Original brown blindstamped cloth on boards. Quotations related to the practice of law from these various languages are translated into English. Previous owner's name. First free endpaper missing, and second last free endpaper torn half away, otherwise unmarked and easily readable. Very light foxing freckles. Fabric bookmark. 312 pp. View More...
Original brown blindstamped cloth on boards. Ca. 1850. Small tear head of spine. Beatrice is a 6-year-old Spanish girl, the lone survivor of a shipwreck on St. Mawes, on the south coast of Cornwall, England. The rector takes her in. Easily readable, with scattered spots of foxing. Previous owner's name and address (Cannada W.) (sic). Colour frontispiece. 126 pp. View More...
Original colour illustrated soft cover. Part No. 6844. Smudges on front edges, but interior clean and easily readable. No writing. 476 pp. including index. View More...
Original light grey wraps. 2" tear to cover paper at bottom of spine. Bottom corners of front cover missing. Edges of both covers missing small slivers. Subjects include: The Climate of Acadia in Earliest Times (by G.F. Matthew), Geography and Natural History of the Tobique, Distributions and Habits of Some New Brunswick Fishes. The Appendix includes various reports related to the administration of the Society. 55 pp. including Appendix. View More...
Orange softcover showing map of Canada. Several full-page photos of various subjects from about 1939. Corner of back cover torn but present. Approx 125 pp. View More...
Original green cloth on flexible card cover. Pocket-sized rule book covers everything from air brakes to injured workers. Only 4 years after the "Last Spike" was driven, this is a very early official publication, and Van Horne was still the boss. Permanently edge-soiled and bent into hip pocket shape, but all readable. A prize for a railway collector. 87 pp. View More...
Original brown paper boards with red and gilt decoration. Much of paper backstrip worn away, but cloth hinges intact. A catalog of wigs, toupees, switches, pompadours, transformations, bangs, curls, nets, coloring, and accessories for men and women. A special Holiday Section offers wigs for dolls ! A few pencilled prices, and notes inside back cover. Pgs. 63-64 (men's section) missing. Exceedingly scarce. Edgewear and cover spotting as shown in photo. One 2-inch edge tear. 78 pp. View More...
Original blue trade paperback. Corners of cover have multiple creases. Previous owner's stamp (x4). The Kent Marine Hospital, The Wood Carver (John Rogerson) of Saint John, The Pioneers on King Street, The Victoria Hotel, The New Brunswick Election of 1856, Saint John in 1853, and Christopher Sower(King's Printer and Loyalist) . View More...
Original large format softcover with Alex Colville's "Nudes on Shore" on the cover. Small loss of paper in corner of front cover, and 1/2" tear in top of back cover. Back cover somewhat wrinkled. This is the catalogue from an art exhibition of Maritime artists, Alex Colville, Christopher Pratt, and Tom Forrestall, which travelled around New Brunswick in 1974. Short biographies of each artist are included, as well as a list of paintings and several photos of them. Text in English and French. Scarce. 43 pp. View More...
Dark green cloth on boards. Gold titles. Covers grubby, interior clean. Hinges cracked. Forestry work in the Trent Watershed and B.C., Bore-hole records and capping of gas wells, Migratory birds, Fur farming, Karakul sheep, Toronto Housing Company, Laws for sanitary plumbing, Infant mortality, Leasing oyster beds, Forest reserve in Lake of the Woods, Wheat shipments, First aid, and many other topics. 287 pp. View More...
Original decorated red cloth on bevelled boards. Cocked; corner wear. "By the author of Little Hazel, the King's Messenger."157 pp. Author unidentifed, but also wrote "Little Snowdrop and Her Golden Casket" and "Under the Old Oaks; or Won by Love," according to ads in back of this volume. View More...
Original blue cloth with lettering and portrait in red on boards Gilt spine title. Intended for younger readers, but a serious, well-rounded account. 118 pp. View More...
Original full pictorial colour pastedown on paper boards, backed in purple cloth. A later McLoughlin, since the Springfield address dates them after the sale in 1920 to Milton Bradley. Fearsome plights from around the world. Attacked by man-eaters, Tales of Niagara, Some adventures with snakes, etc. Photo shows general edge wear to cover. Interior clean, with some delicate gutters, but no separation yet. Scribbles on cover and previous owner's scrawls on first free endpaper. 123 pp. View More...
Original pictorial cover trade paperback, no DJ. Die Ausstellung wurde zusammengestellt von der Soprintendenza alle Gallerie per le provincie di Firenze, Arezzo e Pistoia. Some repair to spine cover, and minor marginal markings and underlining, OW good. The only one this side of the ocean. 234 pp. PLEASE CHECK MY ART CATALOG FOR MORE LISTINGS! View More...
Grey softcover. Previous owner's name. Small bits missing from spine. Hundreds of photos of sites and scenes around town, including sports teams and views. Right-hand edges ever so slightly dampstained, and one leaf edge-torn. Approx. 100 pp. Previous owner's name (A. L. Oldfield). View More...
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 illustrated paper boards, backed in red patterned cloth. Shaken, but not separated. 102 pp., plus two pages of ads. Many photos of prominent buildings, sights and scenes around the city. Text in English. Tiny tear to foot of spine. View More...
Original colour pictorial on paper boards. Illustrations by Louis Monnelle, A.S. Cox, Edmund H. Garrett, G. Francis, Edith L. Foster, Harley, Copeland, Lindsay, C. Barnes, and Palmer Cox, among others. Colour frontispiece of a girl riding a Saint Bernard beside two other girls. Many b/w drawings. Cover edges worn. Pages nearly 100 per cent clean and undamaged. Tiny tear head of backstrip. Approx. 100 pp., unpaginated. View More...
Green, embossed cloth on boards. Library book stamped Pine Hill Divinity Hall (now Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax). In chronological order, beginning with Theseus, B.C. 1228, and concluding with Philopoemen, B.C. 682. Twenty men, including my favourite (Demosthenes) are treated over the intervening period. Book appears complete, but fragile. Pencil-sized hole through back cover forward through the index, not affecting the text otherwise. Previous owner's name. 2-inch repaired tear to front joint. 412 pp. with index. View More...
