Biografia

Roswitha-Memories of a Life's Journey [SIGNED]

Scharf-Dessureault, Roswitha · 2007 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

[Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada] Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 173. 12mo. Pictorial card covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. See OCLC #271826128. As Roswitha reflects on her past, using simp...

Vie de Mgr Langevin, Oblat de Marie Immculée, Archevêque de Saint-Boniface [Biography of Louis Philippe Adélard Langevin, Archbishop of Saint-Boniface]

Morice, Adrien Gabriel (1859-1938) · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

1919 Privately Printed Troisieme Edition pp. xiv, 398. Small 8vo. Pebbled red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Langevin, accompanied with four additional plates. Light bumping to spine ends, contents remain bright, cl...

The Captain's Death Bed, and Other Essays

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); Leonard Woolf (Preface); Vanessa Bell (Dustjacket Design) · 1950 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$119.00 (€107.97 | £90.07 | ¥19,003)

London The Hogarth Press First Impression pp. 223, [1]. Small 8vo., measuring 8" x 5.25". Bound in original burgundy cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine, publisher's topstain. Lightest rubbing to the cloth extremities, light bumping to the spine ends. Neat period in...

This Little Light of Mine

Akkerman, Bea (Ed.); Saray Yates (Ed.) · 2018 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

[Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada] Privately Printed [Jen Japes Publishing] First Edition, First Printing pp. 349. 8vo. Pictorial covers. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits, maps, illustrations, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. Scarce in commerce. C...

The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Frye, Northrop · 1982 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Academic Press Canada First Edition pp. xxiii, 261. Royal 8vo. Light-blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Negligible rubbing to the cloth extremities, short neat ink name and date to the front pastedown otherwise, the contents remain wi...

Taking Root in Canada: An Autobiography [SIGNED]

Romaniuk, Gus; Gordon Dale (Illust.); S.V. Sigurdson (Preface); Bob Bushnell (Ed.) · 1954 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$59.00 (€53.53 | £44.66 | ¥9,422)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Privately Printed | The Columbia Press Limited (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) First Edition, First Printing pp. 283. Small 8vo. Maroon cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the front board. Black-and-white illustrations frontispiece of the author, and accompani...

I Remember, I Remember

Bilodeau, Thérèse · 2016 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

[Island Lake, Manitoba] Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 239. 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Pictorial covers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. SIGNED and inscribed by t...

Emily Carr: A Biography

Tippett, Maria · 1994 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Toronto Stoddart Publising Co. Ltd. 8vo. Black and white photograhs, photograpic reproductions, illustrations. Appears unread, near fine.

At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey

Thomas, Claude Anshin · 2004 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Boston & London Shambhala pp. xii, 168. 8vo. Publisher's dark-green boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine dustjacket. Near fine.

From Western Ukraine to Winnipeg [The Memoirs of Antin Rudan] ; (Surviving revolutions, fighting and disruptions before, during, and after World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930's)

Rudan, Antin; John W. Rudan (Compiled by) · 2008 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$119.00 (€107.97 | £90.07 | ¥19,003)

[Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada] Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 174. 4to., measuring 9" x 11". Plain light-blue card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean...

The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat M. N. PokrovskiæI and the Society of Marxist Historians

Enteen, George M. · 1979 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,228)

University Park & London Pennsylvania State University Press First Edition, First Printing pp. xii, 246. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth over boards. Lightest rubbing to the cloth extremities. Ex-library with library stamp to the foredge, else, text-block without blemish with ove...

By the Banks of the Brokenhead: One Life, And One Summer, on the Canadian Prairie [By Karmel Schreyer, and incorporating the journal of John James Schreyer.]

Schreyer, Karmel; Anton Schreyer · 2006 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

N.P. Chameleon Press First Edition, First Printing pp. 222. 8vo. Pictorial covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; as new. "As daughter of Edward Schreyer, governor general of Canada and premier of Manitoba, and great-granddaughter of Anton Schreyer, late-nineteenth-century immi...

Eagle and Earwig: Essays on Books and Writers

Wilson, Colin (1931-2013) · 1965 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

London John Baker First Edition, First Printing pp. 278. 8vo., measuring 5.5" x 8.75". Publisher's original dark-green cloth over boards with gilt lettering over orange spine label. Lightest bumps to the head-and-tail of spine otherwise, the extremities remain remarkably well-...

Bone of Contention: Life Story and Confessions

Scott, Cyril · 1969 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$38.00 (€34.48 | £28.76 | ¥6,068)

New York Arco Publishing Company, Inc. First Edition, First Printing pp. xi, 242. 8vo. Publisher's ivory cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of Scott. Exceptionally well-preserved showing no detectable flaws to the cloth extr...

Engels: The Only Concise Guide to His Life and Work

McLellan, David · 1977 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

United Kingdom Harvester Press | Fontana Books First Edition pp. 79. Slim 8vo. Publisher's navy-blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Lightest rubbing to the cloth extremities, ex-library pocket and stamps to the ffep, else, contents without blemish with bright,...

A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty

Wilson, Edmund (1895-1972) · 1956 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York Farrar, Straus & Cudahy First Edition, First Printing pp. 239. 12mo. Ivory cloth over boards, black lettering to the spine. Exceptionally well-preserved extremities. Net ink name to the ffep, else, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked page...

Chords and Discords; Purely Personal Opinions on Music

Wilson, Colin · 1966 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$33.00 (€29.94 | £24.98 | ¥5,270)

New York Crown Publishers, Inc. First Edition, First Printing pp. 215. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth over boards, lilac lettering and ornamentation to the spine and front board. Faintest rubbing to the cloth extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and ...

A Long The Riverrun: Selected Essays

Ellmann, Richard · 1989 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$32.50 (€29.49 | £24.60 | ¥5,190)

New York Alfred A. Knopf First Edition, First Printing pp. 277. 8vo. Publisher's quarter cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front board, untrimmed pages edges. No detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unma...

An Essay in Autobiography

Pasternak, Boris (1890-1960); Manya Harari (Trans.); Edward Crankshaw (Intro.) · 1959 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,228)

London Collins and Harvill Press First English-Language Edition pp. 160. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece, accompanied with additional illustrated, and portrait plates. Exceptionally well-preserv...

My Sister and I

Nietzsche, Friedrich; Oscar Levy (Trans. & Intro.) · 1953 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,228)

New York Bridgehead Books | Boar Books pp. 254, [2]. 8vo. Publisher's textured teal paper boards, stamped maroon lettering and illustraiton to the spine and front board. Charming engraved frontispiece portrait of Nietzsche. Light rubbing to the edges, neat ink name to ffep oth...