Search Results: Authors starting with P from Spafford Books

Bufrfalo, N.Y.: Warren and Johnson Co. 1873, Author's Edition. (Cloth, 8vo) 774 + 2pp advert. Very good, no dust jacket. Rear board with barely visble waterstain, starting to separate. Minor foxing. 33 plates. Frontpeice portrait with facsilmilie signature. Gilt bright on spine. Bright, clean, tight copy. "Author's Edition"..

Bufrfalo, N.Y.: Warren and Johnson Co. 1873, Authors Edition. (Cloth, 8vo) 774 + 2pp advert. Very good, no dust jacket. Cloth with old damp staining. Light shelf wear. Penicil marks on fron tissue. Pages have light foxing throughout. 33 plates with frontpeice port / facsilmilie signature. "Author's Edition"..

Chicago: Curt Tech and Company 1923. (Oblong 8vo) c 1923pp. Very good, no dust jacket. String bound oblong 8vo thick card covers show sunning minor wear at edges and small dampstaining not affecting internally. Pen underlining to single line and original price tag ($1.00) to title page. Tipped in illustrations complete including cover. Map at rear..

Montreal?: Canadian Pacific Railway 1889. (Mass market paperback) 80pp. Very good. Illus., plan, tables. Lacks map(s). Very light wear. Peel(3) 1715. Pp57-80 contain testimonial letters..

Montreal, QC: Railfare Enterprises Limited [no date], MODERN REPRINT. (Mass market paperback) 67+. Very good. 8vo. Modern facsimile. Card covers, stapled. Clean, tight, bright and solid..

St. Paul: Northern Pacific Railway Co. [circa 1910]. (Self wraps) 44pp. Near fine. Publication No.18; Agricultural Development Department, NPR..

[no date]. (Mass market paperback) 23pp. Very good. 8vo. Offprint in beige wrapper. Clean copy..

Toronto: Copp Clark Co. 1933, 1st edition, stated. (Cloth) 300pp. Very good in good dust jacket. Considerable wear to dust jacket including a chip from tail affecting "The Crime Club..." - fraying, rubs, small chips - remaining dramatic and striking in mylar. The dust jacket has, however, served well to protect the red illustrated black cloth boards which are bright with only a degree of shelf wear to (mainly bottom) edges. Former owner's name in pencil to endpaper, else very good indeed within. Cover illustration by Edwin Georgi..

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited 1957. (hardcover) 288pp. Good to very good in good to very good dust jacket. Short 8vo. Blue cloth boards, lettering in silver to spine. Dust jacket rubbed, edgewear. Volume bumped at head and heel of spine. Small dark smudge at bottom of fore-edge. Internally with only a previous owner’s inscription to ffep; faint stain at head of front gutter. Not at all present in textblock. Internally clean. Basis for the 1958 British film of the same name, which was released the following year in the United States as Elephant Gun..

London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. NONE [NONE] 1969, 1st British hardcover edition. (hardcover) 208pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Clipped jacket shows light wear at the edges, and is rubbed faintly. Red paper boards, black title stamped to spine. Pages are lightly age-toned; else is clean and bright. Pseudonym of Marijane Meaker. .

Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders 1938, 1st edition. (Cloth) 807pp. Very good. Illus. Former owner's name on endpaper..

Ottawa, Canada: Borealis Press [0-88887-937-7] 1982. (Mass market paperback) 176pp. Very good. 8vo. Illustrated green card covers. Maps, B / W drawings. Corners lightly bumped; else is clean, tight, bright and solid..

Kitchener: Commercial Printing Co. [1939], Limited. (12mo, cloth) 182pp. Near fine. Frontispiece, illus., ports. SIGNED..

Kilmarnock: John Ritchie [no date]. (hardcover) 160pp. Good to very good. 12mo. Blue cloth boards, spine and top board lettered and decorated in black. Illustrated with plates, frontispiece. Advert. Verso-title page. Gutters tender, remaining secure. Spine ever-so slightly cocked. Internally clean..

Don Mills: Oxford University Press [0-19-540704-0] 1989, 1st edition. (Cloth) unpaginated. Fine in fine dust jacket. 4to. Periwinkle paer boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Illus. The first fairy tale by noted Candian poet P.K. Page. Lavishly and beautifully illustrated by Laszlo Gal..

Regina, Saskatchewan: Canadian Plains Research Center/University of Regina [0-88977-159-6] 2004. (Mass market paperback) xxxviii, 78pp. As new. 8vo. As new. Born in 1867, these are the author's observations of the author's observations of the customs, beliefs, and lifestyles of both the Plains Cree and the Sauteaux people with whom she lived. Fine copy. Peel(3) 3325, "...prisoner of the Crees during the rebellion of 1885; married Frederick Paget of the Dept. Of Indian Affairs; commissioned by the Canadian govt. To obtain Cree folklore, 1906."..

Regina: City of Regina, Public Affairs 1989, 1st edition. (Card covers) 21pp. Near fine. Coilbound. 8vo. Crème card covers, top cover printed with a collage of Regina City Halls by Mario Valenzuela. Previous owner's stamp to verso-top cover, else without blemish..

Etobicoke: Prospero Books [1-55013-865-0] 1997, reprint. (hardcover) 548pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Folio. Casebound. Jacket lightly rubbed, else fine..

Etobicoke: Prospero Books [0-442-29829-3] 1978. (hardcover) 548pp. As new, no dust jacket. Folio. Burgundy smooth cloth boards, lettering in gold to spine and top board. As new still in original box, tape unbroken..

Etobicoke: Prospero Books [0-442-29829-3] 1978. (hardcover) 548pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Folio. Burgundy smooth cloth boards, lettering in gold to spine and top board. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, spine ever so slightly sunned, price clipped, mylar protected. Gift inscription at head of half-title. Replete with B&W and colour photos throughout. Folding colour maps at p18. Bright, tight, and clean..