duff louis blake (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 224 Pages. Previous owner's inscription front flyleaf o/w sound.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 224 p. 21 cm. B&w illustrations. Brown hadcove in pictorial dustjacket. Jacket has holes in front panel, some chips and tears to edges, as well as light soiling. Scuff on front board. A history of hanging in Canada, including such grisly topics as going to see a man hanged, Ancaster's Bloody Assize, death during the Rebellion years, hanging pirates, botched hangings, the Ketch family, debate over death penalty.

Zustand: Good. 1949. First Edition. 224 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Unclipped has light edgewear with tears and creasing.

Pamphlet. Zustand: Near fine. 400 copies printed, of which this is no. 302. 14 p. 24 cm. Violet card covers with purple label. The speaker pays tribute to Scotland and Robert Burns.

1949, 1st edition. (Cloth) Fine in very good dust jacket. 224pp. Saffron cloth boards with red lettering to spine. Illus., B&W photographs, tables. D-J has wear to edges, slight chipping to head and tail of spine, small and close tear to front at tail, chipping at tail to rear. Unusual history of hangings in Canada.

Booklet. Zustand: Good. 500 copies. [14 p. ]. 21 cm. Stapled booklet. Moderate edge wear. Some stains to exterior. Staples rusting. Includes Leacock biography.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 36 Pages. Book.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. 224 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. White endpapers. Bound in orange cloth with red titles. One corner bumped. VG+. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 37 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked in typescript. Page edges are lightly darkened. Staple-bound in grey wraps with black titles. Lightly faded and bumped around the edges. VG Size: 8 1/2 x 11. Book.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 455 p. (+ colophon). 26.5 cm blue cloth with glassine jacket. Slipcase. 149 plates. Special Publications of the Research Institute of Natural Resources, No. 4. Signed by the author on title-page. Text is mainly Japanese. Summary in English. Added title-page in English. Appendices. 1: Key to the species and subspecies (adult) of cyprinid fishes in Japan. 2. Key to identify the eggs of cyprinid fishes of Japan. 3. Meristic counts and morphometric measurements on the species and subspecies of cyprinid fishes of Japan. IV. Two species and one subspecies of cyprinid fishes of Japan which are not dealt with in the present article. A revision of the author's thesis, Ky sh University.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Harry P. Martin / who qualifies on two counts - one, the fraternity of the book; two a friend of E.L. Deitch who gives this volume, with the aproval of / Louis Blake Duff," dated March, 1949. Octavo (20cm). Yellow cloth; dustwrapper; 224pp. Tight, straight, and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, slightly soiled on lighter portions; small sticker remnant to front panel; Very Good. Duff (1878-1959) was a Canadian journalist, bibliophile, and private press printer (proprietor of the Baskerville Press in Welland, Ontario). In the current, somewhat uncommon work Duff takes us on a breezy (somewhat windy, actually) tour of death-by-hanging in all ages, concluding with a chapter considering the abolition of hanging, which he notes at this time was still the most common means of legal execution in many Western countries. A contemporary Canadian reviewer, apparently either blind or immune to Duff's rather baroque prose style, noted that: ".Mr. Duff's book, because of its very restraint, is more eloquent propaganda [for the abolition of capital punishment] than any number of learned treatises" (Fred Landon, in The Canadian Historical Review, Sep. 1949). A nifty little book probably unknown to many collectors of books on the subject; uncommon in the trade and this copy nicely inscribed. Signed.