Shindler, Colin

Manchester United Ruined My Life.

Headline, 1999. Mass Market Paperback, 310pp, illustrated softback covers with a couple of light creases. A clean, tight, Near Fine copy. The autobiography of a sports fan... Very Good.

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Book number: 11807

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Football, Sport, Manchester

Sieff, Israel

Memoirs.

Weidenfeld, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover, 214pp. Dustjacket with closed tears to edges. B + w photographs. Original owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Marks & Spencer, Chaim Weizmann, Balfour etc... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 8466

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Business, Autobiography, Marks and Spencer, Weizmann, Israel

Simpson, John

Days From A Different World A Memoir of Childhood.

Macmillan, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover, 413pp, complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The foreign correspondent's memoir of his family background, and growing up in Croydon after the Second World War... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 14035

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Croydon, London, Austeity, History

Sitwell, Osbert

Great Morning.

Reprint Society, 1949. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 324pp, grey cloth covered boards with red leather label. B + w illustrations including Montegufoni by John Piper. A clean copy. The 3rd volume of autobiography. Life at Renishaw, in Italy and in artistic London... Fine /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6160

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: John Piper, Montegufoni

Sitwell, Osbert

Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations Being a Book of Characters and the Fifth and Last Volume of Left Hand Right Hand!.

Macmillan, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition, first printing. 324pp,red cloth covered boards. Illustrated endpapers and b + w illustrations. A couple of spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally clean. The fifth and last volume of Left hand, Right Hand! - an acclaimed autobiography... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6130

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Renishaw, John Piper

Soderman, Harry

Policeman's Lot A Criminologist's Gallery of Friends and Felons.

Longmans Green and Co, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 388pp, black cloth covered boards, a little bumped ot the edge, with gilt title. B + w photographs. A couple of light spots of foxing to the top edge, otherwise internally clean. A policeman's story of fighting crime in Lyons, Stockholm, New York, etc... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13852

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Crime, Felon, Criminal, Thief, True Crime

Spender, Stephen

World Within World.

Reader's Union, 1953. Hard Cover, 305pp, edges browning with age, blue boards, slightly sunned to spine. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The poet's autobiography, especially literary life 1928-39... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 2602

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Woolf, Isherwood

Spillman, Rob

All Tomorrow's Parties A Memoir.

Grove Press, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover, 344 pp. Complete dustjacket with author portrait. A very clean copy. A Memoir from the editor of Tin House magazine - the pursuit of artistic integrity, from growing up in pre and post Wall Berlin, life in New York's East Village in the eighties, and life in bohemian anarchic East Berlin after the Wall came down... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 1898

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Tin House, German Art, Art, Autobiography, Berlin, Berlin Wall

Stalker, John

Stalker.

Harrap, 1988. Hard Cover, 288pp, priceclipped dustjacket with portrait of the author is otherwise complete. B + w photographs. Gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The story of the policeman who headed the enquiry in 1982 into the deaths of 6 men shot by the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the problems he encountered, his suspension and reinstatement... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 5878

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: RUC, Northern Ireland, IRA, police, Ulster

Stuart, James

Within The Fringe An Autobiography.

Bodley Head, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover, 188pp, complete dustjacket. A clean tight copy of the autobiography of Viscount Stuart of Findhorn who was a Conservative MP for 36 years, fought in WWI and was equerry to George VI... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 8399

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: MP, Politics, Coonservative, Suez, WWI, Oklahoma, George VI

Talbot, Godfrey

Permission To Speak.

Hutchinson, 1977. Hard Cover, 190pp, dustjacket with a couple of short closed tears to edges, no loss. B + w photographs. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The second volume of memoirs of the broadcaster, who was Palace representative for the BBC for 25 years. Covers the War, the Queen's Wedding, Chruchill's funeral etc... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 4629

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: BBC, broadcaster, radio, correspondent, Churchill, WWII, TV

Talbot, Godfrey

Speaking From The Desert A Record of The Eighth Army in Africa.

Hutchinson, 1111. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition, undated but circa 1945. 153pp, War Economy paper. Green cloth covered boards with faded gilt title to the spine. Endpaper maps and 16 b + w illustrations. A couple of small spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally clean. The author was a BBC journalist, sent out in 1942 to cover the Desert War - Montgomery, Alexander, Rommel, El Alamein etc... Very Good.

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Book number: 8454

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: WWII, Desert Rats, History, Desert War, Rommel, Montgomery

Talbot, Godfrey

Ten Seconds From Now A Broadcaster's Story.

Hutchinson, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover, 254pp. Dustjacket a little rubbed to edges. B + w photographs. Inscription to back of title page, name on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. 30 years in news broadcasting... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 8591

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: BBC, Reporter, Correspondent, Royal

Tangye, Derek

The Evening Gull.

Michael Joseph, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover, 180pp, complete dustjacket. B + w photographs. A very clean copy. Life after 'Jeannie' - coping with bereavement and work with The Minack Trust.... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 12572

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Minack, Cornwall, Bereavement

Tangye, Derek

Sun on the Lintel.

Michael Joseph, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.: Jean Tangye. Ex-Library, 190pp, illustrated dustjacket in removeable plastic sleeve. B + w photographs drawings. Ex library - flyleaf removed, stamp to title page, otherwise a good 'reading copy'. What happens to the author's New Year Resolutions at Minack... Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 13921

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography, Minack, Cornwall, New Year