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Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1992
Hardcover. 268 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 268 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Top corner slightly bumped. Dust jacket has light foxing to reverse. Not price clipped. Binding is sound. No writing/markings.
London: Pan, 1991
Softcover. 209 pages. ENG
Softcover. 209 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD
Light spine crease. Shelfwear. Pages are tanned. No writing/markings.
New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1992
Softcover. 524 pages. ENG
Softcover. 524 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Pages are slightly tanned at edges. Spine is not creased. No writing/markings.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982
Hardcover. 350 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 350 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket is price clipped, foxed along inside top edge. Binding is sound. No writing/markings.
Includes genealogy charts, references, bibliography, index.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978
Hardcover. 243 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 243 pages. ENG
Condition: NEAR FINE / VERY GOOD
Faint foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket has a short tear to top edge. No writing/markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Saxe Commins was Senior Editor at Random House from 1933 until 1958. Includes extensive extracts from Commins notes, reports, letters etc. from his work with many major writers (Eugene O'Neill, William Faulkner, Wiliam Carlos Williams, Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, WH Auden, James Michener, Isak Dinesen, etc.)
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1989. First edition
Hardcover. 213 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 213 pages. ENG
Condition: FINE / VERY GOOD
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1975. First edition
Hardcover. 237 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 237 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD / FAIR
Old bookstore stamp on front free endpaper. Lower spine bumped. Binding is sound, hinges tigh. No writing or highlighting to text. Dust jacket is partially worn through at front fold with a faint dampstain, top edge chipped at top of spine, edges worn.
Story of Dorothy Knight who spent a year as a nurse at Lake Harbour, 1957-58. Lake Harbour is the former name of Kimmirut, a small, traditional Inuit hamlet located on the southern coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada
Munich: Piper Verlag GmbH, 1987
Softcover. 154 pages. DEU
Softcover. 154 pages. DEU
Condition: NEAR FINE
Faint stress crease to back cover. Otherwise as new.
Memoir of a Bavarian farm woman's life of poverty and hard labour on the land in 20th-century Germany, published in German.
Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2012
Hardcover. 352 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 352 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Dust jacket front flap has a corner creased.
Story of a son and his dying mother who form a book club that brings them together.
Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1974
Softcover. 162 pages. ENG
Softcover. 162 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD
Pages are quite tanned. Covers are rubbed. Spine creased. Binding is sound. No writing/markings.
New York: William Morrow, 2005
Softcover. 352 pages. ENG
Softcover. 352 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Very faint spine crease. No writing/markings.
New York: Richardson & Steirman, 1986. Reprint
Softcover. 316 pages. ENG
Softcover. 316 pages. ENG
Condition: NEAR FINE
Scattered faint foxing to page edges.
William Bridgeman (1916-1968) was a U.S. Navy test pilot who set altitude and speed records flying the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket in 1951-52.
New York: Dover, 1968
Softcover. 393 pages. ENG
Softcover. 393 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD
Faint scratches to laminate on front cover. Lower front corner is lightly creased. Binding is sound and tight. No writing/highlighting.
Includes bibliography, index.
The first American biography of Debussy, written in 1937.
Toronto: Key Porter, 1997. First edition
Hardcover. 232 pages. ENG
Hardcover. 232 pages. ENG
Condition: VERY GOOD / FINE
Small spot of damage to inside front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. Dust jacket is not price clipped.
B&W photos and illustrations. Index.
Autobiography of Toronto's legendary storekeeper and impresario, chronicling his life in the theatre.
London: Virago, 1986
Softcover. 174 pages. ENG
Softcover. 174 pages. ENG
Condition: GOOD+
Front cover is creased along spine. Spine is not creased. Pages are tanned. Small spot of adhesive remnant from an old price sticker inside front cover. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.