Diaries
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Berlin Diary
by William L Shirer
Berlin Diary (1934-1941) is a first-hand account of the rise of the Third Reich and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William L. Shirer. Shirer, a radio reporter for CBS, covered Germany for several years until the Nazi press censors made it impossible for him to report objectively to his listeners in the United States; feeling increasingly uncomfortable, he left the country.
A Passionate Apprentice
by Virginia; Leaska, Mitchell a Woolf
These early journals record Virginia Woolf's "sublime trajectory" (Bloomsbury Review) from a gifted adolescent to a professional writer and complete the magnificent self-portrait provided by her published letters and diaries. Edited and with a Preface and Introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska; Index.
The War Diaries Of Kenneth Slessor Official Australian Correspondent 1940-1944
by Kenneth " Virgil Slessor
Diaries Books & Ephemera
A LINE A DAY A Condensed and Comparative Diary for Five Years
by Samuel Ward's Company
Boston: Samuel Ward Company. Very Good+ in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 1892. 1st Edition. Flexible covers. 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 478 pages; Dark red leatherette flexilble cover. There is wear and rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine. There are no ownership marks and no line entries present throughout the entire book. .
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SGD 34.47
Greville's England Selections from the diaries of Charles Greville 1818-1860
by Greville, Charles; Hibbert, Christopher (Edited, Introducedand Annoted by)
London: The Folio Society. 1981. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine Slipcase. Excellent condition. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 303 pages. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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SGD 22.53
GENERAL JACK'S DIARY 1914-1918 The Trench Diary of Brigadier-General J L Jack, D.S.O.
by JOHN TERRAINE (EDITOR AND INTRODUCTION)
LONDON: EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, 1964 Brick Red cloth boards with gilt blocked title slip and gilt other lettering, 220 x 145 mm approx. Top edge stained red.320 pp. 16 pp of glossy plates showing 34 b/w illustrations, other illustrations and maps all as called for. Foreword by Sidney Rogerson. First Edition 1964. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book - slight shelf wear to cloth at extremities - colour loss only, hint of...
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SGD 20.70
![My Dumb Diary: My Beautiful Ovservations on Everything I Hate (Dear Dumb Diary) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2004] Jaime Kelly](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/922/258/1184258922.0.b.jpg)
My Dumb Diary: My Beautiful Ovservations on Everything I Hate (Dear Dumb Diary) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2004] Jaime Kelly
by Jaime Kelly
Scholastic, 2004. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 27.48
THE PASSIONATE NOMAD
by EBERHARDT, Isabelle
MA: Beacon Press Books, 1988. FINE condition in FINE covers. MA. Beacon Press Books. SOFTCOVER. 1988. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, FIRST printing. AS NEW, bound in original maroon glossy pictorial stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine creasing. Light toning to pages, else FINE. English translation by Nina de Voogd. Foreword and Notes by Rana Kabbani. 'The Extraordinary Diary of One Woman's Wanderings in the Deserts of North Africa.' Stored in Archival sleeve.. First...
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SGD 27.57
Pepy's Diary [3 Volumes in Slipcase: Vol I: 1660-1663; Vol II: 1664-1666; Vol III: 1667-1669.
by Samuel Pepys; Selected and edited by Robert Latham
London: The Folio Society. 1996. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in Fine slipcase. As new - only removed from publisher's shrinkwrap for cataloguing. Illustrated with colour plates and black & white maps. Pepy's Family Tree and Index to Volume III. Vol I: xlviii, 337pp; Vol II: 372pp; Vol III: 374. Taken from the diary of Samuel Pepys, a new and complete transcription, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided...
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SGD 81.10
Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey
by Robert Knox Sneden
From front DJ flap: "...Four tattered scrapbooks found in a Connecticut bank vault in 1994 yielded a treasure trove of more than five hundred watercolors that vividly depict America's great national drama. These scrapbooks - plus a five-thousand-page illustrated memoir...are the life's achievement of a long-forgotten Union private and mapmaker named Robert Knox Sneden."
Book - Fine condition. Maroon paper over boards with gold gilt on spine. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and tight.
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Book - Fine condition. Maroon paper over boards with gold gilt on spine. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and tight.
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SGD 44.12
Pages from the Goncourt Journal
by Goncourt, Edmond & Jules de (Edited, Translated andIntroduced by Robert Baldick]
London: The Folio Society. 1980. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in a Very Good Slipcase. Slipcase lightly faded at edges. Illustrated with Black and White Contmeporary Photographs by Nadar and others. xv, 434 pages. Jules & Edmond Goncourt were 19th century French writers who were inseparable in life . Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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SGD 27.03
A White House Diary
by Johnson Lady Bird
New York, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 806 pages. Text unmarked. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. Jacket in new Brodart protector. SIGNED by Lady Bird Johnson on a pasted in LBJ bookplate. Heavy foxing/speckling to top edge of text block and boards. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-4 pounds. Category: History::United States ; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0030852544. Inventory No: 029876. BZDB373 History::United States ;...
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SGD 89.62
BERTOLT BRECHT: DIARIES 1920-1922
by edited by Ramthun, Herta
New York: St Martins Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 182 pages; Touch of sunning to the dust jacket. Otherwise well taken care of. .
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SGD 27.57
Peter Hall's Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle
by Goodwin, John (Editor)
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 240mm Tall; 8vo. With Index. Green cloth covers with gilt title on spine. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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SGD 20.70
The Diary of Peter Pownall A Bramhall Farmer 1765-1858
by Coutie Heather (Ed)
Congleton, Great Britain: Old Vicarage Publications, 1989. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Heather Coutie. 1st edition. 8vo. 132 pages including index. A fascinating detailed, month by month, diary with excellent frontispiece of Bramall Hall and a number of other drawings by the author. In original attractive pictorial glossy yellow card covers which bear a small blemish on the front otherwise Very Good++.
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SGD 10.35
The Newly-Weds: Catherine Waugh's Diary
by Waugh, Catherine
Aylsham: Margot Strickland , 1998. Booklet, stapled. 12pp. Scarce. An excellent copy. (ac11). Soft Cover. Very Good.
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SGD 43.12
The Secret Eye: The Journal Of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848-1889
by Burr, Virgina I. (Editor)
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1990. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0807818976 . This is a quality Book Club edition. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings.; Gender and American Culture Series; B&W Photographs; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 469 pages .
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SGD 20.61
The Private Diaries of Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
by Sage, Robert
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955. Hardback with dust-wrapper. xiv, 570pp. Price-clipped d/w is slightly chipped to edges with a couple of small losses. Private ownership. (bs60). Hard Cover. Good/Good.
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SGD 22.42
A White House Diary
by Johnson, Lady Bird [Lucy Baines Johnson]
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. First edition of A White House Diary, signed by Lady Bird Johnson, Luci Baines Johnson, her husband Patrick J. Nugent and press secretary Liz Carpenter.. Octavo, ix, [1], 806pp. Green cloth over white, title in gilt on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. In publishers first edition dust jacket, near fine, with $10.95 on front flap and "1170" at bottom, closed tear along top edge of spine, otherwise an...
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SGD 241.27
A White House Diary
by Lady Bird Johnson
Signed First Edition. Signed on bookplate. Good in like DJ. Some foxing and small chips on DJ. Interior clean and tight.
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SGD 448.08
Mandarin the Diaries of Nicholas Henderson
by Henderson, Nicholas
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1995. Very Good condition. Some discolouration to upper edge. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 517 pages. An entertaning and revealing account of an ambassador's life. Henderson was a British Ambassador from the late 1960s to 1982. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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SGD 13.52
A White House Diary
by Johnson, Lady Bird [President Lyndon Johnson]
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. First edition of A White House Diary inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson and signed by President Lyndon Johnson.. Octavo, ix, [1], 806pp. Green cloth over white, title in gilt on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Bumped edge, no impact to text block. In publisher's first state dust jacket, near fine, with $10.95 on front flap and "1170" at bottom, closed tear along hinge of spine, otherwise...
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SGD 1,034.02
The Political Diaries of C.P. Scott, 1911-1928
by Scott, C.P. [Edited by and with an introduction andcommentary by Trevor Wilson]
London: Collins. 1970. Large octavo size [15x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good+ Dustjacket. DJ has some light wear at spine ends and upper edge & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Inscribed by the editor [Trevor Wilson] to the previous owner - a fellow academic. 509 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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SGD 54.07
The Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan
by Hanrahan, Barbara [Edited by Elaine Lindsay]
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press. 1998. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket [as issued]. Grey cloth spine over decorated papered boards. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Now uncommon. 376 pages. Barbara Hanrahan was an Australian artist, printmaker and writer whose work mostly revolved around the roles of and relationships between women. These edited diaries reveal less than favourable comments about many of her contemporaries and caused a stir...
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SGD 126.15
Four Years in a Red Coat : The Loveday Internment Camp Diary of Miyakatsu Koike
by Koike, Miyakatsu; Monteath, Peter & Nagata, Yuriko (Editedwith an Introduction by)
Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press. 2022. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Translated by Hiroko Cockerill. 201 pages. Presents for the first time in English translation Miyakatsu Koike’s wartime diary. It is a keenly observed record of his arrest, his hellish voyage to distant South Australia, his endurance of years in the Loveday Internment Camp, and his return ultimately to a war ravaged homeland. More than that, it is a testament to one man's calmly...
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SGD 26.99
THE WARTIME JOURNALS OF CHARLES A.LINDBERGH
by CHARLES A. LINDBERGH , Award Winning Author , Pioneer Aviator etc
NEW YORK: HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH, 1970 Air Force Blue Cloth Boards with silver titles to spine and author facsimile signature to front board, 240 x 165 mm approx. Maps to end papers, xx + 1038 pp. 32 pp of glossy plates with b/w photo. illustrations all as called for. First Edition 1970. The wartime journals of Pulitzer Prize winning author, aviator and conservationist Charles Lindbergh.Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/VG (Book- Cloth a...
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SGD 43.12
