Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

Eric Gill: Man of Flesh and Spirit

Yorke, Malcolm · 1982

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

New York Universe Books pp. 304. Royal octavo. Teal paper covered boards, title stamped in gilt to the spine. Neat ink name (in Essar's hand) to the upper-right margin of the ffep else, fine in fine, unclipped, dustjacket. Near fine. ¶ Provenance: From the personal library of ...

Grist for the Mill: My Life in the Grain Business [SIGNED]

Parrish, William B. · 2009

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Privately Printed | Gaspereau Press Limited (Kentville, N.S.) First Edition, First Printing pp. 164. 8vo. Illustrated stiff card covers. Replete with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. No detectable flaws, contents bright, cle...

Oliver Cromwell

Buchan, John (1875-1940) · 1950

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

London Hodder and Stoughton Later Printing pp. 554. Octavo. Bound in publisher's forest-green cloth over boards, title stamped in gilt to the spine, bears a facsimile of Cromwell's signature stamped likewise in gilt to the upper-board. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece of ...

My Autobiography

Mussolini, Benito; Richard Washburn Child (Foreword) · 1928

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons pp. xix, 318. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth over boards with gilt lettering and eagle monogram to spine and front board; deckled foredge. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece of Mussolini pictured at work in his office, with its well-preserv...

The Work and Witness of W.R. Morrison, B.A., B.D., 1879-1965

McRuer, Enid E. · 2000

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

[Winnipeg, Manitoba] Privately Printed First Edition pp. 241. Octavo. Pictorial card covers. Illustrated with various black-and-white photographs, maps, portraits, etc. Light rubbing to covers, faint tide-marks to rear matter (unaffecting text) else, clean and unmarked; very g...

Memories & Reflections [SIGNED]

Valentine, Mary Currell (née Hayes) (1931-2016) · 2013

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.89 | ¥26,348)

[Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canad] Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 147 + fourteen unnumbered leaves of colour plates (printed to rectos only). Quarto, measuring 9" x 11". Pictorial card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Bright, clean, and unmarked; ne...

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure

Auster, Paul · 1997

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

New York Henry Holt and Company First Edition, First Printing pp. 449. Thick octavo. Quarter black and gray boards, title stamped in gilt to the spine. Various black-and-white and colour plates, illustrations. Trifle bumping to tips, spine ends; very good+ in very good+, light...

Earth, Hell and Heaven in the Art of William Kurelek

Friesen, Ilse E. · 1997

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York Mosaic Press First Edition pp. xiii, 193. Octavo. Illustrated with various black-and-white photographs, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked. As new. ¶ Provenance: From the personal library of the late Gary Essar (1944-2025), noted Canadian art historian, and...

M.E.; A Portrayal of Emily Carr

Carr, Emily; Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher · 1969

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,228)

Toronto & Vancouver Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited First Edition, First Printing pp. 123. Octavo. Publisher's teal cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Neat ink date to the ffep, else, without blemish; near fine. Housed in its original, lightly-rubbed, unclippe...

The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance

Frye, Northrop · 1976

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press Second Printing pp. viii, 199. Small 8vo. Publisher's original cream cloth over boards, black lettering to the spine; maroon endpapers. Exceptionally well-preserved with no detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without ble...

A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance

Frye, Northrop · 1965

$69.00 (€62.60 | £52.23 | ¥11,018)

New York & London Columbia University Press First Edition, First Printing pp. 159. Small 8vo. Publisher's original teal cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Exceptionally well-preserved with no detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equaly without blemsih wit...

A Requiem, Armenian Style: A Memoir

Hodder, Ruth Madeleine · 2012

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Hodder Chahbaghlian First Edition, First Printing pp. 275. 8vo. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. As New SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the title page.

Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico

Portilla, Miguel León; Grace Lobanov (Trans.) · 0

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Norman, OK University of Oklahoma Press First English-Language Edition pp. xiii, [1-2], 3-191. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white plates. No detectable flaws: bright, clean and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fin...

The Silent Moccasins: Tootimah

Makie, John G. · 0

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

[Northern Ontario] Privately Printed First printing pp. 122. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light rubbing to the covers, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. At time of cataloguing not in Peel, BAC/LAC. "I was born in a hamlet in Northern Ontar...

When Memories Remain

Emilson, Karen · 2001

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Ashern, Manitoba Nordheim Books First edition pp. vii, 370. 8vo. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+.

The Roots of Horror in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

St. Armand, Barton Lewis; Richard Powers (Frontispiece Illustration) · 1977

$79.00 (€71.68 | £59.80 | ¥12,615)

Elizabethtown, New York Dragon Press First Edition, First Printing pp. [1-4], vii, [1-4], 1-102. Slim 8vo. Publisher's forest-green cloth over boards with title stamped in gilt to the front board. Striking illustrated frontispiece by Richard Powers, accompanied by various blac...

Entr' Quatr' Murailles; Quatre Ans D'Internement En Manchourie ; [Translation: Within Four Walls: Four Years of Internment in Manchuria]

Gilbert, Edouard · 1946

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Port Viau, Québec Editions Missions-Etrangeres First Edition, First Printing pp. 189, + 3 pages of publisher's advertisements. Brightly-illustrated card covers. Richly illustrated with a variety of sepia portraits, photographs, group portraits, map, etc. Light rubbing to the c...

Collected Essays

Huxley, Aldous · 1960

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Toronto & Vancouver Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited in Association with Chatto & Windus First Canadian Edition pp. xiiii, [1], 399, [1]. Octavo. Publisher's bright-orange cloth over boards with title in gilt within gilt-bordered navy-blue spine label. Light foxing to rear boar...

The Seven Storey Mountain

Merton, Thomas · 1948

$189.00 (€171.48 | £143.06 | ¥30,181)

New York Harcourt, Brace and Company Early Printing pp. [10], 3-429. Octavo (8.5" x 8.25"). Bound in publisher's original black cloth over boards with gilt title and rules to the spine. Trifle wear to the spine ends, contents uniformly without blemish with bright, clean, and u...

James Joyce's Ulysses, A Study

Gilbert, Stuart · 0

$79.00 (€71.68 | £59.80 | ¥12,615)

London Faber and Faber Limited pp. 407. Octavo. Full teal cloth over boards with title and rules stamped in gilt to the spine. Exceptionally well-preserved, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed i...