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 Diary Of Elena Hansen Hinrichsen
by Hinrichsen, Elena (translated and Typewritten by H. E. Rector)
H. E. Rector. Very Good+. 1938. 1st Edition. 3-ring binder. The diary of a Danish immigrant from Germany translated and typewritten on old typewriter in 1938. Begins January 1887, ends with November 1892. Elena died February 5, 1893, in Houston, Texas. Genealogy of the Hinrichsen/Hansen family is at the end of the diary, followed by a chronological listing of the events in her life from 1887-1892. She was born December 16, 1834 on the Isle Fohr, Denmark. Edgewear and rust on the hinges of this very...
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£52.60
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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£8.00
SOME DESPERATE GLORY, The Diary of a Young Officer, 1917
by EDWIN CAMPION VAUGHAN
FREDERICK WARNE, 1981 Maroon Boards with gilt titles to spine, 225 x 145 mm approx. xvi + 232 pp.Double page line map of the Western front 1917,First Edition 1981.Foreword by John Terraine. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Near Fine (Book- negligible shelf rubbing, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- price clipped, negligible shelf wear or soiling, a couple of mild foxing spots to rear flap fold, now in a removable...
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£15.00
Off Camera
by Koppel, Ted
NY: Alfred Knopf, 2000. 1ST. HARDBOUND. LIKE NEW. Publisher : Knopf; First Edition (October 3, 2000) Language : English HARDBOUND : 336 pages ISBN-10 : 0375410775 ISBN-13 : 978-0375410772 Item Weight : 1.45 pounds Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches One of America's most admired television newsmen now gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the twentieth century. In his engrossing narrative, the year's personalities and events not...
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£8.93
Wagner in Rehearsal 1875-1876: The Diaries of Richard Fricke
by Fricke, George (Translated by); Deaville, James and Baker,Evan (Edited by)
Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press. 1998. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xviii, 124 pages. Franz liszt Studies Series #7. Richard Fricke was the balletmaster and general problem solver during the rehearsals for the first performance of the Ring...
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£52.86
There and Back with a Dinkum
by Colman, W.R.G. [Presented, edited and with additionalmaterial by Claire Woods and Paul Skrebels]
Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2013. MINT - a NEW copy. Presented and edited with additional material by Claire Woods and Paul Skrebels. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 308 pages. "This book is intended to be a plain, straightforward account of the experiences of an Australian soldier during the Great War." So says the author who served as a private, NCO and Officer in the 27th Battalion AIF from 1915 to 1919. But as his service record...
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£23.26
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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£13.23
THE PILLOW BOOK OF SEI SHONAGON
by SEI SHONAGON (TRANSLATOR - ARTHUR WALEY)
LONDON : UNWIN BOOKS, 1960 Laminates, illustrated card covers (Mass market paperback) 185 x 120 mm approx. 94 pp + 2 of publisher's adverts. Facsimile translator signature to title page. First Unwin paperback printing 1960. Fair (Book- Creaming to white covers to margins and spine and some laminate peel, foxing to edges of book block and prelims. Original book seller printed slip tipped to inside cover - Hanshan Tang Books. No previous owner name or annotations. A sound reading copy).
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£5.00
A White House Diary
by Johnson, Lady Bird [Lyndon Johnson]
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. First edition of A White House Diary, signed by President Lyndon Johnson to his tailor, Irving Frank.. Octavo, ix, [1], 806pp. Green cloth over white, title in gilt on spine. Stated "second printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, light soiling to cloth spine, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, near fine, price clipped, bright illustrations, a near fine copy. Signed on the...
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£465.35
The Diary of Joseph Sams an Emigrant in the "Northumberland", 1874
by Sams, Joseph (Edited by Simon Braydon and Robert Songhurst)
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1982. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. B/W map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 102 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£7.93
The Diary of Beatrice Webb Volume 1 1873-1892 Glitter Around and Darkness Within
by Webb, Beatrice; Edited by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie
London: Economics and Political Science.. 1986. Very Good condition. Spine ends very lightly rubbed. page edges starting to tan with age. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 386 pages. Covers Webb's early life and her marriage to Sydney Webb, . 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback.
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£9.51
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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£11.63
THE DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN
by Evelyn, John; William Bray and Richard Garnett
New York & London: M. Walter Dunne, Publisher, (1901). First thus. Two volumes. Special Talleyrand edition, #27 of 100 sets. Edited from the original by William Bray, who also provides a biographical introduction, and with special introduction by Richard Garnett. Includes hand-colored frontispiece SIGNED by the engraving editor and five full-page photogravures from paintings by various artists. Both volumes bound in red leather with elaborate gilt and color designs and lettering; top edges gilt; marbled...
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£121.40
A WHITE HOUSE DIARY
by Johnson, Lady Bird
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, (1970). First edition. Front endpaper with SIGNED bookplate affixed at center and LBJ Library & Museum gold-foil emblem affixed to lower inside corner. The dust jacket is not priced and has the publication date code "1170" at bottom (not present on other jackets we've seen); is cream-colored versus the bright white usually seen; is slightly taller and not quite as wide; and is of better quality than others we've examined. The book itself is a full ounce heavier than...
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£121.40
Julia Harrington, Winnebago, Iowa, 1913
by Bissell, Richard Pike
Little, Brown. Very Good+ in Good+ Dust Jacket. 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Written in the voice of a 13-year-old girl who is witty and bright. This "journal" of hers shows a young lady who takes all her perks for granted and uses advertisements to illustrate her entries. An example is a color full-page advertisement of ladies fashionable hats of the day. The author also illustrated all these beautiful "ads" and was himself born in 1913 near Winnebago. Lovely to read and lovely...
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£13.35
The Diary of John Manningham of The Middle Temple, 1602-1603
by Robert P. Sorlien
1976 hardcover as pictured. Ex-library with typical markings. Binding is firm. Orange cloth boards with black and gold stamping show light shelf wear. Text appears clean and unmarked. Extensively annotated and indexed. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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£12.14
Jane & Serge. A Family Album
by Alison Castle (Editor), Andrew Birkin
NY: Taschen, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover in pictorial boards, orange cloth spine, 176 pages. The highly public love affair of French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg and British actress Jane Birkin captured the hearts and imaginations of a generation. The moment Jane and Serge met on a movie set in 1968 sparks flew. They would spend the next 12 years together, a passionate union that produced the controversial duet “Je t’aime... moi non plus” (whose explicit lyrics and...
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£145.67
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A WHITE HOUSE DIARY [Inscribed]
by Johnson, Lady Bird
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 806 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine tan with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$10.95." Rubbing and tearing to head and tail of spine, edges, and corners of dust jacket. Chipping to rear cover and to top edge of front hinge. Bumping to corners of boards. Inscribed by Johnson to former Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sheldon S. Cohen...
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£242.79
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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£13.22
I See No End to Travelling Journals of Australian Explorers 1813-76
by Millar, Ann
Sydney: Bay Books. No Date. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Black & white maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 287pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£11.63
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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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£7.94
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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£34.36
