Search Results: Authors starting with A from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

New York. The Macmillan Company. 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 19.5cm, first US edition, vi,82p., red cloth, fine copy in very good jacket (hmds).

New York. The Macmillan Company. F. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1934. 19.5cm, first American edition, vi,82p., wine cloth, near fine copy in very good complete jacket (hds).

Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. 1918. 12mo, 18.8cm, first edition, vii,289p., original light brown cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, spine title faded, maple leaf blind stamped on the upper cover, with 8 line inscription by the author... - Very good to fine copy, rare. (cmt). "To: - The Alexander Fergusons, In whose house This book was put together, during the autumn of Nineteen Seventeen. (spaced). A.L.R. Two, Sweetlaw(?) Aportuncut's, (?) Ottawa, Two=s writhe January, Nineteen-Eighteen". Cooke p192. - Editor's Note, "For military reasons, it has been judged wiser to withold the full name of the Canadian Stretcher Bearer until the close of the war. However it may interest his readers to know that he is an Old Country-man, although he is now in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and earlier had lived in the States.

Boston. Bowles &Dearborn. 1829. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 22cm, xv,256p., in contemporary half tan calf,raised bands, full gilt decorations in the panels, crushed crimsonmorocco label, blind ruled borders on marbled boards, marbled endpapersand edges, some foxing, ownership inscription at head of title dated1829, very good to fine copy of the First Edition. (tr) Palau 519; Sabin14; SmithAl. Going to Cuba for his health in 1828, the author wrote aseries of sixty-five letters describing his considerable travel byhorseback over the island. His observations cover what he saw and sensedin these trips up and down the island.

Ottawa. Minister of Supply and Services. 1976. Soft cover. 24.5cm, viii,133p., wraps, fine. (cdns).

New York. Sheldon & Company. 1877. Hardcover. 24mo. 15cm, new (revised) edition, 191p., with 11 black & white drawings including 4 plates, original elaborately decorated brown cloth, gilt embossed titles, very good to fine (ch.lt). ~ One of the scarce Rollo Series of 14 children's books. Rollo at Play includes 5 stories: Rollo at Play in the Woods; The Steeple Trap; The Halo Around the Moon; The Freshet; Blueberrying; Trouble on the Mountain. This edition revised by Author.

London. Punch Office. 1846-1847. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo, 22cm, first edition, first issue, 320, 124pp., with 14 hand-coloured plates, 149 woodcuts, advertisements, in the original blue grey illustrated printed wraps, spines chipped, else near fine (ds1). ~ Published monthly by "Punch" in 20 numbers in 19 parts, "The Comic History of England" along with "The Comic History of Rome" are believed to contain of the best of John Leech's work. The 14 hand-coloured frontispieces by Leech are vivid and bright. Gilbert Abbott Beckett was on the original staff of "Punch". "(Leech). was a true humorist, a student of human life though he observed humanity mainly in its whimsical aspects." (John Miller Gray). A very scarce collection of the first editions.

Wilmette, Illinois. U. S. Army Snow Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment. 1960. Soft cover. 27cm, iv,20p., references, appendix, figures, tables, stiff printed wraps, faded spine, a very good to fine copy (ads).

Wilmette, Illinois. U. S. Army Snow Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment. 1961. Soft cover. 27cm, v,37p., references, figures, tables, folding map, stiff printed wraps, faded spine, a very good to fine copy (ads).

Gloucestershire. Published by the Author. 1911. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo, 18.5cm, first edition, 29,[1]p., string tied, printed blue wraps, very good copy (lt).

Herefordshire. Published by the Author. 1910. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo, 18.5cm, first edition, [8]p., plus a small block print (6.5x 6.5cm) mount on extra stock grey paper and loosely inserted, string tied, printed blue wraps, very good copy (lt).

London. W. Collins Sons & Co. 1923. thick8vo. 22cm, first edition, second impression, in 2 volumes, x,358 & vii,353pp., with 57 plate illustrations (inc 2 frontis portraits), volume indexes, original grey cloth, gilt spine titles on leather labels, vol. 1 label peeled with text loss, otherwise a fine set, very scarce. (Cdn). Volume One consists of both Lord and Lady Aberdeen's autobiographies of their early years; Lord Aberdeen was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and served as Governor-General of Canada from September 1893 to November 1898. A substantial part of Volume Two deals with his position. His task was complicated by political difficulties : the sudden death of the Prime Minister, Sir John Thompson in 1894; the break-up of the Bowell Government in the spring of 1896; and the defeat of the Tupper Government later that year. During his stay in Ottawa, Lord and Lady took an active role in social activism. Lady Aberdeen was instrumental in founding the National Council of Women (she was the… Read More

Toronto. Printed and Published by Roswell & Hutchison. 1898. oblong folio, 27x 36cm, viii,54p., limited edition of 550 numbered and signed by the editor, James Mavor, this being #100., with colour frontis plate & 50 plates (containing c. 89 illustrations including 2 double page), the illustrations are from drawings by F.H. Brigden, G.A. Reid, Beatrice Sullivan, Edmund M. Morris, F.M. Bell-Smith, Clara S. Hagarty & others, With a facsimile letter from the Countess of Aberdeen and an Introduction by G.R. Parkin, an Advertisement by James Mavor, with a catalogue of the drawings, pp49-51 & List of Ladies and Gentlemen who composed the sets, pp52-54, in the original mustard yellow cloth, title stamped in red on the upper cover, crest of the City of Toronto stamped in blind on the bottom cover, bevelled boards, fine copy, a rare book. (cgc). Victorian - era ball given by Their Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Aberdeen, being mainly a collection of drawings by various artists produced… Read More

Victoria. Morriss Publishing. 1986, 1986. Soft cover. 8vo, 23cm, 91p., with 28 illustrations from photographs, index, attractively printed card wraps (trade paperback), fine copy (cnds). - Focuses mainly on time spent in the Okanagan Valley.

Toronto. The Champlain Society. 1960. 24cm, lxxxiv,517p., with 2 portrait illustrations, limited to 550 copies, this being #142, original crested red cloth, t.e.g., a fine copy. (Cdn). In 1893 Lord Aberdeen became Governor General of Canada and he and Lady Aberdeen traveled extensively in Canada. Her journal is an important source of insight into the problems and times in the country during the 1890's. The appendix contains a biographical dictionary of principal persons and lists the members of the household. Far more important, however, was her work with women's organizations. A staunch Presbyterian and Gladstonian Liberal, a woman of great poise and boundless energy, she was an aristocrat-democrat with a strong social conscience. She believed that women represented an enormous, unused capacity in Canada, and that they would be a civilizing force in an untamed country. She was instrumental in forming the Canadian branch of the National Council of Women. Despite fierce opposition from the medical… Read More

London. Methuen & Co .Ltd. 1929. 8vo., 22cm., first edition, x,[i],331,8.p., book ads., frontis and 36 plate illustrations, index, red cloth, gilt spine titles, fine, Author's Signed Presentation Copy "To, our dear Maud Edgar, with affectionate remembrances & best wishes from "We Taw". Isabel Aberdeen & Temaair Aberdeen & Terair. Christmas, 1929. (Cdn).

London. W. Collins Sons & Co. 1923. thick8vo. 22cm, first edition, third impression, in 2 volumes, x,358 & vii,353pp., with 57 plate illustrations (inc 2 frontis portraits), volume indexes, original grey cloth, gilt spine titles on leather labels, vol. 1 label peeled with text loss, otherwise a fine set, very scarce. (Cdn). Volume One consists of both Lord and Lady Aberdeen's autobiographies of their early years; Lord Aberdeen was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and served as Governor-General of Canada from September 1893 to November 1898. A substantial part of Volume Two deals with his position. His task was complicated by political difficulties - the sudden death of the Prime Minister, Sir John Thompson in 1894; the break-up of the Bowell Government in the spring of 1896; and the defeat of the Tupper Government later that year. During his stay in Ottawa, Lord and Lady took an active role in social activism. Lady Aberdeen was instrumental in founding the National Council of Women (she was the… Read More

Abernethy, Saskatchewan. Abernethy Heritage Association. 1983. Hardcover. 28cm, v,602p., with map, illustrations, index, green cloth with black titles and illustration, a fine copy. (cnds).

London. Methuen. 1933. 12mo, 19cm, first edition, 198,8p., ads., with 16 plate illustrations, publisher's blue cloth, gilt spine titles, near fine (gar). ~ Neate, A-05. An instructive book for mountaineers by an experienced mountaineer.

Ottawa. Industrial Division, Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources. 1964, 1964. Soft cover. 4to, 27.5cm., v,194p., illustrated with 17 black and white photographs, 14 maps, 40 tables, 1 figure, 15 appendices, stiff printed wraps, reinforced spine, fine copy (Ads).