Books on Biography
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G H Lewis. A Life.
xiii 368p hardback, black cloth with white jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, light pencil ...
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Richard Owen Commemoration. Three Studies.
ix 181p hardback, purple cloth, very good condition, no significant wear, binding tight, pages ...
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The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone.
xiii 380p paperback, yellow and blue cover, like new condition, little or no signs of use, spine ...
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John Taylor. Mining Entrepreneur and Engineer 1779 - 1863.
91p paperback, white cover with illustration, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges and ...
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Julia Kristeva.
xv 230p paperback, grey cover, good condition, minimal wear, binding intact, pages clear and ...
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Genius. Richard Feynman and Modern Physics.
x 531p paperback, blue and white cover, very good condition, slightly creased spine, otherwise no ...
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King of the French. A Portrait of Louis Phillipe, 1773-1850. Soldier, Republican, King.
x 308p hardback, red cloth with red jacket, good condition, wear to jacket commensurate with age, ...
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A Different Drummer. Memoir of Joseph I Muscatine. Ed. Naomi Muscatine Bloom.
approx 100p A4 format, grey cloth hardback with gilt lettering to front, colour frontispiece and ...
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Max Perutz and the Secret of Life.
xii 352p hardback, black cloth with jacket, very good condition, some very light wear to jacket ...
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The Great Mathematicians.
vii 128p hardback, turquoise cloth, fair condition, light wear to cover edges and spine, binding ...
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Willie. The Life of W. Somerset Maugham.
xviii 429p hardback, grey cloth with grey jacket, good condition, some light wear to jacket edges, ...
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George Eliot's Daniel Deronda Notebooks.
xlii 524p paperback, black and pink cover, very good condition, some very light wear to cover edges ...
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Autobiographies. The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume III.
560p paperback, black cover with portrait, very good condition, binding tight and spine intact, ...
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The Restless Brahmin: Early Life of M N Roy.
xvi 148p original cloth firm, frontispiece, with appendices, also with a foreword by ...
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Mountstuart Elphinstone. The Romanes Lecture.
32p fresh copy housed in plain pamphlet binder, light library markings, very good
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The Genome War. How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World.
xii 403p paperback, blue cover with photograph, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, ...
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Francis Crick. Discoverer of the Genetic Code.
x 230p paperback, b&w cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, pages all clear and ...
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The Strangest Man. The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius.
539p paperback, grey-blue cover with photograph, good condition, light wear to cover edges and ...
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Un Grand Provincial: Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu.
xvi 549p large paperback, tan cover with red and black lettering, very good condition, with ...
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Madame Récamier et ses Amis.
372p paperback, tan cover with photo and tissue wrapper, good condition, general wear and tanning ...
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Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley. Second Edition.
xi 250p hardback, green cloth, top edge gilt, binding firm, some marks to endpapers, pages lightly ...
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Charles Olson. Letters for Origin. 1950-1955.
140p paperback, beige cover with blue lettering, fair condition, general light wear to covers ...
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The Randy Reviewer. No. 7, October 1997.
25p stapled binding, illustrated card cover, quarterly publicationreviewing erotic comics, b/w ...
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The Randy Reviewer. No. 6, October 1996.
25p stapled binding, illustrated card cover, quarterly publication reviewing erotic comics, b/w ...
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The Life of Taou-Kwang, Late Emperor of China; with Memoirs of the Court of Peking; Including a Sketch of the Principal Events in the History of the Chinese Empire During the Last Fifty Years.
xvi 279p yellow cloth fresh, light library markings, reprint edition, excellent
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All the Powerful Invisible Things. A Sportswoman's Notebook. Signed Copy.
193p paperback, white and blue cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, pages very ...
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Plant Ecology. Fourth Edition.
234p hardback, brown cloth without jacket, very good condition, ink stamp on title page, pages all ...
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Seago: A Wider Canvas. The Life of Edward Seago with Writings by his Brother, John.
314p paperback, yellow cover with illustration, like new condition, no visible wear or sign of use, ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach. Life, Times, Influence.
179p large-format hardback, grey cloth with red jacket, good condition, light wear to jacket edges ...
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No One Minds Being Treated Like A Sage. Chinese Edition.
292p hardback, white cover with blue jacket, sealed plastic wrapping, completely new and unopened ...
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Toscanini. Musician of Conscience.
xvi 922p large hardback, black cloth with black jacket, like new condition, no wear to speak of, ...
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The New Grove Guide to Verdi and his Operas.
xii 252p paperback, like new condition, covers and pages entirely clean and neat, binding firm, ...
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Solti on Solti. A Memoir.
xi 275p hardback, black cloth, black jacket with photograph, very good condition, very light wear ...
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Hans Von Bülow. A Life and Times.
xxv 510p hardback, black cloth with glossy jacket, like new condition, no sign of use, no sign of ...
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Autobiography of Lady Siphroma Kridakon.
xiv 89p large format paperback, with genealogical table, held in a brown library pamphlet binder, ...
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Obra Periodística. Volume 2: Del Humor al Desencanto (1974 - 1986)
471p hardback, black cloth with b&w photographic cover, like new, appears unread, binding strong, ...
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How We Survived: 52 Personal Stories by Child Survivors of the Holocaust.
xxxi 476p hardback, laminated boards, many illustrations, a clean and tight copy, first edition, ...
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Charles du Bos. Sa Relation avec la Vie et avec la Mort.
159p paperback, olive green cover, good condition, binding firm, minimal wear, pages clear and ...
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Flaubert. Devant la Vie et Devant Dieu.
176p paperback with olive green cover, fair condition, pages rough-cut and very clean and bright, ...
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A Feledés Enciklopédiája.
317p hardback with fresh dustjacket, as new, with illustrations
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Shvoy Kálmán titkos naplója és emlékirata 1918 - 1945.
362p hardback with dustjacket, address sticker to back of jacket, a fresh and clean copy
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Gabriele von Bülow. Tochter Wilhelm von Humboldts. Ein Lebensbild aus den Familienpapieren Wilhelm von Humboldts und seiner Kinder, 1791 - 1887.
xi 572p hardback, dark green cloth with gilt edging and lettering, very good condition, boards and ...
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Rudolf von Ems.
270p paperback, beige cover, good condition, minimal wear to cover edges and spine, pages like new ...
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Samuel Pepys in Paris and Other Essays.
21p offprint in plain cover, good condition, staple binding still firm, pages very clear and ...
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Die Echtheit der Vita Heinrich Seuses.
138p paperback in brown covers, very good condition, minimal wear to exterior edges, a few light ...
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Satura. Selected Poetry and Prose.
xii 180p large hardback, clean and very tight copy, black boards with gilt lettering, light library ...
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Oskar Panizza: His Life and Works.
228p paperback, blue rule to cover, portrait frontispiece
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Christopher Brennan. A Critical Biography.
xvi 341p large hardback, green boards, many plates, a clean and very little used copy from a library
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Die Stärke der Stille. Erzählung eines Lebens aus dem deutschen Widerstand.
155p hardback first edition in dark green cloth with green jacket, very good condition, minimal ...
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