MASSEY, VINCENT

What's Past Is Prologue the Memoirs of Vincent Massey

Toronto: The Macmillan Co, 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. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 17262

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Government Governor General Canada Biographies & Memoirs ARTS

MCCLUNG, NELLIE

Clearing in the West My Own Story

Toronto: Thomas Allen, 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.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 18257

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Biographies & Memoirs

MOLEFE, MICHAEL

Umsebenzi

Self Published, 1968. Paperback. Light wear to extremities of white card covers, corners bumped, soiling to covers. ; A tight solid book. Stapled wraps. ; Trade PB; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 57 pages; A personal account by the author of his life in South Africa, where he worked as a company chauffeur for John Deere (PTY) Ltd.. Very Good- .

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Book number: 16123

Catalogue: Africa::Autobiography

Keywords: South Africa John Deere Biographies & Memoirs

XIANLIANG, ZHANG; TRANS. BY MARTHA AVERY

Half of Man Is Woman; a Novel

Toronto, ON: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0886191866. Small spot bottom page edges, light edge wear to dustjacket ; DJ in Mylar, bright, solid book ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages; "Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the postion of intellectuals. A year later he is ready to abandon his wife and escape from the camp. Cameo appearances by philosophic and literary figures Marx and Meng-tz, Othello and Song Jian discussing China and sex which allows the incorporation of non-novelistic elements while indulging in gallows humor. The references to Western culture and the translator's historical notes should make this complex and fascinating book easily accessible." This books states that it is a novel but it is a fictionalized account of the author's experiences.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 12213

Catalogue: Asia::Autobiography

Keywords: 0886191866 China Cultural revolution FICTION Biographies & Memoirs ASIA