Books - "autobiography"
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My Life as an Explorer
Super octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & illus to front board, illus eps, illus tipped in to half title page, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 498pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, moderate scuffing to spine, minor soiling to boards, minor water/damp wrinkling to top edge of front board, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to page egdes, minro tanning to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional minor cracking to gutters, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1926
KEYWORDS: exploration autobiography autobiographies memoir Sven Hedin travel explorers
My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, frontispieces with tissue guards, vol 1- xii + 435pp, vol 2- viii + 459pp, illus, VG (minro fading & moderate scuffing to spines & extrems, moderate cracking to hinges, minor chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, moderate tanning to eps, tissue guard of vol 2 missing, moderate foxing sporadically throughout, occasional moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Chapman & Hall 1905
KEYWORDS: Alfred Russel Wallace literature autobiographical memoir autobiography
The Longest Walk: The Story of a Man's War-time Hike from Ethiopia to South Africa
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 191pp, Near FINE (sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Allan Wingate / Howard Baker Publishers 1970
KEYWORDS: first editions Ethiopia South Africa Guiseppe Maniscalco pows prisoners of war pows escape stories autobiography memoir escapees
My Testament
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 288pp, illus, VG (moderate staining to board edges, moderate tanning to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, minor chafing)
PUBLISHER: John Calder 1955
KEYWORDS: first editions autobiography autobiographies memoir Captain Peter Baker politics war history politicians
Call Me Coward
Tired, scruffy ex-library, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 201pp, G+ (usual library markings, heavy fading to spine extrems, moderate scuffing to board edges, moderate tanning to page edges, heavy wrinkling/damage to ffep, yellowing tape repairs sporadically throughout with heavy cracking to gutters, heavy creasing & chipipng to fore-edges of pg33) in d/w, G+ (heavy loss to spine, other heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, yellowing tape staining to flap edges, moderate general soiling & chafing, remnants of plastic cover to edges)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber & Co 1956
KEYWORDS: military history autobiography autobiographies memoir Colonel Eugen Dollmann Germans
The Road From the Past
Quarto 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Kevin Peterson N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history autobiography memoir Kevin Peterson genealogy
Yeager: An Autobiography
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books 1985
KEYWORDS: military history autobiography memoir General Chuck Yeager
The Man Who Came in From Colditz
FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, in prev. owner's fully adhesive protective cover- tidy, minro tanning & wrinkling, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1975
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war E H Larive autobiography memoir Dutch Holland Colditz first editions
Adventures of a Polish Prisoner
Octavo, red cloth boards, white lettering to spine, white lantern illus to front board, 207pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, minor fading to spine, light tanning & soiling to page edegs & eps)
PUBLISHER: Lindsay Drummond 1943
KEYWORDS: military history pows prisoners of war Poland Polish autobiography autobiographies memoir Marian Piotrowski ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
Tunnelling into Colditz: A Mining Engineer in Captivity
Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 217pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, sl tanning to edges) in d/w, VG+ (in prev. owner's fully adhesive plastic cover- tidy, sl creasing & peeling to edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1986
KEYWORDS: military history pows prisoners of war camps Colditz Jim Rogers autobiography autobiographies memoir escape tunnels escapees
Francois Truffaut: Letters
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: Faber and Faber 1989
KEYWORDS: letters correspondence Francois Truffaut film makers cinema French autobiography
Open Cockpit: A Pilot of the Royal Flying Corps
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: Grub Street 2014
KEYWORDS: British military aviation history RFC Royal Flying Corps autobiography Arthur Gould Lee pilots
Sagittarius Rising
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG+) full title page/copyright page missing; 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: Greenhill Books (Date not available)
KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war aviation pilots RFC Royal Flying Corps Cecil Lewis autobiography memoir
Stormbird: One of the Luftwaffe's Highest Scoring Me262 Aces
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: Crecy Publishing 2010
KEYWORDS: military history German luftwaffe Germany aviation pilots autobiography Oberst Hermann Buchner
Confessions of a Hope Fiend
Paperback (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: Bantam Books 1973
KEYWORDS: Timothy Leary popular pop culture philosophy autobiography
Memoirs of the Comte de Gramont
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: George Routledge & Sons 1932
KEYWORDS: literature literary autobiography biographies memoir Comte de Gramont
Recollections of an Australian Squatter 1835-1883
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: John Ferguson 1978
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history W A Brodribb autobiography memoir 19th nineteenth century
Peregrinations of a Priest: An Autobiography of a Nobody
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: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop 2006
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders autobiography memoir Brian C Hare
Farm: The Making of a Climate Activist
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: Scribe Publications 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand farming rural agriculture autobiography memoir Nicola Harvey
Bjorn Borg: Heartbeats: A Memoir
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: Sphere 2025
KEYWORDS: sport history tennis players Bjorn Borg memoir biography autobiography