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3 vols., 8vo., with frontispieces, title-vignettes and numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, red tops, red endpapers, a near fine set in publishers board slip-case blocked in gilt. Bright set of Sassoon's classic fictional autobiography, first published by FS as single volumes in 1971, 1974 and 1974 respectively. The first two volumes are illustrated by Lamb; the last by Lawrence. This is the 1993 reissue with redesigned slip-case.
pp. xv, 292. Frontis plus illustrations. 8vo. Original gold stamped red cloth binding. Limited to 450 copies. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF6
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 5 plates and very numerous facsimiles in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy.
417 pages. Index. Appendices. Footnotes. List of sixty black and white illustrations. A rare surviving copy of this important reference, made all the more engaging by today's environment of competing fiat currency devaluations. "Hitherto Numismatists when stydying the Origines of Coinage had confined themselves to the materials presented to them in the earliest money of Lydia, Greece and Italy, and on the other hand the Metrologists had almost completely limited their range of observation to the systems of Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. As the Comparative Method has yielded such excellent results in the study of other human institutions, I have endeavoured by its aid to get some new principles which may throw some fresh light on the first beginnings of monetary and weight systems." - from Preface. Attractive gilt decoration upon green front board. Legible gilt lettering upon backstrip. Average external soiling and wear. Several chips from and lengthy openings along backstrip which has become brittle with age. Narrow opening along most of front hinge. Back hinge open. Bookplate discretely removed inside front board. Unmarked. A tender but worthy copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for pages 8 and 9 with marginalia and underlining. 586 pages, chapters include Of terrorism and the arts, Posh art and post-historic art, The anti-aesthetics of an art of chaos, Furniture as frame, Vital structures: the constructive nexus in South America, The ruptura group and concrete art, Gego and the analytic context, Julio Le Parc, promoter of technological art, On the subject of Waldemar Cordeiro's popcretos, Critical painting of Jose Balmes, Leon Ferrari: Dogma and resistance, Play and grief, etc. Full color prints and photos throughout, often full page.
22 pages. Features: Mailbag; The Earthworm - info. and diagram; Frankly Speaking - funds for government agencies, soil bank programme, Fraser Foreshore Shooting, More Boat Launching Ramps Needed; Many pages of nostalgic boat information and ads; Fantastic centrefold ad for Dreem Boats & Marina Ltd. of Vancouver includes photos and specs. of eighteen different boad models; Operation Goodwill - photo-illustrated article on a batch of British Columbia's California bighorn sheep which will re-establish their species in Washington State, including photo of the animals and a group photo of Lawson G. Sugden, Joe Gibault, John M. Gladney, John Leskowski, Lawson G. Sugden, Ken Walmsley, and Raleigh Moreland (Sugden's head is bandaged as he was injured by a ram's horn during loading of the animals!); Ad inside back cover by the B.C. Game Commission advises anglers their 1958 licenses are now required; Clay Chips - lists of winners of shooting competitions; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Ceramics for Investment - a guide to 'brokering' antique Spode for another collector; The Best of the Web (internet); Market Survey; Artscene; Index of Contents 1999; Decoration by Design - Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair at the Marquee, Battersea Park; The King's Head - royal figures were popular subjects for decoration on early English Delft; Ranby Hall - perfect setting for English and Continental furniture, decorations and garden statuary; Essay in Gilding; Goldsmith Richard Hilliard Investigated - part II; Nice colour photo ad for Roger Lamb on back cover; and much more. Lavishly produced upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
A miscellany on books and book collecting. Signed inscription from author on front free endpaper. Brown red cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Dust jacket faded on spine and creased on lower front corner. Page edges foxed and browned.
pp. (8), 17-471, 23-35 [Paper read by R.S. Rhodes, of Chicago, at the Fourteenth Convention of American Teachers of the Deaf, at Flint, Michigan], (6) [Illustrated Publisher's catalogue, includes advertisement for the Deaf, The Audiphone, hearing through the teeth] + Frontis and full page drawings. Many pages printed upon light color drawings, red, purple, green and blue, which cover the full page. Note: Six candid original photographs of cowboys pasted on first fly leaves. Four Photographs of cowboys and their horses, one photograph of their bunk house and one photograph of their chuck wagon. Small loss on bottom margin affecting text on pages 143 and 144. Inner hinges slightly cracked. Floral end papers. Paper beginning to brown and slightly brittle. Small 8vo. 200 mm. Original publisher's green cloth binding. Front board decorated in silver with design of a cowboy and his horse within an elaborate border. Spine decorated and lettered in silver. Extremities slightly rubbed with very small loss. Graff 3328; Howes P500; Jenkins. Texas #689; Adams. Rampaging Herd #1819. One of the Earliest Books on the Cowboy. An exceptional artifact of early cowboy culture. W4
pp. xx, 508, 8 [Loeb Classical Library catalogue]. Title page ruled in green with publisher's device. Text in Greek and English on opposite pages. Top edge gilt. 170mm. Original full green cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gold gilt. Extremities slightly worn. Hardbound. Very good. CLASSICS BX 3
UTET 1990 COLLANA GIURISPRUDENZA SISTEMATICA DI DIRITTO PENALE DIRETTA DA PIERO BRICOLA E VLADIMIRO ZAGREBELSKY NUOVO, ANCORA IMBALLATO.
58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Glamorous colour photo of woman wearing arctic fox evening cloak inside front cover; The Mad Giant and the Mountie - a huge Swede who worked on a section gang makes a sudden divorce from sanity; Frank Oliver - Spokesman for the West; Cold War on the Fraser River - the Yucultas near Fort Langley were dreaded by all the tribes along the river - until the day when the cold war became a hot war; The Simple Men; First Lady of the Rails - "The Countess of Dufferin"; On Board the M.V. Fort Hearne - great photo study; Robert (Bob) Chambers Edwards (Eye-Opener Bob); Trapping the Big Horn - there was lots of action when some California Bighorn sheep were corralled in the Chilcotin country for shipment to Oregon; The Formative Years - II - part 2 of an article on the early settlement of the area which, 50 years ago, became Saskatchewan and Alberta; The Story of The Sault - on the centenary of the first American locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Dr. Clever Bald sketches the history of the two towns - Canadian and American - beside the rapids; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of the "Mary Clyne" - A chief officer's story of a weird and nerve-trying affair that happened on board a tramp steamer; Housekeeping in the Wilds of Bechuanaland - Vivian France explains how she set up her home a month's ox-cart journey from civilization - with nice photos ; Following the Frontier Trail - Part II - The continued adventures of Edith Ammons Kohl in Wyoming; Our Caribou Hunt - How four young Newfoundlanders went into the interior one winter to shoot caribou, and what happened to them; Pekin [Peking / Beijing] to London - Mostly By Car - Part II - A most adventurous 15,000 miles, with nautical detours around civil war in China, and floods in Siam and Burma - with nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I - The amusing narrative of a decidedly unathletic 46-year-old Londoner who decided to tramp from the French coast to Lourdes; The Black Trackers of Australia - follow-up to "The Great Boulder Murder Case" which appeared in the prior issue; Photo of sheep being used as pack animals on the way from Tibet to the Rampur Fair; A Chinese Night's Entertainment - A lively interlude in the peaceful routine of life at a mission-station in a remote Chinese town; Buddy Assheton's Return - A tragic story from Western Canada, as told by a member of the Mounted Police; My Room-Mate - The amusing story of what happened one night at a hotel in a Queensland township; The Unmasking of Gola Singh - A member of the Indian police goes bad, creating the need for a delicate investigation; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part I - C.V. Warren travels to a tea estate in Ceylon and describes his experiences and the general routine of the tea-planter's life, with photos. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb.
Ritratto del personaggio distintosi nelle vittorie e conquiste militari francesi tra il 1792 e 1815. L'incisione, antica ed originale, è accompagnata da pagina con testo descrittivo del personaggio. Foxing
Ritratto del personaggio distintosi nelle vittorie e conquiste militari francesi tra il 1792 e 1815. L'incisione, antica ed originale, è accompagnata da pagina con testo descrittivo del personaggio. Foxing
1st edition. VG in slightly worn boards. 11804. eng
Index. Illustrated in the text. 80 pages. Edge of front cover and several following pages crinkled by damp. Spine has creases.
New Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). Edition in Turkish. 192 p., color ills. Contents: The Dog.; Shepherd Dog Breeds of the World.; Native Dog Breeds of the World.; Origin of the Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shepherd Dog.; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shepherd Dog.; The Turkish Kangal (karabash) Shepherd Dog in the UK (Written by Margeret Mellor).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in Netherlands (Written by Peter Vink).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in Germany (Written by Liza Borg).;The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in France (Written by Liza Borg).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in the Continent (Written by Liza Borg).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog and the Wolf.; Breed Charecteristics of the Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog.; Behavioural Chracteristics of The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog.; Stud Selection.; Reproduction of the Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog.; Managment.; Nutrition.; Materials and Equipment.; Training.; Sickness and Treatment.
Fine English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In English. 148 p., color ills. Contents: The Dog.; Shepherd Dog Breeds of the World.; Native Dog Breeds of the World.; Origin of the Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shepherd Dog.; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shepherd Dog.; The Turkish Kangal (karabash) Shepherd Dog in the UK (Written by Margeret Mellor).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in Netherlands (Written by Peter Vink).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in Germany (Written by Liza Borg).;The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in France (Written by Liza Borg).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in the Continent (Written by Liza Borg).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog and the Wolf.; Breed Charecteristics of the Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog.; Behavioural Chracteristics of The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog.; Stud Selection.; Reproduction of the Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog.; Managment.; Nutrition.; Materials and Equipment.; Training.; Sickness and Treatment.
308 pages. Index. Black and white photos. "This is the first book by a hunter-naturalist to be devoted exclusively to North America's most coveted trophies. It thoroughly covers all aspects of the game and hunting methods in every kind of sheep country, from the parched Mexican deserts to the mountain pastures of the Yukon." - from dust jacket. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Prior owner's neat ink stamp and blind stamp upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Clean with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition in every respect. Covers have sharp corners, creaseless covers and spine, text/interior is clean and unmarked; Covers show the slightest shelf wear only. 67 page art mag with contributions by Mark DeLong, Christopher Brayshaw, Mike Grill, Eli Bornowsky, Monique mouton, Roy Arden, Ron Tran, Evan Lee, Sarah Hodgkins, Lee Henderson, Collin Johanson
NICOLA MAZZACUVA A CURA DI DIRITTO PENALE COMMERCIALE 2 I REATI SOCIETARI E LA TUTELA PENALE DEL MERCATO MOBILIARE UTET 1990 COLLANA GIURISPRUDENZA SISTEMATICA DI DIRITTO PENALE DIRETTA DA VLADIMIRO ZAGREBELSKY E FRANCO BRICOLA.
60 pages. Features: Editorial - Liberty is a Necessity; *Gorgeous* two-page colour photo ad for General Motors features the 1956 Checrolet Bel Air 4-door sports sedan, Star Chief 4-door Catalina, Oldsmobile ninety-eight deluxe holiday sedan, Buick Roadmaster 4-door Riviera and Cadillac Sedan de Ville; The super-bomb stalemate between NATO and the Soviets; The Bennett Brothers - Archie, David and Jacob - are Canada's Biggest Landlords - photos and feature article by Peter C. Newman; Nice one-page colour photo ad for the 1956 Plymouth V-8 with push-button transmission; Industrial Quebec - Part V of Bruce Hutchison's "The Unknown Country"; The Battle over Report Cards - in the new-style reports a child competes with himself - not against others - with photos and comments from L.B. Bissell, Dorothy Millichamp, Harold Whitley, A.E. O'Neill, Mary Mahon and N.V. Scarfe; The Man with the Acres of Lambs - William Hayward's 7500 sheep in B.C. - article with great photos; Who Would Marry a Riverman? (short story); The Rise and Fall of Canadian runner Tom Longboat - The Bronze Mercury (a Maclean's flashback to 1906); How to Survive a Children's Birthday Party; Truly magnificent 1956 Plymouth/Dodge/De Soto/Chrysler/Imperial colour-photo centrefold ad features huge photo of tail fin with fashionable lady and large plane in background; Nice colour one-page ad for the Ford Monarch; Attractive full-page colour ad for the De Soto Fireflite V-8, 4-door sedan, with push-button transmission; Nostalgic ad for Labatt's IPA features photo of farmer Howard Ella of RR#3 Weston, Ontario; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
