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This is a paperback copy. x, 210 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Numerous black and white photographic plates. "25,000 German officers and other ranks were sent to prisoner-of-war camps across Canada to live out the duration of WWII behind barbed wire. Their fascinating story makes for exciting and provocative reading." - from back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this little-known history. Book
26 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Roosevelt University and its Adler & Sullivan Auditorium; Weese's Circle Campus Building; A St. Louis Prize-Winner - Parkway North Senior High School; Chicago's Disney Magnet School; Mies' Office Tries its hand at Two Inner-City High Schools - Dirk Lohan's Clemente High School and Orr High School; Harry M. Weese, FAIA, named president of Inland Architect Corporation; Passing of architect of Botho Schneider; News-brief on the compact new Rock Valley junior college facililties in Rockford, IL; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
VHS video tape with case. "Joni Mitchell, the Queen of folk/rock, performs for an intimate audience on a Warner Bros. sound stage in Los Angeles. The concert is classic Joni, covering a broad base of her repertoire from over the years. With a backdrop provided by some of her very own paintings, this program is a revealing look at both the life and talents of Joni Mitchell. Featuring Big Yellow Taxi, Hejira, Crazy Cries of Love, Woodstock, Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, and fourteen other selections, this is Joni Mitchell at her best!" - from case. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
Features: Founder of the Cowboy Camp Meeting - William B. Bloys at Fort Davis, Texas in 1888; Shoot-out on Christmas Day, 1883 at McDade, Texas in Bastrop County - Thomas Bishop and George Milton; Boom Days at Ash Meadows, Nevada; Strawmen and Marshals - Ellensburg, WA and locality circa 1906; Greatest living hunter - Clell Lee; Riding the Shale Rock Trail; Paul P. Lawson and Idaho adventures; Victim of the "White Night" - unfortunate Joseph Hahn, after whom Hahn's Peak was named; Whipping Tree - primitive form of Seminole justice rarely suffered repeat offenders; John J. Tomlinson - Sawmill man of Yellowstone City in the Crow River Reservation; Oro, Arizona - most remote of the Bradshaw's Ghost Towns; The Wound that never healed - Mary Christofferson Anderson's chin was shot away by a cannonball at age 14 during the Morrisite Massacre of 1862; Rawhide times in Dakota - when it was open range from the White River to the Niobrara; I Cast My Lot With a Soldier - dedicated Army wives who followed their husbands to the American frontier in the 19th century; Appointment on Red Mountain - Emma Crawford was buried atop 7,200 foot-high Red Mountain where she said she had communed with an Indian brave; New Mexico's Mysterious Markers - many styles of Christian Cross; Flames of Starvation and Death - Cattlemen and nesters were comrades in arms when the sky warned of fire; King-sized nugget - found at the Willard Claim Mine in California's Sierra Nevadas; Uncle Milty's Legs - Milt Clements stood tall even though he only had one leg - Frank Lockert's personal museum at Coats, Kansas. Average wear. Some yellowing to pages. Occasional markings to contents. A sound copy. Book
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Farewell Banquet to Earl Grey; Russo-Japanese War; American Federation of Labor petitions congress to legislate against Mikado's subjects; The Rock Bay Bridge Question; Alberta Company Makes Big Strike - Fine Flow of Oil near the B.C. line and the Rich Flathead Valley - Pincher Creek; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including "Esquimalt & Nanaimo (E&N) Railway Time Table No. 53 with stops in Victoria, Shawnigan Lake, Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo and Wellington" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Clipping from lower corner of page 2. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
Features: The Home Sales Game - coffee, cake, and buy, buy, buy - Tupperware, etc.; The Loneliness of an Old Master - Snooker Champion George Chenier; The Auto Theft Industry; The real truth about the bible baddies; Sand Skiing at Tadoussac; Maggie Grant; Snake Charmers (fashion feature); Cybermedix - get Canada's most complete medical checkup without seeing a doctor; Part of page 33 has been clipped out - it appears to have been from an article about coloured rock; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
Features: Life under the Breathalyzer - how a neat little machine has changed party-giving, marriages, Christmas, New Year's, driving, dining, even our sex lives; From Oven to Entree - how a chicken becomes a dinner (includes recipe for Supreme of Chicken Albufera); Polish up my diamonds, I'm wearing my jeans tonight - fashion; Hair - The American Tribal-Love Rock Musical; Fran Huck - The Reluctant (Hockey) Pro - when Canada dropped out of international hockey, he announced he would turn pro; The Crepe - easy elegance (food feature); Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Some rubbing to front cover. 3"x3" piece missing from upper corner of back cover. Book
68 pages. Features: Judge Clement Haynsworth; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird; Photo of 9th Infantry Division leaving Vietnam; SALT; The anguish of Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick; Killer Camille - the greatest storm - article with photos; A tighter (Soviet) vise on Czechoslovakia; The Burning of the Al Aqsa mosque - article with photo; Two flags over Ulster; Biafra situation worsens - article with color photos; India - Indira Gandhi v. the Syndicate; Woodstock and the message from history's biggest happening - article with color photos; Why Louis Blaiberg died (after heart transplant); Who owns the (Miami) beaches?; Sherman Skolnick's Guerilla war against the Illinois justice system - article with photos; Article and photos in memory of architect Mies van der Rohe, creator of the glass and steel high-rise; Evangelist Billy James Hargis in Jerusalem; Merv Griffin; The Smothers Brothers; Interesting article on the rock music scene with photo of Blind Faith seated around large tree; The influence of the LP record; Controlling inflation; The Hilton Hotel family - Conrad and son Barron; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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
38 pages. Features: Revised Fresh Water Fishing Spots and Maps of B.C.; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Gibbs tackle; One-page Old Vienna features photo of David J. Roche presenting the O'Keefe Conservation Trophy to Albert Rand, President of the Oliver Club; Half-page illustrated ad for the "Cariboo Dayliner" includes train schedule; Nice one-page photo-illustrated ad for the Helin Tackle Company, Ltd. of La Salle, Ontario; Centrefold map of the B.C. Interior show many fishing locations; Ad by the B.C. Department of Recreation and Conservation inside back cover called "Good Fishing"! explains the value of research to fish stocks; Pilsener Beer ad on back cover; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. Small tape repair to bottom of coverfold. A quality vintage copy. 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
160 pages. Songs include: Ain't Love a Bitch; All in the Name of Rock N' Roll; Attractive Female Wanted; The Balltrap; The best Days of My Life; Blondes (Have More Fun); Born Loose; Borstal Boys; Cindy Incidentally; Do Ya' Think I'm Sexy?; Dirty Weekend; The First Cut is the Deepest; Fool for You; Hot Legs; I Don't Want to Talk About it; (If Loving You is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right; Is That the Thanks I Get?; I Was Only Joking; The Killing of Georgie (part 1 of 2); Last Summer; Love Lives Here; Maggie May; Jiss Judy's Farm; Ooh La La; Sailing; Scarred and Scared; Silicone Grown; Stay with Me; Stone Cold Sober; Tonight's The Night; You Got a Nerve; You're In My Heart; You're Insane; You Wear it Well. Undated but appears to be circa 1979. Please note that this copy bears very heavy external wear and usual library markings. Fortunately the binding is intact and all the great music is still here - most of his hard-driving raunchy hits before he mellowed out in later years. Book
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
48 pages. Eight great pages of color photos. Songs include: Stay Hungry; We're Not Gonna Take It; Burn in Hell; Horror-Teria (The Beginning); Captain Howdy; Street Justice; I Wanna Rock; The Price; Don't Let Me Down; The Beast; S.M.F. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great throwback to the head-banging days of the early 80's. Book
Features/Photos: 73,000 cross into East Berlin for Christmas; The Lakonia Disaster; End of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; Rock art of the Australian Aborigines in Northern New South Wales; Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Today I, II, III and IV; Mikhail Andreevich Suslov; Photo of elephant hindquarters; Crossing the Mekong Delta upon a Water Buffalo's back; Jim Clark-World Champion - Esso Oil Ad.; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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
56 pages. Features: Dr. John D. Strong; The Appalachian Trail; Detailed drawing of a newly designed lightship which will replace the ill-fated Nantucket; Surprising discoveries in the near east show that iron, glass, the arch, and bathrooms were in use far earlier than formerly supposed; Telepathy and Clairvoyance in a Trance Medium - an intensive series of tests conducted with a medium (Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett) and her spirit control showed the spirit to be no better as a telepathist than the medium; How bright is a lightning bug?; Various types of photographic exposure meters; Planets much larger than Jupiter are impossible; Copper and copper alloys are resisting corrosion; Back on the Land - The Subsistence Homestead movement is slowly reversing the urbanization trend - an experiment at Reedsville, West Virginia - article with photos; All-Wave Reception; Power from the Boulder Dam - two-pages of exceptional photos; Disordered glands can produce giants and dwarfs, fanatics and loafers; Rotating Wing Aircraft (helicopters) - intriguing possibilities; The Amateur Astronomer; photo of salvage bathysphere; Progress in Science - by Kermit Roosevelt; and more. Above-average external wear. Front cover nearly detached. Tape along backstrip. Not pretty but an informative vintage issue. 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
Ex-library book re-bound by the library from a magazine into heavy, strong and very new red buckram library bindings with white lettering on the spine. This was a reference book, not let to general circulation and so remains in excellent condition throughout with clean pages free of marking of any kind, no dog-ears, on fine paper with english translation section on heavy paper at the back of the publication; pages are age-toned at edges. Covers remain unbumped. Articles by Maria Bottero, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Michael Gold, Francesco Tentori, James Stirling, Joseph Rykwert, Lina Marsoni, Maria Biasia, John Taylor, Bianca B. Raboni, Giorgio Gaetani, Alberto Ferrari and a Selection of Architectural Works in b&w photos and layouts by Ahrends, Burton & Koralek, Arup Associates Architects & Engineers, Michael Brawne, Michael Gold, Edward Jones, Paul Simpson, Neave Brown, Colquhoun & Miller, Edward Cullinan, Eidred Evans, Denis Gailey & David Shalev, Gillespie, Kidd& Cola, Patrick Hodgkinson, Edward Hollamby, John Howard & Brice Rotherham, Denys Lasdun, Lyons, Israel & Ellis, Leslie Martin, Moira & Moira, Michael Neylan, Peter Phippen & Assoc, Lloyd Roche, Ricard Rogers, Su Rogers, Norman Foster, Wendy Foster, Richard Sheppard, Robson & Partners, Ivor Smith & M. lupton, James Stirling, Derek Walker, Colin St. John Wilson. Lots of large b&w photos, plans, architectural drawings, maps. 293 pages. Text is in Italian and English.
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.
