Biography

37389: ANON.
The Private life of the Queen. By one of Her Majesty's Servants. Gresham Books, facsimile of 1897 edition 1979, 234pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0905418662.
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40694: ARMSTRONG, Karen
The Spiral Staircase. A memoir. HarperCollins, 2004, 320pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0007122284. An honest and moving account of the author's life from the time she left her convent in 1969, attempting to carve herself a place in what had become to her an alien world.
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41480: ASQUITH, H. H.
Memories and Reflections, 1852-1927. Vol 2. Cassell, 1928, 288pp, ex-library copy, Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B000WEWMFA.
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39520: BAIRNSFATHER, Bruce.
From Mud to Mufti. With Old Bill on all fronts. Grant Richards, 1919, 294pp, spine frayed otherwise Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B000WF9E8W. His first book was about his time in the trenches. This begins with his recovery in an English hospital from a wound and goes on to describe his discovery by the War Office and his commissioning to draw cartoons of a whole range of the war fronts.
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39702: BARGHOUTI, Mourid
I Saw Ramallah. The American University in Cairo Press, 2001, 180pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 9774244990. An autobiographical account by the Palestinian poet of his return home from thirty years of exile.
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41743: BARLOW, R.A. et al [Eds]
A Dear and Noble Boy: The Life and Letters of Louis Stokes, 1897-1916 Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 1995, 200pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0850524253.
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37578: [BEATRICE, Princess]
The Service in Whippingham Church on the Occasion of the Marriage of Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore and His Royal Highness the Prince Henry Maurice of Battenberg, K.G. on Thursday July 23, 1885. Privately Published, 1885, 24pp, ex-library copy (Lambeth Palace), boards warped, slight staining to edges otherwise Very Good Condition. Photos available on request., vellum. Printed for Private Circulation by her Majesty's Command. View image.
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37858: BENN, Tony
Dare to be a Daniel: Then and Now Hutchinson, 2004, 256pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0091799996. Autobiography of the politician. My father used to get apoplectic over him and his politics, but he is a good man.
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37360: BENSON, E. F.
Daughters of Queen Victoria. Cassell, 2nd edition 1939, 295pp, faded and shabby, Hardcover.
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37506: BENSON, E.F.
Queen Victoria. Longmans, 1935, 409pp, Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B0006D73QA.
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37312: BLOCH, Michael [Ed]
Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931-1937 : The Intimate Correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Summit Books, 1992, 0pp, Very Good Condition in worn dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0671612093.
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34383: BRISCOE, A Daly
Stuart Benefactress: Sarah, Duchess of Somerset, 1631-92 T Dalton, 1973, 248pp, Very Good Condition, no dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0900963352.
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37517: CREEVEY, Thomas
The Creevey Papers, 1793-1838. Edited by John Gore. Batsford, revised edition 1963, 280pp, Very Good Condition in worn dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN B00120SXCY.
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37527: DANGERFIELD, George
Victoria's Heir. The education of a Prince. Constable, 1942, 345pp, Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B0006DCUD6.
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37519: DANGERFIELD, George
Victoria's Heir. The education of a Prince. Constable, new edition 1972, 352pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0094587507.
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37520: DUFF, David [Ed]
Victoria in the Highlands. Muller, 1968, 400pp, Very Good Condition in worn dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0584103212.
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37587: ERICKSON, Carolly
Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria. Robson Books, 1998, 300pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 1861050798.
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39693: FRANK, Katherine
Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994, 400pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 024113014X.
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39694: GAY, Peter
Freud: A Life For Our Time. Dent, 1988, 672pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0460047612.
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39453: GORDON, Colin
Beyond the Looking Glass: Reflections of Alice and Her Family. Hodder, 1982, 246pp, Very Good Condition in worn dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0340263784. On Dean Liddell and his family, particularly his daughter Alice, the eponymous heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice books.
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31678: GRESHAM, Douglas H.
Lenten Lands. My childhood with Joy Davidman and C S Lewis. Collins, 1989, 225pp, illustrations, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0002159562. View image.
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37301: GURNEY, Dorothy Frances Blomfield
The childhood of Queen Victoria. London: J. Nisbet, 1901, 238pp, cover slightly stained otherwise Very Good Condition, . Photos available on request.
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37328: HARDIE, Frank
The political influence of Queen Victoria, 1861-1901 Oxford UP, 2nd edition 1938, 258pp, Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B00087EI8U.
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37566: HELENA, Princess [Ed]
Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse Princess of Great Britain and Ireland : biographical sketch and letters. John Murray, 1884, 415pp, sewing loose, shabby, Hardcover. ISBN B000X3EN8Y.
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37454: HIBBERT, Christopher
George III: A Personal History. Viking, 1998, 480pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0670869414.
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40211: HIRST, David et al
Sadat. Faber, 1981, 384pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0571116906.
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37550: HOBHOUSE, Hermione
Prince Albert: His Life and Work Hamish Hamilton, 1983, 192pp, illustrations, some in colour, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0241111420.
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37480: HOUGH, Richard [Ed]
Advice to a grand-daughter : letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse. Readers Union, 1976, 156pp, Very Good Condition in worn dustjacket, Hardcover.
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37552: HOUGH, Richard
Victoria and Albert Richard Cohen Books, 1996, 248pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 1860660339.
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39696: IGNATIEFF, Michael
Isaiah Berlin: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1998, 354pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0701163259.
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38057: JAGGER, Peter J.
Gladstone: The Making of a Christian Politician: The Personal Religious Life and Development of William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1832. London: Pickwick Publications, 2004, 346pp, Very Good Condition, Paperback. ISBN 1556350120.
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37553: JAMES, Robert Rhodes
Prince Albert: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1984, 299pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0394407636.
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37580: JERROLD, Clare
The early court of Queen Victoria. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912, 392pp, spine badly torn, Hardcover.
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37581: JERROLD, Clare
The married life of Queen Victoria. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913, 399pp, spine frayed, covers faded, Hardcover.
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37582: JERROLD, Clare
The widowhood of Queen Victoria. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1916, 454pp, spine frayed, covers faded, Hardcover.
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37477: JOHN, Katherine
The Prince Imperial. Putnam, 1939, 392pp, ex-library copy, Good Condition, Hardcover. This copy came from the library of Farnborough Abbey, the monastery that the Empress Eugenie built to house her husband and son.
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40161: KARMI, Ghada
In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story. Verso Books, 2002, 288pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 1859846947.
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37302: LEGGE, Edward
King Edward in his true colours. London: E. Nash, 2nd edition 1913, 416pp, covers stained, hinges weak, foxed, Hardcover. Sychophantic drivel.
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25456: LESSING, Doris
In Pursuit of the English. MacGibbon & Kee, 1960, 240pp, Very Good Condition, no dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN B0000CKKWG. This is an amusing account of the novelist's first few years in England after she left Rhodesia. Having myself made the same move from Southern Africa to England many years later I found the English still just as odd as she did.
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39313: LEWIS, C.S.
All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C.S.Lewis, 1922-27. Fount, 1991, 500pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0002154064.
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37509: LONGFORD, Elizabeth
Victoria R.I. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964, 635pp, illustrations, Very Good Condition in worn dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN B0000CMAT9.
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42126: LUDWIG, Emil.
NAPOLEON. Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt, 1925, 695pp, spine frayed otherwise Good Condition, half leather. ISBN B000O8E1NA.
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40439: MAGEE, Bryan
Confessions of a Philosopher. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997, 496pp, Very Good Condition in Dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0297819593.
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39964: MALCOLM, Norman
Ludwig Wittgenstein. A memoir. Oxford University Press, 1984, 0pp, covers protected by transparent adhesive film, Very Condition, Paperback. ISBN 0195002822.
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39849: MCGUINNESS, Brian
Wittgenstein: A Life: 1889-1921: Young Ludwig. Duckworth, 1988, 344pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0715609599.
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40266: MCLYNN, F.J.
Burton: Snow Upon the Desert. John Murray, 1993, 428pp, covers protected by transparent adhesive film, Very Good Condition, Paperback. ISBN 071955280X.
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40756: MURPHY, Martin
Blanco White. Yale University Press, 1989, 320pp, Very Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN 0300044585.
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37584: NEALE, Erskine
The life of Field-Marshal His Royal Highness, Edward, duke of Kent. London: R. Bentley, 1850, 416pp, modern rebind, Very Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B0012NW9KI.
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37554: PAKULA, Hannah
An Uncommon Woman. The Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996, 540pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0297813331.
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37419: PEACOCKE, Marguerite D.
Queen Mary, her life and times London: Odhams Press, 1952, 127pp, Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B000KIJ788.
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37512: POPE-HENNESSY, James
Queen Mary, 1867-1953 Allen & Unwin, 1959, 685pp, Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN 0049230255.
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37513: POUND, Reginald
Albert: A Biography of the Prince Consort. M Joseph, 1973, 378pp, illustrations, Very Good Condition in worn dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0718111141.
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39264: RATTRAY, Harriet
Country life in Syria : passages of letters written from Anti-Lebanon. London: Church of England Book Society, no date, 232pp, ex-library copy, covers marked, shabby, Hardcover. I am at a loss as to why the Church of England Book Society should have reprinted this amusing little volume. The author's husband appears to have been a farmer rather than a missionary. I can find nothing about them on the web.
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37380: REID, Michaela
Ask Sir James: Life of Sir James Reid, for 20 Years Personal Physician to Queen Victoria. Hodder, 1987, 288pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0340415150.
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35075: RICHARDS, Jeffrey
Diana: The Making of a Media Saint I.B. Tauris, 1999, 192pp, Very Good Condition, Paperback. ISBN 1860643884.
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37381: RICHARDSON, Joanna
Portrait of a Bonaparte: Life and Times of Joseph-Napoleon Primoli, 1851-1927. Quartet Books, 1987, 352pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Paperback. ISBN 0704326388.
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40328: SADAT, Jehan
A Woman of Egypt. Coronet Books, 1989, 544pp, covers protected by transparent adhesive film, Very Good Condition, Paperback. ISBN 0340489162.
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40167: SAID, Edward
Out of Place: A Memoir. Granta Books, 1999, 400pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 1862070113.
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40442: SAVIGNEAU, Josyanne
Carson McCullers: A Life. Houghton Mifflin, 2001, 384pp, Very Good Condition in Dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0704350866.
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37593: SINCLAIR, Andrew
Death by Fame: Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria. Constable, 1998, 288pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0094780609.
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37594: SINCLAIR, Andrew
The Other Victoria: The Princess Royal and the Great Game of Europe. Weidenfeld, 1982, 282pp, Very Good Condition in worn dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0297779877.
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37383: ST.AUBYN, Giles
Queen Victoria: A Portrait Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991, 672pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 1856190862.
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42143: SYKES, Christopher
Wassmuss, The German Lawrence: His adventures in Persia during and after the war. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1937, 245pp, dogeared otherwise Good Condition, Paperback. ISBN B0000EF83V.
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23622: TAYLOR, A.
God's Fugitive. The Life of C M Doughty. HarperCollins, 1999, 351pp, illustrations, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0002558157.
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37322: TILLICH, Hannah
From Time to Time. Allen & Unwin, 1975, 256pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0049200410.
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37330: TISDALL, E. E. P.
Unpredictable queen; the intimate life of Queen Alexandra. Stanley Paul, 1953, 240pp, shabby, Hardcover. ISBN B0000CINAD.
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36351: TREWIN, J. C
Down to the Lion. Carroll & Nicholson, 1952, 216pp, Very Good Condition in worn dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN B0000CIALK. Second of two autobiographical works by the Cprnish dramatic critic.
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41426: ULLMANN, Elizabeth
Walter Ullmann: A tale of two cultures. Cambridge: Trinity College, 1990, 84pp, Very Good Condition, paperback. ISBN B00120PXQI.
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40270: VATIKIOTIS, P.J.
Among Arabs and Jews, 1936-90. Weidenfeld, 1991, 176pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 0297820761.
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37393: VICTORIA, Queen
The letters of Queen Victoria, a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence� Vol 2. 1844-1853. J. Murray, 1908, 472pp, Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B00120RN7K.
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37390: VICTORIA, QUEEN
The letters of Queen Victoria, a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence� Vol 1. 1837-1843. J. Murray, 1908, 512pp, Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B00120WQUE.
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37391: VICTORIA, QUEEN
The letters of Queen Victoria, a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence� Vol 1. 1837-1843. J. Murray, 1908, 512pp, Very Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B00120WQUE.
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37763: VICTORIA, QUEEN
The letters of Queen Victoria, a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence� Vol 2. 1844-1853. J. Murray, 1907, 575pp, illustrations, shabby, Hardcover. Larger than editions published the following year.
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37605: VICTORIA, QUEEN
The letters of Queen Victoria, a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence� Vol 2. 1844-1853. J. Murray, 1908, 472pp, Very Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B00120RN7K.
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37762: VICTORIA, QUEEN
The letters of Queen Victoria, a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence� Vol 3. 1854-1861. J. Murray, 1907, 660pp, illustrations, folding pedigrees, shabby, Hardcover. Larger than some editions.
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37392: VICTORIA, QUEEN
The letters of Queen Victoria, a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence� Vol 3. 1854-1861. J. Murray, 1908, 520pp, Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B00120SX1K.
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41998: VOCKE, Harald
Albrecht von Kessel: Als Diplomat fur Versohnung mit Osteuropa. Herder, 2001, 373pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 3451202484. With signed dedication by the author.
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39851: WHEEN, Francis
Karl Marx. Fourth Estate, 1999, 448pp, Very Good Condition in dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 1857026373.
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37332: WHITTLE, T.
Albert's Victoria. St. Martin's Press, 1972, 263pp, Good Condition, Hardcover. ISBN B0006C4HOC.
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37484: WOCKER, Karl Heinz
Konigin Victoria: Eine Biographie Claassen, 1978, 555pp, Very Good Condition in worn dustjacket, Hardcover. ISBN 3546498208.
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