Original maroon cloth lettered in black on boards. First free endpaper missing. A basic history appropriate to young people or new converts to the Church of England. A few pencil notes inside both covers, but text is clean and easily readable. 298 pp. View More...
Original photo portrait soft cover. Staples secure, but spine split. One small margin tear, not affecting text. Text in Danish. Cover photo believed King Christian X. 96 pp. including Contents page. View More...
Original illustrated, laminated colour boards. Small tear to foot of spine. No writing. A Son for Sir Ector, Merlin the Wizard, King of All England, Princess Guinevere, Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot of the Lake, and the Coming of Percival. Medium difficulty text, probably appropriate to Grade 4 to Grade 6. Illustrated endpapers. 91 pp. View More...
No information as to author is given. Date of writing is 1920. Page edges are heavily spotted with foxing. The author begins a discussion on furnishing a hall with an attack on the combined hat rack- umbrella stand. The dining room described has no comfortable chairs. The drawing room is renamed sitting room. It contains a grandfather clock, a bookcase of 300 books, a Bible box on a stand, a "cricket " or tea table, and a Chippendale mirror over the fireplace. The rest of the book compares various woods. 223 pp. View More...
Original 3/4 brown leather on combed boards. General edge wear. Volume II backstrip is torn about 3 inches from top both sides. A well-respected periodical containing articles of general interest on commerce, politics, history, biography, nature, religion, etc., from both known and unknown writers. Topics in Volume I include : Cavalry Charges at Sedan, Early Christian Art, and Woman's Rights Movements. Volume II has articles on The Thirty Years' War, Beowulf, and Confederation, among many others. Heavy books will need extra postage. 570 and 576 pp., respectively. View More...
Red cloth on boards, backed in maroon leather. Text in Italian. Both hinges broken, but supported by four cloth tapes. Approximately 135 full-page drawings by Dore and others. An artist's delight ! 679 pp. plus index. Large, heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Red 3/4 leather on brown marbled cloth, on boards (Badly worn). The Aeneid, in Latin, extends from Pp. 1-283. Notes, in English, cover Pp. 287-880. Pp. 881-942 include a Metrical Index and Index of Proper Names. 942 pp. Heavy book might need extra postage. Rough, but holding together. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. This book is lightly wrinkled throughout. However, it is the only copy of Titanic literature I have seen which provides so much photographic detail, stem to stern. 240 pp. View More...
Original brown blindstamped cloth on boards. Spine repaired. Reverend Bennet was minister of St. John Presbyterian Church in Saint John, New Brunswick. Specks of foxing to extreme front edges. 426 pp. View More...
Tan cloth on boards. Previous owners' names. Sunday School Library, St. Andrews. Hinges cracked. First free endpaper and frontispiece torn at gutter top. 472 pp. Thirty men, four of them ministers, embarked from London for Tahiti in August, 1796. View More...
Original multicoloured florals on grey cloth on boards. General cover soil and corner wear. Previous owner's name. No additonal writing. Interior tanned, but easily readable. Old Chickweed (George Meredith) is a veteran of the Crimean War who served too briefly to receive a pension. Now he and his wife survive on his earnings as a street vendor. Regardless of their poverty, he watches out for a neglected child downstairs and feeds her when he can. 224 pp. View More...
Original blue-green cloth on boards. The less you have, the more careful you are of your possessions. Hunter and Johnson owned a good spread, but they kept a close watch on it - except when they were sick or had drunk too much. 298 pp. Previous owner's name. Some cover scuffing. View More...
Original illustrated grey paper boards. Long Preface by Miss Eve Blantyre Simpson, followed by four short stories: Rab and His Friends, Our Dogs, Dick Mihi (Or Cur, Why? and Plea for a Dog Home. Seven of eight tipped-in watercolours present (two laid in), and 24 black/white drawings in the text. Binding rather shaken, so must be handled carefully. Previous owner's name and date (1937). 92 pp. View More...
Vol. 1 has 62 pp. introductory material before the Bible text, which concludes with Psalm 132 at p. 656. The spine has been strengthened by a heavy fabric strip covering the full length of both hinges. Vol. 2 begins with P. 665 (separated) and the Book of Proverbs. Pp. 667-670 are missing. The map of Ancient Palestine following P. 984 is seriously torn but present. The last page of Acts and first page of Romans is torn full length but present. The last leaf (of hymns) is torn for 3/4 its length. Vol. 2 has also had a full-length repair to the spine. Each volume weighs 7 1/2 lbs. Since this it... View More...
Original tweedy green cloth with gilt lettering on boards. Front hinge cracked. Glued. Previous owner's name. No author identification except "C. R." at end of epitaph. A puzzling piece, but obviously loved and read. Untrimmed edges quite foxed. 207 pp. View More...
Faded green suede lettered in gilt on flexible card. Front cover suede is partially separated from flexible card, but both firmly attached to binding. A poem or two for each day of the year. Name blacked out on first free endpaper. 403 pp. View More...
Twelve large format maroon softcovers of black and white Saint John photos with tissue covers. The author travelled to several other Canadian cities, and produced similar photo books for British Columbia, Montreal and Winnipeg. They are extremely scarce in the original form. Most of the parts range from Fair to Good Plus in condition. However, Part One is in poor condition. It contains a 17-page writeup on the city. The covers are detached and taped together, and several pages are detached. Some of the tissue covers are detached and wrinkled. It seems as if this Part got the most use! ... View More...
Brown cloth on boards, embossed front and back. Grubby covers and endpapers: text clean. No reviews found. Assumed to be historical fiction. 509 pp. Bookplate of Seamen's Friend Society. View More...
Original grey cloth on boards. Edited by J.P. de Fonseka. A reading copy. First free endpaper missing. Front hinge cracked and glued. Drawing of Chesterton (?) in photo corners inside cover. Backstrip split at joint. Ink blots to bottom edges to p. 29. Impressions of the persons and works of several major writers, including Boswell, Holmes, Johnson, Austen, and Gilbert and Sullivan. 272 pp. plus bibliographical note. View More...
Blue paper boards backed in blue cloth. Previous owner's name. Speckled and soiled, with foxing freckles on edges. Cottage Economy has 158 pp. with index. Poor Man's Friend has 68 pp. Previous owner's name. View More...
