Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography
Miss May, The Story of an Englishwoman (Signed copy)
Signed by SOE agent and gulag-survivor Mary Allison Miske (Miss May)
Jerrard Tickell
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1958
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The Road to Life (An Epic of Education)
A S Makarenko's account of the Maxim Gorky Colony
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, translated by Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov, designed by I Tsarevich
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1955
£30.00
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The Spy and his Masters
1963, a short course in the secret war
Christopher Felix, pseudonym
Secker & Warburg, London, 1963
£30.00
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The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950–1962
Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College (First printing)
Karen V Kukil, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 2000
£20.00
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Gunner Jingo's Jubilee
1893, first edition of T Bland Strange's entertaining military autobiography
Thomas Bland Strange
Remington & Co Ltd, London, 1893
£60.00
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Henry Lamb, The Artist and his Friends
A biography of the artist and his Bloomsbury Group friends
Keith Clements
Redcliffe, Bristol, 1985
£10.00
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A London Family Between the Wars
1940, first edition of life in Cuffley in the 1920s & 1930s
M Vivian Hughes
Oxford University Press, London, 1940
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Few Eggs and No Oranges: The War Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940–45
with postcard signed by the publisher, Nicola Beauman
Vere Hodgson, with a new preface by Jenny Hartley
Persephone Books, London, 1999
£10.00
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Dear Philip
A Diary of Captivity, Changi, 1942–1945
Freddy Bloom
The Bodley Head, London, 1980
£15.00
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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
£25.00
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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
£30.00
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Flora
An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Dame Flora Robson
Kenneth Barrow
William Heinemann, London, 1981
£20.00
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Thou Shalt Not Uncover Thy Mother's Nakedness (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by George Hayim
George Hayim
Quartet Books, London, 1988
£60.00
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Broken Greek (Signed copy)
Signed by Pete Paphides
Pete Paphides
Quercus, London, 2020
£20.00
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A Mirror for Narcissus
1956, the second volume of Negley Farson's autobiography
Negley Farson
Victor Gollancz, London, 1956
£25.00
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In My Own Footsteps, A Memoir (Signed copy)
Signed by Star Wars actor Michael Pennington to fellow Star Wars actor Ken Colley
Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington Books, 2021
£60.00
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Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office 1932–1969
Sir Roderick Barclay's account of his time in government
Sir Roderick Barclay
Printed for the Author, London, 1975
£30.00
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St Francis of Assisi
1926, the first illustrated edition of G K Chesterton's biography, signed by Welsh opera singer Leila Megane
G K Chesterton, illustrated by F Cayley-Robinson
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1926
£40.00
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Lois: Bermuda's Grande Dame of Politics (Signed copy)
Signed by Lois Marie Browne-Evans
J Randolf Williams
Camden Editions, Bermuda, 2001
£40.00
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Nicholas Copernicus 1543–1943
Limited edition, signed by Stephen P Mizwa, and presented to Peter Frazer, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand
Stephen P Mizwa
The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, 1943
£40.00
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Dare to be Wise (Signed copy)
Signed by actress Violet Vanbrugh
Violet Vanbrugh
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925
£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
£30.00
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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 Correspondence of Thomas Grey 1734—1771
1935, complete in three volumes
Paget Toynbee, and Leonard Whibley (editors)
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1935
£30.00
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