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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
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | First thus | Illustrated

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
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions

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
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

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
£150.00
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
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

A Diary with Letters 1931–1950

This copy signed by editor and scholar, R W Chapman
Thomas Jones, C.H., LL.D.
Oxford University Press, London, 1954
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy

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
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

My Life in Movement

The autobiography of choreographer Margaret Morris
Margaret Morris
MMM Ltd, Helensburgh, 2003
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover

Eleanor Marx, Volume I: Family Life 1855–1883

First printing of the forst volume of Yvonne Kapp's monumental biography of Karl Marx's daughter
Yvonne Kapp
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

A Cloistered War (Signed copy)

Signed by Maisie Duncan, "Surviving Japanese Occupation in Malaya"
Maisie Duncan
Printed for the Author, Helensvale, Queensland, 2002
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Karl Marx, A Biography

1973, the first UK 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

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
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Letters of Rupert Brooke

1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection
Geoffrey Keynes, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 1968
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

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
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

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
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Spy and his Masters

1963, a short course in the secret war
Christopher Felix, pseudonym
Secker & Warburg, London, 1963
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

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
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

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
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Dustwrapper | First thus

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

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
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover

Flora

An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Dame Flora Robson
Kenneth Barrow
William Heinemann, London, 1981
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

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