Biography from Minotavros Books

London: Panther, 1959. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4.5" x 7" First paperback edition. 190 pp. Creasing to joints and corners, rubbing to extremities. Interior age toned. Ex libris label to flyleaf. Jo Capka is no ordinary hero. He holds the D.F.M., the Croix de Guerre and the highest decorations of his home country, Czechoslovakia; but his… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. brown cloth. xii, 260 pp. Spine tilted, bruise to tail edge of rear board. Age toning to endpapers, edge toning to interior. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, chipped to extremities, perforation to front joint, rubbed and scuffed… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, red paper boards. xi, 335 pp., [8] pp. B&W photos. About fine.

Munich: Prestel, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Navy paper boards. 126 pp. Colour illustrations in text throughout. Light bruising to upper corners. About fine.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1968. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Orange paper boards. 253 p.p. Damp staining to spine ends, else fine. Vibrantly illustrated dust jacket is sunned at edges of rear cover, and has some very light edge wear, damp stain to head of spine. Nothing More to Declare is an account of living and… Read more about this item

Shannon, Ireland: Irish University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The Development of Industrial Society Series. 3 volumes. Full black cloth. xx, 525; ix, 527; xi, 548 pp. Bowing to front board soiling to fore edge of vol. 1. Vol. 1 has large hole to p. 25/26 with loss to text,… Read more about this item

Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1616. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to (small). Tome I of II only. Apparent first edition. Full contemporary calf. Recently professionally rebacked, calf repairs to joints and upper corner of front board, orig. spine laid down with orig. gilt title and stamped compartments. [16], 946, [26] pp. Engraved title, woodcut intials. Orig. leather cracked,… Read more about this item

Toronto: Burns & MacEachern, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription from author to ffep. Orig. green cloth. 63 pp. [6] B&W plates, some double-sided. Spine tilted, lightly bruised at ends. A few spots of light soiling to interior, but predominantly clean. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, chafed… Read more about this item

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription by both authors to title page. Orig. brown cloth. xi, 356 pp. [26] pp. B&W photos and illustrations. Spine slightly tilted. Dust jacket sunned to spine. Envelope with invitation to UTP celebration of the publishing of this book, addressed to Rachel Glover… Read more about this item

Toronto: ECW Press, 1997. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Powell, Claude (photos). 18mo. Soft cover. 89 pp. B&W photos in text. Covers are age toned, some blue scuffing to head of rear cover. Else fine.

London: MQ Publications, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pictorial paper boards. 437 pp. Spine tilted In fine illustrated dust jacket. Includes an illustrated bookmark and CD of R. Crumb's Music Sampler, unopened. In fine condition. The R. Crumb Handbook is a biography of influential cartoonist Richard Crum, with photographs and… Read more about this item

Gardeny City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. red cloth. x, 211 pp. Spine sunned, some damp spotting to boards. Spine shaken. Bookplate of scientific historian Stillman Drake. Interior age toned.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarter black paper, grey paper boards. x, 494 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Fine.

Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons (Canada) Limited, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red paper boards. 190 pp. B&W photos in text. White scuffing to boards. Darkening to top edges of boards, soiling to top edge of text block. Dust jacket is age toned, rubbed to extremities, sunned to spine,… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Orig. green cloth. Spine tilted. xi, 178 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Burgundy scuff to tail edge (possible remainder mark?). Dust jacket is age toned, rubbed, sunned to spine, short open tear to foot of front cover.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Orig. black cloth. ix, 112 pp. [4] B&W plates. Spine tilted, cloth scuffed, bumped to spine ends. Bookplate of science historian Stillman Drake to front pastedown. A few spots of light foxing.

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2009. First Ediition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. black paper boards. 236 pp. Fine. With introduction by Series Editor John Ralston Saul.

New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. black cloth, orange paper spine label. 130 pp. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, cropped to flaps, some bumping and chipping to extremities. The Memoirs of Casanova end with 177r when the Great Adventurer was… Read more about this item

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Reprint of the reprint edition of 1944, 1st edition 1943. Orig. tan cloth. 153 pp. Dust jacket is price clipped and cropped to flaps, rubbed and bumped to extremities. This simple true story of a Navy doctor from Arkansas,… Read more about this item

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1957. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Second edition, revised and enlarged (precedes the 2nd English edition). Orig. black cloth. 376 pp. Very minor chafing to extremities. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned, bumped to edges.