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The Garden of my Heart
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np : Privately Printed , nd . . NF . 12MO . Seems to be privately printed but more elaborately so than is usual with decorated cover and colour fronits and black and white plates by the author. Rather a handsome little book. Very light wear. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$15.00
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The Book of the Clock
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Topsfield, MA : Salem House , 1986 . First of this Edition . NF/NF . 4TO . A very nice re-issue of a book originally published in 1920. Lovely colour and black and white illustrations by Tarrant. Very light wear. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$10.00
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Wee Willie Winkie - postcard
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London : Medici Society , . . Fine . . Postcard showing Willie in his nightgown with lantern announcing bedtime with the nursery rhyme printed underneath. Postage to any destination will be reduced for this item. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$10.00
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THE HOUSE-BOOK
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OXFORD : BASIL BLACKWOOD , nd . . Good . 8VO . Illustrated with colour cover pasteon and charming black and white illustrations by Folkard. Spine neatly taped, foxing, corners worn. Scarce. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$25.00
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The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Edited by ArthurPendennis Esq. (2 volumes)
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New York : Limited Editions Club , 1954 . Limited Edition . NF/VG . 4TO . Illustrated with black and white and coloured illustrations by Ardizzone. Bound in black cloth backed pictorial boards. Limited to 1500 copies of which this is 1044 and signed by the illustrator. Books are in lovely condition, Light wear to slipcase with one edge starting to split. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$50.00
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The Thackeray Alphabet
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London : John Murray , 1929 . Facsimile Reprint . Fine . 16mo . Composed by Thackeray on the spot for a little boy frustrated by his spelling tasks. Charming illustrations in black and white. Bound in brown boards, cream cloth spine. A pristine copy lacking the jacket, in more or less as new conditon. One small area of foreign material on front board, probably a printing flaw. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$20.00
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The Virginians
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London : Nelson , 1905 . Reprint . VG . 12MO . Handsome little volume printed on india paper and bound in full limp green calf with gilt titling and vingettes on spine, TEG, ribbon bookmark. Owner's stamp, spine extremities worn, rubbed. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$10.00
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THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1880 . Reprint . VG . 8VO . A handsome edition bound in green cloth with gilt decorations on front board and spine. Extensively illustrated with black and white woodcuts. Wear to extremities. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$16.00
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Adventures in the Skin Trade
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New York : New Directions , 1955 . First US Edition . NF/VG . 8VO . Priceclipped jacket edgeworn with tape reinforcement on verso of spine extremities. ... more information
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$20.00
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Under Milk Wood
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London : Dent , 1957(1954) . Tenth Impression . NF/VG . 12MO . Unpriceclipped jacket worn and wrinkled. ... more information
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$7.00
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The Original Fables of La Fontaine
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New York : Dutton , nd . Edition not Stated . VG+ . 4TO . With eight colour plates by Tilney. One of the very attractive Tales for Children from Many Lands published by Dent and Dutton. Elaborately gilt decorated cover with pictorial pasteon. One tear in rear endpaper and old dampstain on top edge affecting the margins of some of the pages and plates ow a very nice copy indeed of a handsome edition. ... more information
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$18.00
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The Ship That Sailed to Mars
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London : George G Harrap , nd[1923] . First Edition . VG . 4TO . One of the major illustrated books of the twentieth century, with all pages mounted on gray card. Bound in half vellum with grey boards and gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. This book can be considered the swan song of the Edwardian illustrated book. A commercial failure, it remains a landmark. Lower corners bumped and some shelfwear to the lower edges otherwise near fine. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$3,495.00
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Stillmeadow Sampler
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Philadelphia : LIPPINCOTT , 1959 . First Edition . NF/VG+ . 8VO . Country essays that follow the cycle of the seasons. Tidy gift inscription, one tear at top of rear panel of priceclipped jacket. ... more information
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$10.00
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A Child in Prison Camp
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Toronto : Tundra , 1971 . first edition . F/VG . Oblong 8VO . Beautiful memoir of a Japanese Canadian girlhood spent in internment camps. Wonderful and haunting watercolour illustrations by the author. Winner of the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award, the Canadian equivalent to the Caldecott and Kate Greenaway awards. Two inch closed tear on lower front of otherwise lightly worn unpriceclipped jacket. ... more information
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$20.00
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Nikkei Legacy: The Story of Japanese Canadians from Settlement to Today
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Toronto : NC Press , 1983 . First Edition . Fine/Near Fine . Square 8VO . The dramatic story of Japanese immigrants to Canada. Wonderful illustrations, many from family albums. Wraparound cover art of internment camp at Sandon BC by Fred Brigden. Lightest of wear to jacket. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$25.00
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The British Army : Its History, Customs, Traditions and Uniforms
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London : Sampson Low Marston & Co , nd . . VG . Oblong 16mo . Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white. With a hand-typed index of regeiments bound in at rear. Rebound in sturdy red library buckram. A solid non-circulating ex-library copy with usual interior and exterior markings. ... more information
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$20.00
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Loyalist Narratives from Upper Canada
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Toronto : Champlain Society / Univesity of Toronto Press , 1946 . Limited Edition . VG . 8VO . Limited to 550 sets of which this is #119. Bound in gilt-stamped red cloth, TEG. Champlain Society Publication XXVII. Uncommon. Ex-Library although the only evidence is a barcode label on the FFEP and some evidence of tape removal on the lower spine. Original subscriber's name on FFEP. A solid and handsome copy. ... more information
Offered by Neil Williams, Bookseller (British Columbia, Canada) |
$150.00
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Lithuanian Sashes
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Toronto : Lithuanian Folk Art Institute , 1983 . First Edition . G/G . 4TO . Description and history of the sashes profusely illustrated with startlingly beautiful designs. A somewhat worn but solid ex-library copy usual interior and exterior markings. ... more information
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$45.00
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The Old West: The Canadians
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Alexandria, VA : Time-Life Books , 1977 . Second Printing . Near Fine . 4TO . Light wear. ... more information
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$7.00
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Flight of the Moth-Kin
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New York : Margaret E McElderry , 1987 . First Edition . G/G . 8VO . Corners frayed, large pieces missing from jacket. ... more information
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$5.00
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