CAMPBELL, PATRICK

My Life and Easy Times

London, Anthony Blond. 1967, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a strip of age darkening to endpapers) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The son of Lord Glenavy, a journalist for many newspapers including the Irish Times and the Sunday Dispatch, a television celebrity, writer and humourist, known for his endearing stammer, his autobiography is a cool, honest look at his real life. Illustrated. NOT EX LIB B2B. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Lord Glenavy, Irish Writers

NOBLE, CHRISTINA WITH BROWNE, CURRAN

Mama Tina - the Inspiring Sequel to Bridge Across My Sorrows

London, John Murray. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 071955635x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. A vivid and moving account of the author's work that she and her foundation perform in Vietnam, campaigning for children's rights. She herself was a street child once, alone on the streets of Dublin and knows the pain and loneliness of having no home. She opened her foundation to provide beds, food, medical aid and schooling in Saigon, devastated by the legacy of war, and where she is known as 'Mama Tina'. 29 photographs. NOT EX LIB B2A. Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Vietnam, Autobiography, Christina Noble Children's Foundation, Mongolia 071955635x

CLARK, RONALD W.

The Life of Bertrand Russell

London, Jonathan Cape and Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297770187). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy in blue cloth boards (Fine apart from a few spots of light foxing to top edge) with price clipped dustjacket. 766 pages. 63 illustrations. A definitive biography. The grandson of a Victorian Prime Minister, heir to an earldom yet for much of his life a scourge of the Establishment, Bertrand Russell was not only among the greatest philosophers of his time but a political activist who, when well into his nineties, displayed an energy that men half his age might envy. NOT EX LIB A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.24 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0224011650, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lady Constance Malleson, Ralph Schoenman, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Philosophers, Philosophy 0297770187

COOK, WILLIAM (EDITED BY)

Goodbye Again - the Definitive Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

London, Century. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 1844134008). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with a near Fine price clipped dustjacket. This collection of the comedy duo's works is a comprehensive compilation of the finest sketches that they wrote together, featuring transcripts of one night stands and including previously unpublished scripts for Not Only But Also, it promises to be a revelation even for Cook and Moore's most informed fans. It also charts the extraordinary friendship between the two and its almost telepathic intensity, which not only brought them together but also pulled them apart time after time until their eventual reconciliation. D4F. Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Biography, English Comedians, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore 1844134008

CRAGOE, ELIZABETH

Cowslips and Clover

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241897610). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on green boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked. A near Fine copy. Dustjacket is VG+ and is not price clipped. The author's second book which is a delightful story of a Welsh farm, it's animals and her childhood and farming life before the Second World War. 1. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Welsh Farm, Penllwynplan, Penhallow, Farming, Rural Memoirs 0241897610

CUMMING, LAURA

On Chapel Sands - My Mother and Other Missing Persons

London, Chatto and Windus. 2019, First. (ISBN: 9781784742478). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 301 pages. Illustrations in the text. In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days went by before she was found in a nearby village. The child remembered nothing of these events and nobody ever spoke of them at home. It was another fifty years before she even learned of the kidnap. The girl became an artist and had a daughter, art writer Laura Cumming. Cumming grew up enthralled by her mother's strange tales of life in a seaside hamlet of the 1930s, and of the secrets and lies perpetuated by a whole community. So many puzzles remained to be solved. Cumming began with a few criss-crossing lives in this fraction of English coast - the postman, the grocer, the elusive baker - but soon her search spread right out across the globe as she discovered just how many lives were affected by what happened that day on the beach - including her own. On Chapel Sands is a book of mystery and memoir. Two narratives run through it: the mother's childhood tale; and Cumming's own pursuit of the truth. Humble objects light up the story: a pie dish, a carved box, an old Vick's jar. Letters, tickets, recipe books, even the particular slant of a copperplate hand give vital clues. And pictures of all kinds, from paintings to photographs, open up like doors to the truth. Above all, Cumming discovers how to look more closely at the family album - with its curious gaps and missing persons - finding crucial answers, captured in plain sight at the click of a shutter. Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Artist Parents, Mystery Memoir 9781784742478

DAVIES, HUNTER

Born 1900 - a Human History of the Twentieth Century - for Everyone Who Was There

London, Little Brown. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0316644714). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. In this unique and fascinating book, Hunter Davies tells the life stories of 21 people who were born in 1900 - from all walks of life, all parts of the country, all occupations, all of whom have survived two world wars and experienced technological changes and new social attitudes. Included are a miner, a doctor, a factory worker, a West End actress, a Cambridge professor, and of course, the Queen Mother. At the same time he charts the progress of several institutions and inventions which also began in 1900. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.83 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 22. Fine/Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: English Social History, Queen Mother 0316644714

DAY, ROBIN

Day by Day - a Dose of My Own Hemlock

London, William Kimber. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718301544). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. 227 pages 16 photographs and 6 illustrations in the text. The veteran political interviewer presents a new slant on autobiography by presenting it as an interview of himself revealing frank answers to a host of qusetions detailing his long career in television. 20. Fine/Very Good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Television, Politics 0718301544

DOONICAN, VAL

Walking Tall

London, Elm Tree. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241119243). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to front endpaper. Gold title and motif on blue boards which have some surface indentations. Previous owner's name and date on half title page else clean and unmarked.Dustjacket is price clipped and has some surface indentations.The singer author's second autobiography continuing on from 'The Special Years' illustrated with photographs and drawings by him. B2E. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Autobiography, Irish Singers 0241119243

DOWDEN, MAVIS BACCA

Spy-Jacked

Pulborough, West Sussex, SMH. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0951261924). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author begins her story in Rome, where her happy, simple life, studying and teaching the violin, was interrupted when World War II broke out. She did not wish to return to England but as a British subject she would be interned in Italy. The nuns at her convent advised her to go to Switzerland or Spain, and she opted for Spain, where the main action in her true but almost unbelievable story takes place, just after the Civil War. Here her simple lifestyle, studying and teaching in a convent's cloistered conditions was suddenly to change as she became caught up in a Resistance operation dedicated to rescuing prisoners of war who had escaped over the Pyrenees after the fall of Free France. While engaged in this dangerous work she was arrested, imprisoned, and charged with high espionage. NOT EX LIB D4B. Fine/Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: War Memoirs, Spanish CIVIL War, World War II, Leon Goossens, Juan Massia, New London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Henry Wood, Escaped Prisoners of War, Resistance 0951261924

ELLIOTT, HELEN J.

The India Boys

Richmon, North Yorkshire, Aztec. 1986, First. (ISBN: 0951107410). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy. 130 pages. When the Stacey family returned to Wensleydale on leave from India where their father was a Major in the Indian Army, they did not know that the outbreak of the Second World War would necessitate their remaining in the dale for a long long time. The three little Stacey boys found life in wartime Wensleydale somewhat different from the pampered existence of their India posting. However the boys find solace in their Dinkeys, Meccano, Williams books, Pip, Squeak and Wilfred annuals, Shirlry Temple films and their new dales pals, quickly settled in. Whether their mother ever did is a different matter. 51. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Indian Army, Wensleydale, Second World War 0951107410

FISHER, JOHN

Tony Hancock - the Definitive Biography

London, Harper Collins. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780007266777). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. xxii + 522 pages. 53 illustrations. One of Britain's most innovative comedians and arguably its most popular, he united the nation in laughter with Hancock's Half Hour, the show that established the situation comedy. But behind Hancock's success lurked a tendency to self-destruction that would compromise his later years. Prone to professional insecurity and a slave to perfection, he gradually detached himself from the writers, agents and actors who had played an essential role in his success. In this first full appraisal, on the fortieth anniversary of his death, Fisher sheds new light on Hancock's fall from grace, examining what went wrong and questioning whether his suicide was inevitable. NOT EX LIB A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST C3B. Fine/Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: English Comedians, Situation Comedy, Hancock's Half Hour 9780007266777

FLETCHER, CYRIL

Nice One Cyril - Being the Odd Odessey and the Anecdotage of a Comedian

London, Barrie and Jenkins. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0214205819). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page with DEDICATION ' To Reg, Dreaming of ..'. A Very Good copy with a date and a small mark to front endpaper with a price clipped dustjacket. The comedian's very amusing autobiography recounting his long career and marriage, full of his famous 'odd odes'. Foreword by Esther Rantzen. A1E. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0214205819

GIBBONS, ERIC TREVELYN

Without a Silver Spoon - the Self-Help Story of an Underdog

Weikersheim, Magraf. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 3823613693). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper with dedication 'With kindest thoughts' and 14 Oct. 03 but no dedication name. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket. Born into a dysfunctional and impoverished Nottingham family in 1920, the author left school at the age of 15 with no qualifications to work as an errand boy for the local council. In 1939 he enlisted in the army and served throughout World War II in England and France. On leaving the Army he pursued his education, eventually achieving the highest academic awards and becoming a respected advisor to many governments including the UK, Republic of Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, Sudan, Tanzania and Sri Lanka. A fascinating and inspiring autobiography spanning 70 years and three continents and of how one man overcame poverty, social deprivation and a poor education to eventually succeed in all he chose to do. 14 illustrations. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.97 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 14. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Autobiography, Ministry of Agriculture, Kenya, Malaysia, Sudan, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Ireland 3823613693

GREIG, DAISY

Daisy Reminisces

London, Bachman and Turner. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0859740862). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a touch of foxing to front endpaper and a small line of marking probably by removal of a dustjacket protector else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete with some foxing to reverse and inner flaps. After publication of Daisy Greig's life story in 1978, many readers wrote to her and the publisher asking for more details of the incidents related briefly and this book is the answer to that request. It offer the reader a series of delightful recollections ranging from Edwardian days until the 1970's, touching on encounters with personalities, royals and otherwise, her narrative evokes the atmosphere of the periods of which she writes. A1E. Very Good/Very Good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Biography, Edwardian Society 0859740862