The First Five Lives of Ammie Besant
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. 418 pp. The life and deeds of Annie Besant and her influence on education, women's rights, Theosophy, birth control, and the liberation of India.
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Murrow: His Life and Times
New York: Freundlich Books, 1986. Hardcover. Thick 8vo., 795 pp. Index, Notes, black and white plates. The life of Ed Murrow, the American radio correspondent of his generation, beginning with his broadcasts from London during World War Two, then as a CBS director during the McCarthy era and, much later.....
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
New York: Dutton, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo., 519 pp. Cover illustration by David Levine. Illustrated with a section of black and white plates.. National Book Award-winning biography of Perkins, the editor who helped guide F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe, among many others. Berg took the literary world by.....
Churchill Revised A Critical Assessment
New York: Dial Press, 1969. Hardcover. Thick 8vo., Five famous authorities [A.J.P. Taylor, R. Rhodes James, J.H. Plumb, B. Liddell Hart and Anthony Storr] take a mildly revisionist look at Winston Churchill the politician, the strategist and the historian. A controversial psychological profile.
The Shahs Iran: Rise and Fall: Conversations with an Insider
London: I. B. Tauris, 2016. Hardcover. 8vo., 319 pp. Index.
Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
New York: Dey Street, 2022. Hardcover. 8vo. 270 pp. Autobiography of the Tony, Olivier, BAFTA, and Emmy award winner who is also the author of two children s books, a book of photographs and stories and a novel.
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
New York: Broadway, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo., 321 pp., Index. An in-depth portrait of Jobs which draws on interviews with colleagues, rivals, and friends to describe how, after a twelve-year exile from Apple [during which time he founded NeXT and the film animation studio, Pixar], he returned to become the CEO.....
J.S. Bach
New York: Macmillan, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Volume I.
A Man Named John: The Life of Pope John XXII
New York: Hawthorn, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
Lenin in Zurich
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo., 266 pp. Translated from the Russian by H.T. Willetts. A precursor of sorts to The Red Wheel-the first chapters were incorporated into the expanded 1984 edition of August 1914, and the rest into November 1916 and March 1917.
The Atlas of Frank Lloyd Wright
Surrey: Taj, 2005. Softcover. Square 4to., 260 pp. Index with hundreds color photographs. Examines hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright's US buildings on a state by state basis. Superbly illustrated.
Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday
New York: Harper and Row, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo., 151 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. Discography.
Beaufort of the Admiralty: The Life of Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857
New York: Random House, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo., 362 pp. Illustrations, endpaper maps, notes, bibliography, index. Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort's greatest achievements were the revitalization of the Hydrographic Office and the perfecting of the Admiralty Chart, a standard for accuracy from the 1830's to the present day.
My Friend Henry Miller
New York: John Day, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Preface by Henry Miller. Biography of Miller penned by his closest friend.
John James Audubon by Alice Ford
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Hardcover. Large 8vo., 488 pp. Profusely illustrated in black and white. A life of the famous bird illustrator.
Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary
New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine with owner's name on front endpaper in fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Last Coach: A Life of Paul 'Bear' Bryant
New York: Norton, 2006. Hardcover. 8vo., 608 pp. Black and white photos. 'Birmingham Weekly.' Sportswriter Barra gives readers a look into the life of the real Bear Bryant, separates fact from fiction, and venerates the legend.
American Heroine: The Life And Legend Of Jane Addams
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo., 339 pp. Addams was founder of Hull House, social reformer, suffragist, pacifist, and one of the most greatly admired women in American history-come and go, but Allen Davis's account of her life, work, and ideas remains the standard biography.
Emma Willard: Daughter of Democracy
Washington, D.C. Zenger, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo., 291 pp. Facsimile of the 1929 edition. Illustrated. This edition issued without dust wrapper.
Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
Boston: Beacon Press, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo., 340 pp. Illustrated. Second print.
Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
Washington, D.C. Zenger, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo., 340 pp. Reprint of a 1959 title.
You Fascinate Me So: The Life and Times of Cy Coleman
New York: Applause, 2015. Hardcover. Octavo. 487 pp. Signed by the author. First-time biography of Coleman written with the full cooperation of his estate, and includes interviews with colleagues and friends, including Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Ken Howard, Michele Lee, James Naughton, Bebe Neuwirth, Hal Prince, Chita Rivera, and Tommy.....
Jean and Laurent DeBrunhoff: The Legacy of Babar
Farmington Hills: Twayne, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Twayne World Author Series.
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. Hardcover. 8vo. 798 pp. Family tree of Hemings on front and rear endpapers. Photographs, notes and bibliography. Thomas Jefferson often described his slaves at Monticello as "my family." The author as taken that description seriously. This is the Pulitzer Prize winning book about the.....
By a Unknown Disciple
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1919. Hardcover. 12mo., 222 pp. View on the life of Jesus Christ, written by an Unknown Disciple.