Clarke, Charles and Mary Cowden Recollections of writers. Fontwell: Centaur, 1969.. xiii, 347 p. VG (head slightly bumped; 2 foxed spots to text block) in VG dustjacket. Introduced by Robert Gittings. In series 'The Regency Library'. Photographic reprint of the 1878 edition. (Book ref. 182) £7.50
Smiles, Aileen Samuel Smiles and his surroundings. London: Robert Hale, 1956.. 206 p.; ill. VG, spine faded, no dustjacket. Biography of the author of the Victorian bestseller 'Self-help'. (Book ref. 227) £10.00
Tomalin, Claire: Several strangers: writing from three decades. London: Viking, 1999. 248 p. VG, in dustjacket. A collection of essays and reviews by a distinguished biographer on a wide range of literary subjects. Stock ref 146. £10.50
Woolf, Leonard (ed. Judith Adamson): Love letters: Leonard Woolf and Trekkie Ritchie Parsons, 1941-1968. Edited by Judith Adamson. London: Chatto & Windus, 2001. 1st ed. 312 p. Fine, in fine dustjacket. 'To know you and love you has been the best thing in life' - Leonard Woolf to Trekkie Ritchie Parsons, whom he got to know a few months after Virginia Woolf's suicide. A triangular relationship then developed as Trekkie was already married. She emerges from these letters as the most interesting character of the three. Stock ref 149. £19.50
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