Browse by Subject Category—Autobiography & Biography

Denisa, Lady Newborough's colourful autobiography

Elek Books, London, 1958

First UK edition of the first instalment of Susan Sontag's diaries

Hamish Hamilton, London, 2009

Complete in four volumes, with Braybrooke's notes

Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1890

1897, this copy owned by Admiral Gerald Walter Russell (1850–1928)

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1897

1948, Maurice Buxton Forman's comprehensive selection

Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, London, 1948

A Woman's Experience of Liberation Through the Teachings of a Sufi Master

Element, Shaftesbury, 1993

Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter to Charles Schefer, a prominent orientalist and bibliophile

Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887

1953–1956; Three volumes archiving the lives and activities of Alexander Herzen and Nikolai Ogarev

Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1953

A centenary celebration of the Bulgarian poet Geo Milev

Hristo Botev, Sofia, 1995

Rochdale interest, and Nicholson persecution for fighting against Ritualism in the Parish Church

Not stated, Rochdale, 1892

Brian Keeble's three essays on W.R. Lethaby, Edward Johnston, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Temenos Academy, London, 2005

The Selected Writings of John Cornford

Carcanet New Press, Manchester, 1976

Liverpool MP and philanthropist Samuel Smith's memorial book to his only son

Turner, Routledge & Co, Liverpool, 1899

1907, the second edition of Rev W Tuckwell's Oxford memoirs

Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1907

1962, a first edition of Clyde Hyder's biography

University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1962

A biography of the fight for Vots for Women

Bailey Brothers and Swinfen Ltd, Folkestone, 1974

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

Signed by Damian Collins, a life of Philip Sassoon

Collins, London, 2016