Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

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, 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

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

Yale University Press, New Haven, 1974

Signed by Alison Weir, completed her biographies of Henry VIII's wives

Headline, London, 2021

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

Signed by Deborah Maccoby

Symposium Press, 1998

All are first editions

Various, London, 1975

1963, a short course in the secret war

Secker & Warburg, London, 1963

Mary Thomas's account of internment in Changi Prison, Singapore in WW2

Marshall Cavendish, Singapore, 2009

An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Dame Flora Robson

William Heinemann, London, 1981

1956, the second volume of Negley Farson's autobiography

Victor Gollancz, London, 1956

Sir Roderick Barclay's account of his time in government

Printed for the Author, London, 1975

Agnes de La Gorce's 1928 biography of the Priest and novelist

Librairie Plon, Paris, 1928

1960, a first edition of Anthony Carson's autobiographical sketches.

Methuen, London, 1960

The Writer and his Circle in the Years of the Great War

The Harvester Press, Hassocks, 1979

with commentary by Alan Bartlett

Spectrum International, Bristol, 2000