Search Results: Authors starting with U from Spafford Books

New Haven: Yale University Press [0-300-09186-9] 2000, 3rd printing. (Mass market paperback) x, 366pp. Very good. 4to. Wrappers. Binding ever-so slightly cocked. Wrappers lightly dirtied from rubbing and shelfwear. Original price sticker at head of rear cover. Else internally unblemished; tight, bright, and clean. B&W and colour photos. Related newspaper clippings laid-in at front..

St. Vincent: None Listed NONE [NONE] 1967. (hardcover) 258pp. Near fine. 8vo. Dark green, pebbled faux leather, gilt titles stamped to front and spine. Limited information related to publication, but appears to be a centennial project seemingly put together by the teachers of the St. Vincent area of Ontario, Canada. Signed by the editor. Black and white photographs throughout. There are two small spots of discolouration to the front free endpaper; else is in fine condition..

Swift Current: South Saskatchewan Writers Project 0-96903-0-7 [0-96903-0-7] 1981. (Mass market paperback) 88pp. Fine. B&W photographs.q..

Petosky, MI: Mundart Press 978-0-615-38402-3 [978-0-615-38402-3] 2013. (Mass market paperback) xiii, 124pp. As new. Translated from the Original Dutch by Joshua Jacob Snider..

Winnipeg: Ukrainian Publishing Company of Canada Limited 1945, ex-lib. (hardcover) 428pp. Good, no dust jacket. Illus. Contains history of the institution as well as it teachers and students. Includes photographs. Library rebind with paper cover cut to act as pastedown to front cover. Pocket removed from inside front cover. Previous owners writing to ffep. Also a couple of stray stamps internally. Page 31 is loose. Peel 6798. The importance of the Institute to prairie Ukrainians would be hard to exaggerate..

Winnipeg: Ukrainian Publishing Company of Canada Limited 1945, ex-lib. (Mass market paperback) 428pp. Good. Illus. Contains history of the institution as well as it teachers and students. Includes photographs. All three of our copies are ex-library, with vary faults. Please inquire. Peel 6798. The importance of the Institute to prairie Ukrainians would be hard to exaggerate..

Usa: The Association 1937, 1st Edition. (4to, cloth) 752pp. Very good plus. Ports. Biographical, statistical... No exterior library marks; only a couple of rubber stamps within..

Washington, D. C.: Library Of Congress NONE [NONE] 1969. (hardcover) x, 126pp. Fine, no dust jacket. 8vo. Intended for those who wish to compile or retell folktales, for story tellers or librarians who work with children, or for the children themselves, this bibliography contains references to 152 sources of North American Indigenous folktales. Illustrated in black and white and indexed by author, title, and Nation. Gold-brown cloth, illustration in tawny brown (Once upon a Totem by Christie Harris) to front board. Gilt title to spine..

Toronto: Ryerson Press 1954, 1st edition. (Cloth) 122pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Frontispiece, folding tables..

Ottawa: R. Douglas 1929, limited edition. (Mass market paperback) 63pp. Very good. Previous owners name to cover. Minor warping and minor evidence of dampening. Peel(3) 47, "The author was engaged by the N.W.C. to search for a new canoe route from Lake Superior to Lake Winnipeg." One of 300 copies..

San Francisco, California: Communications Co. 1974. (Mass market paperback) [10], 152pp. Fine. 4to. (short). The Weather Underground's strategy for anti-imperialism and revolution inside the imperial United States, written by and for communist-minded people, independent organizers, ant-imperialists, and those who carry forward the struggles, lessons, and traditions of the 1960s, as well as those who join those efforts today (1974). The intention of the Weather Underground was to 'disrupt the empire, to incapacitate it, to forge an underground, a clandestine political organization engaged in every form of struggle, protected from the eyes and weapons of the state, a base against repression, to accumulate lessons, experience and constant practice, a base from which to attack." Written as an argument against those who oppose action and who, in so doing, hold back the struggle; a debate as releveant today as it was in the sixties and seventies. "A single spark can start a prairie… Read More

Victoria: Braemar Books Ltd. 1984. (Mass market paperback) 96pp. Fine. Illus., ports. The history of St. John's Anglican Church, Victoria..

New York: J. J. Augustin 1948, 1st edition. (Cloth) 62, 48pp. Very good. Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, Numbers XIII and XIV..

Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1959, 1st edition. (Cloth, 8vo) 104pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Red cloth covers. Gilt seal to front, gilt lettering to spine. DJ shows 3 slight tears, close and neat; 1 to head of spine, 2 along head of rear. Sunning to spine. A symposium presented to the Royal Society of Canada..

Paris, France: Unesco 1965, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) 62pp. Fine. 8vo. White covers with Japanese calligraphy to front, block cut font to rear. B&W photographs and reproduction. Orange EP's. An exhibition held by the United Nations profiling and showcasing the art of communication through type. Beautiful. MUST HAVE for the font geek, graphic artist and web developer..

Saskatoon: Committee for Independent Unions NONE [NONE] 1975. (Mass market paperback) 8pp. Fine. Large folio, folded as a newspaper. The Committee for Independent Unions was a committee of people who wanted to join independent unions, formed in support of the Confederation of Canadian Unions at their 1973 convention. Map. Black and white drawings and photographs. Cool piece of of labour history ephemera..

Swift Current, SK: Self Published [no date]. (Mass market paperback) 36, a-h. Very good. 8vo. Card covers. Plastic coil bound. Miniscule amount of residue to front cover. Related ephemera laid in. A classic church cook book with some timeless Prairie recipes brought to you from the kitchens and members of the First United Church in Swift Current, Saskatchewan..

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Knox United Church NONE [NONE] 1950. (Mass market paperback) 59, [1]. Very good. 4to. Card wrapper, stapled. There is a tiny crease at the front top, outside corner; else is remarkably clean and bright with black and white historical photographs, portraits..

Vancouver: Stephen MacIntyre [circa 1975]. (Mass market paperback) 12pp. As new. A reprint of Special Session document No. 1 of the American Senate, 50th Congress. As a U.S. Citizen, Riel had petitioned the American government for protection. The claim was denied without a Congressional hearing on the grounds that Riel had committed his offences entirely within the Dominion, and hence he had no immunity from the laws of Canada. After his execution, the matter came before Congress in a special session, this publication being the outcome. Cover, "Louis Riel's Petition to the President of the United States." Peel(3) 1824..

Peterborough: Clock House Publications 1969, 2nd edition. (hardcover) 280pp. Near fine in good to very good dust jacket. 4to. Burgundy cloth boards, lettering in gold to spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, rubbed. Replete with B&W (few colour) photographs of glassware throughout. Tight, bright, and clean. Although dated, it is still considered by many to be the definitive reference work on Canadian glass prior to 1970. The 1st edition was limited to 1000 numbered copies..