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YOUR CUCKOO SINGS BY KIND
Edition: First UK edition.
London & NY: Knopf, 1927. Octavo, 284 pp. Grey cloth, red topstain. Damp stain to foot of spine, lower edges of covers, upper inner corner of front cover; two small rust marks to upper rear cover; light yellowing to text paper; spine gilt darkened; VG unworn copy otherwise, no owner names. Cream dust jacket is age-darkened, a bit soiled, short edge tears; good, flap price intact. Woodcut illustration to front panel by Helen Sainsbury. A novel about an eleven year old girl, by the wife of author Bonamy Dobrée.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 13618More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
YOUR TURN, MR. MOTO
London: Souvenir Press, 1987. Reprint. Black boards. Page edges tanned, text paper toned, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50535More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
YOUTH. TYPHOON. THE END OF THE TETHER. With an Introduction by Leo Gurko and illustrations by Robert Shore
Avon, CT: Heritage Press, 1972. Quarter bound in light blue cloth and colour illustrated boards, sprinkled page edges, 7 colour illustrations. Spine slightly sunned, else fine in fine dark blue card slipcase. With the issue of the Sandglass brochure laid in. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49761More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
YPRES AND THE BATTLES OF YPRES
Easingwold, York. England: G.H. Smith and Sons, 1994. Octavo, tan card covers. pp (144) + ads. Illustrated, maps, index. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Facsimile reprint of the Michelin, 1920, edition, in the series Illustrated Michelin guides to the battle-fields (1914-1918). Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 44168More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
YR EISTEDDFOD: Sef, Cyhoeddiad Chwarterol y Sefydliad Cenedlaethol. Dan Olygiaeth Creuddyfab. Cyfrol I [-II].
Wrexham: (1864-1866). Octavo. Volumes 1-2 bound as a single volume containing nos. 1-8, 1864-1866. Half-calf with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to spine and some light edge-wear, very good otherwise. A Welsh language literary periodical, containing a translation into Welsh of Shakespeare's HAMLET (v.II, #6). British Prime Minister Lloyd George's copy with his distinctive "Big Ben" bookplate. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 1074More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
Z FOR ZABORRA
Edition: First US edition
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966. Black boards. pp 189, [3]. VG copy. Dust jacket has nicks and small tears, spine sunning, VG otherwise, flap price intact. A spy thriller by this Finnish-Canadian author. Hubin p. 435. Neo-Nazis in Poland.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44452More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
ZAPOTECAN ANTIQUITIES and the Paulson Collection in the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden. With 27 Text Figures and 32 Plates
Aktiebolaget Thule, 1938. The Ethnological Museum of Sweden, Stockholm, New Series Publication No.4. Quarto. Cream card covers. pp 196, plates and figures in text. Short tears at spine tips neatly repaired; a VG+ copy otherwise, no owner names, clean, tight & unworn. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 25881More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
ZEE & CO: a novel
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971. Second printing. Brown boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has creased to front flap, half inch tear to upper inner corner of front panel, VG otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45930More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ZENIA THE VESTAL; or The Problem of Vibrations
Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1896. Small quarto. "Second Edition" (first was Arena, 1893). Blue cloth gilt lettered, green floral endpapers. [2], vi, (7) - (356), [2] pp. Rubbing to tips of lightly darkened spine; small ink spot to front cover; light damp stains to fore margins of covers; small soil spots to rear cover; rubber stamp on front fly leaf; light tide mark to fore margin of lightly toned text; short tear at top of front free endpaper neatly repaired on verso;a good, tight and unworn copy otherwise, inner hinges not cracked. Reginald 11276. Bleiler p. 155. A supernatural novel with an occult / spiritualist theme.Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 24212More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
ZESTFUL LIVES: the unusual Wrights of Strathroy 1865-1995
Edition: First Edition
Strathroy, Ontario: Author, 1997. Quarto, green cloth gilt lettered without jacket as issued. pp (xviii), 166. Many photos. Fine copy. Ontario local history. Note: 1.5kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40944More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
Zinger and Me
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979. Red boards. Fine in very nearly fine jacket. Inscribed by the author "To ____, who helped me enormously on a hectic day, with gratitude & warm affection, Jack MacLeod, 25 May '79". Also signed on the title page. A comic epistolary novel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49106More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
ZION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH MONTREAL. 78th anniversary October, 1910, and 1st anniversary of the opening of the Richard Miles Memorial Organ
Montreal: The church, 1910. Octavo. pp [15], stapled, in card covers. Photos. VG+ copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45358More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
ZLY SMIECH. Powiesc
Warsaw: Bibljoteka Groszowa, 1928. First Polish edition of DARK LAUGHTER (1925), translated by Barbary Zanowny. Pictorial wrappers with yapp edges. Yellowing to first and last page from offsetting; nicks to yapp edges; original tissue wrapper present (yellowed, small chips & tears); rubber stamped date (Dec. 18, 1929) above imprint on title page; VG+ copy otherwise, text clean and fresh.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 24318More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
ZOLA. Translated from the French by Mary Balairdie Green and Frederick C. Green.
Edition: First UK printing
London: Dent, 1932. Light blue cloth. 279 pp + 7 plates. Slightest of spine darkening, else a fine, jacketless copy. A study of the great French novelist by another noted French novelist.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 3925More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
ZOOGRAPHY; or, the beauties of nature displayed. with select descriptions of the animal, and vegetable, with additions from the mineral kingdom. Systematically arranged. Illustrated with plates, designed and engraved by Mr. William Daniell (3 vol. set)
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40658More details Price: USD $595.00 USD $535.50 -
ZPEVY Z MODRYCH HOR
Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in America, 1964. 73 leaves, printed rectos only. Soil spots to covers, VG copy otherwise, and inscribed by the author Toronto, 7 March, 1964. Poetry by this Czech-Canadian author. The title translates as SONGS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
Condition: Binding: Softcover.
Book ID: 10265More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
ZUK. Translated from the French of Georges Zuk. With and introduction and notes by Robin Skelton
Edition: First printing
Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1982. Card covers. VG. Poetry.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 52868More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
ZULEIKA DOBSON. Illustrations by Michael Kirkham
London: Folio Society, 2008. First edition with these illustrations. Illustrated boards in slipcase, colour illustrations. Fine copy. Slipcase has slight soiling, VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 47891More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ZYGAL: a book of mysteries and translations
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1985. Octavo, card covers. Poems, drawings, marks on paper. Light sticker residue on red front flyleaf, else fine. Somewhat uncommon.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 42413More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
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Edition: First printing
Toronto: Laocoön (Contact) Press, c1954 (issued 1955). Octavo, pp 139, sewn, in pale yellow card covers printed in black and grey-brown, with attached flap at front. Spine has very small chips at ends, small spot; small spots to rear cover and to front flap; bit of yellowing to page edges and front free endpaper; June, 1955, ink owner name at front with a one word ink note on p. 71 and a few lines of ink notes on last (blank) page. VG otherwise. Signed by the author on the title page. Note: usually listed as published in 1954, but we have seen a review copy with slip giving publication date of 1 June, 1955. A long poem by an important Canadian modernist poet.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 41896More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50