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233 pages. "An English treatise dealing rather fully with the subject of Neuralgia." - from Preface. Occasional markings to contents. Hinges and binding intact. Above average wear to boards and spine. Library markings consist only of shadow of former spine label and prior owner's rubber stamp upon front endpaper. Book
268 pages including index. A detailed and authoritative study of constitutional development in Newfoundland from the introduction of responsible government to federation with Canada. Should become the definitive history of Newfoundland. Large attractive brilliant gilt lettering upon black background on spine. Green cloth boards each have small bump at top corner. Former owner's name and details neatly upon front endpaper else unmarked. Price clipped dust jacket is lightly to moderately worn and may be faded along spine. Book
122 pages plus 16 pages of advertisements. Gives an outline of the present position of Banking in the United Kingdom, with as complete an estimate as is possible of the amount of capital engaged in it. Traces some of the changes which transpired during the past quarter century, the vast development of the sums deposited, the great increase in the rapidity of the circulation of money; as well as the importance of these alterations, and the influence which they may exert in any time of pressure. A complete description of the Banking system in Sweden, Denmark, and Hamburg is included, with details which have hitherto never been published in this country. Spine missing. Maroon coloured boards well-worn and soiled. Both hinges gone. Binding fragile. Minor quantity of markings to contents. Prior owner's name atop title page. Some foxing and soiling to contents. Rough copy but the information is all here. Book
168 pages. Copyright date 1973. Rare publication featuring over eight hundred bottles pictured and priced. Spine pulling away from back of pages but is not torn. Average wear and rubbing to covers. Former owner's name and information inside front cover. Chapter titles include: Inks; Spirit Bottles; Sodas; Pottery; Foods; Medicines & Drug Store Bottles-Poisons; Beer and Ales; Miniatures. A superb reference with emphasis upon bottles from British Columbia. Book
8vo, 20pp., 2 lithographed plates, disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with a couple of their neat library stamps.
Unpaginated. This wonderfully illustrated book teaches young children how to count. Bottom three inches of spine missing. Front endpaper loosening from front board. Average bumping and wear. Contents unmarked and lightly soiled. Book
175 pages including index. "These pages deal with the practical application of the theory given by Professor A.E. Conrady and are the result of the writer's experience in teaching optical computation and design extending over many years." Moderate quantity of markings. Damage to spine. Both hinges open. Text block in decent condition. Worthy reading copy. Book
216 pages including index. Beginning with the creation of Canada's first national park in Banff in 1885, the author provides a sympathetic story of the historical tension between conservation and profit which has marked Canada's national parks policy. Traces this motif from the era of MacDonald and Van Horne, through that of Mackenzie King to the initiatives of Trudeau and Chretien. One inch tear to bottom of front cover at spine. Covers show significant wear but contents clean and unmarked. Book
152 pages. Records the development of Western Canada from 1882 to 1939 as seen through the eyes of farm journalists who wrote about what they saw and felt during that time. Records how the prairie farmer has been a vital cog in Canada's economic, political and social development. Chapters include: The Sod Busters; Farm Power and Farmer Power; Feeding a War; The Turbulent Twenties; The Dirty Thirties. Abundantly illustrated including numerous wonderful full-size colour reproductions of contemporary magazine covers. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear and slight lean to spine. Dust jacket bears several tears and shows average wear. Lovely copy. Book
160 pages. Author's inscription and signature upon half title page. Presents colour and black and white photographs of remarkable scope and diversity ranging from mood shots to landscapes; from portraiture to sports; from architecture to humour. The total effect is a matchless profile of the whole panorama of life that is Calgary. Book shows minimal wear and remains attractive with bright gilt lettering upon front board and spine. Minor warp to front board. Some soiling and a variety of tears to dust jacket. Book
124 pages. Recommended by the Minister of Education for use in the schools of Ontario. Originally published in 1933. Colour frontis. Dozens of excellent illustrations. Wonderful Ontario history. Chapters include: Pioneer Co-operation - "Bees"; Amusement and Social Life in the Towns; Pioneer Sports - Curling. Former school reference copy with card pocket inside back cover and writing upon front free endpaper. Spine secured with strip of cloth tape. Back hinge open. Above-average wear. Still a useful copy of this truly delightful and now important work which presents true original Canadian rural culture. Book
184 pages. These works may be considered an introduction to the author's comprehensive and more voluminous books. Well-worn. Covers loosening from textblock. Some lean to spine. Prior owner's name atop title page else unmarked. Remains a worthy reading copy. Book
Approx. 1 inch thick. Provides the service man with complete information on the construction, operation, maintenance and repair of various units of the 1949 to 1954 Series 2000 and 2200 Pontiac passenger cars. Sections include: unit serial numbers/lubrication; body; frame/shock absorbers; front suspension; rear axle/universal joints/rear springs; brakes; engine mechanical/engine cooling/engine fuel/engine clutch; transmission/1951-52 Powerglide/1953-54 Powerglide; fuel and exhaust; steering gear/power steering; wheels and tires; chassis sheet metal; electrical system. Bit of writing at top of front cover. Orange covers with average wear. Major lean to spine. Average soiling and wear to unmarked contents. Decent copy. Book
27 pages including 12 detailed colour transparencies plus additional colour illustrations. Copyright 1962. A "Trans-Vision" picture book designed to help the physician answer many questions posed by patients, by providing illustrations for their answers. Contains a minimum of captions and organized in sections so it can be used from the patient's first visit to her postnatal check-up. Enables physicians to answer questions regarding breast enlargement, frequency of urination, constipation, nausea and vomiting, backache, varicose veins, and after delivery, the problems connected with involution. Former owner's name atop title page. Average wear overall. Slight lean to spine of black boards which fold over spiral bound contents. Book
167 pages. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper, else unmarked. Excellent condition with silver lettering upon spine and front board. Book
Unpaginaged board book. Substantial wear and soiling. Child's name inside front board. Your 6 or 7 year old will love the wacky riddles! Top of spine loosening. Sticker patch on front board. Book
212 pages. Essays on the economics of housing in Canada and on the effects of rent control in the United States, the United Kingdom, Austria, France and Sweden. "If this account seems to boil down to a catalogue of iniquities to be laid at the door of rent control, that is no mere coincidence, but inevitable..." - Professor F.A. Hayek, Nobel Laureate. Minor lean to spine. Average wear. Few markings to contents. Binding aging but remains intact. Book
Former owner's name in ink on front endpaper. Spine leans slightly to the right. Minor bumping and edge wear. Robin Hood gets the King's gold... again! Book
342 pages. Includes numerous interesting black and white photos. In this first-hand, first-person story, Larry Robinson tells what it's like to be Larry Robinson - to share in the glory of the Montreal Canadiens, to win six Stanley Cups as part of the celebrated franchise, to hold the NHL record for most playoff games played, to leave Canada for the endless summer of California and a new career as a Los Angeles King. Average wear. Unmarked. Some yellowing to pages. Reading crease along spine. Book
129 pages plus index. Former owner's bookplate inside front board. Attractive forest green boards. spine leans slightly to right. A reference work intended for readers requiring a compact, easy-to-read compendium of information on the area's ecology, its spectacular mammals and birds, their habitats, social organization, and migratory patterns. Includes many dozens of photographs, some in colour, plus hundreds of beautifully informative drawings. Part one deals with the general geography of the Rocky Mountain region and the behaviour and ecology of each major family or group of mammals and birds in the region. Part two, the Natural History Folios, gives a succinct textual summary and an extensive visual representation of each major species of Rocky mountain mammal, with emphasis upon photography. Book
Front endpaper removed. Unpaginated. Contains Rollerskating song music and lyrics. Damp stain affects all pages near upper spine. Jamie and his little sister Andrea found rollerskates in the old trunk in the basement. Jamie decided to use them. This is his story. Author is celebrated Canadian children's entertainer. Book
A very interesting issue. Features: Triangulation - why and how this precise surveying job is done; Editorials - The Nicaragua Canal - The "R-101" disaster - Spiritism exposed - Why a navy is needed - Sick railroads - Lessons learned; Our changing transportation - competitors to the railroads; Zone television and the television arc - television transmission via three channels; Tudying up the constellations - archaic method of outlining roups is being simplified; Problems of calendar improvement - the importance of the movment ot change our calendar; Tons of human hair in industry - woven into press-clth, hair serves a most useful purpose; This new big business of gardening - food raising becomes a gigantic mechanized industry; From the archeologist's Notebook - bronze bowl - home of a notorious Roman - Lid of Canopic jar - a Roman portrait - Chinese head-dress ornament; Man's insect allies - an insect that feeds on cacti and destroys them; Change - the great competitor; Sulfur - the second of three related articles on salt, sulfur and petroleum; Clemenceau and Foch - the United States enters the war - the Armistice and peace conference; Diesel versus gasoline-engined plane - the diesel-engined plane has a higher "ceiling"; A flexible amusement building in New Orleans - a municipal auditorium with a movable stage platform; A two-mile industrial water tunnel - tunnel for the ford plant carries enough water for several cities. Chip loose at top of spine. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Tear to page 402. Book
Colour Lucky Strike advertisement upon back cover features large picture of June Collyer. Inside of back cover features full-page advertisement from the National Publishers Association which quotes John H. Patterson, Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Fortune Ryan's words from past depressions and concludes "American has beaten 19 Major Depressions - she will beat this one... as the most nearly self-contained nation, we have within our own boundaries the elemental factors for recovery." Features: Mrs. Sinclair's "Mental Radio" - a record of amazing experiments in mental telepathy made by the wife of a well-known author; Editorials - Rear Admiral Winslow - Out of Adversity - Interstate truck regulation - the country's health; George Washington, Inventor - the versatility of our first President included invention and scientific farming; A miniature solar system and its problems - Jupiter's four major satellites and other small ones make up a system that baffles the astrophysicist; Gem-stone cutting for the amateur - a fascinating hobby with a mechanical and an esthetic appeal; To salvage a sunken liner's treasure - new methods used in recovering the gold from the Egypt; A New Turbine rocket plane for the upper atmosphere - combination drive for a proposed stratosphere plane; Why power companies plant trees - public utility companies now reforesting their water power watersheds; a Horizontal well supplies fresh water to Bermuda - a modern system supplants old rainwater from roofs system; George Washington, the father of the American Navy; From Angora Goat to Mohair Fabric; The telephone spans the Pacific - the first commercial service from California to Hawaii is inaugurated; From the Archeologist's Note book - Sumerian Diorite Head - stand from grave Athenian jug - Persian strong-box; Preservation of Leather Book Bindings - treatment and formulas to protect old or rare library volumes. Average wear. Small openings at top and bottom of spine. Unmarked. Book
Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. 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