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Ryan, Paul B.
The Iranian Rescue Mission : Why It Failed
185 pages including notes, bibliography, index and black and white illustrations. The perilous 600-mile flight of the eight helicopters to Desert One, the secret rendezvous in the Iranian desert, is retraced, along with the disastrous events that followed, which stamped the endeavor with tragedy. Until all records are declassified, this book will stand as the most useful source available on the subject. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Attractive maroon cloth boards. Moderate wear to dust jacket with closed one inch tear to bottom edge of front panel. Book
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Hodgetts, J. E.; McCloskey, William B., Jr.; Whitaker, Reginald; Wilson, V. Seymour
The Biography of an Institution : The Civil Service Commission of Canada, 1908-1967 (Canadian Public Administration Ser.)
532 pages including bibliography and index. The first full-scale study of the history of the Civil Service Commission of Canada, an organization launched on a wave of civil service reform to uphold the merit principle of selection. Culminates in the 1967 legislation which reshaped personnel policy in the federal bureaucracy and set the Public Service Commission on its contemporary path. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
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Denton, V.L.
The Far West Coast
297 pages including bibliography and index. "...into the heart of the vast Pacific the tale shall lead us, where men and ships are dwarfed to veriest specks which crawl laboriously a little space and then are lost to view." - from Introduction. Subjects include: the Straits of Anian; How the Russians crossed Siberia; Vitus Bering; James Cook; John Meares; George Vancouver; Quadra; and more. With 12 illustrations and 7 maps. Binding intact. Soiled but not overly so. Moderate lean to spine. Decorated biege boards. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else unmarked. Remains a decent copy. Book
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Robinson, Marita
Celebration : 75 Years of Challenge and Change - a Portrait of the Girl Guides of Canada
115 pages including bibliography. An invitation to all women to celebrate a landmark in turbulent social history. Clean, bright and unmarked but for gift greetings upon front endpaper. Faintest wear. Gift quality. Excellent copy. Book
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Byers, Mary; McBurney, Margaret
The Governor's Road : Early Buildings and Families from Mississauga to London
319 pages including bibliography, index and dozens of black and white illustrations. Will attract anyone interested in regional history and the early days of Ontario and anyone whose roots lie in southern Ontario. Light wear overall. Gift greetings upon and small clip to top corner of half-title page else unmarked. Slight lean to spine. Small bookseller sticker upon front endpaper. Very nice copy. Book
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Lee, Linda
How to Write and Sell Romance Novels : A Step-by-Step Guide
154 pages including index and bibliography. Your guide to becoming a successful romance novelist. Provides dozens of techniques and exercises used by the author and other romance writers. Leads you from idea to finished manuscript. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Resh, Howard M.
Hydroponic Food Production : A Definitive Guidebook of Soilless Food Growing Methods - Revised Third Edition
384 pages including bibliography and index plus 215 tables, photos, and detailed drawings. Contents include: plant nutrition; the nutrient solution; the medium; water culture; gravel culture; sand culture; sawdust culture; other soilless cultures; plant culture. Light wear to glossy boards. Few beige spots of soiling to fore-edge else clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Skogan, Joan (Signed)
Skeena - A River Remembered
Author's signature atop half-title page. 100 pages including bibliography. Examines the history of the salmon canning industry on the Skeena River. Profusely illustrated with black and white photography plus two pages of gorgeous colour artwork depicting nostalgic salmon tin labels. Book
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Kortright, Francis H.
The Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America
476 pages including index, bibliography and 36 colour plates plus dozens of line drawings. An excellent reference for the naturalist and sportsman. Prior owner's details upon front endpaper, atop half-title page and atop page 1. Foxing to fore-and top edges. Somewhat above average wear to green boards. Yelllowing at edges. Binding intact. Book
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Russell, Philip
Mexico in Transition
176 pages with extensive references and bibliography. An overview of Mexico's politics, economy, society, social services and opposition. Average wear. Unmarked. Illustrated in black and white. Decent working copy. Book
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Lawson, Don
The KGB - The True Story of Russia's Spy Network!(The Spyshelf Series #2)
191 pages including bibliography and index. Intended for younger readers. "All the details, all the amazing history of one of the world's most intricate, efficient, and dangerous spy organizations are here." - from back cover. Name inside front cover else unmarked. Average wear. Good working copy. Book
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Norville, Warren
Coastal Navigation Step by Step
203 pages including index and bibliography. Lays out the principles and practices of piloting and dead reckoning in a concise and methodical form. Illustrated. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Above-average but not excessive wear. Decent working copy. Book
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Fillmore, Stanley; Sandilands, R. W.
The Chartmakers : The History of Nautical Surveying in Canada
255 pages including index and bibliography. Painstakingly documents the early years of the Canadian Hydrographic Service. Reviews Canada's early explorers. Provides a visually stunning record of modern chartmaking. Very light wear to book which is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket bears light wear with small nick near base of front fore-edge. Very nice copy. Book
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Morton, Desmond
Silent Battle : Canadian Prisoners of War in Germany, 1914-1919
218 pages including index, bibliography, notes and black and white photographic plates. A penetrating look at the hidden history of Canadian prisoners during the First World War. Probes their fate and their pain, and follows their own private physical and psychological battles against hopelessness and desperation. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket price-clipped with light wear. Very nice copy. Book
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Allen, Bruce
Germany East : Dissent and Opposition *Signed By Author*
226 pages including notes, glossary and bibliography. Author's signature and inscription upon half-title page. "This work on the scope of dissent in East Germany integrates the post World War II uprising and the birth of the oppositional forces with the 1980s social change movements." - from back cover. "....Proves the existence of an internal opposition.." - Montreal Mirror. Very light wear and soiling. Excellent copy. Book
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Aquilina, Alfred P.
The MacKenzie : Yesterday and Beyond
204 pages including bibliography. "The recorded history of the area is brief, dramatic, intriguing. The struggles of the past, the dilemmas of the present, and the promise of the future are detailed in this fascinating look at Canada's North." - from back cover. Illustrated. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Ollerenshaw, Philip G.
Banking in Nineteeth-Century Ireland : The Belfast Banks, 1825-1914
263 pages including notes, bibliography and index. "Drawing extensively upon unused and unpublished business archives, this book throws new light on the economic history of nineteenth-century Ireland... Banking business is discussed in the wider context of fluctuations in the Irish and British economies; and, overall the book presents a revisionist view and stresses the positive contribution made by banks before 1914." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with faintest wear. Very light wear to dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
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Gutstein, Morris A.
The Story of the Jews of Newport: Two and a Half Centuries of Judaism 1658-1908
393 pages. "The first attempt to give a complete and comprehensive study of the Jew of Newport, picturing from the religious, economic, social and political points of view the entire colonial background with which the Jew identified himself." - From Preface. Includes 36 black and white illustrations, 11 appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. Chapters include: The Dim Beginnings; Dawn; Progress; From Inquisition to Freedom; The Synagogue; A Glimpse of Jewish Life; Visitors; The Jew in the Community; Uproar, Dispersion and Decline; Evacuation and Revival; The Close of a Colorful Chapter; Noble Memories; Reconsecration; Adjustment; Immorality. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear to blue boards. Lettering worn from spine. Both hinges almost fully open. Tape protects top and bottom of spine. A fragile yet worthy copy of this excellent reference. Book
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Kleiger, Estelle F.
The Trial of Levi Weeks or The Manhattan Well Mystery
240 pages including index, notes, bibliography and black and white plates. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr for the defense in the first recorded murder trial in U.S. history, New York, 1800. Gift inscription inside front cover. Former price atop first leaf. Nice clean copy with light wear. Book
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West, Robin
Memory Fitness over Forty
226 pages including index and bibliography. Will give you the confidence you need to challenge your mind and use your memory power to its greatest potential in mid-life and beyond. Book as new but for gift greetings upon front endpaper. Very light wear to dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
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Gawthrop, Daniel (Signed)
Highwire Act : Power, Pragmatism and the Harcourt Legacy
370 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. "Examines the NDP's record on the economy, the environment, health care, resource issues, and aboriginal land claims - and in the battle for the hearts and minds of BC's voters." - from back cover. Light wear. Two inch crease to bottom corner of front cover. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Packard, Jerrold M.
Sons of Heaven - A Portrait of the Japanese Monarchy
400 pages including index and bibliography. Includes black and white photographic plates. "A thorough and well-written history of the imperial institution." - The Economist. A Comprehensive social history of this immensely important royal institution. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
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Capacchione, Lucia
Recovery of Your Inner Child - The Highly Acclaimed Method for Liberating Your Inner Self
288 pages including bibliography. The only book that shows you how to have a first hand experience of your Inner Child - actually feeling its emotions and recapturing its sense of wonder - by writing and drawing with your non-dominant hand. Gift greetings upon front flyleaf else unmarked. Light wear. Solid binding. Nice clean copy. Book
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Sailor, Guess
Severely Handicapped Students - An Instructional Design
386 pages including bibliography and index. Presents a comprehensive system that may serve as a basis for organizing instructional programs for severely handicapped students. Minimal markings to contents. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Solid working copy. Book
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Bell, James B.
Roots of Jesus - A Genealogical Investigation
195 pages including bibliography and index. A book for everyone of Judeo-Christian heritage: a study to kindle a spark of insight and self-renewal essential in meeting the challenges of this tentative yet promising age. Decorated endpapers. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
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White, Roger
Another Song, Another Season : Poems and Portrayals
172 pages including bibliography. A collection of the poems and prose of a writer who has already won a considerable reputation in Baha'i cirlces. Includes vivid, sympathetic portraits of martyrs, pioneers, and ordinary people: shining through it is a poet's vision - fresh, unique, sometimes satirical, but never superficial. Gift greetings upon half-title page else unmarked. Binding tight. Decent copy. Book
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Humphreys, Danda (Signed)
On the Street Where You Live : Pioneer Pathways of Early Victoria
190 pages including bibliography and index. Author's signature upon half-title page. From Admirals to Yates, the streets of Victoria boast numerous intriguing names that tell the history of the city. This work combines a passion for the past with a curiosity about street names as she tells the stories behind over forty streets from Saanich to Sooke. Abundantly illustrated in black and white with archival photos. Clean, bright and unmarked. Lightest wear. Beautiful copy. Book
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Moore, Charles W.; Mitchell, William J.; Turnbull, William Jr.
The Poetics of Gardens
257 pages including index and bibliography. "A lively and provocative presentation of great places and ideas that underlie them. I know of no book that looks as sympathetically and knowingly at gardens and garden design." - William L. Porter, Professor of Architecture, MIT. Includes over 500 sketches, axonometric drawings, and photographs which explore the special qualities of places and the acts that can transform them into gardens. Gift greetings upon half-title page else unmarked. Light wear to book. Moderate wear to jacket. Solid copy. Book
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Bonal, Francois
Mumm - The Story of a Champagne House
191 pages including bibliography. Francois Bonal, recognized as the historian of Champagne, tells the story of a Champagne house that is outstanding both in its history and in its contemporary developments. Gloriously illustrated. Translated from the French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Gift quality. Superior copy. Book
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Aladjem, Henrietta
Understanding Lupus : What It Is, How to Treat It, How to Cope with It
247 pages including index, reference notes and bibliography. "A comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the disease that afflicts more than half a million Americans." - New York Times. Prior owner's ink stamp upon half-title page else clean, bright and unmarked with faintest wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Engers, Joe: Editor
The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys
320 pages. Presents decoys in the most sensible and comprehensive way: by region, with each region discussed by a recognized expert in that area. Thus the entire range of decoys is covered, from Canada down the Atlantic Coast and inland along streams and rivers to Louisiana and up the Mississippi to the Great Lakes and across to California and Oregon. Also included are chapters on European decoys, the history of decoys, how decoys were made, and how to go about collecting decoys. A list of public collections of decoys, a bibliography, a record of top auction prices, maps of waterfowl flyways, and an index complete the package. Beautifully illustrated with colour photography throughout. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket bears tape-repaired tear to central portion of front panel and large chunk missing from base of back flap. A small part of this chunk is from bottom corner of back panel. Other than this, dust jacket is bright and attractive with moderate wear. Overall, a nice copy of this most substantial work. Book
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Green, Valerie
Above Stairs : Social Life in Upper Class Victoria, 1843-1918
205 pages including bibliography and index. Abundant black and white illustrations. "Eight elite Victoria founding families and their monumental efforts to achieve refinement in a rugged corner of Vancouver Island. Their ample homes, their public displays, their private hopes and disappointments - the food they ate, the clothes they wore, the games they played: these are the ingredients from which Ms. Green concocts a social history of solid research, amusing detail and elegant style." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excllent copy. Book
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Chambers, Dave
Complete Hockey Instruction - Skills and Strategies for Coaches and Players
224 pages including bibliography. This comprehensive guide to coaching hockey includes illustrated drills for all hockey skills, from skating and passing to shooting and puck control. Designed for use by coaches at all levels of play. Author coached for the Dallas Stars of the NHL. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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MacDonald, Colin S.
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists - Volume 3 (Part One) Jacobi-Lismer
"Widely acclaimed by art gallery officials, librarians, art dealers, auctioneers, artists, teachers, art historians and collectors this dictionary has the most extensive bibliography ever published on this subject." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Average wear. Solid copy. Book
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MacDonald, Colin S.
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists - Volume 4 (Four) Little - Myles: Third Edition
"Widely acclaimed by art gallery officials, librarians, art dealers, auctioneers, artists, teachers, art historians and collectors this dictionary has the most extensive bibliography ever published on this subject." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Average wear. Solid copy. Book
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Stanbury, W.T.
Business-Government Relations in Canada - Grappling With Leviathan
678 pages with bibliography/references and index. Chapters include: Introduction; A Framework for Analyzing Business-Government Relations in Canada; Describing Leviathan - A Governing-Instruments Approach; The Political Economy of Policy Making; The Government Relations Function; Issues Management; Lobbying Targets and Timing; Lobbying Techniques and Vehicles - Part 1; Lobbying Techniques and Vehicles - Part 2; Corporations and Political Contributions; Business and News Media; Advocacy Advertising. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Brockman, C. Frank
Flora of Mount Rainier National Park
170 pages including bibliography and index plus a profusion of black and white photographs. Unmarked. Above-average wear externally but contents in decent condition. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Adelberg, Ellen (editor); Currie, Claudia (editor)
Too Few To Count : Canadian Women In Conflict With The Law
253 pages including bibliography and index. Lays the groundwork for a feminist analysis of women in conflict with the law. With contributions from twelve women, it challenges traditional theories of women's criminal behavior and explores the consequences for women of a criminal justice system designed for, created, and controlled by men. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
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Parker, Dave
First Water, Tigers! - A History of the Victoria Fire Department
234 pages including bibliography and index. "Tells the colourful story of the Victoria Fire Department through a well-researched absorbing text and in hundreds of eloquent photographs. Included also are maps, appendices of the department's apparatus over the years, and sections of aural history dating back to 1912, as well as numerous anecdotes. Many original archival sources and the official records of the Victoria Fire Department were used in research." - from dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout, plus several in colour. Book clean, bright and unmarked but for date written atop decorated front endpaper. Average wear but no tears to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
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Thear, Katie
Home Dairying
96 pages including index and bibliography. "Written for both country- and town-dwellers. After giving detailed information on the selection and keeping of house cows, goats and dairy ewes, the author describes the conditions necessary for producing your own cream, butter, yoghurt and cheese, whether you have a small home dairy or only a kitchen at your disposal. The approach is highly practical with step-by-step instructions and illustrations showing how to make your own cream, ice cream, butter, yoghurt, flavoured drinks, cheesecakes and hard and soft cheeses. The 50 cheese recipes probably represent the most comprehensive collection available anywhere for the home cheesemaker. Lists suppliers of dairy equipment and supplies worldwide... Invaluable for the smallholder as well as for town-dwellers interested in making their own dairy products." - from dust jacket. 50 line drawings. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Capa, Cornell
Robert Capa : Photographs
191 pages including bibliography and chronology. "The first true retrospective book of one of the century's greatest photographers. Drawing upon hundreds of previously unseen images, this collection reveals Capa as one of the great poets of the camera. In these photographs we see through the eyes of a driven humanist who was also a documentarian of the highest caliber. Shows us the remarkable range of his work, which encompasses the sufferings as well as the tenderness, humor, and wonder of his subjects." - from dust jacket. Oblong 8.5" high by 11.5" wide. Reading copy only. Usual library markings. Significant loosening of binding yet all pages remain loosely attached. Above-average wear. Book
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Shand, Alexander H.
Free Market Morality : The Political Economy of the Austrian School
228 pages including index, bibliography and notes. "Provides a perceptive account of the philosophy of the Austrian School, locating it in its historical and intellectual context. Traces the implications of the methodology of the Austrian School for concepts of freedom and equality and the moral basis for capitalist markets." - from back cover. Light wear. Clean and unmarked but for discard/withdrawn stamps upon half-title page and top edge of text. Nice copy. Book
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Pachai, Bridglal
Malawi - The History of a Nation
324 pages including bibliography, index, black and white plates. "Covers every aspect of the history of Malawi from pre-colonial times to the present, developing important social, economic and political themes. Describes and analyses events and social conditions in Malawi to show how and why Malawians have influenced the course of Central African affairs. Traces the influence of external forces, African, European and Asian, on the history of Malawi. The first comprehensive study of Malawi's history which considers events not only from the point of view of Malawi, but also in the wider context of Central African history." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Solid working copy. Book
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Unitt, Doris; Unitt, Peter
Bottles in Canada
240 pages including bibliography. Over 2,000 bottles illustrated in black and white. The collector's guide to seeking, finding, dating, pricing, and researching bottles. Decorated in endpapers. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal signs of handling. Tight and square. Dust jacket bears minor sunning to spine, light wear and is now in a clear Brodart protective cover. A very attractive copy. Gift quality. Book
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Stanley-Baker, Joan
Nanga - Idealist Painting of Japan: Collections of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria / No. 17
152 pages including bibliography, references, further reading and glossary of artist's names plus fold-out map of Japan. Black and white illustrations throughout. "The Art Gallery of Victoria is best known perhaps for its Asian Collection which is, to an overwhelming extent, the Fred and Isobel Pollard Collection of Japanese art. This group boasts one of the earliest collections of nanga paintings outside Japan. Nanga means Southern Painting, or Painting of the Southern School, a name later affixed to the idealist painting of scholar officials in China." - from Introduction. Contents include: Early Japanese Masters; Flowering of a National Style - Ikeno Taiga and His Followers; An Individualist in Kyoto; A Follower of Buson and Founder of the Shijo School; Eclectics in Edo and the Kanto Region; Progressives in the Kansai Region; Conservatives in Kyoto; Conservatives from Kyushu; Nineteenth-Century Progressives in Kyoto; The Last Great Flourish. Tight and square. Clean and unmarked. Attractive light-blue cloth-covered boards. Mild sunning at and near spine. Slight warp to front board. Negligible wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Engle, Eloise; Paananen, Lauri
The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish Conflict, 1939-40
176 pages including index, bibliography and appendices. Black and white illustrations. Maps. "For months the Finns, who received scant help from an admiring world of sympathizers and avowed allies, held on. Yet the holding could only last until the Russians gathered themselves. When that happened and Red wheel-to-wheel artillery attacks and new hordes of troops and tanks again took their toll, the Finns bowed to the inevitable defeat... Describes the big picture and relates the stories of many individual Finns and Russians in combat. The result is a fascinating and moving book." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reading copy. Book
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Rensch, Roslyn.
The Harp: Its History, Technique and Repertoire.: Its History, Technique and Repertoire
246 pages. Provides a selection of important material relative to the frame harp, its development in Europe during a period of several hundred years, its importation to America, and its subsequent flourishing in both parts of the world. "A full list of recordings of solo and ensemble music, and a carefully chosen list of compositions, graded for school use, are included in the appendices. There is alos a comprehensive bibliography and an index. Will be of wide interest to the professional musician, the music educator and the composer. Students of the harp will find it a vital source of information." - from dust jacket. Black and white plates. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Dubose, Francis M. (editor)
Classics of Christian Missions
462 pages including bibliography and index. Provides in a single volume an introduction to the classics of Christian missions. Sections include: The Biblical-Theological Basis of Missions; Mission Histories; Missionary Biographies; Missionary Journals and Diaries; Missionary Letters; Mission Theory and Practice; Missionary Tracts and Sermons; Historic Missionary Conferences; Mission Encounter with Non-Christian Religions; Historic Missionary Encyclicals; Voices from the Younger Churches. Block of first 26 pages were free of binding but have been taped back into place, otherwise tight and square. Light wear. Name blacked out upon half-title page. Book
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Frodl, Gerbert (Translated By Alexandra Campbell)
Klimt
160 pages including selected bibliography. Includes biography, chronology and many dozens of works, most in colour. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else clean, and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy! Book
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Nolan, Brian
Hero: The Buzz Beurling Story
201 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "The moving account of an eccentric Canadian youth who was probably the most deadly-accurate marksman of all the pilots who flew the Spitfire in battle... well-told, diligently researched." - Major-General Richard Rohmer, CMM, DFC. Half-title page removed. Average library markings. Above-average but not excessive wear. Useful reading copy. Book
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