Biography/Autobiography from Ayers Books/Livres Ayers

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Hardcover, 8 3/4 inches, 22cm., 463 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt titles on the spine. Illustrated with black and white photographs and a facsimile copy of a page from Emily Dickinson's diary. Inludes appendiices and an indes. Light edgewear, initial pages lightly creased. Previous owner's name on front paste-down end paper. Good +… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putman's Sons, 1927. Hard cover, 318 pages. Blue boards with gilt design on the front cover. First edition, 21st printing (!). Illustrated throughout with full page black and white photographs. The top edge is toned with small speckles of unknown origin. Very good condition. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read more about this item

Toronto: Penguin Canada , 2009 Hard cover, 236 pages. Black boards with illustrated dust jacket with portrait of Mordecai Richler on the front cover by Vlad Yakobchuk and portrait of the author by John Scully. Part of the Extraordinary Canadians series edited by John Ralston Saul. Near fine. . First. Hard cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

Toronto: Penguin Canada Hard cover with illustrated dust jacket. 219 pages. Black boards, dust jacket portrait of René Levesque by André Dubois, photo of the author by Gila Sperer. Part of the Extraordinary Canadians series edited by John Ralston Saul. Near fine. . . First. Hard cover. Near fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2009 Hard cover, 222 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with portrait of Pierre Elliott Trudeau on the front cover by Robert Carter, photo of the author by John Scully. Part of the Extraordinary Canadians series edited by John Ralston Saul. Near fine. . First American. Hard cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25"… Read more about this item

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2009 Hard cover, 175 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with portrait of Stephen Leacock by Joe Weismann, portrait of the author by John Scully. Part of he Extraordinary Canadians series edited by John Ralston Saul. First edition, inscribed by the author, near fine. . Inscribed By Author. First. Hard Cover. Near fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited, 1926. Green leather cover with gilt titles and illustration on the front cover, vii, 196 [1] pages. Pages 159 to 196 contain a biographical note by the author. Ink star in margin and one date underlined in pen in this section. Christian moral tale. Very good. . Christian story. Hard Cover. Very Good/No… Read more about this item

New York: Chapman & Hall Limited and Henry Frowde, 1900. No date, ca 1892-1905. Part of The Oxford India Paper Dickens series. Full red leather over cardboard,, gilt titles, xxviii, 977 pages including index and appendix.. Autograph of Dickens on half-title page, frontispiece portrait of Dickens, 26 illustrations, including portraits and a ,manuscript facsimile. Author John Forster was godfather… Read more about this item

Knopf Canada, 2015 Hard cover, 401 pages. White boards with blind titles, illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. First Canadian edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. . First. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2010 Hard cover, 354 pages. White boards, illustrated dust jacket. First US edition. Black and white images througout. Dust jacket discretely price clipped. Fine book in near fine dust jacket, an attractive copy. . First. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Almhult : IKEA of Sweden AB, 2015 Biography of Olle Eksell (1918-2007), Swedish graphic designer and poster atist - and designer of the Onskedrom collection. for IKEA. Illustrated hard cover, without dust jacket (as issued). 251 [5] pages. Text by David Castenfors, book design by Henrik Nygren. Brimming with colour and black and white photographs and designs. As… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2010. Hard cover, black cloth with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket, 344 pages. Prize-winning author James Lord tells his story of living with "the inconvenience of being queer." in the military during the Second World War .Stated first. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near… Read more about this item

London: Michael O'Mara Books , 2000. Hard cover, [6], vii,-viii, 153 pages. Illustrated boards, illustrated dust jacket with portrait of Wilde. Decorative drawings in the text by Aubrey Beardsley. Very good price clipped jacket, book as new. . Hard Cover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Poitiers: Editions Wizlov, 1981. A lavish photgraphic tribute to legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker compiled by his widow Chan from their exensive private collection of photos and ephemera. Producer and co-author Francis Paudras was a French commercial artist, jazz patron and author memorialized in a book "La Danse des Infidéles" (1986.) Hard cover folio with smooth maroon… Read more about this item

Toronto: Me to We, 2013 Soft cover, 180 [10] pages. Illustrated cover, 12 colour plates. Story of the traditional culture of the Maasai and the struggle to balance this culture with modernity and technology. SIGNED by both authors with the motto "Umoja ni nguvu" "Unity is Strength". Near fine. . Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Near… Read more about this item

Toronto: McLelland & Stewart, 2010. Hard cover, 397 pages, illustrated cover and dust jacket. First ed. later printing. Colour illustrations throughout, indexed. Lavish illustrations, near fine condition. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988 Hard cover, 328 pages. Grey boards with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket. CBC radio host Peter Gzowski's journal and autobiography, illustrated with personal photograhps. Best known as the host of Morningside, a national CBC radio program, Gzowski reflects on his family life and his career as a journalist and broadcaster, offering fascinating… Read more about this item

Duncan, BC, Canada: Unica Publishing Company, Limited, 1995. 123 pages, illustrated cover, 57 reproductions of black and white snapshots taken between 1920 and 1970. Dorothy Mesher was born and raised in the North. This book describes the arrival of US soldiers in 1941 and the founding and quick abandonment of the Kuujjuaq (Crystal) air base. Twenty-two pages of black… Read more about this item

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006 Hard cover, 525 pages. Blue cloth boards, silver lettering, illustrated dust jacket. Comprensive biography of Harold Innis, a professor of political economy and the author of seminal works on Canadian economic history, media and communication history. Very good in very good dust jacket. . Hard Cover. Very good/Very Good. 8vo - over… Read more about this item