Devonshire, Deborah:

Counting My Chickens... And Other Home Thoughts.

Ebrington, Gloucs, Long Barn Books, 2001 Rep., Hard cover blue cloth bds, VG, dust jacket VG, pp176, contents clean, tight and bright.

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N° du livre: 13884

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: Tom Stoppard Will Topley autobiography Chatsworth Stately Home Duchess of Devonshire humour life memoir childhood Mitford Mitfords friends clothes politicians Harold Macmillan Debo farm 1902421051

Elder, Tom:

The Elder Tree: Memorabilia of a Traditional Tyneside Family.

Edinburgh, The Pentland Press Ltd, 1991 1st Ed., Hard cover bottle green cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine, Near Fine, clipped dust wrapper VG+, contents fine, crisp and tight, b/w plates, family tree to endpapers, longish inscription to half title, pp124.

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N° du livre: 12867

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: memoir autobiography life North East England Tyneside Newcastle mining social history stone wars pit accident Wrekenton Eighton Banks Sandy Laners quarring Springwell Grindstones poet poetry ballads 1872795145

Evans, Anneke:

The Sun Always Breaks Through.

Quellin Press, 2000 Pbk, VG, Signed by the author to the half title 'Affectionately Anneke', contents fine and tight, pp327, with b/w plates through text. "Much of the first part of the book refers to a background in her home country of Belgium under German occupation with recollections of a warm and close family life before and during the Second World War. The White Brigade Fidelio resistance movement features heavily, primarily because of her father's involvement.....From her childhood to living in England after the war with her husband Ronny...including fascinating insights into family life in England and all that she threw herself into with her customary verve and enthusiasm..."

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N° du livre: 15377

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: autobiography Second World War life Belgium occupation White Brigade Fidelio resistance England family life NEC BBC Mighty Atom 0953817806

Falkus, Hugh:

The Stolen Years.

London, H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1979 2nd Ed., hard cover brown cloth bds, in VG+ unclipped dust jacket, no names, inscriptions etc..., with 49 drawings by the author, a little age-speckling to leading pge edge block, contents clean and tight, bk leans a little, pp216. "Humorous, nostalgic and intensely moving by turn, Hugh Falkus recollects his boyhood days spent among wild marshlands and estuaries." This second edition includes a new chapter descibing an "...air battle and its sequel during the summer of 1940: a thrilling and haunting episode that links subtly with his boyhood memories and adds dramatic emphasis to the title of the book.""

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N° du livre: 15275

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: boyhood memoir Essex marshlands estuaries life air battle spitfire natural history wildfowler boat sailing memoir nature memories 0854931309

Foley, Winifred Illust by A G Edwards:

No Pipe Dreams For Father. Scenes from a Forest of Dean Village Childhood.

Futura Publications Ltd, 1978 Pbk, almost VG, contents clean and tight with b/w drawings by Edwards, pp95, pges lightly tanned.

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N° du livre: 13988

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: Forest of Dean memoir childhood village life autobiography mining miners humour pathos tragedy 0708814352

Fox, Caroline Ed. by Wendy Monk:

The Journals of Caroline Fox 1835 - 71.

London, Elek, 1972 1st Ed., hard cover grey cloth bds, almost VG, a little shelf wear, clipped dust jacket, Good-, some surface white spotting and a little edgewear in places, spine faded, contents clean and tight, pp250. A nice sound reading copy.

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N° du livre: 14200

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: Caroline Fox journals Victoiran memoirs memoir life Cornish Quakers diary Carlyle Wordsworth Hartley Coleridge Tennyson F D Maurice Elizabeth Fry Holman Hunt Christian de Bunsen Belcher Ross Adams 0236154478

Francis, Clare:

Come Wind or Weather. ADC Accutrac Races Round The World.

London, Pelham Books, 1978 1st Ed., Hard cover oversized navy blue cloth bds, gilt titles to spine, VG, unclipped dust jacket, a little creased/tanned to spine tip otherwise VG, contents clean and tight with many b/w and colour plates, pp224, pge edges just tanning mildly, cover photographs: Jacques Redon. The story of Clare's entry in the 1977/78 Whitbread Round the World race.

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N° du livre: 13874

Catalogue: autobiography

Mots-clés: Whitbread Round the World race ADC Accutrac yacht yachting sailing skipper crew ocean racer sea isolation weather humour dramas disappointments excitements voyage adventure enterprise sailors 0720711045

Gandhi Desai, Mahadev (Transl. from the Gujarati by):

Gandhi An Autobiography. The story of my Experiments With Truth.

London, Phoenix Press, 1949 Hard cover black cloth bds, a little minor soiling otherwise Good, no dust jacket, titles fading to spine, small bump to lower edges, b/w frontis. photograph of Gandhi, contents clean, tight and bright, small ink stain at btm inside corner of first 95 pges - does not detract from text, pp420, rear hinge just cracking but holding, a nice tight reading copy.

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N° du livre: 13729

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: Gandhi Desai autobiography experiments truth life marriage education tragedy London dietetics religions Narayan Hemchandra Raychandbhai South Africa Natal Brahmacharya Boer War India Gokhale Khadi

Gerrell, Peter:

Green Grow The Rushes.... Growing up in a Suffolk Village.

Lowestoft Suffolk, Tyndale + Panda Publishing Ltd, 1987 Pbk, VG, contents fine and tight, pp112.

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N° du livre: 14089

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: Suffolk childhood autobiography Reydon builder soldier coal miner East Anglia memoir Blyth Valley evacuees ferrets 1870094050

Glover, J. M.:

Jimmy Glover And His Friends.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1913 Hard cover red cloth bds, a little age wear otherwise VG, gilt lettering to spine and upper bd, spine a little faded, title stamped 'Presentation Copy', b/w frontis. and further plates (all present), pges rough cut, pge edge block gilded at top, occas. age-mark through text, neat name to ffep, pp325.

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N° du livre: 11811

Catalogue: autobiography

Mots-clés: Bohemia Bohemianism autobiography friends pantomime King Edward theatre W T Stead Leicester Square Victorians Bram Stoker Charles Hawtrey comic song dramatic critic Edward 7th journalist 000000000

Green, Michael:

The Boy Who Shot Down An Airship.

London, Heinemann, 1988 1st Ed., Hard cover green cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine, Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket, brown scuffing to flap hinges otherwise VG, old price label to rear, contents fine and tight with b/w plates, pp232, light age-speckling to top pge block.

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N° du livre: 12981

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: autobiography childhood war memoir thirties nostalgia comedy humour life army German prisoners military adventure 0424304123

Gunn, Bryan (With Kevin Piper, Foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson):

In Where it Hurts.

London, Vision Sports Publishing, 2006 SIGNED by author to title pge, 1st Ed., hard cover black cloth bds, VG+, unclipped dust jacket, VG, a little wavy to top edge, a little surface wear to rear, contents fine and tight with colour plates, pp272.

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N° du livre: 14095

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: Bryan Gunn autobiography football goalkeeper life memoir Aberdeen Norwich City Canaries Hibernian Scotland sport Alex Ferguson 1905326009

Hancock, Sheila:

Old Rage.

London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022 1st Ed., hard cover red cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine, Fine, unclipped dust jacket, Nr Fine, contents fine and tight, pp258 + notes to rear.

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N° du livre: 15485

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: Sheila Hancock autobiography life memoir old age thoughts actor war philosophy funny feisty honest joy childhood 9781526647443

Hare, Augustus J. C.:

Memorials Of A Quiet Life: In Two Vols, Vol II.

London, Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877 Fourteenth Ed., hardcover brown cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine, Good, minor rubbing to cloth, spine end cloth a little chipped, v. small chip at spine hinge, tissue-protected frontis., pp482, contents clean and tight, front hinge just cracking but holding.

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N° du livre: 8918

Catalogue: autobiography

Mots-clés: Hurstmonceaux rectory Abbots-kerswell travel Holmhurst autobiography memoir life letters correspondence

Harrison, Rosina:

Rose: My Life In Service.

London, Cassell, 1975 1st Ed., hard cover green cloth bds, slight fading at btm edge and minor shelfwear otherwise VG, unclipped dust jacket, minor creasing at edges, VG, ffep clipped at corner - poss. name removal, neat inscription to ffep verso, contents clean and bright, b/w plates loose, pp268. Rose tells of her service with Nancy, Lady Astor "...the American-born first woman Member of Parliament... brilliant, tempestuous and unpredicable. Rose, the outspoken Yorkshire-woman, gave as good as she got. For thirty-five years the battle of wills, wits and words raged between the two women, so alike in temperment though worlds apart in money and status, until mutual respect mellowed into affectionate understanding."

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N° du livre: 14706

Catalogue: Autobiography

Mots-clés: Yorkshire domestic service Lady Nancy Astor MP American life lady's maid Cliveden servant downstairs glamour travel 0304294705