Search Results: biography from Brogden Books

Glover, 2013 8vo pp114 VG+ Privately published memoir from Potteries boyhood, REME war service, and later business and domestic life.

Stanhope, Weardale: Memoir Club, 2004 8vo red cloth pp ix+212 bw plates index F/VG Personal memoir of a Royal Navy officer, who started as a rating on surface ships becoming a submarine officer. Much comment on naval technique, social life and notable RN personalities of the era.

Memoir Club, 2004 8vo red cloth pp ix+212 bw plates index F-/G- Personal memoir of a Royal Navy officer, who started as a rating on surface ships becoming a submarine officer. Much comment on naval technique, social life and notable RN personalities of the era. Fine text-block and cloth binding, but with a scrape inside the back binding lining, and a large repaired tear to the dust wrapper. Signed by the author on the title page.

Viking, 2014 large 8vo cloth pp xii+404 colour/bw plates map notes index F-/F- Memoir of a Danish jihadi militant turned intelligence operative. Cumbria Libraries withdrawn stamped, loaned out five times, near Fine condition. [ Large book, so extra postage overseas. ]

Spencer, 2001 4to cloth pp168 colour/bw plates F/VG Nicely written history, with many illustrations. Reissue edition of the 1998 Viking Penguin title. Dedicated and signed dated by the Earl author, on title page. [ Possible extra airmail postage overseas. ]

New York: Doubleday, 1967 8vo cloth pp372 bw portrait drawings index VG-/G- Biographical essays. [ Larger book, so possible extra postage overseas. ]

Newby Bridge: Coulmore Press, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo pp208 bw drawings/plates fold-out map VG Autobiographical tale of a young wartime evacuee from Plymouth to Newquay. Much detail of 1940s West Country society. Signed and dated by the author inside the front cover.

Wilton Publishing, 2002 8vo pp118 VG+ Memoir of 1940s-80s farm supply business in the North of England. Author signed on title page.

Macmillan, 1994 8vo pp277 bw plates bibliography index VG+ Biography of the aviator and author. Minor wear and marking, Fine text, a nice copy.

Alfresco Books, 2004 8vo pp80 bw plates F Memoir of a career in catering, as a chef and butler. Author signed on title page.

Jonathan Cape, 1984 8vo cloth pp224 bw plates bibliography index G/G+ Well researched account of Arthur Ransome's life as an author of children's fiction, with much background biography. Newspaper 1987 clipping and article photocopy inserted loose.

Kendal Westmorland Gazette 1994 1st ed. softcover 8vo pp111 bw plates VG+ A series of interviews with local regional characters. Karen Barden was a features writer on the Kendal weekly.

London Gollancz 1941 8th impression(1940) blue cloth(no dustwrapper) pp152 G

Leo Cooper, 1989 larger 8vo cloth pp xvi+190 bw plates index VG/G+ Personal account of a disabled Far East pow of ww2 Japan. Co-written with Hugh Popham. Dedicated and signed by the blinded author himself inside front.

Bromley: Independent Books, 2002 larger 8vo cloth pp350 bw plates index F/F- Autobiography of the senior Raf officer, who pioneered many helicopter techniques, after serving with the USAF in Korea. His experiences from 1930s boyhood, through NCO wartime service and evading through Spain, post-war service and later pioneering fund raising for the RAF Museum. Privately published, with some personal commentary on post-war RAF senior personalities. A Fine copy. [ Larger book. so possible extra postage overseas. ]

Pen and Sword, 2001 large 8vo cloth pp222 bw plates bibliography index F/F Biographies of leading ww2 RAF Bomber Command officers. A Fine copy.

8vo brown cloth/gold pp xvi+368 bw plates bibliography index F-/VG- A detailed biography of the American aviator. One mior corner knock to binding, Fine text-block, a nice copy.

London: Greenhill Books, 2001 large 6vo cloth pp432 bw plates maps notes index F-/VG+ Detailed biography, with many unusual photographs both personal and operational. [ Heavier book, so possible extra postage overseas. ]

Simon & Schuster, 1991 large 8vo cloth pp364 index F-/G Memoir of the investigation by two FBI agents. [ Larger book, so possible extra postage overseas. ]

Stroud: Amberley, 2014 larger 8vo cloth pp285 bw plates F/F- Memoir of relationships with French airmen flying Halifax bombers from wartime England. A Fine copy. [ Larger book, so possible extra postage overseas. ]