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Jean Riel, fils de Louis Riel: Sous une mauvaise étoile, Biographie [SIGNED]

Saint-Pierre, Annette · 2014 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Saint-Boniface, Manitoba Les Éditions Du Blé First Edition, First Printing pp. 293. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Colour frontispiece of the subject. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fi...

Percy: A Memoir

Decter, Michael Barry Rice · 0 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

[Winnipeg, Manitoba] Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 186. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. Light rubbing to the covers, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+. Rare in commerce, our...

Squeaky: The Life and Times Of Lynette Alice Fromme

Bravin, Jess · 1997 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,629)

New York Buzz Books | St. Martin's Press First Edition, First Printing pp. 432. 8vo. Quarter dark gray spine over light-gray boards, red lettering to the spine; pictorial endpapers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near...

Le Protégé de Marie-Antoinette

Marmier, Xavier; J. Belfond (Ed.) · 1909 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

London Hachette and Company New Edition with Illustrations pp. 165. 12mo. Light terracotta cloth over boards, stamped black rules and lettering to the spine and front board. Black-and-white frontispiece depicting Marie-Antoinette, accompanied with several additional plates of ...

Literary Impostors: Canadian Autofiction of the Early Twentieth

Heidenreich, Rosmarin · 2018 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Montréal & Kingston McGill-Queen's University Press pp. xiii, 338. 8vo. Black-and-white photographs, illustrations. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. "In the first half of the twentieth century, a number of Canadian authors were revealed to have faked the identities that...

A Doctor's Journey: 45 Years of Challenge [SIGNED]

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

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

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

Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger

Pipes, Richard · 2003 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,629)

Cambridge Yale University Press First Edition, First Printing pp. xiii, 264. 8vo. Quarter gray cloth over like boards. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new and housed in fine dustjacket. Sixteen-year-o...

Wordsworth and Jeffrey in Controversy

Noyes, Russell · 1941 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

Bloomingston, Indiana Indian University Publications, Humanities Series No. 5 First Edition, First Printing pp. 54. 4to., measuring 10" x 7". Light-teal, twice-stapled, card covers. Light sunning to covers, else, no other flaws to extremities. Contents remain bright, clean, an...

My Life at the Bar And Beyond [SIGNED]

Paterson, Alex K. · 2005 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Montreal & Kingston McGill-Queen's University Press First Edition, First Printing pp. xvi, 196. 8vo. Black boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. No detectable flaws, bright, clean, and ...

Tripping Lightly

Boon, Nancy; Thomas C.B. Boon (Intro.) · 1966 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Mortimer Place Books First Edition, First Printing pp. xii, 256. 8vo. Green hardcovers, gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of the subject, and accompanied with many black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations...

When the Curlew Cries [SIGNED]

Pettit, B.J. · 1999 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Nanaimo, B.C. Waratah Press First Edition, First Printing pp. 212. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; about fine. "Both a travel book and a person journey, When The Curlew Cries contains the salty humour and beautiful prose that marked Pettit's first book, ...

Perception and Expression in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte

Williams, Judith · 1998 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Ann Arbor UMI Research Press First Edition, First Printing pp. 175. 8vo. Black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front board. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine and housed in near fine lightly edgew...

Tales of the Snake: Boyhood in Birnie & The Bush; A History and Personal Memoir [SIGNED]

Stevens, Arthur D. · 2007 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Claremont, California The Paige Press | The Regina Group First Edition, First Printing pp. 229. 8vo. Illustrated covers, colour frontispiece. Appears unread; as new. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page.

Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest ; A New Edition Containing the Unaltered Text of the Original Issue; Some Suppressed Episodes; Ms. Variorum, Vocabulary and Notes by the Author of the Life of George Borrow

Borrow, George · 1907 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

London John Murray pp. xxv, 569. Small 8vo. Prize-binding, bound in 3/4 red leather over like cloth boards, gilt rules, and lettering to the spine; five raised bands, six compartments. Lovely marbled foredges, and endpapers. Lithograph frontispiece of the author accompanied wi...

Teilhard de Chardin: The Man and his Theories

Grenet, Abbé Paul; R.A. Rudorff (Trans.); Jacques Ahrweiler (Ed.) · 1965 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

London The Catholic Book Club | Printed by the Camelot Press Ltd., London and Southampton First English Edition pp. 176. 8vo. Light-green hardcovers, black lettering to the spine. Touch of sunning to spine, else, no other detectable flaws to the extremities, contents remain eq...

Frederick Engels: A Biography

Ilyichov, L.F.; Y.P. Kandel; N.Y. Kolpinsky; A.I. Malysh; G.D. Obichkin; V.V. Platkovsky; Yevgenia Stepanova; B.G. Tarakovsky; Victor Schneierson (Trans.) · 1974 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,310)

Moscow Progress Publishers First Edition, First Printing pp. 510. 8vo. Navy-blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine, and front board, white silk ribbon-marker. Replete with black-and-white photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Lightest rubbing to the board...

Martin Buber; Wisdom in Our Time, The Story of an Outstanding Jewish Thinker and Humanist

Simon, Charlie May · 1969 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$19.00 (€17.24 | £14.38 | ¥3,033)

New York E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. First Edition pp.190. Small 8vo. Bright, yellow cloth over boards, black lettering to the spine and front board. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations. Small ink name to ffep else, no detectable flaws. Contents remain brig...

When Memories Remain [SIGNED]

Emilson, Karen · 2001 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,629)

Ashern, Manitoba, Canada Nordheim Books First Edition, First Printing pp. viii, 370. 8vo. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. No detectable flaws, bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. Signed boldly in ink by the autho...

The Living Thoughts of Rousseau

Rolland, Romain · 1946 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

London Cassell and Company, Limited First Edition pp. 159. 16mo. Original red cloth over boards, gilt rules and lettering to the spine. Black-and-white frontispice of subject. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine.

The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D.; Sometime Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford.

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn · 0 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

London & New York Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd pp. 548, [1]. Small 8vo., measuring 20 x 13 cm. Original light blue stamped cloth over boards, with elaborate gilt lettering, floral ornamentation to the spine and boards. Black-and-white frontispiece of the subject accompanied with its ...