Search Results: Titles starting with V from Spafford Books

Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Navy League of Canada 1972. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 4to. Navy boards, siver insignia of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps John Travers Cornwall V.C. Of Winnipeg stamped to front. Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Core. Black and white photographs, ports. There is a name penned (small) to the front free endpaper; else is clean, tight, bright and solid..

New York: Vertigo/DC Comics 978-1-4012-0841-7 [978-1-4012-0841-7] [no date]. (Mass market paperback) NP. As new. 4to. As new. Clean, bright with B / W graphics..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf [0-394-56871-0] 1988, 1st US Edition. (Mass market paperback) 289pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. Author's second novel. A story of a 16 year old lad's heroic dream fullfilled. Signed. First US edition. Jacket protected in loose mylar sleeve. Fine, fine copy..

Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1908, 2nd edition. (Cloth) 244pp. Very good plus. Tables..

None Listed: Traian Lascu NONE [NONE] 1984. (hardcover) 112pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. 8vo. Scarce. Published in honour of Archbishop Valerian, a Romanian Orthodox cleric who served as Archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America..

Quebec: King's Printer 1927. (Mass market paperback) 382pp. Very good plus. Light browning & chipping. Lacks front fly. INSCRIBED by author. Peel(3) 29..

Quebec: King's Printer NONE [NONE] 1927. (hardcover) 382pp. Near fine. 12mo. Dark brown buckram, gilt titles stamped to front and spine. The explorations, life and voyages of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Verendrye, to what is now western Canada and the Rocky Mountains. Peel(3) 29..

Muenster: St. Peter's Press 1960. (Mass market paperback) 45pp. Very good plus. 4to, illus., ports., facs., adverts. . Ex-lib. While illustrated end-papers are a flurry of stamps, stickers and pockets, the remainder seems untouched, though card covers has a taped call sticker to the bottom left on the front cover..

Regina, Saskatchewan: Coteau Books [0-919926-74-6] 1993. (Mass market paperback) 278pp. As new. 12mo. Illustrated card wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page..

Vernon, BC: Greater Vernon Museum and Archives [1-55056-148-0] 1992. (hardcover) 249+. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Jacket shows moderate wear with creases and one closed tear at the rear. There is an inscription to the front free endpaper, as well as a realtor business card pasted in, otherwise clean, tight, bright, and crisp. Lavishly illustrated with black and white historical photographs. Overall, very good copy of this Vernon history..

Toronto: Goodchild 1921. (Cloth) 272pp. Very good plus. Frontispiece, illus. Former owner's name. Light wear. Peel(3) 4692. Illustrations by H. Weston Taylor..

Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House (GSPH) [1-896182-15-1] 1995. (Mass market paperback) 235pp. Near fine. 8vo. A record, accounts, of what happened to Canadian soldiers in the spring of 1945, their heroic acts of courage and perseverance in the Battle of the Rhineland and the liberation of the Netherlands. Signed by author to title page. Maps. Black and white photographs and illustrations. An important narrative of the Canadian military effort, published in 1995, the year that commemorated the 50th Anniversary of the Normandy landings. Written in honour of the soldiers who landed on the beaches rather than the leaders and politicians who planned and strategized those landings. There is a soft crease, barely noticeable, to the front cover; else is fine..

Toronto: Printed & Published by L.K. Cameron 1915. (Wrappers) 18pp. Very good. 8vo. Saddle stapled. In original wraps; top cover printed. Chipping to wraps, as usual; wraps tearing at fold, still attached; spotting (ink?) to foot of top cover. Internally clean. "Reproduced by consent from the proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution with the author's approval to aid the work of the Canadian Society for the Protection of Birds" (top cover).

Ottawa?: Author? 1928. (Mass market paperback) 56pp. Near fine. Cover title. Peel(3) 5219. A series of articles written after a tour through the west, with a very positive attitude toward immigrants from eastern Europe..

London: The Folio Society NONE [NONE] 2012. (hardcover) xv, 207pp. Fine. 4to. Grey pictorial boards. Title, stamped in silver in black title block to spine. Frontispiece, as well as 6 colour plates. Housed, as issued, in a sturdy, plain black slipcase. Sublime copy in fine slipcase. The Vampyre by John Polidori; The Cremona Violin by E.T.A. Hoffmann; The Lady With the Velvet Collar by Washington Irving; Leixlip Castle by Charles Maturin; The Tapestried Chamber or The Lady in the Sacque by Walter Scott; Monos and Daimonos by Edward Bulwer-Lytton; The Dream by Mary Shelley; The Red Man by Catherine Gore; The Bride of Lindorf by Letitia E. Landon; Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Ligeia by Edgar Allen Poe..

None Listed: Fifth House 978-1-897252-36-9 [978-1-897252-36-9] 2007. (hardcover) 244pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 4to. Ex-lib., with call number to spine and 2 stamps (small); else is remarkably clean and crisp. Black and white historical photographs. One of the most important histories and a classic account of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A new edition, reformatted and redesigned from the original for today's generation of readers. A Railfare Book..

Toronto: Railfare Enterprises Ltd. 1990, 4th ptg. (4to, cloth) 304pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Folio. Illus., ports., maps. 4th printing. Very nice, clean, square, tight copy..

Toronto: Railfare Enterprises Ltd. 1981, 3rd Printing. (4to, cloth) 304pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Folio. Leatherette case. Illus., ports., maps. Third printing. Light general shelf wear to wrapper. Author's INSCRIPTION to title-page..

Lantzville: Oolichan Books 1993. (Mass market paperback) 295pp. Fine. .

Amsterdam: J.J. Kuustra 1948, 1st print. (Cloth, 8vo) 77pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. White illustrated cloth covers with periwinkle spine. Illustration in green. Bumped corners. Foxing to front and rear covers. Age toning to pages. Illustrations by Lynd Ward..