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Exil et Captivite de Napoleon : extraits du Memorial de Saint-Helene par le Comte de Las-Cases [etc.]; [Bound together with] 'Souvenirs de la Vie Politique et Intime, Anecdotes, Episodes faits et Paroles Memorables du Grand Homme et du Grand Empereur'

Moreau, Achile · 1857 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$325.07 (€206.71 | $227.84 | £172.43 | ¥36,387)

Paris Renault et Cie 1st edition pp. iv, 224; pp. 90. Royal 8vo. Originally issued in green illustrated card covers, now recently re-bound, retaining the original wraps, in a beige cloth hard-cover binding, with gilt lettering to the spine. Woodcuts. Contents show occasional l...

EIN TYCHO BRAHE WANDERT VOM ORESUND NACH POLEN UND VIA HAMBURG NACH 350 JAHREN ZURUCK

GOTZ, Hans · 1950 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$8.13 (€5.17 | $5.70 | £4.31 | ¥910)

Copenhagen, Denmark pp. 48 to 53.,Small 4to,,Pages wrinkled, corners 'thumbed', else in good plus condition, An abstract from 'Stultifera Navis' Mitteilungsblatt der Scweizerischen Bibliophilen-Gesellschaft, of January, 1950/. black-&-white illustrations

CHRISTIAN WITHOUT A CREED Some Remarks on Abraham Lincoln's Religion

[Abraham Lincoln] MEARNS, David C. · 1955 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$16.26 (€10.34 | $11.40 | £8.62 | ¥1,820)

pp. 14.,16m0,,Small stapled pamphlet: very light soiling, else in vg condition,No publisher stated, nor place of publication. Mearns was the author of 'The Lincoln Papers'. No copy currently for sale, or shown as being held in an institutional library. Delivered to the young p...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Centenary 1859-1959

[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]; Weil-Nordon, Prof. P. (Intro.) · 1959 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$379.21 (€241.14 | $265.79 | £201.15 | ¥42,448)

London John Murray 1st edition pp. 136. Small folio. Beautifully bound in silver-decorated red buckram. Bevelled boards, silver rules, titling in silver, with ribbon marker. Coloured tipped-in frontispiece and 130 other illustrations. Slight dent to top edge of front board, sl...

THE LIFE OF THOMAS HARDY

Brennecke, Jr., Ernest · 1925 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$12.20 (€7.76 | $8.55 | £6.47 | ¥1,366)

New York City Greenberg, Publisher, Inc 1st edition pp. viii, 259.,Large 8vo,,Small tear to top spine edge, very light edgewear, ink name; vg, A handsome book, with charming illustrations. No dust jacket. photo frontis, b&w plates

PROFILES IN COURAGE [The Inaugural Edition, with a new Foreward by Allan Nevins]

KENNEDY, John F. · 1961 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$32.53 (€20.69 | $22.80 | £17.25 | ¥3,641)

New York City Harper & Row pp. xxiii, 266. 8vo. Bound in blue buckram, with gilt facsimile signature of JFK on front board., top edge stained faded blue/green, black buckram spine. Two small blemishes to the boards; very good. Jacket lightly scuffed, small chips and closed tea...

THE JOURNAL OF JAMES BOSWELL 1781-1783 / Death of Lord Auchinleck 30 August 1782 / Jaunt to London, Spring, 1783

BOSWELL, James [Geoffrey Scott and Frederick A. Pottle, editors] · 1932 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$121.87 (€77.50 | $85.42 | £64.64 | ¥13,642)

[Printed in the U.S.A.] [Privately printed] pp. viii, 316.,Larger 4to,,,This is volume 15 of an eighteen volume set, entitled: 'Private Papers of JAMES BOSWELL from Malahide Castle / In the Collection of Lt-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham / Prepared for the press by Geoffrey Scott...

BOSWELL IN HOLLAND 1763-1764 Including his Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zelide)

POTTLE, Frederick A. (ed.) · 1952 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$48.79 (€31.03 | $34.20 | £25.88 | ¥5,461)

London William Heinemann Ltd limited ed pp. xix, 428.,Royal 8vo,,Bound in half vellum over blue buckram; t.e.g. & ribbon marker.,Corners of boards a bit bumped, boards sl. scuffed & soiled. Faint discolouration (from sun?) across top half of rear board. Hinges and joints tight...

The Essential T. E. Lawrence

Garnett, David (selected with a Preface by) · 1951 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$19.26 (€12.25 | $13.50 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

New York City E. P. Dutton & Co First American edition pp. 328. Small 8vo. Near fine, in sl. chipped, spine-browned, else vg dj, An excellent introduction to Lawrence through selections from his correspondence and writings. O'Brien A240. photo frontispiece

JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY ...As We Remember Him

MEYERS, Joan (editor) · 1965 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$69.12 (€43.95 | $48.45 | £36.66 | ¥7,737)

New York City Atheneum 1st edition pp. ix, 241.,large 4to,,, A large quarto-sized book in nf cond., together with two nf LP records, all in a sl scuffed, but vg, red white & blue slipcase. black-and-white photographs

ROBERT TERRILL RUNDLE

WILSON, Keith · 1986 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$8.13 (€5.17 | $5.70 | £4.31 | ¥910)

Winnipeg, MB University of Manitoba 1st printing pp. 55.,8vo,,Larger format soft cover - covers a bit rubbed, else very good,Rundle (1811-1896) was a Cornish Wesleyan Methodist missionary from Cornwall, Englandwhose most notable activities related to his missionary work in Wes...

WILLIAM CYPRIAN PINKHAM

WILSON, Keith · 1986 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

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Winnipeg, MB University of Manitoba 1st printing pp. 55.,8vo,,Larger format soft cover - covers a bit rubbed, else very good,Pinkham (1844-1928) was a Protestant minister who settled in Red River in 1868, and was Superintendant of Education for Protestant Schools in Manitoba f...

THOMAS CLARKSON SCOBLE

WILSON, Keith · 1993 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$8.13 (€5.17 | $5.70 | £4.31 | ¥910)

Winnipeg, MB University of Manitoba 1st printing pp. 52.,8vo,,Larger format soft cover - covers a bit rubbed, else very good,Scoble (1840-1900) was a soldier and engineer who settled in Winnipeg, becoming the editor of the Nor'Wester in 1894. We have many other individual titl...

FIRING THE HEATHER

HALLETT, Mary & Davis, Marilyn · 1993 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$12.20 (€7.76 | $8.55 | £6.47 | ¥1,366)

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Fifth House Publishers 1st edition pp. xv, 336.,8vo,,Near fine condition, in nf dj, The life and times of Nellie McClung, a Canadian suffragette and bestselling author. black-and-white photographs

THE OLD MAN'S SON Sir Hugh John Macdonald

GUEST, Henry James · 1973 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$10.16 (€6.46 | $7.12 | £5.39 | ¥1,137)

Winnipeg, MB ,8vo,,A stapled offprint in card covers. Light shelf wear, vg cond, Unpaginated. Probably reprinted from Manitoba History (the publication of the Manitoba Historical Society).

La Peintre Lorrain CLAUDE JACQUARD suivi de Un Protecteur des Arts Le Prince Charles-Alexandre de Lorraine

JACQUOT, Albert · 1896 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$39.59 (€25.18 | $27.75 | £21.00 | ¥4,432)

Paris J. Rouam & Cie 1st printing pp. 93.,8vo,,In publisher's original printed wrappers and inscribed by author,Inscribed on front free endpaper to the author Fernand Dugniolle and signed by Jacquot, 'Nancy 16 Janvier 1897'. Front cover creased and detached. Contents unmarked ...

A MOSAIC OF LIFE Memoirs of a Russian Childhood

KATAYEV, Valentin · 1976 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$8.13 (€5.17 | $5.70 | £4.31 | ¥910)

Chicago, IL J. Philip O'Hara, Inc. 1st English ed pp. 447.,8vo,Bottom edge of frt bd rubbed; else vg in sl. soiled, o/w vg dj, The first printing of the English language edition of this memoir of life in pre-Revolution Russia.

The Life and Times of Viscount Palmerston

Ritchie, J. Ewing · 1860 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$81.21 (€51.64 | $56.92 | £43.08 | ¥9,090)

London London Printing and Publish pp. 840, 840. Heavy 4to. Two volume set, uniformly bound in black 3/4 leather. Hinges of vol. I cracking but still intact. Boards bumped, with wear to extremities. Contents clean & tight; overall, very good condition. Henry John Temple (1784-...

THOMAS HARDY

Child, Harold · 1916 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$14.23 (€9.05 | $9.97 | £7.55 | ¥1,593)

London Nisbet & Co 1st edition 128 pp.,12mo,,Bumped, dj chipped, edge worn, about g+ in fair to good dj, From the series 'Writers of the Day'. A short biography and bibliography of Hardy. Frontispiece

L'INSTITUTEUR DES INSTITUTEURS SAINT JEAN-BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE

Laudet, Fernand · 1928 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$39.59 (€25.18 | $27.75 | £21.00 | ¥4,432)

Tours Maison Alfred Mame et Fils Ed. not stated 274 pp.,4to,,Some soiling to covers, else vg+ (contents very nice), Colour decorations on cover, small dark mark on dedication page. The life of one of France's great educators; in French. B&w engraving-style illust.