Biography from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1958. 8vo.Illustrated. 392 pp. Full red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in a dustjacket. Illustrations throughout. Jacket faded at the spine and edgeworn with some tears to the spine and edges. With a burn marking and damage to the edges of pages 18-24, otherwise clean. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1958.

London: W. H. Allen 1949. 8vo. First UK edition. x, 230 pp. Cloth with silver gilt lettering to spine in pictorial unclipped jacket. Chipping and short closed tears to jacket. Small stain to bottom edge of book. Internally clean.Black and white plates. Newspaper clippings on Picasso at rear. Sabartes was a close friend of Picasso and this work is shaped… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. 1896. 8vo. vi, 251 pp. Bickers binding of half calf with green boards; gilt lettering and devices to spine; t.e.g; marbled endpapers. fading to green calf. Internally clean. Morley was a distinguished biographer, particularly of his political hero, Gladstone. Part of the Twelve English Statesmen series. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1896.

London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1919. Small 8vo.Prize Binding. viii, 271 pp. Half red leather with gilt crest of Saugeen School Bournemouth, a prep school, to board; t.e.g. and gilt lettering and ruling to spine. Slight rubbing and warping to binding. Internally clean. Black and white illustrated title page. 18cms tall. . Very Good. Half Leather.… Read more about this item

Amstelædami: Ioannem Ianssonium a Waesberge et Viduam Elizæi Weyerstraet 1668. 12mo. [14], 384, [55] pp. Full calf with blind borders and corner decoration; red title label and gilt lettering to spine; red speckled edges. This is the most famous work of Suetonius, 1st Century Roman historian, printed in the original Latin. This 1668 edition of 'Twelve Caesars' comprises biographies of… Read more about this item

Milano: Casa di Gio. Battista Bidelli 1645. 4to. [20], 132 pp. Full vellum with raised bands, morocco title-label, gilt lettering and gilt accents to spine. A wonderfully well-preserved copy of this 1645 illustrated biographical history of the twelve viscounts of Renaissance Milan by Paolo Giovio in the original Italian. Clean boards with a blind border and minimal scratching to title-label.… Read more about this item

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1956. 8vo. xvi, 707 pp. Crushed morocco Zaehnsdorf binding; gilt lettering and ruling and raised bands to spine; a.e.g.; gilt-decorated turn-ins and patterned endpapers. Very light scattered foxing. Ludwig asserts in the preface that his studies of historical figures 'are designed to be nothing more than friezes or Gobelin tapestries, in which the moods… Read more about this item

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited 1913. 8vo. First edition. 325, [6] pp. Publisher's gilt-decorated and lettered cloth. Spine sunned and foxing to fore-edge and prelims, with previous owner's name in pencil, otherwise clean. . Very Good. Publisher's Cloth. First Edition. 1913.

London: Heinemann 1957. 8vo. First Edition. xxxiv, 226 pp. Cloth in unclipped pictorial jacket, with later price sticker. Some slight wear to jacket extremities. Internally clean. Contains a number of pages of photographs. McCarthy, the American critic, recounts her upbringing in Minneapolis with her father's family, after her parents died in the 1918 influenza pandemic. . Near Fine. Cloth. First… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber 1965. 8vo. First Edition. 288 pp. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine in unclipped jacket. Minor rubbing to jacket. Internally clean. The Jamaican author, Andrew Salkey's copy, with his page marker notes. E. R. Dodds, MacNeice's literary executor, edited this work using unfinished material from the author. . Near Fine. Gilt Lettered Cloth. First Edition. 1965.… Read more about this item

London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1949. 8vo. [v], 354 pp. Hardcover in unclipped pictorial jacket. Light rubbing and edgewear to jacket. Internally clean. The first portrait of the writer to be published, benefitting from the full co-operation of Joyce himself. With a portrait by Augustus John and eight full-page photo-montages. . Fine. Hardcover. 1949.

London: Jonathan Cape 1966. 8vo. First Edition. 352 pp. Gilt-decorated cloth in pictorial unclipped jacket. Some chipping to jacket extremities, in particular at head of spine. Slight spine lean and light mark to bottom edge. Internally clean. Published two years after Fleming's death and until this extensively researched work from a former colleague, much of Fleming's life remained unknown. .… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited 1949. 8vo. First Edition. 271 pp. Teal cloth with lettering to front board and gilt lettering to spine in illustrated and clipped jacket. A number of tears and areas of loss to the jacket. Minor bumping and rubbing to book extremities and front joint a little loose . Ink ownership mark, otherwise quite clean internally.… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1995. Large 8vo. x, 486 pp. Brown hardback in illustrated dust jacket. Light marks to edges and minor bumping to spine ends. Light tanning to top edge of jacket but overall in clean and very good condition. Internally clean with no markings and many black-and-white photographs in the middle section. 0297812998 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First… Read more about this item

Basingstoke: Privately Printed by Macmillan 1984. Small 8vo. Privately printed for Macmillan Publishing staff. 41 pp. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. This memoir of Harold Macmillan was published to mark his ninetieth birthday in February 1984, with the late Prime Minister being the grandson of the co-founder of the publishing company, Daniel MacMillan.… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited 1942. 8vo. First Edition. 278 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Some fading and sunning to jacket, which has a few small tears. Foxing to edges, but internally clean. Jacket is not price clipped. The second portion of Sassoon's autobiography covering the years 1907-1914 and the author's exploration of the literary world in… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus 1932. 8vo. Scarce. First Edition. xiii, 296 pp. Orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight marks to boards. Internally clean. Frontispiece portrait of Lawrence. The book's first printing contained passages regarded as libelous by John Middleton Murry; his threats to sue for libel resulted in the publisher withdrawing unsold copies of the first edition from… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph 1963. 8vo. First edition. 192 pp. Very light shelf wear, foxing to fore-edge. Small tear to top edge of front panel, small white paint marks to spine. Internally clean and bright. In this memoir, Alice Toklas documents, among others, her close friendship with Gertrude Stein. Stein had previously encouraged Toklas to write an autobiography, which Toklas had… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton 1969. 8vo. First Edition. 219 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket. Jacket has some rubbing and wear, with a few short tears. Minor bumping and marking to boards and spine. Generally internally clean. Uncommon. Dent was a friend of Leigh's. 0241018064 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1969.

Norwich: Michael Russell Publishing Ltd 2004. 8vo.Presentation Copy. Presentation copy. 381 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket. Slight creasing to jacket extremities, but otherwise a clean, fresh copy. Includes black and white photographic and illustrated plates. Author's inscription to ffep. 0859552853 . Fine. Hardcover. 2004.