Biografia

Nil alienum, The Memoirs of C.B. Sissons

Sissons, C.B. · 1964 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Toronto University of Toronto Press First Edition, First Printing pp. xii, 260. Terracotta cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Black and white photographs, portraits, illustrations. Very light edgewear, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine and housed...

Louis Riel, 1844-1885: A Biography

Davidson, William McCartney · 1955 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Calgary, Alberta, Canada Albertan Publishing Company Ltd. First Edition, First Printing pp. 214. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. Davidson was an Alberta newspaperman, who interviewed f...

A Life of Learning and Other Pleasures: John Meisel's Tale

Meisel, John · 2012 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Yarker, Ontario, Canada Wintergreen Studios Press First Edition, First Printing pp. xvi, 403. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Black and white photographs, illustrations. No detectable flaws. Appears unread; near fine. Signed and inscribed by the author to the half-title page. Near Fine

Northern Nurses III: Belcher Islands and Northern Quebec, the 1960s: Memoirs of Kathleen Mary Jo Lutley CM, RN, SCM, BSc and Heather J. Duncan Clayton RN, SCM, BScN

Scott, Karen J.; Joan E. Kieser; Kathleen Mary Jo Lutley; Heather J. Clayton · 2009 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

Oakville, Ontario, Canada Kokum First Edition, First Printing pp. xiv, 188. 4to. Illustrated covers. Replete with black and white, and colour maps, photographs, photographic reproductions, illustrations, et al. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tig...

The Expressive Eye: Fiction and Perception in the Work of Thomas Hardy

Bullen, J. B. · 1986 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Oxford Oxford University Press First Edition, First Printing pp. xv, 279. 8vo. Navy blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographs, illustrations. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Fine and housed...

Wrinkled Arrows: Good Old Days in Winnipeg

Dundas, Howard · 1980 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$14.99 (€13.60 | £11.35 | ¥2,394)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Queenston House Co., Ltd. First Edition, First Printing pp. 111. Slim 8vo. Brown cloth over boards with white lettering to the spine. Black and white illustrations. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding and house...

Celebrating The First Twelve Years Of Our Retirement (Biography/Memoirs of Frank and Nettie Dyck)

Dyck, Frank; Nettie Dyck · 2002 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Calgary, Alberta, Canada Privately Printed by the authors pp. iii, 224. 8vo., measuring 8.5" x 5.5". Laminated illustrated card covers held with black plastic spiral binding featuring map endpapers to the verso of both covers. Replete with black and white maps, photographs, po...

A Doctor's Journey: 45 Years of Challenge

F. Patrick Doyle · 1995 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Winnipeg, Manitoba privately Printed by the author. First Edition, First Printing pp. 194. 8vo. Black and white photographs, illustrations. No detectable flaws; fine.

Rasputin: The Holy Devil

Fulop-Miller; Rene; F.S. Flint (Trans.); D.F. Tait (Trans.) · 1928 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York Garden City Publishing Co. pp. ix, 386. 8vo. Red cloth over boards, black lettering to the spine. Publishers' red top-stain. Black and white photographic frontispiece of Rasputin. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Nea...

Power of a Woman

Charach, Paul (1927-?) · 1949 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Privately Printed by the author First Edition, First Printing pp. 104. 12mo. Navy blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering to front board. Light rubbing to the covers, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+ to near fine.

Her Darling Boy: The letters of a Mother, her beloved son, and the heartbreaking cost of Vimy Ridge

Goodman, Tom · 2016 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Great Plains Publications First Edition pp. 197. 8vo. Appears unread; as new. As New

Schweres Schicksal, oder, "Gottes Wege sind nicht unsere Wege" : aus dem Leben des kranken Peter Dyck, gegenwa rtig im Carman Hospital, Manitoba / [Heavy Destiny, or, God's ways are not our ways: The life of the sick Peter Dyck (1911-1970) currently in Carman Hospital, Manitoba.]

Enns, W.J. · 1945 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

[Carman, Manitoba] [Carman Hospital | Privately Printed for the author] pp. 66. 12mo (18 cm). Illustrated stiff covers with a photograph presumably of the Carman Hospital printed on the front cover. Black and white photographic frontispiece of the author and the subject accomp...

Hecla Island's Thora Grows Up

Sigurdson, Sylvia J. · 1994 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

White Rock, British Columbia Eyja Publishing First printing pp. 150. 8vo. Lightest rubbing to covers, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. "Sylvia Sigurdson grew up on Lake Winnipeg's Hecla Island in Manitoba. In this sequel to Thora's Is...

When Falcons Fly

Square, David · 2007 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Vancouver, B.C. Poppy Productions First printing pp. 176. 8vo. Black and white photographs, illustrations. No detectable flaws. Appears unread; fine. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the title page. Fine

From Middle East!: A Real Life Story

Fanai, Joseph Reza · 1991 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Multicultural Bahar Books And Literatures | Privately Printed First printing pp. 496. Small 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Black and white map, illustrations. Lightest rubbing to covers, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. Aff...

Brins de Sagesse / Bits of Wisdom; des ecrits de Raymond Beauregard, O.M.I. (Oblates of the Mary Immaculate), from his journals

Beauregard, Raymond (O.M.I.) (?-1991) · 1999 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

Lorette, Manitoba Homes for Growth, Inc. First printing pp. 169. 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Black and white and colour photographs, illustrations. The recollections which comprise this present publication were derived from the author's personal journals from the earliest period ...

The Life and Times of Arnold Georges Johnson: An Autobiography

Johnson, Arnold Georges [1923-2015] · 2015 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Privately Printed First printing pp. 310. 4to. Illustrated black card covers. Replete with black and white and colour photographs, maps, illustrations. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents remain bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near...

The Good Earth

Buck, Pearl S.; Barron Storey (Illust.) · 1980 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania The Franklin Library pp. 319. 8vo. Quarter brown leather board over cloth boards with gilt rules, lettering and floral oranaments to spine and boards. Four raised bands, five compartments. Gilt foredges, lovely marbled endpapers, silk ribbon-marke...

Events in the life of Kei: An Autobiography

Boonstra ,Gerritt · 2000 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Privately Printed First printing pp. 454. 4to. Pictorial card covers. Replete with many black and white photographs, portraits, illustrations. Lightest rubbing to the covers, short closed tear to the rear cover. Contents bright, clean and unmarked; very good...

Inside the centre. The life of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Monk, Ray · 2013 · De Boekentuin Alkmaar

€17.90 ($19.73 | £14.93 | ¥3,150)

Vintage, Slappe kaft. 2013. Paperback. Kastexemplaar; oogt niet of nauwelijks gelezen. 818 blz met index.