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The Letters of Rupert Brooke

1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection
Geoffrey Keynes, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 1968
£20.00
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Rupert Brooke, A Memoir

1918, the first separate edition of Edward Marsh's memoir
Edward Marsh
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1918
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First thus

God Made Blind. Isaac Rosenberg, His Life and Poetry (Signed copy)

Signed by Deborah Maccoby
Deborah Maccoby
Symposium Press, 1998
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Four books on artist and poet Isaac Rosenberg

All are first editions
Various, including Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Joseph Cohen & Jean Liddiard
Various, London, 1975
£25.00
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Dust in the Lion's Paw, Autobiography 1939–1946

A very good copy of the fourth volume of Freya Stark's autobiography
Freya Stark
John Murray, London, 1962
£20.00
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The Diary of a Young Girl

1952, the first UK edition of Anne Frank's remarkable diary
Anne Frank, translated from the Dutch by B M Mooyart-Doubleday, with a foreword by Storm Jameson
Constellation Books, London, 1952
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Miss May, The Story of an Englishwoman (Signed copy)

Signed by SOE agent and gulag-survivor Mary Allison Miske (Miss May)
Jerrard Tickell
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1958
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The Road to Life (An Epic of Education)

A S Makarenko's account of the Maxim Gorky Colony
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, translated by Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov, designed by I Tsarevich
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1955
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The Spy and his Masters

1963, a short course in the secret war
Christopher Felix, pseudonym
Secker & Warburg, London, 1963
£30.00
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The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950–1962

Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College (First printing)
Karen V Kukil, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 2000
£20.00
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Gunner Jingo's Jubilee

1893, first edition of T Bland Strange's entertaining military autobiography
Thomas Bland Strange
Remington & Co Ltd, London, 1893
£60.00
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Henry Lamb, The Artist and his Friends

A biography of the artist and his Bloomsbury Group friends
Keith Clements
Redcliffe, Bristol, 1985
£10.00
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A London Family Between the Wars

1940, first edition of life in Cuffley in the 1920s & 1930s
M Vivian Hughes
Oxford University Press, London, 1940
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Few Eggs and No Oranges: The War Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940–45

with postcard signed by the publisher, Nicola Beauman
Vere Hodgson, with a new preface by Jenny Hartley
Persephone Books, London, 1999
£10.00
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Dear Philip

A Diary of Captivity, Changi, 1942–1945
Freddy Bloom
The Bodley Head, London, 1980
£15.00
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Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz

and The Rebel Countess, The Life and Times of Countess Markievicz
Countess Markievicz, with Amanda Sebestyen, and Anne Marreco
Virago, London, 1987
£25.00
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In the Shadow of the Rising Sun

Mary Thomas's account of internment in Changi Prison, Singapore in WW2
Mary Thomas
Marshall Cavendish, Singapore, 2009
£30.00
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Flora

An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Dame Flora Robson
Kenneth Barrow
William Heinemann, London, 1981
£20.00
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Thou Shalt Not Uncover Thy Mother's Nakedness (Signed copy)

Signed and dedicated by George Hayim
George Hayim
Quartet Books, London, 1988
£60.00
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Broken Greek (Signed copy)

Signed by Pete Paphides
Pete Paphides
Quercus, London, 2020
£20.00
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A Mirror for Narcissus

1956, the second volume of Negley Farson's autobiography
Negley Farson
Victor Gollancz, London, 1956
£25.00
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In My Own Footsteps, A Memoir (Signed copy)

Signed by Star Wars actor Michael Pennington to fellow Star Wars actor Ken Colley
Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington Books, 2021
£60.00
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Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office 1932–1969

Sir Roderick Barclay's account of his time in government
Sir Roderick Barclay
Printed for the Author, London, 1975
£30.00
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St Francis of Assisi

1926, the first illustrated edition of G K Chesterton's biography, signed by Welsh opera singer Leila Megane
G K Chesterton, illustrated by F Cayley-Robinson
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1926
£40.00
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Lois: Bermuda's Grande Dame of Politics (Signed copy)

Signed by Lois Marie Browne-Evans
J Randolf Williams
Camden Editions, Bermuda, 2001
£40.00
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