Original fine blue cloth with gilded leather spine on boards. No DJ. 219 pp. plus extensive catalog. Previous owner's name. Minimal pencil marks. View More...
Original leather boards rebacked in brown cloth. Previous owner's name. Hinges cracked, and last 3 endpapers glued. Sturdy and clean. 642 pp. plus index. Heavy book - will need extra postage. View More...
Original red half-leather on green cloth boards, no DJ. Minor corner and edge wear, and one photo page has been re-inserted. Truly an education with regard to Canada up to 1919. Many photographs of all sorts of scenes and events, notably wooden ships, aftermath of the Halifax explosion, and Eskimos. Front. of King George V. Both hinges cracked and weak, not separated. A rare book. 640 pp. View More...
Much better than Good. Original blue 3/4 leather with orange cloth on boards. Royal seal in gilt. Top edges gilt. Foot and foredges untrimmed. Minor scuffing to spine, yet gilt lettering present and legible. Minor corner tip wear. P.O.N. 454 pp. with index. A luxurious, rare volume offered with no apologies. View More...
Original faux marbled boards on 3/4 leather design in black on red cloth on boards, no DJ. A rather scarce edition of a very popular book. Owner's name pencilled inside cover, and inscription in ink on half-title. RFEP and facing leaf carelessly separated at top. 180 pp. plus ads. View More...
Ollendorf's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the French Language. Half-title page missing. Previous owner's signature (Hilary S. O'Keefe, 1880) was a male teacher. Maroon cloth on boards, backed in brown leather. 248 pp. with vocabularies. 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...
Original 3/4 leather over maroon cloth on boards. Marbled page edges. Five raised bands on spine with gilt and embossed decoration. Minor wear to edges and corners of leather. Top of spine a little frayed. Previous owner's bookplates in front. Front hinge broken, but still holding. Medium hinge break between pgs. 120-121. Bad hinge break between pgs. 288-289. Rear hinge cracked. Foldout lithographed map of Nova Scotia counties is in very good condition - just a few extra folds at one edge. Captain Moorsom spent five years in Nova Scotia initially, as an officer in the 52nd Regiment. This... View More...
Original 3/4 leather on red cloth boards. Seal of the Anchor Line in gold. This is the second volume we have listed which was in the library of the Belgravia of the Anchor Line, which sank near Saint John in 1896. The author rose through a career in banking to being appointed consul at Bristol. He has several additional volumes to his credit. Damage appears limited to staining and wear of the covers, the interior being intact and clean. The catalogue of the ship's library is shown in two lists attached inside the respective covers. 353 pp. View More...
Original maroon leather-grain cloth on boards. Minor wrinkling of first few leaves. Arranged in four "books": Views, University, Academy, and Ladies' College. Nine full-page photos of buildings and campus. All the usual staff and student infor. No writing. 218 pp., including ads. View More...
Green cloth on boards backed in black leather. Small stamp of previous owner's name the only fault. Condition justifies three times the price, but I want to sell it ! Text in Latin. 291 pp. plus catalog. View More...
Sadly, though the cover matches the last two Carlyle books listed, this one has several small, light pencil marks in margins. It's all about heroes, whether as divinities, poets, kings, or other. These six essays were first published in 1841. Green cloth backed in green leather on boards. Previous owner's name and date of 1914. 334 pp. with index. View More...
Blue cloth on boards, backed in tan leather. Spine label. "At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the First Day of February, Anno Domini 1866, in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Victoria...And from thence continued by several Prerogations to the Nineteenth Day of November, 1867; being the Third Session of the Nineteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." Printed by Malcolm Cameron, Ottawa. Minor wear to head and foot of leather spine. 528 pp. plus Table of Contents of Second Session, First Parliament. Heavy book will need extra ... 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...
Original black cloth backed in brown leather on boards. Three hundred small portraits of historic personages, with a paragraph describing each in small print. Previous owner's name. top edges gilt. Spine joint and corner tip wear, but firmly bound. Approx. 150 pp. View More...
Original decorative beige cloth over boards with brown lettering with reinforcement at spine (possibly added by original owners, the Saint John Law Society, whose name is printed at the bottom of each spine). Leather(?) labels with contents of each volume printed on spine. Most volumes have minor handsoiling to the covers. All volumes have been reinforced inside front and back covers with bookbinding tape, but despite that, most have breaks in the hinge within the first few pages. This has resulted in about ten of the 7046+ pages being separated (all are present). Some of the pages are uncut,... View More...
Patterned beige cloth backed in black leather-like cloth on boards. Number 26 in the Collector's Edition. Introduction by Harold C. Gardiner. Previous owner's name the only fault. 301 pp. View More...
Original brown leather-like cloth on boards. This book comprises the Nineteenth Fernley Lecture, given in Carver Street Chapel, Sheffield, on August 5, 1889. Introductory, The Evidence Within, the Evidence in the Material World, Christianiity Compared with Other Religions, Christ and the Christian Documents, The Historical Argument, Objections, The Result, and Notes. 199 pp. View More...
Original brown faux leather cloth on boards. Leather backstrip showing shoulder wear. Library bookplate with evidence of no circulation (Card is blank). General articles on history, art, biography(William Blake), music, and everything imaginable. Exterior cracking at hinges, but still securely bound. Patterned endpapers. 476 pp. View More...
