Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

Lewis Carroll, une vie, une legende
The first French edition of Morton Cohen's monumental biography of Lewis Carroll
Morton N Cohen, translated from the English by Laurent Bury
Editions Autrement, Paris, 1998
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions

Two books on Countess Markievicz
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
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First thus

A Cloistered War (Signed copy)
Signed by Maisie Duncan, her account of surviving the Japanese Occupation of Malaya
Maisie Duncan
Printed for the Author, Helensvale, Queensland, 2002
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Eleanor Marx, Volume I: Family Life 1855–1883
First printing of the first volume of Yvonne Kapp's important biography of Karl Marx's daughter
Yvonne Kapp
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Sphinx, The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough (Signed copy)
First edition, signed and dedicated by Hugo Vickers
Hugo Vickers
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2020
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Karl Marx, A Biography
1973, the first UK language edition of this Russian biography
P N Fedoseyev, et al, translated by Yuri Sdobnikov
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Thou Shalt Not Uncover Thy Mother's Nakedness (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by George Hayim
George Hayim
Quartet Books, London, 1988
£50.00
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Lucy's Nose
First edition, 1992. Cecily Mackworth's search for Sigmund Freud's Scottish governess
Cecily Mackworth
Carcanet, Manchester, 1992
£40.00
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The Letters of Rupert Brooke
1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection
Rupert Brooke, edited by Geoffrey Keynes
Faber & Faber, London, 1968
£20.00
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H G Wells & Rebecca West (Signed copy)
This copy signed by Gordon Ray to Lewis Carroll scholar, Morton N Cohen
Gordon N Ray
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1974
£12.00
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Biggles! The Life Story of Capt W E Johns
The 1993 revised and updated edition
Peter Berresford Ellis, and Jennifer Schofield
Veloce Publishing, Godmanstone, 1993
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper

Lenin in London: Memorial Places
An illustrated guide to Lenin's capital haunts
L Muravyova, and I Sivolap-Kaftanova
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1983
£20.00
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The Red Count
The Life and Times of Harry Kessler, art patron, writer, and activist
Laird M Easton
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002
£20.00
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Six Tudor Queens: Katharine Parr, The Sixth Queen (Signed copy)
Signed by Alison Weir, completed her biographies of Henry VIII's wives
Alison Weir
Headline, London, 2021
£25.00
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Julian Bell, Essays, Poems and Letters
1938, a collection of works of Julian Bell, son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, killed in the Spanish Civil War
Julian Bell, edited by Quentin Bell, with contributions from J M Keynes, David Garnett, Charles Mauron, C Day Lewis, and E M Forster
The Hogarth Press, London, 1938
Sold
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions

This 'N That, A Memoir (Signed copy)
Signed by Bette Davis
Bette Davis, with Michael Herskowitz
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1987
£100.00
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A E Housman, Hero of the Hidden Life
A biography of the poet and author of A Shropshire Lad
Edgar Vincent
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2018
£15.00
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Bird of Ill Omen (with signed postcard)
A volume of Simon Raven's autobiography
Simon Raven, illustrated by Tim Jacques
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989
£30.00
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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
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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 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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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
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions

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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