Original maroon cloth on blindstamped boards. Long spine rip repaired, front hinge cracked and repaired, text block evenly tanned. Blindstamped Adventure Library on cover. Circa 1900. A group of unrelated stories, many of which contain details of desperate violence to man and beast. 308 pp. View More...
Original brown calf on boards. Generally worn. Spine missing, showing three wide bands. Small label of Watkins Binder. Text clean and easily read. 600 pp. View More...
Original red card softcover. Back cover and last free endpaper missing, so half price. Last two extant pages (Numerical Index) have tears and corners missing. Illustrations are large and clear. 381 pp. View More...
This book is in poor condition. It is offered here at a low price to someone who will appreciate its age and construction. It is cloth-backed on every page. Six full-colour drawings from Bible stories. Cover is cracked and pages throughout are edge-soiled. View More...
Original blindstamped brown leather on boards. Leather is scuffed and worn at the edges and on the spine. 1/2" section of leather at bottom of spine is torn and sticking out. Front cover joint is cracked but holding. Some foxing. Title continues: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as They Are to Be Sung or Said in Churches, and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. 600+ pp. (Common Prayer has 536 pp., but Psalms of David is unpaginated). View More...
Softcover stapled book of 320 pp. Both covers and first leaf separated, balance firmly stapled and sound. Contains list of post offices and alphabetical militia list, and much more. View More...
Original purple blind-stamped cloth on boards. No DJ. The Hillside Library. Three stories is one book. Getting harder to find. Unusual that the third story, Barbara Ellerton, is not mentioned on cover or title.Small portion missing top of spine. General wear, but well bound and intact. 45 pp. View More...
Original paper boards backed in black leather. Most of the first 34 pages (one article only) obliterated by glued-in clippings. Balance lightly browned, but easily readable. Article II is a speech by John Leach, M.P., on Limitations to the Royal Authority. Article III is related to mining; New Theory of the Formation of Veins. Article IV treats Liberty of the Press with wit and humour. Travels in the South of Spain (In Letters) by William Jacob, M.P.,comprises Article V. The sixth article is Burney's Tentamen, a study of the metrical remains of the dramatic poets. A History of Arithmet... View More...
Original fine tooled half-leather on marbled boards. Black cloth tape on both hinges. Last six weeks missing, but extant are issues from 8 May, 1847 through 18 March, 1848. 750 pp. Body is good, readable, unmarked and unclipped condition. Very small print. Would take the rest of the winter to read it. View More...
Original red floral-decorated cloth on boards. Half price after I had re-inserted about five leaves, and later discovered that one leaf is MISSING. Brilliant 4-colour frontispiece and 3 additional colour plates as well as many b/w drawings among the stories and poems. Some racial stereotyping. Ca. 1900. Unpaginated. Approx. 100 pp. View More...
Original white trade paperback. For starting Serial Numbers xxx1872000 or xxx7086000 and for Canadian vehicles with Serial Numbersxxx85001 or 25001 and higher. Heavy book, so please ask for postage quote before ordering. Separated and torn cover repaired and re-attached with packaging tape. Approx. 400 pp. View More...
Original brown blindstamped cloth with gold title centred on boards. Dedicated to "The Rev. Gentlemen, late of the Anglican, now of the Roman Church, and those halting between two opinions." The Rev. Ffoulkes was an acknowledged leader of this group. The arguments of the day were the same as those of centuries earlier, centred on The Lord's Supper and Baptism. Both endpapers missing. Somewhat soiled and foxed, but unmarked and easily legible. 247 pp. View More...
Original full brown leather on stiff boards. Title page missing, and pp. 367-8 separated but present. Binding shaken, but holding. 800 pp. Heavy book might need extra postage. View More...
Original grey cloth over boards with black logo on front cover and black and brown on spine. Front free endpaper missing. Library stamps, and dustjacket synopsis pasted inside front cover. Edges of text block spotted. A movie studio's Vice-President, Bill Lennox, gets embroiled in trouble when a starlet's husband ends up dead. This is one of four Ballard novels with Lennox as the hero. Set in Las Vegas. 190 pp. View More...
Rebound in green cloth on boards in 1923. Random ink writing on prelims. Previous owner's name. Gutter strain following copyright page. This volume appears to refer to Moral Extracts only. 419 pp. View More...
Original two-tone full leather, gilt lettering. No DJ. Possibly first edition. Both hinges badly cracked, but cover not separated. Three-inch top spine tear. In three parts: Fortune or Success in Business Life, Happiness in Social and Family Life, and Eternal Life. Interesting previous owner bookplate. High-quality portrait engravings of Lincoln, James A Garfield, and others. Corner and edge wear. 687 pp. View More...
Brown calf on boards. Grubby. First free endpapers missing. Hinges cracked, but holding together. The earliest Algebra we've had. 282 pp. Previous owner's name. View More...
Attractive black cloth with red dec. and lettering. Part l - Bidding. Part II - Play. Part III - Illustrated Hands, plus Laws and Index of Laws. Minor edge wear, upper right corner of title page clipped "WD" on FFEP. 200 pp. "Resist the thrill the Slams might bring, and be content. The game's the thing." View More...
Original dark green cloth, no DJ. Book has been wet, and is still odorous. Too good to discard. Complete and readable. Full of diagrams. 232 pp. with index. View More...
