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193 pages. Examines the adaptation of agricultural species to climate through flowering responses. Intended primarily for agronomists and the advanced student of agricultural science but will enlighten the interested general reader as well. Book clean, bright and unmarked but for small signature atop title page. Minor lean to spine. Bright green boards. Brilliant gilt lettering upon spine. Several closed tears to dust jacket with several chips missing. Nice copy overall. Book
143 pages. Index. List of literature cited. Black and white diagrams. Contents include: Starting with Bales; Three Basic Approaches; Developing a Plan; The Loadbearing Option; The Non-Loadbearing Option. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
Features: Exchanging prisoners in East Germany for West German money; Dian Cohen implores the Prime Minister to 'lead us or leave us' - two million Canadians are unemployed; Coverage of Trudeau's Asian junket; Cat and mouse - the RCMP and Soviet spies in Ottawa; Dollard Menard takes on the Generals; Cover Story - Donald MacDonald's royal commission on the economy; The 1930s nightmare revisited, by Anthony Sampson; Reagan fights for control; Leonard Rosenberg - Trust quagmire deepens; US-Canada lumber showdown looms; Checking in at Lloyd's of London; Big Oil extends its reach - Suny's gas stations secret connection with Imperial Oil; David Leighton leaves Calgary's Olympic planning team - replaced by Frank King; Ski industry in downhill slide; Russian satellite roulette - Canada threatened by Soviet satellite Cosmos 1402; Stress in the Recession - Behavior; Legal aid squeeze; Side effects of Depo-Provera; This year's version of the flu - the A Bangkok strain; Two-page colour photo ad for CP Air's Royal Canadian (First) Class. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
134 pages. Count Marcel and his sister, Lady Cerise, have been tricked out of their titles and their fortune. Contains music for piano and voice plus lines. Above-average wear. Spine taped. Some markings. A worthy vintage working copy. Book
Book shows light wear to covers only, bent corners to very strong textbook binding. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, printed on heavy stock glossy paper throughout. Heavy book. 837 pages filled with graphs, charts, tables, line drawings, b&w photos. Contents include: Analysis of the environment: heat, light, gravity, pressure, sound, currents of air and water, substratum, water, atmospheric gases, relations of soil, Populations: Animal aggregations, organization of insect societies, Biome and biome-type in world distribution, metabolism in community organization, ecology and genetic variation, and isolation, adaptation, natural selection, etc.
62 pages. Features: Rosalee - this adorable figurine is sure to make you smile; Ribbon and Lace Dress - fun dress for any all-bisque cutie; Clowns for Chanelle - a stunning version of Chanelle enhanced by two wonderful Steiner clowns; Corset & Hoop Skirt - undergarments are the foundation of any Fashion doll's trousseau; For Every Doll Maker's Library - some great new doll publications; Simon & Halbig Lillie - how to make this lovely Rosette winning doll. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
100 pages. Features: Flying the Winged Missile - the Starfighter; The B-25 Mitchell medium bomber; Burt Rutan's Quickie; BD-5 - Another View; Christen's Elegant Eagle; Confessions of a PBM Pilot; Dog Sabre - North America's all-weather version of their famous Sabre jet was a real handful for its pilot; Gordon Plaskett's TF-51D; Mustang Versus Bearcat - can a P-51 outfight an F8F?; The Beech Staggerwing; The McDonnell-Douglas DC-10; Flying the Twin MustangThe XR-12; The Northrop F5-E; The CG-4 combat glider. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
68 pages. Features: George Washington - A Water-color Drawing (cover); Carved Wooden Figure of Washington - Frontispiece; John Holden Greene - Architect; The Attitude of the Eagle - as portrayed on an outstanding group of "Liberty" Quilts; Lowestoft China; Cabinets and Chests - from the Middle Atlantic States; Pounce Boxes and Sand Shakers; Living with Antiques - Bohemian Version; Bohemian Glass - a study for inexperienced collectors; I Don't Like Antique Collectors; John G. Chandler; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Above-average wear. Moisture exposure. Writing on front cover and ad on page 49. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy. Magazine
296 pages. Features: Dorothy Coleman Tribute; Wendy Lawton's Marcella and Raggedy Ann; Doll Design Concept of the Year - DOTY Nominees; Pantin; Dolls based on the Fiammingo Head; Francois Duquesnois (Francesco di Fiammingo); A View of Christmas 1875; The Titanic Connection; A Country rag Doll; The Sewing Machine - a miniature marvel; Norah Wellings' Charm Factory - part 1; The Many faces of Santa Claus; Norah Wellings Novelty Dolls; Collecting the small Composition Doll; Six Composition Character Dolls by the American Doll Company - a comparison study; "Little Lulu, I Love You, Lu"; Betsy McCall Revisited; The Revival of the 1800 Mid-America Handmade Doll with a pattern for Lucritia; Making a Doll-size Version of Little Jocelyn's Late 1930s Dress; Brushes with the Past - John Ben Vanderpool; My Quanah Parker Doll; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
21 pages. Children's poetry delightful adorned by watercolour illustrations. Rural/agrarian theme. English version of the Chinese original. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
Features: Dead Man's Double - the strange story of a landsman who, anxious to get home to Australia, shipped aboard a foreign tramp to work his passage; Baptism of Fire - the story of a young Forest Ranger employed by the British Columbia Forest Service in 1927, and how a fire trapped over 100 people in a logging camp; A Case of Contraband - An amusing story of how, between revolutions, men had ways of their own of getting around difficulties; The Golden Ingot - the diverting story of an ingenious Gold Coast version of the time-honoured "confidence trick"; Down Mexico Way - The exciting adventure of two young seafarers who light-heartedly set out to explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker; Pioneer Pilot - Mr. Peter Strong flew over the Drakensberg Mountains between Basutoland and Natal; One Thing After Another - Recalls the narator's fall and subsequent rise in the depression days of Australia; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-Servicemen; South Sea Burial Customs - Visiting the outlying islands of the remote Cook Group, in the South-East Pacific, the authoress came upon many curious death-customs; Olsen's Secret - A grim story from the American coalfields; Front cover was attached with tape but is now detached. Back cover missing. Contents unmarked and in decent condition. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, tiny signature on half-title, small neat contemporary signature on title; original dark green cloth, bevelled boards, upper board framed in black, gilt back, grey endpapers, uncut, short crease at backstrip else an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy. With the nineteenth-century trade ticket of Whiteley of Westbourne Grove on front paste-down, and publisher's advertisement leaf at end. This book forms the symbolic basis of Terence Rattigan's celebrated play 'The Browning Version' (1948), itself the source of Anthony Asquith's eponymous feature film (1951) starring Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent and Nigel Patrick. At Cannes the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or, winning Best Actor (Redgrave) and Best Screenplay.
98 pages. Features: Canadian Aerospace - A Tightened Belt and a Clear Eye; FB-111 - Second Look at the Third Version; Air War in Vietnam; Thomas Dresser White, 1901-1965; Needed - an annual Presidential Report to Congress on Science and Technology; The Aerospace Education Foundation - Target - Scientific Literacy; Speaking of Space; The Nuclear War of Mao Tse-tung; Vietnam Day in Forth North; Many great ads by the large military contractors; Photo of huge Project HARP 16" gun. Average wear. Date stamp and short openings to front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
82 pages. Features: Surprise Poster #666 - Babby in a Blender; Sixty Seconds; True Facts; Foto Funnies; Cosmo! Live!; The Star Wars Secret Plans; Whatever Gets You Through the Day - The Reality of My Fantasy Life; At the Movies - The Splatter Version; Thirty-three Uses for a Dead Yuppie; Invasion of the Junk Food Killers; Veepshow - the haunting of George Bush; Where Do I Get My Horrible Ideas?; Mother; Tragedyland; and more. Average wear with some creases. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
Illustration of horses pulling British soldiers in boats across the River Scarps. What a Bolshevist 'Peace' Means, by Lovat Fraser. 5 photos of Canadians homeward bound, their duty done. Quaint Quarters of the Fighting Men in France - 4 photos. 2 Photos of Shell-Smother Caught by the Camera. Trifles picked up on the blazed trail of war - 5 photos. Waiting for the opening offensive on the West. The True Story of Henry - by 'Vedette'. Illustration of an early version of the caterpillar tractor at work in Palestine. British mouth organ band in Palestine. Canine helpers in battle. A Serbian Supper-Party - some lively memories from the Lower Danube, by Hamilton Fyfe. Builders of the fleet that flies - 5 photos. Six great photos of Britannia, the Tank that rules the trenches. Photos of concrete vessels - can be built in a third of the time. Australia's Great Achievement - Heroic doings on land and sea, article with 6 photos. The Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, article by John S. Margerison. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
Old and New Testaments bound in one: pp. viii, 3-587; 190 + Engraved frontis and title. Irregular pagination. Text beginning to brown but not brittle. Double column. Early manuscript ownership of Julia A. Lumbard on first fly leaf. Front fly leaves loose. 16mo. 145 mm. Original leather binding. Original leather spine label, lettered in Gothic type. Spine worn with small loss at rear joint. Title continues: 'With The Marginal Readings: Together With A Copious And Original Selection Of References To Parallel And Illustrative Passages. Exhibited In A Manner Hitherto Unattemped'. Hardbound. Good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. This is the English text from Samuel Baxter's eight language Polyglot printed in London in 1822. The little book became an immediate success and later editions are not uncommon, but this first edition is quite SCARCE. Hills 753; D/M 1785. PAIMP 21
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
This publication "aims to print authentic first hand accounts interpretative of the region and its people; to encourage the collection and preservation of the traditional materials of Alberta; and to help foster a literature indigenous to this part of the Canadian West." - from inside front cover. Contents: The Chinook Yark; Sayings heard in Alberta Ukrainian Homes; Klondikers; A Famous Alberta Yarn - told by Oliver Aldridge, son of Mountaineer Bill Aldridge; Potato Bugs; The Edmonton Overland Route to the Yukon; Duhamel (Battle River Crossing); Ghosts - Gus Erickson of the Westlock district had problems with them; Bob Edward's version of how Medicine Hat got its name; Bob Edwards and I; A Bob Edwards Yarn about the "Eye-Opener" race of 1906; Some Northern Trails; A Famous Alberta Yarn about a Russian settler who made his own harnesses from rawhide; A Fast Runner - fanciful tale of a young Englishman and his sheep roundup; Attention Alberta Writers - information about the Alberta Folklore and Local History Project; Interesting details of "The Outlaw", an Alberta newspaper in 1896. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. The first issue of this wonderful publication. Book
Pages 185-220 plus ten pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Presentation of Massey Medal, 1962 - Dr. Diamond Jenness; Captain Cook in Canada; Rudolph Martin Anderson; Inuvik - Canada's new Arctic Town; Old Skills Build a New Bounty - building a new version of the vessel which visited Pitcairn Island in 1789; Otavalo Fair in Peru; One-page two-colour recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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
18 pages. Features: Mailbag; Nitinat Revisited - each year Ed Meade and Jim Railton work the Nitinat River, this year using a Bedford Dormobile, the ingenious Englishman's version of a 40-foot house trailer - with photos, including Mrs. Grace Dean; Nice two-colour one-page ad for scopes by the W.R.Weaver Company; Dress Your Game - article; Ron Baker and his shot plant at Cochrane, Alberta - with photos of Baker and his converted oil rig; One-page Old Vienna beer ad features large photo of successful duck hunter; Clay Chips; Boats; Water Safety; C-I-L shotshells ad; Back cover Pilsener beer ad; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
160 pages. Features: Castro's War on Capitalism in Cuba; Counting Heads - the first U.S. census was no easy job; Juvenile Integrity Starts in the Home; The Korean Myth - Misconceptions Americans have about Korea; 1960 Version of "The Little Red Hen"; Cold War in International Athletics - opposing Communist athletes intent on propaganda; The Tenth Man - baseball's most important player can be the groundskeeper; Facts Russia Does Not Tell; School Teaching Beats Working for a Living; The Truly Satisfying Life; The China Clipper; Who are the Metrocrats?; Listen to This; Honey - Nutritious Nostrum; Who Wants to Abolish the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?; They Tamed the Wild Missouri River; Is There Free Speech?; The greatest Train Robbery; Walter, The Adaptable Weasel; A Kentucky Political Education; Don't Let your Shoulder Freeze; This Is Christianity - Young Korean Joon Gon Kim's Ministry to Communists; You Can Do Something; Those Modern Eskimos; A Return to Common Sense in Education - Pennsylvania teacher shuns methods that produce illiterate blockheads; The Organization Mother; January-June 1960 Index. Back cover Flag Day coverage features lovely photo of youngsters Kay and Tony of the Dario Politella family of Lindenhurst, Long Island. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
90 pages. Features: Christmas Fact and Fantasy; London's Christmas Choirs; Christmas on Duty; Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World; Two Words (short story); The Electric Pen - a hundred years ago a primitive version of the mimeograph provided an unlikely link between Thomas Edison and Lewis Carroll; ; The Tyranny of Things; Seasonal Greetings - tracing the history of Victorian era Christmas Cards - article with lovely colour illustrations; The Model World (fashion model article); Nice colour-photo one-page ad for the Triumph TR7; Camels in America (USA); A True Christmas Story; The Constancy of Coade stone; The Boy Who Stole the Sun (children's story); Toys for Adults; The Carthusian Liqueur; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this charming issue. Book
32 pages. Features: Dr. A.D. Hurt writes about "The True Israel"; Condensed version of speech given by Indiana Senator William E. Jenner regarding censure charges against Senator Joseph McCarthy; Time to Begin Again - Sermon of the Month; Photo of Dr. Harry M. Hoxsey with Mr. and Mrs. Leon Seago of Rockdale Texas and their baby boy , John Wayne Seago, whom Dr. Hoxsey cured of cancer; Joe Parelli's Case; Interview with Dr. C.A. Newcomb; Cedars of Lebanon; Archaeology and the Old Testament - a review of Dr. M.F. Unger's new book; Editorials mention Senator Fulbright, John Paton Davies, George Sylvester Viereck, the American Bible Society and Brotherhood Week; Foreign Missions - the printed page in other tongues; Book Reviews; Sunday School. Interesting ads. Three-inch tape repair to top of photo of Dr. Harry M. Hoxsey on page 9, otherwise unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this fascinating publication. Magazine
8vo., on laid paper, dedication leaf and title mildly creased without significant loss, fore-edges somewhat dusty, wanting front and rear free (blank) endpapers; contemporary full calf, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, boards and backstrip moderately worn and frayed, joints rubbed and split (but binding entirely sound), a good, clean copy in unrestored period binding. The 'New' English psalter, commonly known as 'Brady and Tate', was first published in 1696. It replaced the 'Old Version' by Sternhold and Hopkins, and included a number of new metres (among them 8,8,8 and a few 37 long metre renditions) not found in the Old Version or the Scottish Psalter.Nicolas Brady was Chaplain in Ordinary to the King; Nahum Tate (1652-1715), poet laureate, dramatist and adapter of other's plays (including several popular versions of Shakespeare).A well above average eighteenth century copy in worn but sound contemporary binding.
