Books on Biography
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Rosa Luxemburg.
lxxii 351p solid paperback, illustrated cover with RL scene, spine not creased, no names or stamps, ...
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James Dean: A Biography.
149p period paperback with James Dean photograph to cover, a very well preserved, no names or ...
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Obituary of Charles Francis Bastable (1855-1945). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy Vol 31.
4p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, cover a little soiled
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Victoria and Abdul. The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant.
xxv 228p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, as new, faint pencil note to endpaper, with ...
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Bell's Miniature Series of Painters: G.F. Watts, R.A.
59p brown cloth with stamped white decorations, frontispiece with tissue guard, tissue guard ...
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About Bateson: Essays on Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson.
250p paperback with brown card cover, clean copy, binding tight, no faults, well preserved
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John Keble. A Study in Limitations.
400p large hardback with purple jacket, nice clean copy, frontispiece, bookplate, fresh and clean
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Charles Baudelaire. Exposition organisée pour le centenaire des Fleurs du Mal.
vii 124p 12 plates, square format paperback, portrait to front, many illustrations, very good, ...
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Život Je Kratak San. Uspomene, 1910 - 1985.
404p paperback, colourful glossy cover with flaps, very good condition, minimal wear to cover ...
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William Faulkner's Legacy. "What Shadow, What Stain, What Mark".
255p hardback with black and green photographic dustjacket, fine condition, as new, bibliography, ...
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The Life of General de Sonis, from his Papers and Correspondence by Mgr Baunard, Rector of the Catholic Faculties of Lille. Translated by the Lady Herbert.
xviii 345p blue cloth a little worn and aged and dusty, front endpaper removed, still a very useful ...
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The Characters of Love: A Study in the Literature of Personality.
295p fresh and tight paperback, excellent copy, detailed studies of the theme of love in Troilus ...
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The Kipling Conundrum. (Encounter, January 1965, Volume 25, No 6)
96p journal with green and white card cover, for sale as a complete issue, little used, pages clean ...
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Utrillo's Mother.
246p hardback with white illustrated laminated jacket, first edition, pages clean, excellent ...
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Een Trans - atlantische Liefde. Brieven aan Nelson Algren, 1947 - 1964. Bezorgd en van Aantekeningen Voorzien door Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir. Uit het Frans Vertaald Door Marianne Gossije.
618p hardback with purple pictorial jacket, as new, pages clean with footnotes and central plates, ...
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Reflections on Beckett (Irish Arts Review, Winter 2005)
6p article very well illustrated with Minihan's black and white photographs of Beckett, for sale is ...
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George Borrow. A Sermon Preached in Norwich Cathedral on July 6, 1913.
12p slim pamphlet, brown cover, disbound, notepaper (Deanery, Norwich) "Isn't it fun about ...
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Charles Darwin.
xi 290p hardback, red dustjacket present, text clean throughout, book has been very well cared for
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Charles Darwin. Evolution by Natural Selection.
xi 290p green cloth fresh, index, many plates, first edition, very good indeed
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Borstal Boy.
379p white paperback with red titles, cover bright, pages tanned, binding firm, first paperback ...
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Memo From: David O Selznick.
606p thick period paperback, red edges, first Avon printing, with illustrations, this copy with ...
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Ritter Peter Anton von Verschaffelt als Architekt.
84p grey card cover, stapled, staples rusted, spine with fraying to top and bottom, title ...
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Professor Roman Dyboski: Founder of English Studies in Poland.
121p cream paperback, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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Great Golfers. Their Methods at a Glance.
xii 480p large hardback, moss-green cloth with gilt figure of golfer, very good condition, light ...
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V. G. Belinskii v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov.
760p original cloth with well preserved pink dustjacket, some plates, well presented fresh copy: ...
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Bell's Miniature Series of Painters: Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
75p blue cloth cloth with stamped white decorations, frontispiece with tissue guard, shelfwear, ...
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Virginia Woolf. A Biography. 2 Volumes in One.
xiii 214p, ix 316p two volumes bound in one hardback volume, dustjacket (somewhat tired) present, ...
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Danton. A Study.
380p small format, blue cloth with floral design, frontispiece, a nice and clean copy, on spine: ...
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The Lives of Annibale and Agostino Carracci.
xix 122p hardback, brown cloth with beige jacket, good condition, light wear to jacket, binding ...
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D L Moody. Innovator, Evangelist, World-Changer.
324p hardback, steel-grey cloth with b&w jacket, like new condition, no internal wear, pages clean ...
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Defiant Joy. The Remarkable Life and Impact of G K Chesterton. Signed.
xviii 318p paperback, colour portrait cover, like new condition, minimal wear, pages clean and ...
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Camera Straniera. Alberto Giacometti e lo Spazio.
59p sky blue paperback, binding tight, hinges tight, pages clean and bright, in excellent condition ...
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La Canottiera di Bossi.
105p green paperback with illustration to front cover, front cover slightly creased, binding tight, ...
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The Rehnquist Court: A Retrospective.
296p white cloth, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, as new
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Lettere di M Pietro Bembo, Cardinale, Vols 1 - 5.
379p 413p 495p 326p 498p rebound in plain black library cloth, set of 5 volumes, gilt lettering and ...
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Die Absorption. Gesammelte Abhandlungen über Kolloide und Absorption, mit Unterstützung des Verfassers neu herausgegeben von Dr W Ostwald.
xi 548p rebound in plain library cloth, portrait frontispiece, cloth binding with defect as spine ...
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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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Exercice d'un enterré vif (Juin 1940-Août 1944).
220p original paperback, first edition, this copy entirely un-cut, never read, Librairie Droz ...
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Wilhelm Bender (1911 - 1944). Biographie und musikalisches Werk.
approx 60p spiral bound, A4 format, with illustrations, uncommon item
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Masaryk's Path and Legacy. Funeral Oration at the Burial of the President-Liberator. 21 September 1937.
25p library copy, some faint pencil marks to the text, original grey card cover (TGM) with floral ...
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Catharine and Craufurd Tait. Wife and Son of Archibald Campbell Archbishop of Canterbury. A Memoir.
640p black cloth with gilt rules, 2 plates, old inscriptions, binding weak, text clean, a few pages ...
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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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C. G. Jung.
227p hardback with illustration to front cover, transparent dustjacket present with text, ...
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George Eliot: Her Mind and Her Art.
203p paperback edition, blue and white cover with portrait of Eliot and designed by Kenneth ...
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Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist.
viii 131p cloth, worn dustjacket, some pencil marks, original
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