Search Results: Biography from House of Our Own Books

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Macmillan, 1925. This is a two-volume biography of Joan of Arc, based on official documents, letters, and contemporary chronicles; the author, best known as Mark Twain's secretary and authorized biographer, later lived in France where he visited every place associated with her life and followed the routes of her journeys; he was awarded the Legion of Honor by France for this work; includes many illustrations (blue textured cloth with gold lettering and decoration; two slightly bumped corners, otherwise these are bright, clean, tight copies in nearly perfect condition: in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Philosophical Library, 1982. This is a biography of a San Francisco surgeon who led a remarkable life involving music, travel, medicine, and social causes; a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and surgeon at San Francisco Hospital, he was a pioneer in thoracic surgery; during World War I he was in charge of the surgical division of a large German Hospital until the American entrance into the war; in the 1920s he became a friend of the painter Diego Rivera and a lifelong confidant and medical adviser to Frida Kahlo, who later painted his portrait; in 1934 he went to the Soviet Union where he set up a ward for thoracic surgery at a clinic in Moscow; in 1937 he went to Spain with a medical unit attached to the Republican Army and performed surgery at a mobile hospital behind the front lines; in 1945 he went with the U.N. to China to train doctors in thoracic surgery and worked for four years with the Communists teaching hygiene and sanitation and training midwives; in the… Read More

Montreal, PQ, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975. This is the first modern study of Themistocles, the important 5th century Greek statesman, known primarily through the ancient accounts of Herodotus,Thucydides, and Plutarch, who directed the Greek victory over the Persians at the decisive battle at Salamis; includes illustrations (dark red covers with bright red lettering on spine; pages tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 1/2" X 10".

Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Public Affairs, 1953. The autobiography of the founder of the People's Lobby, organized in 1930 with John Dewey as President, which fought for relief and, during the New Deal and the Fair Deal, for more fundamental reforms; one section of the book deals with the rise and fall of the Third Party movement in the 1920s (black cloth with gold lettering). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1989. The essays in this volume examine Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives based on contemporary psychoanalysis (maroon covers with gold lettering on spine; black pictorial dust jacket with white lettering, portrait of Shakespeare on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1982. Published for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this is a two-volume boxed set, an extensively illustrated biography of Eakins by an important art historian, a curator and later the Director of the Whitney Museum of Art, who published an earlier biography of Eakins in 1933, based on research that included conversations with Eakins' widow and interviews with his friends and former students, many of whom were the subjects of his portraits, and access to Eakins' letters and notebooks; this new book takes into account the extensive research and literature on Eakins since 1930; includes 275 illustrations in both black & white and color; signed by author on front endpaper of Volume I (white & tan textured cloth with tan lettering, both volumes in near fine condition except that spines are foxed, slipcase in nearly perfect condition). Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9 1/4" X 11 1/4". Boxed Set.