COLERIDGE: SELECTED POEMS
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831324
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poet's sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of Coleridge as the metaphysical dreamer and rediscovering him as a Romantic autobiographer of tremendous power and range. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxiv and 357 pages including index. ISBN: 0002555794. SIGNED by the author, Richard Holmes (no dedication), to title page. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faintly sunned/faded to spine and a little scuffed.

COLERIDGE: DARKER REFLECTIONS
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831323
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Biography. The long-awaited sequel to Coleridge: Early Visions, chronicles the last thirty years of his career (1804-1834), a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage foundered, his opium addiction increased, he quarreled bitterly with Wordsworth, and his son, Hartley (a gifted poet himself), became an alcoholic. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 622 pages including index. ISBN: 0002555778. Ribbon page marker is frayed at bottom. Boards and contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faintly sunned/faded to spine and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

WILLIAM HAZLITT: THE FIRST MODERN MAN
Written by Duncan Wu.
Stock no. 1831321
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Wu's sparkling biography recovers Hazlitt for our time - a restless, passionate idealist whose voice helps us to see his times and our own more clearly. Light tan cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. 557 pages including notes and index. xxvi and 557 pages including index. ISBN: 9780199549580. Light rubbing to base of spine and a few minor knocks to lower edge of boards. Else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

HESTER: THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF DR JOHNSON'S 'DEAR MISTRESS'
Written by Ian McIntyre.
Stock no. 1831320
Published by Constable. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Hester Thrale's relationship with Samuel Johnson has been the subject of endless speculation. She was his sparring partner, his most intimate confidante, his 'Dear Mistree' - and one of the most remarkable women of her time. When her husband died, rumours flew that she would wed Johnson. Instead, she blighted her relationship with her daughters by marrying their Italian music master - a bold step which scandalized London society... Crem cloth boards, pink foil title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiii and 450 pages including index. ISBN: 9781845294496. Faint reading crease to spine. Boards and contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned/faded to spine and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

ELIZABETH GASKELL: A HABIT OF STORIES
Written by Jenny Uglow.
Stock no. 1831316
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography of the author, Elizabeth Gaskell. This is the story of a woman and a writer, not a matron, who had a compulsive 'habit of stories', and 'could write anywhere, under any conditions'. And what she wrote of “political and industrial unrest, crime and illegitimacy, a tribe of Amazons making do without men in Cranford, a tragic and scandal-tinged biography of Charlotte Bront“ was far from women's proper literary sphere of domestic realism, though Gaskell explored this too in her last novel, Wives and Daughters. Green cloth boards, cream title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xiii and 690 pages including index. ISBN: 0571151825. Light vertical reading crease to spine. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned and a small mark to lower edge. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light page browning. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners, slight sunning/fading to spine, light scuffing to rear panel.

COLERIDGE: EARLY VISIONS
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831315
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Holmes devotes careful attention to Coleridge’s childhood, arguing that it contains the seeds of much of his later suffering, as well as the behavior that previous biographers have tended to criticize. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xvi and 409 pages including index. ISBN: 0340283351. Reprint in the same year as first publication. Text block lightly browned. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and a little scuffed.

SAMUEL JOHNSON
Written by John Wain.
Stock no. 1831314
Published by MacMillan. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography of Samuel Johnson who was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Light grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w ilustrations. 388 pages including index. ISBN: 0333132009. Light browning to top & tail of spine, text block a little grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and lightly rubbed.

MUSIC AT MIDNIGHT: THE LIFE AND POETRY OF GEORGE HERBERT
Written by John Drury.
Stock no. 1831313
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

George herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry. In this book John Drury sets the poetry in the whole context of the poet's life and times, so that the reader can understand the frame of mind and kind of society which produced it, and depth can be added to the narrative of Herbert's life. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour maps to endpapers. B/w illustrations and a few colour photos. xix and 395 pages including index. ISBN: 9781846142482. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges else a lovely copy.

THOMAS HARDY A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY
Written by Evelyn Hardy.
Stock no. 1331190
Published by The Hogarth Press. 1st 1954. Very good condition.

Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. 342 pages (including index). Some b/w plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Name, address and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents clean.

THACKERAY
Written by D.J. Taylor.
Stock no. 1331182
Published by Pimlico. 1st thus 2000. Very good condition.

Paperback edition. 494 pages (including index). B/w plates. ISBN: 0712662464. Light creases to spine where book has been held open. Light rubbing to corners. Some slight grubby marks to textblock. Pale page edge browning else contents clean.

TROLLOPE
Written by Victoria Glendinning.
Stock no. 1331181
Published by Hutchinson. 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An intimate biography full of life and variety, with many surprises, and it reads as vividly as a novel. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Pink endpapers. 551 pages (including index). Some b/w plates. ISBN: 0091738962. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Top edge of textblock is slightly dusty. Dustwrapper is edge creased and is sunned to spine.

DICTIONARY JOHNSON SAMUEL JOHNSON'S MIDDLE YEARS
Written by James L. Clifford.
Stock no. 1331180
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Completing an epic ventre in close biographical study of an extrordinary literary figure. Yellow cloth spine with black title, black boards. Endpapers are b/w maps of Johnson's London (1746). 372 pages (including index). Some b/w plates. ISBN: 0070113785. Foxing to textblock. Name, town and date in ink to half title-page. Dustwrapper is just slightly edge rubbed.