Search Results: Titles starting with I from Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts

Toronto: Second Story Press, 2020. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Slim 4to. Pictorial boards. Beautifully illustrated throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new and housed in fine dustjacket. "When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns who are in charge at the school and who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her. When she goes home for summer holidays, Irene's parents decide never to send her and her brothers away again. But where will they hide? And what will happen when her parents disobey the law? Based on the life of co-author Jenny Kay Dupuis’ grandmother, I Am Not a Number is a hugely necessary book that brings a terrible part of Canada’s history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to."

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Dundurn, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 200. 8vo. Black-and-white, and colour photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. No detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; as new and housed in fine dustjacket.

Rivers, Manitoba: Privately Printed, N.D. [Circa 1980's?]. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 81. 4to., measrugin 8.5" x 11". Textured, thrice-stapled, illustrated card covers. Light surface residue to the left margins of the front cover, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections. "During the years that the Rev. Alvin Jacobs and The Rev. John Wiebe served the parish of St. James Rivers they asked me on several occasions to preach a sermon in their absense. Several people have suggested that I have them published."

New York: Penguin Books, 1978. Softcover. pp. 395; 443. Small 8vo's. Illustrated covers. Light rubbing, some creasing to Vol. I, Vol. II shows only light rubbing to the extremities, contents of each remain clean and unmarked with sound bindings; housed in its original lightly rubbed, pictorial slipcase. Overall, good+.

Taos, New Mexico: High Mesa Press, 1986. Softcover. pp. vi, 175. Small 8vo. Illustrated covers. Black-and-white photographs, illustrations, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine.

Toronto & Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1967. Hardcover. pp. 138. Small 8vo. Publisher's maroon and terracotta cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine with charming blind-stamped illustration to the front board. Extremities exceptionally well-preserved showing no detectable flaws, shot near ink inscription to the ffep, else, text-block remains bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; as new and housed near fine original, unclipped, dustjacket. A lovely volume in excellent condition.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Softcover. pp. xvi, 260. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new.

Scottsdale, AZ: Inkwell Productions, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. xi, 244. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of the subjects, and accompanied with many other photographs, portraits, maps, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Neat in name to corner of title page (marked over), else, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine.

Morris, Manitoba: Privately Printed, 1995. First printing. Softcover. pp. 379. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Many black and white photographs, maps, illustrations. Appears unread; fine.

[Island Lake, Manitoba]: Privately Printed, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 239. 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Pictorial covers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the title page. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, et al. "I have tried to reflect the various events I remembered from my earliest years to the time I entered religious life in 1947. This book reflects my missionary travels by train, boat, canoe and portage, dog team and airplane. My life begins on the Prairies in the late 1920's then in northern Manitoba and Ontario. The basic needs in food and shelter were available, thanks to the inventiveness of Dad (making a stove from barrels) and the resourcefulness of Mom who knew how to "make do very little" for example our first "Christmas rabbit dinner". I have kept the style simple,… Read More

[Fargo, North Dakota]: Privately Printed, April 1, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. Stiff broadside measuring 11" x 14", advertising a speaking engagement being held in Fargo, North Dakota on April 1, of 1951 by a then 36-year-old German-born Jesuit priest, Rev. Hubert F. Schiffer recounting his remarkable, and harrowing experience surviving the bombing of Hiroshima by the United States military on the morning of August 6, 1945. Text of broadside as printed: "I WAS A-BOMBED; Rev. Hubert F. Schiffer, S.J., a Jesuit Missionary, survivor of the Hiroshima Bombing will give his address "I Was A-Bombed"; Eight blocks from "Ground Zero", when the bomb exploded, Father Schiffer is qualified to describe an actual Atomic Bombing! Those attending the lecture will be privileged to list the name of a War-Veteran, of any race or creed, in a "Golden Book of Prayer" to be kept at a Memorial Shrine built on the site of the A-Bombs explosion; [To be held on] Sunday, April 1, 1951. Place: Shanley High… Read More

Calgary: University of Calgary Press , 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. xxxii, 214. 8vo. Illustrated covers. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Appears unread; as new. "The history of Christian missions in Canada has traditionally been told only from the point of view of the missionaries, and not those they were attempting to convert. In "I Will Fear No Evil", Susan Gray offers a new perspective on missionary-aboriginal encounters between the Berens River Ojibwa and Methodist and Catholic missionaries between 1875 and 1940. Supplementing her historical research with conversations and interviews with Berens River elders, Gray explores the ways in which Christian beliefs have become incorporated into the traditional Ojibwa worldview. The Ojibwa were active participants in these missionary encounters. They accepted those missionaries who treated them with sensitivity and respect and integrated Christian beliefs and practices into their established belief system. Today, a blend… Read More

Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2006. Softcover. As New. pp. xii, 292. 8vo. As new. The Bible is a truly wonderful book. Millions of Christians through the ages and across the world have treasured it as their most valued possession, often insisting that anyone can pick up the Bible and read and understand it for themselves. But many of the details remain fuzzy until we find out more about their historical or literary setting. The IVP Introduction to the Bible is intended to reduce the fuzziness, in two ways: First, by providing background information to the whole Bible and each testament, as well as the gap between the testaments. Second, by introducing all the main sections of the Bible and each biblical book in turn. So the great biblical panorama is brought to life, first with broad brush strokes and then with fine art work. This Bible introduction is written by an international and interdenominational team of evangelical scholars, among them Desmond Alexander, author of From… Read More

Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Turnstone Press, 1981. Softcover. pp. 129. Oblong 4to. Pictorial card covers. Chiefly black and white photographs and illustrations. No detectable flaws, contents remain clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. Appears unread.

Ottawa & Winnipeg: National Publishers Ltd., 1967. Canada Ethnica II. Hardcover. pp. 502 + appendix. 8vo. Publisher's gray cloth over boards, maroon lettering to the spine and front board. Replete with black-and-white photographs, portraits, maps, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Light rubbing to the cloth extremities, short neat ink inscription to the ffep, else, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good+.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2002. Softcover. pp. 306. 8vo. Bright, clean, and unmarked; as new. "During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America. Although the best known Icelandic settlements were in southern Manitoba, in the area that became known as ìNew Iceland,î Icelanders also established important settlements in Brazil, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. Earlier accounts of this immigration have tended to concentrate on the history of New Iceland.Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, census reports, and archival repositories, Jonas Thor expands this view by looking at Icelandic immigration from a continent-wide perspective. Illustrated with maps and photographs, this book is a detailed social history of the Icelanders in North America, from the first settlement in Utah to the struggle in New Iceland."

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Wallingford Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 557. 8vo. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Black and white maps, photographs and illustrations. Very light edgewear to the cloth extremities, else, near fine; contents equally without blemeish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and tight, sound binding; very good+, to, near fine.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Queenston House, 1981. Softcover. pp. 168. Small square 8vo. Light blue card covers. Black-and-white illustrations. Light rubbing to the covers, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; very good.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Wallingford Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 557. 8vo. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Black and white maps, photographs and illustrations. Negligible edgewear, else, near fine; neat ink name and short inscription to the front pastedown, else, without blemeish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and tight, sound binding; very good+, to, near fine.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Facsimile Edition. Spiral Bound. pp. 205. 4to. Plain card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Light sunning to the front cover, contents without blemish; near fine.