Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography
Odilo Globonik, The Devil's Accomplice
A thorough, illustrated study
Max Williams
Fonthill, Stroud, 2020
£20.00
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Undertones of War
Edmund Blunden's Great War memoir, the first OUP World's Classic edition
Edmund Blunden, dustwrapper by Lynton Lamb
Oxford University Press, London, 1956
£20.00
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Lucy's Nose
Cecily Mackworth's search for Sigmund Freud's Scottish governess
Cecily Mackworth
Carcanet, Manchester, 1992
£40.00
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Edgar Degas Letters
1947, signed by British artist David Heathcote
Marcel Guerin, editor, translated by Marguerite Kay
Bruno Cassirer, London, 1947
£20.00
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Whichever Way We Turn
Romany life in the 1960s
Dominic Reeve, illustrated by Beshlie
Country Book Club, London, 1965
£12.00
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Laughter on the Stairs
1953, the first edition of second book of the "Merry Hall" trilogy
Beverley Nichols, illustrated by William McLaren
Jonathan Cape, London, 1953
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Whathisname
The Life and Death of Charles Hawtrey
Wes Butters
Tomahawk Press, Sheffield, 2010
£30.00
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Memoirs of Edward, Earl of Sandwich 1839–1916
1919, first edition of the peers memoirs
Mrs Steuart Erskine
John Murray, London, 1919
£20.00
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Twopence to Cross the Mersey
1974, Helen Forrester's account of growing up in 1930s Liverpool
Helen Forrester, dustwrapper by Pauline Martin
Jonathan Cape, London, 1974
£17.00
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The Distaff Dimension
Anne Bulley's biography of the women from one family
Anne Bulley
Cockatrice, London, 2001
£30.00
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Afropean, Notes from Black Europe (Signed copy)
Signed by Johny Pitts
Johny Pitts
Allen Lane, London, 2019
£25.00
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Masquerade; The Lives of Noel Coward (Signed copy)
Signed by Oliver Soden
Oliver Soden
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2023
£25.00
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Reminiscences of My Fifty-Five Years in Chile and Peru (Signed copy)
Signed by William Russell Young, published in 1933
William Russell Young
Sociedad Imprenta y Litografia Universo, Valparaiso, 1933
£30.00
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The Wizard from Vienna
Franz Anton Mesmer and the Origins of Hypnotism
Vincent Buranelli
Peter Owen, London, 1976
£15.00
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Joseph Conrad, A Personal Remembrance
1924, a first edition of Ford Madox Ford's memoir
Ford Madox Ford, also given as Ford Madox Hueffer
Duckworth & Co, London, 1924
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Die Vielgeliebte Frau; George Sand und ihre Freunde in Briefen und Dokumenten
Signed by Lili Turel, one of only 20 copies in a hand-made leather binding
Lili Turel
O C Recht Verlag, Munchen, 1922
£50.00
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An Opposing Man
1974, the first UK edition of Ernst Fischer's autobiography
Ernst Fischer, with an introduction by John Berger, translated by Peter and Betty Ross
Allen Lane, London, 1974
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Nineteenth-Century Lives, Essays Presented to Jerome Hamilton Buckley (Signed copy)
From the library of Morton N Cohen (contributor), with a handwritten letter to him from Jerome Buckley
Laurence S Lockridge, with John Maynard, & Donald D Stone (editors), bibliography compiled by David M Staines
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
£30.00
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Where Did It All Go Right? (Signed copy)
Signed by Al Alvarez, an uncorrected proof copy
A. Alvarez
Richard Cohen Books / Metro, London, 1999
£30.00
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In the Green Tree (Signed copy)
Signed by Alun Lewis's widow Gweno to Anne Powell, and was also Roy Fuller's review copy, with his notes.
Alun Lewis, preface by A L Rowse, postscript by Gwyn Jones, a sonnet by Vernon Watkins, and drawings by John Petts
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1948
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The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830–1857, and 1857–1880
Gustave Flaubert, edited by Francis Steegmuller
Faber & Faber, London, 1981
£12.00
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The Letters of Edward Thomas to Jesse Berridge
from the library of author, historian and anthologist, Anne Powell
Anthony Berridge, editor, with a memoir by Jesse Berridge
Enitharmon Press, London, 1983
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How We Squandered the Reich
The controversial memoirs of Reinhard Spitzy
Reinhard Spitzy, translated from the German by G T Waddington
Michael Russell, Norwich, 1997
£20.00
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The Real "Lady of the Camellias"
and Other Women of Quality (1927)
Charles A Dolph
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1927
£20.00
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An Indian Outcast (Signed copy)
Signed by Hazari, the autobiography of an Untouchable
Hazari, foreword by H S L Polak
The Bannisdale Press, London, 1951
£40.00
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