Biography: general
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Biography: general
Paperback. Num Pages: 824 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1157.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 824
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816699476
- ISBN
- 9780816699476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
Paperback. Alfredo Di Stefano was the magician behind Real Madrid's five European Cups in a row. He would lead Madrid as a team whose playing style others learnt from, whose stylishness was envied and whose widespread appreciation elsewhere help portray Franco's otherwise isolated and right-wing Spain in a more flattering light. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091958565
- ISBN
- 9780091958565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. A biography of the impresario of the arts and creator of 'The Ballets Russes'. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ASDL; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 173 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1024.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846681646
- ISBN
- 9781846681646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.69
€ 25.99
€ 17.69
Hardcover. In Paris and London, Diaghilev drew together a talented group of artists such as Picasso, Bakst and Fokine, as well as dancers like Nijinsky, Lifar and Karsavina, and the composers Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev. This book examines Diaghilev's destructive and tempestuous affair with his protege Nijinsky and his friendship with Jean Cocteau. Num Pages: 300 pages, 30 B&W and colour. BIC Classification: ASDL; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905791910
- ISBN
- 9781905791910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.69
€ 26.99
€ 18.69
Paperback. A selection of dialogues and letters from one of the most influential masters of Latin prose. This text includes "Consolation to Helvia" written to Seneca's mother to soothe the pain of separation, and the dialogues of "On the Shortness of Life", and "On Tranquility of Mind". Editor(s): Costa, C.D.N. Translator(s): Costa, C.D.N. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446791
- ISBN
- 9780140446791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Hardcover. A spirited biography of the financier and bon vivant whose lavish lifestyle embodied the Gilded Age One of the most colorful figures of the most glamorous era in U.S. history, James Buchanan "Diamond Jim" Brady was the high lord of the New York glitterati during the Gilded Age. Brady's was a classic rags-to-riches story. Num Pages: 368 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471391029
- ISBN
- 9780471391029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.14
€ 37.99
€ 29.14
Hardback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 35 x 144 x 225. Weight in Grams: 597. Clean copy in good condition. Some shelf wear. Hardcover, dustjacket in good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KRF0008871
- ISBN
- 9780340897904
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJP; APB; BGL; FA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286. In good condition. A well read copy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- 1st. Edition
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KRS0010902
- ISBN
- 9780340898451
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJP; APB; BGL; FA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Edition
- 1st. Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KHN0000661
- ISBN
- 9780340898451
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Born in 1910, Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom she had two sons. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley - a course of action that horrified her family. This title offers her portrait. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099470274
- ISBN
- 9780099470274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.49
€ 23.99
€ 17.49
Paperback. Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. This account presents the most intimate portrait of Diana to date, as well as a fitting tribute to one of the outstanding figures of our age. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGR; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786061133
- ISBN
- 9781786061133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.57
€ 12.99
€ 11.57
Paperback. Aims to tell what really happened that tragic night when Princess Diana died. This work discloses why the Mercedes was taking the wrong route to Dodi's flat. It uncovers incriminating information about the owner of the infamous white Fiat Uno from French security sources. It reveals evidence surrounding the events of that fateful night. Num Pages: 400 pages, map. BIC Classification: BGR; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 110 x 26. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099471349
- ISBN
- 9780099471349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.63
€ 20.99
€ 16.63
Paperback. The acclaimed international bestseller, now with a new introduction from the authors telling the full story of their quest for the truth about the life and death of princess Diana. Num Pages: 416 pages, 16 pp colour (2x8). BIC Classification: BGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- SKU
- KAK0010818
- ISBN
- 9780340821794
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Diane Arbus's photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks were becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed suicide in 1971. This book examines Diane's life through: her childhood; her marriage to Allan Arbus; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and more. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2. BIC Classification: AJB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099470366
- ISBN
- 9780099470366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.19
€ 17.99
€ 13.19
hardcover. Diane Arbus was one of the greatest photographers of the last century. Her portraiture of freaks, circus performers, twins, nudists and others on the social margins connected with a wide public at a deep psychological level. This biography begins at the moment Arbus quit the world of commercial photography to be an artist, and ends with her death. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: AJB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780224097703
- ISBN
- 9780224097703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 27.76
€ 39.99
€ 27.76
Hardback. Culled from the six volumes of "The Diaries of George Washington" completed in 1979, this selection of entries reveals the lifelong preoccupations of the public and private man. Num Pages: 640 pages, 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 38. Weight in Grams: 934.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918563
- ISBN
- 9780813918563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.43
€ 87.43
Hardback. Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, his diaries were recovered from the family flat in.. Num Pages: 800 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AVH; BGFA; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 235 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801445408
- ISBN
- 9780801445408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.95
€ 104.95
Paperback. This selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGLA; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 222 x 33. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847496058
- ISBN
- 9781847496058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.58
€ 13.99
€ 11.58
Paperback. This anthology of Irish diaries features an eclectic selection from diarists known and unknown, including poets, farmers and politicians. The anthology covers diary excerpts from the 17th to the 20th century. Diarists include Richard Boyle, John Wesley, Thomas Carlyle, and Richard Murphy. Editor(s): Lenox-Conyngham, Melosina. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st. Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781874675785
- ISBN
- 9781874675785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.69
€ 14.99
€ 13.69
Paperback. The first of three abridged volumes of 'the greatest diarist of our times' Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: AVQ; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719566813
- ISBN
- 9780719566813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.87
€ 19.99
€ 14.87