Search Results: Authors starting with D from Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts

Winnipeg, Manitoba & Calgary, Alberta: [D. Ackland & Son, Limited], 1928. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. Very Good +. pp. 140; accompanied with an extensive index. 4to., measuring 8.5" x 11". Illustrated card covers held with utilitarian black cloth backstrip bearing the crest of the firm to the lower-right margin of the front cover, and gilt lettering. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white, and (remarkably for its time) colour engravings, and illustrations demonstrative of the rich variety of goods on offer including those for: chains, bolts, wheels, springs, paints, plates, Lauson Gasoline Engines, belts, spark plugs, hitches, and much else. Extremities show light rubbing, some very light superficial tide-marks (entirely unaffecting text). Contents remarkably bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Includes original, perforated (remains attached), "Dealers' Discount Sheet" offering a 50% discount off goods comprising the catalogue. A remarkable, and scarce… Read More

New York: Clarion Books, 1999. Softcover. pp. 37. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated covers. Beautifully illustrated throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. "A lonely old woman adopts, cares for, and raises a polar bear as if he were her own son, until jealous villagers threaten the bear's life, forcing him to leave his home and his mother," in a retelling of a traditional Inuit folktale."

Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada: Privately Printed, N.D. [Circa 1980's?]. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 141. 8vo., measuring 5.25" x 8.25". Illustrated covers. Black-and-white photographs, and portraits. Bright, clean, and unmarked; as new. Uncommon in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #184851296. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.

Revelstoke, British Columbia: Privately Printed, 1966. Stapled Wraps. pp. 34. Illustrated stapled card covers. Many black and white maps, photographs and illustrations. A few small spots to front cover else, small sticker affixed to corner of title page, contents clean and unmarked; very good+ to near fine.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Great Plains Publications, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 223. 4to. Black hardcovers, gilt lettering to the spine. Replete with many black-and-white, and colour maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. No detectable flaws, bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine and housed in fine dustjacket.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Great Plains Publications, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 223. 4to. Black hardcovers, gilt lettering to the spine. Replete with many black-and-white, and colour maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. No detectable flaws, bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine and housed in fine dustjacket.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 55. Square 8vo. Richly illustrated in black-and-white, and colour throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. See OCLC #1078734431.

Mill Valley, California: Privately Printed, Summer, 1990. Vol. 14, No. 2. Stapled Wraps. pp. 46. Small 8vo., measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Comprises of a rich selection of poetry by several dozen individual poets. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. Includes contributions by: Phyllis Beauvais, Michael Hogan, Enid Leviinger Powell, Wendy Wilder, Miriam Pederson, and many others.

Glasgow: Printed for Robert Urie, 1765. First Edition. Leather Bound. pp. 228. 12mo. Full calf with title in gilt over maroon spine label; five raised bands, six compartments. Leather extremities are lightly rubbed, some scuffing as is to be expected of a volume of this age. The leather has recently been professionally replenished and treated with a natural leather preserver. Internally: lovely neat period inscription to the front endpapers dated 1799, text-block itself remains otherwise clean, and unmarked; very good+. Only the second appearance of this work in English, the first having been published just one year earlier, in 1764, by C. Henderson. Rare in commerce of the English-language translation of the prolific French encyclopedist. See, ESTC Citation No. T173296.

Paris, France: Fernand Hazan, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Unpaginated. Square 12mo. Illustrated stiff card covers. Richly illustrated with colour reproductions of Dali's works, accompanied with captions in English, and French. Text in French and English. Touch of rubbing to covers, contents bright, clean, and unmarked. Overall, very good+. Uncommon in commerce.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Novalis, 2001. Softcover. pp. xii, 264. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. Signed, and inscribed by Bishop De Roo to the title page.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: S.E. Dawson, Printer To The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xxxvi, 479; 114.. Royal 8vo. Smooth brown "leatherette" buckram over boards with gilt rules, lettering to the spine. Black and white photographic frontispiece depicting Crowfoot, Chief of the Blackfoot Nation. Black and white photographs depicting Indigenous peoples, children, schools alongside many charts, tables, exhaustive statements of returns, accounts etc. Handsomely re-bound with no flaws to extremities. Age-toned, tide-marks present to the initial pages, and endpapers (though unaffecting legibility of the text) otherwise, unmarked,with tight, sound binding. Overall, very good. Scarce in commerce.

New York: William Zierler, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated. Four unnumbered leaves. Oblong 8vo., measuring 18 x 26 cm. Plain, twice-stapled, card covers. Black-and-white, and colour photographs of the Danby's works, accompanied with a short introductory note by Mario Amayo, Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Corresponds to OCLC #2050571.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Gallery Moos Ltd., December, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated. [pp. 28]. Small square 8vo. Textured, and illustrated stapled card covers with lovely glassine endpapers. Replete with photographic reproductions of Danby's works. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Rare in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #62999979. Not in Peel, BAC/LAC. Published on the occasion of the Ken Danby Exhibition, December 1967 at Gallery Moos, Toronto.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: [Winnipeg School of Contemporary Dance], 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 7. 8vo. Four-panelled brochure, measuring 3.5" x 8.75" when folded, and 8.75" x 14" when un-folded. Illustrated covers with a black-and-white photograph of a ballerina in motion. Issued by the Winnipeg School of Contemporary Dance for the benefit of prospective students; complete with short biographies of the principal dancers and instructors and accompanied with their black-and-white portraits, a brief history of the founding of the school, information on the various levels of programming available, registration, fees, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. Unrecorded in commerce, or OCLC and other online resources.

Vegreville, Alberta, Canada: [Vegreville Ukrainian School of Dancing] | Printed by The Vegreville Observer, ND [Circa 1980's?]. First Edition, First Printing. Spiral Bound. pp. xii, 144, [1]. 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Vibrant textured yellow illustrated card covers bearing a colour image of a young Ukrainian man and woman dancing. Comprises of a rich selection of local, ethnic Ukrainian, and Canadian dishes all accompanied with the names of their respective contributors. Sections include: Traditional Favourites; Breads, Loaves and Muffins; Meats, Sauces and Dips; Casseroles; Beverages; Cookies; Desserts; Preserves; Pies and Pastry; Soups; Squares; Vegetables, et al. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. Exceedingly scarce in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #69647628 indicating only one known institutional holding. At time of cataloguing not in BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collection, Guelph, McGill, et al.

Vegreville, Alberta, Canada: [Vegreville Ukrainian School of Dancing] | Printed by The Vegreville Observer, ND [Circa 1980's?]. First Edition, First Printing. Spiral Bound. pp. 144, [1]. 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Vibrant textured yellow illustrated card covers bearing a colour image of a young Ukrainian man and woman dancing. Comprises of a rich selection of local, ethnic Ukrainian, and Canadian dishes all accompanied with the names of their respective contributors. Sections include: Traditional Favourites; Breads, Loaves and Muffins; Meats, Sauces and Dips; Casseroles; Beverages; Cookies; Desserts; Preserves; Pies and Pastry; Soups; Squares; Vegetables, et al. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. Exceedingly scarce in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #69647628 indicating only one known institutional holding. At time of cataloguing not in BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collection, Guelph, McGill, et al.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Pemmican Publications, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 145. 4to. Illustrated card covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. Comprises of a large selection of printed sheet-music. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. Signed and inscribed by Marcel Meilleur to the title page.

London: William Heinemann, N.D. [Circa 1921]. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. x, 133. Slim 4to., measuring 20 x 26 cm. Quater black cloth over illustrated paper boards, printed label on the spine, untrimmed pages egdes (with one or two leaves still remaining uncut from the publisher). Striking wood-cut frontispiece depicting Shakespeare signed G.W.H., accompanied with one additional wood-cut illustration. Boldly signed in ink by the author to the limitation page / colophon. Light egdewear, light scuffs to the spine label, very faint traces of scattered foxing to the upper-margin of a few leaves otherwise the text-block remains overwhelmingly bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound biding. A thoroughly lovely edition. "This Edition, printed on hand-made paper, numbered and signed by the Author, is limited to two hundred and fifty copies for sale, and twenty-five copies for presentation, of which this is No. 140."

London & New York: Studio Vista & Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 96. Square 8vo., measuring 6.5" x 7.75". Illustrated card covers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Scarce in commerce in this edition, and state. "This book is about a new medium, 'Grafilm', by combining a wide variety of graphic and illustrative techniques on film stock, is a new medium which presents the creative user with a more subtle and more personal form of communication than the traditional photographic methods can produce. Film combines all the art forms. The emphasis in this book is on a graphic/poetic approach to film-making, rather than a photographic/prosaic one."