Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

The first French edition of Morton Cohen's monumental biography of Lewis Carroll

Editions Autrement, Paris, 1998

Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz and The Rebel Countess, The Life and Times of Countess Markievicz

Virago, London, 1987

Signed by Maisie Duncan, her account of surviving the Japanese Occupation of Malaya

Printed for the Author, Helensvale, Queensland, 2002

First printing of the first volume of Yvonne Kapp's important biography of Karl Marx's daughter

Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972

First edition, signed and dedicated by Hugo Vickers

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2020

1973, the first UK language edition of this Russian biography

Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973

Signed and dedicated by George Hayim

Quartet Books, London, 1988

First edition, 1992. Cecily Mackworth's search for Sigmund Freud's Scottish governess

Carcanet, Manchester, 1992

1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection

Faber & Faber, London, 1968

This copy signed by Gordon Ray to Lewis Carroll scholar, Morton N Cohen

Yale University Press, New Haven, 1974

The 1993 revised and updated edition

Veloce Publishing, Godmanstone, 1993

An illustrated guide to Lenin's capital haunts

Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1983

The Life and Times of Harry Kessler, art patron, writer, and activist

University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002

Signed by Alison Weir, completed her biographies of Henry VIII's wives

Headline, London, 2021

1938, a collection of works of Julian Bell, son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, killed in the Spanish Civil War

The Hogarth Press, London, 1938

Signed by Bette Davis

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1987

A biography of the poet and author of A Shropshire Lad

Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2018

A volume of Simon Raven's autobiography

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989

1918, the first separate edition of Edward Marsh's memoir

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1918

Signed by Deborah Maccoby

Symposium Press, 1998

All are first editions

Various, London, 1975

A very good copy of the fourth volume of Freya Stark's autobiography

John Murray, London, 1962

1963, a short course in the secret war

Secker & Warburg, London, 1963

1893, first edition of T Bland Strange's entertaining military autobiography

Remington & Co Ltd, London, 1893

A biography of the artist and his Bloomsbury Group friends

Redcliffe, Bristol, 1985