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ANNUAL '95: FICTION. ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS. ILLUSTRATORI DI LIBRI PER RAGAZZI.

By: N/A

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: North South Books: 1995

Seller ID: 12738

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Near Fine

190 pp, 11" H. Profusely illustrated in color. "This is the official catalog of the 1995 Fiction Exhibition (of the Bologna International Children's Book Fair), showcasing recent work by some of the finest illustrators of children's fiction from around the world. The pictures were chosen for their originality, their artistic and technical merit, and their child appeal. Along with the beautifully reproduced artwork, essential biographical information about each artist is listed, making this catalog an ideal reference for all who delight in contemporary children's book illustration.&#...
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ANNUAL '94. ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS / ILLUSTRATORI DI LIBRI PER RAGAZZI. BOLOGNA.

By: N/A

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: North-South Books: 1994

Seller ID: 12781

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good

175 pp, 11" H. Profusely illustrated with wonderful color and b&w artwork. "(T)he official catalog of (the 1994 Bologna International Children's Book Fair) Exhibition, once again presenting to a widening audience many of the finest children's book artists from around the world. Along with beautifully reproduced examples of the artist's recent work, essential biographical information about each person is listed, making the Annual an ideal reference for illustrators, graphic designers, editors, art directors, children's librarians, and all who appreciate ageless creativity." Inte...
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QUEEN'S 1919. 1919 YEAR BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE GRADUATING CLASS IN ARTS AND SCIENCE, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, ONT.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Kingston, Ont., Graduating Class, Arts and Science, Queen's University: 1919

Seller ID: 28477

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

155 pp, oblong (99 3/8" H x 11 5/8" D), dark brown pebbled cloth with blind stamped borders and gold lettering/crest on front board, floral patterned endpapers. Many b&w photographs of University buildings, professors, sports teams, etc. Head shots and short biographies of students. Information on students who served/died in the First World War. Honour rolls. Light browning and a few very tiny stains on endpapers, small area of printing ink offset in top margin of pages 22 & 23, light edge wear/wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light browning to edges of text block, light wear at...
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RULES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA WITH APPENDIX, APRIL 23, 1913.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, C.H. Parelee: 1913

Seller ID: 28702

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

90 pp, 6 1/2" H. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering on front board. Contents: General Rule / Sittings of the House / Quorum / Order in the House / Casting vote of Speaker / Divisions / Yeas and Nays / Internal Economy Report / Select Standing Committees / Quorum of Committess / Deputy Speaker / Rules of Debate / Question of Order / Decorum in Debate / Reading the Question / Members not to speak twice / Conduct of Members as to Voting - Personal interest / Decorum in the House / Attendance of Members / Business of the House / Officers of the House / General Regulations / Intercourse bet...
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CONSTITUTION OF THE GRAND LODGE, DISTRICT AND LOCAL LODGES, COUNCILS AND CONFERENCES. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Grand Lodge, International Association of MacHinists: 1949

Seller ID: 28927

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

117 pp, 5 3/4" H. Title page continues: "Revised by the Committee on Law as recommended by the Twenty-Second Convention of the Grand Lodge of The International Association of Machinists, held in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 13 to 24, 1948, and thereafter adopted by referendum vote in the month of December, 1948, effective April 1, 1949." Information on apprenticeships, benefits, Grand, District & Local lodges, dues, fines, elections, initiation, membership, pensions, salaries, strikes, etc. Interior - tiny staple dent at top of first oage, small soft crease at bo...
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THE NATURE CALENDAR - WILD FLOWERS. 1913.

By: N/A

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 f...
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1967 CENTENNIAL HIGHLIGHTS. BLAKELOCK HIGH SCHOOL, OAKVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA. VOLUME TEN.

By: N/A

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Winnipeg, Inter-Collegiate Press: 1967

Seller ID: 30475

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

176 pp, 12 1/4" H. Peach/maroon cloth with large '67' on front board, lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs (and a few colour) of students, teachers, teams, clubs, events, local business sponsors, etc. Yearbook of T.A. Blakelock High School for 1967. Contents: Expo; Events; Curriculum; Grads; Undergrads; Athletics; Activities; Patrons. Very light browning to edges of text block, small bump to top corner of both boards, light edge wear to boards/corners, two light line scuffs (3") at top of rear board.
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VIEWS OF DULUTH, MINN.

By: N/A

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto / Duluth, Minn., W.G. MacFarlane for S.H. Knox & Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 30505

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Fair

Unpaginated (40 pp excluding covers), oblong (7" H x 9" D), purple paper covers with decorative gilt lettering on front. Undated, but c1910. One page of introductory text followed by captioned b&w photographs of streetscapes, schools, churches, commercial buildings, parks, docks, shipping, industries, scenery, etc. Some pages have two or more images. Interior - most pages have soft creases at top/bottom corner, soiling at top/bottom corners of first page with a tiny corner repair at bottom corner. Exterior - wear at top/bottom of spine icluding a 1/2" tear at bottom of spine, hea...
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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 ...
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LETTERS FROM COMPTON DEVERELL.

By: 'BB'. Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1950, "First Cheap Edition", with 7s. 6d. price on dust jacket flap.:

Seller ID: 18690

281 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover (green boards with black lettering on spine) in dust jacket. Green, black & white map endpapers, b&w illustrations. "Where is Compton Deverell? It may be anywhere you choose in the English countryside, because ' BB' has drawn a living picture of that sort of delightful old house among fields and woods, the ideal English home which thousands remember from their childhood or hope to have in that future for which they work and plan. The letters are w r i t t e n b y a countryman to a younger friend abroad and they describe the routine of country li...
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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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AESOP'S FABLES.

By: (Aesop). Selected and illustrated by Michael Hague.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29805

ISBN: 0030020387

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

27 pp, 10 1/4" H. Beaufifully illustrated throughout in full colour. Contents: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse; The Lion and the Mouse; The Fox and the Goat; The Cat and the Birds; The Crow and the Pitcher; The Mice in Council; The Marriage of the Sun; The Hare and the Tortoise; The Wolf and the Kid; The Fox and the Grapes; The Ass in the Lion's Skin; The Fox and the Crow; The Cock and the Jewel. Spine has a slight lean, one very minor corner bump. Dust jacket has slight fading to spine color.
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Image for FLASH GORDON. BOOK ONE: MASSACRE IN THE 22nd CENTURY. BOOK TWO: WAR OF THE CITADELS. BOOK THREE: CRISIS ON CITADEL II. BOOK FOUR: FORCES FROM THE FEDERATION. BOOK SIX: CITADELS ON EARTH. 5 BOOK PARTIAL SET.

FLASH GORDON. BOOK ONE: MASSACRE IN THE 22nd CENTURY. BOOK TWO: WAR OF THE CITADELS. BOOK THREE: CRISIS ON CITADEL II. BOOK FOUR: FORCES FROM THE FEDERATION. BOOK SIX: CITADELS ON EARTH. 5 BOOK PARTIAL SET.

By: (Hagberg, David.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Tempo / Grosset & Dunlap:

Seller ID: 29967

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good

Books 1,2,3,4 & 6 of this Flash Gordon series. 6 3/4" H. **Lacks Book 5: Citadels Under Attack.** Book One: Massacre in the 22nd Century - 202 pp, 1980, ISBN 0448129639 - "Sent on a mission to investigate the mysterious reappearance of the Interstellar Exploration ship GOODHOPE, Colonel Flash Gordon and his companions, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov discover much more than they had bargained for. Stranded in deep space, the trio find themselves drawn against their will into a war of the worlds which has lasted thousands of years - and which threatens the very existence of the planet...
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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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DINING WITHOUT DESSERT.

By: (Kingcrafts.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: King City, Ontario, Kingcrafts: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8773

Binding: Card covers in cerlox Binding

Condition: Very Good

191 pp, 9" H. B&w drawings. Some advertisements for local businesses. "To spread the spirit of craftsmanship is the purpose of the Kingcrafts programme. For a group of women who take pride in their individual skills, kitchen craftsmanship must always be of high importance. 'Dining Without Dessert' brings together the best recipes of the Kingcrafts community within the covers of one book." Contents: Canapes, Hors d'oevre; Soups; Salads; Breads; Meats; Chicken; Seafood; Casseroles without Meat; Pickles, Jellies; Wines, Punches. Interior - clean with no previous ownership mark...
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Image for THE ONLY TRUE MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES. AN EXACT REPRODUCTION OF THE TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION PUBLISHED AND COPYRIGHTED IN BOSTON IN THE YEAR 1833 BY MUNROE & FRANCIS.

THE ONLY TRUE MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES. AN EXACT REPRODUCTION OF THE TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION PUBLISHED AND COPYRIGHTED IN BOSTON IN THE YEAR 1833 BY MUNROE & FRANCIS.

By: (Mother Goose). Introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale. Edited by Harriet Blackstone C. Butler.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard: 1905

Edition: Facsimile Edition.

Inscription: Signed by Editor.

Seller ID: 30551

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii, 100 pp, 24mo (5 3/4" H). Yellow paper-covered boards, reproducing the illustration from the original 1833 edition (as does the dust jacket), cream-coloured cloth spine. B&w illustrations, black borders to pages. Signed "Harriet Blackstone C. Butler" at the bottom of the Introduction and with a quotation in the same hand on the front free endpaper, dated 1929. This facsimile of the 1833 "Mother Goose" begins with a "History of the Goose Family", which claims an American origin for the collection of nursery rhymes. Light browning to endpapers, slight toning to ...
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THE CIVIL WAR BOOK OF LISTS. OVER 300 LISTS, FROM THE SUBLIME...TO THE RIDICULOUS.

By: (Richard H. Berg, John Cannan, Richard L. DiNardo, David G. Martin, Albert A. Nofi, Wayne Michael Sarf, Kathleen B. Williams.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Combined Books, (Conshohocken, PA, 1993), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 11122

240 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "This fascinating new handbook on the War Between the States is an invaluable source of facts, statistics, data and trivia. The wide variety of lists includes detailed topics of every description. Commanders on both sides are ranked according to the best and worst ever to lead troops during the war. A selection of casualty figures demonstrates the enormous number of lives taken on the fields of the war's bloodiest battles. The composition of the armies is given in terms of state origin, ethnic background and even average height of the troops. Lists also probe...
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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, Ma...
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A CANADIAN INDIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY 1960-1970.

By: Abler, Thomas S., Weaver, Sally M. With Claire C. Veillette and Iris V. Yuzdepski. Case Law Digest prepared by Douglas E. Sanders with Paul C. Taylor.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1974

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28044

ISBN: 0802020925

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

732 pp, 9 1/4" H. "This bibliography lists and annotates material published between 1960 and 1970 of interest to the serious student of the Indians and Metis in Canada. A team of researchers worked through books, monographs, journals, theses, unpublished papers and reports, publications by Indians, and federal and provincial government documents to generate over three throusand entries covering a multi-disciplinary range of aspects of current society and culture. Some aspects such as physical anthropology, biomedicine, archaeology, and linguistics had to be excluded, however. Both ...
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SKETCHES OF OAKVILLE - A SMALL TOWN.

By: Ahern, Frances Robin. Inscribed.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Circa 1988:

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 21732

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

28 pp, 8 7/16" H. Inscribed at top left of title page: "to Vieve & John / with love -", then signed at the bottom right: Frances Robin Ahern". B&w drawings. Contents: Built of Brick; Vernerville - Oakville's Forgotten Village; The Underground Railroad; "Let's Move It"; Oakville Strawberries; Winter - A Contrast; The Summer Resort - Oakville; Recycling - World War II Style; The Tannery: Thompson Smith, Joseph Milbourne, Christopher Armstrong, The Marlatt Connection; The Doctors. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - soft creases to covers.
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