Search Results: Titles starting with A from Michael's Pride and Joys

This is close to being VERY GOOD but I describe it as only GOOD because there are small patches of colour loss on front orange board, a shop name etc inside front and back boards and some (not too many) foxing spots. For some reason it has become a very scarce book: it wasn't when I bought it donkey's years ago 286 text pages plus one leaf (two pages) of ads

n outstanding BRAND NEW AND UNMARKED CONDITION. IMPECCABLE MAP AND CHARTS AND TEXTS. Dust jacket is the original OXFORD IN ASIA REPRINTS AND IS PRICE-CLIPPED WITH MINOR EDGE NICKS ETC AS SEEN ON THE SCAN. by the 1824 treaty with Holland, the two nations agreed to delimit their interests in the region and to certain limits on trade and tariffs. British merchants alleged the Dutch were breaking the agreements and John Anderson, secretary to the Penang government was sent to examine the problems and make recommendations. The newly minted governor of Penang, Fullerton, did not accept Anderson's recommendations and the report was shelved. In 1840, Anderson with Anderson retired for the East India Company, Anderson published his report under the title Acheen and the Ports on the North and East Coasts of Sumatra with incidental notices on the TRADE IN EASTERN SEAS and the aggressions of the Dutch. It is That 1840 book that OUP has published under the shorter title. SHADOWS ON SCANS COME FROM THE SCANNER

THIS IS THE REIDEL TRUE FIRST EDITION. Not the later reprintBook is BRAND NEW. Dust jacket looks new but has tiny flecks of color loss at front and a tiny closed few millimeter tear at back. I show you the scan. The author seeks to make available to the non-mathematician important explanations of Tarski's theorems, Godels second incompleteness theorem Gentzen Church's, etc.Can ship to Canada free if bought by October 23 (courtesy Canpost)

Headley Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. No writing. No foxing. gilt on front fading. Minor corner bumps to beveled edges FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED 1904 BY HEADLEY COMPLETE WITH ALL EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS. 182 PAGES. Size 18x13cms. Hard bound in red cloth with black titling and gilt illustration that is fading. Edges of red board bevelled and a little frayed. There is no foxing, another plus. I provide all this detail because it is an expensive and sought-after book a collector would like to have in best possible condition, and I believe this is the best on the world-wide web at the moment. I send it insured airmail. I DEBATED WHETHER THIS SHOULD BE GOOD OR VERY GOOD AND IT SEEMS SO MUCH BETTER THAN COPIES ON THE NET DESCRIBED AS VG THAT I DECIDED I WAS BEING TOO PERNICKETY AND GRADED IT VERY GOOD. ASK FOR AS MANY, AND AS DETAILED, SCANS AS YOU WOULD LIKE

FIRST EDITION, solidly bound in green with four-colour illistration to front and gilt to spine. Book probably grades Very Good for age but has a corner bump you see on scan. Top and bottom of spine have the usual wrinkles, but other wise the book has no substantial defects. The frontis still has the full tissue-protection. All 20 plates are presnt and correct with no defects. General mild toning. Overall dull looking

Softcover, ISBN 0195402324Publisher: OUP, Toronto, 1975 First edition. First and scarcer first printing; see number line Trade paperback. New NEW and unopened never read but on front is a small abrasion or paper adhesion. 177 p. Includes illustrations. This IS new and obviously never read because of the way it opens--never been fully opened--but it has two defects: the paper used by OUP was not acid-free and as a result it is heavily toned, giving the impression of an older book. AND on the front is a paper abrasion. For these reason I can not grade it new and have graded it fINE. Please do note atht abrasion, clearly visible on the scan. First edition. First printing. De Cosmos was born William Alexander Smith and changed his name in San Francisco. He became a leading and controversial figure in Victoria B.C. He launched and edited the local paper and became the second premier of British Columba 1872-1874. Desoite the defects I have mentioned, this book is outstandingly better than almost all… Read More

HEAVY QUARTO BOOK OF OVER 400 PAGES. Absolutekly like new but with name on fep and for that reason given a near-fine grade The isbn is as stated in the book

Artillery from WWI Field guns through WWII artillery of all types, to the post-war rocket launchers ack ack etcBrand new book on glossy paper in brand new illustrated dust jacket.Shadow is from scanner not from book

This copy is from a university library and thus has a label, a stamp, another stamp and pocket at the packet that suggests the book was never borrowed . Apart from those marking, this book would like about as new. I compromise by grading it Very GoodThe introductory is a survey of what the (prejudiced?) author calls 'the beginning of civilized society in B.C.' and continues with a presentation of the discovery of gold, the rush, problems of lack of coinage and so on. through to the establishment of assay office and mint
Thisis the scarcer hard bound book with bevelled corners but it is from a university library with label on spine, stamps inside, and a pocket at the back.

Assay Office and the Proposed Mint at New Westminster. A chapter in the history of the Fraser River mines
by Reid fIrst edition. signed at top by the famed Canadian astronomer Joseph Algernon Pearce of the Dominion Observatory, Saanich (greater Victoria).
This is the version in wraps as distinct from the hard-bound edition. Legislative Assembly, Victoria (1926)
Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Like new and never-read although dulled. Uncut pages. This is Memoir VII and is a chapter in the history of the Fraser River mines (gold). It is a brand new copy, many many pages still not sliced open, and 14 sepia plates: Pullout map of Victoria about 1860, Rag paper. Magnificent gift and highly collectible

Grades VERY GOOD and perhaps near the top of that grade. oblong 12" x 8". Herford monogram in shield on back and on title page. High quality gloss paper, . Roughness at front join twixt board and fep having nature of break in paper about 2 inches long. Toned end pages. mild (quite mild) grubbiness consistent with age as this is first edition, 1907. Faint sign of fold on fep.. Includes illustrations. unpaginated ~ 60 pages. Full title-Or the Genteel Art of Ilustrating

77 pages brand new. 2 map sketches Auyhot was a French-Canadian who served five years and fought in the Bennington Raid, the Cedars, Fort St. Johns

On the blank fep is a black mark. I show a scan. Apart from that the book looks about new and the dust jacket is new but not bright

Abbe Constantin H. M. Caldwell, New York No date. 1890 is a guess.top edge gilt. Illustrated with black & white drawings and glossy plates.Full leather suede binding with inset gilt and a tinted illustration. mezzo-tint perhaps. French Yap edge in perfect conditionRare edition bound in limp brown suede with cameo of two ladies. ell, New York Like new. 176 p., plates: 36 Illustrations, marbled end papers, ribbon page marker. The original was published in 1882, Special edition in suede with inset cameo of two ladies. FINE. 36 illustrations. marbled end pages. original ribbon marker. No date stated. A mangificent survivor 1890 is a guess