Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

Life of Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (Signed copy)
1891, 2 vols, signed by Tait's son-in-law to his grandson Craufurd Tait Ellison on his Confirmation
Randall Thomas Davidson, and William Benham
Macmillan, London, 1891
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy

Vanessa Bell, A Life of Painting
No 21 in Cecil Woolf's Bloomsbury Heritage series
Rachel Tranter
Cecil Woolf, London, 1998
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

Indignant Heart
1979, the first UK edition of Charles Denby's searing memoir 'Testimony of a Black American Worker'
Charles Denby, originally written as Matthew Ward
Pluto Press, London, 1979
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions

Truth will Prevail
1968, Marian Slingova's account of her arrest and imprisonment in Czechoslovakia in 1951
Marian Slingova
Merlin Press, London, 1968
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

As I Recall, An Autobiography
An unpublished memoir by R E Clilverd, MC, including the Great War (Salonika and the Western Front) and the Summer Olympics, 1912
Ralph Egerton Clilverd
Not Published, 1969
On Hold
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound

Seven books by / about Max Beerbohm
including More Theatres, Last Theatres, and his Letters to Reggie Turner
Max Beerbohm, and John Rothenstein etc
Various, London, n.d.
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Mixed Editions

Michael Ernest Sadler (Sir Michael Sadler, K.C.S.I.) 1861–1943
This copy with the pencil ownership signature of Lord Wolfenden (J F Wolfenden)
Michael Sadleir
Constable, London, 1949
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

A Letter to a Sister
1931, the third in The Hogarth Letters series
Rosamond Lehmann, cover design by John Banting
The Hogarth Press, London, 1931
Sold
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions

Actor, Soldier, Poet
1939, first edition of the memoirs of Robert Henderson-Bland
Robert Henderson-Bland, with an appreciation by General Sir Hubert Gough
Heath Cranton, London, 1939
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Tooting Corner, A Book of Reminiscences
1946, first edition of Eric Bligh's memoirs, in the original dustwrapper
Eric Bligh
Secker & Warburg, London, 1946
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

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

Thou Shalt Not Uncover Thy Mother's Nakedness (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by George Hayim
George Hayim
Quartet Books, London, 1988
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper

Lucy's Nose
First edition, 1992. Cecily Mackworth's search for Sigmund Freud's Scottish governess
Cecily Mackworth
Carcanet, Manchester, 1992
£40.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

The Letters of Rupert Brooke
1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection
Rupert Brooke, edited by Geoffrey Keynes
Faber & Faber, London, 1968
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

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

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

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

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 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

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

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