Patoski, Joe Nick; Crawford, BillMareMagnum
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313 pages. References. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "The first biography of this meteoric guitar hero. Emerging from the hotbed of Texas blues, Stevie Ray Vaughan developed his unique style early on, in competition with his older brother, Jimmy Vaughan, founder of the Fabulous Thunderbirds - a competition that shaped much of Stevie's Life... His death in a freak helicopter crash in 1990 silenced one of the great musical talents of our time." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. High quality copy. RIP Stevie. Book
84 pages. Features: John Gerald Benson - Banana Doctor; China's handmade "Red Flag" luxury auto - only 400 exist; Mistaseni Rock is blown to bits behind the future site of the Gardiner Dam; The Caribbean - our sunny new frontier; Canadians in the Caribbean - they've found their own personal paradise; The pleasures of paradise in the Caribbean; Dalton Camp - the man who finally belled the cat; Big-Money Cattle - Holsteins have been taken over by the jet set; Comeback for the one-room school?; Could India Feed Us?; The Lonely death of Charlie Wenjack; Edna - where are you?; The Eccentric oracle of Barrett's Landing, Nova Scotia; Full-page Volvo car ad; Canadiana - Gerald Stevens' column; Great full-page colour photo ad for the '67 Buick Skylark; Wonderful colour ad for Smirnoff Vodka featuring Zsa-Zsa Gabor wearing lots of diamonds. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Kwakiutl Totem Pole Carver Mungo Martin; The Cheerful Eskimo - photo-portraits by Richard Harrington; Ballet of the Brushlands - courtship dance of the sharptail grouse; Bankers from Portugal - Photo-illustrated article on Portuguese activity on the banks off Newfoundland; Changing the Arctic Maps - II - Dr. J. Lewis Robinson discusses the mainland the the islands south of of 75 degrees North Latitude; Mackenzie River Sketch Book; Border Chieftain - Dr. John McLoughlin, of Oregon fame, spent almost 20 years fur trading along the present Minnesota-Ontario border; The Wolf and the Caribou; Land of the Ojibway; Nice photo inside back cover shows Fort Garry Coffee being cooked on a rock; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
84 pages including appendix, and photos. Black and white photos and illustrations. Table of contents include stratigraphy (framework, granitoid gneiss, distribution and character of rock units), metamorphism (framework, mineral parageneses, pressure-temperature environment), structure (tectonic fabric, folds, structural geometry) and economic geology of the Wigwam Lead-Zinc Occurrence. Usual library markings. Binding Sound. A solid working copy. Book
Paperback Light wear with fold/scruff/blot marks on cover. Pages clean with no writings, no tear and n highlights.
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to upper corner of rear cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 578pp. The story of the troubled 35 year odyssey of 1970s rock band Hawkwind with their tradition of free gigs, benefits and protests, They embraced everything except themselves with their endless fallings out and their epic history of sex, drugs, madness, writs, rage and revenge. Updated edition.
This is a fine hardcover copy in blue cloth covers printed in gilt, with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text in German. This is the 1979 1 volume reprint of the 1929 2 volume original. A massive survey of Italian Renaissance carved stone decorative arts. Includes cameos, rock crystal vases, chalices, etc. 200 beautifully printed black & white plates. 11 1/2" high X 9" wide, 202 pages. Bibliography. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5". Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
14 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos. Features: Flame conditioning paper mill machinery; The welding of process piping; Broken rock drills can be salvaged; Leaks in boiler feed system permanently stopped; Impeller casing saved by bronze welding; hardfacing auto tire chains with stellite; fire and explosion wrongly attributed to acetylene cylinders - Joseph Dewasha, an Indian war veteran and apprentice auto mechanic, was killed in a garage fire and explosion in Bala, Ontario; back cover ad for Canadian Liquid Air features photo of Niagara's Rainbow Bridge which was flame-conditioned prior to being painted, with great results. Index for volume 21 of this publication laid-in. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
44 pages. Features: Cover art by John K. Esler entitled "Summer House II"; Alberta's Visual Art Celebration; Watercolour Painting in Saskatchewan 1905 - 1980; On the Comfort and Security of Realism; Sculptural Forms in Miniature - Creativity within Convention; Adeline Rockett - Celebrate Alberta; Artistically Speaking; Tending Toward Realism; Geoffrey Rock - The Art of Total Concentration; Investing in Art - Auction Reports; Insuring for Inflation; and more. Colour ads include works by F.H. Varley, Ken Christopher, Marc Aurele Fortin, Francine Gravel, Norval Morrisseau, Allan Allen; Mary White; Daniel Izzard, Harold L. Lyon, and Jack Bush (back cover). Light coffee stains to several pages, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with 43 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed and creased at edges. Much sought-after biography of the climber who almost single-handedly rejuvenated the sport during the 1950s. Often accompanied by Don Whillans, he pioneered routes of extraordinary severity including Alps, first ascents of Kanchengjunga and the Montagh Tower. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate B185.
Paris, Naïve 2006. In-8 carré broché, couverture noire illustrée de 422 pages. Très bon état
322pp.with ills. + plates out-of-text (of which 1 folding and 1 in colour), 30cm., cloth, G, [study in Russian on the cave drawings in the Siberian Angara river valley], X72504
Book is in excellent condition in black cloth with gilt at spine, handsome map endpapers. Binding is solid and square, 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. 369 pages, heavily illustrated with maps, b&w photos of tools, persons, sites, line drawings.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 224pp. Amazing paintings of all the rock stars up to 1973 when this work was originally published. Includes Dylan, Elvis, the Stones, Beatles and hundreds more. They are depicted in 'their own settings' - eg the Drifters under the boardwalk, Otis Redding on the dock of the bay, the Beach Boys on the beach. A great study in fantastic condition. Text in English, German and French.
16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Full-page black and white photos of: The Casino at Monte Carlo; The Kremlin in Moscow; Houses of Congress, Santiago, Chili (Chile); Place de la Concorde, Paris; The Rock of Gibraltar; The River Jordan - lovely country image; Unter-den-Linden, Berlin; Royal Palace at Charlottenburg, Near Berlin; Castle of Heidelberg; Imperial Opera House, Ringe Strasse, Vienna; Correggio's "Holy Night" (Painting); The Roman Pantheon; City of Palermo, Sicily; Panorama of Pompeii; The Leaning Tower of Pisa; The Champs-Elysses, Paris. Moderate staining/soiling. Unmarked. Chips from rust brown covers. Book
24" x 18" map of White Rock, British Columbia. Undated but appears to be circa 1978. Includes directory and locations of local businesses. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this nice White Rock memento. Map
50 pages. Features: Great 'Star Wars' ad inside front cover; 'The Duellists' - photos; Genetic Genocide - Author Michael Chrichton discusses the serious underlying dangers of the modern scientific world as dealt with in his latest work, 'Coma' - with photos; Magic film from Jean Cocteau - article with photos (part one); Films and Filming awards for 1977; Reviews - 'The Apple Game', 'Death Trap', 'The Duellists', 'East of Elephant Rock', 'The Intruder', 'Julia', 'Martin', 'My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga and Julie', 'Padre Padrone', 'Pumping Iron', 'Wizards'; 'First Love' - photos; Photo-illustrated article on an appreciation of the career of Bing Crosby; 'Saturday Night Fever' - photos; 'The Deep' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Nice full-page ad for 'Survive'; Phantoms and Fantasies - interview with Brian De Palma; 'The Savage is Loose' - photos; Photo-illustrated article on motion picture cameraman James Wong Howe; The Berlin Film Festival; 'Marathon Man' - photos; Reviews - 'The Incredible Sarah', Obsession', 'Face to Face', 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', 'Lina Braake', 'Die Marquise Von O', 'The Bad News Bears', 'The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday', 'The Scarlet Buccaneer', 'Futureworld', 'The Message', 'The Last Woman', 'The Stepford Wives', 'The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings; 'The Sentinel' - photos; 'Seizure' - photos; 'Chi dice donna dice donna' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 317-448. Features: Water-Powered Mills of Flat Rock River - article with black and white photos; New Indiana Archival Documents; Jennings County in the Frontier Period; The Century-old Wright Home; Legend of Cedar Isle; Journal of John T. Williams, 1850; Indiana Genealogy; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
381 pages. Index. Fold-out table. Diagrams. Reproductions of black and white photos in text. First published in 1928, this work "Provides a prospector's-eye-view of Canadian geology. For basic information as well as a reference in the field, this edition of the 'Handbook' should be a useful guide to Canada's mineral wealth." - Foreword. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Brilliant gilt lettering upon textured maroon boards. A superior copy. Book
314 pages. Index. "This is rock 'n' roll as it was meant to be played - raw provocative and downright sexy." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Photo-illustrated interview of Rock Hudson; Los Angeles International Film Exposition 1976; Dangerous Games - Part One of 'The Golden Age of Terror' - some aspects of the Horror-Fantasy film from 1930 to 1936; 'Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billy Joe' - photos; Reviews - 'Robin and Marian', 'Poachers', 'All the President's Men', 'Benji', 'The Travelling Players', 'Dunderklumpen', 'The Slipper and the Rose', 'Order to Kill', 'Sky Riders', 'Moses', 'The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox', 'Peeper', 'Diamonds', 'Shout at the Devil'; ad for 'Conduct Unbecoming'; Photos on location with George Cosmatos's 'The Cassandra Crossing'; Review of 'From A to B & Back Again, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol'; 'Vampyres' - photos; 'The Count of Monte Cristo' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Rave Reviews for Ed Koch; Quebecois Flock to the beaches of the south coast of Maine; Fairy-Tale Wedding of Charles, the Prince of Wales, to Diana Spencer - nice photos; Abolhassan Bani-Sadr; VIA Rail drops 15 Runs; World Record Swim for Alex Baumann; Strikes at Algoma Steel and Stelco; Straight-speaking Laura Sabia; B.C. Hatchery Accident results in many blind fish; Saskatoon aims to become a prairie Tivoli Gardens; Shorts - Fashion; Stopping the Suicide Cycle; Rock Music - with picture of Michael Anthony of Van Halen and Loverboy. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
50 pages. Features: ads for 'Cross of Iron' and 'The Last Tycoon'; The Right Look - interview with Oswald Morris on the changing role of the cinematographer as truth competes with illusion; 'In Nome del padre' (In the Name of the Father) - photos; article entitled 'Italnoleggio'; Photo-illustrated article on the cult movie 'Singin' in the Rain'; 'Jabberwocky' - photos; Reviews - 'Joseph Andrews', 'The Story of Adele H', 'The Sentinel', 'Shadowman', 'A Star is Born', 'The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane', 'The Fate of Lee Khan', 'Charlotte', 'When the North Wind Blows', 'The Pink Telephone', 'Le Puritan', 'Exhibition', 'Le Baron Fantome', 'Sweeney', 'Les Violons Du Bal', 'Blue Belle', 'Black Moon'; 'East of Elephant Rock' - photos; 'The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane' - photos; 'The Brute' - photos; 'The Devil's Playground' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
