Books on Biography
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Mein Leben. Two Volumes in Slipcase. Signed by Siegfried Wagner.
two large volumes in blue cloth, spines well gilt, dustjackets present and well preserved, in their ...
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Antonin Dvorak 1841 - 1904: Gesamtausgabe. Antonin Dvorak und sein Werk
75p slim paperback, illustrated throughout, uncommon title
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Auf Spuren von Beethovens "Unsterblicher Geliebten."
130p slim paperback, faint green paper cover well preserved, spine intact, with map and ...
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Beethovens Tagebuch.
196p large format hardback, green illustrated jacket fresh, excellent copy, no names or stamps, ...
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Engelbert Humperdinck - Die Zeitlose. Ein modernes Traummärchen. Siegburger Kindheitserinnerungen herausgegeben von Eva Humperdinck.
38p stapled booklet, as new
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Clara und Robert Schumann. Zeitgenössische Porträts. Katalog zur Ausstellung des Heinrich-Heine-Instituts.
132p large paperback, many plates, some i n colour, fresh copy, nice and clean, no library markings
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Pierre–Simon Laplace, 1749 – 1827: A Life in Exact Science.
xii 322 hardback dark blue gilt title to spine, solid copy, as new, pages fresh and clean, no signs ...
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Edmund Blunden and Japan: The History of a Relationship.
xii 243p hardback with fresh dustjacket, excellent cope, as new, no names or stamps, first edition
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Paul Hindemith: The Man Behind the Music.
319phardbacj with dustjacket, first edition, a few pencil marks to the text, still a fresh and ...
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Carl Flesch. Een kleine biografische Studie.
62p slim paperback, black figure to cover, fresh and clean, with plates, no names or stamps, ...
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How to Build an Intelligent Machine. Copy with Authorial Annotations and Corrections.
441p thick paperback, black cover, colour illustrations throughout, uncommon title, this copy with ...
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How to Build an Intelligent Machine.
441p thick paperback, black cover, colour illustrations throughout, uncommon title, no names or ...
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From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi. Translated by W J F Jenner.
496p thick paperback, brown cover, many illustrations in the back, fresh and clean and square copy, ...
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Leben und Wirken von Dr. Aloys Schmitt: mit Portrait und Facsimile.
89p slim booklet, yellow paper cover a little fragile, nice clean copy, binding failing, portrait ...
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Maggie First.
168p blue paperback, many illustration, self-published, Nebraska based christian autobiography of ...
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Io odio tu odi. Biafra. Diario-Delirio du una Ibo. Prefazione Franco Prattico.
145p tall format paperback, bright red cover coarse with black lettering bright, nice clean copy, ...
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Prokop Anekdota. Griechisch-Deutsch. Übersetzung von Otto Veh.
325p yellow cloth, dustjacket as new, pages bright, a firm copy, first edition, no names or stamps, ...
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Little Journeys to Homes of Great Business Men. Book 1.
hardback volume with suede spine, pagination varies, leather spine with small faults but still ...
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Percy Grainger.
xxv 379p hardback, fresh jacket, as new, with elaborate author dedication, also inserted a little ...
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Kurt Hessenberg: Werkverzeichnis.
paginated 119 - 163p, excerpted from a larger publication, Werkverzeichnis (bibliography) only, ...
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Lebens-Beschreibung des Ritters Götz von Berlichingen, zugenannt mit der Eisern Hand.
xxviii 119p paperback with armorial title cover, fresh clean copy, first edition, uncommon title, ...
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Dr Hans Bischoff. Ein Lebensbild.
60p fragile paperback, lacking front cover (and frontispiece?) rebound in colourful batik paper ...
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Johannes Parsimonius. Leben und Wirken des zweiten evangelischen Abts von Hirsau 1525 - 1588.
458p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, no names or stamps, includes large ...
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Letzte Skizzen und Verse 1945 - 1958.
67p typescript, plain card cover without titles, A4 format, newspaper clipping inserted, well ...
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Wagner: Das Leben im Werke.
xii 588p original dark blue cloth with red title label to spine, nice fresh copy of the first ...
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Essays of Elia. With a Preface by William MacDonald. Illustrations by C E Brock.
xxii 317p tan cloth boards with blue spine, top edge gilt, spine lettered gilt with floral design ...
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Scholarship and Faith: A Tale of Two Grandfathers.
166p hardback, fresh dustjacket, author signed, as new
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Nikolai Gogol.
172p small black and white paperback, light wear to cover, binding firm, pages clean
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Life Is Not A Rehearsal: The Hon. Sir William McAlpine, Bt.
64? pages, stapled booklet, colour illustrated, celebrating birthdays, railways and such
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Jeremy Williams: One of a Kind.
95p large paperback, excellent copy, illustrated throughout, as new
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An Irish Doctor Remembers.
99p blue cloth fresh, name in ink, no traces of use, very well preserved, nice clean copy, first ...
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When I Was a Little Boy.
187p hardback with protected dustjacket, first edition, clean copy, no names or stamps, illustrated ...
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An Old Woman's Reflections. Translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis.
xiv 131p hardback, small format, fresh dustjacket, frontispiece, additional portrait inserted, ...
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Godfrey Day: Missionary, Pastor and Primate.
246p hardback, white dustjacket complete, with plates, first edition, author signed December 1940, ...
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A Buried Life: Personal Recollections of A E Housman.
133p original blue cloth a little tired and corners a little dented, text clean, frontispiece, no ...
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Scholars and Gypsies: An Autobiography.
xi 324p brown cloth fresh, first edition, gift inscription, nice clean copy
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The Lewis Carroll Picture Book. A Selection from the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Lewis Carroll, together with Reprints from Scarce and Unacknowledged Work. Edited by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
xv 375p bright red buckram cloth with lavish gilt designs, fresh clean copy, illustrated ...
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A Day with Dr Conan Doyle.
seven page essay in Strand Magazine, Volume 4, 1892, with illustrations and portraits, one showing ...
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The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan: Count Harry Kessler, 1918 - 1937.
xvi 535p thick and large volume, bright red cloth with silver dustjacket that has tears and rips ...
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Mahommed "The Great Arabian."
86p tight and clean copy of the first edition, green cloth sharp, gilt lettering to spine, blind ...
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited.
316p hardback with purple unclipped dustjacket, 2x1cm loss to jacket at top edge, otherwise an ...
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Up She Rises.
272p hardback with unclipped bright green dustjacket, a couple of small marks to front of jacket, ...
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Avicenna: His Life and Works.
198p reddish cloth still very fresh, a nice clean copy of the first edition, no names or stamps, ...
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C Suetonius Tranquillus Divi Augusti Vita. Edited with Introductions, Analysis of Text, Notes, Appendices and Index by Michael Adams.
xliv 239p small format, red cloth gilt lettering to spine, map well folded, nice copy, first ...
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Oriental Essays. Portraits of Seven Scholars.
261p burgundy boards, first edition, nice fresh copy without names or stamps, very little use, if ...
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Andre Citroen: The Man and the Motor Cars.
xvi 238p hardback with fresh dustjacket, nice clean copy, fresh and tight, many plates, no names or ...
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Emerald and Nancy: Lady Cunard and her Daughter.
xvi 205p hardback, fresh dustjacket, clean copy, many plates, no names or stamps
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Arrian. Volume 2. Anabasis Alexandri, Books 5 - 7.
x 589p hardback, green cloth with gilt lettering, green dustjacket present, very good condition, ...
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