Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

Angel Laughter, and Summer Lightning
The first two volumes of Ralph McTell's autobiography
Ralph McTell
Amber Waves, Maidstone, 2000
£30.00
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A Small Yes and a Big No
The Autobiography of George Grosz
George Grosz, translated by Arnold J Pomerans
Allison & Busby, London, 1982
£15.00
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Laughter on the Stairs
1998 facsimile of Beverley Nichols' classic tale from 1953
Beverley Nichols
Timber Press, Oregon, 1998
£12.00
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War Diaries
Jean-Paul Sartre's Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939–1940
Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Quintin Hoare
Verso, London, 1984
£25.00
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
An early 20th century copy
James Boswell
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1910
£20.00
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Under the Flag and Somali-Coast Stories
Colonial memoirs in Africa in the 1880s and 1890s, including meeting Sir Richard Burton
Langton Prendergast Walsh
Andrew Melrose, London, 1932
£30.00
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Henry 'Chips' Channon, The Diaries 1918–38
Simon Heffer's editing of Volume One
Simon Heffer, editor
Hutchinson, London, 2021
£15.00
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People of the Streets
1968, Tony Parker's meetings with seven people on the streets of London
Tony Parker, illustrated by Anthony Colbert
Jonathan Cape, London, 1968
£30.00
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John Donne: Life, Mind & Art
John Carey's fine study of the poet
John Carey
Faber & Faber, London, 1981
£10.00
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John Craxton, A Life of Gifts
Ian Collin's biography of the artist
Ian Collins
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2021
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Life of an Indian Outpost
First edition, c1914
Major Gordon Casserly, of the Indian Army
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1914
£30.00
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Charmed Life (Signed copy)
Signed by Damian Collins, a life of Philip Sassoon
Damian Collins
Collins, London, 2016
£25.00
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A Grain of Sand, The Story of One Man and an Island (Signed copy)
Signed by Brendon Grimshaw
Brendon Grimshaw
Camerapix Publishers International, Nairobi, 1996
£100.00
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Alone in the Sky (Signed copy)
Signed by Jean Batten, the 1930s aviatrix
Jean Batten, with drawings by L R Williams
Airlife, Shrewsbury, 1979
£15.00
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London After Dark (Signed copy)
Signed by Robert Fabian, aka Fabian of the Yard
Robert Fabian
The Naldrett Press, London, 1954
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More Than a Brother (Signed copy)
Signed by J E (Jack) Morpurgo, the Correspondence between Edmund Blunden and Hector Buck, 1917–1967
Carol Z Rothkopf, and Barry Webb
Sexton Press, London, 1996
£25.00
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Letters from India (Signed copy)
Alun Lewis's letters from active service, signed twice by his wife, Gweno Lewis
Alun Lewis, with a note by Mrs Alun Lewis, and a Preface by A L Rowse
Penmark Press, Cardiff, 1946
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Charles Hamilton Sorley, Poems, Letters, Life (4 vols)
All owned by Bletchley Park codebreaker, Leonard Forster
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, and Hilda D Spear
Cecil Woolf, London, 1985
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The Story of Joan of Arc
1915, Pamela Glenconner's retelling of the French heroine's story from the French of Boutet de Monvel
Pamela Glenconner
The Chiswick Press, London, 1915
£20.00
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Madame de Maintenon d'apres sa Correspondance Authentique (Signed copy)
Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter
Mathieu Auguste Geffroy
Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887
£80.00
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Together (Signed copy)
Signed by Norman Douglas, his voyage around the villages of the Tyrol in Austria
Norman Douglas
Chapman & Hall, London, 1923
£30.00
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I'll Fly No More, An Airwoman's Diary (Signed copy)
Signed by Ursula Barnett Potter
Ursula Barnett Potter
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1951
£30.00
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St John of the Cross, His Life and Poetry
Gerald Brenan's study of the Spanish Catholic mystic and poet
Gerald Brenan, with a translation of the poetry by Lynda Nicholson
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973
£15.00
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Adventure in Algeria (Signed copy)
Signed by Brian Stuart, an account of his time in the French Foreign Legion and trek across the Sahara
Brian Stuart
Herbert Jenkins, London, 1936
£70.00
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Norman Douglas
Richard MacGillivary's biography, limited edition published by Giuseppe Orioli
Richard MacGillivray, pseud. Richard MacGillivray Dawkins
G Orioli, Florence, 1933
£30.00
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