Search Results: Titles starting with B from Books & Company

Volume XXI of the twenty-four volume set of the works of Thackeray published by Smith, Elder, & Co., containing a collection of Thackeray's ballads as well as the fantastical work of satire The Rose and the Ring. This volume is in Good condition. It has green fabric covering the boards, with a stylised embossing of the author's initials on the front cover, which is also decorated with lovely board designs in black. There is an embossed design on the back cover, and a gilt title and author name on the spine, accompanied by further embossed designs in black. There is some wear, particularly around the edge, of the green cloth covering the boards, and there is a slight lean. There is also some minor cracking to the front hinge, and the pastedowns have worn away in some areas on both the front and back hinges. There is also a stain on a couple of interior pages from a bookmark. There is also foxing on the page edges and on the interior, particularly on the title pages. It also contains a variety of… Read More

Susan Musgrave is an award-winning Canadian poet and author, known for her challenging and powerful works of prose and poetry. Becky Swan's Book was inspired by the discovery that one of her ancestor's was the last woman executed in England, likely for charges related to the practice of witchcraft. The poems in this book are thus each written from the perspective of witches living on the border between Scotland and England in the eighteenth century. The appearance of the poems in the work contributes to the sense of age and mystery they invoke. The text is presented entirely in a Gothic-style script, and at the end of each poem is found a catchword or catchwords for the poem on the following page, a feature of many manuscripts and early printed books. This is one of a limited edition run of 1000 copies.
This copy is in Good condition, with some age related wear to the covers and spine in particular. The pages and text inside are, however, in excellent condition and the binding is secure. A point of… Read More

Beothuck Poems is a collection of poetry inspired by the history of the Beothuck indigenous people of what is now called Newfoundland. The poems reflect various aspects of Beothuck life and traditions as well as encounters with Europeans who came to Newfoundland in the fifteenth century.
This copy may be categorised as fine, with only some slight discolouration to the top right corner of the dust jacket. There is also an inscription signed by the author and addressed to Barbara at Oberon, the publisher, dated 1979.

A novel by Ellin Berlin, wife of Irving Berlin, about the lives of four sisters in New York high society in the early 20th century. Book and dust jacket in Very Good condition. Has previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Presumed first edition. 352 pages.

This small volume was published as a supplemental to the December 1922 issue of Massey-Harris Illustrated magazine. This periodical was published six times a year beginning as early as 1881, and contained articles of interest to farmers and those living in rural Canada.
The author, Archie P. McKishnie, was a prolific Canada writer. Born in New Scotland, Ontario, he published his first novel in 1907. He went on to become the editor of the dramatic section of the Sunday World paper in Toronto, as well as the director of the short-story writing program at Shaw school. Many of this short stories appeared in MacLean's magazine.
Big John Wallace presents a romantic view of the settlement of Canadian wilderness by Scottish immigrants. It is told in the first person from the perspective of John Wallace who, at the age of 75, is looking back on his life after a birthday party in his honour.
This volume is in good condition. It is bound in paper covers with a stapled spine, and there is a small tear in the… Read More

The Black Box was a serial film, co-written by E. Phillips Oppenheim, an early 20th century author famous for his stories of adventure, intrigue, and mystery, and released in 1915. This book was a tie-in with the film, and includes a number of images from the film. The story tells of Sanford Quest, a renowned criminologist, who is trying to solve a mystery involving a series of strange messages left in a black box, which leads him to confront a master criminal.
This copy is in fair condition, and does not have a dust jacket. The cloth is quite faded on the spine, and worn in a variety of places, and there is some bumping to the corners. One of the pages with images from the film has become detached but is still present. The front hinge is cracked, and there is a lean, and some foxing to the endpapers. The internal pages show some age related discolouration, but the pages are all present and the text is legible. There is an inscription on the front fly leaf reading, "To Ida From Harry Birthday… Read More

A collection of fourteen revue sketched collected together by Marjorie Rice Levis, and intended for amateur theatrical companies. A number of the revues included had been successfully produced as Broadway Revues.
Published by Samuel French, a well-known publisher of works for the theatre.
Included in the collection are:
The Tridget of Greva by Ring Lardner.The Pride of the Claghornes by George S. Kaufman and Howard DietzThe Unknown Soldier by Gene BuckFront Page Stuff by Bertram BlochAll Aboard by Earl CarrollRobinson Crusoe by Merrill DenisonAlibi by Mortimer OffnerLest Ye Forget! by Harry Wagstaff GribbleWhat Price 'Grand Slam'? by Marjorie Rice LevisThe Hundred and Eighteenth Amendment by Leslie HowardTrue to the End by Edward EliscuRelatively Speaking by Hugh A. AndersonDemocracy by Edwin McKinleyA Faux Pas by Richard
This copy is in good condition with a dust jacket also in good condition. There is some age-related to staining to the pages, and to the dust jacket. The dust jacket also has some… Read More

John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond (1872-1949) and Lucy Barbara Hammond (1873-1961) were historians and authors known for their works on social history, particularly the plight of the working class and the origins of social discontent arising from the working class experience. Married in 1901, both had received a classical education, and they were most well-known for their trilogy composed of The Village Labourer (1911), The Town Labourer (1917), and The Skilled Labourer (1919), which surveyed the experiences of the working class at the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Both were active in social causes. Barbara was an early feminist, and Leonard worked as a journalist for papers such as The Nation and the Manchester Guardian. He is particularly associated with the New Liberalism of the Edwardian period.
Their book The Bleak Age, published by Penguin first in 1934, and then in a revised form in 1947, of which this is an example, was an abridgement of their 1930 book The Age of the Chartists. This work,… Read More

The The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Anglican Church of Canada, published in 1959, was a revision of the 1918 edition ordered by the General Synod of the Anglican Church in 1943.
The revisions did nothing to alter the fundamental meaning or intention of the text, but rather were intended to better communicate the faith.
This volume is in poor condition. There is a previous owner's name written on the flyleaf, as well as an address sticker. The Primate's Prayer for Anglican Mission is stuck to the front pastedown. The front hinge is slightly cracked, and the covering of the spine has separated at the front edge and along the top. There is also slight paint staining to the front edge of the cover.
Internally the book is in excellent condition with no damage to the text itself.

The Bitter Cry of the Children is one of the most well-known works by British socialist author John Spargo, who developed his own interpretation of socialism which attempted to unite it with his Christian faith, thereby creating what was termed Christian Socialism. The Bitter Cry of the Children is his account of the appalling working conditions experienced by child labourers in the early 20th century.
This particular volume has an interesting provenance. There is a bookplate in the front indicating that the book once belonged to R.B. Chadwick, who helped to found the Children's Aid Society in Alberta in 1909 when he was the newly appointed Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent Children in Alberta.
This volume is in Good condition. There is some significant bumping to the bottom corner of the front cover, and some bumping to the other corners as well. The cloth covering the boards is also worn in places, but the gilt and printing on the cover is clear and bright, as is the gilt on the spine. There… Read More