Philadelphia: John Bartram Association, 1938. softcover. 8vo (6" x 8.75") 33pp +illustrations. Biography of the famed botanist and his son, and the house and gardens where they tended their collections. #01120.
Philadelphia: Copernicus Society of America. hardcover. 4to 160pp + color and B/W photographs. Biography of the astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the solar system, as well as a history of the late 15th and early 16th century world of the Renaissance in which he lived. #02373.
New York: The Literary Guild, 1930. hardcover. 8vo 364pp. from Preface: "The family whose story is told in this volume (and with which I am in no way connected) is the most distinguished in the United States. Suddenly passing from village obscurity into international fame in the latter part of.....
New York: The Literary Guild, 1930. hardcover. 8vo 364pp. from Preface: "The family whose story is told in this volume (and with which I am in no way connected) is the most distinguished in the United States. Suddenly passing from village obscurity into international fame in the latter part of.....
London: J M Dent and Sons, 1947. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 245pp. from front flap: "This kindly, witty, human, and most entertaining book might be fairly entitled a 'Mirror' of the Church of England--at least as regards that human and personal side which is one of the special glories of.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933. hardcover. 8vo 337pp. from Preface: "The lives of the American Presidents call attention, with dramatic sharpness, to a problem in their country's history. No one can consider the careers of these twenty-nine men without wondering why it is that, whereas six out of the first.....
New York: Greystone Press, 1954. hardcover. 8vo 414pp. from front flap: "Here is the intimate true story of a magnificent romance of our time--the love and marriage of two vivid, fascinating personalities: cockney-born Gertrude Lawrence, adored star of the English and American theatre, and Richard Aldrich, proper New Englander and.....
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1960. hardcover. 8vo 256pp. biography of Prince Philip, husband and royal consort to Queen Elizabeth II, written by his cousin Alexandra, princess of Greece and Denmark later (briefly) Queen of Yugoslavia. #01710.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 306pp. biography of American financier and investment banker. #01110.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935. first edition. hardcover. 12mo 205pp. stated first edition. biography of John White, Christian missionary to the Mashonaland area of Zimbabwe in the early 20th century. #01732.
Macmillan, 1940. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 379pp. biography of the novelist, biographer, and adventurer most well known now for his friendships with Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. #00975.
Toronto: Macmillan Company, 1970. hardcover. 8vo 402pp. second printing. from front flap: "Who is Christiaan Barnard, and how will his own One Life be remembered when the first human heart transplant becomes a footnote to medical history? With rare candor and insight, the surgeon--and the man--speaks for himself. Direct and.....
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1935. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 349pp. + illustrations. published February 1935. Biography of the ruthless Leopold II of Belgium, who opened up the Congo and subjected its inhabitants in his drive for money from rubber and gold. #01196.
New York: Julian Messner, 1959. hardcover. 8vo. 192pp. lightly fictionalized biography of Tesla for younger readers. scarce copy. #03661.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 400pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "This is the story of the lives of the nineteenth-century philosopher and educator Amos Bronson Alcott; his wife, Abby May; and their four daughters, Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth, and May. The Alcotts were the.....
New York: Fleming H Revell, 1909. hardcover. 8vo 280pp. A Footnote in Narrative to Professor William James' "The Varieties of Religious Experience" from Preface: "...Here in this little book, which tells the story of a few humble and quite commonplace human beings, is such astonishing psychology as must surely bewilder.....
Random House, 1960. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 317pp. Stated first printing. Biography of English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist by his friend--fellow playwright, screenwriter, and humorist S.N. Behrman. #00729.
New York: Harper and Row, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 428pp. from front flap: "Hoagy Carmichael said that once you heard Bix Beiderbecke blow four notes on his horn, your life would never be the same. Bix has always inspired that kind of rhetoric, and the cliche "a legend in.....
New York: Thomas Y Crowell and Co, 1885. hardcover. 12mo367pp. from Preface: "These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty is no barrier to success. It usually develops ambition, and nerves people to action. Life.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 264 + xii pp. stated first edition. brief biographical sketches of the country living of: John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Calvin Coolidge. #02552.
Little Brown and Company, 1969. first edition, presentation copy. hardcover. 8vo 174pp. from front flap: "In this freshly written text Catherine Drinker Bowen has drawn upon the technical experiences involved in the writing of her seven biographies, as well as on the methods and the testimony of other writers whose.....
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1963. Atlantic Monthly Press Book. hardcover. 8vo 245pp. #03267.
Little Brown and Company, 1944. hardcover. Octavo 475pp. Biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. #00318.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 306pp. from front flap: "Into this great book, Gamaliel Bradford, most celebrated of living American biographers, has poured all the wisdom, all the knowledge of human nature, he has gleaned in his studies of famous men and women. 'Life and I'.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. softcover. 12mo 655pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02574.