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'This is bound to become the standard life' - John Carey, "Sunday Times". 'Dispassionate and well-researched' - Philip Larkin, "Guardian".
.Richard Perceval Graves was born in Brighton in 1945. He studied Modern History at St John's College, Oxford and after teaching for some years at schools including Harrow and Ellesmere College, he became a full-time writer in 1973.
He is the author of several biographies including Lawrence of Arabia and his World (1976), A. E. Housman: The Scholar Poet (1979) and Richard Hughes (1994). He has also written a three volume biography of his uncle, Robert Graves.
In 1999 he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship, and from 2001-2005 he was Chairman of the Powys Society. He has lectured extensively at leading literary festivals including Cheltenham, Hay-on-Wye and Toronto.
He is also a Director of GWS Media Limited which in 2009 was awarded the contract for redesigning the website of Mensa International Limited.
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Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR003702164
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Minimal wear to hard back book/dust jacket.D/j still has price corner.304 pages. Pages are clean and tight.Name on f.e.p. Seller Inventory # 033989
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Brief gift inscription on the front endpaper. Seller Inventory # 017993
Seller: Ystwyth Books, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy apart from a tea stain on fore-edge. Very good dust jacket. Smart in new Brodart plastic overwrapper. Gift inscribed by author on front end-paper. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 037097
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Seller: Scrinium Classical Antiquity, Aalten, Netherlands
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London / Henley, 1979. XV,304p. Hard cover. Spine gilt titled. Lacking dust wrappers. Seller Inventory # 64385
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