Books on Biography
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Plutarch's Lives. Volume VII: Demosthenes and Cicero, Alexander and Caesar. With an English translation by Bernadotte Perrin.
viii 619p small hardback, green cloth fresh, green dustjacket very good, English translation on ...
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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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The Characters of Theophrastus. Edited by J M Edmonds and G E V Austen.
xl 171p 4p blue cloth very fresh with gilt column to front, this copy still has its (/original) ...
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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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Napoleon and Awakening of Europe.
184p small neat hardback, beige cover with white jacket, free from wear, jacket a little sunned, ...
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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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Richard Jefferies. Selections of His Work with Details of His Life and Circumstances, His Death and Immortality.
318p small neat hardback, brown cloth with gilt title, very good condition, firm binding, pages ...
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The Curious World of Frank Buckland.
xi 242p hardback, green cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine, emerald jacket, very good ...
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Maus. A Survivor's Tale. Volume I.
159p paperback graphic novel, colour illustrated cover and b&w artwork inside, like new condition, ...
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Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki. Extracted from Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1902.
paginated xii 89 - 238, extracted from binding, original print fresh, pages holding together very ...
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The World, The Flesh and Myself.
393p pale yellow paperback, very good condition, clean and firm
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The Only Woman in the Room. A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts.
177p beige paperback, excellent fresh copy, as new
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A Victorian in Orbit. The Irreverent Memoirs of Sir Cedric Hardwicke as told to James Brough.
271p hardback with lilac and green dustjacket designed by Charles Mozley, nice clean and fresh copy ...
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See the Players.
288p hardback with yellow and black dustjacket with bold modernist design, jacket sunned to spine ...
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Memoir in the Middle of the Journey.
101p hardback with fresh purple and red unclipped dustjacket designed by George Mayhew, light ...
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General Semantics Bulletin. Number 18 and 19, 1955 - 1956: Irving J Lee 1909 - 1955. As Remembered by Students, Friends, Colleagues.
116p large format paperback, A4 format, grey card cover, text reproduced from typescript displayed ...
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Heart of the Tin Man: The Collected Writings of Jack Haley.
331p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, many plates, excellent copy with inscription ...
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Dear Papa. Illustrations by Jacqueline Kramer.
63p yellow paperback, fetching illustrations, a memorial by the daughter, addressing the deceased, ...
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