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AUTOBIOGRAPHY / BIOGRAPHY

Subject

Author / Title / Details / Price inc UK P&P

 

The Acland Family (Devon)

A Devon Family: The Story of the Aclands (Anne Acland. 1981. 1st Edition. Dust-jacket price-clipped) (£10 inc UK P&P)

 

Cecil J. Allen

Two Million Miles of Train Travel: An Autobiography (1965. 1st Edition. Dust-jacket price-clipped) (£17 inc UK P&P)

 

John Aspinall

The Best Of Friends (Howletts Zoo Park) (1976. Rare 1st Edition with dust/jacket) (£40 inc UK P&P).

 

Sir Douglas Bader

Reach For The Sky (Paul Brickhill. 1955. No dust-jacket) (£8 inc UK P&P)

 

Ralph “Sonny” Barger

Hell’s Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell’s Angles Motorcycle Club (2001. Paperback) (£9 inc UK P&P

 

 

Boris Becker

Boris Becker: The Player – The Autobiography (2004)  (SPECIAL OFFER - £16* inc UK P&P)

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Viv Billingham Parkes

Whistle While You Work: Life and Times of a 20th Century Shepherdess (1998. Softback. 1st Edition) (£14 inc UK P&P)

 

 

Alan Bond

The Rise and Fall of Alan Bond (Paul Barry. 1990) (SPECIAL OFFER - £14* inc UK P&P)

 

Reginald Bosanquet

Let's Get Through Wednesday; My 25 Years with ITN (Reginald Bosanquet. 1980. 1st edition. Ink handwriting on 1st blank page) (£15 inc UK P&P

 

Harry Brown of Belfast

The Second Watch: A Biographical Sketch of Harry Brown of Belfast (Phyllis Thompson. 1970s? Softback. Spine a bit loose) (£10 inc UK P&P)

 

Janet Brown

Prime Mimicker (1986. 1st Edition) (SPECIAL OFFER: £8* inc UK P&P)

 

 

Basil Brush with Andy Merriman.

 

Basil Brush: My Story (2001) (SPECIAL OFFER: £12* inc UK P&P)

Bill Bryden

Shell-Shocked: From Arakan to Mandalay (1942 – 1945) (2004. Softbcak. Cover slightly creased) (£9 inc UK P&P)

 

 

Charlie Chaplin

 

My Autobiography (Charles Chaplin. 1966. Readers Union edition. Large book. Dust-jacket slightly torn) (£18 inc UK P&P

 

 

Charlie Chaplin

 

Charlie Chaplin (John McCabe. 1978. Ex-library) (£10 inc UK P&P

 

Francis Chichester

 

Francis Chichester: The Lonely Sea and the Sky (1967. Paperback) (£9 inc UK P&P)

 

Rodolphe Christen

 

Rodolphe Christen 1859 - 1906: The Story of an Artist's Life by His Wife (Sydney Mary Christen. 1910) (£50 inc UK P&P

Lady Randolph Churchill

A Biography 1854 – 1895 (1970. Book Cub Edition) (£8 inc UK P&P)

 

Dr David Findlay Clark

One Boy’s War (1997. Softback) (£9 inc UK P&P)

 

Olga Constant

The Minister’s Wife (Huntly Gordon. 1978. 1st Edition) (£12 inc UK P&P).

 

David Corbett

Both Sides of The Fence: A Life Undercover (2002. Softback) (SPECIAL OFFER: £9-75* inc UK P&P)

 

Ben Coutts

Bothy To Big Ben: An Autobiography (1989. Softback) (SIGNED BY AUTHOR!!) (£28 inc UK P&P)

Bothy to Big Ben: An Autobiography (1988. Softback) (£10 inc UK P&P

 

John Creber

The Great Ouse & Nene: Navigation Notes, Maps & Boatyards (1980s. Softback. Cover slightly creased) (£7 inc UK P&P)

 

Madame Curie

Madame Curie by Eve Curie (Translated by Vincent Sheean. Reprint Society Edition. 1942. No dust-jacket) (£9 inc UK P&P)

 

Lavinia Derwent

A Mouse in the Manse (Scottish Borders) (1985. 1st edition. Ex-library) (£15 inc UK P&P)

 

 

Robert Dougall

 

Now For The Good News (1976. 1st edition) (£10 inc UK P&P

Amelia Earhart

20 Hrs, 40 Mins: The American Girl, First Across The Atlantic By Air Tells Her Story (2003. USA Edition. Softback) (£13 inc UK P&P)

 

Ernest Edwards

Kalamata Beach: 28th April 1941 and its Aftermath for One Soldier (Tai Posses. 1980s? Softback) (£8 inc UK P&P)

 

Bernard Fergusson

The Trumpet in the Hall 1930 – 1958 (1970. 1st edition) (£15 inc UK P&P)

 

Kathleen Ferrier

The Life of Kathleen Ferrier (Winifred Ferrier. 1955. No dust-jacket. Inscription on first page) (£10 inc UK P&P)

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Christine Marion Fraser

Roses Round The Door (1986. 1st Edition. Paperback) (£5 inc UK P&P)

 

Kit Fraser

TOFF Down Pit (1985. 1st Edition) (£12 inc UK P&P)

 

Veronica Frater

They All Ran After The Farmer’s Wife: Life on a Farm and a Bed & Breakfast nr Holy Island (1990. 1st Edition. Softback) (£10 inc UK P&P)

 

Grinling Gibbons

The Carved Cartoon: A Tale of Grinling Gibbons (1972. Ex-library. 1st Blank page missing) (£12 inc UK P&P)

 

Hugh Grant

A Game of Soldiers: Diary of a National Serviceman 1957 – 1960 (2001. Softback) (£12 inc UK P&P)

 

 

Hughie Green

 

Opportunity Knocked (1965. 1st Edition) (£15 inc UK P&P)

James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose

Montrose: The King’s Champion (Max Hastings. 1977. 1st Edition. Ex-library) (£17 inc UK P&P)

 

Hana Greenfield

Fragments of Memory: From Kolin to Jerusalem (1990. 1st Israeli edition. Softback) (£15 inc UK P&P)

 

 

Tyrone Guthrie

 

A Life in the Theatre (Tyrone Guthrie. 1961. Book-club edition. No dust-jacket) (£9 inc UK P&P

 

Sir Ludwig Guttmann

 

Spirit of Stoke Mandeville: The Story of Sir Ludwig Guttmann (Susan Goodman. 1986. 1st edition) (£14 inc UK P&P)

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Dawyck Haig / The Earl Haig

My Father’s Son: The Memoirs of Major The Earl Haig (2000. 1st Edition) (£35 inc UK P&P)

 

 

Dr Pauline G. Hamilton

 

To A Different Drum: An Autobiography (1984. 1st Edition. Softback) (£13 inc UK P&P)

Tony Hancock

(Tony) Hancock (Freddie Hancock & David Nathan .1969. 1st Edition. Dust-jacket a bit tatty and price-clipped) (SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS!!)  (£35 inc UK P&P

 

Geri Halliwell

Just For The Record (2003. Softback) (SPECIAL OFFER: £7.50* inc UK P&P)

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Bill Hewlett & David Packard

 

The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett And I Built Our Company (David Packard. 1995. US edition) (£9 inc UK P&P)

Richard Hodgson

Richard Hodgson - The Story of A Physical Researcher and His Times (A.T. Baird. 1949. 1st Edition. No dust-jacket. Spine a bit loose) (£12 inc UK P&P)

 

Betty Hogg

Echoes: The Memoirs of a Country Woman (covers the Scottish Borders, including Ednam, Denholm, etc) (1980s? Softback) (£10 inc UK P&P

 

Edith Holden

The Edwardian Lady: The Story of Edith Holden (Ina Taylor.1993. New Revised Edition. Ex-library) (SPECIAL OFFER: £14* inc UK P&P)

 

 

William Douglas Home

Mr. Home: Pronounced Hume – An Autobiography (1979. 1st Edition) (£20 inc UK P&P)

 

 

 

Joseph Dalton Hooker

 

Joseph Dalton Hooker: Botanist, Explorer and Administrator (W.B. Turrill. 1963. Scientific Book Club Edition) (£10 inc UK P&P

Antony Hopkins

Beating Time (1982. 1st Edition) (£35 inc UK P&PSIGNED BY AUTHOR!!

 

David Hughes

A Journey To Remember (2000. 1st Edition. Rare Hardback Edition) (SIGNED BY DAVID HUGHES!!) (£60 inc UK P&P

 

Alison Johnson

A House By The Shore: Twelve Years in Harris (Hebrides) (1986. Paperback) (£7 inc UK P&P

 

Don Johnson

Don Johnson: An Unauthorised Biography (Suzanne Munshower. 1987. Softback) (£7 inc UK P&P)

 

Keith Joseph

Keith Joseph: A Single Mind (Morrison Halcrow. 1989. 1st Edition) (SPECIAL OFFER: £14* inc UK P&P)

 

Norma Khouri

Forbidden Love: Love and Betrayal in Modern-Day Jordan (2003. Large paperback) (£9 inc UK P&P

 

 

R. Keith Mitchell

Forty-Two Months in Durance Vile: Prisoner of the Japanese (1997. 1st Edition) (£14 inc UK P&P)

 

 

Ludwig Koch

 

Memoirs Of A Birdman (c1950s. Scientific Book Club Edition. Dust-jacket slightly torn) (£10 inc UK P&P

Jacquie Lewis

Let Me Tell You How I Live With Cancer (1977. 1st Edition. Softback) (£18 inc UK P&P)

 

Thomas Edward Lewis

Blue Ribbon Days: A Tale of Victorian Childhood, Apprenticeship, Love and Marriage in Shropshire (edited by Geoffrey T Eddy) (1992. Softback) (£12 inc UK P&P)

 

Logie Bruce Lockhart

Stuff and Nonsense: Observations of a Norfolk Scot (1996. Softback) (£9 inc UK P&P)

 

Eric Lomax

The Railway Man (1996. Paperback) (£9 inc UK P&P

 

Rev. George Mackay

My Uncle George : The Respectful Recollections of a Backslider in a Highland Manse (Alastair Phillips. 1956. Softback. Spine worn) (£8 inc UK P&P

 

Angus MacVicar

Salt In My Porridge: Confessions of a Minister’s Son (1971. Dust-jacket price-clipped and a bit worn along edges) (£10 inc UK P&P)

 

Angus MacVicar

Heathers In My Ears: More Confessions of a Minister’s Son (1974. 1st Edition. Dust-jacket price-clipped) (£10 inc UK P&P).

 

Angus MacVicar

Silver In My Sporran: Confessions of a Writing Man (1979. 1st Edition) (£10 inc UK P&P)

 

Molly Maidment

Chained to Sarum: What the Mayoress Saw 1958 – 59 (1991. 1st Edition. Softback) (SIGNED BY AUTHOR!!) (£40 inc UK P&P)

 

Fordyce Maxwell

A Farmer’s Lot (A Northumberland Farmer) (1990. Paperback) (£7 inc UK P&P)

 

Fordyce Maxwell

Wild Oats and Wellingtons (A Northumberland Farmer) (1990. Softback) (£7 inc UK P&P)

 

Sir George Maxwell

In Malay Forests (1957. Softback) (£9 inc UK P&P)

 

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