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The Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

By: Osborne, Dorothy

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Dent: 1914

Seller ID: 16193

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Presumed first Everyman edition, dated from the Introduction by Edward A Parry. 320pp, including Index. brown cloth covered boards with gilt ornament to the spine. 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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La Prisonniere

By: Oufkir, Malika and Fitoussi, Michele

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 2000

Seller ID: 4444

ISBN: 0385601247

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Translated by Ros Schwartz. 293pp, priceclipped dustjacket with portrait of the author. B + w photographs. Brought up in the Moroccan royal family, and then imprisoned with her family in the desert, an amazing autobiography.
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A Surgeon Looks Back

By: Paterson, Herbert John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Epworth: 1941

Seller ID: 10651

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

253pp, green cloth covered boards. Boots library sticker to front cover, but no stamps. A few tiny spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. Life as a surgeon at Barts, The West London, Queen Alexandra's etc before and during the First World War
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The Illustrated Pepys Extracts From The Diary

By: Pepys, Samuel and Latham, Robert

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Book Club Associates: 1979

Seller ID: 12921

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

333pp, illustrated dustjacket, faded to spine and with a little wear to the edges Colour and b + w illustrataions. Internally very clean. A selection from the Diary to retain the variety and flavour of the original.
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If The Spirit Moves You Life and Love After Death

By: Picardie, Justine

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Picador: 2002

Seller ID: 8843

ISBN: 0330487868

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: As New

230pp, softback covers. A clean, tight, probably unread, copy. A study of the author's search to come to terms with the death of her sister.
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Before I Say Goodbye

By: Picardie, Ruth

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Penguin: 1998

Seller ID: 11354

ISBN: 0140276300

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

116pp, the edges browning a little with age, softback covers with a photograph of the author. A clean, tight copy. The author's courageous fight with terminal breast cancer.
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Europe of the Heart

By: Pire, Father Dominique

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Hutchinson: 1960

Seller ID: 519

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Autobiography of the Nobel peace prize winner who worked with refugees and the old. 221 pp, black boards, label rubbed. B + w photographs. Convent school blank prize label to flyleaf, otherwise clean.
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Hammersmith Hoy A Book of Minor Revelations

By: Playfair, Nigel

Price: £5.50

Publisher: Faber: 1930

Seller ID: 13851

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

310pp, library binding of dark blue cloth, worn to corners, with leather spine. B + w illustrations. Ex reference library- bookplate to inner board, stamp to back of title page, occasional grubby marks - a good 'reading copy' only. Reminiscences of life in the theatre, especially at the Lyric, Hammersmith, London.
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Memoirs of an Academic Old Contemptible

By: Portway, Donald

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Leo Cooper: 1971

Seller ID: 10507

ISBN: 0850520738

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

232pp, complete dustjacket , a little rubbed to edges. Internally very clean. Comes with a gift slip from the author. University life at Cambridge, the Korean War, Khartoum University etc.
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Militant Don

By: Portway, Donald

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: 1964

Seller ID: 10513

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

187pp, dustjacket with a little edgewear. Gift inscription from the author to the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. University life at Cambridge and Khartoum, WWII, Dunkirk, UNESCO etc.
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An Affair Of The Heart

By: Powell, Dilys

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Hodder: 1963

Seller ID: 6025

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

280pp, priceclipped dustjacket, a little faded to spine. Endpaper maps. Name rubbed out to inner board, under dustjacket, otherwise very clean. The story of the author's relationship with the Greek village of Perachora, where her husband Humphry Payne excavated the archaic temple - one of Bruce Chatwin's favourite books.
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Something Understood An Autobiography

By: Priestland, Gerald

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Deutsch: 1986

Seller ID: 5607

ISBN: 0233975004

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

287pp, dustjacket with photograph of the author., b + w photographs.The autobiography of the BBC foreign correspondent - his battle with depression, meetings with Louis MacNeice, Isaiah Berlin etc.
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Margin Released A Writer's Reminiscences and Reflections

By: Priestley, J B

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Reprint Society: 1963

Seller ID: 6271

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

231pp, complete dustjacket is a little rubbed to the ends of the spine. A couple of very light foxmarks to foredge, otherwise internally very clean. Autobiography -from his early working life in Bradford, WWI, and a writer's life.
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Hell Among The Yearlings

By: Randolph, Edmund

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Lakeside Press: 1978

Seller ID: 2261

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

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.
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Hell Among The Yearlings

By: Randolph, Edmund

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Lakeside Press: 1978

Seller ID: 8092

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Living With The Laird A Love Affair with a Man and his Mansion

By: Rathbone, Belinda

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: 2007

Seller ID: 13328

ISBN: 0007246218

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Fine

306pp and extra features. Illustrated softback covers. B + w and colour illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. The personal story of an american wife trying to restore a crunbling Scottish mansion.
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Still Me

By: Reeve, Christopher

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Arrow: 1999

Seller ID: 7918

ISBN: 0099257289

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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.
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My Lively Lady

By: Rose, Sir Alec

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Nautical Publishing: 1968

Seller ID: 7622

ISBN: 0245595651

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd impression.193pp, colour and b + w phootgraphs. The autobiography of the famous yachtsman.
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Secret Life An Autobiography

By: Ryan, Michael

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Bloomsbury: 1996

Seller ID: 11381

ISBN: 0747525455

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Fine

356pp, illustrated softback covers, A very clean, tight copy. 'The Memoir of a Sex Addict'.
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On The Edge of the Primeval Forest The Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in French Equatorial Africa.

By: Schweitzer, Albert

Price: £4.00

Publisher: A & C Black: 1954

Seller ID: 13487

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

128pp, complete dustjacket, a little rubbed to ends of spine. Frontispiece illustration. Two tiny spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise a very clean copy. Schweitzer's account of his calling, and the growth of his leper hospital in Africa.
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Category: Autobiography