Books on Biography
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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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Kotik Letaev.
xxiii 268p paperback with Boris Grigoriev@ 'Weltkind' to the front cover, first English ...
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Man of War. Sir Robert Holmes and the Restoration Navy.
240p sturdy hardback in greyish cloth, good used condition, gilt lettering to spine, firm binding, ...
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Le Procès de Louis XIV. Une Guerre Psychologique.
400p paperback, scarlet cover with bright artwork, like new condition, little to no wear, firm ...
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Macmillan. A Study in Ambiguity.
271p large hardback, blue cloth with glossy white jacket, very good condition, jacket sunned with a ...
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A Student Penitent of 1695.
xii 192p small hardback in good condition, brown cloth with attractive gilt lettering and design, ...
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The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. From Earliest Times to 2004.
xxxiii 403p large format hardback, black cloth with glossy illustrated cover, very good condition, ...
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The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765.
xxxix 420p sturdy paperback, white cover with colour illustration, very good condition, minimal ...
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Books From the Library of Iain Bain. Catalogue 209.
48p stapled booklet in very good condition, minimal wear, a couple of very light marks but ...
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Niels Henrik David Bohr, 1885 - 1962. Reprinted from The Biographical Memoirs of The Royal Society.
p36-53 staple-bound offprint, grey card cover, very good condition, a little light wear to edges, ...
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Volume 52.
497p large format hardback, smooth navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, like new condition, no ...
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Claude Bernard. Physiologist.
318p hardback, black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, very good condition, minimal wear, some ...
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The Cats of Punchbowl Farm.
124p hardback with unclipped illustrated dustjacket protected with a transparent removable wrapper, ...
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Der Toxikologe Louis Lewin, 1850 - 1929.
107p green cloth hardback with gilt lettering to front board and spine, boards in excellent ...
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George Francis Fitzgerald.
vii 148p paperback, pale yellow cover with b&w portrait, very good condition, minimal wear to ...
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The John Curtin School of Medical Research. The First Fifty Years 1948 - 1998.
x 565p large sturdy paperback, sky-blue cover with b&w photo, very good condition, minimal wear to ...
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Forschung an den Grenzen des Wissens. 50 Jahre Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 1948 - 1998.
175p sturdy hardback with colour-illustration cover, like new, tight binding and sharp corners, ...
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Antoine Lavoisier. Science, Administration and Revolution.
xvi 351p large paperback, blue and white covers with portrait, very good condition, minimal wear to ...
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The Formative Years of Scholars.
xi 120p hardback in laminated black boards with colour artwork, like new, no noticeable wear of any ...
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Mastering Movement. The Life and Work of Rudolf Laban.
268p brown paperback with red spine, cover illustrations show drawings by Laban, very good ...
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Albert Einstein. Chief Engineer of the Universe. One Hundred Authors for Einstein.
472p large heavy paperback, smooth cover with photograph, like new condition, no noticeable wear, ...
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Lives of the British Poets. With Specimens of their Writings.
384p small sturdy hardback, dark reddish-brown leather with black and gilt designs, good condition, ...
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Memoirs of Alexander Spitzmüller, Freiherr von Harmersbach (1862 - 1953)
xii 327p original dark cloth binding fresh and tight, light library markings, with illustrations, a ...
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Journal and Letter Book of Nicholas Buckeridge, 1651 - 1654. Edited by John Jenson.
vi 104p original blue marbled boards, light library markings, a fresh and tight copy, with ...
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Erasmus Darwin. Philosopher, Scientist, Physician and Poet.
72p stapled paperback, square format with scarlet cover, very good condition, minimal wear, staple ...
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Ingmar Bergman. A Critical Biography.
xi 397p large sturdy hardback, black cloth with silver lettering to spine, glossy black and lilac ...
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William James. A Biography.
xviii 556p big hardback, yellow cloth with brown spine, very good condition, minimal wear, strong ...
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The Tongue Set Free. Remembrance of a European Childhood.
viii 268p paperback with tan and orange cover, very good condition, little to no wear, tight ...
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Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist.
xix 480p hardback with grey dustjacket with photographic portrait, name to endpaper, very good ...
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About Bateson: Essays on Gregory Bateson
250p paperback with brown card cover designed by Ann Gold, name to endpaper, nice copy, clean and ...
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La strada di San Giovanni.
134p hardback with white unclipped, illustrated dustjacket designed by Valentina Cantone, spine a ...
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Consul in Japan, 1903 - 1941. Oswald White's Memoir 'All Ambition Spent'.
xviii 214p hardback with unclipped pale turquoise illustrated dustjacket, excellent copy, as new, ...
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Sir William Gell in Italy. Letters to the Society of Dilettanti, 1831 - 1835.
182p hardback with unclipped illustrated dustjacket, very well preserved copy, clean and fresh
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The Life of J M W Turner, R A, founded on Letters and Papers furnished by his Friends and Fellow-Academicians.
xix 636p, original but faded burgundy cloth with embossed medallion to front board, top edge rather ...
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The Birthday Oracle or Whom shall I Marry. Guesses at the Character or Appearance of your Future Husband or Wife.
Olive green small format hardback (11x9cm) with gilt titles and attractive Art Nouveau design to ...
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Joris-Karl Huysmans. A Rebours.
125p purple and white paperback, some foxing to endpapers, otherwise a clean and firm copy, French ...
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Mixed Moss. The Journal of The Arthur Ransome Society. Volume 2, Number 1.
64p journal, blue and white cover, stapled binding, very good condition
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Dukes and Poets in Ferrara: A Study in the Poetry, Religion and Politics of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries.
578p heavy blue cloth with gilt lettering, very nice well-repaired copy, original boards have been ...
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Pursuit: The Uncensored Memoirs of John Calder.
621p large format hardback, bright yellow dustjacket, author inscription, excellent copy
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Reflections at Random. The Story of a Life.
92p blue paperback, front cover a little soiled, with illustrations, author dedication, also ...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M A, F R S, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty, transcribed from the Shorthand... by the Rev Mynors Bright M A. Edited with Additions by Henry Wheatley. Eight Volumes bound in Three.
three blue cloth volumes with gilt lettering to spines, approx 900p 900p 600p, printed n fine ...
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The Story of a Child.
163p hardback, very fresh dustjacket, as new, translated by Rosemary and Peter Ganz
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Collected Letters of Thérèse of Lisieux.
348p paperback in moss-green cover, very good condition, tight binding, clear and bright pages with ...
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Scott of the Antarctic: A Study in Character.
vii 187p blue cloth, white title label to spine, frontispiece, additional plates, a fresh copy of ...
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We Go a Journey.
119p slim format, black cloth, clean copy, no names or stamps, well preserved, uncommon title
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Journal d'une Femme de Cinquante Ans (1778 - 1815). Publié par son arrière-petit-fils le Colonel Comte Aymar de Liedekerke-Beaufort.
two volumes privately bound (1920ies?) in plain blue cloth, black title label to spine, top edge ...
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