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Manchester United Ruined My Life

By: Shindler, Colin

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Headline: 1999

Seller ID: 11807

ISBN: 0747259836

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

310pp, illustrated softback covers with a couple of light creases. A clean, tight, Near Fine copy. The autobiography of a sports fan.
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Testimony the Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich

By: Shostakovich, Dmitri and Volkov, Solomon

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: 1979

Seller ID: 17311

ISBN: 0241103215

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Translated by Antonina W Bouis. 238pp, priceclipped dustjacket is otherwise complete. B + w photographs, the margin edges tanning a little with age. A couple of very small light spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally clean. The reminiscences of the famous composer, meetings with famous musicians, artists and writers, conversations with Stalin etc and reveals himself as a man ambivalent about his country and his role.
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Memoirs

By: Sieff, Israel

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Weidenfeld: 1970

Seller ID: 8466

ISBN: 0297002341

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

214pp. Dustjacket with closed tears to edges. B + w photographs. Original owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Marks & Spencer, Chaim Weizmann, Balfour etc.
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Days From A Different World A Memoir of Childhood

By: Simpson, John

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Macmillan: 1982

Seller ID: 14035

ISBN: 1405050047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

413pp, complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The foreign correspondent's memoir of his family background, and growing up in Croydon after the Second World War.
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Halfway to Heaven

By: Sinclair, Max and Armitage, Carolyn

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1984

Seller ID: 11309

ISBN: 0340263369

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

188pp, softback covers with a photograph of the author, one light ring mark to front. Flyleaf neatly removed, a couple of light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise clean, tight copy. How faith helped Max to recover from a terrible car accident
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Taken Care Of

By: Sitwell, Edith

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Reader's Union: 1966

Seller ID: 1175

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

192 pp, green boards, dustjacket with a little edgewear. B + w photographs. The autobiography of the poetess, completed shortly before her death. Internally very clean.
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The Scarlet Tree

By: Sitwell, Osbert

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Reprint Society: 1947

Seller ID: 6130

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

334pp,grey cloth covered boards with red leather label. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise clean. The second volume of Left hand, Right Hand! - the author's autobiography.
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Left Hand Right Hand!

By: Sitwell, Osbert

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Reprint Society: 1946

Seller ID: 6158

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

280pp, grey cloth covered boards with red leather label. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. An autobiography - life at Renishaw and in artistic London.
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Great Morning

By: Sitwell, Osbert

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Reprint Society: 1949

Seller ID: 6160

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

324pp, grey cloth covered boards with red leather label. B + w illustrations including Montegufoni by John Piper. A clean copy. The 3rd volume of autobiography. Life at Renishaw, in Italy and in artistic London.
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Cockleshell Commando

By: Sparks, Bill

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Isis Large Print: 2005

Seller ID: 14107

ISBN: 075319306X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Large Print edition. 219pp, laminated illustrated hard covers. Ex library - a couple of stamps, otherwise internally clean. The memoirs of a survivor of the Cockleshell Hero raid in WWII, Operation Frankton in the Gironde and fighting with the Greek Sacred Squadron in WWII, and life as a policeman in Malaya.
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World Within World

By: Spender, Stephen

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Reader's Union: 1953

Seller ID: 2602

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

305pp, edges browning with age, blue boards, slightly sunned to spine. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The poet's autobiography, especially literary life 1928-39.
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Stalker

By: Stalker, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Harrap: 1988

Seller ID: 5878

ISBN: 0245546162

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

288pp, priceclipped dustjacket with portrait of the author is otherwise complete. B + w photographs. Gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The story of the policeman who headed the enquiry in 1982 into the deaths of 6 men shot by the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the problems he encountered, his suspension and reinstatement.
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Within The Fringe An Autobiography

By: Stuart, James

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Bodley Head: 1967

Seller ID: 8399

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

188pp, complete dustjacket. A clean tight copy of the autobiography of Viscount Stuart of Findhorn who was a Conservative MP for 36 years, fought in WWI and was equerry to George VI.
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Permission To Speak

By: Talbot, Godfrey

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hutchinson: 1977

Seller ID: 4629

ISBN: 0091272505

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

190pp, dustjacket with a couple of short closed tears to edges, no loss. B + w photographs. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The second volume of memoirs of the broadcaster, who was Palace representative for the BBC for 25 years. Covers the War, the Queen's Wedding, Chruchill's funeral etc.
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Ten Seconds From Now A Broadcaster's Story

By: Talbot, Godfrey

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Hutchinson: 1973

Seller ID: 8591

ISBN: 0091141206

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

254pp. Dustjacket a little rubbed to edges. B + w photographs. Inscription to back of title page, name on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. 30 years in news broadcasting.
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An Apple A Week

By: Tang, David

Price: £38.50

Publisher: Next Publications: 2006

Seller ID: 17279

ISBN: 9625778519

Condition: Fine

Foreword by Lord Chris Patten. 205pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket. Colour illustrations. Gift inscription signed by the author to the panist and teacher Dame Fanny Waterman, otherwise internally clean.A collection of articles on life in Hong Kong etc, published in Apple Daily 2004-2006. Comes with the author's compliments slip, and an article he wrote for The Spectator.
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Jeannie A Love Story

By: Tangye, Derek

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1988

Seller ID: 3162

ISBN: 0718128893

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

184pp, slightly browning to the edges with age. B + w photographs. A very clean copy. Scenes from a happy marriage, by the author of the Minack Chronicles.
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The Evening Gull

By: Tangye, Derek

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1990

Seller ID: 12572

ISBN: 0718133005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

180pp, complete dustjacket. B + w photographs. A very clean copy. Life after 'Jeannie' - coping with bereavement and work with The Minack Trust..
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Sun on the Lintel

By: Tangye, Derek

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1976

Seller ID: 13921

ISBN: 0718115368

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

190pp, illustrated dustjacket in removeable plastic sleeve. B + w photographs drawings. Ex library - flyleaf removed, stamp to title page, otherwise a good 'reading copy'. What happens to the author's New Year Resolutions at Minack.
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Time's Winged Chariot Memories And Comments

By: Thirtle, Ernest

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Chaterson: 1945

Seller ID: 2305

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

190pp, blue cloth library binding. Frontispiece portrait. Stamp on title page and pocket on inner board - a good reading copy. Memoirs of the Labour politician
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Category: Autobiography