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160 pages. Dozens of amazing documentary photos plus extensive explanatory text. Above-average wear. Yellowed tape over backstrip. A worthy working copy. Book
Features: Vanished Spas in the Wilderness - 3 locations on Washington's Olympic Peninsula; Palomino Spirit Horse - had to be killed; Christmas was slim in Bullfrog (Rhyolite, Nevada); "If I live to be a hundred - true stories shared by old cowboys and their horses"; Ghost Town of the Indians - Doaksville, capital of the old Choctaw Nation; Terrible Jim McLaughlin - a story from Yale, British Columbia; Trementinans Hoed Their Own Row - Nevada history; King of the Yukon - Jack McQuesten; If I were young again - living in hard times; Burro Schmidt's Tunnel -perhaps an unequaled one-man mining venture; One Green Acre of the Dreary Earth - Glen, South Dakota; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy Magazine
Features: Ruckus over a fried bobcat dinner - a Ringbone Same battle-of-the-century story; massacre of 1862 - what actually happened behind Indian lines, told by someone who was there - the Mdewakanton and Wahpakoota bands - Fort Wadsworth; poor losers are dangerous; unclaimed silver at Bald Eagle; a strip poker party - sideline entertainment on hunting/fishing jaunts; Ireteba's outrageous lie - an Indian Chief sees the white man's world; The bizarre Hiatt-Hannah case - a murderous attack in the Jordan District in Linn County, Oregon; Senator Edmund G. Ross - How Say You?; Twenty-One days between rivers - from the memoirs of Walter Harper, cattle driver, 1860-1932; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Features: Martial law in the Coeur D'Alenes - Burke, Idaho, Shoshone County; Shoestrong operation on the flats - an early story from California; outlaw loot in Missoula - when Cy Skinner was hanged by vigilantes, no one knew where his gold was buried; Hope's Sundown - hard times at Cleveland, Texas; "Surplus Volunteers" vs. redskins - Fort Laramie; The about-face of a buffalo hunter - Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones; Dark day at Darlington - an agency doctor who lost his son to the Cheyennes remembers; Cowgirl - rodeo's sugar and spice; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
120 pages. Covers feature large glossy colour photos of Fuhr in action and holding the Stanley Cup. Topics include: The Fuhr Story; The Basics of Goaltending; Game Action Photos; The Game; Scouting; and more. "Grant Fuhr is widely recognized as the world's best goalie. A winner of the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender, Fuhr is a perennial all-star who has backstopped the Edmonton Oilers to four Stanley Cup wins in five years. He holds records for most points in a season by a goalie and most games played." - from pages 7. Average wear. Unmarked. A solid copy of this great goalkeeping collectible. Book
168 pages. The story of James E. "Ted" Wilson, written in co-operation with marine author S.C. Heal. Captain Wilson went to his first seagoing job as deckboy out of Victoria, at the early age of 14, in 1933. His colourful career saw him working his way through the ranks in British Columbia coast towboats from deckhand to mate and eventually as a licensed master. Includes black and white illustrations. Unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
378 pages. "Covers the Philadelphia Flyers like no other sports franchise has ever been covered before. Gives you the whole story: on the ice, in the dressing room and behind the scenes. From the campaign to gain an NHL franchise in 1965, through the building of a hard-hitting Stanley Cup Championship roster that performed at its best after Kate Smith's thundering rendition of "God Bless America"... from the tragic loss of Pelle Lindbergh to the controversy-strewn signing of Eric Lindros... from the first shovel in the ground to build the Spectrum to the complex negotiations that resulted in the construction of the new CoreStates Center... from the Leach-Barber-Clarke line to the Legion of Doom... sets new standards for contemporary sports history." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked. Negligible wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A beautiful copy of one of the finest hockey works we have seen. An absolute must for the serious Flyer fan. Book
93 pages. Undated. Circa 1950? Lovely children's book. Covers soiled with above average wear and bit of writing upon front panel. Some pages have light water staining. Book
326 pages including index and black and white photos. The personal story of Theoren Fleury. Follows him through an entire hockey season while he was with the Calgary Flames. More than a sports biography, this is an engaging and insightful look at hockey as a child's game, an adult's profession, big business, mass entertainment, family pastime, and the greatest spectator sport yet invented. "...a fascinating glimpse of human nature on the rampage." - Peter C. Newman. Published before Fleury's problems in New York and Chicago. Includes 16 pages of black and white photos. Clean, bright and unmarked. Faint signs of handling. Excellent copy. Book
303 pages plus index. Black and white photographic plates. "The 72 year history of Gizeh Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America, Oasis, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada." - subtitle. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
86 pages. Features: The Coalport Railroad; Modifying Rolling Stock for the DSP&P; The Story of a Journey - Part 2; Getting Started in Garden Railroading - Part 3; The Eyre Peninsula Division; Modifying the Bachmann Big Hauler for Improved R/C; Build a G-Scale Beyer-Garratt; Second Generation Garden Railroading - Part 6. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
102 pages. Features: Mick Spilsbury's Garden Railway; California's garden railways; Richard E. Cooper's Garden Railroad; Roadbed for Cold Climates; The Story of a Journey; The Table Saw - Part 7; Jack Verducci's Crystal Springs Railroad & Lumber Co.; Acoma No. 5; A visit to the South Pacific Coast Railway; Second Generation Garden Railraoding - Part 5; The Clear Water Filtration System; Getting started in Garden Railroading. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Great section of colour photos plus others in black and white. Songs include: Friends in Low Places; Mr. Blue; New Way to Fly; Same Old Story; The Thunder Rolls; Two of a Kind, Workin' On a Full House; Unanswered Prayers; Victim of the Game; Wild Horses; Wolves. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.of this throwback to the days when Garth was on top of the world. Book
347 pages including index and notes. Author's signature upon title page. The first book about Gulf War Syndrome. An intensely personal account of the struggle of two dedicated public servants to expose one of the largest government cover-ups of modern history. A former CIA analyst exposes the officially sanctioned deceptions that have made Gulf War veterans the walking wounded of Desert Storm. "Demolishes the Pentagon's contention that Iraqi chemical weapons were not present during the Gulf War and the U.S servicemen and women were not exposed to chemical agents." - Raymond L. McGovern, retired after 27 years at CIA and recipient of the Intelligence Commendation Medal. Includes several black and white photographic plates. Spine leaning otherwise book in excellent clean, unmarked condition with minimal wear. Dust jacket excellent with very light wear. Very nice copy. Book
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Pbo. 12mo. (16 x 12 cm). In Turkish. 110 p. First edition. Gazoz agaci.
Unpaginated. Large black and white photographs throughout. Gendarme was to be a Police Horse, but he was big and awkward and slow to learn, and it seemed he would never be a trooper's mount. His trainer called him "Ugly Duckling", but he liked Gendarme's calm, quiet nature and patiently began to train the horse. The true story of how Gendarme learned the ways of a Police Horse. Average wear. Blue boards moderately bumped. Dust jacket well-worn with three inch tear at top of front panel near spine and some smallish chunks missing. Despite this, the brightly illustrated dust jacket has the potential to be quite attractive, given some tlc and the addition of a glossy protective sleeve. Book
64p. Some top margins soiled. 16mo. Original printed wraps, slightly soiled. The story of the fith century Saint Genevieve (Genovefa) was very popular among the Pennsylvania Germans. She was as a peasant girl born in Nanterre to a Frankish father and a Gallo-Roman mother. One day Germanus (Saint Germain of Auxerre) came to her town, and Genevieve confided in him that she wanted to live only for God. He encouraged her and at the age of fifteen, Genevieve became a nun. On the deaths of her parents, she went to live with her godmother Lutetia in Paris. There she became admired for her piety and devotion to works of charity, which included corporal austerities, and a vegetarian diet which allowed her to sup but twice per week. These mortifications she continued for over thirty years. Shortly before the attack of the Huns under Attila in 451 on Paris, with the help of Germanus' archdeacon, the panic-stricken people of Paris were persuaded not to leave their homes. Genevieve's prayers were said to divert Attila's army to Orleans. During Childeric's siege and blockade of Paris in 464, Genevieve passed through the siege lines in a boat to Troyes, bringing grain to the starving city. She also pleaded to Childeric for the welfare of prisoners of war, and met with a favorable response. Later, Clovis I liberated captives and showed greater lenience to wrongdoers after Genevieve urged him to do so. GER-ENG PAMPH BX1 BAG 10
262 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Tells the engaging story of the working lives of Frank and Walter Shanly, two well-connected nineteenth-century Canadian civil engineers and businessmen who worked on many of the significant projects of the age. An important contribution to our understanding of the professionalization of civil engineering, and to the modernization of business practices in nineteenth-century Canada. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket in nice Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Gift quality. Book
124p. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on Japan vellum. Partially uncut. Small 24mo. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps with large red initial on front cover. Limited Edition of only 425 copies. First Edition. Scarce. Nice copy. PRESS/W39
In-8 (cm. 22.90), tela editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale bianca con titolo in rilievo, pp. 24, (2), con numerose illustrazioni a colori fuori testo. Text in English. Tracce di polvere alla sovracoperta; peraltro, volume in ottimo stato (nice copy).
354 pages including index. An extraordinary, true Arctic drama of man against nature - and man against man. A work of non-fiction narrative that reads like a novel - a raw, vivid, harrowing adventure, brilliantly told. Excellent giftable copy. Book
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Pages are not opened. 12mo. (16 x 12 cm). In Turkish. 66, [8] p. Gibiciler. Hikâyeler. First Edition.
256 pages. Index. Black and white photos. "Picking his way carefully among fact and legend, idolization and belittlement, Mr. Mosley tells the Wingate story with tact and skill and unrelaxing readability." - dust jacket. "The story of probably the most incredible and controversial military figure to emerge from World War II." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name and armorial bookplate upon front free endpaper. Average wear to price-clipped just jacket which is preserved in mylar. A sound copy. Enser p.477. Book
230 pages including index, bibliography and black and white illustrations. The story of a remarkable man, and a fascinating period in B.C. history. From fragments of recorded history, official documents, and exhaustive interviews with the coal miners who knew Cumberland and knew Ginger Goodwin, she has pieced together an extraordinary tale. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
New Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 53 p. Giyotindeki son kadin. Translated by Yücel Aksan.
