Buy this book on-line Bradford, Gamaliel : Biography of the Human HeartHoughton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1932
Original publisher's black cloth binding with blue, white, and black dust wrapper. 6" x 9." 283 pages, complete. Six black and white plates, complete. Appendix and index in back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Dust wrapper is clean and not price-clipped but has some chipping at the corners and spine. A collection of biographies on the following American and English icons: poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Walt Whitman, singer Charlotte Cushman, painter William Morris Hunt, writer and clergyman Jones Very, and man of letters Horace Walpole. In the first and last chapters, the author talks about writing biographies. Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932) was an American biographer, critic, and poet who was known as the "Dean of Biographers" in his day. Over the course of twenty years, he wrote 114 biographies. Bradford was also a pioneer of a psychographic form of writing biographies adapted from Lytton Strachey, which is noted for its psychological and sympathetic insight.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Bradford, Gamaliel : Biography of the Human Heart. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, out-of-print books, rare books, livres illustrées and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |