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

Regina, Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Writers Guild, May, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 64. Small 8vo., measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Striking, iIllustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations, drawings, photographs, collage-art, etc. Includes selections of poetry and prose by Mark Abley, Christopher Taylor, Anne Szumigalski, W.D. Valgardson, et al. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine.

[Winnipeg, Manitoba]: Plug In Inc., 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. [pp. 64]. Small 8vo. Bound in full black cloth with silver lettering to spine and front board. Chiefly black and white photographs accompanied with captions. No detectable flaws; near fine. Exhibition catalogue from a viewing held at the Plug-In Inc. (presumably the predecessor of the Plug-In Institue of Contemporary Art of The University of Winnipeg.) for the photographic works of William Eakin. Text in English and Japanese.

St. Norbert, Manitoba, Canada: St. Norbert Arts Centre, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Unpaginated. [pp. 82]. Square 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Replete with black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. Chronicles photographer William Eakin's four-month residency at the St. Norbert Arts Centre in 2000, wherein he shared his creative process and his self-acclaimed collection of World's Greatest Collection of Everyday Objects. Eakin was the eighth recipient of the Manitoba Arts Council's Award of Distinction.

St. Norbert, Manitoba: St. Norbert Arts & Cultural Centre, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Unpaginated [55 unnumbered leaves]. Oblong 8vo., measuring 16 x 24 cm. Light-blue cloth over boards, bronze lettering to the spine, and front board. Richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; fine.

St. Norbert, Manitoba, Canada: St. Norbert Arts Centre, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Unpaginated. [pp. 82]. Square 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Replete with black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. Chronicles photographer William Eakin's four-month residency at the St. Norbert Arts Centre in 2000, wherein he shared his creative process and his self-acclaimed collection of World's Greatest Collection of Everyday Objects. Eakin was the eighth recipient of the Manitoba Arts Council's Award of Distinction.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Adam, Stevenson & Co. | Printed by Bell & Co., City Steam Press (Toronto) , 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. xii, 359. 12mo., measuring 7" x 5". Bound in publisher's original stamped lilac cloth over boards, blind-stamped borders, gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine, and front board. Light bumping and some fraying to the spine ends, tips, some rubbing, a few faint spots to the rear board. Ex-libris bookplate, and small booksellers' mark affixed to the front pastedown, short ink inscription to the ffep, period ink name and date to the corner of the half-title page, single unobtrusive institutional stamp to the upper-margin of one preliminary leaf. Text-block overwhelmingly clean and unmarked with firm, binding. Overall, very good-. Scarce in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #932863752.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Eastern European Genealogical Society, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 29. 4to., measuring 8.5" x 11". Pictorial, twice-stapled, card covers. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits, facsimiles, charts, illustrations, etc. Sections include: Speaker Biographies, Understanding Language Variations of Eastern European First Names; Analyzing Vital Records of the Austrian, Prussian, and Russian Empires; Galician Documents of Genealogical Value from Poland and Ukraine; The How and Why of European Place Name Changes, etc. Fine. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in Peel. "Celebrating 25 years of multi-ethnic research."

Cape Dorset, N.W.T.: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs | West-Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, N.D. [Circa 1978]. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. Unpaginated. [pp. 28]. Square 8vo. Illustrated card coves with title in English, and Syllabics. Black-and-white photographs, illustrations. Text in English, and French. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. "Prepared and circulated by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in co-operation with the West-Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, Cape Dorset, N.W.T.".

Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 192. 8vo. Stiff pictorial card covers. Richly illustrated with dozens of black-and-white photographs, illustrations, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 77. Slim 4to. Quarte red-cloth over cream boards, gilt lettering and ornaments to the spine and front board. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine and housed in fine dustjacket. Appears unread; as new.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press | Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. ix, 307. Royal 8vo. Bound in publisher's naby-blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece. Lightest edgewear to the cloth exremities, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm, sound binding; very good+. Scarce in commerce in this edition, and state. Original Title: The M m s Ny ya prak a; or, padev : a Treatise on the M m s System by padeva.

Fort Bragg, California: Mendocino County Historical Society, 1959. Stapled Wraps. pp. viii, 81. 8vo. Illustrated stiff yellow card covers; pictorial and map endpapers. Black and white photographs, illustrations, drawings. Sections include: Basketry; Indian Foods; Famine Foods; Beverages; Feasts; Greens; Meat; Nuts; Medicinal Plants; Ceremonials and Magic; Tanning Hides; Medicinal Plants for Venereal Diseases; Hair, et al. A comprehensive section on medicinal use of plants for alleviating symptoms of colds, sore throats, eye infections; plants used to act as a blood coagulators; heart and tonic; kidney and bladder trouble; poultices; smallpox; wounds; rheumatism; sores and boils and many others. No detectable flaws; contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. Scarce with no copies presently housed at LAC/BAC.

Regina, Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Gun Collector's Association, June, 1963. Volume III, Number 2. Stapled Wraps. pp. 27, [1]. 4to, measuring 28 cm tall. Illustrated yellow stapled card covers. Black and white illustrations, advertisements by gun merchants. The journal comprises of lively discussion of gun enthusiasts including book reviews, collector's firearms, maker's marks, discussions of Canadian military firearms, even includes a Gun Collector's Colouring Book by "Ludwig von Gunbug". Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. Scarce with no extant copies available on the market at time of cataloguing. "A patriotic, educational and non-profit organization of Canadian citizens, dedicated to the collecting of firearms and research into their history. Membership open to any reputable person". Not in BAC/LAC.

New York: American Book Company, 1907. Hardcover. pp. 806. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Negligible shelfwear, ink inscription to ffep, occasional fine marginalia (unaffecting text) with tight, sound binding; very good+. Text is chiefly in Latin with English notes. Part of Morris and Morgan's Latin Series.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Edmond Cloutier & Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1957-1969. Reprint. Hardcover. pp. 13; 11; 14; 22; 32; 10; 26; 35; 16; 12; 8; 8; 8; 25. 8vo., measuring 6.5" x 9.75". Bound in dark-green utilitarian buckram over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white illustrations, fold-out maps, facsimiles, additional fold-outs, et al. Institutional acession stamps to the ffep, and title pages, otherwise, textblock remains quite bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; very good+. Most uncommon in commerce in a bound volume. Altogether, this bound volume comprises of facsimiles of the following treaties, and supplements: 1. Treaties 1 and 2 between Her Majesty the Queen and the Chippewa and Cree Indians of Manitoba and Country Adjacent with Adhesions; 2. Treaty No. 3 between Her Majesty the Queen and the Saulteaux Tribe of the Ojibbeway Indians at the Northwest Angle ont he Lake of the Woods with Adhesions; 3. Treaty No. 4 between Her… Read More

[Toronto, Ontario, Canada]: Mission Press, N.D. [Circa 197?]. Card Covers. pp. 137. 12m., measuring 17 cm. Textured, bright-yellow card covers bearing the crest of the Catholic order to the centre of the front cover. One very small knick to the front cover, single unobtrusive institutional mark to the upper-margin of the title page, else, contents without blemish; near fine. See OCLC #26258616. Not found in Peel, Fisher. Scarce in commerce. Comprises of a rich selection of Catholic hymns rendered in Syllabics, English, French and romanized Cree.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: , (49 Kennedy St., Winnipeg, Man.) [Educational Department, Headquarters of Ukrainian Catholics of Canada], 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 9. Tall 4to., measuring 8.5" x 14". Illustrated, mimeographed, twice-stapled, light-yellow covers. Mimeographed text comprising of a multi-act play, nine leaves of patriotic sheet music and poetry written and published to commemorate Ukrainian Heroes' Day, celebrated annually every 23rd of May in remembrance of those who fought for Ukrainian independence. No detectable flaws; fine. Exceedingly rare to be offered in commerce. Unrecorded in OCLC at time of cataloguing. Not found in Peel, UofM Archives & Special Collections, the Manitoba Legislative Library, et al. Text in Ukrainian. No detectable flaws; fine. Rear cover features a variety of additional programmes printed by the Winnipeg-based Ukrainian Catholic Council of Canada including those for celebrations… Read More

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Privately Printed | Kromar Printing Ltd., 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. Unpaginated [pp. 12]. 4to., measuring 9" x 12". Pictorial, twice-stapled, card covers, glassine endpapers. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles. Dedicatory messages from Lieutenant Governor Pearl McGonigal, Premier Howard Pawley, Mayor William Norrie. Comprises of a complete programme of events held in honour of the subject, a short history of the Winnipeg Jewish Education Trust Fund, the Winnipeg Board of Education, and Jewish schools in Winnipeg accompanied with a list of prominent supporters of various Jewish causes in Manitoba, etc. Light rubbing to the covers, contents without blemish; very good+. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, UoM Archives & Special Collections.

Macon, Georgia, United States: J.W. Burke Co., 1920. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. pp. 47, [1]. 12mo., measuring 5.25" x 7.25". Charming light-blue, textured, twice-stapled, card covers with navy-blue lettering. Black-and-white map illustrating "Eaneas' Trail" commencing in Rome, GA in 1864 to his destination of Louisville, GA in 1872. Fainest edgewear to the extremities, contents entirely without blemish; near fine.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Key Porter Books Limited, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. ix, 213. 8vo. Publisher's ivory, and navy-blue boards. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. No detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine lightly rubbed, unclipped, dustjacket. Overall, very good+, to, near fine.