Published by Farrar and Rinehart, 1932
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 252 pages. Moderate wear to the edges; pages tanned; a little staining to some page edges; a good solid book overall. The dust jacket is chipped, torn and stained. "Personal story of the rake of modern letters." Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 199673.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very light wear to the binding. The white stamping of the spine title has mostly flecked off over time. No distortion from improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. no sun fading. No dust jacket.
Published by John Lehmann, 1949
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: USED_GOOD. 1949. First Edition Thus. 176 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Heavy sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Tape over spine. Books has a backward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
Published by Faber and Faber, 2009
ISBN 10: 0571255043 ISBN 13: 9780571255047
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
PAP. Condition: NEW. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Published by John Lehmann, London, 1949
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. blue cloth, gilt lettering and design, 176 pp, ends of spine lightly worn, top edge lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Published by New York, The Greystone Press, 1, 1937
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Noticeably aged / worn / yellowed. Dust jacket has some wear and tear, mainly along the edges.
Published by Biografia, London, 1987
ISBN 10: 1852890002 ISBN 13: 9781852890001
Hardcover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Revised Edition. "Short, sympathetic for the most part, but occasionally venemous, Kingsmill's brilliant portrait of a self-made Victorian literary hero captured the outrageous boastfulness and vanity of the man while subjecting it to the acid test of truth." Ships same or next business day. Book has small bumps on spine ends, spine is slightly tilted; overall, pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge and shelf wear, small creases on spine ends. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pages.
Published by John Lehman, London, 1949
Seller: Clevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative, Clevedon, United Kingdom
No Binding. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Blue cloth boards; slight wear round edges; author & title in gilt on spine in a brown box edged in gilt; pbl in gilt on spine. Cut edges tanned, foxed. Endpapers clean; Text block tight, pages clean; list of other books by author on back of half-title page. Part of the Holiday Library Series. No jacket.
Condition: USED_FAIR. . Hardback. Keywords: Biography. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1932
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. black cloth, silver lettering, no dust jacket, 252 pp covers worn on the edges spine sunned Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Published by John Lehmann
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Condition: USED_FAIR. . Hardback. Keywords: Biography. Not a first edition copy. . . .
Hard Cover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Printing. Publisher's full brown cloth, silver lettering on front and spine. . Bottom of spine a bit faded and shelf-worn, pages slightly yellowed from age and uncut, else clean, tight, square, and unmarked. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 252 pp.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1932
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 254pp. Spine lettering rubbed thus very good in soiled and age-toned near very good dustwrapper.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1932
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Cover illustration by Lester Rondell. 252pp. Black cloth with silver titling. Faint foxing on topedge and spine, else near fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with several tiny chips and holes, and small abrasions.
Published by London: Duckworth, 1929
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. 1st Edition. Spine slightly faded, and showing some wear at head and tail, covers somewhat marked. With the bookplate of the author's biographer Sir Michael Holroyd (overlaying old ownership inscription), and his few marginal marks; ticket of the Times Book Club. Dedicated, "TO ARTHUR DAWE IN A TALK WITH WHOM THE IDEA OF THIS BOOK ORIGINATED, AND IN MEMORY OF A LONG FRIENDSHIP". "The four studies in After Puritanism," writes Holroyd in his Kingsmill biography, "are all informed and penetrating, the theme linking them together . . . being Kingsmill's contention that Puritanism 'instead of passing tranquilly away around about 1820 was kept alive throughout the Victorian age with artificial stimulants'." The essay on Butler is "masterly".
Published by London: John Lehmann, 1949
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Spine slightly faded. First Holiday Library edition ("Specially revised for this edition"; book first published by Jonathan Cape, 1932), with the numerous marginal pencillings, underlinings and rear-endpaper notes of Sir Michael Holroyd, the author's biographer; fragments of dustwrapper loosely inserted. Kingsmill's Times obituary rated his biography of his sometime hero as "an extremely adroit performance, which ruthlessly shattered a never entirely secure legend". Holroyd calls it "a minor classic". "From the time of our first encounter," wrote Kingsmill's friend Hesketh Pearson to Malcolm Muggeridge, "I was constantly urging [Kingsmill] to write on Frank Harris, especially as he had already made the old rascal a leading figure in his first novel, The Will to Love." "Harris," Muggeridge responded, "was a kind of hobby of which he never tired, and I think his Frank Harris is one of the most humorous and delightful biographies in the English language.".
Published by John Lehmann, London, 1949
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. NO JACKET. Slim pocket size Hardback 1949. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 5859.3.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. 1932 Farrar Press. Good solid copy, mild to moderate reading/age wear, no DJ if issued, may have some light markings or exowner inscription. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
Published by Argus Book Shop, Inc., Chicago, 1934
Seller: Cambridge Books, Cambridge, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. 1st Edition. 75, [1] pages 22 cm. The title continues: ". libels, to which is added a reply to George Bernard Shaw, a refutation of Dr. G.J. Renier's statements, a letter to the author from Lord Alfred Douglas, an interview with Bernard Shaw by Hugh Kingmill". A very small bit of wear in the original stiff card covers.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1932
Seller: Letters Bookshop, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good plus. Emil Otto Hoppe (illustrator). 1st Edition. 256pp (last leaf blank), photographic frontis print (by Hoppe); charcoal linen, jacket (7s 6d net, on flap); 207 x 143 x 30 mm. Kingsmill's colourful expose of cultural inferno & literary gadfly, the inimitable Irish-American writer & editor Frank Harris, his onetime friend & mentor (who styled himself "god's spy"). Published 20 July 1932, less than a year after Harris died (26 August 1931), a first stab at cutting through the hyperbole surrounding the celebrated literary monstrosity, by the one biographer close enough to capture his likeness full palette. A fresh copy, marred only by the inclusion of clippings on pastedowns; in a moderately dusty jacket with toned spine, missing only a small triangle at heel of lower joint. Ex libris, Joyce Hooper, with her ink autograph on ffe. Though the clippings are all British (dating from 1947 to 1960), the book may have been acquired by Hooper with them, leaving the possibility that the signature might yet be that of the otherwise unlikely American screenwriter (given that she was born in 1936). As the signature remains unverified, its inclusion is merely noted. A scarce volume, especially in jacket.