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By: N/A
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Aberdeen, Association for Scottish Literary Studies: 1992
Seller ID: 006867
Contains essays by David Reid, Valentina Bold, Susan Bennett, Tony Lopez, and David S. Robb. 60 pages, including Notes. Impressions, smudging, moderate general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Aberdeen, Association for Scottish Literary Studies: 1991
Seller ID: 006869
Edited by Murray Pittock and Thom Nairn. A wide range of reviews and criticism. 61 pages, rubbing/moderate handling wear, some smudging to back cover. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Aberdeen, Association for Scottish Literary Studies: 1991
Seller ID: 006871
Contains essays by Derick S. Thomson, David Groves, Beth Dickson, and Alan Riach. 70 pages, illustrated. Rubbing, moderate handling wear, smudging to back cover, mild wrinkling (from dampness) to top. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Aberdeen, Association for Scottish Literary Studies: 1992
Seller ID: 006872
Nineteen essays and reviews by a wide variety of contributors. 45 pages. Some rubbing, smudging to back cover, light general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Aberdeen, Association for Scottish Literary Studies: 1992
Seller ID: 006876
look at Scottish literary accomplishments for 1988 (and since it took almost four years to get this thing published, there are, presumably, a lot of 'em). 70 pages, including Errata. Moderate general wear, smudging to back cover. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Aberdeen, Association for Scottish Literary Studies: 1987
Seller ID: 007243
Contains eight essays looking at what was accomplished in Scottish literature, in a variety of categories. The title page claims this one was edited by J.H. Alexander, while the copyright page gives credit to Carol Anderson, thus it is presumed that Alexander edited this specific issue, while Anderson edited the series. 56 pages. Moderate general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Aberdeen, Association for Scottish Literary Studies: 1992
Seller ID: 007244
Four essays, one each by A.M. Kinghorn, Frank Jordan, Graeme A. Muirhead, Edmund Stegmaier. 60 pages. 2 short creases at left edge of front cover, moderate general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Ottawa, National Library of Canada: 1984
Seller ID: 010250
Published as part of a 1984 New Brunswick bicentenary exhibition featuring a representative sample of the province's writers and their work. Text in English and French in parallel columns, covering a variety of forms and genres, from writers as diverse as Alden Nowlan, David Adams Richards, Mary Grannan, Nancy Bauer, Bliss Carman, and many others. Stapled wraps, 72 pages, illustrated. Rubbed/scratched covers, moderate edgewear, Legislative Library date stamp on title ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Baghdad, Republic of Iraq (External Information Department, Ministry of Culture and Information): 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013333
An Iraqi publication (in English) condeming Iran's "political, military and media aggression on Iraq. This dossier presents a nearly comprehensive coverage of statements made by Iranian officials since the downfall of the Shahinshahi regime and the control of power by Khumeini in February 1974. It shows open threats to Iraq and the Arab Gulf countries, open enmity to the revolutionary system in Iraq, and attacks on Arabs, Arabism, and Arab nationality." 197 pages... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Toronto, Paramount/Gulf + Western:
Edition: Canadian edition
Seller ID: 013580
No date (circa 1979). A catalogue of movies for organizations and film programmers. Divided into numerous categories, including comedies, musicals, sf, war, women in film, blacks in film, foreign films, literary adaptations, and many others. Each film listing details the director, producer, screenwriter and stars, and gives a synopsis of the plot, as well as a photograph of a scene from the movie. 271 pages (including lists of Academy Award Nominations and Winners, and a... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Whitstable, Astrian Marketing Services Limited:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013602
No date [1984]. A publication chattily detailing the travels of Diana in 1983, and playing up her personal growth and accomplishments as she settled into the third year of her role as princess. 48 pages, profusely illustrated w/dozens of colour photographs, inside covers feature line drawings by Dennis Hallam. Impressions, moderate general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Vancouver, Workmen's Compensation Board: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015001
Contains British Columbia Workmen's Compensation Act (1950) regulations pertaining to the logging industry, listed alphabetically by title, with regulation number. Also contains the logging-engine signals, which were used before radios. 57 pages followed by several unused Notes pages. Tiny soil mark to bottom left corner of front wrap, light edge/handling wear, light tanning. (C/BT) View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, R.G. Dun & Co.: 1907
Seller ID: 015561
A journal of international trade, featuring numerous articles on a variety of matters related to the subject, and containing probably two hundred advertisements for products of all kinds. 108 pages, illustrated. Edgewear, short edge tears, light chipping, 3" separation at bottom left front cover, 1"+ separation to top left back cover, 1.5" diagonal tear to top edge of back cover, spine paper missing from top and bottom, dampstaining to back cover. Internal... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Oslo, Norway Travel Association: 1950
Seller ID: 015565
Folded colour map opens to measure approximately 57 cm. x 75 cm. (outer edge to outer edge). Sixteen black-and-white photographs on reverse depict a variety of scenic areas from the listed counties, with accompanying text (in Norwegian). Light general wear. (C/BT) View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Oslo, Norway Travel Association: 1950
Seller ID: 015566
Folded colour map opens to measure approximately 75 cm. x 41.5 cm. (outer edge to outer edge). Twelve black-and-white photographs on reverse depict a variety of scenic and urban areas from the listed counties, with accompanying text (in Norwegian). Light general wear. (C/BT) View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Oslo, Norway Travel Association: 1956
Seller ID: 015567
Folded colour map opens to measure approximately 54.5 cm. x 93 cm. (outer edge to outer edge). Twenty black-and-white photographs on reverse depict a variety of scenic and urban views of the fjord country, with accompanying text (in Norwegian). Light general wear. (C/BT) View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Oslo, Norway Travel Association: 1957
Seller ID: 015568
Folded colour map opens to measure approximately 72 cm. x 55.5 cm. (outer edge to outer edge). Fifteen black-and-white photographs on reverse depict a variety of scenic and urban views of Telemark and the south coast of Norway, with accompanying text (in Norwegian). Light general wear. (C/BT) View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Concord, American Journal of Nursing Company: 1930
Seller ID: 015635
Edited by Mary M. Roberts. First published in 1900, AJN is "the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world." Single issues from this era are uncommon. This issue contains a variety of articles and features, including "The Nurse and the Public," "A Layman Looks at Private Duty," "Teaching Students Mental Hygiene," and "An Experiment in Segregating Nursing Orders." Also contains advertisements, editorials and info... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Concord, American Journal of Nursing Company: 1934
Seller ID: 015636
Edited by Mary M. Roberts. First published in 1900, AJN is "the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world." Single issues from this era are uncommon. This issue contains a variety of articles and features, including "Cirrhosis of the Liver," "Technic of Taking Blood Pressure," "Extra-curricular Activities," and "Time Study of Head Nurse Activities." Also contains advertisements, editorials and information speci... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Concord, American Journal of Nursing Company: 1934
Seller ID: 015637
Edited by Mary M. Roberts. First published in 1900, AJN is "the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world." Single issues from this era are uncommon. This issue contains a variety of articles and features, including "State Responsibility for Nursing Education," "Early Discovery of Tuberculosis," "Endemic Pellagra, and "Care and Treatment of Burns." Also contains advertisements, editorials and information specific t... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Concord, American Journal of Nursing Company: 1933
Seller ID: 015638
Edited by Mary M. Roberts. First published in 1900, AJN is "the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world." Single issues from this era are uncommon. This issue contains a variety of articles and features, including "Psittacosis," "An Experiment in Hourly Nursing," "Nursing the Pernicious Anemia Patient," and "The Value of Chemistry." Also contains advertisements, editorials and information specific to the nurs... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Concord, American Journal of Nursing Company: 1933
Seller ID: 015639
Edited by Mary M. Roberts. First published in 1900, AJN is "the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world." Single issues from this era are uncommon. This issue contains a variety of articles and features, including "Oxygen Therapy," "A New Type of Nursing Unit," and "The Patient Goes Home." Also contains advertisements, editorials and information specific to the nursing profession. Pages 187-302 plus 60 pages of adve... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Concord, American Journal of Nursing Company: 1933
Seller ID: 015640
Edited by Mary M. Roberts. First published in 1900, AJN is "the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world." Single issues from this era are uncommon. This issue contains a variety of articles and features, including "Communicable Diseases," "Medical Asepsis," "Nursing--Just Nursing," and "Postgraduate Education--Old and New." Also contains advertisements, editorials and information specific to the nursing profe... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Concord, American Journal of Nursing Company: 1934
Seller ID: 015641
Edited by Mary M. Roberts. First published in 1900, AJN is "the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world." Single issues from this era are uncommon. This issue contains a variety of articles and features, including "Fever Reducing," "Relief Employment," "Florence Nightingale International Foundation," "Undulant Fever," and "Building a Library." Also contains advertisements, editorials and information s... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Concord, American Journal of Nursing Company: 1935
Seller ID: 015642
Edited by Mary M. Roberts. First published in 1900, AJN is "the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world." Single issues from this era are uncommon. This issue contains a variety of articles and features, including "Nursing in Neurosurgery," "Fatigue as it Affects Nursing," "The Eight-Hour Day," "Curriculum Revision." Also contains advertisements, editorials and information specific to the nursing profession. ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Concord, American Journal of Nursing Company: 1935
Seller ID: 015643
Edited by Mary M. Roberts. First published in 1900, AJN is "the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world." Single issues from this era are uncommon. This issue contains a variety of articles and features, including "What Every Obstetrical Supervisor Should Know," "Modern Methods in Psychiatry," "Graduate Nurse in Hospital Service," and "Our Clinical Services." Also contains advertisements, editorials and infor... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Concord, American Journal of Nursing Company: 1936
Seller ID: 015644
Edited by Mary M. Roberts. First published in 1900, AJN is "the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world." Single issues from this era are uncommon. This issue contains a variety of articles and features, including "Arthritis," "Occupational Therapy in Arthritis," "Nursing Care or Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients," "Medical Social Service," and "New Entrance Requirements." Also contains advertisements, ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fredericton, The Saint John River Basin Board: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015718
Report/Summary S5. Deals with a variety of subjects concerning water use in the Saint John River Basin. 46 pages, typescript. Mild edgewear, light cover soil, a bit of mustiness. Quite uncommon. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fredericton, The Saint John River Basin Board: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015719
Report/Summary S9. Deals with a variety of subjects concerning the use of water for mineral development in the Saint John River Basin. 22 pages, typescript, 2 fold-out maps. Mild edgewear, light cover soil, a bit of mustiness. Quite uncommon. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fredericton, The Saint John River Basin Board: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015720
Report/Summary S11, based on a report by Peter A. Lewell. Deals with a variety of subjects related to the production of potato starch in the Saint John River Basin. 15 pages, typescript. Abrasions/scrapes/scratches to top left corners, light cover soil, a bit of mustiness. Quite uncommon. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company/International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1910
Edition: 2nd edition
Seller ID: 016021
An uncommon item from the I.C.S. home study course. 27 pages + 2 pages of examination questions, illustrated, fold-out diagram. Moderate general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company/International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1910
Edition: 2nd edition
Seller ID: 016022
677. An uncommon item from the I.C.S. home study course, the instructions applying "to freight trains of fifty cars or less, the engine of which has only one pump and moderate main-reservoir capacity and is equipped with the G-6 brake valve or a brake valve antedating this valve." 39 pages + 3 pages of examination questions. Moderate general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company/International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1910
Edition: Revised edition
Seller ID: 016047
676 A and 676 B. A pair of uncommon items from the I.C.S. home study course. Part 1: 24 pages + 2 pages of examination questions. Part 2: 38 pages + 2 pages of examination questions. Part 1 is lightly soiled, w/mild dampstaining. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company/International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1916
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016048
1586. An uncommon-in-first-edition item from the I.C.S. home study course, containing instructions and general information for those who have enrolled in one of the school's programs. 22 pages (including index). Moderate soil, faint diagonal crease, general handling wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company/International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016049
696. An uncommon item from the I.C.S. home study course. 26 pages + 2 pages of examination questions. Moderate general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1911
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016051
#1292. An uncommon item issued by the I.C.S. home study course. 36 pages + 2 pages of examination questions, illustrated w/colour and b&w drawings. Key to the Colour Plates page bound in at front. A couple of abrasions to back cover, moderate handling wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1905
Edition: 2nd edition
Seller ID: 016057
#679. An uncommon item issued by the I.C.S. home study course. 21 pages + 2 pages of examination questions, illustrated. Some dampstaining, moderate handling wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1912
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016058
#1294. An uncommon item issued by the I.C.S. home study course. 49 pages + 4 pages of examination questions. Some dampstaining to fore-edges, moderate handling wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1911
Edition: 2nd edition
Seller ID: 016061
#698 B. A scarce booklet issued by the I.C.S. home study course. 48 pages + 2 pages of examination questions, illustrated. Edgewear, short edge creases, smudging/soil, some dampstaining near back, covers beginning to pull from staples. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.:
Edition: 2nd editions
Seller ID: 016063
#s 695 A, 695 B, 695 C. Three very scarce booklets issued by the I.C.S. home study course. Part 1: (1910), 59 pages + 3 pages of examination questions, illustrated. VG w/moderate handling wear. Part 2: (1920), 53 pages + 2 pages of examination questions, illustrated. G w/light smudging, 1.5" x 1.5" piece torn from top edge of front cover, moderate handling wear. Part 3: (1920), 37 pages (continues pagination from Part 2, thus 55 through 91) + 2 pages of ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.:
Edition: 2nd edition
Seller ID: 016067
# 695 A. A scarce booklet issued by the I.C.S. home study course. (1910), 59 pages + 3 pages of examination questions, illustrated. Cover soil, uneven 1/2" tear to fore-edge, light internal soil, handling wear. (C/BR) View more info
By: N/A
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1911
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016069
#1291. A very scarce booklet issued by the I.C.S. home study course. 31 pages + 1 page of examination questions, illustrated in colour and b&w. Light dampstaining to top, light edgewear, .25" separations to top and bottom spine, mild general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.:
Edition: 2nd edition
Seller ID: 016070
#678. A very scarce booklet issued by the I.C.S. home study course. (1910), 40 pages + 2 pages of examination questions, illustrated. Light dampstaining to bottom, light handling wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016071
#1293. A very scarce booklet issued by the I.C.S. home study course. (1912), 65 pages + 3 pages of examination questions, illustrated. Dampstaining, covers partially pulled from staples, spine separations, handling wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S.:
Edition: 2nd edition
Seller ID: 016073
#700 A. A scarce booklet issued by the I.C.S. home study course, dealing with the breakdowns of locomotive engines. (1905), 64 pages + 3 pages of examination questions, illustrated. A couple of .75" edge tears to covers, previous owner's complicated mathematical calculation to left edge of front cover, small chip to bottom left corner of front cover, moderate handling wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Commission of Conservation Canada: 1916
Seller ID: 016379
"Report of Conference of Civic Improvement League of Canada held in co-operation with the Commission of Conservation in the Railway Committee Room, House of Commons, Ottawa, January 20th, 1916." 73 pages (including list of delegates). Moderate corner wear, light edgewear, some staining to back cover, some tanning. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Department of National Revenue, Succession Duty Branch (Edmond Cloutier, printer): 1941
Seller ID: 016381
Issued "for the guidance of persons concerned with the application of the Act." 95 pages (including index). Just moderate general wear. (C/BT) View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: No Place, Canadian National Railway/CNR: 1951
Seller ID: 016672
Contains the 1951 rates of pay and rules for the CNR's "STEAM LINES, ATLANTIC AND CENTRAL REGIONS'(Excluding Newfoundland District)/All Lines East of Armstrong and Port Arthur/excluding Lines in New England, United/States & Canada Railroad, Champlain/& St. Lawrence Railroad, and/St. Clair Tunnel Company." Also contains the 1959 and 1961 revised rates of pay and rules, which are attached to the whole with a folding metal clamp at rear. Previous owner's name to t... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Capcon / Udon: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016681
The instruction manual (in English, Spanish and French) for the controller for the popular Street Fighter game. (Quite possibly the most intriguting instruction is, "Please do not wrap the cord around any part of anyone's body." David Carradine and Vaughn Bode would have had no interest in the controller.) Flip side contains a comic book. Light general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Stockholm, Tidens Forlag: 1934
Seller ID: 016756
Text in Swedish. Red cloth w/gilt lettering/illustration, map end papers, 258 pages + advertisements, colour fold-out of world flags, illustrated. Notes pages unused. Cloth pencil holder attached to rear cover. Minor wear to corners/spine ends, minor dampstaining, previous owner's inscription, minor sunning to covers. (C/BT) View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Brooklyn, Intertype Corporation: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016803
Contains chapters on the assembling, casting, distributing and magazine frame mechanisms. 473 pages (including index), illustrated. Tanned/lightly soiled edges, previous owner's name on front end paper, light general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, G.W. Bacon & Co.:
Seller ID: 017030
No date (circa late 1920s). Contains 49-page (+ several pages of advertisements) booklet ("Strangers' Guide to London") attached to inside front cover, and a large, full-colour fold-out map. Significant general wear to cloth, booklet intact and clean, tape repair to map by previous owner. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Brooklyn, Intertype Corporation:
Seller ID: 017068
The first two of four volumes dealing with basic mechanisms of the Intertype casting and composing machine. 40, 226 pages, respectively, including indices, illustrated. Edgewear, smudging, soil. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, John Bartholomew & Co. / Edinburgh Geographical Institute: 1914
Seller ID: 017071
A full-colour folding map showing European borders at the beginning of World War 1. Map is dissected (eighteen sections) mounted on gauze, and measures 23.5" high x 35.25" wide. Black cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover. Covers w/light scuffing to cloth, bumped/moderately worn corners/spine ends, half-inch separation to bottom right spine edge, light fraying. Map has moderate general wear, w/light soil to backing, previous owner's eight-line pencil notation... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: No Place, The Business Educators' Association of Canada:
Seller ID: 017348
A collection of examination papers for a variety of subjects, including shorthand, typing, penmanship, correspondence, applied English, bookkeeping, arithmetic, spelling and more. Uncommon. Unpaginated. Light soil, turned bottom corners, 1.5" separation to bottom right spine edge, 1" separation to bottom left spine edge, a couple of short edge tears, creased corners, general wear. Internally tight. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Ottawa, No publisher (Printed by Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery): 1969
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 017360
Course notes for Royal Canadian Navy marine engineering technicians, "checked and reprinted August 1969." In six sections: Introduction and Principles; Construction -- Stationary Parts; Construction -- Moving Parts; Engine Systems; Controls and Transmissions; and Operations and Trials. Typescript, 183 pages, illustrated. Cover scuffing, faint creasing to top left corner of front cover, pencil impressions to top right corner (erasure of previous owner's name),... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Ottawa, No publisher (Printed by Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery): 1962
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 017361
Course notes for Royal Canadian Navy engineering mechanics. Contains instructions on diesel principles, engine operation, engine parts, the fuel supply and injection systems, fuels and lubricants, cooling systems, and much more. Typescript, 50 pages, illustrated. Light surface scuffing, a bit of cover smudging. Uncommon. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Smith News Co.:
Seller ID: 017557
No date (circa mid-1930s). A souvenir post card booklet containing a folding set of 18 full-colour photographs of scenes and people in and around San Francisco's Chinatown district. Scenes include the annual dragon parade, the Chinese Telephone Exchange, charming Chinese girls, Chinatown at night, and so on. The booklet is unaddressed, w/a bit of edge and corner wear. Scenes are NF. An uncommon item. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Sotheby's: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017640
Catalogue 6424 (aka Triumph), advertising the May 21, 1993, auction of what is quite possibly the most important piece of Americana there is: the first printing, first state, of John Dunlap's broadside, The Declaration of Independence. Contains much detail on the history of the document and its preparation, as well as a list of extant copies elsewhere. Folded facsimile of the document bound in. Light edgewear, tiny soil marks to covers, minor smudging to back cover, ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $45.00
Publisher: London, "The Electrician" Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd.: 1891
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017871
A title from the publisher's series intended "to briefly describe in simple and correct language the present state of electrical knowledge." Gilt titles, advertising on end papers, 126 pages + advertisers' page + 15-page catalogue of other titles available from the publisher, illustrated. Worn corners, scraped spine, hinges beginning, light internal soil, slits to spine edges, general wear. Uncommon in first edition. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Sussex, Kings County Retired Teachers' Association: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017942
Contains a wealth of information on the 180 schools amd 15 parishes in Kings County, New Brunswick, much of it written by former teachers who describe their experiences in the profession. 272 pages, including indices. Internally tight and clearn, w/only mild general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Halifax, Students of Dalhousie University: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017994
The 1930 edition of Dalhousie University's yearbook, containing the usual yearbook stuff. 200 pages, including advertisements. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, light cover wear, moderate general wear. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Fredericton, University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick: 1943
Seller ID: 018011
Contains articles on flora introduced to the neighbourhood of Windsor, N.S., the history of plum culture in New Brunswick, Part I of a 4-part series on New Brunswick's moss flora, the golden-winged woodpecker, lead-zinc-silver ore in Reserve Brook, and more. Red wraps, pages 51-86, illustrated w/2 figures. Light general wear. Internally tight. Scarce. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Fredericton, University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick: 1944
Seller ID: 018013
Contains articles on the spread of the beech scale (an insect introduced into the Maritimes), a list of flora introduced into the neighbourhood of Windsor, N.S., the birds found on a small area of Fredericton, N.B., the use of Fucus Vesiculosis and Fucus Nodosus as fertilizer, a Japanese beetle outbreak in Halifax, Part III of a 4-part series on New Brunswick's moss flora, and more. Red wraps, pages 137-194, two in-text maps. Faded wraps, light general wear. Internall... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Fredericton, University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick: 1945
Seller ID: 018014
Contains articles on forest insects of Newfoundland, plutonic rocks of the Musquash area, wild plants as a source of carotene, skunk removal, repairing fractured deer bones, Part IV of a four-part series on New Brunswick's moss flora, lepidoptera taken in and near Fredericton, the James S. Lord collection of birds' eggs, and more. Red wraps, pages 1-80, illustrated. Light general wear. Internally tight. Scarce. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Fredericton, University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick: 1946
Seller ID: 018015
Contains articles on the biological reconnaissance of ponds in the P.E.I. national park, green-gilled clams and bivalves on P.E.I., using flight traps in studying aphid movement, the rock vole in New Brunswick, Jefferson's salamander on P.E.I., and more. Contributors include M.W. Smith, C.J. Kerswill, R.P. Gorham, F.C. Hirtle, C.C. Smith, Blythe Hurst, and Herbert Habeeb. Red wraps, pages 81-122, illustrated. Faded wraps (although every copy of this issue I've ever se... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Aberdeen, Aberdeen Historical Society (printed by Friesen Printers): 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017451
The history of a small Saskatchewan community, containing information on groups, businesses and people, with 160 pages of family histories, hundreds of photographs, and a number of recipes. Red cloth w/gilt illustration/spine lettering, 307 pages. Some spine slant, light corner wear, light general wear. A nice copy. This item weighs more than the average book, so additional postage may be required. View more info
By: Airhart, Phyllis D., Marilyn J. Legge, Gary L. Redcliffe (editors)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017458
Contains twelve essays honouring a noted ethicist and educator. The essays include "Roger Hutchinson as Ethicist and Educator in an Age of Religious Pluralism" (C. Douglas Jay), "The Church and Pluralism in Quebec: An Account of a Participant (Gregory Baum), "Karl Barth on Divine Command: A Jewish Response (David Novak), "Not Moral Heroes: The Grace of God and the Church's Public Voice" (Harold Wells), "'O Day of God, Draw Nigh': R.B.Y. S... View more info
By: Aiton, Miss Grace, James M. Thomson, Anne Mills, and Mrs. Winnifred Conrad Thomson
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Sussex, Privately Published (printed by Maritime Publishing Ltd.): 1978
Edition: 1st thus
Seller ID: 017475
Section 1, covering the church's history until 1947, was written that year by Aiton, and Section II, updating it to 1977, was written in 1978 by Thomson, Mills and Thomson. 111 pages, illustrated. Light general wear. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed & Dated by Alecson, on front end paper
Seller ID: 016841
The story of Alecson's perfectly formed baby girl, born "with massive irreversible brain damage" from oxygen deprivation while in the womb, and the subsequent moral and legal battle by the parents to let their baby die rather than be kept alive through technological means. Uncommon signed. Pink boards w/cream cloth backstrip, silver spine lettering, 207 pages (including selected bibliography and list of resources for parents). Moderate general wear, light soil... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Aberdeen, Association for Scottish Literary Studies/University of Aberdeen: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 007045
The 22nd title in the publisher's series of annuals devoted to the study, teaching and writing of Scottish literature, this one a selection from the seventy-one primarily imaginary conversations set in William Ambrose's Edinburgh taverns, and printed in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1822 until 1835. The individuals engaging in these imaginary conversations include James Hogg, Byron, and Thomas De Quincey. This selection "includes four complete noctes, one com... View more info
By: Alleyne, Warren
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Bridgetown, Barbados National Trust: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016584
Alleyne offers historical information about the capital city of the Barbados, much of it not generally known prior to this publication. 117 pages, including index, illustrated. Some rubbing, a few impressions, previous owner's name to top of title page. An uncommon title. View more info
By: Andresen, Lembit
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Tallinn, Eesti Raamat: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed & Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016009
Text in Estonian. B.G. (Bengt Gottfried) Forselius was a 17th-century Estonian educator who introduced a number of educational innovations, among them the creation of a spelling system that simplified both the teaching and learning of Estonian. An uncommon title, and if you can read Estonian, you can be the envy of everyone on your block. Navy leatherette w/gold lettering to front cover/spine, 116 pages. This copy inscribed on reverse of first end paper (my Estonian ... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Waterville, Class of 1930, Colby College: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017992
Your average yearbook, containing the expected information about the usual assortment of people and subjects. 208 pages, including advertisements. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, scuffed/scratched covers, dusty/tanned edges, previous owner's name/society association (one Hope R. Pullen, Chi Omega '31) to front pastedown), light soil, moderate general wear. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Toronto, British News Agency:
Seller ID: 010462
nd (ca. 1921); contains information and illustrations revealing the secrets of performing dozens of magic tricks, including illusions, stage magic, parlor magic, party stunts, sleight of hand, and more; although undated, an article makes reference to Johnny Coulon who "for several months has been interesting the French public with his remarkable demonstrations."; a little Net research unearths the fact that Coulon was in Paris in the autumn of 1920, before showin... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $250.00
Publisher: London, privately published (printed by Sanders Phillips & Co. at the Bayard Press): 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014296
A very uncommon and decidedly unusual blend of philosophy and theology, explained as "the new conception of Christianity and of world religions (acceptable to this New Age) to be applied in practical form to every-day life as from this Year of Grace 1938." This "dynamic philosophy of life" was begun in 1934, but its publication delayed until a number of "eventualities--which are of major importance to the public mind on this New Year's Day 1938--were ... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. No. 3: 1958
Edition: 1st thus
Seller ID: 016461
Dreams explained by subject, in alphabetical order. 144 pages. Light general wear. Uncommon in a jacket. View more info
By: Anonymous (Author of 'The Lathe and Its Uses,' 'The Amateur Mechanic's Workshop,' &c
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1888
Edition: American edition
Seller ID: 017926
A book from Putnam's The Boy with an Idea Series, and as the title suggests, intended for young mechanics, "and many others who wish to become versed in the practical use of tools." Green cloth w/gilt illustration/black decoration/rule to front cover, gilt lettering/designs to spine, 346 pages + 16 pages of listings for other Putnam's titles, illustrated. Bumped/worn/frayed corners/spine ends, edge soil, library markings to spine, library pocket/writing to fron... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Summerside, Wm. Chas. Archibald:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017040
No date (circa 1916). Contains: an address by Archibald (a consulting landscape architect with Earnscliffe Gardens Nurseries in Wolfville, Nova Scotia) delivered to the mayor and councillors of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on January 10, 1916; an excerpt from The Charlottetown Guardian newspaper reporting on the address; and a piece dealing with Summerside and its potential for proper landscaping. 16 pages (including advertisement), illustrated w/two photograp... View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Lawrence, Quarterman Publications: 1976
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 018064
Considered an authoritative philatelic reference. Blue cloth w/silver cover/spine lettering, [xiv], 223 pages (including appendixes [sic], index), illustrated. Previous owner's name/date to front end paper, moderate general wear, in dust jacket w/some chipping, edge tears, rubbing, impressions. This is heavier than the average title, so additional postage will likely be required. (C/IT) View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cambridge, South End Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 008436
Canadian printing. A collection of essays calling for an end to the sanctions against Iraq. "We think the price is worth it." -- Madeleine Albright, when asked if the deaths of half a million Iraqi children due to the sanctions could be justified. Essayists include Ali Abunimah, Dr. Huda S. Ammash, Anthony Arnove, Naseer Aruri, Barbara Nimri Aziz, David Barsamian, Phyllis Bennis, George Capaccio, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Denis J. Halliday, Kathy Kelly, Rania... View more info
By: Astle, David
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Toronto, Privately Published (printed by Harmony Printing Ltd.): 1975
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Astle
Seller ID: 017725
From comments, on the front flap, by Paul A. Gwinner: "In this scholarly work, true-born Anglo-Saxon David Astle, stylist in the greatest traditions of his people, has presented to the world a history of the effects of monetary mechanics in very ancient times, with emphasis on Ethno-psychology." Astle has signed this copy twice (once beneath his name on the title page, and again beneath a poem page v). Black cloth w/gilt lettering/design to front cover, gilt s... View more info
By: Baird, Frank, general editor
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Fredericton, T. Amos Wilson: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018072
An official centennial publication for New Brunswick's capital city, covering all aspects of the city's development and history. 265 pages, illustrated. A bit of edgewear, light general wear. A very nice copy. View more info
By: Balch, R.E. (Reginald Ernest)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Toronto, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/CBC Learning Systems: 1971
Edition: 3rd impression
Inscription: Signed by Balch
Seller ID: 013215
"Contains the texts of five half-hour radio lectures first broadcast on CBC University of the Air during the spring of 1965." The author loaned this book to his local M.P., and after underlining 1965 in the portion quoted above, has written in pencil, "Out of date but of some historical interest. Esp. Ch 1 and up to aerial spraying. Would write differently today ('83). Reg." Further, on page 27 the author has underlined (again in pencil) "resurgence i... View more info
By: Barger, Sonny
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Collins: 2005
Edition: Uncorrected Proof
Seller ID: 015326
The well-known Hells Angel/outlaw philosopher/convicted felon/iconoclast offers "a provocative guide to leadership, survival, and success." Uncommon in this edition. 212 pages. An unread copy, internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Barker, Terry
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Dewdney, Synaxis Press: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed and signed by Barker, on title page
Seller ID: 017796
In a collection of essays Barker "provides not only an insider's commentary on the tradition of People's Poetry in Canadian literature, but in addition a learned discussion of the various philosophies and religious perspectives, esoteric and orthodox, that gave rise to it." Inscription reads: "For Dr. Michael Higgins,/with many thanks for the/encouragement to continue writing/that your favourable personal/review gave me./With very/good luck/Terry Barker/Mar... View more info
By: Baruch, Elaine Hoffman, Amadeo F. D'Adamo, Jr., and Joni Seager (editors)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York & London, The Haworth Press: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013078
"Rewritten and updated papers presented at two conferences held in New York and Massachusetts in Nov. 1985." Grey cloth w/black rule/lettering, 259 pages. A hint of general wear. A very nice copy. View more info
By: Beer, Elisabeth und Elrich
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Katzmann-Verlag Tubingen: 1965
Seller ID: 008167
text in German; 132 pgs.; sunned spine, moderate general wear; View more info
By: Bell, Andrew
Price: $1,250.00
Publisher: London, J. Murray, Cadell and Davies, Rivingtons, Hatchard, and Archibald Constable: 1808
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017931
Bell, a Scottish educator and ordained Church of England priest, describes and promotes his system of education in which smarter children are taught in the usual fashion, then given the responsibility of teaching throse who are a wee bit slower on the uptake (sort of like an educational pyramid scheme, or Amway for teachers). Library rebind in tan cloth w/leatherette spine/corners, untrimmed edges, replaced pastedowns/end papers, pp. i-xvi (including errata), 1-348. Li... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Fredericton, South Devon Publishing: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018158
"A biographical index of those who are buried, or plan to be buried, at Forest Hill Cemetery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada." A comprehensive index, arranged alphabetically by surname. Contains a wealth of information of interest to historians and genealogists. 247 pages, including an index of the maiden names of wives and mothers, plus the surnames of other spouses, of the subjects of each entry. Light cover soil, light handling wear. Internally tight ... View more info
By: Blanshard, Paul
Price: $17.00
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011898
An American trade unionist details those things about the British labour movement which most interest him. Introduction by Arthur Henderson (allegedly the Right Honorable). Green cloth w/black lettering to front cover and spine, 174 pages (including the great events of British labor history, what to read, and ,ndex). Bumped/moderately worn corners/spine ends, dusty/lightly soiled edges, previous owner's name magic-markered out on front pastedown and front free end paper,... View more info
By: Boone, Weldon
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Parsons, McClain Printing Company: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016084
Boone gives "an account of the development of botany in West Virginia, with its beginning years before the State was formed and continuing up to the present." Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 196 pages (including index), illustrated. (C/BT) View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Sackville, Mount Allison University: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016813
The 1956 Josiah Wood Lecture, delivered at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Maroon cloth w/university crest in gilt to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, 70 pages, frontispiece of Josiah Wood (protected by tissue guard). Light wear to corners/spine ends, gilt faded. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Brinkley, Dannion, with Paul Perry
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollinsPublishers/HarperCollins/Harper Collins: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016470
Foreword by James Redfield. This copy signed, on dedication page, by Brinkley. Purple boards w/black cloth backstrip, gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 208 pages. Remainder stripe across bottom edge, tanned edges, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions, light edgewear. View more info
By: Burrell, Barbara
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York & London, Garland Publishing Inc.: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016319
Volume I in the publisher's Women in American Politics series. Pictorial boards, grey cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 162 pages (including references, index), illustrated w/graphs. Moderate general wear. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Euros Publications: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed & Numbered by Author
Seller ID: 017819
A limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is #88. The daughter of Lois Sybil Harrington and Edward Winslow-Spragge presents a collection of their correspondence during the years 1908-1950. Green cloth w/gilt lettering/illustration to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, 344 pages (including place index), illustrated with etchings and fold-outs. A very nice copy w/light soil to bottom edge, and a hint of a suggestion of light general wear. View more info
By: Calder, John
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Renfrewshire, The Princess Louise Scottish Hospital (Erskine Hospital): 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 007272
The story of a hospital which cares for the broken and maimed bodies of war vets, many of whom were never able to resume normal lives. Foreword by Prince Charles. 82 pages, illustrated. Previous owner's name/address on inside front cover, gift inscription on title page, moderate general wear. View more info
By: Cameron, Donald
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada:
Inscription: Inscribed & Signed by Cameron, on half-title
Seller ID: 013726
Cameron interviews/chats with ten Canadian writers: Ernest Buckler, Roch Carrier, Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley, Harold Horwood, Robert Kroetsch, Margaret Laurence, Jack Ludwig, Hugh MacLennan, and David Lewis Stein. A brief biography and bibliography follows the interview with each writer. 159 pages, illustrated. General wear, idiot previous owner's underlining/marginalia to parts of Hugh MacLennan interview. View more info
By: Campbell, Brian, w/A.J.B. Johnston
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Sydney, University College of Cape Breton Press: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Campbell & Johnston, on title page
Seller ID: 017599
A publication in honour of the Sydney and Louisburg Railway's one hundredth anniversary in 1995. 110 pages (including sources/bibliography), illustrated. Light edgewear, a bit of sunning, moderate general wear. View more info
By: Campbell, Eugene C., Ellen A. Wright, and G.S. d'Avray Bailey Jr. (edited by Michael O. Nowlan)
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Oromocto, Oromocto and Area Heritage Committee: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015423
A history of the houses of the small community of Oromocto, New Brunswick, prior to the arrival of the Canadian military at CFB Gagetown in the early 1950s. Photocopied typescript, unpaginated, illustrated w/numerous photographs. Laid-in photocopied hand-drawn plan shows location of all the town’s houses in 1950. Photocopy is on two 8&1/2 x 11 sheets of paper. Soil to covers, smudging, tape pull to top right portion of front cover (does not interfere with cover let... View more info
By: Capek, Karel
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1939
Edition: 1st US edition
Seller ID: 015006
The author "travelled north beyond the Arctic Circle because he wanted to see at last the lands of his boyish dreams, and of his life-long friends, Kierkegaard, Jacobsen, and the others, and also because the silvery and cool birch trees, the aconites, the moss, and the sparkling waters appeal to him strongly." Yellow cloth w/mauve foil spine lettering, 269 pages. Moderate wear to edges/corners, some foxing to edges/end papers, light tanning, in edgeworn dust ja... View more info
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 008015
Based on an analysis of interviews and field evidence, Carrington "demonstrates how gay and lesbian couples attempt to strike a balance between work and family obligations, and how they must also struggle against forces undermining their relationships." Gold cloth, 273 pages (including appendices, notes, references, index). Dust jacket w/a hint of wear. An unread copy. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Fredericton, The Associated Alumnae of the University of New Brunswick: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Cattley, on title page
Seller ID: 013230
A collection of Encaenia and Convocation citations given by Cattley at the University of New Brunswick, beginning with the May, 1949 Encaenia, and continuing through to that of May 1968. Inscription reads "In deep affection/Robert E.D. Cattley." 158 pages (including index), frontispiece. Moderate general wear. View more info
By: Charon, Milly
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Dunvegan, Quadrant Editions: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016593
A "collection of interviews, profiles, personal testimonies, essays and short stories giving a stark, and yet, evocative picture of immigrants, their lands of origin and their consequent resettlement in Canada." This copy signed by Charon ("Best Wishes--/Milly Charon"), on half-title. Red cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 326 pages (including bibliography, editor's note), illustrated. View more info
By: Child, John, David Faulkner, and Robert Pitkethly
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press / OUP: 2001
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 017180
The authors address "important areas of concern for managers and management researchers" when international aquisitions are made. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 255 pages (including references, index). A couple of gently bumped corners, bump to top edge, light general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/scratches/impressions, light edgewear. View more info
By: Clark, T.H.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Quebec, Province of Quebec, Department of Mines (printed by Redempti Paradis): 1952
Seller ID: 016603
Geological Report 46. Geological Report 46. Contains all maps and illustrations called for in the list of same. 159 pages (including bibliography, appendix, alphabetical index), three fold-out charts, sixteen pages of plates, four maps in rear pocket, on one of which (#791) is also printed Figure 5. Uncommon w/all the maps. About VG w/moderate edgewear, unobtrusive sticker pull to top right corner of front cover, thin crease to top right corner of front cover, sunnin... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Simon Spotlight Entertainment: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Clarke, on title page
Seller ID: 017969
"Contains original essays from a skillfully chosen crop of novelists and essayists" on the films of John Hughes, and the effects those films had on the writers' lives. Writers include Steve Almond, Julianna Baggott, Lisa Borders, Ryan Boudinot, T Cooper, Quinn Dalton, Emily Franklin, Lisa Gabriele, Tod Goldberg, Nina de Gramont, Tara Ison, Allison Lynn, John McNally, Dan Pope, Lewis Robinson, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Mary Sullivan, Rebecca Wolff, and Moon ... View more info
By: Cole, G.D.H.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Pelican A6: 1937
Edition: 2nd edition
Seller ID: 008342
256 pages. Scraping to edges, light soil, a couple of dog-earred corners, previous owner's name to top edge of title page, tanning. View more info
By: Cooney, Eleanor
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers/Harper Collins: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Cooney, on title page
Seller ID: 014230
1st printing w/complete number sequence. Cooney tells the story of "the slow erosion of her mother's mind, of the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink and despair." Brown and cream boards w/bronze spine lettering, 251 pages. Small area on front panel where sticker removal took a bit of finish with it. View more info
By: Cooper, Barry, and John Short (co-editors-in-chief)
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Fredericton, University of New Brunswick / UNB: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017653
Singer Anne Murray graduated from the University of New Brunswick, in Fredericton, in 1966, and this yearbook contains three pictures of her, one slightly blurry on page 88 that shows her singing her little heart out, one on page 150 where she poses with the 26-0 UNB Red Bloomers basketball team (she was manager), a third (her graduation picture) on page 238, and the fourth, on page 272 (a page of advertisements), showing her singing to guitar accompaniment. Red/black f... View more info
By: Craig, Helen C. (compiler)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Fredericton, Privately Published (printed by Provincial Artisans: 1982
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 017569
One of only 100 copies printed as "a tribute to the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scout Movement," detailing the list of "publications published in Canada by or about Canadian Boy Scouts, with the exception of such materials as record books and forms." Chapters include Books; French Language materials published by Boy Scouts of Canada; "Chins Up Fund" publications; Articles in magazines; Serial publications including magazines, annu... View more info
By: Craik, Robert
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Montreal, The Gazette Printing Company: 1907
Seller ID: 014996
A collection of addresses "published to perpetuate the memory of one who, during his whole medical life, was connected with the Medical Faculty of McGill University." Also included is Craik's graduation thesis, as well as "some addresses to nurses, in whose education and welfare he was much interested." Introduction by Francis J. Shepherd. Dark green cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 222 pages. Scuffed cloth, moderate wear to corners/spine ... View more info
By: Crawford, J.T.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada: 1945
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 013698
A title from the 'Macmillan's Canadian School Series', covering the material prescribed for entrance to Universities, and authorised for use in New Brunswick schools by the Department of Education. Red cloth w/black lettering, rule and decoration, 435 pages (including Answers to High School Algebra). Mild wear to corners/spine ends, Property of the New Brunswick Government stamp to front pastedown, previous owner's name/grade/school/date/age in pencil on front free end p... View more info
By: Creighton, Louise, Pam Daugavietis, Jan Dobson, Leslie Engelland, Lisa Greenberg, and Jane Lewis
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Riyadh, Sandscripts:
Inscription: Signed on title page, by Jane Lewis
Seller ID: 013214
No date. A collection of vignettes from "Western expatriate women who found comfort and support from each other at a unique time in their lives." 107 pages + My Impressions pages (blank), cover by Mubarak Ali. Rubbing, edgewear, a couple of dog-earred pages, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. Uncommon signed. View more info
By: Crowley, C.P.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Windsor, Assumption University of Windsor Press: 1960
Seller ID: 013965
"Twenty-six scripts of Radio Talks as Given on CBC" between October 30, 1959 and April 29, 1960, each dealing with one aspect or another of the human condition. 88 pages + Nihil Obstat/Imprimatur page and author biography. Light edgewear, deep scratch to middle of front cover, previous owner's name to inside front cover. Uncommon. View more info
By: Cuddy, Mary Lou, and James J. Scott (compilers)
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Vancouver, J.J. Douglas: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006201
Contains nearly 1,000 alphabetically-arranged entries codifying literature about the Canadian province of British Columbia. 144 pages (including Index), illustrated. Some slant, mildly sunned spine, some thin creasing, rubbing, moderate handling wear. View more info
By: Cumming, L.M.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources (Roger Duhamel, printer): 1966
Seller ID: 016611
Paper 65-29. 36 pages (including bibliography), illustrated. Missing one (of two) figures called for in rear pocket. Moderate general wear. Uncommon. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Markham, Fitzhenry & Whiteside: 1987
Edition: 2nd (Revised Edition)
Seller ID: 014233
"Fulfills a longstanding need, providing a glossary of architecture that is illustrated in a way that the layman can instantly understand." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 192 pages (including Bibliography, Acknowledgements). Remainder stripe across bottom edge, in lightly worn dust jacket. (C/BT) View more info
By: Dalton, Basil
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Pan T41: 1967
Edition: 1st Pan edition
Seller ID: 010587
originally published in 1948 by John Baker Publishers; an omnibus volume containing three books on Patience, by an authority on games and playing cards; contains "Single-Pack Patience," "Double-Pack Patience," and "Patience Problems and Puzzles"; 234 pgs.; mild spine roll, impressions, crosscrack, gift inscription to previous owner, tanned pages; View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: London, Stevens & Haynes Law Publishers: 1914
Edition: 6th and 4th editions
Seller ID: 016347
Prints in one volume two of Darling's earlier writings. Introduction by Edward Clarke. Grey boards w/brown cloth backstrip, black lettering/red rule to front cover/spine, 211 pages. A bit of slant, moderate wear to corners/spine ends, some discolouration to covers, dusty/lightly soiled edges, two previous owner's stamps (front pastedown and faintly to top of front end paper). View more info
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Dolphin C314: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011031
a guidebook intended to "take you to see practically everything worth seeing and show you where you can do practically everything worth doing" in some city or other in some country or other in Europe; 399 pgs., incl. Index, illustrated with maps and photographs; gentle vertical crease to front cover, some sunning to spine, moderate edgewear; View more info
By: Davey, Keith
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed & Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016966
A political memoir (so you have to read it with three grains of salt, and automatically consider discounting at least sixty per cent of it as self-serving rubbish) by a Canadian backroom guy once known as "the heart and soul of the Liberal Party," and who ran "more national election campaigns than anyone in North America." This copy inscribed and signed by Davey, on title page ("For Reg Porter/who has a generous son/K. Davey/Nov 4/86"). Black cl... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Signet AE5414: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004643
the author details the successful composition of letters for business or social purposes, including 275 model messages for anything your little heart might need, and includes sample formats for letters, envelopes, memos, cards, and more; 359 pgs., incl. Index; light general wear; internally tight and clean; View more info
By: Dean, Dicky
Price: $45.00
Publisher: No Place, Privately Published: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016380
Dean provides instructions for the use of magic as teaching aids in a variety of subject areas. 206 pages, illustrated. An uncommon magic book. This copy w/only moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Dean, Tom
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Kingston, Agnes Etherington Art Centre: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013817
Published in conjunction with a presentation of Dean's work at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre from June 10 through July 29, 1990. Curator Dorothy Farr contributes a Foreward, while guest curator Gregory Salzman offers an appreciation of the artist's work. Unpaginated. Light edgewear, shallow impressions, thick crease to top left corner of back cover, date stamp (probably a newspaper stamp, indicating date of receipt) to title page, light tanning to cheap paper. Interna... View more info
By: Delacourt, Susan
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed & signed by Delacourt, on title page
Seller ID: 015369
1st printing w/complete number sequence. The inside story "of Paul Martin's long campaign to become prime minister," a position he coveted "since before he first followed his father into politics in 1988." This copy inscribed and signed on title page. Inscription reads: "To Marc./Who knows more/than what's in these/pages./Susan." Black cloth w/silver foil spine lettering, 354 pages (including acknowledgements, index), illustrated. View more info
By: Denis, Armand
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Four Square 1913: 1967
Edition: 1st thus
Seller ID: 005399
A look at sex and morality in a variety of locales, including Algeria, Tahiti, Japan, China, and many others. Vertical crease down centre of front cover, rubbing, some impressions, previous owner's bookplate, moderate general wear. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Montmagny, Privately Published (printed and bound by Lingley Printing): 1982
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed/signed by Desjardins, on first end paper
Seller ID: 017719
French-language title. 144 pages, illustrated. Some rubbing, previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, moderate general wear. View more info
By: Donner, Jorn
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 1964
Edition: 1st Indiana University Press edition
Seller ID: 016415
Originally published in Sweden in 1962, and here translated by Holger Lundbergh. Donner "offers a perceptive evaluation of Bergman's work in films, analyzing his impact upon cinematic art in general and surveying the international critical reception accorded him." Black cloth w/blind-stamped initials/rule to front cover, gilt spine lettering, 276 pages (including biographical notes on Bergman, notes, bibliography, film index), illustrated. Soiled top edge, gen... View more info
By: Doucet, Hubert
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Novalis: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017092
Translated from the original French by Kenneth C. Russell. From the back cover: "Recent scientific and technological advances have dramatically transformed the nature and structure of health care. So, too, has the recognition that individuals are the ultimate sources of decisions concerning themselves. These developments, however, have turned death itself into an ethical mine field, with each question more explosive than the next." 147 pages + bibliography. ... View more info
By: Dowbiggin, Ian
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Toronto, Macfarlane, Walter & Ross: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Dowbiggin, on title page
Seller ID: 008919
Allowing for the usual fruitcakes and conspiracy theorists in the lunatic fringe, but believing that people are becoming increasingly paranoid, Dowbiggin "shows how paranoid fantasy moved from the extreme right to the very center of politics and culture in the United States and Canada," and suggests that "delusional thinking has displaced reason and wisdom as the basis of conventional thought." (or maybe that's what they *want* you to think, eh?). Green ... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Harlequin 213: 1953
Edition: 1st Harlequin edition
Seller ID: nf.00151
A history of the British monarchy, from Boadicea to Elizabeth II and her Coronation. Wormhole through fore-edges at top (no text affected), a bit of slant, rubbing, reading crease, flaking. View more info
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Ottawa, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys: 1964
Seller ID: 016604
Paper 63-34, containing Report and Map 38-1963. The writer's name is given as P.R. Eakin on the title page, but P.R. Eakins on the cover. 3 pages, map in rear pocket. Moderate general wear. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: No Place, Privately Printed: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017118
An impressive genealogy of thirteen generations of Eaton families descended from John and Anne Eaton of Salisbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, after they left Wilfshire, England, for the New World. 836 pages, plus 18-page index of Eaton names, and 49-page index of other names, colour illustration of Eaton crest. Moderate general wear. This weighs more than the average book, so additional postage will probably be required. View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Fredericton, Omega Publishing Division of Omega Management Services: 1978
Edition: First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Eaton, on title page
Seller ID: 017847
"Some Interesting Recipes of Old Acadia," including such things as bubble and squeak, kartoffelsuppe, poutines rapees, scouse, fiskefars, medisterpolse, blueberry grunt, galop kringle, krammerhuse, pikelets and a bashamal of lamb's ears, as well as stuff we've actually heard of. 95 pages. Light cover soil, light general wear. View more info
By: Elkhadem, Saad
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fredericton, York Press: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017113
"A concise dictionary that gives the meaning, explains the origin, and lists the French, German and Spanish equivalents of important literary terms." 154 pages, including indices. Rubbing, moderate edgewear all around, moderate general wear. View more info
By: Elmore, Marsha English (compiler)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Austin, Eakin Press: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 008451
a history of Camp Waldemar, which has been home to and provided the summer camping experience for more than twenty thousand girls since 1926; "The authors trace the growth of the camp -- in 'kampongs' as well as 'tribes' -- and the development of a legendary camping experience."; the years from 1928 to 1978 are covered by Sue Van Noy Williet (edited by Mary Brooke Oliphint Casad), with 1979 to 1996 covered by Carolyn Carmichael Wheat (edited by Julie Menges); bro... View more info
By: Elton, Julia
Price: $12.50
Publisher: London, Elton Engineering Books: 1989
Seller ID: 014352
Offers one hundred and fifty-four items, many important in the field. An excellent bibliographical and technical reference. 80 pages (including Chronological Index of Bridges, Index of Engineering Firms, Index of Authors), illustrated. Light general wear. View more info
By: Elton, Julia
Price: $12.50
Publisher: London, Elton Engineering Books: 1990
Seller ID: 014353
A superior bibliographical and technical reference offering ninety-eight items, many of them rare and much sought-after. 55 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear. View more info
By: England, Robert
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Vancouver, Centre for Continuing Education/University of British Columbia/UBC: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016293
From the front flap: "These memoirs cover Robert England's three years as a teacher of Slawa Rural School (1920-3) in northern Saskatchewan, his co-operation with the Masonic Memorial Scholarship Scheme for fifty teachers in rural non-English-speaking districts (1921-4); his work as Continental Superintendent, Colonization Department, C.N.R. Europe (1924-9); as Western Manager, Colonization-Agriculture, C.N.R. Western Region (1930-6) and the Community Progress Compe... View more info
By: Esslin, Martin
Price: $6.00
Seller ID: 013830
A title from the Celebrity Lecture Series, being a talk given by Esslin for the Stratford Shakespearean Festival at the Festival Theatre on Augst 14, 1983. Unpaginated (20). Moderate general wear. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fredericton, Privately printed: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018089
"A selection of photographs from the collections at the Provincial Archives" of New Brunswick. 52 pages (including list of plates and photographers). Small nick to top spine, light general wear. View more info
By: Felman, Shoshana
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Cambridge & London, Harvard University Press: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013900
Felman "elucidates the power and originality of Lacan's work. She brilliantly analyzes Lacan's investigation of psychoanalysis not as dogma, but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. By focusing on Lacan's singular way of making Freud's thought new again -- and of thus enabling us to participate in the very moment of intellectual struggle and insight -- Felman shows how this moment of illumination has become crucial to contemporary thinking and has redefi... View more info
By: Fensom, K.G.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Montreal, Canadian Institute of Forestry--Institut Forestier du Canada: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 013603
The title pretty much covers the contents of this one. The author has signed and dated ("Fredericton, N.B.,/August 29/72/Ken Fensom") this copy on title page. Illustrated blue & green on tan cloth, 547 pages (including appendix), illustrated. Light edgewear, titles rubbed on spine, moderate general wear. A nice copy. Uncommon signed. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Perma Hardbound P6: 1948
Edition: 1st Perma edition
Seller ID: ad.00032
Originally published in hardcover in 1927 by Dodd, Mead. "In this volume [Fielding] analyzes every phase and uncovers the popular fallacies, answering questions on such topics as the sex impulse, marriage and courtship in marriage, frigidity, sex determination, sexual suppression, sex in the child. His scientific comparisons of the male and female are also presented in an understandable manner." Edgewear, 3/8" chipped off top spine, chipping/wear to bottom s... View more info
By: Fiennes, Ranulph
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Signet 74550: 1992
Edition: 7th printing
Seller ID: 018110
"In the years between 1977 and 1990, a group of hired assassins known as the Clinic tracked down and killed four British soldiers, one at a time. Two of the victims were ex-SAS. All fiour had fought in the Arabian desert./The Feather Men were recruited to hunt the Clinic. Without their intervention more soldiers would have died. At the end of their operation they asked Ranulph Fiennes, one of the world's best-known explorers and himself a former SAS officer, to t... View more info
By: Finlay, Mary Lou
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada / Random House of Canada: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Finlay, on title page
Seller ID: 016692
First printing w/complete number sequence. A former host of one of Canada's most popular radio programs offers her "reminiscences about the most significant stories she has covered, starting with her very first day on the job, which happened to be the day after the death of Princess Diana," as well as "the most popular items on the show and most often from the United Kingdom." Red boards w/gilt spine lettering, 282 pages. An unread copy. View more info
By: Fiore, Amadeus P. (editor)
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012367
The tenth volume in the Duquesne Studies, Philological Series. Contributors include Merritt Y. Hughes, William B. Hunter Jr., Maurice Kelly, Edward Le Comte, B. Rajan, John T. Shawcross, Wayne Shumaker, John M. Steadman, Kester Svendsen, Robert West, and B.A. Wright. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 149 pages. Previous owner's name in pencil to bottom edge of front free end paper, light general wear, in dust jacket w/moderate edgewear, 1.5" tear to top edge of rear ... View more info
By: Fischer, Odette Marie B.K.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Agoura Hills, Bourget Publishing of California: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed & Signed by Fischer
Seller ID: 015675
The story of a woman who suffered a serious accident that affected her brain, and who struggled back from memory loss and a variety of physical disabilities. This copy inscribed and signed ("To Dr. Adam Chrzanowski,/Warmest Wishes. Hope/to see you in L.A. Odette Marie Fischer"). 289 pages + index, illustrated. A few impressions to back cover, light general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Frew, Alan, with Sharon Brennan
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Binea Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed & Signed by Frew, on front end paper
Seller ID: 017469
If your name is Katherine, if you think that Glass Tiger could well be the reason why the universe was created, if you have the blistering hots for Alan Frew, and if you're looking for a few life lessons told with wit and amusement, this "six-step recipe to success by doing what you're already doing" is the book for you. If your name is Earl or Lance or Raoul but everything else applies, then this is the book for you, too. If you once knew someone named Katheri... View more info
Price: $22.50
Publisher: Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013238
Fuller, a sometime senior advisor at the United Nations, attempts "to bring home to translators the danger of falling into a dull routine and the need for keeping the mind fresh and alert." Each leaf of text followed by a blank leaf intended for Notes. Red cloth w/black lettering to front cover/spine, 66 pages (not including blank leaves). Previous owner's signature to top edge of front end paper, moderate general wear (notes pages unused). Lacking dust jacket. View more info
By: Gair, Reavley
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed & Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016885
From the front flap: "Between 1553 and 1608 St Paul's Cathedral housed one of the earliest London theatre companies, a commercially successful playhouse whose actors were drawn from the choirboys under the directior of their choir master. These were the Children of Paul's." This copy inscribed and signed by Gair, on title page. Chocolate cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 213 pages (including notes, select bibliography, index), illustrated. A bit of slant, light ... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1951
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018122
University of California Publications in History, Volume 41. 119 pages (including notes, bibliography, index). Some edgewear, impressions, University of New Brunswick library stamp to front cover, sunned spine/edges. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Gallop, Jane
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Ithaca & London, Cornell University Press: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013869
Taking as starting point Lacan's theories of language, Gallop tackles six essays from his most problematic text ('Ecrits'), and "addresses herself directly to the problem and the practice of reading Lacan." Granite cloth w/black spine lettering, 198 pages (including bibliography, index). Previous owner's neat underlining throughout, in dust jacket w/light general wear. View more info
By: Ghafour, Hamida
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Toronto, McArthur & Company: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016644
Ghafour "fled Khabul with her parents as a small child in 1981," and returned in 2003 as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph, "reporting for the paper, seeing more of the place that she and her family had once called home." This copy signed by Ghafour, on title page. Black cloth w/silver spine lettering, 336 pages (including acknowledgements, bibliography, index), illustrated w/photographs. An unread copy. View more info
By: Gillespie, W.M.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York, A.S. Barnes & Co./Wiley & Putnam; Collins Keese & Co. / Perkins & Marvin / Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. / Cushing & Sons: 1848
Edition: 2nd edition, with additions
Seller ID: 015061
After stating that the roads of the United States are inferior to those of any other civilized country, Gillespie offers a comprehensive guide to everything the roadbuilder knew in 1848. Brown cloth w/gilt lettering to spine, 340 pages + 4 pages of tables, illustrated. Edgewear, scraping/fraying/wear to corners/spine edges, previous owner's signature to front end paper, considerable foxing throughout, some dampstaining. (C/BT) View more info
By: Gilman, Dorothy (pseudonym of Dorothy Gilman Butters)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Company: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014286
In her first work of non-fiction, the author of the enormously successful Mrs. Pollifax mystery novels relates "the moving story of the renascence she sought and found in a starkly beautiful coastal village in Nova Scotia," emerging with "a new landscape of the soul." Light grey boards w/blue cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 125 pages, dust jacket illustration by Ron Becker. A bit of foxing to top edge, a couple of bumps to top edge of front cover,... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina: 1989
Seller ID: 014492
Contains book reviews and notices, articles, and so on related to Spenser and his work. Pages 25 through 48. Light general wear. View more info
By: Gregory, Joan
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Sackville, JIL Productions (printed by The Tribune Press): 1981
Seller ID: 011254
the author takes a look at a number of the province's covered bridges, and includes information on the counties where they are found, construction details, historical data and more; unpaginated (52); moderate edgewear, light smudging to wraps, sticker pull to top right corner of front cover, moderate general wear; internally tight and clean; View more info
By: Guildford, Janet, and Suzanne Morton (editors)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Fredericton, Acadiensis Press: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018024
A collection of articles showing "how women helped 'make up' the modern state in Atlantic Canada." Contributors include Sharon Myers ("The Apocrypha of Minnie McGee: The Murderous Mother and the Multi-Vocal State in 20th-Century Prince Edward Island"), Shannon M. Risk ("The Magnitude of My Services: Minnie Bell Adney and the Women of Woodstock"), Sharon M. H. MacDonald ("A Passionate Voice for Equality, Justice, and Peace: Nova Scotia's Ma... View more info
By: Gunn, Cameron
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Perigree / Penguin: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Gunn, on half-title
Seller ID: 017755
An admirer of Benjamin Franklin, Gunn records his "attempt to live by Franklin's thirteen virtues, a list of lofty ideals the Founding Father held dear," but which take "this ordinary man way outside his comfort zone and into a thicket of not-so-modern values." 250 pages (including notes, brief author biography). Internally tight and clean, with only light general wear. View more info
By: Gunn, D.L., and R.C. Rainey (organizers)
Price: $40.00
Publisher: London, The Royal Society: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013444
"First published in 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London', series B, volume 287 (no. 1022), pages 245-488." Publishes the results of a two-day Discussion Meeting on the subject of controlling by various means a wide variety of insects and other pests, said discussions featuring a number of participants from many countries. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 240 pages (including Postscripts), illustrated (frontispiece, 1 plate, 2 fold-outs, in... View more info
By: Guymer, Wilfred (edited by Myrna Guymer)
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Owen Sound, Lobstick Landing Publishing: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016667
A former game warden tells some stories about his life and times. From the back cover: "They are stories of the North -- of a youth spent in and around The Pas, Manitoba. They are stories of nature -- of a lifetime filled with a love of outdoor pursuits, and a career as a conservation officer." 245 pages, illustrated. A quarter-inch tear to bottom spine, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Haanel, B.F.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Ottawa, F.A. Acland: 1926
Seller ID: 014217
Mines Branch publication No. 641, the result of an undertaking intended to determine whether peat might be used as "an auxiliary source of fuel supply, especially in the central provinces of Ontario and Quebec, where shortage of domestic supplies of fuel was most keenly felt." 298 pages (including Appendices), illustrated. A bit of spine roll, minor edgewear, some cover soil. (C/BT) View more info
By: Hale, Katherine
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Ottawa & Whitby, The Mundy-Goodfellow Printing Co. Ltd.: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016417
A record and interpretation by Hale, of architect John A. Pearson's creation. The scanner screen wasn't quite large enough to accomodate this thing, so a little more than an inch of the right side is not pictured. 29 pages, illustrated. Moderate corner/handling wear, foxing to front end paper. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, The Ronald Press Company: 1964
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 017842
Grey cloth w/silver lettering to front cover/spine, 230 pages (including bibliography, index). Some slant, moderate wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's stamp/notation to front pastedown, name to top edge of first and second end papers, a few minor underlinings. View more info
By: Hardy, R.W.F., and A.H. Gibson (editors)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011489
"Emphasizes the nature and extent of the contribution of free-living and symbiotic diazotrophs in both natural habitats and agricultural situations, and the factors, either environmental or managerial, that influence this contribution." Green cloth w/gilt cover design/spine lettering, 527 pages (including Subject Index and Taxonomic Index), graphs, charts. Spine slant, tiny smudge to bottom edge, previous owner's name/city/date to front free end paper. Edgeworn d... View more info
By: Hardy, R.W.F., and Warren S. Silver (editors)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011509
"Devoted to a consideration of the broader aspects of dinitrogen fixation--the organisms involved, pertinent physiological processes of the microbe and the host plant, and, where appropriate, certain phytogeographical facets." This copy contains the uncommon Errata slip laid in. Green cloth w/gilt cover design/spine lettering, 675 pages (including Subject Index and Taxonomic Index), illustrated. Mild spine slant, light corner/spine end wear, previous owner's name... View more info
By: Harlig, Jeffrey, and Csaba Pleh (editors)
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Berlin & New York, Mouton de Gruyter/Walter de Gruyter & Co.: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015977
#68 in the publisher's Contributions to the Sociology of Language series, this one being a collection of essays on various aspects of sociolinguistics in the former Socialist bloc. Contributors include the editors, Allen D. Grimshaw, Lydia Dachkova, Louise B. Hammer, Miklos Kontra, Karol Janicki, and Anna Borbely. Review copy w/personal letter laid in. Navy cloth w/white lettering to front cover/spine, 207 pages (including appendix, index). A very nice copy, w/light ... View more info
By: Harris, Irene
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Christchurch, University of Canterbury Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed & Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016224
For more than three decades Irene Harris lived with an alcoholic. Daughter, sister, and mother to alcoholics, she sought help from "the Queen Mary Hospital at Hanmer Springs, as a non-drinking co-dependent." This is her story. This copy inscribed on front end paper ("To Vanda./Thanks for your/friendship -- keep/loving/Irene"), then signed in full beneath her name on title page. 162 pages. Impressions/thin scratches to covers, light edgewear. Interna... View more info
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Halifax, International Education Centre/Saint Mary's University: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed & Signed by Hartzman, on half-title
Seller ID: 014948
Hartzman presents "a study in miniature of Latin Americans in Canada." 68 pages (including bibliography, index). Light general wear. View more info
By: Harvey, Andrew
Price: $11.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014314
Olive cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 236 pages. View more info
By: Haught, Oscar L.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Morgantown, State of West Virginia: 1955
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015563
"The second in a series of revised oil and gas reports and maps covering the Counties of Marshall, Wetzel, and Tyler." (The first in the series was Bulletin No. 11, which covered the counties of Pleasants, Wood and Ritchie.) 49 pages. VG w light general wear. Map measures approximately 59" x 42" from outer edge to outer edge, and is also VG. Uncommon. (C/BT) View more info
By: Hayes, Bill
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Washington Square/Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Hayes, on title page
Seller ID: 013587
An insomniac "affords an intimate look at one man's singular journey through contemporary life--from his sleep-disturbed childhood through his sleepwalking in adolescence to the height of his insomnia, when his partner struggles with AIDS and Hayes must face an increasingly troubling and debilitating sleep disorder." Hayes also gives us a "fascinating exploration of disorders such as sleeptalking, narcolepsy, and sleep apnea." Bump to bottom spine end. An... View more info
By: Hein, Piet, and Svend Asmussen
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Toronto, General Publishing Company: 1971
Edition: First (limited) edition
Seller ID: 012350
Eighteen of Hein's Grook verses graced with facing music by Asmussen (music on the left page, verse/illustration on the right). A nice copy w/only moderate general wear and no previous owner's marks or notations. (C/BT) View more info
By: Hespelt, E. Herman, et al (editors)
Price: $8.50
Publisher: New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts:
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 013870
Studies "the scope and subject matter of courses on Spanish American literature in the colleges and universities of the United States." Blue cloth w/gilt lettering, 192 pages (including Appendices, Index), illustrated w/maps. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name/city to front free end paper, light general wear. No dust jacket. View more info
By: Hill, John A.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Terre Haute, Standard Publishing Company: 1981
Edition: 25th edition
Seller ID: 016595
A scarce item that provides questions and answers intended to help the prospective engineer and fireman begin and further his career. Dominion Atlantic Railway stamp to front end paper. 96 pages (including 18 pages at rear, entitled "Diagrams Illustrating Manner of Using Signals According to the Standard Code of Train Rules as Adopted by the American Railway Association" -- some diagrams w/green and/or red colour). About G w/cover soil, edgewear, some internal... View more info
Price: $90.00
Publisher: Warner Paperback Library 78-361: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016708
Paperback original. Cdn. printing. A quite scarce "nonfiction novel" detailing "The brief and brutal history of a young man who wanted only to be a woman." Apparently Hollingsworth (who was born Elaine Sterling, and who acted under the name Sara Shane) was in a Mexican prison where she met a guy named Miguel, who wanted a sex change operation. Or, as the front cover blurb has it, "From the lips of the boy/woman who lived it -- the story of six hor... View more info
By: Homer, Ken
Price: $30.00
Publisher: No Place, Privately published:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017984
A scarce commemorative booklet containing the names and accomplishments of the members of New Brunswick's Carleton County Council from its inception in 1852 until its dissolution in 1966. 66 pages, illustrated. Light general wear. View more info
By: Hughes, David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davies: 1958
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014433
Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 226 pages (including A Select Bibliography, Index), frontispiece. View more info
By: Huse, Nancy
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016376
1st printing w/complete number sequence. Atitle from the Twayne's English Authors Series, this one exploring Streatfeild's many children's novels, as well as her non-fiction and autobiography. Red cloth, 163 pages (including Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index), frontispiece illustration by Ruth Gervis. An unread copy. Rubbed/scuffed dust jacket. View more info
By: Huse, Nancy
Price: $6.50
Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016977
1st printing w/complete number sequence. Atitle from the Twayne's English Authors Series, this one exploring Streatfeild's many children's novels, as well as her non-fiction and autobiography. Red cloth, 163 pages (including notes and references, selected bibliography, index), frontispiece illustration by Ruth Gervis. An unread copy. Rubbed/scuffed dust jacket w/a hint of edgewear, faint/thin scratch to top portion of front panel. View more info
By: Huxley, Francis
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1976
Edition: 1st US edition
Seller ID: 005187
"As all readers of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' will know, when Alice sat down (uninvited) at the Mad Tea-party, the Hatter oepend his eyes very wide and asked, 'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?' The riddle is famous because when Alice in turn asked 'What's the answer?' the Hatter replied that he hadn't the faintest idea. It has provoked ingenius possible answers from many Great Minds, but in this utterly engaging 'Enquiry,' Francis Huxley has undertaken the... View more info
By: I.C.S. Staff
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Correspondence Schools/International Textbook Company/I.C.S.: 1927
Seller ID: 016012
Serial 2217. A booklet from the home study course offered by the International Correspondence Schools, this one detailing the mechanics of machine milling. 72 pages + 2 pages of examination questions, illustrated. Some smudging to wraps, small piece from bottom corner, corner wear, previous owner's name/date to front cover. View more info
By: I.C.S. Staff
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Correspondence Schools/International Textbook Company/I.C.S.: 1927
Seller ID: 016018
Serial 2216, Edition 1. A booklet from the I.C.S. home study course. 49 pages + 2 pages of examination questions, illustrated. Light smudging to covers, previous owner's name/date to front cover, small soil mark to first page. View more info
By: I.C.S. Staff
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Scranton, International Correspondence Schools/International Textbook Company/I.C.S.: 1934
Seller ID: 016019
Serial 2201, Edition 1. An uncommon booklet from the I.C.S. home study course, this one intended "to show the forms of various lathe tools, together with their selection and their uses." 48 pages, illustrated. Previous owner's name/date to front cover, smudging, 1/4" tear to top edge of back cover, pencil underlining/markings throughout, drawing to last blank page, general wear. View more info
By: I.C.S. Staff
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Scranton, International Correspondence Schools/International Textbook Company/I.C.S.: 1926
Seller ID: 016020
Serial 2204, Edition 1. A 2-hole-punched booklet from the I.C.S. home study course. 75 pages, illustrated. Previous owner's name/date to front cover, smudging, some dampstaining, general wear. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Tokyo, Rikuyo-sha Publishing: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015117
"300 interior designs by members of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) and other prominent designers of 21 countries are included: modern furniture based on Scandinavian tradition, colorful and sophisticated designs of Europe and countries facing to the Pacific. The designs tacitly explain the tradition and national characters of the countries that designers represent." Illustrated boards, 295 pages. This is a heavy tome, and ... View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd:
Seller ID: 014569
A very uncommon title, being at attempt "to put together a complete list of names in use" in the UK in the early 1900s. Tan cloth w/red floral decoration/lettering, gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 140 pages + 3 pages of advertisements in rear. Moderate cover soil, bumped/worn corners/spine ends, bookseller's stamp to half-title. (C/BT) View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, BasicBooks / Basic Books: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 007076
A collection of essays and short personal narratives by a variety of "lesbian and bisexual women from all ages, races and classes [providing] a comprehensive view of the many rites and phases of lesbian life." Deep orange cloth w/mauve cloth backstrip, 374 pages, including Contributors' Notes. Dust jacket w/a hint of general wear. View more info
By: Jay, Paul
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Ithaca & London, Cornell University Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013877
The author "traces the impact of changing concepts of the self and the literary subject on the formal evolution of autobiographical prose and poetry in the Romantic and modern periods." brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 189 pages (including Index). mild wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's neat underlining to many paragraphs in Introduction, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve. View more info
By: Jones, D.G.
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1971
Seller ID: 012277
Originally published in 1970. Brown cloth w/black cloth spine w/gilt lettering, 197 pages (including Notes, Index). Mild wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name to verso of half-title, previous owner's marginalia (vertical lines here and there throughout), in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/a bit of chipping/short tears to corners/spine ends, general wear. View more info
By: Kaminskis, Viktors, V. Lamsters, H. Ritums, and J. Viduma Tulkojums
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Apgada, Dzintarzeme: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015728
English/Latvian-language publication containing information about the country and changes to it throughout the centuries. 193 pages, illustrated w/hundreds of black-and-white and sepia photographs of people, places and culture, with some colour illustrations and a fold-out map. Light cover soil/dampstaining, bottom 3/4" chipped from spine, dampstaining to top edge resulted in some pages being stuck together along top edges, with some minor loss of paper when separa... View more info
By: Kankewitt, Bill
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Toronto, Methuen: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Donovan
Seller ID: 017133
The story of a former Boston police officer (currently an actor, editor and publisher) who became "the acknowledged expert with a world-wide reputation for dealing with police stress." This copy inscribed by Donovan, on half-title ("Martha/Fraternally/Ed Donovan"). Navy cloth w/silver foil spine lettering, 236 pages, illustrated. Spine slant, bumped corners, tiny soil mark to bottom corner of fore-edge, moderate general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/bu... View more info
Price: $22.50
Publisher: Privately Published: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 008964
A collection of essays that originally appeared in the Canadian Medical Association Journal from the mid '60s through the early '70s, and which are collected for this volume by the author's wife and children, intended as a memorial to be distributed amongst a few of the author's intimate friends. This copy presented by the author's wife, Gladys Kelly, to one of those intimates, with a notation dated June 7, 1978. An appreciative foreword by E. Kirk Lyon. Maroon cloth ... View more info
By: Kennedy, W.T., and Peter O'Hearn
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Halifax, T.C. Allen & Co.: 1898
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017060
Two Halifax school principals present the final part of their four-part Arithmetic, "designed for use in Academic and High Schools." Errata slip tipped in between copyright page and preface. Plum cloth w/black lettering/rule to front cover, 143 pages (including examination papers and answers. Previous owner's name in pencil, a few pencil notations throughout. View more info
By: Kinglake, A.W. (Alexander William)
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Norwalk, Easton Press: 1992
Edition: 1st Easton Press edition
Seller ID: 017701
First published in 1844 by J. Ollivier, Kinglake details his journeys through Syria, Egypt and Palestine. Gilt decorations to maroon leather covers, gilt decorations/lettering to spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, silk end papers, ribbon bookmark, 240 pages, frontispiece, unused Easton Press bookplate laid in. Light scuffing to gilt edges, a hint of edgewear. A very nice copy. View more info
By: Klenke, William W. (edited by Lulu W. Gillum)
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Kansas City, Gillum Book Co.: 1940
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017490
Since Klenke and Gillum have seen much evidence "of the unusual ability exercised by girls in the handling of wood," they offer this collection of "fifty projects in furniture making any of which the average girl can undertake." 95 pages, illustrated w/line drawings. Top corners bumped, light corner/spine end wear, three small scrapes to spine, slight mustiness. An uncommon item. View more info
By: Knechtel, John (issue editor)
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Concord, House of Anansi Press: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012423
Views and analysis of cities and urban development, of possibilities and problems, from an eclectic assortment of artists, planners and others. 320 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear, internally tight and clean. This book weighs more than the average tome, so additional postage will be required. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Lockeport, Roseway Publishing: 1994
Edition: 2nd edition, 2nd printing
Inscription: Signed by Knockwood, on title page
Seller ID: 016975
"The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia." Above her signature Knockwood has written the year (2000), and beneath it, "Keep the healing circle strong." 159 pages, illustrated. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Kogan, Pauline
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Montreal, Progressive Books & Periodicals: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012384
With much earnestness the author works herself into a self-righteous froth as she dissects the views of Northrop Frye, and informs us that the "correct way to conduct class struggle in the area of literature, art and criticism is to rely upon the initiative of the masses, to place proper emphasis on investigation and study, and to mobilize public opinion through ideological discussion." 98 pages. Sunned spine, small splashstain to left edge of front cover, slight... View more info
By: Kramer, Victor A. (editor)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Troy, Whitston Publishing Company: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013878
A collection of essays "chosen as an introduction to various area of contemporary criticism and theory." Contributors include Murray Krieger, Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Gerald Graff, Vincent B. Leitch, Joseph Riddell, William V. Spanos, J. Hillis Miller, Norman N. Holland, David Bleich, Michael Steig, Charles Altieri, Steven Mailloux, Hershel Parker, Michael Sprinker, Matei Calinescu, Giles Gunn, and Ihab Hassan. Blue cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 447 p... View more info
By: Labriola, Albert C. (editor)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: No Place, Milton Society of America:
Seller ID: 014490
A 6-item lot of program booklets issued by the Milton Society of America for its annual dinner and meeting held on December 28th at various hotels throughout the United States and Canada. The locations for this series of festivities, in chronological order, were The Drake Hotel in Chicago, The Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., The King Edward Hotel in Toronto, The Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco, The Midland Hotel in Chicago, and Marriott at Metro Center in Was... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: North Balwyn, Rene Gordon Pty. Ltd.: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011152
The Langs draw from Moshe's many years as a family therapist to relate interesting and amusing stories covering marriage, parent/child relationships, and the frustrations, pleasures and pressures of family life. Cover painting by Yosl Bergner, foreword by Max Cornwell. Impressions, some gentle creasing, moderate general wear. View more info
