Biografia

Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins

LEONTIS, ARTEMIS · 2019 · Kalamos Books

$90.00 (€81.66 | £68.12 | ¥14,372)

Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. 2019, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 9780691171722) Hardcover. Book, This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the...

Collector's Progress : New Revised Edition

FISHER, STANLEY W, · 1971 · Kalamos Books

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

London, Michael Joseph. 1971, Rev Ed.. (ISBN: 0718109414) Hardcover. Book, This well known author, collector, dealer and expert on English Pottery and Porcelain has written a charming memoir of his career with warm anecdotes about his friends, tales of some of the oddities and...

Blond China Doll: A Shanghai Interlude, 1939-1953

HEADLEY, HANNELORE HEINEMANN · 2004 · Kalamos Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

St.Catherines. ON, Blond China Doll Enterprises/ Triple H Publishing. 2004, 1st Canadain Edition. (ISBN: 0973580305) Trade Paperback. Book, "Hannelore 's story begins in Berlin on the night of November 9, 1938 . Kristallnacht ...her German-Jewish family fled for a safe haven f...

Spas

BJELICA, ISIDORA · 2013 · Kalamos Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Belgrade, Laguna. 2013, 1st Serbian Edition. (ISBN: 9788652113873) Soft cover. Book, Isidora Bjelica was a Serbian prose writer, playwright and public figure. She died on 5 August 2020 in Belgrade after a long battle with ovarian cancer. This book was is "a brutally honest rec...

A Royal Recluse : Memories of Ludwig II of Bavaria

BERTRAM, WERNER · 1950 · Kalamos Books

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Munich, Martin Herpich & Son. 1950, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, Ludwig 1845-1886, King of Bavaria (1864--86), born in Munich, the son of Maximilian II. A German patriot of Romantic disposition, he devoted himself to patronage of Wagner and his music, and built Neuschwanstein cas...

Gustav Mahler / Vzpominky

MAHLEROVA, ALMA [MAHLER-WERFEL, ALMA] · 2001 · Kalamos Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Prague, Nakladatelstvi Paseka. 2001, First Thus. (ISBN: 8071853569) Hardcover. Book, "Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters" Translated into Czech by Alena Jakubícková . 200p, index. As New except for age toned paper. [Only 3 copies listed in Worldcat]. Fine/Fine.

Tightrope Passage: Along the Refugee Route to Canada

MORAVEC, IVO · 1997 · Kalamos Books

$30.50 (€27.67 | £23.09 | ¥4,870)

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 1997, 1st Can Ed. (ISBN: 0771065000) Hardcover. Book, in July 1983, Ivo Moravec, his wife, Jana, and young son, also named Ivo, defected from communist Czechoslovakia. They left everything behind--everything except their wits, their good humour, ...

T. G. Masaryk : nastin zivota a dila : k stemu vyroci Narozenin

ODLOZILIK, OTAKAR · 1950 · Kalamos Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Chicago, Narodni jednota csl.protestantu v Americe a v Kanade. 1950, 1st US Edition. Stapled Wraps. Book, "T. G. Masaryk: Outline of Life and Work: On the Centenary of the Birthday " 56p. Neat and tight but with a few underlinings.Sun tanning along spine of paper cover, else v...

Um Kotchu De Memorias

MONTEIRO DE MACEDO SANKA [ANA SANKA] · 2014 · Kalamos Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Toronto, 2014, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 9780993697104) French Wraps. Book, 159p. illus Inscription on title page, else as new [NO copies found in Worldcat]. New. Inscribed by Author(s).

Aloes, hoi peripeteies kai hoi Agonies Tou

LOUROS, NIKOLAOU & CARSENA, ALOIS · 1969 · Kalamos Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Athens, Vivliopoleion tes Hestias I.D. Kollarou. 1969, 1st Greek Ed. Soft cover. Book, An adaption of the French version of Alois Carsena's autobiography, translated and edited from a manuscript by M. de Roisin and published under the title "Alohim, chirurgien au XVIe sie`cle ...

Ten Ladies of Joy

SCOTT, GEORGE RYLEY · 1950 · Kalamos Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

London, Torchstream Books. 1950, 4th.Ed.. Hardcover. Book, Short biographies of ten famous women of infamous reputation : Queen Elizabeth I, La Reine Margot of France, Ninon de Lenclos, Nell Gwyn, Catherine the Great of Russia, Madame du Barry, Lady Emma Hamilton , Madame de S...

Memories & Opinions: An Unfinished Autobiography

QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR THOMAS "Q" & ROBERTS,S.C. · 1945 · Kalamos Books

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1945, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Book, Brief biographical account of his childhood in Cornwall and his education at Oxford. Edited with an introduction by S.C.Roberts. Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a British writer who published usi...

L.M. Montgomery: The Norval Years, 1926-1935

QUAILE, DEBORAH · 2006 · Kalamos Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Ayton, Ontario, Wordbird Press. 2006, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 0973391111) Soft cover. Ill.: Jennifer Osborn. Book, L. M. Montgomery, (November 30, 1874-April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery...

The Selected Journals of L.M.Montgomery Volume I 1889-1910

MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (ED. MARY RUBIO & ELIZABETH WATERSTON) · 1985 · Kalamos Books

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Toronto, Oxford University Press. 1985, 1st Canadain Edition. (ISBN: 0195415124) Soft cover. Book, "This first volume takes her to 1910, the year before her marriage. It recounts her schooldays, her teaching years, and the publication of 'Anne of Green Gables'. The Montgomery ...

The Selected Journals of L.M.Montgomery Volume I 1889-1910

MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (ED. MARY RUBIO & ELIZABETH WATERSTON) · 1985 · Kalamos Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Toronto, Oxford University Press. 1985, 1st Canadain Edition. (ISBN: 019540503X) Hardcover. Book, "This first volume takes her to 1910, the year before her marriage. It recounts her schooldays, her teaching years, and the publication of 'Anne of Green Gables'. The Montgomery j...

The Selected Journals of L.M.Montgomery Volume I 1889-1910

MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (ED. MARY RUBIO & ELIZABETH WATERSTON) · 1985 · Kalamos Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Toronto, Oxford University Press. 1985, 1st Canadain Edition. (ISBN: 019540503X) Hardcover. Book, "This first volume takes her to 1910, the year before her marriage. It recounts her schooldays, her teaching years, and the publication of 'Anne of Green Gables'. The Montgomery j...

Women Pioneers of Saskatchewan

RIDER, CELESTE D.[ED] · 2009 · Kalamos Books

$90.00 (€81.66 | £68.12 | ¥14,372)

Regina, SK, Saskatchewan Genealogical Society. 2009, 1st Can Ed. (ISBN: 1895859298) Hardcover. Book, Short biographies of some of the hardy women who settled in Western Canada .Issued in commemoratiion of the 40th. Anniversaty of the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, 1969--20...

Norman Douglas

TOMLINSON,H.M. · 1931 · Kalamos Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York, Harper & Brothers. 1931, 1st.US Edition. Hardcover. Book, The colophon in this copy states : Hand set in Deepdene type by A.W.Rushmore at the Golden Hind Press in Madison, New Jersey. Printed by The Haddon Craftsmen in Camden,New Jersey. Published by Harper & Brother...

Monahos: A Memoir

RAY, RITEN [RITENDRA KUMAR] · 2003 · Kalamos Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Toronto, Dufferin Press. 2003, 1st Can Ed. (ISBN: 0973115106) French Wraps. Book. "In the beautifully written memoir (a lament for the tragic loss of his wife and granddaughter) like a documentarian he records all that underlies grief, loss and loneliness, and their psychologi...

Kean: The Imaginary Memoirs of an Actor

BERSTL, JULIUS · 1962 · Kalamos Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Orion Press. 1962, 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Book, A fictional biography of the English actor Edmund Kean ( 1787 - 15 May 1833) was a celebrated British Shakespearean stage actor born in England, who performed in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris among ot...