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Antwerp: Tectum Publishers, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo (imperial). Trilingual edition--English, French, Dutch. Soft cover. Unpaginated [approx. 156 pp.]. Fully illustrated in colour. Features 41 famous beach clubs. Fine.

London: Vintage Books, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Revised edition with an updated foreword by the author. Soft cover. 286 pp. Rubbed and yellowed price sticker to foot of rear cover. Interior is slightly age toned. Else fine. Black Sea is an homage to an ocean and its shores and a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present. It explores the culture, history, and politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea.

London: Oxford University Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black paper boards. Colour map endpapers. xx, 276 pp. B&W maps. Bookplate to half-title. Fine overall. The lands around the Black Sea share a colorful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests go deep. Now, as a meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, the Black Sea is more important than ever. In this lively and entertaining book, which is based on extensive research in multiple languages, Charles King investigates the myriad connections that have made the Black Sea more of a bridge than a boundary, linking religious communities, linguistic groups, empires, and later, nations and states.

Bobcaygeon: John Deyell, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 160 p.p. Cloth. Signed by author on Frontispiece. Photographs throughout. Endpapers designed with maps. Discolouration to dust-jacket. Rubbing to dust-jacket extremities. Tiny mark to front board. Some rubbing to corners and spine ends. Stains to half title and title page. A near fine copy of book.

Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. N.d., [1850]. Bound by Birdsall in half contemporary goatskin, brown cloth boards, gilt triple filet, gilt back, raised bands. xxvii, 554 pp., [13] colour plates, [16] B&W plates, numerous B&W illustrations in text. Some minor rubbing to edges and cracking to joints, else fine. A short copy. Bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker, embossed ex libris stamps. A lovely volume. 0.

Nigeria: Ibadan University Press, 1962. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Third edition. Brown card wraps, staple binding. 46 pp. Double hole punched to fore edge. Some minor creasing. Covers general and bibliographical works, periodicals, natural history, education, food and health, ethnology, history, biography, travel, religion, politics, law, economics, art, literature, and official publications.

Georgetown, British Guiana: The Argosy" Co., Ltd, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth, black stampted titles, gilt armorial device to front board. iv, 283 pp., [4], xii. Fold-out colour map at front. [27] B&W plates (most double-sided). Spine sunned, boards stained, corners bumped. Bumping to lower corner of text block. Includes information about the history, geography, genealogy, climate, politics, industries, natural resources, and commerce.

Ottawa: Canadian Hydropgraphic Service, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. green cloth. xlii, 460 pp. [1] fold-out map. Gilt faded at spine, bumping to spine ends and corners. Spine slightly shaken but solid. Spots of staining to fore and tail edges of text block.

Markham: Penguin Books Canada, 1987. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12" x 10.5. Full burgundy cloth. Matching slipcase. 384 pp. Fully illustrated in stunning colour. Small spot of wear to top edge of rear board, else fine in fine jacket. The distinct regional landscapes, familiar city scenes, and the small-scale charm of market town and village in which the British Isles are so rich have been vividly depicted here.

London: Sells Ltd, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. 495 p.p. Lacking folding map. A huge compilation of facts, photography, statistics, etc., with many sketches of small communities and businesses throughout B.C. Publisher's cloth binding. Gilt title and publisher on spine, gilt ram's head on front cover with blind rule panel, scuff to rear board. Lots of b&w photos, incl. 4 full-page images of H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, and the Duchess of Connaught; His Honour Thomas William Patterson, Lieutenant-Governor since December 1909; and Sir Richard McBride, K.C.M.G., M.P.P., Premier and Minister of Mines. Inhabited intials throughout. Slight wear to edges and corners, bumping to spine ends, bubbling on joints. Heavy offsetting to front flyleaf. Ownership inscription on flyeaf. New endpapers pasted onto originals. Minor sporadic staining and one small tear to page.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bice, Claire and Vincent Elliott. 8vo. Revised and enlarged edition. Orig. green cloth, black stamped device of Bruce Peninsula outline to front board. xviii, 245 pp. B&W illustration in text. Minor chafing to spine ends and corners, a few small stains. Foxing to edges of text block. Damp staining to fore edges of front endpapers. Light staining to t.p. and frontis. Foxing to rear endpapers. Dust jacket is edge worn, sunned to spine, chpped at spine head, staining and spotting to covers, a few short tears repaired at reverse with tape.

Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing, 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. 13th edition. Orig. red cloth, gilt titles.393 pp. [11] duotone plates. Spine tilted and sunned, light rubbing to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers, ex libris bookplate of Virginia and Herbert Tenny to front pastedown. Gift inscription to ffep. Age toning to interior.

London: A. & C. Black, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Martin, T. Mower (painted by). 8vo. Orig. maroon publisher's cloth, gilt. xviii, 262 pp. [77] colour plates with tissue guards. Spine sunned, bumping and chafing to extremities. Foxing to edges of text block. Ownership inscriptions to ffep. Interior age toned, some sporadic foxing.

London: Methuen, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Second revised edition. Full green cloth. Map endpapers. xv, 526 pp. [4] half-tone plates, 165 in-text illustrations. Slight bowing to front boards. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is darkened and scuffed at spine, light bumping and rubbing to extremities, short tear to top edge of rear cover, offset panel to rear. Griffith was a Professor of Geography in the University of Toronto and his book is based on the result of extensive travel and study. It is divided into three parts, of which the first deals with the exploration, structure, climate and soils; the second with the twenty Natural Regions. The third part deals with environments as related to Man. Various chapters describe the Spread of Settlement, Fish, Fur, Forests, Paper-pulp resources and Crops. The last chapters describe Mining, Manufactures, Communications and Population Problems.

Toronto: Longmans, Green and Company, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, title in blind to front board. xxiv, 475 p.p. Eight pages of plates with B&W photos. Bumping to spine ends and upper corner of rear board, sunning to head. Dust jacket is darkened at spine and edges, offset panel to front cover, 4.5" long diagonal tear to rear cover, light bumping to extremities and some worn patches on spine. A social history of Canada beginning with the colonization of New France, through the British settlement, the War of 1812, Confederation, the settlement of the West, and the wars of the 20th century.

[Toronto]: Peter Martin Associates Limited, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo (imperial). Facsimile edition. Quarter blue cloth, brown cloth boards. 128 pp.,[54 plate engravings]; 116 pp.,[63] plate engravings. Spines sunned and rubbed. In custom paper-bound slipcase. Slipcase is worn and sunned.

Banff, AB: Waterous & Co/Sawback Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 11.25" x 10" Limited first edition, #37 of 500 copies, SIGNED. Oblong. Hand bound. Full grey cloth. 37 B&W photo plates with facing descriptions. Award winner from the Banff Mountain Book Festival, 1994. Minor sunning to tail edges, bumps to upper corners. Dust jacket is bumped and creased at extremities, a few short tears, some scuffing to covers, staining to rear.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo [large]. First U.S. Edition. Original jacket and black cloth binding. Title on spine in silver. [xi], 240 p.p., [1]. Illustrated with [8] p.p. of photographs. Nicholas Griffin epxplores the mountain region of Caucasus, a borderland of Christian and Muslim Worlds and maps the history, myths, and politics of Islam, centering on Imam Shamil, a 19th Century Muslim warrior who led a campaign against invading Russians. Light rubbing to jacket. Small bruising to spine-ends and corners. Interior clean. A near fine copy.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo (royal). Full black paper boards. 176 pp. Fully illustrated, mostly in colour. Slight bowing to front board. Dust jacket lightly bumped at edges, some scuffing to covers. A fascinating insight into Britain in the Middle Ages and a vivid account of Britain's history from the perspective of the later Middle Ages.

Ithaca, NY: DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, 1966. Soft cover. Near Fine. 6" x 8.5" Third printing. Orig. grey printed card wrappers, staple bound. 17 pp. Light soiling to rear cover, spine sunned, else fine.