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1 (ATWOOD, Margaret) COOKE, Nathalie Margaret Atwood. A Biography.
Toronto ECW Press 1998 
378 pages plus plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 4.00 AUD
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2 (BARLOW, Francis) HODNETT, Edward Francis Barlow: First Master of English Book Illustration.
London Scolar Press 1978 
Small quarto, 237 pages with 107 illustrations. Fine copy (small bookseller stamp on the pastedown) in the slightly chipped (with archival tape reinforcement on verso), rubbed (slightly) and sunned (the spine slightly) dustwrapper (protected with removable plastic); a very presentable copy. 
Price: 16.00 AUD
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3 (BOWLES, Paul) SAWYER-LAUCANNO, Christopher An Invisible Spectator. A Biography of Paul Bowles.
New York Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1989 (first edition) 
521 pages plus illustrations. Fine copy (discreet remainder stamp on the bottom edge) in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 9.00 AUD
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4 (BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice) TALIAFERRO, John Tarzan Forever. The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan.
New York Scribners 1999 (first edition) 
400 pages plus plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 9.00 AUD
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5 (CARROL, Lewis) PAULL, John (introduction) Alice 125: A Celebration of the World's Favourite Book (1865-1990).
Melbourne Carroll Foundation and Gryphon Gallery 1990 
Quarto, 272 pages with numerous illustrations (mostly in colour). Paperback with a slight crease to the foredge of the front cover and a small bruise to the front cover; the spine faintly sunned; a very presentable copy. 125 artists contribute their interpretations of Alice in Wonderland. 
Price: 18.00 AUD
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6 (CHAUCER, Geoffrey) BREWER, D.S. Chaucer.
London Longmans 1965/ 1953 
207 pages. Fine copy (ownership signature on the flyleaf) in the fine dustwrapper (a trifle bumped and torn). 
Price: 3.00 AUD
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7 (CHRISTIE, Agatha) ADAMS, Tom and Julian SYMONS (commentator) Agatha Christie: The Art of Her Crime. The Paintings of Tom Adams. Introduction by John Fowles.
New York Everest House 1981 
Quarto, 144 pages with numerous colour plates by Tom Adams. Fine copy in the dustwrapper with two small punctures to the rear front edge; an excellent copy. 
Price: 15.00 AUD
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8 (CRANE, Stephen) STALLMAN, R.W. Stephen Crane: A Biography
New York George Brazillier 1973 third revised edition 
664 pages. Paperback with minor signs of use; a very presentable copy. 
Price: 3.00 AUD
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9 (D.H. LAWRENCE) MADDOX, Brenda D.H. Lawrence. The Story of a Marriage.
New York Simon and Schuster 1994 
623 pages plus plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 4.00 AUD
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10 (DICKENS, Charles) MANKOWITZ, Wolf Dickens of London.
New York Macmillan 1977 
Quarto, 252 pages with illustrations and colour plates. Fine copy (a trifling mark on the front flyleaf) in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 3.00 AUD
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11 (DRANSFIELD, Michael) DOBREZ, Patricia Michael Dransfield's Lives. A Sixties Biography.
Carlton South Melbourne University Press/ The Miegunyah Press 1999 (first edition) 
589 pages plus plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper (slightly rubbed). 
Price: 30.00 AUD
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12 (ELIOT, T.S.) GORDON, Lyndall Eliot's New Life.
Oxford Oxford University Press 1988 reprint 
356 pages plus plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 4.00 AUD
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13 (FRAME, Janet) KING, Michael Wrestling With the Angel. A Life of Janet Frame.
Sydney Picador 2000 (first edition) 
583 pages plus plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 12.00 AUD
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14 (HALL, Radclyffe) SOUHAMI, Diana The Trials of Radclyffe Hall. A Biography.
London Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1998 
418 pages plus plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper (a very small tear to the front top edge with slight associated tape marks on verso). 
Price: 4.00 AUD
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15 (JOYCE, James) ROUGHLEY, Alan James Joyce and Critical Theory.
Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 1992 
303 pages. Papered boards with a small mark on the front edges; an excellent copy. 
Price: 3.00 AUD
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16 (KING, Stephen) MAGISTRALE, Tony Stephen King: The Second Decade, Danse Macabre to The Dark Hall.
New York Twayne 1992 
188 pages. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 5.00 AUD
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17 (KIPLING, Rudyard) DOBREE, Bonamy Rudyard Kipling. Realist and Fabulist.
London Oxford University Press 1967 
244 pages. Fine copy in the slightly rubbed, torn (slightly) and sunned (the spine) dustwrapper; a presentable copy. 
Price: 4.00 AUD
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18 (KIPLING, Rudyard) LASKI, Marghanita From Palm to Pine: Rudyard Kipling Abroad and Home.
New York Facts on File 1987 
Quarto, 192 pages with illustrations. Fine copy (small remainder mark on the bottom edge of the pages) in the slightly torn (with some associated bumping) dustwrapper. Re-creates Kipling's life and, in particular, his world - one dominated by the British Empire - showing us how he viewed it and reflected it in his writing. 
Price: 4.00 AUD
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19 (KIPLING, Rudyard) STEWART, J.I.M. Rudyard Kipling.
London Gollancz 1966 (first edition) 
191 pages. Fine copy (the edges of the pages slightly browned and slight offsetting to a late page) in the fine dustwrapper (very slightly rubbed with slight sunning to the rear top extremities). 
Price: 4.00 AUD
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20 (LAMB, Lynton) MACKIE, George Lynton Lamb: Illustrator. A Selection of his Work.
London Scolar Press 1978 
Small quarto, 104 pages with numerous illustrations. Fine copy in the chipped (a trifle), rubbed (slightly) and sunned (the spine and top extremities of the front cover a little) dustwrapper; a very presentable copy. 
Price: 12.00 AUD
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