Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

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

Macmillan, London, 1979

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

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

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

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

Various, London, n.d.

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(s), 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

First edition, 1992. Cecily Mackworth's search for Sigmund Freud's Scottish governess

Carcanet, Manchester, 1992

This copy signed by Gordon Ray to Lewis Carroll scholar, Morton N Cohen

Yale University Press, New Haven, 1974

A volume of Simon Raven's autobiography

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989