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1 WALKED OUT OF 2 AND FORGOT IT
Edition: First printing
Millerton, New York: Something Else Press, 1972. Inscribed by Author; 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. ; Signed by Author 0871100835
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. 0674034821
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. 0029976707
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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 4304More details Price: USD $200.00 USD $180.00 -
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.
Book ID: 32352More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
1100 OBSCURE POINTS: the bibligraphies of 25 English and American authors
Bristol, England: Chatford House Press, 1969. Blue boards. Frontispiece and two addendum slips. Page edges yellowed, else fine in jacket. Facsimile reprint of the 1931 original. ; Tall octavo; (xiv), 95 pages
Book ID: 55767More details Price: USD $21.95 USD $19.76 -
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.
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.; 16mo
Condition: Fine
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. ; Octavo 0887621937
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. ; Octavo
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. ; Octavo 0771046995
Book ID: 44974More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
18 STORIES. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz
Edition: First paper edition
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. Card covers. Orange spine letters faded, VG+ otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53544More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
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. ; Octavo 096984607x
Book ID: 50480More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
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.; Small folio 290818267x
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.; Octavo
Book ID: 47797More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
1924 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF WELLAND. J.C. Sloat, Warden
Thorold, ON: Thompson & Sons, Printers, 1924. Quarter bound in original maroon sheep and black cloth with black spine label. Spine a bit rubbed, label lettering perished, page edges yellowed, text paper toned, inner hinges neatly repaired with rice paper, else a VG unworn copy. Contains three sections: January Session, Jan. 22,23 and 24th, 215 pp; Special Session, April 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 100 pp; June Session, June 17, 18, 19, 20, 25 and 26th, 91 pp. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54870More details Price: USD $100.00 USD $90.00 -
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.
Book ID: 28274More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
1967: The Last Good Year
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1997. Maroon boards, illustrated endpapers. pp 391 + plates. Fine in fine jacket, with a folio-size folded advertising sheet laid in. Inscribed by the author to a fan. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54057More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
2 page ALS
15 May, 1979. Single sheet with hand written message on both sides to Sam Coghlan, c/o The Bookstore, Windsor Public Library. Chatty personal letter, invites him to visit, to go drinlking, she is writing just for herself. is at U of T working on her doctorate, he should see the songs she has written, they met at York U counting votes. Seems flirtatious to me. Includes a small green and red pen and ink drawing "Spring Treat". Enclosed in a long nifty original mailing envelope depicting a WWI bi-plane. Letter folded thrice for mailing, else fine. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Book ID: 53639More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
201 ARABIC VERBS FULL CONJUGATED IN ALL THE FORMS
Woodbury, NY: Barron's, 1978. Octavo
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 54484More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66