Priestley, J B

Midnight on the Desert Chapters of Autobiography.

Readers Union and Heinemann, 1940. Hard Cover, 312pp, blue cloth covered boards, a very little rubbed to the edges of the spine. Internally very clean. Life in America etc... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 4998

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography

Priestley, J B

Rain Upon Godshill A Further Chapter of Autobiography.

Heinemann, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition, first printing. 331pp, dark blue cloth covered boards. Flyleaf neatly removed, a couple of spots of foxing to the title page snd foredge, otherwise a clean copy. Travel in Egypt and the USA, rehearrsals at Malvern etc in the growing shadow of Nazi Germany... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6067

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography,

Quennell, Peter (ed)

The Journal of Thomas Moore 1818 - 1841.

Batsford, 1964. Hard Cover, The revised edition of 1964, edited and with an Introduction by Peter Quennell. 256 pp, the paper browning a little with age, marroon boards. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. The diaries of the poet and friend of Byron who knew Sir Walter Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Landor and Crabbe... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Diary, Hisory, English History, Regency England, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge

De Quincey, Thomas

The Confessions of an English Opium Eater.

Dent, 1910. Hard Cover, Everyman edition. 274pp, brown cloth covered boards, a litttle worn faded to spine. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, a few small spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 10396

Catalogue: Autobiography

Randolph, Edmund

Hell Among The Yearlings.

Lakeside Press, 1978. Hard Cover, 1st in this attractive edition. 406pp, brown cloth boards, gilt top edge and publisher's logo to front, no dustjacket, as issued. B + w photographs. Autobiography of life on a ranch in the American West... As New /No Jacket.

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Book number: 2261

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: ranch, autobiography, Cowboy

Randolph, Edmund

Hell Among The Yearlings.

Lakeside Press, 1978. Hard Cover, 1st in this attractive edition. 406pp, brown cloth boards, gilt top edge and publisher's logo to front, no dustjacket, as issued. B + w photographs. Autobiography of life on a ranch in the American West... As New /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8092

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: ranch, autobiography, cowboy

Reeve, Christopher

Still Me.

Arrow, 1999. Mass Market Paperback, 328pp. B + w photographs. A couple of light creases to the spine, otherwise a very clean Near Fine copy of the autobiography of the actor who fought against disability after an accident... Very Good.

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Book number: 7918

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Actor, Disabled

Von Rezzori, Gregor

The Snows of Yesteryear Portaits for an Autobiography.

Vintage, 1991. Mass Market Paperback, 292pp, softback covers by Ruby Webb. B + w photographs. A very clean, tight copy. An account of growing up in the Bukovina between the wars... Fine.

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Book number: 12395

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Bukovina

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Confessions Volume One and Volume Two.

Dent, 1946. Hard Cover, Everyman edition. Complete in two matching volumes. 320pp and 296pp. Pink cloth covered boards, a little faded to the spine, with impressed series logo to the front. Previous owner's name very faintly to the flyleaves, otherwise a clean set. Autobiographical writings, first published posthumously in 1781 - 8... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 10398

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Autobiography

Ryan, Michael

Secret Life An Autobiography.

Bloomsbury, 1996. Mass Market Paperback, 356pp, illustrated softback covers, A very clean, tight copy. 'The Memoir of a Sex Addict'... Fine.

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Book number: 11381

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Sex

Sampson, Anthony

The Anatomist The Autobiography of Anthony Sampson.

Politico's, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 283pp. Complete dustjacket, a little wrinkled to the back. Original owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. The autobiography of the political investigative journalist who wrote the Anatomy of Britain series while working at the Observer, worked for the magazine Drum in South Africa, wrote the biography of Nelson Mandela and fought for the abolition of apartheid.... Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 8749

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Journalist, Mandela, Apartheid, South African History

Sartre, Jean Paul

Words.

Penguin, 1969. Mass Market Paperback, Translated by Irene Clephane. 158pp, the edges browning with age. Orange and white softback covers designed by Omnific, with a very little loss to the back bottom corner. Previous owner's name to inner cover and initials crossed out to the flyleaf, otherwsie internally clean and tight. Reminiscences of a childhood in provincial France before the First World War, and its effects on the writer's work... Very Good.

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Book number: 12532

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Philosophy, French Literatureautobiography, Childhood

Schlesinger, Arthur M Jr.

A Life in the 20th Century Innocent Beginnings 1917 - 1950.

Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. A heavy book of 557pp. Complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. SIGNED by the author on a slip pasted to the title page. The first owner has also pasted reviews of the book neatly to the front and back endpapers., otherwise a very clean copy. The first volume of autobiography by the historian and intellectual in residence in the administration of President Kennedy.. Signed by Author. Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 15707

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Memoir, Autobiography, American History, History, President Kennedy, J F Kennedy

Sewall, John S

The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk Adventures in the China Seas.

Lakeside Press, 1995. Hard Cover, 1st in this attractive edition, edited by Arthur Power Dudden. 291pp, 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 autobiography of a member of the company of USS Saratoga, part of Commodore Perry's squadron on his expedition to open up Japan... As New /No Jacket.

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Book number: 7007

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: adventure, autobiography, saratoga, navy, Japan, diplomacy, colonial, trade, economy

Shaw, Bernard

Bernard Shaw & Mrs Patrick Campbell Their Correspondence.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover, 339 pp, red boards, a little faded to the spine. Internally clean. The letters of the famous playwright and the great actress over forty years between 1899 and 1939, edited by Alan Dent... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 122

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: playwrights, theatre, Actress,letters