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Children of Ol' Man River The Life and Times of a Showboat Trouper

By: Bryant, Billy

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Lakeside Press: 1988

Seller ID: 6999

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st in this attractive edition, edited by Martin Ridge. 360pp, brown cloth covered boards with gilt top edge and publisher's logo to front, no dustjacket, as issued. Frontispiece portrait and other b + w illustrations. A new, Mint, copy. The autobiography of a member of a showboat family.
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Skyward

By: Byrd, Richard Evelyn

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Lakeside Press: 1981

Seller ID: 1497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Edited by William R Anderson. 388 pp. Brown boards with gilt design. Frontispiece portrait of the author and photographs. Very clean, as new. Autobiography of an early flyer, including flying over the North Pole
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Skyward

By: Byrd, Richard Evelyn

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Lakeside Press: 1981

Seller ID: 6995

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

1st in this attractive edition, edited by William R Anderson. 382pp, brown cloth covered boards with gilt top edge and publisher's logo to front, no dustjacket, as issued. Frontispiece portrait and other b + w illustrations. A new, Mint, copy. The autobiography of an early flyer, including his early trip over the North Pole
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Skyward

By: Byrd, Richard Evelyn

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Lakeside Press: 1981

Seller ID: 6996

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Autobiography

By: Cardus, Neville

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Collins: 1947

Seller ID: 13606

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

288pp, brown cloth covered boards, very slightly faded to spine. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. The autobiography of the cricket writer.
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The Unhurried Chase

By: Carlson, Betty

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Tyndale: 1970

Seller ID: 3820

ISBN: 0842378006

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

158pp, complete dustjacket in removeable plastic cover. A very clean copy. The autobiography of the journalist, and her association with the L'Abri missionaries.
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Memoir of the Bobotes

By: Cary, Joyce

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Readers Union and Michael Joseph: 1965

Seller ID: 13006

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Foreword by Walter Allen. 170pp, complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's name to flyleaf and title page, otherwise very clean. A memoir of the Balkan War of 1912-13.
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Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini A Florentine Artist Written By Himself

By: Cellini, Benvenuto

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Dent: 1111

Seller ID: 16336

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Presumed first Everyman edition, circa 1910. translated by Thomas Roscoe in 1822. 528pp, including Appendix and Index. Light blue cloth covered boards, a little rubbed to the corners of the spine, with glit floral ornament to the spine. Decorated endpapers and title pages. A couple of small spots of of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean.
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A Goodly Fellowship

By: Chase, Mary Ellen

Price: £5.50

Publisher: Collins: 1941

Seller ID: 6639

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

283pp, green cloth covered boards. Frontispiece portrait. Neat gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. A life in teaching, in Maine, and at Smith College.
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The Voyage Home

By: Church, Richard

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Heinemann: 1964

Seller ID: 3211

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

223pp, red cloth covered boards, slightly faded to edges and spine. A couple of spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. Scenes from the author's life.
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Ariadne's Thread In Memory of W G Sebald

By: Comber, Philippa

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Propolis: 2014

Seller ID: 16983

ISBN: 099294600X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Foreword by Iain Sinclair. 266pp, grey and gold illustrated boards. A very clean copy. The author, a psychotherapist, met the author and photographer Max Sebald at Norwich in 1981, and this book is a record of their friendship over many years.
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The Catherine Cookson Country Her Pictorial Memoir

By: Cookson, Catherine

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Corgi: 1987

Seller ID: 14878

ISBN: 0552131261

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Long format. 192pp, illustrated softback covers. Many sepia illustrations. One light crease to front corner, otherwise a clean, tight copy. The famous writer's account of growing up on industrial Tyneside in the early 20th century, and what inspired her stories.
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Eels With Dill Sauce Memories of an Eccentric Childhood

By: Countess Von Bredow, Ilse

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Peter Owen: 1990

Seller ID: 13183

ISBN: 0720608015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

168pp, complete dustjacket by Keith Cunningham, a little worn to corners. B + w endpaper photographs. Internally clean. Growing up on a country estate near Berlin in the early 1930s.
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Letters from an American Farmer

By: Crevecoeur, J Hector St John De

Price: £5.50

Publisher: Dent Everyman's Library: 1982

Seller ID: 17199

ISBN: 0460016407

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Fine

Everyman's Library edition, with an Introduction by Michael T Gilmore. 256pp, the edges browning a little with age, softback covers illustrated by George Tute. A very clean, tight copy. The life of a pioneer farmer in the eighteenth century in America, in Chester, Nantucket etc.
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A Dog's Life in The Dales

By: Cropper, Katy and Collins, Barbara

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Bantam: 1993

Seller ID: 15008

ISBN: 0553406388

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

203pp,the paper browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers with a couple of light creases. B + w illustrations. Internally clean and tight. The frank and funny autobiography of a young shepherdess in the Yorkshire Dales, who won 'One Man nd His Dog' in 1990.
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Life Lines Politics And Health 1986 1988

By: Currie, Edwina

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson: 1989

Seller ID: 9731

ISBN: 0283999209

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

291pp,complete dustjacket with one closed tear. Gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. Readable MP's autobiography of life at the Ministry for Health 1986 -1988.
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Doubts and Certainties A Personal Memoir of the 20th Century

By: Dainton, Fred

Price: £18.50

Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press: 2001

Seller ID: 16937

ISBN: 1841271683

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

A heavy book of 463pp. The priceclippped dustjacket is otherwise complete. Colour and b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The autobiography of Lord Dainton, who grew up in Sheffield and became Professor of Chemistry in Leeds and Oxford and Vice Chancellor of Nottingham. He served on many government committees and was the Chairman of the British Library Board who persuaded Mrs Thatcher to fund the building of the new library
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The Happy Island

By: Danielsson, Bengt

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Readers Union and Allen & Unwin: 1954

Seller ID: 4940

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

209pp, dustjacket with a little loss to top and bottom of spine. B + w photographs. Internally very clean. Life with the South Sea Islanders of Raroia.
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These Were The Days

By: Day, Clarence

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Reprint Society: 1946

Seller ID: 6140

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

342pp, dark green cloth covered boards with black leather label. Previous owners' name on flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. Three volumes of his autobiography in one book.
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Storm Command A Personal Account of the Gulf War

By: De La Billiere, General Sir Peter

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Harper Collins: 1992

Seller ID: 5429

ISBN: 0002551381

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

348pp, priceclipped dustjacket with portrait of the author has one closed tear to back edge, no loss. B + w photographs. Foreword by Prince Charles. Light spotting to foredge, otherwise internally clean. An inside account of the war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 1990.
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Category: Autobiography