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160 pages. Features: Mast Protection; Welcome to Hard Times - a conversation with Dean Stephens; The Elements of Seamanship, Part III; A Classic in Plywood, Part II - Planking up the Bolger rowing dory; Building the House - cabin fever in the boat yard; Knock on Wood - Part III; Zahniser's; Wooden Yachts Earning Their Keep - Chartering as one solution; Keeping Up With LINDO - maintenance on a Baltic trader in the tropics; The International Boatbuilding Training Center - Britain's industry-sponsored school for the trade; Learning to Build in Wood - a survey of American boatbuilding programs. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Single Santa-shaped piece of cardstock measuring approx. 7" x 3.5". Features color Santa illustration on front and enticements to join "Our 1956 Christmas (Savings) Club" on back. Average wear and soiling. A nice memento of this Oakland Bank. Book
184 pages. Recognize rip offs! Thwart thieves! Fight fraud! Stop shrinkage! Protect profits! Uses real-life scenarios to demonstrate the many ways your store can lose money. Includes practical worksheets and exercises. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
311 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. "Explores the engagement of psychologists with myriad deceptive practices in American mass culture, from the circulation of enormously popular optical illusions, to the dangerous allure of the con man, to the pleasurable distractions of the stage magician." - from dust jacket. Light pencil markings throughout, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Book
254 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "This book is about my experiences as a sexually confused teenager who became a disgruntled rock icon. It's a comment on the times, beginning in the summer of love. It drags me kicking and screaming into the 21st century." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
176 pages. Author commits to paper his befuddlement at the last bit of the century. This is his first book. Contains insight into those tiny conundrums, the sum of which make a life: the steadfast and comforting solidity of a Social Insurance Number; the sordid fate of night-school dropouts; the uncomfortable consequences of a boy's prematures exposure to condoms; the role of the sinus in free trade; and more. Also includes a number of author's poems, for which he hopes to be instantly acclaimed Canada's Poet Laureate. Unmarked. Five inch crease to top corner of front cover else very light wear. Book
311 pages. "A book about succeeding because you are Canadian - not in spite of it. About doing all those things we're not supposed to be very good at. Things like outmaneuvering monster corporations; like standing up to the Americans; like putting regional differences aside; like blowing the whistle on polluters; like rising above linguistic differrences. The story of how we succeed in Canada when we have the courage to try it our own way." - from back cover. "This is the encyclopedia of what unions can do to help build a made-in-Canada movement for personal, social and economic independence." - Mel Hurtig. Includes many black and white archival photographs. Prior owner's name upon half-title page, else unmarked. Moderate wear. Glossy laminated covers. Book
402 pages including notes and index. Black and white illustrations. "Uses a colourful palette of biography, social history, and business lore to paint an unforgettable portrait of a tycoon, his family, his company, and the dramatic effects of his product - the motor car - on the landscape and social mores of Canada." - from dust jacket. Very light wear to clean and unmarked book. Attractive dust jacket is price clipped and bears light wear. Excellent copy. Book
280 pages including index. The issues that tourism raises are of critical and vital importance throughout the world: this book provides a much-needed geographical perspective upon them. "As a broad introductory text this book deserves to occupy a place on the bookshelves of tourism students and lecturers and is indispensable for libraries." - In Focus. Contains 30 figures and 60 tables and boxes. Moderate quantity of marginalia and underlining. Moderate wear. Book
207 pages. The dramatic recounting of six decades that have transformed Canada, and a visual celebration of the people who made it happen... the famous and the infamous, the successes and the spectacular failures. Business has never been presented with so much color, imagination and verve. Includes: profiles of major corporations in retailing, real estate, manufacturing, resources and finance; overviews of entire industrial sectors such as transportation, wheat farming, forest products and the 'sin' industries of brewing and distilling; as well as hundreds of images and anecdotes that capture the spirit of Canadian business, decade by decade for the past 60 years. Negligible wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Giftable condition. Excellent copy. Book
336 pages. List of sources. Index. Black and white illustrations. "David Thompson records his exploration of the North West Company to establish good trade routes across the Rocky Mountains." - from back cover. Discard stamp atop half-title page else clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Over 500 pages. Minimal pencil underlining else clean with light wear. A nice copy. Book
96 pages. Glossary. Many dozens of excellent black and white marginal illustrations. "The modern blacksmith must learn to do by himself what the old-time blacksmith and his helper did as a trade. It is that that the author teaches here: how to use the basic techniques and tools available and resort to whatever can be invented, improvised, and constructed to make 'things' out of 'nothing.'" - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
221 pages. Illegitimus non Carborundum (don't let the b******ds wear you down.) - Bill White. Average wear. One inch tear to bottom edge of back cover. Peeled area from front cover where sticker removed. Contents square and unmarked. "White's stories of the 'bad old days' of B.C. Labour will fascinate anyone interested in the largely unwritten history of this country. For those concerned with the current state of human and labour rights in B.C., Bill White's call for a return to the kind of gloves-off fighting that marked his heyday will seem appropriate and useful." - from back cover. Book
81 pages. Nicely illustrated. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
LIBRAIRIE FELIX ALCAN. 1929. In-12 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos fané. Papier jauni. 175 pages.
ISBN : 2880010128. Edita - Vilo. 1976. In-4 Carré. Relié, Jaquette. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 213 pages. Illustré de très nombreux dessins et photos en noir et blanc et en couleur, dans et hors texte. Nombreuses planches dépliables. Grand In-4°. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons et annotations de bibliothèque en pages de garde et de titre. Scotch et traces au dos des plats et en pages de garde. Dessins de Carlo Demand. Les origines, 1736-1820. Sur les lacs suisses. Sur les lacs et les fleuves d'Europe...
ISBN : 2863916203. EDITION N°1. 1994. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 371 pages augmentées de quelques planches couleur.
DUNOD. 1964. In-4 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. convenable. Dos frotté. Intérieur frais. 332 + 60 pages augmentées de nombreuses figures en noir et blanc Bibliothèque de l'Enseignement Technique
FAYARD. 1964. In-8 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Quelques rousseurs. 479 pages COLLECTION LES GRANDES ETUDES HISTORIQUES
Hachette - Filipacchi. 1996. In-8 Carré. Broché, Sous emboîtage. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. Coffret contenant 2 CD-ROM et un livret de 16 pages. '2 CD-ROM pour le prix d'un'. 70 films publicitaires. Plus de 1000 annonces presse et affiches...
Hardback fort volume in-8°, 3337 pages (!) imprimees sur papier Bible, reliure simili havane decor de l'editeur, tete doree. Bel exemplaire [P-59]
in-8°, 429 pages : carte, couverture illustree en coul. ; 24 cm. Bon etat (couverture leg. us.) [DV-18] Précédemment paru sous le titre : "70 années à travers le monde"
pp. xviii, 229. Paste downs and fly leaves foxed. Illustrated. 4to. Original cloth backed paper boards. Original dust jacket, torn with slight loss. First Edition. Includes a useful directory of Clockmakers. PA 51
330p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
