Books on Biography
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The Quest for the Historical Jesus. A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede.
409p green cloth with gilt titles to spine, very well preserved, clean and fresh
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Paganini Master of Strings.
151p grey hardback with red titles, some foxing to extremities, pages clean and fresh, binding firm
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Thomas Hunt Morgan. The Man and his Science.
xvii 447p hardback in black cloth with black jacket, very good condition, jacket has some wear, ...
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The Story of Handel's Messiah 1741 - 1784. A Short Popular History.
79p hardback with green dustjacket, gift inscription and postcard enclosed from the author, nice ...
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Stravinsky, transl Frederick and Ann Fuller.
viii 264p paperback, spine a little creased, clean and firm copy, some pencil notes inside back ...
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The Unconscious Beethoven. An Essay in Musical Psychology.
xxviii 154p hardback with green unclipped dustjacket, slight foxing to very top edge, pages clean ...
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Thine Adversaries Roar.
xiv 137p cream paperback, very good condition, cover uncreased, obituary laid in
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Ulrich Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: An Unpublished Autobiography.
20p offprint, grey card cover with "Best, Bill, - Send me any corrections", with plates, ...
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Marc Bloch: Father, Patriot, and Teacher.
16p large format pamphlet, grey card cover, portrait to cover, very good indeed
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Five Tributes to Ralph A Beals 1899 - 1954.
20p large format pamphlet, portrait frontispiece, grey card cover, calling card attached
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Niccolo Paganini. Supreme Violinist or Devil's Fiddler?
168p hardback with grey illustrated price-clipped dustjacket, very good condition, clean and firm
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Barbara Hepworth.
Small orange and black paperback booklet, unpaginated, well illustrated with black and white ...
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The Surprise of Cremona. One Woman's Adventures in Cremona, Parma, Mantua, Ravenna, Urbino and Arezzo.
295p paperback, light creasing to cover, pages clean and bright
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G E von Grunebaum, 1909 - 1972. In Memoriam.
12p stapled, oblong booklet, brown card cover, nice design, contributions by Speros Vyronis, ...
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Bernhard Bischoff, 1906 - 1991.
86p slim paperback, white cover with black lettering, frontispiece, contributrions by Horst ...
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In Memoriam George Mathewson (1925 - 1973)
50p slim booklet marbled paper cover, frontispiece, real photograph inserted, very nice production, ...
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Hans Schaefer (1906 - 1961)
24p slim booklet grey paper cover, frontispiece, reproduced from typescript, very good, "with ...
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Catalogue of the Jackson Collection of Manuscript Fragments in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, with a Memoir of Canon J E Jackson and a List of His Work.
xiii 106p plus plates bound in the back, green cloth volume, fresh and clean, with author dedication
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Neil Ripley Ker 1908 - 1982. A Memorial Address in Magdalen College Chapel.
slim pamplet, sewn, with a poem by Jane McDermott, grey card cover, excellent condition
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Energy and Empire. A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin.
xxv 866p thick hardback with fresh dustjacket, unused copy, as new
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I am a Mathematician. The Later Life of a Prodigy.
380p large paperback, brown card cover, fresh and clean copy without name or stamps, 1970 printing
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The Mirror of the Sea. . Memories and Impressions.
240p hardback with scarce terracotta dustjacket printed in black, burgundy ribbed cloth very well ...
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Griechische Profanhistoriker des fünften nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts.
large format hardback, laminated boards with white and dark burgundy panels, an excellent copy, ...
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Themes, Character, and Politics in Plutarch's Life of Lucullus: The Construction of a Roman Aristocrat.
206p large format hardback, laminated boards with white and dark burgundy panels, an excellent ...
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Richard Jefferies.
310p blue hardback, spine very faded with fraying to ends, pages very fresh and clean,
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The House on College Avenue: The Comptons at Wooster 1891-1913.
xxiv 265p large paperback, nice clean and tight copy, name to endpaper only, very good indeed
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Werner Jaeger Reconsidered: Proceedings of the Second Oldfather Conference, Held on the Campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
xiv 325p large format paperback, orange lettering to front and spine, excellent condition, note by ...
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Problems in the Life and Writings of A E Housman at University College, London. The Election of 1892.
xiii 261p large paperback, excellent fresh copy, as new, errata inserted
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Senatoren von Vespasian bis Hadrian: Prosopographische Untersuchungen mit Einschluss der Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der Statthalter.
viii 284p original cloth, dustjacket present, bookplate, an excellent clean and tight copy, never ...
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The Master of Light: A Biography of Albert Michelson.
xi 376p large paperback, black cover, with illustrations, excellent clean and tight copy, never ...
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Niels Bohr: A Centenary Volume.
xv 403p large format paperback, dark green cover, many illustrations throughout, well preserved ...
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With the Guards to Mexico!
209p hardback with colourful dustjacket designed by Osbert Lancaster, light wear to edges of ...
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Those Twentieth Century Blues.
290p hardback with unclipped dustjacket, signed by the author, excellent copy, first edition
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Autobiography. A Scholar's Life.
xvii 310p large format paperback, excellent fresh and clean copy, as new = special issue of ...
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James Joule: A Biography.
ix 333p hardback with fresh dustjacket, never used, without name or stamp, as new
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Über einen verfolgten deutschen Altphilologen: Paul Maas (1880-1964)
140p large paperback, faint green card cover, excellent clean copy, without name or stamp, copy of ...
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Picasso. His Life and Work.
392 hardback with red dustjacket unclipped dustjacket, jacket sunned to spine and light wear to ...
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The Bloomsbury Cookbook. Recipes for Life, Love and Art.
384p hardback with illustrated dustjacket, excellent copy, as new
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Proteins, Enzymes, Genes. The Interplay of Chemistry and Biology.
xii 784p hardback, orange cloth with blue and yellow jacket, good condition, very light wear to ...
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Chos smra ba'i dge slong Blo-bzang-chos-kyi-rgyal-mtshan gyi spyod tshul gsal bar ston pa nor bu'i phreng ba.
400p paperback, clean and tight, blue illustrated jacket, very well preserved, clean and tight ...
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Za hor gyi ban de ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho'i 'di snang 'khrul ba'i rol rtsed rtogs brjod kyi tshul du bkod pa du ku¯ la'i gos bzang las glegs bam gsum pa bzhugs. / 3.
454p hardback with fresh dustjacket, bright red frontispiece, excellent condition, number ...
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Four Soviet Scholars : T A Bykova + A D Lyublinskaya, M P Alekseev + E Laucevicius: Portraits and a few References.
14p stapled booklet with portraits, bibliography, Butler sonnet (Not on sad Stygian shore…) in ...
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A Structural Study of Autobiography: Proust, Leiris, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss.
246p hardback, orange dustjacket present, a clean and well preserved copy oif the first edition, ...
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The Prophet Armed (Trotsky 1879 to 1921), The Prophet Unarmed (Trotsky 1921 to 1929) and The Prophet Outcast (Trotsky 1929 to 1940)
viii 540p; xii 490p; xv 543p; three small paperback volumes, well preserved, clean, paper yellowing ...
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Momigliano. Studies on Modern Scholarship.
xxi 340p large format paperback, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good condition
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Avoid Boring People. Lessons from a Life in Science.
xi 347p white paperback, very good condition, almost as new
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The Devil Drives. A Life of Sir Richard Burton.
390p large format hardback, gilt décor to spine, plates, cloth a little soiled to back and a hint ...
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The Pollock-Holmes Letters. Correspondence of Sir Frederick Pollock and Mr Justice Holmes 1874 - 1932. Two Volumes.
xxiii 275p 359p hardbacks in red cloth, first editions with rough-cut pages, edges and corners ...
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