Moore, William HenryMareMagnum
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161 pages. Author's prescription to cure the Great Depression, written in the depths thereof. Average to above average wear. Erasure and small bookseller's sticker to front endpaper. Occasional pencil marks to text. Damage to top quarter inch of blue cloth spine. Book
120 pages. Chapters include: The 'Gene-Rich' and the 'Gene-Poor'; Genetic Erosion; Genetic Conservation; The Green Revolution; The Seed Revolution; The New Seedsmen; The Implications fo Restrictive Varietal Legislation; Biases in Corporate Breeding; Learing from the Corporate Experience. An early work on this vital and increasingly contentious issue. Well-worn. Unmarked. One inch opening between top of front cover and spine. Book
144 pages including index. A detailed and well-illustrated explanation of the technical terms and rules of blazon and of the science of Armory. Explains how individual coats of arms properly interpreted can be a valuable source of historical knowledge. Chapters include: heralds and heraldry; tinctures, partitions, ordinaries and sub-ordinaries; common charges; the rules of blazon; differencing and marshalling of arms; crests, crowns and coronets; the description of the achievement, and some famous arms; ecclesiastical heraldry; arms of heiresses, and hatchements; the seal; the badge; banners of arms, standards and flags. Average wear. Usual library markings else unmarked. Minor lean to spine. Book
608 pages including bibliography. Tissue-protected black and white frontis. All edges bright gilt. Date written atop half-title page. Outer portion of hinges gone. Inner portion of hinges intact. Top inch of spine missing. Several pieces of invisible tape secure coverings of spine and boards. Decent reading copy. Book
211 pages including index. Well worn but unmarked book. Spine moderately twisted. Lower corner clipped from back cover and back two pages. Covers the following: How to achieve excitement and momentum in a choir program and keep it; how to get money from the budget committee, choral outreach, developing a good repertoire; planning the worship service, taped accompaniment - friend or foe, making a musical happen, what pastors wish choir directors knew, and much more. Book
Scarce Ex-Library
46 pages. The Rescue Rangers are confronted by fierce mechanical dogs. Please note: major damage to spine. Otherwise, average wear. Minimal markings. Remains a useable reading copy. Book
63 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Chapters include: the neck or cervical spine; common causes of neck pain; exercises; when to apply the exercises; general instructions. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy of this helpful work. Book
244 pages including index. Designed to be helpful alike to the student-teacher, to the teacher who is returning diffidently to the classroom after an absence of some years, and to the teacher who wishes to savour in leisure some of the advice given him in the full and fleeting days of his/her professional training. Stated first printing. Minor spine lean to the right. Gilt lettering on boards and spine is faded but still legible. Hinges intact. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
296 pages including bibliography and index. Black and white photographic plates. A major reference work, and the first complete music history in B.C. Its well written style will appeal to the general readership, as well as students and other lovers of culture. Book in fine condition but for ink mark on top edge and peeling to front endpaper where pocket removed. Library sticker on dust jacket spine which otherwise shows moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Some high-lighting in chapter seven. 2" red stain on rear cover has soaked in 2 pages. Spine is leaning. Price sticker on rear cover. Explains how the news media represents crime. Crime news focuses on the sensational and unusual, quite often reinforcing biases and stereotypes. Thus a fear of crime is created which is out of proportion to the actual risk of victimization. Book
316 pages. Reminiscences of this influential woman. "... I cannot look back without regret. I can see too many places where I could have been more obedient to the heavenly vision, for a vision I surely had for the creation of a better world. But I hope I am leaving at least some small legacy of truth." - from the introduction. Gift inscription on back of half-title page, else unmarked. Average wear. Spine leans to right. Book
428 pages including index and black and white plates. Represents the outcome of many years' experience in the coaching of midwifery students for the examination of the Central Midwives Board. Contents follow an arrangement in which normal pregnancy, labour, and the puerperium are explained on simple lines while the complications of childbearing are introduced later as a separate section. Revised to reflect the trend towards hospital confinements and the necessity for ante-natal care. Further, advances in medicine have benefitted midwifery and are reflected. Average wear. Binding narrowly open behind front free endpaper. Gift greetings upon front flyleaf else unmarked. Blue boards and spine partially faded, moderately soiled and showing average wear with significant bump to bottom corner of front board. Book
8vo., First English Edition, with 244 woodcut illustrations in the text; original cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, red edges, upper hinge cracked (but binding wholly sound) an unusually bright, clean copy. Dedicated to Marie's fellow practitioner and researcher Charcot, this important work is based on lectures delivered at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris (where Marie was Deputy Professor) in the summer of 1891. New Sydenham Society, no. CLII. Heirs of Hippocrates 2153; Meynell II 138. Scarce
326 pages including index and black and white photos. The personal story of Theoren Fleury. Follows him through an entire hockey season while he was with the Calgary Flames. More than a sports biography, this is an engaging and insightful look at hockey as a child's game, an adult's profession, big business, mass entertainment, family pastime, and the greatest spectator sport yet invented. "...a fascinating glimpse of human nature on the rampage." - Peter C. Newman. Published before Fleury's problems in New York and Chicago. Includes 16 pages of black and white photos. Clean, bright and unmarked. Faint signs of handling. Excellent copy. Book
157 pages. Book #8 in the series. Brad has just settled into a job in his father's London office when he is engaged in a hunt for a missing person whose disappearance means the loss of a scientific secret of urgent national importance. Large tear to base of spine. Scribbing upon endpapers, etc. Writing upon front board has been coloured in with blue pen. Well-worn. We could go on, but all pages seem to be here and binding remains intact. Book
416 pages. Written in German. A large work abundantly studded with attractive black and white plates. Contents yellowed. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Attractively decorated boards and spine. Solid copy. Book
206 Pages. Illustrated with line drawings. Covers creased, scratched and worn at edges with half inch opening at foot of spine. Sticker remnants at top corner of front cover. Owner name inside front cover. Reading crease to spine. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. The recollections and reflections of a group of senior citizens to bring to life an extremely interesting and significant period in Canada's history, the nineteen years from 1895 to the outbreak of the first World War. The automobile, home electricity, the airplane and x-rays all had their beginnings in this period. Book
126 pages. Text in Dutch. Met 180 Afbeeldingen. 2E Herziene Druk. Small bookseller's sticker upon front endpaper else unmarked. Minor lean to spine. Above average wear to boards with small tear at base of spine. Front board remains attractive with gilt border, lettering and emblem. Book
261 pages. This revolutionary new look at vision will broaden your understanding of how you see and how you can see without your glasses or contact lenses. "I can attest to its effectiveness. It's fabulous: It opened my eyes" - Ray Floyd, Professional Golfer. Contents unmarked and lightly worn. Binding open at page 113. Spine leaning. Average wear. Decent working copy. Book
Mm 155x210 Collana "Saggi" - Brossura editoriale, sovraccoperta editoriale illustrata a colori con alcune leggere fioritture e strappetti ai margini, interno buono. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
55 pages plus advertisements. Undated. May be circa 1900. "Before entering on this practice, it must be strongly urged that no amount of shading or colour can ever convert a bad outline into a good picture; and that not only must a fair amount of proficiency in drawing be acquired before the present course is entered upon, but, even afterwards, correctness of form and accuracy in perspective delineation must be carefully attended to." - from page 5. Includes many plates. Prior owner's details upon front free endpaper. Both hinges gone. Boards and spine almost free of textblock. Above average wear to green boards which remain of decent appearance with bright gilt lettering upon front board. Moderate moisture-induced fading to top of spine and top corner of boards. Book
305 pages including index. Although this is the story of one county in Ontario, it covers facets universal in Canadian growth: road-building, land-clearing, the development of health and educational services, and the progress and dreams of the people themselves. The story, from Indian times to the present atomic age, is told in more than 500 black and white photographs and illustrations. Moderate wear to book which has moderate twist to its orange cloth spine. Dust jacket, bearing a wonderful large photo of a mechanical railroad shovel, is well-worn but remains functional. Book
Text is clean, clear and bright. Ex - library copy with minimal stamps, stickers and markings. Cover is clean and in very good, sturdy condition. Ex - Library
178 pages including bibliography and colour plates. A series of picaresque adventures set against the backdrop of a Japan still closed off from the rest of the world. "...Opens a wonderful window into the real-life conditions of a down-at-the-heels lower-middle level samurai." - Susan Matisoff. Average wear. Moderate lean to spine. Decent copy with usual library markings. Book