Biography & Autobiography from Harry E Bagley Books Ltd

Fredericton New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2007. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black cloth, gilt spine.317 pages : illustrations. 1 st edition, "From humble beginnings, William Maxwell Aitken, a small-town New Brunswick minister's son, rose to the heights of politics and business, transforming himself into Lord Beaverbrook along the way. Fleet Street's first… Read more about this item

Toronto,: NC Press,, 1977. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper, 1 st edition, 233, [25] pages : illustrations, portraits,Includes index." Shadd was the first black woman on the North American continent to found and edit a weekly newspaper, publishing The Provincial Freeman in Windsor, Toronto, and Chatham during the 1850s. [...]… Read more about this item

London UK: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2005. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. red cloth, gilt cover and spine, xxxv, 873 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits , "By the time of his death on board HMS Victory in 1805, Horatio Nelson had become the most famous Englishman in the world, hailed as a… Read more about this item

Victoria, B.C: Trafford Publishing, 2006. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed Presentation Copy. 2nd Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pictoriAL paper, 142 pages. : illustrated,, map, ports, signed on front blank "Sincere Best Wishes! Bill Cosway".

Chatham, New Brunswick: Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, 1994. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper, 198 pages : illustrations , Michael Bernard Broderick was born in 1869 in Carrigeen, Waterford, Ireland. His parents were Patrick Broderick and Elizabeth or Isabella Flynn. He emigrated in 1889 and settled in New Brunswick.… Read more about this item

Victoria, British Columbiapictorial paper, : TouchWood Editions, 2015. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper, 153 pages : 32 pages of plates, Molly Lamb Bobak (1922-2014) was the first woman to travel overseas as an official Canadian war artist. She was also the daughter of famous Canadian artist Harold Mortimer-Lamb, whose… Read more about this item

Little Rock, Ark.: August House Pub Inc, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Oblong 4 to.,. black cloth, dust jacket, 234 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 x 33 cm., index, some minor edge tears, top of spine of d.j. worn, In 1963, Dick Gibson, a Denver businessman, engaged some of the world's finest jazz musicians to play at… Read more about this item

Montreal : McGill Queens Univ Press, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper, xiv, 290 pages : illustrations ; index.Wayne O'Leary provides detailed descriptions of how the schooners were conceived and perfected, and paints a vivid picture of life on Tancook from the late eighteenth century into the twentieth century. He shows… Read more about this item

[Austin, Tex.], : Texas State Historical Assn, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. blue cloth, gilt spine, dust jacket, xxvi, 298 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ;index, 5 pp bibliography, dust jacket has minor edge tears, in protective mylar.CONTENTS: Preface: The Texas collection and its… Read more about this item

[Wedgeport}: Édition Lescarbot, 1999. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper cover,176 pages illustrated, Pointe-de-l'eglise, also known as Church Point, is a picturesque Acadian community along the shores of St. Mary's Bay in Nova Scotia. Renowned as the heart of Acadian culture,.

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. cloth, dust jacket, xi, 185 pages : illustrations, CONTENTS: Introduction: The stuff of history, A Confederate youth, The making of a racist, The unmaking of a racist, The document, The correspondence, part I, The correspondence, part II, The market In conclusion.… Read more about this item

Fredericton New Brunswick : Fiddlehead Poetry Books : Goose Lane, F, 1984. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper, xiii, 176 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, maps (inside covers), front cover corner crease, light edge wear. The scourge and horror of leprosy in nineteenth-century Canada is graphically… Read more about this item

Vancouver, B.C: Douglas & McIntyre, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black cloth. dust jacket, xii, 400 pages : illustrations, maps, "In The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, Samuel Bawlf masterfully recounts the drama of this historic expedition, offering intriguing insight into life at sea in the sixteenth century - from the… Read more about this item

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper, xiv, 477 pages, [20] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 st paperback edition, .

Halifax: Nimbus Publishing Ltd., 2021. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper cover, vii, 191 pages : illustrations, portraits,"More than two thousand Canadian women served as army nurses overseas during the First World War. The opportunity to read a diary written by one of these women--a document which was, strictly speaking,… Read more about this item

Charlottetown: Ruby Matheson & P.E.I Millennium Committee Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper cover, 151 pages : illustrations, much here for the genealogist. front cover has crease at fore edge. signed with inscription to former owner by Ruby Matheson.

Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Tea Hill Press, 1992. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper cover, xiii, 263 pages : illustrations, portraits, a fine copy.

Flatiron Books, 2018. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 209 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ;First Flatiron mass market edition,CONTENTS: A call from the Klan Jackie Robinson and Black Panthers,I'm the voice, you're the face My new friend David,Fireman and brimstone,Part of our posse KKKolorado,Induction,Duke of Colorado,Rocky Mountain fortress Up in… Read more about this item

Deer Island, New Brunswick: Self Published, 1975. Book. Fine. Paperbound. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8 Vo.,. pict. paper wraps, pp., vi, 228; illustrated, maps,map on back wrap, charts, bibliography, A comprehensive history of Passamaquoddy, and the geneologies of all the families who settled in west isles between 1765 and 1860. The book covers in depth, history of indians, explorations… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 2012. Book. Illus. by Micah Nelson (Illustrator). Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. cloth, dust jacket, xiii, 175 pages : illustrations, a fine copy in a fine d j. in mylar protective cover. America's greatest traveling bard Willie Nelson muses about the things that are most important to him and… Read more about this item