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Mala's Cat


KACENBERG, MALA

FIRST EDITION, 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: Michael Joseph 2022

KEYWORDS: first editions literature holocaust Mala Kacenberg autobiography survival

$16.50
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Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco


WEBSTER, JASON

FIRST EDITION, 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: Doubleday 2003

KEYWORDS: autobiography Spain Spanish culture guitar flamenco literature Jason Webster travel first editions

$22.50
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful


SMITH, MAGGIE

FIRST EDITION, 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: One Signal Publishers / Atria 2023

KEYWORDS: first editions literature Maggie Smith autobiographies autobiography memoir literary

$26.50
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Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simon de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir


BAIR, DEIRDRE

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: Atlantic Books 2020

KEYWORDS: literature literary memoir autobiography Deirdre Bair

$95.00
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My Life as an Explorer


HEDIN, SVEN

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

$275.00
3e5/17

My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions (2 Vol Set)


WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL

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

$75.00
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The Longest Walk: The Story of a Man's War-time Hike from Ethiopia to South Africa


MANISCALCO, GUISEPPE

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

$40.00
3e4/12

My Testament


BAKER, Capt PETER

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

$40.00
3e4/13

Call Me Coward


DOLLMANN, EUGEN & KESSELRING, Field-Marshal (Intro)

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

$25.00
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The Road From the Past


PETERSON, KEVIN

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

$22.50
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Yeager: An Autobiography


YEAGER, General CHUCK & JANOS, LEO

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

$26.50
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Carrier Observer: A Back-Seat Aviator's Story


WALLACE, GORDON

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: Airlife Publishing 1993

KEYWORDS: military history aviation autobiography Gordon Wallace Fleet Air Arm ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$100.00
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The Man Who Came in From Colditz


LARIVE, E H

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

$45.00
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Adventures of a Polish Prisoner


PIOTROWSKI, MARIAN & JARECKA, LOUISE LLEWELLYN (Trans) & GEDDES, JEAN (Illus/Decoration) & CAZALET, Col VICTOR (Fore)

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

$40.00
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Tunnelling into Colditz: A Mining Engineer in Captivity


ROGERS, JIM & SIMPSON, R B Y (Fore)

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

$35.00
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Francois Truffaut: Letters


TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS & JACOB, GILLES (Ed) & DE GIVRAY, CLAUDE (Ed) & ADAIR, GILBERT (Trans & Ed) & GODARD, JEAN-LUC (Fore)

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

$35.00
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Open Cockpit: A Pilot of the Royal Flying Corps


LEE, Air Vice-Marshal ARTHUR GOULD

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

$30.00
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Sagittarius Rising


LEWIS, CECIL

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

$25.00
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Stormbird: One of the Luftwaffe's Highest Scoring Me262 Aces


BUCHNER, OBERST HERMANN

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

$15.00
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Confessions of a Hope Fiend


LEARY, TIMOTHY

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

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