Books on Biography
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Recollections of Student Life and Later Days.
47p pamphlet, 'A tribute to the memory of the late Sir Victor Horsley FRS', name in ink to title ...
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Dickens in London.
93p large format hardback, purple boards with beige cloth spine, a little foxing to edges of pages ...
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Georg Friedrich Handel's Opstanding.
43p hardback, parchment-covered boards with bright red phoenix design to front board, attractive ...
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Papers Relating to the Family of Wimsey, edited by Matthew Wimsey.
55p blue paper cover, black lettering to front, some sunning to front, spine a little chipped / ...
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To do with the Oulton Family.
xvi 294p paperback with green cover, illustrations, some in colour, signed by the author, letter by ...
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Das wahre Bildnis Johann Sebastian Bachs. Eine Erstveröffentlichung mit Erläuterungen.
22p large format paperback, portrait plate plus folding plate with addtl versions of the portrait, ...
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Le Chevalier de Lignières, un ami de Cyrano de Bergerac. Plaisante Histoire d'un Poète libertin d'après des Documents Inédits.
189p large paperback, limited edition, numbered copy, printed on excellent paper, original ...
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Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great. Newly Translated from the French Edition of M de L'Écluse. Volume 5 ONLY.
single volume 5 ONLY, full calf binding, hinges soft but boards still attached, marginal wear to ...
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Edith Sitwell. A Unicorn among Lions.
xiii 387p large format paperback, fresh clean copy, with plates, stamped "damaged" but no such ...
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Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great. Newly Translated from the French Edition of M de L'Écluse.
five volumes on full calf, hinges soft but boards still attached, marginal wear to original ...
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Photos of Rose Grainger and of 3 Short Accounts of her Life by herself, in her own Handwriting; Reproduced for her Kin and Friends by her Adoring son Percy Grainger; also Table of Dates and Summary of Cultural Tastes.
46 leaves, stiff booklet with illustrated cover, glassine jacket present, in old and worn slipcase, ...
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The Roman Empresses, or the History of the Lives and Secret Intrigues of the Wives of the Twelve Caesars. Volume 1 ONLY.
thick volume in publisher's black cloth with gilt rule to board, tight and well preserved copy, ...
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Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography.
428p small hardback, half black calf over dark green cloth, three raised bands, gilt titles to ...
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Children of the Sun.
188p paperback, illustrated cover still bright, spine sunned, 5th printing
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Thomas Young: Natural Philosopher, 1773 - 1829.
xx 353p cloth with well preserved dustjacket, frontispiece, illustrations, first edition, very good
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Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song… A Texas Chronicle.
328p paperback, very clean and firm copy, musical transcriptions by Jessie Ann Owens and David Skuse
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Discourses - Diskurse: Essays for - Beiträge zu Mikuláš Teich and Alice Teichova.
455p hardback, dustjacket, as new, uncommon title
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Engelbert Humperdinck. Das Leben meines Vaters.
350p hardback with dustjacket, many plates, fresh and clean copy
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Hommage à Ravel 1987.
213p large format paperback, many plates and illustrations, also in colour, excellent copy
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The Wife of General Bonaparte.
372p original cloth, a somewhat aged copy, "improved" by mounting the colour portrait of a ...
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Carlo Mierendorff. Porträt eines deutschen Sozialisten.
38p slim booklet, paper yellowing, well preserved
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Niklaus von Flüe.
144p green cloth with gilt lettering and ornaments, frontispiece, additional plates, a fresh and ...
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Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad.
first edition, rebound in plain red cloth, titlepage becoming un-stuck but could be easily mended ...
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Exercice d'un enterré vif (Juin 1940-Août 1944).
220p original paperback, first edition, this copy entirely un-cut, never read, Librairie Droz ...
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Rudolf Laban. An Extraordinary Life.
306p hardback with white dustjacket with portrait of Laban to front, excellent condition, almost as ...
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Töchter des Hippokrates. 100 Jahre akademische Ärztinnen in Österreich.
172p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, in excellent condition, new
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Figures of Speech. American Writers and the Literary Marketplace, from Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson.
xv 295p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, a very good copy, unused
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The Diary of a Farmer's Wife, 1796 - 1797.
162p hardback, grey dustjacket very fresh, well preserved, pages clean, binding firm, with ...
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Conflicted Life. William Jerdan, 1782 - 1869: London Editor, Author and Critic.
xii 659p hardback, a fresh copy, clean and firm, earlier price mark made to endpaper using light ...
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Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry. Work, Play, and Politics.
xiii 216p hardback, illustrated, a fresh copy, clean and firm, excellent, new
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The Journal to Stella (The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift Vol. 2)
507p xxi private dark pink leather binding, five raised bands, blindstamped dentelles, all edges ...
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John Wesley in America. Restoring Primitive Christianity.
xv 237p hardback, a fresh copy, clean and firm, excellent, new
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The Lost Ireland of Stephen Gwynn. Irish Constitutional Nationalism and Cultural Politics, 1864 - 1950.
xii 273p paperback, a fresh copy, clean, firm, in excellent condition
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Hannah More.
xi 284p beige cloth, frontispiece portrait, plates, red lettering to spine, frontispiece portrait, ...
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The Musical Voyager: Berlioz in Europe.
xviii 320p white paperback, illustrated cover, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm, like new
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Chinese Translation of The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde.
xxii 307p paperback, clean pages, firm binding, a fresh copy, scarce
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A Princeton Companion.
x 559p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, well ...
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The Spirit Above the Dust. A Study of Herman Melville.
x 269p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, frontispiece portrait, clean pages, firm ...
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Lloyd George.
64p slim format hardback, plates, clean pages, a fresh copy, in very good condition
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Vita di Napoleone Scritta da lui Stesso. Manoscritto pervenuto da S. Elena in maniera sconosciuta, e stampato a Londra presso Murray il 1817.
99p period paperback with small flaws but well preserved, text clean, series listing with fascist ...
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El Senor San Jorge. Patron de Aragon.
205p hardback, brown decorative cloth with gilt frame and title, paste down image to front, still ...
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Raymond Foulche-Delbosc.
15p stapled pamphlet, beige cover with red lettering to front, staples a bit fragile, single page ...
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You Can't Drown the Fire. Latin American Women Writing in Exile.
258p white paperback, very good condition, well preserved copy
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Reflections on Beckett (Irish Arts Review, Winter 2005)
6p article very well illustrated with Minihan's black and white photographs of Beckett, for sale is ...
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The Unknown Cromwell.
384p green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, paint mark to spine, unused Technical School label, ...
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The Detective Story in Britain.
40p stapled booklet, yellow cover, clean pages, fresh staples, in excellent condition
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Memorias de un Profesor Exonerado.
217p original paperback, first edition, illustrated cover with superficial paper hurt where ...
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