Biography from House of Our Own Books

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item