Books on Biography
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Biografia del Marchese di Sade.
166p large paperback, illustrated cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, first edition, ...
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J S Bach. (Musiker-Biographien, Band 15)
119p original paperback, a fresh and clean copy in very good condition
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Robert Oppenheimer, 1904 - 1967. Essay in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.
16p essay, for sale is the entire issue of the proceedings, grey card cover, including a number of ...
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Essays Civil and Moral. Advancement of Learning. Novum Organum, etc.
xii 493p olive cloth still quite fresh and tight, frontispiece with tissue guard detaching, clean ...
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Nobels. Nobel Laureates photographed by Peter Badge.
620p enormous hardback, very good purple dustjacket with the lightest signes of use, almost as new, ...
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Vospominania o V A Engel'gardte.
333p hardback with faint green dustjacket, many illustrations, very good copy, with dedication by ...
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Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen. A Series of Articles Reprinted by Permission Principally from the National Review.
453p original brown blindstamped cloth very fresh, gilt lettering to spine bright, binding holding ...
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Edwardian Rye from Contemporary Photographs.
55p white stapled booklet, many b/w photographs, very good condition
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Ranulf de Glanvill and his Children.
21p essay in Cambridge Law Journal, for sale is the complete issue, including a paper by D E C Yale ...
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Profile of Horace.
x 142p paperback, grey and green cover, good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, spine sunned, ...
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Samuel Beckett. Una Biografia.
740p thick and firm paperback with blue cover, excellent fresh copy, no names or stamps, never ...
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The Life of General, the Right Honourable Sir David Baird, Bart. 2 Volumes.
448p 442p frontispiece, folding map (Cairo/Suez), half calf with marbled paper boards, very good ...
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The Life of Sir Isaac Pitman, Inventor of Phonography.
xi 392p bright red cloth, gilt lettering and portrait to front and spine, excellent copy, first ...
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Will the Real Christopher Marlowe Please Stand Up? The Case for Christopher Marlowe's Authorship of the Works Attributed to William Shakespeare.
45p stapled photocopied booklet, very good condition, minimal wear, pages clear and bright, good ...
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Helen of Tus: Her Odyssey from Idaho to Iran.
xii 204p large format volume, square format, many plates throughout, also in colour, a tight and ...
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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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Abitare la Battaglia. La Storia di Giuseppe Verdi.
xi 336p large paperback, blue cover, one corner with minor red wine (?) marking, still a very good ...
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Bell's Miniature Series of Painters: Sir John Everett Millais.
64p brown cloth cloth with stamped white decorations, frontispiece with tissue guard, tissue guard ...
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Margery Kempe. A Mixed Life.
xviii 212p white paperback with illustration to front cover, binding tight, spine square, pages ...
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Professor Aleksandr Chaianov, 1888 - 1937. (Professor Alexander Chayanov)
304p hardback grey boards with black lettering to front, with many plates, very well preserved, ...
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Faenza: Bollettino del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. Vol 39 Nos 3, 4, & 5. Onoranze a Gaetano Ballardini.
[168]p brown card wrapper, half-tone portrait frontispiece, 32 articles including personal tributes ...
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Dr Balston at Eton.
xii 110p black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, appendices, bibliography, notes, ...
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The Immutability of God in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar.
229p blue/black cloth with dustjacket, inscription to front endpaper, binding firm, index, bookshop ...
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Honoré de Balzac. His Life and Writings.
312p dark blue cloth, decorative gilt titles to spine, name in ink, minor foxing to endpapers ...
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Passages in the Life of a Radical.
368p hardback with red and white dustjacket, tear to jacket along front edge of spine, otherwise ...
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Umanità. Pagine autobiografiche raccordate da Daria Banfi Malaguzzi.
large paperback, very well preserved, with plates, very good
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Per Libera nos a Malo. A 40 Anni dal Libro di Luigi Meneghello.
215p paperback, grey cover with colour photograph, like new condition, no noticeable wear, pages ...
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George Crabbe.
245p hardback with brown jacket, unmarked, an excellent copy, binding tight
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The Tragedy of the Caesars. A Study of the Characters of the Caesars of the Julian and Claudian Houses.
671p cloth, large volume, from a Cambridge college library, clean pages, plates, appendix, a firm ...
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Sarah Bernhardt. First Edition.
162p black cloth, frontispiece with tissue guard, corners bumped, fraying to head and foot of ...
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France of the French.
x 271p hardback, green cloth with gilt title and crest, very good condition, light wear ...
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Father of the Man. Memoirs of Chesire, Lancashire and Oxford 1874 - 1898.
116p hardback with illustrated cover, matching jacket a little worn with small rips to top and ...
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Jack London: The Man, the Writer, the Rebel.
206p hardback with dustjacket, illustrations, index, as new
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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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Madame de Maintenon and Saint-Cyr.
240p cloth, green pictorial cover, dustjacket, from a Cambridge college library, hardly used, pages ...
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Lieutenant Edward Sneyd, Royal Navy, of Keele Hall, Staffordshire. (The Mariner's Mirror, Volume 44, No 3, August 1958)
pp240 - 244 sewn offprint with white paper cover, hardly used with appendix and references, very ...
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The UCLA Oral History Program: Catalog of the Collection. Third Edition.
xv 399p hardback, blue cloth fresh with gilt lettering to front, excellent clean copy, as new
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The Life of P T Barnum. Written by Himself.
xxxvii 404p paperback, illustrated cover, like new condition, no significant wear, spine not ...
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Gente Italiana in California.
254p large format hardback, dark cloth blind-stamped with gilt highlights now dull, spine and ...
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Victor Hugo.
14op white paperback, pages clean with plates and maps, French language, very good
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Un Grand Provincial: Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu.
xvi 549p large paperback, tan cover with red and black lettering, good condition, light wear ...
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George Meredith. First Edition.
44p yellow stapled booklet, stain to boards, pages unmarked, very good condition
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Wittgenstein.
145p paperback with black illustrated paper jacket, preliminary copy with publisher's card stating ...
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Fifty Sounds.
345p white paperback, high quality folding card cover, excellent copy, as new, second edition
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Philippine Pagans. The Autobiography of three Ifugaos.
xxi 271p library re-bound in plain blue cloth, light signs of use and age, text clean but a few ...
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