Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

Signed by Tom Michell

Penguin / Michael Joseph, London, 2015

1936, Ion L Idriess's tribute to Sir Sidney Kidman

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1936

Limited edition, signed by Stephen P Mizwa, and presented to Peter Frazer, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand

The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, 1943

Signed by actress Violet Vanbrugh

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925

Samuel Jeake of Rye 1652–1699

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988

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

1935, complete in three volumes

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1935

A brief history of the famous London bookshop

W & G Foyle, London, 1954

Three Writers in an English Village: Richard Hooker, Joseph Conrad, and Jocelyn Brooke

BMM, Cheltenham, 2010

The first US printing of Nelson Mandela's autobiography

Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1994

First printing of James Lovelock's autobiography

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000

Two books from Timothy Leary

Citadel Press, New York, 1993

Autobiography of a Gypsy

Penguin Books, London, 1973

Signed by Colin Clifford to historian and author Anne Powell

John Murray, London, 2002

Nancy Cunard and others memories of Norman Douglas

Secker & Warburg, London, 1954

1841, second edition. Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, and Robert Owen.

Guillaumin, Paris, 1841

First UK printing of Albert Speer's remarkable prison diary

Collins, London, 1976

with commentary by Alan Bartlett

Spectrum International, Bristol, 2000

1934, an early Arthur Bryant title, with studies of Hitler, Mussolini etc

Philip Allan, London, 1934

Signed by Kelevan, a memoir of tea plantation life in Ceylon

Bloozoo Publishing, Colchester, 2000

A thorough, illustrated study

Fonthill, Stroud, 2020

Cecily Mackworth's search for Sigmund Freud's Scottish governess

Carcanet, Manchester, 1992

1919, first edition of the peers memoirs

John Murray, London, 1919