Books on Biography
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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 A Selection from the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Lewis Carroll, together with Reprints from Scarce and Unacknowledged Work.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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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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The Northrepps Grandchildren.
256p hardback with fresh white dustjacket, clean fresh copy, two obituaries inserted also a ...
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An Artists Life. As Told to Robert Wraight.
224p hardback, fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, no names or stamps, uncommon title
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Earl Spencer's Tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales. Westminster Abbey, September 6, 1997. The Full Text Given at the Funeral.
Water silk bound hardback, author signed "to Veronica", in its own box, box intact, nice item, ...
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Borstal Boy.
379p black paperback, cover bright, pages tanned, binding firm, spine not creased, newspaper ...
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A Brief Memoir of George Tyrrell, BA.
96p original hardback, gilt lettering to front, a very fresh and tight copy
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Oscar Asche: His Life - by Himself
250p red hardback, spine faded but gilt titles still legible, some minor foxing to preliminaries ...
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Paul de Lamerie, Citizen and Goldsmith of London. A Study of His Life and Works. Limited Edition.
180p very large hardback in crimson cloth, sunned white jacket, very good condition, firm binding, ...
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Memoirs of Baron de Marbot. Translated by Arthur John Butler. Fourth Edition.
viii 696p burgundy cloth firm and tight, inner hinges fir, text clean, with frontispiece and ...
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Benjamin Franklin, Doer of Good: A Biography.
322p original green cloth with black and red and gilt decor, spine a little dull, frontispiece, a ...
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Meredith Dewey: Diaries, Letters, Writings
268p hardback, fresh dustjacket, authorial gift inscription, inserted are letters addressed to the ...
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Intimes aus dem Reiche Nikolaus II. Politisch-feuilletonistische Aufzeichnungen über die Vorgänge am russischen Hofe, in der russischen Gesellschaft und im Lande. Zweiter Band, Dritter Band.
114p 101p poor pair of two paperback volumes, original blue paper cover present, this pair has ...
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Mémoires de Alexandre Iswolsky, Ancien Ambassadeur de Russie a Paris (1906 - 1910). Preface de Habriel Hanotaux
xxii 312p original paperback, paper cover detached, binding broken at one place, paper yellowing, ...
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A Fragment of Friendship. A Memory of Evelyn Waugh when Young.
96p hardback, white unclipped illustrated jacket, lovely fresh copy, first edition
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Yvonne Printemps. 1894 - 1977.
Large pink well produced stapled tribute to Yvonne Printemps with biographical contributions by ...
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Letters From My Grandmother. Florence Inglis, 1853 - 1875.
38p slim neat hardback, grey card covers with cloth spine and paper title piece, very good ...
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Both Sides of the Ocean.
192p hardback, grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine, good condition, very little wear, label and ...
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Jean Steinmann.
184p paperback in white cover with b&w photo, very good condition, a little light wear and foxing ...
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Edwin Orr: The Ubiquitous Ulsterman.
112p hardback, green dustjacket with portrait, a nice clean copy of the first edition
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Élie, le Prophète. Ascète, homme politique.
96p small format paperback, blue and white cover, fresh copy, no names or stamps, very good indeed, ...
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Stephen: A Singular Saint.
ix 211p large format paperback, grey card cover, fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, this copy ...
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Vie de Jesus. Troisième Edition.
lix 462p nice hardback binding with calf spine with gilt lettering to spine, black boards ...
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Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family.
477p original light blue cloth with gilt and dark ornaments elaborate, binding firm, cloth a hint ...
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The Boy and the Brothers.
304p hardback with fresh dustjacket, first edition, top edge a little dusty, gift inscription, blue ...
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Reminiscences of D H Lawrence. Part 1, Part 2, Part 5.
Three separate and complete issues of The Adelphi die November, December 1931 and march 1932, nice ...
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Ich, Anastasia, erzähle. Aufzeichnungen und Dokumente der Grsfürstin Anastasia von Russland.
416p hardback, cloth fresh, complete and well preserved dustjacket, with plates, nice clean copy, ...
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Dostoyevsky. A Life.
512p hardback with brown dustjacket, portrait to front, glue traces to inside flap of jacket, faint ...
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Moe grazhdanskoe sluzhenie Rossii: Vospominaniia, stati, ocherki, rechi, besedy, iz zapisnykh knizhek. (My Civil Service to Russia: Memories, Articles, Essays, Speeches, Conversations, from Notebooks)
653p hardback, grey cloth form with gilt lettering to front and spine, a tight and clean copy, no ...
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Olga Vladimirovna Gzovskaya. Puti i Pereputia; Portrety; stati i vospominaniia ob O V Gzovskoi. (Paths and Crossings)
429p hardback burgundy boards with portrait to front, cloth spine, a tight and clean copy, many ...
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Dni Minuvshije. (Days Past)
135p white hardback with black lettering and red design, many illustrations and frontispiece, some ...
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A Fenman Remembers.
127p paperback, black cover, fresh clean copy, with list of offices held, no names or stamps
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The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt.
412p fresh green cloth tight, top edge gilt, hardly used, bright & firm copy, early edition
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The Myth of the Bad Lord Byron.
62p slim paperback, white cover, fresh copy, no names or stamps
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Not Particularly Attractive People?
viii 216p paperback, brown and white photo cover, very good condition, binding tight, pages clean ...
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Year One. A Record. Signed Copy.
105p slim paperback, beige jacket with orange spine, very good condition, a little light wear to ...
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