Search Results: Titles starting with L from Black Sheep Books

Bologna: Zanichelli, 1936. Soft cover. Written in Italian, this is an Italian text published close to the Italian occupation of Abyssinia (Ehtiopia); includes sections on political geography, economics, climate, geology, and much more. Tan card covers with red titling on front, leading and bottom edges of text block are untrimmed, top edges of last few pages uncut, illustrated with black and white diagrams, a maps in black and white as well as colour, some are fold-out, 407 pages. The covers are in poor condition with numerous stains, previous owner's signature in blue crayon on front cover and in black ink on title page, top and bottom two inches of spine detached, faint dotted foxing on some pages but entire text is easily legible, there is a pocket for a fold out map on the back pastedown however the map is missing, otherwise the book is complete, binding quite weak at beginning of third part and spine is cracked in a couple of other locations. A thorough and interesting overview of Africa… Read More

Canada: Les Editions De L'Homme, 1992. Limited/Numbered/Signed. . Hardcover. Good+ to Very Good-. Limited Edition, #14/100, signed by the author. Written in French; translated from the English by Claude Fafard, Normand Palement and Patricia Juste. A history of the Canadian National Railway. Green cloth with gilt titling on spine and front, speckled off-white end papers, illustrated with black and white photographs and maps, 473 pages. Book is in a green cloth-covered slip case. Spine is sunned resulting in faded gilt titling; edge of slip case is sunned also. Book is otherwise clean, bright and tight. Book is overweight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Paris: Presses Universitaires De France, 1962. Card Cover. Good+ to Very Good-. Written In French. Publications de la Faculte des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Paris, Travaux de L'institut d'Histoire des Relations Internationales. Tan card cover with black titling, red decoration on front, textblock edges untrimmed, 273 pages. Corners and edges slightly worn, covers slightly darkened, owner's name and address on label on front endpaper, top corner lightly bumped that affects about half of the pages. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Rome: La Libreria Dello Stato: Gli Architetti militari, 1914. Half-Leather. Written in Italian. This is Vol. 2 No. 2 of a three volume collection, the title can be translated to "The Work of Italian Engineers Abroad: Military Architecture"; after an introductory section outlining the then modern/contemporary aspects of Italian military architecture, this beautifully printed and formatted volume looks specifically at the country's influence in Hungary; next, a hundred and five plate illustrations (including a coumple of fold-out plates) help visualize the locations, designs, and people described. Brown half leather on green decorated board, green ribbon marker, orange decorated title page, the preface contains a fold out green map of locations of Italian military architecture throughout Europe, numerous black and white in-text illustrations, 150 black and white plate illustrations, separate indexes for text and plates, gilt top textblock edge other edges untrimmed. Front and back boards… Read More

Montreal, QC: VLB Editeur, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good-/-. Written in French. "Une ombre devient servante de la Mort personnifiée et l'accompagne dans sa quête incessante de nouvelles victimes." Glossy soft cover, inscribed to Phyllis and signed by author to half title, 115 pages. A postcard written by the author to Phyllis Webb is laid in. Some sunning to cover, a scratch to front cover. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Firenze: G. Barbera, 1891. Half Leather. Very Good. A book of poetry, written in Italian. Off-white leather corners and spine, marbled boards, gilt titling on red spine label, gilt bands and decoration on spine, tiny bookseller's plate inside front cover, owner's name in ink on end paper (dated 1893), black and white frontispiece with tissue-guard, preface by C. Guasti, 659 pages. Marbled boards have relatively minor edge wear, end papers, frontispiece and tissue-guard, and title page have light foxing spots, interior of book is clean and tight, cover colour is bright. This is a most attractive little book. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" Tall

2016. Soft cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Screenplay in purple wrappers with white titling to front and spine. The movie won 6 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. In as new condition with a small barely visible white spot to the front where the purple of the wrapper is missing atop of the letter "A". Some faint darkening to front cover. Otherwise it is in as new condition.

Paris, France: Editions Retz, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good-. Vager, Sylvie. A book on palmistry, written in French. Subtitled on cover: "reflet de votre caractere, votre sante, votre devenir." Tan soft cover with black titling, black and white illustrations throughout, 157+ pages. Cover has minor shelf wear, a small mark on lower text block edge, book is clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Winlaw, B.C.: Polestar Press, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good-. A Labour of Love gathers an eloquent chorus of voices to sing of the joys and sorrows of pregnancy and birth, illustrated by artist, Heather Spears and photographers, Fred Rosenberg and Larry Towell. Signed by Jennifer Alley, Kirsten Emmott, Mona Fertig, Cathy Ford, Zoe Landale, and Carolyn Zonailo. Colourfully illustrated purple soft cover with purple and white titling, black and white drawings and photographs throughout, 168 pages plus 6 pages of notes on the contributors. Cover has minor edge and shelf wear, book is clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. McNally, Ed. Author's inscription on front endpaper. Red and blue illustrated covers with red titling on spine, black and white illustration on title page190 pages. Upper text block edge slightly darkened, very light wear to lower edge - this is a very handsome book. Dust jacket, which is not price-clipped, has light edge wear, is uniformly soiled/smudged and has a sunned spine. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Victoria, 1970. Second Edition. . Card Cover. Good+. Book is self-published, signed by the author on title page, not dated (circa 1971) Book describes the author's time spent on Mayne Island, one of the Gulf Islands off of the West Coast of British Columbia. The story gives an interesting account of life on the island in the 1920's. Blue card covers with red titling, chart of Mayne Island on cover, staple binding, includes facsimile of letter from Lord Charles Kennedy, Marquis of Ailsa, Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland(1947) and letter from Prince Von Bismarck to Colonel L.G. Fawkes(1888), 30 pages. Spine and adjacent edges sunned and foxed, light shelf wear with some minor creases to front and back cover, previous owners' names in ink and ink stamp inside front cover, occasional foxing spots in text. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note… Read More

Old Crow, Yukon: Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Lands and Resources Department, 1999. Pictorial Cover. Good+ to Very Good-. Millennia of experience living off the land have endowed Gwitchin [people] with an intimate knowledge of the geography and resources in, what we now know as, the Dempster Highway landscape. This book is the product of the work, effort, ideas, and enthusiasm of many people. In particular, the words of Gwitchin Elders tell us about the past, provide guidelines for the present, and prompt us to think about the future." Glossy illustrated hard cover with black titling on spine and front, title page is illustrated with a black and white photograph and is SIGNED by Erin Sherry, black and white photographs and illustrations throughout, 322 pages. Cover has minor shelf wear, two bumps to lower front edge, upper text block edge has some small, pale spots, there are some small, faint spots on front end papers and on pages 310 and 311, lower free corner of a portion of the text (pp.… Read More

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. This book examines the cultural background of the Luguru people and the conditions leading to the riots of 1955. Black cloth with silver titling on spine, end papers are maps, tiny bookseller's plate inside front cover, black and white photographs and tables, 212 pages. Front corners bumped, text block edges are slightly darkened and have a few foxing spots, otherwise book is in great shape. Dust jacket, which is not price clipped, has minor edge wear, 1" by .25" tear in fold of front flap, spine slightly sunned, multiple foxing spots, but is basically clean and bright. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Oslo, Norway: Gyldendal, 1959. Hardcover. Good+ to Very Good-/-. Book is written in Norwegian by Helge Ingstad, noted Norwegian explorer. Brown and tan decorated boards, red cloth spine with gilt titling, illustrated with black and white drawings, plates, maps, and a fold-out two-colour map at back, 592 pages. Wear to edges and corners of boards, spine is sunned and has a few pale spots of discolouration, text block edge has a few pale spots of discolouration, upper edge is darkened, text is clean and tight. This is a handsome book. Book is overweight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

San Francisco: Atelier Publishing, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Limited Edition of 500. Foreword by Michael James Grant, introduction by Laura Richard Janku. Brown leatherette with red embossed titling to front, brown endpapers, black and white photographs, unpaginated. Still in original shrink wrap. A very small dent at bottom of back cover. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

New York: American Agora Foundation, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. Among the Contributors: Arthur Koestler, Epictetus, Toni Morrison, Ambrose Bierce, Pope Clement V, Duc de Saint-Simon, Marianne Moore, Li Si, Martin Luther, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Lippman, H. Rap Brown, Aeschylus, Lewis Carroll, Simon Winchester, Ben Zimmer. (From the back cover) Illustrated soft cover with green titling on white ground, colourfully illustrated end papers, colour illustrations throughout, 221 pages. Book appears to be without flaws. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/-. Repertorium Columbianum, Volume XI, Las Casas on Columbus: The Third Voyage. The Repertorium Columbianum is a collection of contemporary sources relationg to Columbus's four voyages. This edition covers Columbus's third voyage in 1498-1500, to Trinidad and the Gulf of Paria, then on to Hispaniola. The writer Bartholome de Las Casas (1484-1566 or 1576) "presents the fullest picture we have of Columus". Red cloth, gilt titling to spine, yellow endpapers, 333 pages. Minor edge wear. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1953. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. This third and last omnibus volume contains more stories about the famous skipper of the S.S. Inchcliffe Castle, comprising ten stories originally included in "The Canny Mr. Glencannon" and the long novelette, "Mr. Glencannon Ignores the War." This omnibus also contains an introductory appreciation of Guy Gilpatric by Barnaby Conrad. Blue cloth with dark blue titling on spine, dark blue illustration on front, 157 pages. Cover is uniformly speckled with tiny, pale spots, light edge wear, text block edges darkened, upper and leading text block edges have multiple foxing spots, end papers foxed, occasional small spots or foxing spots in text, binding is tight. Dust jacket, which has been price-clipped, has edge wear, shelf wear, sunned spine, overall foxing. Book may have a slight musty odour. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not… Read More

London: Crosby Lockwood and Co., 1881. Hardcover. Hasluck, Paul N.. Further subtitled "Including Hand Turning, Boring and Drilling, the Use of Sliderests and Overhead Gear, Screw-cutting by Hand, and Self-Acting Motion, Wheel-Cutting, Etc., Etc." Brown cloth with gilt titling on spine, black decoration and border on front, blind stamped border and decoration on back, author's black and white illustrations, advertising at back of book. 195 pages plus 48 pages of advertising. Cover shows some shelf and edge wear, text has a few foxing spots, foxing and chipping to endpapers, hinge split at endpapers and occasionally in text, sewing of signatures coming apart at top and bottom, making the binding quite shaky. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have.… Read More

Blackpoint, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2013. Soft cover. Very Good-. This book is essential reading. It looks at the advances made by left forces in the region, the social struggles that preceded them, and the great challenges facing those governments that have set for themselves the goal of constructiong an alternative to capitalism." Colourfully illustrated soft cover with yellow, white and black titling, black and white illustrations in text, 208 pages. Cover has minor shelf wear, otherwise book is in great shape. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall