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

Oakbank, Manitoba: Privately Printed, ND [Circa 1980's?]. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 315. Oblong 8vo., measuring 9" x 6". Bright yellow illustrated card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Replete with mimeographed black-and-white illustrations, drawings, and unique hand-drawn advertisements for local businesses, and merchants. Comprises of a rich selection of recipes all accompanied with the names of their respective contributors. Sections include: Beverages, Appetizers, Sauces & Dips, Chicken, Beef, Pork, Fish, Ethnic Dishes, Meatless Main Dishes, Vegetables, Soups/Salads, Yeast Breads, Cakes, Cheese Cakes, Cookies, Dainties/Desserts, Muffins, Quick Breads, Pan Cakes, Pies/Tarts, Puddings, Preserves. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Rare in commerce, our offering being the only extant copy at time of cataloguing. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not in Guelph, McGill, Peel, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, BAC/LAC, et al. Rare indeed.… Read More

Winnipeg, Manitoba: [Winnipeg Hydro Home Service Department], 1972. First printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 11. Square 8vo., measuring 8.5" x 7". Yellow illustrated stapled card covers bearing in image of "Low Calorie Shrimp Salad" to the front cover. Black and white illustrations. Includes a variety of salads including: Tossed Salads, Molded Salads, Frozen Salads, Miscellaneous. Bright, clean and unmarked; very good+. At time of cataloguing this title does not appear amongst the holdings at The University of Guelph Special Collections (Cookbook Collection), The University of Manitoba or Library and Archives Canada.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1972. Softcover. pp. 217. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Black and white photographs, maps, charts, tables, and illustrations. Light rubbing to covers, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine.

New York: Arbor House, 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. pp. 191. 8vo. White linen cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine and housed in near fine price-clipped dustjacket.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Manitoba Museum | University of Winnipeg (Faculty of Education) | Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth | Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Spiral Bound. pp. 185. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Replete with black-and-white, and colour maps, photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Ólafur S. Thorgeirsson | Printed at 678 Sherbrooke St., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1911-1917. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Variously paginated [most issues comprising of approximately 60, or so, pages]. 8vo's., measuring 6" x 9". Uniformly bound in textured maroon cloth over boards with gilt rules and lettering to the spine; marbled endpapers. An offering of seventeen original issues of this popular, and, exceedingly scarce Icelandic-Canadian periodical, bound in two volumes spanning the years 1911-1917. Originally published in a twice-stapled card cover format, the issues have been expertly bound in two handsome volumes. Published by the notable Icelandic-Canadian writer, printer, and publisher, Ólafur S. Thorgeirsson who also oversaw the publication of the long-running, Winnipeg-published, 'Almanak' (please see our listing No. 4064). Meant chiefly for the amusement of its readers, the issues comprised of general interest news relevant to the Icelandic… Read More

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Heartland Associates Inc., 2003. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 96. Slim 8vo. Pictorial covers. Beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. Young Heroes of America, Volume 2.

Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1993. Softcover. pp. xiv, 310. Square 8vo. Illustrated covers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, charts, tables, et al. Very good+.

Rajneeshpuram, Oregon: Rajneesh Foundation Intl, 1983. Softcover. pp. 415. Small Thick 8vo. Light rubbing to the covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+.

Regina, Saskatchewan: Association Of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists Of Saskatchewan, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. viii, 232. Oblong 4to. Illustrated covers. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white, and colour photographs, maps, charts, tables, illustrations, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: University Of Manitoba Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xxv, 635. Royal 8vo. Brigh red "leatherette" over boards, gilt rules and lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, accomapnied with many additional photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine and housed in fine dustjacket. A lovely copy. Signed and inscribed by Paul Thorlakson to the title page.

Montreal: Canada Steamship Lines Ltd., N.D. [Circa 1948]. Fifteenth Edition. Hardcover. pp. 118, xii. 8vo., measuring 5.5" x 7.75". Illustrated card covers. Replete with black and white, and colour photographs, photographic reproductions, illustrations et al. One large fold-out map affixed to the rear pastedown entitled, 'The Saguenay Trip', measuring 14" x 17.5" when un-folded; map is in near fine condition with no chips or tears. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. At time of cataloguing this edition not in McGill University Archives & Special Collections.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972. First Edition (The Oxford Library of African Literature). Hardcover. pp. ix, 240. 8vo. Publisher's original black cloth over bards with gilt lettering, rules and crest of the Clarendon Press embossed to the spine. Map frontispiece accomapanied with additional black-and-white photographic plates, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Extremities exceptionally well-preserved, ink name in marker to the ffep, else, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding and housed in lightly rubbed, unclipped, dustjacket. Overall, very good+ to near fine. Myths and sagas about Muslim heroes and nations, fabulous citites and the source of the Sudanic Nile are current among the Saharans. Most of these oral and written records are recent although they contain ancient material. Spanish and Moroccan Arabic annals of the great Almoravid religious movement of the elventh century incorporate Saharan epics of medieval times. Prototypes exist… Read More

Hart House, Toronto: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, [2001]. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 26, [4]. Small 8vo. Illustrated, laminated, card covers. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, illustrations, drawings, etc. Entirely without blemish; fine. See OCLC #225722361. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, 15 November to 13 December, 2001.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Presses Universitaires De Saint-boniface, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 175. Oblong 4to. Black boards with gilt lettering to spine, map/illustrated endpapers. Replete with many black and white and colour maps, photographs, illustrations, photographic reproductions et al. Neat ink name to the ffep else no detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed dustjacket.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Presses Universitaires De Saint-boniface, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 175. Oblong 4to. Black boards with gilt lettering to spine, map/illustrated endpapers. Replete with many black and white and colour maps, photographs, illustrations, photographic reproductions et al. Neat ink name to the ffep else no detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed dustjacket.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Presses Universitaires De Saint-boniface, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 175. Oblong 4to. Black boards with gilt lettering to spine, map/illustrated endpapers. Replete with many black and white and colour maps, photographs, illustrations, photographic reproductions et al. Neat ink name to the ffep else no detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed dustjacket.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Presses Universitaires De Saint-boniface, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 175. Oblong 4to. Black boards with gilt lettering to spine, map/illustrated endpapers. Replete with many black and white and colour maps, photographs, illustrations, photographic reproductions et al. Neat ink name to the ffep else no detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed dustjacket.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Presses Universitaires De Saint-boniface, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 175. Oblong 4to. Black boards with gilt lettering to spine, map/illustrated endpapers. Replete with many black and white and colour maps, photographs, illustrations, photographic reproductions et al. Neat ink name to the ffep else no detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed dustjacket.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Presses Universitaires De Saint-boniface, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 175. Oblong 4to. Black boards with gilt lettering to spine, map/illustrated endpapers. Replete with many black and white and colour maps, photographs, illustrations, photographic reproductions et al. Neat ink name to the ffep else no detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed dustjacket.