92 pages. Joints and extremities rubbed; ownership inscription to front free endpaper; brief pencil notation throughout; light soiling to a few leaves. Originally issed 1902. View More...
1732 pages. Clean and unmarked. A thin shallow impression runs vertically along the centre of the rear board but board is not creased or cracked. Else as new. View More...
57 pages, and 5 pages of ads at rear. No compiler, printer, or place specified. Copyright 1897 by Frank E. Bacon. Gilt faded, with "This Cover is PANTASOTE" at foot. The first ad at rear is for Pantasote. An attractive ad for Lowney's Chocolate Bonbons appears on page 3. View More...
210 pages. No stated date of issue. A Musson 'Vest-Pocket English Dictionary' is advertised in The Canadian Bookman 1909, page 118 under the heading Headquarters for Dictionaries, available in cloth and leather. This example in burgundy patterned cloth, with 'tie-dye' endpapers. All edges red, faded to pink, with slight evidence of rippling to fore-edge. Double column format for the most part, with some pages of the Foreign Section full page. That section runs from page 165-210; binder's error resulting in two sheets (pp.173-180) not attached at hinge. Languages represented are Afrikaans, Dani... View More...
219 pages and four pages of ads at rear. Publisher's cloth stamped in blind, with gilt to spine. All edges gilt. Cloth rubbed, faded, lightly stained. Binding is sound. Lacking front and rear free endpaper. Frontispiece foxed, tissue guard retained. A child's enthusiastic pencil scribble to both pastedowns and to seven pages.Appleton's Complete Letter Writer at head of title. Title page not dated. Entered According to Act... is dated 1844 and appears on a strip of paper that has been pasted on title page verso. View More...
'The fourteenth edition, with considerable improvements'. Unpaged; double column format; 8.25 x 5.2 inches. Joints split, with both boards nearly detached. First leaf is the title page; final leaf is the last page of text with advert on verso. Contents clean; textblock sound. View More...
112 pages. Soiling to cloth and head of spine chipped. Binding is sound. Some pencil ticks throughout and a jaunty doodle to front pastedown: Lucius Hendee The Dude. View More...
ix, 376 pages. Former owner's name top right front free endpaper (discreet due to the illustrated endpaper); else unmarked in sound binding. View More...
x, 249 pp. mark on cover where tag removed, otherwise vg in vg dust jacket "A functional study of the principal nominal suffixes of Spanish up to 1300" - Publication of the Phil ological Society XXVII. View More...
xvii, [13]-564 pages. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Former owner's signature to front endpaper dated [19]03; an occasional unobtrusive spot of foxing but overall a remarkably well preserved example of the uncommon first issue of the only work this popular author published in his academic field. A second edition was issued posthumously in 1882. Small old bookseller's stamp at foot of title page: C.C. Morton, Halifax, N.S. " De Mille taught at Acadia from 1860 until 1865, working in the Classics Department. After that, he taught history, literature, and rhetoric at Dalhousie University ... View More...
xxix, 515 pages. Leather spine with gilt titles over pebbled maroon cloth. All edges red sprinkled. Two early small signatures in pencil to top right front endpaper; else unmarked. A remarkably clean example, in sound binding. "Revised Edition"; 1908 issue. View More...
xviii, 334 pages. Light scoring and a few pages with highlighting, but generally a clean interior. Binding is sound, with spine titles faded and spine darker than boards. Former owners' inscriptions to front endpaper, the earliest dated 1920. View More...
430 pages, with advert leaf at rear. A much-used copy of the first edition of this phrase book, 'rebound' at some point using the cover of part of a ledger; original upper board lost, lower limp cover retained within. Inscription of one Mr. G. Spanos of Sparta. Newspaper clipping attesting to George Spanos, proprietor of the Zenith Cafe, shooting a moose "about fifteen miles north of White Fox"; and another brief clipping: Greece Regulates Visits of Aliens. Binding is sound. 5.25 x 4 inches. View More...
cxx, 416, 149; vi, 344, 261 pages. Two volumes (complete). Quarter leather over marbled boards. Spines display well with maroon labels, gilt titles and gilded decorative bands. Pastedowns and endpapers heavily foxed, else very good. Very little foxing to contents. Miniscule early ownership signature to front endpaper. Hinges and binding fully secure. View More...
vii [plus errata], 408; 224 pages plus 12 pages of catalogues for Ch'eng-Wen reprints and Harvard - Yenching Institute Sinological Index Series at rear. Two volumes in one. Red cloth hardcover with gilt titles to spine. Former owner's signature to front pastedown, otherwise clean and unmarked. Sound binding. Volume I is entirely in Chinese language; Volume II, the key, has translation in English. Original receipt laid in. 1968 quality reprint of the 1909/1910 Shanghai edition. View More...
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