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PIRONTI E FIGLI 1954 213 PP. BARBE STANCHE E CON QUALCHE STRAPPETTO, SEGNI DEL TEMPO, BUONE CONDIZIONI GENERALI.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text, title very faintly spotted; handsomely bound in full drak green crushed morocco, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, gilt top, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The illustrations were drawn by Lamb in the Oxfordshire village around which the trilogy is written.
Features: Celebrity chef David Rocco taps into his heritage to create memorable evenings; Heidi Leverty - a Toronto photographer breathes new life into consumer castoffs; Wendy Dennis learns the true spirit of the holiday; Modern Rustic - get farmhouse comfort with an industrial edge in a laid-back eat-in kitchen; Dynamic Den - Suzanne Dimma turns a lacklustre den into a colourful cosy library and home office; Teatro Verde's stunning new location is a must-stop shop for design aficionados; Fall Fresh - dress your home in a sophisticated fall palette of moody hues and natural textures; Fall garden advice; Gracious family home of Guido Doria; 70 Top Toronto designers give historic McLean House a head-to-toe makeover; Rosanne Daykin infuses modern style into a traditional Vancouver family home; The New White Kitchen - Designer Viki Mansell outfits the 14' x 15' kitchen of a Toronto townhouse; White plus Rustic Pine - a rustic waterfront home in Hudson, Quebec; White plus Dark Maple - a west-end Toronto home; Three Quebec Artisanal Food Producers - Gourgane Beans, Charlevoix Lamb, and L'Hercule Cheese; and more. 224 pages. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Auction Report; Hutchison House - a fine stone house in Peterborough; Joseph Legare 1795-1855; Style Influences in the Furniture of Upper Canada; Manitoba Paperweight; Molly Lamb Bobak - one of Canada's most prolific painters; Potteries of the Brothers Glass - one of the last major potteries to operate in Ontario (in London). Clean, sound copy. Book
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, titles in sepia and black, several plates and illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpapers, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original series binding of brown cloth, gilt back, gilt tops, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper.
353 pages. Index. Many wonderful black and white photographic plates. Gilt lettering upon front board and backstrip still legible. Lacking frontispiece and its tissue guard. Illustration from front board either missing or entirely faded. Writing inside front board. Hinges open. Moisture stains near spine to prelims and first 17 pages. Heavily worn but still a worthy reading copy of this great vintage hunting work. Book
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 6 plates, endpapers lightly browned, fore-edges dusty; boards, cloth back, paper label, uncut, a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with some loss at edges. With the errata slip tipped-in facing p.59, and spare paper label at end. In addition to the editor, contributors include EV Lucas and Edmund Gosse.
136 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. "Presents the story of the 1891 sheep shearer's strike - what happened, why the strike was focussed on Barcaldine and how it changed Australia." - back board. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A handsome copy. Book
70 pages. Features: Problems of a Park Keeper - Allan Best is curator of Stanley Park's popular zoo; Our California Bighorn Sheep - Can They Survive?, by Robert F. Harrington; Cape Beale, by William J. Betts; Pioneers of British Columbia - The Voageurs; Adventure in Rocks - Ron Purvis; Upper Fraser Sternwheel Days - Part Three; Landmarks of History - Those Cariboo Stampedes; Purchase of 500 acres of California bighorn winter range at Vaseux Lake by the Okanagan Similkameen Parks Society; Mine Tailings into Buttle Lake; and more. Nice ads include: B.C. Tel (inside front cover); Carling Pilsener Beer; McCulloch chainsaws; Snow Cruiser Snowmobiles; Pil'Can Beer; Lucky Beer (on back cover). Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a sepia-toned frontispiece, 11 sepia-toned plates and a full-page map in the text; beige cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb. Uncommon in this condition.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163pp. This issue includes Chalet Books of Elinor Brent-Dyer, Poetry of TS Eliot, Stephen Leacock, Charles Lamb, Lord Dunsany, and Modesty Blaise.
286 p. 185mm. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind. Small loss at head and tail of spine. Hardbound. Very good. Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) was an English author, essayist, and intellectual. Includes essays on: Essays on Shakespeare, Pope, Lamb, Goethe and Schiller. LIT BX 1
176p. + Plus photographs. Inked ownership of Michael Raush, Da Nang, Vietnam, United States Naval Medical Corp. 1969-1970, American Naval Hospital. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly soiled and worn. WWII 2
pp. xv, 292. Frontis plus illustrations. 8vo. Original gold stamped red cloth binding. Limited to 450 copies. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF6
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text; patterned boards, green cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper very lightly browned at extremities. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 207 pages. Black and white illustrations.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Plastic comb binding. Oblong format: 9"w x 6"h. Contents: The Beginning Shepherd; Buying Sheep; Shelter and Equipment; Breeds and Breeding; Health Care; A Good Lamb Crop; Wool Production; Management; Cooking with Lamb; On Location with Sheep Producers; Appendix; For Further Reading; Index. 128 pages.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Plastic comb binding. Oblong format: 9"w x 6"h. Contents: The Beginning Shepherd; Buying Sheep; Shelter and Equipment; Breeds and Breeding; Health Care; A Good Lamb Crop; Wool Production; Management; Cooking with Lamb; On Location with Sheep Producers; Appendix; For Further Reading; Index. 128 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's inscription inside. 137 pages. 5"w x 7 1/2"h. No date given - probably early seventies, because there is an ISBN.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb. Martin's first novel, a moving portrayal of a young man's first love, is generally recognised as a classic of gay literature. The work was completed when he was just seventeen and published the day after his eighteenth birthday. Although several times reissued, the original edition is very scarce indeed in this condition.
352 pages. A very colourful and sumptuously produced publication. Features include: Melissa Changon; Vladimir Ribatchok; Nicola Prinsen; Shinah Lee; Carole Freeman; Hashim Hannoon; Michael Hermesh; Susie Cipolla; Greg Miller; Brent Heighton; Steven Lamb; and many more. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice 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
This publication "aims to print authentic first hand accounts interpretative of the region and its people; to encourage the collection and preservation of the traditional materials of Alberta; and to help foster a literature indigenous to this part of the Canadian West." - from inside front cover. Contents: The Chinook Yark; Sayings heard in Alberta Ukrainian Homes; Klondikers; A Famous Alberta Yarn - told by Oliver Aldridge, son of Mountaineer Bill Aldridge; Potato Bugs; The Edmonton Overland Route to the Yukon; Duhamel (Battle River Crossing); Ghosts - Gus Erickson of the Westlock district had problems with them; Bob Edward's version of how Medicine Hat got its name; Bob Edwards and I; A Bob Edwards Yarn about the "Eye-Opener" race of 1906; Some Northern Trails; A Famous Alberta Yarn about a Russian settler who made his own harnesses from rawhide; A Fast Runner - fanciful tale of a young Englishman and his sheep roundup; Attention Alberta Writers - information about the Alberta Folklore and Local History Project; Interesting details of "The Outlaw", an Alberta newspaper in 1896. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. The first issue of this wonderful publication. 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. Book presents a collection of Aesop's fables as a dramatic vehicle for presentation. 66 "playlets" written expressly for elementary school classrooms, grades two to five. Plays include: Mouse and the bull, Grasshopper and the owl, Two frogs, Wolf and the lamb, Boy and the nuts, Flea and the ox, Mother lark and her babies, Peacock and juno, Hare and the tortoise, Wind and the sun, Serpent and the eagle, The heron, etc.
