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410 pages. Subject was born in Winnipeg as the third son of J.S. Woodsworth. With his geological degree he pioneered in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Northern Rhodesia. He taught high school for 17 years, became principal, and was a fruit farmer in the Okanagan. Clean, bright and unmarked with faintest wear. Blank bookplate inside front cover. Excellent copy. Book
64 pages. Loaded with black and white photos. Several autographs at back. Moderate wear. Photo and name of one student clipped and removed from the grade 8 class, otherwise a quality vintage copy. Book
grand in-8°, 204 pp, broche, couverture illustre. Excellent etat. [BU-1]
PARIS, Henri Charles-Lavauzelle. 1908/1909 - In-8 Carré - Reliure 1/2 basane havane - Dos lisse orné de fillets dorés - Pièces de titre & de tomaisosn en maroquin cerise - Titre doré - 1334 pages - N° 1 du 28/01/1908 au N° 66 du7/8 mars 1909 - Documents officiels. Avec Table chronologique & Table Analytique -Très bel exemplaire
PARIS, Henri Charles-Lavauzelle. 1905 & 1906 - In-8 Carré - Reliure 1/2 basane havane - Dos lisse orné de fillets dorés - Pièces de titre & de tomaisons en maroquin cerise - Titre doré - 728 & 876 pages - Très bel exemplaire N° 1 de 01/1905 au N° 59 de 01/1906 & N° 1 de 01/1906 au N° 60 de 01/1907 - Documents officiels. Avec Table chronologique & Table Analytique
138 p. Endpapers foxed. The music printed on four line staves. 12 mo. 160 mm. Leather backed plain paper boards. Spine chipped. Hardbound. Very good. Autograph ownership of Ellen Bigelow (probably the person that the Ellen Bigelow School in Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts is named after). John Freckleton Burrowes (1787-1852) was the organist at St. James's Piccadilly; as well as a composer and music educator. This First American Edition of his little handbook is rather scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W145
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original typescript letter signed by Cahit Külebi. 15x21 cm. In Turkish. 1 p. Dated Bern, November 3, 1961. Typescript document. Signed by Külebi as 'cultural attache'. Külebi was a leading Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his adherence to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is enriched with simple yet ironic language, embellished with original descriptions.
pp. [6], LII, 550, [29]. Small 8vo. 18 cm. Very Scarce German Latin reader. Latin text with notes in German.**PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 7
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (29 x 22 cm). In Turkish. 488 p. Color and b/w ills. Very heavy volume. Amiral Bristol hemsirelik okulu tarihi, 1920-1999.
pp. 234 + Plus frontis. Illustrated with full page engravings. Decorated title page. Foxed and age stained. Inked ownership of R. J. Stewart, Texas, June 1st, 1850 and John C. Boone, Nov. 1st, 1879. Penciled manuscript quotation from Gibbons in Vol. 1. 12mo. Original full leather binding, worn. Slight loss at bottom of spine. Early schoolbook used in Texas in1850. FRENG 3
pp. lxvi, 420. Illustrated with 140 wonderful descriptive woodcut vignettes. Text foxed. Engraved bookplate on front endpaper. Engraved and manuscript gift label presentation on front paste down "presented by the Council of King's College, London to George W.H. Fletcher as a prize for Divinity Dept. of General Literature & Science 29th June, 1852". 220mm. Original full leather binding. Boards detached. Front board decorated with the King's College coat of arms embossed in gold. Gilt decorated spine with homemade spine label. Could be fairly easily repaired. Hardbound. Good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SPORTS/ GAMES BX 5
Two volumes. pp. (56), 353; 478. 8vo. Original full mottled leather (roan) binding. Boards detached. "Third American Edition. For the Use of Schools, as well as of Private Gentlemen." Apparently based on the work of James Davidson (1732-1809). AI 14772. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W120
8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece and 4 plates; original blue pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in darker blue, a very good, bright, clean copy. With prize bookplate on front free endpaper. Carr's classic school tale was first published in 1919. BOTH EDITIONS ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece and illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; attractively bound in contemporary full calf BY BICKERS, sides with double frame border stopped at corners with rosettes all in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with brown leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, joints lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean crisp copy. The binding is signed on front free endpaper verso. First appearance of this famous collection of European poetry (chiefly English; from Shakespeare onmwards) translated into classical verse by members of the school. The original and classical texts are given in parallel on facing pages. A lovely copy.
CANADA, Club de Relations Internationales - 1965 - In-4 - Reliure pleine toile de l'éditeur - importante iconographie - (éç PAGES 6 TR7S PROPRE Envoi :"Au Prof. Paul de GEOUFFRE de la PRADELLE, en souvenir de notre rencontre à l'Université de Montréal et chez Mr nicolas MATEESCO.
112 pages including bibliography and index. Catalogues Mackintosh's architectural projects, and shows the extent of his achievements in terms of completed buildings, interiors, alterations, unexecuted designs and competition entries both successful and unpremiated. Each scheme is illustrated with photographs and, where possible, original drawings, and accompanied by a description including notes on its present condition and the whereabouts of original documents. In the case of both the Glasgow School of Art and Hill House, Helensburth ten plates have now been added in colour. Over 170 illustrations. Some moisture exposure to top few inches of contents near head of spine has caused minimal staining and minor rippling. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Glossy colour illustrated covers. Book
126 pages. Copyright 1935. Printing date unknown. Lovely colour illustrations throughout. School details handwritten inside front board. Most of pages 41/42 and 77/78 missing. Various tears to pages. 3 inch chunk missing from lower corner of title page. Despite these shortcomings this copy retains a sound binding and can still serve as a useful and enjoyable reader. Book
92 pages. This history of Roslyn School, Westmount, Quebec. Illustrated in black and white. Gift greetings inside front cover else unmarked. Average wear. Decent copy in illustrated brown covers. Book
116 pages. Features: Reports on Tropical Africa, Australia, Science and Industry; Bugles and a Tiger - Adventure on India's Frontier, by John Masters; The Way the New India Thinks, by Aubrey Menen; Christmas Eve at Chartres (a poem), by Winifred Hare; Billingsley's Bird Dog, by Dillon Anderson; The Bounds of Space and Time - How Long Will the World Last?, by Crary Moore; Hark, Hark, the Lark (a poem) by Marie De L. Welch; Creating a School, by Agnes and Ernest Hocking; The Army Invades the Wichita Mountains, by Clark C. Van Fleet; Dr. Flesch's Cure-all, by Virgil M. Rogers; The Spoiled Honeymoon, by Robert Graves; Renewals if Needed - They Shall Have Music, by John M. Conly. Color ad by the European Travel Commission inside front cover. Fantastic colour photo ad for RCA Victor Colour Televisions on page 19 features family and home in white; Color full-page ad for Old Smuggler Scotch on page 20. Columbia Records ad on page 32 features large black and white photo portrait of Winston Churchill. Very attractive colour ad for Drambuie inside back cover features Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
510 pages. "...to admire him, was it not to admire one of the greatest scholars of the day, and thus share in the honour which his name conferred upon his race? All these circumstances combined to give this century one of its greatest statesmen, and England one of her greatest sons." - from Preface. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Decorated front board features large, bright and ornate gilt lettering. Gilt lettering upon spine worn but legible. Above average but not excessive wear to blue/green boards. Front free endpaper removed. School llibrary stamps atop title page. Writing inside each board. Front hinge open. No markings externally. A warmly sympathetic review of the live of William Ewart Gladstone. Book
Features: Last rig to Battle Mountain - the last family to take the Humboldt Trail by covered wagon, led by Sherman Wilhelm, makes one of Nevada's richest gold strikes; Motion Picture Vignettes - Neal Hart; Clues to Frontier Treasure; Over-kill in Apache land - Camp Grant Massacre; Last rails across North America - Building the Grand Trunk; A hundred miles of lonely river - the Missouri River; Toughest school in the county - Oklahoma; Stars over Chloride, New Mexico; "My God, My Hero, My Ideal" - Joaquin Miller; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
20 pages. Contents: Autumn and Winter Toilettes; The Care of a French-flat kitchen; Small Selfishnesses; Women and emN - the winter school of slang; Family living on $500 a year - part XLII; New York Fashions - French dresses, French toilettes in wool; skirts and draperies, basques and drimmings, polonaises, prevailing colors, carriage costumes; Personal; Galloon for trimming hats and bonnets; Bulgarian wedding ceremonies; An English Hospital - with illustrations; Paston Carew - Millionaire and Miser - continued; Paris Fashion; Nice centerfold illustration "Winter Wrappings"; Mrs. Beardsley; The Woodlanders - continued; How to Judge a Horse; The Maldives Islands; humor. Above-average wear. Pattern included. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Spring Toilettes - cover illustration; Ill-Regulated Temperament; Female Conversation; New York Fashions - summer bonnets, dinner and evening dresses, about dresses; Personal; Waist with square neck for girl from 14 to 16 years od; Medalions in application and satin stitch; silk and bead wall basket for dusters; Needle and Pin Case; Crochet edging for lingerie; Work-bag in Byzantine embroidery; Corners of borders in Byzantine embroidery; Netted Guipure edging for covers, curtains, etc.; Boy's Suspenders; Tapestry design for slippers, sachels, cushions, etc.; Spring Toilettes for children; Cashmere Shawls; My Private School; Sayings and Doings; Nice full-page illustration entitled "Fifth Avenue After Church" by C.G. Bush; Illustration "A Reception at the White House" by Henry J. Morgan; The Cryptogram - continued; Bridal Toilette - lovely illustration; Illustration - "Spring Flowers"; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
66 pages. Features: Jeet-Kune-Do - Fast, powerful, deceptive; West Coast Pro Tourney turns sour - kickboxing exhibition; Whirlwind Fred Wren; Karate Ni Sente Nashi - Richard Kim; Preview of Jhoon Rhee's Hyung Book; To-San at a Glance; To-San Complete; How to Choose a Karate School - Chuck Norris; Mideast National Karate Matches; Kumite Karousel. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Centerfold holding by one staple. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this vintage issue. Book
Sm. 8vo., handsomely bound in full green calf, sides with double frame border stopped at corners by rosettes and enclosing Harrow School crest all in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second comparment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed and tooled in gilt with the School crest, gilt dentelles, marbled edges, marbled edges, a near fine copy. With the Harrow School prize bookplate, signed by Edward Graham, on front paste-down.
