Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography
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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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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Notes from the Gallows
Julius Fuchik's smuggled notes from prison
Julius Fuchik, with a preface by Samuel Sillen, and a Note by Augustina Fuchik
New Century Publishers, New York, 1948
£12.00
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My Friends When Young (Signed copy)
The Memoirs of Brigit Patmore, signed by her son, Derek Patmore.
Brigit Patmore, edited, with an introduction, by Derek Patmore
William Heinemann, London, 1968
£30.00
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Putting Poetry First, A Life of Robert Nichols 1893–1944
with two letters from the author
Anne Charlton, and William Charlton
Michael Russell, Norwich, 2003
£30.00
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Airhead, The Imperfect Art of Making News (Signed copy)
Signed by Emily Maitlis
Emily Maitlis
Penguin Books, London, 2019
£20.00
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A Small Yes and a Big No
The Autobiography of George Grosz
George Grosz, translated by Arnold J Pomerans
Allison & Busby, London, 1982
£15.00
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War Diaries
Jean-Paul Sartre's Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939–1940
Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Quintin Hoare
Verso, London, 1984
£25.00
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
An early 20th century copy
James Boswell
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1910
£20.00
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Under the Flag and Somali-Coast Stories
Colonial memoirs in Africa in the 1880s and 1890s, including meeting Sir Richard Burton
Langton Prendergast Walsh
Andrew Melrose, London, 1932
£30.00
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People of the Streets
1968, Tony Parker's meetings with seven people on the streets of London
Tony Parker, illustrated by Anthony Colbert
Jonathan Cape, London, 1968
£30.00
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John Craxton, A Life of Gifts
Ian Collin's biography of the artist
Ian Collins
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2021
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Life of an Indian Outpost
First edition, c1914
Major Gordon Casserly, of the Indian Army
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1914
£30.00
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London After Dark (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert Fabian, aka Fabian of the Yard
Robert Fabian
The Naldrett Press, London, 1954
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More Than a Brother (Signed copy)
Signed by J E (Jack) Morpurgo, the Correspondence between Edmund Blunden and Hector Buck, 1917–1967
Carol Z Rothkopf, and Barry Webb
Sexton Press, London, 1996
£25.00
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Letters from India (Signed copy)
Alun Lewis's letters from active service, signed twice by his wife, Gweno Lewis
Alun Lewis, with a note by Mrs Alun Lewis, and a Preface by A L Rowse
Penmark Press, Cardiff, 1946
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Charles Hamilton Sorley, Poems, Letters, Life (4 vols)
All owned by Bletchley Park codebreaker, Leonard Forster
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, and Hilda D Spear
Cecil Woolf, London, 1985
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The Story of Joan of Arc
1915, Pamela Glenconner's retelling of the French heroine's story from the French of Boutet de Monvel
Pamela Glenconner
The Chiswick Press, London, 1915
£20.00
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Madame de Maintenon d'apres sa Correspondance Authentique (Signed copy)
Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter
Mathieu Auguste Geffroy
Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887
£50.00
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I'll Fly No More, An Airwoman's Diary (Signed copy)
Signed by Ursula Barnett Potter
Ursula Barnett Potter
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1951
£30.00
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Adventure in Algeria (Signed copy)
Signed by Brian Stuart, an account of his time in the French Foreign Legion and trek across the Sahara
Brian Stuart
Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936
£70.00
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Norman Douglas
Richard MacGillivary's biography, limited edition published by Giuseppe Orioli
Richard MacGillivray, pseud. Richard MacGillivray Dawkins
G Orioli, Florence, 1933
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