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Our collection of biographies and autobiographies involve some of the biggest names in the fields of sport, literature and politics.

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A Set of All 11 (Auto)Biographies – First Editions SIGNED by the entire 1966 England World Cup Winning Team
£5,000.00
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A.N. Wilson – Hilaire Belloc – SIGNED First Edition 1984
£85.00
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Agatha Christie – An Autobiography – First UK Edition 1977
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Agatha Christie – An Autobiography – First UK Edition 1977
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Alan Bennett – Writing Home – First UK Edition 1994 – SIGNED
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Alan Goldstein – Muhammad Ali – The Eye-Witness Story of a Boxing Legend – First Edition 2000 – with SIGNED Photograph
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Alan Gowling – Football Inside Out – SIGNED First Edition 1977
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Alec Stewart – The Battle For The 1998/99 Ashes – SIGNED First Edition 1999
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Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X – First Edition 1966
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Alf Ramsey – Talking Football – SIGNED First UK Edition 1952
£575.00
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Allan Clarke – Goals Are My Business – First Edition 1970
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Amelia Earhart – Last Flight – First Edition 1938
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Andrew Lycett – Ian Fleming – First UK Edition 1995
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Andrew Lycett – Ian Fleming – First UK Edition 1995
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Andrew Lycett – Rudyard Kipling – First UK Edition – SIGNED
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Andrew Motion – Philip Larkin – A Writer’s Life – SIGNED First Edition 1993
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Andrew Motion – Philip Larkin – A Writer’s Life – SIGNED First Edition 1993
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Andrew Norman – Agatha Christie – The Finished Portrait – SIGNED and INSCRIBED – First Edition 2006
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Andrew Turvil – Blood, Sweat and Asparagus Spears – First Edition 2025
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Andy Warhol – The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) – First US Edition 1975 – SIGNED with sticker
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Andy Williams – Moon River And Me – SIGNED First Edition 2009
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Angelo Dundee – My View From The Corner – First US Edition 2008 – With warm inscription from Dundee
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Angus Fraser – My Tour Diaries – SIGNED First Edition 1999
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Anthony Bourdain – A Cook’s Tour – In search of the perfect meal – SIGNED First Edition 2001
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Anthony Bourdain – A Cook’s Tour – In search of the perfect meal – SIGNED First US Edition 2001
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Anthony Bourdain – Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – First Edition 2000
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Anthony Bourdain – Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – First Edition 2000
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Anthony Bourdain – Les Halles Cookbook – SIGNED First Edition 2004
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Anthony Bourdain – Medium Raw – First Edition 2010
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Anthony Bourdain – No Reservations – First US Edition 2007
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Anthony Burgess – Devil Of A State – First Edition 1961
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Arnold Schwarzenegger – Seven Years – First US Edition 2010 – SIGNED without dedication
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Aron Ralston – Between A Rock and A Hard Place [127 Hours] – SIGNED First Edition 2004
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Artemis Cooper – Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure – SIGNED First UK Edition 2012
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Arthur Hawkey – Bligh’s Other Mutiny – First Editon SIGNED and INSCRIBED to James Herriot
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Arthur Lambert – Over The Top – First Edition 1930
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Ben MacIntyre – For Your Eyes Only – Ian Fleming and James Bond – First Edition 2008
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Ben Stokes – Firestarter – SIGNED First Edition 2016
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Ben Stokes – On Fire – First UK Edition 2019
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Bert Trautmann – Steppes To Wembley – SIGNED First UK Edition 1956
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BIll Wyman – Rolling With The Stones – SIGNED First Edition 2002 – and with SIGNED photograph
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Bob Taylor and David Gower – Anyone For Cricket? – SIGNED First Edition 1979
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Bob Willis – The Captain’s Diary – England in Australia and New Zealand 1982-83 – SIGNED First Edition 1983
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Bob Willis – The Captain’s Diary – England in Fiji, New Zealand and Pakistan 1983-84 – SIGNED First Edition 1984
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Bobby Charlton – My Life In Football – First Edition 2009
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Bobby Charlton – The Autobiographies – The Manchester United Years [with] My England Years – First Editions 2007-08
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Bobby Charlton – The Autobiography – The England Years – First Edition 2008
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Boris Johnson – The Churchill Factor – First Edition 2014 – SIGNED without dedication
£350.00
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Brendan Behan – Borstal Boy – First UK Edition 1958
£175.00
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Brendan Behan – Borstal Boy – First UK Edition 1958
£185.00
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Brendan Behan – Confessions Of An Irish Rebel – First UK Edition 1965
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Brian Aldiss – An Exile on Planet Earth – First UK Edition 2012 – SIGNED
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Brian Clough – Clough – SIGNED by Brian and 26 Others Who Played under Clough
£285.00
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Brian Clough – Clough – SIGNED by Brian and Nigel Clough – First Edition 1994
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Brian Connell – Knight Errant – A Biography Of Douglas Fairbanks Jr – SIGNED and Inscribed – First Edition 1955
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Brian Epstein – A Cellarful Of Noise – First UK Edition 1964
£225.00
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Brian Epstein – A Cellarful Of Noise – First UK Edition 1964
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Brian Epstein – A Cellarful Of Noise – First UK Edition 1964 – SIGNED and INSCRIBED to EMI Managing Director Len Wood
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Brian Epstein – A Cellarful Of Noise – First UK Edition 1964 – with Auto-Pen SIGNED Photograph of The Beatles
Original price was: £600.00.Current price is: £300.00.
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Brian Johnston – Forty Five Summers – SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Johnston to Ken Kelly – First Edition 1991
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Brian Lara [Brian Scovell] – Beating The Field – SIGNED First Edition 1995
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Brian Scovell – Brian Lara – Cricket’s Troubled Genius – First Edition 2007 – SIGNED by the Author
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Caitlin Thomas – Caitlin; Life With Dylan Thomas – SIGNED First Edition 1986
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Carol Vorderman – It All Counts – First Edition 2010 – SIGNED and INSCRIBED to Mrs Richard Whiteley
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Carrie Fisher – The Best Awful – SIGNED First Edition 2004
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Champions – Original Framed Lobby Poster – SIGNED by John Hurt and Bob Champion
£175.00
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Charles Higham – Howard Hughes – The Secret Life – First Edition 1993
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Charlie Chaplin – My Autobiography – SIGNED and DATED First Edition 1964
£1,850.00
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Che Guevara – Reminiscences – First Edition 1968
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Chris Mead – Joe Louis: Champion – First Edition 1986
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Christopher Isherwood – Christopher And His Kind – First Edition 1977
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Christopher Isherwood – Christopher And His Kind – SIGNED First Edition 1977
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Clive Francis – Laugh Lines – SIGNED and INSCRIBED – First Edition 1989
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Clive Lloyd – Living For Cricket – SIGNED First Edition 1980
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Colin Cowdrey – Time For Reflection – First UK Edition 1962
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Colin Powell – A Soldier’s Way – SIGNED First Edition 1995
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Colin Powell – My American Journey – SIGNED First US Edition 1995
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Cubby Broccoli [with Donald Zec] – When The Snow Melts – First Edition 1998 – With Broccoli’s Signature
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Daphne Du Maurier – The Du Mauriers – First UK Edition – 1937 –
Original price was: £475.00.Current price is: £237.50.
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Daphne Du Maurier – The Young George Du Maurier – First Edition 1951 – Inscribed to her literary agent Monty Baker-Munton
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Darren Clarke – My Ryder Cup Story 2006 – SIGNED First Edition 2006
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David Bailey – Look Again – SIGNED First Edition 2020
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David Gower – A Right Ambition – SIGNED First Edition 1986
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David Gower – Heroes and Contemporaries – SIGNED First Edition 1983
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David Gower and Alan Lee – With Time To Spare – SIGNED First Edition 1980
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David Gower with Alan Lee – On The Rack – SIGNED First Edition 1990
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David Hempleman-Adams – At The Mercy Of The Winds – SIGNED and INSCRIBED First Edition 2001
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David Jenkins – Richard Burton: A Brother Remembered – SIGNED First Edition 1993
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David Lloyd – Anything But Murder – SIGNED First Edition 2000
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David Lloyd – G’day Ya Pommie B……! – SIGNED First Edition 1992
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David Rayvern Allen [John Arlott] – Another Word From Arlott – SIGNED First Edition 1985
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David Shepherd – Shep – First Edition 2001
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David Suchet – Poirot And Me – First Edition 2003
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Deborah Devonshire – Home To Roost and Other Pickings – SIGNED by the Author and Alan Bennett
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Denis Compton and Bill Edrich – Cricket And All That – SIGNED First Edition 1978
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Denis Jenkinson – FANGIO – First Edition 1973
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Desmond Morris – Animal Days – First Edition 1979
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Devon Malcolm – You Guys Are History! – SIGNED First Edition 1998
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Don Bradman – Don Bradman’s Book – SIGNED First Edition 1930
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Don Bradman – How To Play Cricket – SIGNED to Bookplate by Bradman
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Don Bradman – The Bradman Albums: Selections from Sir Donald Bradman’s Official Collection – First Edition Two Volume Set 1988
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Donald J. Trump – Trump – The Art of the Deal – First Edition 1987
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Donald Rumsfeld – Known and Unknown – SIGNED First US Edition 2011
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Donovan Leitch – The Hurdy Gurdy Man – SIGNED First Edition 2005
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Dorothy Thompson – Climbing with Joseph Georges – First Edition 1962 – with SIGNED archive
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Doug Walters & Mark Waugh – The Entertainers – SIGNED First Edition 1999
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Dougal Haston – Calculated Risk – First Edition 1979 – SIGNED by Doug Scott
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Douglas Fairbanks and Richard Schickel – The Fairbanks Album – First Edition 1976 – SIGNED Twice and INSCRIBED
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Douglas Fairbanks Jnr – A Hell Of A War – First Edition 1993 – SIGNED, DATED and INSCRIBED
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Douglas Fairbanks Jnr – The Salad Days – SIGNED, Dated and INSCRIBED
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Dr. Paul Wolff – Sport Shots (1936 Olympics) – First Edition 1937 – With SIGNED note from Jesse Owens
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Dylan Thomas & Edward Ardizzone – A Child’s Christmas in Wales – First Edition 1978
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Dylan Thomas & Georg Charpentier – A Child’s Christmas in Wales – A Collection
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E.C. Gaskell – The Life of Charlotte Bronte – Author of “Jane Eyre,” “Shirley,” “Villette,”
£1,450.00
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Edith Sitwell – Taken Care Of – Edith Sitwell’s Autobiography – First Edition 1965
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Edith Sitwell – VICTORIA of England – First Edition 1936
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Edna O’Brien – Mother Ireland – First Edition 1976 – SIGNED and INSCRIBED to her Literary Agent
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Emmeline Pankhurst – My Own Story – First Edition 1914
Original price was: £650.00.Current price is: £325.00.
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Enoch Powell – Freedom & Reality – SIGNED First Paperback Edition 1969
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Evelyn Waugh – Edmund Campion – First UK Edition 1935 – In the first issue dust wrapper
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Evelyn Waugh – Ronald Knox – First Edition 1959 – with hand written postcard
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F.W. De Klerk – The Last Trek – A New Beginning – SIGNED First Edition 1998
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Field Marshal Montgomery – The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. – First Edition 1958
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Field Marshal Montgomery – The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. – First Edition 1958 – SIGNED by the Author and Spike Milligan
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François Pienaar – Rainbow Warrior – SIGNED First Edition 1999
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Frank W. Abagnale – Catch Me If You Can – SIGNED First Edition 2001
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Frank W. Abagnale – The Art Of The Steal – SIGNED First Edition 2001
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Fred Perry – Fred Perry – An Autobiography – SIGNED First Edition 1984
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Fred Trueman – As It Was – SIGNED First Edition 2004
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Freddie Trueman – Fast Fury – SIGNED First Edition 1961
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Gareth Dykes – The United Alphabet – SIGNED by Denis Irwin – First Edition 1994
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Gary Mabbutt – Against All Odds – First Edition 1989 – SIGNED by Paul Gascoigne
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Gavin Esler – Loyalties – Uncorrected Proof Copy 1990
£35.00
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Gavin Maxwell – The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy (Comprising: Ring of Bright Water/The Rocks Remain/Raven Seek Thy Brother) – First Edition Set
£375.00
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Geoff Boycott – In The Fast Lane – SIGNED First Edition 1981
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Geoff Hurst – 1966 And All That – First Edition 2001 – SIGNED on the cover
£150.00
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Geoff Hurst – 1966 And All That – First Edition 2001 – SIGNED without dedication
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Geoff Hurst – 1966 And All That – SIGNED First Edition 2001
£135.00
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Geoffrey Boycott – Boycott On Cricket – SIGNED First Edition 1990
£45.00
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Geoffrey Boycott – Opening Up – SIGNED First Edition 1980
£50.00
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Geoffrey Boycott – Put To The Test – SIGNED First Edition 1979
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George Bernard Shaw [Frank Harris] – Bernard Shaw – An Unauthorized Biography – SIGNED and lined by Shaw
Original price was: £1,350.00.Current price is: £675.00.
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George Cohen – My Autobiography – SIGNED First Paperback Edition 2005
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George Cohen – The Autobiography – SIGNED First Edition 2003
£150.00
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George Cohen – The Autobiography – SIGNED First Edition 2003
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Gerald Durrell – Beasts In My Belfry – First Edition 1973
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Gerald Durrell – Birds, Beasts and Relatives – First Edition 1969 – INSCRIBED by the Author
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Gerald Durrell – Birds, Beasts and Relatives – First UK Edition 1969
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Gerald Durrell – Catch Me A Colobus – First Edition 1972
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