Biography from David Ford Books

Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1992 Hardcover book, first edition thus in dustjacket. 451 pages with illustrations. The history of the Hogarth press from the drawing room of Hogarth House . A Very Good near Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Previous owners small name label to front end paper. Pictures available.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 126 pages with illustrations. The story of the Bloomsbury group of intellectuals, writers , artists . A Very Good copy in a Very Good slightly worn dustjacket, Light foxing to top closed page edges. Previous owners small address label to front end paper. Pictures available.

London, The Hogarth Press, 1990 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket, 444 pages. The Early journals of Virginia Woolf from 1897-1909. A near Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Previous owners name label to front end paper. Light foxing/ tanning to top closed pages edges. Pictures available.

London: Longmans, Green and Co 1920 2 volume set. Hardcover books ,the third edition. Book Vol 1 - the Smyth Family Robinson (.. to 1877). and Germany and Two Winters in Italy (1877-1880) xvii, 301pp, 4 musical quotations. Book Vol 2 - Germany and Two Winters cont (1880-1885), and In The Desert… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann 1938 1st ed Her autobiography. Hardcover book xiv, 278 pages with 8 illustrations. Foredge foxed with light scattered foxing throuhgout. Spine ends rubbed and some minor spots to front board. Previous owners small name label and inscription to front end-paper. A Good copy. Pictures available.

London: Longmans, Green & Co 1960, Hardcover Book , first edition in dustjacket. Vol II . I Am My Brother, 1st ED, viii, 326pp, 13 plates. Some spotting to foredge, dust jacket has light chipping to ends and corners, price clipped. No inscriptions A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. The History of Violin Playing… Read more about this item

London, Faber and Faber, 1964/74 Two Volumes , first edition, each a Hardcover book in dustjacket.Ottoline at Gardsington is an ex-library book with scuffed front end-paper and library stamps. 308 and 304 pages with illustrations . Both volumes are Very Good with Very Good jackets . Previous owners small name label to front end paper. Jackets very… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1929 Second impression, November 1929, of illustrated edition. Hardcover book . White cloth, black titles, and black and red printed vignettes to front and back covers; no dustjacket . 296pp. With pictorial endpapers and 7 b&w illustrations in plates by Nicholson as well as line drawing vignettes by him as chapter headings and tail-pieces. Sassoon's… Read more about this item

London, Chatto and Windus, 1929 Hardcover book, first edition , 303 pages no dustjacket. Lewis's theories on colour and race. ever controversial subjects. Includes publishers promotional flyer. A very Good copy with white velum? spine and black boards. Previous owners name and date and light foxing. Pictures available.

London, Rupert Hart-Davis,1953-1972 Hardcover books, the complete five volume set in dustjackets . Every book is a first edition in dustjacket. Book 1 ,1953. The Untried Years 1843-1870, 356 pages with illustrations. Book 2. 1962The Conquest of London, 528 pages, illustrations. Book 3 . 1963,The Middle Years, 1884-1894, 340 pages, illustrations. Book 4 1969. The Treacherous years, 1895-1901, 352… Read more about this item

London, Chatto & Windus, 1931 Hardcover book, First Limited edition No 128/260 Signed by the author on limitation page. 63 pages . Tomlinsons study of the author Norman Douglas. A Very Good copy with blue cloth spine and marbled covers. Pictures available.

London: HarperCollins, 1993 First edition, first impression. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 585pp. With b&w photos in plates. The first full biography of Gavin Maxwell, by a friend who reveals the complexity of the man and who acknowledges how difficult he could be in personal relationships, at the same time showing the range of his achievements. Very Good… Read more about this item

London, Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket. 378 pages with illustrations. The husband of Katherine Mansfield, and intimate of D.H. Lawrence Murry was a editor, critic and author of around 40 books. A Very good, near Fine copy in a near Fine unclipped dustjacket with very small loss to bottom of jacket… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus 1967 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket Bound in blue cloth, with illustrations. A Fine copy in a near Fine dustjacket Very slight sunning and feint mark to jacket spine, no inscriptions. Pictures available.

London, John C. Nimmo, 1888 Hardcover Books, Limited edition of 500 copies . The Autobiography of Cellini italian goldsmith and sculptor . Two volume set with engraved portrait and eight etchins by F. Laguillermie and eighteen reproductions of works by Cellini. Book 1, 321 pages. Book 2, 455 pages Red covers with Black … Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1966-1988 Eight volume mixed set of the definitive biography of Churchill, the first two volumes written by his son Randolph, and continued after the latter's death by the historian Martin Gilbert from Vol.III to VIII. A Very Good set. Details of each volume: Book Volume I. (1966). First edition. Youth 1874-1900. 608pp. B/w… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head 2012 The second volume of biography concludes the most comprehensive life of Nelson ever written. Hardcover book , 1st edition, 1st impression. 1020pp, 33 illustrations, 7 maps. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1972 Hardcover Books, Two volume set , later impressions . Signed by Quentin Bell to Half- Title Page of Volume One. The classic biography by Virginia Woolf's nephew. Book volume one is a fourth impression Volume two is a second impression. Near Fine set in near Fine unclipped dustjackets Photos available.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf The Viking Press, 1966 Hardcover book, in dustjacket, First edition possibly later impression. not so much an autobiography but a book of memories by the two sisters. Signed and dedicated by Rumer Godden to title page. Also enclosed is a typed and signed letter from Rumer Godden in Scotland, with additional hand-written notes.… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1977 Hardcover book, fourth edition, with a prologue and epilogue. Signed by Robert Graves - Deya 1978 to title page . Cloth and dustjacket. 306 pages Pages slightly tanned , Book has the book plate of Jose Agorriz-Melgar, poet and author . corner of half- title page has been snipped ( possibly… Read more about this item