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Broch?. 226 pages. Couverture d?fra?chie. Petits manques au dos.
Seventh edition, xii, [13]-224, [2]pp., orig. boards, uncut.
56 pages. Features: Glass Works Auction #24; After 23 Years, Rochester's Still a Hot Show; Digger McDirt B.I.P. (Bottle Identification Person); "Yellow Pages"; The First "Ball Show"; Mineral Waters From Yankee Country; Medicine Chest - Atwood's Bitters Made Easier; Granny Kath's Kitchen. A nice clean copy with sound binding. Magazine
52 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Black and white photos, charts, tables, map. Extensive reference list. Contents include: Historical review of pinniped food studies in British Columbia waters; Methods and materials; General habitat description; Distribution, numbers and migratory behaviour; Feeding habits; Effect of seal and sea lion predation upon British Columbia's commercial fishery. Stiff, protective library boards over original card covers. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Genève, Pierre Cailler, "Beaux textes, textes rares, textes inédits", 1 er novembre 1946. In-8, format oblong, couverture imprimée, non coupé, 91 pp plus XV bis planches d'illustrations. Edition hors commerce publiée pour la première fois par le Club des bibliophiles, à Genève, septième volume de la collection tiré à 2500 exemplaires sur papier chamois vélin apprêté. Ce texte est suivi d'un texte inédit sur Paul Bourget et d'une iconographie complète sur l'auteur. Introduction et légendes de François Ruchon. Bel exemplaire.
8vo., First Edition, tiny signature on front free endpaper, some very faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; ivory cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue and blind, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly sunned dustwrapper. Lovely copy of Foster's psychological novel set in Cornwall. EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Pages 181-220. Features: Stelco ad inside front cover boast of their pollution reduction; Water Pollution and the Role of the canada Centre for Inland Waters; Sand; The Columbia Icefield; Shuswap Log Salvage; Volcanoes of Hawaii; Nice color-photo back cover ad for Air Canada's European service. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Pages 145-184. Features: The Canadian Northwest - Some Geographical Perspectives; S.S. Manhattan in Arctic Waters; Murray Edmund Watts - Massey Medal 1970; Annual General Meeting; and more. Nice Westinghouse ad inside front cover boats of their Northwest Passage breakthrough; Nice colour-photo ad for Inco shows underground scenes. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Exhibition catalog for show of 1999; excellent condition with cream embossed covers, color and b&w prints, 74 pages. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
165 pages. Fold out illustration inside back cover. Black and white diagrams. Two amendments hand-written upon page ii. Few other markings to contents. Last page loose but present. Chapters include: Propulsion; Steering Arrangements; The Behaviour of Ships when Turning; Handling Ships in Narrow Waters; Entering Harbour; Leaving Harbour; Handling Ships in Heavy Weather; Handling Ships in Ice; Handling Ships during Towing Operations; Handling Ships During Replenishment Operations; Handling Ships in a Fleet; Fleet Work in Pilotage Waters; Capabilities and Limitations of Machinery. Appendices include: Results of Turning Trials; Miscellaneous Tables; Grounding of H.M.S. Nelson in the Portsmouth Channel; Example of a Fleet Approaching an Anchorage. Average wear. Gilt lettering upon front board and backstrip. A worthy copy. Book
Features; Fisherman's Quiz; The Moose; Will Atlantic Lobster Breed in B.C. Waters? - article with photos; Bits About Bats; We Train Dogs - Brome Stages Kennels - great photos; Grouse are Where You Find Them; Skill Plus Determination Plus Luck equals Muskies; Wild Turkey; Recipes; The Woodcock Dog; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
86 pages. Features: In 1874 the North West Mounted Police set out on a 1,000 - mile to establish Canadian authority in the West; Trek to Manson Creek - When Charles Ace Overfeld, an eastern Pennsylvania boy-turned westerner, signed up for a mining stint at Manson Creek, British Columbia, he thought it was just the opportunity he had been waiting for to get rich quick - instead, it turned out to be his worst nightmare; Slocan Lake's Lost Silver Bullion - according to the legend, a boxcar loaded with silver bullioin, rolllling with the motion of the barge during a storm, smashed through the guard rails and vanished into the dark waters below; The Lost Strongbox of the Mount Royal - Ever since she sank in Kitselas Canyon on July 6, 1907, rumours have persisted that the Mount Royal's safe went to the bottom containing as much as $100,000 in gold. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book
176 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. List of Some Canadian Merchant ships sunk by enemy action during World War II. List of some Newfoundland Sailing Vessels Sunk by U-Boats in World War I and II. "Author served 24 years as a master of various C.N. vessels including the William Carson and the Ambrose Shea. In 1985 he was appointed Assistant Marine Superintendant and then served as Marine Superintendant until his retirement in 1990." - from back cover. Book
This is a near fine hardcover copy without dust jacket as issued. Small handling crease to first two pages at right edge. Completely clean. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition at Gagosian in New York from September 16 to October 22, 2011. Essays by John Waters and Bob Colacello. Illustrated mostly in color, with one fold-out. List of works. 12" high X 11" wide, 123 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking
92 pages. This history of Roslyn School, Westmount, Quebec. Illustrated in black and white. Gift greetings inside front cover else unmarked. Average wear. Decent copy in illustrated brown covers. Book
Paris, Gallimard, 1927. 2 volumes in-12, brochés, 311 et 269 pp. Edition originale tirée à 1.003 ex. Un des 894 ex n° sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. Bel ex n° 241.
97 pages. "Presents for the first time to the medical fraternity at large and would-be visitors from abroad a survey of the facilities for treatment and rehabilitation available at the various German Health Resorts, Spas, and Watering Places." - Foreword. Chapters include: Balneo- and Climatotherapy; The Treatment of Certain Diseases at Spas and Health Resorts; Choosing a Climate to Suit the Individual Patient; The Marine Resorts of Germany; The German Spas and Health Resorts - their local characteristics, geology and travel facilities, The Uses of Bottled Spa Waters; Alphabet of the German Health Resorts - Spa, Seaside, Inland. Average wear. Binding intact. Minimal markings to contents. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. A sound copy of this interesting and informative vintage guide from a time when these resorts had recovered from the effects of WWII during which they served as hospitals of various kinds. Book
Articles: Too Few Ships, Too Few Guns, and Not Enough Money - The Mexican Navy, 1846-1848; Computer Simulations of Ancient Voyaging; Arctic Focus - the Royal Canadian Navy in Arctic Waters, 1946-1949; Muster Table for the Royal Navy's Establishment on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812; The Company of Women; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
Features: The General Manager's Special, by Samuel Merwin; What the Man in the Moon Saw, by C.A. Stephens; In Channel Waters - III, by Mary Austin; Lost from the Fleet - V; by George Allan england; His Lone Adventures, by Franklin Welles Calkins; Nostalgic image of a young basketball player in Crowell Publishing ad on page 219; Plan for foot-powered sander; Ways and Means of Getting to College - how girls are doing it now; The Field of Evil Weeds, by Edward W. Frentz; and more. Nice ad for the Willys Overland Six on back cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Stream-Driver's Revenge, by Charles G.D. Roberts; Lost from the Fleet - VII, by George Allan England; In Channel Waters - IV, by Mary Austin; The Neighbors Said he Would't Amount to Much - Vic Donahey, Governor of Ohio; The Leap for Life, by Russell Gordon Carter; Illustration of Egypt's Makwar Dam on the Blue Nile, the largest dam in the world; Plans for building a tree house; Easter Bonnets - with photos; Little Josephine and her Thousand Buttons, by Frances S.M. Francks; and more. Ad for Proctor and Gamble's White Naptha Soap on back cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
164 pages. Text not in English. Illustrated throughout with black and white photography. Minor bend to front board else clean and unmarked with light wear. A handsome coffee table volume. Book
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, very numerous photographs and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. This third volume of the author's MTB trilogy completes the standard reference on these craft. This volume is arranged chronologically and includes decorations, awards, war losses, and short MTB and MBG flotillas in home waters. Many of the photographs are rare and previously unpublished. SCARCE.
Second Edition, corrected and improved, [iv],92pp., library stamp on verso of title-page, cont. half calf, marbled sides, a little rubbed. This second edition is not mentioned in Boyne, the first edition having been published in 1773. Boyne, The Yorkshire Library, p. 255 (first edition).
5 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with frontispieces and plates; coloured boards, buckram backs (green/green/terracotta/green/green respectively), backstrips lettered in gilt, coloured tops, coloured endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. First published between 1991 and 1995, this elegant edition of the Irish Novels is introduced by leading writers and enhanced by full-page illustrations. The series comprises: The Macdermots of Ballycloran. Introduction by Owen Dudley Edwards. Illustrations by Elisa Trimby (third impression thus, 1998); The Kellys and the O'Kellys. Introduction by Terence De Vere White. Illustrations by Alexy Pendle (first edition thus, 1992); Castle Richmond. Introduction by Max Hastings. Illustrations by Rod Waters (first edition thus, 1994); An Eye for an Eye. Introduction by Maeve Binchy. Illustrations by Elisa Trimby (first edition thus, 1993); The Landleaguers. Introduction by Frank Delaney. Illustrations by Val Biro (second impression thus, 1998). COMPLETE SETS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE.
Second Edition, part I [all published], [ii],[5]-116pp., new endpapers, modern boards, spine printed paper label. First published in 1800, of this second revised edition only the first part was published. Sir George Smith Gibbes (1771-1851) was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1803 and Fellow 25th June, 1804. He settled at Bath, where he practised with distinguished reputation and success for a long series of years. In 1804 he was elected physician to the Bath General hospital; in 1819 was appointed physician extraordinary to Queen Charlotte, and in 1820 received the honour of knighthood.
