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.

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.

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.

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.

THE AGE OF WONDER: HOW THE ROMANTIC GENERATION DISCOVERED THE BEAUTY AND TERROR OF SCIENCE
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831186
Published by Harper Press. Circa 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Brilliantly conceived as a 'relay race of scientific stories', this is a celebration of innovators of science before Darwin and their great scientific discoveries: from telescopic sight to the miner's lamp, and from the first balloon flight to African exploration. Dark blue paper boads, silver title to spine. B/w and colour illustrations. xxi and 554 pages including index. ISBN: 9780007149520. Base of spine lightly rubbed. Small knock to lower edge of front board. Corners bumped. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

SIDETRACKS: EXPLORATIONS OF A ROMANTIC BIOGRAPHER
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1330900
Published by Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. 1st 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A collection of 20 pieces showing how fluid, playful and unconstrained and many voices of biography can be. A collection held together by a subtle autobiographical thread. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. Yellow endpapers. 420 pages. ISBN: 0002555786. Spine bumped. Light page browning else contents clean.. Dustwrapper is edge creased and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

ISANDLWANA: HOW THE ZULUS HUMBLED THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Written by Adrian Greaves; Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 2138036
Published by Pen & Sword Military. 2013. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. Foreword by Holmes. B/w illustrations and photos. Reprint edition. ISBN: 9781848845329.

SOLDIERS ARMY LIVES AND LOYALTIES FROM REDCOATS TO DUSTY WARRIORS
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 2110724
Published by Harper Press. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Cream covers, red title to spine. B/w photos and colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780007225699. Bumping and wear along cover edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a couple of tiny nicks.