Books on Biography
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Sax and Fox 1909. (Highland Park College Yearbook, Des Moines, Iowa)
160p (?) full suede cover in dark purple with silver lettering to front, binding holding well, ...
£64.00
Hesper 1898.
176p original hardback, white boards with gilt and red lettering, spine with small hurt, plates and ...
£68.00
£84.00
Gente Italiana in California.
254p large format hardback, dark cloth blind-stamped with gilt highlights now dull, spine and ...
£84.00
The Minute Man. Volume 5. Fourth Corps Area. Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1927.
88p large format, blue boards with bright gilt lettering, plates and portraits throughout, very ...
£46.00
Piper 1911. (Yearbook of the Kitchi Gammi Literary Society)
approx 240p, A4 format, bound in full black calf with gilt lettering to front, spine degraded and ...
£80.00
£44.00
Eliza Pinckney: Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times.
xi 331p rebound in burgundy library cloth, folding frontispiece well preserved, one page detaching, ...
£44.00
£12.00
Mme Sun Yat-Sen.
144p paperback, colour illustrated cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, pages ...
£12.00
£8.00
Terrot Reaveley Glover. A Biography.
xii 233p hardback, grass-green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, very good condition, some very ...
£8.00
£68.00
Annals of the Army of the Cumberland, Comprising Biographies, Descriptions of Departments, Accounts of Expeditions, Skirmishes and Battles; also its Police Record of Spies, Smugglers and Prominent Rebel Emissaries, etc, by an Officer.
671p rebound firmly in two tone cloth red and green, gilt lettering to spine, engraved title page ...
£68.00
£20.00
Heroes on Your Stamps.
xiv 248p original grey cloth firm and tight, many illustrations, text very clean, top edge a little ...
£20.00
£48.00
The Erivan Collection.
192p hardback, black boards, colour illustrated throughout, excellent fresh copy, almost as new: ...
£48.00
£50.00
Prakaipet Indhusophon Memorial Volume.
128p large format paperback, brown cover printed signature to front and duck to back, text printed ...
£50.00
£8.00
The Age of Ideology. The 19th Century Philosophers. Basic Writings.
283p paperback, white and green illustrated cover, good condition, light wear to cover edges and ...
£8.00
£148.00
Beijing Longquan Monastery. 365 Days.
382p large format paperback, beige cover with colour photograph, like new condition, minimal wear, ...
£148.00
£10.00
Mr. Attlee. An Interim Biography.
viii 266p hardback, green cloth, good condition, light wear to covers, library labels to spine and ...
£10.00
£12.00
Searching for John Ford.
838p large paperback, black cover with photograph, very good condition, minimal wear, binding ...
£12.00
£64.00
Hisako Terasaki. A Self-Portrait.
235p large square hardback, grey and black cloth with gilt lettering illustration, a heavy tome, ...
£64.00
The New Grove Second Viennese School. Schoenberg, Webern, Berg.
201p hardback, navy cloth with black and white jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to jacket ...
£16.00
£10.00
Queen Anne's Son. A Memoir of William Henry, Duke of Gloucester 1689 - 1700.
152p hardback, canary yellow cloth with pink jacket, very good condition, light wear to jacket ...
£10.00
£16.00
Life in a Noble Household.
407p paperback, white and pink cover, very good condition, light wear commensurate with age, spine ...
£16.00
£16.00
Anne Stuart, Queen of England.
xi 241p hardback, green cloth with gilt lettering, rough-cut pages, good condition, light wear ...
£16.00
£12.00
A Thirst for Glory. The Life of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith.
xx 261p hardback, black cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, some very light wear to ...
£12.00
£14.00
Charles Darwin. The Story of the Amateur Naturalist Who Created a Scientific Revolution and Changed the World.
xxvi 326p hardback, terracotta cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, little to no ...
£14.00
£26.00
Deutsche Thesen gegen den Papst und seine Dunkelmänner.
224p hardback with fresh dustjacket, nice copy, well preserved, no names or stamps, blue rule to ...
£26.00
£14.00
Mad Mike. A Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert.
viii 211p paperback, white cover with colour photograph, like new condition, no visible wear, ...
£14.00
£28.00
C P Brow's Life in London after He Left India.
156p large paperback, lilac cover with artwork, like new condition, little to no wear, binding ...
£28.00
£40.00
Faith Ringgold. A 25 Year Survey. Exhibition, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, 1990.
64p large format stapled booklet, turquoise cover, very good condition, little to no wear, binding ...
£40.00
£16.00
A Personal Life of the Fifth Josiah Wedgwood 1899 - 1968.
16p stapled booklet, sky-blue cover, very good condition, minimal wear, pages clean and neat, ...
£16.00
£12.00
Charles the Great.
x 251p blue cloth, original faint green dustjacket well preserved, a nice copy with the very ...
£12.00
Oeuvres de Monsieur de Fontenelle, des Académies Françoise, des Sciences, et des Belles-Lettres, et de la Societé Royale de Londres. Nouvelle Édition Augmentée. Tome Cinquiéme: Contenant les Eloges des Académiciens morts depuis 1699 jusqu'en 1717.
570p small format (16cm) full calf binding in excellent condition, five bands to spine, red and ...
£46.00
Oeuvres de Monsieur de Fontenelle, des Académies Françoise, des Sciences, et des Belles-Lettres, et de la Societé Royale de Londres. Nouvelle Édition Augmentée. Tome Sixieme: Contenant les Eloges des Académiciens morts depuis 1718 jusqu'en 1739.
674p small format (16cm) full calf binding in excellent condition, five bands to spine, red and ...
£46.00
£124.00
B K Anand: Easy to Admire, Difficult to Emulate.
x 115p hardback, purple jacket, many plates throughout, printed on art paper, author dedication to ...
£124.00
£36.00
My own Boswell: Memoirs of M Hidayatullah.
viii 304p black paperback with white lettering, many plates, very good, author inscription
£36.00
£32.00
The Life of August William Schlegel. Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry.
xiv 662p large paperback, colour illustrated jacket, very good condition, little to no wear, ...
£32.00
£8.00
Leonard Wilson Forster, 1913 - 1997.
12p obituary from the Proceeding of the British Academy, author note to inside cover, with ...
£8.00
£20.00
George Tierney.
252p original cloth still firm but dull and darkened, decorative bookplate and stamps from the ...
£20.00
£16.00
The Turbulent World of Franz Göll. An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century.
xi 260p hardback, grey cloth with brown jacket, very good condition, little to no wear, jacket ...
£16.00
£36.00
He Was a German. A Biography of Ernst Toller.
xii 306p hardback, amber cloth with bright yellow jacket, very good condition, minimal wear and ...
£36.00
Mistress to Kafka. The Life and Death of Milena.
235p hardback, maroon cloth with white and red jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to jacket ...
£10.00
£18.00
Elijah the Prophet.
vii 248p hardback, dark cloth with gilt and red highlights, a well preserved and tight copy, foral ...
£18.00
£22.00
Jeremiah: His Life and Times.
xi 205p mustard cloth a little soiled but still firm with black lettering, bright copy, first ...
£22.00
£22.00
Samuel and Saul - His Life and Times.
vii 222p mustard cloth fresh and tight with black lettering, excellent copy, early edition, 3rd ...
£22.00
£32.00
Copernicus und seine Welt. Biographie.
510p grey cloth fresh, corners sharp, clean copy, neat initials to endpaper, early or first edition ...
£32.00
£64.00
Kafkas Welt: Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern.
687p very heavy and large volume, opulent production, illustrated throughout, with dustjacket, ...
£64.00
£26.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1913 - 1916.
432p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£26.00
£26.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1917 - 1919.
427p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£26.00
£26.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1920 - 1922.
498p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£26.00
£46.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1923 - 1926.
490p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£46.00
£24.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1893 - 1902.
490p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£24.00
£20.00
Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1903 - 1908.
490p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
£20.00