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Books in the Biography genre:

Dream Days (1922)

Kenneth Grahame’s second volume of reminiscences of childhood include his story The Reluctant Dragon. This is the second illustrated edition and was published only in Britain. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Napoleon and His Court (1924)

A history of the Napoleonic empire’s court.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Various

Napoleon and His Court (1924)

A history of the Napoleonic empire’s court.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Various

What Is Americanism? (1924)

A civics textbook for schools.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

The Illustrated Life of St. Francis (1925)

A brief life of the Saint in watercolor paintings.

Josephine: Napoleon’s Empress (1925)

A biography of the first French empress.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Bemol and Kusum: Children of Bengal (1926)

A story of children’s life in India’s Bengal state.

Author(s): Herbert E. Wyman
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

The Cruise of the Cachalot (1926)

This is the story of a cruise after sperm whales by a member of the crew. The scan is of an early reprinting. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Frank Bullen
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

Everybody’s Pepys (1926)

Selections from the diary of Samuel Pepys, chief secretary to the British Admiralty, kept between the years 1660 and 1669. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Samuel Pepys
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Rudyard Kipling (1926)

A collection of articles about Kipling, including a bibliography.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
W. Heath Robinson
Et al

Life on the Mississippi (1927)

Mark Twain’s account of his time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover
Walter Stewart

Abe Lincoln Grows Up (1928)

Here we have Lincoln’s babyhood and boyhood at Knob Creek Farm and on Little Pigeon Creek, his games and chores.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt (1928)

A biography of the rough rider president.

Author(s): Edwin Emerson
Illustrator(s): Elmer Hader

The Black Buccaneer (1928)

While guarding sheep on an island off the coast of Maine, Jeremy is kidnapped by pirates and taken to the West Indies. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

The Golden Age (1928)

This is the fourth set of illustrations for Kenneth Grahame’s memories of growing up. Ernest H. Shepard did another set in 1954. The American edition was published in 1929 with changes to the dust jacket and end papers. Read online at archive.o... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

A Little Girl of Nineteen Hundred (1928)

A story of village life at the turn of the twentieth century based on the author’s own childhood.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Louis XIV: King of France and Navarre (1928)

A biography of the long reigning ‘Sun King’ of France, builder of Versailles.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Me and Henry and the Artillery (1928)

An account of two artillery men in the closing days of the World War I on the western front.

Author(s): William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s): None

Not All the Truth (1928)

A book of reminiscences by a popular club-man and man-about-town which drops many famous names of the era.

Author(s): Lewis Melville
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

Fun ’o the Fair (1929)

This booklet about the showman Lord George Sanger was adapted from an essay which introduced Seventy Years a Showman by the said Lord George.

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Roberta F. C. Waudby

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