Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

Bear: A Novel

Engel, Marian · 1976

$169.00 (€153.33 | £127.92 | ¥26,979)

Toronto Mcclelland And Stewart First Edition, First Printing pp. 141, [1]. 8vo. Textured teal cloth over boards, bright silver lettering to the spine. No detectable flaws, extremities in fine condition. Light sticker residue to the ffep otherwise, the contents remain bright, c...

Lords of the Stone: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture

Macduff, Alistair; George M. Galpin (Photography) · 1982

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

North Vancouver, BC Whitecap Books First Edition, First Printing pp. 151. Quarto. Bound in full textured navy-blue buckram, stamped in silver to spine and front board. Lovely full-page colour photographs. Faint neat ink inscription to the margin of the ffep, else, clean and un...

HRH The Prince of Wales: Watercolours

[Prince Charles] · 1991

$59.00 (€53.53 | £44.66 | ¥9,419)

Boston Little, Brown and Company First Edition pp. 159. Oblong quarto. Bound in light-gray cloth over boards with silver lettering to spine and front board. Lovely full-page illustrations to rectos with explanatory text to versos. Near fine in near fine, unclipped, dust jacket...

Métis Cookbook and Guide to Healthy Living

Dyck, Miranda · 2008

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,822)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Métis Centre, National Aboriginal Health Organization Second Edition pp. 108. Square 8vo. Illustrated card covers held with white spiral binding. Replete with black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations, and photographic reproductions. Compri...

Recettes Et Guide De Vie Saine Métis (2e Édition)

Dyck, Miranda · 2008

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Métis Centre, National Aboriginal Health Organization Second Edition pp. 108. Square 8vo. Illustrated card covers held with white spiral binding. Replete with black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations, and photographic reproductions. Compri...

Gandhi's Challenge to Communism

Gopinatha Dikshita [G.N. Dikshit] · 1972

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

Ram Nagar, New Delhi S. Chand & Co. (Pvt.) Ltd. First Edition, First Printing pp. vii, 185. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Ex-library copy bearing the usual stamps, pockets (confined to the front endpapers, and title page). Otherw...

Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War [Complete in Three Volumes] ; Vol. I: Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific; Vol. II: The Canadians in Italy: 1943-1945; Vol. III: The Victory Campaign, The Operations in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945

Stacey, Col. C.P.; G.W.L. Nicholson; C.C.J. Bond (Illust. & Maps); · 1956

$189.00 (€171.48 | £143.06 | ¥30,171)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Pubished by the Authority of the Minister of National Defence | Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery pp. xiii, 629; xv, 807; xiii, 770. Thick Royal 8vo's. Uniformly bound in bright red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spin...

Canadian Graphic Arts in Brazil: Press Review / Arts Graphiques du Canada au Brésil: Revue de la Presse ; [Cover Title: Artes Gráficas do Canadá]

Hyde, Lawrence (Foreword); Jacques de Tonnancour (Preface); Lygia Martins Costa; Michel B. Kamenka, et al. · 0

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

[Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] [Impresso da A. Noite] First Edition, First Printing pp. 154. 12mo., measuring 5.5" x 7.5". Original bevelled, pebbled maroon leather boards with gilt lettering and motifs to the spine, lovely marbled endpapers. Rear index features a list of "Artists W...

Scarrow: 50th Anniversary Reunion Heritage Cookbook: 19476-1997 ; A Celebration of Recipes from Scarrows, Past and Present

Compiled by Nancy S. [Sturgeon] Scarrow · 1997

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

Oakvill, Ontario, Canada Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 285. Thick quarto, measuring 9" x 11". Illustrated salmon-pink card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Illustrated with various black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. ...

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Works in Three Volumes [Complete Three Volume Set]

Marx, Karl; Frederick Engels · 1969

$245.00 (€222.28 | £185.45 | ¥39,111)

Moscow, USSR Progress Publishers pp. 596; 503; 579. Octavos, measuring 6" x 9". Uniformly bound in red cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spines and front boards; publisher's topstains, like ribbon-markers. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece of Marx to Vol. I. Lig...

Eclipse Tempting Recipes; [Recipe Booklet for/from Eclipse Baking Powder]

Riley, Dickson (Miss) · 1931

$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,147)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Western Pure Foods Ltd. First printing pp. 32. Small 8vo., measuring 17 cm. Illustrated stapled card covers with red background with yellow rays depicting the sun. Colour illustrations. Light rubbing to covers, faint tide-marks to a few pages otherwise clean...

La Question Juive Chez Nous, Avec Une Lettre d'un Lecteur de L'Action Catholique à L'auteur ; [The Jewish Question Among Us, With a Letter from a Reader of L'Action Catholique to the Author]

Huot, Antonio (1877-1929) · 1926

$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,147)

Ste-Anne, Quebec L'Action Sociale, Ltée First Edition, First Printing pp. 16. 12mo., measuring 13 x 19 cm. Plain, twice-stapled wrappers, with title in black. Two unobtrusive institutional ink notations, and stamps to the cover, and title page. Remaining leaves without blemish...

The Future Belongs to Saskatchewan [C.C.F. Election Graphic Novel]

[Balbar, G.]; Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Saskatchewan Section · 1952

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.60 | ¥31,129)

Regina, Sasktachewan C.C.F. [Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Saskatchewan Section] | Printed by the Service Printing Co. (Regina, SK) First Edition, First Printing Unpaginated [pp.16]. 4to., measuring 8.5" x 11". Brightly-illustrated, twice-stapled, wrappers. A remarkabl...

Historique Journaux de Quebec [History of Quebec Newspapers]

Têtu, Horace (1842-1915) · 1889

$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,147)

Quebec Publisher Not Identified Nouvelle Édition, Revue, Augmenté et Annoté pp. 107. 12mo., measuring 4.5" x 7.75". Full maroon buckram over boards with gilt rules, and lettering to spine; new endpapers. Two faint, unobtrusive, circular institutional stamps to the margins of t...

Le Chant Général: Poème, Volume I

Neurda, Pablo; Alice Ahrweiler (Trans.) · 1950

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

Paris Les Éditeurs Français Réunis pp. 187, [1]. 12mo. Plain card covers lettered in red and black, unrimmed fore edges. Faint crease to the spine, trifle edgwear, contents without blemish; very good. ¶ French-language translation of Neruda's tenth book of poems, Canto General.

Striking Group Portrait of Five Sisters from Portage la Prairie, Manitoba

[WESTERN CANADIANA / PHOTOGRAPHY / MANITOBA / WOMEN'S HISTORY] · 19001911

$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.31 | ¥35,918)

Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada Palmer's Elite Studio (Proprietor, J. Thomas Palmer) Original silver gelatin photograph measuring 14 cm x 7 cm, mounted on its original thick, textured, black card-stock frame, and housed within blind-stamped arabesque borders to an overall...

The Stereometricon: New System of Measuring all Bodies by One and the Same Rule ; General Application of the Prismoidal Formula: Nomenclature and General Features of Each of the 200 models on the Board; The Areas of Spherical Triangles and Polygons to any Radius or Diameter; Tables of the Areas of Circles, Segments, Zones

Baillairgé, Charles · 1884

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Quebec Imprimerie C. Darveau pp. [1-3], 4-69; 61, [1]. Plain salmon card covers with title in black housed within repeating decorative borders. Large illustrated fold-out affixed to the verso of the title leaf featuring the printed extract of an article on the author's unique ...

Plains Cree: A Grammatical Study

Wolfart, H. Christoph · 1973

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

Philadelphia The American Philosophical Society pp. 90. Quarto. Light-green card covers. Illustrated with various maps, charts, tables, illustraitons. Small spot to the lower-right margin of the front cover, else, clean and unmarked; very good+. ¶ Publisher Series: Transaction...

Happy Birthday To You!

Dr. Seuss [pseud. Theodor Seuss Geisel] · 1959

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York Random House Book Club Edition Unpaginated. Quarto (8.25" x 11"). Illustrated matte paper boards. Light edgewear, text-block uniformly clean and without blemish. Overall, good+. ¶ A later Book Club Edition, bearing a later alphanumeric printing sequence [BCDEFGHIJKLM,...

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

Dr. Seuss [pseud. Theodor Seuss Geisel] · 1958

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York Random House Book Club Edition Unpaginated. Quarto (8.25" x 11"). Illustrated matte paper boards. Light edgewear, text-block uniformly clean and without blemish. Overall, very good. ¶ A later Book Club Edition, bearing a later alphanumeric printing sequence [DEFGHIJKL...