Autobiography Used Books - Here are the latest additions to the Autobiography category of the Mary Ward Used Books catalogue http://www.marywardbooks.com/categories/44.htmlFairford Press 2000: first edition blue board hardcover with pictorial panel to front: approximately 6.5 x 1.75 x 9.5 inches tall: 677 pages including index: black and white photographic illustration. Synopsis: The author, Norman Longmate's autobiography covering childhood and schooldays before his 18th birthday; describing people, places, books and events which influenced his character and opinions; and including a detailed description of daily life at the Bluecoat School with its spartan living conditions and unrelenting discipline. A copy of a ' thank you ' letter from the previous owner of the book to the author , and a reciprocal signed letter from the author describing mutual knowledge of the Bluecoat School is included. Condition: spine ends and corners slightly bumped: ownership inscription: cover good: immaculate contents: overall very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0953803708.html301 pagescover a little worn overall clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0708847625.htmlWeidenfeld and Nicholson 1999: first British edition: hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 6.5 x 9.5 inches tall: 401 pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The Autobiographical account of the First 80 Years of Benno Gitter's life, encompassing his childhood, his early adulthood in occupied Holland and escape to Argentina; his encounters with Queen Juliana, Queen Beatrix, Eva and Yuan Peron, David Ben-Gurion , Yitzhac Rabin, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, and Shimon Peres; his emigration to Israel in 1954; his involvement with Israel's economy and industry during its formative years; his relationship with the Israel Discount Bank Group and CLAL; and his work on behalf of Higher Education Institutes including Tel Aviv University. Condition: withdrawn library book, with small sticker lower dust jacket spine: sticker remnants to front free endpaper: and stamp to date page: nevertheless very clean and good /not far from new overall. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0297843711.htmlclean and very good . Format: Hardcover. Pages: 256 http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0399132694.htmlReader's Union/ The Bodley head 1966: hardback in dust jacket;545 pages including index: b/w photographic illustrations. Condition; dust jacket upper edges slightly worn; lower corner front end paper cut; overall very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0452270782.htmlLittle, Brown and Co. 1994: paperback: 630 pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela spanning the years from childhood to freedom . Condition: very clean and good/ as new http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0316909653.htmlHutchinson, 1967: first edition: brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine: dust jacket: 255 pages. Synopsis: The revealing autobiography of Stalin's daughter written in 1963, smuggled to India, retrieved by the author in 1967, taken by her to Switzerland and the U. S. A., and finally published in the United Kingdom. The autobiography details Svetlana's childhood in the Kremlin; the famous Soviets she grew up with, including Voroshilov, Malenkov, Khrushchev and Beria; her life as a young woman surrounded by body guards and secret police; and a revealing intimate portrait of Stalin, her Father. Condition: edges of dust jacket rubbed: ownership inscription: brown cloth hardcover and contents very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW%200012321.htmlThe Folio Society 1945: first of this illustrated edition : decorative hardcover in red slipcase: approximately 7.5 x 10.5 inches tall: red endpapers: 234 pages including index: Black and white and colour illustrations, some full-page. Synopsis: The Pre-Raphaelites and their World: a personal view from some reminiscences and other writings of William Michael Rosetti, with introduction and epilogue by Angela Thirlwell. Contents are as follows: -- Introduction. Part One: The Rossetti Family (early years. My brothers and sisters. Our childhood. Family life. My brother and myself. ) Part Two: The Pre-Raphaelite World. (The beginnings of a brotherhood. First exhibitions. The P R B Journal. A postscript to 'The Germ'. Christina and Collinson. The Round Table is dissolved. Artistic and literary acquaintances. John Ruskin. Dante Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall.) Part Three: A Wider Acquaintanceship. (Burne-Jones, Morris, Swinburn and others. The American Exhibition. The Brownings, Landor, Tennyson. Cheyne Walk days. Mr Whistler and other artists. Editing Shellry. My marriage. Rossetti's Poems and the Fleshly School of Poetry. Illness and death. ) Epilogue. List of illustrations. List of sources. Index. Condition: slipcase clean and good: book almost as new: overall very clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW001742929.htmlSecker and Warburg, 1975: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: 248 pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: A lively autobiography in which the author, Brian Rix recounts the details of his childhood ; acting in his mother's amateur theatrical company in Hull; his life as an aircraftsman; as a Bevin boy in the mining industry; and his postwar years with the Whitehall Theatre;( Harold Hobson of the Sunday Times described him as ' the greatest master of farce in my theatre-going lifetime'); his enjoyment of the game of cricket; and many other facets of his life. Condition: overall very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0436415003.htmlWeidenfeld and Nicolson, September 1993, sixth impression of the 1993 first edition: hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 6.2 x 9.5 inches tall: 421 pages including index: coloured photographic illustration. Synopsis: The diaries of Alan Clark, Minister of trade 1986 - 89, Minister of defence 1989 - 92, written over an eight-year period whilst serving in three successive Conservative administrations. Produced as written (originally often in longhand) in a variety of locations - at home at Saltwod, in his House of Common's room, at his department desk, in trains, embassies, hotels abroad, at the Cabinet table in number 10, and at international conferences, the diaries give a revealing uncensored view of state events, fellow politicians, and private life. Notes, glossary and index included. Condition very clean and good overall http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0297813528.htmlCanongate Press 1991; soft cover; 564 pages including index. Synopsis This journal, begun in 1840, follows-on from Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus's autobiography andquot;Memoirs of a Highland Ladyandquot;. It depicts the day-to-day life of her family, her efforts to improve the Baltiboys estate and how she coped with the terrible ravages of famine. She closely observes all classes of society, from corrupt landowners to the poor and often dissolute farmworkers. The book is a chronicle of her times and a contribution to the social history of Ireland. Her commentaries should also inform the debate on the operation of the landlords in Ireland. Condition: as new http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0862413613.htmlSynopsis: Snowdon (then Tony Armstrong-Jones) started taking photographs professionally when he came down from Cambridge in 1950. It was his uncle and mentor, the stage designer Oliver Messel, who encouraged him to take theatre photographs. At that time theatre photography was dominated by Angus McBean and Houston Rogers, whose work he greatly admired. However, theatrical productions were moving from the drawing rooms of the home counties to the kitchen sink and angry young men. Snowdon used a small camera, using available light, and often worked during performances. He printed huge twenty-foot enlargements outside the theatre. This fresh approach was favoured by directors like Peter Hall and Peter Brook as it took up less rehearsal time. For over 40 years Snowdon has been commissioned to photograph virtually everyone in the theatre, and this collection includes portraits of Helen Mirren, Alan Bennett, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Lord Olivier and Harold Pinter.Comments: pristine . Format: Hardcover. Pages: 160. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/1857939190.htmlWilliam Heinemann 1945: first English edition: grey cloth hardcover: approximately 5 x 7.5 inches tall: 280 pages: black and white line drawings. Synopsis:Tthe autobiography of a French woman born in July 1899, detailing the family and social life of an aristocratic French household in the early 20th century . Condition: corners and spine ends bumped: spine slightly shelf faded: ownership inscription dated 1945: Contents very clean: overall good and collectable http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW001765342.htmlCompton Russell 1975: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: 285 pages including index: maps to end papers. Synopsis: The second volume of Freya Stark's letters 1930 -- 1935 covering her travel and adventure in the Middle East, with a summer in the Persian hills, journalism in Baghdad, a treasure hunt in Luristan , a first expedition to Southern Arabia and the Valley of the Hadhramaut,and Shabwa . During this time she was awarded the Royal Asiatic Society's Burton medal in London.. The letters are descriptive, amusing, interesting, and include the reader in a sense of intimacy. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0859550214.html