Search Results: Autobiography from Ainsworth Books

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0151050805 . Signed by Author; DJ and board show very light shelf wear. Light soiling to top page edges. ; Stated first edition. A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Inscribed by the author on the blank page before the half title. ; 8.2 X 5.3 X 1.1 inches; 223 pages; Bevington's life with her husband during the eventful years of the 1960s, their travels, the renowned people they met etc. .

Robson, BC: Bear Grass Press. Very Good+. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 0968089909 . Signed by Author; Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book signed by the author. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages; "The Letkeman family settled in Renata in south-central B.C. in 1917 when Peter was three years old. His book tells of family life struggling to make ends meet with anecdotes that keep the reader chuckling. As I Remember It takes Peter through the Dirty Thirties, coming into the Church, his Army Days, to raising a family with Jean, his wife of 52 years, while working at C.M. & S. (now Cominco) in Trail, on the Castlegar-Robson Ferry and farming in Robson. Peter's love of the outdoors is reflected in his tales of herding cows, fighting fires, fishing, trapping, hunting and travelling in their VW camper van. With numerous photographs, 'As I Remember It' is a good read not only for history buffs, but for everyone." .

Toronto: Thomas Allen. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author; Tan cloth boards show some shelf wear, light soiling. Previous owner's name on half-title page. Small piece of paper cut out of another book with book related poem pasted onto front pastedown. On front fee end paper is what appears to be a glossy sheet with photo of McClung and brief bio taped in with attendant tape stains ; Signed and dated by the author. A tight solid book, hinges intact; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 378 pages; McClung's personal account of growing up Manitoba in the 1800's. Common to the period she only received 6 years of education. In spite of and because of the hardships she experienced as a child and a young married woman she went on to become a champion of women's rights. .

Llandudno, Wales: Self Published. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 095176490X . Signed by Family Member; DJ shows some shelf wear, scuffed, tape-repaired tear top of DJ at spine, previous store's stamp on front pastedown. ; Inscribed by Sir Zachry's wife, Lady Brierley. A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237 pages; "The story of Sir Zachry Brierley focussing on politics and manufacturing industry with a North Wales interest." .

Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1973. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0839735537 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped, publisher's stamp bottom page edges.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 274 pages .

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Price clippedDJ and boards show shelf wear, DJ is soiled with tears and chipping. DJ repaired by previous owner with non archival tape ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; The author, a former LIFE magazine researcher and writer who found love with an ex-Commander, married and started a new life on a houseboat in the Virgin Islands. This is their story .

Nashville: Oliver-Nelson Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0840791062 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, light tanning of pages.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 284 pages .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1955. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Book has gift inscription on FFEP. DJ shows shelf wear, with tears, chipping and scuffing. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, hinges intact; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; ""For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's final memoir, Onions in the Stew recounts her second attempt at farm-living, this time on Washington's then-remote… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ shows shelf wear with small tears and chipping, creasing, previous owner's name on front free end paper. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. No additional printings mentioned. Yellow paper covered boards over black cloth spine ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; ""For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's… Read More

London: Robert Hale & Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. Later Printing. Hardcover. 0709119119 . Boards show light shelf wear, DJ shows heavier shelf wear with short tears and light chipping. Corner clipped bottom front flap, but original price is still present. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages; Muriel Beadle, being a writer married to a scholar, took advantage of his temporary assignment as a visiting professor to Oxford University to write about her American family's experiences in a very British town and their travels .

New York: Metropolitan Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2006. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805077677 . Slight shelf wear is present on DJ and boards. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.40 X 5.80 X 1.30 inches; 341 pages; "A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itselfIn this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy--brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole--Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political. Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the… Read More

Toronto: The Macmillan Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. DJ has short tears, light chipping and scuffing. Price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 540 pages; Massey was the first Canadian-born individual to serve as Canada's governor general and he proved to be a successful transition for the office away from occupants who had consistently been both members of the peerage and born overseas. His best known accomplishments were for being involved in the establishment of The National Library of Canada and Canada Council of the Arts. He was the older brother of actor Raymond Massey .