Search Results: Titles starting with K from BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB

Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1994. Hardcover. 8vo. Contains black and white photographic reproductions. Light edgewear, slight bumping to head of spine. Good+ in good dustjacket with faint marking to covers and creasing to front flap.

London: Royal Historical Society, 1954. 1st edition. Hardcover. b&w map as frontispiece. pp. lix, 200.,Larger 8vo,,Bound in original blue cloth blocked in blind and gilt,Cloth faded. Binding and spine show bumping to tips, light rubbing to extremities, and light scuffing and staining to cloth. Binding tight. Overall in very good, to very good+, condition. Publication no. LXXXIV of Camden Third Series.

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. First American edition. Hardcover. 421 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on front and spine, blind stamping on front board. Ffep torn out, bookplate, light shelf wear.

Toronto: William Briggs, 1915. Hardcover. pp. 259. 8vo. Hinges weak, faint 'cup ring' to front board. Board edges rubbed. Light overall soiling. Spotting to a few pages. Overall, a decent copy in good, readable, condition. The 'Author's Edition'.

Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, Kingston, 1939. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 141.,4to,,,This is a contemporary copy of the original thesis submitted by Elise M. Berry (the sister of the late classics scholar, Prof. Edmund Berry), for the degree of Master of Arts at Queen's University, Kingston. It consists of a bound carbon copy of 141 typed pages (8 1/2' x 11'), with text on one side only (blank verso). The buckram binding is typical of thesis binding for the time, and is in quite good condition, although the front inner binding tape is partially loose (not affecting integrity of contents).

Odense, Denmark, 1949. Wraps. black-&-white illustrations. pp. 38.,Small 8vo,,A limited edition facsimile in stiff card covers,This title first appeared in 1837 in 'Fairytales Told to Children' by Anderson. The theme of the fairy tale was found by Anderson in a Spanish tale. The manuscript was written on seven pages in quarto and portions of the manuscript are reproduced within, with the text in both Danish and English. One corner creased, light over shelf wear, else in very good condition. Published by the Hans Anderson's House.

Winnipeg, MB, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover. colour, b&w photos. pp. 64.,4to,,Unmarked and in near fine condition, Issued to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the opening of Winnipeg's famed Kelvin High School.

Clark Irwin Company Limited, 1982. Paperback. Square 4to. Black and white photographic reproductions. Very good+.

Toronto: Kew Beach Bible Class, 1992. Wraps. black-&-white illustrations. ,8vo,,All five items bound in stapled card covers, Two issues are duplicates. All copies are lightly 'thumbed'; otherwise in very good condition. Sold as a lot of five items.

Toronto: Simon & Pierre Publishing, 1974. black-&-white illustrations. pp. 63. 4to. Bound in original illustrated stiff card covers. From 'A Collection of Canadian Plays, Volume 4'. Covers show wear and some soiling; else good+ cond. ISBN 0889240078.

London: Allen lane, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover. colour illustrations. ,Square 4to,,Corners & spine ends sl. bumped; else vg+ in very good dj, The dust jacket has not been price-clipped. ISBN 0713913363.

London: Soncino Press, 1965. Hardcover. pp. xiii, 337.,8vo,,Beautifully bound in full brown leather and in velvet slipcase,A most handsome book, with gilt lettering and embellishments to the spine and boards. All edges of the text block are gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom brown velvet slipcase. The book is in near fine condition and still in the original glassine wrapper. The slipcase shows light shelf wear, but is still in very good condition. We have other titles, in this series, available in this special binding. A title in the series 'Soncino Books of the Bible', edited by Rev. Dr. A. Cohen. This is the first edition, fourth printing.

NP: Published by the author, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover. maps, b&w photographs. pp. 636.,Large 4to,,Corners bumped, bds. sl. scuffed; else vg/nf condition (no dj), An exhaustive, and well-illustrated history of the Klassen family.

New York City: The Century Co, 1927. Hardcover. pp. xxiii,109.,8vo,,Sig. on ffep, very sl edgewear, else vg in chipped, torn, fr+ dj, The Century Modern Language Series. With introduction, notes, and vocabulary. A play in French.

Cedar Rapids, IA: Printed by The Torch Press, 1938. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 26.,Slim 8vo,,,Board edges darkened with light shelf wear; else good plus, to very good, condition. The original fragile glassine wrapper is present but it is torn and somewhat discoloured. 'Privately printed for the friends of Walter M. Hill Chicago, Illinois. Christmas Nineten Thirty-Eight.' One of 400 copies.

Boston, MA: J. B. Millet Company, 1898. ,,The photograph has lightened, but the image is clearly defined,From the explanation printed on the tissue guard: 'The koto is the most important of Japanese musical instruments, and proficiency in playing upon it is highly esteemed. The tones evoked have but little resonance, and the compositions are so peculiar as to be unitelligible to foreigners'. The photograph shows a young Japanse woman, in traditional dress, kneeling before the instrument. It is apparently a studio photograph, taken by Tamamura Kozaburo. This is an albumen photograph, made by using silver salts suspended in egg white. It is taken from a volume of the famous 'Japan' set, published by J. B. Millet Company in 1897/1898, in a series of editions. The photograph is in exceptional condition; the tissue guard has a small closed tear. The photograph, with explanatory tissue guard, measures 20 x 25 cm as mounted, and 31 x 40 cm on the page.

Kobenhavn (Copenhagen): Jespersen og Pios Forlag, 1948. Hardcover. pp. 728. Heavy 4to. Minor wear to board edges, slightly soiled; else very good in slightly chipped dustjacket. Neat (former owner's) ink inscription on ffep. Text is in Norwegian. With many colour, b&w photos of dress, weapons & tools of ancient cultures, plus fold-out map & tables at end of book.

Vancouver: GFY Press, 2004. Paperback. pp. 233. Light shelfwear, very good. SIGNED, twice!, by author.

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Paperback. pp. 581. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Canada Department of Forestry and Rural Development, 1960. Stapled Wraps. [Unpaginated]. Small oblong 8vo. Stapled card covers. Black and white photographs, maps and illustrations. Very light general shelfwear, contents remain clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Overall, very good+.