Biography
A Personal Remembrance
London, Duckworth, 1924.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A personal remembrance of the author Joseph Conrad, by the author Ford Madox Ford. Uncommon in the dust-jacket.
Biography
a Record of Happy Memories
London, Frederick Muller, 1939.
First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author, with autograph letter in original envelope tipped in. 8vo. Original blue cloth.
Inscribed and with contemporary autograph letter from the author to the prolific Welsh writer on arts, architecture and sport, Walter Shaw Sparrow, referencing the book and favourable reviews it had received.
London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered & ruled in gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A mock-heroic autobiography addressed to the author's son, recounting tales of adventure and derring-do in post-War Russia and Eastern Europe.
Biography
more uncensored celebrities
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1919.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
A stunning, sharp example of this 1919 publication, by the editor of John Bull magazine and wrote a number of biographies of British political figures and celebrities.
Biography
with drawings by Low, Matt, Horrabin and others and a foreword by Oliver Baldwin.
London, Philip Allan, [1930].
First edition. 8vo. Original yellow boards. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Humorous reflections on the leading British politicians of the day, illustrated by the well-known caricaturists of the era.
Biography
A story which began in China
London, Cape, 1947.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.
The autobiography of the daughter of a Chinese diplomat, reflecting on her experiences and education in England and the USA, and her time learning to paint in France.
Biography
New York, Sturgis & Walton, 1910.
First US edition. 8vo. Original red cloth gilt.
The fourth and final book of non-fiction by Stoker, exposing various impostors and hoaxes from history. Scarce in such excellent condition.