Books on Biography
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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 ...
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Life in a Noble Household.
407p paperback, white and pink cover, very good condition, light wear commensurate with age, spine ...
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Anne Stuart, Queen of England.
xi 241p hardback, green cloth with gilt lettering, rough-cut pages, good condition, light wear ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Deutsche Thesen gegen den Papst und seine Dunkelmänner.
224p hardback with fresh dustjacket, nice copy, well preserved, no names or stamps, blue rule to ...
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Mad Mike. A Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert.
viii 211p paperback, white cover with colour photograph, like new condition, no visible wear, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas.
252p paperback with Stein portrait to front, a tight copy, spine not creased, some words to inside ...
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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, ...
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Charles the Great.
x 251p blue cloth, original faint green dustjacket well preserved, a nice copy with the very ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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B K Anand: Easy to Admire, Difficult to Emulate.
x 115p hardback, purple jacket, many plates throughout, printed on art paper, author dedication to ...
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My own Boswell: Memoirs of M Hidayatullah.
viii 304p black paperback with white lettering, many plates, very good, author inscription
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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, ...
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Leonard Wilson Forster, 1913 - 1997.
12p obituary from the Proceeding of the British Academy, author note to inside cover, with ...
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George Tierney.
252p original cloth still firm but dull and darkened, decorative bookplate and stamps from the ...
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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 ...
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He Was a German. A Biography of Ernst Toller.
xii 306p hardback, amber cloth with bright yellow jacket, very good condition, minimal wear and ...
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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 ...
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Franz Kafka. The Office Writings.
xx 404p hardback, black cloth with illustrated turquoise jacket, very good condition, minimal wear ...
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Elijah the Prophet.
vii 248p hardback, dark cloth with gilt and red highlights, a well preserved and tight copy, foral ...
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Jeremiah: His Life and Times.
xi 205p mustard cloth a little soiled but still firm with black lettering, bright copy, first ...
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Samuel and Saul - His Life and Times.
vii 222p mustard cloth fresh and tight with black lettering, excellent copy, early edition, 3rd ...
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Copernicus und seine Welt. Biographie.
510p grey cloth fresh, corners sharp, clean copy, neat initials to endpaper, early or first edition ...
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Kafkas Welt: Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern.
687p very heavy and large volume, opulent production, illustrated throughout, with dustjacket, ...
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Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1913 - 1916.
432p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
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Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1917 - 1919.
427p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
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Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1920 - 1922.
498p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
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Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1923 - 1926.
490p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
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Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1893 - 1902.
490p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
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Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1903 - 1908.
490p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
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Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1909 - 1912.
459p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
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Arthur Schnitzler Tagebuch, 1879 - 1892.
488p large paperback, ivory card cover with MS illustration to front, a clean and tight copy, no ...
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The Trail of the Fox. The Life of Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel.
448p paperback, white and red cover, very good condition, minimal wear, covers sunned, binding ...
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Clausewitz. His Life and Work.
xvi 354p hardback, white cloth with colour portrait jacket, like new condition, little to no wear, ...
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Useful Toil. Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s.
364p hardback, tan cloth with illustrated beige jacket, good condition, binding firm, pages clean ...
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Mr. Gillray. The Caricaturist. A Biography with 147 Illustrations.
vi 266p large hardback, red cloth with gilt lettering and yellow jacket, good condition, light wear ...
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Tar: A Midwest Childhood. A Critical Text.
xx 257p hardback, moss-green cloth with jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, ...
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Stalin: Man of Contradiction.
190p paperback, portrait to cover, excellent clean and tight copy, fresh and tight, likely never ...
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Wordsworth and Coleridge. 1795 - 1834.
vii 206p small hardback, maroon cloth with terracotta jacket, good condition, light wear ...
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Yesterday: Memoirs of a Russian-Jewish Lawyer. Edited by Don Rawson and Tatiana Tipton.
xxix 235p hardback, fresh brown dustjacket, excellent copy, as new
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Reflections of a Russian Statesman. New Foreword by Murray Polner.
xi 271p fresh paperback, bright yellow cover, spine not creased, fresh copy, a few pages with faint ...
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Istorija dorevoljucionnoj Rossii v dnevnikach i vospominanijach. (History of Pre-Revolutionary Russia in Diaries and Memoirs, Volume 5, Part 2)
544p brown cloth with gilt lettering, well preserved, single volume, a comprehensive ...
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Professor Aleksandr Chaianov, 1888 - 1937. (Professor Alexander Chayanov)
304p hardback grey boards with black lettering to front, with many plates, very well preserved, ...
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The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky.
296p hardback, red dustjacket present with small repair to jacket corner using adhesive tape, a ...
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The Memoirs of Baron N Wrangel, 1847 - 1920: From Serfdom to Bolshevism. Translated by Brian and Beatrix Lunn.
324p hardback, blue cloth tight and fresh, lettering to spine, facsimile of the 1927 edition, ...
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