Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

1891, 2 vols, signed by Tait's son-in-law to his grandson Craufurd Tait Ellison on his Confirmation

Macmillan, London, 1891

No 21 in Cecil Woolf's Bloomsbury Heritage series

Cecil Woolf, London, 1998

1979, the first UK edition of Charles Denby's searing memoir 'Testimony of a Black American Worker'

Pluto Press, London, 1979

1968, Marian Slingova's account of her arrest and imprisonment in Czechoslovakia in 1951

Merlin Press, London, 1968

An unpublished memoir by R E Clilverd, MC, including the Great War (Salonika and the Western Front) and the Summer Olympics, 1912

Not Published, 1969

including More Theatres, Last Theatres, and his Letters to Reggie Turner

Various, London, n.d.

This copy with the pencil ownership signature of Lord Wolfenden (J F Wolfenden)

Constable, London, 1949

1931, the third in The Hogarth Letters series

The Hogarth Press, London, 1931

1939, first edition of the memoirs of Robert Henderson-Bland

Heath Cranton, London, 1939

1946, first edition of Eric Bligh's memoirs, in the original dustwrapper

Secker & Warburg, London, 1946

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

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

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

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