Books on Biography
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Sir John Tenniel. English Masters of Black-and-White.
96p hardback, scarlet cloth with firm binding, good condition, minimal wear, a couple of light ...
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Phil May. English Masters of Black-and-White.
96p hardback, scarlet cloth with firm binding, good condition, minimal wear, pages clean and neat, ...
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The Eccentric Life of Alexander Cruden.
242p hardback, maroon cloth with gilt lettering and small gilt portrait to spine, very good ...
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Livio de Marchi. A Golden Anniversary in Wood.
24p large format booklet, colour photograph cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, staple ...
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Nicolas Fouquet, Viscount of Melun and of Vaux, High Lord Treasurer of France Under Louix XIV. With Some Extracts From His Work. Second Edition.
67p hardback, blue cloth with gilt lettering, good condition, light wear, covers marked and worn at ...
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Joseph Wright of Darby, 1734 - 1797. An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings.
40p staple-bound booklet, grey card cover, very good condition, minimal wear, light marks and ...
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Charles Nicholson.
229p hardback, tan cloth with firm binding, good condition, minimal wear, pages clean and neat, ...
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Toti Scialoja. Carte e Carteggi tra Pittura e Parola.
63p white paperback with design to covers, appears unused, pages clean and bright, illustrations ...
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Diario di uno Scienziato. 1950 - 2000.
xvi 301 p grey paperback with design to front cover, minor wear to covers, spine appears unused, ...
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Yosef Bovshover.
80p large format paperback, fresh and clean copy, green cover, stamp to title
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Di Yidishe Togschul un di Yeshiveh Ketaneah.
82p faint green card cover, author name stamps to inside cover with address for correspondence, ...
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Yehoash Memorial Album. Solomon Blumgarten (16 September 1872 – 10 January 1927)
this is a slim booklet, stapled, with plates, approx 24p, issued in memory of Solomon Blumgarten, ...
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Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Benjamin (Boris) Kader. (The Voice of Chicago, No 3, June 1959)
5p 27p stapled booklet, light blue card cover, majority of text in Hebrew, Kader is author of ...
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Un Allegro Fischiettare nelle Tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja.
233p green paperback with illustration to front cover, minimal wear, tight binding, pages clean and ...
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Album Calvino.
viii 333p blue boards hardback binding with gilt rules and lettering to spine, preserved in its ...
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The Life of Learning. Charles Homer Haskins Lecture.
20p stapled booklet, address label to back cover, nice clean copy, first edition
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Learning to be a Publisher. Cambridge University Press 1951 - 1987. Personal Reminiscences.
vii 250p paperback, glossy pale blue cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, tight binding, ...
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Edward Lear. A Life.
xv 360p sturdy paperback, blue and beige covers, like new condition, a fresh copy, tight binding, ...
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My Table-Cloths: A Few Reminiscences.
xvi 320p original burgundy cloth with white "table cloth" illustration mounted to front, many ...
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Andrei Bely. His Live and Works.
230p paperback, scarlet cover, good condition, light wear to cover edges and surfaces, label traces ...
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Franz Kafka. A Biography.
236p hardback, terracotta cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, minimal wear, spine and ...
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Oleksander Potebnia: Ukrainskyi myslytel'-lingvist. / Constantin Cechovyc: Alexandre Potebnia: Philosophe-Linguiste Urkainien.
185p original paperback, library rebound as hardback with transparent film to cover, nice fresh ...
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Memorials of Alfred Marshall.
ix 518p hardback, green cloth fresh and tight, gilt lettering to front a little dull, spine ...
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L'Économiste, la Science et le Pouvoir: Le Cas Walras.
272p paperback, orange cover, fresh and clean copy, no traces of use, no flaws, first edition
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Letters to her Companions.
viii 314p blue hardback, fresh copy, later printing, index inserted, a fresh and clean copy, with ...
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Focus: Doing Biographical Research. Sonderheft, Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung (The Official Journal of Quantum and Interquant) Volume 31, No 3, 2006.
320p white paperback, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, excellent copy
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Bernard Barton and His Friends.
193p bound in original buckram cloth with gilt lettering, spine precarious and held in place by ...
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Journal of Charlotte Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era.
286p period paperback, white illustrated cover with portrait, a clean copy, no names or stamps, ...
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Erving Goffman.
viii 386p paperback, black and white cover with blue artwork, very good condition, minimal wear to ...
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Jacob Berzelius: The Emergence of His Chemical System.
357p large hardback, fresh green dustjacket, nice tight copy, no names or stamps, ex excellent ...
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Auguste Comte. An Intellectual Biography. Volume 1.
x 776p large format hardback, blue dustjacket excellent, this copy as new, never used, without flaws
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Autobiography of Dr Karl Ernst von Baer.
xvi 389p hardback, light green dustjacket with black lettering, with frontispiece, nice clean copy ...
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The Letters of George Gissing to Gabrielle Fleury.
177p large format hardback, pink cloth with gilt lettering, light library markings, well preserved, ...
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Lavoisier: Mémoires d'une Révolution.
469p thick paperback, colour portrait to cover, excellent clean copy, no traces of use, excellent ...
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Banished from the Homeland: A True Story.
244p paperback with purple cover, fresh clean copy, as new, with letter by the author inserted: ...
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The Letters of my Grandfather, Moses Perry Johnson: 1911 - 1928.
xx 225 large paperback, fresh clean copy, with plates, uncommon title
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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. With a Preface by Romola Nijinsky.
190p period paperback, brown cover with portrait, well preserved copy, light yellowing, clean text, ...
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A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington.
374p original blue cloth with red and gilt decor, spine tight and still fresh, no names or stamps, ...
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In Our Infancy, Part 1, 1882–1912. An Autobiography.
xi 236p hardback, earth-brown cloth with yellow jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, pages ...
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An Eighteenth-Century Gentleman and Other Essays.
131p small format hardback, turquoise cloth with pale greyish-green jacket, very good condition, ...
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The Autobiography of Francis Place (1771 – 1854).
xl 308p large hardback, crimson cloth with illustrated brown and yellow jacket, very good ...
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This is How We Are. How Certain Jesuits are Trying to Combine Prayer and Work in their Lives.
123p large format paperback, white / orange cover, a nice clean copy, no names or stamps, ...
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Ignatius: The Man and the Priest.
124p large format paperback, red cover with white title panel, a fresh clean copy, no names or ...
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Veteran Witnesses: Their Experience of Jesuit Life. (Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, Volume 12, No. 1, January 1980)
vi 36p booklet, yellow cover with dark lettering, text reproduced from typescript, a clean copy, ...
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Ignatius: The Man and the Priest.
124p large format paperback, mauve cover with white title panel, a fresh clean copy, no names or ...
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Life in a Northamptonshire Market During the Great War 1914 - 1918. The Diary of John Coleman Binder, Grocer, Baker and Town Councillor in Oundle.
268p large format paperback, glossy tan cover with b&w photograph, very good condition, little to ...
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Nell'Occhio del Tifone.
232p hardback, beige cloth spine with rigid card covers, very good condition, a little light wear ...
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The Diary of John Evelyn. Volume 1.
xiv 406p small neat hardback, greyish-green cloth with gilt lettering and crest to spine, very good ...
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A Hand Upon the Time. A Life of Charles Dickens.
142p small neat hardback, beige cloth with glossy white jacket, very good condition, a little light ...
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Inventario della Memoria
175p small format pink and white paperback, coffee mark to front cover, otherwise very good, pages ...
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