autobiography
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A Late Beginner
- £35.00
- Priscilla Napier (1908-1998) was an English author, specializing in biography. Her brother was British Ambassador to the USSR and then Warden of New College Oxford, while her sister Alethea was a literary biographer. Her husband of 10 years, was killed on active service in 1940, after which she brought up…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £25.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £35.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £35.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Particular Friendship (SIGNED)
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- A selection of the letters written by Dirk Bogarde to an American woman between 1967 and 1972. He never saw or spoke to her, yet at certain times during that period he was writing her a letter every day. The correspondences was triggered off when when she saw a photo…
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A Postillion Struck By Lightning (SIGNED)
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- 1st volume of Bogarde's acclaimed autobiography.
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A Sailor Hat In The House Of The Lord: The Autobiography Of A Rebellious Victorian
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- Therese la Chard was a Victorian cageling par excellence, the motherless child of a wealthy Anglo-German family living on the rural fringe of London, a home in which 'system' was the only ogre, involving obsessions with health and music which became a tyranny and caused her to revolt. Midway through…
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A Short Walk from Harrods
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- 6th volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, set in the South of France where he lived for a number of years. The book concludes in Britain, taking its title from the location of his London residence.
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A Sort of Life
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- Graham Greene writes: 'An autobiography is only "a sort of life" - it may contain less errors of fact that a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. If one cannot close a book of memories on the deathbed, an conclusion…
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A Sort of Life
- £15.00
- Graham Greene writes: 'An autobiography is only "a sort of life" - it may contain less errors of fact that a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. If one cannot close a book of memories on the deathbed, an conclusion…
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All Done From Memory
- £8.00
- Collection of autobiographical pieces, some of which first published in Cornhill magazine, 10 years after private limited edition printing in 1953.
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An Orderly Man
- £25.00
- 3rd volume of the best-selling memoirs. After completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is…
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Autobiography (vol I): The Early Years 1834-1859
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- A revised edition of his autobiography, originally compiled by his wife and private secretary
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Backcloth (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- 4th Volume of his autobiography Filling in the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde's extraordinary life. It is based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, covering many aspects of a celebrated…
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Becoming
- £25.00
- An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African…
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A Late Beginner
- £35.00
- Priscilla Napier (1908-1998) was an English author, specializing in biography. Her brother was British Ambassador to the USSR and then Warden of New College Oxford, while her sister Alethea was a literary biographer. Her husband of 10 years, was killed on active service in 1940, after which she brought up…
- Add to basket
-
A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £25.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
- Add to basket
-
A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £35.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
- Add to basket
-
A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £35.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
- Add to basket
-
A Particular Friendship (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A selection of the letters written by Dirk Bogarde to an American woman between 1967 and 1972. He never saw or spoke to her, yet at certain times during that period he was writing her a letter every day. The correspondences was triggered off when when she saw a photo…
- Add to basket
-
A Postillion Struck By Lightning (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- 1st volume of Bogarde's acclaimed autobiography.
- Add to basket
-
A Sailor Hat In The House Of The Lord: The Autobiography Of A Rebellious Victorian
- £20.00
- Therese la Chard was a Victorian cageling par excellence, the motherless child of a wealthy Anglo-German family living on the rural fringe of London, a home in which 'system' was the only ogre, involving obsessions with health and music which became a tyranny and caused her to revolt. Midway through…
- Add to basket
-
A Short Walk from Harrods
- £20.00
- 6th volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, set in the South of France where he lived for a number of years. The book concludes in Britain, taking its title from the location of his London residence.
- Add to basket
-
A Sort of Life
- £15.00
- Graham Greene writes: 'An autobiography is only "a sort of life" - it may contain less errors of fact that a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. If one cannot close a book of memories on the deathbed, an conclusion…
- Add to basket
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A Sort of Life
- £15.00
- Graham Greene writes: 'An autobiography is only "a sort of life" - it may contain less errors of fact that a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. If one cannot close a book of memories on the deathbed, an conclusion…
- Add to basket
-
All Done From Memory
- £8.00
- Collection of autobiographical pieces, some of which first published in Cornhill magazine, 10 years after private limited edition printing in 1953.
- Add to basket
-
An Orderly Man
- £25.00
- 3rd volume of the best-selling memoirs. After completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is…
- Add to basket
-
Autobiography (vol I): The Early Years 1834-1859
- £15.00
- A revised edition of his autobiography, originally compiled by his wife and private secretary
- Add to basket
-
Backcloth (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- 4th Volume of his autobiography Filling in the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde's extraordinary life. It is based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, covering many aspects of a celebrated…
- Add to basket
-
Becoming
- £25.00
- An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African…
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