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338 pages. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the University of British Columbia March 5-6, 1983. "We have created a technology that acts at speeds beyond our biological ability to cope. Yet the programs upon which the computer will act are themselves products of human thought which cannot possibly anticipate every situation and every event. By their very nature, therefore, they are highly fallible. We must face up to this fact. Nuclear arms are literally out of human control." - from foreward by David Suzuki. Moderate wear. Letter 'F' atop half-title page else contents clean and unmarked. Solid copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Great colour-photo ad for the 1962 Dodge Valiant (red) inside front cover; International Harvester mining equipment ad features photos at the McDame Mountain asbestos mine in the Cassiar range, near the B.C.-Yukon border; Colour 1962 Chrysler ad; Work Addiction - the habit that rules men who rule the rat race; The Undeserving Poor - a group portrait of the small and anonymous minority of Canada's poor who eat up the lion's share of welfare money; Why I Stole the Luxury Liner "Santa Maria"; A New Look at the Great Lakes - article with colour photos; A Fall of Birds (fiction); The Rise of the Tree-Savers - heavy duty equipment is used to transplant mature trees in Ontario which would otherwise be destroyed by development; The Nightmare Life of a Hemophiliac; My Secret Rendezvous with a Red Attache - Toronto student Harry Malcolmson and his meeting with Serguei Divilkovsky; The West Indians - Our Loneliest Immigrants - permanent strangers in a white land; The Fifth Comeback of Jacques Normand, Quebec's First Funnyman; Canadian Club colour photo ad features surfing photos of Mark Lyons; Log of Seagoing Scientists aboard the "Porte Dauphine"; The Prime Minister's New Vision - a national power grid; Operation Fleshcreeper - Red answer to NATO arms; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad features young square dancers. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Fascinating and informative early N.W.M.P. history supported with many excellent black and white photos of rifles, handguns, ammo, and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
viii, 212 pages. Index. Footnotes. Generously illustrated with informative black and white reproductions of photos. "Provides a standard reference to the serious researcher and collector and gives to everyone an interesting insight into many aspects of what has made the Force what it is today. Most of the illustrations are being published for the first time." - Foreword. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Includes replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A high-quality copy of this unsurpassed reference. Book
122 p. Illustrated. 12mo. Original full yellow cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Nice copy. Hardbound. Very good. GENEALOGY 2
8vo., First Edition, with plates; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The story of the rise to fame of Pires, his family and the hugely popular and successful Butcher's Arms at Priors Hardwick in Warwickshire
80 pages. Features: Jessie Arms Botke - a painting career that has revolved around peacocks; Fashion illustration as fine art; Lillian Langseth-Christensen; Mabel Dwight - master of the Comedie Humaine; The Hurst Page - an interview with Bill Chessman; The Weathervane - by way of retrospect; The Drawings of Isabel Bishop; The Taubes Page - study of nature; Flora Smith; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
782p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
8 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos of rifles and ammo with supporting text. Fascinating history of the conversion from muzzle-loaders to breech loaders. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with many hundreds of photographs throughout; navy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, ivory endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with cover scars across backstrip. SCARCE.
Book shows light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 400 pages. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Contents include: A theoretical arms race, Cooperation and exploitation, Meaning of strategy, Games with collusion, Coalitions, Strategic conflict, Critiques of game theory, Ways of persuasion, etc.
36 pages. Features: Interview with Ervine Metzl; More About Perspective; John Taylor Arms - how he makes an etching (part 3 of 3); Review of Art Directors Exhibition; Randolph W. Johnston Demonstrates the "Lost Wax" process of bronze casting; The Old Master Clinic; Typography as a Career (part 1 of 3); Pencil Drawing by Theodore Kautzky; Tempera - chemistry and physics of tempera emulsions (part 2 of 5); and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Minor browning to pages. Front inner hinge slightly cracked/ Now protected in plastic. Bottom of spine is edgeworn. Wear to extremities. Top of spine has 1cm cut on other side. ; Provides in one volume a comprehensive study of Roman armour. ; 200 pages
54 pages. Articles: What Hitler Told (Otto Strasser) About Peace; Up North - There's Mystery! - Intriguing photo-illustrated article of a mystery village on Canada's arctic front where men labour to produce power to produce warplanes; William S. Knudsen - Master Mechanic of Democracy's Defense - U.S. Arms production and the man behind it; I Start All Over Again - Alice Foote MacDougall opens a restaurant in Grand Central Station; How Clark Gable Created a New Hedy Lamarr; Baseball's Topsy Grows Up - Softball has risen from zero to 20,000,000 players; Arctic Eagle - Squadron Leader C.M.G. Farrell of the R.C.A.F. Serials: The Unobstructed Universe - life beyond the grave, part II; Footloose! - part 4; In Action with the R.A.F. - Conclusion; Short Stories: I'll Never Leave You; The Bell That Sang for Love; Rich Man. Ads: Nice photo ad inside front cover features large photo of Windsor's Norton Palmer Hotel, with inset photo of its CEO Preston D. Norton; Nice three-color, two-page ad for Chevrolet;; Frigidaire fridges; Eveready batteries; Brain Flakes; Canadian Pacific's Banff. Fantastic back cover photo ad for War Savings Certificates features dozens of kilted troops on the march. Cover photo of boy pulling girl's ponytail in classroom. Average wear. Crossword lcompleted in light pencil. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
56 pages. Features: Woodchester Villa, Bracebridge; Doctored Sevres (by Henry Sandon); Cook Books From a Past Era; Collecting Antique Clocks; The Felony Fleet - Prisoners were transported on "Ocean Hells" to serve out their sentences in the colonies; Chatham Arms and Armour Show & Sale; Journey's End celebrates 20 years in Mirvish Village, Toronto; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
54 pages. Features: The French Army at Savannah; The German Armed Forces; The Andean Liberation Army; The 1st Virginia Cavlary; Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan; The Work of Bernard Boissard; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
217 pages including bibliography. "...arms readers with an edge and a sense of humour. It is an essential tool for first time job hunters." - Jonathan Torrens, CBC's Jonovision. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
In-4°; pp. (8), 148, 27, (1), 24, (2), 130, (6), (20), 58, (2 colophon e grande marca tipografica). Ai frontespizi legno tipografico; capilettera figurati incisi su legno. Le Lettere di Bessarione scritte a principi d’Italia intorno al collegarsi et imprender guerra contro al Turco, volgarizzate dal signor Pigafetta, hanno un proprio frontespizio, Firenze, Giunti, 1594. Prima edizione delle due opere insieme e edizione originale delle Orazioni. Legatura coeva in piena pergamena. Contiene: L’orazione a Sisto V sulla guerra contro i turchi, una alla nobiltà napoletana per spronarla ad ingaggiare la guerra contro i turchi in Ungheria, Filippiche al re cattolico Filippo di Spagna, Orazioni a Clemente VIII tra cui la cosiddetta Clementina terza, l’Orazione in morte di Francesco de Medici, Il Rota ovvero delle imprese (dialogo tra il vescovo di Otenza Nino de Nini, Bernardino Rota, Alfonso Cambi e Bartolomeo Maranta). Alcuni quaderni leggermente bruniti, alle ultime carte ingialliture a macchie.
8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 161.
In -4°, pp. (8), 220; con 17 tavv. di cui quattro ripiegate e una doppia, tagli dorati. L’impaginazione delle tavole è apparentemente disordinata, ma corrisponde a quella riscontrata in altre copie: libro completo e in ottime condizioni. Legatura alle armi del vescovo John Ernest Emmanuel von Harrach. Binding with arms of Harrach Bishop.
468pp.avec illustrations (des armoiries) dans le texte, tirage limité à 1000 exemplaires (en français) numérotés: ceci est le no.287/1000, 30cm., reliure toile d'éditeur, sous étui d'éditeur, très bon état, on y joint un article de Lieve Viaene-Awouters: "Fusions de communes et armoiries communales" (15pp., 1977, extrait du Bulletin trimestriel du crédit communal de Belgique), B83586
48 pages. Songs include: Alone; An Evening Prayer; At the End of the Road; Be Still My Soul; Be Thou Near; Blessed Redeemer; Christ Waits; Does Jesus Care; God Understands; How you Forgotten God?; He Died for Me; His Dearest Name; His Love is all my Plea; I Never Walk Alone; I'd Rather be a Christian; In the Garden with Jesus; Ivory Palaces; Jesus, Blessed Jesus; Jesus Whispers Peace; Little is Much, When God is in it; My Heavenly Home; No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus; O Soul Without a Saviour; O What a Day When I See Him; O, What a Wonderful Saviour; Overflowing; Peace to Those Who Believe; Put Thine Arms around me; Sing me a song of Sharon's Rose; So May You; Some Golden Daybreak; Somebody Cares; Somebody Else Needs Him, Too; Speak, My Lord; Surrender; That Wonderful Name; The Glory of His Presence; The Man of Galilee; The Slighted Stranger; The Stranger by the Sea; Then Jesus Came; Today; What Think Ye of Christ?; When God is Near; When I Kneel Down to Pray; Wonderful; You Must Open the Door. Somewhat above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text, inscription on front free endpaper; pale blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
238 pages. Index. "Relive these lost but not-so-distant days with stories and never-before-published photos of the sailors and their ships, the dory fisherman, and the raging sea that are as lively and invigorating as salt spray." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Front hinge open. A worthy reference copy of this wonderfully illustrated reference. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards. Previous owner's name inside. Worn price-clipped dust jacket with small tears. 9 3/4"w x 10 3/4"h. 238 pages. Many b&w photos.