Edwards, H Sutherland

Personal Recollections.

Cassell, 1900. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 280pp, dark red cloth covered boards with impressed flower ornament and giilt title. A portion torn from the back flyleaf, creases to a couple of page corners, 4 small ink initials to the margins of the last chapter, otherwise clean. Memoirs of the London theatre, revolution in Paris in 1848, Lola Montes, Thackeray, G H Lewes, Charles, Reade, Tennyson, Hans Von Bulow, Paderewski, Macready, Bakunin, travel in Russia etc... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 3071

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Theatre History, Thackeray, Charles Reade, , Ruskin, Berlioz, Von Bulow, Luxemburg, Russian History.

Fairfax Lucy, Alice and Lucy, Mary Elizabeth

Mistress of Charlecote The Memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy.

Gollancz, 1983. Hard Cover, Second impression of the first edition. 184pp, black boards with silver title. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. Life in the Regency and Victorian age - the Memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy, who was born in 1803 and lived at Boddlewyddan until her marriage in 1823 to the owner of Charlecote Old Hall in Warwickshire, where she lived until her death in 1889... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 7969

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Charlecote, Memoir, Warwickshire, Boddlewyddan, Victorian

Feifer, George

Moscow Farewell.

Viking, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover, 446pp, complete Near Fine dustjacket, a little rubbed to edges of spine. Internally very clean. An American graduate student in Moscow... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 2593

Catalogue: Autobiography

Fen, Elisaveta

A Girl Grew Up In Russia.

Readers Union, 1972. Hard Cover, 317pp, complete dustjacket, a little rubbed to edges. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Growing up in Bielorussia, before 1917... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 4119

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: autobiography, russia, bielorussia

FitzGibbon, Constantine

Through the Minefield.

Bodley Head, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover, 267 pp, priceclipped dustjacket with a little edgewear. Internally clean. The autobiography of the writer though childhood in America and Paris, service in the World War I and subsequent adventures... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 249

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Munich, Oxford, Wellington College, spy, intelligence, WWI

Foley, Winifred

A Child In The Forest.

British Broadcasting Corporation, 1976. Hard Cover, 254pp. Priceclipped illustrated dustjacket with a very little wear to the edges. Gift inscription to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The classic story of growing up in the Forest of Dean in a miner's family in the 1920s, and the forest way of life... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 6778

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Forest of Dean, Miner, autobiography

Fowler, Connie May

When Kate Wakes.

Doubleday, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover, 271pp, complete dustjacket. A very clean, tight copy. The author's autobiography, and an abusive relationship.. As New /As New.

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Book number: 10058

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Abuse

Fyodorova, Victoria and Frankel, Haskel

The Admiral's Daughter.

Hamlyn, 1979. Mass Market Paperback, 372pp, browning a little with age, softback covers a little rubbed to edges. B + w photographs. Internally clean. How Russian actress Victoria found her American father.. Very Good.

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Book number: 9196

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Russia

Graham, Winifred

Observations Casual And Intimate.

Skeffington, 1111. Hard Cover, 1940s. The 2nd volume of her autobiography 'That reminds Me'. 192 pp, black cloth boards, a little rubbed to the spine. B + w photographs. Very light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise clean. Gossipy memoirs of life in Hampton, Llantarnam Abbey, visiting friends at Hampton Court, the chief constable of Leicestershire in India, a trip to Syon House with the Georgian Society etc. etc.. Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 1449

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Hampton, Llantarnam, Syon, Georgian Society

Gregson, James and Smith, Barry D (ed)

The Autobiography of James Gregson.

E R Smith, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover, 252pp, Complete dustjacket with one short repaired tear. Colour and b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The author was born in 1889. An account of growing up in Brighouse in the West Riding of Yorkshire, work on the railway and in the theatre in Leeds, becoming a successful playwright, and working for the BBC as a broadcaster, especially in the War years... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 11526

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Brighouse, Huddersfield, Leeds, West Riding, BBC, Theatre, Journalism

Grenfell, Joyce

In Pleasant Places.

Macmillan, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover, 304pp, brown boards, illustrated dustjacket with very slight wear to top edge. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's initials under the dustjacket turnover. Internally very clean. The second volume of entertaining anecdotes and autobiography of the comedy star... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 4748

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: autobiography, comedy, Actress, Theatre

Grenfell, Joyce

In Pleasant Places.

Macmillan, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover, 304pp, priceclipped dustjacket is otherwise complete and Near Fine. Gift inscription on title page, otherwise a very clean copy. Her second volume of autobiography - Broadway, Elvis etc... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 8575

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Elvis

Grenfell, Joyce

In Pleasant Places.

Futura, 1980. Mass Market Paperback, 288pp, the edges browning a little with age, softback covers with photograph of the author. A clean, tight copy. Her second volume of autobiography - Broadway, Elvis etc... Very Good.

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Book number: 9074

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography

Grenfell, Joyce and Moore, Katharine

An Invisible Friendship.

Futura, 1982. Mass Market Paperback, 314pp, the edges browning a little with age, softback covers with photograph of the author. Original owner's name to inner cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Letters to a pen-friend 1957 - 1979.. Very Good.

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Book number: 9222

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography

Guthrie, Tyrone

A Life In The Theatre.

Readers Union and Hamish Hamilton, 1961. Hard Cover, 320pp, dustjacket with short tears to the edges. B + w photographs. Previous owner's name stamp on the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. Autobiography of the director - George Bernard Shaw, life at the Old Vic etc... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 4106

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: George Bernard Shaw, De Valois, Edith Evans, Old Vic