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105 pages. Documents how far Canada has travelled down the road to socialism, "a journey which can only end in the complete subjugation of the individual to the state." Proposes an alternative to socialism which will enable all Canadians to become individual owners of shares in the productive enterprises which generate the major part of the country's wealth, and thus enjoy two incomes - one from working and one from their own capital investment. Light yellowing to covers. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
98 pages. Features include: A New England Lighthouse; Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad Coach No. 18 - Plans; The Narrow Gauge Scene - The Rio Grande Southern's Business Cars; Road Kill on Cumbres Pass; The Model Makers Notebook - A 3-Foot Gauge Wooden Disconnected Log Truck with plans; Jeffries Point - Modelling a Scene from a prototype photo; A Train Room Cyclorama; Pennsylvania "Wildcat" Log Trucks - Plans; Conifers Again?; Up Clear Creek on the Narrow Guage - Part 94 Tree Patches; Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad Madrid Water Tank - Plans; My Sn3 Rio Grande Southern Rico Depot (includes plans); The Mann's Creek Railroad - Mann's Creek Railroad in West Virginia (circa 1955) includes drawings of a 3-Foot Guage Caboose; Taking up the Slack; The Sn3 Pandora, Crested Butte & Northern Part 2; An Sn3 Track-Cleaning Car; Building an Empire - Bright and Shiny Motor Cars and Vans; and Virginia & Truckee Railroad Wooden Water Tank Cars Nos. 1 (circa 1900 - 1941) & 2 (circa 1906 - 1938) - plans. Binding sound. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
2nd impression. VG in pictorial boards. ISBN 0600556360. 14492 eng
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor traces of creasing to edges. 160pp. A joyful survey of those expensive motor carriages in the period known as the long golden summer of the Edwardian period. Very well illustrated.
Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. Creasing to spine with rubbing around spine foot. A clean very tight copy with tape marks around spine foot boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Well handled dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to upper edge. 377pp. A comprehensive history of the British car industry up to the late 1980s from its beginnings before the First World War.
No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards, small nick to front edge and no bumping to corners. 96pp. A general service manual for the motor bike, its rider and its use. Well illustrated.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 160pp. Well illustrated history of the iconic British mini, including images showing many of the stars who drove them in the 1960s and later.
184 pages including index. "At the time when I undertook to write this book, the defence policies of Canada were a matter of greater public interest than perhaps at any previous period in time of peace since the Dominion came into existence in 1867. Today, with the country involved in a new Great War and that war in a critical stage, they command still more attention. This volume is presented as a possible contribution to public information and discussion on the subject... Intended to provide an outline of the history of Canadian defence policy, with emphasis upon the most recent period." - from Author's Preface. Chapters include: Geography and Canadian Security; The Military Institutions of an Unmilitary People - Canadian Defence Policy to 1914; The Great War and After 1914-1935; The New Defence Policy 1935-1939; The Second World War. Appendices include: The Hudson Bay Route; The Militia Reforms after 1989; Defence Expenditure 1929-1939; plus notes. Some yellowing to contents. Moderate wear to navy cloth-covered boards. Map endpapers. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1 folded map. VG. (National road maps ; 3). 18875. eng
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 176 pages. Black and white photos. Interviews with: Emilio Fernandez, Alejandro Galindo, Ismael Rodrigez, Luis Bunuel, Luis Alcoriza, Felipe Cazals, Salomon Laiter, Juan Lopez Moctezuma, Jorge, Fons, Jose Estrada, Sergio Olhovich, Arturo Ripstein, Alberto Isaac.
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery. Marilla Cuthbert's story of a long-ago suitor named Duncan McTavish sparks Sara's interest, but when a real Duncan McTavish happens to arrive in Avonlea, Sara catches Marilla in a lie. Book
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, titles in red and black, title-vignettes, and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; original pictorial buff cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in black, uncut, covers moderately age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps in blue; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Features: Frontis photo portrait and writeup on The Marquess of Tullibardine (John George Stewart Murray); Company Notes; The Route March in Scotland, story with photos and cartoons; Great full-page photo of Major Malcolm atop the Cumberland Stone, Culloden, explaining to all assembled how he intended fighting his way to Inverness; Impressions of the March; Chronicles of the Cookhouse - Scotland, August, 1906; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Chaps are Saying; Shooting - K Company prize meeting; Private Denis Kelly of the "Michaels" - his observations on military matters; and more. Faint pencil erasure atop front cover. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Please note: a quarter of the first page of advertisements has been removed. Book
Features: Frontis photo portrait and writeup on Captain Francis Howard Lindsay; Company Notes; The Bisley Meeting, with photo of the King's Prize Winner; The Route March in Scotland - continued from prior issue); The Clan Chattan; and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Features: Frontis portrait and write-up about Captain Walter Edward Webb; Company Notes; Presentation to the late Q.M.S. Mr. R.S. Darling; Regimental Athletic Supports; The Route March in Scotland (continued from a prior issue); Shooting results; Notes by the C.O.; Editorial, including photo of inspection day at the saluting base; The late Major David Laing, V.D.; Whitsuntide Signalling; Company Lectures - concentrated notes which must be diluted when used; Blair Castle; and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Features: Frontis photo of the "Daily Telegraph" Cup Team, with names of members in photo; Company notes; Our Regimental Plate - No. IV - "The Anson Cup" - with photo and article by Ian Bhreatannaich; Shooting results; Notes by the C.O.; The Route March in Scotland; Chaps are saying; The Regimental Canteen; Smoking Concert; Intelligence and Information in War - Part III of a lecture by Col. R.N. R. Reade; and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Book in mint condition. 56pp.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Front endpaper has been torn out. Edge wear to cover. 64 pages. 6 5/8"w x 9 1/8"h. Lovely, black and white and color illustrations by Clarence Biers.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; pale blue boards, upper board lettered in black, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Fine Fine English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. In publisher's special box. Folio. (35 x 23 cm). Edition in English. 451, [4] p., color photos. The last caravan on the Silk Road. [BOXED]. The Silk Road has played a tremendously important role in the history of mankind. For centuries it was this road that linked east to west and served to merge the economic, cultural and political traditions among the peoples living along this long route. The Silk Road Project, retracing the ancient Silk Road with a camel caravan, realized by partition of Arif Asçi, Necat Nazaroglu and Murat Özbey lasted a full two years. As you'll read The Last Caravan on the Silk Road, you'll see the close cultural relationships between the nations along this road and recognize the tremendous role the Silk Road played in carrying and disseminating man's cultural inheritance. The photographs by the famous photographer Arif Asçi, published in the book will shed light on our shared cultural inheritance and they will carry our past to all coming generations in the future. Today's deep interest in this ancient road is based on the tremendous role it played in carrying and disseminating man's cultural inheritance. Since the breakdown of the former Soviet Union, interest in the Silk Road has been also renewed and deepened due to the independence gained by the Turkic Republies of Central Asia.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 160pp. All the information required to choose a suitable car kit to construct yourself and how to complete it successfully to produce a safe, roadworthy car.
No marks or inscriptions and faint crease to upper corner of front cover. A very clean very tight stapled booklet with bright unmarked yellow card boards and no bumping to corners. 214-233pp. Reprinted from The Journal of Transport History, Vol II No 4. Public transport in Russia with some maps. Very scarce. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery. Facing financial ruin, Sara Stanley's father sends her with her Nanny away from his Montreal mansion to Prince Edward Island to live in the home of a family she has never met. Book