Search Results: Titles starting with G from Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts

Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Frontier Publishing Ltd., 1977. Frontier Book #14. Softcover. pp. 51. 8vo., measuring 21 cm. Pictorial, twice-stapled, card covers. Rich with many full-page black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; as new. See OCLC #11167258.

Montréal, QC: Vlb Éditeur, 2002. Softcover. pp. 357. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, maps, portraits, illustrations, et al. Lightest rubbing to the covers, else, bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+.

Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada: Éditions des Plaines, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 212. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine. Text in English, and French.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 12, 12. 8vo., measuring 23 cm. Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Text in English and French with French text on inverted pages.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Privately Printed | [Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg], 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 4. 8vo. Bi-folded programme printed on thick card-stock bearing a portrait of His Grace Metropolitan Michael Bzdel to the centre of the front cover, text in navy-blue. Comprises of a detailed ordered of events and menu alongside names of various speakers, prayers, etc. Clean, and unmarked; fine. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, etc.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Law Society of Manitoba, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 9. 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Comprises of a detailed programme of events upon the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the founding of the Law Society of Manitoba, detailed biographies of the honorees accompanied with their black-and-white portraits, rear covers lists an exhaustive list of all "Past Presidents of the Law Society of Manitoba". Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, UoM Archives & Special Collections, the Manitoba Legislative Library, etc. Fine. "Honoring nine Manitoba lawyers whose distinguished careers have recently passed the half century mark: Derek Booth, Neil Cutler, John Deacon (Q.C.), G. David Greenberg, Jack London (Q.C.), G. Michael Dennehy, Morton (Mickey) Rosenberg, W.R. (Dick) Van Walleghem, Hymie Weinstein (Q.C.)."

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xiii, 247. 8vo. Black cloth over boards with silver lettering to the spine. Black and white illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Corner of ffep neatly excised otherwise the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine and housed in near fine dustjacket.

New York: Penguin Global, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 79. Slim 4to. Pictorial boards. Charming colour illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine, lightly rubbed, dustjacket.

Innisfail, Alberta, Canada: Betty Quantz | Privately Printed, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. iii, 191. Small 8vo. Dark green buckram over boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Photograph frontispiece of the author accompanied with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. Excepting neat ink name to the foredge of the book, the extremities remain in near fine condition with no detectable flaws. Internally, the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Overall, near fine. Exceedingly scarce family history with no known institutional holdings at time of cataloguing; equally rare in commerce.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. 175. 8vo. Publisher's navy-blue cloth over board, gilt lettering to the spine. No detectable flaws to the extremities, neat ink name to the ffep, else, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed, price-clipped, dustjacket. Overall, very good+.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 32. Square 8vo. Illustrated stiff card covers. Replete with black-and-white photographs, illustrations, etc. Light rubbing to front cover, contents bright, clean, and unmarked. Old price-sticker affixed to verso of rear cover. Overall, very good+.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Collins, 2013. Softcover. pp. . pp. xvi,318. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. "From his humble beginnings playing hockey with his brother in the backyard rink his dad built, Ken Dryden quickly became one of the greatest NHL goalies, winning six Stanley Cups for the Montreal Canadiens during a legendary period in that franchiseÂ’s history. Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written, The Game is a rare and revealing day-by-day account of a week in one NHL goalieÂ’s life, during his very last season playing professional hockey. Ken Dryden gives us special access to a world few have witnessed firsthand. Taking us into the CanadiensÂ’ dressing room, Dryden lets us experience the crackle of nerves before a game and laugh at the practical jokes teammates play on one another. WeÂ’re with Dryden on and off the ice, we meet the icons who were his hockey family—Guy Lafleur, Larry… Read More

Akureyri, Iceland: B6kaforlag Odds Bjornssonar, 1954. First Icelandic-Language Edition. Hardcover. pp. 150. Slim 8vo., measuring 8.75" x 5.75". Bound in publisher's original navy-blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine, speckeld edges. Light edgewear, some fading to the gilt details on the spine, neat period ink name to the upper-left margin of the ffep, text-block without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding. Overall, very good+. See Hanneman, Citation No. 141, pp. 187 (Hanneman incorrectly states the place of publication as Reykjavik). See also OCLC #184745929. Includes the translator's afterword on pages 149-150. Rare offering of the first appearance of Hemingway's beloved novella 'The Old Man and the Sea' as rendered into Icelandic.

Montréal, Quebec & Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Mcgill-queen's University Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. xiii, 350. Square 8vo. Illustrated covers. Black-and-white illustrations. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. "A path-breaking study of the domestic garden in Canadian literature. Canadian literature has long been preoccupied with the wilderness and the landscape, but the garden has remained neglected terrain. In Garden Plots, Shelley Boyd focuses on private, domestic gardens tended by individual gardeners, to show how modest, everyday spaces provide fertile grounds for the imagination. Combining the history of gardening with literary analysis, Garden Plots explores the use of the garden motif in the works of five authors: Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Gabrielle Roy, Carol Shields, and Lorna Crozier. With works spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, these writers reveal the associations between the arts of writing and gardening, the… Read More

Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 72. Square 8vo., measuring 21 x 21 cm. Stiff pictorial covers. Rich with black-and-white, and colour photographs, photographic reproductions, illustrations, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. See OCLC #45486153.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: [Young United Church], N.D. [Circa 1945]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 104. Slim 8vo. Publisher's navy-blue cloth over board, red lettering to the spine and front board. Sepia-tone photographic frontispiece of the author. Rear board lightly bowed, small bump to the head of the spine, neat ink name to the ffep, else, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and tight, sound binding; very good+. Corresponds to OCLC #868976745.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: [Young United Church], N.D. [Circa 1945]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 104. Slim 8vo. Publisher's navy-blue cloth over board, red lettering to the spine and front board. Sepia-tone photographic frontispiece of the author. Rear board lightly bowed, small bump to the head of the spine, neat ink name to the ffep, else, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and tight, sound binding; very good+. Corresponds to OCLC #868976745. SIGNED by Donnelly to the frontispiece page.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Modern Greek Studies, University of Minnesota, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. xxx, 524. 4to. Illustrated covers. Short neat ink inscription to the title page, else, text-block entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages. Appears unread; as new. Minnesota Mediterranean and East European Monographs, Number 9.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 72. 4to., measuring 8.5" x 11". Illustrated, twice-stapled, textured, maroon card covers. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white portraits, illustrations and period advertisements by local sponsoring local businesses and merchants. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine. Text chiefly in German with some English.

Penticton, B.C.: Theytus Books, 1996. Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples. Paperback. pp. 236. 8vo. Pictorial covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. Sections include: Rights ; Land ; Family ; Identity ; Spirituality ; Language ; International indigenous voices, et al. Gatherings if the only journal of Indigenous peoples' literary writing in North America. It is compiled and published annually by the The En'owkin Centre and Theytus Books Ltd., on behalf of The En'owkin International Writing School.