Books on Biography
Click here to compile your own catalogue by any combination of subject terms.
£28.00
To the War with Waugh.
56p hardback with transparent protective cover, bound with William Morris's Willow Bough material ...
£28.00
The Optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535 - 1615): A Reassessment.
205p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, brand new, still ...
£98.00
£180.00
Weighing the World. The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill.
xvii 488p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, as good as new, ...
£180.00
£16.00
Greek Elegy and Iambus, Volume 1, with Anacreontea.
xvi 523p, small format hardback, green cloth with gilt to top and spine, binding firm, pages clean, ...
£16.00
£16.00
Greek Elegy and Iambus, Volume 2, with Anacreontea
vi 365, xiii 115p small format hardback, fresh and bright green cloth, with gilt to top and spine, ...
£16.00
£18.00
Plutarch's Moralia. Volume 14. With an English Translation by Benedict Einarson.
xvi 467p small format hardback, fresh and bright green cloth, with gilt to top and spine, dust ...
£18.00
£56.00
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volume 3: 1925 - 1930.
xiii 384p hardback with unclipped yellow dustjacket with Duncan Bell drawing, very slight humidity ...
£56.00
£48.00
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volume 2: 1920 - 1924.
xii 371p hardback with unclipped pale green dustjacket with Duncan Bell drawing, humidity mark to ...
£48.00
£68.00
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volume 1: 1915 - 1935.
xxviii 356p hardback with unclipped turquoise dustjacket with Duncan Bell drawing, faint humidity ...
£68.00
£24.00
The Most Wonderful Nights of Love of Casanova the Prodigious Lover and Adventurer.
302p tan paperback, red and black titles to front cover, pages mostly uncut, top edge and bit ...
£24.00
£16.00
Things I Don't Remember. Short Stories and Impressions.
156p hardback, bright blue cloth, gilt title to spine, fresh and bright, first edition
£16.00
£48.00
Nobody Knows My Name. More Notes of a Native Son.
196p hardback with green unclipped dustjacket designed by Charles Gorham, jacket creased to top ...
£48.00
£14.00
The Furious Passage of James Baldwin.
256p hardback with bright yellow unclipped dustjacket featuring John Paignton's portrait ...
£14.00
£24.00
Jean Genet in Tangier.
76p paperback, black and white portrait photograph to front cover, introduction by William ...
£24.00
£22.00
Suetonius, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Lives of the Caesars: The Deified Claudius. Nero. Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. The Deified Vespasian, The Deified Titus, Domitian; Lives of Illustrious Men: Grammarians and Rhetoricians. Poets. Pliny the Elder and Pass
554p small format hardback, red cloth with gilt lettering to top and spine, binding in good ...
£22.00
£20.00
Suetonius, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Lives of the Caesars: The Deified Julius. The Deified Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius Caligula
xxix 497p small format hardback, red cloth with gilt lettering to top and spine, binding in good ...
£20.00
£12.00
Dante, and St Anselm.
xviii 253p small format (16 x 11cm) hardback, publisher's original blue boards with four bands ...
£12.00
£24.00
A Scientific Autobiography of Joseph Priestly, 1733 - 1804: Selected Scientific Correspondence.
xiv 415p burgundy cloth hardback, white lettering title to spine and frontispiece portrait, very ...
£24.00
£56.00
Mein Leben. Two Volumes in Slipcase. Signed by Siegfried Wagner.
two large volumes in blue cloth, spines well gilt, dustjackets present and well preserved, in their ...
£56.00
£24.00
Antonin Dvorak 1841 - 1904: Gesamtausgabe. Antonin Dvorak und sein Werk
75p slim paperback, illustrated throughout, uncommon title, no year of publication
£24.00
£64.00
Auf Spuren von Beethovens "Unsterblicher Geliebten."
130p slim paperback, faint green paper cover well preserved, spine intact, with map and ...
£64.00
Beethovens Tagebuch.
196p large format hardback, green illustrated jacket fresh, excellent copy, no names or stamps, ...
£68.00
£12.00
Engelbert Humperdinck - Die Zeitlose. Ein modernes Traummärchen. Siegburger Kindheitserinnerungen herausgegeben von Eva Humperdinck.
38p stapled booklet, as new
£12.00
£24.00
Clara und Robert Schumann. Zeitgenössische Porträts. Katalog zur Ausstellung des Heinrich-Heine-Instituts.
132p large paperback, many plates, some i n colour, fresh copy, nice and clean, no library markings
£24.00
£122.00
Pierre–Simon Laplace, 1749 – 1827: A Life in Exact Science.
xii 322 hardback dark blue gilt title to spine, solid copy, as new, pages fresh and clean, no signs ...
£122.00
£24.00
Edmund Blunden and Japan: The History of a Relationship.
xii 243p hardback with fresh dustjacket, excellent cope, as new, no names or stamps, first edition
£24.00
£22.00
Carl Flesch. Een kleine biografische Studie.
62p slim paperback, black figure to cover, fresh and clean, with plates, no names or stamps, ...
£22.00
£56.00
How to Build an Intelligent Machine. Copy with Authorial Annotations and Corrections.
441p thick paperback, black cover, colour illustrations throughout, uncommon title, this copy with ...
£56.00
£46.00
How to Build an Intelligent Machine.
441p thick paperback, black cover, colour illustrations throughout, uncommon title, no names or ...
£46.00
£20.00
From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi. Translated by W J F Jenner.
496p thick paperback, brown cover, many illustrations in the back, fresh and clean and square copy, ...
£20.00
£24.00
Leben und Wirken von Dr. Aloys Schmitt: mit Portrait und Facsimile.
89p slim booklet, yellow paper cover a little fragile, nice clean copy, binding failing, portrait ...
£24.00
£20.00
Maggie First.
168p blue paperback, many illustration, self-published, Nebraska based christian autobiography of ...
£20.00
£20.00
Io odio tu odi. Biafra. Diario-Delirio du una Ibo. Prefazione Franco Prattico.
145p tall format paperback, bright red cover coarse with black lettering bright, nice clean copy, ...
£20.00
£28.00
Prokop Anekdota. Griechisch-Deutsch. Übersetzung von Otto Veh.
325p yellow cloth, dustjacket as new, pages bright, a firm copy, first edition, no names or stamps, ...
£28.00
£24.00
Little Journeys to Homes of Great Business Men. Book 1.
hardback volume with suede spine, pagination varies, leather spine with small faults but still ...
£24.00
£72.00
Percy Grainger.
xxv 379p hardback, fresh jacket, as new, with elaborate author dedication, also inserted a little ...
£72.00
£8.00
Kurt Hessenberg: Werkverzeichnis.
paginated 119 - 163p, excerpted from a larger publication, Werkverzeichnis (bibliography) only, ...
£8.00
£34.00
Lebens-Beschreibung des Ritters Götz von Berlichingen, zugenannt mit der Eisern Hand.
xxviii 119p paperback with armorial title cover, fresh clean copy, first edition, uncommon title, ...
£34.00
£18.00
Dr Hans Bischoff. Ein Lebensbild.
60p fragile paperback, lacking front cover (and frontispiece?) rebound in colourful batik paper ...
£18.00
£44.00
Johannes Parsimonius. Leben und Wirken des zweiten evangelischen Abts von Hirsau 1525 - 1588.
458p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, no names or stamps, includes large ...
£44.00
£46.00
Letzte Skizzen und Verse 1945 - 1958.
67p typescript, plain card cover without titles, A4 format, newspaper clipping inserted, well ...
£46.00
£46.00
Wagner: Das Leben im Werke.
xii 588p original dark blue cloth with red title label to spine, nice fresh copy of the first ...
£46.00
£18.00
Essays of Elia. With a Preface by William MacDonald. Illustrations by C E Brock.
xxii 317p tan cloth boards with blue spine, top edge gilt, spine lettered gilt with floral design ...
£18.00
£10.00
Nikolai Gogol.
172p small black and white paperback, light wear to cover, binding firm, pages clean
£10.00
£20.00
Life Is Not A Rehearsal: The Hon. Sir William McAlpine, Bt.
64? pages, stapled booklet, colour illustrated, celebrating birthdays, railways and such
£20.00
£18.00
Jeremy Williams: One of a Kind.
95p large paperback, excellent copy, illustrated throughout, as new
£18.00
£20.00
An Irish Doctor Remembers.
99p blue cloth fresh, name in ink, no traces of use, very well preserved, nice clean copy, first ...
£20.00
£120.00
When I Was a Little Boy.
187p hardback with protected dustjacket, first edition, clean copy, no names or stamps, illustrated ...
£120.00