Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1938. First edition, signed by editor Linnie Marsh Wolfe on the half-title page, signed by Wanda Muir Hanna on the dedication page, and with an eight-line holograph manuscript leaf in ink of John Muir, tipped in at the dedication page. WITH JOHN..... Read More about John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe....

Lonon: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. Second edition. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. Read More about Napoleon's Last Voyages. Being the Diaries of Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher, R. N., K. C. B. (on...

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, May, 1928. Later printing of the fifth edition. With Two Letters Laid In. Presentation copy to Mrs. Adolph S. Ochs, with inscription on the flyleaf, and two Typed Letters Signed laid in to Mrs. Ochs. Beers was founder of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Read More about A Mind that Found Itself. An Autobiography

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931. First Edition, first printing. INSCRIBED TO GENERAL DRUM. Inscribed: "For Major General Hugh A Drum Recalling his distinguished service in the World War With warm regards John J. Perrshing." Read More about My Experiences in the World War

Jersey City, NJ: May 3, 1916. Autobiographical Manuscript Memoir of a 19th Century American Photographer. Born on November 9, 1841, in Constance, Baden-Württtemberg, Germany, Gubelman arrived in New York in May 1854. The following year he found work with famed mapseller J. H. Colton "as pupil to Jos. Schedler who..... Read More about Autograph memoir of a noted New Jersey photographer, including his work as an itinerant...

London: Jonathan Cape, [1958]. First edition. Inscribed to Cape. Marvelous association copy, inscribed to his publisher, Jonathan Cape, for whom Plomer also worked for years as an editor: “Inscribed for Jonathan Cape “his publisher & friend “for many years, by “his grateful “William Plomer “March 1958”... Read More about All Home. Memoirs

London: Richard Bentley, 1868. First edition. Read More about My Diary in Mexico in 1867, including the Last Days of the Emperor Maximilian; with Leaves from...

January-December 1858. This diary was kept by Lt. Co. James Burnie, an East India Army Officer who served in the Mooltani Horse during the Sepoy Mutiny. It follows his movements throughout the Indian countryside as he and his column track down and face the mutineers. His troops march through Patiala..... Read More about Original manuscript diary documenting the service of a British officer during the latter stages...

London: Chatto and Windus, 1926. Read More about Cummy's Diary. A Diary kept by R.L. Stevenson's Nurse … while travelling with him on the...

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1856. First separate edition. Also published as part of the second volume of the “Miscellanies, Prose and Verse”. Read More about The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush, and the Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1854. First edition. Read More about The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman. Illustrated with Occasional Extracts from Her Diary ...

Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, Chesnut Street. Baltimore: Carey, Hart & Co, 1834. First American edition. Source for Poe’s Dupin. Vidocq (1775-1857), first a convicted criminal and then “the principal and most active agent of the police”, was head of the Paris Sureté from 1810 to 1827. He wrote..... Read More about Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827. Written by Himself....

[London: ca. 1875]. Fair copy manuscript of the 1875 abridged edition of the memoirs of the German missionary John James Weitbrecht (1802-1852), founder of a mission in Bengal. His memoirs were first published in London in 1854. Read More about Memoir of the Rev. John James Weitbrecht, of the Church Missionary Society