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Nella Last's Peace The Post-War Diaries of Housewife 49

By: Malcolmson, Patricia and Robert

Price: £5.50

Publisher: Profile: 2008

Seller ID: 12307

ISBN: 1846680743

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: As New

306pp, softback covers. B + w photographs. A New, unread copy. The frank and touching diary of a housewife living in Barrow in Furness after WWII, part of the Mass Observation project.
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From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush

By: Marshall, James Wilson and Buffum, Edward Gould

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Lakeside Press: 1993

Seller ID: 6992

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

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.
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From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush

By: Marshall, James Wilson and Buffum, Edward Gould

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Lakeside Press: 1993

Seller ID: 6993

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

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.
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Plain Tales from Yorkshire

By: Mason, Roger

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Macdonald: 1982

Seller ID: 6949

ISBN: 0356078825

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

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.
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A Year In Provence

By: Mayle, Peter

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: 1993

Seller ID: 1907

ISBN: 0241133610

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Spies I Knew

By: McKenna, Marthe

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Jarrolds: 1937

Seller ID: 11952

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Miller's Tale

By: Miller, Alan

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Middlesbrough Football Club: 1996

Seller ID: 7960

ISBN: 0952793210

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

150pp. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. A day-by-day diary of life in the Boro dressing room.
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A Fine Old Conflict

By: Mitford, Jessica

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1977

Seller ID: 17047

ISBN: 0718116178

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A large book of 270pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket with one short repaired tear to the back. B + w photographs. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The second book of autobiography - the author's life as a member of the Communist Party in the USA during the McCarhy years, and her Civil Rights activism, together with glimpses of the other members of the Sitwell family.
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Memoire a Deux Voix

By: Mitterrand, Francois and Wiesel, Elie

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Editions Odile Jacob: 1995

Seller ID: 12438

ISBN: 2738102832

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

223pp, softback covers. Gift inscription, otherwise clean. French text. A Memoire in the form of a conversation with the President of the French Republic.
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Birds Coping with an Obsession One Man's Journey Through 70 Years of Birdwatching

By: Moore, Derek

Price: £3.50

Publisher: New Holland: 2013

Seller ID: 16938

ISBN: 1847739520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Forewords by Chris Packham and Bill Oddie. 271pp, priceclippped dustjacket is otherwise complete. Colour and b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The autobiography of a passionate birdwatcher and conservationist who has been a leading figure in British Ornithology for more than half a century.
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Who'd Be A Missionary?

By: Morgan, Helen

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Patmos Press: 1972

Seller ID: 10468

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

39pp, illustrated sofback covers. A clean copy. Amusing, and touching, adventures as a missionary
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And When Did You Last See Your Father?

By: Morrison, Blake

Price: £1.60

Publisher: Granta: 1998

Seller ID: 11794

ISBN: 1862070938

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Monica's Story

By: Motion, Andrew

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Michael O'Mara: 1999

Seller ID: 10365

ISBN: 1854794264

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

288pp, priceclipped dustjacket is otherwise as new. Colour photographs. Flyleaf removed, otherwise internally very clean. Monica Lewinsky's account of her relationship with President Clinton
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Unbelievable But True!

By: Muff, Clarence

Price: £4.50

Publisher: City of Bradford: 1984

Seller ID: 10541

ISBN: 0907734065

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

48pp, illustrated softback covers. Author photograph. Previous owner's address sticker to inner cover, otherwise internally clean and tight. Growing up in a tough area Mount Street in Bradford between the wars, work in a wool mill, cinemas, fish and chip shops, boxing, football, betting, being unemployed etc.
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Nelson's Letters

By: Nelson, Horatio

Price: £11.50

Publisher: Dent: 1960

Seller ID: 17034

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Everyman edition, selected and edited by Geoffrey Rawson. 486pp, including Index. Complete dustjacket with a drawing by David Cobb, a very little faded to the spine. Internally very clean. A selection of Admiral Nelson's domestic and professional letters and official despatches, with explanatory notes.
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua

By: Newman, John Henry

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Dent: 1946

Seller ID: 17033

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Everyman edition. 326p, dustjacket with a portion of loss to the back top edge and a little wear to the top of the spine. Internally clean. Cardinal Newman's autobiography of his life and spiritual journey from Anglicanism to the Roman Cathoic Church.
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Tibet Is My Country

By: Norbu, Thubten and Harrer, Heinrich

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Readers Union and Rupert Hart Davis: 1961

Seller ID: 4994

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

238pp, the edges now browning with age, complete dustjacket. Colour photographs. Map. Internally clean and Near Fine. The biography of the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama, translated by Edward FitzGerald.
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South Col The Ascent of Everest 1953

By: Nutting, Anthony

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Reprint Society: 1955

Seller ID: 5539

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

249pp, black boards with red leather label, dustjacket with a little loss to the edges. Colour frontispiece, b + w photographs and maps. Internally very clean. The author's day to day account of the successful expedition to climb Everest in 1953.
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Twenty Years A-Growing

By: O'Sullivan, Maurice and Forster, E M

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Oxford: 1966

Seller ID: 16996

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Pocket sized World's Classics edition, translated from the Irish by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson and with an Introductory Notes by E M Forster. 298pp, blue cloth covered boards with gilt title. Priceclipped dustjacket illustrated by Lynton Lamb with a couple of short closed tears and 'Ireland May 1967' written neatly on the front. Endpaper maps. Internally very clean. A memoir of growing up in an isolated community on the Blasket Islands off the coast of Ireland.
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The Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

By: Osborne, Dorothy

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Dent: 1914

Seller ID: 16158

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Presumed first Everyman edition, dated from the Introduction by Edward A Parry. 320pp, including Index. orange cloth covered boards with gilt ornament to the spine, which is a little darkened with age. Decorated endpapers and title pages. A couple of small marks to the foredge, otherwise internally clean. Dorothy Osborne and SIr William Temple were separated for many years by the English Civil War.
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Category: Autobiography