Squire, Rose E.
Thirty Years in the Public Service: An Industrial Retrospect
(Nisbet and Co., 1927).
With a foreword by Sir Edward Troup. Hardback. Good+ in worn and rubbed boards. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A15550
Keywords: Britain, Britishm history, Rose E. Squire, industry, industrial, autobiography, letters, self-history, autobiographical, memoir, public service, civil seervice factory inspectors, female factory inspectors, women's history, woman, women factory inspectors, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, B000865E84, industry, industrial
Price £95.00.
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Watson, Mrs Sydney.
A Village Maiden's Career: Life Story of Mrs Sydney Watson
(S. W. Partridge, second edit. n.d).
Authoress of 'Old Home on the Hill', 'Hubert Grantham's Atonement,' 'Kenneth St Clair,' etc., etc. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, blue cloth rubbed along edges, gilt titles, pages browned, otherwise a good working copy. 392pp. Order No. NSBK-C7509
Keywords: Mrs Sydney Watson, nineteenth century, 19th, woman writer, women writers, Britain, British, England, English, history, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life history, life histories, memoirs, novelists, literature, novels, fiction, Wiltshire, religion, religious
Price £9.00.
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Barker, Nicholas.
Stanley Morison:
(Macmillan, 1972).
Hardback. Boards slightly soiled and worn, otherwise good. 566pp. Order No. NSBK-A12279
Keywords: 9780333131367, Stanley Morison, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, typography, typographical, monotype, Cambridge Univresity Press, The Times, men
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Scott, Philippa.
Lucky Me:
(Kenilworth Press, 1990).
Illustrated by more than 90 photographs. The book is an evocation of the early life of Philippa Scott (nee Talbot-Ponsonby's) - her childhood in South Africa, school, climbing holidays, her time in the Land Army in World War II and a spell in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. She married Peter Scott in Reykjavik in 1951. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C5734
Keywords: 1872082114, Lucky Me, Philippa Scott, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, Land Army, Peter Scott, South Africa, World War Two, wars, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, history, england, English, autobiography, autobiographical, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, life history, life histories, women writers, Severn Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Thjorsaver Expedition, Reykjavik
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Constantine, Stephen, ed.
Dominions Diary: The Letters of E. J. Harding, 1913-1916
(Ryburn Publishing, 1992).
Hardback. A slight waviness across tops of pages (the effects of minor damp), otherwise very good. 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A7418
Keywords: 1853310182, E. J. Harding, letters, correspondence, diaries, twentieth century, travel, the British Empire, Imperialism, 20th, Australia, New Zealand, South African, New Foundland, Canada, Canadian, autobiography, autobiographical, life history, life histories, colonies, colonialism, colony
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Dayus, Kathleen.
All My Days:
(Virago, rpt., 1993).
The third book in the trilogy. Paperback. Light edge wear to covers, otherwise good. 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C7182
Keywords: 0860680762, Kathleen Dayus, All My Days, Birmingham, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life histories, life history, lives, memoirs, Second World War, World War Two, 2, II, twentieth century, 20th, women writers, woman writer, women's writing
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Guinness, Alec.
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
(Hamish Hamilton, 1996).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9009
Keywords: 0241136679, actors, acor, Alec Guiness, autobiography, life, life history, lives, life histories, theatre, stage, twentieth century, Britain, British, history, England, English
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Kalish, Mildred Armstrong.
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
(Bantam, 2007).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A14200
Keywords: 0553804952, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, farms, farming, Iowa, Great Depression, women, women's autobiography, history, 30s, thirties
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Metcalfe, Jean.
Sunnylea: a 1920s Childhood Remembered
(Michael Joseph, 1980).
With beautiful watercolour prints. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly soiled dustwrapper. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A3735
Keywords: 0718119231, Jean Metcalfe, watercolours, autobiography, memoirs, child, childhood, autobiographies
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Douglass, Frederick.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:
(Dover, 1995).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 76pp. Order No. NSBK-A6204
Keywords: 0486284999, Frederick Douglass, autobiography, memoir, Tuckahoe, slave, slavery, United States, USA, history, America, nineteenth century, Maryland, Massachusetts, abolition, women's rights, black rights, anti-slavery, freedom, emancipation, slaves
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