‎Autographes‎

‎Petrakis,Harry Mark‎

‎Pericles on 31st.Street‎

‎Chicago: Quadrangle 1965 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st.US Edition. Sixteen short stories mainly about the inhabitants of the Greek colony on New York's West side : Pericles on 31st Street /The miracle / Courtship of the blue widow/The legacy of Leontis / The ballad of Daphne and Apollo / Pa and the sad Turkeys / The eyes of love / The return of Katerina / The wooing of Ariadne / Zena dawn / The prison / Matsoukas / The journal of a wife-beater / The song of Rhodanthe / A hand for tomorrow /The passing of the ice. 213p. Signed by author on half title. Quadrangle hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 040747

‎Bates, Ronald‎

‎The Wandering World‎

‎Toronto: Macmillan of Canada 1959 Book. Very Good. Paper Covered Boards. Signed by Authors. 1st Can Ed. Ronald Gordon Nudell Bates 1924-1995 a poet literary critic and Professor of English was born in Regina Saskatchewan in 1924. He earned a B.A. 1948 at Victoria College University of Toronto and M.A. and Ph.D also from the University of Toronto. His teaching career was spent at the University of Upsala Sweden the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario. A member of P.E.N. selected publications of his poetry include The wandering world 1959 the author's first book of poetry This copy is signed on the title page. Some of the poems were inspired by Greek mythology .60p. Clean tight copy but ffep is missing else near fine. Macmillan of Canada hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 038966

‎Pazira, Nelofer‎

‎A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan‎

‎Toronto: Random House Canada 2005 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Artist. 1st Canadian. The star of the film Kandahar.Nelofer Pazira was born into a privileged family living in Kabul. When she was six the Russians invaded Afghanistan and her childhood ended. Her father a respected doctor was imprisoned along with family and friends. Their country became a police state and the centre of a conflict between the Soviet army and the American-backed guerillas.Amid the blood and fear of war Nelofer's refuge from violence and anger was her friendship with Dyana. Together they shared their lives their passion for poetry and the dangers of underground resistance.After a decade of war Nelofer's family escaped across the mountains to Pakistan and from there to Canada where she continued her friendship with Dyana through letters. When her friend suddenly stopped writing Nelofer felt bereft. Her to Afghanistan under the Taliban and her desperate search for Dyana became the story of the internationally acclaimed film Kandahar. Her journey to discover Dyana's tragedy led her finally to Russia to the country that destroyed her life where she found a nation imprisoned by its own history.Nuanced affecting and stunningly written A Bed of Red Flowers is a gripping portrait of ordinary life under occupation and an illuminating window onto the devastation of a country and the resilience of its people.408p.llus index Signed on tirle page. Random House Canada hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 38018 ISBN : 0679312714 9780679312710

‎Apostolides, Marianne‎

‎Sophrosyne. A Novel‎

‎Toronto: BookThug Press 2014 Book. New. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. 1st Canadian Edition. Sophrosyne is one of only four virtues identified by Socrates - four traits which if lived deeply define who we are as human beings. But sophrosyne is a concept our culture has long forgotten. 'Self-restraint' 'self-control' 'modesty' 'temperance' - none of these terms expresses the essence of the word. In this provocative new novel by acclaimed author Marianne Apostolides 21-year-old Alex is consumed by the elusive problem of sophrosyne for reasons he cannot share with others. While Alex's philosophy professor believes studying it will help shed light on the malaise of our era Alex hopes it will release him from his darkly disturbing relationship with his mother. As he attempts to uncover his mother's truth Alex is drawn inside an amorphous indefinable undercurrent of love and violation. Only through his lover Meiko does Alex open into a new understanding of sophrosyne with all its implications. Reminiscent of Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red Sophrosyne asks readers to surrender themselves to the book's logic and language. Infused with a sensuality balanced by its intellect Sophrosyne reads like "the music's rhythm. soft like wax and supple warm" pulsing through your veins.168p. Author signature on title page. BookThug Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 37211 ISBN : 1771660503 9781771660501

‎Stewart, JHerbert J. He‎

‎Tales of a travelling man 1904-1986‎

‎Ottawa: Canadian Heritage Publications /Travel Guild 1986 Book. Illus. by Jack Easthaugh. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. 1st Canadian Edition. An entertaining account of his life and experiences. From his family in Ontario he acquired firm Scots Canadian sensibilities from his education and career as teacher and as an organizer of educational tours a fine sense of the ridiculous and an appreciation of the the world and its people.118p.illus.6 copies found in WorldCat. Canadian Heritage Publications /Travel Guild, paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 37248

‎Di Cicco, Pier Giorgio‎

‎The Dark Time of Angels‎

‎Toronto: Mansfield Press 2003 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. 1st Canadian Edition. 92p Author inscription on half title. Mansfield Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 37186 ISBN : 1894469143 9781894469142

‎Layton, David‎

‎Motion Sickness: a Memoir SNEAK PREVIEW‎

‎Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross 1999 Brochure. As New. Stapled. Signed by Authors. First This. A publicity brochure announcing the publication of the autho's forthcoming memoir with an extract describing "David's disjointed upbringing the comings and goings of his parents - famous Canadian poet Irving Layton and his mother Aviva" 9 pages Signed on title page. Macfarlane, Walter & Ross unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 37291

‎Petrakis,Harry Mark‎

‎Stelmark : A Family Recollection‎

‎New York: David McKay 1970 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st.US Edition. Memories of a Greek-American growing up in Chicago. 187p.Author inscription on half title dated 1978. . David McKay hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 36726

‎Joyce Sandra‎

‎The Street Arab: The Story of a British Home Child‎

‎Toronto: Welldone Publishing 2011 Book. Fine. French Wraps. Signed by Authors. 1st Canadian Edition. The Street Arab is a powerful novel about a boy from a small mining town in Scotland whose family is torn apart by the First World War and resulting poverty. After foraging for food one day Robbie returns home to find his family missing and suffers a horrific accident. With strength and determination he forges ahead and is sent along with countless other British Home Children to Canada to begin a new life. What awaits him is more than he could ever have imagined. The Street Arab written almost a century later pays homage to the children involved in one of Canada's largest immigration schemes. It is estimated that ten percent of Canadians are British Home Child descendants.Signed on title page else fine. Welldone Publishing paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 36211 ISBN : 0987764004 9780987764003

‎Ondaatje, Christopher‎

‎Man-Eater of Punanai: A Journey of Discovery to the Jungles of Old Ceylon‎

‎Toronto: HarperCollins 1992 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Canadian Edition. The story of a return visit to his ancestral home in Ceylon his memories of his father and the tale of the man-eating leopard that terrorized the village Punanai in the early part of this century. inscription "To Michael" by the author on the title page. 205p. illus. HarperCollins hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 35100 ISBN : 0002157470 9780002157476

‎Meyer, Bruce‎

‎The Seasons‎

‎Erin ON: Porcupine's Quill 2014 Book. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. 1st Canadian Edition. If haiku in Japanese literature is a word picture that seizes a moment the sonnet in the English tradition is a sound picture that makes time stand still. The Seasons is a book of whispers spoken by a voice to his beloved. Inspired by the original meaning of the word 'sonnet' 'a little sound' Bruce Meyer transforms the poetic framework to record the intimate moments in the lives of two people. The accumulation of those moments is what comprises the lives of those two people and the reader is invited to eavesdrop on the utterances and promises of their lives. Written over a ten-year period and finally collected here The Seasons takes up the process of a century of sonnets where each as in the tradition of Neruda's 100 Sonnets is a little whisper in the ear of the lover. 125p. Author inscription on title page. Porcupine's Quill paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 35266 ISBN : 0889843724 9780889843721

‎McClelland, Jack [Solecki, Sam ED.]‎

‎Imagining Canadian literature: The selected letters of Jack McClelland‎

‎Toronto: Key Porter Books 1998 Book. As New. French Wraps. Signed by Publisher. 1st Canadian Edition. "As a pioneer in Canadian publishing Jack McClelland presided over the creation of the Canadian canon through the publishing house of McClelland and Stewart. This collection of his letters to Canadian authors bear witness to his friendships his devotion to the authors he published his sense of humour his ideas about literature and the Canadian identity as well as his sense of what makes for good publishing." Edited by Sam Solecki. 300p. Signed on title page by Anna Porter of Key Porter publishing. Key Porter Books paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34963 ISBN : 1550139533 9781550139532

‎Healey Robin ed‎

‎Hopeful Travellers: Italian Explorers Missionaries Merchants and Adventurers from the Middle Ages to Modern Times an Exhibition in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto 30 January - 27 April 2007‎

‎Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto 2007 Book. Near Fine. Original Wraps. 1st Canadian Edition. Catalogue of an exhibition of books and maps at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto January 30 to April 27 2007. This exhibition is about travellers and the exhibits are for the most part accounts of their travels. There are few restrictions: the journeys will be to anywhere in the world at any time from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries. Some of the books and maps were published as recently as this century others were first printed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The travellers' tales were most often written down by the travellers themselves or perhaps dictated to amanuenses soon after their return. Not all are truthful though most claim to be. One restriction is self-evident: for the journeys to have been recorded at all they must have been at least partly successful. The second restriction is more interesting: each of the explorers and cartographers is Italian and they are all men - for the cultures of the times even into the twentieth century excluded Italian women from such ventures. But these were Italians who though living at the centre of the Mediterranean region with opportunities for trade profit and God's work close by on every side chose to cross the deserts the oceans and the mountains. Suffice to say that they did and the world was changed and they were rewarded. 152p. illustrations include 12 fold-out colour reproductions bibliography. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34599 ISBN : 0772760616 9780772760616

‎Tsambis-Michailidis, Avra‎

‎Ta Poulia Tou Paradeisou = The Birds of Paradise‎

‎Athens: Enallaktikes Ekdoseis 1995 Book. Illus. by Trans. Sylvia Mittler. Fine. Original Wraps. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Bi-lingual edition of poems by the author who was born in Cyprus grew up in Kymi Euboea emigrated to Canada in 1975 .English translation by Sylvia Mittler. 43p. Short biographical note laid in Author inscription on ffep. 2 copies found in WorldCat. Enallaktikes Ekdoseis paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34148

‎LeGrow, Chris‎

‎Bound Down for Newfoundland: The Log of a Young Seaman on Board the Matthew‎

‎St John's NF: Breakwater Books 1998 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Canadian Edition. To commemorate the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's 1497 voyage a full-size replica of the Matthew was reconstructed at Bristol by the naval architect Colin Mudie and the boat-building company Storms'l Services . Shipwrights began work in February 1994 and it took them two years to complete the $3.8-million project. In 1997 the replica Matthew sailed across the Atlantic as part of the quincentenial celebrations. After 54 days at sea it arrived at Bonavista on 24 June 1997 where it was welcomed by Queen Elizabeth II and 30000 spectators. This book is the personal log of the voyage from Bristol to Boianventure from one of the crew a native Newfoundlander with his inscription on the title page. 96p. illus glossary Marine charts on endpapers. Breakwater Books hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33524 ISBN : 1550811398 9781550811391

‎Skrypuch Marsha Forchuk‎

‎Hope's War‎

‎Toronto: Boardwalk / Dundurn Press 2001 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. Kataryna Baliuk a gifted fine arts student is hoping to have a fresh start at Cawthra School for the Arts after a less-than-successful year at the neighbouring Catholic high school. But her hopes for a peaceful Grade 10 are shattered when she comes home from her first day at Cawthra and finds the RCMP interrogating her grandfather Danylo Feschuk. Kat learns that Danylo is accused of being a policeman for the Nazis in World War II Ukraine and what's worse he is suspected of having participated in atrocities against civilians. When the story is exposed in the local newspaper Kat and her family become the centre of a media storm. Her grades in school and her relationships with friends suffer. Her only support comes from her family and Ian a classmate with whom she discovers she has more in common than just artistic promise.Short-listed for the 2004 Rocky Mountain Book Award and for the 2003 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award and long-listed for the 2002 CBC Canada Reads People's Choice Book. Boardwalk / Dundurn Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33136 ISBN : 1895681197 9781895681192

‎Coren Michael‎

‎Conan Doyle‎

‎Toronto: Stoddard 1995 Book. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. 1st Can Ed. A biography of Conan Doyle best known for his creation of Sherlock Holmes. However he was more than a populist writer and a symbol of triumphalism of Edwardian England. He was also an ambitious man of letters a searcher for political and theological truth and a leader and shaper of opinion. 213p. plates bibliography.index. Stoddard paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33132 ISBN : 0773758747 9780773758742

‎Dewdney, Christopher‎

‎Signal Fires‎

‎Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 2000 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. 1st Can Ed. Christopher Dewdney's love for the landscape and the flora and fauna of southwestern Ontario has provoked some of the most gorgeously erotic prose ever to appear in this country. From that love augmented by ardent research in the field emerges a marvellously compelling futuristic vision of time and space collapsed into near-simultaneity. Books IV and V of The Natural History of Southwestern Ontario presented in Signal Fires are self-contained sections of a continuing prose poem deeply satisfying in its density. The New-Old World of this long poem written over a fifteen-year period is sensuously and conceptually so immediate that orgasm and epiphany are one in it. This is writing and reading as immersion. Accompanying the natural histories in Signal Fires are poems with a different but equally involving music lyrics of loss and redemption in which human relationships are central. Author unscription on title page. McClelland & Stewart paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33031 ISBN : 0771027397 9780771027390

‎Lyon Annabel‎

‎The Golden Mean‎

‎Toronto: Random House Canada 2009 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Can Ed. On the orders of his boyhood friend now King Philip of Macedon Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the kings adolescent sons. An early illness has left one son with the intellect of a child; the other is destined for greatness but struggles between a keen mind that craves instruction and the pressures of a society that demands his prowess as a soldier. Initially Aristotle hopes for a short stay in what he considers the brutal backwater of his childhood. But as a man of relentless curiosity and reason Aristotle warms to the challenge of instructing his young charges particularly Alexander in whom he recognizes a kindred spirit an engaged questioning mind coupled with a unique sense of position and destiny. Aristotle struggles to match his ideas against the warrior culture that is Alexanders birthright. He feels that teaching this startling charming sometimes horrifying boy is a desperate necessity. And that what the boy thrown before his time onto his fathers battlefields needs most is to learn the golden mean that elusive balance between extremes that Aristotle hopes will mitigate the boys will to conquer. Aristotle struggles to inspire balance in Alexander and he finds he must also play a cat-and-mouse game of power and influence with Philip in order to manage his own ambitions. As Alexanders position as Philips heir strengthens and his victories on the battlefield mount Aristotles attempts to instruct him are honoured but increasingly unheeded. And despite several troubling incidents on the field of battle Alexander remains steadfast in his desire to further the reach of his empire to all known and unknown corners of the world rendering the intellectual pursuits Aristotle offers increasingly irrelevant. Exploring this fabled time and place Annabel Lyon tells her story in the earthy frank and perceptive voice of Aristotle himself. With sensual and muscular prose she explores how Aristotle's genius touched the boy who would conquer the known world. And she reveals how we still live with the ghosts of both men" 284p DJ ha3 red Giller Nominaton sticker. Random House Canada hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32262 ISBN : 0307356205 9780307356208

‎Petrakis,Harry Mark‎

‎In the Land of Morning‎

‎New York: David McKay 1973 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st.US Ed. From the ageless elements of great drama-love and hate fear and home war and vengeance Petrakis has spun a modern classic centering around two love affairs one youthful and poetic the other a seething sensual mature love that grows to be all-consuming. It is the story as well of a strange driven family seen in a new light by a son newly returned from war weary of killing and death but finding he has not left these behind him. Confrontation and the haunted past threaten his love and his hope for the future. 290P. Author inscription on ffep. David McKay hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 31894

‎Askin, Mustafa‎

‎Troy : With Legends Facts and New Developments‎

‎Istanbul: Keskin Color Ltd. 1997 Book. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. Revised Edition. Well illustrated locally produced guide to Hissarlik the site of Troy . 72p. illus maps bibliography Signed by author on title page. Keskin Color Ltd. paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 30772 ISBN : 9757559377 9789757559375

‎Tsimicalis, Stavros‎

‎Exiled The Myth Needles Deeper / Exoristoss O Mythos Belonizi Pio Batheia IN GREEK and in English‎

‎Erin ON: Porcupine's Quill 1982 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. 1st.Can Ed. Bi-lingual text - poems in Greek and in English translation. 62p. Author signature on title page. Porcupine's Quill paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 13245 ISBN : 088984058X 9780889840584

‎Harold Victor Bauer‎

‎Original Handwritten Letter From Pianist Harold Bauer 1907 With Three Performance Programs 1917‎

‎Florence 1907 And Los Angeles 1917: Trinity Auditorium Villa Braggiotti 1907. Original Documents . No Binding. Fine. Original Handwritten Two Page Letter To One Of His Students A Miss Wilson From Pianist Harold Bauer 1907 On Villa Braggiotti Florence Stationary With Three Performance Programs At The Trinity Theatre Los Angeles 1917. Some Wear And Soiling. Harold Victor Bauer 1873 - 1951 Was A Noted Pianist Who Began His Musical Career As A Violinist. He Took Up The Study Of The Violin Under The Direction Of His Father And Adolf Pollitzer. He Made His Debut As A Violinist In London In 1883 And For Nine Years Toured England. In 1892 However He Went To Paris And Studied The Piano Under Ignacy Jan Paderewski For A Year Though Still Maintaining His Interest In The Violin. An Anecdote Reports That Paderewski Jokingly Told Bauer To Concentrate On The Piano Because "You Have Such Beautiful Hair". In 1893 In Paris He And Achille Rivarde Premiered Frederick Delius's Violin Sonata In B Minor. During 1893-94 He Travelled All Through Russia Accompanying The Noted Soprano Mademoiselle Nikita And Giving Piano Recitals And Concerts After Which He Returned To Paris. Further Recitals In The French Capital Brought Him Renown And He Almost Immediately Received Engagements In France Germany And Spain. His Reputation Was Rapidly Enhanced By These Performances And His Field Of Operation Extended Through The Netherlands Belgium Switzerland England Scandinavia And The United States. In 1900 Harold Bauer Made His Debut In America With The Boston Symphony Orchestra Performing The U.S. Premiere Of Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No.1 In D Minor. On 18 December 1908 He Gave The World Premiere Performance Of Claude Debussy's Piano Suite Children's Corner In Paris. After That He Settled In The United States And Was A Founder Of The Beethoven Association. Between 1915 To 1929 He Recorded Over 100 Pieces For The Duo-Art And Ampico Reproducing Pianos One Of The Most Prolific Virtuoso Pianists In This Medium Of His Era. Harold Bauer Was Also An Influential Teacher And Editor Heading The Piano Department At The Well Known Manhattan School Of Music. Starting In 1941 Bauer Taught Winter Master Classes At The University Of Miami And Served As A Visiting Professor At The University Of Hartford Hartt School Of From 1946 Until His Death In 1951. He Published Harold Bauer His Book New York 1948. <br/> <br/> Trinity Auditorium Villa Braggiotti unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 039620

‎Peterson, Arthur‎

‎Original Photograph of Arthur Peterson as "The Major" in 'Soap‎

‎Los Angeles: ABC-TV 1978. Original Photograph . Single Photograph. Fine. 10" x 8" Photograph. ABC publicity photograph inscribed by Peterson and dated 3/18/1978. <br/> <br/> ABC-TV unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 022440

‎[Mangold, Rudolph]‎

‎Photograph of Rudolph Mangold‎

‎Chicago 1930. Original Photograph . Single Photograph. Near Fine. 9" x 6 1/4. Studio photograph inscribed "To my grand artist friend and pal Louise Gilbert / Yours Henri Kublick June 11 1939". Mangold was concert master for the Chicago Civic Opera. gilbert was a Los Angeles area agent. <br/> <br/> unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 022063