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Cheminements éditions 1994, In-8 broché. 176 pages + photos. Très bon état.
pp. xxxvii, 353. Full page drawings by Arthur Meredith, Jr. Large 4to. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Original dust jacket, price clipped. Hardbound. A greatly revised edition of John McElroy's narrative of Andersonville military prison first published in 1879. SHELF W26
Rapport sur l'exercice 1989, en 5 parties: application des décisions judiciaires; réinsertion et participation communautaire; ressources humaines; moyens; études, contrôles et évaluations. Français
218 pages including index, bibliography, notes and black and white photographic plates. A penetrating look at the hidden history of Canadian prisoners during the First World War. Probes their fate and their pain, and follows their own private physical and psychological battles against hopelessness and desperation. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket price-clipped with light wear. Very nice copy. Book
70 pages. Special Features: Peace of Mind: 16 Prominant Americans give personal keys to finding peace. Other features include: A Cop Named Joe - Joseph Michael Monteparo; Why Don't We Tear Down Our Prisons?; Twinkle, Twinkle, Superstar, Do We Know Who You Are? - Elton John; Becoming Susan Dey and What Makes Ryun Run Again? - Jim Ryun. Average wear. Binding sound. Magazine
Features: Admiral Landymore mistimed his attack; Charlais - a vintage kine for our tables; The Great Beer Scare - the inside story which caused Dow to tump $600,000 of beer after 50 people were suddenly stricken with a strange illness - article with photos; Suddenly Canadian kids turn to "The Look" in their desire to appear foppish - article with great colour photos plus a black and white photo of the highest-paid model in the world, Jean Shrimpton, as seen by photographer David Bailey; Are they going to throw this town away? - Happy Valley in Labrador may be lost if the local U.S. Air Force Base leaves; A nondescript little man named Richard J. Needham is the expert nonpareil; Pope John XXIII started the thaw - and the Roman Catholic Church hasn't been the same since, by June Callwood; Is John McMaster the happiest man in the world? - he's a "clear", one of the saints of a new cult called Scientology; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; The Polish Don Quixote who came charging into Canada - Nils Szoltevcky von Schoultz; Barbara Amiel argues for the return of Debtor' Prisons; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Vietnam - the American Agony; One Woman's War - Beryl Fox of CBC-TV directs filming in Vietnam of a widely acclaimed documentary on jungle fighting; Herbert Irvine - Benevolent despot of decor - with many colour photos; Warrendale Treatment Centre near Toronto treats children from troubled prisons of fear and loneliness; Journey to the last frontier, by Stephen Jones Gamester; Ken Johnstone describes how he transformed a little orchard into a booming pocket of poverty; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Pittston battles for New Brunswick refinery in Eastport; Explosive student woes in France; Can we trust our spies?, by Barbara Amiel; Joe Clark searching for second ballot support; Robert Kaplan under attack for his new CSIS; Dave Barrett bows out leaving no heir; Militant Nova Scotia lobster fishermen; The trial of Gilles Gregoire; Inside Canada's Prisons - cover story with photos; Texas Instruments PC ad; British national election campaign; Scandal in Somalia; Congress approves the MX missile; Deadly new phase of warfare in South Africa; Canadian shipyards fighting to survive on government contracts; On the Nissan Assembly Line in Japan, by Peter C. Newman; NHL faces anti-trust challenge after refusing to allow the sale of the St. Louis Blues to a Saskatoon group - Bill Hunter; Commodore 64 computer ad; Into the tomb of HMS Breadalbane - interesting underwater photos; Bruce Allen - the most successful manager in the history of Canadian rock; Fotheringham on the Hitler diaries hoax. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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
Features: Waste in the world of diplomacy - Ellis O. Briggs says the game of musical chairs impairs our ambassadors' effectiveness; Cuban Prisoner Exchange - James Donovan explains the inside story of how freedom was won for the Bay of Pigs captives; Americans - at least 21 languish in Castro prisons - 2 photos of JFK addressing the Cuban issue; Hawaii - where progress is the big problem; The Beverly Hillbillies TV Show - proving that corn is evergreen; It Hurts to Run - Runner Jim Beatty - his greatest foes are fear, fatigue, agony; "Ask Americans to Pray for Us" - Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski tells of his newest conflicts with Poland's Communist rulers, his efforts to avert bloodshed, his struggle to uphold religious freedom; Innocent's Grim Ordeal - Airman Gerald Martin Anderson is accused of murder in Mountain Home, Idaho - a year later, it became obvious that Air Force investigators simply picked a victim. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The "Hold-Up" at Fenelon; Avalances; A Tramp in Spain - VI; Hunting the Giant Tortoise; A Desert Tragedy; The Land of the Shrimp-God; How "Buffalo Bill" Won his Name; The Looting of the "Bang Yee"; On the March in the Bahr-El-Ghazal - III; Francisca Machalek, the female burglar; The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud; "Monkey"; The Happenings of a Night; A West African Mutiny; Paris to New York Overland - IV; A Chapter of Mishaps; My Experiences at Kano - I; Besieged in a Tree; The Man-Stealers; In the Grip of the Quagmire; The Monks' Republic; The Strange Case of the "Ferret"; The Calculut Affair; Some Japanese Signboards; A Tramp in Spain - VII; Hoist By His Own Petard; The Island of Captive Kings; The March of "Coxey's Army"; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - I; In the Land of the "Never-Never"; The Range War; A Thousand Miles in a Refrigerator; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - II; How the Treasure was Saved; A Tardy Vindication; Rambles in Macedonia; Attacked by Wolves in the Desert; A Tramp in Spain - VIII; My Experiences at Kano - II; Defective in the Barrel; The Last of the Bushrangers; Prisons of Many Lands; The Solving of a Mystery; "Meistertrunk" at Rothenburg; The Shrine by the Nujha Bridge; Among the Buriats; Adrift on a Raft; A Night of Horrors; The Narcissus Festival at Montreux; A Mountain of Salt; After the "Mad Mullah"; A Unique Summer Residence; The Wandering Jew; With the British to Sokoto; John Glover of Texas; A Baby Parade; How the Gipsy Queen found her lover; A Cargo of Cats; A Tramp in Spain; When the Water Came Down; A Mystery of the Bush; The Story of My Chinese God; A Battle with a Rhino; After the "Mad Mullah" - II; The Pursuit of Captain Victor - II; The Cave-Dwellers of Mexoco; Calamity Jane; With the British to Sokoto - II; Arrested as Spies; When Niagara Ran Dry; The Flying Dutchman; Among the South Sea Cannibals - I; Across Sumatra in a Motor-Car; A Tramp in Spain - X; Our Attempt to Reach Mecca; A Puma Hunt in Surrey; Entombed in a Capsized Ship; With the British to Sokoto - II; The Apotheosis of Simpson; Our Quiet Little Shooting Trip; My Adventure with a Lunatic; A Tramp in Spain - XI; Sacred Town of Mandhata; Mystery of Silver Bow Valley; Among the South Sea Cannibals - II; A Night in a God-House; The Tragedy of the "Maria" and My Part in it; The Red Pig of Poora; Two-Thousand Miles in a Trawler; The Most Inaccessible Place in China; What Happened at Morelia; The Blumencorso at Hamburg. Heavily worn. Backstrip almost detached. Binding open after second blank leaf. A worthy reading copy. Book
124 pages. Features: Saab 99 ad; Former Miss America Lynda Mead Shea - Where is She Now?; BF Goodrich ad features photo of three highway patrol officers wearing masks; Playing with Dynamite - the U.S. is in the grip of the most serious spasm of revolutionary violence since the anarchists were suppressed 50 years ago; Policement shot in Philadelphia; 1970 Census; Lonnie McLucas verdict in New Haven; Ruben Salazar killed in Los Angeles; Prisons in Turmoil - does caging really correct?; Day in the life of a prisoner - journalist Nicholas Horrock describes his few days in a typical state prison; Mideast conflict update; Salvador Allende win Chile election; Tunku Abdul Rahman steps down; Suharto visits Queen Juliana; Great color centerfold ad for Chevrolet's ill-fated Vega; San Jose, CA - Boomtown (article with before and after aerial photos); Big trouble at Look magazine; Martin Weston and his life on the auto assembly line; Sales of motorcyles spike - Robert Siepermann of Westchester County, NY; Triumph Spitfire Mk III ad; ABM vs. ICBM, Round 1; NBC Radio Network ad features photo of David Brinkley; Vince Lombardi - A Special Madness; Return to the Ring for Muhammad Ali; Jockey John Simpson; Canadian Club color-photo ad shows Tony and Thelma Parkinson darting elephant in Africa; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Signed and inscribed by author to a friend atop front free endpaper. 264 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Spike Nasmyth tells the harrowing tale of his six and a half years as a POW in Hanoi in this true, honest, raunchy, defiant, sometimes funny, but always deeply moving story of lost youth and survival in the face of uncertainty, cruelty, and deprivation. His world came crashing down when a North Vietnamese missile shot his Phantom out of the sky over Hanoi, beginning a long ordeal of brutal imprisonment at the hands of his Communist captors." - dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this incredibly inspirational tale of survival. Book
6p. (1)[List of Columbia War Papers]. 12mo. Original full printed wraps. Small loss of rear wrap. Nice copy. Scarce. WWI 12
Chez l'auteur. 1982. In-4 Carré. En feuillets. Bon état. Livré sans Couverture. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. Env. 15 pages dactylographiées et agrafées. Annotations sur la dernière page. Maison d'Arrêt de Gradignan, 1 fév. 1982. A l'attention de M. le Garde des Sceaux, Min. de la Justice, Paris.
ISBN : 2707107735. François Maspero. 1975. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 102 pages. Une prison où les policiers sont à la fois juges et gardiens...
Third edition, half-title, 59pp., disbound. Not listed on Copac.
pp. 45, 33, 68, 115 + Illustrations. Original blue wraps. The genealogies of the Weiser family are especially useful. Limited edition. PGSBX2
Book's covers show light shelf wear only. Large format , 352 pages with architectural drawings, elevations, photos, floorplans throughout. Heavily illustrated. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Chapters include the architectural investigation of Theatres, Libraries, Museums, Hospitals, Prisons, Hotels, Exchanges and banks, Warhouses adn office buildings, Railway stations, Market halls, exhibition buildings, Shops stores and department stores, Factories et al.
Perrin 1962, In-8 cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée. 280 pages. Bon état.
Perrin 1962, In-8 cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée. 280 pages. Déchirure à l'arrière de la jaquette sans manque, sinon Bon état.
