Books - "autobiography"
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Microbes, Men and Monarchs: A Doctor's Life in Many Lands
Octavo hardcover (G+) in d/w (G+) heavy damp/water staining & musty aroma; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Scientific Book Club 1960
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir Aldo Castellani doctors medical medicine
Ego 8: Continuing the Autobiography of James Agate
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: George G Harrap & Company 1948
KEYWORDS: James Agate autobiography autobiographies memoir diaries letters
Old Soldiers Never Die
Sm octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Antony Rowe (Printer) N/D (Modern Copy)
KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war soldiers autobiography autobiographies memoir Private Frank Richards
The Life
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1981
KEYWORDS: Jeanne Cordelier autobiography autobiographies memoir prostitution prostitutes sex trade industry
The Frolik Defection: The Memoirs of an Intelligence Agent
Scruffy paperback (G+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Corgi Books 1976
KEYWORDS: espionage history Josef Frolik intelligence agents defection autobiography autobiographies memoir Czech
Strange Places, Questionable People
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1998
KEYWORDS: broadcasters broadcast journalism journalists John Simpson news bbc reporters history autobiography memoir autobiographies
Taste: My Life Through Food
Octavo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Fig Tree 2021
KEYWORDS: Stanley Tucci food culinary autobiography memoir
I Learned to Fly for Hitler
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Kron Publications 1999
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 fighter pilots Hitler Youth programme autobiography autobiographies memoir Joe Volmer Americans
Messerschmitts Over Sicily: Diary of a Luftwaffe Fighter Commander
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Stackpole Books 2004
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 aviation fighter pilots luftwaffe German forces Johannes Steinhoff autobiography
All-Weather Mac
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Macdonald & Co 1963
KEYWORDS: first editions autobiography autobiographies memoir Wing-Commander R H McIntosh military history
Pyke: The Unknown Genius
FIRST EDITION, ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Evans Brothers 1959
KEYWORDS: Geoffrey Pyke autobiography autobiographies memoir military first editions
Bird Man
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1955
KEYWORDS: Leo Valentin autobiography autobiographies memoir aviation flight English translations
Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life, from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Zenith Press 2008
KEYWORDS: military history fighter pilots US American armed forces aviation Jack Broughton autobiography autobiographies memoir
The Sieve of Time: The Memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Quartet Books 1992
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir Leni Riefenstahl political anti-nazi activists
Red Horizon
PRESUMED FIRST EDITION, ex-library, super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, vii + 248pp, G+ (v heavy scuffing to board edges & extrems- some surface loss, heavy fading/discolouration to spine, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, usual library markings, v heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- boards shaky, varying states of foxing & discolouration to pages throughout, more heavy cracking to gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co N/D (c.1930s)
KEYWORDS: first editions (presumed) military history legionnaires soldiers autobiography autobiographies memoir Reginald R Forbes 9372 French Foreign Legion
Impressions and Memories
Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxix + 238pp, illus, VG- (moderate rubbing/scuffing & bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, frontispiece & half title page detached but present, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to gutters, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1927
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir Lord Ribblesdale history historical aristocracy
Talling Times: Writing and Living, 1954 - 2008
FIRST EDITION. Ex-library. Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury
KEYWORDS: Nadine Gordimer life lives biography autobiography memoir author 20th 21st century
Freedom in Exile
Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cardinal / Sphere Books 1991
KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Dalai Lama spiritual leaders Tibet buddhism
The Adventures of Giuseppe Pignata, Who Escaped from the Prisons of the Inquisition of Rome 1693
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 253pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing/soiling to spine & board edges/extrems, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's inscription in ink to ffep, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, sl foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (all corners lightly clipped, light to moderate insect damage & loss to rear cover, light tanning to spine, light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1930
KEYWORDS: first editions history English translations Giuseppe Pignata prisoners prisoner escapees 17th seventeenth century inquisition Rome inquisition autobiography memoir
Personal Memoirs of U S Grant
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece, xxv + 608pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1989
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series collection former US presidents autobiography autobiographies memoir Ulysses S Grant civil war politics political leaders