Books on Biography
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A Matron Remembers. Reminiscences of School Life Over Forty-Five Years.
viii 158p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm, like new
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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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A Memoir of Edmund Cartwright.
11p 372p small format hardback with green dustjacket, as new, inventor of power loom, also ...
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A Memoir of the Life and Writings and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright, Inventor of the Power Loom. (1843)
11p 372p hardback with dustjacket, very good, Introduction by K Ponting, excellent copy
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A Memorial of Samuel Curtis: Late Pastor of the Strict Baptist Church at Southill. Sent Forth by his Widow.
150p green cloth with gilt lettering, inscription to front endpaper, binding firm, some b&w ...
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A Memory of David Lapsley: October 13, 1919 - January 2, 1944.
304p blue cloth, photographic illustrations, author inscription to Hollond, very good with minimal ...
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Daughter of Colley Cibber.
223p blue cloth with gilt lettering, pages clean and unmarked, very good condition
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A Neave Brayshaw. Memoir and Selected Writings.
190p cloth a bit dull from age, frontispiece, a clean copy, first edition
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A New General Biographical Dictionary. In Twelve Volumes. Volume 1 ONLY. AA - ANS.
approx 500p old binding with marbled boards, marbled edges, half calf binding repaired, cloth tape ...
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A New General Biographical Dictionary. In Twelve Volumes. Volume 3 ONLY. BAH - BEE.
approx 500p, old binding with marbled boards, marbled edges, half calf binding repaired, cloth tape ...
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A New General Biographical Dictionary. In Twelve Volumes. Volume 9 ONLY. Jephson - Martin.
approx 500p, old binding with marbled boards, marbled edges, half calf binding repaired, cloth tape ...
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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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A Parson in Wartime, The Boston Diary of the Reverend Arthur Hopkins 1942 - 1945.
xxxi 247p hardback, dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent copy
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A Passage in Time.
x 149p large format hardback, illustrated dustjacket, prestent. P[lates throughout, genealogical ...
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A Passion for DNA. Genes, Genomes and Society.
250p hardback with black pictorial jacket, as new, pages clean with index, very good
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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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A Personal Life of the Fifth Josiah Wedgwood 1899 - 1968.
16p stapled booklet, sky-blue cover, very good condition, minimal wear, pages clean and neat, ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Definitive Text Corrected From the Dublin Holograph.
253p paperback, grass-green cover, very good condition, minimal wear to covers, binding firm, pages ...
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A Preacher's Half-Century.
232p plum cloth, clean pages, frontispiece, cloth a bit worn, but a very well preserved copy, very ...
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A Preface to James Joyce.
xiii 202p blue paperback, contains numerous black and white images, binding firm, name to endpaper ...
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A Princeton Companion.
x 559p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, well ...
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A Provisional Translation of the Early Lives of Dante and of His Poetical Correspondence with Giovanni Virgilio.
112p pink paperback, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library, binding weak, cover ...
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A Regency Visitor: The English Tour of Prince Pückler-Muskau Described in his Letters 1826 - 1828. Transl Sarah Austin, ed. E Butler.
384p blue grey cloth, frontispirce, illustrations, index, a nice copy with ex libris bookplate
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A S Griboedov v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov.
448p white boards with gilt lettering, nice fresh copy with bookplate, plates, excellent condition
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A Sahib Remembers.
xii 157p paperback, fresh clean copy, uncommon title, with illustrations
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A Scots Boy's World Sixty Years Ago.
viii 188p blue cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine, spine a little sunned, frontispiece, ...
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A Scottish Life: Sir John Martin, Churchill and Empire.
xvi 279p hardback, very fresh dustjacket, plates, maps, excellent copy
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A Second Look At Doom. (Encounter, March 1976, Volume 46, No 3)
96p journal with teal card cover, for sale as a complete issue, little used, pages clean with ...
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A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs, 1917 - 1922.
lvii 304p red paperback, fresh clean copy, without names or signs of use, a clean copy, with maps
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A Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Richard, Baron Beeching, 1913 - 1985.
10p order of service and other documents bound together with a plain paper cover, staples to spine, ...
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A Seventeenth Century Country Gentleman: Sir Francis Throckmorton, 1640 - 80.
vii 99p red cloth with gilt lettering, with frontispiece, pages unmarked, with plates, binding ...
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A Short Account of the Charity and Library Established under the Will of the Late Rev. Daniel Williams, D.D.
vi 147p hardback, navy cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, minimal wear, binding very ...
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A Short Life of William Pitt.
vi 224p burgundy cloth, frontispiece, index, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library
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A Short Odyssey in Yorkshire.
142p blue boards, hardback, many illustrations, light soiling to paper edge, still very good, ...
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A Soldier of God. The Ideals of War. A Memory of Lord Kitchener.
47p slim small booklet, brown card cover, very good indeed, uncommon title
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A St Andrews Diarist. James Melville, 1556 - 1614. Being the Dow Lecture delivered University of St Andrews at Dundee 14th October 1963.
30p sewn booklet, grey card cover, fresh clean copy
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A Star of India: Flora Annie Steel, her Works and Times.
iv 219p hardback, fresh blue dustjacket, frontispiece, author inscription, excellent copy of the ...
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'A Student in Arms'. Donald Hankey and Edwardian Society at War.
x 254p hardback, red dustjacket in excellent condition, a fresh copy, clean, firm, like new
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A Subaltern in Macedonia and Judaea, 1916 - 1917.
183p original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece and additional plates, first ...
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A Tennyson Chronology.
xiv 209p hardback with mauve jacket, ex school library, nice clean copy
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A Third Gallery of Portraits.
vi 365p hardback, burgundy cloth, upper half of spine missing, binding strong, pages clean and ...
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A Thirst for Glory. The Life of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith.
xx 261p hardback, black cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, some very light wear to ...
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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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A Triduum Sourcebook.
202p paperback, cover black as a consequence of some DIY action (?), text clean, very good
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A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky: The Diary of Frances Peter.
xxxii 222p hardback, fresh dustjacket, with illustrations, comprehensive index, as new, never used
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A Versatile Professor. Reminiscences of the Rev. Edward Nares, D.D.
xi 308p burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard in place, plates, ...
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