Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

Helen Thomas's memoir of her relationship with Edward Thomas, this is the first printing before pages 53–57 were cancelled

William Heinemann, London, 1926

Signed by Tom Driberg, with signed Christmas cards and postcards from Hannen Swaffer

MacDonald, London, 1974

1988, signed and dedicated by George Hayim

Quartet Books, London, 1988

1939, a rare copy gifted from Alun Lewis to his wife, Gweno, in Christmas 1942, just before he embarked for India in WW2

William Heinemann, London, 1939

Signed by Asad Qureshi

Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 2022

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

Printed for the Author(s), 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

1968, first edition, a comprehensive collection

Faber & Faber, London, 1968

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

Macmillan, London, 1979

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

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