MEMOIR AND BIO from Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)

Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, Hales, Dianne. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2014. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 317pp. bibliography, references, index and map. Quarter green cloth over black boards, color illustrated endpapers. Contents in fine condition; 2 small remainder marks to edge; dustjacket has light edge wear. Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542) was a quintessential woman of her times, caught… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II- Conqueror of Constantinople, Master of an Empire and Lord of Two Seas, Freely, John. Published by I. B. Tauris, London, 2009. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 265pp., maps, notes, bibliography, index. Contents in fine condition; a few light and small scuff marks to front board; unclipped jacket has a small closed tear upper front… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest, Gough, Barry. Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Madeira Park, BC, 2015. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 272pp. with mapped endpapers, black and white illustrations and maps. Volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine jacket with the lightest of shelf wear.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Yehuda Halevi, Halkin, Hillel. Published by Schocken, 2010. 353pp. Black cloth boards with silver spine titles. Volume is in fine condition; dustjacket has the lightest of shelf wear. A biography of Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141), poet, philosopher, and physician. Yehuda Halevi spanned multiple worlds; he is known today for both his religious and secular verse, including his famed "songs of Zion," and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Million Dollar Movie, Powell, Michael. Published by Random House, 1995. First US Edition. Introduction by Martin Scorsese. 626pp. with black and white photographs, index. Quarter black cloth over black boards, red spine titles. Volume is in fine, unread condition; dustjacket has a light ruffle head of spine.

Goodbye to All That, Graves, Robert. Published by Guild Publishing, London, Geneva, 1979. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 306pp. Burgundy simulated leather boards with elaborate gilt scrolling to front and spine; burgundy endpapers with gilt scrolling. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Additional titles in Guild Publishing Classic Works available; please inquire. Goodbye to All That is an autobiographical memoir by… Saber más sobre este artículo

Entertaining Canadians: Canada's International Stars 1900-1988, Gould, E. Published by Cappis Press Publishers Ltd, Victoria BC., 1988. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 324pp. with black and white photos. White cloth boards with black spine titles. In fine, unread condition; very light shelf wear to dustjacket. Profiles 500 prominent actors, writers, directors, producers, dancers, singers, composers etc.

Shakespeare - A Crash Course, Graham, Rob. Published by Watson-Guptil, NYC, 2000 12mo up to 7½" tall. 144pp., illustrated, index, glossary. Glossy illustrated boards with matching dustjacket. Volume is in fine, unread condition, in fine dustjacket.

Shakespeare: The World As Stage, Bryson, Bill. Published by HarperCollins, 2019. Eminent Lives series. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 200pp. with title page portrait. Volume is in fine, unread condition with very light toning

Contested Will. Who Wrote Shakespeare? Shapiro, James. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 339pp., black and white illustrations, index. Quarter crimson over cream boards. Contents are in fine condition with a remainder mark to outside lower edge; light shelf wear to dustjacket. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why… Saber más sobre este artículo

This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith. Published by Pelican, 2019. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 368pp Blue boards with black titles. Light toning and otherwise contents are in fine condition; light edge wear to dustjacket. A The Times Book of The Year 2019. 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Shakespeare, Michael Wood. Published by Basic Books, 2003. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 352pp., with over 100 color and black and white illustrations. Quarter red over black boards, silver spine titles, black endpapers. In fine, unread condition. A brilliant piece of historical investigative journalism by acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael Wood. Shakespeare is a fresh telling of the playwright's life based… Saber más sobre este artículo

Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485, Norwich, John Julius. Published by Scribner, 2000. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 401pp. with color pictorial section, 3 genealogical charts, maps, Royal Emblems, Bibliography, Index. Blue cloth boards with mapped endpapers. Volume is in fine condition; dustjacket has closed tear top edge and light shelf… Saber más sobre este artículo

Shakespeare's Face, Stephanie Nolen. Published by Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2002. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 365pp. with black and white and color illustrations, notes, index.S Black boards with bronze spine titles. Volume is in fine condition, jacket has light shelf wear. A fascinating literary detective story charting the surprising, true history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Seven Journeys: The Sketchbooks of Emily Carr, Shadbolt, Doris. Published by Douglas and McIntyre, 2002. First Edition. Card covers. 160pp. In fine, unread condition. Spanning the years 1927 to 1930, at a turning point in her life when Emily Carr was in her mid-fifties, these sketches record seven significant journeys -- to isolated Native villages in coastal British Columbia and to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms, Edited by Doreen Walker. Published by The University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1990. First Edition. xlvi, 436pp. black and white photos, appendix and index. Blue grey boards with white spine titles. Tiny inked name to free endpaper and otherwise contents are in fine condition; light outer edge dusting,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Canoe Country: The Making of Canada, MacGregor, Roy. Published by Random House Canada, Toronto, 2015. First Edition. 299pp. with black and white photo section, index. Blue boards with silver titles, diagram of canoe to endpapers. In fine, unread condition. A celebration of the essential and enduring story of Canadians and the canoe. A famous paddler once said that God made Canada… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Way of a Ship: A Square-rigger Voyage in the Last days of Sail. Lundy, Derek. Published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2002. First Edition. Signed by author. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 449pp., maps, diagrams. In fine, unread condition. Derek Lundy's ancestor, Benjamin Lundy, crossed oceans under sail in the late nineteenth century. In The Way of a Ship,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Travels in Arabia Deserta in Two Volumes: Volume I and Volume II, Charles M. Doughty. Published by Dover, 1979. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Volume 1: 674pp. with appendix, publishers' catalogue, rear fold out map; Volume 2: 696pp. with index and glossary of Arabic words. Contents are clean without markings, tears or folds, binding is tight; outside outer… Saber más sobre este artículo

Trudeau and Our Times. Volume I: The Magnificent Obsession. Volume II: The Heroic Delusion, Clarkson, Stephen & McCall, Christina. Published by McClelland and Stewart Inc., Toronto, 1990; 1994. First Editions. Signed on title pages by each author to each book. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Volume I: 502pp. with Afterword, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, List of Interviews, Acknowledgments, Index. Volume II:… Saber más sobre este artículo