Condition: Good

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JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. FROM THE 17th JANUARY, 1935 TO THE 5th JULY, 1935, BOTH DAYS INCLUSIVE. VOLUME LXXIII. SIXTH SESSION OF THE SEVENTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF CANADA. SESSION 1935.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, J.O. Patenaude : 1935

Seller ID: 28949

Condition: Good

795 pp, 10" H. Orange cloth with black lettering/banding on spine, black borders on front/rear boards. Contents: Proclamations; Journals of the House of Commons; Index. Very light browning in margins of pages, waviness at top edge of last few page leaves, darkening and a small liquid stain on top of text block, light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block, light browning to spine, some soiling to rear board and light soiling on front board, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, small bump at top edge of front board.
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PILOT'S NOTES FOR MOSQUITO MARKS F II AND NF XII - MERLIN 21 OR 23 ENGINES. (MOSQUITO MARKS F II AND NF XII PILOT'S NOTES).

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: St. Annes on Sea, Lancashire, Air Data Publications

Edition: Facsimile Reprint

Seller ID: 29182

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good

36 pp, 7 3/8" H. Facsimile reprint of the Air Ministry, January 1944, publication - including the pen annotations made in 1944 to the original "Notes". Blue card covers with black lettering/illustration on front cover. B&w frontispiece (Mosquito), 3 fold-outs (6 figures - Instrument panel / Cockpit - port side / Cockpit - starboard side / Simplified fuel system diagram - Marks II, XII and XVII only / Emergency exits and equipment / Simplified fuel system diagram - Marks XIII and XIX only). Section headings: Descriptive Introduction; Fuel and Oil Systems; Main Services; Aircraft Controls; E...
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THE NATURE CALENDAR - WILD FLOWERS. 1913.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins : 1913

Edition: Velvet Calf Edition.

Seller ID: 30371

Binding: Leather & Card

Condition: Good

Unpaginated (approx. 50 pp, printed on one side only with versos blank), 11" H x 7 1/8" W. "Velvet Calf" (soft leather) front cover with letter/decoration in gilt, card rear cover, stud fasteners. 12 tipped in colour plates of North American wild flowers. All pages have gold decorative borders. Each month is preceded by an illustration, describing the flower's preferred habitat, flowering season and distribution throughout the United States and Canada, and a poetic quotation, except for January where the illustration is on the title page. Then, depending on the amount of flora blooming th...
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Image for THE PERFECT READY RECKONER AND LOG BOOK, THE TRADER, FARMER, AND MECHANIC'S USEFUL ASSISTANT FOR BUYING AND SELLING ALL SORTS OF COMMODITIES, IN DOLLARS AND CENTS, SHOWING AT ONCE THE AMOUNT AND VALUE OF ANY NUMBER OR QUANTITY OF GOODS.

THE PERFECT READY RECKONER AND LOG BOOK, THE TRADER, FARMER, AND MECHANIC'S USEFUL ASSISTANT FOR BUYING AND SELLING ALL SORTS OF COMMODITIES, IN DOLLARS AND CENTS, SHOWING AT ONCE THE AMOUNT AND VALUE OF ANY NUMBER OR QUANTITY OF GOODS.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, Montreal News Co. : 1891

Seller ID: 30282

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

245 pp, 5 7/8" H. Cloth spine, paper-covered boards with text on rear board, lettering, illustration and decorative border on front board. Appears to be an American publication reprinted by the Montreal News for use in Canada. No date, but examples of business forms are dated 1890 & 1891. Title page continues: "from a quarter of a cent to ten dollars, Containing also comprehensive and accurate tables for board, scantling and plank measurement, timber and log measure, wages and board, interest, grain and building tables, business forms, business law, and much other information for every-day...
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MONTY WOODPIG'S CARAVAN.

By: 'BB'. (Denys Watkins-Pitchford.)

Price: $395.00 USD

Publisher: London, Edmund Ward : 1957

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29602

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

64 pp, 7 1/2" H. Yellow cloth with dark green lettering on spine, dark green silhouette on front board. Four colour plates (including frontispiece) and two b&w drawings on each page of text. Monty Woodpig (a hedgehog) has a lovely caravan but is lonely until he meets Millie Gonbysi (a dormouse). The two marry and set out on a honeymoon trek to the seaside. They have several adventures that lead them to the conclusion that home in Foxglove Spinney is best. Gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper, browning to edges of text block, spine is very slightly twisted, light browning to spin...
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FIGHTER PILOT.

By: 'McScotch'. (Lt. William MacLanachan.)

Price: $110.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Routledge : 1936

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28615

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

248 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs (some aerial), fold-out map at rear (all present). "This book consists of the reminiscences of an ordinary fighter pilot of the R.F.C. who had the privilege of serving with one of the leading Fighter Squadrons and who had the honour of being the friend of the supreme fighter of all the Air Forces, that indomitable and lovable patriot, 'Mick' Mannock, V.C., D.S.O., M.C." Faint erased pencil marks at top corner of free front endpaper. book is very slightly cocked, browning to edges of text block, a few faint soiling marks on top of text block ad at top of for...
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DAYS WITH SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY.

By: (Addison, Joseph.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan : 1886

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30668

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

82 pp, 8 3/8" H. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and illustration on front board. All edges gilt. Dark brown endpaper, many charming b&w illustration, including tissue-covered frontispiece - all present. The first appearance in book form - previously published in The Spectator. Contents: Sir Roger's Family; Mr. William Wimble; The Picture Gallery; The Widow; The Chase; The County Assizes; The Spectator's Return to Town. The fictional early 18th century Worcestershire baronet, Sir Roger de Coverley, is the centre of this collection of stories of English country l...
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THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

By: (Clement Clarke Moore.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Shenandoah, Iowa, Living History, Inc.

Edition: Reprint.

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 30963

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Unpaginated (16 pages, including covers) - 12 1/4" H, stapled in wraps. "An Exact Reprint Of An Early Edition", illustrated throughout in full color and black/white/brownish orange (see photos). An undated copy of the classic Christmas poem. Bump at the top of the spine and at the top corner of the book, some rusting on the staples, light edge wear - mostly on the spine and at the corners, some light soiling and several areas of water staining on the rear cover.
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Image for PUSS IN BOOTS AND OTHER FAIRY TALES. (PUSS IN BOOTS / THE GOOSE GIRL / SNOWDROP / BLANCH AND ROSALINDA / THE THREE SOLDIERS / THE TIN SOLDIER / THE UGLY DUCKLING / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST / A PRINCESS IN DIGUISE / THE YELLOW DWARF).

PUSS IN BOOTS AND OTHER FAIRY TALES. (PUSS IN BOOTS / THE GOOSE GIRL / SNOWDROP / BLANCH AND ROSALINDA / THE THREE SOLDIERS / THE TIN SOLDIER / THE UGLY DUCKLING / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST / A PRINCESS IN DIGUISE / THE YELLOW DWARF).

By: (Hans Christian Andersen, et al.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Springfield, Massachusetts, McLoughlin Bros.

Seller ID: 29707

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

10" H. Green cloth spine, pictorial front board. No date. Many b&w illustrations. Each tale is paginated separately. 'Snowdrop' is a version of 'Sleeping Beauty'. Browning to pages and endpapers, two small tears in rear inside hinge - hinge holding well, 1/2" dia. stain on one page of 'Beauty and the Beast' - text is legible, light to moderate edge wear to bards, wrinkling on spine cloth, very light rubbing on boards, tiny corner bumps.
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1. MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES. 2. MOTHER GOOSE CHIMES. 3. MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES. 3 ITEMS.

By: (Mother Goose.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Akron, Saalfield : 1929

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 30782

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

3 'linen-look' children's nursery rhyme books - stapled in wraps, 8 5/8" H. Colour and b&w illustrations. Contents include: Hot Cross Buns; Rock-a-by Baby; There was a Little Girl; Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star; Old Mother Goose; Ride a Cockhorse; Three Blind Mice; Yankee Doodle; Jack be Nimble; Goosey, Goosey Gander; Little Bo-Peep; Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-Eater; Hickory, Dickory Dock; Little Boy Blue; Sing a Song of Sixpence; Little Miss Muffet; Monday's Child; Bobby Shaftoe; There was an Old Woman who lived in a Shoe; Peter Piper; Jack and Jill; The Cat and the Fiddle; Christmas is Coming; Pa...
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MOTHER GOOSE. SEVENTY-SEVEN VERSES WITH PICTURES BY TASHA TUDOR.

By: (Tudor, Tasha, illustrator.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 1945

Edition: Fourth Printing

Seller ID: 29682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

87 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on front board. Pictorial endpaper, beautifully illustrated throughout with Tasha Tudor's charming colour and b&w drawings. Contents include: Bye, baby, bunting; Ding, dong, bell; Georgey Porgey, pudding and pie; Heigh, diddle, diddle; Hickory, dickery, dock; Hot Cross Buns!; Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall; Jack and Jill went up the hill; Jack Spratt could eat no fat; Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home; Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, London bridge is broken down; March winds and April showers; Mary, Mary, ...
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FROM RAGTIME TO ROCK AND ROLL: TWELVE EASY-TO-PLAY PIECES IN "POP" STYLE.

By: Agay, Denes, compiler. Denes Agay, Gerald Martin, Thomas 'Fats' Waller, Felix Arndt.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Sam Fox : 1959

Seller ID: 22211

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good

24 pp, 11 7/8" H. Contents: Harmony Rag; "Softshoe" Lullaby; Invitation to the Blues; Harvest Moon Hoe Down; Swingopation (Black Raspberry Jam); Prelude to a Moonlit Night; Nola; Rock-a-billy Jump; Mary and the Boogie Man; Party Hop Boogie; Rockin' Washerwoman; When the Saints Come Marchin' In. Interior - very faint cigarette odour, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light to moderate rubbing, tiny tear archivally taped at top of rear cover, heavy wear on spine, old price sticker on front cover, small closed tear at top of rear hinge.
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A KENTUCKY CARDINAL and AFTERMATH. NEW EDITION REVISED WITH A NEW PREFACE.

By: Allen, James Lane.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Macmillan : 1900

Edition: Revised Edition.

Seller ID: 30587

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

276 pp + (4 pp) publisher's advertisements, 8 1/4" H. Green cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering on spine and front board, top edge gilt. B&w illustrations (all present). Set in 1850s Kentucky, this is a tale of romance and tragedy, following the wooing, engagement, wedding and family life of nature lover, Adam Moss, and his society-loving neighbor, Georgianna. A slight separation between several page gatherings but still holding firmly in binding, paper is split on inside rear hinge - holding firmly, slight toning in margins of pages, light to moderate browning to fore-edge and...
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THE MILITARY ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY NEWCOME. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CAMPAIGNS ON THE PENINSULA AND IN PALL MALL AND NOTES.

By: An Officer. (David Roberts.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Methuen : 1904

Edition: New Edition

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 30848

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

247 pp, 6 7/8" H, red cloth with paper label on spine, top edge gilt. 15 colour plates by Rowlandson - all present, clean & bright. The fictional adventures, told in humorous verse, of a grocer's son who covets military glory and coerces his parents into buying him a commision. Scattered light foxing marks throughout the pages, light browning to the pages and to the endpapers, previous owner's small name stamp on the front pastedown, a few places where there is a slight seperation between page gatherings but pages are still held firmly, large corner crease on page 25, scattered liquid marks o...
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AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOLOGY. EIGHT RADIO TALKS AS HEARD ON CBC UNIVERSITY OF THE AIR.

By: Baird, David M.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation : 1959

Seller ID: 21833

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

111 pp, 8vo (8" H). Contents: Geology, Geologists and Mass-wasting; Mass-wasting Completed; The Work of the Wind; Rivers; Oceans; Glaciers; Geological Time; Earth's Construction; Economic Geology; Questions and Answers; In Conclusion. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - book is light cocked, has light to moderate edgewear, a few small soft creases, wrinkling on spine, small area of surface paper loss at top of spine.
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THE HISTORY OF SCARBOROUGH, FROM THE EARLIEST DATE.

By: Baker, Joseph Brogden.

Price: $130.00 USD

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green : 1882

Seller ID: 29847

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

527 pp, 10" H. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering/decoration, black banding on spine/front board, black endpapers. B&w illustrations (some fold-out). ***Please note: the illustration titled "Drawbridge of the Castle" is missing.*** Section headings: Introduction; Charters; The Castle; Siege of the Town; Religious Houses and Ancient Churches; St. Mary's; Modern Churches; Governing Body of the Borough; Parliamentary History of the Borough; Corporate History; Charities and Public Schools; Markets, Fairs, and Commerce; Harbour and Shipping; Recreations and Amusements; Biography; Folk Lore; F...
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THE MARIGOLD COOK BOOK. (COOKBOOK)

By: Baldwin, Mary H. and Hinds, Evelyn G. Foreword by Christine Hamilton Allen.

Price: $37.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran : 1938

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30761

Binding: Card covers in Comb binding

Condition: Good

126 pp, 9 1/4" H. Plastic comb binding with paper covered pictorial board covers. Recipes from the Marigold Restaurants. Contents: Foreword; Appetizers; Cocktails; Soups; Sea Food; Breads, Biscuits, and Muffins; Sandwiches; Meat and Eggs; Vegetables; Salads; Cakes; Frostings and Fillings; Cookies; Puddings; Frozen Desserts; Pies; Sauces; Pickles; Jellies and Preserves; Candy; Beverages. Recipes include: Oyster Gumbo; Lobster a la Marigold; Shrimp Wiggle; Creole Jambalaya; Baking Powder Biscuits; Gingerbread Waffles; Southern Spoon Bread; Baked Virginia Ham; Brunswick Stew; Oxtail Noodles; ...
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THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK. IN AID OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH OF YORK HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

By: Barrie, J.M.; Kipling, Rudyard; Young, Francis Brett; Chesterton, G.K.; Uncle Dick (B.J. Lamb); Blackwood, Algernon; Struther, Jan; Tourtel, Mary; Bagnold, Enid; Davies, W.H; Hilton, James; Mackenzie, Compton; Asquith, Herbert; de la Mare, Walter; et al.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1935

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 30972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

224 pp, 10" H. No date, but c1935. White cloth with blue lettering/decoration on spine and front board. Endpaper and title page decorations by Rex Whistler. B&w double page spread of some of the authors/artists as children, colour plates including 2 double spreads of Mickey Mouse and gang, frontispiece of Princess Elizabeth, and illustrations by Sylvia Salisbury (2), A.H. Watson, Herbert Foxwell, Frank Salisbury and H.M. Talintyre. B&w illustrations by Paul Bloomfield, Mary Tourtel, Bip Pares, A.B. Payne (cartoons), Herbert Foxwell, H.M. Talintyre, Laurian Jones and R.L. Brightwell. All pla...
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A SOUVENIR OF SHAKESPEARE'S MERCHANT OF VENICE. AS PRESENTED BY DAVID BELASCO AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 21, 1922.

By: Belasco, David - Inscribed. (William Shakespeare.)

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Privately Printed / Thomsen Ellis Press : 1923

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed

Seller ID: 30632

Binding: Heavy Card

Condition: Good

173 pp, approx. 12" H, heavy card covers with attached beige paper jacket - title/author and David Belasco's "Bee" device printed on front cover in dark brown. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Faithfully / David Belasco." then, below that: "To / George C. Atkins / January twenty-seven / 1930." 29 full page b&w photographs, with tissue guards bearing captions in red, comprising a frontispiece portrait of David Belasco and 28 numbered views of cast/costumes/sets (all present). Text includes: A Preface to The Merchant of Venice as arranged for the contemporary stage by David Belasco; Concerning...
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SIX PLAYS. MADAME BUTTERFLY / DU BARRY / THE DARLING OF THE GODS / ANDREA / THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST / THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM.

By: Belasco, David - inscribed. Notes by Montrose J. Moses.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown : 1929

Edition: Later Printing

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 30485

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

503 pp, 8 7/8" H, purple cloth with signature in gilt facsimile on front board, gilt lettering/decoration on spine. Eight b&w photographs, including frontispiece and scenes from plays (all present). Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To / George C. Atkins / with best wishes / David Belasco / Jan. 27th 1930." Contents: Introduction by David Belasco; A Chronology Placing the Six Plays; Madame Butterfly; Du Barry; The Darling of the Gods; Adrea; The Girl of the Golden West; The Return of Peter Grimm. David Belasco, 1853-1931, was an American playwright, theatrical producer and director. He was...
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