Search Results: Titles starting with B from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Ottawa.National Film Board of Canada. 1970. Soft cover. oblong sm4to. 22x 26cm, (460)pp.,being 15 primarily photographic volumes in portfolio and inserted in aslipcase, each volume is in stapled illustrated wraps and each is fine, theplain black slipcase has been taped on the back spine edge. (agc) A setof fifteen photographic volumes by avant-grade artists were produced fora N.F.B. exhibition of British Columbia photography held on the West Coastin 1970. They are Jack Dale; Michael DeCourcy; Christos Dikeakos; JudithEglington; Gerry Gilbert; Roy Kiyooka; Glen Lewis; Taras Masciuchs; MichaelMorris; N. E. Thing Co. Ltd.; Jone Pane; Timothy Porter; Peter Thomas;Vincent Trasov; Robertson Wood.

Np. Bishop's College School. 1977, 1977. 22.5cm, 503p., illustrations from photographs, illustrated endpapers, index, a fine set in fine slipcase (eds).

Montreal. B.C.S. Old Boys' Association. 1935. Folio. 43 x 35cm, being 5p.single-sided sheets, double-column, type set, with typed mineographed form letter of instruction, folded in quarters, some annotating, fine. (cgc.bx) "The enclosed names are those of Old Boys for which we have no addresses. The recipient is asked to add, where possible, any information which may help the Committee to establish an up-to-date address list of all living Old Boys of the School." The alphabetical list consists of around 1,200 names with date at school, last known address and column for remarks. B.C.S. was established in 1836 in Lennoxville, Quebec and is a feeder school for Bishop's University.

London. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1955. 18.5cm, 190p., text illustrations, index, orange cloth with black titles, a fine copy in fine jacket. (Ds1).

London. Alfred Russell Smith (Bookseller). 1874. 12mo, 2 vols in One, vi,182 & pp681-733pp., subject index to the first part precedes main catalogue, brick brown cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, marbled edges, private library bookplates on the front paste down endpaper, top and bottom spine edges worn else a very good sound copy.(bks). Contains 2630 entries in the main catalogue; over 1000 entries in the pamphlets section.

Prague. Charles Bridge Bookstore & Gallery. 1996. 4to, 3 volumes, 1369pp.,plus many plates including several in colour, in full maroon brown morocco grain fabrikoid, gilt spine titles, as new (ho2.7).

New York. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. 1981. square8vo, 23.5x 20.5cm, 128p., colour illustrated title-page, decorated half-title, extensive illustrations including many colour, bibliography, subject & authors indexes, navy blue cloth, fine in fine jacket(bk.ds). ~ "Books leaves no page unturned, from Mark Antony's gift to Cleopatra of 200,000 volumes for the fabled library at Alexandria to the strangest titles of titles of 1980 (how about "Do It Yourself Brain Surgery"?)" (Cover).

London & Glasgow.Blackie and Son Ltd. N.d. [1912]?. Hardcover. 12mo. 18cm, (72)p., colour frontis,3 colour vignettes, 16 full-page colour plates, 48 colour textillustrations, illustrated endpapers, quarter red cloth backed colourillustrated paper over boards, gilt spine titles & decoration, stapled,illustrated endpapers, printed on one side and not opened on the foreedge, rear hinge broken, front board corners rubbed, small tear to uppertitle page, inscription on front free endpaper, very good to fine (Chds). - A scarce children's book to accompany Pope and Robinson's "Babes andBirds" (1910). The plates are fine examples early 20th century colourbook illustrations. Charles Robinson was a prolific English illustratorof children's books and fairy tales. The many animal illustrationthroughout the book are by S.T, Dadd. WorldCat locates 2 copies, oneindicating 1912, the other 1916.

London. Frederick Warne and Co. c.[1900]. Hardcover. oblong12mo, 18x 19cm, 56p., colour frontis, colour decorated title page, 10 full page colour illustrations, page border decorations throughout, music, original cloth backed pictorial glazed paper over boards, light edge wear, a nice copy (ds1). ~ The selection and arrangement of the nursery songs are by Lucy Crane, Walter Crane's sister. Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

North Bay. Designed and Printed by "The Nugget. [1925], 1925. Soft cover. . 26cm, 120p. numerous photo illustrations, many ads., colour decorated printed wraps, bottom wrap slight dust soiled else a very good to fine copy, rare (S4) Morley p188.

Toronto. Thomas Allen,Limited. 1946. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 19cm, ix,80p., blue cloth, signed by the author, a finecopy in very good to fine complete jacket. (lt).

Toronto. The Canadian Bankers' Association. 1945. Soft cover. 23cm, viii,122p., stiff printed wraps, a very good copy (eds).

London. The Royal Geographical Society. 1923. 24.5cm, various paginations, plates and illustrations, rear folding map, publisher ads, blue wraps, very good.(tr).

London. A.H.Baily & Co. Hardcover. 1883. 8vo. 21.5cm, iv,430p., engravedfrontis portrait & engraved title page, 6 engraved plates, incontemporary half black calf, raised bands, gilt titles, top spine panelwanting, worn at the edges, front board loose, internally fine (spg) Volume 41 of a Victorian sporting series featuring fishing, hunting,cricket, yachting and horse racing.

London. Cecil Palmer. 1922. 8vo. 22cm, first edition, x,83p., quarter black cloth backed decorated paper boards, gilt spine titles, some leaves uncut, small woodcut on copyright page, printer's device with colophon (The Arden Press), a fine copy (Lt). Sullivan 54. ~ Poems written shortly after the end of World War One. The Ballad of Saint Barbara is sub-titled "St. Barbara is the patron saint of artillery and those in danger of sudden death." with others also relating to the War. With poems of four guilds: glass-stainers; bridge-builders, stone-masons; bell-ringers & "Songs of Education

Portland, Maine. Thomas B. Mosher. 1907. Soft cover. 18cm, 143p., yapped wraps, glassine in wraper, top edge of slipcase is wanting, fine. (Lt) Printed on Van Gelder Hand-made paper.

Montreal. Dawson Brothers, Publishers. 1880. F. Hardcover. 12mo. 17.5cm, First Canadian Edition, (Canadian sheets), 181,[3]p., in the original maroon cloth, gilt titles on the spine and upper cover, black stamped borders and decoration on the upper cover, bevelled boards, spine slight faded (titles clear),otherwise a fine copy attractively designed (lt).

London, Edinburgh, & Dublin. A Fullarton & Co. N.d. (c.1860's). Hardcover. 12mo. 17cm, fourth edition, viii,356p., frontis, title page vignette, 2 plates, in contemporary half dark green morocco, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt titles and harper decorations in the panels, marbled boards, a.e.g., wear on the edges, a very good sound copy (gar). ~ An extensive collection of Irish ballads with sections on descriptive, historical, political, emigrant and "pathetic" ballads. Includes many ballads by Thomas D'Arcy McGee and Thomas Moore. Attractive binding signed: "Bound by Fullarton & Co. Edinburgh

Washington. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1972. Soft cover. 25.5cm, 88p., chronology, bibliography, illustrations, blue stiff printed wraps, a good to very good copy (scs).

Tokyo. Graphic-sha Publishing Company. 1988. folio, 40cm, first edition, 138,(2)pp., with c.250 colour photographs, text in English & Japanese, colour illustrated wraps, a fine copy (sgc). ~ Some 250 photographs from the collection of Osamu Suzuki showing, in beautiful colour, the design of various bamboo fences whose construction is unique to Japan.