Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

This copy signed and dedciated by the editor, Hugo Vickers

Dovecote Press, Wimborne Minster, 2007

Signed by Tony Benn, a single volume edition covering 1940 to 1990

Hutchinson, London, 1995

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

First trade printing of T E Lawrence's account of his role as a military advisor during the Arab Revolt in the Great War

Jonathan Cape, London, 1935

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

Signed by Jasper Ridley

Guild Publishing, London, 1985

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

First UK edition of the first instalment of Susan Sontag's diaries

Hamish Hamilton, London, 2009

1897, this copy owned by Admiral Gerald Walter Russell (1850–1928)

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1897

Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter to Charles Schefer, a prominent orientalist and bibliophile

Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887

1953–1956; Three volumes archiving the lives and activities of Alexander Herzen and Nikolai Ogarev

Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1953

A centenary celebration of the Bulgarian poet Geo Milev

Hristo Botev, Sofia, 1995

Rochdale interest, and Nicholson persecution for fighting against Ritualism in the Parish Church

Not stated, Rochdale, 1892

Brian Keeble's three essays on W.R. Lethaby, Edward Johnston, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Temenos Academy, London, 2005

The Selected Writings of John Cornford

Carcanet New Press, Manchester, 1976

Liverpool MP and philanthropist Samuel Smith's memorial book to his only son

Turner, Routledge & Co, Liverpool, 1899

1907, the second edition of Rev W Tuckwell's Oxford memoirs

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1907

1962, a first edition of Clyde Hyder's biography

University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1962

A biography of the fight for Vots for Women

Bailey Brothers and Swinfen Ltd, Folkestone, 1974