Books on Biography
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Obituary of Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 15.
20p sewn paper cover, notes, short bibliography, very good
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Obituary of William Robert Scott (1868 - 1940). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 26.
11p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, very good
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Paulus. Zwölf farbige Bilder aus dem 9. bis 13. Jahrhundert.
approx 48p hardback, dustjacket, colour plates, very good
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Prem Narain Srivastava - An Appreciation, 1927 - 1955.
2 pages, short notice, yellow card cover, very good, library stamp
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Robert Bridges, 1844 - 1930.
vii 131p cloth, clean & firm, from a Cambridge college library
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Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1235 - 1253.
36p pamphlet with frontispiece, very good copy
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The Adventures of a Little Donkey (1815).
48p card cover, illustrations: autobiography of a donkey
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The Beautiful Years.
250p orange and white paperback with scuffed card cover, first publisher's edition, pages clean, ...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Volume 2 ONLY.
719p light blue cloth cover, spine with floral carpet design a bit dull, good condition throughout
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The Life and Teachings of Friedrich Engels.
99p green cloth and dustjacket, slight stain to tops of pages, otherwise clean unmarked pages, very ...
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The Torch in my Ear. Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.
371p paperback with purple cover, pages clean, very good
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727 - 1787.
[58]p 15cm, card wrapper, short biographical memoir, bibliography, 24 repro plates, also includes ...
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A Bedouin Boyhood.
175p hardback with dustjacket, tape marks where sleeve protecting dustjacket was held in place, ...
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A Brave Fight, Being the Narrative of the Many Trials of Master William Lee, Inventor.
vi 224p buff cloth, frontispiece, fictionalised biography of 17th Century inventor, cover dusty, ...
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A London Home in the 1980s.
255p paperback, clean copy, "damaged" stamp without apparent reason
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A Short Life of William Pitt.
vi 224p burgundy cloth, frontispiece, index, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library
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Abraham Lincoln, 12 February 1809 - 15 April 1865: Interpretations on the 150th Anniversary of His Birth.
56p stapled booklet with slightly dusty card cover, pages clean with double columned text, contains ...
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Call Back Yesterday.
165p yellow paperback with laminated cover, from a Cambridge college library with stickers and ...
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Cambridge and Elsewhere. Memoirs.
150p hardback with aged dustjacket, index, appendix, plates, very good
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Cambridge Portraits from Lely to Hockney.
52p large format paperback, many plates, nice fresh copy
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Captain Lewis Moysey, 1869 - 1918.
short offprint, white paper cover, library stamp, very good
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Cavalier.
52p stapled booklet with decorative cover, clean pages, staples fresh, in very good condition
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Ce Que Je Crois.
214p paperback, crease to front cover and bottom corner of pages, clean pages, a very good copy ...
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Chelsea Girls.
xiii 274p paperback, white and orange covers, very good condition, small dent to back cover, ...
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Coleridge: Early Visions.
xvi 410p paperback in protective sleeve, frontispiece and 22 plates, 3 maps, appendix of ...
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De Quincey's Art of Autobiography.
218p hardback, very good copy from a Cambridge college library, but front endpaper detached from ...
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Dean Swift.
22p grey stapled booklet, short biography about Jonathan Swift by the Dean of St. Patrick's ...
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Dickens: The Man and the Book. First Edition.
240p green cloth, as new, b/w illustrations
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E M Forster.
32p stapled booklet with decorative cover, clean pages, staples fresh, in very good condition
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Edmund Spenser.
39p stapled booklet with paper cover and Spenser frontispiece, bibliography, clean text, neat copy
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Elizabeth and Essex. A Tragic History.
288p original green cloth, frontispiece, nice and clean copy
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Essays of Elia. With an Introduction by Ernest Rhys.
viii 334p green cloth with gilt corners to front board, top edge gilt, nice copy
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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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Flora MacDonald. The Most Loyal Rebel.
xvi 254p paperback, illustrated cover, good condition, light wear to covers and spine, binding firm ...
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Francis Crick. Discoverer of the Genetic Code.
x 230p paperback, b&w cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, pages all clear and ...
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