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A softcover edition, published by arrangement with E. P. Dutton, in fine condition. The covers are clean and square, and corners are sharp and undamaged. Pages are bright and crisp throughout, with a pleasing warm yellowing to the page edges. A tight book that shows no signs of having been read. A biography of Catherine II of Russia by Henri Troyat, the Prix Goncourt laureate and member of the Académie française, born in Moscow and later based in Paris. Originally published in French as Catherine la Grande by Librairie Flammarion in 1977, and translated into English by Joan Pinkham for the E. P. Dutton first English-language edition in 1980. Troyat follows Catherine from her years as a minor German princess through her marriage to Peter III, her seizure of the Russian throne, and her long reign as patron of the Enlightenment, military strategist, and correspondent of Voltaire and Diderot.

A beautiful softcover edition in very good condition. Shelf wear is present around the edges, with the binding remaining tight and square throughout. Pages are clean and unmarked, printed on substantial, opaque stock, with a glossy photographic plate section reproducing period portraits in crisp, true colour. Constable paperback edition, 1989 (first published in hardcover by Constable in 1987). Jasper Ridley, educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, was an award-winning nonfiction author and biographer, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his 1970 biography of Lord Palmerston. His Elizabeth I traces the queen's life and reign as a consummate politician and champion of the Reformation, credited with establishing England as a world power and presiding over a flourishing of art, science, and commerce. Includes a photographic plate section featuring period portraiture, including the Zuccaro-attributed Darnley portrait reproduced as the frontispiece.

A hardcover copy in fine condition. Bound in deep red faux leather with gilt lettering and ornate gilt embellishments to the spine and covers, complete with yellow ribbon bookmark. Pages are crisp and unmarked throughout. The Mystery of Agatha Christie: An Intimate Biography of the First Lady of Crime by Gwen Robyns. Produced by Edito-Service S.A., Geneva, distributed in Canada by Omniprose Ltd., Scarborough, Ontario, 1981. Originally published by Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1978. Winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. This is Volume 41 and the final volume of the Heron Books Agatha Christie Collected Works, a 41-volume series in uniform red faux leather binding with gilt trim — described as very rarely seen even in complete sets. This Canadian Omniprose edition, produced by Edito-Service S.A. in Geneva as a luxury collector's edition, is considered superior to the standard Heron edition in physical production, with thicker covers and paper. Gwen Robyns was a London-based New Zealand journalist and biographer who in 1953 travelled for four months with Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on their Commonwealth tour, and who had personal friendships with Princess Grace of Monaco and Dame Margaret Rutherford.

This handsome hardcover first edition of Trevor Herriot's award-winning River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage is like new, the dust jacket likewise like new. The dark green boards are unmarked and like new, with silver lettering along the spine, and the book appears entirely unread. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition. Published in 2000 by Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, Toronto. Jacket design by Angel Guerra; jacket illustration River Bend by Brian Hoxha, maps and text illustrations by Trevor Herriot himself. Herriot's memoir and history of the Qu'Appelle River Valley in southern Saskatchewan won the CBA Libris Award for First-Time Author, the Writers' Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, and the Regina Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. Weaving memoir, natural history, and prairie ecology, Herriot traces the Qu'Appelle Valley's birds and landscapes alongside the often-overlooked human history of the region, including the long fight to protect culturally significant Indigenous sites within the valley from development and flooding.

A fine hardcover copy with dust jacket almost fine. Boards are clean, square, and bright. Pages crisp and free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Tight binding. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition, January 2021. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, in association with AARP. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is CNN's Emmy Award-winning chief medical correspondent and an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Gupta draws on research from scientists worldwide to offer a science-driven guide to protecting and improving brain health at any age. The book addresses cognitive decline, examines the role of diet, exercise, sleep, and social engagement on brain function, and debunks common myths about ageing and memory.

A W.H. Freeman loose-leaf second edition in very good condition, presented in a University of Alberta branded red ring binder with gilt crest and lettering. Pages are clean, bright, and free of any marks, stamps, highlights, or annotations throughout. Binder is solid and clean with no damage to the rings, spine, or covers. A clean, well-preserved copy throughout. Published by W.H. Freeman and Company (Macmillan Learning), New York, in 2016, this second edition, first printing of Evolution: Making Sense of Life is a comprehensive undergraduate textbook written by Carl Zimmer — two-time winner of the National Academies Communication Award, three-time winner of the AAAS Science Journalism Award, Stephen Jay Gould Prize recipient, New York Times columnist, and professor adjunct at Yale University — and Douglas J. Emlen, award-winning evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Montana. The textbook covers the full breadth of modern evolutionary biology across twenty-five chapters, from the molecular mechanisms of genetic change through natural selection, sexual selection, adaptation, coevolution, speciation, macroevolution, phylogenetics, and the deep history of life on Earth, with extensive case studies drawn from current research. The cover features the Madagascar orchid Angraecum sesquipedale, whose extraordinarily deep nectary led Darwin to predict in 1862 that a moth with an equally long proboscis must exist to pollinate it — a prediction confirmed twenty years after his death, when the subspecies was named praedicta in his honour. As the copyright page notes, this is coevolution made visible. Illustrated throughout in full colour. Presented in a University of Alberta branded red ring binder.