Books on Biography
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Werner Näf, 7 Juni 1894 - 15 März 1959. Ansprachen an der Trauerfeier
32p slim booklet, grey paper jacket, library stamp, library stamps, letter by editor inserted
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Year Book of the Royal Society.
471p maroon cloth with gilt lettering, pages unmarked, binding firm, index, as new
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Yearbook. Providence High School, Burbank. Esprit Volume 17, 1975.
144p large format hardback, tan cover with camera to front, many personal inscriptions to endpaper, ...
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Yearbook. Providence High School, Burbank. Esprit Volume 18, 1976. Pathways to the Present (Bicentennial Edition).
160p large format hardback, cloth cover with covered wagon to front, illustrated throughout, very ...
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Features of the Church Fathers.
95p terracotta cloth, nice firm copy, clean and very little used
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Poland: A Self-Interview.
16p stapled booklet, well produced, library stamp, uncommon title
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The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. Biologists.
182p hardback, dustjacket present, illustrated, glossary and index, a fresh copy, clean and unread, ...
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Autobiography and Education.
142p paperback, orange cover, text reproduced from typescript, stapled, with illustrations, edited ...
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Autobiography in Education.
vi 182p green paperback, binding firm, text clean and bright, foxing to page ends, very good ...
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Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent.
x 210p hardback, fresh dustjacket, with plates, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, very good ...
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The Little Sister - The Story of Mary Ann Evans who became George Eliot. Told for the older Child.
44p tall booklet, white cover with portrait, light dust traces, a clean copy, uncommon title
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In the Footsteps of Borrow and Fitzgerald.
262p blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, weak inner hinges, very faint foxing, tipped in ...
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Caesar as Man of Letters.
114p purple cloth with gilt lettering, front board lightly scratched, near fine condition, from a ...
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Frank Ezra Adcock, 1886 - 1968. A Memoir Prepared by Direction of the Council of King's College, Cambridge.
32p sewn booklet, excellent condition, with frontispiece
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The Clergy in American Life and Letters.
bright and fresh burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, top edge gilt, "presentation ...
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Mary Webb. A Short Study of Her Life and Work.
189p green cloth, foxing to page edges and endpapers, otherwise a clean and firm copy, first edition
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The Matriculation Albums of the University of Glasgow.
xv 607p very large and heavy volume, large format original cloth firm and tight, text largely or ...
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Gold Coast Boy: A Memoir.
xiv 245p hardback, laminated boards with boy portrait to front, excellent copy, as new, no names or ...
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Berthold Simonsohn. Biographie des jüdischen Sozialpädagogen und Juristen (1912 - 1978).
420p fresh green paperback, white lettering to cover, tight and clean book, with plates, as new
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Au Temps de Guillaume Apollinaire.
241p library re-bound as red hardback, small volume, a very good copy from a Cambridge college ...
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The last days of Alexander the Great according to the Byzantine Alexanderpoem. (= Alexander de Grote in de Middeleeuwen: Symposium Interfacultaire Werkgroep Mediaevistiek, Groningen 12 - 15 october 1977)
40p yellow large format card covers, typescript, hand written corrections on a few pages, very good
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The Salt of My Life.
277p blue cloth worn and soiled and discoloured and with Mudie's label, exterior poor, pages clean, ...
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Stalin - Iosif V Dzugasvili (1879 - 1953) Un Protagonista degli Anni che Sconvolsero il Mondo.
paperback, blue illustrated cover, excellent clean copy, spine not creased, many ...
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The Age of Ideology. The 19th Century Philosophers. Basic Writings.
283p paperback, white and green illustrated cover, good condition, light wear to cover edges and ...
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Istorija dorevoljucionnoj Rossii v dnevnikach i vospominanijach. (History of Pre-Revolutionary Russia in Diaries and Memoirs, Volume 5, Part 2)
544p brown cloth with gilt lettering, well preserved, single volume, a comprehensive ...
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Founder of Pakistan: Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1876 - 1948).
30p stapled booklet, large square format, with many illustrations, transparent film to cover has ...
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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz.
282p large cloth with blue dustjacket, A4 format, frontispiece, index, bibliography, many colour ...
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Le Grand Meaulnes. Introd Robert Gibson. Unabridged Text.
cxxxv 196p brown hardback with blue title label to front, very good with frontispiece, other ...
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Voltaire.
278p brown cloth, frontispiece, from a Cambridge college library, second edition
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Wellington, Being An Account of the Life and Achievements of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
378p black cloth, frontispiece, 15 other halftone plates, index, light foxing to page edges, very ...
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Sir John Parkington and National Education.
37p peach stapled pamphlet with card cover, from a Cambridge college library, pages clean with ...
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The Inventor of Stereo. The Life and Works of Alan Dower Blumlein.
xxi 421p paperback, white cover with photograph, very good condition, no significant wear, binding ...
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Donald Gray: Headmaster, Bootham School, York 1927 - 1943.
90p blue cloth fresh, frontispiece, 9 halftone plates, very good
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La Cita en Buenos Aires: Saga de Una Gran Familia Sefaradi.
373p large format paperback, illustrated cover, many illustrations throughout, excellent fresh copy
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King of the Lobby.
212p hardback, illustrated dustjacket, black lettering to spine, various illustrations, an ...
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Medicine, General History, Vol 2: Joseph Lister; Malaria and Mosquitoes Forty Years on; On the Use of the Ophthalmoscope in Diseases of the Nervous System of the Kidneys etc: Collection of Offprints.
approx 200p large green library cloth with gilt lettering to spine, custom binding, collection of ...
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Kierkegaard: His Life and Thought.
x 210 pages black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, name in ink, binding firm, text ...
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The Age of Erasmus.
303p hardback, burgundy cloth, spine a little dull, binding tight, pages clean, first edition, ...
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The Third and Forth Generation. Volumes 1 and 2. Complete Set.
viii 186p iii 250p blue cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, plates, illustrations, some ...
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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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Homenaje Universitario a Dámaso Alonso, reunido por los Estudiantes de Filología Románica.
358p cloth, dustjacket (yellowed), frontispiece, bibliography, indices, excellent copy
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Gerhardt Domagk. Lebenserinnerungen in Bildern und Texten.
114p large paperback, blue cover, illustrations throughout, very good
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Mein Lebensabend.
364p hardback with cloth spine, cover a little worn with little dent to front, spine dull, text ...
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Mateo Aleman.
153p paperback with orange wrapper, nice clean copy, first printing, very good
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Uomini del Novecento.
182p small format paperback, faint green cover, a few reviews inserted, cover a little dusty, text ...
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Celibate Marriages in Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography: The Lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa, Andronikos and Athanasia, and Galaktion and Episteme.
xii 340p hardback, blue boards, gilt lettering, NEW
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L'Atelier d'Ingres. Souvenirs.
vi 290p bound in plain blue cloth recently expertly repaired, paper shows signs of age, library ...
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Guilielmus Amesius. Zijn Leven en Werken.
ix 234p fragile paperback, binding uncertain, housed in grey card box for protection, could include ...
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