Books on Biography
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. To Which is Added Jared Sparks' Continuation (Abridged). Newly Edited.
370p hardback, burgundy cloth, bright gilt spine square with floral vines bright, binding is firm, ...
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Vita di Samuel Johnson (2 Volumi)
two volumes hardback with blue jacket, protected by transparent jacket, in their single slipcase, ...
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The Molecular Biology of the Bacilli: Volume 1: Bacillus Subtilis.
xii 378p hardback, burgundy cloth fresh, green dustjacket present without flaws, name to endpaper, ...
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Homenaje a Margarita Salas.
164p, large format hardback, larger than A4, with fresh dustjacket, excellent clean copy, as new, ...
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Lewis Carroll As I Knew Him.
xvi 132p purple paperback, clean and fresh copy, name to endpaper, very well preserved
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Memoirs of William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne. New Edition.
xii 564p olive cloth fresh and tight, frontispiece with tissue guard, nice clean copy, fresh and ...
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Journal of Henry Cockburn, being a Continuation of the Memorials of his Time. Two Volumes
two volumes in original cloth with gilt lettering to spine, light library marking and later private ...
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Jacques Offenbach e la Parigi del suo Tempo.
305p large format paperback, colour illustration to front, some browning, a clean copy, no names or ...
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Walt Disney
176p square paperback, pink cover, illustrated throughout, very good condition, minimal wear, ...
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Howard Hawks.
176p square paperback, pink cover, illustrated throughout, very good condition, minimal wear, ...
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Abitare la Battaglia. La Storia di Giuseppe Verdi.
xi 336p large paperback, blue cover, one corner with minor red wine (?) marking, still a very good ...
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Cardinale de Bernis. Memorie. Prefazione di Lucio Villari, Traduzione di Laura Guarino.
328p large format paperback, colour portrait to front, excellent condition, no names or stamps, no ...
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Biografia del Marchese di Sade.
166p large paperback, illustrated cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, first edition, ...
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Allan Dwan. The Last Pioneer.
200p hardback, black boards with beige jacket, very good condition, a bit of wear to jacket edges, ...
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Sam Peckinpah.
151p square paperback, b&w cover with mirror-image text and silhouette, very good condition, ...
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John Ford.
144p square paperback, canary yellow cover, good condition, light wear, spine separating a bit, ...
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Luis Bunuel.
150p square paperback, b&w covers with crimson lettering, very good condition, a little light wear, ...
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Erich von Stroheim.
176p square paperback, purple cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, pages clean ...
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Corot and his Friends.
vii 301p original hardback, spine well gilt, frontispiece, publisher's catalogue in the back, a ...
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Winston S Churchill: Companion Volume III. Part 1 and 2: August 1914 - April 1915; May 1915 - December 1916.
two thick volumes with fresh white dustjackets, 1684p hardback, no names or stamps, first edition, ...
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Winston S Churchill: Companion Volume V. Part 3: The Coming of War 1936 - 1939.
xx 1684p a super thick volume, hardback, very fresh white dustjacket, no names or stamps, first ...
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Winston S Churchill: Companion Volume IV. Part 1, 2 and 3. Part 1: January 1917 - June 1919, Part 2: July 1919 - March 1921; Part 3: April 1921 - November 1922.
Three solid and thick volumes, with white dustjacket, jackets fresh to front but spine dull, ...
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Winston S Churchill: Companion Volume V. Part 1 The Exchequer Years 1922 - 1929.
xxii 1504p a super thick volume, hardback, very fresh white dustjacket, no names or stamps, first ...
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The Veterans' Tale. British Military Memoirs of the Second World War.
302p hardback with glossy b&w jacket, like new condition, no noticeable wear, all pages clean and ...
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Ahmad ibn Tulun. Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868 - 884.
x 159p hardback, navy cover with beige spine, strong binding, pages very clean and bright, maps ...
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Shakespeare's First Reader. The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley.
ix 330p hardback, navy cloth with colour artwork jacket, like new condition, no noticeable wear, ...
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Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy.
xi 338p hardback, black cloth with colour illustrated jacket, no noticeable wear, binding tight, ...
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White War, Black Soldiers. Two African Accounts of World War I.
vii 189p paperback, navy cover with photograph, like new condition, no noticeable wear, binding ...
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Rosso di San Secondo.
142p paperback with grey cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, top edge a little ...
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Die Kuns van Oorlewing - Memoires van 'n Afrikaner.
270p large format paperback, fresh and clean and square copy, many illustrations, with some pencil ...
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Die Kuns van Oorlewing - Memoires van 'n Afrikaner.
270p large format paperback, fresh and clean and square copy, many illustrations, with some pencil ...
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Io, l'Infame. A Cura di Giordano Bruno Guerri.
222p bright yellow paperback, red lettering to front, a very fresh and tight and square copy, a ...
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Margery Kempe. A Mixed Life.
xviii 212p white paperback with illustration to front cover, binding tight, spine square, pages ...
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The Ruin of J Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race.
xvi 373p large paperback, black cover, like new condition, no significant wear, binding firm, pages ...
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Young Frederick Douglass.
xx 280p paperback, illustrated green cover, like new condition, no significant wear, binding tight, ...
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Eliza Fenwick. Early Modern Feminist.
xix 295p paperback, white covers with black spine, binding firm, pages very clean and neat, edges ...
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Justice Daniel Cohalan 1865 - 1946. American Patriot and Irish-American Nationalist.
xvi 295p large hardback, scarlet cloth with dark portrait jacket, like new condition, no noticeable ...
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Leibniz Discovers Asia. Social Networking in the Republic of Letters.
xvi 323p hardback, sky-blue cloth with yellow and white jacket, binding firm, pages very clean and ...
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King of the World. The Life of Louis XIV.
xiii 604p large hardback, grey cloth with scarlet jacket, very good condition, no significant wear, ...
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Horace Greeley. Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood.
xii 231p black cream cloth hardback with gilt lettering to spine, illustrated dustjacket present, ...
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The Shadow Commander. Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions.
290p hardback, black cloth with dark jacket, like new condition, no significant wear, binding ...
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More than Munich. The Forgotten Legacy of Neville Chamberlain.
73p paperback, b&w photographic cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, binding tight, pages ...
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Activist Leaders of San José. En Sus Propias Voces.
xxvi 312p paperback, b&w cover with colour portraits, like new condition, no significant wear, ...
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In the Shelter of the Pine. A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan.
xxxvi 321p paperback, black cover with colourful illustration, no significant wear, binding tight, ...
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Alessandro il Grande. Il «Romanzo di Alessandro» e la «Vita di Alessandro» di Plutarco.
lviii 193p small format paperback, many plates, as new excellent copy, no names or stamps
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Charging up San Juan Hill. Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America.
208p paperback, blue and white covers, like new condition, binding tight, pages clean and neat, ...
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A Marriage Out West. Theresa and Frank Russell's Explorations in Arizona, 1900 - 1903.
xi 455p large sturdy paperback, orange-brown cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, pages ...
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