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$75
Heath's Modern Language Series 1897 German text with English Notes and a German-English Vocabulary
$10
$25
published 1916 and reprinted in1918. Inscribed with some notes throughout.
$20
$15
$25
beautiful covers detached
$20
$25
1913
$10
Conan Doyle's Best Works in 3 volumes published by P. F. Collier & Son
$40
$10
Clyde Pharr's Revised Fifth Edition, 1925.
$100
Oxonii 1920 recensuit Arturus Sidgwick. Many penciled notes in Agamemnon and some to Libation-Bearers. Greek text; Latin notes
$50
London: George Bell & Sons 1906. Dedication inked to endpaper. Greek text with English into and notes
ΑΡΙΣΤΟΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΟΡΝΙΘΕΣ $80
By Frank Tarbell for Ginn&Co., Boston, 1896. Intro and notes in English; GREEK text
$80
NOTES IN ENGLISH; TEXT IN GREEK
$85
Greek text with a brilliant intro and notes in English by Verrall for MacMillan&Co, 1886. Pretty clean.
$120
leather-bound with gilded top edge. Volume 1 - 1929 First Edition Volume 2 - 1933 First Edition clean texts.
$120
Cambridge At The University Press, Fourth Edition, 1900. Pretty clean.
$100
HOMERI CARMINA. SECUNDUM RECENSIONEM WOLFII. VOLUMEN I. ILIAS. LIPSIAE - MDCCCXXV. The complete Iliad, in Greek.
$250
FROM THE TEXT OF WOLF WITH FLAXMAN'S ILLUSTRATIVE DESIGNS. BOSTON, 1833.
$450
Agricola, Germany, Dialogue on Oratory, by Church and Brodribb; MacMillon and Co., 1911. In English.
$50
Book opens in media res with the first 16 pages of the intro missing. C.1890. $10
Canadian Educational Series. BELLUM GALLICUM. BOOKS V. & VI.
Braithwaite, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1927. Few unpretentious stamps from a Jesuit library; pretty clean otherwise.
$20 SVETONI DIVVS VESPASIANVS
spine ripped open; inscriptions and some markings; text block cleaved in half; several pages with decades-old tape over page-length rips
$25
$50
Tatui Baba 1888
$120
S. TSUJIMOTO & CO. TOKYO, OSAKA, AND KYOTO. JAPAN, 1887
$120 HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH-JAPANESE ETYMOLOGY
墨寶 $ 120
Kwong Chi Book Co.
$120
$150
Published by Henry Altemus in Philadelphia, 1894clean text, no markings or inscriptions
$30
The Copp Clark Literature Series, Toronto, 1922.
$10
Printed in Leipzig. Text in deutscher Sprache.
$25 Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre
Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen bluhn? Intro and notes in English; Text in German. Library-withdrawn. Penciled notes throughout.
$25 GOETHE'S POEMS, 1899
1864 - Wildtödter
$50
written in German 1920s
$20 Schiller's 30 years' war
Rotterdam 1890
$5 Natuurkunde in de Huiskamer
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol.VII ©1909 Funk & Wagnalls Company. "Ex-Libris" from The Frontier College, Toronto
$5 Continental Europe Prose Writers, part 2
par J. Bourdeau, Paris 1895
$25
4th Edition, 1925, Printed in Great Britain. Text in English.
$20
1928 very good condition
$25
Short History of the English People, Vol 2. fair condition. Damage to cover and torn out end papers. Good otherwise.
$35
one page loose in the first volume
$90
$60
$40
with portraits and plans. 2nd Edition. London. Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited. 1895. $20.
$20
$100
©1908 by The John A. Hertel Co.
$5
$20
Vintage
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ex-biblioteca; nome e alcune note sul risguardo
$20
First published 1929; this copy: 1960.
$5
McMaster Bookstore sticker on dustcover; many words glossed over throughout
$3.25 reprint of 1965
reprinted in GB, 1967; penciled throughout
$5
McMaster Bookstore sticker; reprinted 1986 soft cover with clean text like new
$8.50
©1972 National Geographic Society
$20
HWAET!!! someone glossed over the first 5 lines only
$20
Printed in GB 1965; McMaster Bookstore sticker on the dust cover; clean text
$10
$10 ©1971 hardcover clean text
$10
Great Britain, 2nd Ed.,1962
$60
$5 each (check for availability)
English translations of various classics
University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. Softcover, Good condition, no markings inside. $60
PHARR'S HOMERIC GREEK REVISED BY WRIGHT- softcover
University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. Some scratches to cover but inside, very good, all clean. One price stamp on inside cover. $80
PHARR'S HOMERIC GREEK REVISED BY WRIGHT- hardcover
2nd Ed, With Critical Apparatus. Reprinted, 1965 by The British And Foreign Bible Society. English intro; GREEK text. $20
Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ
American Bible Society. Very good. $50
The New Testament - Ancient Greek with Today's English Version
$80
Toronto, 1936. Very smart book from the Delta Collegiate Giftshop. Very clean inside. $20
Selection of Virgil with notes and vocabulary
J.G.C. Anderson, 1956.
$20
colours enhanced with camera effect
$50
Published by the Early English Text Society, reprint of 1954. Notes and Glossary. $25
The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counselling
Selections of Early West-Saxon Prose and Later Prose and Poetry. Includes a Glossary. University of Cambridge Press, reprint of 1953. $25
Anglo-Saxon Reader by Wyatt
"Lef, lythes [friend, listen] to me, Two wordes or thre, Off one þat was faire and fre". Etc. Published by Russell & Russell, USA, 1964. $25
Volume 2 of The Middle English Metrical Romances by French and Hale
Published 1929 by Appleton Century Crofts
$20
drukarnia w Krakowie, 1970
$20
Reprinted in Great Britain, 1960.
$10
Printed in Germany, 1931. This is the first English translation of the famous work by Dr. Francis Du Mont.
$25
$25
$5
$5 printed in Spain 1965
Made in USA, ©1955 - which heralds the Age of Elvis the King. Cover is a bit dirty but the text inside in good condition.
$20
first edition printed in 1969, USA.
$50
$40
1965
$25
Inscription dated /48. Penciled checkmarks throughout the text. School Aids and Text Book Publishing Co. Ltd, Canada
$10
© 1935 "...Many young people go direct from high school into business and find themselves without that background of simple business info.."
$20
$15
$15
127 clean pages of drills. Undated but likely from the 30s
$15
100 lessons on 100 pages - unused and clean content inside.
$10 © 1933
183 pages.
$30 © 1943, Toronto
2nd printing, 1969, USA. Illustrated. Clean contents.
$10
Printed in Italy, 1982. Very good condition, and very informative.
$20
printed in1985
$5
Tenth impression 1953.
$20
they actually fought butt-naked, a classic by Adcock; 1st PB Edition, 1962, University of California Press.
$10
$10 two volumes
$5 minor damage, minor stains, clean text.
17th printing, 1966 - $5
1981 - someone stained the edges blue, which looks pretty cool actually.
$5
Printed in Great Britain, 1970 - lots of notes to Ulalume, some to the City by the Sea and House of Usher; all else pretty clean
$3
very pretty copy by Award Books Inc in excellent condition
$10
1982
$5
The only clue left is a red dot on the bottom edge of the text block. $5
1977 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Printed in Great Britian, 1974
$10
Printed in Glasgow ©1965
$10
$10 - Printed in Great Britain 1989
Accounts of the greatest journeys by Marco Polo, Columbus, Magellan, Cortes, Hawkins, Frobisher, Drake, Raleigh, Cook, Stanley & Livingstone
$10 Travellers' Tales arranged by Jay Du Bois
A History. Clean text, some diagrams and plates in b&w. 1959 Collins Clear-Type Press, printed in Great Britain.
$10 The English Channel by J. A. Williamson
Dundurn Press, Toronto and Charlottetown, 1981. Some underlining in text and in margins.
$20
1960
$5
$10 dual language
©1980
$10
Selected by Mary Wilder Tileston. Printed 1934 in USA by Grosset & Dunlap
$10 Daily Strength for Daily Needs
Book of Hymns printed in Toronto, ©1930 United Church Publishing House
$5
$5
Early Christianity by Roland H. Bainton, 1960
Late 19th Century. Very brittle paper with many pages detached.
$3 Emerson's Essays, Second Series, Chicago
hardcover 1977 "...capitalism has never anywhere provided good houses at moderate cost" and so forth.
$15
$5
Printed in Japan, 1980
$20
printed in 1956, big fold out map with lots of info included.
$25
Printed in Italy, 1964. Inscription dated '77. very nice colour plates.
$10
Printed in Italy, First Printing, 1964. Very nice colour plates.
$10
includes 190 color plates in very good condition but the cover is damaged.
$10
It's more than just gesso and gild. 1956, Made in USA.
$20
Absolutely indispensable to the understanding of unicorns.
$100
Printed in the Netherlands, 1956
$10
Very nice prints from the 50s
$25 imperial oil portfolio series
Peter Mellen's Group of Seven, published and bound in Canada, 1970.
$40
1980 First Edition, Printed in USA
$20
$10
$10
"Pocket Edition" (they had big pockets back then) William Blackwood & Sons, 1931 in Great Britain
Lord Jimbo $10
Print of 1960, Great Britain. Names inscribed; may be some underlining
$10
New Cambridge Edition, 2nd ed. Good reading copy, few notes. 1002 pages. $15
$15
$10
©1964. Judging by the cover price, probably late 80s
$3
©1961
$3
"...those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes. He only does them when he's happy."
$10 1958
$5
FIFTH REPRINT 1943
$20
$10
$5
$10 dual language ©1941 printed 1961
$5 MacMillon 1955 Printed in GB
$10
$5
$5 Potsdam 1941
$10
©1943
$10
intro and notes in English; German text
$5 MacMillon 1954
alle 10 $
Ленинград 1983
$10
1956. Softcover in rough shape. Text inside okay. Scribbles on one of the pages above the text.
$20
Государственное Издательство, Москва, 1952.
$80
More Vintage: Fiction
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Printed in Japan, 1980. Minimal damage, no inscription, fairly clean text and illustrations.
$20
Some slight damage to binding but clean text and illustrations. Award Publications Ltd, Printed in Belgium, 1982.
$10
no inscriptions
$5
1980
$4
1986
$4
From 1989, only a few good ones left in blank condition, especially the owls towards the end.
$10
$5 for very young readers.
Published 1981
$4
1988 facsimile of the original 1915 Volland Edition: 108 illustrated Mother Goose rhymes, by Derrydale Books, made in Japan.
$25 facsimile of the original
©1992 this book is about a tea party.
$5 dust jacket damage
Published by Gallery Books, 1998, Printed in Hong Kong
$10 0nly a cat knows where it's at
Ciao! Printed in Italy 1988 by Peter Haddock Ltd
$10
Award Publications Ltd, printed in Belgium, 1978
$10
Peter Haddock Ltd, Printed in Hungary, 1980
$10
Victoria House Publishing, Printed in Belgium, 1982. `
$10
Printed in USA, 1971. Clean text and illustrations. No inscriptions.
$20
PERMA-BOUND, Library-withdrawn Scholastic ©1963. Printed in the U.S.A
$10 pleasantly illustrated
© 1979 Octopus Books, Printed in England. "Exquisitely illustrated".
$10
Legendary Classics Series by Modern Promotions. Printed in Hungary, 1982.
$10
1998 Oxford University Press Edition: First Thus. Minor damage, small bar code sticker, and "RA13+" penned into the endpaper.
$20
Printed in Hong Kong, 1986
$5
$5
Retold by Rose Dobbs and Illustrated by G. E. Espenscheid
$10
Published by Hodder and Stoughton. Second Impression of 1982. Library-withdrawn
$5
Signet Classic published by The New American Library. First Printing, 1962.
$10
Retold by Blanche Winder. Airmont Classic. 1968.
$25
profusely illustrated with illustrations by Hans Tegner for Coles Publishing Company. To H.R.H. The Princess of Wales. Copyright 1978. $15
$15
Airmont Classic 1962. no inscriptions.
$5
Inscribed endpaper dated 1969. Published by the Classic Press, in Santa Rosa, California
$10 With diagrams and notes.
©1985 Abridged version with some illustrations in b&w
$5
©1956. Manufactured in the U.S.A. There is a name penciled in on the end-paper with the date of 12/71. Text&illustrations clean.
$25
1985 First Edition, PB; inscription to end paper; some water damage towards the end of the book; clean text
$5
"The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath." 2nd Printing by Rand McNally &Co, 1976
Classic illustrations of Santa dancing with magical toys and enchanted animals including a fiddling cat
Printed in Great Britain, 1987.
$5 hardcover library withdrawn
1988
$5
1984
$5
1981
$5
1975 Vintage Books Division of Random House
$5
1960 some faint staining
$5
Printed in USA 1988
$20
Printed in USA © 1967
$10
Manufactured in the USA, © 1985 by Crown Publishers
$25
2000
$5
school copy; clean text inside.
$5
made and printed in Great Britain, 1982
$5
38th printing 1972. Lengthy dedication inscribed to inside front cover.
$5
1991 clean text
$3
Wyrwana wyklejka.
bajki po polsku z obrazkami. $10
КИЕВ 1985
$25
МИНСК 1967
$50
$ OUT OF STOCK
Cover has some damage but text & illustrations inside are in good condition. Printed in Portugal, 1978.
$10
OUT OF STOCK! dont inquire
1970 printed in Great Britain. hardcover in very good condition.
$30
rainbow classic © 1946 Illustrated hardcover with dustjacket. Former bookstore sticker and a tiny bit of underlining later in the text. $15
$15
LaFrench Connection
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PARIS 1946 TRES BIEN SANS MARQUAGE
$10
$5
©1973 quelques notes au crayon
$5
©1984 texte frais
$5
1967 texte sans marquage
$5
1997 texte frais
$5
$10
Paris 1972
$20
©1969
$40
par J. Bourdeau, Paris 1895
$25
corner of the endpaper is torn
$50
with portraits and plans. 2nd Edition. London. Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited. 1895.
$20
Post 1945. Inscribed name dated 1952, significantly the year the reign of King George VI ended, and that of Elizabeth II began. doodles.
$25 by Elizabeth O'Neil and Illustrated by George Marrow
Short History of the English People, Vol 2. Torn-out endpapers but good otherwise
$35
Biblical illustrations drawn from manners and customs, etc, in the Holy Land. London, 1901. $20
$20
$40
by War Book Publishing Co. in Toronto. A History of South Africa and its People,Including the War of 1899, 1900, 1901, and 1902. $60
by Hopkins and Halstead. 2 volumes in one book.
$80
by George Stewart, Jr, Rose-Belford Publishing Company, MDCCCLXXVIII. $60
CANADA Under the Administration of the EARL of DUFFERIN
1871 First Edition; minor damage, some faint stains, and some little penciling
$100
Nature
$20 ©1985
©1950 $ 10
© 1956,1952
$10
hardcover 420pp ©1968
$10
$20
FERNS © 1977 Time-Life Books
$20
Translated from the original Italian ©1972, Printed in Italy. Used/good condition, minor marks.
$10
©1976 Time-Life International 1st Printing
$20
America's Magnificent Mountains, National Geographic Society © 1980
$20
©1962
$20
©1976 Time-Life International 2nd English Printing, 1977
$20
©1976 Time-Life International 1st ed
$25
Rainforests of Austraila, 1985, Printed in Australia. Amazing photos
$30
$30
1st Edition printed in Wisconsin, 1966
$5
©1949, 1956
$5
©1949, 1956
$5
etc.
full set.
$80
$20
from Seymour's Humorous Sketches, 1888.
$2
from Seymour's Humorous Sketches, 1888
$2
$10
vintage Russian approx. 14.5 x 10.5 cm
$7
vintage Russian approx. 14.5 x 10.5 cm
$7
vintage Latvia
$10
Mockba, 1966. Reproduction of an engraving by V. Presniakov.
$5
Mockba, 1966. Reproduction of an engraving by V. Presniakov.
$5
Mockba, 1966. Reproduction of an engraving by V. Presniakov.
$5
out of stock : (
500 cents
$2
$20 1931 ad for Cadillac V8 5-Passenger Coup
from the Tyburn Turnpike to Stranford and Hinckley. Civil Engineering as a science in it's infancy - a very significant piece of history!
$50 road map published 1806
NUMISMATICS
The Language of Coin
What is a little copper worth?
[To Be Continued]
The letters IMP can clearly be made out on the left. It is the profile of an Imperator, the Emperor of Rome!
The Final Gallery
THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC
Algunos dicen que es un Charango Peruano, y otros dicen que es específicamente un Charango de Ayacucho, pero les puedo asegurar, que este es un Charango Riobambinano.
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