Books on Biography

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xxviii 279p large sturdy hardback, blue cloth with scruffy orange jacket, good condition with ...

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216p hardback in blue cloth, bright blue glossy jacket with b&w photograph, very good condition, a ...

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A Great Luso-Brazilian Figure: Padre António Vieira, S. J. 1608 - 1697.

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32p slim booklet, green and white diamond pattern, stapled binding, frontispiece, a very good copy, ...

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Cromwell.

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407p terracotta cloth with gilt lettering, large hardback, frontispiece, additional plates, nice ...

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Renato Guttuso. Spes contra Spem.

181p very large format hardback, very fresh dustjacket, as new, colour plates throughout, excellent ...

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Selections from "Memories and Reflections" by A V Hill, 1886 - 1977.

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22p large format booklet, blue cover, square format, frontispiece, photocopied, with ink note by ...

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In the World. Translated by Mrs Gertrude M Foakes.

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Carlo Cattaneo (1801 - 1869) Un Italiano Svizzero.

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126p large paperback, red cover with Lugano scene, excellent copy, as new

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Wilhelm von Türk (1774 - 1846). Ein führender deutscher Pestalozzianer, Schul- und Sozialreformer.

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Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes. Translated by Richard Howard.

186p small neat paperback, b&w photograph cover, very good condition, a little wear to cover edges ...

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Ludwig Bamberger, Revolutionär und Bankier.

32p hardback, fresh dustjacket, fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, excellent

£16.00

Eric Milner-White, 1884 - 1963. A Memoir.

vi 106p paperback with portrait to front, frontispiece, a clean copy, no names or stamps

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The  Twelve Caesars. Translated by Robert Graves.

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315p paperback, purple cover, a firm and tight and clean copy, spine not creased, second printing ...

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My Early Life: A Roving Commission.

382p period paperback with geometric cover illustration, first edition in this format, nice clean ...

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The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow - Being Anecdotes of the Camp Court, Clubs and Society 1810 - 1860. Volume the Second.

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xiv 340p bright blue cloth with arms to front, top edge gilt, a tight and fresh copy of Volume 2 ...

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Je ne suis pas Photographe. Créateurs et Intellectuels à la Chambre Noire.

204p black paperback, plates throughout, excellent copy

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She Married Pushkin.

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x 442p original blue cloth binding has been repaired with new endpapers and hinges strengthened ...

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Virginia Woolf and the Raverats: A Different Sort of Friendship.

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205p large format hardback, green cloth, many illustrations, excellent copy

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Lorenzo de' Medici and Florence in the Fifteenth Century

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xv 449p hardback, fresh burgundy cloth with gilt rule to cover, frontispiece, binding tight and ...

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Onions in the Stew.

256p hardback, cover a little dusty and with light discolouration, text clean, no names or stamps, ...

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Corpus Hominis. Memoirs of an Academic Physician.

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vii 177p hardback in navy cloth, glossy white jacket with artwork, firm binding, pages clear and ...

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The Life of a Boy: Daniel Meinertzhagen, 1925 - 1944.

181p hardback, brown dustjacket excellent, with frontispiece and addtl plates, excellent copy, no ...

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The Conversations of Dr. Johnson: Extracted from the Life by James Boswell and Edited with an Introduction by R W Postgate.

419p solid and fresh brown buckram cloth with black title label to spine, frontispiece and addtl ...

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The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood, Written by Himself. With a Supplement by Joseph Wyeth.

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xii 307p original green cloth, boards a little spotty, binding tight, traces of minor repair to ...

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Life of Ambrose Bonwicke by his Father. Edited John E B Mayor.

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Written in History. Letters that Changed the World. Signed Copy.

xxiii 247p hardback, cream cloth with shining white and blue jacket, tight binding and clean pages, ...

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The Savile Club. Suggestions' Book. A Selection of Entries, 1869 - 1968.

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184p paperback, red cover, text printed in red and back, tightly bound, like new, no names or ...

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The Savile Club. 1914 - 1918 War Memorial.

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259p paperback, green cover, well illustrated in colour, tightly bound, like new, no names or ...

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Guide to the Savile Monument.

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A Round Unvarnished Tale: A Few Idle Reminiscences.

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32p slim booklet, stapled, green card cover, frontispiece, with signature, uncommon title

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A Register of Admissions to King's College Cambridge 1934 - 2010, Compiled with Prefatory Notes.

xviii 1283p purple cloth very fresh, index, tight and clean copy, never used

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Alfred Gilbey. A Memoir By Some Friends.

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144p good square hardback in maroon cloth, glossy crimson jacket with white lettering, free from ...

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Admiral Arthur Phillip RN, Founder and First Governor of Australia: A British View.

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48p paperback journal with beige cover, a nice square copy, only a little wear, firm binding, pages ...

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Savile Club Sesquicentennial Books, 1868 - 2018. Scientists and Miscellany.

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189p and 80p set of two paperback volumes in terracotta and violet covers, tightly bound, like new, ...

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A Poet's Pilgrimage.

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255p blue cloth hardback, spine well gilt, nice clean copy, first edition in the series, brotherly ...

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Vie de Jeanne d'Arc.

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lxxxviii 558p, 486p two large volumes in excellent half morocco binding, spine bright and tight and ...

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Kindheit, Knabenalter, Jünglingsjahre.

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493p half calf binding with blue spine, marbled papers, fresh copy, top edge gilt, red title label ...

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Die Familie Mendelssohn 1729 - 1847. Nach Briefen und Tagebüchern herausgegeben.

two strong volumes beautifully bound in half calf with decorative spine well gilt, striking marbled ...

£34.00

The Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd (Lady Stanley of Alderley). Recorded in Letters of a Hundred Years Ago: From 1776 to 1796.

xviii 420p publisher's paper covered boards with blue and gilt design, imitating vellum spine, top ...

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George Bell and Nikolai Velimirovic. The Story of a Friendship.

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110p paperback, glossy peach cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, tight binding, pages ...

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Care and Conflict. Leaves from a Pastoral Notebook.

180p paperback, bright red cover with illustration, very good condition, small church library ...

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Angelica. The Portrait of an Eighteenth-Century Artist.

x 214p hardback, scarlet cloth with gilt lettering to spine, minimal wear, a bit slanted, pages ...

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A Chart of British Artist, 1560 - 1860. With Short Lives of the Principal Artists.

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8p stapled booklet in yellow card cover, folds out into wall chart, light wear to cover surfaces ...

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Thomas Carlyle. A History of the First Forty Years of his Life 1795 - 1835. In Two Volumes.

449p 515p two volumes in fresh burgundy cloth, silver lettering to spine fresh, attractive oval ...

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The Letters of Marie Antoinette, Fersen and Barnave.

xiii 244p blue cloth fresh, no names or stamps, engraved armorial bookplate, frontispiece and addtl ...

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Just Lately I Realise: Stories from West Indian Lives.
(No Author)

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94p brown illustrated paperback, library stamp, with illustrations, Wilbert, William, Victoria, ...

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The Websters of Kendal. 8 September - 14 October 1973. At Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Westmorland.
(No Author)

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64p staple-bound booklet, white and orange cover, very good condition, pages clean and neat, very ...

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Social and Diplomatic Memories, 1884 - 1893.

xi 356p burgundy cloth clean, frontispiece, well preserved, some signs of age, volume 1 only

£28.00

Brooke Crutchley CBE. Trinity Hall. Cambridge. 22 Novermber 2003.
(No Author)

£8.00

4p (unnumbered) staple bound booklet with red print design to front, booklet for the service of ...

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