Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

Second printing of the autobiography of Alois Podhajsky of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna

George G. Harrap, London, 1965

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

W E John's stories of real life heroism...

Max Parrish, London, 1959

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

Mushroom Bookshop, Nottingham, 1994

Four first printings: Ancestral Voices (US edition), A Mingled Measure, Ancient as the Hills, and Deep Romantic Chasm; and one fourth printing: Beneath a Waning Moon

John Murray, London & New York, n.d.

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

including his biography by Joan Jara

Jonathan Cape, London, 1983

A biography of ‘The Founding Father of Liverpool Culture’

Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2008

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

Antoine de Saint Exupery's memoir, this being the first Book Club edition

Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1939

This copy in a unique leather Surrealist binding

Vision, London, 1948

Signed and dedciated by Viv Albertine

Faber & Faber, London, 2018

Fourth edition of Caraciollo's convent scandal memoir Mysteries of the Neapolitan Cloister / Misteri del Chiostro Napoletano. In the Register of Erotic Books (Entry No 2950).

Richard Bentley, London, 1865