Diaries
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I Will Bear Witness
by Victor Klemperer
A professor of Romance languages in Dresden, Victor Klemperer wrote several major works on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature before he was expelled from his post in 1935. He lived through the war in Dresden with his wife, Eva. Klemperer's secret diaries were thought for many years to have been lost or suppressed by the Communist authorities of East Germany, where Klemperer lived after the war. He wife deposited them after his death in 1960 in the Dresden Landesarchiv, where they...
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Diaries Books & Ephemera
The Journal of Thomas Moore 1818-1841
by Quennell, Peter (ed)
London: B.T. Batsford. G : in Good condition with Coverlon covered dust jacket. Page edges browning. 1964. Revised Edition. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 150mm (8" x 6"). 256pp. b&w plates. .
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$8.45
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1662-1663. Cassell's National Library No 41
by Pepys, Samuel; Morley, Henry [ed.]
London: Cassell & Co Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Spine darkened. 1886. First edition thus. Brown hardback cloth cover. 150mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). 192pp. .
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$16.13
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different
by Ben Brooks
London.: Quercus., 2018. Hard. Very Good. 4to. 10".. Illustrated by Quinton Winter.. Very good. RRP £17.99.
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$10.24
Hilda Murrell's Nature Diaries 1961-1983
by Murrell, Hilda (Sinker, Charles - Editor)
Collins, London, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Acknowledgements, introduction by editor, notes on the Diaries, emissions from the publisher Diaries, selected facsimile pages, references, index of Place-names and index of plants and animals. Sepia toned photograph of Hilda Murrell as a frontispiece. The text is illustrated with colour photographs interspersed with Hilda Murrell's botanical drawings. Gray coloured...
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$16.60
Journal of an Afghanistan Prisoner
by Eyre, Lieut Vincent
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1976. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Near Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has a sunned spine & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Black & white illustrations by Frank Wilson. Maps to endpapers. Introduction by James Lunt. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiii, 330 pages. Originally published in 1843. A first-hand account of the first Anglo-Afghan war. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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$16.58
The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard 1914-1925
by Haggard, H. Rider [Edited by D.S. Higgins]
London: Cassell. 1980. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 299 pages. Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and...
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$16.58
Past Tense; Diaries, Volume II
by Cocteau, Jean
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Note by Pierre Chanel, works by Jean Cocteau and index. 1/4 purple coloured cloth covered backstrip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 dark brown coloured boards. The French playwright, filmmaker and poet, Jean Cocteau, kept diaries, and that remained unpublished for 20 years after his death, in 1963. This  the first volume  deals with the year 1953....
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$7.24
Sailing to South Australia 1859, 1864 & 1867 Four Months at Sea The Farndell Family Diaries
by Scroop, Garry
Adelaide: Published by Author. 2020. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Mint - a NEW copy. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 191 pages. The diaries of Edward Farndell, Samuel Farndell and John Shaw and Martha Farndell. All of whom made voyages from Liverpool to Port Adelaide. Garry Scroop has faithfully transcribed them accompanied by lots of relevant illustrations. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.
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$43.11
Other people  diaries 1963  1966
by Partridge, Frances
Collins, London, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. This book was sold, with a clear plastic cover held in place with sticky tape. Naturally the sticky tape has leaked, and now 24 years later, there are two pale brown marks on the front and, on the rear free end pages. There is no other damage to describe. This book chronicles the author's life in the mid-1960s when she is still struggling to come to term with existence after the double blow of the deaths of her...
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$19.92
The Curtain Rises
by Reynolds, Quentin
Random House, New York, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Poor. Green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper with red, yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Sepia toned photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. Twelve months in a war correspondents life during World War II; within the book you'll read about his impressions of...
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$9.96
The Anzacs
by Adam-Smith, Patsy
Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2011. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. acknowledgements, preface, appendix 1; C. E. W. Bean, appendix 2; tables, bibliography, sources of illustrations and index. Text illustrated with many black and white photographs, cartoons, tables in black and white photographs of contemporary prints. Colour illustrated paperback binding with gold and white coloured titles to the front panel and gold and black coloured titles to the back strip. "Patsy Adam-Smith...
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$8.45
Boswell in Holland ; 1763 - 1764, including his Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zelide]
by Boswell, James [ Frederick A.Pottle -- editor]
Heinemann, London, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 800 g.; XIX, 430 pp., last 2 blank, editorial committee, advisory committee, list of illustrations, introduction by editor, five appendices and index. Map illustrated endpapers, of Holland at the time of Boswells' visit. Black and white illustrated frontispiece, showing the Tower of " The Cathedral and part of Cathedral Square, Utrecht ". Within the text there are three other...
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$9.96
The Journal of a Colonial Lady
by Francis, Jessie Augusta (edited by Frank Armstrong)
Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Slipcased. Illustrator: Various. 112 pages, texts illustrated with contemporary art work, both in colour, and in monotone. Bound in pale green silk moire, with a postcard sized picture tipped onto the front board. Some fading across the backstrip and onto either side of the boards. The original slipcase requires that the book be placed in either upside down or backwards! "As is true of everyone, some Jessie's...
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$13.28
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
by Edith Holden
"This book is a facsimile reproduction of a naturalist's diary for the year 1906. Edith Holden recorded in words and paintings the flora and fauna of the British countryside through the changing seasons of the year."
Printed on heavier than normal paper (cardstock?) in a buff color with beautiful color illustrations, possibly suitable for framing.
Book & Dust Jacket - Good condition. Yellow cloth over boards with gold gilt title in brown block on spine. Apparently, this book came in contact with some... Read more about this item
Printed on heavier than normal paper (cardstock?) in a buff color with beautiful color illustrations, possibly suitable for framing.
Book & Dust Jacket - Good condition. Yellow cloth over boards with gold gilt title in brown block on spine. Apparently, this book came in contact with some... Read more about this item
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$30.00
To the Desert with Sturt: A Diary of the 1844 Expedition
by Brock, Daniel George
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australia, 1975. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. preface and introduction by Kenneth Peake - Jones, facsimile pages from Sturt's journal, facsimile reproduction of two pages of Brock's diary entries. Coloured frontispiece, of the painting of Daniel Brock " At Poole's Grave". Endpaper maps, showing Sturt's tracks and discoveries. Pale green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt...
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$19.92
Tagebücher 1 : (Deutsche Erstveröffentlichung) :
by Márai, Sándor:
Berlin, Oberbaum Verlag, 2000. Very Good. 8° , Leinen. Auszüge, Fotos, Briefe und Dokumentationen : Mit Schutzumschlag, dieser am oberen Rand leicht bestoßen / lagerspurig; blauer Leinen Einband; hinterer Deckel gering lagerspurig; Papier innen altersbedingt leicht nachgedunkelt und sehr gut; sammelwürdiges Exemplar der deutschen Originalausgabe
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$35.17
The Golfers' International Diary 1990
by no credit
Seto Publishing, Parnell, Auckland, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographs and drawings. Clean and unmarked with tight binding and straight spine; boards have light shelf-wear. No Dust Jacket as issued. Not written in. One week to a page, with the page opposite footnotes for the month, and a header for each month with illustration Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator:...
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$9.96
Across The Centre. John McDouall Stuart's Expeditions 1860-62
by Stokes, Edward
St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. 1996. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good+ condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 151 pages. Recreates McDouall Stuart's expeditions across the centre of Australia. . Reprint. Hardback.
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$39.79
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley (2 Volume Set)
by WANLEY, HUMFREY / WRIGHT, C. E. & WRIGHT, RUTH C. (EDS)
1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. 8vo. - Volume I, 1715 - 1723; Volume II, 1723 - 1726 - Board covers a little worn and marked - Corners bumped - Edges of text block tanned and foxed - Books ow/ solid, clean and tight - xcv/518 pages
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$25.61
Prophesying Peace
by LEES-MILNE, James
London: Chatto & Windus, 1977. First. hardcover. fine/very good. Frontispiece portrait; pictorial endpapers. 254 pages. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. (price-clipped and slightly misfolded at rear flap). London: Chatto & Windus, 1977. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> A sequel to Ancestral Voices<br/> <br/>
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$50.00
Tahitian Journal
by Biddle, George
St Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 1968. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Mild rubbing to DJ. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 207 pages. The journal of American artist, George Biddle who spent two years in Tahiti from 1920. Presents a vivid personal narrative of his sojourn and documents a significant period in his development as an artist. Robust, professional...
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$19.90
The Folio Book of Days
by Hudson, Roger [Selected and Introduced by]
London: The Folio Society. 2002. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase. Colour and black & white illustrations. A lovely book in excellent condition. Professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 336 pages. Consists of a list of 365 days of the year accompanied by quotations from diaries, journals, historical, literary and political for each day. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus....
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$14.59
Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician. 2 volume set
by Warren, Samuel
Edinburgh: William Blackwood / T Cadell. G: in good condition. Minor scuffing to leather at corners. Light rubbing to marbled boards. Contents clean and tight. Gilt decorated spine remains bright. Previous owner bookplates to fep of first volume and front paste-down of second. Inner hinge cracking. Page edge browning. Sporadic foxing. 1833. Second Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). xii, 379pp; 395pp. 1: Early Struggles; II: Cancer; III: The...
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$84.51
Footprints Scripture Diary
Antioch Publishing, 1987. Hardcover. Diary; Scripture readings on several pages. Footprints poem on front cover. Unused, no marks or writing. BOOK NEAR VVG
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$19.95
ANDY WARHOL IDEA JOURNAL
by Galison & Andy Warhol
Galison. Good+. 2013. Diary. Two lines of black ink text written on the top of the first lined page, otherwise Like New. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 112 pages .
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$10.00