SISTREN & FORD SMITH, HONOR (ed)

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PUBLISHER: The Women's Press 1986

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YUTANG, LIN

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PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1948

KEYWORDS: history historical biography biographies memoir Su Tungpo literary

HALL, NORMAN S

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PUBLISHER: Arno Press 1972

KEYWORDS: aviation history biography Frank Luke

ROGER, JACQUES & BONNEFOI, SARAH LUCILLE (Trans) & WILLIAMS, L PEARCE (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: natural history Georges Buffon naturalists biography nature

DALI, SALVADOR & PARINAUD, ANDRE & SALEMSON, HAROLD J (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, ex-library, super octavo, cream heavy boards, red gilt lettering to spine & front board, 300pp, illus/photos, VG (usual library markings, moderate soiling & tape staining to spine & boards/edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps with moderate adhesive staining also, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: W H Allen 1976

KEYWORDS: art biography biographies autobiographies memoir artists Salvador Dali first editions

GIBRAN, KAHLIL & GIBRAN, JEAN

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PUBLISHER: Avenel Books 1981

KEYWORDS: Kahlil Gibran literary biography memoir autobiography

BAILEY, KATHRYN

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PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: Anton Webern composer biography music history

OSBORNE, ROGER

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PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1999

KEYWORDS: Jacques Deprat geologist biography fraud

WILLEY, BASIL

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PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1963

KEYWORDS: literary essays criticism biography Francis W Newman Tennyson J A Froude Mark Rutherford John Morley

CARTER, WILLIAM C

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PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: Marcel Proust literary biography queer LGBTQIA

ESCOTT, JOHN & MERRITT, GEORGE & MACEWEN, WILLIAM

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PUBLISHER: Little, Brown 2004

KEYWORDS: Hank Williams country music singer biography

PURNELL, SONIA

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PUBLISHER: Virago Press 2019

KEYWORDS: Virginia Hall world war two spy biography history female spies espionage women

HALPERN, IAN

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PUBLISHER: Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: James Taylor music biography singer songwriter musician Carly Simon

WATTS, JOHN

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PUBLISHER: John Donald / Birlinn 2002

KEYWORDS: Hugh Macdonald Scottish historical biography Jacobite rebeliion Scotland history

HAFFENDEN, JON

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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: William Empson poet literary biography criticism

HUGHES, ROBERT & GOPNIK, ADAM (INTRO.)

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PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 2015

KEYWORDS: Robert Hughes literary biography cultural critic unpublished memoir

MELLERS, WILFRID

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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1980

KEYWORDS: Johann Sebastian Bach classical composer religious biography music religion spirituality

NEWMAN, ERNEST

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PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1963

KEYWORDS: Richard Wagner classical music composer biography

TIGUNAIT, PANDIT RAJMANI

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PUBLISHER: Himalayan Institute Press 2002

KEYWORDS: Yoga Hindu saints sages biography history ancient Sanskrit texts oral histories Hinduism

BROWN, TONY

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PUBLISHER: Rogan House 1997

KEYWORDS: Jimi Hendrix final days music biography