Search Results: Authors starting with U from BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB

Ottawa: Embassy of Japan, 1964. Stapled Wraps. pp. 12. 8vo. Ex-library; several rubber stamps, no other lib. markings, card covers and textblock creased; very good-. Prepared from an address by Mr. Sono Uchida First Secretary Embassy of Japan to the Ottawa Branch, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Issued June, 1964.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: D. Mykytiuk, 1954. Hardcover. pp. 176. 8vo. Bluebinding. Text in Ukrainian. Light shelfwear, endpapers with tape applied, small bookplate to rfep; very good-.

Amsterdam: [Uitgave Van De N.V.], 1938. Paperback. pp. 240. 4to. General shelfwear, discoloured spotting to wraps, spine darkened, smoky odour; very good.

[Amsterdam]: [Utgave Van De Koninklijke Akademie Van Wetenschappen Te Amsterdam], 1930. Paperback. pp. 261. Large 8vo. Considerable wear and age toning, ink inscription to inside front cover, binding completely torn at spine, protected and held together by plastic sleeve; fair.

Philadelphia: World Ukranian Coordinating Educational Council, 1986. Hardcover. pp. 320. 8vo. Black & white and colour photographs. Text in Ukranian. Light shelfwear, library stamp to ffep; very good- in good dustjacket with sticker to spine.

New York: Macy-Masius, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 218. 8vo. Quarter black cloth with green lettering to spine. Duotone photographs. General scuffing and faint evidence of former moisture exposure to edge of boards. Dustjacket clipped to all corners, tidelines to edges and spine; very good in very good dustjacket. Introduction by O.O. McIntyre. Scarce in dustjacket.

Chelsea: Sleeping Bear Press, 2004. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 4to. Beautifully illustrated in colour. Light shelfwearl very good+ in very good+ dustjacket.

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. pp. xv, 122. Slim 8vo. Fold-out tables, black & white plates. Very slightly wear to the corners of the boards, neat former owner's rubber stamp to ffep, contents very clean and umarked; very good/near fine in slightly darkened & soiled, otherwise good/very good dustjacket with a piece excised where the spine label would have shown through, and there is some tape at the top. This is volume 5 in The Canadian Historical Studies Series, published by Ryerson under the general editorship of Wallace, who contributed an introduction and notes to this title. This is the first reprint of this very important historical document since it was first published in 1790. Although nominally an ex-library copy, it is little marked as such, and its provenance is certainly unique.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022. Hardcover. pp. 324. 8vo. Light shelfwear, some spotting to boards; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket.

Ottawa, Canada: The Canadian Historical Association, 1960. Second printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 19. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good.

New York City: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909. 1st edition. Hardcover. 4to. Bound in original brown cloth with large pastedown to front board. 24 colour plates present (frontispiece & 23 full-page plates in the text). One colour plate (showing a resolute young woman at the helm and a somewhat frightened-looking man in a sailing dinghy on a blustery day) has a small hole - not really noticeable at first - and a small spot, both of which resulted from off-setting on the facing page, which may have had something spilled on it. Several other plates coming loose, and one is loose and chipped across the bottom edge of the blank margin. Occasional spotting to the margins of a few pages. Not a perfect copy, but much better than usually seen, and not scavenged for the wonderful colour plates. Top edge of front bd. rubbed, sl. general shelf wear, else vg condition. No dust jacket.

New York: Notable Trials Library | Gryphon Editions, 1996. Hardcover. pp. 340. 8vo. Quarter-bound in dark green leather. All edges gilt, with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and boards. Ribbon page marker, marbled endpapers. Publisher's bookplate numbered 12572 with previous owner's name affixed to ffep. Lightest shelfwear; else very good+. 'This special edition has been privately printed for the members of The Notable Trials Library'.

United States of America: Spaulding For Children, 1977. Paperback. pp. 373. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear; very good.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Isaac Unger, 1992. Hardcover. pp. 115. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Black & white illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good in very good dustjacket.

New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1970. Hardcover. 4to. Whimsically illustrated in colour. Light shelfwear, minor discoloured spotting; very good.

Koln: Taschen, 2002. Hardcover. pp. 415. Thick 4to. Black boards with pink decoration to front board and lettering to spine. Comprised entirely of Ungerer's illustrations. Light edgewear, otherwise near fine in near fine dustjacket showing some scuffing to rear panel (protected in brodart sleeve). A collection of erotic illustrations by award winning childrens illustrator Tomi Ungerer. Ungerer did illustrations work for The New York Times, Esquire, Life, and Harper's as well as winning the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998 for his contributions to childrens literature.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Students Union. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good-.

United Artists, 1979. Stapled Wraps.

Winnipeg, MB: Univ of Man. Students' Union, 1948. 1st edition. Hardcover. black-and-white photographs. pp. 352.,4to,,,Bound in woven brown cloth embossed in gold with title and designs. Bevelled boards show light wear at edges. Names (?) blacked out with felt pen on front endpaper. Binding a bit stressed, but tight. Contents clan and unmarked. A good plus copy. Interesting photos and advertisements give glimpses of by-gone student and social life. Index of student names at end of book.

Indiana University, 1983. 1st printing. Wraps. black-&-white illustrations. pp. 56.,8vo,,Bound in original stapled stiff card covers,'Labyrinth is a literary magazine published by the Academic Unit Coordinating Committee, in the hopes of becoming a forum of sorts for the creative endeavors of the student community of the Academic Units at Indiana University.'. Name on front cover and a bit of writing on rear cover. Slight wear to covers. Contents unmarked. A very good copy.