Books on Biography
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Madame de Lafayette en Ménage.
293p paperback, brown card cover with red lettering, fair condition, some light wear to covers, a ...
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How to Win the Nobel Prize. An Unexpected Life in Science.
xiii 271p hardback, grey and black cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, like new, ...
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Sage. A Life of J D Bernal.
255p hardback in yellow boards with dark green jacket with portrait, good condition, some very ...
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La Vie Véritable du Comte Henri de Saint-Simon 1760-1825.
336p paperback in faded yellow-green cover, fair condition with general wear, pages tanned, light ...
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Trois Portraits Littéraires.
184p hardback in burgundy cloth, good condition, light wear to corners, spine sunned, binding firm, ...
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Âmes et Visages du Vingtième Siècle.
246p paperback, good condition, light wear commensurate with age, covers tanned, spine creased, ...
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The Marquis d'Argenson and Richard II. (The Collected Works of Lt.-Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin Bt)
241p hardback in red cloth, fair condition, some light wear, spine has partly detached along one ...
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Nicholas Berdyaev. An Introduction to his Thought.
122p hardback in green cloth, grey jacket with portrait, good copy, jacket a bit tattered, boards ...
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John Chinaman and a Few Others.
380p original red boards with black titles to spine and front board, second edition with tear to ...
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A Passion for DNA. Genes, Genomes and Society.
250p hardback with black pictorial jacket, good condition, minimal wear to cover and sides, pages ...
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Rosalind Franklin. The Dark Lady of DNA.
xix 380p hardback in white cloth with orange jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to edges and ...
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Vida y Virtudes del Venerable Siervo de Dios el Padre Christoval de Santa Cathalina, Presbytero, Natural de la Ciudad de Mérida. Tercera Impression.
xxvi 366p original soft vellum binding well preserved but creased, old lettering to spine, ink ...
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A Feleségem története, Störr Kapitány Feljegyzései.
461p original cloth with lettering to spine, author frontispiece, clean and tight copy, very good ...
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A Mélységbol Kiáltunk Hozzád.
412p original hardback with terracotta cloth spine, old label traces to spine, stamp to endpaper, ...
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Emlékalbum 1944-bol.
118p paperback, grey cover, fresh clean copy, with illustrations, very good indeed
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Blokád: Avagy Kocsisor Kelettol Nyugatig.
182p paperback, many illustrations, history of transport strike
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Holtvágányon, 1950 - 1956.
336p black paperback, adhesive sticker to front, a clean copy, first edition
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The Flight and Exile of Marius. / A Textual Study of Plutach's Marius. / Coins Bearing the Age and Career of Marius.
a collection of three offprints (1959, 1960, 1961), card cover, "All best wishes", very good
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Hands in Samian Inscriptions of the Hellenistic Period.
36p offprint, fresh clean copy with author's warm regard, many illustrations, very good: The stone ...
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Athenian Financial Officials after 303 BC.
43p offprint, fresh clean copy with author's best wishes, very good
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The Reliability and Origin of the Vita Didii Iuliani.
36p offprint, fresh clean copy with inscription of author's greetings, very good
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Darwin's Moon. A Biography of Alfred Russel Wallace.
x 261p hardback with illustrated jacket, jacket spine has sticker trace/scuff, front pastedown has ...
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Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience.
this is a poor copy of this important title. Lacking title page and everything before dedication ...
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Karlis Ulmanis.
208p green cloth, gilt bird to front board, faint ink stamp to endpaper, clean and tight copy, ...
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Schliemann's American Citizenship and Divorce.
this is a folder with a photocopy of the essay by Traill and a pile of 23 numbered photocopies of ...
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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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Ulrich Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: An Unpublished Autobiography.
20p offprint, grey card cover with "Best, Bill, - Send me any corrections", with plates, some ...
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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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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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Hans Schaefer (1906 - 1961)
24p slim booklet grey paper cover, frontispiece, reproduced from typescript, very good, "with best ...
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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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Energy and Empire. A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin.
xxv 866p thick hardback with fresh dustjacket, unused copy, as new
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One Scientist's Journey. An Essay About Basic Research from the Carnegie Institute of Washington. Perspectives in Science Number 4.
40p booklet, very good condition, light wear, a relatively rare publication
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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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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 "3" to ...
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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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Avoid Boring People. Lessons from a Life in Science.
xi 347p white paperback, very good condition, almost as new
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A Federigo Melis.
62p slim booklet, large format with frontispiece portrait, includes bibliography of his writings, ...
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Carrie Chapman Catt: A Life of Leadership.
85p paperback, excellent clean copy, the ISBN given on the book (1883058791) appears ambiguous
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Mémoires de Robert Challes, Écrivain du Roi. Un Colonial au Temps de Colbert.
xxii 301p original paperback with faint blue paper cover, a well preserved copy, paper bright, ...
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William Andrews Clark, Jr. His Cultural Legacy. Papers read at a Clark Library Seminar, 7 November 1981.
52p brown wrapper, frontispiece, very good copy, as new
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Scientific Literature in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England: Papers delivered by C. Donald O'Malley and A. Rupert Hall at the Sixth Clark Library Seminar, 6 May 1961.
iv 45p stapled booklet, mustard cover, illustrations, very good
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The Beginnings of Autobiography in England: A Paper Delivered by James M. Osborn at the Fifth Clark Library Seminar, 8 August 1959.
iv 25p stapled booklet, brown cover, illustrations, very good
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