Biografia

They Got Me Covered

Hope, Bob; Bing Crosby (Intro.) · 1941 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Hollywood, California Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 95. Slim 8vo., measuring 5.25" x 7.75". Illusrated card covers. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, in-text drawings and illustrations, portraits, etc. Net ink name to the verso of ...

I Remember: Riverside & The Regions Beyond

Loewen, C. B. (Biography of Cornie B. Loewen.) · 1995 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Morris, Manitoba Privately Printed First printing pp. 379. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Many black and white photographs, maps, illustrations. Appears unread; fine.

Footprints in Brazil: A Mission in Action

Sabourin, Lucille; Grey Nuns of Manitoba, et al. · 1998 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$119.00 (€107.97 | £90.07 | ¥19,003)

St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada Grey Nuns of Manitoba First Edition, First Printing pp. 192. 4to., measuring 9" x 11". Illustrated covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Many black-and-white full page, and in-text drawings, and illustrations (presumably by the author). ...

The View From My Veranda: The Story of Place of Rescue Orphanage

Ens, Marie; Darren Tosh (Foreword) · 2006 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

[Calgary, Alberta, Canada] Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 154. Small 8vo., measuring 5.5" x 8.25". Pictorial card covers. Richly illustrated with many colour photographs, portraits, etc. An account of the author's work as a Christian missionary in a Cambod...

The Red Lake Gold Rush

Parrott, D.F. · 1964 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,228)

Red Lake, Manitoba Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 144. Small 8vo., measuring 24 cm tall. Publisher's original leatherette covers held with metal spiral binding, gilt letterig and map to the front cover. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, maps, ill...

The Brontës: An Illustrated Biography

Wilks, Brian · 1986 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$27.50 (€24.95 | £20.82 | ¥4,391)

New York Peter Bedrick Books pp. 144. Slim 4to. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white and colour photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine.

Solzhenitsyn: A Pictorial Autobiography

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich · 1974 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

New York The Noonday Press | Farrar, Straus And Giroux Noonday, 484 pp. 88, [6]. Square 8vo. Illustrated covers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, maps, etc. Light curl to front cover, else, near fine.

A Burn-Out Case

Greene, Graham (1904-1991) · 1961 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

London, Melbourne & Toronto Heinemann | Printed by the Windmill Press Ltd. (London) First Edition, First Printing pp. 256. Small 8vo., measuring 5.25" x 8". Publisher's original black cloth over boards, silver lettering to the spine. Remarkably well-preserved extremities, show...

Lesia Ukraïnka: 1871-1971; Essays on Poetess' Works

Ukraïnka, Lesia, et al. · 1980 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

Philadelphia First Edition, First Printing pp. 399. 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Publisher's original textured, olive-green, leatherette over boards with gilt lettering to the front board, and spine. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of the subject, accompanied with many add...

Henri Letourneau Raconte

Letourneau, Henri (1907-2002) · 1992 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$31.00 (€28.13 | £23.46 | ¥4,950)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Editions G.F.L. First Edition, First Printing pp. 113. Slim, pictorial covers bearing an image of the author in black-and-white. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. "Born at Ste. Delphine, Saskatchewan on 13 September 1907, his love of histo...

With Stalin: Memoirs

Hoxha, Enver · 1980 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Norman Bethune Institute pp. 223. 12mo., measuring 13 x 19.5 cm. Pictorial covers bearing a black-and-white image of the author with Stalin. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of Stalin accompanied with additional black-and-white photographs and p...

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

Winterson, Jeanette · 2005 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$31.00 (€28.13 | £23.46 | ¥4,950)

Edinburgh, New York & Melbourne Canongate Books Ltd. First Edition, First Printing pp. 176. Slim 8vo., measuring5.75" x 8.5". Publisher's gray boards, gilt lettering to the spine. No detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and ...

The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork

Kafka, Ben · 2012 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Brooklyn, New York Zone Books First Edition, First Printing pp. 182. 8vo. Black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white illustrations. No detectable flaws with extremities and contents entirely without blemish; fine and housed in fine dustjacket. Appear...

My Sojourn in Mexico: From 1955 to 1995

Ens, Helen · 2019 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Privately Printed | Country Graphics & Printing Ltd. First Edition, First Printing pp. 122. 8vo., measuring 22 cm. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound ...

A House In the Sky [SIGNED, First Printing]

Lindhout, Amanda; Sara Corbett · 2013 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

New York Scribners First Edition, First Printing pp. 373. 8vo. Publisher's quarter black boards, gilt lettering to the spine; illustrated endpapers. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new and housed in fine dustjacket. SIGNED in ink by author, Amanda Lindhout, to ...

With Love, Lydia: The Story of Canada's First Woman Ordained Minister

Wotton, Patricia; Deborah Maki (Ed.) · 2012 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Altona, Manitoba, Canada D & P Wotton First Edition, First Printing pp. viii, 291. 8vo. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. "The story of the life and ministry of Lydia...

A Great Restlessness: The Life And Times of Dorise Nielsen [SIGNED]

Johnston, Faith · 2006 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Winnipeg, Manitoba University of Manitoba Press pp. 361. 8vo. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. SIGNED, and inscribed in ink by the author to the title page. Dorise Nielsen was a pioneering feminist, a r...

Rise And Shine: 45 Years in the Land of the Rising Sun ; [Mennonite Missionary Memoirs]

Derksen, Mary Klassen (1928 -); Peter Derksen (1928-2014) · 2018 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Abbotsford, British Columbia Privately Printed by the Author First Edition, First Printing pp. x, 338. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Rich with many black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding;...

It's Great to be Alive: Life and Ministry of Lawrence and Selma Warkentin

Warkentin, Lawrence; Selma Warkentin · 2015 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Abbotsford, B.C. Mill Lake Books | Judson Lake House Publishers First Edition, First Printing pp. 183. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Rich with many black-and-white, and colour photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; ...

The Urban Saint: The Harry Lehotsky Story (SIGNED, First Edition)

Boge, Paul H. · 2010 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

Washington, D.C. Horizon Press First Edition, First Printing pp. 338. 8vo. Appears unread; as new. Signed boldly to the title page by the author.