New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1941. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo (royal). Full red paper, yellow lettering to spine and front board. Four colour plates (incl. in pagination) + B&W illustrations. Rubbing to extremities, bumping to corners. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Dust jacket lightly soiled..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. Soft Cover. 8vo. Yale Linguistic Series. Soft cover. xii, 313 pp. Sunning to spine and covers, creasing and curling to front cover. Interior clean. The twenty lessons in this book, designed for use with a basic textbook, provide lively and colloquial dialogues introducing first-..... More
[Montreal]: The Royal Trust Company. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. [N.d., ca. 1947 per the foreward]. Publisher's presentation copy. Quarter tan cloth, tan paper boards, paper title label to front board, unlettered spine. 21 pp. Light soiling to boards, bumping to lower corners. More
New Rochelle, New York: Caratzas Brothers, Publishers, 1977. Hard Cover. Folio. Limited edition of 750 copies. Full brown cloth. xxxii, 251 pp. Colour frontis + B&W illustrations in text. Light bumping to spine ends, cloth split at spine head. Interior clean. Fine overall. Herrad's Horticus Delicarum was a medieval encyclopedic..... More
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907. Hard Cover. 16mo. Copyright edition. Full cream vellum paper, beautifully decorated with embossed gilt, floriated initial, and colour painted leaves. Beveled edges. Floral metallic endpapers. 271 pp. Red ribbon marker. Some light soiling to boards, small damp stain to initial, light bump to spine foot. Bookseller..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1957. Jardine, Alex. Hard Cover. 12mo. SIGNED with date and inscription to title page. Fifth printing. Full burgundy cloth, gold stamped vignette to front board. Pictorial endpapers. 127 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Boards slightly bowed, damp staining to tail edge. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Warren Fox, Dorothea. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Half red cloth, cream paper boards with green stamped Christmas choir vignette to front board. White lettering to spine. Red and white pictorial endpapers. 181 pp. Damp stain to front board, some discolouration to paper boards..... More
Athens: Holly Monastery Acrotirianis (Toplou), 1984. Soft Cover. 8vo. Limited edition of 5000 copies. Soft cover. 70 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Light bumping and damp staining to foot of front cover. Fine condition. Deeply versed in the Old and New Testament and in Orthodox hymnography, the Cretan painter Joannis..... More
St. John's, Newfound: DRC Publishing, 2011. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. vi, 227 pp. Bruise to fore edge of rear cover, else fine. Wade Parsons' stories about growing up in the outport community of Hermitage on Newfoundland and Labrador's South Coast have universal appeal. The stories have a special quality..... More
New York: Wing Books, 1998. Hard Cover. 12mo. Full green cloth. B&W map endpapers. 468 pp. Light bumping to spine ends, light stain to front board. Slight bumping to extremities of dust jacket. Fine overall. Over 35,000 years ago, in prehistoric Europe during the Ice Age, humanity as it eventually..... More
London: G. Kearsley, 1791. 3rd Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full brown calf. Spine newly recased to match. Gilt title to spine. lviii, 460 pp. Wear and rubbing to boards and extremities, commensurate with age. Some foxing to outside edges and endpapers. Bookplate dated 1814 to front pastedown. Offsetting from bookplate..... More
Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xiii, 159 pp. Colour illustrations in text. Fine condition. Engaging the classic statements of the Nicene and Apostles' Creeds, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams guides readers through the central elements of Christian faith. What does it mean to..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xviii, 233 pp. Curling to front cover, else fine. Charles Segal surveys the literary treatment of the Orpheus myth as the myth of the essence of poetry - the ability to encounter the fullest possible intensity of beauty..... More
San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 277 pp. Light bumping to upper corner of a few pages. Fine condition. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 287 pp. Curling and creasing to front cover, bumping to corners, bruise to spine head. Damp staining to foot. Light pencil underlining and annotations. This is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around..... More
Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications, 1994. Soft Cover. 8vo. Fourth printing. Soft cover. 172 pp. Light offset panel and bubbling of lamination to head of rear cover, sporadic pencil underlining, else fine. The Gods have become diseases, said C.G. Jung, and these nine chapters show how major figures of the Greek..... More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1956. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xxv, 298 pp., [20 pp. ads]. Bruise to spine head, bumping and curling to lower corner of front cover, light damp stain to head of rear cover. Remainder mark to tail edge. A few spots of ink underlining to..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Soft Cover. 8vo. Second paperback printing. Soft cover. xvi, 357 pp. [9] B&W plates + B&W maps and photos in text. Fine condition. Abu Abdallah Ibn Battuta is celebrated as the greatest traveler of premodern times. The narrative of his extraordinary journeys stands, along..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. Soft Cover. 8vo. Revealing Antiquity No. 10. Second printing. Soft cover. 313 pp. A few bumps to spine head, crease to upper corner of front cover. Else fine. Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen..... More
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2003. 1st English Edition. Hard Cover. 18mo. Full black paper. 97 pp., [10]. Fine condition. Hailed in Europe and South America as a masterful work of psychological suspense, Manguel's novella is a story of mystery, murder, and the passion of an artist. Centering on Robert Louis Stevenson..... More
Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element, 1998. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. viii, 350 pp. Bruise to spine foot, else fine, clean, and tight. Meister Eckhart, thirteenth century Dominican theologian and the greatest of German mystics, speaks to us with a new voice of this faithful and authoritative translation by M. O'C. Walshe..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, blue cloth boards. vii, 248 pp. A few bumps to extremities and one short tear to foot of front cover of dust jacket, else fine. A lyrical biography of a poet whose genius has inspired..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016. 1st English Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Second printing. Quarter grey cloth, yellow paper boards. viii, 580 pp. Bumping to spine ends. Light bumping to extremities of dust jacket. Fine overall. A bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 313 pp. Crease to lower corner of rear cover. Fine condition. Views of Nature was Alexander von Humboldt's best-known and most influential work. While the essays that comprise it are themselves remarkable and innovative, early pieces of nature writing..... More
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription to half-title, and signed to title page. With a foreword by Christie Blatchford. Soft cover. Colour map to inside both covers. 239 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine condition. An honest, raw collection of incidents and impressions of..... More