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By: Morrison, Blake
Price: £1.60
Publisher: Granta: 1998
Seller ID: 11794
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. View more info
By: Motion, Andrew
Price: £4.50
Publisher: Michael O'Mara: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10365
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 View more info
By: Muff, Clarence
Price: £4.50
Publisher: City of Bradford: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10541
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. View more info
By: Negus Arthur and Price, Bernard
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Hamlyn: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2626
168pp, dustjacket professinally laminated to boards. B + w illustrations. Ex library - flyleaf removed, stamp on title page etc - a Good 'reading copy' of the story of a life in antiques. View more info
By: Norbu, Thubten and Harrer, Heinrich
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Readers Union and Rupert Hart Davis: 1961
Seller ID: 4994
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. View more info
By: Nutting, Anthony
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Reprint Society: 1955
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 5539
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. View more info
By: Osborne, Dorothy
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Dent: 1914
Seller ID: 16158
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. View more info
By: Osborne, Dorothy
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Dent: 1914
Seller ID: 16193
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. View more info
By: Oufkir, Malika and Fitoussi, Michele
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4444
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. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Epworth: 1941
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10651
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 View more info
By: Pepys, Samuel and Latham, Robert
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Book Club Associates: 1979
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 12921
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. View more info
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Picador: 2002
Seller ID: 8843
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. View more info
By: Picardie, Ruth
Price: £2.00
Publisher: Penguin: 1998
Seller ID: 11354
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. View more info
Price: £2.50
Publisher: Hutchinson: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 519
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. View more info
By: Playfair, Nigel
Price: £5.50
Publisher: Faber: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13851
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. View more info
By: Portway, Donald
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Leo Cooper: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10507
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. View more info
By: Portway, Donald
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Robert Hale: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 10513
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. View more info
By: Powell, Dilys
Price: £8.50
Publisher: Hodder: 1963
Seller ID: 6025
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. View more info
Price: £7.00
Publisher: Deutsch: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5607
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. View more info
By: Priestley, J B
Price: £3.50
Publisher: Reprint Society: 1963
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 6271
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. View more info
