New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition. 623 p.p. Black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Spine ends bumped, else fine. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned at spine and edges, worn at joints, spine ends, and corners, small chips to spine ends. Chip..... More
London: Allen Lane, 1982. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full red cloth. xii, 370 pp. Slight bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket lightly bumped to extremities. This is the story of Hope Masters, a beautiful 31-year-old, twice divorced socialite who lived at a million-dollar address, yet qualified for food stamps..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. Soft cover. 8vo (small). Paperback, 368pp. Illustrated. Light rubbing to spine and extremities, o/w near fine. Celebrating the evolution of design with influential designers Bass, Chermayeff, Glaser, Rand, Tanaka and Tomaszewski. More
Pleasent Hill, Ohio: Jesse Beery Co., 1909. First Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (small). Original grey wrappers, title lettered in black with silhouette of four horse heads on front cover, device of Beery's School of Horsemanship device to uper rear cover, 15 pp. Illustrated with (4) full page and in-text illustrations..... More
London: Arthur H. Stockwell. Hardcover. 5 x 7.5. [1927?] Pictorial green cloth binding. 311 p.p., incl. glossary of terms. Small tear to rear pastedown endpaper along top of inner hinge. Head of spine bumped and worn, with small bump to bottom corner of front board, otherwise in very good condition..... More
Canada: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. Soft cover. 8vo. 112 p.p. Paperback. Incription by author to half title page. Light rubbing to spine ends. Discolouration to spine and light markings to covers. Small stains to rear endpaper. Otherwise, book is in fine condition. Birney was a Canadian poet and novelist..... More
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Limited first edition, 500 copies. Orig. peach paper boards. 40 pp. Crack to upper front joint, wear to spine head, staining to spine foot. Dust jacket chipped to extremities with some loss to spine head, sunned to edges, damp stained to spine..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1958. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A Rick Brant Sciene-Adventure Story No. 13. Orig. brown paper boards. Map endpapers. T.E.R. 184 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine slightly tilted. Series number inked in red to spine. Dust jacket has acidified tape repairs..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. Hardcover. 8vo. 272 (16) p.p. Cloth. Discolouration to spine and corners. Rubbing to spine ends and corners. Scratching and staining to rear board. General wear. Overall, a near fine copy of book. More
Washington, D. C. The Pan American Union, 1942. Sweetser, Dorothy [cover]. Soft cover. 6" x 9" Original paper wraps, staple bound. 14 pp. Tipped-in fold-out B&W map at rear. B&W photos in-text. Some curling and bumping to corners, light wear to spine. Original price of five cents present on verso..... More
Toronto: McCleland and Stewart, 1969. Soft cover. 8vo. Paperback. x, 245 pp. Spine is sunned and creased, some sunning, light soiling and rubbing to covers. Ink ownership inscription to half-title. More
London: Everyman's Library, 1975. Hardcover. 18mo. Orig. orange cloth. xiv, 241 pp. Fine. Sir Thomas Elyot's The Book named The Governor, first published in 1531, is a composite treatise dealing with political theory, education, and moral philosophy; it seeks to set out a way of life for members of the..... More
Paris: Andre Palard, 1683. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (small). Contemporary vellum binding, hand-lettered spine, Yapp edges. [4], 922 pp., [22 pp. index & errata]. Complete with final black. Engraved dedication headpiece and title vignette. Vellum is soiled, front joint repaired. Front pastedown wanting, front flyleaf replaced, title backed, first few..... More
Toronto: NC Press Limited, 1976. Christensen, Erik [photographs]. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). SIGNED with inscription from author to ffep. Blue leatherette boards. 160 pp. B&W photos. Bumping and rubbing to spine ends. Dust jacket worn and creased to extremities, spine slightly sunned, short tear to foot of front joint, a few..... More
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1925. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. blue cloth. 359 pp. Spotting to boards, rubbing to joints, bumping to spine ends, brusing to head of rear board, cockling to rear. Spine tilted and sunned. Cracking to inner hinge at p. 250. More
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2004. Hardcover. 8vo. 304 p.p. Cloth. Title page signed by author. No marks to dust-jacket, boards, or interior. Jewison is a Canadian film director, producer, actor, and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times..... More
Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc., 1991. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Soft cover. 160 pp. B&W illustrations. Slight delamination to edges of rear cover, a few creases, else fine. A thorough and loving treatment of the Canadian pinao, its development and social impact. Includes a buyer's guide and serial number list..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Soft cover. 8vo. Paperback.187 pp. Spine sunned, light wear to edges creasing to joints, short horizontal tear to fore edge of front cover. Ink ownership inscription to ffep, and a few spots of underlining and annotation to text. Age toning to pages. This significant exploration..... More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, dated January 16, 1950. Original yellow paper boards. 56 pp. Minor rubbing to spine head. Ownership inscription to ffep. Bookseller ticket of Wendell Holmes Ltd, London and St. Thomas, to foot of front pastedown. Dust jacket is worn..... More
Toronto: Anansi, 1970. Hardcover. 12mo. 126 p.p. Cloth. Wear along edges of jacket. Some marks to jacket covers. Light browning to pages. Boards clean. Near fine copy of book. More
New York, New York: The Classics of Neurology and Neurosurgery Library, 1995. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Facsimile. Copy number 225 of 1,000. Includes a leather bookplate of John Edmeads. A 10 page pamphlet about the authors and 2 page letter addressed to a charter member are loosely inserted. Bound in genuine..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [N.d., 1928?] Orig. blue cloth. 234 pp. [3] B&W plates. Spine tilted and sunned. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1925. 4th Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Fourth Canadian edition (October 1925). Full red cloth, gilt titles. B&W illustrated endpapers. xii, 100 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine darkened, gilt darkened, edges rubbed, small spots of wear to corners. Rear board is damp stained and cloth is cockled..... More
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1908. McManus, Blanche. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 1st Impression. Original grey pictorial cloth. Top edges gilt. Illustrated endpapers in silver. x, 442 p.p. Numerous illustrations with [43] plates, [6] in colour incl frontispiece with tissue guards. [2] folding maps of Algeria and Tunisia. Inner hinges..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Stated first edition. x, 214 p.p. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Photographs throughout. Some scratches to jacket, worse to edges. Small chips to corners, light wear to spine ends. No marks to boards or interior, creases to corners of..... More