Item 088798Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Two Volumes in Slipcase); Volume I A-M; Volume II N-Z
Oxford: Oxford, [ND]. Hardcover. 4to. Navy blue binding. Still in original plastic wrapping; near fine.
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Item 092234Encyclopaedia Britannica, 3rd ed., Volume III (only, of 18) BAR - BZO
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797. Leather Bound. pp. 806. 4to. Full brown leather binding with raised bands to spine. Illustrated with 542 copperplates. Boards a bit bowed, edgewear, 1" chunk of leather missing from a corner of the rear board, a few consecutive pages pulling away.....
Item 9900021759THE MODERN ENCYCLOPAEDIA; or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature
London: Richards & Co., 1822. copper plate engravings. Hardcover. pp. 802. Thick 4to. Originally published as a set of ten volumes, the title page indicates that this is volume VII, covering topics from 'liquor' to 'mineralogy', but it appears to be more of a 'dummy' or made-up copy, for the.....
Item 082783English-Jersey Language Vocabulary
Jersey: Don Balleine Trust, 1972. Hardcover. pp. 80. 4to. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Maps of Jersey to endpapers. Very light shelfwear. Dustjacket shelfworn, with sunning to spine and nicks and tears to edges; very good+ in very good dustjacket.
Item 9900040981CASSELL'S MINIATURE ENCYCLOPAEDIA
London: Cassell & Company, 1889. black-&-white illustrations. Hardcover. pp. iv, 764.,12mo,,,A rather scarce item, WorldCat reporting only a handful of copies worldwide. Bound in what appear to be an early re-binding in carmine buckram with plain stamped gilt lettering to spine, and utilitarian endpapers. Boards now lightly stained and rubbed.....
Item 071027Straight from the Fridge, Dad; A Dictionary of Hipster Slang
New York: Broadway Books, 2000. Paperback. pp. xii, 192. 8vo. Light general shelfwear; very good.
Item 085653Daring to Be Erudite; Traditional Librarianship in an Age of Social Media
[Seattle]: Kindle Direct Publishing, 2019. Paperback. pp. 267. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine.
Item 046594Poor Richard's Almanacks
New York: Bonanza Books, 1979. Hardcover. 4to. Light general wear; very good in scuffed, good- dustjacket with creasing and a few short closed tears, and showing some minor soiling to panels. Illustrated by Norman Rockwell.
Item 9900030722ELEMENTARY ART Grades I and II
Edmonton, AB: Institute of Applied Art, 1929. colour, b&w illustrations. 1st edition. Wraps. ,Small 4to,,Stapled card covers a bit rubbed & soiled; else vg condition, The first in a series of four books which outline a complete course in art for elementary school students. We have others.
Item 9900030723ELEMENTARY ART Grades III and IV
Edmonton, AB: Institute of Applied Art, 1929. colour, b&w illustrations. 1st edition. Wraps. ,Small 4to,,Stapled card covers a bit rubbed & soiled; else vg condition, The second in a series of four books which outline a complete course in art for elementary school students. We have others.
Item 9900030724ELEMENTARY ART Grades V and VI
Edmonton, AB: Institute of Applied Art, 1929. colour, b&w illustrations. 1st edition. Wraps. ,Small 4to,,Stapled card covers a bit rubbed & soiled; else vg condition, The third in a series of four books which outline a complete course in art for elementary school students. We have others.
Item 9900030725ELEMENTARY ART Grades VII and VIII
Edmonton, AB: Institute of Applied Art, 1929. colour, b&w illustrations. 1st edition. Wraps. ,Small 4to,,Stapled card covers mod. soiled. Eps sl. rippled; else gd+ cond., The fourth in a series of four books which outline a complete course in art for elementary school students. We have others.
Item 9900030721HANDWORK FOR ALL GRADES Instructor Handbook Series
Dansville, NY: F. A. Owen Publishing Co., 1937. black-&-white illustrations. 1st edition. Wraps. pp. 86.,Small 4to,,Stapled card covers a bit rubbed & soiled; else vg condition, Organized by countries, and months of the school year. Many illustrations. Introduction by Jessie Todd. Several pages loose.
Item 9900042769MY LADY NICOTINE
Scrap Book, 1907. black-&-white illustrations. Wraps. pp. 147-150.A four page illustrated extract from the 1907 'Scrap Book'. An article containing statistics about the monetary costs and amounts of consumption of various kinds of tobacco products.
Item 088201The Home Treasury of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge; Canadian Home Series of Useful Books No. 1
Toronto: J. S. Robertson & Bros. 1883. Hardcover. pp. x, 374. Large 8vo. Bright blue cloth binding, bevelled boards, gilt and black lettering and decoration. "Handsomely illustrated" with engravings. Edgewear, front board bowed, tide mark to foredge, pencilled names to front endpaper and presentation page (dated 1896); good. Includes a......
Item 084086Hints to Collectors; Of Original Editions of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
London: George Redway, 1885. Limited edition. Vellum. pp. 48. 8vo. Vellum bound with gilt lettering to spine. Thackeray bibliography. Light shelfwear, bowing to boards; very good. Of this work only 500 small and 50 large paper copies will be printed.
Item 083792A Guide to the First Editions of Edgar Wallace
Motcombe: The Ivory Head Press, 1981. Paperback. pp. 88. 8vo. General shelfwear, age toning; sunning; very good. No. 585 of a limited number of First Editions.
Item 085098Literary History of Canada; Canadian Literature in English
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965. Hardcover. pp. 945. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, slightly shaken, ink inscription to ffep; very good.
Item 076297Learn to Spell Correctly; The Fundamental Phonetics and The Chemistry of Sound
New York: Published by the author, 1957. Hardcover. pp. 102. 8vo. Light shelfwear; owner's signatures to ffep; Very good in good-dustjacket, showing open tears.
Item 084159Dictionary of Afro-American Slang
New York: International Publishers, 1970. First edition. Paperback. pp. 127. 8vo. General shelfwear; very good.
Item 063003Wilson's Topical and Textual Index
East Haddam, Conn. Wilson Index Co., N.D. [Circa 1920]. Tall 4to. Bound in black cloth over burgundy cloth with gilt rules and lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, negligible age-toning to contents, small ink entry under "h", otherwise unmarked; very good+. Indexical notebook for the cataloguing of a library in the.....
Item 9900026380THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. B&w photos and illustrations. Reprint. Hardcover. pp. 1054.,Heavy 4to,,Near fine in vg+ dj, With a foreword by Doris Lessing.
Item 091310The Complete Encyclopedia of Horses & Ponies
Bath: Parragon, 2005. Paperback. pp. 384. 8vo. Light shelfwear and some minor discoloured spotting; very good. One thousand pictures and nearly 200 breeds.
Item 078163A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America. To Which is Prefixed an Essay on the Present State of the English Language in the United States.
Boston: Cummings and Hillard, 1816. Leather Bound. pp. vii, 206, errata. 8vo. Full brown leather with gilt-lettered red leather title label to spine. Leather splitting at joints (intact but tender), light occasional spotting to contents, old ink name to title page. Sabin 62638.
Item 080965Dictionnaire Historique de la Langue Francaise; A-e; F-Pr; Pr-Z (Grands Dictionnaires)
N.P. Le Robert, 2009. Paperback. pp. 1381; 1384-2909; 2911-4304. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good illustrated slipcase.