Search Results: Titles starting with M from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Lugudum Batavorum (Leiden). Ex Officiana Elzeviriana. 1642. Hardcover. 24mo. 12cm, (xx),768 & 614 & 550 & 560 & 486 & 386 & 310 & 318,(ix) & 685 &(xiv)506pp., with engraved decorated general title page, frontis portrait (bust of Cicero), title page vignettes, in contemporary full calf, real raised bands, ornate gilt decorations and borders in the panels, double red and green crushed morocco labels, spine surface cracks (not broken) on volume one & five, some slight wear on the board edges, in very good to fine condition (hmds). ~ Cicero's "Works" taken from the finest, accurate copies. A set by the celebrated Dutch publisher, Elsevier Printing House, publishers of late 16th to 17th century who were particularly noted for their small format books. The set is complete but with volume numbers muddled. According to the volume syllabus in vol. 1: Vol. 8 is Vol. 5, Vol. 7 is Vol. 6, Vol. 5 is Vols. 7 & 8, Vol. 6 is Vols. 9 & 10. A very nice set.

Quebec, Imprime a la NouvelleImprimerie. 1816. Hardcover. 12mo, 2p.l.,575,[1]p., bound in nineteenth centurylacquered sheep & marbled boards, leather label, gilt titles, outerhinges just starting but sound, a very good internally fine copy. (Qc) T.P.L. 1103. Lande 2157. Dionne 121. Not in Gagnon or Sabin. Printed indouble columns with large block initial letters.

Arnprior. Privately printed agent.1871. 20x 12.5cm, single-sheet, folded in quarters, upper left cornerclipped, light staining to edges, very good. (N12) A rare advertisingbroadsheet for a Arnprior, Ontario 19th century business, a diversifiedcompany that offered loans, mortgages, farming implements and traveltickets. Bell was an agent for the agricultural and farming implementmanufacturer "ABELLS"with factory located on Queen Street in Toronto.

Np. Published by the Author. 1975. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 28cm, viii,235p., map, illlustrations from photographs, index, white pressed boards, a fine copy in tired jacket. (cnds).

Bracebridge. Herald Gazette Press. 1970. 8vo, 23cm, 108p., many illustrations, maps, lists, appendices, stiff printed wraps, fine copy (on).

London. Methuen Publishers. 1938. 23cm, the first edition, xi,256p., colour frontis portrait, 11 illustrations, biblio., index, maroon cloth, gilt titles, very good, rare. (On). Graham Spry's Copy. Archibald, Chief of, MacNab; in 1823 was granted a township which was named after him, on the banks Ottawa river. He settled a number of his clansmen here but became embroiled with the settlers and after twenty fractious years he returned to Scotland in 1843. The first London edition of this book is uncommon.

Vancouver. William Hoffer/Tanks I.I. 1986. Soft cover. 4to. 12p., with 3 plate illustrations (one double page), illustrated wraps on ribbed paper, fine condition (Ho1.3) ~ With a one page release introduction "Tanks", this being the first in his series of books published "in objection to the continued creation of State Literature through government subsidies to the Arts.

Toronto. The University of Toronto Press. 1975, 1975. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 22.5cm, 178p. selected biographical index, black cloth, fine in fine jacket (s8).

Toronto & Chicago. University of Toronto Press & University of Chicago Press. 1960-1970, 1970. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 23cm, various paginations, index, cloth, volume one lacks jacket, else a very good set in very good jackets (n17).

Toronto. Issued by the National Liberal Publicity Committee. [1935], 1935. Soft cover. 12mo. 56p., red printed wraps, some water spotting & sunning on the front cover else a very good copy (n12) Speeches included: Democracy versus Dictatorship; The Liberal Party's Position on Present Day Problems; and Unemployment-Canada's Most Urgent National Problem.

Toronto. Morang and Company. 1925. Soft cover. 19cm, 139p. vignette title portrait, printed wraps, a bit soiled, very good. (cdn).

Toronto. McClelland and Stewart. 1971, 1971. Soft cover. 18cm, 125p., printed wraps, signed by Marie-Claire Blais and Frances Itani, very good to fine (clds).

Toronto. Seal Books for McClelland and Stewart. 1981, 1981. Soft cover. 18cm, 189p., illustrated wraps (paperback), nicely signed by Rudi Wiebe to Frances Itani, very good to fine (clds).

New York & London. The Heritage Press & The Nonesuch Press. 1950. Hardcover. sm4to. 25cm, viii,348p., with 20 plate engravings including frontis, mauve cloth backed decorated boards, gilt spine titles, very good (Lt). ~ Translated by J. Lewis May with an Introduction by Jacques de Lacretelle. Illustrated by Pierre Brissaud wood engraved by Theo Schmied.

[Facsimile Reprint of: London. Printed for George Peacock. N.d.. Hardcover. Fine. 20cm, 9th edition, 57p., quarter maroon cloth backed marbled boards, fine. (hmds). ~ A reprint of the classic Victorian tale of flagellation. Although the book states "from the original editions, collected by the late Henry Thomas Buckle.", this has been proven untrue. The author is now known to be British publisher and bibliophile, John Camden Hotten (1832 1873).

Winlaw, British Columbia. Sononis Press. 2006. 24cm, 373p., plates and illustrations, black cloth, fine in fine jacket. (wst).

Boston. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1887. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 20cm, first edition, vi,94p., frontis & 43 illustrations, original green cloth, gilt and black stamped pictoiral decoration on front cover & spine, bevelled boards, a.e.g.,some wear on the edges, slightly dust worn, good to very good (lt). ~ A scarce novel of the sea shore and fishermen by American writer, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844 1911).

Toronto. The MacmillanCompany of Canada. 1955. Soft cover. 16mo. 16.5cm, 7p., head & tail decoration,decorated light green wraps, lightly sunned along top & spine edges, nearfine . (lt) Watters p161. A Christmas and New Year greeting booklet fromThe Macmillan Company of Canada in its fiftieth anniversary year. Signedby Robin Strachan for the publisher. An uncommon item.

Boston. Little, Brown, & Company. 1930. Hardcover. tall8vo, 23.5cm, xii,314, (2)pp., limited edition of 375 numbered copies, this being # 348 and Signed by Author, colour frontis with captioned tissue guard, 75 illustrations (including 6 appearing only in the Limited Edition), index, bibliography, bound in half vellum and light brown boards, gilt spine titles, t.e.g., in worn slip-case with paper spine label, a fine copy in good slip-case. (Bks) A sequel to Orcutt's "In Quest of the Perfect Book". An interesting Canadian association copy signed by Gerhard R. Lomer, Librarian at McGill University and noted Leacock bibliographer.

London. The Royal Geographical Society. 1923, 1923. Soft cover. 24.5cm, pp.419-423, folding chart, blue printed wraps, near fine (ads). - The author, of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, traces and charts the magnetic variation over a twenty-year from the records of Arctic expeditions from Norwegian North Polar Expedition of 1893-96 to the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1923.