The House of Doctor Dee
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 277 p.p. Light rubbing to jacket, extremities. Pages slightly browning. In fine condition. More
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American Family
New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1935. Hard Cover. 8vo. xi, 388 p.p. Red pebbled cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamping to front. Light bumping and rubbing to psine ends, else fine. Small damp stains to fore edge, creasing to edges of some pages. Hinge cracked..... More
The Wing Chun Compendium
Berkeley: Blue Snake Books. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo (super). [2006-2009]. 2 vols. Vol 2 is a first edition, Vol 1 is 5th printing. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering in English and Chinese to spine. Light bumping to spine ends of both volumes. Dust jackets have light bumping to..... More
Image-Nations 1-12 & The Stadium of the Mirror
London: Ferry Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 6.5" x 8.5" In creame wrappers with dust jacket. 69 p.p., [1]. Limited edition of 500 copies, including 26 bound in cloth and signed by the author with an additional holograph poem. Sporadic soiling and smudging to jacket covers, with yellow stain..... More
Meadow-Grass: Tales of New England Life
New York: Grosset and Dunlap. Hardcover. 8vo. [Copr. 1895] Decorative tan cloth tooled in black, 315pp. Bruising on spine ends, some smudging on upper front cover, o/w very good. Containing 13 short stories set in New England, set in the fictional farming village of Tiverton. More
Your Attention, Please. How to Appeal to Today's Distracted, Disinterested, Disengaged, Disenchanted, and Busy Audiences
Avon, MA: Adams Media, an F+W Publications Company, 2006. Soft Cover. Softcover. SIGNED by both Authors on title-page. A near fine copy. More
Rhymes in Khaki
Boston: The Cornhill Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. cloth backed boards, with vignette tooled on upper cover. [8] 65pp. Light foxing, boards yellowed with corners worn and knocked, light rubbing on spine but still very good. Frank Bernard Camp was an American soldier and poet during the First..... More
Auntie Pauline: A Journey of Love, Loss, Healing and Adventure
Port Hope, Ontario: Elgin Productions, 2000. Sorrell, Marjorie [cover]. Soft Cover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription by author, dated October 6, 2000. Green card covers, spiral bound. 279 p.p. Grief as a journey is a theme as old as literature itself. But a story about grief which resolves itself as Pauline..... More
The Big Sleep
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. Hard Cover. 8vo. 165 p.p. Cloth. 'A Forum Book Motion Picture Edition' stamped on front board and printed on front f.l. Small nicks along top and bottom edges of dust-jacket. Bottom of dust-jacket spine lightly chipped, hardly interferring with text. Scratches..... More
Tauromachie
Torino: Stamperia Artistica Nazionale, 1993. First Edition. Soft Cover. 32mo. Disegnodiverso Series. Publishers red wraps with grey dustwrapper lettered in red. This is copy No. 184 of 700 limited copies. [60] unnumbered pages containing poetry, sketches, brightly coloured illustrations of bulls and bullfighting. Signed by author on first page. Disegnodiverso..... More
One Man's Trash: Stories
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. SIGNED by author to half-title. Soft cover. 136 pp. Very slight curling and bumping to corners, else fine. The crystalline storytelling voice of Ivan E. Coyote - whose first book, Close to Spider Man, won a Danuta Gleed Literary Award..... More
Tales of War
Dublin and London: The Talbot Press Ltd. / T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1918. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. One quarter bound in blue cloth spine over grey cloth boards. Title stamped in red with pictorial seal of a quill and sword. Author's last name stamped on front board. Title in gilt..... More
The Art of Investment
London: Bowes & Bowes, 1961. Hard Cover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 199 p.p. B&W charts. Damp staining to edges of text block, interior clean. Dust jacket has light wear to front joint, bumping to extremities with a few short tears, some staining to rear cover..... More
Favre: For the Record
New York: Doubleday, 1997. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter green cloth, yellow paper boards. 288 p.p., [16] p.p. colour photo plates. Bumping to spine ends and some light bumping to extremities of dust jacket. Laid-in ticket stubs to the American Bowl '97 at Skydome, Toronto, Buffalo Sabres vs. Green..... More
Matisse: A Retrospective
New York: Park Lane, 1988. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. Full number line. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering to spine. 392 p.p. Lavisly illustrated in colour. Bumping to spine ends, rubbing to spine ends and corners. Light bumping to extremities of dust jacket, slight age toning to flaps. Painter..... More
The Sacred Fire: The Story of Sex in Religion
Garden City, N.Y. Garden City Publishing Company, 1930. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Original red cloth, black stamped lettering to spine and front board. Top edge red. xv, 386 p.p. B&W illustrations in-text. Spine tilted and bumped at ends, some rubbing to extremities. Soiling to front joint. Age toning to..... More
The Terror-Dream
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1927. Hardcover. 12mo (large). 126 p.p. Jacket torn with loss to spine ends and edges. Covers somewhat soiled with pencil markings on front. Dark blue boards lightly rubbed. Faded white smudge on rear board. Spine ends bruised. Light offsetting to endpapers. Sporadic..... More
Out of the Ashes: Port Perry, a Century of Progress
Port Perry, ON. Observer Publishing and the Port Perry Star, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo [imperial]. Limited Edition of 1,200 copies. Original illustrated jacket and beige cloth bindings. Pictorial endpapers showing Port Perry's Waterfront in 1888. Signed by author J. Peter Hvidsten at foot of F.F.E.P. An interesting chronicle of..... More
Gazetteer and Directory of The County of Simcoe, Including the District of Muskoka and The Townships of Mono and Mulmur for 1872-3
Elmvale, Ontario: East Georgian Bay Historical Foundation, 1985. Soft Cover. 8vo. Reprint of original 1872 edition. Fuchsia card wraps with grey lettering, glued binding. 283 p.p. Minor wear to extremities and joints, creasing to spine, else a nice clean copy. An historical directory for Simcoe County and the Muskoka Lakes..... More
Christine
New York: Viking, 1983. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. 8vo. Book club edition. Quarter black leatherette, red paper boards with silver letting to spine and silver SK monogram to front board. 471 pp. Bumping to spine ends. A few minor spots and scuffs to edges of text block. Dust jacket..... More
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. Teel decorative boards, edges in silver, 355pp. Illustrated. Tight. About fine. More
Hockey: It's In Our Blood. 200 Years of Canadian Hockey History in Poetry and Prose
Banff, Alberta: Holy Grail Publishers, 2010. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription to title page. First edition stated. Soft cover. 228 p.p. B&W photos in-text. Some light bumping to corners. More
Samlade Dikter
Stockholm: Bonnier: Manadens Bok, 1996. First Ediition. Hardcover. 12mo (tall). First Edition in Sweedish. Original pictorial boards. 491, [1] p.p. The collected poems of Sweedish poet Bodil Malmsten [1944-2016]. Light scratches to boards. Pages lightly browned, but otherwise interior clean. In very good condition. More
The Connoisseur's Guide to Meat
New York: Sterling, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (large). Original red boards. Title with colour vignette of a cow mounted to front board in slim silver boarder. 256 p.p. Illustrated throughout by Jane Laurie, showing types and cuts of various meats. Offers a history of meat and farming, and includes..... More
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In Defense of Raymond Sebond [Milestones of Throught in the History of Ideas]. Translated with an Introduction, By Arthur H. Beattie
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1959. Hard Cover. 12mo. xiii, 122 pp. Top edge coloured black. Title page partially stuck to facing leaf at gutter. Slight bumping to spine edges, otherwise near fine. More