Morris, Oswald; Day, Barry; Warner, AlanMareMagnum
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50 pages. Features: ads for 'Cross of Iron' and 'The Last Tycoon'; The Right Look - interview with Oswald Morris on the changing role of the cinematographer as truth competes with illusion; 'In Nome del padre' (In the Name of the Father) - photos; article entitled 'Italnoleggio'; Photo-illustrated article on the cult movie 'Singin' in the Rain'; 'Jabberwocky' - photos; Reviews - 'Joseph Andrews', 'The Story of Adele H', 'The Sentinel', 'Shadowman', 'A Star is Born', 'The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane', 'The Fate of Lee Khan', 'Charlotte', 'When the North Wind Blows', 'The Pink Telephone', 'Le Puritan', 'Exhibition', 'Le Baron Fantome', 'Sweeney', 'Les Violons Du Bal', 'Blue Belle', 'Black Moon'; 'East of Elephant Rock' - photos; 'The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane' - photos; 'The Brute' - photos; 'The Devil's Playground' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Feature photo-illustrated interview with Warren Beatty; 'Lucky Lady' - photos; Cannes 1975; 'The French Connection II' - photos'; Shopping for Soundtracks; Recent Swedish Cinema Unseen in Britain; 'The Little Prince' - photos; Reviews - 'The Passenger', 'Illumination', 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore', 'Knots', 'Deadly China Doll', 'The Mattei Affair', 'Uptown Saturday Night', 'Blood Money', 'The Donald Duck Story'; 'Bite the Bullet' - photos; 'The Yakuza' - photos; Review of book 'The Nazi Cinema'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Ads for 'Farewell My Lovely' and 'Conversation Piece'; Photo-illustrated interview with Peter Chatel; 'Inserts' - photos; 'Catherine & Co' - photos; Photo-illustrated interview with Nicky Henson; 'Conversation Piece' - photos; Reviews - 'A Delicate Balance', 'Elektreia', 'Hustle', 'The Lords of Flatbush', 'The Sunshine Boys', 'The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones', 'Great Expectations', 'The Magic Flute', 'Marjoe', 'The Twelve Chairs', 'The Firefighters', 'The Miraculous Mandarin'; 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' - photos; 'The Story of O' - photos; 'The Killer Elite' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for 'The Slipper and the Rose'; Photo-illustrated interview of Alexander Stuart; 'Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins' - photos; Fellini's 'Casanova' - photos; Article - 'Film and Politics in Italy - Francesco Rosi's Example; 'Extinct Corpses' - photos; 'Unbroken Arrow' - photos; Article on Britain's successful Children's Film Foundation; 'The Battle of Billy's Pond' - photos; 'All the President's Men' - photos; Reviews - 'The Man Who Fell to Earth', 'Inserts', 'Rendezvous at Bray', 'Ankur' (the Seedling), 'Steppenwolf', 'Legacy', 'Mahogany', 'The Homecoming', 'Autobiography of a Princess', 'The Hindenburg', 'Operation Daybreak', 'Butley', 'The Black Bird', 'Story of Sin', 'The Master Gunfighter', 'Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold', 'The Swiss Conspiracy', 'The Anti-Christ', 'Trial by Combat'; 'Nickelodeon' - photos; 'Aces High' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
178 pages including many excellent colour photographs of Eric and his family. Written while Lindros was still a teenager, but the talk of the hockey world for his style of play and his willingness to fight for his beliefs. The first pick in the 1991 NHL entry draft, Lindros was hailed as the "Player of the 90s." This is his story in his own words. Frank, funny and filled with emotion, this is more than a hockey book. It's about a young man with remarkable determination striving to achieve a dream. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Book
286 pages. Archival black and white illustrations. "Here is the day-to-day stuff of life in the forest industry." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
234 pages including bibliography and index. "Tells the colourful story of the Victoria Fire Department through a well-researched absorbing text and in hundreds of eloquent photographs. Included also are maps, appendices of the department's apparatus over the years, and sections of aural history dating back to 1912, as well as numerous anecdotes. Many original archival sources and the official records of the Victoria Fire Department were used in research." - from dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout, plus several in colour. Book clean, bright and unmarked but for date written atop decorated front endpaper. Average wear but no tears to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
36 pages. Features: Ad for Simmonds Corsey Controls on front cover; Large ad for Leytonstone Jig & Tool; Desoutter Bros. Ltd. ad; Lacy-Hulbert ad for their portable compressor plants; Balfalloy Tools and Tips ad; Nice ad for Turner Manufacturing Companty, Limited; Illustrated R.A.F. Recruitment ad; Lyle & Scott ad for their underwear for men in service; Nice photo ad for Short Brothers and their Short Sunderland shown in flight; Nice illustrated Fairey ad; Photo of Leading Aircraftman Fuller who brought a plane down after a midair collision in Australia; War in the Air - The War in Greece - Successes in Africa; Chart of Air losses during the week ended November 23; Ad for Cheetah Engines - made by Armstrong Siddeley; A Tricycle Trainer - all-metal 'owlet' equipped for night flying and blind flying - many features of successful 'Cygnet' retained - many great photos and article; Excellent photo ad for J.R. Bramah & Co. Ltd.; Fantastic two-page ad for the Owlet Trainer manufactured by General Aircraft Ltd.; Wonderful centerfold ad for de Havilland's Hydromatic airscrew; Airspeed Oxford - for training aircraft crews - article and photos; Nice ad for Irwin parachutes; Men of the month - with inset photo of Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander-In-Chief, Far East; nice photo ad for Constant Speed Airscrews Ltd.; The Army Co-op Command - The Vicious Principle of "Operational Control" - article with photo of Air Marshal Sir Arthur S. Barratt; Italy as a Target - a Mussolini story by Captain Norman Macmillan; Here and There - bits of news; Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News and Announcements; Correspondence; Two-colour ad for Parnall Aircraft Ltd inside back cover; Back cover ad for Bristol Sleeve-Valve Aero Engines. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage WWII copy. Magazine
120p. + Plus portrait frontis of Flush. Numerous margin and text drawings by Edwina. Newspaper photo of Flush. Inked Christmas presentation to Mary Bright, 1933. Illustrated endpapers. Foxed. 8vo. Original full cloth backed illustrated paper binding. Original dust jacket, worn with loss. "First Published, September 1933. Second Printing before Publication". The true story of the famous cocker spaniel who played Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush in a Broadway play for 709 performances over eight months, interspersed with the actual letters written by Elizabeth Browning to various people regarding Flush. All told from the dog's point of view. PETS/2
255 pages including colour and black and white photographs. The true-life story of Trudy Turner, who single-handedly built and lives in an isolated farm on the B.C. Coast Chilcotin wilderness. She carries on the work of her famous father Ralph Edwards. Light wear to unmarked book. Some yellowing to pages. Dust jacket in rough condition. Solid copy overall. Book
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. [vii], [1], 309 p. Turkish folklore and folk literature. First Edition. Folklor ve halk edebiyati. Özellikleri, sözlü gelenekleri, ve yazili örnekleri.
203 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Documents Hector Richmond's long career as one of Canada's foremost entomologists. Combines entertaining autobiography with a candid examination of the history and evolution of the forestry industry in Canada. An important statement on the preservation and utilization of our natural resources. Includes interesting black and white photographic plates. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
531 pages including index and black and white illustrations. A fascinating book about wartime politics, military strategies, and the birth pains of an independent U.S. Air Force - which was forged in fire over Brest, Schweinfurt, and Berlin. Sequel to author's A Few Great Captains - which traced the history of the U.S. Army Air Corps from its beginning to the onset of the German Blitzkrieg - picks up the story where Captains left off and continues through the strategic bombing of the Third Reich from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe. The story of a handful of air commanders who risked all for what they believed, at the conference table and in the cockpit. Prior owner's bookplate upon front endpaper else unmarked. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Small tears and moderate edgewear to dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
224 pages. Many wonderful archival photographs in colour and black and white. Two fold-outs present deck plans of the Boat, Upper and Shelter decks. Appendices include Chronology, Passenger Manifest, and Inventory of Purser's safe. Bibliography. Index. "In a moment-by-moment reconstruction, David Zeni tells how, blinded by fog, the captain of the Dominion Coal Company collier Storstad rammed the CPR ship Empress of Ireland directly between the boiler rooms on May 29, 1914." - from dust jacket. "Magnificently written and illustrated." - Toronto Sun. Library stamp upon front endpaper and title page. Bit of writing atop title page. No other markings. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this remarkable work. Book
232 pages. Features: Reviving Vivendi; Calling WorldCom's Woes; American Steel on the Verge of Extinction; Most Powerful Black Executives in America; WorldCom's Fall is Hardly the End of the Telecom debacle; Jamie Dimon and Bank One; Infotech vs. homeland insecurity; Can EMC restore its glory?; Big Gap at FDA; The Inside Story of Level 3; Honda Goes its Own Way; It Takes Seven Years to Build an Aircraft Carrier, the world' most complicated manufactured product. Address label clipped from front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
288 pages. The grassroots story of the People's Synod, Diocese of Victoria, B.C. as experienced and reflected upon by dozens of men and women of all ages, occupations and points of view. From late 1986 to early 1991, several hundred Catholics and friendly neighbours on Vancouver Island and adjacent islands met, prayed, discerned and set action goals for the diocesan Church as it approaches the 21st Century. Signed by Editors and Bishop Remi De Roo. Book
143 pages. A story for young Christian readers. Half-title page was stuck to inside of front cover. Separating them damaged each. Well-worn. Book
192 pages including index and black and white plates. Copyright 1969. This opinionated account begins with the following dust jacket statement: "During the early 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Demagogue and self-appointed Communist witch-hunter, dominated the headlines." Agree with it or not, this book does provide a perspective on McCarthy and the McCarthy years. Usual library markings. Book
309 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "General Aspinall-Oglander is an experienced biographer, and the picture he evokes of a warm and strangely forgotten personality is set off to great advantage in its framework of stirring events." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Front free endpaper removed. A worthy reference copy. Book
268 pages plus chronology and index. Signed by author and Gagliardi. "Next to him, the Roman roadbuilders were pikers. He is the world's greatest highway builder." - W.A.C. Bennett. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else clean and bright with minimal wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book
32 pages. Copyright 1941. Prior owner's details inside front cover, some of which are blacked out. Somewhat above-average wear. Lower two inches of cover fold open. Lovely colour illustrations throughout. Intended for beginning readers. Book
53 pages. The London Street Railway received its charter in 1873 and commenced service in 1875. This work commemorates a century of planning and service. Author retired as General Manager of the service in 1971 and completed two years of research in preparation for this work. Prepared from the files of the London Street Railway Company and its successor, the London Transportation Commission, from newspaper stories, memories of veteran employees, and many other sources. "Includes a brief outline of London from its beginning as a pioneer settlement in 1826 to 1875 when public transportation commenced, because the story of horse-drawn trams, electric street cars and buses is really part of the story of our community and the people who built it over the years." - from Foreward. Includes numerous black and white illustrations and maps. Tiny prior owner's address label inside front board else clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Beautiful copy. Book
289 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "Follow in the footsteps of the young man from Denhoff, North Dakota, as he matures, serves in the U.S. Army, becomes a musician, an electronics engineer, then a chela (student) of ECKANKAR under the guidance of his predecessor Sri Paul Twitchell, the 971st Living ECK Master." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
399 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "From its humble beginnings as a wholesale grocery partnership in 1896, Kelly, Douglas has prospered and grown, responding decisively to each new challenge that emerged with the changing times. Author brings that history to life with engaging anecdotes and a storyteller's sensitivity to the problems faced and the obstacles overcome in almost 100 years of enterprise." - from back cover. At time of publication, Kelly, Douglas was western Canada's largest wholesale food distributor and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Loblaw Companies Ltd. of Toronto, which was, in turn, controlled by the Weston family. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. Partially visible crease to top corner of front cover. Excellent copy. Book
Large print edition. 8vo, 321 pages, not illustrated. Good condition hardback in very good condition dust jacket. Former public library copy. 39571. eng
