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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrow: A Memoir [SIGNED, First Printing]

Weiwei, Ai; Allan H. Barr (Trans.) · 2021 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$245.00 (€222.29 | £185.45 | ¥39,123)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Bond Street Books First Edition, First Printing pp. viii, 380. 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Black boards, silver lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, in-text drawings, etc. No dete...

Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York

Gopnik, Adam · 2006 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York & Toronto Alfred A. Knopf First Edition, First Printing pp. 318. 8vo. Publisher's red boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Bright, clean, and unmarked; as new and housed in fine, unclipped, first-state dustjacket.

Dzhonni Melard (Johnny Mallard): Povist

Koval chuk Marii a n Morys [M.M. Koval chuk] · 1993 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$59.00 (€53.53 | £44.66 | ¥9,422)

Hazelridge, Manitoba, Canada Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 174. 8vo., measuring 23 cm. Illustrated covers. Black-and-white full-page illustrations. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Scarce in commerce. See OCLC #32386945.

My Life Memoirs (1914-1982)

Bilovus, Anastasia [Anastazii a Bilovus] · 1982 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Greely, Colorado Ukrapress First Edition, First Printing pp. 80. 8vo., measuring 22 cm. Plain card covers. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of the author, accompanied with additional black-and-white photographs, and portraits. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Scarce in comm...

Bush Pilot

Kowalchuk, Marian Morris · 2008 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Hazelridge, Manitoba Privately Printed by the Author | Printer Poplar Press First Edition, First Printing pp. viii, 176. 8vo., measuring 6.5" x 9.5". Illustrated covers. Rich with many black-and-white drawings, and illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fi...

Julian W. Stechishin: His Life and Work

Udod, Hryhory [Hryhori . Udod]; Julian W. Stechishin (1895-1971) · 1978 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Mohyla Institute First Edition, First Printing pp. xii, 118. 8vo., measuring 23 cm. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, maps, facsmiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; as new. Scarce in commerce. See OCLC #5616636.

If Morning Ever Comes, A Novel

Tyler, Anne; Ward Ritchie (Typography, Binding and Jacket Design) · 1972 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,228)

New York Alfred A. Knopf pp. 265, [1]. 8vo. Publisher's quarter terracotta cloth over teal boards, facsimile signature of the author to the lower-right margin of the front board, untrimmed page edges. Small bump to the lower-margin of the front board, else, very good+. Content...

Bethune: The Montreal Years ; An Informal Portrait

Park, Libbie; Stanley Ryerson; Wendell MacLeod · 1978 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$34.99 (€31.75 | £26.48 | ¥5,587)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada James Lorimer & Company, Publishers First Edition pp. 167. 8vo. Publisher's navy-blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Negligible shelfwear to the cloth extremities, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine and housed in very good...

Dirt, Sweat & Years

Durksen, S.L. · 2006 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Baltimore, MD PublishAmerica First Edition, First Printing pp. 176. 8vo. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine.

For Sure [SIGNED]

Gordon, Jon · 2013 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Staten Island, New York Chimbarazu Press First Edition, First Printing pp. 278. 8vo. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white photographs, and portraits. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. SIGNED, and inscribed by the author to the title page. "In For Sue, the excep...

The Letters of Sylvia Plath; Volume II: 1956-1963

Plath, Sylvia; Peter K. Steinberg; Karen V. Kukil · 2018 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$109.00 (€98.89 | £82.50 | ¥17,406)

London Faber and Faber Limited First Edition, First Printing pp. li, 1025. Thick 8vo., measuring 6.5" x 9.5". Publisher's light-gray cloth over boards, silver lettering over black spine label. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. No detectable flaws to t...

A Study of Goethe

Fairley, Barker · 1969 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,228)

London Oxford at the Clarendon Press pp. vii, 280. 8vo. Light-blue cloth over boards, gilt rules, lettering and crest to the spine. Exceptionally well-preserved showing no detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pa...

To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings

Eliot, T.S. [Thomas Stearns] (1888-1965); Valerie Eliot (Foreword) · 1965 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$59.00 (€53.53 | £44.66 | ¥9,422)

London Faber and Faber Limited First Edition pp. 188. 8vo. Publisher's navy-blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Exceptionally well-preserved showing no detectable flaws to the cloth extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked...

The Way It Was Back Then: Grampy Remembers ; A Collection of Stories by Harold A. Blaney

Blaney, Harold A.; Etta Blaney · 1993 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,228)

Nackawic, N.B. Privately Printed Third Printing pp. 142. 8vo. Pictorial card covers. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine.

Reverend Philip Ruh, O.M.I.: Missionary and Architect (Autobiography) ; [Cover Title: Missionary & Architect: A Translation of the Autobiography of Reverend Philip Ruh, O.M.I.]

Ruh, Philip; Morris Kowalchuk (Trans.); Gloria Romaniuk (Ed.) · 1984 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Parish of the Church of the Immaculate Conception | Printed by Buchanan Printers First Edition, First Printing pp. vii, 52. 8vo., measuring 22 cm. Pictorial, twice-stapled, card covers bearing a black-and-white photograph image of the subject. Rich with blac...

The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination [First Edition, First Printing]

Frye, Northrop · 1971 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Anansi First Edition, First Printing pp. x, 256. 8vo. Light rubbing to the boards, age-toning to pages, else, text-block without blemish with clean and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good+ and housed in good+ lightly shelfworn dustjcaket ...

A Prairie Memoir: The Life and Times of James Clinkskill, 1853-1936

Clinkskill, James; Stan D. Hanson (Ed. & Intro.); Andrew N. Lalonde; J. William Brennan · 2003 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Regina, Saskatchewan Canadian Plains Research Center pp. xxii, 170. Small 8vo. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustraitons, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked. As new.

Smiling Through Tears: Memoirs from Second World War [SIGNED]

Izyk, Semen (1913-1995) · 1994 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Progress Printing and Publishing First Edition, First Printing pp. 263. Small 8vo. Pictorial covers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. See OCLC #49284027. SIGNED, dated a...

Nobel Prize Library: Albert Camus, Winston Churchill

Camus, Albert; Winston Churchill; (Philippe Fellmer) · 1971 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York & Del Mar (California) Alexis Gregory & CRM Publishing First Edition pp. 409. Royal 8vo., measuring 6.5" x 9.5". Bound in publisher's original, navy-blue boards featuring gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine and front board. Illustrated with charming full-pag...

My Three Years in a German Prison ; Illustrated with photographs specially secured in Belgium and Germany

Beland, Henri (1869-1935) · 1919 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$189.00 (€171.48 | £143.06 | ¥30,181)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada William Briggs First Edition, First Printing pp. 280. Small 8vo., measuring 5" x 7.5". Publisher's original light-teal cloth over boards, black lettering and borders to the front board, and spine. Black-and-white photograph portrait frontispiece of the...