Books on Biography
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Fifty Sounds.
345p white paperback, high quality folding card cover, excellent copy, as new, second edition
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La strada di San Giovanni.
134p hardback with white unclipped, illustrated dustjacket designed by Valentina Cantone, spine a ...
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Consul in Japan, 1903 - 1941. Oswald White's Memoir 'All Ambition Spent'.
xviii 214p hardback with unclipped pale turquoise illustrated dustjacket, excellent copy, as new, ...
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Sir William Gell in Italy. Letters to the Society of Dilettanti, 1831 - 1835.
182p hardback with unclipped illustrated dustjacket, very well preserved copy, clean and fresh
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The Life of J M W Turner, R A, founded on Letters and Papers furnished by his Friends and Fellow-Academicians.
xix 636p, original but faded burgundy cloth with embossed medallion to front board, top edge rather ...
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The Ashdown Diaries. Volume 1: 1988 - 1997.
xvii 638p paperback, minor wear to cover, signed to title page
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The Birthday Oracle or Whom shall I Marry. Guesses at the Character or Appearance of your Future Husband or Wife.
Olive green small format hardback (11x9cm) with gilt titles and attractive Art Nouveau design to ...
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Joris-Karl Huysmans. A Rebours.
125p purple and white paperback, some foxing to endpapers, otherwise a clean and firm copy, French ...
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Mixed Moss. The Journal of The Arthur Ransome Society. Volume 2, Number 1.
64p journal, blue and white cover, stapled binding, very good condition
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Dukes and Poets in Ferrara: A Study in the Poetry, Religion and Politics of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries.
578p heavy blue cloth with gilt lettering, very nice well-repaired copy, original boards have been ...
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My Reminiscences.
xi 272p dark blue cloth, frontispiece and addtl plates, a tight clean copy, no names or stamps, ...
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Pursuit: The Uncensored Memoirs of John Calder.
621p large format hardback, bright yellow dustjacket, author inscription, excellent copy
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Reflections at Random. The Story of a Life.
92p blue paperback, front cover a little soiled, with illustrations, author dedication, also ...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M A, F R S, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty, transcribed from the Shorthand... by the Rev Mynors Bright M A. Edited with Additions by Henry Wheatley. Eight Volumes bound in Three.
three blue cloth volumes with gilt lettering to spines, approx 900p 900p 600p, printed n fine ...
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The Story of a Child.
163p hardback, very fresh dustjacket, as new, translated by Rosemary and Peter Ganz
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Al-Hallaj.
xv 106p slim paperback, purple cover, like new condition, very little wear, pages clean and neat, ...
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Mircea Eliade. Autobiography. Volume 2. 1937 - 1960. Exile's Odyssey.
xxi 224p hardback in brown cloth with a brown jacket, a little light wear, firm binding, a few ...
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Collected Letters of Thérèse of Lisieux.
348p paperback in moss-green cover, very good condition, tight binding, clear and bright pages with ...
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'Birdie' Bowers of the Antarctic.
270p blue cloth, white title label to spine, frontispiece, additional plates, a fresh copy of the ...
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Scott of the Antarctic: A Study in Character.
vii 187p blue cloth, white title label to spine, frontispiece, additional plates, a fresh copy of ...
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Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini. A Study of a XV Century Italian Despot.
x 296p large format hardback, terracotta cloth with bright gilt decor to front and spine, ...
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Napoleon's Memoirs.
xxvii 605p purple cloth fresh, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece portrait, folding tables, a ...
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Sir Isaac Newton: A Biographical Sketch.
80p slim paperback booklet with orange card cover well preserved, no names or stamps, second ...
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We Go a Journey.
119p slim format, black cloth, clean copy, no names or stamps, well preserved, uncommon title
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Journal d'une Femme de Cinquante Ans (1778 - 1815). Publié par son arrière-petit-fils le Colonel Comte Aymar de Liedekerke-Beaufort.
two volumes privately bound (1920ies?) in plain blue cloth, black title label to spine, top edge ...
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Im Mass der Moderne. Felix Weingartner - Dirigent, Komponist, Autor, Reisender.
471p hardcover with illustrated cover, in original shrink wrap, shrink wrap slightly torn at top, ...
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Yesterday's Man. An Archaeological Life, 1955 - 1980.
115p large format paperback, fresh clean copy, with author greetings, excellent
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Herzl en Bialik. Wegbereiders van een Joodse Toekomst.
48p paperback booklet, good condition staple binding, cover a bit tanned, not much wear, text clear ...
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Käthe Hollwitz.
32p stapled booklet, in good condition apart from missing its covers, staple binding intact, pages ...
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Memoirs of William Smith, LL.D., Author of the "Map of the Strata of England and Wales", with an Introduction to the Life and Times of William Smith and the William Smith Lecture 2000.
xxxvii ix 230p hardback, grey boards with black title panel, a fresh copy, as new with gift ...
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Essays Civil and Moral. Advancement of Learning. Novum Organum, etc.
xii 493p olive cloth still quite fresh and tight, frontispiece with tissue guard detaching, clean ...
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Simone Weil: Utopian Pessimist.
xvii 316p white paperback, with plates and maps, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, very good
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Etta und Otto Stangl. Galeristen, Sammler, Museumsgründer
328p large format hardback, bright blue card cover with photograph, like new condition, little to ...
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Moses Mendelssohn in Potsdam.
84p small format hardback, green covers, very good condition, minimal wear, binding tight, small ...
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Ahmed il-Bedawi. Ein Lied auf den Ägyptischeen Nationalheiligen.
74p paperback, tan covers, good condition, wear to back cover and spine, binding a little loose but ...
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G K Chesterton. Création Romanesque et Imagination (1874 - 1936).
292p paperback, beige cover with b&w portrait, good condition, light wear to cover edges and ...
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Kai-Uwe von Hassel und seine Familie. Zwischen Ostsee und Ostafrika. Militär-Biographisches Mosaik.
348p large paperback, white covers with photographs, like new condition, no significant wear, ...
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Joris Ivens. Cinquant'Anni di Cinema.
90p paperback, blue and white covers, very good condition, a little light wear to cover surfaces, ...
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The Little Sister - The Story of Mary Ann Evans who became George Eliot. Told for the older Child.
44p tall booklet, white cover with portrait, light dust traces, a clean copy, uncommon title
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Lorenzo the Magnificent.
288p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, many plates throughout, lavishly illustrated, a nice ...
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Severo Ochoa.
This is a single issue of the Buletin Informativo issued by the Fundacion Juan March with a 15p ...
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Twelve Years in a Monastery.
viii 259p small hardback with grey dustjacket, jacket a little worn and chipped to corners, pages ...
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Christopher Marlowe: A Biography.
viii 220p hardback with dustjacket, a well preserved copy, clean and without traces of use, first ...
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The Dodillon Copies of Letters by Turgenev to Pauline and Louis Viardot.
55p large format blue card typescript booklet with black cloth tape spine, privately published by ...
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Sir Joseph Whitworth. 'The World's Best Mechanician'.
xiii 338p paperback, dark red cover with photo portrait, very good condition, a little light wear ...
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Prospero's Wireless. A Biography of Peter Pendleton Eckersley. Revised Edition.
xvii 510p paperback, blue cover with b&w illustration, very good condition, binding firm, a little ...
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Mazzarino e Anna d'Austria.
139p small format paperback with portait to front and red rule, a fresh and clean copy, binding ...
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