Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

Conjuring in Life, Letters and Literature. Signed by Ian Keable.

Printed for the Author, 2014

Half-vellum binding, 1886. Alphonse de Lamartine's editing of his mother's diary

Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1886

2011, signed and dedicated by Neil Ansell

Hamish Hamilton, London, 2011

Signed by Damian Collins, a life of Philip Sassoon

Collins, London, 2016

1992, a review of the horror writer's life and works

New English Library, London, 1992

1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection

Faber & Faber, London, 1968

The Rainbow Comes and Goes (1958), The Light of Common Day (1959), and Trumpets from the Steep (1960)

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1958

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

Macmillan, London, 1979

Signed by Asad Qureshi

Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 2022

2007 first edition, signed by David Frost

Macmillan, London, 2007

1957, the story of Rowena Farre's childhood, and her friendship with a talented seal

Hutchinson, London, 1957

1948, signed by William Kent to Maurice Bowra. A historical record of foreign visitors welcomed to London

Nicholson & Watson, London, 1948

Signed by Michael Holroyd, the first printing of the single volume edition

Chatto & Windus, London, 1996

The autobiography of Lina Waterfield (nee Duff Gordon)

John Murray, London, 1961

Souvenirs, Vamp Till Ready, Home and Dry, and Spanner & Pen

London Magazine Editions, London, 1980

1941, Tom Wintringham's account of his time with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War

Penguin Books, London, 1941

Both profusely illustrated

Various, London, 1972

1937 edition in dustwrapper

Jonathan Cape, London, 1937

1926. The autobiography of Hans Christian Andersen

George Routledge & Sons, London, 1926

Signed and dedicated by Baroness Lola Young

Fig Tree, Penguin, London, 2024

Signed by Paul Willetts, The Bizarre Life of Writer, Actor, Soho dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross

Dewi Lewis, London, 2003

Signed by Clive Sinclair. The first edition, 1987.

William Heinemann, London, 1987

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