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Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin, 1929, 8vo, 295 pages. Book bound in a light colored red cloth, no dust jacket, fading and edgewear to book, Frontis with additional illustrations. Ex-Library with all the usual markings. Book in good condition.
Edition:
Presumed first edition/first printing in book form
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Company
Published:
1929
Alibris ID:
13469937201
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Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed by author on fep. Note on fep relates to Mrs. Bradford. Front board has slight weakness. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Cover has some wear and soiling. 8 p. L., 3-294, [1] p. front., pl., ports. 23 cm. Notes. Index. Bibliography: p. 273-[287] Daniel Webster. --Henry Clay. --John Caldwell Calhoun. --Horace Greeley. --Edwin Booth. --Portrait of a scholar: Francis James Child. --Portrait of a scientist: Asa Gray. From Wikipedia: "Gamaliel Bradford (October 9, 1863 April 11, 1932) was an American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the sixth of seven men called Gamaliel Bradford in unbroken succession, of whom the first, Gamaliel Bradford, was a great-grandson of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. Bradford attended Harvard University briefly with the class of 1886, then continued his education with a private tutor, but is said to have been educated "mainly by ill-health and a vagrant imagination." As an adult, Bradford lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The building and student newspaper for the Wellesley High School (where Sylvia Plath received her secondary school education) were named after Gamaliel Bradford. The town changed the name of the building to Wellesley High School, but the newspaper maintains Bradford's name. In his day Bradford was regarded as the "Dean of American Biographers." He is acknowledged as the American pioneer of the psychographic form of written biographies, after the style developed by Lytton Strachey. Despite suffering poor health during most of his life, Bradford wrote 114 biographies over a period of 20 years."
