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1 WALKED OUT OF 2 AND FORGOT IT
Edition: First printing
Millerton, New York: Something Else Press, 1972. Octavo, red cloth, pale green endpapers, black top page edges. pp (vi), 90. Fine in fine jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "To Christopher with great expectations Love Toby Oct. 1976." A first novel by this Detroit woman who was an expatriate living in Canada. Edition of 1k copies.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 37077More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
100 Caterpillars: portraits from the tropical forests of Costa Rica
Edition: First edition
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Oblong octavo, black cloth. pp (8), 264. Colour photos. Fine in fine jacket. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46110More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
100 YEARS. The Royal Canadian Regiment 1883-1983
Edition: First printing
Don Mills, Ontario: Collier Macmillan Canada, 1983. Small sqaurish quarto, dark blue boards. 184 pp. Sepia and colour photos throughout. Foreword by Prince Philip. Mainly a picture book, with photos by Bell, text by Stacey. Ink owner name; slight rubbing to foot of spine and lower outer corners; else fine. Jacket has tears at head of spine, VG otherwise. 1.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 48140More details Price: USD $15.95 USD $14.36 -
1001 NACHT. Aus der von Felix Paul Greve Besorgtenvollstandigen Ausgabe und in Vier Banden Herausgegeben von Paul Ernst.
Leipzig: Insel, 1911. Four volumes. Variant binding of publisher's brown leather with gilt decorated spine, top edges gilt, decorated endpapers, ribbon markers bound in. (iv), (497), (3); (iv), (472); (iv), (449), (3); (iv), (503), (1) pp. Minor cover rubbing; some inner hinges cracked; else a VG set A selection from DIE ERZAHLUNGEN AUS DEN TAUSEND UND EIN NACHTEN (12 vols., 1907-08), Grove / Greve's translation of Burton's editon, and the first complete edition in German. This selection also came in brown leather with gilt top edges. "Frederick Philip Grove", as he called himself when he immigrated to Canada, left behind in Germany a literary career which he failed to mention in his "autobiography" IN SEARCH OF MYSELF. 2.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 4304More details Price: USD $200.00 USD $180.00 -
1001 WAYS TO MAKE LOVE
New York: Grove Press, c1969. Second printing. Mass market paperback original. Illustrated. Fine, crisp copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 34144More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
11 EDWARD STREET (proof copy)
Edition: First US edition
New York: Talese/Doubleday, 1992. Uncorrected proof in cream non-pictorial card covers. Corner crease to front cover, light spine sunning, VG otherwise. A novel of Dublin.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 32352More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
12 POEMS AT THE END OF ANOTHER 1000 YEARS
Edition: First printing
San Mateo, CA: True Heart Publications, 1998. Octavo, 12 pp stapled in lavendar paper covers. Covers faintly sunned at margins, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47140More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
127 years in the making
Standard Steel Works Company: Philadelphia, 1922. pp (16). Black boards with cover label. Fine copy. Original plain tissue wrapper chips. Sketch history of the company. Centre spread drawing of their works at Bunham, PA. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Book: Fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44752More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
13 WAYS OF LISTENING TO A STRANGER : the best stories of Keath Fraser
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2005. Card covers with flaps. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 53217More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
17 catalogues from Bannatyne Books of London, UK
17 catalogues, 8-16 pp each, stapled in paper covers. Present are no. 1 (Jan., 1984), 2,3,4,7,8,9, 10,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,21,22 (Nov. 1997). Good-VG condition, some with slight annotation or marks. Bannatyne Books were John Buchan specialists and the catalogues contain only books by or pertaining to Buchan.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50283More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
1759. The Battle for Canada
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990. Pinkish boards. pp (306) + plates. Maps in text. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44974More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
1846 Hamilton : From a Frontier Town to the Ambitious City
Edition: First printing
Burlington, Ontario: North Shore Publishing, 1995. Card covers. pp (143). A few illustratioins. Near fine copy. History of Hamilton, Ontario, in the 1840s, when it grew from a town to a city.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50480More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
1914-1918: Voices and Images of the Great War
London: Penguin, c1991. 9th printing. pp 346. Many photos, index. Tidy yellow highlighting to a number of pages, book a little leaned, ink owner name, else a VG clean and unworn copy. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48009More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
1917 Spring Offensives: Arras, Vimy, le Chemin des Dames
Paris: Histoire and Collections, 1997. Glossy pictorial boards. pp (192). Many photos and maps, some in colour. Fine copy. 2 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48324More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
1918: the unexpected victory
London: Cassell, 2000. Card covers, pp 208 + plates; index. Ink name at front, near fine otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47797More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
1946-7-8 Reference Manual. Chevrolet Passenger Cars
Oshawa, Ontario: General Motors Products of Canada, Limited, no date (1948? 1949?). Quarto. Colour illustrated textured card covers printed in red, green, and brown. Outer corners rounded, as issued. Small rubbed spots along spine; bit of soiling to page edges; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. An original publication, not a reproduction.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 28274More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
202 METHODS OF FORCING
Edition: First edition
New York: Max Holden, 1933. Octavo, pp 36, stapled in pale grey card covers with front cover art by Sid Lorraine. Mild tanning to covers, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 42804More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
20th century British & Irish art. Including property from the Reader's Digest Association Inc.
London: Christie's, 2004. Glossy card covers. pp 275. Extensively illustrated in colour and b&w. Fine copy. Includes works by Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, Glyn Philpot and many others. 1.3 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51775More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
26 WAYS OUT OF THIS WORLD
Edition: First printing
(Ottawa): Oberon, 1999. Black cloth. pp (56), [2]. Fine in fine jacket, with good author presentation inscription on title page, signed in full, May, 2000. Inscribee not named. Poetry. A superior copy in the scarce hardcover issue.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52542More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
3 BACKYARD DRAMAS, WITH MAMAS
Edition: First printing
Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn. 12mo, pp [8], sewn in green card covers. Fine copy. 400 copies published, May 26, 1967, on the occasion of Loewinsohn's poetry reading at the Unicorn Book Shop. Printed by Alan Brilliant & Jeffrey Sorenson at the Unicorn Press. An early Unicorn imprint. Reportedly most of the edition was scrapped because the author was unhappy with the printing (some of the inking is not perfect). This is Lepper's state "c" (no priority), one of 270 copies thus. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47177More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46