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pp. ix, 375. Bookseller's label. Top corners of rear signatures slightly dampstained. 16mo. 165mm. Original full cloth binding. MOD LIB BX 1
142 pages. The extraordinary story of a Native mother of twelve and member of the Carrier Indian Band living on the Stony Creek Reserve in northern British Columbia. Recounts the hardships endured by her people - racism, sickness, poverty - and her personal struggle to rise above them. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Black and white illustrations. Book
79 pages. Dellightfully illustrated with black and white sketches in text and eight most adorable full-page colour plates. Includes thirteen short stories for beginning readers. Titles include: This Year's Calendar; A Small Little Dog; George Had a Window Box; An Embroidered Hanky; A Motor-car Story; Evangeline's Dolly; An Indian Brave; Her Shetland Pony; Toodles at the Telephone; All be the Sea; A Birthday Card; Marjorie Maude Grows Up!. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this charming vintage work. Book
62 pages. Colour photos. Features: Vectis reflections; Decline of the Wight railway; Industrial twilight; Just the way it was; Gallery; Stowe - second time around; Worldwide report; The glorious years; Scotland's new steam railway; The Longmoor story concluded; Putting back Scarborough's turntable; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
176 pages. "When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, Emil Brigg was 14. Captured several times by the S.S. and forced to witness the mass execution of thousands of his people, he was both resourceful and determined enough to escape each time and eventually reached Hungary. There he joined a small underground organization and, for his part in the killing of a German agent, he was imprisoned and severely tortured." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
88 pages. Extensively illustrated. The story of electric street railway transportation in the city of Calgary, Alberta. By 1909, Calgary boasted a population of 30,000 people. In July of that year, the Calgary Electric Railway began operations with two cars, sixteen employees and three miles of track. The system became known as the Calgary Municipal Railyway the following year and provided forty years of service. Tickets and transfers from various periods are portrayed plus a variety of photos to interest everyone with an interest in the development of Calgary as a city; the construction of "The Bay"; early scenes in Bowness Park; and some views of streetcars serving seemingly unpopulated fields that today are thriving subdivisions. Pocket inside back board contains route map, route indicators and errata. Unmarked. Book is bright and clean with very light wear to orange boards decorated with sparkling gilt lettering. Bookplate upon front endpaper. Dust jacket, now preserved in glossy archival-grade Brodart cover, bears average wear and a number of tears under one inch in length but remains attractive. Lovely copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owners' names inside. Light wear and crease to cover. Age-toned paper. 212 pages.
194 pages. "I wish this giant of a man had been there for me when the prison system spat me back onto the street... Tony's story is an inspiration for cons and square Johns alike.' - Roger Caron, author of GO-Boy! Moderate wear. Some writing upon back page and bottom of table of contents. Book
245 pages with index and black and white photographs. A story of forty exciting years in a changing world. Over 300 names in index. Prospectors, miners, entrepreneurs, scam operators, con men and murderers, successful businessmen, and heroes, even the Queen of England: places, companies, countries: all move the reader down from the mountains, into the cities and across the seas. And it all happened because of Spud's Dream! Some curling to front cover. Unmarked inside. Moderate to average wear overall. Book
66 pages. Colour cover photos of "LePerle" - undefeated in show competition. Features: Soupability - GM's Aluminum V8's; Unbeaten at Show - "LePerle" - 1957 Thunderbird owned by Bob Turgeon of Topeka, Kansas; Soup for the Street Withoug Risking Reliability; Add to your Dash; Adapt a Corvette Floorshift to any Manual Transmission; Anglo-American Sportster - 1953 XK 120 Jaguar; Interiors - The Inside Story; Hide a Latham Blower Under Your Hood; Bubble-Topped Beast - Jack Schleich and his 1932 Ford Coupe; Micrometers; Lion-Hearted Thunderbird - Ira Meyer put a Chrysler engine in his T-Bird; Power-Laden Pulchritude - Dragsters (great photos); Mallory's new Mini-Mag; Sporty School Bus - George Maisch has a nice street rod; Rework your 352-390 Ford oil pump for Reliability; Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 14 plates (one double-page) and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. Arguably the best one-volume account of the ancient church of St. Saviour and St. Mary Overie, now the Cathedral of Southwark.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 1/2"w x 10 7/8"h. 160 pages. Black and white photos.
16 pages. Prepared especially for the International Sourdough Re-Union, Vancouver, B.C., August 16-18, 1954. Generically inscribed and signed by author beneath his photo upon verso of title page. Includes the following works: The Old Time Sourdough - A Toast; No Scalp McFarlane (a tale of the trail of '98 - a true story); Day Dreaming; A Sourdough's Dream; The Golden North; My Old Sourdough; A Heart of Gold; Saanich Gold - The Daffodils. Moderate wear. A sound and pleasing vintage copy. Book
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 158 p. Sonsuzlugun tarihi. Translated by Ayse Atalay. [= Historia de la eternidad]. First Turkish Edition of Borges' 'Historia de la eternidad'.
96 pages. Many pages of photos of Cohen in Greece and America. Includes melody, guitar tab. and lyrics for these songs: A Bunch of Lonesome; Heroes; Bird on the Wire; The Butcher; Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye; Lady Midnight; Master Song; The Old Revolution; One of Us Can Not Be Wrong; Priests; Seems So Long Ago; Nancy; Sisters of Mercy; So Long, Marianne; Stories of the Street; Story of Isaac; The Stranger Song; Suzanne; Teachers; Tonight Will Be Fine; Winter Lady; You Know Who I Am. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
300 pages including index, notes and sources. "Focussing upon the three major areas of development - navigational satellites, communications, and weather observation and forecasting - Gavaghan tells the remarkable inside story of how obscure men and women, often laboring under strict secrecy, made the extraordinary scientific and technological discoveries needed to make these miracles happen." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Surprisingly light wear. Nice solid clean copy. Book
G (no dj, brown cloth with black decoration and lettering, undamaged oval tipped on colour plate front board, scattering small bleached spots fore-edges of back board and few similar spots front board but illustration not affected, prize plate front fixed endpaper, light spotting endpapers and outside edges, pages generally clean and binding firm, colour frontis is detached but present) 12mo 215pp. First edition. Boys' school story. Colour frontis and 3 b/w plates by H. M. Brock.
98 pages. Features: SEAL's top secret - the untold story of Red Cel; SOF in Russia - to T & E new Bizon SMG; Backpack nukes for Vietnam - inside special forces A-bomb project; Mercs making big $ in Angola; Citizen militias - are they really legal?; US military involved in Waco raid - documented proof. Average wear. Solid unmarked copy. Book
98 pages. Expanded issue. Features: Exclusive - BBC Producer and con man ruined Ross Perot?; Exclusive - FN's amazing Bullpup 21st Century Personal Defense Weapon; Randy Weaver Idaho Shoot-out - the real story; Banned in the U.S.A. - Clinton's surprises for gun owners; Saddam's revenge - American soldiers poisoned by oilfield arson. Average wear. Solid unmarked copy. Book
231 pages including bibliography and over 180 illustrations. "A complete history of what John Maynard Keynes has called "the underworld of economics." Beginning in England in 1917, it makes a bizarre, at times nearly unbelievable, story of monetary cranks, political parvenues, conspiracy theorists, end-of-the-world millennialists and political demagogues that sweeps through Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec before culminating in the '80s in British Columbia." - from back cover. Moderate wear and soiling. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
344 pages. The true, riveting and extraordinary story of a young man born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lothar Orbach's family was proud of its German military and cultural heritage, but that was no help to a Jewish boy coming of age in Hitler's Berlin. A story of amazing courage and excitement in a world gone mad. At its center is the astonishing Lothar/Gerhard, street thug, romantic youth, and survivor, clinging to his humanity and his irrpressible spirit soars underground. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket shows very light signs of handling. Excellent copy. Book
182 pages. "Recounts the area's history with the rigour of a historian, and with the warmth and enthusiams of a hometown boy." - from dust jacket. Abundantly illustrated with archival black and white photos. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Spots and wear to dust jacket. Full blue cloth boards. 8 7/8"w x 8 1/8"h. Previous owner's name inside.
506 pages including notes and index. The story of the Canadian men and women who, during the period from 1865 to 1924, struggled against the corruption of political patronage, abysmal working conditions and poverty-level salaries in the federal civil service. This is an account of the history of some of the organizations formed to overcome these adverse conditions, and the story of the dedicated men and women who guided them, often at great personal risk. Documents their few victories and many defeats, and the significant impact that their dogged perseverance has had on the Canadian federal service of today. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy of this exhaustive work. Book
254 pages. A gently written novel dealing with a brutal theme. A story of colonialism in Canada and the rest of the continent. Colonialism over the aboriginal peoples, with its own special quality of cultural and physical deprivation and a legacy of racial genocide. The story of one personality attempting to find a way out of this living death by way of prison, spiritual confirmation and active political struggle. - George Ryga Book