New Arrivals
Home Manufacture of Furs and Skins: A Book of Practical Instructions Telling How to Tan, Dress, Color and Manufacture or Make into Articles of Ornament, Wear and Use
Columbus, OH: A.R. Harding, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 18mo. Orig. brown cloth. 285 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, some staining to cloth, light chafing to extremities. Soiling to edges of text block. A few spots of soiling to interior. Very good overall. More
The Fighting Le Moynes
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1957. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Third printing. Orig. orange boards. 201 pp. Pencil ownership inscription, a few spots of pencil marginalia. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, light bumping and a few short tears to extremities. More
Overcoming Handicaps
Toronto: The Musson Book Company, 1927. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. blue cloth. 140 pp. Light chafing to spine ends. Dust jacket is sunned to spine ends, bumped to edges, a few short tears. More
Anne of Green Gables [3 vols]
Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1968. Soft cover. 4" x 7" 1st Canadian paperback edition. Three paperback volumes in slipcase. 329; 367; viii, 326 pp. Covers lightly foxed. Rubbed to extremities. Corners bumped and creased. Damp stain to spine of Anne of Avonlea, creasing to spine of Anne of the Island. Interiors..... More
Hidden Treasures from Central Africa, Selected from the Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, January 10-31, 1973
Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 1973. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 72 pp. B&W illustrations. Errata slip tipped in. Slight age toning and curling to covers, about fine. More
Modern Backgammon
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. green cloth, orange stamped lettering. xii, 110 pp. One B&W illustration. Spine cocked, some light rubbing to extremities. Some ink staining to front board. Ink gift inscription, pencil ownership to ffep. Sporadic pencil marginalia. Interior age toned. More
Straight from the Heart
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED and dated by the author, 20/10/85. Orig. red paper boards. 231 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Some faint edge toning to dust jacket. About fine. More
Jerusalem, 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven
New York: The Metropolitian Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2016. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Orig. blue cloth. Pictorial endpapers. xvi, 335 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Spine slightly tilted, front board slightly bowed, else fine. Through absorbing essays and incisive discussions of nearly 200 works of art, this book explores..... More
The Quiet Adventures in North America [2 vols]
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1992. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 342 pp. Fine condition. Reprint of the 1984 edition updated with six pages of corrections and additions. More
Eusebiou tou Pamphilou Ekklesiastikes historias, bibloi deka.../Eusebii Pamphili Historiae Ecclesiasticae, Libri Decem. Graecum Textum. Collatis qui in Germaniae et Italiae Bibliothecis Asservantur Codicibus et Adhibitis Praestantissimis Editionibus Recensuit Atque Emendavit, Latinam Henrici Valesii Verrionem [sic] Passim Correctam Subiunxit, Apparatum Criticum Apposuit, Fontes Annotavit, Prolegomena et Indices Adiecit
Scaphusiae: Sumptibus Librariae Hurterianae, 1862. Hardcover. 8vo. Greek and Latin. Quarter contemporary calf, marbled paper boards. Marbled edges. xxv, 920 pp., + 2 folding plates [depicting the manuscript text of Codex Vindobonensis 71 fol. 172 (I,6), Codex Dresdensis A 85 Fol.69 (V,24) & Codex Vaticanus 399,Fol.85 (IV,10)]. Wear and discolouration..... More
The Beast of the Haitian Hills
New York: Time Incorporated, 1964. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xxi, 172 pp. Bumping to upper fore edge of a few pages near rear, else fine. More
Georgey's Menagerie: The Bear
Boston: Andrew F. Graves, 1864. Hardcover. 32mo. Orig. russet cloth, gilt decoration to spine. 144 pp. Engraved title by John Andrew. Spine tilted. Rubbing to extremities, spine ends bumped. Interior age toned. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. More
Ituna Lodge 10th Anniversary Cook Book
Winnipeg: Gateway Publishing Co., 1985. Soft cover. 6" x 9" Soft cover, plastic coil binding. 92 pp. Colour illustrations to section dividers. Covers stained, light bumping to corners. Very good. More
The Romance of the Last Crusade: With Allenby to Jerusalem
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. blue cloth, gilt device to front board. 235 pp. Spine sunned, gilt rubbed off, spots of discolouration from gilt, rubbing to extremities. Light foxing to front matter to dedication and to rear endpapers, else clean to interior. More
Love and the Turning Year: One Hundred More Poems From the Chinese
New York: New Directions Books, 1970. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xvi, 140 pp. Covers are age toned. More
Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance. Europe from Renaissance to Reformation. The Renaissance in Europe. The Flowering of the Renaissance. The Florentine Renaissance.
London: Folio Society, 2001. Hardcover. 8vo. 5 vols in burgundy and navy paper-backed slipcase. Burgundy and navy cloth. xv, 486; xxxi, 321; xviii, 342; xvii, 330; xxvi, 364 pp. Each volume has a colour frontis and 16 pp. colour illustration, except The Florentine Renaissance, which has 24 pp. Fine condition..... More
How Shall We Pay for Health Care?
Public Affairs Committee, Inc., 1949. Herzog, Harry. Soft cover. 5.5" x 8.5" Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 152. Orig. printed wrappers, staple bound. 32 pp. B&W illustration in text. Covers are age toned, light rubbing to edges. More
The Quest for Christian Unity
New York: Association Press, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Full tan paper boards. 181 pp. A bright and clean copy in a sunned and edge worn dust jacket. More
The Story of the Starry Universe: The Science of Astronomy -- The Size, Motions, Relative Positions and other Phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies
New York: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1941. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Popular Science Library. Orig. blue paper boards. Pictorial endpapers. viii, 368 pp. [12] double-sided B&W plates, [1] colour frontis. Spine sunned, light chafing to extremities, a few small spots of soiling to boards. Foxing..... More
The Silence of the Lambs
[Irvine, CA]: Suntup Press, 2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Limited edition, #222/350 copies numbered and SIGNED by Thomas Harris and the illustrator, Tom Bagshaw. Bound in orange iridescent cloth with gilt lettered leather spine label, housed in a striking black silk slipcase with sewn butterfly pattern. 365 PP.Book and slipcase..... More
Blueboods and Rednecks: Discord and Rebellion in the 1830s
Burnstown, ON: General Store Publishing House, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription to half-title. Soft cover. vii, 263 pp. Fine. From the birth of the Orange Lodge to the Battle of the Windmill, the eastern Ontario counties of Leeds-Grenville became notorious for political violence in the 1820s..... More
This is My Own
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. tan cloth. xv, 393 pp. B&W drawings by the author in text. Spine tilted, foxing to cloth. Staining to top edge. Dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn, age toned, sunned to spine, several short tears with tape..... More
Money Making Secrets of the Millionaires
West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Company, Inc., 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. green cloth. 200 pp. Light foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is bumped to edges, short tear to foot of front cover. Near fine overall. This amazing book is crammed with easy to use money..... More
Iliad & Odyssey [2 vols]
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000. Lawrence, Avery. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes in black cloth slipcase. Full maroon cloth. A few scuffs to slipcase. Odyssey: lxiv, 414 pp. The Iliad: lviii, 516 pp. Spine tilted to Iliad volume, else fine in fine slipcase. More