Search Results: Authors starting with S from JWMah

Vancouver: St. James Church, 1954. (CAD) No markings, Very Good. One sheet folded in half making 4 pages. Dove design tp cover, order of servoce, list of clergy, church weekly caledar. (1.0 JM ITF2 Docket 68. Unbound. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Programme.

Vancouver: St. James Church, 1954. (CAD) No markings, Very Good. One sheet folded in half making 4 pages. Dove design tp cover, order of servoce, list of clergy, church weekly caledar. (1.0 JM ITF2 Docket 67. Unbound. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Programme.

NY: Clarkson Potter, 1988. (USA) 1st printing. No markingsm but there is a fiant spot the size of a pea to the half-title, Very Good in prince-clipped Very Good dust jacket. Yellow cloth, photo end papers, 276pp, index, 400 colour photos of interiors, landscapes, handcrafts and local cuisine captures the timeless appeal of Italy's country resorts. Vintage Mediieval Abbey in the heart of the Chianti region; Restored farmhouse in Umbria; Mountain chalets; Renaissance Palazzo by Lake Como A heavy book, (4.0 JM HOZ 402/3. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Bouchet, Guy. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

London: MacMillan, 1996. (UK) 1st printing, No markigns, Fine as new in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 758pp, colour plates, B&W illus in text. This book combines meticulous scholarship with a lightness of touch in presentation of over 250 operatic works, operatic history, singers in the original production, synopsis of the plot. A heavy book (4.0 JM LVR 202/b4. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Toronto: Somerville House Books, Limited, 1996. (CAD) Presumed 1st printing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "With love/ Lake/Vancouver, March 11/96", no other markings, but foxing to the edges of pages, thus Very Good in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 401pp, index, map, B&W photos. From the dust jacket: After the First Death is a hard-hitting, controversial look at Chile by award-winning journalist and poet Lake Sagaris. Beginning with one of the world's most brutal military regimes, initiated by the military coup of Augusto Pinochet in 1973, Sagaris travels throughout the country talking to its people. This is an eyewitness account of breakdown and remaking of Chilean society, written in compellingly beautiful prose. (2.5 JM LVR 202/a2. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Mexico: Servicio De Informacion Agroalimentatria y Pesquera, 2012. (MEX) 1st English language edition one of 2800 copies. No markings,top corners of the cover are eased, Near Fine; no dust jacket as published in Very Good cloth clam shell box. Green cloth with pastedown, ribbon markers, 192pp, colour photos throughout. The text of this book on food production and agricultural produce in Mexico is in English. A heavy book. (4.3 JM LVR 202/b3. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. (USA) Edition Not Stated No markings, price sticker to rear pastedown, Fine in unclipped Near Fine dust jacket in mylar sleeve. Orange cloth, patterned end papers, 403pp. No illus. The author was page to the Queen of Persia in the court of "the Mad Shah of Persia" and gives us a window into the life of the court. This book has a copyright of 1928. (2.2 JM HOJ 303/0. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: Appleton-Century, 1883. (USA) 24mo., white vellum, Top EdgeGilt, xxxv, 244 pp. A small etching of the three muses on frontis. protected with tissue. An 18 page introduction by Saintsbury in which he gives a development of the French lyric. The poems are in French and start with 12th century poets and end with the 19th century poet Albert Glatigny. Each section has short comments by Saintsbury. Near Fine; no dj. Inscription to front fly. An attractive little book. [1.3 jm HOQ 102/b2. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. (CAD) 1st printing, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, no other markigns, Fine in Fne dust jacket. Boards, 279pp. This is a story of love and remembrance, guilt and complicity in the context of war, for a Japanese Canadian family. (1.6 JM HOJ 304/0. Signed by Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Japan: Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan: Kiyoshikojin Seichoji Temple, 1966. (JPN) 34 x 26 cm, greyish-blue cloth folio with titles in red with embossed calliraphic in gold, unpaginated (c.64 pp.). According to the Japanese colophon: "Limited to 1000 copies, not for sale to the general public". According to the preface by B.C. Binning, the Head of the Dept. of Fine Arts at UBC, Sakamoto is a " bishop" of the Kiyoshikojin Seichoji Temple and a collector of the paintings of Tomioka Tessai. This is a book published in a limited edition in conjunction with an exhibition of 50 pieces of Sakamoto's calligraphic paintings of Buddhist themes mounted in Vancouver in September of 1966. About 54 plates of beautiful calligraphic works with 7 tipped-in plates in red and gold and gold on black. Text in Japanese with prefaces and contents in English. Fine in Near Fine frail glassine dustjacket with 1/2" tear and crease to front lower edge in card slipcase in Very Good condition. A… Read More

Gibsons BC: Nightwood Editions, 2013. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to the title page, no other markings, Fine, Red wraps, 128pp, B&W photos. "children of air india is a series of elegiac sequences exploring the nature of individual loss, situated within public trauma. The work is animated by a proposition: that violence, both personal and collective, produces continuing sonar, an echolocation that finds us, even when we choose to be unaware or indifferent. " (1.3 JM LVR 202/a2. Signed by Author. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Italy: Edizioni Dell'ente Manifestazioni Milanesi, 1969. (ITA) No markings, fine in about Fine dust jacket with light rubbing to top edge of Dj and with 1/4" tear to top edge of Dj; includes the red wrap around band. Wraps with dust jacket, 81pp text, then 101 B&W plates. The tes=xt of this monograph on the woodcuts of Durer is entrely in Italian. (1.6 JM HOZ 403/b1. Paperback. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Exhibition Catalogue..

London: published for Sussex University Press by Chatto & Windus, 1975. (UK) No markings, Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket. Blue boards, illus end papers, 360pp, index. B&W illus. This book brings together possibly for the first time, a comphrehensive collection of records of Shakespeare's plays in performance made by those who acctually saw them. The latter part of the book consists of extracts from critical giants, Hazlitt, Shaw, G.H. Lewes and others. (1.9 JM HOZ 403/b2. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

UK: Decca, 2003. (UK) One compact disc in cardboard case with original inserts, 475 100-2 028947510024. Signs of very light use. about Fine. 13 arias from Salieri's operas. (1.3 JM WDLeft01. Near Fine. Audio CD.

London: Frances Lincoln, 2007. (UK) 1st printing. No makrings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 208pp, index, colour photos and line drawings. This handsome book is illustrated with lovely photos of the gardens desinged by the Marchioness along with her own plans and drawings. Sir Roy Strong has called her "the greatest gardener of the twentieth century". A heavy book, (3.7 JM HOZ 401/6. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by MOORE, Derry. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Portland OR: Timber Press, 1986. (USA) Presumed 1st edition, The names of the hybrids have been picked out in yellow hightlighter, but so neatly done I wasn't sure at first whether the yellow had been printed as part of the book, a touch of rubbing to the lower cover edges and base of spine, otherwise Very Good in Very Good (-) dust jacket with 1.5 " closed tear to lower corner of front panel and a couple of minor faults at the head of spine. Dj is in mylar sleeve. Hardcover, 391pp, 600 colour photos, All the 'pedigrees' are found here of over 4000 named hybrids, arranged alphabetically by cultivar name. The genetic fractions are estimated. Information on size, habit, hardiness and awards. This is considered the most important single source of information on the subject at its time. (5.0 JM LVR 200/0. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good (-). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Washington DC: Foundation for Improving Understanding of the Arts, 1995. (USA) 1st English language edition, with Jaca Books imprint to the title page. No markings, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with tiny tear to upper corner of rear flap fold. Cloth, 358pp, index, colour reproductions of paintings, B&W photos. This book is devoted to the life and work of William Congdon, associated with the New York School of painters. He spent most of his life in Europe and the book features many remarkable travel painitngs. A heavy book. (9.0 JM LVR 202/b0. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2005. (CAD) First Printing SIGNED BY AUTHOR, no other markings, Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket with light rubing to panel gloss. Black boards, 419pp, No photos. Sampson writes about his detention and torture in a Saudi Arbian prison. (2.2 JM HOQ 100/b5. Signed by Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2005. (CAD) First Printing SIGNED BY AUTHOR, no other markings, Fine in unclipped about Fine dust jacket with light rubing to panel gloss. Black boards, 419pp, No photos. Sampson writes about his detention and torture in a Saudi Arbian prison. (2.2 JM HOZ 402/b2. Signed by Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine (-). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

North Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery, 2013. (CAD) one of an edition of 900 (unnumbered). No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Photo boards yellow cloth spine, no pge numbers [96]pp. Monochrome photosgraphs. Another Happy Day is a compilation of anonymous, mostly black-and-white photographs found on from the private collection of the Canadian artist, collector and writer Jonah Samson. Titled after a line from Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days. There is no text as such. (1.6 JM LVR 200/c4. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Exhibition Catalogue.