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Approximately 200 pages. Text in English. Contains 140 sumptuous colour photos with descriptive text. Rust-coloured cloth front board adorned with colour illustration and brilliant gilt lettering. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Apparently this was a presentation copy as a small business card-sized tag laid in reads "Le Premier Ministre du Quebec." Very nice copy of this beautiful work. Book
VLB éditeur, 1988, 106 pp., broché, couverture un peu défraîchie.
grand in-8°, 98 pages, broche, couverture illustree.- 9782891330985 Tres bel exemplaire agremente d'un poeme MANUSCRIT de l'auteur. [HI-10]
304 pages. Index. Colour and black and white photographic plates. Maps. Foldouts. Chapters include: Limestones; Sandstones; Granites and Gneisses; The So-Called Black Granites and Related Rocks; Marbles; Serpenties and Serpentine Marbles; Slates; Glacial Drift; Rarer Decorative Materials; plus appendices. Average wear and soiling externally. Binding intact. Tears to top of spine. Solid copy of this authoritative reference. Book
ANGELO PONTECORBOLI EDITORE 1991 263 PP. FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: TRACCE DI POLVERE IN QUARTA DI COPERTINA, LIEVI SEGNI DEL TEMPO, VOLUME INTONSO, MAI SFOGLIATO
412 pages. Undated reprint, circa 1971. 8.25" x 6.5". "A valuable sourcebook of basic information on the design and workmanship of French Canadian furniture from the seventeenth to the first half of the nineteenth century. Armoires, buffets, chairs, commodes, beds and other common items are described and illustrated in detail, and the scope of the book extends to spinning-wheels, chandeliers, mantelpieces, stoves, fabrics, doors, locks and latches. Included also are suggestions for restoring the original colour to traditional furniture, and for identifying genuine French Canadian period pieces. There are approximately 600 black-and-white photographs." - dust jacket. Includes: List of Master-Woodworkers, Woodworkers and Carvers. List of English and Scottish Woodworkers and Cabinet-Makers. List of Master-Locksmiths and Locksmiths. List of Collectors. Bibliography. Abbreviations List. Lexicon of French-Canadian Terms. Glossary. Index. Minor lean to spine. Unmarked with moderate wear to dark green publisher's cloth. Binding intact. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this valuable reference. Whiteman, Stewart & Funnell 1643. Book
2 vols.: ensemble xi + 607pp.avec ills., 24cm., "Mémoire de la Société Archéologique de Touraine" vol.58-59, br., bon état, R72151
696 pages. "Argues that the cession of Canada to Great Britain had no significant influence on the colony's social, economic, or institutional structures - that, in fact, the 'trauma' of the conquest was a fabrication of the defensive psychology of later generations... Deflates a number of patent nationalist myths firmly embedded in the historical interpretation of the period." - from back cover. Above-average external wear. Former library copy with usual markings. Binding tight. A worthy working copy. Book
231 pages including bibliography and over 180 illustrations. "A complete history of what John Maynard Keynes has called "the underworld of economics." Beginning in England in 1917, it makes a bizarre, at times nearly unbelievable, story of monetary cranks, political parvenues, conspiracy theorists, end-of-the-world millennialists and political demagogues that sweeps through Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec before culminating in the '80s in British Columbia." - from back cover. Moderate wear and soiling. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
354pp. + planches hors-texte + 1p."thèses", 25cm., dans la série "Université de Louvain. Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et Politiques. Nouvelle série" no.25, br.orig., bel état, [thèse académique], G74070
16 pages. Features: Article on Babe Zaharias; Two pages of wonderful photos of Babe Zaharias; Photo from Shuttle Meadow CC includes Duncan Dewar, Fred Wright, Holly Mandly and Ralph Rooks; Photo of Ed Rankin of the Ben Hogan Company; Photo of Joe Petrick; Photo of Bob Kay; Photo of Fred Waring and Chick Evans; Great back cover photo of a large group of senior ladies at the Seignory Club, Quebec includes Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
40 pages. Features: Cover photo of a DeHavilland Dragon Rapide on Lake of Bays, Ontario; Nice full-page photo ad for the Junkers JUMO 210 aero engine; Nice full-page photo ad for Gold Flake cigarettes showing the terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo, Egypt; The Boeing Stratoliner - fantastic illustrated article on the Boeing 307-type transport; Commendable Winter Operation by City of Toronto Squadron; Full-page ad for the 1938 Stinson Reliant; A Day at Fort Nelson - great travel article with photos by O. Nordling; Full-page ad for Fleet Aircraft; The Martin Ocean Transport - article with nice photo; Flying North of Edmonton; One Thousand Hours Between Overhauls - The Gipsy Major 130 H,P. engine; Photo of new hangar under construction at Edmonton; Photo of the world's largest aeroplane tire made by Dunlop; Nice full-page ad for McLaughlin-Buick; The Continental Powered Aeronca KC; Lear ARC-5 Radio Compass; Nice one-page photo ad for Taylorcraft planes; Dr. Klemin Predicts Era of Revolutionary Light Planes; McKee Trophy to Romeo Vachon - article with photo; Great photo of wings being added to a Douglas DC-4; Photo of a Fokker T.5; Photo ad for the Gray Rocks Inn of St. Jovite Station, Quebec; Old Country Gossip; News from the West Coast; More About Instruments; Candid Camera Corner - photo and article on Sooren Topalian - Iraq's #1 Transport Pilot; Nice full-page ad for the new 1938 Cub Sport by Cub Aircraft; Blenheim Bomber featured in Bristol engine ad inside back cover; Intava products two-colour ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
142pp.+ 1 carte dépliante (+/- 65x40cm.), some spots, cover bit soiled & repaired, text fine
743pp.+ frontispice (portrait) & planche hors-texte, 25cm., relié en couv.cart., peu de rousseurs, bon état, R84080
167pp.avec ills., br.orig., 19cm., hors-commerce ("Simple mémorial réservé à notre famille religieuse et aux amis du monastère"), dédicacé ar soeur Marie-Immaculée, bel état, rare, [sur la mère et fondatrice Marie-Claire du monastère des Pauvres Clarisses de Lennoxville]
108 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration of the Royal 22nd Regiment in Quebec City; Nice colour ad for International Trucks shows them at work in a growing baby-boomer subdivision; Colour-photo ad for GE kitchen mixers in '3 Festive Colours'; Duplessis is Not Unbeatable; Colour photo ad for Hoover Vacuums features lady in heels, dress and apron happily cleaning her home; One-page colour ad for Dodge features Dodge Mayfair Hardtop with push-button transmission; Who Really Owns Canada? - great article by Peter C. Newman explains how outsiders own most of our oil, mining, pulp and other biggest industries; How Man Will Conquer Mars - the detailed story, complete with timetable, of how the first Mars journey may be carried out - with nine illustrations, eight in colour, by Chesley Bonestell (not in Schuetz); I Married a Count - Catherine Cziraky explains how she married Hungarian Count Laszlo Cziraky; You Don't Have to Panic Over Rabies; The B.C. Coast - with large colour night photo of the intersection of Georgia and Granville in Vancouver; One-page photo of logger (faller) beside gigantic cedars he has taken down on the west coast of Vancouver Island; The Most Baffling Show on Television - Holiday Ranch is Canada's most popular show; You Really Run by Electricity - the electrical system of the human body is so ingenious that it makes man's inventions seem like clumsy toys; The Secret of Stolen Love Letters; I Cry at the Movies; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for the Remington 60 de luxe Auto-Home electric shaver shows it at work at home and in a car; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Tappan electric and gas ranges; Fancy half-page ad for Allied Van Lines in bright orange; One-page colour ad for Chevrolet features six of their station wagons for 1956; Classy colour-photo one-page ad for Leonard appliances features glamorous photo of Anne Leonard; Heinz baby food colour-photo ad features mother breastfeeding; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Maxwell House coffee features smiling lady and card game; Classy one-page colour ad for the (yellow) 1956 Chrysler Windsor Newport; Trans-Canada Air Lines ad; Colour Molson's Export ad features smiling newspaper man at quitting time; Half-page Olsonite ad features open toilet seat which eerily resembles a crocodile waiting to snap someone's backside!; One-page colour ad for Ford 225 HP V-8 cars (battling a big truck on the highway); 3/4-page photo ad for Electrohome Fans, of Kitchener, Ontario; Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank colour-photo ad features funky family checking into Motel; Classic colour O'Keefe's Ale ad features lumberman with peavey jumping over floating logs outside mill; Colour ad features five of the 1956 car models made by Packard - Clipper - Studebaker; R.O.T.P. (Regular Officer Training Plan) ad features smiling young man; Labatt's ad features photo of Arthur G. Turner of Toronto delivering ice(?); Nice colour GWG ad inside back cover features lineman climbing utility pole; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad shows four scenes; and more. Unmarked with average wear and external soiling. A sound vintage copy of this stellar issue. Book
Features: Nice full-page colour ad for Viyella; Canada's Next Boom - Robert Winters' Hydro-Power development at Hamilton Falls, Labrador - by Peter C. Newman; Getting to know wolves on a personal basis, by Farley Mowat; My Colleagues, the Witch Doctors - Dr. Raymond Prince, a Canadian psychiatrist's African journal; The triumph and troubles of Place des Arts; The great communist scare of the Thirties in Canada - a Maclean's flashback; To the Little Red (Canadian) School House; My long search for a cancer serum, by Dr. Gordon Murray; The Social Side of the Cold War, by Mordecai Richler; Journey down the railway that couldn't be built - the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Line; Colour Coke photo ad on back cover features many guys reaching from bus for Cokes from a girl outside. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Robert Stanfield's Conservaties - a response to Quebec is essential; Manitoba's Schreyer - a little to the right of the left; Fiat car ad; Our silent courtiers - scientists rely upon the hands that feed them; Color photo ad for the 1973 Chevrolet Impala (maroon); Changing mood without drugs; Canadian Club Whisky ad features color photos of rocket pack in use at Cheakamus Canyon in B.C.'s Tantalus Mountains; Pontiac one-page color-photo ad for the blue Parisienne Brougham 4-Door Hardtop; Argument against the Mackenzie Pipeline; Why the Canadian gourmet too often pays first class but eats fourth; The great Canadian lunch counter as a threatened species; A Childhood in Birch Hills, Saskatchewan; A Conversation with Simone De Beauvoir; A Human Alternative to the House - prison design ideas; Nice colour ad for Zenith SuperChromacolor TVs; Colour Chrysler ad features the New Yorker Brougham, Imperial and Newport; Great one-page Chevrolet colour-photo ad features the Senior Motorhome, Mini Motorhome, Junior Motorhome and 3+3 Crewcab with fifth wheel travel trailer; One-page ad for CBC Radio News; One-page ad for CTV's morning show Canada AM; Nice colour ad for the Oldsmobile Cutlass 'S'; Roloff Beny's reflections on a journey home; Murray McLauchlan - Street Singer; Bobby Hull -Being and Selling the World Hockey Association (WHA); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Editorial - Liberty is a Necessity; *Gorgeous* two-page colour photo ad for General Motors features the 1956 Checrolet Bel Air 4-door sports sedan, Star Chief 4-door Catalina, Oldsmobile ninety-eight deluxe holiday sedan, Buick Roadmaster 4-door Riviera and Cadillac Sedan de Ville; The super-bomb stalemate between NATO and the Soviets; The Bennett Brothers - Archie, David and Jacob - are Canada's Biggest Landlords - photos and feature article by Peter C. Newman; Nice one-page colour photo ad for the 1956 Plymouth V-8 with push-button transmission; Industrial Quebec - Part V of Bruce Hutchison's "The Unknown Country"; The Battle over Report Cards - in the new-style reports a child competes with himself - not against others - with photos and comments from L.B. Bissell, Dorothy Millichamp, Harold Whitley, A.E. O'Neill, Mary Mahon and N.V. Scarfe; The Man with the Acres of Lambs - William Hayward's 7500 sheep in B.C. - article with great photos; Who Would Marry a Riverman? (short story); The Rise and Fall of Canadian runner Tom Longboat - The Bronze Mercury (a Maclean's flashback to 1906); How to Survive a Children's Birthday Party; Truly magnificent 1956 Plymouth/Dodge/De Soto/Chrysler/Imperial colour-photo centrefold ad features huge photo of tail fin with fashionable lady and large plane in background; Nice colour one-page ad for the Ford Monarch; Attractive full-page colour ad for the De Soto Fireflite V-8, 4-door sedan, with push-button transmission; Nostalgic ad for Labatt's IPA features photo of farmer Howard Ella of RR#3 Weston, Ontario; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
plaquette in-8°, III + 65 pp., planches h.t., grande carte depliante en couleurs, agr., couv. Bon etat [109B-4*]
plaquette in-8°, III + 40 pp., planches h.t., grande carte depliante en couleurs, agr., couv. Bon etat [109B-4]
cxxiii, 380 pages. Index. Hand-numbered copy 29 of 520 printed. "Brings together some serviceable selections from the source material available for the study of the Seigniorial Tenure in Canada from its introduction by the French government to its abolition in 1854. Documents have been selected which illustrate the various chronological stages in the evolution of Canadian seigniorialism, - its rise, its paramountcy, and its decline. Here will be found despatches, memoirs, reports, royal edicts, colonial ordinances, title-deeds, jurists, statutes, and the unofficial chronicles of contemporary observers." - Editor's Preface. Former librarry copy with usual markings. Front hinge just starting. Somewhat above-average wear to red boards. A sound copy of this impressive scholarly reference. TPL 3459, Thibault 177, Amtmann 2728. Book
Features: Adventure Training for Army Cadets - Summer Challenge; Drop-out Kings - over 35,000 pounds of JP-1 aviation fuel delivered to the North Magnetic Pole; My First Jump - photographer becomes paratrooper; Fencing; La Citadelle - changing the guard in Quebec City; Last of the Few - Battle of Britain Pilot, Col. B.E. 'Bev' Christmas retures; Rockliffe Roll-out - the national aeronautical collection; CMR at Saint-Cyr - officer cadets visit France. Quality copy. Book
Unpaginated. 11.25" x 8.5" x 0.5". Nicely decorated and textured maroon boards. Contents surprisingly clean, bright and unmarked. Binding sound. Moderate external wear. A nice copy. Book
80 pages plus advertisements. 11.25" x 8.5" x 0.5". Nicely decorated and textured maroon boards bear average wear and several small white spots. Binding excellent. Contents clean and unmarked aside from sixteen autographs on autograph page at back. A sound copy. Book
