First-person account which shows that "People who would tell of to-day should wait until it had become yesterday," a story by an old woman. Green cloth, shaken, cocked, 1-inch tear at head of cover spine, some gatherings glued. Front hinge showing thread, but still quite easily readable. View More...
Original mustard cloth on boards, as new. DJ shows only minor surface abrasions, very good. No names or other marks. Memoir by Celia Franca, founder and artistic director for 25 years.. The story in words and pictures of how an idea developed into one of the leading ballet companies of the world. Nearly 300 photographs, 54 in colour. 283 pp. View More...
Original brown cloth with brown lettering on boards, no DJ. Grubby and full of pencil underlining, but text present and readable. P.O.N. (Margaret Laurence, but not the author). Words from Form II, Junior Grade up through Form V(including Commercial). Believed First Edition. No other cop[ies found. 208 pp. View More...
Original chestnut cloth on boards with beige paper title label glued to the front cover. Sometime during the 20th century, someone constructed a black cardboard slipcase and a matching cardboard sleeve to house the book, which has protected it very well. Book is clean and hinges are tight. No marks found inside. No foxing. Minor abrasion to top corner edge of back cover. Some tiny darkened spots on spine, and a 1 1/2" dark spot on bottom of back cover next to gutter. Three tiny spots on edge of text block. Bottom corner of page 214 is folded in, in what looks like a production mishap. Thoma... View More...
Original green cloth with spine label on boards, no DJs. Front. and three add. ill. in each. Volume names are Windsor Castle, Jane the Queen, Mary the Queen, The Plot, and The Discovery, in order. Two small taped tears in The Discovery. Each 400+ pp. Minor edge soil and foxing. View More...
Original chartreuse cloth on boards. DJ has only minor tears. Educationese theories as to how to light a fire under kids in school. Important consideration of helping kids decide between streams. 313 pp. with index. View More...
Original brown cloth on boards. Good DJ with several small repaired tears. With its companion volume on direct current(not included), this book is intended to give the student complete training in applied electrical circuit fundamentals. P.O.N. and some pencilled notations, OW very good. 367 pp. with appendix on trigonometric functions. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. DJ has only tiny tear top of spine, OW good. Many striking colour photos of animals which live in the ocean. 128 pp. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. No DJ. Finger pull split top of spine. Front free endpaper missing, and small hole in title page. Binding firm and interior clean. A romantic tale of a couple left stranded on an island, his romance with a native girl, and a far-fetched ending. Richard Dix played the male lead for the movie. 252 pp. View More...
Original orange cloth on boards, no DJ. Gilt spine lettering. Inscribed: "Stewart Galbraith, with my very best wishes, Flora MacDonald, M.P." Originally from Cape Breton, MacDonald represented Kingston and the Islands. She lost a bid for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party to Joe Clark. 217 pp. with index. View More...
Original red cloth, gilt lettering. No DJ. Tiny corner stain lower right. Browning to EP's. Still better than Good. Title page credits author with two other titles, The Light in the Clearing and A Man for the Ages(about Lincoln). 176 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards with silver gilt lettering. Much of the lettering is rubbed off the cover. Some edgewear. This is a rare autobiography of a local minister. Much history of Kingston Peninsula, Saint John, Oak Point, and other areas as remembered. 218 pp. including biographies of ministerial converts claimed by Reverend Barnes. View More...
Original beige cloth on boards. DJ very good, with a couple of small spots. DJ flap blurb: "I have read everything written on Agee and his work...In my opinion (this) is the soundest general book so far". - David McDowell, Agee's literary executor and personal friend. 218 pp. with index and credits. Nearly as new. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. DJ taped at corners, and consequently torn top and bottom. The Trafalgar Library. Overall, a little grubby, P.O.N., and closed tear top of RFEP. Text sound and readable. 288 pp with index. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. DJ has minor chipping head and foot of spine, and two small spots. Previous owner's neat signature and date (1951). No other marks or damage. Volume 9, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, Number 3. "Twelve plates" should read "twelve pages of plates," since there are several small photos on each large page. Text, pp. 403-475, plus Bibliography and TWELVE PAGES of plates. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. DJ shows minor wear and is price-clipped. Interior clean and unmarked. 42 short chapters touching every phase of child development, some reprinted from other sources. The author was a practising psychologist and psychiatrist in England and New Zealand for many years, about 1920-1940. 153 pp. View More...
Original red cloth with minor waterstains to cover edges. "It is hoped that this combination of material and method will make the book of value to parents, teachers, doctors, nurses, and social workers and to all who have to carry out or make decisions relating to the health education of the individual or the community." - Original red cloth boards with minor water stains to cover edges. "It is hoped that this combination of material and method will make the book of value to parents, teachers, doctors, nurses, and social workers and to all who have to carry out or make decisions r... View More...
Original maroon cloth on boards, no DJ. Gilt spine lettering. Minor foxing, OW very good. Inscribed on FFEP "To Percy McKaye with friendship, Edwin Bjorkman, 4-24-1919." Percy McKaye(1875-1956) was given credit for promotion of folk drama in the 20's and 30's, when he fathered the development of pageants as a dramatic form in the U.S. 94 pp. PLEASE SEE my other listings of inscriptions to Percy McKaye. View More...
