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Forty Nights to Freedom: The True Prisoner of War Escape Story of Wing Commander Stewart F. Cowan (Ret.)

Smith, Gladys E. · 0 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,945)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Queenston House Publishing Company Third Printing pp. 217. Small 8vo. Illustrated stiff card covers. Black-and-white photograph frontispice of the subject. Replete with black-and-white maps, photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. No detectable flaws,...

Vie de Mgr Langevin, Oblat de Marie Immculée, Archevêque de Saint-Boniface [Biography of Louis Philippe Adélard Langevin, Archbishop of Saint-Boniface]

Morice, Adrien Gabriel (1859-1938) · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

1919 Privately Printed Troisieme Edition pp. xiv, 398. Small 8vo. Pebbled red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Langevin, accompanied with four additional plates. Light bumping to spine ends, contents remain bright, cl...

Vie de Mgr Langevin, Oblat de Marie Immculée, Archevêque de Saint-Boniface [Biography of Louis Philippe Adélard Langevin, Archbishop of Saint-Boniface]

Morice, Adrien Gabriel (1859-1938) · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

1919 Privately Printed Troisieme Edition pp. xiv, 398. Small 8vo. Pebbled green cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Langevin, accompanied with four additional plates. Light bumping to spine ends, contents remain bright, ...

Leon Trotsky

Howe, Irving; Frank Kermode (Ed.) · 1978 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New York Viking First Edition, First Printing pp. viii, 214. Small 8vo. 1/4 black cloth over paper boards, white lettering to the spine. Lightest rubbing, neat ink name to ffep else, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and house in ...

The Saga of Doctor Thor, Paul H.T. Thorlakson, CC, MD: A Biography

Cunnings, T. A. J.; Robert H. Thorlakson; Kenneth T. Thorlakson; Arnold Naimark (Foreword) · 1986 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Winnipeg, Manitoba University Of Manitoba Press First Edition, First Printing pp. xxv, 635. Royal 8vo. Bright red "leatherette" over boards, gilt rules and lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, accompanied with many additional photographs, portrait...

Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

Hendrickson, Paul · 2019 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York Alfred A. Knopf First Edition, First Printing pp. 600. 8vo. Appears unread; as new in fine dustjacket. As New Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real,...

Jam in the Bed Roll: The Continuing Story of Frank Jackson as Told to Sheila Douglass; A Sequel to Candle in the Grub Box

Douglass, Sheila; Frank Jackson · 1977 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Keg River, Alberta Shires Books First Edition, First Printing pp. v, 151. Slim 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Black-and-white photographs, illustrations. Small ownership sticker affixed to the title page, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. App...

Laura Secord: The Legend and the Lady

McKenzie, Ruth · 1971 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Toronto Mcclelland And Stewart First Edition, First Printing pp. 142. Small 8vo.Tan cloth over boards, bronze lettering to the spine. Replete with black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations, maps, facsimiles, et al. Lovely bookplate affixed to ffep, contents remain...

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Isaacson, Walter · 2007 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York Simon & Schuster pp. xxii, 657. Appears unread; as new in fine dustjacket.

Under His Wings

McAfee, Helena (Peters) · 2008 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,822)

Morden, Manitoba, Canada Privately Printed | Printed by Friesens (Altona, Manitoba) First Edition, First Printing pp. 250. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Replete with black-and-white, and colour photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. No detectable flaws, cont...

Anwar el-Sadat: In Search of Identity, An Autobiography

el-Sadat, Anwar · 1978 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,822)

New York Harper & Row First Edition pp. viii, 360. 8vo. Navy blue cloth over boards, white lettering to the spine, and blind-stamped signature of Sadat embossed to the front board. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. Light bumping to tail of spine, co...

C.L.R. James: A Life

Dhondy, Farrukh · 2002 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York Pantheon First Edition, First Printing pp. xvi, 224. 8vo. Lightest general shelfwear, neat ownership tamp to corner of ffep otherwise, the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+ and housed in very good+ dustjacket. A long-ove...

Shaping a Saint: A Brief History of the Life of Frances Kerr Wallace, 1924-1999.

Wallace, Roy · 1999 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

[London, Ontario, Canada] Privately Printed by the Wallace Family First Edition, First Printing pp. xiii, 303. 8vo. Pictorial card covers. Replete with many black-and-white photoraphs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, illustrated family-tree. No detectable flaws, contents...

Way to Glory: The Life of Havelock of Lucknow

Pollock, J.C. · 1957 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

London John Murray First Edition, First Printing pp. x, 269. 8vo. Navy-blue cloth over boards with gilt lettring to the spine. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of the subject. Black-and-white maps, photographs, illustrations, etc. One very light bump to the tail of sp...

One Who Dared, 1909-1994; The story of Ben D. Reimer, who courageously stepped into the stream of God's action and served.

Peters, Doreen Reimer; Paul Bernard Reimer (Preface) · 2005 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

[Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada] Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 307. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations. Neat ink name to the half-title page otherwise contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound bind...

Reminiscences of My Father, Wladimir Janzen: Teacher, Minister, Gulag Survivor; July 26, 1900 - May 15, 1957

Janzen, Waldemar · 2017 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 140. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations. No detectable flaws; as new.

David Toews Was Here, 1870-1947

Harder, Helmut; Lawrence Klippenstein (Foreword) · 2002 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,672)

Winnipeg, Manitoba CMBC Publications First Edition, First Printing pp. xi, 347. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Replete with black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations. Light rubbing to the covers, neat in inscription to the ffep otherwise the contents remain br...

Life of Molière

Trollpe, Henry M. · 1905 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,822)

London Archibald Constable and Company Limited First Edition, First Printing pp. ix, 578. Thick royal 8vo. Light blue cloth over boards with gilt rules, and lettering to the spine; untrimmed page edges. Black-and-white engraved frontispiece of Molière accompanied with its orig...

Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie

Stubbs, Roy St. George · 0 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Winnipeg, Manitoba [Manitoba Historical Society] pp. 49 - 74. Small 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Plain light blue stapled card covers. Very light sunning to the margins of the covers, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine.

Lifting the Veil: Mennonite Life in Russia Before the Revolution

Janzen, Jacob H.; Leonare Friesen (Ed. & Intro.); Walter Klaassen (Trans.) · 1998 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,629)

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Pandora Press | Herald Press pp. 127. Slim 8vo. Black-and-white photographs, illustrations. Neat ink name to corner of title page otherwise the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked. Overall, very good.