Books on Biography
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Herman Melville.
x 200p burgundy cloth bright, index, very good copy from a Cambridge college library, first ...
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The Memorial. Portrait of a Family.
294p burgundy cloth, spine a little sunned, black title panel to spine, binding tight, a very good ...
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A Ken of Kipling. A Biographical Sketch of RK with an Appreciation and some Anecdotes.
141p decorated bright orange cloth with two elephants, bibliography, frontispiece, name to endpaper ...
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A London Home in the 1980s.
255p paperback, clean copy, "damaged" stamp without apparent reason
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Eliot's New Life.
x 356p cloth, jacket present, plates, index, a very good copy, name to endpaper. T S Eliot, his ...
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Maughamiana. The Writings of W Somerset Maugham. Ed. R Toole Stott.
xiii 73p cloth, very good
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Christopher Isherwood. A Personal Memoir.
xvii 150p cloth boards, dustjacket, index, includes unpublished letters, as new, slightly sunned
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Robert Bridges, 1844 - 1930.
vii 131p cloth, clean & firm, from a Cambridge college library
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A Memoir of the Life and Writings and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright, Inventor of the Power Loom. (1843)
11p 372p hardback with dustjacket, very good, Introduction by K Ponting, excellent copy
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Oxford Rebels. The Life and Friends of Nevil Story Maskelyne, 1823 - 1911. Pioneer Oxford Scientist, Photographer and Politician.
182p hardback, dustjacket, index, plates, very good
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Memories and Musings of an Octogenarian Biologist.
248p hardback, dustjacket, as new, signed copy
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Notice sur Léon Fredericq (1851 - 1935) Membre de l'Academie.
[54p] frontispiece, bibliography, offprint, physiologist, cardiologist
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Recollections of a Technologist.
204p cloth, dustjacket (torn), plates, index, metallurgy & material sciences: Cambridge metallurgy ...
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The Tale of Beatrix Potter. A Biography by Margaret Lane.
174p green cloth with black lettering, 30 plates, 4 in colour, appendix, fresh and clean copy, ...
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Some German Memories, 1911 - 1961.
iv 38p green card cover, notes, very good, with compliments slip
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Ever a Fighter. A Modern Approach to the Work of Robert Browning.
viii 96p paper cover, very good
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Virginia Woolf.
184p hardback, green jacket with portrait, index, bibliography, very good, a tight and clean copy, ...
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James Joyce.
842p paperback, blue and white covers, very good condition, light wear to covers and spine, binding ...
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Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist.
viii 131p cloth, worn dustjacket, some pencil marks, original
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This Subborn Soil. A Frontier Boyhood.
308p cloth, jacket, map, author inscription, very good: Biography of an English Professor
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Dr Bentley. A Study in Academic Scarlet.
303p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, illustrated endpapers, a fresh copy, clean paes, ...
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The Life of Sir J J Thomson, Sometime Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
x 299p tan cloth, index, plates, fresh clean copy, very light Cambridge library markings only, ...
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Biographies of British Women. An Annotated Bibliography.
x 410p cloth, index, appendix, a useful reference work
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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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The National Academy of Sciences. The First Hundred Years, 1863 - 1963.
xv 694p cloth, indices, appendices, illustrations & portraits, a clean and fresh copy
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Zur Erinnerung an die Säcular-Feier des Geburtstages Friedrich Schiller's, gehalten zu Mannheim, 8 - 11 November 1858.
100p green paper cover intact, name stamp to cover, subscribers list for Schillerdenkmal, very ...
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Warum feiern wir Schillers Todestag.
46p paper cover, 2 illustrations, Lied von der Glocke with pencil marks, dusty, original
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St Paul. His Life, Letters and Christian Doctrine.
xix 319p half cloth, maps, very good copy of the first edition, from a Cambridge college library, ...
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From Childhood to Childhood: Children's Books and Their Creators.
xiv 178p embossed cloth, bibliography, fresh and clean
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A Life with Books and Children.
16p stapled pamphlet, very good, printed in blue ink, issued by Childrens Literature New England
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Obituary of Sir James Henry Ramsay (1859-1925). Offprint from Proceedings of the British Academy.
7p sewn paper cover, lightly sunned to edges
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Obituary of George Frederick Stout (1860 - 1944). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 31.
12p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, nice fresh copy
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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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Obituary of Oliver Elton (1861 - 1945). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 31.
20p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, cover marginally soiled
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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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Obituary of William Arthur Shaw (1865 - 1943). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 29.
7p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, very good
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Obituary of Ormonde Maddock Dalton (1866 - 1945). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 31.
19p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, very good
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Obituary of George Charles Moore Smith (1858 - 1940). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 30.
19p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, 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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Lawrence 1769 - 1830.
80p paper-covered boards, 8 full colour reproductions of this painter's portraits with commentary ...
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Harold Jeffreys. (Rendiconti Lincei Suppl. Serie IX, Vol 2).
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A Regency Visitor: The English Tour of Prince Pückler-Muskau Described in his Letters 1826 - 1828. Transl Sarah Austin, ed. E Butler.
384p blue grey cloth, frontispirce, illustrations, index, a nice copy with ex libris bookplate
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Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary.
xiv 386p cloth, dustjacket present, frontispiece, a fresh clean copy
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Friedrich Hebbel: A Study of his Life and Work.
276p green cloth, frontispiece, index, bibliography, a fresh and clean copy, name to endpaper (2x)
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