Autobiography, Diaries & Memoirs from Ariadne Books

London : Faber & Faber, 2012. First edition, first impression. Hardback. [i - vi], vii - x, [1 - 2], 3 - 339pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The publication of Edna O'Brien's memoir was a major literary event. O'Brien was born in Ireland in 1930, and her brilliant debut novel, "The Country Girls" was banned there on… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1941. First edition. Signed by Edward Ardizzone to front free endpaper. Hardback. 121pp. No jacket. Amusing reminiscences from the time when Ardizzone was one of a small number of Official War Artists during WW2. The book begins in Arras when he and Edward Bawden were billeted in a local hotel. Illustrated throughout by the author. … Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1940. First edition, 1940. Signed by John Farleigh to half title page and dated 12 Sept. 44. Hardback. 388pp. Illustrated boards. No dust jacket. John Farleigh, painter, illustrator and engraver, is probably best known for his illustrations to George Bernard Shaw's "Black Girl in Search of God". He also illustrated some of the works… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1957. The book has the supposed signature of Edward Ardizzone to the front free endpaper but we are doubtful that this is genuine. Although it bears many characteristics of Ardizzone's hand, the initial 'E' is normally more angular, the tails of the 'z's are normally straight rather than curled and the terminal 'e' most often… Read more about this item

London: Bantam Press, 2001. First edition, 2001. Hardback. 192pp. Dust jacket. Mary Wesley's novels have given pleasure to many thousands of readers, and the West Country, where she made her home for fifty years has always been a source of inspiration. In "Part of the Scenery" she revisits scenes from her own life and celebrates the rugged beauty of… Read more about this item

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989. First published 1989. This is a first reprint from October 1989. Dust jacket. Hardback. xi, 291pp. She was the second most famous politician in the country, putting Cabinet Ministers in the shade. She was the high-flyer who crashed in a welter of eggshells. This is a hugely readable insider's account of what happened to… Read more about this item

London: Short Books, 2010. First edition, third impression, 2010. Hardback. 303pp. Dust jacket. Includes Iris Murdoch's intimate war-time correspondence with two men - Frank Thompson, the poet, and David Hicks, a teacher in Cairo. Also includes the journal that Murdoch, as a touring actress, kept during late August 1939, conveying the uniquely strange atmosphere of that count-down to Armageddon.… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 1999. Llewellyn Thomas. Folio Society, 1999 (first published in book form in 1883). Hardback. xxviii, 240pp. Grey cloth binding over light grey boards. Top edge tinted grey. Slipcase. Introduction by John Sutherland. Illustrated. Book and slipcase in near fine condition.

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2014. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. Text block edges all gilt. Twenty years, three presidents, two daughters and one Louisiana home. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2010. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. Text block edges all gilt. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2013. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. Text block edges all gilt. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2011. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. Text block edges all gilt. A poignant and intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of forty-six years. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2018. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. From the winner of the 2018 UN Peace Prize, this is the story of a woman who inspired change with her calls for greater freedom for women in Saudi Arabia. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap. … Read more about this item

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2010. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. Text block edges all gilt. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2006. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. Text block edges all gilt. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2014. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. Text block edges all gilt. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1970. First edition, 1970. Hardback. 157pp. 6 plates plus two illustrations not listed in the contents. Dust jacket. 'The Night of the New moon' is August 6th, 1945, the end of the day on which the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. At that time, Laurens van der Post was in a Japanese prison camp… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1986. First edition, 1986. Signed by the author to the title page. Hardback. 248pp. Double page map between pages 22 and 23. Blue cloth boards with gilt design to upper board. Gilt titles to spine. This is the sequel to the remarkable 'A Time of Gifts'. With a borrowed rucksack and the lifeline of a pound… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions Baudiniere, c1925. Undated but circa 1825. Hardback. 219, (3)pp. Contemporary leather bining over marbled paper covered boards. Gilt to spine and gilt top edge. Marbled end papers. Original paper covers bound-in. Silk page marker. Text in French. Book in fair condition. Some rubbing/wear to extremities of spine. Edges and corners of boards also rubbed. Quite a… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1946. First edition, 1946. Hardback. 180pp. Dust jacket in a protective cover. Autobiographical work that relates the author's adolescent loss of his faith (which he was to recapture later). It is the story of a child and a raw, idealistic youth - acutely aware of surroundings and people. Leslie Paul (1905 - 1985) was an… Read more about this item