Books on Biography
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The Words of a Way Walker.
143p fresh paperback with black illustrated cover, author note, excellent copy, uncommon title
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A Tribute for Dorothy Ray Healey.
approx 50p stapled paperback booklet, with illustrations, tributes and notes, very well preserved
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The Life and Times of Sadakichi Hartmann, 1867 - 1944.
74p slim paperback, illustrated throughout, excellent copy without flaws, based on the archival ...
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Pavel Axelrod and the Development of Menshevism.
ix 419p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, likely never used, name or ...
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Sergei Nechaev.
x 273p hardback with fresh and well preserved dustjacket, frontispiece, a tight and clean copy, no ...
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Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent.
x 237p hardback with somewhat worn and sunned jacket, many illustrations, name to endpaper but ...
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René Cassin et les Droits de l'Homme: Le Projet d'une Génération.
444p large paperback, b&w photograph cover, very good condition, little to no wear, binding tight, ...
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Festschrift for George Simson. Biography, an Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Volume 22, Number 1, Winter 1999.
176p hardback, white and amber cloth, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, pages clean ...
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Das Buch der Tagebücher: Ausgewählt von Rainer Wieland.
694p a large and heavy volume, transparent jacket present, as new, with Fontane's Christmas ...
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Granada: Memories, Adventures, Studies and Impressions.
illustrated hardback, a well preserved copy, many plates, colour frontispiece, top edge gilt, light ...
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Temple Gairdner of Cairo. Second Edition.
xvi 330p hardback, navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, good condition, minimal wear to covers ...
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The Leisure of an Egyptian Official.
viii 314p hardback, sky blue cloth, fair condition, wear to covers and spine, binding intact if a ...
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Two Statesmen of Medieval Islam. Vizir Ibn Hubayra and Caliph an-Nasir li Din Allah.
146p hardback, green cloth without jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to edges, binding ...
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Lord Noel Gilroy Annan 1916 - 2000. Fellow, Provost. A Memoir.
48p stapled booklet, green cover, excellent condition, with portrait
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Ecelino da Romano nella Mente del Popolo e nella Poesia.
163p paperback, beige cover with flaps, good condition, some light wear to cover edges, notes to a ...
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La Vie Saint Jehan-Baptiste.
242p hardback, beige cloth, good condition, light wear to cover edges, binding tight, names to ...
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The Old French Prose Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller.
118p hardback, beige cloth, very good condition, minimal wear to one or two page corners, binding ...
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Marie de France. A Critical Companion.
viii 228p hardback, tan cloth with illuminated manuscript illustration, like new condition, binding ...
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Jane. A Memoir.
76p blue card cover with "Jane" to front, with the Bishop of St Alban's Compliments to inside ...
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Il Giullare e Il Torvatore Nelle Liriche e Nelle "Biografie" Provenzali.
231p paperback, black cover with illumination, good used copy, binding intact, minimal wear, pen ...
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The Life of Saint Mary of Egypt.
238p hardback, navy cloth with gilt lettering, blue jacket, good condition, wear to jacket and ...
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Franklin and Condorcet. Two Portraits from the American Philosophical Society.
40p stapled booklet, very good condition, minimal wear, covers lightly sunned, binding firm, pages ...
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Speeches Delivered at a Gathering of Members and Friends of the Cambridge Faculty of Law in Honor of Professor H A Hollond on 18 November, 1950.
28p grey card cover, privately printed, library stamps, frontispiece, well preserved, clean and ...
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Werner Näf, 7 Juni 1894 - 15 März 1959. Ansprachen an der Trauerfeier
32p slim booklet, grey paper jacket, library stamp, library stamps, letter by editor inserted
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Ourika. The Original French Text.
xxviii 45p paperback, maroon cover with portrait, very good condition, minimal wear, pages clean ...
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Joseph Haydn - Sein Leben in zeitgenössischen Bildern - Gesammelt, erläutert und mit einer Ikonographie der authentischen Haydn Bildnisse versehen.
xviii 245p large format hardback, cloth fresh, many plates throughout, in its slipcase, excellent ...
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The Art of Belonging: A Memoir.
xii 178p hardback with dustjacket, as new, with plates
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D L Moody. Innovator, Evangelist, World-Changer.
324p hardback, steel-grey cloth with b&w jacket, like new condition, no internal wear, pages clean ...
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How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship.
160p red paperback, as new, bright and clean, related essay inserted
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Sehnsucht. The C S Lewis Journal. Volumes 5 - 6.
xi 302p paperback, brown cover with illustration, very good condition, minimal wear, binding tight, ...
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The Making of a Muckraker.
264p paperback, portrait to front, excellent copy, as new, spine not creased, cprner sharp, pages ...
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Ernest Rutherford.
xi 374p hardback, attractive maroon cover with gilt border and crest, binding firm, one or two very ...
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Owen Barfield. Romanticism Comes of Age.
xv 352p hardback, laminated boards with b&w photograph, very good condition, little to no wear, ...
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The Doctor. Volume 7 ONLY. First Edition
xli 630p 32p publisher's catalogue in the back, hand-coloured frontispiece, original cloth binding ...
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Weavers of Webs.
hardback with black dustjacket, fresh clean copy, first edition: Heredity, Environment, Cambridge, ...
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A New Life of Dante.
xxi 249p paperback, turquoise cover with portrait, good condition, binding tight, light wear to ...
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René Crevel.
288p paperback, black cover with photograph portrait, good condition, light wear to cover corners ...
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Franz Kafka's Loneliness.
viii 251p hardback, grey cloth with white jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, pages clear ...
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G.K. Chesterton as Controversialist, Essayist, Novelist, and Critic.
200p hardback, brown cloth with portrait, good condition, some wear to cover corners and spine, ...
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Miscellanies of Literature. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected.
xvi 484p hardback, fair condition, wear commensurate with age, steel-grey cloth with blue spine, ...
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Well-Kept Secrets. The Story of William Wordsworth.
360p paperback, grey cover with photograph of Wordsworth heirloom, very good condition, binding ...
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Derek Walcott. A Caribbean Life.
xvi 719p hardback, black cloth, red jacket with photograph and artwork, good condition, light wear ...
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C.S. Lewis. Life, Works and Legacy. Volume 2 - Fantasist, Mythmaker and Poet.
xxvii 327p hardback, glossy cover with photograph, very good condition, minimal wear to cover ...
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C.S. Lewis. Life, Works and Legacy. Volume 1 - An Examined Life.
xxvii 330p hardback, glossy cover with photograph, very good condition, minimal wear to cover ...
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George Buchanan. Poet and Dramatist.
xxxiii 322p hardback, maroon cloth with jacket showing portrait, very good condition, jacket spine ...
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Private Lives Made Public. The Invention of Biography in Early Modern England.
x 206p hardback, grey cloth with white jacket, like new condition, little to no visible wear, ...
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The Noble Flame of Katherine Philips. A Poetics of Culture, Politics and Friendship.
viii 454p hardback, navy cloth with bright blue jacket, very good condition, jacket lightly sunned ...
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Jacques de Savoie-Nemours.
358p paperback, beige cover with portrait, like new, minimal wear to covers, pages clear and ...
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