CHOPIN PRINCE OF THE ROMANTICS
Written by Adam Zamoyski.
Stock no. 1331092
Published by Harper Press. Circa 2010. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In this biography, Zamoyski links Chopin with Bach and Mozart rather than his contemporary Romantics. Zamoyski sees Chopin as an insecure 18th century man lost in the Romantic Age. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. 356 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 9780007341849. Second printing. Spine bumped, spine leans to one side a little. Contents are lightly browned but otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is edge creased and sunned to spine.

BENJAMIN BRITTEN A BIOGRAPHY
Written by Humphrey Carpenter.
Stock no. 1331090
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1992. Very good condition.

A comprehensive, authorized account of the renowned British composer’s life, utilizing personal letters, diaries, and manuscripts. Blue boards, white title to spine. 680 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 0571143245. Spine slightly bumped. Name, address and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Textblock is a little dusty/fingered else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with fading to spine and edges and a couple of small tears.

DR JOHNSON & MR SAVAGE
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1331089
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The strange alliance of Richard Savage and Samuel Johnson. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 260 pages (including index). Red endpapers are maps of the Thames (London) area. ISBN: 0340529741. A couple of small foxspots to textblock. Dustwrapper is a little sunned to spine.

MILTON POET, PAMPHLETEER AND PATRIOT
Written by Anna Beer.
Stock no. 1331087
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 1st 2008. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A fresh and engaging account of the life, times, politics, loves, and letters of the great English poet John Milton on the four hundredth anniversary of his birth. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. 458 pages (including index) with a few photos. ISBN: 9780747584254. Spine bumped. Small dent to vertical edge of front cover. Some slight marking to textblock. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and slightly grubby.

ANDREW MARVELL THE CHAMELEON
Written by Nigel Smith.
Stock no. 1331086
Published by Yale University Press. 1st PB 2012. Very good condition.

An acclaimed biography that portrays the 17th-century poet and politician as an elusive, multifaceted figure who adapted his political and religious views to survive turbulent times. Paperback edition with cardwraps. 400 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 9780300181968. Slight wear to corners of covers. Light crease to centre of spine where book has been held open to read. Contents clean.

'THE HOLY FOX' A LIFE OF LORD HALIFAX
Written by Andrew Roberts.
Stock no. 1331085
Published by Papermac. 1st PB 1992. Very good condition.

Cardwraps. 348 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 0333575296. Covers very slightly edge rubbed. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Contents clean.

GEORGE IV REGENT AND KING
Written by Christopher Hibbert.
Stock no. 1331084
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Navy blue boards, gilt title to spine. Light pink endpapers. 430 pages (including index), pull-out family tree to rear of book. B/w photos. ISBN: 0713904879. Minimal bumping to spine. Light scratch mark to front cover. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and some page margins. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and faded to spine.

BERTIE - A LIFE OF EDWARD VII
Written by Jane Ridley.
Stock no. 1331081
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 2012. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A magnificent and exhaustively researched book, drawing on numerous new discoveries and primary sources, which gives Bertie due credit while painting a vivid portrait of an age in all its excess and eccentricity. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Burgundy endpapers. 608 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 9780701176143. Some foxing. Front joint cracked. Dustwrapper is just a little creased at edges.

BALZAC
Written by Graham Robb.
Stock no. 1331080
Published by Picador. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 521 pages (including index). ISBN: 0330332376. Minimal rubbing to cover edges. A few foxspots to textblock, top edge of textblock is grubby. Dustwrapper is lightly edge creased.

GEORGE GISSING: A LIFE
Written by Paul Delany.
Stock no. 1831266
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

George Gissing was an English novelist. Throughout his adult life, Gissing's difficult financial situation was exacerbated by the responsibility he felt to support his family. But the focus of Delany's book is on Gissing's mistakes as a young man and on his lifelong difficulty with women and sexuality. Maroon cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w photos. xiii and 444 pages including index. ISBN: 9780297852124. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel. A lovely copy.

A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN
Written by J.E. Austen-Leigh; Fay Weldon.
Stock no. 1831265
Published by Folio Society. 1992. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduction by Fay Weldon. Peach cloth boards with silver title to spine, portrait silhouette to front cover. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. xx and 202 pages including index. Fourth printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is just a little grubby at edges.

SHELLEY: THE PURSUIT
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831264
Published by Quartet Books Limited. 1st thus 1976. Very good condition.

Holmes's book offers a serious and critical reappraisal of Shelley as a man and a writer; all his prose and poetry is carefully re-examined, his sense of spiritual and geographical isolation brilliantly described and a detailed portrait of his macabre imaginative life slowly assembled. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. xiii and 829 pages including index. ISBN: 070433111X. Light reading crease to spine. Tip of lower corner and prelims creased. Foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean.