Books on Biography
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A Charmed Life.
262p orange period paperback with illustrated front cover, first Penguin printing, a very tight and ...
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The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.
178p black paperback, newspaper clipping inserted, with plates, nice clean and tight copy
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Between the River and the Hills. A Normandy Pastoral.
316p hardback, blue cloth with sunned spine, very good condition, light wear commensurate with age, ...
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Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent.
x 210p hardback, fresh dustjacket, with plates, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, very good ...
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Alma Mahler, or, The Art of Being Loved.
162p hardback with black dustjacket, a fresh and clean copy, with plates, no names or stamps
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The Rise and Fall of Imelda Marcos.
230p paperback, portrait to cover, many plates, a tight and clean copy, gift inscription (?by the ...
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Towards a Commonplace Geography.
xi 100p hardback, blue cloth with blue jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to jacket edges ...
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Philippe Lamour 1903 - 1992. Père de L'Aménagement du Territoire en France.
369p paperback, white cover with photograph, very good condition, minimal wear, covers lightly ...
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The Certificate of Secondary Education: The Place of the Personal Topic: History.
44p large format paperback, blue illustrated cover, a very fresh copy: The pre-history of the ...
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Erinnerungen und Betrachtungen.
188p blue paperback, fresh clean copy, with illustrations, text reproduced from typescript, author ...
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Chorister School Durham, 1957 - 1978. A Personal Record.
57p slim booklet with white cover, cross to front, note inserted, fresh and clean
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The Story of Yves. A Breton Legend.
160p tan cloth with floral design to front, frontispiece, a well preserved copy, clean and firm
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Joseph Needham: 20th-Century Renaissance Man.
170p tall format paperback, white cover with portrait, well preserved copy, clean and tight, name ...
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The Visiting Moon. With Decorations by Charles Stewart.
260p hardback (blue cloth fresh) with rubbed and marginally worn dustjacket, text clean, binding ...
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Nero: The Man and the Legend.
208p hardback, illustrated dustjacket well preserved, first edition, excellent copy without names ...
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Conrad Noel, an Autobiography. Edited with a Foreword by Sidney Dark. With a Memoir of his Childhood by a Cousin and Tributes by Kingsley Martin, Harry Roberts, and Richard Church.
xi 136p hardback, dustjacket (worn and aged and with flaws), frontispiece, plates, a clean and well ...
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Introduction to Scintillation Counting.
viii 180p hardback, red cloth with scarlet jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, jacket corner ...
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Richard Jefferies: A Modern Appraisal.
vi 162p paperback, portrait to front, well preserved, a clean copy, with plates
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Portraits of a Lady: Illustrated Life of Frances, Countess of Warwick.
48p slim paperback, portrait to front and many illustrations in the text, excellent copy, uncommon ...
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Cambridge Review Special Issue. Volume 92. Resident Members of the University 1970-71.
120?p large paperback booklet, stapled, tan cover, good well-used copy, general wear and marks to ...
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Cambridge Review Special Issue. Volume 99. Resident Members of the University 1976/77.
120?p staple-bound booklet, grey card cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding strong, ...
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Cambridge Review Special Issue. Volume 93. Resident Members of the University 1971-72.
120?p paperback booklet, beige card cover, good condition, light wear to cover edges, some marks to ...
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Cambridge Review Special Issue. Volume 94. Resident Members of the University 1972-73.
120?p paperback booklet, turquoise card cover, good condition, light wear to cover and some light ...
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Cambridge Review Special Issue. Volume 97. Resident Members of the University 1975/76.
120?p paperback booklet, peach cover, very good condition, light wear to covers, binding strong, ...
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Cambridge Review Special Issue. Volume 96. Resident Members of the University 1974/1975.
120?p paperback booklet, sky-blue card cover, very good condition, light wear to cover edges and ...
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Cambridge Review Special Issue. Volume 95. Resident Members of the University 1973/1974.
120?p paperback booklet, emerald green card cover, very good condition, light wear to cover edges ...
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Cambridge Review Special Issue. Volume 100. Resident Members of the University 1977/1978.
120?p paperback booklet, beige card cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding strong, pages ...
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Yearbook. Providence High School, Burbank. Esprit Volume 18, 1976. Pathways to the Present (Bicentennial Edition).
160p large format hardback, cloth cover with covered wagon to front, illustrated throughout, very ...
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Yearbook. Providence High School, Burbank. Esprit Volume 17, 1975.
144p large format hardback, tan cover with camera to front, many personal inscriptions to endpaper, ...
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Chronicle. Year Book of the University of Utah. 1905. Published by the Undergraduates.
120(?)p paperback, bright red card cover with white lettering, edges a little worn but text clean ...
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The Red and Black. Volume 5, Number 12. Commencement Number 1904. (Ye Rede & Black Booke, Done by ye Senior Class) West High School, Salt Lake City, Utah.
78p art nouveau cover design signed R S Gibbs, book-block detaching from cover but firm in itself, ...
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Blue and White of the Los Angeles High School. Volume 3, 1898.
approx 200p printed on art paper throughout, many plates and portraits, includes period adverts, ...
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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, ...
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Hesper 1898.
176p original hardback, white boards with gilt and red lettering, spine with small hurt, plates and ...
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Gente Italiana in California.
254p large format hardback, dark cloth blind-stamped with gilt highlights now dull, spine and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Eliza Pinckney: Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times.
xi 331p rebound in burgundy library cloth, folding frontispiece well preserved, one page detaching, ...
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Mme Sun Yat-Sen.
144p paperback, colour illustrated cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, pages ...
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Terrot Reaveley Glover. A Biography.
xii 233p hardback, grass-green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, very good condition, some very ...
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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 ...
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Heroes on Your Stamps.
xiv 248p original grey cloth firm and tight, many illustrations, text very clean, top edge a little ...
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The Erivan Collection.
192p hardback, black boards, colour illustrated throughout, excellent fresh copy, almost as new: ...
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Prakaipet Indhusophon Memorial Volume.
128p large format paperback, brown cover printed signature to front and duck to back, text printed ...
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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 ...
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Beijing Longquan Monastery. 365 Days.
382p large format paperback, beige cover with colour photograph, like new condition, minimal wear, ...
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Mr. Attlee. An Interim Biography.
viii 266p hardback, green cloth, good condition, light wear to covers, library labels to spine and ...
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Searching for John Ford.
838p large paperback, black cover with photograph, very good condition, minimal wear, binding ...
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Hisako Terasaki. A Self-Portrait.
235p large square hardback, grey and black cloth with gilt lettering illustration, a heavy tome, ...
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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 ...
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