spine. Good. Size: 6 x 9 Inches

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardback. VG/G-. Edited by Margaret I. Cole. Introduction by Lord Beveridge. Covers a key period of British history. Includes snapshots of figures like Lloyd George, Tagore, Kamenev, etc. 272 pp. 8¾ x5½ inches. Black clothbound hardback, gilt lettering, red unclipped dustjacket. Scuffing to dustjacket at spine and edges. Rips to dustjacket at spine. Marks to back cover. Contents excellent.

London: T.C & E.C. Jack. Hardback. Good. Green cloth boards, 4.5 x 6.5 inches, gilt titles to front and spine. 99 pp, black and white frontispiece shows portrait of Dickens. Boards bumped at corners and top and bottom of spine; rubbed at edges; endpapers slightly browned with neat ink inscription to ffep. Pages roughly cut. No date but inscribed 1921. Good. Size: 4 x 6 Inches Approx

The Society for Theatre Research, 1967. 1st Printing. . Paperback. Good+. Paperback; corners sl. bumped, a few small markings on covers. B/w photo of Craig (oppos. title pg.) by Arnold Rood. 117 pp; very good. Orange covers. Size: 8½ x 5½ Inches

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. 1st Thus. . Hardback. Very Good/Good+. Blue boards, unclipped dw, 287pp. Dw bumped and scuffed at corners with a tear to front of jacket and ends of spine, but good and complete. Book itself very good.

London: Waddington Galleries, 1980. Paperback. Good. Corners and spine bumped Size: 9 x 7 Inches Approx

London: Alexander Moring The De La More Press, 1904. Hardback. Good+. Blue boards with cream spine, corners and spine slightly bumped. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. 99pp plus index. Good, tight copy. Part of the King's Classics Series. Size: 5 x 6 Inches

London: Shola, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. Photographic paper covers, 5½ x 8½ inches. 344 pages. The autobiography of 'the outstanding Western scholar of Urdu of his generation.' '.insights into life through three decades - the Yorkshire country childhood, the scholarship-boy outsider at a local public school, the Communist in 30s Cambridge, wartime India, Mrs Dyson's bedroom.' Very good.

Sussex: The Book Guild, 1988. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Good+. Blue cloth boards with gilt decoration to spine, unclipped dustwraper, 217pp. Dw a little creased and bumped at edges but book itself good, clean and tight. Size: 5.5 x 6 Inches

London: Penguin, 1954. A.J.Johnson.. Paperback, classic blue Penguin cover. Ink inscription to front and inside of front cover, a good tight copy