Books on Biography
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My First Seventy-Six Years.
vi 552p hardback, protective laminate cover applied to dustjacket, frontispiece, plates, clean ...
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Sir Hans Singer. The Life and Work of a Development Economist.
xxviii 349p paperback, original price label attached, a clean copy, firm binding, cover edges ...
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Thomas Keith's Scotland.
x 86p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, name to endpaper, a very good copy
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The Seed is Mine. The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894 - 1985.
xvi 649p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a fresh copy, clen pages, firm binding, gift ...
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Back to Bokhara.
156p hardback, dustjacket in very good condition with additional protective clear sleeve in place, ...
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Modern Athenians 1946.
78p large format hardback, black cloth with white lettering to front, illustrated, clean pages, ...
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Gwen Raverat. Friends, Family and Affections.
438p large hardback with illustrated purple dustjacket, small tear to front endpaper, otherwise as ...
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John Dowland.
528p large cream paperback, light wear to cover, pages fresh and clean, binding firm, new and ...
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Early Lyrics. Recently Discovered Among Letters to his Schoolmaster and Friend George Ogilvie.
28p sewn booklet, cover in very good condition, binding tight, clean pages, name to green endpaper, ...
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African Development. Adebayo Adedeji's Alternative Strategies.
xvi 232p hardback, frontispiece portrait, some lines to page margins, text unaffected, firm ...
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Vladimir Nabokov.
ix 146p small format paperback, full colour pages in excellent condition, original price label to ...
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El Hotel Pez Espada y su Contribucion al Desarrollo Turistico.
220p hardback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, in excellent condition, like new, scarce
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The Idea of History. An Autobiography. Russian Translation.
485p burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, blindstamp detail to front, author portrait ...
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The Sun Life Story 1810 - 1985.
106p oblong format paperback, illustrated, clean full colour pages, a very good copy
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Cymry Enwog.
v 132p small format booklet, green paper cover, clean pages, firm, in very good condition, a scarce ...
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Maine de Biran et Bergson.
this is a 80 page offprint bound in plain boards with green cloth spine, a few marginal pencil ...
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Prisoner's Base and Home Again.
192p hardback with burgundy bopards, a clean and tight copy, no stamps, no names, first ...
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A Don at War.
288p hardback very fresh dustjacket, excellent copy of the first edition
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The Happy Hunted.
392p red cloth fresh and clean, with frontispiece, folded maps, excellent fresh copy, first ...
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The Downfall of Three Dynasties.
397p original red cloth with gil lettering to spine, frontispiece, paper with some signs of foxing ...
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University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Ifor L Evans. Principal, 1934 - 1952.
24p pamphlet with portrait frontispiece, tributes and biographical notes about Evans and his work
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Chateaubriand, Madame Recamier et les Memoires d'Outre-Tombe.
498p large format paperback with red lettering to front, frontispiece, many plates in the text, ...
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The Characters of Love: A Study in the Literature of Personality.
295p fresh and tight paperback, excellent copy, detailed studies of the theme of love in Troilus ...
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Tagebuch einer Einsamen.
lxxvi 355p hardback with fresh dustjacket, as new, with gift inscription
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Thomas Bewick and his Pupils.
xviii 232p superb half calf binding with floral paper to boards = endpapers, five bands to spine, ...
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A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself. Embellished by Numerous Wood Engravings, Designed and Engraved by the Author for a Work on British Fishes, and never Before Published.
xix 344p publisher's green cloth binding, a tight and clean copy, excellent condition, protected ...
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The Amorous Adventures of Augustus of Saxony Containing Several Transactions of His Life, Not Mentioned in any other History Together with Diverting Remarks on the Ladies of the Several Countries Thro' Which he Travell'd.
292p large format hardback, light blue cloth, spine lettered gilt, plates, a very fresh and clean ...
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The Young Thomas Hardy.
xi 259p large hardback with fresh dustjacket, plates, bibliography, a nice copy, first edition
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Who's Who 1937. An Annual Biographical Dictionary. 89th Year of Issue.
lxii 3755p overthick volume heavy red cloth, spine darkend but holding, inner hinges yielding but ...
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Who's Who 1956. An Annual Biographical Dictionary. 108th Year of Issue.
50p xii 3301p, overthick volume heavy red cloth, a tight and clean copy, no stamps, names, no ...
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The Years Between. Diaries 1939 - 44.
352p hardback with worn and torn dustjacket mostly present, frotnispiece, plates, a clean copy of ...
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Clifford of the Cabal: A Life of Thomas, First Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England. (1630 - 1673)
xix 350p burgudy cloth fresh and tight, gilt lettering to spine bright, frontispiece, a very well ...
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A-Sitting on a Gate. Autobiography.
ix 195p hardback with fresh dustjacket, clean copy, very good
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The Terror of Tobermory: An Informal Biography of Vice-Admiral Sir Gilbert Stephenson.
196p hardback with fresh dustjacket, many plates, excellent clean copy, first edition
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Six British Soldiers.
272p original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, a tight and clean copy of the first edition, ...
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The Life and Letters of Edward Young.
289p green cloth with gilt lettering to fornt, a tight and clean copy, with frontispiece and ...
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Sir James Y Simpson.
160p bright red cloth fresh and tight, black and gilt highlights, spine bright, very good indeed, ...
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Memories.
x 390p thick hardback, small format, yellow dustjacket repaired with tape, very good indeed
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Victoria of England.
vii 399p paperback, pink card cover, dustjacket is present, name to endpaper, text fresh, a very ...
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Brother to the Ox: The Autobiography of a Farmer's Boy.
vii 252p green hardback with black lettering, Prefatory Letter by the Duke of Portland, still very ...
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Danton. A Life.
380p small format, blue cloth with floral design, frontispiece, a nice and clean copy
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Sherston's Progress.
334p green cloth firm, book is clean and unmarked, very good, minor signs of age
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The Life of Mazzini.
xv 380p grey cloth, floral carpet design to spine, pages are bright and unmarked, a firm copy, very ...
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The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History.
ix 482p hardback with dustjacket, as new
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As I Recall.
290p hardback with black dustjacket (a little creased), many plates, well preserved, first edition, ...
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Jesus. In History, Legend, Scripture, and Tradition.
2 volume complete set, fresh, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new, still sealed
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Sex Ed, Segregated. The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America.
xvi 212p hardback, a fresh copy, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new
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Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her World (1807- 1873)
xiii 326p hardback, a fresh copy, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new
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