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This selection contains 27 title(s) on 2 pages.
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 - ALAGIAH, GEORGE  A Passage to Africa
London, Little, Brown & Co, 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0316855545) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Powerful, passionate, thought-provoking account - an autobiography not so much of George Alagiah, but of Africa itself. Good, tight hardback in an unclipped d/w and SIGNED across title page '' George Alagiah Oct '01'' Some light sunning to page edges - 286pp including index. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.
GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.5 US$ 24.81 | JP¥ 2134] Book number: 040748
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 - BAKEWELL, JOAN  The Centre of the Bed
London, United Kingdom, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340823100) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beautifully written autobiography giving an absorbing, often moving insight into the beliefs and personality of a remarkable woman. 322 pages including index. Very Good +/Very Good +.
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 | JP¥ 1423] Book number: 023362
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 - CAMERON, JAMES  Point of Departure : Experiment in Biography
London, Arthur Barker, 1967, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The story of the newspaperman who by his innocent obstinacy eventually changed the whole character of contemporary English journalism, and became, almost surely, the most widely-travelled writer in the world. Small symbol to title page in biro else a clean, square copy in an unclipped d/w - 318 pages including index. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 13.75 US$ 20.68 | JP¥ 1779] Book number: 042979
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 - CLARKE, NICK  Alistair Cooke : The Biography
London, United Kingdom, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Limited, 1999, Fourth Impression. (ISBN: 0297643789) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. Drawing on a rich variety of sources this biograhy shows how Cooke came from modest origins to carve out for himself, with dogged determination, a unique position as a commentator on Americal life and politics. Clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustjacket. 548 pages including index. Illustrated with both colour and b&w photographs. Near Fine/Very Good.
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 | JP¥ 1423] Book number: 029536
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 - COOKE, ALISTAIR  Memories of the Great and the Good
London, United Kingdom, Pavilion Books, 2000. (ISBN: 1862054525) Soft Cover . As new, unread copy which has been poorly stacked resulting in light creasing to rear cover. 266 pages. Very Good.
GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.79 | JP¥ 498] Book number: 021347
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 - DARROW, SIOBHAN  Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter
London, United Kingdom, Virago Press Ltd, 2000. (ISBN: 1860498167) Card Covers , 8vo. Candid account of the work of CNN war reporter Siobhan Darrow. Clean, bright, uncreased copy. Near Fine.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: 023158
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 - DEEDES, W.F.  Brief Lives
Great Britain, Macmillan, 2005. (ISBN: 1405040858) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. Ill.: Naylor, Alex. In this eclectic section of biographical sketches Bill Deedes remembers some of the key figures of the 20th century. Political heavyweights such as Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Anthony Eden are reassessed and re-evaluated, while record breakers such as Sir Edmund Hillary and Roger Bannister are shown to have far more to them than just their achievements. A very good clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket. 222 pages. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 042750
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 - DUFF, SHIELA GRANT  The Parting of Ways : A Personal Account of the Thirties
London, Peter Owen Ltd, 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0720605865) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Recaptures those momentous years leading up to the Second World War with extraordinary immediacy, recreating the atmosphere of almost constant tension punctuated only by moments of exquisite relief, of hope and eventual disillusionment. Good clean hardback in an unclipped d/w - 223 pages including index. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.5 US$ 15.71 | JP¥ 1352] Book number: 042977
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 - DYKE, GREG  Greg Dyke: Inside Story
London, United Kingdom, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2004. (ISBN: 0007192339) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy which shows signs of light shelf wear. Greg Dyke tells his side of the story and his abrupt departure from the BBC after the Hutton report. Near Fine/Near Fine.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 017000
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 - JAMES, CLIVE  Unreliable Memoirs
London, Jonathan Cape, 1980, Reprint. (ISBN: 033026463x) Soft Cover . Clean, uncreased copy of Clive James's memoirs of his boyhood growing up in Australia. Very Good.
GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.79 | JP¥ 498] Book number: 023271
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 - JAMESON, DEREK  Last of the Hot Metal Men: From Fleet Street to Showbiz
London, United Kingdom, Ebury Press, 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0852237979) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Volume 2 of the popular journalist's autobiography telling of the ten years in which he managed to edit three national newspapers, ended up broke and unemployed and then bounced back as a Radio 2 DJ. Clean, bright copy in un-clipped d/w. 224 pages including index. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 031712
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 - KNIGHTLEY, PHILLIP  A Hack's Progress
London, Jonathan Cape, 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0224043994) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Revealing and very funny account of the author's career in journalism. Clean, bright copy in an unclipped d/w - 267 pages. Near Fine/Near Fine.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 028174
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 - KOESTLER, ARTHUR  Arrow in Blue - the First Volume of an Autobiography 1905-31
New York, Stein & Day, 1969, Danube Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. In this first volume of his autobiography, Koestler recalls his early life in Budapest to his most important commitment of youth: his conversion to Communism in 1931, in blind and hopeless pre-Hitler Germany. A very good clean hardback in dustwrapper which shows signs of wear and tear with small internally repaired tear to rear cover. 414 pages + epilogue. Very Good/Good.
GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 13.75 US$ 20.68 | JP¥ 1779] Book number: 042970
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 - MIALL, L.  Richard Dimbleby Broadcaster
London, BBC, 1966, First Edition. Paperback . A biography of the BBC's foremost broadcaster written by his colleagues. 172pp. Illustrated in b&w. Good.
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 | JP¥ 854] Book number: 000398
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 - MILNE, ALASDAIR  Dg: The Memoirs of a British Broadcaster
United Kingdom, Hodder & Stoughton, 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340427728) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. Square, tight copy in unclipped jacket which shows signs of light shelf wear. xi + 237 pages. Black covers with gilt lettering to spine. Bump to top edge of rear board. Pages yellowing with age. Previous owner's name on front end paper. The memoirs of the former Director General of the BBC - Alasdair Milne. Good +/Very Good.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 018925
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 - NASH, KNOWLTON  History on the Run : The Trenchcoat Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
Toronto, ON, Canada, McClelland & Stewart, 1985, First Paperback Edition. (ISBN: 0771067011) Card Covers , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Nash's candid and highly personal account of his time as a news correspondent at a time of the phenomenal growth of television journalism - from 1951-1969 he covered the rise and fall of McCarthyism, presidencies of Eisenhower to Nixon and the careers of the Kennedy brothers as well as the Mau Mau uprising and Vietnam. A good clean copy which appears unread though slight tanning to pages. 349 pages including index. Good.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 034755
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 - NICHOLSON, MAVIS  Martha Jane and Me : A Girlhood in Wales
London, Vintage, 1999. (ISBN: 0099288540) Soft Cover , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mavis Nicholson's beautiful memoirs of life growing up in South Wales with her parents and grandparents. A very good clean copy with light reading creases to spine. 248 pages. Very Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: 040563
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 - PRIESTLAND, G.  Something Understood
London, United Kingdom, Arrow Books, Limited, 1988. (ISBN: 0099523809) Soft Cover . "The autobiography of the hugely popular journalist, broadcaster and religious affairs correnspondent Gerald Priestland". Pages a little sunned. Reading creases to spine. Illustrated with mono plates. A good clean reading copy. Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: 031345
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 - PRIESTLAND, GERALD  Something Understood: An Autobiography
London, Andre Deutsch, 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0233975004) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. Autobiography of the well-loved BBC religious affairs broadcaster whose popularity was epitomised by his leaving present from the BBC - a tall-backed chair newly inscribed with the words "More popular than the Pope". 287 pages. A very good, clean copy in unclipped dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 028159
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 - REYBUN, WALLACE  Frost - Anatomy of a Success
London, Macdonald, 1968, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket. Covers David Frost's early career up to the age of twenty-nine. A very good clean copy in very good unclipped jacket. 154 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Near Fine/Very Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: 002009
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 - ROLPH, C.H.  Living Twice : An Autobiography
London, Victor Gollancz, 1974, Second Impression. (ISBN: 0575017503) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The remarkable story of a double life - a writer and broadcaster who was also a Chief Inspector in the City of London Police. Clean, bright copy in an unclipped d/w - 287 pages including index. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: 029506
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 - O'ROURKE, P.J.  Age and Guile Beat Youth,Innocence and a Bad Haircut
London, United Kingdom, Macmillan General Books, 1995. (ISBN: 0330335820) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. Traces the development from radical hippie to staunch conservative of America's funniest political humorist. 341 pages including index. A very good, clean copy in very good price-clipped dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 US$ 11.58 | JP¥ 996] Book number: 028151
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 - SERGEANT, JOHN  Give Me Ten Seconds
Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333904494) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo. Memoirs of the respected political correspondent John Sergeant. A very good, clean copy in unclipped dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 023674
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 - SIMPSON, JOHN  Days from a Different World: A Memoir of Childhood
London, Pan Books, 2006. (ISBN: 0330435620) Soft Cover , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Compelling new volume of memoirs by one of our best-loved and most distinguished journalists. Unread paperback - 401 pages. As New.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 025623
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 - SIMPSON, JOHN  News from No Man's Land. : Reporting the World.
London, Pan Books, 2003. (ISBN: 0330487353) Paper Back , 8vo. Unread copy with some signs of being poorly stacked. Internally clean and bright - 471 pages including index. The author's third bestselling volume of autobiography. Very good reading copy. Reading Copy.
GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.79 | JP¥ 498] Book number: 015056
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