Maclean, Rory

Falling for Icarus A Journey Among the Cretans.

Penguin, 2005. Mass Market Paperback, 334pp, the page edges browning a little with age. Illustrated softback covers. Map and b + w illustrations. A clean, tight copy. In an ancient village in the mountains of Crete, the Greek myths, the friendship of his Cretan neighbours and his construction of a flying machine bring the author back to life after the death of his mother... Fine.

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Book number: 12320

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Crete, Travel

MacMahon, Ryan

Tramp Royal An Autobiography.

John Langdon, Hard Cover, C.1950. 315pp, dustjacket, designed by Littlewood Moore, with a large portion of loss to the back. Internally very clean. The autobiography of a Stonyhurst pupil from Ireland who became a doctor, cowpuncher, soldier, gold-prospector, horse-trainer, in many parts of the world... Very Good /Fair.

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Book number: 3683

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Stonyhurst, WWII, autobiography

Macmillan, Harold

Winds Of Change 1914 - 1939.

Macmillan, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover, 664pp, red cloth covered boards. B + w photographs, endpaper tables. The autobiography of the former Prime Minister, including his account of active service in WWI... Fine /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4887

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: politics, conservative, WWI

Maher, Terry

Against My Better Judgement.

Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover, 223pp, complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. Adventures in the City and in the Book trade - merchant banking, the purchase of Dillons and the end of the Net Book Agreement... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 2928

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: bookseller, marchant bank

Marshall, James Wilson and Buffum, Edward Gould

From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush.

Lakeside Press, 1993. Hard Cover, 1st in this attractive edition, edited by Doyce B Nunis, Jr. 389pp, brown cloth covered boards with gilt top edge and publisher's logo to front. Frontispiece and other b + w illustrations. A new, Mint, copy. The autobiographies of two men, Marshall who discovered the Californian Gold Field and Buffum, an early prospector and later journalist... As New /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6992

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: wild west, prospector, journalist, california, Doyce Nunis, autobiography, adventure

Marshall, James Wilson and Buffum, Edward Gould

From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush.

Lakeside Press, 1993. Hard Cover, 1st in this attractive edition, edited by Doyce B Nunis, Jr. 389pp, brown cloth covered boards with gilt top edge and publisher's logo to front, no dustjacket, as issued. Frontispiece and other b + w illustrations. A new, Mint, copy. The autobiographies of two men, Marshall who discovered the Californian Gold Field and Buffum, an early prospector and later journalist... As New /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6993

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: wild west, prospector, journalist, california, Doyce Nunis, autobiography, adventure

Mason, Roger

Plain Tales from Yorkshire.

Macdonald, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover, Tall book of 191pp, dustjacket a little rubbed to the top edge in a protective sleeve. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean. Stories of their early days from 7 people, from Hemingbrough, Sheffield, Wensleydale, Buttershaw,Whitby, Cleckheaton and Beverley... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 6949

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Hemingbrough, Beverley, Sheffield, Whitby, Cleckheaton, Wensleydale, sociology, social history, Buttershaw, autobiography

Mayle, Peter

A Year In Provence.

Hamish Hamilton, 1993. Hard Cover, 220pp, the edges browning a little. Complete dustjacket. A new edition with colour photographs and dustjacket with pictures from the BBC TV series. Flyleaf neatly removed, otherwise very clean... Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 1907

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: France, Autobiography, BBC, TV

McCarthy, Barbara P (ed)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mr Boyd Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Hugh Stuart Boyd.

John Murray, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover, First editon, edited and with an Introduction by Barbara P McCarthy. A heavy book of 299pp. Red cloth covered boards. Priceclipped dustjacket with a little wear to the edges. Gift inscription to the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. The letters written over 20 years between the poetess and her older friend... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 9659

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Correspondence, Poet, History, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

McKenna, Marthe

Spies I Knew.

Jarrolds, 1937. Hard Cover, 287pp, orange cloth covered boards, a little faded to spine. Dark spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. Espionage work in WWI in Flanders amnd Belgium... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 11952

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: WWI , Spy

Megginson, Irene

Mud on My Doorstep Reminiscences of a Yorkshire Housewife.

Hutton Press, 1988. Soft Cover, Reprint of the first edition. 103pp, illustrated card covers. B + w photographs. SIGNED by the author on the title page, otherwise internally clean and tight. Reminiscences of life as a child in wartime Hull and as a farmer's wife on a farm which at first had no electricity or mains water at Fraisthorpe, and later on the Wolds near Bishop Wilton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.. Signed by Author. Very Good.

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Book number: 11141

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Farm, Yorkshire, Autobiography, Fraisthorpe, Hull, Bishop Wilton, Wolds

Meyer, Michael

Not Prince Hamlet Literary and Theatrical Memoirs.

Secker & Warburg, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 292pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate under the front turnover flap, otherwise internally clean. The author was a close friend of George Orwell and Graham Greene and was at Oxford with Keith Douglas, Philip Larkin, Peter Brook etc, and met Bernard Sha and Max Beerbohm as a young man. His theatrical memories cover 60 years, from Marie Tempest through Gielgud and Olivier to Maggie Smith and Brian Cox. He was a wartime scientist and unwilling British agent, a traveller, biographer and translater... Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 13808

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Memoir, Autobiography, Actor, Theatre, Drama, Larkin, Tynan , Peter Brook, Bernard Shaw, Orwell, Graham Greene, Mervyn Peake

Mitterrand, Francois and Wiesel, Elie

Memoire a Deux Voix.

Editions Odile Jacob, 1995. Soft Cover, 223pp, softback covers. Gift inscription, otherwise clean. French text. A Memoire in the form of a conversation with the President of the French Republic... Very Good.

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Book number: 12438

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: French Politics, Autobiography

More, Euston

Oranges at Half Time.

Dent, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover, 139pp. Black cloth covered boards with orange title. A clean copy. Memories of school, teaching, National Service and OCTU and the world of advertising. Rare... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6210

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, National Service, Bovington, OCTU, Advertising

Morrison, Blake

And When Did You Last See Your Father?.

Granta, 1998. Mass Market Paperback, 219pp, illustratedsoftback covers with a couple of very light creases to spine. One crease to edge of flyleaf, otherwise a very clean, tight copy. A bestselling picture of a father-son relationship... Very Good.

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Book number: 11794

Catalogue: Autobiography