Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

Signed by a N Wilson to poet Greta Bellamacina

Atlantic Books, London, 2011

Signed by Phyllis Pearsall, the creator of the A-Z London atlas

Geographer's A-Z Map Company, Sevenoaks, 1990

or, Chapters on Chinamania, in a superb gilt binding

Chatto & Windus, London, 1875

All hardbacks in dustwrapper, covering 1798 to 1815

John Murray, London, 1973

The Life and Times of Wing-Commander Patrick Barthropp, DFC, AFC

Howard Baker, London, 1987

Algernon C Swinburne's correspondence, edited by Cecil Y Lang

Oxford University Press, London, 1959

Signed by Anhua Gao

Wahlstrom & Widstand, Stockholm, 2001

Signed by A C Grayling, his study of the life and times of William Hazlitt

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000

Four volume first edition of De Ligne's memoirs and writings

Ambroise Dupont et Cie, Paris, 1827

A reading copy of Ida Gandy's memoir

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1929

Joseph Scholmer's "Story of a Slave City in the Soviet Arctic"

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954

2019, a first edition of Jonathan Phillips' biography

The Bodley Head, London, 2019

1994, Judy Cox's study, published by the Mushroom Bookshop, Nottingham

Mushroom Bookshop, Nottingham, 1994

Lady Cecil Goff's study of Katherine Willoughby, 4th Duchess of Suffolk

John Murray, London, 1930

A Greek language self-published autobiography by the opera singer

Printed for the Author(s), Greece, 1960

The autobiography of Vera Laughton Mathews, Director of the WRNS from 1939 to 1946

Hollis and Carter, London, 1948

The autobiography of J H Badley, founder & headmaster of Bedales

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1955

The life of a 15th century laywoman, widely considered to be the first autobiography written in the English language

Jonathan Cape, London, 1940

1979, 2 volumes, Morton Cohen's comprehensive edition of Lewis Carroll's correspondence

Macmillan, London, 1979

This copy signed and dedciated by the editor, Hugo Vickers

Dovecote Press, Wimborne Minster, 2007

Containing Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, Selections from Essays and Journalism 1931 to 1949 (including Such, Such Were the Joys and The Lion and the Unicorn), and The Road to Wigan Pier. Complete and Unabridged

Secker & Warburg / Octopus, London, 1980

Signed and dedicated by Murial Box, author and second wife of Gerald Gardiner

Victor Gollancz, London, 1983

A biography of Trappist monk Michael Carlier, killed in the Great War

The Mercier Press, Cork, 1945

Signed by the author, Anthony Blond

Jonathan Cape, London, 1971

A book of reminiscences, tributes, letters, and fragments

Peralta Press, London, 1993