Books on Biography
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A Sahib Remembers.
xii 157p paperback, fresh clean copy, uncommon title, with illustrations
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The Mulfuzat Timury or, Autobiographical Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Timur, written in the Turky Language, Translated by Charles Stewart
xvi 154p 11p large format hardback, yellow illustrated jacket fresh, red boards with gilt design to ...
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The Making of New Germany: The Memoirs of Philipp Scheidemann.
xiii 368p vii 373p two volumes, original black cloth with gilt lettering to front still bright, ex ...
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Masaryk's Path and Legacy. Funeral Oration at the Burial of the President-Liberator. 21 September 1937.
25p library copy, some faint pencil marks to the text, original grey card cover (TGM) with floral ...
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Gold Coast Boy: A Memoir.
xiv 245p hardback, laminated boards with boy portrait to front, excellent copy, as new, no names or ...
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Eminent Nigerians of the Rivers State.
xv 184p paperback, dark blue cover with map design to cover, illustrations, clean copy, light ...
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Materials on the Bosnian Notables.
iii 154p large format paperback, white cover with blue lettering, text reproduced from typescript, ...
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Masaryk: A Biography. Introduction by Jan Masaryk.
326p green cloth very fresh, silver lettering to spine, light library markings only, a tight and ...
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General Milan R Stefanik, 1880 - 1890: Historical Profile.
97p paperback with blue cover library re-bound as hardback, with illustrations and extensive ...
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With the Hungarian Independence Movement, 1943 - 1947: An Eyewitness Account.
xxxiv 242p large format hardback, original black cloth firm and tight, light library markings, with ...
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The Hidden Damage.
252p black cloth, ex library copy with hurt to spine hinge and white lettering to spine for ...
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Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life. Revised and Enlarged Edition.
xx 412p large format paperback, name to prelims and a few pages with marginal lines, but still a ...
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M K O Abiola: The Great Achiever.
133p paperback, portrait to cover, addtl illustrations in the text, very good, light library ...
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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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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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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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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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