MILES, Wilma Sinton [aka Billy Miles]

Celebrate the Life of Billy Miles

Chevy Chase, MD, 1995. 1st printing.8vo,,,Offered is a stiff card folder (21.5 x 14 cm) on the front cover of which is a b&w photo of Billy Miles in uniform. On the inside front page is a drawing of a Chinese junk, and on the inside rear page is printed the poem 'Till We Meet Again'. On the rear cover is a b&w photo of Vice Admiral Milton ('Mary') E. Miles, the late husband of Mrs. Miles. Laid-in loose is a another folded pamphlet entitled 'Celebrate the Life of Billy Miles', published as a commemorative pamphlet to be handed out to mourners attending Mrs. Miles funeral. The two preliminary pages contain the 'Order of Service', followed by a charming six page account of the life of Mrs. Miles, in the middle of which is a folded portfolio of photos of Mrs. Miles from girlhood to age 89. Inside of the last page is the Miles family tree. The outer folder shows some soiling, else everything is in very good condition. Also included is a typed letter from John Gavin addressed to Murray E. Miles, which accompanied a copy of the remarks which Gavin gave at the service for Mrs. Miles. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations. wrappers .

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Book number: 9900044046

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: War wives;;;;;;;; black-&-white illustrations

MILL, John Stuart

Autobiography

New York City, Henry Holt and Company. Hardcover. pp. vi, 313. 8vo. Bound in original maroon cloth, the boards ruled in blind.The boards are rubbed at the edges and the spine lettering is faded. Corners of boards a bit rounded. Binding slightly sprung but hinges and contents tight. No internal markings. A good plus copy. 'Published by arrangement with the author's executor'. Mill, an empiricist English philosopher, died in 1873. First published in London, in 1873, by Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. Our copy is an American edition, apparently a title in the 'Uniform Library Edition of the Miscellaneous Works of John Stuart Mill'. No date of publication shown, but most likely it was published between 1874 and 1879 when these Holt editions first appeared. .

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Book number: 9900037916

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography;Philosophy;Philosopher;Empiricism;;;;;

Millburn, Joshua Fields; Nicodemus, Ryan

Everything That Remains; a Memoir by the Minimalists

Montana, Asymmetrical Press, 2014. Paperback. pp. 216. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 062065

Catalogue: Biography

Miller, Henry

Letters to Emil

New York, New Directions Publishing, 1989. Paperback. pp. x, 168. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear, creasing to spine; very good. .

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Book number: 091096

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Miller, William Lee

President Lincoln; the Duty of a Statesman

New York, Vintage, 2009. Paperback. pp. 497. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 090227

Catalogue: Biography

Miller, C.A.

Sir John Hawkins: Dr. Johnson's Friend-Attorney-Executor-Biographer; a Reorientation of the Knight, the Lady, and Boswell

Washington DC, Privately Printed, 1955. Stapled Wraps. pp. 39. Royal 8vo. Card covers. (Coffee?) stains to front cover, age-toning to edges, light foxing to first and final pages. Text remains clean and unmarked. Overall, good. Signed and inscribed by the author on front cover: "To Homer Hilton, Jr. With the regards of C.A. Miller.

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Book number: 059560

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Edinburgh; Poetry; Drama; Ethics; Literary Criticism; BritLit;

Miller, J. J.

Vancouver to the Coronation; a Four Months Holiday Trip

London, Watts & Co, 1912. Hardcover. pp. 239. 8vo. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board, gilt top page edge, signed presentation copy with black & white photographs. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 080190

Catalogue: Biography

Milligan, Frank

Eugene A. Forsey

Calgary, AB, University Of Calgary Press, 2004. Paperback. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 052851

Catalogue: Biography

Milne, Christopher

The Path Through the Trees

Toronto, McClelland And Stewart, 1979. Hardcover. pp. 268. 8vo. Contains black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear, age-toning to extremities, faint spotting to top edge and endpapers; good+ in good+, lightly worn and sunned dustjacket showing scuffing, spotting, and a few short closed tears to edges. .

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Book number: 073020

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Winnie the Pooh; A. A. Milne; Christopher Robin; Memoir;

Mindess, Wilfred E.

Farblonget in the Wilds of North Winnipeg; the Life and Times of Wildred E. Mindess

[Winnipeg, MB], artbookbindery, 2005. Hardcover. 8vo. Negligible shelfwear; near fine in near fine dustjacket. .

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Book number: 033156

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Manitoba history; local history;

Montagu, Mary Wortley

Letters

New York, Everyman's Library, 1992. Hardcover. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. Introduction by Clare Brant. .

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Book number: 035272

Catalogue: Biography

Montefiore, Simon Sebag

Young Stalin

Toronto, Mcarthur & Company, 2008. Paperback. pp. 442. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. .

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Book number: 090212

Catalogue: Biography

Montgomery, L.M.

The Alpine Path; the Story of My Career

Don Mills, ON, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1974. Hardcover. pp. 96. 8vo. Light general shelfwear, ink gift inscription to ffep dated June 13, 1981; very good in good dustjacket showing sunning, creasing and edgewear. .

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Book number: 069318

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Montgomery, Bernard

The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery

London, Collins, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear; very good+ in very good dustjacket (protected in brodart sleeve). .

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Book number: 051495

Catalogue: Biography

Moody, Rick

The Black Veil; a Memoir with Digressions

Boston, Little, Brown And Company, 2002. Hardcover. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. Advance reading copy. .

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Book number: 058912

Catalogue: Biography