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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., Hurst & Co.: 1881
Seller ID: 005050
Original dark green blindstamped cloth on boards. Arlington Edition. Inside back cover advertises Somer Pianos. 312 pp. of humour. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.:
Seller ID: 008656
Original red cloth on flexible card. Bookplate of Sir George Stephen, Bart.,who was President of the Bank of Montreal at the time he founded the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and served as its first President. No date; estimated 1880. First free endpaper chipped around edges; balance of pages intact and clean. Minor wear to cover edges and corners. A barrelful of whimsey, political intrigue, and common occurrences which will help any reader better understand Eng... View more info
Price: $200.00
Publisher: London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co.:
Seller ID: 010133
Bound in blue leather 3/4 style on marbled boards. Minor scrapes to both covers. No writing. Five raised bands lightly abraded. Ten steel engravings in colour by John Leech, as well as dozens of smaller drawings. Students of Roman history will chuckle at the clever puns, the musical names, and the good-natured ribbing of serious historians. Foxing freckles too few to mention. 418 pp. with index. Very heavy (and beautiful) book will need extra postage. View more info
Price: $400.00
Publisher: London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.:
Seller ID: 010134
Blue leather in 3/4 style on marbled boards. No writing. Top edges gilt. Suggestion of shelf wear on bottom corners. Serious and not-so-serious students of English history alike will profit from this lovely set. Fans of John Leech will appreciate his 20 coloured steel engravings as well as his dozens of smaller drawings. Ca. 1850 (A'Beckett died in 1856). Just the ticket for someone who is taking life and history far too seriously ! Very heavy set will need extra... View more info
By: Adams, Caswell
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co.: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012529
Red cloth on boards showing edge wear. Descriptions on verso, full-page drawings on recto. Cartoons were previously published in the New York Tribune, 1940-1947. There are a lot of uncomfortable truths in these cartoons ! View more info
By: Ade, George
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Company: 1912
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 005786
Original brown cloth on boards. Humourous social commentary. Every one of these short stories ends with a moral. This book looks like nearly new except for rubbed spine title and slightly worn corners. By the author of The College Widow and Fables in Slang. 229 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, David Douglas: 1900
Seller ID: 003907
Original brown suede illustrated and lettered by pyrography. The story appeared in five parts in Atlantic Monthly in 1877, 14 years before My Cousin the Colonel, with which it is often twinned. The protagonist, a bank cashier and bookkeeper, plans a three-week holiday on horseback in northern New Hampshire. Mary, his newly-purchased steed, has her own agenda. 231 pp., followed by several attractively-illustrated ads. View more info
By: Andom, R.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, George Newnes Ltd.: 1916
Seller ID: 004541
Original pictorial orange cloth on boards. The ninth book of Troddles. Cover faded, corners worn, and inscription. 318 pp. View more info
By: Ashe, Robert
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Tantallon, N.S., Four East Publications: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012767
Robert Ashe shares columns he wrote for the local newspaper in 1983-85. Meet the people you never see on the street, like the lady you saw in the men's room at the library. 112 pp. View more info
By: Barrie, J.M.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Rahway, N.J., The Mershon Company:
Seller ID: 004093
Original green cloth on boards. A series of short essays, often humourous, on smoking. Interior clean. Covers soiled. 231 pp. View more info
By: Barrie, James M.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company:
Edition: Brighton Edition
Seller ID: 004855
Original grey-green cloth elaborately decorated in black florals on boards. Title page torn 2 inches at gutter foot. Cover soil and tanned text. Centred around Barrie's experience in the Nottingham Journal office. 242 pp. plus catalogs. View more info
By: Berton, Pierre
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1962
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010226
Bright orange cloth on boards. Tiny chips head and foot of DJ. Chapter titles include: All My Own Work, Five Dilemmas of Our Time, The Canadian Way of Life, The Writing Game, Seasonal Reflections of a Country Dweller, and Dreams and Daydreams. This material first appeared in the Toronto Daily Star. 185 pp. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Graphics Ltd.: 1983
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 003310
Original red pictorial card covers. Foreword by the late Dalton Camp. Signed copy in excellent condition. Editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal and Evening Times-Globe since 1978. 174 pp. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Productions: 1996
Edition: First Edition Stated
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 003890
Original colour pictorial soft cover. Cartoons by Beutel and essays by friends and foes. McKenna has served at Premier of New Brunswick and Ambassador to the United States. He is now employed by Toronto Dominion Bank. 205 pp. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Lanceman Productions: 1996
Edition: First Edition Stated
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 004132
Original red and white pictorial soft cover. Essays on McKenna by several prominent people, with cartoons by Beutel. 205 pp. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., The Telegraph-Journal: 1981
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 009774
Original illustrated soft cover. Ex-library. Beutel's first book of cartoons, with introduction by his editor, Fred Hazel. Political satire at its cleanest and best. Cover creased, with no marks or damage. View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Fredericton, Non Entity Press: 1985
Edition: First
Seller ID: 009823
Josh Beutel's third book portrays former premier Richard Hatfield of New Brunswick. Beutel is known locally for his work as editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, which employment ceased several years ago. Beutel survived a defamation suit by Malcolm Ross, a former school teacher in Moncton who is described as a holocaust denier. Awarded $7500 from Beutel initially, Ross was later ordered by an appeals court to pay Beutel $5000 in costs, the initia... View more info
By: Beutel, Josh
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Fredericton, Non Entity Press: 1985
Edition: First
Inscription: Inscribed and Initialled By Beutel
Seller ID: 011710
Josh Beutel's third book portrays former premier Richard Hatfield of New Brunswick. Beutel is known locally for his work as editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, which employment ceased several years ago. Beutel survived a defamation suit by Malcolm Ross, a former school teacher in Moncton who is described as a holocaust denier. Awarded $7500 from Beutel initially, Ross was later ordered by an appeals court to pay Beutel $5000 in costs, the initia... View more info
Price: $22.00
Publisher: N.Y., G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1918
Seller ID: 007077
Original black cloth decorated in red and gold on boards. One leaf excised between the Dedication and Chapter I. Humourous approach to the soldiers' lives in the trenches, "where men do live in holes in the ground that they might thereby swat the Amalekites which are at this day called Huns."- Dedication. Cracked hinges glued front and back. Previous owner's name. 102 pp. View more info
By: Blaine
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton Spectator: 1970
Inscription: Signed by Author/Illustrator
Seller ID: 000328
Original oblong pictorial(cartoon) cover in black on white cloth, no DJ. Inscribed and signed by the artist author. Clever, astute drawings and gag lines with no smut ! I laughed until I could hardly breathe ! Definitively Canadian, but well-read Americans will enjoy it, too! Cartoons were originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Ontario. Minor soil and staining to back cover, still Very Good. View more info
