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8vo., green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. First published ion 1920
8vo., red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
80 pages. Features: Karsh cover photo-portrait of Jean Sibelius; One-page Canadian General Electric radio ad shows the Models C122, C602, C352, C400 and C751; Moffat appliance ad features photo of Ted "Teeder" Kennedy, his wife and dog, plus photos of their kitchen and home; Where the Yanks Rule a Part of Canada - Americans at their Newfoundland base can flout our courts, even seize our citizens - and it's all quite legal; How Karsh Photographed Europe's Great; Ordeal By Snow (fiction); Taming the mighty Ottawa River with the Des Joachims dam project - article with photo; Is There a Killer in the Crowd? - Canada has at least 300 who have not been caught; Fortune in a Million Figures - Rose Starkman came to Canada in 1937 with $20, married Hy Marx, and they now sell $1 Million annually of Rose Marx Braz, the only Canadian brassiere sold in bulk in the U.S.; Stop This Fire Death Sacrifice! - firey death of 139 on pleasure steamer Noronic at Toronto's Pier 9; My Papooses Got Pyjamas - life in a Red Cross outpost at Armstrong, 100 miles north of Fort William; Beauty and the Brakeman (fiction); A Firsthand account on the new Britain under Socialism, by John W. Vandercook; TCA (Trans-Canada-Airlines) one-page ad with piggy bank; How to Retire and Like It; Nice colour Coke ad shows youth lunch scene and ice chest stocked with Coke; Bold one-page colour ad for Champion spark plugs features dog with ear muffs; Plymouth car ad; Westinghouse radio colour ad features the Rideau; Kleenex ad features Little Lulu and Tubby; Half-page Eveready battery ad features policeman Joseph Moreau of St. Lambert, Quebec; Photo of load of diesel from Moose Jaw Refineries crossing into the U.S.; Great back cover colour ad for B.C. Apples; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
xiv, 114 pages. Index. "An attempt to capture something of the evolution of a magisterial system from nought in 1800 to the present time." - from Preface. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear - appears unread. White, gilt-adorned slipcase in similar condition. A lovely copy. Gift quality. Book
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of camouflaged marines crossing rope bridge in South Pacific; Article on freedom of movement for aircraft after the war by Vice-President Wallace; Russia's 'Burma Road' Through Iran - article and six photos; Needed - One American Peace Plan; Moscow Learns to Relax Again - The heart of fighting Russia beats calmly now and nerves are less tense as victory looms ahead; The Pentagon - illustrated article on this maze of corridors, courts, ramps and roads; Runner Gunder Haegg - A Modern Hermes From Sweden; Chicago Isn't So Sure - The city's isolationist spirit has changed since Pearl Harbor; "This is the Army" On the Screen - with six photos; Nice half-page color ad for Marlboro cigarettes - America's Luxury Cigarette (featuring lady in two-piece swimsuit as the Marlboro Man had not yet been concocted); What Kind of School? - a progressive educator says the time has come to harmonize our conflicts and work for the best possible in American education; Nice one-page color ad for Mazola Salad Oil; How to Salt Away Food; Nice half-page color ad for Ten-B-Low condensed milk; The Home in Wartime; That New Black Magic - Lovely two-pages of fashion photos of elegant black dresses; Great vintage Aircraft Spotter's Handbook ad on back cover helps readers determine if an aircraft is friend or foe. Unmarked with moderate wear and external soiling. A quality vintage wartime issue. Book
4 leaves, folio, with fine woodcut arms of Victoria on first leaf; disbound, a remarkably crisp, clean copy. 26 Victoriae, Cap. 24, receiving royal assent on 8 June 1863.
Photos and illustrations include: Sketches at the closing of the Fisheries Exhibition, The Luther Celebration in Germany, Sketches in Yellowstone Park, Sketches at Drury Lane and the Adelphi, The Proposed Courts of Justice Central Hotel, Strand, The earthquake in Asia Minor, Prince Albert Victor at Cambridge University, and more. Two supplements loose but present. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
pp. xxxii, 366, (2) [Publisher's catalogue] + Portrait Frontis, facsimiles and plates. Mildly XLib. Large 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding. Hardbound. AMERICANA BOX 2
pp. xvii, 668. Numerous text illustrations. Uncut. Tall 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding. Gilt stamped spine. Nice copy. Vol. II Coldwar/Economics 11
pp. xi, 72. Illustrated with photographs. XLib. Tall 8vo. Original blue printed wraps. PA PAMPH 20_6 BX7 x 2c.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and numerous full-page illustrations in the text;, some light offsetting to free endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, uncut, small mark on backstrip else a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
56 pages. Features: Cover illustration of McGill tennis courts (before they were converted to a parking lot) by John Little; Great colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover features red dump truck; Interesting one-page Parke-Davis ad features Robert Thom painting 'Susruta' of a surgeon of old India at work; Nice One-page photo ad for Matinee cigarettes features couple in floral scene; Why Not a Written Marriage Contract?; Why Herbert Morrison won't take his just reward; One-page colour-illustrated ad for Canada Steamship Lines; Death is Not Inevitable - says Dr. Hans Selye; Will Our National Emblem Vanish? - A Mystery Affliction is Killing Our Maple Trees; Our Magistrates and Judges struggle with one of the most exacting and thankless jobs in public life - article with photos of Ontario Supreme Court Justice D.C. Wells and Ontario Court of Appeals Justices Morden, McGillivray and Roach; Holiday Weekend in Calgary - Bill and Merna Mitchell and kids invade Alberta's oil and cattle capital to pack a surprising amount of cultural pleasure into one weekend; How to Curb Your Tensions; Jack Wells - Winnipeg's maverick of the sports mike - article with photos; Nice 2/3-page colour-photo ad for Puss'n Boots cat food features three ginger cats; Champion Spark Plugs ad features photo of Jim Rathmann in Italy after he won the world's fastest 500 mile race at Monza; Nice colour-photo ad for Labatt's India Pale Ale features topless man with towel over shoulders; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features photos of a tyrolean traverse being performed in Alberta, courtesy of Guide John Dodds; Interesting CNR passenger train ad with photo insert of napping passenger over traffic jam scene; Great colour GWG clothing ad inside back cover features back-to-school fashions; back cover colour-photo ad sponsored by Fleischmann's Yeast features many ways to serve bread; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
97-192, 126 [ads] pages. Profusely illustrated with detailed drawings and black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Includes dozens of magnificently illustrated ads. Features: The Residence of Charles D. Blaney, Esq., Saratoga, California - Willis Polk & Co, Architects; The Art of the Middle Ages - Part I; The Destruction of Historic Buildings as Revealed by the Official French War Photographs - Part III - Parish Churches; The Memorial Quadrangle of Yale College - James Gamble Rogers, Architect; English Architectural Decoration - Part IV - text and measured drawings; The Small Country School House; Community Courts for Factory Workers; The Architect's Library - War Books of the Cathedrals - Part II - Verdun; Notes and Comments. Above-average wear. Lacking covers. Two small binding holes near spine. Last page of advertising loose but present. Not pretty but a worthy vintage copy. Book
82 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo Pepsi ad inside front cover; 1962 Zenith TV ad; Political slush funds corrupt all parties; The Year the Government Sold the St. Lawrence River (power rights) to the Beauharnois power company; Last chance to save the world's rarest birds; 1961 - Summer of the Angry Forest Fires in the northern bush - article with colour photos; Brock Chisholm - Incredible Canadian; Disturbing report from inside the juvenile courts; A Weekend with the 'Wild Ones' at Wasaga Beach - short article with photos; UNESCO - the hope of the world - on paper; Cherchez La Femme de Montreal - photo feature; Julie de St. Laurent - portrait of a royal mistress; What it's like to lose the Irish Sweepstakes - Tom and Elsie Marsh of Squamish B.C.; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Paris Au Palais chez Théodore Le Gras 1768, In-4 plein veau de l'époque, dos à cinq nerfs trés orné, piéce de titre. XVI + 382 + 258 pages. Bon exemplaire.
307 pages. A compact collection of readongs on the topics of policing, the courts, corrections, youth justice, and special topics in criminal justice. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
8vo., Second Impression, with photographs and illustrations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same as the first edition.
Contains public acts relating to: Interpretation of Acts, Chinese Regulation (Immigration), Coroners, Constitution, Courts (Appellate Jurisdiction), Courts of Assize and Nisi Prius, County Courts, Debt, Sumas Dyking, Fences and Water Courses, Ferries, Game, Chinese Immigration (to prevent), Innkeepers, Jurors, Crown Lands, Land Registry, Licences, Liens, Married Women's Property, Municipalities, Penalties, Revenue, Supply, Public Schools, Spinks, J.M.M. (to authorize Commission of Enquiry respecting an alleged transfer of land from certain Indians), Stipendiary Magistrates, Cariboo Road Tolls. Private Acts relating to: Reserves, Esquimalt Water-Works, Nanaimo Water-Works. Heavy external wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Book
Paris chez Garnery 1819, 2 volumes In-4 plein veau de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de filets, fleurons et entrelacs dorés, piéces de titre et de tomaison, gardes de papier marbré, tranches marbrées. 716 + 861 pages. Infimes défauts à la reliure. Bel exemplaire, bien relié.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full purple cloth boards. Light wear and fading to price-clipped dust jacket. 310 pages.
Feature articles include: The Pressures Against Air Safety; My Other Books, by James Michener; The Baffled Young Men of Japan, by Peter Drucker; Senator Dodd vs. Kenneth Tynan; New Start in Foreign Policy; The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King - James Baldwin; Can de Gaulle Avoid Civil War?; Hoodlum Priest and Respectable Convicts; Mr. Justice Black, the Supreme Court, and the Bill of Rights; Surgery for Strokes; The Tyranny of Multiple-Choice Tests; Writing the "Inside" Books; How to Talk to People, If Any, on Other Planets; California's $2 Billion Thirst; "Anti-Americanism" in Canada; Trial by Combat in American Courts; Adenaurer and McCloy; The Good Slum Schools; The Happiest Creatures on Earth?; John Gunther; Adam Yarmolinsky; Special Supplement - the mood of the Russian People; Secret Angola; Portrait of Bevin; Up-to-date Texas; Nobel Prizes; Apocalypse; A cure for bewitchment; The Pitchman; America's Wandering Scholars; The Coming Bust in the Real Estate Boom; The American Negro's New Comedy Act; William Carlos Williams; A Small Atomic Accident; Riesman and his Readers; and more. Light wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
80 pages. Cover: Robert Young / Marcus Welby, M.D. Special Features: Jam-Up: Crisis in Our Criminal Courts "Justice is neither swift or sure in an overloaded judicial system." and Communal Life in America "Maybe It'll be Different Here". Other features include: 14 Ways You Can Legally Cut Your Taxes; Mimi; Movie Reviews: "The Statue" and "The Music Lovers"; Ireland of the Spirits (8 page photographic article); TV's Dr. Marcus Welby and The Big Hassle: Your Car vs. Clean Air. Average wear. Small mailing label front cover bottom left. Binding sound. Magazine
Features: Two views of the Bomarc Issue; Jehovah's Witnesses - the new look of a turbulent sect; Nice colour photo Pepsi ad; Teresa Stratas - an opera starlet on the midway; The Gains and Losses of a Midway Agent at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE); Tiger Dunlop Esq. - King of Canada's wild frontier; A boy in a leg brace goes to camp - Ricky Logan; City Man's Diary on an Eskimo Seal Hunt, by Ralph Hedlin - with photos; The Pleasures and Feuds of the New Jews, by Mordecai Richler; Nice full-page colour ad for Quality Courts Motels. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Nice colour ad for the Parker 61 Capillary Pen inside front cover; Editorial - Let Courts, Not Customs Men, Decree Which Books to Ban; Nice Matinee cigarette colour photo ad; Colour ad for EMBA brands of mutation mink; Jockey Johnny Longden tells his own story - many great photos; Why the World Wants More of the Theatre du Nouveau Monde; Trade Secrets of the Combines Detectives - they seek out 'price-fixers'; How the Dutch sold Canada on Tulips, by Alan Phillips; Should you send your child to camp?; Pearl McLeod's old-fashioned kitchen in Penobsquis, New Brunswick; How to Plan for your Retirement; Dictaphone Time-Master colour centerfold ad loose but present. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Magazine
72 pages. Cover: Tom Clark Contents: (Robert A.) Taft's Triumph; Fiscal: Who'll Dam the Red Ink?; Courts: Du Pont on the Carpet; Crime: Kluxers on the Prowl - Ku Klux Klan; Why We Need the B-36; Trials: Jug for Judy (Coplon); (Alger) Hiss and Mrs. (Priscilla) Hiss; Which Way Will (Harry S.) Truman Turn?; Mao (Tse-tung) Thumbs His Nose at the West; Red China: The U.S. Is in a Hole, and (Dean G.) Acheson is Worried; Germany: (John J.) McCloy's Three Hats; Britain: Saving the Pound - Sir Stafford Cripps; Canadian Affairs: Peace in Asbestos (Quebec); Medicine: TB (Tuberculosis) Personality; A Spot of Trouble - Columbia Broadcasting System; Tunnels From Germany - Supersonic Wind Tunnels from Peenemunde, Germany; Economy: Past Depressions, Present Dilemmas; Agriculture: Drought Here, Rain There; Oil: Why the Gas Hike?; Religion: 'The Greatest Christian' - Dr. Albert Schweitzer; The Man Who Was Next - Archbishop Joseph Beran; Joe (DiMaggio) Comes Home; (Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe in Colorado; and Perspective: The Coming Battle of Ohio. Monsanto ad on back cover features some of their products. Small mailing label bottom right front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book