Search Results: Authors starting with W from Spafford Books

Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co., Limited; Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. [no date]. (hardcover) 332pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 12mo. Reference manual for teachers. Teaching aims and objectives, with notes and comments. Blue cloth covers, orange titles to front and spine. There are stamps and pencilled notations to the pastedowns, front and rear, else is clean and solid..

Toronto: W.J. Gage & Co., Limited; Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. [no date]. (hardcover) 332pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 12mo. Reference manual for teachers. Teaching aims and objectives, with notes and comments. Blue cloth covers, orange titles to front and spine. Internally clean and solid. There is some colour removal from the cloth on rear cover..

Glasgow: Alex. M'laren 1911. (12mo) 283pp. Very good. Former owner's gift inscription on endpaper. Pencilled note on the title page, helpful to we Sassenachs, translating the title as "House (near (or by the side of) the Mountain". Text in Scots Gaelic..

New York: A Fireside Book, Published by Simon & Schuster [0-671-76420-9] 1992, 21st printing. (Mass market paperback) xiii, [1], 202pp. Very good. 8vo. Wrappers. Faint sunning at head of wrappers. Internally clean. Sketch illus..

Lethbridge: Southern Alberta Art Gallery [0-921613-59-8] 1994, presumed first printing. (Mass market paperback) 31pp. Fine. 4to. Perfect bound. Colour photos. Essay by John Calcutt..

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre [1-55054-895-6] 2001, 3rd printing. (Mass market paperback) ix, 218pp. Very good. Previous owner's name blacked out on tp; otherwise fine..

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre [1-55054-001-7] 1991, 1st edition. (Cloth, 8vo) ix, 218pp. As new in as new dust jacket. .

London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1908. (hardcover) 333pp. Very good. 8vo. Quarter-bound in blue cloth over polished blue leather backstrip. Spine in six compartments, lettered in gilt. Leather on spine is dried, and is beginning to crackle (if only craquelure had an iota of the sentimental esthetic on book spines as it does on Mona Lisa's face). The leather is notably rubbed at extremities and hinges. Top edge gilt. Marbled EPs. Previous bookseller's mark pasted neatly at foot of front-pastedown. Internally bright and clean. Illustrated throughout with 23 plates. Monochrome frontispiece with protective tissue..

New York: Hudson Hills Press [0-933920-56-3] 1986, 1st edition. (4to, wrappers) 324pp. Fine. .

Vancouver: Saturday Sunset Presses 1914. (Mass market paperback) 20pp. Near fine. Paper read before the National Tax Assoc., Denver, Sept. 11, 1914. Free Press editorial writer and lawyer in Winnipeg. Peel(3) 4081..

Frederickton: Fiddlehead [0-920110-95-9] 1980, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) 32pp. Fine. 8vo. Illustrated cover. Author's portrait to rear..

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press 1976. (Cloth) 109pp. Near fine. Illus..

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press 1976. (Cloth) 109pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Illus. Review copy for TH Manitoba Historical Society. Was part of their library, as shown by stamps and tape to spine..

Vancouver: Archives of British Columbia 1931, 1st edition. (Cloth, 8vo) xiii, 174 +. Fine, no dust jacket. Uncut; some markings on coverand wear on paste down endpaper; contextual letter related to its publication from the Provincial Library laid in..

Stanford: Stanford University Press 1969, 1st edition. (Cloth, 8vo) vii, 196pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Illustations, bibliography..

History Book Committee 1992. (hardcover) viii, 488pp. Fine, no dust jacket. 4to, illus., ports., facs., maps..

Toronto: Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada Limited [0-385-25712-0] 2002. (hardcover) 228pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 8vo. Jacket shows very light wear along top edge. Brown paper boards, silver title to spine. Full number line. Clean, crisp, tight, bright; seemingly never read. 30..

Madeira Park, BC: Douglas & McIntyre 978-1-55365-402-5 [978-1-55365-402-5] 2012. (Mass market paperback) 221pp. Fine. 8vo. As new. A story about love, family, the power of the spirit, and above all, strength and resilience. As always, his writing is articulate, evocative, wise. Fine copy..

Courtenay: Flying-W-Publishing Co. [0-9693329-2-0] 1990, 2nd edition. (Card covers) x, 238pp. Fine. 8vo, soft card cover; black and white photographs. 3 copies: one is a first edition (1989), two others are second editions; all three have owner's handwritting or stamp on half-title page; both second editions are signed by the author..

Courtenay, B.C.: Flying-W-Publishing Co. [0-9693329-0-4] [no date]. (hardcover) 204+. Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. Illustrated covers. A collection of short stories and poems, with B / W photographs and drawings. Covers lightly bowed and a tiny nick to the lower edge, back cover; else is like new..