Search Results: Writing from Spafford Books

London, UK: Eyre & Spottiswoode NONE [NONE] 1962. (hardcover) 287pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Jacket shows light wear along the edges. Blue cloth, silver title stamped to spine. Illustrated endpapers. A look at artsitic and communities in Paris, Rome, Edinburgh, and London, primarily through his family's letters. Clean, bright, solid copy..

London: Henry Frowde - Oxford University Press 1909, reprint. (Leatherbound) 271pp, [1], 8pp adverts.. Very good. 16mo. In full maroon stiff-leather covers. Spine in six faux-compartments; each compartment with decorative floral device in gilt; title compartment lettered in gilt. Spine ever-so faintly faded. Previous owner's signature rubber-stamp at foot of half-title. Else internally clean. Top edge gilt. Maroon ribbon marker. The World's Classics, LXI, the Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes - I. "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" was first published in 1857. In the "World's Classics" series, it was first published in 1904, and reprinted in 1906 and 1909..

New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company [0-07-008977-9] 1986, 1st edition; 1st printing. (hardcover) xiv, 589pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. First Edition; First Printing. Heavy. Some light residue to front cover on and evidence of light water damage to dj. The book is free of blemish and clean, tight..

Ottawa, Canada: Universite D'ottawa/ University of Ottawa 1971. (Mass market paperback) 39pp. Very good. 4to. Periodical journal. Yellow card covers, stapled, with yellow binding tape. Microfische included, as well as other related ephemera laid in. Small and faint stain to front; the binding tape is lightly cracked along the spine; else is clean, tight, bright and solid. Issue 1---ix 1971..

Calgary, AB: Logos, Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary 1975. (Mass market paperback) 46pp. Very good. 4to. Red card covers, stapled. Small tear at front hinge to cover and first two pages; does not affect content. Corners are lightly bumped. Otherwise, a clean, bright copy. Related ephemera laid in..

Canadian Journal of Linguistics 1969 - 2011. (Mass market paperback) Fine. Canadian Journal of Linguisitcs Volume 15-1 through volume 56-1 (1969 - 2011) COMPLETE. Also volume 1-1 1954, volume 1-1 and 1-2 (regular series) 1955, Volume 2-1 and 2-2 1956, volume 3-1 and 3-2 1957, Volume 4-1 and 4-2 1958, volume 6-2 and 6-3 1961, the index printed in 1980 to commemorate the first 25 years and the Silver Anniversary Issue Volume 25 1980 "The Birth of Language" by Richard Albert Wilson..

London: the Hogarth Press [0-7012-0443-5] 1977, 1st edition. (hardcover) xxii, 600pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. 8vo. Thatched-blue boards, lettering in gold to spine. Volume very near fine, with only light shelfwear. Dust jacket lightly age-toned, as always; spine lightly sunned, less evident due to light colouring of jacket; not price clipped, showing 12.50 net / in U.K. Only. Internally tight, bright, and clean. B&W photo plates..

New York London: Harper & Brothers 1926, 1st edition. (hardcover) xii, 173pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Volume 1 only. First edition. Jacket shows light wear at edges. Quarter bound, brown paper boards, paper pastedown title block to spine. Top edge stained. Deckled edges. The paper is evr so lightly age-toned, oltherwise clean, tight, bright and solid..

London: the Hogarth Press 1966, 1st edition, 1st printing. (hardcover) [4], 361pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Short 8vo. Dark-brown boards; lettering in gold to spine, title within blue oval. Dust jacket in protective mylar. Dust jacket foxed; price clipped; "43 / 6" notation in pen at top corner of front flap; spine ever-so slightly toned, scarcely even noticeable. Edges of textblock foxed. Internally, foxing early and late; not at all present throughout the vast majority of the textblock. Booksellers' notes in pencil to the ffep. Overall, a square, clean copy. Volumes 1, 2, and 4 of Woolf's collected essays available. $100 each or $250 for all three. Please enquire..

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba 1973, 1st edition. (4to, wrappers) 74+, A59pp. As new. University of manitoba Anthropology Papers Number 6, May 1973..

Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press 1966, 1st edition. (hardcover) viii, 188pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. 4to. Oxford blue cloth boards, lettering on spine rubbed. Internally bright and clean throughout..

Winnipeg: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 1984, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) 78pp. As new. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics Memoir # 1..

Alabama: University of Alabama Press 1970, 1st Edition. (Cloth) 188pp. Near fine. .

London: the Hogarth Press [0-7012-0403-6] 1975, 1st edition. (hardcover) xxi, [family tree], 531pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Thatched-blue boards, lettering in gold to spine. Volume very near fine, with only light shelfwear. Dust jacket lightly age-toned, as always; spine sunned; price clipped. Internally tight, bright, and clean. B&W portrait frontispiece, sketches, B&W photos..

Springfield: Author 1964, 5th ptg. (Cloth) 423pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Illus. Very light general shelf wear. Former owner's name to endpaper..

New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc. [0-671-63963-3] 1987. (Mass market paperback) 319pp. Very good. 8vo. Funny, classic Groucho. Clean, tight, bright..

Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press [0-226-45283-2] 1994. (Mass market paperback) xv, 454pp. Very good. 4to. Largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. Clean, crisp copy with maps..

London: Hamish Hamilton 1950, 1st Edition. (12mo, cloth) 188pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Clipped wrapper shows small chips, browning to spine, minor staining. Former owner's name on endpaper, else internally clean and tight..

New York: The New Yorker/Random House 1-4000-674-0 [1-4000-674-0] 2005, 1st edition. (hardcover) 123+. Very good in very good dust jacket. Folio. Clean, very crisp and tight. Includes a New Yorker time line book from 1925 to 2005, which includes reprints of selected articles from the first eighty years. There are also over 4,000 issues of the New Yorker in eight DVD disks (for computer use only). Sadly, the first disk is missing from this set; the seven included are intact and visually without flaw. Both the book and the disks are encased in a hardcover shell, lightly rubbed at the lower edges..

Saskatoon: Saskatchewan Archives 1983. (4to, wrappers) 87pp. Very good plus. .