Lehn, Cornelia; Jackson, Dr. Mary PercyMareMagnum
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215 pages. Index. "Dr. Mary Percy came from England to northern Alberta in 1929 when the country was still a wilderness. She intended to stay a year but got too involved to leave. She fell in love with the Peace River Country, and with Frank Jackson who matched her in spirited resourcefulness." - from back cover. Includes many interesting old-time black and white photographs. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Book shows light wear to covers, top of spine has a tear, some edge wear. Binding is solid and square, though splitting in the middle (see photo), text/interior is clean and free of marking to the text. 88 pages with occasional b&w photos including one, representative of the book's somewhat hard to fathom seriousness with the caption " Some of the common ritual items include a water pipe, and ounce of marijuana and cigarette papers": depicting a coffee table with a cheap radio alarm-clock and the mentioned items. The text may have moved into camp.
"The "Greek Revival" has long been recognkised by architectural historians, but literary historians and critics have neglected the parallel movement in the literature of the time, in spite of the fact that the neo-classicism of the period from 1740-1820 was primarily of literary inspiration. . this book .examines the response of a number of . English writers of the time to the Grecian Taste. includes essays on Mark Akenside, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, William Blake, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Love Peacock, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Book
200 p. Hardcover Very good condition
48 pages. Circa early 1960s. Includes music and lyrics to: Call Me Irresponsible; (The) First Night of the Full Moon; I Get Along Without You Very Well; King of the Road; Lollipops and Roses; Love Letters; Love with the Proper Stranger; Lush Life; (The) Mood I'm In; Moonlight Becomes You; (The) Race is On; This Love of Mine; We'll Be Together Again; Where Love Has Gone; Wives and Lovers. Average wear. Binding sound. Original bookseller's ink stamp upon table of contents. Binding intact. A sound copy of this nostalgic compilation of classic hits. Book
8vo., Second Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges and with loss at backstrip (obscuring author's name). Heavily revised version of the first edition of 1933. The first edition to carry the author's name, and with the third [and final] the text. In an unpublished note Williamson says 'I have rewritten the Revised Edition; it is the best so far, with new scenes to replace much of the 'old acid' of Manfred (and his appalling rudeness to his wife in the early Chapters)'. Gretton, 17; Matthews A17:1947a.
64 pages. Selected from the season's most popular song successes. Includes sheet music and guitar chords for the following songs: In the Chapel in the Moonlight; Empty Saddles; The Glory of Love; The One Rose; Timber; It's the Gypsy in Me; The Scene Changes; Sweet Misery of Love; Now or Never; Nobody to Love; A High Hat, A Piccolo and a Cane; A Treat for the Eyes; One Hamburger for Madame; Jingle Bells (I'm in Love); My Midnight Star; Just Say Aloha; I'm Sailing a Dream boat; The Old Country Doctor; Strings that Plead for You; Here Comes the Girl; You will Never be Too Old to Love; Hail, Men of Adventure, Hail; Honey, Please don't turn your back on me; I've Waited a Lifetime; Swing Me a Lullaby; Me and the Sun; Thanks a Lot. Also includes several photos of famous song writers. Average wear. Three-inch opening along bottom of cover-fold. A quality copy of this nostalgic compilation. Book
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: The Seven Year Itch - Fact or Fancy? - article by Dr. Albert Ellis; Love for Six Broccolis - fantasy by Bruce Jay Friedman; Photo feature of Patricia Stockton; Profile of Comedian Lenny Bruce; The Goal - fiction by Stuart James; The Women who Helped Settle the West - A look behind the screen at one of TV's more distorted images; The Election - fiction by Richard Harper; The Jazz Makers - Part I of a Symposium by Arnold Shaw; Photos of men's leisure wear fashions; The Casting Couch - satirical article by Robert G. Elliott; Photos of women in showers/mud baths at the Westerlands Kurbadehauser, or Westerland Health Club on the island of Sylt in Germany; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition with a little foxing to the endpapers only. Binding is solid and square, in bright blue cloth covers with silvers sparkles. Covers have sharp corners; exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Red dot at top page ends.
56 pages. Fantastic full-page glossy colour photos of the boys in concert. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Dedicate This Heart; Just in Time; Keep This Train A-Rollin'; No Stoppin' Us Now; One By One; One Step Closer; Real Love; South Bay Strut; Thank You Love. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A nice vintage Doobie Brothers memento. Book
The Dominion of Love is a collection of poems by fifty of Canada's top writers, including Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, Marilyn Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Lorna Crozier, Joy Kogawa, Patrick Lane, Dorothy Livesay, Susan Musgrave, Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, Shannon Stewart, Phyllis Webb, Howard White and Patricia Young. Strikingly perceptive, literary and passionate, these poems explore the landscape of love and romance. They map the complexities of first love, eroticism and marriage all while avoiding the effusive sentimentality that often accompanies this genre. 159p. Book
32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Woodrow Wilson Was Best and Worst Copy - his passion for accuracy conflicted with newspapermen who ignored serious things to ask him 'what he ate for breakfast' - part 3; Housekeeping in Our Paris Flat - how two Americans fared in the French Capital and "Got to Love Passy"; ; Never Separated a Single Family - open-door immigration specialists slander the United States Government - Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, urges passage of the most liberal of all the liberalizing measures - the Perlman bill; Life and Death on the Screen - A.C. Pillsbury films bacteria and pollen in action - motion pictures of flower fertilization; What's the Matter With Jim? - the story of a boy who would only work when he thought it play; Mr. Ford's Page - interesting thoughts on the forces involved with prohibition; Editorials - major criticism of the World Court and claim that in Michigan a list of Americans targetted for assassination by communists has been found; Golf - Can You Pick the Champions? - Americans will attempt to capture leading British honors - article with photos of Glenna Collett, Francis Ouimet, Macdonald Smith, Walter Hagen, Watts Gunn, Long Jim Barnes, Bobby Jones and Robert Gardner; Lincoln's Murder - Amazing Man Hunt - John Surratt and Papal Zouave accused of the crime, who leaped for liberty over a hundred-foot precipice - article with photos of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Mary Surratt; What it Costs the Chinese to Worship Their Ancestors - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Is America a Nation of Coffee-Bibbers? - Its people drink upward of forty billions of cups of this seductive beverage each year, consuming more than half of World's Production; Union of Irish and Jews in recent 'propaganda' plays - Abie's Irish Rose, Kosher Kitty Kelly; Great Writers Who Have Failed as Novelists; Seeking to Know What the Earth is Made of - the work of Professor Stjepan Mohorovicic and others; When the Broker Breaks the Law; A Dance a Week - The Lancers, a graceful square dance - first two figures, with piano sheet music (to be continued); Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon offers course in the guardianship of a real baby; The Jolly Old Pedagogue; Back cover features illustration of and quotation by Henry Thoreau. Small chip from fore-edge of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
pp. 41, 4 [Publisher's catalogue]. Illustrated with small text drawings, some in Arabic letters. XLib stamp of the Lancaster Mechanic's Society Library on title page and elsewhere. Edges of text darkened. 12mo. 185 mm. Original patterned stamped publisher's cloth binding. Extremities rubbed. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. BAL 251. SCARCE. AI BX 8
x + 206pp., 23cm., in the series "Studies in Romance Language and Literatures" vol.42, [Doctoral dissertation]
Mm 330x500 Edizione a cura di Madeleine Gisler-Huwiler e Schütze Sebastian. Volume in copertina rigida con sovraccoperta, custodia protettiva in cartone figurato, 364 pagine profusamente illustrate a colori. Testo in inglese, francese e tedesco - English-French-German texts. Opera in condizioni di nuovo - brand new in original shrink-wrap. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Covers and spine are creaseless. Binding is solid and square, covers have a tiny bit of corner wear, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 586 pages. Frank O'Hara was a dynamic leader of the "New York School" of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler and the abstract expressionist painters in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s such as Larry Rivers, Jackson Pollock, and Jasper Johns. He was a poet, writer and art critic, long time front desk person and then curator at the N.Y. Museum of Modern Art.
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Marked "First Edition" "First Printing" on publisher's page. Smells a bit of Nag Champa incense.
Five pages of photos, most in colour, of Pierre and Margaret Trudeau and their wedding; Don't Cry, There's Still Richard Hatfield - The bachelor premier of New Brunswick is young and handsome and drives a Cougar - he also has lots of money and likes discotheques (for those women upset that Pierre Trudeau is now off the market); Maggie Grant; Gorgeous fashion photos of Scrunchable Hats; CBC's International Shortwave Radio Service in Sackville, New Brunswick; The Great Jim Stillwagon Steal - Green Bay Packers fumble, Toronto Argonauts recover, and Canadian football (CFL) comes up with the finest young lineman in America; William Ready brings the Bertrand Russell Papers - more than 200,000 books, letters, photos, manuscripts and love letters - to Hamilton, Ontario's McMaster University; Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine in trade size paperback. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 81 pages.
110 pages. Songs include: Sneakin' Up Behind You; Lovely Lady; What Can a Miracle Do?; Levitate; A Creature of Many Faces; D.B.B.; Some Skunk Funk; Keep it Steady; Oh My Stars; I Love Wastin' Time With You; Slick Stuff; Grease Piece; Sponge; Twilight; Night Flight; Rocks; If You Want to Boogie, Forget It; Dig a Little Deeper. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this absolutely stunning compilation. Book
Pages 91-136. Features: "Literary Gents" - Galsworthy greeted by Shakespeare; Mediaeval Garden Literature; How Classical Authors Worked; The Bookman Gallery - Stella Benson; Contemporary Foreign Writers, XVII - Jakob Wassermann; The Epithen in English Poetry; Verse of Our Time; Dorothy Wordsworth; The Legend of "Black Michael"; Dictators Under the Microscope; The Harvest of 1932; An Enchanted Year; Love of Nature; An Epic of the Country-side; A Glimpse of the Victorian Scene; Four Novels by Women; The Collector; Broadcasting for Bookmen; Both Sides of the House; For the Writers of To-Morrow; "Bookman" Competitions and Crossword. Average wear. Openings to each end of coverfold with minor loss at bottom. Binding intact. Faint ink stamp to front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Contains separate piano and trumpet sheet music, plus guitar chords and lyrics, for some of the most popular music of the 1960s and 70s. Songs include: Acapulco 1922; Fandango; Jerusalem; (The) Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro); Magic Man; Mexican Shuffle; Rise; Rotation; Route 101; So What's New; Spanish Flea; (A) Taste of Honey; This Guy's In Love With You; Tijuana Taxi; Up Cherry Street; Wade in the Water; What Now My Love; Whipped Cream. Four pages of colour photos of Herb Alpert, with two more pages in black and white. Prior owner's reference page of instrument transpositions fastened inside front cover by a staple. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. It is hard not to feel good when you listen to these timeless songs! Book
Undated. Appears to be circa 1980. Recorded versions with notes and tab. Authentic record transcriptions with guitar solos in tablature. Songs include: Before You Go; Breezin; Feel Like Makin' Love; Give Me the Night; In Your Eyes; Lady; Lady Love Me (One More Time); Love Ballad; On Broadway; So This is Love; This Masquerade; Turn Your Love Around; Welcome Into My World; We've got the Love. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful compilation. Book
60 pages. Biographical details of Eddie and the band plus photos of them in color and black and white. Includes piano music, lyrics and guitar chords for these great songs: Do You Right Tonight; Drinkin' My Baby (Off My Mind); Drivin' My Life Away; Every Which Way But Loose; Gone Too Far; Hearts On Fire; I Can't Help Myself; I Just Want to Love You; I Love a Rainy Night; Pour Me Another Tequila; Rocky Mountain Music; Suspicions; two Dollars in the Jukebox; We Can't Go On Living Like This; You Don't Love Me Anymore. Few pencil markings to table of contents otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Nine beautiful one-page photos of Anne Murray in color and black and white. Includes sheet music for piano and voice with guitar chords for these wonderful songs: A Broken-Hearted Me; Could I Have This Dance; Danny's Song; Daydream Believer; I Just Fall in Love Again; A Love Song; Lucky Me; Put Your Hand in the Hand; Shadows in the Moonlight; Snowbird; Walk Right Back; (Hey) What About Me; You Needed Me; You Won't See Me. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful Anne Murray memento which contains most of her very best songs. Book
