Category: Antiques & Collectibles

SAMURAI: THE WEAPONS AND SPIRIT OF THE JAPANESE WARRIOR.

By: Sinclaire, Clive.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, Salamander : 2001

Seller ID: 22581

ISBN-13: 9781840652338

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with photographs and reproductions. "Following decades of painstaking research, the author provides an intriguing, scholarly, yet highly readable history of these fascinating weapons and the men who made and fought with them. This wonderfully illustrated book displays in spectacular photographs, most of which are in colour and many of which have never been published before, the most important samurai weapons of all - various types of long and short swords, polearms, bows and arrows, and firearms - as well as the dramatic forms o...
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. FEBRUARY, 1995. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2. (ALICE WALKER)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Charles Michaud; Peter L. Stern, Jerry Weinstein, Robin H. Smiley.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine : 1995

Seller ID: 21816

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good-

56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: If You Can't Read Them, Why Buy Them?: The Pleasures of Collecting Foreign Translations; Great Grand-son of You Don't Need a License to Be a Bookseller (catalogue bloopers, etc.); Collecting Alice Walker; Alice Walker: A Selected Checklist with Approximate Values for First Editions in Collector's Condition; Are Best-Sellers Collectable? Part Three - 1962-1972; New York Times Fiction Best Sellers, August 1962-August 1972; Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Viking); Books into Film ('Schindler's List'). Int...
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. JULY/AUGUST, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 7/8. (NATHANAEL WEST, STEPHEN LONGSTREET)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (James Pepper, Robin H. Smiley, Stephen Longstreet.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Los Angeles, Firsts Magazine : 1994

Seller ID: 21810

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Fifteen Collectable Film Books; When Books are Seen in Films (Prop Books); Collecting Nathanael West (with informal checklist); A Talk with Stephen Longstreet; Points ; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Boni & Liveright); Books into Film (The Stunt Man). Interior - soft crease down middle of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles, soft crease down middle of covers.
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. MARCH, 1995. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3. (EVELYN WAUGH, EDGAR ALLAN POE.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Nicholas Burrows, Robin H. Smiley, Clair Shulz.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine : 1995

Seller ID: 22850

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good-

56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: The Best of the British: Collecting British Novelists of the Nineties (with an informal checklist of first editions); Remainders of the Day, Part I: What are Remainders?; Collecting Evelyn Waugh (with an informal checklist); Finding Edgar Allan Poe (a previously undiscovered poem); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (G.P. Putnam's Sons); Books into Film ('The Horses Mouth'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, minor rubbing/soiling, two 2" liquid stains ...
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. SEPTEMBER, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 9. (MALCOLM COWLEY, EDMUND WILSON, LEWIS AND CLARK, ALDOUS HUXLEY.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Peter Coveney, John Henley, Phil Wikelund, Roslyn Lindquist, Clair Schulz, Robin H. Smiley.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine : 1994

Seller ID: 21811

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

60 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Shapers of American Culture (Malcolm Cowley and Edmund Wilson - with selected checklists); Lewis and Clark, Fact and Fiction; Collecting Aldous Huxley (with selected checklist); Are Best-Sellers Collectable? - Part 2; New York Times Fiction Best-Sellers, August 1952-August 1962; Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Bobbs-Merrill); Books into Film (MASH). Interior - very small bump to top corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, very light rubbing,...
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. JUNE, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 6. (SUE GRAFTON, TONY HILLERMAN.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Ralph B. Sipper, Ellen Nehr, Ernie Bulow, Judi Johnson.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Los Angeles, Firsts Magazine : 1994

Seller ID: 21809

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Kinsey Milhone's Uncharted Itinerary; Bibliomysteries; Collecting Tony Hillerman (with informal checklist); Mystery Lineup (recent mystery writers); Points; A Collector' s Guide to Publishers (Simon and Schuster); Books into Film ('Build My Gallows High' - 'Out of the Past') Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, very light rubbing on rear cover, a few small very soft wrinkles, two small corner creases, soft crease down front cover.
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. MAY, 1995. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 5.

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Robert E. Skinner, Richard M. Weatherford, Diane Peterson, Larry Blumenfeld.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine : 1995

Seller ID: 21819

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

60 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Searching the Limits of the Form (Douglas C. Jones - with checklist); The Arthur H. Clark Company (a Western Americana press); Collecting Wallace Stegner (with informal checklist); The Future of the Western; Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Duell, Sloan and Pearce); Books into Film ('The Searchers') Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, light rubbing on rear cover, a few small very soft wrinkles, one tiny corner crease.
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Image for FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. NOVEMBER, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 11. (KENNETH MILLAR, a.k.a. ROSS MACDONALD, MARGARET MILLAR, LAWRENCE BLOCK.)

FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. NOVEMBER, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 11. (KENNETH MILLAR, a.k.a. ROSS MACDONALD, MARGARET MILLAR, LAWRENCE BLOCK.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Robin H. Smiley, James T. Seels, J.D. Singh.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine : 1994

Seller ID: 21813

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

60 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Beyond the Genre: Kenneth and Margaret Millar (Kenneth Millar, best known as Ross Macdonald, and his wife Margaret, mystery and detective authors - with informal checklists); Guilty Pleasures (readers write about favorite books); Collecting Lawrence Block; Lawrence Block: A Selected Checklist of Fiction and Nonfiction, 1961-1994; Crime in Canada (Canadian crime writers); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Macmillan); Books into Film (The Big Clock). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership mar...
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. MAY, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 5. (CHESTER HIMES, CAPTAIN JAMES COOK.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Robin H. Smiley, Robert E. Skinner, Jean Marie Parmer.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Los Angeles, Firsts Magazine : 1994

Seller ID: 21808

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

48 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Are Best-Sellers Collectable?; New York Times #1 Best Sellers, Fiction List 1942-1952; Collecting Chester Himes (with informal checklist); An Exploration of Captain James Cook; Books into Film (Midnight Cowboy). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles.
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. OCTOBER, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 10. (PHILIP K. DICK, MICHAEL WHELAN.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (S.M. Mossberg, James Blaylock, Anne R. Dick, Michael Whelan.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine : 1994

Seller ID: 21812

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good -

56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Giants in Our Midst (new science fiction writers); The Young Giants: A Selected Checklist; Collecting Philip K. Dick: So It Would Be Funny; The Good Days (excerpt from Ann R. Dick's book); Philip K. Dick: An Informal Checklist; Michael Whelan: A Sense of Wonder (fantasy artist); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Little, Brown); Books into Film (The Andromeda Strain). Interior - two small ink notations on page 28, otherwsie clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor r...
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FIRSTS: THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S MAGAZINE. MAY, 1996. VOLUME 6, NUMBER 5. (WESTERN ISSUE - A.B. GUTHRIE, AMERICAN INDIANS.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, editor. (Larry Blumenfeld, Robert E. Skinner, Lew and Nancy Buckingham.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine : 1996

Seller ID: 21829

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

76 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: The Civilization of the American Indian: A Landmark Series from the University of Oklahoma; A Checklist of The Civilization of the American Indian Series; Collecting A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (with checklist); A Tribute to Jeff C. Dykes (collector, educator, bookman - with checklist); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (The Dial Press); Books into Film ('Giant' by Edna Ferber - film by George Stevens). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few sma...
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FIRSTS: THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S MAGAZINE. APRIL, 1996. VOLUME 6, NUMBER 4. (M.F.K. FISHER - BASEBALL BOOKS - HEMINGWAY & STEINBECK.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, editor. (Robin H. Smiley, Allen Ahearn, Roger Gozdecki, Al Navis.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine : 1996

Seller ID: 21828

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

76 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Collectors' Blue Chips, Part One (Hemingway & Steinbeck); Transcendant Gastronomy: Savoring the Works of M.F.K. Fisher; M.F.K. Fisher: A Checklist; Take Me Back to the Ball Game (nonfiction baseball books); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (W.W. Norton); Books into Film ('The Razor's Edge'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles.
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. NOVEMBER, 1995. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 11. (ELLIS PETERS/EDITH PARGETER - HISTORICAL MYSTERIES NUMBER.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, editor. (Robin H. Smiley, Barbara G. Peters.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, First Magazine : 1995

Seller ID: 21824

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

64 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: What Caesar Saw: Sleuthing in Ancient Rome (Lindsey Davis, John Maddox Roberts, Ron Burns, Steven Saylor); Collecting Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael, etc.); Edith Pargeter: A Checklist; History and Mystery: A Natural Pairing; Points; Books into Film ('The Name of the Rose'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles, one small corner crease.
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FIRSTS: THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S MAGAZINE. FEBRUARY, 1996. VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2. (HOLLYWOOD NOVELS - ELMORE LEONARD.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, editor. (Tom Rusch, Robert E. Skinner, Robin H. Smiley, Christine Bell.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine : 1996

Seller ID: 21827

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

64 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Collecting the Hollywood Novel; Collecting Elmore Leonard; Elmore Leonard: A Checklist; How to Read a Books (Without Affecting Its Condition); Points; Books into Film ('Hombre'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles.
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100 SILVER COLLECTIBLES.

By: Snell, Doris Jean.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Wallace-Homestead, Des Moines, Iowa, 1973, first edition.

Seller ID: 18087

Unpaginated (Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, Introduction, followed 53 b&w plates and Index), 9" H, soft cover. "This book contains photographs of 100 Silver Collectibles of the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, measurements for each, and a suggested retail price range for 1973-74...." Interior - previous owners address in large hand writing on ackowledgments page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, rubbing/soiling on rear cover, soft corner crease on front cover. Good+ reference copy.
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AN ATTRACTIVE COLLECTION OF RAILWAY POTTERY. THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN. TO BE SOLD ON WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER 1967 AFTER LOT 339.

By: Sotheby's.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sotheby's : 1967

Seller ID: 15345

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

15 pp, 9 3/4" H B&w photographs. The catalogue of an auction of a collection of 50 railway related pottery items. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor rubbing.
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A GUIDE TO EARLY CANADIAN GLASS.

By: Spence, Hilda and Spence, Kevin.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Longmans, (Don Mills, Ontario, 1972), reprint.

Seller ID: 16577

112 pp, small 4to (10 1/4" H), hardcover in dust jacket. "the authors' aim here is to provide a visual guide for would-be collectors - instant recognition, as it were!" The major part of the book consists of clear, b&w photos of Canadian glassware , with descriptions of pattern names, colors, locations, possible or identified manufacturers, etc. One of the standard reference works. Very slight curl to fore-edges of boards, minor wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very mi nor edge wrinkling, one tiny closed tear, very small sticker pull on front panel, very light rubbing/soiling...
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Image for BEE HIVE AEROPLANE PICTURES. ST. LAWRENCE STARCH COMPANY WWII PHOTO CARD PROMOTION. 48 CARDS INCLUDING SOME DUPLICATES, 1 FLYER & 1 MAILING ENVELOPE. (BEEHIVE / BEEHIVES.)

BEE HIVE AEROPLANE PICTURES. ST. LAWRENCE STARCH COMPANY WWII PHOTO CARD PROMOTION. 48 CARDS INCLUDING SOME DUPLICATES, 1 FLYER & 1 MAILING ENVELOPE. (BEEHIVE / BEEHIVES.)

By: St. Lawrence Starch Company Ltd.

Price: $325.00 USD

Publisher: Port Credit, Ontario, St. Lawrence Starch Company

Seller ID: 30335

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

48 cards (circa 1942) from the St. Lawrence Starch Company's WWII "Bee Hive Aeroplane Pictures" sales promotion, plus a flyer for "List No. 2" showing 42 planes and describing the rules for obtaining the cards, plus 1 shipping envelope, 7 cardboard dividers and 1 contemporary newspaper clipping. In the early 1940s, the St. Lawrence Starch Company temporarily suspended its enormously popular Hockey Photo promotion, introducing this series in its place. As with the hockey cards, the keen collector had to send in one Bee Hive Syrup label or two starch product labels for each picture - this coll...
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CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MILITARY MEDALS AND INSIGNIA JOURNAL. SPRING 1996.

By: Steingaszner, Ian, President's Message.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Canadian Society of Military Medals and Insignia : 1996

Seller ID: 22981

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

41 pp + ads, 8 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. Contents: President's Message; Convention Photos; The Oak Leaf; Bogus Badges; Transport Medal Roll to Canadians; Book Review; Hunting Tigers; Society Notices. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear, small soft corner crease.
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THE CANADIAN COLLECTOR: GLASS - POTTERY - FURNITURE - FIREARMS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

By: Stevens, Gerald. Introduction by F. St. George Spendlove.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press : 1957

Seller ID: 28723

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

100 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. First edition, limited to 750 copies. B&w photographs. Contents: Introduction; Early Canadian Glass (Mallorytown Glass House / The Glass Factories of the Seigniory of Vaudreuil / John C. Spence: Glass Maker / St. Johns Glass Works / The Hamilton Glass Works / The St. Lawrence Glass Works / John Herring of Napanee: Glass Maker, Founder and Builder); Canadian China and Pottery (Staffordshire Canadian Views / Canadian China and Pottery / A Check List of Early Canadian Potters); Canadian Cabinetmakers; Canadian Gunsmith...
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Category: Antiques & Collectibles