A WHIFF OF BURNT BOATS
Written by Geoffrey Trease.
Stock no. 1330208
Published by Girls Gone By. 1st thus 2009. Good condition.

An early autobiography. Originally published by Macmillan in 1971. Cardwraps. 163 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781847450715. EX-LIB with labels and stamps to prelims. Covers and contents otherwise clean.

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CATLAND
Written by Rodney Dale. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 1330194
Published by Magna Books; Promotional Reprint Company Ltd.. 1st thus 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Tells the story of Wain's life. Large format. Red glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Published by the Promotional Reprint Company exclusively for Magna Books. ISBN: 1854229222. Spine and corners bumped. Top edge of textblock is foxed. Dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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LAUGHTER AT THE DOOR: A CONTINUED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Written by Geoffrey Trease.
Stock no. 1330177
Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1st 1974. Good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The second instalment of the authors autobiography, written in response to numerous individuals who enjoyed A Whiff of Burnt Boats and demanded more. Dark green boards, gilt title to spine. 186 pages. ISBN: 0333168119. EX-LIB with stamps and damage. Front free-endpaper torn out. Spine and corners bumped. Contents well fingered, textblock grubby. Dustwrapper has a small piece of tape to rear flap and remains of a library label to front flap. Wrapper is lightly browned.

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KILVERT'S DIARY (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Francis Kilvert; William Plomer.
Stock no. 1830294
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1980. Very good condition.

Chosen and Edited by William Plomer. Three volumes. Green cloth spine with gilt titles, beige marbled effect boards. B/w photos. Top edges green. ISBN: 0224012991. Reprint of the 1977 edition. A very respectable set contained in publisher's slipcase which has a few minor marks.

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MARK TWAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Mark Twain; Albert Bigelow Paine.
Stock no. 1830276
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers. Circa 1924. Almost very good condition.

Two volumes, complete. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. Sepia frontis. Top edge gilt. Not a first printing. Spine & corners rubbed, boards scuffed. Text blocks browned. Minor foxing to endpapers. Damp staining to both volumes at lower edges of contents.

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WILLIAM RUSSELL SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES
Written by Roger Hudson; Max Hastings.
Stock no. 1830269
Published by Folio Society. 1997. Very good condition.

Edited by Roger Hudson. Introduced by Max Hastings. Brown elaborately decorated pictorial cloth. B/w photos. Top edge brown. xxvii and 426 pages including index. Third printing. Top of inner spine is starting to come away from outer spine (as is usual for Folio Society items). Small smudge to top edge of text block. Page 5/6 is lightly creased to top edge (minor). Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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ROLAND PENROSE: THE LIFE OF A SURREALIST
Written by James King.
Stock no. 1830234
Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1st 2016. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Yellow endpapers. B/w photos. 328 pages including index. ISBN: 9781474414500. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-rubbed else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS AND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Written by Charles Darwin; Steven Pinker.
Stock no. 1830232
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2008. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduced by Steven Pinker. Brown/grey cloth with blocked design in black and gilt to spine and front side. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Top edge brown. xxii and 372 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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AUREL STEIN ON THE SILK ROAD
Written by Susan Whitfield.
Stock no. 1830222
Published by Serindia Publications. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Evocatively illustrated account of the intrepid adventures and amazing discoveries of the great explorer and archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein, who travelled the Silk Road nearly a century ago in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and the seventh-century Buddhist pilgrim monk Xuanzang. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 143 pages including index. ISBN: 1932476113. 1cm crease to cloth at top front edge of spine else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and lightly scuffed.

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MORE MEMORIES OF A DEAN FOREST RAILWAYMAN
Written by Bob Barnett.
Stock no. 1330081
Published by Silver Link Publishing. 1st 2008. Very good condition.

Working Lives Series. Railway Heritage from the Nostalgia Collection. Card wraps. B/w photos. SIGNED by the author by means of an inscription to title-page. Minimal rubbing to corners. Contents otherwise fine.

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CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES 1768-1779
Written by Captain Cook; Glyndwr Williams.
Stock no. 1830205
Published by Folio Society. 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Selected and introduced by Glyndwr Williams. Elaborately decorated blue cloth with gilt. Colour illustrations. Top edge blue. xxxiv and 522 pages including index. Second printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed and lightly bumped at corners.

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WHITHER FROM AULIS: A CHILDHOOD AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Written by Anke Weihs.
Stock no. 1830127
Published by Floris Books. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Anke Weihs was one of the founders of the Camphill Movement. Born in Australia, she spent her childhood in Japan, Hawaii, Pennsylvania and later in Europe. In this book she describes the tortuous path that eventually led her to Vienna where she met Dr Konig, who was in the centre of the group which later in Scotland founded Camphill. Cream cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 272 pages. ISBN: 0863150985. Boards slightly grubby along horizontal edges. Text block lightly browned. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased and is scuffed.

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