Scott, PaulMareMagnum
McRae, BarryMareMagnum
The Jazz Cataclysm
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 184 pages. Edge wear and creases on price-clipped dust jacket. Full purple cloth boards.
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12mo, 495 pages, not illustrated. Page edges browned. The 2nd novel in the Raj Quartet series. TV tie-in. eng
50p.10 Paperback Very good condition, comb bound
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 184 pages. Edge wear and creases on price-clipped dust jacket. Full purple cloth boards.
248p. Illustrated with musical scores. 8vo. Evergreen paperback. JAZZ 1 **
20 pages sheet music, no publication date, appears 20's(?) Contains music for In the Convent, 1st String Quartet,2nd String Quartet, !st Sympohony, 2nd Symphony. Cover is torn up from bottom almost 1/2 way, Spine is very rough, math problems in pen on upper back cover, otherwise unmarked in any way: music etc. is clean. Cover featured large b&w photo of Brodin; nice looking chap with a neat beard.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 244 pages. 8 1/2"w x 11"h.
8vo., First Edition, with 3 maps (2 double-page) and 3pp of pedigrees in the text; black cloth, gilt back, terracotta endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A beautiful copy
8vo., black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Collects The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils. Bright copy of the omnibus edition of a cornerstone of twentieth century literature. First published in 1976.
Book is in excellent condition with a little foxing to the endpapers only. Binding is solid and square, in bright blue cloth covers with silvers sparkles. Covers have sharp corners; exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Red dot at top page ends.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs and double-page pedigrees in the text; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The Elizabethan Quartet complete, with each omnibus volume including two of the original four titles. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Features: Architect's Angle - Wood Siding and Trim; Collectables - Time for School; Rosemarie Torre's Painting; Becky Holliday; Noah's Ark photo feature; Jeff Steele - special effects master; Hal Watson's Workshop; Winter weekend in Winnipeg; A Beacon Hill garden wedding; Country Cradles; A Quartet of Christmas Trees; Gentleman's Gear - Send him packing!; Wicker Bassinet; A Complete Laundry Room; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with 53 plates on 16 and 4 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. First-hand account marred by irritating printing errors. The four 'C'-class AA cruisers fought hard from the outset (Norway, Dunkirk, Malta, Greece); all were sunk through enemy action by October 1942. They were manned partly by reservists from London Division RNR whose story shines through. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.61; Law, 1016
72 pages. Features: Mercedies 450 SLC On the Road; SS 100 Coupe - a unique preview of Jaguar's postwar sports cars; Half-Litre Club - the cheapest Grand Prix breeding ground of the early post war period; Peter Collins - one of Britain's top quartet of the fifites; Chris Maye and Doug Shoebridge work on their Maybridge; Weld it Yourself; Land's End Pilgrimage - 50 years ago Cecil Kimber gained a Gold Medal on the Land's End Trial in his MG Speckal - Michael Bowler takes the same care back to the same hills - wonderful colour photo and centerfold; 1937 Lincoln Zephyr V-12 - artice and nice colour photo; How the AA Was Born - Looking back at the birth of the Automobile Association; Mini Manual - Triumph TR2 1952/55; History of the Post War Touring Car - Part 4; Racing in the Classic Car Championship; Classic of the Month - Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint; and more. Minor moisture exposure to top edge. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: A Perilous Border - Living on the Rio Bravo was a challenge! - Pancho Villa, Pascual Orosco, etc.; Preacher in the Gold Rush - Oscar Penn Fitzgerald - Sonora and San Quentin; A Stripped-Down Trail Drive - The Jones boys make a stab at reaching Montana grass and saving their herdsThe Victor, Colorado Water Heist - gunmen divert water!; A Range Rider on the Navajo Reserve - Lyo Lee; Grabill - Early-Day Photographer; Outlaw Rock - where Billy the Kid holed up from May-December 1880; Jack Dalton - Klondike Trailblazer; Palo Pinto's Lonely Mausoleum; William Pollock - Indian Artist and Rough Rider; Hay Gatherers on the High Plains - great photos of early hay technology; Quartet of Texas Ranger Tintypes. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition,with photographs and double-page pedigrees in the text; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Plowden's acclaimed biography comprises: The Young Elizabeth (1971); Danger to Elizabeth (1973); Marriage with my Kingdom (1977); Elizabeth Regina (1980). COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
162 pages. Features: Great photo inside front cover features a lucky guy with one arm around Marilyn Monroe and the other around another babe (Liz Taylor?); Sex on the Job - industry's most embarrassing problem; The What, The Why, The How-To of Hypnotism; Why do some people go wacky over phonograph records?; It Takes Courage to be a Senator - by John F. Kennedy; Harvey Knox - the daddiest daddy; A Doctor Discovers the Real Miracles at Lourdes; Mental Patients - They Can Go Home Again; The ongoing argument over cancer drug Krebiozen; Tallulah Bankhead; Gaelic Park in New York City; How to Shake a Therblig (photo-illustrated belly-dancing instruction); Earl's Girls - photos of famous beauties; Rock 'N' Religion - the biggest hit in Dixie; Jill Kinmont. Short archival tape repair to bottom of spine. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Some ink markings to contents and back cover. 7.5" x 5.5" A worthy copy of what must have been considered quite an edgy publication in its day. Book
16 pages. Features: Mike Fetchik wins at Sanford, Florida; Billy Maxwell wins at Montebello; Team from Conn. wins in Bermuda; Conrad joins pro ranks; Page of photos from Bermuda goodwill tournament show the winning Greenwich CC team and many others; Photo of popular Lambton GC, Toronto quartet in Bermuda; Photos of wives enjoying the Bermuda tournament; Photo of Threesome being honored in Clearwater, Florida includes Jackie Burke, Harr C. Shepard, and Harry Moffitt; Review of golf in 1956; Page of photos - pictorial review of men amateur stars of 1956; Westcoaster electric car ad; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
46 pages. Features: Editorial - "Let's Stay Live"; Game Outlook; Nice one-page two-colour ad for Weaver Scopes, made by the W.R. Weaver Co.; Half-page illustrated ad for the Pintail Sleeping Robe (sleeping bag) by Edward Lipsett Ltd.; Game Maps of B.C. 1957-58, Quick Reference; One-page photo ad for Little Brown Jug G&W Rye Whisky features four-man quartet with piano and banjo; The "Pheasants Unlimited" Program at Vernon, B.C. - article with photo of Bud Pratt and Mort Paige; Ad for Boat, Rod & Gun located in Vancouver at Seventh (near Kingsway) features large photo of well-known gun expert Bill Jagoe; Uncommon one-page, two-colour ad for Royalite gas stations; Where to Go Fishing; Clay Chips - article with photos of Frank Cooper, Frank Turner, Joe Williams, and Doug, Tommy and George Freeman; B.C. Game Commission ad inside back cover entitled "Ready For the Field" offers advice for hunters; Shooting competition results; Nice colour cover photo of Big Horn sheep; Many additional nostalgic ads. Pencilled name atop front cover otherwise unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Editorial - We Can't Afford not to listen to Stalin; Did Stalin Make Hitler's Blunder? - a question from London; The Man Who's Going to Make Our TV - When TV arrives in Canada, probably this summer, much of what comes out on the screen will come out of the head of a 33-year-old prodigy named Mavor Moore - article with photos; What it's Like to by Forty - humour by Robert Thomas Allen - illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; The Nightmare Convoy of the Atlantic - A Maclean's Flashback - the blow-by-blow story of ONS 154, the hardest-hit convoy ever escorted by the Canadian Navy at the close of 1942, by Jack McNaught; Our Four Lads on a Little White Cloud - the quartet of Toronto choirboys - Jimmy Arnold, Connie Codarini, Frankie Busseri, and Bernie Toorish - nice colour photo, article, and black and white photos; The Ordeal of Seretse and his White Queen Ruth - Seretse Khama guessed that his 100,000 African subjects would not object to his marriage to a white English girl, Ruth Williams - article with photos; Lady in the Celeste - story by Pat E. O'Neill - illustrated by James Hill; The Acid-Minded Professor - the University of Alberta's Dr. William Rowan - article with photos; How to Save Your Child's Life - the modern home is almost as dangerous as a battlefield; The All Want to See the Folies - The Folies Bergere of Paris - article with photos; Why Won't Canadians Eat Fish?; Full-page Canadian Army recruiting ad; Excellent full-page colour-photo ad for Allis-Chalmers Crawler Tractors - Steel Production/Slag Moving Theme; Very attractive colour full-page ad for the 1952 Pontiac; Centerfold ad for the 1952 Meteor; Uncommon colour ad for Tooke brand clothing; 1952 Monarch car ad; O'Keefe's Brewing Company ad honours the 48th Highlanders of Canada; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows 'Gone for a Coke' painted on wall by painter on break. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Cecil B. De Mille is featured in a Union Pacific Railroad ad; Interesting Comptometer one-page photo ad explains how Macy's used 325 of these business machines to boost office efficiency; Great ad for the Olds '60' 2-door sedan; FDR's plea to dictators hastens showdown in Congress; Hobboes of America - 31st convention; Photo of William B. Bankhead and family; Nice color ad for the La Salle car (maroon 5-passenger 4dr touring sedan featured); Europe's armies match size of forces mobilized in 1914 - diplomats struggle to stave off outbreak; Photo of Goering with Mussolini in Rome; Netherlands ready to release flood if Hitler invades; Father-in-law scorned by Zog now Premier of puppet Albania; Trotsky leaves the Mexican home of Diego Rivera; Palestine Conference resumes on Egyptian soil - Arab leader, Abdul Rahim Haj Mohammed killed by British two weeks prior; Guerrillas harass Japanese after trickling through lines; Tenth year of the Curtis String Quartet - write-up with photo; Photo of Elektro, the cigarette-smoking robot who will star at the NY World's Fair; Boston Bruins defeat Toronto Maple Leafs to win Stanley Cup - story with great team photo; Nice one-page ad for the Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera; Nice one-page photo ad for Ford V-8 Trucks for 1939 featuring a dump truck owned by S.H. Bacon of Los Angeles; Photo of Ida Tarbell and review of her autobiography; Charles Lindbergh returns to US; Otelia Augspurger Compton is chosen as "The American Mother" for 1939; Obituary for mystery writer Willard Huntington Wright (S.S. Van Dine); Barter plan for war supplies to be pressed by Washington; Pepsi-Cola ownership lawsuit is settled in favor of Charles G. Guth; Edward J. Noble; Morris Anolik arrested for dealing in gold; The Menasco "Uni-Twin" airplane engine; Hudson car ad inside back cover; Great color-photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features tobacco auctioneer F.E. McLaughlin in action; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 4 coloured frontispieces and 24 coloured plates; cloth (blue/red/green/grey respectively) blocked in gilt and colours, gilt backs, coloured endpapers, a near fine set set in publisher's slip-case blocked in gilt. Bright, clean set of the FS edition of a cornerstone of twentieth century literature.
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: The Alert and Progressive Civic Government of Arthur, Ontario - photos and nostalgic article; Glamorous Blonde - Lizabeth Scott - photos and article; Winnipeg Auditorium indispensable to City's Life - photos and story; Mary Matheson and her plans to bring books to Australian children; Anschluss - In Reverse - many Germans are seeking new citizenship; Major Article by Jacqueline Sirois - Gambling in Canada; Ottawa's aspirations as a city - with the rest of the country paying; Wonder pill offers hope for thousands of victims of anemia; Tuttle - story by Nicholas Scarlett; U.N. Trouble Shooters - Canadians use their service training to keep smooth the machinery of world piece - article with group photo of Lloyd Herman, Byron Wood and W. Murray Anderson; A Bird in the Hand - story by Gregory Clark; Cyrus Stephen Eaton and Charles Aubrey Eaton - They Represent Finance and Politics in US; Who is Sylvia? - story by Peter Carter-Page; Ontario's Gale Sherwood is Hollywood's newest star - photo and write-up; Pipe Down, You Guys - story by Doris Hedges; Large dramatic photo of tapping of the burning first oil gusher in Alberta's Leduc oil field; Oil Boom in (Leduc) Alberta - article with photos; Montreal police confused by Chinese men - who can't tell them apart!; Photo of man standing before a 108" saw blade in British Columbia; New Nickel find at Lynn Lake, Manitoba - story and photos; 20 page colour comic section; Red Morning - story by Ruby Frazier Frey; Natalie Bury of Vancouver; Leslie Bell - Conductor Extraordinaire - article and photos; SPEBSQSA - Society for the preservation and encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America; Tom Connors of Halifax - he's been collecting sports pictures for 50 years - photo and article; Snooker King - George Chenier - article; Peter Mews - mannequin creator explains how they are made for Clatworthy & Sons of Toronto - great photos and article; Whooping Cough tests in England show promise - photos and story; and more. Unmarked. Average wear and some moisture stains. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces and numerous sepia-toned photographs as plates; pictorial boards, terracotta cloth backs lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, a fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. With uniform personal bookplate on front paste-downs. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.
68 pages. A.J. Casson cover illustration of grass-cutting man mowing flowers while girl-watching. Contents: Great colour ad for Veedol motor oil inside front cover; Nice ad for International Trucks 2-ton trucks; Investors Syndicate ad features William H. Lotts, President of Overland Construction Company; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; Roosevelt Acts - M. Grattan O'Leary reports on the "Prophet of Recovery" - including photo of President Roosevelt with Premier Bennett; A Sporting Gesture, by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Article on Sir Arthur Currie; Forgotten Money in Bank Accounts, by Grant Dexter; Ins and Outs of Sport - how different sports go in and out of favour; Arctic Air Trail - Flight Lieut. J.D.M. Gray and his plan to fly the "Sourdough", a Fairchild monoplane, across the Atlantic; False Colors, by Captain Dingle; Sleepy, by Beverley Owen; My Hat!, by Dora Sanders; The (Great) Depression, by Honorable E.C. Drury - Part 2 - Causes; Match Point, by John Holden; We Shouldn't Own Ships - O.F. MacKenzie argues that now that WWI is over the Canadian government need not own ships; A very lovely full-page colour ad for Campbell's Tomato Soup featuring a waving girl in a tomato-coloured dress and blue hat and jacket; Salesman of Music - Milton Blackstone and the Hart House Quartet which also includes Adaskin, de Kresz and Hambourg; Full-page Canada Dry ad shows boy and girl running; Europe Fears Treaty Revision; Nice Dominions Tire ad; New Guinea is Rich Gold Field; There are now 230 weekly comic strips; Great Wall is Useless Now; Modern Alarms Catch Burglars - electrical devices installed in banks make robbery practically impossible; Baseball has been changed by the Curve Ball and other Developments; Jerusalem now has Y.M.C.A.; Super-Markets Cause Concern - Large-scale grocery selling in cheap warehouses worries regular trade; Nice two-colour full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Standard Six and Master Six; The Future of Medicine; Vintage Dentyne chewing gum ad includes photo of Eskimo lady with healthy teeth; Lovely colour Shredded Wheat ad; Nice Champion Spark Plug ad features Eddie Miller in an Auburn 12 Speedster; Trans-Canada Long-Distance ad with contemporary prices per minute; Outdoor Weddings, by Helen G. Campbell; Lending Companies have Good Depression Record, by W.A. Higgins; Nice 2-colour ad for Northern Electric Electric range inside back cover; Nice ad for Kodak Verichrome Film on back cover. Address label upon front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, third volume with blue endpapers, fourth volume with coloured pictorial endpapers; cloth (red/black/blue/black respectively), wrapper of first volume lightly browned at edges else a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrapper of first volume lightly browned at edges. Written over two decades, Byatt's extraordinary and ambitious romain-fleuve aims at nothing less than a portrayal of the social development of Britiain in the 1950s and 1960s. The sequence comprises 'The Virgin in the Garden' (1978); 'Still Life' (1985); 'Babel Tower' (1996); 'A Whistling Woman' (2002). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
