Biographies
New York: Putnam, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Salmon cloth, stamped in gilt art deco design. Fifty black & white photographs. Fine, in very good, lightly sunned, dust jacket. First edition. Born to enormous American wealth, Barney conducted an international salon in Paris for over sixty years which was frequented by.....
Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1979. Pictorial stapled deep blue wrappers. First edition. Forward by Frank Constantine; twelve page introduction by Frances Spalding, with notes. Forty-six items are listed in the exhibition; list of over seventeen book jackets, their original designs for Virginia Woolf and others, along with a selection.....
London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, [1984]. Octavo. Bright green cloth boards, gilt spine. 181 pp. Black & white family photo illustrations. Remainder mark at top edge, neat gift inscription to front pastedown, else near fine, in a price-clipped pictorial dust jacket with lovely illustrations by the author.First.....
[New York: Harper, 1998]. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth, teal boards, gilt spine. 116 pp. First edition. Clean and bright, remainder mark on upper edge, else near fine in likewise, unclipped, delightfully pictorial dust jacket.Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury tells the story of a sickly marmoset who came into the.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. Bright green loth, paper spine label. Frontis, five plates. With the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Little Purdy. Label darkened, else a near fine copy, lacking the jacket. A must for Bloomsbury collectors.First edition. Dedicated to his friend John Maynard Keynes, Strachey presents his biographical portraits.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. Cloth. Thirty-two illustrations. First British issue, bound up from U.S. sheets. Near fine in pictorial dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1958. Hardcover. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and plates. Negligible corner creases, or folds, in a few early leaves, otherwise about very good in a lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Photographs, including an intriguing 1960 photo of de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Fidel Castro in a powerboat. Translated from the French by Lisa Nesselson. A review copy with the publisher's publicity sheet laid in.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Tall, narrow quarto in yellow padbound printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proofs of the first edition. Filing label across bottom edge, else about fine.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth and decorated boards. Frontispiece portrait, illustrated with line cuts, two halftones, and facsimiles. About fine in a very good dust jacket with a thin abrasion to upper panel. First edition. "Letters published here for the first time tell the.....
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt purple cloth. Frontispiece. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket with H. D. on a film set. First edition. An intellectual and historical approach to H. D.'s late poetry that challenges feminist approaches that have tended.....
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition. Cream paper pictorial stiff wrappers, printed in black. Cover attributed to Vanessa Bell, though not cited in text. 46 pp. 8½ x 5½" Wrapper darkened, chipping at spine edges, faint circular (cup?) stain on upper panel;.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Decorated sewn wrappers, printed label. Black and white photographs. Wraps have a smudge on the upper panel and are fairly dusty, bookplate of noted Hogarth Press collector William Beekman to verso of upper panel, else very good. Very rare in commerce.First edition.....
London: Jonathan Cape, [1930]. Bright green cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine very faintly sunned, gilt bright, some fox marks along top edge, but a very good copy, without dust jacket. Laid in is a publisher's prospectus for two novels by E. Arnot Robertson, THREE CAME UNARMED (1929), and CULLUM (1928).....
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1957. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Gilt black cloth. Photographs. First British printing of the second edition, newly revised, with a prologue and epilogue. About fine in near very good dust jacket with some small chips, a quarter-sized coffee spot, and a faint doodle on the rear.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt medium brown cloth. Frontispiece portrait. First edition. Twenty-seven plates; illustrations by Eric Kennington, four maps, printed in red and black, by Herry Perry. Prospectus for Charles M. Doughty's "Travels in Arabia Desert" tipped in between pages 448 and 449. Cloth lightly soiled.....
Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926. Octavo. Red and black mottled cloth, paper spine label. 91 pp., 6 ¾ x 4 ¼. Six photographic plates. Spine label chipped and lettering worn off, small nick on spine which is rubbed crown and toe;.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth. Portrait frontispiece, two further portraits in text. First edition. Near fine in a somewhat dusty, price-excised dust jacket with only minimal signs of use. ROBERTS F5.
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]. First American edition. Small quarto. Pale green cloth, gilt spine. 128 pp. 136 black and white illustrations. Bibliography, chronology, list of illustrations, and index. Dust speckled at top edge, remainder mark at bottom, else a very good copy in a good, unclipped.....
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pink cloth-textured boards, gilt spine lettering. First edition. Black and white photographs and plates. Near fine in very good, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket.
[New York: Writers and Readers, 2001]. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by [Silvina] Piero. Near fine. First edition. A "documentary comic book" that illustrates and illuminates everything you need to know about Iris Murdoch and her work so that you can be stunningly erudite at any Oxbridge cocktail party you may find.....
[New York: Lipper / Viking, 2000]. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth and pictorial boards. [12],195,[1]pp. Ten black and white photographs. Short bibliography. About fine, in a lovely dust jacket with a vignette cut to expose the portrait of Woolf on the upper boards.First American edition, issued in the "Penquin Lives".....
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1925. Teal blue wrappers, paper label. First edition. Light use at edges, else about fine, and absolutely hilarious.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, hardbound trade issue, of the first volume of the author's autobiography. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Lightly shelf rubbed at bottom edge, else fine in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black.....
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 109 of one hundred twenty-five copies, signed and numbered by the author, of the fifth installment of his autobiography. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust.....