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160 pages. Features: Walter McInnis - Part I - The Lawley Years; ALVIN CLARK; Lofting by numbers; The Ancient and Versatile Vlet; The McKenzie River Drift Boat - for whitewater fishing in Oregon; Motonautico - the water taxis of Venice; A cold-molded rejuvenation; The Australian Cadet Dinghy; Building the Beetle Cats, Part II - Stem and Centreboard Trunk - the continuing study of Concordia's production methods; The End of Your Rope. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Conversations with Bud McIntosh; The Swampscott Dory - Hodgdon Style; RONDO's Recovery; The Modified McInnis Bateau; Bronze - the Non-timber; SKIDOO - ultra-light displacement; Building the Wayfarer kit; Projection Lofting; Building the Beetle Cats, Part I - Keel and Transon; Custom Sawmilling. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Walter McInnis - Part II - The Emergence of Eldredge-McInnis; The Weather Side of Gaff Rig; A New Coaster - the schooner HERITAGE; The theft of RANDOM SCOOT; Building the first Lightning; The Folding Kayak; Folding Boats at Sea; LILY - a cabinetmaker's Whitehall comes to life; ISKRA sails down east; Seven Bends - 7 ways to tie lines together, even in slick synthetics; Building the Beetle Cats, Part III - fitting and bending frames; Damaged Planks - their repair and replacement. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Almost one inch thick. Above-average wear. Binding sound. Some markings and soiling. Still a sound working copy of this excellent reference. Book
335p. Small 4to. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Original priced dust jacket, small tear rear edge. Hardbound. Very good. First Printing. LIT BOX 4
Contents: Classic photo ad for the Volkswagen Beetle shows the car crossed-out; Sweet color-photo ad for the front-wheel drive Oldsmobile Toronado; Update on the Vietnam War; Photos from Con Thein; Hurricane Beulah ravages the Texas coast; Time Essay - Divided We Stand - The Unpopularity of U.S. Wars; Photo of the Shah and his family with article; Six-pages of colour photos of Iran; Jews occupy Arab territories; A visit to Canton, China; Photo of Ibo prisoners at gunpoint in Nigeria; Nice two-color illustrated ad for the Pontiac GTO; Nice color Jeepster ad; The Fight to ban the sonic boom near Santa Barbara; Mike Douglas of the Mike Douglas Show - with photo; Using Uranium in projectiles - depleted uranium bullets - uranium flechettes - with photo; Athlete Kevin Hardy; How Smokers get Hooked; Volume of puts and calls increasing; Bernard (Bernie) Cornfeld and Investors Overseas Services - with photo; Photo of Will and Ariel Durant at home; Nice color-photo ad for Haig & Haig Pinch Scotch featuring musician David; Uncommon full-page photo ad for Canadian Pacific Jets; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
63 pages. Features: How courts price your injuries; The mystery flight of Rudolph Hess (first of 3 parts); Penguin thinks he's people; Carmelites - rare glimpse of a silent world; 10-page life insurance advertising supplement; Policewoman Sally Krowchynski of the Edmonton Flying Police Club; Fantastic full-page colour Jantzen ad featuring a very handsome Jean Beliveau; Educated Dice - the rolling reader contains seven dice with different words on each face - it makes learning to read into a game; Water Beetle - Ray Pastuck converted his Volkswagen into a boat!; Canada's biggest unconfined explosion at Suffield, Alberta - 3 great colour photos - smoke ring; Collector of Militaria - Eduard Kohler of Neuberg, Germany; He Killed in his sleep - Willis Boshears killed Jean Constable; "We flew into Hurricane Carla" - the crew of plane 5 spent five days tracking the worst tropical storm in 60 years, and their reports enabled half a million persons to flee; NHL President Clarence Campbell's 15 years in office; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Features: The People of the Caves; My Journey in Bhutan - I; An Arctic Man-Hunt; The Sydney "Flying-Machine"; An Odd Voyage; The Rescue Dogs of St. Bernard; How we Bluffed the Bushrangers; Life in a Japanese Prison; Short Stories - An Adventure in the "Towers of Silence", Hassan's Bride, Prospecting for Yaqui Gold; The Sportsmen of the Near East; Ning Wo the Wonderful; The Golden Beetle; The Riddle of the Zambesi; A Hero's Life Story; "The Hermit of Rotheneuf"; Marooned on a Sandbank; The "Tank Scrap"; Short Stories - A Luncheon Party in Rhodesia, The Ordeal of Mrs. Benns; The Deputation That Failed; An Island of Mystery; The Ghost of No. 1 Jetty; My Journey in Bhutan - II; The One-Eyed Parrot; The "Pearl of the Mediterranean"; A North Atlantic Tragedy; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina; A Lost Hamlet; How I Climbed Mount Popocatepetl; The Masked Bandit of Tucson; Under the Star and the Crescent - I; Pegging out the Empire; Short Stories - The Jail-break at Kungyangon, The Missing Bracelet, The Story of a Glass Eye; Earnst's Luck;; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - I; The Gipsy Polka; Abalone-Fishing; The Old Mexican Mine; A Mystery of the Bush; An Artist's Adventure; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - I; The Rival Rain-Makers; Pegging Out the Empire - II; The Clue of the Marked Bamboo; Earthquakes from a Japanese Point of View; The Robbery at Goldsmiths; The Experiences of a Deputy-Postmaster; Some Adventures with Sea-Lions; Under the Star and Crescent - II; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - II; Lost in an Underground Maze; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - II; On the Hill Crest Patrol; Stories of "Stripes" - the Tiger and the Tow-Boat, The Phantom Tiger; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - II; The Dynamite Smuggler; A House Built in a Day; Bulstrode and the Bear; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - I; The Castaways of Guadalupe Island; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - III; Sport in India; Phaulkon's Treasure; The Balinese and Their Ways; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - I; My Most Exciting Ballooning Experiences; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - III; The Gum-Hunter; A Himalayan Arcadia; The Jealously of Pepe; A Texan "Snake-Farm"; One New Year's Day; Twelve Hundred Miles in a Paper Boat; Fishing on the Molopo; Locating a Leak; Two Men in a Cave; A Wanderer in Asia Minor - I; Wilson's "Scoop"; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - II; A Race for a Gold-Mine; In the Far North-West - I; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - II; How I Lassoed a Moose. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
84 pages. Features: Niagara Falls "Maid of the Mist" cover photo; Slum Clearance is a Hoax; Robert Kennedy and the Liberals; Out to Launch; See America First; The Killer That Stalks the Newborn - deadly respiratory disease kills 25,000 per year; My Twelve Years With Kennedy - The Presidential Years - by his personal Secretary, Evelyn Lincoln; Actress Jean Simmons - The Mouse Becomes a Cat - color photos with article; Will Snick Overcome? - photo-illustrated article on the wildest of civil-rights groups which teaches its poorest Negroes to challenge whites. Fiction: Peace; The Gaudiest Thing on Wheels. Ads: Lucky Strike ad inside front cover features photo of man with bite out of his hat; Bell Telephone ad features photos of Carol Ann Pagano of New York City; General Electric Appliances; Nice two-page Volkswagen ad shows race car trailing a Beetle; Dial Soap; Rexall Sweepstakes; Nice color ad for the 1965 Ford Pickups with Twin I Beam independent suspension; Masterpiece cigarettes; Phillies Cheroots Cigars; Color-photo centerfold ad for Firestone features Indianapolis 500 photo; Flying A Service; National LP-Gas; Interesting one-page ad encouraging motorists to use seatbelts (before shoulder straps came into use); Tab soda - very nice one-page color photo ad inside back cover shows mom on beach with young son; Viceroy cigarette ad on back cover is color photo of an evening weenie roast on the beach. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
217p. Small 8vo. Original yellow cloth spine over paper covered boards, spine slightly darkened. Original priced dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. Very good. First Edition. LIT BOX 4
275p. Small 8vo. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Original dust jacket, spine darkened. Book Club Edition. Hardbound. Very good. LIT BOX 4
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full green cloth boards with black mushrooms decoration. Light wear and discoloration to dust jacket. 5 3/4"w x 7"h. 48 pages. Pictures by Erik Blegvad.
PARIS, Lib. Delagrave - 1946 - In-8 - Cartonnage éditeur - Illustrations NB HT - 383 pages - Bon exemplaire
16 pages. Four pages of black and white photographic plates plus dozens of additional line drawings in text. Average wear. Some foxing. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Paginated 231:332.
Paginated 121:230. Crease on both corners of front cover.
Small black mark on page fore-edges. Cover corners, top/base of spine, worn and bumped. Page edges greyed with dust marks
Very cute book in green cloth with gilt print at spine, embossed squirrel on cover (!), two lightly bumped corners, light sunning at spine edges. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is tattered, tears at upper and lower spine, sunning, chipping at folds, not price clipped. Previous owner's book plate on front end paper; illustrated endpapers, b&w illustrations. Fictional tales based on "actual animals in an actual place," the animals being: the Beetle Rock,The Weasel,The Sierra Grouse, The Chicharee, The Black Bear, The Lizard, The Coyote, The Deer Mouse, The Stellar Jay, The Mule Deer, otter, cutthroat trout, osprey, mosquito, scud, mink, varying hare, merganser, moose, leech, leopard frog, snail, trumpter swan, beaver. ACTUAL first ed., (not a later printing). The words "First Edition" appear on publisher's page with NAP. Wrapped in protective clear cover.
Features: Gliders of the Night - the aerial wizardry of flying squirrels; What in this world can a beetle see?; The Crisis in our Forests - Canada's forests are running out of marketable timber; Seismic Considerations - a look at earthquakes in Canada; The 1983 Nature Canada photo contest; Water Music - The unsung melodies of water in motion. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
108 pages. Features: Two-page ad for Electrohome televisions, of Kitchener, Ontario; The Operational Code of Pierre Elliott Trudeau; One-page colour-photo ad for the (green) Chrysler Newport Royal; Have I Ever Lied To You Before? - The Table Talk of Jerry Goodis; Two-page Volkswagen Beetle ad shows Beetle confronted by a 'gang' of North American cars; Colour Royal Bank ad features photo of 'Mary'; One-page colour-photo ad for Molson Canadian (in stubby bottle) beside fancy drink; Arrow shirt ad features colour photo of Toronto disc jockey "Jungle" Jay Nelson (of 1050 CHUM) and John McLeod; Keeping Toronto Hateful - Eight pages explain why any sensitive Canadian continues to live in such a rotten place(!); Toronto - Middle-Class capital of the world; Who's Who in the Toronto Power Game; Feature article on hockey player Derek Sanderson; Colour photos and interview with Derek's lady, Judy Martin; 20 Things You'd Better Know About the New Taxes, by Izzie Asper; The Sound of Mario Bernardi; Backing the Better Mousetrap - article on inventors taking their ideas to market, including Harold Humphreys who invented the Polypump, and Peter Davis; A Feast of Provinces - article on Canada by Al Purdy; Colour-photo ad for the Series 30 Chevy Van (RV) includes photo of A.R. Williams of Terence Bay, Halifax County, Nova Scotia; Canadian Club ad features colour photos of the Mudmen of New Guinea; One-page colour ad for the Chevrolet Vega; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for the 1972 Buick Centurion (green two-door); Article on television includes small photo of comedian Flip Wilson; Fiat black and white photo ad inside back cover features photo of Mr. Ferrari and the Fiat 128 he drives. Average wear. Unmarked. Minor bit of moisture exposure at bottom of coverfold. A sound vintage copy. Book
Piemme, 1997. Traduzione di Vincenzo Jacomuzzi. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
Paris, Editions du Scarabée, 1981. In-8, broché, 166 pp.
Book shows light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 333 pages, contents include: Hunting wasp, instinct, Peacock moth, Snail-shell bee, Sacred beetle, Beetle patriarch, Bembex wasp, Moult of the locust, Song of the cicada, Praying mantis, Mating of the mantis, Red ants, Experimentswith mason-bees, foamy cicadella, Burying beetle, Psyche moth, Crab spider, etc. Intro, editing by Edwin Teale.