London: Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, remainder binding in typographic “Cheap edition” dust jacket with reviews. In Dust Jackets. Diaries and letters of the mid-Victorian Amberleys, John Russell, Viscount Amberley (1842-76), and his wife Kate (1842-1874), who both died young. Bertand Russell (1872-1970), 3rd Earl Russell was their youngest child..... Read More about The Amberley Papers. The Letter and Diaries of Lord and Lady Amberley. Edited by Bertrand and...

Leicester: Ratcliffe College, 1894. First edition. MEMOIR OF LADY MARY ARUNDELL, WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. "Lady Mary Anne Grenville Nugent Temple, the subject of this Memoir, was the only daughter of George, second Earl Temple, and first Marquess of Buckingham, by his wife Mary Elizabeth, Baroness Nugent, daughter and heiress of..... Read More about Memoir and Letters of Lady Mary Arundell, with Photographic Illustrations. By the Very Rev....

London: Chatto & Windus, 1946. Government Archives of Southern Rhodesia. Opphenheimer Series: 3. Read More about The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines. First Journey 1869-1872

1901-1904. Read More about Manuscript Diary covering Trips to Bermuda (146 pp., Janurary 4-April 24, 1901), the South [i.e....

London: Foulis for E. and C. Dilly, 1768. First edition, with cancels at E2 & Z3. First edition in contemporary binding of Boswell's first major work — an account of his trip to Corsica and his meeting with General Pasquale Paoli, leader of the Corsican independence movement. "With its reports..... Read More about An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli

The Lido, Venice: June 1930. ‘Ringmaster of Society in the Eternal City’. The generally candid and richly entertaining autobiography of Princess Jane di San Faustino (1863-1938), recounting her origins in New Jersey and her entry in the highest ranks of the Italian aristocracy following her marriage to Carlo di Bourbon..... Read More about Lights Out [Memoirs: Princess di San Faustino

Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1894. First edition. WITH 2 ALSs. Recollections of the experimental transcendentalist community established by George Ripley. Signed by the author with 2 handwritten notes sending Mr. Williams this book. Read More about Brook Farm. Historic and Personal Memoirs

Hanover, New Hampshire: Benjamin True [Vol. I]; Boston: Printed by E. Lincoln for Caleb Bingham [Vol. II], 1798-1804. First editions of both volumes. Notable account of an American scoundrel. Stephen Burroughs (1765-1840) was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, enlisted in the army at age 14. He soon deserted and was..... Read More about Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs

London: Printed by Baylis, Greville-Street and Sold by the Author, No. 29, Great Pulteney-Street, Golden Square, 1798. First edition in English, with half-title. Cléry was the faithful valet de chambre of Louis XVI during his imprisonment in the Tour du Temple, and thus an intimate witness to the days leading..... Read More about A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple, during the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France. By...

Cleveland, Ohio: The Rowfant Club, 1944. First edition, 201 of 250 copies, printed by George Banta Publishing Company Menasha, Wisconsin. Read More about A Visit to Le Puy-en-Velay. An Illustrated Diary

Dublin: William Porter, 1784. First Dublin edition. Read More about The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington, Baron of Melcombe Regis: from March 8, 1749, to...

London: Waterlow & sons, 1878. First Edition. “Fictitious” — Ayer. Read More about Seven and nine years among the Camaches and Apaches. An Autobiography

London: For A. Millar, 1755. First edition. First edition of Fielding's last book. Two editions appeared in 1755, with the same title pages: one (this) edition was clearly an edited text; the other version was unedited, and set from the manuscript. The unedited text was suppressed and did not reappear..... Read More about The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, by the Late …

New York: Samuel Campbell, 1794. Stated on the title as the Second American Edition. "The most widely read of all American autobiographies ... this book holds the essence of the American way of life" (Grolier, American). First published in Paris in French in 1791, the first American edition appearing in..... Read More about Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin; Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together...

London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by William Heinemann Ltd, 1923. “This edition, printed on english handmade paper, is limited to five hundred and thirty copies …” Copy no. 482 of 530. First issued in 1921 by Boni & Liveright of New York. An elegant production. Read More about Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals. Translated by Van Wyck Brooks. Preface by Emil Gauguin

New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885-1886. First edition, the deluxe binding. Deluxe Copy in Superior Condition. The president and Civil War general's remarkable memoir, written in the final years of his life as he was suffering from terminal throat cancer. Suffering both physically and financially, as the result of financial..... Read More about Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

London: John C. Nimmo, 1896. Amorous Intrigues at the Court of Charles II. First published in English one year after the 1713 French first edition, the Memoirs of Count Grammont is a fascinating account of the court of Charles II during 1662-4; “it is written with such brilliancy and vivacity..... Read More about Memoirs of Count Grammont. Edited with Notes by Sir Walter Scott

London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. ... and Simpkin and Marshall, 1823. Read More about Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq., the Friend and Biographer of Cowper,...

Boston: Little, Brown, [1969]. First edition, with inserted leaf before the half title, "one of a special edition reserved for friends of the author" Presentation to Johnny Carson, Borrowed by Capote. With a note laid in from the author to Johnny Carson: "That was the nicest time I ever had..... Read More about An Unfinished Woman. A Memoir

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1940. Second Impression. Inscribed on ffep "To Mrs. Howard W.H. Jackson Christmas 1940." In 1940 Jackson was 97. He died in 1942. Read More about Time Exposure. The Autobiography of William Henry Jackson

New York: July 1807 to July 1811. Born the son of Revolutionary war officer Captain Henry Johnson, William Johnson "spent his early days in Newton [New Jersey], where his father was one of the founders of the Presbyterian church, and an elder of it from its organization until his death..... Read More about Manuscript diaries of a New York and New Jersey businessman with lengthy and unusually...

New York: Doubleday, 1983. JACKIE TO MILLICENT FENWICK. With ALS from Jackie Kennedy, on Doubleday letterhead to Mrs. [Millicent] Fenwick laid in thanking her for the marvelous quote on the back of the jacket & wishing her good luck on her Wonderful new job (Fenwick was appointed by President Ronald..... Read More about Maverick in Mauve. The Diary of a Romantic Age. With commentary by Louis Auchincloss

Newburyport: Published by William B. Allen & Co, 1817. First Edition. Knapp was a lawyer who practised in Boston and New York; whose chief literary output consisted mostly of historical and biographical works. As a biographer “he was laudatory and patriotic, but not trustworthy.” (Kunitz & Haycraft). Read More about Extracts From the Journal of Marshal Soult, Addressed to a Friend: How Obtained, and By Whom...

London: J.S. Jordan, 1792. First edition. Published the same year as the Dublin and American editions.  Howes says the editor was claimed to have been Thomas Paine, working under the direction of Langworthy.  "Contains many curious particulars relating to the war between Great Britain and the Colonies.  Published under the..... Read More about MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE CHARLES LEE, ESQ. LIEUTENANT COLONEL OF THE FORTY FOURTH...

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1839. Pirated edition following the Carey & Hart, Philadelphia two volume First American edition. Copyright issue. This pirated edition is the direct result of the Marryat’s attempt to protect his American copyrights. The first English author to do so, Marryat copyrighted his work in..... Read More about A Diary in America with Remarks on its Institutions

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

London: Letts and Son, 1868. "In 1867, Royal Navy lieutenant E. D. Young trekked to Africa to find the great missionary-explorer David Livingstone who was reported to be lost while searching for the origins of the Nile. Henry Faulkner joined the expedition primarily to hunt. His efforts collecting elephant, buffalo..... Read More about The Search for Doctor Livingstone [ a Diary Kept during the Investigation of his Reported Murder