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By: Banks, Rev. Louis Albert (Ed.)
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, O. W. Binkerd: 1902
Edition: Authorized Edition
Seller ID: 009129
Original green cloth with oval pastedown portrait on boards. Much space is given to descriptions of Talmage's travels around the world. Organization of the text is quite bulky and rambling, given to long paragraphs only loosely connected. As such, this book serves better as a travelog than as a biography. Many photographs. 500 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
By: Barrymore, Ethel
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Harper & Brothers: 1955
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 007623
Original pink paper boards backed in black cloth. DJ has small tear at foot. Previous owner's name. Life story of perhaps the greatest actress of all time. 310 pp. View more info
Price: $10.00 USD
Publisher: Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press: 1972
Edition: First, Not Stated
Seller ID: 000650
Original beige cloth on boards. DJ very good, with a couple of small spots. DJ flap blurb: "I have read everything written on Agee and his work...In my opinion (this) is the soundest general book so far". - David McDowell, Agee's literary executor and personal friend. 218 pp. with index and credits. Nearly as new. View more info
By: Bata, Thomas J. With Sonja Sinclair
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart Publishing Co., Ltd.: 1990
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 012837
The story of Thomas J. Bata and Bata Shoes, a family business with headquarters moved from Switzerland to Batawa, Ontario, in order to escape Hitler. A "feel good" story. 341 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Hantsport, N.S., Lancelot Press: 1983
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 012401
Green softcover. No writing except author's signature. Cover corner bent. Not intended as autobiography, but gives numerous details of various jobs and related activities around the world. 132 pp. View more info
By: Batt, Peter
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Compton, Newbury, Berkshire, Highdown: 2004
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004652
Original green cloth on boards. Small sticker with inscription stuck to front of DJ is the only fault. Mick Channon was widely known both as a football/soccer player and horse racer. 288 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Windsor, N.S., Lancelot Press: 1976
Seller ID: 012961
Smith first comes to notice about 1851 with plans to build the European and North American Railway with its terminus in his home town, Shediac. He opposed Confederation at first, but eventually became a strong supporter. He is credited with giving New Brunswick responsible government and the secret ballot. He died at 61, leaving at attractive widow 25 years younger. The rest of the book deals with her travels, her writing, and her mental instability. This softcover book... View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Productions: 1996
Edition: First Edition Stated
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 003890
Original colour pictorial soft cover. Cartoons by Beutel and essays by friends and foes. McKenna has served at Premier of New Brunswick and Ambassador to the United States. He is now employed by Toronto Dominion Bank. 205 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1907
Seller ID: 009072
Original green cloth on boards. Church library copy. "Holy Ann" was an Irish girl who had been refused schooling after a week. She found her way to Toronto, where she was active in Methodist circles and became well-known for her frequent and forward testimony. 155 pp. View more info
By: Blake, Robert
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode: 1955
Seller ID: 012642
Green cloth on boards. Library stamp. First free endpaper removed. 556 pp. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 2007
Seller ID: 008521
Original bright red cloth on boards. Purchased new from university bookstore. " Throughout, Bloch-Dano offers sensitive readings of Proust's work, drawing out the countless interconnections among his mother, his life, and his magnum opus." - DJ flap. 310 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Goose Lane Editions: 1989
Edition: Firat Edition
Seller ID: 010104
Black cloth on boards. Book and DJ unmarked and undamaged. Heavy book will need extra postage. 664 pp, View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Otherwise Inc. Editions: 2000
Edition: First( No Additional Printings)
Seller ID: 011198
Black laminated boards. A biographical photo album of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, with essays by leading literary figures. 160 pp. View more info
By: Boswell, James
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent and Sons, Ltd.: 1925
Edition: Reprint of 1901 Edition
Seller ID: 010187
Blue-green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on boards. Volumes I and II only, out of 3. No marks or damage to this partial set. 458 and 464 pp, respectively, in the two volumes. Heavy books will need extra postage. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1896
Seller ID: 008283
Original blue cloth on boards. Probably published in the 40's.Cover very bright. Previous owner's name. Small margin tear head of title. Hinge cracked at last page (glued). 479 pp. View more info
Price: $60.00 USD
Publisher: Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press: 1979
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 005611
Original bright red cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ. Translated from the Danish by Patricia N. McAndrew. This large, heavy book will need extra postage. Primarily a choreographer, Bournonville supported and encouraged boys as well as girls to dance. He served the Danish Royal Ballet for nearly 50 years. 709 pp. including index. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Thomas Y. Crowell: 1957
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 005014
Original green cloth on boards. Lots of date stamps and bookshop stamp, but no other library evidence. DJ flaps taped inside front cover. After their mother dies, eight children move from Italy to Boston, where they apparently are surrounded by nurses, servants, and animals. Some of the sisters start a dancing school, and the music of six pianos is mentioned in passing ! 311 pp. View more info
Price: $16.00 USD
Publisher: Picton, Ontario, The Picton Gazette: 1976
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 005433
Original blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. The frontispiece map of Prinyer's Cove, Prince Edward County, Ontario, led me to jump to the conclusion that this was a folksy memory trip by one of the many local sailors who populate an area where I lived for more than 20 years. Not so. Instead, this author takes the reader from St. Petersburg, where he was born, to his compulsory service in the British Army, and eventually to Canada, still a young man. Only a fe... View more info
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Thomas Y. Crowell & Company: 1904
Seller ID: 003763
Original bright red cloth lavishly decorated and lettered in gold on boards. Believed to be a first edition. Minor abrasion to extreme corner tips only. No names or other writing. Top edges gilt. Untrimmed front and foot. Biographical sketches of some of the French female upper crust - "the natural, the attractive, the lovable ones" from the 17th to early 19th Centuries. 290 pp. View more info
By: Brunner, Astrid
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Lakeville Corner, N.B., AB Collector Publishing: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 012009
A thought- provoking biography of "a quiet, bashful man" who helped many get published before he ran into production/financial pitfalls leading to his death at 55. 182 pp. View more info