Search Results: Authors starting with L from Spafford Books

New York: Herder and Herder NONE [NONE] 1971. (hardcover) 192pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 4to. Illustrated history of crrime fiction, with more than 350 illustrations of rare book covers, sketches, caricatures, photographs, and film-stills with accompanying textThere is a name penned (small and barely noticeable) to the front free endpaper. The jacket shows light wear at the upper and lower edges. Very nice copy..

Usa: Minnesota Historical Society [0-87351-524-2] 2004. (Mass market paperback) 181pp. Near fine. .

New York: the Limited Editions Club 1930, Limited/Numbered. (Cloth) Very good plus. 2 volumes: 265 p & 398 p, illus. - title page and decorations engraved on copper. T.e.g. Very very light shelf wear. No.546 / 1500 copies SIGNED by Ruzicka. Illustrations by Rudolph Ruzicka..

Ottawa: Department of Justice of Canada 0-662-2315-1 [0-662-2315-1] 1994. (Mass market paperback) xvii, 529pp. Very good. 8vo. Includes: the Inner-City Sample, Social Strata and the Criminal Justice System; City-By-City Differences - the Inner City and the Criminal Justice System; Victimization and Family Violence. Tables. The rear cover has some trace residue; else is clean, bright, tight, and solid..

Saskatchewan: Association Culturelle Franco-Candienne de la Saskatchewan 1990. (Mass market paperback) 288pp. Very good. 4to. Scarce. Card covers, coil (plastic) bound. Ex-lib. Copy with sticker to front, pocket and card to inside front cover, sticker, stamps and notations, none of which interfere with anything, to first page. B / W ills. Else is clean..

Vancouver, B.C.: Totem Pole Books [9780973584011] 2006, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) 190+. Very good. 8vo. There is a price sticker to the rear cover; else clean, crisp copy. A Jesse Crowchild mystery..

Middlesex, England: Hamish Hamilton Ltd./Penguin Group [0-241-12923-0] 1986. (Mass market paperback) xiv, 271pp. Very good. 8vo. A reassessment of women's roles, from the 12th to the 15th century, in northwestern Europe. The front lower corner is and the pages, up to page 15 are lightly bumped; otherwise, clean, tight, bright, solid, with black and white photographs..

Edmonton: Sisters of Providence 1978. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 135p, wraps, illustrations. Mission Schools in Alberta and British Columbia. Previous owners name to ffep..

New York: National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor NONE [NONE] 1967. (Mass market paperback) 68pp. Fine. 8vo. Olive green wrappers, stapled. Pamphlet book published to create a better understanding of the challenges and needs of the 'poorest and least protected' of workers: the farm workers. Fine copy. Various contributors. Black and white photographs..

Brooklyn, New York: Progressive Labor Party (PLP) NONE [NONE] [00no date]. (Mass market paperback) 64pp. Very good. 4to. Pamphlet, stapled. Mild wear, some lightly pencilled underlining. Pages lightly age toned. Includes sections and refutations on the Stanford-Binet and its ilk. Undated, circa 1974. A Progressive Labor Party Pamphlet..

Palo Alto, California: Socialist Labor Party NONE [NONE] 1984. (Mass market paperback) 12pp. Fine. Large folio, folded. Weekly Socialist newspaper, first established in 1891 in New York as the 'official organ of the Socialist Labor Party' (SLP). When its publication ended in 2008 in Palo Alto, California, its 117 years of continuous publication made it the longest running Socialist newspaper in American political radicalism history. This issue addresses Nicaragua, unionism, prison overcrowding, strikes, and other labour issues. Fine copy, albeit lightly age toned, as may be anticipated..

London: Cambridge 1929, 1st Edition. (Decorative cloth) 184pp. Near fine. Frontispiece, illus., - colour plates & b / w photographs. Gilt-decorated and -printed green cloth lovely & bright. Endpaper maps, front and rear, unmarked. Internally very good indeed..

London: Staples Press Limited 1953. (Cloth) xviii, 628pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket shows wear and tiny tears to edges. Previous owners name small and neat to inside cover, hidden by jacket. Library pocket at rear. Tables, photographs and maps. International Labour Office Studies and Reports New Series, No. 35..

Regina, Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Federation of Labour NONE [NONE] [00no date]. (Mass market paperback) 94pp. Very good. 8vo. Booklet. Mint green wrappers, stapled. No date, circa 1960. Underlining and various notations throughout. There is a vertical crease from top to bottom that show on the covers only. All of that identified, remains a very good copy of this submission. Endorsed by the Canadian Labour Congress..

Regina, Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Federation of Labour NONE [NONE] 1900 edition. (Mass market paperback) 4pp. Near fine. Large folio, folded, newspaper format. Undated, presumed circa 1976. The official publication of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour and published as part of the Fight-Back Campaign against wage controls. A cool piece of Saskatchewan labour history. Black and white photographs, drawings. Lightly age-toned, as may be anticipated. Fine copy..

Quebec: Léger Brousseau 1897, (presumed first edition). (hardcover) 64p. Fair. 16mo (17cm X12cm). Brown pebbled cloth boards; top cover printed in gold, title in bronze. Boards with edgewear; cloth beginning to split at spine. Volume starting at p.[3]. Appears to be lacking some leaves, though not certain (title page and perhaps a table of contents?). Half title page present. Text block free, laid-in. Pages toned. Stamp to front paste-down with transfer to ffep. Peel(3) 2341..

Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing 978-1-55109-917-0 [978-1-55109-917-0] 2012, 2nd revised edition. (Mass market paperback) xviii, 125pp. As new. 8vo (short). As new, second revised edition that includes fully revised text and a new preface to reflect updated, current perspectives about Mi'kmaq medicines. Descriptions, details, of more than 70 plants, with black and white hand-drawn illustrations..

Kingston: Canadian Defence Academy Press 978-0-662-45877-7 [978-0-662-45877-7] 2007. (Mass market paperback) 266pp. Near fine. 8vo. Lightest wear to wraps. Internally unblemished. Tight, bright, and clean. B&W photos, ports..

UBC Press and the Canadian War Museum [no date]. (Mass market paperback) As new. .

Montreal: Beauchemin & Valois 1874, 1st edition. (Cloth) 711, [6], 190pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. First edition. Beautiful, solid rebind. Large folding table in Grammaire. Pages 708 & 709 are not bound together as usual; however, the page 709 / 710 is missing. Foldout conjugation table is missing a piece at last fold. Lacks half title. Library stamp to verso of title page. Original back cover of the "grammaire" bound in. Peele 708, 709..