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JOHN KEATS: THE MAKING OF A POET
Written by Aileen Ward.
Stock no. 1831195
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

This biography follows Keats, one of the English Romantics, from his childhood, through his education and training as a surgeon, to his untimely death of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. Purple cloth boards, red & silver title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xii and 450 pages including index. Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Half-title page and last page to rear are browned. A few foxspots present else contents clean. Purple dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine, a little scuffed, grubby to rear panel.

KEPLER
Written by John Banville.
Stock no. 1330883
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book 2 of the Revolutions trilogy. Black boards, silver title to spine. 192 pages. ISBN: 0436032643. Minimal bumping to spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is a tiny bit edge creased aqnd slightly sunned to spine.

MAUD
Written by Maud Berkeley; Flora Fraser; Elizabeth Longford.
Stock no. 1829418
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Diaries of Maud Berkeley, a remarkable Victorian middle class woman. Adapted by Flora Fraser. Introduction by Elizabeth Longford. Large format. Brown cloth boards, gilt titles and vignettes. Colour illustrations. 192 pages. ISBN: 0436256770. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine. Lingering musty odour present.

COLETTE
Written by Elaine Marks.
Stock no. 625065
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A vivid & original examination of Colette and her work. Colette is a French woman writer. Pink cloth, silver title to spine. 2" rubbing to surface paper on front endpaper. Contents fine. Pictorial wrapper lightly edge-worn & a little grubby.

ANDRE GIDE
Written by D. Lawrence Thomas.
Stock no. 663159
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

The ethic of the artist. Name in ink to front endpaper.