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Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adams, an investigative journalist/ muckraker, was also a prolific writer. His biography of Alexander Woollcott (d. 1943) was of a well-known contemporary. He (Woollcott) was a critic for The New Yorker, a member of the Algonquin Table and, the inspiration for the main character in the Kaufman/Hart play, The Man Who Came to Dinner. There is a protective mylar cover. This is a 1st edition, 2nd printing.

W W Norton, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "The Broken Tower' reads with all the drama of a psychological novel and the inexorable force of a Greek tragedy. Few poets have lived as extraordinary and fascinating a life as Hart Crane, the American poet who made his meteoric rise in the late 1920s and then as suddenly flamed out, killing himself at the age of thirty-two and thus turning his life and poetry into the stuff of myth. [Pub. Info] ""Extremely welcome . . . written with verve and intelligence . . . [one] of the best companions to the complexities and highs of Crane's slim oeuvre. [Boston Book Review] Illustrations and photographs Definitive biography.

Little, Brown & Co. NY [vols: 1983, 1988, 2012], 1983. 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Born at the end of the 19th century when Imperial Britain still stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power, Churchill would witness the shift a few years later as the Empire hovered on the brink of a catastrophic new era. One of the greatest wartime leaders of our time, he would go on to stand alone, politically isolated in Parliament, as he took the lead in warning of the growing Nazi threat, and would lead Britain to victory against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in World War II... 'The Last Lion' is the definitive work on this remarkable man whose courageous vision guided the destiny of a nation during darkly troubled times - and who looms as one of the greatest figures of our century." [Pub. Info] "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 was awarded to Winston Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human… Read More

Doubleday, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Owner's signaure. There is some chipping to the dust jacket. There is a protective mylar cover.

Harper & Row, 1972. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Fine. "...Emile Durkheim, one of the great founding fathers of sociology. Durkheim remains one of the most widely read thinkers in the social sciences and every student of sociology, anthropology and related subjects must study his now-classic books. He brought about a revolution in the social sciences: the defence of the autonomy of sociology as a science, the systematic elaboration of rules and methods for studying the social, the condemnation of racial theories, the critique of Eurocentrism and the rehabilitation of the humanity of ‘the primitive’. He defended the dignity of the individual, the freedom of the press, democratic institutions and the essential liberal values of tolerance and pluralism. At the same time he was critical of laisser-faire economics and he defended the values of solidarity and community life. In many ways, Durkheim’s rich intellectual heritage has become part of the self-understanding of our time."" [Pub. Info] 676… Read More

Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Maddox Ford. There is no denying his importance in the literary firmament of the first thirty years of the twentieth-century. What Judd rightly emphasizes is that Ford was a giver, believing that the preservation and furtherance of artistic talent was his permanent responsibility." [Pub. Info] 1ST EDITION

Random House, NY , 2004. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs... [This] seemingly straightforward decision would profoundly alter... the course of American literature... [The] two men became close friends and intimate collaborators. Grant raced against the spread of cancer to compose a triumphant account of his life and times... Twain struggled to complete and publish his greatest novel, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. [Pub. Info] "With a cast of fascinating characters, including General William T. Sherman, William Dean Howells, William Henry Vanderbilt, and Abraham Lincoln, Perry's narrative takes in the whole sweep of a glittering, unscrupulous age." [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. STATED 1ST EDITION.

Doubleday , 1975. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. There is some chipping to the dust jacket. There is a protective mylar cover.

Cambridge University Press, UK, No date. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The book and dust jacket are in Fine condition.

Doubleday, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. 865 pages. Detailed index. Definitive biography. 1ST EDITION.

Little, Brown and Company, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Dumas Malone's classic six-volume biography 'Jefferson and His Time' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson's life. This the final volume provides an all-encompassing account of Jefferson's accomplishments, friendships, and family difficulties in his last seventeen years, revealing his shift from the realm of politics to his roles as family man, architect, and educational enthusiast. Describing Jefferson's retirement from Washington, this volume recounts the events that formed JeffersonÕs final years, particularly the founding of the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia, in which he played a major role." [Pub. Info] Sixth volume of a magisterial biography There is a protective mylar cover. STATED 1ST EDITION.

Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1947. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman, astronomer and alchemist. He was the last of the astromers to develop his theories without the aid of telescopes. He combined the best of the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems into his theory of the universe, the Tychonic system. After his death, Brahe's assistant, Johannes Kepler used Brahe's data to develop the laws of planetary motion. Slight bumping to the corners of the book. 1ST EDITION.

G.P. Putnam, NY, 1862. 1st edition. hardcover. Good . Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific. His collected works fill forty volumes that encompass essays, history, travel writings, and multi-volume biographies of Columbus and Washington. But it is Irving's mastery of suspense, characterization, tempo, and irony that transforms his fiction into virtuoso performances..." [Pub. Info] This biography of Irving was written by his nephew. The volumes are in Good to Very Good condition. [Please check for shipping cost on multi-volume sets and larger format books.]

Simon & Shuster, NY, 1995. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln's character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader." [Pub. Info] Pulitzer Prize winning author best known for this biography. Owner's stamp. 2ND EDITION.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1982. Hardcover. Fine. "A critical examination of the lives and works of leading thinkers of the period. A critical examination of the lives and works of leading thinkers of the period."" [Pub. Info] 500 entries by 200 experts. 709 pages. 1ST EDITION

Bloomsbury Press, NY, Berlin, London, Sydney, 2012. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Master historian Peter Clarke…finds a fresh perspective on one of the most written-about figures in history. When Churchill received the Nobel Prize in 1953, it was not for his role as a world leader, but for literature… Churchill was a gifted and successful writer long before he was a politician, publishing a stream of books and articles over the coursee of his life... Clarke traces Churchill's literary career and unfolds the making of the magisterial work that occupied him on and off for a quarter century: his four-volume 'a History of the English-Speaking Peoples'...long before he took office, the massive project was shaping his worldview, his rhetoric, and his leadership. This was the work that defined the 'special relationship' between Britain and America." [Dust Jacket] 1ST US EDITION

Doubleday, NY , 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. "The Origin' is a biographical novel of the life of Charles Darwin written by Irving Stone. Darwin was a geologist and biologist, and could be considered the father of evolutionary theory. Stone took five years to research and write the novel and consulted numerous Darwin scholars and even Darwin's descendants in order to write his version of Darwin's life." [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION.

National Portrait Gallery, 2000. 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine. Enjoyable biography of Wilde and those of his closest friends. From great public success to tragedy and isolation. No dust jacket was issued. Smaller format.

The Bobs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, Hardcover. Fine /General wear to extremities; large chip with paper loss at bottom right corner of cover; small tear at top left of front cover. Chipping with paper loss at top and botrtom of spine, small tear also at top; small tear at top of back cover.. "This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semi-legendary characters - with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, with Marion the Swamp Fox and Ethan Allen... In a sense he is too good to be true, this man who wrought such mighty deeds within the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers; in a sense if he had not existed we should have had to create him." [Introduction by Henry Steele Commager] Illustrated. There is a protective mylar cover. Pulitzer Prize for Biography (for 'The Raven')

Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, No date. Hardcover. Fine/ Fine Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. "Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English Folklore, a highly skilled archer and swordsman. Although such behaviour was was not part of his original character, since the beginning of the 19th century he has been known for robbing the rich and giving to the poor, assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest." [Pub. Info] Scribner's reissued classic. Nearly a facsimile edition except the illustrations are taken from N. C. Wyeth's original canvases in the collection of the NY Public Library. There is a protective mylar cover.