Allende, Isabel:

My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile.

New York, HarperCollins, 2003 1st US Ed., hard cover stone coloured paper covers with orange paper strip to spine, gilt lettering to spine, VG, a little shelfwear, unclipped dust jacket, VG+, contents clean and tight, pp199. A "...seductively compelling memoir..." "...an unforgettable portrait of a charming idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an indomitable spirit..."

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Book number: 15612

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Chile memoir journey people memories life autobiography family Chilean history politics myth magic homeland nostalgia writer writing origin 006054564X

Archer, Fred:

Muddy Boots And Sunday Suits. Memories of a Country Childhood.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1973 Pbk, Uncorrected Proof, small tear to btm of spine hinge otherwise Good+, contents clean and tight, with b/w plates, pp159.

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Book number: 11083

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: memoir autobiography country childhood lifeAshton Under Hill Evesham parents farm recollections village 0340177462

Bagnold, Enid:

Enid Bagnold's Autobiography (from 1889).

London, Heinemann, 1970 Rep. with minor corrections, hard cover black cloth bds, a little marking and edgewear in places, clipped dust jacket, Fair, some edgewear, chipping, small round stains to btm edge or rear, contents nice and tight with b/w photographic plates, line drawings and facsimile letters, small brown age mark to pge margins of pges 39-46, pp293, a nice sound reading copy in dust jacket.

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Book number: 14970

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Enid Bagnold autobiography Victorian Jamaica London Chelsea life memoir Zinc Bath Circle Walter Sickert society Roderick Jones Reuters entertaining hostess children 0434043036

Baillie, Eileen Illust. by Dick Hart:

The Shabby Paradise: The Autobiography of a Decade.

London, Hutchinson, 1958 1st ed., Hard cover brown cloth bds, bright blue/black picture to upper bd, blue title block to spine, unclipped d/w, some wear and tear, Fair+, contents clean and tight, pp223, bk leans very slightly.

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Book number: 12240

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: autobiography slums Poplar East End vicar docks London family life Parish youth 0000000000

Baker, Denys Val:

A Family For All Seasons.

London, William Kimber & Co Ltd, 1979 1st Ed. hard cover green cloth bds, bump to top bd otherwise Good+, gilt lettering to spine, bk leans, unclipped dust jacket, VG+, a little loose, ffep missing, lib. label and stamp to title verso, contents clean and tight, pp190.

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Book number: 14559

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Cornwall Cornish mill house family life peaceful retreat humour Sanu voyage MFV Donald S Swan 0718303369

Mr & Mrs Bancroft:

Mr & Mrs Bancroft On And Off The Stage.

London, Richard Bentley And Son, 1891 New Ed. Being 8th, Hard cover red cloth bds, Good, spine age-browned, contents clean and tight, a few age-spots to leading pge edge block, pp410 +adverts, prev. owners name label to front pastedown.

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Book number: 11065

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Mr Mrs Bancroft stage drama childhood memoir life autobiography Lyceum Haymarket Adelphi Strand Prince of Wales theatre Seasons 000000000

Barnard, Mary:

Diary Of An Optimist

Dereham Norfolk, The Larks Press, 1997 Pbk, glossy card wraps, VG, a little scuffing at corners, small crease to rear btm corner, spine uncreased, pp190, contents clean and tight. Beautifully written and illustrated by the author the diary of how she brought up 6 children on the outskirts of Norwich.

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Book number: 12311

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Norfolk Norwich family life diary memoir autobiography 0948400323

Beck Brown, F. R.:

The Unending Stair.

Upton-Upon-Severn, Worcs, The Self Publishing Association, 1989 1st Ed. hard cover dark blue cloth bds, VG+, unclipped dust jacket, VG, contents clean and tight, pp251.

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Book number: 14398

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Norfolk stories Great Yarmouth autobiography life memoir childhood 1920s adventure grandmother Ida 1854210785

Beddington, Mrs Claude:

All That I Have Met.

London, Cassell And Company Ltd, 1929 1st Ed., Hard cover navy cloth bds, age speckling to cloth, corners/spine ends scuffed and rubbed, light crease down centre of spine, no d/w, age-speckling to pge edge blocks, contents sound and tight, pp286, some age-spotting to pages, b/w frontis. further plates through text, prev. owners label to front pastedown.

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Book number: 11056

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Mrs Claude Beddington autobiography India Victorian memoir history Gladstone Wilde Gilbert and Sullivan 000000000

Blishen, Edward:

Lizzie Pye: An Autobiography.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1982 1st Ed., hard cover olive green cloth bds, gilt titles to spine, VG, unclipped dust jacket, faded at spine otherwise VG, contents clean and tight, no names, inscriptions, pp239. The autobiography of Edward Blishen's mother, "...especially of the emergence of her buried self during her widowhood..."

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Book number: 15211

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Lizzie Pye autobiography mother widow widowhood malapropist life memoir emergence 0241107814

Blishen, Edward:

A Nest of Teachers: An Autobiography.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1980 1st Ed, Hard cover navy cloth bds, VG+, unclipped dust jacket, VG+, contents fine and tight pp186.

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Book number: 13081

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: London emergency training college teacher autobiography husband father post war courtship marriage 1940s teaching practice 024110145X

Blomefield, Mathena Illust. by Mildred E Eldridge:

The BulleyMung Pit: The Story of A Norfolk Farmer's Child.

London, Faber And Faber, 1946 Hard cover pink cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine, Good, no d/w, a little marking, bumping, contents clean and tight, v. lightly tanned, pp157. A nice sound reading copy.

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Book number: 11495

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Norfolk childhood farmers child farming agriculture life memoir tale Lilias Rider Haggard 000000000

De Blowitz, Henri Stephan:

My Memoirs.

London, Edward Arnold, 1903 Hard cover blue cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine and signature to upper bd, a little fading and minor age-marking otherwise Good+, foxing to pge edge blocks, rought cut pge edges, tissue-protected sepia tone frontis., age-spotting to half-title, frontis., tissue and title, contents have a little age-spotting here and there, pp358 + adverts. M. de Blowitz was the Paris Correspondent of The Times for nearly thirty years.

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Book number: 12364

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: journalist autobiography memoir journalism The Sunday Times Paris Correspondent career writing Alphonso XII memoirs life

Boyd, William:

The Romantic: The Real Life of Cashel Greville Ross. A Novel.

London, Viking (an imprint of Penguin), 2022 1st Ed., hard cover navy blue cloth bds, silver titles to spine, Fine, unclipped dust jacket, Nr Fine, contents fine and tight, rubbed out dedication to ffep, pp451.

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Book number: 15489

Catalogue: autobiography

Keywords: Cashel Greville Ross romantic life romance County Cork London Waterloo Zanzibar life East Indian Army Sri Lanka Romantic poets travels soldier farmer felon writer father lover nineteenth century self 9780241542026

Brighton, Verbena:

Nuts 'n May: A Childhood in a Norfolk Village.

Scole, Verbena Brighton, 1990 Cream/black stapled pbk, Good+, contents clean and tight, pp62. Memories of the author, also known as Daphne, of a childhood in the Norfolk village of Gissing. Illust. with photographs from the author's collection, some of places which no longer exist.

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Book number: 12334

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Gissing Norfolk memoir autobiography childhood life village school 0951697005