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329 pages. Presents one large and shared experience through the eyes and sensitivities of each of those who are proud of it. Rubber stamp upon front endpaper else unmarked. Fading and minor staining to brown cloth boards. Binding intact. Decent working copy. Book
28 pages. Features: Some orchids in the 50th state; Two Orchidists in Waianae - Beatrice Krauss and Louise Wulff and Two in Wahiawa Beatrice Krauss and Louise Wulff; and more. Small date stamp upon front cover. Attractive copy with light wear. Book
Features: Pat and Noel Thomas; Gay Brown's Never Ending Collection; Chad Smith - All Things Nautical; Ann Barrett collects Seasheels (among other things!); The Atlanta Museum Auction; Don McGinnis - Sign Maker; Claire Young's American Main Street of Yesterday; Raffle Preview; Joann's Miniature Stamp; Lighting made Easy; Building with Bob - Clifton House, Part III; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: The De Pinedo Inheritance - Fortune or Fraud? - a reply; Canadian Painters in Philately - Part 2 of 2; "Corrected" airmail special delivery stamp - first day of use; Unique from the Yukon - publicity cover for the Yukon Exposition of 1912; Postmarked Ottawa; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
400 pages including 69 black and white reproductions from photographs and numerous maps. Gilt-edged top. Former owner's rubber stamp upon verso of half title page and upon front side of black and white photographic frontis of General Pershing. Small bookseller's sticker inside back board. "My primary purpose in writing this story of the American Expeditionary Forces in France is to render what I conceive to be an important service to my country. In that adventure there were many lessons useful to the American People, should they ever again be called to arms, and I felt it a duty to record them as I saw them." - from the Foreward. Book
198 pages. Author's nice inscription, rubber stamp and signature upon front flyleaf. Rather than a travelogue, this is an attempt to see events in China through author's own eyes and to interpret some of its history through personal experience... "The story of someone who has had a love affair with China." - from back cover. A very personal account of author's involvement with the three modern eras of Chinese history: the last days of the Ching dynasty, the republican years, and the years since the Communist Revolution. Author was born in Hong Kong in 1909. Includes black and white illustrations plus a special slip laid in which depicts the actual size of a shoe worn by women with bound feet. Minimal wear. No markings. Attractive glossy illustrated covers. Book
14 pages. Intended as an introduction to the cetaceans from the Nanaimo area. Provides black and white illustrations of various whales plus blowing and diving characteristics of some of the large whales. Minor sunning to covers. Rubber stamp upon front cover. Average wear. Book
373 pages including index. An extraordinary collection of letters by the writer Gore Vidal once called "one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation continues to grow long after her death." Contents clean and unmarked. Discard stamp upon top edge of text. Slight lean to spine. Very light wear overall. Nice copy. Book
128 pages. Many pages of high-quality colour plates. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy of this beautiful catalogue. Book
51 pages. Some sticker residue atop front cover. Intended for the medium and new collector who is often faced with the problem of distinguishing one stamp from another, and to determine if his stamp has a constant plate variety or not. Will help you determine if you have a variety or another peculiarity. With large, clear black and white illustrations Book
186 pages. A dramatic insight into our penal system and the critical need to seek reform. "It's refreshing to encounter a quiet voice of reason amid the rising clamor for a return to capital punishment and harsher treatment of prisoners." - William French, Globe and Mail. A dramatic insight into our penal system and the critical need to seek reform. Rubber stamp atop front cover and title page else unmarked. Average wear. Solid copy. Book
250 pages plus bibliography and index. A whole consciousness catalog - 250 ways to alter your consciousness without drugs. Methods, techniques, and ways involve yourself, help from others, devices and machines. Decorative rubber stamp and faint erasure upon title page else unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Book
253 pages including index. Front endpaper removed. Extra-strong library binding/blue decorated boards. Light wear and soiling. Only library marking is discard stamp to title page. Marginalia on page 96. Book
213 pages including index. Describes over 60 of the most popular attractions Korea has to offer. Includes over 160 spectacular color photos and 20 informative maps. Provides everything you need to plan a wonderful vacation in Korea. Price clipped from flap of back cover. Minimal traces of wear. Tiny rubber date stamp upon bottom edge of textblock. Book
124 pages including index and line drawings. Intended for amateurs and professionals. Concise accounts are given of procedures and devices that have been tried at the Plant Research Institute and found to be best for collecting and preserving botanical specimens. Chapters include: Vascular Plants; Fungi; Mosses and Liverworts; Lichens; and Algae. Prior owner's name blacked out atop front endpaper. Small rubber stamp upon copyright page else unmarked. Moderate wear. Book
168 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "Reviews the curious and little-known details that add colour, perspective and humour to our country's heritage." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Front endpaper removed. Book
295 pages including index and some black and white illustrations. "Some of the proceedings described in the following pages seem unjust to us, but we have to remember that these trials took place about 160 years ago. Many important reforms have been introduced both in England and France which have gone far to establish and safeguard the rights of the accused. One aspect has not changed; a criminal trial in France is more dramatic, more akin to the theatre, than in England, both in its setting and in the display of emotion." - from Foreward. Several cup rings upon back board. Small rubber stamp upon front endpaper else contents clean and unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
393 pages including index. Intended for use in an introductory instructional computing course for preservice or in-service teachers. Clean, bright and unmarked but for rubber stamp upon top edge. Excellent copy. Book
502 pages including index. An exhaustive analysis of national and international arms control: its history, its philosophy, and its achievements and future prospects as well as its political, military, and economic ramifications. Very light wear. Glossy covers. Rubber stamp upon half-title page. Minimal yellow high-lighting else unmarked. Nice copy. Book
117 pages. Many interesting black and white photos. Bookshop stamp on title page. "Cash 50" written at top of front cover in black magic marker. If UFOs are patrolling our skies, the people of the United States have a right to know, providing national security is not violated. To date, the evidence has been quite conclusive that unknown craft have been reported sighted, contacted and photographed by a number of nations. Still, the conspiracy of silence prevails. Book
355 pages including index and black and white illustrations. Traces the magazine industry from its boisterous pre-Confederation beginnings to the vibrant and influential medium that it is today. Will satisfy not only journalists, editors and publishers, but any reader of magazines who looks to them for the timely information that they provide. Book is unmarked but for remainder stamp upon bottom edge and shows only faint wear. Attractive price-clipped dust jacket shows very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
116 pages. Here's a modern treatment of an old "ten-twen-thirt" meller drayma that will have the folds out front hissing, booing and applauding like mad and loving every minute of it. Bookseller's rubber stamp inside front cover else unmarked. Average wear. Book
231 pages including references and index. Through this unique adventure in the art of historical detection, the authors invite you to "decipher the code" that bars our distant past from modern eyes and minds. Includes tools and a sampling of ancient history's most intriguing cases on which to try them. Here are clues locked within artifacts, woven into oral tradition, encrypted in ancient writing, and embedded in the land itself. As new but for prior owner's blind stamp upon title page. Glossy illustrated boards. Excellent copy. Book
120 pages. An illustrated, easy-to-follow guide to short or long-term care. Light wear and soiling. Attractive glossy covers. Rubber stamp upon title page else unmarked. Book
306 pages. "A practical 'how-to' book loaded with information to support caregivers and their loved ones during a tumultuous time." - Susan Delmar, M.Ed. Light wear. Rubber stamp upon title page else unmarked. Would be graded as Very Good if not for grey soiling to top edge which has run down a quarter inch or so into some pages. Text unaffected. Solid working copy. Book