Books on Biography
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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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Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist.
viii 131p cloth, worn dustjacket, some pencil marks, original
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Lavoisier: Mémoires d'une Révolution.
469p thick paperback, colour portrait to cover, excellent clean copy, no traces of use, no names or ...
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Cyprian. His Life, His Times, His Work.
636p original black cloth, from a Cambridge college library with stickers and bookplate, first ...
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The Charm of Rossetti.
48p unusual softcover, beautiful, decorated parchment type paper showing padded square with ...
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Clerihews by Various Hands, Edited by John Waynflete, B.A. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged.
small unpaginated oblong format paperback, beige card cover lettered in green, slight spotting to ...
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My Recollections of Wellington College.
168p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine & cover, frontispiece, appendices, index, nice fresh copy, ...
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Cattle Car to Kazakhstan: A Woman Doctor's Triumph of Courage in World War II.
xiv 349p hardback with fresh dustjacket, excellent copy clean and tight, related publicity ...
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Flourishing. Letters 1928 - 1946.
xxxiii 755p hardback, black cloth, clipped dustjacket showing some light surface wear, pages and ...
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Album Borges.
234p full burgundy calf binding with gilt rules to spine, preserved in its sepia printed slipcase, ...
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Erinnerungen von Frau Elsa Bernstein. (Likely a copy of the original typescript of Das Leben als Drama. Erinnerungen an Theresienstadt.)
this is a photocopy 73 pages, from a typescript, starting "Nach 14 Tagen ging der Polentransport ...
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The Castrato and his Wife.
xiv 312p hardback with illustrated dustjacket, gilt lettering to spine, extensive notes and ...
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Arnold Schoenberg.
238p paperback, black & gilt cover with portrait, like new condition, no significant wear, binding ...
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Coligny: The Earlier Life of the Great Huguenot. Transl. A H Holmden.
xxxvi 351p brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, emblem to cover, appendix, cover slightly dulled, ...
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Adam's Brood: Hopes and Fears of a Biologist.
223p cloth with white jacket, very good condition, first edition
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Memories and Musings of an Octogenarian Biologist.
248p hardback, dustjacket, as new, signed copy
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Louis XIV (14).
362p green cloth, large format, frontispiece, plates, clean pages, a very good copy from a ...
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Walt Disney
176p square paperback, pink cover, illustrated throughout, very good condition, minimal wear, ...
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Tibère et l’Héritage d’Auguste. Troisième édition.
355p bound in firm blue cloth, printed with large margins, very good copy from a Cambridge college ...
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Obituary of Edwyn Robert Bevan (1870 - 1943). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 29.
12p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, fresh and clean copy
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Thomas Bewick and his Pupils.
xviii 232p superb half calf binding with floral paper to boards = endpapers, five bands to spine, ...
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Rai Bahadur Dr Shiv Ram Kashyap, B A (Cantab), S Sc (Panjab), FASB, IES (1882 - 1934.
5p short offprint, grey paper cover, portrait, slight crease, still well preserved
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T H Huxley: Scientist, Humanist and Educator.
xxii 330p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 12 halftone plates, bibliography, ...
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Matthew Arnold and his Poetry.
pale green cloth with floral décor to spine, name in gilt to front cover, portrait frontispiece, a ...
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Diario (1777 - 1781). A Cura di Giampaolo Dossena.
xxxiii 147p paperback with colour jacket, fresh and clean copy, very good condition
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Memoirs of the Marquise de la Rochejaquelein.
xxxii 338p original terracotta cloth fresh and tight, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, a nice ...
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B K Anand: Easy to Admire, Difficult to Emulate.
x 115p hardback, purple jacket, many plates throughout, printed on art paper, author dedication to ...
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Cairo to Riyadh Diary.
233p hardcover, first edition with unclipped dustjacket protected by cellophane wrapper, b&w ...
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Cairo to Riyadh Diary.
233p hardcover, first edition with worn dustjacket protected by old transparent wrapper, b&w ...
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Catalogue of the Papers of Roundell Palmer (1812 - 1895) First Earl of Selborne.
56p slim dark blue volume with gilt lettering to spine, a very well preserved copy.
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Land der Väter und Verräter.
379p paperback, b&w cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, binding firm, pages ...
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Le Juif de service.
161p white paperback in excellent condition, uncreased cover, appreciative author dedication to ...
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Der Heilige Augustinus. 3 Volumes.
360p 480p 938p 3 vols bound in 2, half calf binding a bit worn and aged but holding well, spine ...
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Kafkas Welt: Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern.
687p very heavy and large volume, opulent production, illustrated throughout, with dustjacket, ...
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Prager Profile: Vergessene Autoren im Schatten Kafkas.
488p hardback with fresh dustjacket, name to endpaper, many plates, excellent copy: Rudolf Fuchs, ...
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Life in a Northamptonshire Market During the Great War 1914 - 1918. The Diary of John Coleman Binder, Grocer, Baker and Town Councillor in Oundle.
268p large format paperback, glossy tan cover with b&w photograph, very good condition, little to ...
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Dinuzulu. The Death of the House of Shaka.
305p first edition hardcover with leopard print dustjacket, excellent condition although the jacket ...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln.
xix 379p grey cloth, gilt floral motif to spine, endpaper attached to front board using adhesive, ...
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The Loneliest Man in the World: Rudolf Hess in Spandau.
285p paperback volume with black illustrated cover, a nice clean copy, with plates, spine a little ...
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About Bateson: Essays on Gregory Bateson
250p paperback with brown card cover designed by Ann Gold, name to endpaper, nice copy, clean and ...
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Leonora Christina Grevinde Ulfeldts Levend. Til Almenlaesning Fremstillet.
254p original paperback, paper cover detaching, "Gyldendal Circulating Library, Hanover Square", ...
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Emlékalbum 1944-bol.
118p paperback, grey cover, fresh clean copy, with illustrations, very good indeed
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