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Russia - My Home.

By: Ponafidine, Emma Cochran (Mme. Pierre Ponafidine)

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, New York., Blue Ribbon Books.: 1931

Seller ID: 30338

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 20.5 x 14 cm.; 312 pp. Subtitled: An Intimate Record of Personal Experiences Before, During and After the Bolshevist Revolution. A firsthand insight by an American lady married to a Russian of life in Russian as the nation went through extraordinary change. Frontis photos of author. The text block head edge is stained red as issued. Red cloth-covered boards have light wear, as does the text block edges, former owner's name on front free endpaper, bit of soiling in text; binding sturdy. A clear and removable archival cover has been fitted.
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The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies. A Memoir of Hungary.

By: Porter, Anna.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Doubleday: 2000

Seller ID: 18341

ISBN: 0385259565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; viii - 324 pp. Blue paper over boards with silver gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with eight pages of black and white photographs. Porter recounts the stories learned from her grandfather , Vilmos Racz known affectionately as Vili, told to her while she was growing up in Budapest during the 1950's and 40's.
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Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist.

By: Read, Donald and Eric Glasgow.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: London, UK., Edward Arnold.: 1961

Seller ID: 30492

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 160 pp. Green cloth over boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Black and white frontis portrait of O'Connor. Five page bibliography and a 4 page index. Slight darkening (dust soiling) of the head edge of the text block, otherwise the book appears to have been used very little if at all. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear to the spine tips and fore corners with some light soiling on the back panel.
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The Christian Revolutionary: John Milton.

By: Richmond, Hugh M.

Price: $8.10

Publisher: Berkeley, California., University of California Press: 1974

Seller ID: 11069

ISBN: 0520024435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 20 x 12.5 cm.; xi - 201 pages. Tan coloured cloth ovr boards with gilt lettering on a red spine panel. From the dust jacket: ". . . . the blind and defeated poet had become deeply suspicious of reason and idealism, turning to a pragmatic reconciliation with human irrationality and fallibility. This shift in attitudes underlies and largely defines Milton's achievements in his last three great works . . . .". Faint erasure ghost on the front free end paper, very slight soiling to the dust jacket. The book appears to have been used fvery little if at all.
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A Man of the Thirties.

By: Rowse, A. L. (Alfred Leslie Rowse).

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, UK., Weidenfeld and Nicolson.: 1979

Seller ID: 18298

ISBN: 0297776665

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 215 pp. A prolific writer, Rowse (1903-1997), was best known as a Cornish historian and Poet and a Shakespearean scholar. This is his life in the 1930s, based on his diaries and journals - a Marxist, a Labour Party candidate, a friend of Adam von Trott who became a famous figure of the German Resistance, among other events and people. Index. Text is tight and clean. Dust jacket has minor general wear.
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The Runaway.

By: Sanford, Roger.

Price: $7.20

Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland., America House: 2000

Seller ID: 9607

ISBN: 1588518892

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 208 pp. A semi-autobiographical novel about a hard-luck young lad and his journey through life, eventually returning to the island of his dreams where he lives happily ever after. Black remainder mark on the head edge. Minor wear to the cover edges. Stated first printing.
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Nicholas Romanov: Life and Death.

By: Shelayev, Yuri with Elizabeth Shelayeva and Nicholas Semenov.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: St. Petersburg, Russia., Liki Rossii.: 1998

Seller ID: 33419

ISBN: 5874170650

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

4to - 26 x 19.5 cm.; 118 - (2) pp. Illustrated with many archival photographs throughout. Translated from the Russian by Paul Williams. Very minor wear and light scuffing to the glossy black covers, else fine.
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The Road to Bithynia, A Novel of Luke, the Beloved Physician.

By: Slaughter, Frank G.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York., Doubleday & Company.: 1951

Seller ID: 32191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 330 pp. Slaughter (1908-2001) was a prolific American novelist, physician and Christian. Grey cloth-covered boards have a bit of soiling, minor edgewear. Mapped endpapers. Text is clean, binding sturdy. Dust jacket lightly soiled with chipping and closed tears, flap has original price of $3.50 T.R.T.B.
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The Shadow Catcher.

By: Sloan, Donald.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, New York., Book League of America.: 1940

Seller ID: 30339

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; xiv - 296 pp. The author's personal adventures on Polynesian islands, the Samoans, at a time when they were still living a very traditional life. He illustrates his book with photographs he took, which gave him the nickname of Shadow Catcher. Minor wear on boards; text clean, binding sturdy. Dust jacket has some edgewear and chipping.
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Cyril Forster Garbett: Archbishop of York.

By: Smyth, Charles.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: London, UK., Hodder and Stoughton: 1960

Seller ID: 33178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 22 x 14 cm.; 536 pp. Charcoal black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and a gilt episcopal crest on the front board. First published in 1959, this is the second printing. Illustrated with 15 black and white photographs, one of which is the frontis piece, and 1 full page black and white drawing. Archbishop Garbett, 1875-1955, was a popular and influential Anglican churchman serving during a critical time in British history and world history for that matter. Six page index at the back. Previous owner's name on the front free end paper. The spine tips and fore corners of th...
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The Beeton Story.

By: Spain, Nancy.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, UK., Ward, Lock & Company.: 1956

Seller ID: 26729

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 15.5 cm.; 190 - pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. First published in 1948 as "Mrs. Beeton and Her Husband" by Collins. Illustrated with 7 black and white plates one of which is the frontis illustration. Four page index at the back. The book shows minor wear to the spine tips an dth etext block edges are a tad darkened, otherwis every clean and tight. The clipped dust jacket is worn on the spine tips and the head edge with a closed tear and associated creasing.
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Walk-Ons & Bit-Parts.

By: Stadelman, Sara Lee.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Penumbra Press.: 2000

Seller ID: 27299

ISBN: 1894131096

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 208 pp. A memoir of sorts by Sara Lee about her life in the dramatic arts of interpretive movement. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Sara Lee is a very engaging person and her dynamism and faith are readily apparent on the stage. Signed and dated with an inscription to the previous owner on the title page. The cover edges show mild wear and the covers thenselves show scuffing that is best seen in reflected light.; Signed by Author
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Manna in the Morning: A Memoir 1940-1958.

By: Stuart, Madeleine.

Price: $6.75

Publisher: Dublin, Ireland., Raven Arts Press: 1984

Seller ID: 8990

ISBN: 0906897815

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 115 pp. A true story of the triumph of caring love as a young Kaszub Pole flees the horrors of World War II in the company of an Irishman to the eventual settling into a small Irish cottage. Very minor shelf wear and soiling to the covers. Edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author.

By: Trelawny, Edward John.

Price: $5.85

Publisher: New York., New York Review of Books.: 2000

Seller ID: 11433

ISBN: 0940322366

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; xxiv - 308 pp. With an introduction by Anne Barton with the "authored-added" appendix as in the second edition. Very slight wear to the cover edges, else an as-new and unused book.
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Dmytro Antonovych / Valentina Radzimovsky / M. I. Tuhan-Baranowsky: His Contribution to Science and Community.

By: V. Mijakovskyj, Ivan Rozhin, Andrij Kachor.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences: 1967, 1968, 1969

Seller ID: 13862

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

8vo - 23 x 16 cm.; Three center-stapled booklets from the Ukrainian Scholars series, nos. 14, 15, 16. All have an English title page as well as Ukrainian title page, text is in Ukrainian. 48 pp., 48 pp., 26 pp. Photos. Card stock covers of three booklets are glued together near the spine creating an unseparable set. Usual library markings, light soiling on covers, light edgewear. ; Ex-Library
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My Mother Olga Viola: A Life Lived to the Fullest.

By: Weigl, Rosa.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: 2008

Seller ID: 29195

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

8vo - 21 x 14.5 cm.; 224 pp. Full colour pictorial paper over boards. No publisher given. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Translated from the German "Mutter Olga Viola: Ein erfulltes Leben" by Wolfgang Trautmann. From the back cover: "Mother Olga Viola (1906-1997) grew up as an orphan. After her marriage, she lived as a mountain farmer's wife in the Moll valley in Carinthia. She was the mother of twelve children whom she raised fit for life." An as-new and unused book.
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A View from the Ridge: The Testimony of a Pilgrim.

By: West, Morris.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Sydney, Australia., Harper Collins Publishers / HarperCollins.: 1996

Seller ID: 32913

ISBN: 0732257573

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; (8) - 142 pp. This is the second printing from the same year as its publication. Signed and dated (Xmas 96) by the author on the title page. Minor wear to the covers, otherwise clean with a sound binding.; Signed by Author
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Fighters & Singers: The Lives Of Some Australian Aboriginal Women.

By: White, Isobel; Diane Barwick and Betty Meehan. (editors).

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Sydney, Australia., George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.: 1985

Seller ID: 11169

ISBN: 0868616206

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 24.5 x 16 cm.; xxi - 226 pp. "This volume is a record of friendships which formed despite differences of background, experience and age. . . . . the authors attempt to convey what Aboriginal women considered relevant when describing their lives to friends who were both strangers and kin". List of contributors: Diane Barwick, Diane Bell, Catherine Berndt, Pearl Duncan, Jenny Green, Luise Hercus, Ann McGrath, Janet Matthews, Betty Meehan, Lynette Oates, Helen Payne, Janice Reid, Diane Smith, Myrna Tonkinson and Isobel White. 5 location maps included at front and also illustrated with black...
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The Whip My Homecoming.

By: Wlossak, Traudie Muller. (as told to Margaret Farnan).

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Canberra, Australia., Golden Leaf Publishers.: 1986

Seller ID: 26889

ISBN: 0940715018

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo - 18.5 x 11.5 cm.; viii - 320 pp. First published in 1982, this is the second printing. Illistrated with 1 two page map, 2 reproduced documents and 10 black and white photographs. The wrap around cover art is by the author. The true story of one woman's eventual escape from post war eastern Europe with her two young children. The covers show mild shelf wear and the spine has a reading crease.
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Wspomnienia Stulatka.

By: Wolak, Jakub. (with Leszek Mech)

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Ominor Publishing.: 1999

Seller ID: 24191

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 255 - [1] pp. The text is in Polish. Photographic wraps. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Inscribed and dated by Jakub's wife, Teresa, on the first page.
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Category: Biography