Search Results: Authors starting with R from Bibliodditiques

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.

New York: Bantam Books, 2011. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Number line reads 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1. Pictorial endpapers with maps. Appendix. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 1016 pp

Home Box Office. CD_rom. Near Fine. A boxed set of 5 DVDs containing the complete first season of the Game of Thrones television series. The discs are in great shape. The set comes with a fold-out "Episode Guide" which outlines each episode and provides a map of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros along with a family tree of each of the houses. Just minor wear to corners of slipcase the discs are housed in.

New York: TOR Teen, 2014. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Luis Royd. "The Ice Dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land." Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Pictorial endpapers. First For Teen Tor edition with bonus poster on verso of dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers.Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 120 pp.

New York: Bantam Books, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Light wear at head and tail of spine. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 683 pp.

New York: Bantam Books, 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. A later printing of First Edition. Pictorial endpapers with maps. Appendix. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 1016 pp

New York: Bantam Books, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. A collection of short stories by the author of "The Game of Thrones" series. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Very clean collectible copy. Size: Sm 4to (8" to 11". 683 pp.

London: Harper Collins, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Alan Lee. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Illustrated. Fold-out map at rear of book. Some shelf wear along bottom edge of front panel of dust jacket and a 0.5" tear. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 313pp.

Strand: George Newnes Limited. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Red coverboards with black lettering. Upper corners bumped. Book provides a year-by-year pictorial review of the first half of the 20th Century in Great Britain. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 191 pp.

Milton, Ontario: Global Heritage Press, 2003. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Blue coverboards with gilt lettering. Illustrated with woodcut engravings. Reprint of the original 1876 publication. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 200 pp.

Toronto: The Standard Publishing Company, Limited, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good +. Tight binding. Maroon-coloured coverboards with gilt lettering. Frontis is five portraits of Superintendents and Secretaries of the Baptist Church with protective glassine page. A photograph of author has been glued to back side of frontis, with inscription reading "at time of writing 1911". Previous owner's name/address and date of Feb. 16th 1911 written on front free endpaper. Seventeen illustrations, including frontis. Illustrations include Acadia University, Typical Home Mission Churches, McMaster University and Colleges, Foreign Missions at Home. Some rubbing of coverboards and pencil highlighting and margin notations. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 304 pp.

San Diego, New York & London: Harcourt Brace, 1994. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Greg Shed. "I Want You," says Uncle Sam, gazing out from the army recruitent poster. Seven-year-old Aubrey is too young to go, but his brother Casey isn't. So Casey sails away to France to fight in the Great War." Tight binding. Pictorial endpapers. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Size: 4to (11" to 13").

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1939. Hardcover. Very Good +. Arthur Rackham. Tight binding. Brown coverboards with embossed design. Some rubbing to coverboard and corners are bumped. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Pictorial endpapers.Full colour frontis and 7 other colour illustrations and over 50 black and white illustrations. Contains 23 stories, including Dick Whittington, Jack and the Beanstalk, Beauty and the Beast, Jack the Giant-Killer, the Ugly Duckling, the Princess and the Pea, the Sleeping Beauty, the Three Bears, Ali Baba, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, the Emperor's New Clothes, Rip Van Winkle, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Grethel and more. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 286 pp.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Slight lean. Spine is faded. Previous owners name in pencil on title page. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 358 pp.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1953. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. "When Captain Saxby Nolan returned to Port Barron, Nova Scotia, he had a fortune in his pocket, a longing for respectability, and a grim recall of the laughter that had mocked him through his childhood". Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. A couple areas of surface paper loss on front panel of jacket. Jacket has a few small chips/tears around edges. Lower left corner of rear coverboard is bumped. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 309 pp.

Toronto: Doubleday Canada. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Stanley Turner. Story about the role that Nova Scotia played in the American Revolutionary War. Author is recipient of Governor General's Award for literature. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Presentation sticker from Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Jacket has some chips/tears around edges - most significant being a 1.25" by 0.5" piece missing at top left corner of jacket's front panel. Some light spotting on top edge of text block. Copyright 1950. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 247 pp.

Chicago: The Radford Architectural Company, 1911. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. "A remarkable and unique collection of full-page plates, accurately drawn and reproduced to exact scale, showing clearly every detail of modern building construction and finish for residences of every type - houses of frame, brick, brick-veneer, stucco, concrete, etc. - barns and farm buildings - also miscellaneous buildings of every kind. Complete details for every style of interior trim, including special built-in features - dining room buffets and sideboards, kitchen cabinets, cases and cupboards, window seats, wardrobes, linen closets, fireplaces, mantels, built-in book cases, etc., etc." Includes detailed drawings for tuberculosis camp tent, humane cow stalls, cooling box for cream, taboret, Morris chair, remodelling small stores into theatres, and much more. Tight binding. No chips,… Read More

Gulliver Books/Harcourt, Inc., 2005. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Vladamir Radunsky. "In the beginning there was the wall. It was white. But someone couldn't leave well enough alone. And so there was Dude, a lonely bit of graffiti in a world that loves clean walls. Chased from the place of his birth, poor Dude is forced to wander until he can find a place to rest." Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Three-quarter inch tear on front of jacket. Size: 4vo (11" to 13"). 45 pp.

New York: Smithsonian Books, 2008. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Very Good +/good +. Author explores cannibal cultures around the world. TIght binding. No chips, tears or wrtten inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. A few dog-earred pages. Dust jacket has wear around edges and soiling. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 278 pp.

Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Inc., 1936. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Red coverboards with gilt lettering on spine. Cloth on coverboards has some wear around edges and a split along the middle-third of the spine. Sticker on front free endpaper stating" The cloth used for the binding of this book is sturdy, cleanable, water resisting and vermin proof. It may be washed with soap and water." Black and white frontis. 540 illustrations. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 739 pp.