Darwin

1926 BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD, DEAN OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHERS. 9 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookplate to front paste-down, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, laid in newspaper clippings of author Gamaliel Bradford, frontis portrait of Darwin, 6 plates, 315 pages. Surface wear to covers, spine darkened, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, in custom archival mylar cover, very good-. CONTENTS: The Observer; The Thinker; The Discoverer; The Loser; The Lover; The Destroyer; The Scientific Spirit. GAMALIEL BRADFORD (1863 - 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. 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.

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Year: 1926

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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