biography

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Schenkman Publishing, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly faded dust jacket. Written in 1936, long before his fame as a archeologist and anthropologist. He tells the story of his life as an African in White Africa from the time he left his family in search of a new life until he returned as a successful scientist. Leakey vividly describes his experiences as a hunter, gatherer, and farmer, and his encounters with the natural world and the people he met there. He also describes the challenges he and his fellow Africans faced in trying to establish themselves as a minority community in a hostile environment. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Lausanne, Acatos, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket., 206 pages. With photographs and reproductions in color and black and white of Lam's paintings and drawings. With facsimile of small booklet by Andre Breton in pocket inside front cover.

Hardcover. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 357 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Mountaineers Books, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 302 pages. Every year wildfires ravage forests, destroy communities, and devastate human lives, with only the bravery of dedicated firefighters creating a barrier against even greater destruction. Throughout the 2016 wildfire season, journalist Heather Hansen witnessed firsthand the heroics of the Station 8 crew in Boulder, Colorado. She tells that story here, layered with the added context of the history, science, landscape, and human behavior that, year-by-year, increases the severity, frequency, and costs of conflagrations in the West. She examines the changes in both mindset and activity around wildfires and tracks the movement from wildfire as something useful, to something feared, to something necessary but roundly dreaded. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, The Ryerson Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 272 pages. Map endpapers, frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography, index. Black and white frontispiece portrait of Grenfell. Endpapers feature a map of Newfoundland and Labrador. The first full biography of the founder of the Grenfell Mission in Labrador and Newfoundland. Lacks dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury, 1st US , 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages, hardcover. 16 pages of color illustrations. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Nantier Beall Minoustchine, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Explore the life of Will Eisner, one of the most influential artists in the history of comics through the most appropriate medium: a graphic novel! From his immigrant roots and childhood in New York, starting his own comics studio and business, and the creation and publication of his beloved comic, The Spirit, through inventing the term ' graphic novel' to convince a general trade publisher to publish the groundbreaking A Contract with God, you'll follow along in Eisner's life journey. With the most prestigious comics awards named after him, Will Eisner is forever celebrated not only in what he created but his unerring belief in comics' capacity to be better, to reach higher, to be a full art form in its own right. This is the life of this man of vision who helped to put comics on the map. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NC, TwoMorrows Publishing, 2nd printing, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Color and black and white illustrations. Explores the fascinating life of Will Eisner , detailing a more than 70-year career in which he spearheaded comics for adult readers and created the first widely accepted graphic novel, A Contract with God.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 220 pages. Will Eisner (1917-2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling, best known for The Spirit, his iconic newspaper comic strip, and A Contract With God, the first significant graphic novel. This seminal work from 1978 ushered in a new era of personal stories in comics form that touched every adult topic from mortality to religion and sexuality, forever changing the way writers and artists approached comics storytelling. Noted historian Paul Levitz celebrates Eisner by showcasing his most famous work along-side unpublished and rare materials from the family archives. Also included are original interviews with creators such as Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, Scott McCloud, Jeff Smith, Denis Kitchen, and Neil Gaiman--all of whom knew Eisner and were inspired by his work to create their own graphic novels for a new generation of readers.

Hardcover. Oak Knoll Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, no dj issued. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of book, magazine, and graphic design during the Art Nouveau period. This extensive work also contains a biography of Bradley, a bibliography, and author, title, and publisher indices.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 178 pages. Dust jacket slightly worn and with short tears. Some foxing on endpages, top edge stained red.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 470 pages with index, b&w frontis of an English church. A detailed history of the Willard family first published 1n 1848. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Focal Point, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Nearly 50 years of photography by seasoned National Geographic photographer Bill Allard. Allard was a pioneer of color photography with a style that called for entering people's homes and hearts; by winning their confidence he was able to capture "off guard" moments, and reveal the depth of human nature as never before seen in the pages of National Geographic. Always in search of "what is happening at the edges," his work reveals beauty, mystery, and a sense of adventure. Part photography retrospective and part personal memoir, this book paints a full picture -through images and narrative -of the life of a globe-trekking photographer over the past half century.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The marriage of William Michael Rossetti and Lucy Madox Brown united two of the most resonant Pre-Raphaelite family names. Their passionate and ultimately tragic relationship provides a fresh perspective on 19th-century marriage and on the private lives of eminent Victorians.

Softcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Cover has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. Many color plates throughout. A nice copy. This book celebrates the art as well as the poetry of the great English poet William Blake. The Huntington Library has the most extensive collection of Blake's artwork in the world.

Hardcover. London, Paul Elek, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth, 181 pages. 11 color, 58 black-and-white illustrations. This account of Blake's life discusses his artistic, religious, philosophical, political and sexual ideas; his politics; his compelling myths and truths; his poems and his prophetic books; his artworks and illustrations. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 116 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Hamden CT, Archon Books, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 243 pages, b&w portrait frontis. A biography of the Virginia cavalier and landowner who lavished his wealth in the building of Westover where he lived on an almost feudal estate and gathered the most valuable library in the colonies. Originally published in 1932.

Softcover. Middletown PA, Pennsylvania State University, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Red perfect bound wrappers, 176 pages. Covers with a few faint creases, spine slightly faded, mild wave to book. Prints Williams' 80-page 1914 little red notebook in exact-size facsimiles with a transcription and two additional essays from his son William Eric Williams; additional contributions by Reed Whittemore, James Laughlin, Cecelia Tichi, Peter Schmidt, Mary Ellen Solt, Henry Sayre, Emily Wallace, Louis Martz and Albert Sonnenfeld. The journal showcases scholarly essays on any aspect of the life and work of William Carlos Williams.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 404 pages. Reed Whittemore vividly re-creates the complex mix of intensity, humor, anguish, modesty, pride, lustiness, and domesticity that was William Carlos Williams, and gives an admirably focused picture of the turbulent and creative era on which he had such a formative influence. This is a biography of unusual acuteness, energy, and warmth.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. This illustrated biography describes a trip taken by William de la M. Cary and two companions by steamboat on the Missouri River. 242 pages, b&w illustrations, 16 pages of color plates. SIGNED BY LADNER on the half-title page. Book tightly bound and in near fine condition. Dust jacket shows some rubbing and fading in areas.

Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 242 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1628, the English physician William Harvey published his revolutionary theory of blood circulation. Offering a radical conception of the workings of the human body and the function of the heart, Harvey's theory overthrew centuries of anatomical and physiological orthodoxy and had profound consequences for the history of science. It also had an enormous impact on culture more generally, influencing economists, poets and political thinkers, for whom the theory triumphed not as empirical fact but as a remarkable philosophical idea. In the first major biographical study of Harvey in 50 years, Thomas Wright charts the meteoric rise of a yeoman's son to the elevated position of King Charles I's physician, taking the reader from farmlands of Kent to England's royal palaces, and paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary mind formed at a fertile time in England's intellectual history. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 530 pages, b&w illustrations. A critical biography of the great English writer. William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) was an essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. Minor tape repair to dust jacket. Clean copy.