Search Results: Titles starting with U from Bibliodditiques

Garden City: Doubleday, 1977. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good +. Tight binding. No chips or tears on pages. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Illustrated with photos. Usual library markings. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 297 pp.

Bath: Paragon Publishing, 2004. Explores the roots of Porsche from Ferdinand Porsche's earlies designs to the newest models. Beautifully illustrated with full colour photographic illustrations. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Some edgewear to jacket; most significant being a 0.5" tear at bottom of rear panel. Size: Folio. 192 pp.

Toronto: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. The story of Sweyn Asleifsson, the last of the great Vikings and the history of Orkney, where he lived.Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Frontis map with tissue guard. Eleven other illustrations. Dust jacket is price-clipped, with small chips, tears around edges. Some toning of endpapers. Size 8vo (8" to 9"). 295 pp.

London: The Bodley Head, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Very early printing of James Joyce's classic. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Pages are clean and bright. Prevous owner's identification on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is sunned on spine and has some paper loss at head/tail of spine and where spine meets front panel. Small tears/creases around edges of jacket. Jacket is price-clipped. Green coverboards with gilt lettering on spine. Three Appendices - "International Protest Against the Unauthorised & Mutilated Edition of 'Ulysses' in the U.S.A."; "A Letter From Mr. Joyce to the Publisher of the First American Edition" and other documentation relating to the censorship of 'Ulysses'; and, "Bibliography of Works by Mr. James Joyce". Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 765 pp.

London: The Bodley Head, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Very early printing of James Joyce's classic. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Pages are clean and bright. Prevous owner's name and date on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is sunned on spine and has some paper loss at head/tail of spin. Small tears/creases around edges of jacket and a 2.5" tear on front panel near tail of spine. Jacket is price-clipped. Green coverboards with gilt lettering on spine. Three Appendices - "International Protest Against the Unauthorised & Mutilated Edition of 'Ulysses' in the U.S.A."; "A Letter From Mr. Joyce to the Publisher of the First American Edition" and other documentation relating to the censorship of 'Ulysses'; and, "Bibliography of Works by Mr. James Joyce". Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 765 pp.

Watford, Hertfordshire: The Stanborough Press Ltd.. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Contains 19 bible-inspired stories. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Pictorial endpapers. Corners bumped and some edgewear to coverboards. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 93 pp.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good +. First Canadian edition. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Orange boards with black lettering. Dust jacket is in a clear, mylar protective cover. A five-inch tear on rear dust jacket panel and some wear around edges of jacket. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 311 pp.

London Glascow: Collins. Hardcover. Good +. William Backhouse. No publication date indicated. Tight binding. Pictorial endpapers. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Gift inscription on title page. Previous owner's address label and name on endpapers. Features stories about Tar-Baby, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, Brer Rabbit and the Briar Patch. Yellow coverboards with some crayon marks and stains. Some edgwear to boards. Size: 4to (11" to 13"). 60 pp.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1961. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Carl and Mary Hauge and Phoebe Erickson. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Some bumping and wear to corners. Surface paper on spine has a small tear. Two books in one. One of the Dandelion Library book series. Unpaginated.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Author's first novel. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and has light edgewear. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 182 pp.

New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. Hardcover. Good +. Under the window is my garden, where sweet, sweet flowers grow; and in the Pear-tree dwells a robin, the dearest bird I know". Tight binding. No written inscriptions. A couple small tears on a few pages. Some smudges on pages. Coverboards have wear around edges and soiling. No date of publication indicated, but likely early 1900's. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 55 pp.

Lanham New York London: University Press of America, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. Study purports to give "a panoramic view of the attitudes of the United States government, religious leaders, and the American public in general toward the question of the slave trade and slavery in the Nile Valley, in juxtaposition to the attitudes of their counterparts in the region itself". Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Withdrawn from University of Waterloo Library with stamp to indicate it was discarded. Usual library markings. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 189 pp.

Toronto: The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, 1930. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Paste on title label on spine. Errata slip pasted in on dedication page. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 127 pp.

Toronto: McLeod & Allen, 1911. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Charles Livingston Bull. This is a book that is well outside the typical western cowboy classic. Cowboys and other humans do figure in this collection of animal stories. But an animal is at the center of each one: a horse, a steer, a mule, a coyote, a mountain lion, and so on. Pattullo humanizes them enough to give them thoughts and feelings. Pattullo’s is a Darwinian world where some are predators, some are prey, and the fittest and most cunning survive. George Pattullo (1879-1967), was born in Ontario, Canada, and left his job as a newspaper editor in 1908 to head west. He traveled in the Southwest with photographer Erwin E. Smith, writing western stories for The Saturday Evening Post and McClure’s." Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Paste-down illustration of a mule on front cover board. Green coverboards with gilt lettering. Frontis illustration with onion-skin protector. Six full page… Read More

Toronto: John M. Poole, Publishers, 1932. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions to pages. Very clean and bright copy. Green coverboards, Very slight lean to book. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 255 pp.

New York: Random House, 1938. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Edward Shenton. Stated first printing. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped, with original $2.50 on front flap. Jacket has some tears/chips around edges; largest being 1.75" long on fold of front flap. Spine of jacket is yellowed. Some discolouration on endpapers, likely from glue used originally to bind paper to the boards. Light impression marks on front free endpaper left from some erasure. Damp stain on bottom right corner of text block and top edge of text block near spine. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 293 pp.

Cincinnati, Ohio: The Willis Music Company, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. Dagmar Wilson. Delightfully illustrated book with songs for children, including music notation. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. "#3" printed on front free endpaper and top right corner of dust jacket's front panel. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped, with original price of $3.00 on front flap. Booksellers sticker on front pastedown endpaper. Dust jacket has chips and tears around edges and is missing a 4.5" by 7.5" piece from rear panel. Light wear to coverboard edges. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 56 pp.

Reading, Massachussetts: Addison-Wesley, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Annie Gusman. "The elevator door is open. Step aboard and join as zany a cast of characters as ever pushed the "up" button". Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. A couple small closed tears around edges of jacket. Small black remainder dot on top edge of text block. Size: 8vo (8" to 9").

New York: Dorset Press, 1991. Soft Cover. Very Good +/very good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions.Lower right corner of cover slightly curled. Many black and white illustrations and colour photos. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. The story of the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico which became a centre for artists and utopians. Signed and dated by author on half title page. Book comes with following ephemera: a postcard of the house; a pamphlet describing the house and room rates; and, two photocopies pages containing a self-guided tour and a book review of this title. No chips, tears, creases. Includes many black and white illustrations. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 401 pp.