Search Results: Textbook from Dave Shoots, Bookseller

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. New Edition - Revised. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original tan cloth on boards. Endpapers tanned and back cover edged in white. Part I - On Style. Part II - On Prose Themes. Part III - Versification. Part IV - Appendices. 144 pp. NOTE: His Introductory Text-Book of English Composition is listed separately..

London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1872 Book. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Maroon cloth on boards, embossed front and back. Jeopardy fans will welcome this book, which provides many older names of geographic regions such as Hellas for Geece and Hispania for Spain and Portugal. Many other names are provided for parts of regions which were added to or subtracted from areas we know today. Rivers, bays, and other water bodies had earlier names, too. 171 pp..

New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1892 Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Red boards backed by red cloth. Instructions in English for learning French recitations. 103 Anecdotes. 89 pp. with Vocabulaire..

Toronto: Copp-Clark Company, 1904 Book. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original brown cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and notes on endpapers. Three marginal ink notes with underlining in text. "English" in the title refers to the language rather than location, since three of the Fireside Poets, Longfellow, Bryant, and Lowell are included. 201 pp..

Toronto: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston of Canada, Ltd., 1981 Book. Illus. by Photos and Drawings. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original blue pictorial plasticized boards. Textbook designed for Grade 7. Lots of illustrations and a few maps. An attractive study of Canada's beginnings. 264 pp. Previous owner's name..

Toronto: W. J. Gage & Co., Ltd./T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1932 Book. Illus. by Drawings. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Grey hardcover. Short stories, essays, and poems intermingled in no particular order. Many one-word underlines as if for reading with emphasis. Minor wear to head and foot of spine. 416 pp..

Toronto: The Macmillan Comany of Canada, Ltd., 1929 Book. Illus. by Various. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original mustard cloth illustrated and lettered in green on boards. Small stamp of New Brunswick Department of Education. Previous owner's name in light pencil. No damage. Elementary principles of agriculture presented in narrative form. 418 pp..

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1877 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Fifth Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Maroon cloth on boards, embossed front and back. Mechanics, 132 pp. Hydrostatics, 68 pp. Optics, 56 pp. Examination Papers for 1871 and 1872, 23 pp. Previous owner's name. All edges red. Clean and sound..

Saint John: J. And A. McMillan, 1887 Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition (No Additional Printings. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Dark brown cloth on boards. New Brunswick School Series. Previous owner's name Willard S. Tedford, who was a missionary to India. The author was Professor of Natural History at University of New Brunswick, whose biography is listed separately. One illustration of crystals. White spots in photo caused by chipping away of cloth. Two lines in pencil on rear endpaper. Book is fragile, but holding together. 94 pp..

Toronto: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1950 Book. Illus. by Photos, Maps, and Other Drawings. Good Plus. Hardcover. Reprint.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Light green cloth on boards. One student's name on half-title is the only writing. Cover is a bit grubby, but binding is firm and square. An unusually good copy ! 478 pp..

Ottawa: Graphic Publishers Limited, 1930 Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Showing school stamp, so must have been used as a high school text. Begins with the "literature of knowledge" and then passes on to the higher levels of truth and beauty. Liberally underlined. 295 pp. with index..

Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003 Book. Illus. by Photos and Diagrams. Very Good. Hardcover. Fifth Edition (International Edition). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original colour pictorial laminated boards. Small scrape head edge of cover, otherwise very good. I found no marks or other damage. 656 pp. Please inquire for postage..

London: J. Nunn, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, et al, 1834 Book. Fair. Full Leather. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Brown calf on boards. Grubby. First free endpapers missing. Hinges cracked, but holding together. The earliest Algebra we've had. 282 pp. Previous owner's name..

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition, Revised. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original dark green paper boards. Prescribed for New Brunswick Schools. Previous owner's name. Tiny bits of spine missing head and foot. In two parts, Structure of Sentences and Structure of Paragraphs. 93 pp..

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1877 Book. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. Eleventh Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Green cloth embossed front and back, on boards. Structure of Sentences and Structure of Paragraphs. Light foxing sprinkles on title, but soundly bound and symmetrical. 89 pp. Previous owner's name..

Halifax: A. & W. Mackinlay, 1893 Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. New Edition - Revised. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original black cloth on blindstamped boards. Covers lightly warped and endpapers tanned due to moisture in the past, but no dampnes or odour now. Part I is Structure of Sentences, while Part II is Structure of Paragraphs. 113 pp. NOTE: His Advanced Text-Book is listed separately..

Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., 1954 Book. Illus. by Gundega Janfelde. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Rear endpaper full of notes. Authorized for use in the Protestant Schools of the Province of Quebec. With help in pronunciation, this book should be very useful in learning French. 105 pp..

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1847 Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover. Eighth Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original brown full leather on boards. Front hinge delicate, separated one inch at head. Partial backstrip. Previous owner's name. 230 pp..

London: Blackie & Son Book. Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Brown leather on boards. Title missing, but believed to be Seventh Edition in two parts, the first part beginning with Tables of Weights and Measures, and the second part beginning with Vulgar and Decimal Fractions. With Answers. 204 pp. plus 78 pp. of Answers, with catalog. Shows normal edge wear. Binding sound..

London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1897 Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original brown cloth on blindstamped boards. Bilingual reader with short stories followed by questions, new words, pronunciations, and other exercises. White spots and minor wrinkling of cover. 191 pp..