Looks at the history of biography writing, discusses those who have shaped the direction of the modern biography, and analyses early biographical works
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Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First printing (no subsequent printings) hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition: slight wear, slight indentations on the top edges, light foxing on cloth edges. 159 pages. [15oz]. Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 62277
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6 1/2x9 1/2. 164 pages. Development of biography. Unmarked, tight and clean. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 03396
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Anbieter: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, USA
hardcover, Zustand: Good, Johns Hopkins University Press, c.1988, 8vo. cloth, 159pp., foxed foredges, heavily penciled, ow G/G $. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 102298
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Hardcover. From the library of Prof. Richard J. Schoeck. 159pp. Tidy ownership marks, else very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight / very good plus dust jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 151391
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Hard Back First Printing, Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Archival protective jacket cover. The author traces the origins of biography in the lives and works of ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and early modern writers. Upper and lower edges of boards slightly rubbed and former owner inscription on endpaper, else Fine in copper cloth over spine, gilt titled, with light tan textured linen cloth over boards. Handsome, clean, tight and solid volume. Internals as new. Some of the biographies and biographers: Aelfric's Lives of the Saints; Vasari's Lives of the Artists; Holinshed's Chronicles of the rulers of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and Machiavelli, Cellini, Shakespeare, Pepys, Defoe, Stern. And then with Boswell, biography reached a turning point and began to focus on "the minute details of private life". 159 pages with Primary Readings and Index. 9.4 x 6.25 inches. 1988, Johns Hopkins Univ Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. And London, England. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 014528
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hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. 159pp., 8vo, two-toned cloth, d.w. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, (1988). Authors inscription and first name signature on the title page. Near fine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 147359
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