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293 pages. "Evanshen is a Canadian Footbal League Hall of Famer. In 1988 he was struck by a driver running a red light. When he came out of a coma, he did not know who his wife was.... all of his memories - and his ability to retain new memories - were gone... A story not only of how the brain works, but of how the human spirit can survive even the loss of identity" - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. A sound working copy. Book
203 pages. The fascinating and almost unbelievable adventures of David Singh as he progressed from poverty in Guyana to the head of Fortune Financial in Canada. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Must reading for any new immigrants in need of a heavy dose of inspiration. Book
295 pages including index and lists of sources. Author's signature upon half-title page. "Fifty years after a defecting Ottawa Soviet embassy cipher clerk (Igor Gouzenko) brought the RCMP a shirtful of incriminating documents about an espionage ring operating in Canada, this book provides us with the first insider's account of the incidents which many feel triggered the Cold War." - from back cover. Author was a Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces and speechwriter for Paul Martin Sr. His story differs in many respects from the officially sanctioned version. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
283 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. "Devastatingly candid... Rousing... Fascinating... Beautifully written... You'll be charmed, enlightened and entertained." - Trevor Lautens. "Destined to become a bible for every aspiring municipal politician, and anyone with a bitch against City Hall." - from back cover. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
221 pages including several black and white illustrations and index. Inscribed by author to former British Columbia Provincial Cabinet Ministers Dale Lovick and Jan Pullinger. Excellent unmarked copy with very light wear. A whimsical story of a newspaper family. Author worked for seven daily newspapers or wire services and with his wife Stella ran a public relations company and owned two community newspapers. Only a sense of humor carried Ron and his wife Sheila through the rough patches, and that same humor illuminates many a page of this book. Book
Unpaginated. The story of Ma Lien, a poor orphan boy, a woodgatherer clothed in rags, who feeds largely on his dream to become a painter of pictures. Book unmarked with above average wear. Dust jacket very rough. Book
216 pages. A detailed history of the Luscombe Airplane Corporation, its products and its people. Profusely illustrated with 200 black and white photos plus many drawings intended for the Luscombe purist desiring to restore his/her aircraft to its original lustre. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this exceptional reference. Book
Fair (no dj, green pictorial cloth, illustration on spine of girl taking book from shelf, front board illustration in blue/white/black/green of three girls with hockey sticks, spine lightly darkened and some wear to colour on illustration, back board a bit grubby, front hinge heavily cracked and front free endpaper missing, flyleaf and frontispiece detached but present, contents shaken, child's pencil drawings on endpapers and erased pencil annotations front fly leaf, light foxing two central pages and occasional light spotting in margins) 12mo 296pp. B/w frontis and 4 b/w plates remaining of the original five.
Name/date on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Small crease to lower corner of front cover, crease to slightly rubbed spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 160pp. Girl's school story from Angela Brazil.
218 pages including bibliography and index. 200 years after the migration, award-winning author Christopher Moore tells the very human story of the loyalists - the societies that shaped them, the various attitudes that motivated them, and the circumstances that determined their future and influenced the future of Canada. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Very light wear to book. Gift greetings upon half title page else contents bright and unmarked. Minor bit of prior owner's address label remains upon decorated front endpaper. Crack along back hinge which remains closed. Light wear to attractive dust jacket which bears several small tears to top edge. Lovely copy. Book
71p. + Plus frontis and full page illustrations with tissue guards. Text blocked throughout in ornate borders of fishes, vines and flowers. Top edge gold with other edges deckled. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding embossed and decorated in gold and blind. Heavily gold lettered. Spine slightly faded. Lovely First Edition printed at the Devinne Press. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W69
np. Color drawings by Melvin Hansen. Decorated color title page. Typography by R. Moore Smith. Tall thin 8vo. Original full pictorial paper binding, very slightly darkened at edges. Limited Edition. No limitation statement of number of copies. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W67x2
Features: Frontis photo portrait and writeup on The Marquess of Tullibardine (John George Stewart Murray); Company Notes; The Route March in Scotland, story with photos and cartoons; Great full-page photo of Major Malcolm atop the Cumberland Stone, Culloden, explaining to all assembled how he intended fighting his way to Inverness; Impressions of the March; Chronicles of the Cookhouse - Scotland, August, 1906; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Chaps are Saying; Shooting - K Company prize meeting; Private Denis Kelly of the "Michaels" - his observations on military matters; and more. Faint pencil erasure atop front cover. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Please note: a quarter of the first page of advertisements has been removed. Book
Four separate Camp Editions, each 4 pages in length. Each edition features a front cover cartoon, plus an Editorial, Camp Gossip and other content such as: The Old Soldier's Story, The Sergeant's Shakespeare Mottoes, The Young Territorial. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
175 pages. Index. Bibliography. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. "Less a biography than a slice of history, this book presents the interplay of frontier and civilization during the late 1800's... This meticulously researched volume tells all that is known of Barry's life from boyhood through to his final years in Superior, Wisconsin." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
np. Illustrated with drawings. Paper beginning to brown. Small 16mo. Original printed wraps lettered in gold, chipped at edges. Missing portrait on front cover. Penciled ownership of Miriam B. Harper on front wrap. Designed and printed by Engle-Biddle Adv. Ser., 1010 Cherry St., Philadelphia. PA PAMPH 20_5 BX2
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Blue cloth spine. Dust jacket is tattered with tears. 6 7/8"w x 8 3/4"h. 134 pages. Black and white photogrpahs.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 493 pages. No slipcase. Leather title label on spine is worn and loose. Full brown cloth decorated boards. Edited by Graham Petrie with an introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Wood-engravings by John Lawrence, eminent English illustrator and engraver.
28p. + Plus frontis. Full page black line drawings printed on lime green blocks. Title page with border printed in black on a lime green block. Light pink endpapers. Strathmore Paper Company label detailing stock used. 8vo. Original full red paper binding with covers silver flaked. Front cover decorated with a white rose and a blue edging. Limited number of this Christmas edition was printed for the friends of Aldus Printers. Nice copy. Very scarce. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W67. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
139 pages. Circa 1967. "This is a story of my experience during six years of war, and of miraculous deliverance and protection. Knowing not which way to turn myself, I put my trust in a Higher Power, and an unseen hand took me out from place to place. I lived under five different governments. Poland, my country, was occupied by Russia and later by the Nazis. I was moved to Germany which was later under American occupation, and finally emigrated to Canada, now my beloved home." - Author. Frontis illustration of author in her youth. Photo of author, her husband and daughter inside back cover. A challenging true story of mystery and adventure. Prior owner's name inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
364 pages. 194 illustrations, including 173 in full color. "The text of this great picture-story is taken almost entirely from the King James Version of the Bible... A glorious representation of our great Old Testament legacy." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with slightest wear. Tight and square. An excellent copy. Book
192 pages. Bibliography. Index. "The first major work to be published on Frederick Arthur Verner... Presents a vivid and far more detailed account of his life than has ever been given before, and in surveying the whole range of his work as an artist, give it a fresh and sensitive new interpretation. Fully illustrated, with 28 colour reproductions and 170 black and white photographs." - from dust jacket. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Front hinge partiallly open. Back hinge taped. Relatively few internal library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
280 pages. Index. Many archival black and white illustrations. Binding fragile. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Worthy reading copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name and address blacked out on front endpaper. Foxing to a few pages. Frontispiece by de Ivanowski, Sigismond. Full blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. 4 3/4"w x 7 1/2"h. By the author of The Secret Garden.
161 pages plus appendix, references and index. Black and white illustrations. A story of young men adventuring in the American west when the law came as a hanging party, and in British Columbia of Fraser gold rush days, of the first breaking of the black loam of the Delta at Ladners Landing and of the pioneering growth of a cannery there. Date and small address label inside front board else book clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Few short tears to still respectable dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
