Search Results: 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 + condition. First edition, stated. . First. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hoddard & Stoughton, 2001 Hard cover with dust jacket, 410 pages. Portrait of Quincy Jones on dust jacket. Quincy Jones's life in his own words. illustrated with 38 pages of black and white photos of his family and other famous musicians. Includes his impressive discography, film scores and many awards. Very good in very good dust jacket. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Penguin Press, 2015 Hard cover, beige boards, grey spine with silver titles, 447 pages. Illustrated dust jacket and black and white illustrations in the text. A travel and surfing memoir. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near 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.

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 and white photographs tipped in. Contains bookplate of previous owner. Top corner lightly bumped, very light edge wear. Good+ condition.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 to Dickens's daughter Mary and has produced a carefully compiled biography of Dickens.. Head and foot of spine abraded, else very good condition. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010 Hard cover, [10] 278 pages. Black boards with gilt titling, illustrated dust jacket with portrain of Kamala Das on the front cover. Minor scuffing to the dust jacket. Fine in very good jacket. . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lausanne: Editions du grand-chene Henri Kaeser, 1950 Edition illustré de conquante-cinq dessins inédits d'Aristide Maillok, dont huit en couleur. De la bibliothèque de Goodridge Roberts, peintre canadien, avec son nom sur la garde avant. Couverture usé, intérieur très bon. . Cardboard. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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" - 9¾" tall.

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 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 new.. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: McLelland & Stewart, 2010 Hard cover, 397 pages, illustrated cover and dust jacket. First ed. later printing. Colour illustrations throughout, indexed. Lavish illustrations, fine condition. . Hard Cover. Fine/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" 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 accounts of Canadian media in the 1970s and 1980s. Book very good, with small stain at the base of the just jacket and spine. Signed by the author on the half-title page. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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: 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 Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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 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 boards with title label on front cover, housed in original laminated box designed as a gift parcel. First and only edition, 409 pages. Introductory text and photo captions in English and French. The box cover has a small chip and the corners have been professionally reinforced. Very light edgewear to book, otherwise unmarked. The spine is shaken, sewing intact. Quite scarce. "'Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no… Read More