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166 pages. Author's trademark signature upon title page. "Canadians are taxed to the hilt, bored to distraction by the Constitution ad nagged to death over Quebec's possible separation. Yet through it all we have emerged as a most unique country.... Editorial Cartoonist Adrian Raeside takes a sideways look at the good, the bad and the bizarre that make Canada Canada." - from back cover. Lives up to author's high and hilarious standard. Gift greetings upon half-title page. Light to moderate wear. Glossy illustrated covers. Book
64 pages. Features: Collecting Orrefors - the Swedish Orrefors glassworks revolutionized glass production during the 1920s and 1930s; George Barret Junior (1767-1842) - Apostle of Light; Who was Hepplewhite? - Suffolk antique theft may throw light on this mysterious 18th century English furniture figure; Birds in Branches - rare early Chelsea, Derby, Longton Hall and Bow figures and bird models; Cotswolds Creation - a masterpiece of English naive painting forms centrepiece of Cotswolds exhibition; The Spectacular 2,200 piece Swan Service - its partial reappearance makes a fascinating detective story; Worcester Porcelain - market report; many attractive ads; and much more. Lavishly produced upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
192 pages. To some, March 23, 1996 may have been just another Saturday, but for 26 NHL teams this date will be forever remembered as A Day in the Life of the NHL. In addition to dramatic photographs of game action, features candid portraits of some of hockey's current superstars, including Wayne Gretzky, Pavel Bure, Brett Hull, and Mario Lemieux. Also featured are coaches, such as Mike Keenan and Scotty Bowman, former hockey greats, such as Henri Richard and Denis Potvin, as well as a look into the NHL offices as they prepare for... A Day in the Life of the NHL. Gift greetings upon decorated front endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked. Slight lean to spine. Light wear to dust jacket which features a magnificent image of Mario Lemieux in action. Excellent copy. Book
12 unnumbered pages. Four pages of colour illustrations. In Jack Buquet's photos "we see his continuing interest in using the framing function of the camera to transform a three-dimensional assemblage carefully structured in his studio into a two-dimensional image having its own distinct properties and posing its own questions." - page 6. "Those familiar with Tousignant's past will find many objects and images from older works reappearing in these new ones, often altered and given new emphasis, consistent with his intention to accomplish a kind of synopsis of earlier explorations." - page 10. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
68 pages. Features: The big success of Goebel miniatures; Miniaturization - the ultimate cottage industry; The Collector's Table; Keeping up with P. Buckley Moss; Iris Arc Crystal - their light shines bright; What's in a Club - Lladro - collectors of graceful Spanish figurines; Portfolio - Daniel Craig, Garri Katz, Michael Roche. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
256 pages. Index. Bibliography. Profusely illustrated with colour photography. "...Displays the distinctive beauties of ancient and modern lighthouses. Harbour lights, beacons, massive boxes... there's an infinite variety of materials and designs, a striking integration of structure and landscape. Here are the outstanding lighthouses of the Atlantic coast, including the Cape Race lighthouse in Newfoundland, the light af Fother Point, Quebec, the tower at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and the iron structure at Fowey Rocks, Florida.... Informative and enjoyable text compliments the illustrations, outling the history and architectural significance of the lighthouses... Early architectural plans, old photographs, and drawings add to the book's beauty and fascination." - from dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket shows excessive wear but is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Book
64 pages. In small communities throughout the western world, from the 1880s until the development of the hand-held camera in the twentieth century, the town portrait photographer was the chronicler of his time. Duncan Donovan (1857-1933) of Alexandria, Glengarry County, Ontario, was typical. He portrayed the ceremonial events of life from birth to death, and the stages in between. Author has chosen the most appealing of Donovan's photographs from the plates that have survived. Presents life in a small Ontario town and its environs in the early 20th century. Unmarked. Light wear to edges of dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition with light shelf wear/rubbing to bottom cover edges and spine as only blemish, all else Fine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 240 pp. with many color illustrations, many full page. "This book, at once biographical and critical, is based on a detailed study of the work and many conversations iwth Jacklin, and provides the definitive mid-career survey of a distinctive and original figure in British and American Art." -- from the flyleaf. In 1985, Bill Jacklin moved to New York. Since that time, the city has been his primary subject. His work in New York explores many different aspects of the city; his paintings often focus on the city's famous landmarks. However, many of his paintings involve large crowds that are constantly in flux or in smaller, more intimate moments. In 1991, Jacklin was elected a Royal Academician. Two years later, he became the Official Artist-in-Residence for the British Council in Hong Kong. Jacklin?s work can be found in many museums and galleries around the world, including the Arts Council of Britain, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Tate gallery in London, which is home to such works as Northern Light and Catena. Today, Jacklin continues to live and paint in New York.
As-new book with no marking of any kind to text/interior, covers show very light shelf wear only.
pp. xii, 452. Small 8vo. Modern library binding. XLib. Manuscript ownership of (Captain:) H. Evans, Ship Light Brigade, 1871. The Ship Light Brigade was famous for it's sailings to India, Australia, and New Zealand. "In addition to the great beauty of her model and rig, the Light Brigade was interesting from the fact that she brought out a large number of troops during the Maori War. Of 1214 tons burden, she was built in 1855 at Boston, USA by that celebrated builder Donald McKay and when she left the launching ways her name was Ocean Telegraph." Competition Wallah: A hybrid of English and Hindustani, applied in modern Anglo-Indian colloquial to members of the Civil Service who have entered it by the competitive system first introduced in 1856. The phrase was probably the invention of one of the older or Haileybury members of the same service. These latter, whose nominations were due to interest, and who were bound together by the intimacies and esprit de corps of a common college, looked with some disfavor upon the children of Innovation. The name was readily taken up in India, but its familiarity in England is probably due in great part to the "Letters of a Competition-Wallah", written by Sir G.O. Trevelyan. First Edition in book form. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140 RtStk
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps (a number full-page) in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Excellent, detailed and profusely illustrated account from an established team. Appendices include Escape and Evasion; POW; Guns, Ammunition and Training; Glider Lifts; Nominal Roll; H&A. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 16 pages ob coloured plates; pictorial buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
191 pages. Circa 1987. Text in Swedish. Rundviks samhalle ar av relativt ungt datum och fram till 1861, nar Nordmalings Angsags AB bildades och som blev det egentliga fodelsearet, hade det bara funnits en fiskeplats for bonderna i Logdea som agde marken. Platsen kallades da Rundviken samt darefter Rundvik. Satsningen pa ett sagverk i Rundvik motte starkt motstand fran davarande agarna till Olofsfors Bruk, som var radda for kondurrens om skogsravaran och gjorde allt for att stoppa sagverksbygget, dock utan att lyckas. Den angsag som byggdes var en av de forsta i Vasterbotten. Och aren 1928-29 startade en my epok i Rundviks industriella historia; uppforandet av Masonitefabriken som blev den forsta boardfabriken i Europa. Very light wear to clean, umarked and attractive book. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
248 pages. A bedside treasury of delightful and informative reading from the Philippines. Presented exclusively for guests of the Manila Hilton. Divided into the following sections: Portrait of the Filipino; Tales of the Filipinos; The Philippines Scene; Philippine Folklore; A Harvest of Philippine Love Lyrics; Filipinos at Home and Play; Wit or Without. Author is former Commissioner on Literature, National Commission on Culture. Illustrated in black and white. Light to moderate wear. Unmarked. Reading crease to spine. Nice copy in glossy covers. Book
Covers the following modesl: Omni/Charger, Horizon/Turismo, Aries, Reliant, Laser, Daytona, Le Baron, New Yorker, 600, Caravelle, Lancer, Le Baron GTS. Light wear. Over three inches high when stacked on each other. Excellent set. Book
Over one inch thick. Sections include: lubrication and maintenance, suspension, brakes, clutch, cooling system, engine, frame, steering, transaxle, wheels bearings and tires, body, heating and air conditioning. Unmarked. Light wear and soiling. Sound binding. Excellent copy. Book
254 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. 'The London', one of the greatest hospitals of all, was founded in 1740 by six men who met at the Feathers Tavern, Cheapside and put up 100 pounds between them. From then on the story is one of constant dedication. In writing of the hospital he knows best, Dr. Clark-Kennedy speaks for teh whole Voluntary system, providing a fascinating comparison with the modern National Health Service. Light to moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Illustrated glossy covers. Nice copy. Book
148 pages including index. A true story of courage and heartbreak which has many parallels in today's development of the Athabasca tar sands. A tribute to Ells and Ball, the forces behind Abasand, an unsuccessful 1930s attempt to develop the oil riches of northern Alberta. Abundantly illustrated with archival black and white photography. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Sunning and average wear to illustrated dust jacket. Overall a nice copy. Book
385 pages including index. Designed to provide the student with 1. an illustration of what each disease covered actually looks like in the lungs or, more specifically, how each disease anatomically alters the lungs; 2. a straightforward description of the cause, or etiology, of the disease; 3. an overview of the cardiopulmonary clinical manifesations associated with the disease, and the major known patho-physiologic mechanisms that may cause such clinical manifestations; 4. the general management of the disease; 5. a set of self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked in attractive glossy covers. Excellent copy. Book
411 pages including extensive notes, index and black and white photographic plates. Describes the life of a navy, going back to its roots in the nineteenth century and looking ahead to its prospects in the twenty-first. The Royal Canadian Navy is portrayed as a resilient institution, often starved for resources, capable of basic change, and on the brink of important new developments. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Very light wear overall. Dust jacket in clear protective cover. Excellent copy. Book
336 pages including index. "The British Columbia Electric Railway consisted of 111 route miles of streetcar operations in four cities: seven interurban lines totaling 141 route miles; 40 million passengers carried in 1910, and almost 146 million in 1947. For 68 years - 1890 to 1958 - the streetcars and trams dominated and defined urban and interurban transportation in the most populated areas of B.C. Today only traces remain of this fascinating and well-run system that once brought people from all over the world to examine its operation. Includes over 270 fascinating illustrations, plans of rolling stock, tickets, transfers, beautiful route maps, public schedules, employee's timetables, rosters of rolling stock and old Buzzers." - from dust jacket. An amazing, and perhaps unbelievable, reference for residents of the now grid-locked lower mainland. Very heavily worn. Front hinge partially open. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy. Ex-Library
160 pages. The further adventures of our hero in Newfoundland. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight and square. Lovely copy. Book
290 pages including references and index. Leisure experience can be objective and/or subjective, long-lasting or brief, planned or spontaneous, an end in itself or therapeutic/compensatory, sociable or solitary. This work reviews all of these aspects. Minor quantity of markings to text. Ink stamp atop half title page. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
217 pages. Songs include: A New Beginning; Ain't Givin' Up Now; Are You Ready?; Come to Me; Come Unto Me; Come Unto Jesus; Follow Jesus; For Me, For You; Free Again; Get in Touch with the Savior; Give Them All to Jesus; God's Love; God's Mighty Peace; He Gives Me Joy; He Knew Me Then; He Means All to Me; He's Coming Back; Heart O'Mine; Hey, I'm a Believer; I Can't Wait; I Love the Son; I Wish You All Could Know Him; If I Had it to do All Over Again; It is in Loving You; Jesus Got Ahold O' My Life; Jesus (He is the Son of God); Jesus I'm an Open Book; Joy in the Morning; Just Because he Loves You; Just When I Need Him; Would you Tell me His Name Again?; Keep Singing that Love Song; Lady; Land of Oohs and Ahs; Let Him in Today; Life in Jesus; Lift Him Up; Lift Up the Name of Jesus; Little Flowers; Long Ago; Nobody Cares Like Jesus; Our House; Peace, Joy and Love; Praise the Lord; Psalm 9; Resurrection; Rise Again; Shepherd's Song; Someday (It May Be Tomorrow); Song of Love; Sweet Jesus Peace; Sweet Lovin' Grace; The Music's Gotta Stop Someday; The Way, The Truth, The Life; There is a Light; 'Till I Met the Christ; We're not Strangers anymore; Would you Believe in Me?; Your Heart, your Home; You're Gonna Love Your New Life. Heavily worn but still worthy of use. Book
295 pages. "Takes us on an expertly guided tour of "The Antwerp Period", the first of van Dyck's four major creative periods. Convincingly argues that, unlike most artists, van Dyck could scale the heights of his talent very early in his career. Complete with 140 black and white photographs, this exhibition catalogue is a worthy complement to the literature on van Dyck, and a valuable addition to the scholar's bookshelf." - from back cover. Text bilingual English/French. Most of front endpaper has been neatly clipped off. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Attractively colour-illustrated glossy front cover. Nice copy. Book