Reading For Skill: Practice Exercises For Remedial and Library
Chicago: Laurel Book Company, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, xvi, 399pp. Illustrated. Light soiling on cloth and spine but o/w very good. More
Chicago: Laurel Book Company, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, xvi, 399pp. Illustrated. Light soiling on cloth and spine but o/w very good. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover. 8vo. Sixth edition. Full navy leatherette, gilt titles and devices. A.E.G. Navy ribbon markers. xlvi, 1882 pp.; 1883-3742 pp. In navy paper covered slipcase. Slipcase is scuffed and edgeworn, else a fine set. More
Mokelumne Hill, California: Health Research, 1972. Soft cover. 8vo. Reprint of the 1895 edition (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.). Spiral bound, green card covers. XVI, 321 p.p. Includes glossary and suggested reading. Some staining and bumping to covers, bumping and creasing to corners. Bookplate of Babette D...... More
Vepery: s.n., 1789. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Half contemporary calf, marbled paper boards. Marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. 63 pp., [84] pp. blank pages filled with handwritten notes. Facsimile title page. Some rubbing to extremities. Chip to upper corner of ffep. Ink notations to endpapers..... More
Sheffield: G. Chaloner, 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 18mo. Cloth with paper spine label. xii, 283 p.p. Light scuffing, rubbing to boards and edges. Spine sunned with slight bruising to ends. Corners lightly frayed. Small tearing to paper label, partially affectng title.Some trimming to top edges, but text unaffected. Top right..... More
Madrid: Jose Del Ojo Gomez, 1885. Hardcover. 32mo. New Edition. Text in Spanish. Quarter bound marbled green leather over green buckram boards. Title in gilt on red spine label. Top edge in red, with red marbled endpapers. Ejemplar num. 198 p.p. Bookplate of Lt. Colonel V.S.M. de Guinzbourg on front..... More
Glasgow & Edinburgh: Porteous Brothers; John Ross & Company, 1877. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Orig. printed wrappers, calf spine, iv, 5-24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24; 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24; 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24; 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24; 24, 24..... More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 443 pp. B&W map. Remainder mark to tail edge. Light scuffing and creasing to front cover. More
Oxonii: E. Typogrdapheo Clarendoniano. Hardcover. 16mo. Original jacket and blue cloth. xiv, 198 p.p. Text in Latin. Includes the satirical poems of Persius and Juvenalis, written at the end of the 1st and beginning of the 2nd centuries. Front inner flap clipped. Spine sunned. Covers rubbed with slight tears at..... More
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Conestoga Crafts, 1964. Soft cover. 6" x 9" Colour pictorial wraps, staple bound, light wear and discolouration to wraps. B&W illustrations throughout. Illustrated by author. Price sticker on rear cover. 24 p.p. (unpaginated). Full of sayings, with proverbs and a translation guide at rear. More
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Translated by Joseph Solodow. Full green cloth. xxxiii, 827 pp. Very slight rubbing to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket slightly sunned at flaps. Fine overall. This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey..... More
New York: J & J Harper, 1833. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). lxiii, 535 p.p. Leather. Marks throughout boards. Foxing to pages, worse to endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Wear to boards and page ends. Crabb was an English legal and miscellaneous writer. In 1814 he entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Full taupe cloth, green spine label with gilt lettering, green lettering and harp device to front board. ix, 137 pp. Offset panels to boards, light rubbing to spine foot. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. More
Toronto: Adam Miller, 1869. Hardcover. 18mo. Canadian National Series of School Books. Orig. blue pebbled cloth. xxii, 23-124 pp. Cloth rubbed, scuff to front board, wear to corners, chafing to extremities. Damp staining to top edge, and gutter of pp. v-28. More
London: J.R. Smith; George Bell, 1849. Hardcover. 12mo (tall). Brown cloth binding with blind tooled decoration on front and rear cover. xiv, 151 p.p. plus 12 p.p. ads. Frontispiece map showing Part of Teesdale in Durham. Bookplate of Henry William Paget Hoskyns on front pastedown. Boards soiled, with bumping top-edge..... More
Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1999. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xx, 603 p.p. Cloth. Second edition. Some rubbing to extremities of jacket. No marks to boards. Interior clean. A near fine copy to book. More
Lo Altos, CA: William Kauffman, Inc., 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Soft cover. 185 pp. Covers and edges are foxed and slightly age toned. Interior clean. Embossed ex libris stamp to title page. More
London: Veneunt Appud B. Fellowes, 1829. 4th Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Half-bound calf over tan marbled boards. xiv, (2) 188 p.p. Text in Greek, with Latin annotations. Some light rubbing to edges and spine ends. Trimmed pages and light sporatic foxing. Tears to the upper margin of two leaves, starting..... More
London: Printed by and for J.B. Nichols and Son, 1830. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Two Volumes. Original cloth with paper spine label. Vol. I: xlvii, 125 p.p.; Vol. II: 126-435 p.p., [errata]. Bookplate of Thomas Shelford Bidwell. Robert Forby was an English Philologist. His History of East Anglia offers a dictionary..... More
Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. In Greek. xxiv, 267 p.p. Cloth. Discolouration to spine of dust-jacket. Tearing to corners of dust-jacket. Inner flap clipped. Light bruising to corners and spine ends. A near fine copy of book. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xv, 298 pp. Some light creasing and bumping to corners, else fine. This book introduces students to English literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, from 600 to 1066, in a collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays. More
Paris: Librairie Honore Champion, 1982. Soft cover. 8vo. Text in French. Soft cover. 544 pp. Creasing to spine and corners, light wear to joints. A dictionary of the French language to 1300 A.D. More
Paris: H. Welter, Editeur, 1901. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black cloth, gilt titling to spine. 544 pp. Light rubbing and wear to spine ends and corners. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. A dictionary of ancient French. More
Rome: Pontificum Institutum Biblicum, 1955. Hardcover. 4to. Analecta Orientalia 35. Three volumes in one. SIGNED with inscription by author to Will Oxtoby on first title. xv, 361 pp. Quarter leather over cloth boards, gilt title to spine, original front card cover and section titles bound in. Minor wear to extremities..... More
New York: Meredith Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 7" x 6.375" Original illustrated jacket and matching cloth boards. [26] leaves of illustrations of imaginary animals, from Ampoo to Zote, accompanied by descriptions in rhyming couplets. Bookplate of Olen J. Earnest on front free endpaper. Jacket yellowed with small chips to..... More