Books on Biography
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Nel nome del niente: Dal '68 all'80, ovvero come si uccide una speranza.
306p thick paperback, still a well preserved copy, with many illustrations, light wear, some pages ...
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The Rebel Generation. Transl M W Hoper.
xiv 388p blue cloth with blue top edge, also includes newspaper article by "A Woman Doctor" ...
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The Life of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Parts 1 - 2. By a Layman. 2nd Edition, revised and enlarged.
set of 2 volumes vii 861p blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover, frontispiece portrait with ...
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Science, Medicine and Dissent: Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804) Papers celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Priestley.
105p large purple paperback, very good condition, little used
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Tar: A Midwest Childhood. A Critical Text.
xx 257p hardback, moss-green cloth with jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, ...
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I Miei Anni con Freud. Diario 1912 - 1913.
220p paperback, white cover with bright yellow illustration, very good condition, minimal wear, ...
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Cold Spring in Russia.
283p green morocco leather style hardback, gilt lettering, light library markings, a fresh and ...
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Cold Spring in Russia.
x 283p hardback, fresh green dustjacket (protected), excellent copy of the first edition, no names ...
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Variazioni Manzoniane.
95p brown paperback with illustration to front cover, binding tight, spine square, minimal wear, ...
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The Life of Miss Anne Catley Celebrated Singing Performer of the Last Century.
78p red buckram a little dusty, frontispiece portrait of Miss Catley, edges un-cut, bookseller note ...
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Oscar Browning. A Biography.
x 209p burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt detail to cover, illustrations throughout, ...
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Trois Figures de la Renaissance: Pierre Arétin, Guichardin, Benvenuto Cellini.
333p rebound in green library cloth, gilt lettering and small library shelf label to spine, ...
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Apollinaire et Cendrars. (Archives des Lettres Modernes, No. 103)
65p booklet, seems unused, a fresh copy, excellent, like new = Archives Guillaume Apollinaire 2
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Agnes Arber, 1879 - 1960. Orbituary Notice.
12 page orbituary notice with frontispiece and bibliography, very good, library stamp, additional ...
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Captain Lewis Moysey, 1869 - 1918.
short offprint, white paper cover, library stamp, very good
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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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The Architectural Association. List of Members, 1971
213p paperback, brown card cover, includes period advertisement, very well preserved
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Old Friends and Some Acquaintances.
189p original blindstamped burgundy cloth, binding a little rubbed but tight, pages clean, includes ...
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Obituary of Edward Armstrong (1846 - 1928). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 14.
10p sewn paper cover, few pages uncut, very good
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A Course Through Life, Memoirs of an Australian Economist.
117p cream paperback with card cover, little use, pages clean with index, printed from typescript, ...
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Giants in Dressing Gowns.
176p black cloth with red lettering to spine, cover is slightly dust spotted, pictorial jacket a ...
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The Life of Thomas Arnold DD. Abridged and Newly Edited with Notes.
xiv 372p blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and vine pattern on spine, publisher's blindstamp to ...
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Artmann, H C, Dichter: Ein Album mit alten Bildern und neuen Texten. Herausgegeben von Jochen Jung.
117p large format cloth, dustjacket, many illustrations, poems, hardly used, a fresh and clean ...
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Pavel Axelrod and the Development of Menshevism.
ix 419p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, likely never used, name or ...
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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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Haileybury 1908 - 1961. The Story of Haileybury College from 1908 to 1942, and of Haileybury and Imperial Service College from 1942 to 1961.
xii 219p hardback, maroon cloth with beige jacket, good used copy, jacket tanned with some marks, ...
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The Ashdown Diaries. Volume 1: 1988 - 1997.
xvii 638p paperback, minor wear to cover, signed to title page
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The Rise of Françoise Scarron.
304p hardback with illustrated dustjacket, edges a bit dusty, very good, first edition
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Madame de La Fayette: Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres.
viii 292p burgundy cloth, appendices, bibliography, indices, fresh and tight copy of the first ...
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G H Lewis. A Life.
xiii 368p hardback, black cloth with white jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, light pencil ...
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Frederick the Great. The Magnificent Enigma.
715p large hardback, maroon cloth with gilt seal and lettering, illustrated jacket, very good ...
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Occasional Addresses 1893 - 1916.
x 194p plum cloth, nice firm condition, pages fresh, first edition, several newspaper articles (a ...
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Henry Horatio Dixon, 1869 - 1953.
18p offprint, obituary, grey paper cover, stapled, with portrait, includes bibliography, very good
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Sir Joseph Whitworth. 'The World's Best Mechanician'.
xiii 338p paperback, dark red cover with photo portrait, very good condition, a little light wear ...
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The Pattern of Financial Asset Ownership. Wisconsin Individuals, 1949.
180p orange cloth, from a Cambridge library, hardly used
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Aubrey's Brief Lives. Edited From the Original Manuscripts and With an Introduction by Oliver Lawson Dick.
341p hardback, scarlet cloth without jacket, good condition, light wear to cover edges, some marks ...
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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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Woman and Nation. Special Issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.
Single issue of this journal, approx 160p, blue card cover, light library markings, papers by Betsy ...
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Newton ou le Triomphe de l'Alchimie.
223p paperback, pink cover, a bright copy, like new
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George Gascoigne.
xviii 236p hardback, black cloth with yellow jacket, very good condition, light wear to jacket ...
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Jane Austen 1775 - 1817.
[24]p stapled, illustrated card cover, nice fresh copy, with plates, : Catalogue of an Exhibition ...
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The Road to Glory. A Novel. Third Impression.
349p green cloth, title page shows tear in the centre, very good condition
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Charles Darwin. The Story of the Amateur Naturalist Who Created a Scientific Revolution and Changed the World.
xxvi 326p hardback, terracotta cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, little to no ...
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Take One Step.
320p hardback, dustjacket (old traces of adhesive to inside jacket), library stamp, very good and ...
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Rahmat Ali. A Biography.
xxxiii 576p yellow hardback with laminated cover, b&w photographic plates and folding map, ...
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The Shadow Commander. Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions.
290p hardback, black cloth with dark jacket, like new condition, no significant wear, binding ...
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Leven en Werken van Cornelis Adrianus Pekelharing 1848 - 1922.
217p navy cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, frontispiece, name in ink to endpaper, clean, ...
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