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Features: Cadets climb mountains (7 pages); 405 Squadron takes anti-submarine trophy; Militia take to the field at Camp Dube; Interesting collections and hobbies at La Macaza; How are you with the Press?; Annual Art Competition; They shall never forget - Shelburn and the other escape organizations set up throughout Western Europe; A North Atlantic Christmas - MWO J.L. Wilson. Sound copy. Magazine
82 pages. Features: The Sunset Limited; F&CC Line; The Atlantic Story; Southern Pacific Locomotive Roster; Transit Topics (including photo of Japanese Monorail); and more. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Book
100 pages. Features: Reports from Washington and London; Report on Science and Industry; Ship of Fools (an episode), by Katherine Anne Porter; Catholic Temper in Poland, by Graham Greene; Hunter-Killers in the Atlantic, by Samuel Eliot Morison; Why do we Teach Poetry?, by Archibald MacLeish; After Four Years - a poem, by May Sarton; Uprooting the Indians, by Ruth Mulvey Harmer; How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank - story by John Steinbeck; A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing, by Anna Mary Wells; Management in Search of Men, by David A. Shepard; John Gunther's Africa, by Richard E. Danielson; Messenger - a poem by Hortense Flexner; Nice colour ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Articles: Building a Bigger Stick - The Construction of the Tribal Class Destroyers in Canada, 1940-1948; The 'Baltic' Goes to Washington - Lobbying for a Congressional Steamship Subsidy, 1952; Failure at Sea - Wolf Pack Operations in the North Atlantic, 10 February - 22 March 1944; The Convoy, the Grain, and their influence on the French Revolution; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Articles: The First Generation of Marine Engineers in Central Canadian Steamers, 1809-1837; Spencer Baird and the Scientific Investigation of the Northwest Atlantic, 1871-1887; The Battle for Convoy ONS-154, 26-31 December 1942; Maritime Strength and the British Economy, 1840-1850; plus several book reviews. One item high-lighted in Table of Contents else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Articles: The Impact of German Technology on the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 19442-1943; The Seamen's Union, the National Maritime Board and Firemen - Labour management in the British Mercantile Marine; The Defence of Alaska Must Remain a Primary Concern of the United States - Canada and the North Pacific, May-June 1942; Management of the Port of Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies, during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Government and Port Administration in Japan in the aftermath of the Port and Harbour Law of 1950; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
277 pages including extensive notes, bibliography and index. Author's signature and inscription to her cousin, dated 1990, upon dedication page. Throughout his career of nearly seventy years in public education, whether as a teacher, a professor, Director of Rural Education in Nova Scotia, or as promoter of the Home and School movement in Canada, subject's main desire was to improve the quality of public education for children in the schools of Nova Scotia. Undated. Book is clean, tight, unmarked and shows lightest wear. Some wrinkling to bottom edge of dust jacket which is otherwise in excellent condition. Excellent copy. Book
227 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white maps and reproductions of photos. "Carefully researched and written with wit and style. Provides a fascinating look at Atlantic Canada's railways - the roadbeds, the rolling stock and the people who made it all happen. Speaks to why we continue to look on the railway with affection and nostalgia. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
Carta geografica meteorologica originale raffigurante la direzione media dei venti sugli oceani Atlantico, Indiano e Pacifico nei mesi di gennaio-febbraio e luglio-agosto del 1897. Inserita nell'opera "Bartholomew's Physical Atlas - Volume III. Atlas of Meteorology. A Series of over Four Hundred Maps. Prepared by J.G. Bartholomew ... A.J. Herbertson ... Alexr. Buchan. Under the Patronage of the Royal Geographical Society. Prepared at the Edinburgh Geographical Institute".
11p. [Table of Contents], np. Several hundred full page photographs with text printed on recto. Gutters damp stained not affecting text or photographs. Inked inscription. Oblong folio. Original full cloth binding; worn, spine damp stained. Hardbound. Shows views Several hundred photographic images of historic landmarks, city streets and sights, rural views, etc. A real treasure from the turn of the previous century. TRAVEL/1
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Includes contributions fromn Blumentritt, Keitel, Jodl, Spiedel, Donitz, Warlimont, von der Heydte and many others. Valuable compilation of contemporary German accounts on many aspects of the Allied invasion.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The first dedicated study, providing full details of British convoy rescue vessels with a voyage-by-voyage account of their wartime service. Includes H&A and Orders to Masters. SCARCE.
8vo., Ninth Impression, with double-page map, free endpapers faintly spotted; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with crudely repaired tear at tail of backstrip. Published fifteen months after the first edition. The finest novel of the Royal Navy in WWII and a maritime classic. The story, based upon the author's own experiences, formed the basis of Charles Frend's stirring feature film (1953) starring Jack Hawkins in one of his most memorable roles. So accurate is its depiction of the Battle of the Atlantic that it is one of the very few works of fiction admitted by Law to his standard bibliography The Royal Navy in World War Two. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE INCREASINGLY ELUSIVE IN THIS CONDITION. Law, 1865 (recording the first edition).
8vo., Third Impression, with frontispiece, 20 plates on 14, full-page map in the text, front endpaper map and rear endpaper chart, neat German stamp on half-title; black cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly rubbed dustwrapper. Published six months after the first edition. The best and most detailed single-volume account, with many valuable appendices. Parry commanded ACHILLES, Woodhouse commanded AJAX during the action. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.190; Law 0113.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, 36 plates on 24 and endpaper maps, neat signature on half-title; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Bright, crisp copy of the first and by far the scarcest of all the contemporary accounts of Walker's exploits (his groups sank 23 U-boats in total). Well illustrated with photographs (some less usual). Wemyss commanded WILD GOOSE; this account forms the basis of his later 'Relentless Pursuit' (1955). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.384; Law, 0222.
Nantes Imprimerie du Commerce, 1936 - Année complète N° 216, Janvier à 227, Décembre - 1/2 Reliure toile - Revue grand in-octavo, 210 x 265 mm - Couverture illustrée - Nombreux petits clichés sépia, cartes - De la page 5733 à la page 6256 Chaque Numéro est consacrée à une région ou une ville
PARIS, Aux bureaux du magasin pittoresque - 1872 - 2 volumes in-8 - 1/2 reliure polychrome rouge - Dos à 5 nerfs avec titre doré - Toutes tranches dorées (très fraiches) - Illustrations noir et blanc dans le texte et hors texte - légères mouillures aux premières pages du T. I, taches en queue sur les plats - VI-571 et 606 pages - Ex-libris Cachet armorié et chiffré du Château de La Bretesche - Bon exemplaire - envoi rapide et soigné
PARIS, Peyronnet J. & Cie -1937 - 1 edition - Fort In-8 - Couverture illustrée - Ouvrage broché, illustrations et cartes H. T., deux cartes dépliantes in fine - Préface Emile Gabory - 509 pages - Très bel exemplaire Autre exemplaire, légères traces de mouillures au dos sinon très bel ex., avec envoi "A M. Edmond Coarer, Ingénieur en Chef des Coques aux Chantiers de La Loire à Nantes, avec mes plus sincères remerciements pour l'aide précieuse qui m'a été donnée, grâce à son obligeance, par les archives du Chantier." : 155 €
Oblong 4to., with a frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Conway's outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series featuring probably the most detailed drawings ever produced for historical naval publications. Law 1732.
Caprisson. 1978. In-4 Carré. Relié, Sous emboîtage. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 166 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en couleur. Suivi d'un album photo contenant de nombreuses et authentiques photos de famille et cartes postales. Texte en français et en anglais. 'Gros Plans sur le Monde'. Fabulous West Indies, English by Jane Yeoman and Yvette Chauvot.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Published in Conway's outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series featuring probably the most detailed drawings ever produced for historical naval publications.
8vo., with map; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 144.
8vo.,with map; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 139.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 159 pages with many color photos. Chapters include Michigan copper in the Mediterranean , Lugged axeheads of bronze age found on Isle Royale, Were the copper miners of Michigan giants? Poverty point: bronze age town & Gulf Ports on the copper trail, Were prehistoric copper oxhide ingots manufactured on the Mississippi coast near the mouth of the Mississippis river? Megalithic colony in Greenland, America's Stongehenge: a map of the Atlantic Ocean in stones, Ocean pendants, crossing teh Atlantic via the Azores, The Sillustani Necropolis in Peru, etc.
38 pages. Features: The Now Generation - B.C. Conservationists Get Things Done; Helicopter Over Canada; Giant Atlantic Salmon of Newfoundland's Humber River; The Suicidal Duck; Fighting Witefish - The most exciting fishing in years; Saving lost plugs; A Trip to Remember - Largemouth Bass near Parry Sound; Three Best Flies for Big Trout; Good Bass Fishing in B.C. Lakes; Fishing Bruce County's Saugeen River; Spring Methods for Walleyes; Fishfood; Sturgeon from Sturgeon Falls; All Canada N.S.S.A. Skeet Team for 1967; Early Honda generator ad on back cover shows young lady watching TV in her rowboat; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Four center pages loose but present (and will be restapled if you request). A worthy vintage copy. Book
