Books on Biography
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The New Grove Second Viennese School. Schoenberg, Webern, Berg.
201p hardback, navy cloth with black and white jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to jacket ...
£16.00
£16.00
Life in a Noble Household.
407p paperback, white and pink cover, very good condition, light wear commensurate with age, spine ...
£16.00
£16.00
Anne Stuart, Queen of England.
xi 241p hardback, green cloth with gilt lettering, rough-cut pages, good condition, light wear ...
£16.00
£14.00
Charles Darwin. The Story of the Amateur Naturalist Who Created a Scientific Revolution and Changed the World.
xxvi 326p hardback, terracotta cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, binding firm, as ...
£14.00
£26.00
Deutsche Thesen gegen den Papst und seine Dunkelmänner.
224p hardback with fresh dustjacket, nice copy, well preserved, no names or stamps, blue rule to ...
£26.00
£14.00
Mad Mike. A Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert.
viii 211p paperback, white cover with colour photograph, like new condition, no visible wear, ...
£14.00
£28.00
C P Brow's Life in London after He Left India.
156p large paperback, lilac cover with artwork, like new condition, little to no wear, binding ...
£28.00
£40.00
Faith Ringgold. A 25 Year Survey. Exhibition, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, 1990.
64p large format stapled booklet, turquoise cover, very good condition, little to no wear, binding ...
£40.00
£10.00
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas.
252p paperback with Stein portrait to front, a tight copy, spine not creased, some words to inside ...
£10.00
£16.00
A Personal Life of the Fifth Josiah Wedgwood 1899 - 1968.
16p stapled booklet, sky-blue cover, very good condition, minimal wear, pages clean and neat, ...
£16.00
£12.00
Charles the Great.
x 251p blue cloth, original faint green dustjacket well preserved, a nice copy with the very ...
£12.00
Oeuvres de Monsieur de Fontenelle, des Académies Françoise, des Sciences, et des Belles-Lettres, et de la Societé Royale de Londres. Nouvelle Édition Augmentée. Tome Cinquiéme: Contenant les Eloges des Académiciens morts depuis 1699 jusqu'en 1717.
570p small format (16cm) full calf binding in excellent condition, five bands to spine, red and ...
£46.00
Oeuvres de Monsieur de Fontenelle, des Académies Françoise, des Sciences, et des Belles-Lettres, et de la Societé Royale de Londres. Nouvelle Édition Augmentée. Tome Sixieme: Contenant les Eloges des Académiciens morts depuis 1718 jusqu'en 1739.
674p small format (16cm) full calf binding in excellent condition, five bands to spine, red and ...
£46.00
£124.00
B K Anand: Easy to Admire, Difficult to Emulate.
x 115p hardback, purple jacket, many plates throughout, printed on art paper, author dedication to ...
£124.00
£8.00
Leonard Wilson Forster, 1913 - 1997.
12p obituary from the Proceeding of the British Academy, author note to inside cover, with ...
£8.00
£20.00
George Tierney.
252p original cloth still firm but dull and darkened, decorative bookplate and stamps from the ...
£20.00
£16.00
The Turbulent World of Franz Göll. An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century.
xi 260p hardback, grey cloth with brown jacket, very good condition, little to no wear, jacket ...
£16.00
£36.00
He Was a German. A Biography of Ernst Toller.
xii 306p hardback, amber cloth with bright yellow jacket, very good condition, minimal wear and ...
£36.00
Mistress to Kafka. The Life and Death of Milena.
235p hardback, maroon cloth with white and red jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to jacket ...
£10.00
£18.00
Elijah the Prophet.
vii 248p hardback, dark cloth with gilt and red highlights, a well preserved and tight copy, foral ...
£18.00
£22.00
Jeremiah: His Life and Times.
xi 205p mustard cloth a little soiled but still firm with black lettering, bright copy, first ...
£22.00
£22.00
Samuel and Saul - His Life and Times.
vii 222p mustard cloth fresh and tight with black lettering, excellent copy, early edition, 3rd ...
£22.00
£32.00
Copernicus und seine Welt. Biographie.
510p grey cloth fresh, corners sharp, clean copy, neat initials to endpaper, early or first edition ...
£32.00
£64.00
Kafkas Welt: Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern.
687p very heavy and large volume, opulent production, illustrated throughout, with dustjacket, ...
£64.00
£26.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1913 - 1916.
432p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£26.00
£26.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1917 - 1919.
427p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£26.00
£26.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1920 - 1922.
498p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£26.00
£46.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1923 - 1926.
490p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£46.00
£24.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1893 - 1902.
490p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£24.00
£20.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1903 - 1908.
490p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£20.00
£20.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1909 - 1912.
459p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£20.00
£42.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1879 - 1892.
488p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£42.00
£20.00
Useful Toil. Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s.
364p hardback, tan cloth with illustrated beige jacket, good condition, binding firm, pages clean ...
£20.00
£16.00
Mr. Gillray. The Caricaturist. A Biography with 147 Illustrations.
vi 266p large hardback, red cloth with gilt lettering and yellow jacket, good condition, light wear ...
£16.00
£16.00
Tar: A Midwest Childhood. A Critical Text.
xx 257p hardback, moss-green cloth with (protected) jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, ...
£16.00
£48.00
Stalin: Man of Contradiction.
190p paperback, portrait to cover, excellent clean and tight copy, fresh and tight, likely never ...
£48.00
£12.00
Wordsworth and Coleridge. 1795 - 1834.
vii 206p small hardback, maroon cloth with terracotta jacket, good condition, light wear ...
£12.00
Reflections of a Russian Statesman. New Foreword by Murray Polner.
xi 271p fresh paperback, bright yellow cover, spine not creased, fresh copy, a few pages with faint ...
£18.00
£46.00
Istorija dorevoljucionnoj Rossii v dnevnikach i vospominanijach. (History of Pre-Revolutionary Russia in Diaries and Memoirs, Volume 5, Part 2)
544p brown cloth with gilt lettering, well preserved, single volume, a comprehensive ...
£46.00
£46.00
Professor Aleksandr Chaianov, 1888 - 1937. (Professor Alexander Chayanov)
304p hardback grey boards with black lettering to front, with many plates, very well preserved, ...
£46.00
£42.00
The Memoirs of Baron N Wrangel, 1847 - 1920: From Serfdom to Bolshevism. Translated by Brian and Beatrix Lunn.
324p hardback, blue cloth tight and fresh, lettering to spine, facsimile of the 1927 edition, ...
£42.00
£20.00
A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs, 1917 - 1922.
lvii 304p red paperback, fresh clean copy, without names or signs of use, a clean copy, with maps
£20.00
£56.00
One Crowded Hour: An Autobiography.
285p hardback, fresh dustjacket (protected), frontispiece and many plates, this is an excellent ...
£56.00
£32.00
Red Prelude: The Life of the Russian Terrorist Zhelyabov.
x 267p hardback, burgundy cloth fresh and square, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, excellent ...
£32.00
£64.00
Inside the Russian Revolution.
243p plus 4 pages of publisher's adverts in the back, portrait frontispiece of the little ...
£64.00
£26.00
Peter the Great. Translated from the French by Lady Mary Loyd.
x 562p hardback, blue cloth strong and clean, frontispiece, excellent copy, reprint of the 1897 ...
£26.00
£46.00
A Wandering Student. The Story of a Purpose.
xv 448p original red cloth still fresh, parts of the jacket inserted, spine of dustjacket not ...
£46.00
£42.00
Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Aleksandra Kollontai.
xxiv 352p hardback, fresh dustjacket, many illustration, very good copy, with decorative bookplate ...
£42.00
£28.00
Cold Spring in Russia.
x 283p hardback, fresh green dustjacket (protected), excellent copy of the first edition, no names ...
£28.00
£14.00
Hope against Hope: A Memoir.
xvi 431p black and pink paperback, well preserved, with frontispiece, translated by Max Heyward, a ...
£14.00