Search Results: Autobiography from lobstabooks

Eyre & spottiswoode 6th impression 1956 VG/G+ . dj is enclosed in full plastic loose-fitting sleeve. dj is badly creased and tarnishe with some chipping and loss to edges. not price-clipped. no inscription. good clean copy internally. Autobiography of Joy Packer, and her African journeys

Michael Joseph. 1982 VG/VG dj is not price-clipped but has a 1 inch split to bottom right corner - easily repairable. 1st edition HardBack Autobiography of one of Britain's best loved broadcasters and composers

Faber and Faber, London, 1981 Vg/Vg clean and bright. no inscriptions. not price-clipped pp. 285. Illustrated. Index. The first instalment of Osborne's autobiography up to 'Look Back in Anger'.

MM Productions, 1991 Vg/Vg clean and bright. no inscriptions. not price-clipped The author tells of her lifetime travelling the world as the wife of a Surgeon Rear Admiral.

London: Little Brown Books, 1997 VG/VG. First Edition. No damage to book or dj. quarto. pp 282. Slovo recounts her chilhood with painful detail and the loss of her mother and how these as well as her families prominance in South African society have changed her to the person she is today.

Portrait, 2006 VG/VG near fine. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. lovely clean copy. signed by author on title page. Being the first married couple to complete the 'seven summits', Rob and Jo Gambi's story is interesting given that Rob has twice suffered from serious bouts of cancer - and once came very close to death stranded high in the Himalayas. The cancer has not stopped them from living life with an incredible intensity. 8PP COLOUR PHOTOS

London: Hutchinson, 1955 Vg. no dj ex-libris re-cased in new boards to original text-block. with stamps etc. full plastic sleeve over. clean and sound copy. uncommon copy

1974 Charles Scribner' VG/VG near fine. not price-clipped. no inscription. inside text is clean and tightly bound . ..the author reflects upon her life, including literary style, detective stories and her friendship with Dylan Thomas. first edition

GOLLANCZ, 1988 VG/VG not price-clipped. no inscriptions. lovely clean copy. 1st edition. Vg dj now protected by clear film wrapper . an autobiography of the author of the white hotel, with painful examination of his life, his "issues" and eventual resolution as a full-time writer.

Collins & Brown, London, 1991 VG/VG .near fine. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. full plastic sleeve loose-fitting over all. internally, a lovely clean copy. 1st. 8vo. Author is well known playwright and the brother of the former British Prime Minister. Accounts of his family and friends including famous actors

Weidenfeld & Nicolson., 2007 VG/VG near fine. clean crisp copy. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. unmarked, tight copy. 1st edition. think mayle in rural england - social vignettes - class observations - hunting - and dislocation. all quality of life in the country movers should read it.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986 VG/VG . clean crisp copy. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. unmarked, tight copy. 1st edition

Elek London 1954 VG/Fair (dj very worn around edges, small pencil numerals front free endpaper, pages clean and bright and binding tight) octavo 263pp. Autobiography of the 11th Baronet of Stenhouse and Airth, a man who packed more incidents and action into his life than most people even dream about. B/w plates.

glasgow scottish temperance league undated C 1870s VG no dj . red boards with gilt titling and black detailing blind-stamped. repeated to spine which is badly faded/sunned - appearing light brown! gentle rounding to both ends of spine, and corners with slight wear . all edges of textblock are gilted. no inscriptions. sadly title page, contents pages and pages are very badly stained/foxed, less so by ages 1 and 2 and then nothing save the odd foxing sot after page 5. otherwise a good clean copy. the life story of the famous public speaker on many topics, particularily temperance