Search Results: Authors starting with I from W. Fraser Sandercombe

Toronto: Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, 2000. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to. 184 pp. Oversized softcover. Edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with mostly colour and some black and white photographs..

New York: Dell Books, 1950. Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 238 pp. Dell Map Back 384. Edge and corner wear with creasing on the front hinge and an uncreased spine; ink mark on the front cover; no interior markings..

New York: Pocket Star Books, 1995. Book. Illus. by Darryl Zudeck;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. (viii) 324 pp. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; previous owner's name inside. Cover art by Darryl Zudeck. Illustrated with black and white plates..

London: Bestseller Library - Paul Elek Limited, 1959. Book. Illus. by Francisco Goya;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 224 pp. Lightly rubbed at the corners with a small chip from the foot of the spine; minor foxing on the back cover; uncreased spine; no interior markings. The cover features La Maja Desnuda by Goya. This novel is set in Madrid, where a blacksmith's son has risen to sensational success as a painter and has married an aristocrat. After their first child, his wife begins to grow jealous of his female models....

Toronto: Toronto Field Naturalists' Club, 1967. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 52 pp. Staple bound in pictorial card covers. Illustrated with maps. Light edgewear. The Chapters are: Birding in the Toronto Region; The Status of Bird Species in the Toronto Region; Maps of the Toronto Region; Natural History Organizations in the Toronto Region; Cedardale Ravine; Beltline Ravine; Toronto Island; Grenadier Pond and High Park; Humber River Marshes; Humber River: Old Mill Section; Lambton Woods and James Gardens; York University - Glendon Hall - Sunnybrook Ravine Complex; Edwards Gardens - Wilket Creek and Serena Gundy Parks; Taylor's Bush Park - Dentonia Park - Metropolitan Park Complex; Metropolitan Toronto Lakefront; Western Lakefront - Port Credit to Burlington; Eastern Lakeshore; Claremont and Greenwood Conservation Areas; Boyd Conservation Area; Cold Creek Bog; Pottageville Swamp; Richmond Hill Pond; Bruce's Mill Conservation Area; Albion Hills Conservation Area; Glen… Read More

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 216 pp. Quarter-bound in brown on beige boards; lettered in beige on the spine; brown endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and short tears around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: How the Worst Three Years Began; What the Gardens Means to Me; I'm Going to Stuff Those Words Down Your Goddamn Throat, Stafford; Everything Makeshift, Including the Team; A Night to Remember; Nothing the Matter with My Head, Just My Heart; Tim Horton; Bad Night in February; The Occasionally Interrupted Friendship; Close but No Cigar; I Should Have Traded Schoenfeld; Sixteen Months to the End in Buffalo; Back to the Leafs with Problems; Life with Darryl When He Wore the Captain's C; Life with Darryl Without the C; When Not to Have a Heart Attack; Goodbye Joe, Goodbye Ronnie, Hello Nykoluk; The Roof Falls In; and Goodbye… Read More

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 203 pp. Pictorial blue boards lettered in white on the spine; blue endpapers; illustrated with black and white plates. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Life in the Pressure Cooker; A Big Man and a Skinny Kid; I Never Backed Away; Prelude to the Big Time; Will You Play Hockey For Me; Me and Clancy and Kelly; The First Stanley Cup; The First Mahovlich Deal; Static from All Over; The Dressing Room and the Rink; The Most Satisfying Stanley Cup - Centennial Year; The Very Expensive Mr Shack; The Year the Team Died; My Life with the Big M; Getting Ready for a Comeback; and Four Bottles of Champagne; followed by an epilogue and an index..

New York: Tor - Tom Doherty Associates, 1983. Book. Illus. by Howard Chaykin;. Very Good. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). Second Printing. 375 pp. Signed by Dean Ing on the title page. Lightly rubbed on the corners with faint creasing on the spine; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. Wraparound cover art by Howard Chaykin. The nuclear war against China and India has left America victorious, but devastated, and a strong and survival-minded government has seized control of what's left....

London: Faber and Faber, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 150 pp. Trade paperback format. All four titles in a single volume: I See a Long Journey; Inheritance; People to People; and Third Time Lucky. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; store stamped; no other interior markings..

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Personalized inscription by Alex Inglis on the title page. Dark blue boards decorated in gilt on the spine; blue endpapers; illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges; price intact; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings..

St. John's, Newfoundland: Killick Press, 2001. Book. Illus. by Joanne Snook-Ham;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 263 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat but faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Joanne Snook-Ham. They have a lot at stake in pulling off their first murder. They have invested their life savings in the restoration of the old house and are preparing to launch their bed and breakfast with a murder mystery weekend. The script was ready, the food would be divine, and even the fog and icebergs were cooperating to create a truly memorable experience. But it was hard to plan the perfect murder. And when it seemed there was a real murderer among the guests....

London: The Illustrated London News, 1925. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Folio. Number 4483, Volume 166. Light edge and corner wear. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, paintings and advertisements; some interior colour and sepia-toned pages; full-colour Players Navy Cut ad on the back cover. Includes a column, Our Note Book by G. K. Chesterton; and one of the main articles is the Duke and Duckess of York in Uganda..

London: Collins, 1967. Book. Illus. by Frank Francis;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 288 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. Dj by Frank Francis. Sailing with the great British novelist in his boat, the Mary Deare, not to be too confused with his novel, The Mary Deare, also known as The Wreck of the Mary Deare. The Isles of Greece... from Norway down to the Bay of Biscay, the Western Isles, the Indian Ocean, a treasure story in Nova Scotia - Oak Island - they are all here. The Contents are: Part One: The Sea: Introduction; Dismasted; Rock-Hopping in Scandanavia; Three Thousand Miles to Malta; The Aegean; Odysseus's Sea; To the Golden Horn. Part Two: The Islands: Introduction; Dalmatia; The Danish Islands; The Breton Coast; The Western Isles; Treasure in the Maritimes - Oak Island; and Addu Atoll..

London: Collins, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few short nicks around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. The "Mary Deare" was a 6000-ton freighter which emerged one night from severe Biscay gales into the English Channel, and into the newspaper headlines. It fell to John Sands, a salvage operator, to investigate what had happened to her..

London: Victor Gollancz, 1959. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 192 pp. Red boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings..

New York: Ballantine Books, 1975. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 154 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. It began when a beautiful young woman appeared at a posh London gallery holding a portrait she claimed was painted by Rembrandt. Sir John Appleby, the erudite sleuth from Scotland Yard, was mildly intrigued. But it wasn't long till intrigue became forgery, deception and death..

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo. (xvi) 304 pp. Blue cloth decorated in gilt on the spine. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. Subtitled: Twenty Canadian Women and Their Times, this collection contains: Foreword by Vida Peene; Madame de la Tour by Ethel M. G. Bennett; Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation by Marie-Emmanuel Chabot; The Strickland Sisters by Clara Thomas; Pauline Johnson by Elizabeth Loosley; Laure Conan by Micheline Dumont; Adelaide Hunter Hoodless by Ruth Howes; E. Cora Hind by Kennethe Haig; Maude E. Abbott by Jessie Boyd Scriver; Five Persons from Alberta by Eleanor Harman; Agnes Macphail by Doris French; Lucy Maud Montgomery by Elizabeth Waterston; Emily Carr by Flora Hamilton Burns; Mazo de la Roche by Dorothy Livesay; Alice Wilson by Anne Montagnes; and Margaret McWilliams by Betty Jane Wylie; followed by: Books About Canadian Women; and… Read More

New York: Catholic Book Publishing Company, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 383 pp. followed by colour maps. Black boards decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; orange edges all round; headband; decorated endpapers; illustrated with colour plates. Light rubbing at the corners; previous owner's name inside on a presentation plate..

London: Knight Books, 1992. Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 154 pp. Edge and corner wear with creasing on the covers and an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Christmas Cheer; Withershins; Sleep Well!; Who Is Emma?; A Mistake Has Been Made; Boy on the Beach; The Other World; Invisible; The Disco; The Disappearance of Samantha; The Everlasting Day; The Ghost of Harry; and The Door in the Wall..

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 249 pp. Black boards lettered in silver on the spine; blue endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction; Fear and Trembling in the Weight Room; It Started with the Scrapbook; Dad and the Two Majors; Fifteen Years a Canadien; The Unseen Hand and Other Tricks; The Right Place at the Right Time; Danny and Dick - the Best of Times; Telling It Like It Was; Irvin, You're a Homer; The Fans Provide Some Thrills; Jocks in the Booth; Scotty Bowman - One of a Kind; Flower Power; The Best Team; The Best Games; No Shortage of Stories; On the Air; and Last Minute to Play in the Third Period; followed by an index..