Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography
Diaspora Blues, A View of Israel (Signed copy)
Signed by Clive Sinclair. The first edition, 1987.
Clive Sinclair
William Heinemann, London, 1987
£30.00
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Indignant Heart
1979, the first UK edition of Charles Denby's searing memoir 'Testimony of a Black American Worker'
Charles Denby, originally written as Matthew Ward
Pluto Press, London, 1979
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Seven books by / about Max Beerbohm
including More Theatres, Last Theatres, and his Letters to Reggie Turner
Max Beerbohm, and John Rothenstein etc
Various, London, n.d.
£25.00
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Actor, Soldier, Poet
1939, first edition of the memoirs of Robert Henderson-Bland
Robert Henderson-Bland, with an appreciation by General Sir Hubert Gough
Heath Cranton, London, 1939
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Tooting Corner, A Book of Reminiscences
1946, first edition of Eric Bligh's memoirs, in the original dustwrapper
Eric Bligh
Secker & Warburg, London, 1946
£30.00
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Two books on Countess Markievicz
Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz and The Rebel Countess, The Life and Times of Countess Markievicz
Countess Markievicz, with Amanda Sebestyen, and Anne Marreco
Virago, London, 1987
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First thus
A Cloistered War (Signed copy)
Signed by Maisie Duncan, her account of surviving the Japanese Occupation of Malaya
Maisie Duncan
Printed for the Author(s), Helensvale, Queensland, 2002
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Eleanor Marx, Volume I: Family Life 1855–1883
First printing of the first volume of Yvonne Kapp's important biography of Karl Marx's daughter
Yvonne Kapp
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972
£15.00
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The Sphinx, The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough (Signed copy)
First edition, signed and dedicated by Hugo Vickers
Hugo Vickers
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2020
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Lucy's Nose
First edition, 1992. Cecily Mackworth's search for Sigmund Freud's Scottish governess
Cecily Mackworth
Carcanet, Manchester, 1992
£40.00
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H G Wells & Rebecca West (Signed copy)
This copy signed by Gordon Ray to Lewis Carroll scholar, Morton N Cohen
Gordon N Ray
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1974
£12.00
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Bird of Ill Omen (with signed postcard)
A volume of Simon Raven's autobiography
Simon Raven, illustrated by Tim Jacques
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989
Sold
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Rupert Brooke, A Memoir
1918, the first separate edition of Edward Marsh's memoir
Edward Marsh
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1918
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First thus
God Made Blind. Isaac Rosenberg, His Life and Poetry (Signed copy)
Signed by Deborah Maccoby
Deborah Maccoby
Symposium Press, 1998
£12.00
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Four books on artist and poet Isaac Rosenberg
All are first editions
Various, including Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Joseph Cohen & Jean Liddiard
Various, London, 1975
£20.00
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In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
Mary Thomas's account of internment in Changi Prison, Singapore in WW2
Mary Thomas
Marshall Cavendish, Singapore, 2009
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Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover
Flora
An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Dame Flora Robson
Kenneth Barrow
William Heinemann, London, 1981
£20.00
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Robert Hugh Benson, Pretre et Romancier 1871–1914
Agnes de La Gorce's 1928 biography of the Priest and novelist
Agnes de La Gorce
Librairie Plon, Paris, 1928
£20.00
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A Rose by Any Other Name
1960, a first edition of Anthony Carson's autobiographical sketches.
Anthony Carson, dustwrapper by Tomi Ungerer
Methuen, London, 1960
£22.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
D H Lawrence's Nightmare
The Writer and his Circle in the Years of the Great War
Paul Delany
The Harvester Press, Hassocks, 1979
£12.00
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The Diary of Eva Braun
with commentary by Alan Bartlett
Eva Braun
Spectrum International, Bristol, 2000
£20.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Memoirs of Edward, Earl of Sandwich 1839–1916
1919, first edition of the peers memoirs
Mrs Steuart Erskine
John Murray, London, 1919
£20.00
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The Distaff Dimension
Anne Bulley's biography of the women from one family
Anne Bulley
Cockatrice, London, 2001
£22.50
Autobiography & Biography | Soft Cover | First Editions
Reminiscences of My Fifty-Five Years in Chile and Peru (Signed copy)
Signed by William Russell Young, published in 1933
William Russell Young
Sociedad Imprenta y Litografia Universo, Valparaiso, 1933
£30.00
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Die Vielgeliebte Frau; George Sand und ihre Freunde in Briefen und Dokumenten
Signed by Lili Turel, one of only 20 copies in a hand-made leather binding
Lili Turel
O C Recht Verlag, Munchen, 1922
£50.00
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