Books on Biography
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Dpag bsam rin po-che'i snye ma.
two paperback volumes, some colour illustrations in the front, clean and tight copy, biography of ...
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The Operon.
449p hardback first edition, red cloth without jacket, very good condition, light pencil and ink ...
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Vernadsky.
318p original hardback with illustrated cover, cloth spine, binding a little soft, especially at ...
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In Memoriam Vladimir Lossky, 1903 - 1958.
approx 120p single issue of Contacts, Revue Française de l'Orthodoxie, well preserved copy, ...
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Mahatma Gandhi: His Own Story. Edited by C F Andrews.
372p burgundy cloth fresh and tight, spine a little dull, excellent copy, with frontispiece
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Georges Mareschal, Seigneur de Bièvre, Chirurgien et Confident de Louis XIV (1658 - 1736)
iii 600p blue library cloth firm and strong binding, light library markings only, frontispiece, two ...
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Mémoires de Louis XIV pour l'Instruction du Dauphin. Première édition complète, d'après les Textes Originaux avec une Étude sur leur Composition, des Notes et des éclaircissements par Charles Dreyss.
ccli 256p 590p Two volumes half morocco binding, schoolprize binding marked in gilt to front board ...
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Mircea Eliade 1907 - 1986. Special Issue of Epoché. UCLA Journal for the History of Religions.
105p paperback, red illustrated cover, essays by Bolle, Raskind, Tamura, Kerze, Lane, Aronowicz, ...
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The UCLA Oral History Program: Catalog of the Collection. Third Edition.
xv 399p hardback, blue cloth fresh with gilt lettering to front, excellent clean copy, as new
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Our Lenin. Edited by Ruth Shaw and Harry Alan Potamkin. Pictures by William Siegel.
62p oblong format hardback, illustrated throughout, pages clean and well preserved, striking ...
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Kesf-el-zunun. Volume 1 ONLY.
This is a very large and heavy volume (only one of a set of six volumes) bound in half calf, tight ...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott. Ten Volumes.
Ten large hardbacks in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine labels. No. 508 of a limited edition ...
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Bernard Shaw. Volume 1: The Search for Love. Volume 2: The Pursuit of Power. Volume 3: The Lure of Fantasy. Volume 4: The Last Laugh.
486p 420p 544p 131p hardbacks, four volumes in black cloth with photographic jackets, some light ...
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Sir Robert Morier. Envoy and Ambassador in the Age of Imperialism 1876 - 1893.
386p hardback in navy cloth with gilt lettering, a few light marks on textblock and endpapers, ...
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Anthony Trollope: His Art and Scope.
x 234p hardback in brown boards with illustrated jacket, pages like new, some light wear/fading to ...
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Some Small Harvest.
448p beige hardback in green and beige dustjacket, boards and binding strong, pages and ...
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Flourishing. Letters 1928 - 1946.
xxxiii 755p hardback, black cloth, clipped dustjacket showing some light surface wear, pages and ...
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Minu 12 Aastat Siberis.
144p large format hardback, portrait to dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, light tear to jacket, a ...
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Young Man Shinran: A Reappraisal of Shinran's Life.
xv 228p large paperback, excellent fresh copy, as new, never used, no name or stamps, faint crease ...
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Sona, Mote, Inimene. A H Tammsaare 100. juubelile pühendatud lühiuurimusi.
207p hardback, green laminated boards, well preserved copy, very good, without names or stamps
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August Gailit, 1891 - 1960: Mälestusteos.
158p large format hardback, white boards with black rule, frontispiece, additional illustrations, ...
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Minu 12 Aastat Siberis.
116p large format paperback, portrait to front, clean and tight copy, a few additional plates, no ...
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Bez Dzimtenes: Autobiografija, Dzejoli, Stasti un Telojumi.
97p small format paperback, paper yellowing, cover a little frgile, portrait frontispiece, ink ...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky.
208p hardback, good condition, first edition, light wear and some light marks to boards, very good ...
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La Cita en Buenos Aires: Saga de Una Gran Familia Sefaradi.
373p large format paperback, illustrated cover, many illustrations throughout, excellent fresh copy
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The Monk Who Shook The World - The Story of Martin Luther.
95p hardback, brightly coloured illustrated dustjacket very well preserved, publisher's archive ...
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Statesman 1977. Charles Evans Hughes Junior High. 5607 Capistrano Ave, Woodland Hills, California. School Yearbook.
64p large format hardback, illustrated throughout, overflowing with friendship inscriptions, this ...
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Noted Scholars of the Lithuanian Language. Biographical Sketches.
168p paperback with orange card cover, a fresh clean copy, translator inscription to title, ...
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Charles T. Studd - Kein Opfer zu Gross.
128p German-language paperback, like new condition, appears unread
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The Last Year. A Memoir of my Father.
92p hardback, pink unclipped dustjacket with just one small tear next to top of spine, very fresh ...
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Carmina Pietziana.
33p grey card cover, black cloth spine, frontispiece, printed on rectos only: Students remember the ...
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Berthold Simonsohn. Biographie des jüdischen Sozialpädagogen und Juristen (1912 - 1978).
420p fresh green paperback, white lettering to cover, tight and clean book, with plates, as new
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Ich glaube an den Beruf des Künstlers. Erich Itor Kahn (1905 - 1956) - Rekonstruktion einer inneren Biographie.
288 A4 format, green card cover, black spine, musical notations, very well preserved, without date, ...
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Goethe zu Strassburg. Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschiche des Dichters.
iv 272p half cloth binding, marbled boards rubbed, portrait frontispiece, ink stamp of the ...
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Gallerie berühmter und merkwürdiger Frankfurter. Eine biographische Sammlung.
iv 612p original green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, frontispiece with four ...
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The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography.
298p period paperback, text clean, well preserved
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Plutarch's Lives, translated from the Original Greek; with Notes, Historical and Critical and a Life of Plutarch. By John Langhorne and William Langhorne. In Six Volumes. Volumes 1 - 4 ONLY.
four volumes in full calf, all boards detached, most spines present, light library markings only, ...
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Lectures and Essays: Second Series.
xliii 269p burgundy cloth, frontispiece with tissueguard, light library markings, text clean, ...
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Concise Dictionary of National Biography, Complete to 1921.
vii 1456p 142p blue cloth fresh and tight, library stamp, R E Balfour donation bookplate, very ...
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The Works of Horace Translated into English Verse with a Life and Notes by Sir Theodore Martin, KCB.
clxxxvii 186p, 405p two volumes in original cloth, markings from a London library, this set has ...
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Our Quixotic Robert Louis Stevenson. Noble Rascal, Expiring Wanderer, Arch Bohemian, Prince of Storytellers.
201p large format paperback, drawings by Shell Fisher, clean pages, firm, cover in very good ...
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Ben-Gurion of Israel.
xii 273p hardback, loss to dustjacket's bottom edge, frontispiece, plates, clean pages, firm ...
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The Double Stock. Its History and Behaviour.
22p offprint, grey paper cover, library stamp, very well preserved: Ever sporting stocks ...
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Studies in the Inheritance of Doubleness in Flower. 1: Petunia; Further Studies on the Inheritance of "Doubleness" and other Characters in Stocks.
two offprints 12p, 72p, with illustrations, library stamp, very well preserved
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Dearest Grandpapa. The Hamiltons at Elton Hall 1861 - 1868.
vii 95p plus maps, large format paperback, clean pages, firm, cover well preserved, a very good ...
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Hélène Deutsch: Une Vie de Psychanalyste.
440p thick paperback, burgundy card cover with wrapper, author inscription to half title, else as ...
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The Past Ever Present.
47p slim paperback, a fresh copy, clean and firm, in very good condition, a scarce title
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Great Moments in Exploration.
128p hardback, clipped dustjacket in very good overall condition, illustrated, clean pages, firm, a ...
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With Livingstone in South Africa.
143p hardback, a fresh copy, clean, firm, illustrated by Harry Toothill, only slight wear to ...
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Wellington's Men. Some Soldier Autobiographies.
411p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and blindstamp decoration to front, clean pages, firm, ...
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