Books on Biography
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Alexandre Dumas à la Maison d'Or: Souvenirs de la Vie Littéraire.
361p original paperback rebound in plain cloth binding, title label to spine, a nice tight copy of ...
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Alexandre III. Étude sur la Conception du Pouvoir Pontifical dans sa Pensée et dans son Oeuvre.
416p hardback, privately rebound in tan cloth with morocco leather spine, gilt lettering to spine, ...
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Alfred de Vigny. Nouvelle Contribution à sa Biographie Intellectuelle.
iv 300p original paperback, square and sharp, very well preserved, clean and tight and without name ...
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Alfred Lord Tennyson. A Memoir, by his Son.
xxiv 929p green cloth, some marking/lightening to cloth, foxing to extremities, overall a very ...
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Alfred Nobel. Dynamite King. Architect of Peace.
323p black cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, yellowing to edges, binding firm, portrait, ...
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Alice Stopford Green. A Passionate Historian.
116p yellow cloth, bright gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, various plates, name in ink, to ...
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All About Albert Schweitzer.
127p hardback, clipped dustjacket in good condition overall, plates, clean text, firm binding, ...
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All My Cats.
96p hardback, tan cloth with glossy illustrated jacket, like new condition, no noticeable wear, ...
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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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Allan Dwan. The Last Pioneer.
200p hardback, black boards with beige jacket, very good condition, a bit of wear to jacket edges, ...
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Alma Mahler, or, The Art of Being Loved.
162p hardback with black dustjacket, a fresh and clean copy, with plates, no names or stamps
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Almanach de Gotha. Annuaire Généalogique, Diplomatique et Statistique 1914.
1254p rebound in bright red library cloth, perforating library stamps to portraits, a very tight ...
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Alojzije Stepinac. Hrvatski Kardinal.
939p paperback, glossy turquoise and white cover with photograph, very good condition, minimal ...
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Alonso de Castillo Solorzano.
144p green cloth with gilt lettering, nice fresh copy, a few pencil marks, very good
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Alter ego Stalina.
302p hardback, laminated boards faint green, a fresh and tight copy, with many illustrations ...
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American Film Makers Today.
ix 165p large cloth, dustjacket, index, bibliography, illustrations, on various actors, very good
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American Letters: 1927 - 1947.
xxx 215p cream hardback with olive dustjacket, appears as new and unread, binding tight, text clean ...
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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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An Abridgement of Mr. Baxter's History of his Life and Times. With an account of many others of those Worthy Ministers who were ejected, after the Restauration of King Charles the Second.
[xxxii] 700p plus a few pages of index, expertly rebound in plain cloth with title label to spine, ...
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An Account of the Life and Letters of Cicero.
xii 484p original cloth with loss to spine, from a Cambridge college library, text clean, binding a ...
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An Account of the Life of that Ancient Servant of Jesus Christ, John Richardson. Giving a Relation of many of his Trials and Exercises in his Youth, and his Services in the Work of the Ministry in England, Ireland, America, etc.
viii 238p original blind-stamped cloth, tiny letters to spine, no other library signs, clean text, ...
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An Account of the Life of that Celebrated Actress, Mrs. Susannah Maria Cibber... Also the two remarkable and Romantic Trials between Theophilus Cibber and William Sloper.
56p original red cloth with black and gilt ornaments, portrait frontispiece, text printed in red ...
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An Adventure in Ireland. Miscellany May 1980.
2 page extract, for sale is the entire 24p issue including articles by John Rothenstein and Graham ...
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An Ambassador's Memoirs. 1914 - 1917.
xv 945p large hardback, navy boards with large gilt crest, very good condition, minimal wear, ...
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An American in Victorian Cambridge. Charles Astor Bristed's 'Five Years in an English University'
422p bright blue and yellow paperback, appears unread
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An American Princess. The Remarkable Life of Marguerite Chapin Caetani.
409p hardback, navy cloth with illustrated jacket, new condition, no noticeable wear, binding ...
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An Apology for His Life.
xv 302p brown cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, single ring stain ...
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An Appetite for Life. The Education of a Young Diarist 1924 - 1927.
173p yellow paperback, a well cared for copy from the library of the late Cambridge Nobel Laureate ...
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An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades.
x 265p paperback, bright yellow cover, like new condition, little to no wear, binding tight, pages ...
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An Autobiographical Study.
137p green cloth fresh, gilt lettering to spine, photographic frontispiece, second impression, nice ...
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An Autobiography.
167p paperback, green card cover, text and cover a little dusty, a very good copy, spine a little ...
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An Autobiography. Introd Michael Sadleir.
xxviii 432p 15cm blue cloth, frontispiece, nice fresh copy, spine dull
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An Autobiography. Volume 2.
201p paperback, very good used condition, binding firm, name to endpaper, pages clear and bright, a ...
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An Ecclesiastical Biography, Containing the Lives of Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines, Interspersed with notices of Heretics and Schismatics.
8 volumes in full calf, small format, library bookplate and shelfmark, only one title label ...
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An English Governess in the Great War: The Secret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp.
280p first edition, as new, dustjacket, hardback, excellent condition
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An Englishwoman in the USSR.
325p green cloth with gilt lettering, inscription to front endpaper, index, very good condition
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An Essex Tribute. Essays presented to Frederick G Emmison as a tribute to his life and work for Essex history and archives.
268p blue hardback, excellent copy with protective plastic jacket (removable) as new
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An Historian in Peace and War. The Diaries of Harold Temperley.
xiii 592p large format hardback, clean, firm binding, an excellent copy, new
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Living Authors of Great-Britain. (1762)
40p paperback, very good
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Anatomie und Chirurgie des Schädels, insbesondere der Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenkrankheiten nach Ibn al-Quff.
viii 160p mustard yellow hardback, cloth sunned to edges, excellent copy, clean and fresh, German ...
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Ancestors of an Industry.
165p cloth with black/white dustjacket, minor shelfwear, name to front endpaper, binding firm, ...
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And His Charming Lady.
240p hardback with dustjacket, plates, a very fresh and tight copy, dustjacket not price-clipped, ...
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André Breton. Essai.
358p paperback with clean pages, portrait to cover, spine beginning to detach, glue failing, this ...
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Andrei Belyi.
282p large format paperback with original printed wrappers, largely un-cut copy, excellent condition
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Andrew Carnegie Sesquincentenary Gathering, Dunfermline, August 1985: Conference, Discussion Groups, Sesquincentenary Dinner.
138p white paperback, plates, very good, as new, ink lettering to spine
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Andrew Lang. A Critical Biography with a Short-Title Bibliography of the Works of Andrew Lang.
265p blue cloth first edition, portrait frontispiece, nice fresh copy with some light spotting to ...
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Anecdotes, Observations and Characters of Books and Men Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope and other Eminent Persons of His Time.
308p large format, blue cloth, fresh copy, well preserved, without fault
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'Anglo-Catholic in Religion'. T S Eliot and Christianity.
xiii 325p paperback, a fresh copy, clean, firm binding, in excellent condition, like new
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