Books on Biography
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Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life.
viii 423p large cloth fresh jacket, index, notes, bibliography, photographic plates, almost as new, ...
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Shakspere.
167p small cloth, cover a little dusty, appendix, clean pages, very good: "Shakspere" (sic)
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Isaiah Berlin: A Life.
356p large cloth with dustjacket, frontispiece, notes, index, photographic plates, as new, very ...
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The Vocation of Bachan Singh.
125p large paperback, extensive author inscription to endpaper, newspaper article laid in, very good
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Cambridge Scientific Minds.
viii 343p paperback, various contributors, bibliography, as new, very good
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Who's Who 1981. An Annual Biographical Dictionary. 133th Year of Issue.
2836p large heavy cloth, supplement, biographies, the Royal Family, very good copy
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Classrooms of Resistance.
168p cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, a well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library
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In the Footsteps of Borrow and Fitzgerald.
262p blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, weak inner hinges, very faint foxing, tipped in ...
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Way of Life: The Memoirs of John Boyd-Carpenter.
272p large cloth, dustjacket, smelly copy, index, photographic plates, clean pages, very good
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The Political Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru.
256p cloth jacket with old repair, index, bibliography, frontispiece, very good copy from a ...
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Three French Dramatists: Racine, Mariveaux, Musset.
ix 206p red cloth, corners rubbed, inner hinges yielding and soft, gilt lettering to spine, faint ...
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Alec Pearson: A Line through a Life. An Essay by N Pearson.
36p slim stapled booklet, fresh copy from a Cambridge college library
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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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Lacordaire.
90p small format, blue library cloth 13cm, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding facsimile of ...
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Lope de Vega: L'Étoile de Séville. Étude et Version Française Intégrale. Preface Henry Roujon.
317p large library cloth, frontispiece, index, bibliography, a very good copy from a Cambridge ...
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Francis Vielé-Griffin: Son Oeuvre, sa Pensée, son Art.
xxv 242p large terracotta cloth, plain library binding, frontispiece, nice and clean pages, a very ...
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Hanes Prydain 1914 - 1964.
398p hardback, jacket, illustrations, very good, as new, text in Welsh
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Corneli Nepotis. Vitae.
120?p hardback, binding intact, library labels to spine and endpapers, ink stamps to one or two ...
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John Webster. Citizen and Dramatist.
xiii 218p hardback, dustjacket, index, apparatus, as new
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The End of a Chapter.
[vi] 200p paper covered boards, cloth spine, index, well preserved, first edition
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Dr R B Poole.
22p stapled booklet, frontispiece, foreword D Scott Daniell, some pencil marks and notes, very ...
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Conrad Noel, Prophet and Priest 1869 - 1942. Broadcast by J Putterill. (Men of Vision: Jack Putterill talks about Conrad Noel)
5p stapled booklet, 4 p leaflet 'Centenary Conrad Noel born 1869' laid in, very good
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Socialism and the Individual: Notes on Joining the Labour Party.
168p blue cloth, Boots Library label, weak inner hinges, clean pages, useful copy
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Memoirs 1897 - 1948: Through Diplomacy to Politics. With a Foreword by Barbara Ward.
xiv 301p large cloth, dustjacket, index, photographic plates, very good
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Great Prime Ministers.
144p cloth, illustrated dustjacket, index, bibliography, photographic plates, illustrations, on R ...
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Contemporary Political Philosophers.
xvii 296p black paperback, notes, various contributors, hardly used, very good
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The Economics of John Maynard Keynes: The Theory of a Monetary Economy.
xv 364p yellow paperback, well preserved
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Hermann Broch. (= Duitse Kroniek, Vol 36, Winter 1986, Nos 3 - 4)
92p large paperback, frontispiece, illustrations, notes, a clean and fresh copy
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A Scots Boy's World Sixty Years Ago.
viii 188p blue cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine, spine a little sunned, frontispiece, ...
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The Life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, Vol 2 [only]. With Portraits and Illustrations.
viii 339p large heavy cloth, gilt decoration on cover, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, ...
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Lord Strathcona: The Story of his Life to 1902. With Forewords by the Duke of Argyll and the Earl of Aberdeen.
xii 288p 31p red cloth (bright) with gilt lettering on cover and spine, weak inner hinges, faint ...
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Two Tales: Family Portrait; A Woman's Man.
208p large pink paperback, first edition, hardly used, very good indeed, information about author ...
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A Preacher's Half-Century.
232p plum cloth, clean pages, frontispiece, cloth a bit worn, but a very well preserved copy, very ...
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Some Threepenny Bits.
viii 322p green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, very well preserved copy, very good ...
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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz.
282p large cloth with blue dustjacket, A4 format, frontispiece, index, bibliography, many colour ...
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Leaves from the Diary of Henry Greville. Third Series.
vii 421p petrol cloth with black rules, gilt lettering to spine bright, inner hinges cracked but ...
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Occasional Addresses 1893 - 1916.
x 194p plum cloth, nice firm condition, pages fresh, first edition, several newspaper articles (a ...
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Bertrand Hallward: First Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham 1948 - 1965. A Biography.
x 244p cloth, dustjacket, index, notes, photographic plates, hardly used, excellent condition, as ...
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My Struggles abroad for my Country.
52p original paper cover, stapled, tape traces to spine, appendix, clean pages, very good
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Die Gerettete Zunge. Geschichte einer Jugend.
318p paperback, clean and tight copy, very good
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The Life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava.
570p small format, embossed blue cloth, spine gilt, top edge gilt, frontispiece, a firm and clean ...
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The Life of General Booth.
280p purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine, small format, being a collection of essays by ...
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Arthur Christopher Benson, as seen by some Friends.
xv 170p blue cloth, weak inner hinges, appendix, plates, a little aged and worn, ephemera inserted
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