Biography

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, 164 illustrations (76 in color). Essays by Henry Adams, Kathleen A. Foster, Henry A. La Farge, H. Barbara Weinberg, Linnea H. Wren, and James L. Yarnall. John La Farge was not only a painter of still lifes and landscapes in watercolor and oil, but he created extraordinary decorative schemes and revolutionary stained glass art for some of the country's most impressive churches and mansions as well.

Hardcover. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volume hardcover set in slipcase. Volume 1 - A Stylistic Analysis. 312 pages. Illustrations primarily in black & white. Features biographical information. Dust jacket with light wrinkling, spotting along rear bottom edge. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - Catalogue Raisonne. 576 pages. Features black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear, wrinkling to rear. Clean, tight copy. Slipcase with very minor wear.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Life and art of John Marin; editor Cleve Gray includes writings by Marin himself to accompany the biographical text and reproduced works. 176 pp. Features 20 color and 99 black/white illustrations. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, previous owner's name, date, and location written inside the cover in pencil. Dust jacket is in good condition, with tear and creasing on the back and light stain on the front.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Life and art of John Marin; editor Cleve Gray includes writings by Marin himself to accompany the biographical text and reproduced works. 176 pp. Features 20 color and 99 black/white illustrations. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, previous owner's name, date, and location written inside the cover in pencil. Dust jacket is in good condition, with tear and creasing on the back and light stain on the front.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 436 pages with b&w illustrations. A detailed biography of the eccentric naturalist, John Muir, traces his influence on the American national park system and on the diverse and tumultuous history of the American conservation movement. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 652 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. In excellent shape, binding tight, looks barely read. Clean and unmarked inside and out.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt design and lettering, 437 pages. Includes [9] leaves of plates, illustrations, portraits, bibliographical references, and index. A fine biography on America's sixth President, and the second Adams to hold that office. Clark gives equal attention to Adams' early diplomatic career, his time in State politics, in the U.S. Senate, as Secretary of State, and of his extensive career as an elder-statesman after his Presidency. Spine gilt faded, corners worn, name on front endpapers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Jefferson NC, McFarland & Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 271 pages. Maroon cloth with silver lettering to front and spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set complete, glossy boards, 977 pages in total. Professor Toomer's two-volume set is not only an indispensable reference work but also provides the first thorough treatment of the scholarship of John Selden, acknowledged as the most learned man of 17th-century England. All of his numerous published works, especially in the fields of history, law, and Hebraica, are critically examined and described in detail. The narrative also relates his writings to contemporary events, in the Civil War and the parliaments (including the Long Parliament) in which he played a prominent part, and to the work of other scholars in Europe (notably Scaliger and Grotius) and in Britain (including Camden and Ussher). Selden's involvement with the Universities, the support of libraries, and the promotion of scholarship is discussed. The work will be an essential resource, not only for the life of a major figure of his time, but also for the intellectual history of 17th-century England in general. No djs as issued, like new.

Softcover. New York, Coe Kerr Gallery & Wittenborn Art Books,, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 65 plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear and foxing to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 309 pages. b&w illustrations. In this meticulous and witty work, Stanley Olson uncovers the complex nature of Sargent's life and stunning career. Probable ex-lib with label on spine but no other markings.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 338 illustrations, including 113 plates in full color. Gives beautiful insight into the extravagant glamour of Sargent's society portraits, watercolors and Boston Murals. Folio. Purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription on front edge paper. Very nice, clean and tight copy. Minor wrinkle to lower edge of dust jacket's spine, otherwise in near fine condition.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volume hardcover set. Volume 1: In America, 1738-1774, Volume 2: In England, 1774-1815. 491 pages + illustrations in b&w. Brown/blue cloth with gilt titles, slipcase. Light shelf-wear to covers and faint foxing to top edge. Light wear to slipcase, else a clean, tight set.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. 284 pages, 210 BW illustrations. A catalogue raisonne of Copley's work in America prior to his departure for England in 1774. Begins with a 12-page biography. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in very good condition. Dust jacket with tear to lower edge of back cover and slight edgewear to spine, still very good. 246 pp., 26 b&w illustrations. Biography written by close friend of the artist.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in very good condition. Dust jacket with chipping to top of spine, still very good. 246 pp., 26 b&w illustrations. Biography written by close friend of the artist. Name on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Seatle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no issued dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to cover boards. Color pictures throughout. This is a deluxe, full-color, coffee table book biography; the first of one of America's greatest storytellers. It's filled with beautifully reproduced artwork from the comic books Little Lulu, and his creations Melvin Monster and Thirteen(Going on Eighteen); rare drawings and cartoons; and never-before-seen photographs. Bill Schelly tells Stanley's life story through interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues: his childhood in Harlem and the Bronx, life with his strict Irish Catholic mother, his education at Parsons, his first job as an animator at Max Fleischer Studios, and his years working as a commercial artist, before finding his true metier in comic books during World War II (while battling clinical depression and alcoholism).

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Filled with reproduced artwork from the comic books Little Lulu, and his creations Melvin Monster and Thirteen (Going on Eighteen); rare drawings and cartoons; and never-before-seen photographs. Bill Schelly tells Stanley's life story through interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in very good dust jacket with mild fading to spine. 184 pages plus index, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, protected by mylar cover. A very clean, tight copy. Written from personal recollection and years of research by the friend and writer Steinbeck knew would one day be his biographer. Emphasizes Steinbeck's formative years: boyhood in Salinas, farmhand, seaman, road-gang flunkie, hod carrier, dam builder and pursuit of wine, women and song.

Hardcover. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Company, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 383 pages, with photographs throughout. Very clean and tight copy. No dust jacket issued.

Privately Printed for the Author by the Arden Press, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, ochre cloth covers with gilt title on spine, 132 pages, 3 b&w plates. A biographical study of Samuel Johnson's Jamaican servant. Mild shelf wear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. While Josef Albers' Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments in the interaction of colour. Yet he did not begin these pictures until he was in his sixties, already several decades into his career as an artist, maker and theorist, much of it pursued in the United States following the Nazi dissolution of the Bauhaus in 1933. Misunderstanding of the Homages reflects a wider misreading of Albers' life and work. Married to the textile artist Anni Albers, his papers include letters from fellow artists John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra and Eva Hesse; colleagues such as Buckminster Fuller and Philip Johnson; and fans and collectors ranging from the composer Virgil Thomson to the cartoonist Saul Steinberg. 335 pages with 185 illustrations including the 23 color plates bookending the beginning and end of the text. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Woodbury, NY, Barron's, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. B&w frontispiece and b&w images throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner's, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 428 pages. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. The author probes the complex life and work of Joseph Conrad, a Polish exile in England, his friendships with Ford, Crane, James, and Galsworthy, his varied works, and his affair with American journalist Jane Anderson.