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Features: I say prisons are a failure, by Hal Hollister; England, Ever England - the English village survives the storms of social revolution; Hot-Tempered Baltimore Oriole - Jim Gentile ; Glamour Treatment for the Mentally Ill - helping women in mental hospital; He's Got Artistic Drive; The Untold Stories of the Civil War - An Infidel's Sword - Johnnie Ring's high sense of duty converted the captain; Adventures of the Mind - The Revolution in Western Thought, by Huston Smith; The Face of America - Nose Job on Lincoln at Mount Rushmore. First page of advertising missing. Pages 65/66 missing. Page 67 loose but present. Above-average wear. Book
Illustration Features: Miss D. Truscott, of St. Veep, Cornwall; The Marvel of Three Years - article by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; King George visits Vimy where Canada won glory; Fragments of fighting from four fronts; One the Marne Battlefield - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Italy sweeps Austria from the Adriatic Sea; Canadians enter Avion through fire and blood; Using bullet-proof shields; Ready for all emergencies afloat; The Long Arm of the Navy - it's wonderful to work in the seven seas (article by Percival Hislam); Miss Matilda of 'The Scrubbs' - article by Harold Ashton; Allied Artillery of Assault - 'Tanks' in action; Greece girds on her sword for war; Keeping Fit in the Navy - the Friendsly boxing bout; The Seaforth Highlanders - article with photo of officers. Above-average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
Features: Problems that must be solved (story); Hun Energy Expressed in High Explosives; Courtesy and Carefulness Diversely Displayed; Camouflage and contrasts from Flanders to Alsace; Democracy Tests Autocracy with Terms of Peace; Captain Sword and Captain Pen at Brest Litovsk; War in the Air from Home to the Holy Land; Some Sidelights on the Temperament of the Slav (story); Service merciful and military 'mid wintry snow; Tracking the Slinking Jackals of the Sea; Some Episodes in the story of the Seaplane Service (story); Monster Machines that Battle in the Blue; Persistent Pursuit of the Turk in Palestine; Men of the East Render Ready help to the west; How France Faced Hun Spies (story); Titanic feat of Italian Seamen at Trieste; R.G.A. Officer Cadets at a Training School; Pierrots and Pantomime Players from France. The Welsh Guards (story). Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Features: The Return of Cleovaro Chavez; Mystery of Standing Rock - buried forever; "I never knew an echols who was worth a damn" - spoken by Mr. Rodeo himself - Ed Echols; The Search for John Waldron; They Hanged Buffalo Joe North; Pirate Treasure on the Osos - looters wait for disabled schooners like coyotes; Cowboy Roy Belyeu Died in the Rain; Was it Ann Young's Yellow Rose? - Jerry Chamberlain; A man with a Sword in his side - Ambrose Bierce; Pike's Statue has been a bust! - statue of Lt. Zebulon Pike unveiled in Colorado Springs; The Great Blizzard of 1889 - it caught the southwest unprepared; Ball One on the Frontier - early baseball in the old west!. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Previous owner's name inside. Wear to cover. Line drawings by Donna Diamond.
Hardcover in-4°, 114 pages entièrement illustrées en couleurs, cartonnage ed. ill. Bon etat. [QU-2] Les armes blanches de l"Atlantique a l"Indus
138 pages. "Documents the astonishing extent to which Mennonites in Canada served the country of their adoption in the military during those trying years." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
322 pages. Undated. Autobiographical account of the author's life as a missionary. Above-average wear and soiling. Some marks to contents. Binding intact. A worthy reading copy. Circa 1990? Book
72 pages. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Wreck of the Valencia; Sandon - The Silver City; Dr. Emily Stowe - Canada's First Female Practitioner; Memories of Erie; Canadian Raiders in the Southwest; Observing the Solar Eclipse - 1860; How to Recover Fine Gold; Collins' Overland Telegraph (Part 3); The Battle of Frenchtown; The Boston Bean Jar; Dog Child and the Samurai Sword; The Coureurs de Bois; Pioneer Relics; Canadian Chronicles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
54 pages. Features: Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa; Falconry to prevent bird strikes; Golden Hawks Air Demonstration Team; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Schools should teach religion as a subject, not a faith; Macmillan's 30 fateful minutes in Moscow; *Fantastic* two-page colour ad for International trucks shows five different models; Gorgeous colour photo ad for the 1959 Buick Le Sabre convertible; How Dangerous is Natural Gas? - some people are concerned; Can the University of Toronto (U of T) survive sheer size? - article with photos; The hectic scramble for the class of 1959 - courted by hundreds of company recruiters; Canada needs a lobby in Washington; The Sleuths who probe our air disasters - with photo of the remains of a DC-4 which crashed in Quebec in 1957, killing 79 people; James Wilson Morrice - the painter we weren't ready for - article with colour illustrations; Nice Canadian Pacific centrefold ad for Canadian Pacific shows a large map of the world and their various transporations services; Nice Black Label beer ad shows massive glass of beer in the wilderness; Two-page black and white photo ad for Toro lawn mowers; Nice colour photo ad for Old Vienna beer inside back cover; Colour ad on back cover for S.O.S. pads and how they can be used to clean white wall tires; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features include: A marriage made in B.C. - salmon-wine fete promotes 'a wild family reunion'; DFO Searches area 12 for sea lice; the travelling fisherman; onboard lasqueti sabre - spot prawn fishing in the Gulf; 2001 Seafood buyers & processors guide; salmon farmers dispute fat content claims; Russia halts Sturgeon Fishing. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
ANGERS, Ed. Ch. Hirvyl / Comité de Propagande Touristique de Sablé-sur-Sarthe - Sans date - In-12 - Broché - Couverture illustrée en couleurs - Ilustrations noir et blanc dans le texte de Ch. Tranchand - Publicités, plan dépliant - 96 pages - Propre Cachet ex-libris Jos Le Doaré
6 numbers, 8vo., with photographs, illustrations and advertisements throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean run. Published by the Reliant Sabre and Scimitar Owners Club. SCARCE.
192 pages. Features: Cover photo from 'Sanctum', a dance choreographed by Alwin Nikolais; Color Jade East ad; Many wonderful color fashion ads; Wittnauer watch ad; Omega Speedmaster watch ad on surface of the moon; Maximilian ad for Russian sable; Beautiful swimwear ad for Rose Marie Reid; Two-page Lan-Chile ad features gorgeous ladies; Steven Roberts returns to Bayonee High School for his tenth reunion with Arlyne Greenhill; Photo-illustrated article with Karl Hess - from Republican to Anarchist; The Testing of Pierre Trudeau - did he overreact to the FLQ crisis?; The Soma-Environmental Revolution, Pornography, Synergistic Consciousness, Sex with Patients - what was discussed at the American Psychological Association's convention; Kris Kristofferson - the new Nashville Sound; Choreography, Music, Costumes, Sets, etc. by Alwin Nikolas; The Burger/Blackmun (Supreme) Court; Nice color Seiko watch ad; Nice Patek Philippe watch ad; Nice color centerfold ad for Gradiaz Annis Cigars; Interesting two-page ad for "The New Miami Beach"; Very nice Elgin watch ad features Babe Ruth image; Fashion photos of ladies' party dresses; Lars-Eric Lindblad adventure travel ad for trips to the Seychelles and Russia in winter; Photo of the Richard and Marianne Koerner family as part of a Save the Children Federation ad; Average wear. Crossword completed in pencil. A sound vintage copy Book
Book shows light shelf wear only to covers. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 300 pages with a few b&w photos, chapters include: Toward the foundtion of the higher schools, Between nation and campus: the making of the higher school gentleman, Seclusion and self-government, The culture of ceremony, Public tyranny, The higher school catharsis, From Meiji to Taisho: broadening perspectives and enduring traditions.
393 pages. Front free endpaper removed. Above-average, but not excessive wear. Prior owner's details atop title page. Binding intact. Bookseller's stamp 2x upon back endpaper and at least twice within book. Not pretty, but a decent working copy. Book
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. It has the gray printed belly band. Completely clean inside and out. Text completely in Japanese. Catalog of exhibitions held at Osaka Rekishi Hakubutsukan, from November 2 to December 8, 2013;, and at Sano Bijutsukan, from January 7-February 11, 2014. Illustrated in color. Hundreds of color illustrations of swords, tsubas, helmets, related paraphernalia. 12" high X 8" wide, 159 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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
82 pages. Features: African Jerusalem; A Minstrel's Life; The Diverse Goals of Re-Enactment Events; The Medieval Sword; Performing Medieval Drama in the 21st Century; The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's London on April 1, 1993. Sale code: "FESTING". The sale consisted of the Sir Francis Festing Collection of Japanese swords and fittings, then in the collection of Lt. Col. H.A. Backhoff. 110 lots in the sale. Almost all illustated, some in color. Price estimates only, no prices realized sheets. 11" high X 8" wide, 60 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
144 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Japanese Sword Guards in the Vancouver Museum; Menuki - the magnificent miniatures of Japan; Zen philosophy in the Japanese tea ceremony; The Mingeikan Museum in Tokyo; "A Taste for the Orient" - Queen Mary II and the porcelain collection at Kengsington Palace; The Divine Couple in Himalayan Art; Sleeping Celadons of Vietnam; Prince and Princess Takamado at the Netsuke Convention in San Francisco; Collector's World; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
90 pages including index and bibliography. "Includes those plants which seem to be most easily available, most easily recognized, and most difficult to confuse with poisonous plants. Selected from as wide a geographic range as possible." - from Introduction. Includes species from beaches, alpine meadows and the northern tundra. Covers: bracken fern, sword fen, ostrich fern, the junipers, lodgepole pine, western yellow pine, june berry , alpine and red bearberry, kinnikinik, orgeon grape, crowberry, salal, labrador tea, bob cranberry, choke cherry, gooseberry and currant, wild rose, blackberries, raspberries, thimbleberry, salmonberry, cloudberry, elderberry, buffalo berry, blueberry, huckleberry, bilberry, whortleberry, cranberry, mountain bilberry, evergreen huckleberry, red huckleberry, mountain cranberry, squashberry, couch-grass, wild onion, milkweed, orach, balsam root, plus over 30 more edible plants from the B.C. landscape. Includes dozens of black and white detailed illustrations. Average wear. Unmarked.. A sound vintage copy of this handy and possibly life-saving reference. Book
This is a fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. No slipcase. Text completely in JAPANESE. This is an extensive survey of antique Japanese swords and tsuba (sword guards). Illustrated profusely in color and black & white. Hundreds of photographs. 12" high X 9" wide, 223 pages. Large heavy book foreign postage will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
84 pages. Features: George A. Magnan, Painter of Arizona; The Realism of Robert Weaver; The Sketchbooks of Robert Conlan; The Sculpture of Donal Hord; Oil Landscape by Sotaro Yasui; Your Sable brushes in oil painting; Alfred Khouri; A New Mural Technique - by Stanley Kaplan; and more. A worthy reference copy. Book
