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Sisson, Terence
Just Nuisance Ab - His Full Story
151 pages with black and white illustrations. The remarkable life-story of one of the most famous Great Danes of all time. Able Seaman Just Nuisance was formally inducted into the Royal Navy at Simon's Town in August 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II and his exploits during the war made him a legend in his lifetime. First edition in 1984 was written upon the 40th anniversary of Nuisance's death as a tribute to his old canine "oppo", and as a permanent record of a Great Dane with a unique place in the annals of war - and of dogdom. Prior owner protected the colour illustrated covers with glossy clear adhesive plastic which now affixes first and last leaves to their respective covers. Some writing atop title page else unmarked. Moderate wear. Contents lightly yellowed. Book
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Hales, Dianne
The Complete Book of Sleep - How Your Nights Affect Your Days
315 pages including index. More than 50 million people have trouble sleeping. If you're one of them, here's a book that will help you sleep better tonight. Read about 42 major sleep problems and how to overcome them, including: bad sleep habits, conditioned insomnia, breathing disorders, narcolepsy, jet lag, Sudden Infant Death, sleep-walking, rhythm changes during aging, stress and anxiety, snoring. Learn crucial information about sleeping pills. Find out about the latest sleep treatments. Learn about intriguing research. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding solid. Book
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McQuaig, Linda
Shooting the Hippo : Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
309 pages including index. Argues that we've got the wrong deficit culprit and before we all gather for the public shooting, we should consider the consequences. Some small creases to dust jacket flaps otherwise unmarked with very light wear. Book
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Raeside, Adrian (Signed)
Raeside's Canada - From Antigonish to Zebra Mussels
166 pages. Author's trademark signature upon title page. "Canadians are taxed to the hilt, bored to distraction by the Constitution ad nagged to death over Quebec's possible separation. Yet through it all we have emerged as a most unique country.... Editorial Cartoonist Adrian Raeside takes a sideways look at the good, the bad and the bizarre that make Canada Canada." - from back cover. Lives up to author's high and hilarious standard. Gift greetings upon half-title page. Light to moderate wear. Glossy illustrated covers. Book
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Friyer, Mary Beacock
Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe 1762-1850
276 pages. The story of an energetic, involved woman. Her life divides into two phases. As the wife of John Graves Simcoe, Elizabeth is a sensible lady of the Age of Reason, pursuing the picturesque with sketch book and water colours. Following Simcoe's death, her long life as a widow finds meaning in fostering the well-being of her church. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
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King, Paul; De Coccola, Raymond
The Incredible Eskimo - Life Among the Barren Land Eskimo
435 pages. For twelve arduous but captivating years, Raymond de Coccola was, for all intents and purposes, a Barren Land Eskimo. An unforgettable portrait of adventure, of murder, of sexual mores. It is Father Raymond's touching first-person revelation of birth and of death, of patience and of fatalism; and it is a staggering account of his people's tragedy and loss. It is also a story of survival and hope. Bookplate upon front flyleaf. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Reading creases along spine. Includes a large assortment of excellent black and white plates. Book
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Masulli, Patrick: Editor
Real West - Volume XIII, Number 80, March 1970
82 pages. Features: Frontier Hellion; Death of Bob Ford; When Rain-In-The-Face Saved Buffalo Bill; The Truth About the Dodge City War; Jose Chavez, the Man Who Refused to Die; Nevada School Days; Wild Bill Longley; Bill Barker of Barkerville; Nate Champion Tells About the Range; Fiddlin' Ben of Clio; Evolution of the Horse. Magazine
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Masulli, Patrick: Editor
Real West - Volume XI, Number 65 November 1968
82 pages. Features: Arizona's Last Lynching; Olive Oatman, Mojave Captive; The West's Greatest Marksman; Disaster on the Yukon; Ouray - the Arrow; Duel at Dawn; When death Came to Savory Island; Fort Union; The Trimmers of Genoa; Old and Abandoned Mines in the Great Southwest; Gunfighter - Part 2; Dat-so-la-lee - queen of the basketmakers; Gems of Frontier Humor. Magazine
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Wagner, Pat: Editor
True West: All True - All Fact - Stories of the Real West: July-August, 1970, Volume 17, No. 6, Whole No. 100
72 pages. Features: The Indians are Coming!; Truly Western; Mercy Express to Dragoon Springs; The Claim Jumpers; I Danced with Belle Starr; Death Messenger of the Indians; Grass-Grown Streets in Sierra Nevada; Ghostly Happenings around Old Fort Washita; Barren Victory of the Stallion Hunters; 100 Hours of Terror; Trails Grow Dim; Where the Mills Turned; Peg Leg; Tumbleweeds. Magazine
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Wagner, Pat: Editor
True West: All True - All Fact - Stories of the West!: May-June, 1969 Volume 16, No. 5, Whole No. 93
72 pages. Features: The French Lady's Treasure; Scouting the Utes; Did Russia Introduce the Horse?; The Cowboy from Yorkshire; How Green is a Bullfrog?; Those Murdering Herricks; The Death Watch; Leadville's Ice Palace; To My Tormentors, I Bequeath; Charlie Siringo and "Eat Em Up Jake"; "Suicide Ted" Elder. Nice copy. Faint date stamp atop back cover. Magazine
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Wagner, Pat
True West: All True - All Fact - Stories of the Real West: January-February, 1962, Volume 9, No. 3, Whole No. 49
72 pages. Features: McNelly's Rangers; Three Years' Gamble; River of Gold in the Desert; Deep Ran the Blood in Buffalo; Last of the Invaders; America's Royal Palace; Montana Bill; The Campfire Massacre; Scout for the Apache Hunters; The Bannock and Paiute War of 1878; Story of the Marlow Boys; The Town that Committed Suicide; Death Wore Buckskin and Braids; Land of the Dakotas. Two inch opening at base of cover fold. Magazine
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Butler, D.R.
True Frontier - Factual Stories of the Old West: Vol. 1, No. 12, November, 1969
66 pages. Features: Saga of the Deadly Cook Gang; When the United States Had Mad Emperor; Black Man's West - The Story of Negro Pioneers; Belle Starr - Queen Bandit; The Man Who Ate Indian Livers; Gov. Charles Bent's Murder and Scalping; Abigail Scott - Fighting Northwest Suffragette; The Unluckiest Scout in the West; Friendship - the Price of Death; Loot the Village - Kill the Males. Magazine
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Wagner, Pat
Frontier Times: April-May, 1968, Vol. 42, No. 3, New Series No. 53
72 pages. Features: Death in the Highwood Mountains; Glimpses Through the Mists of Time; Las Vegas and the Dodge City Gang; The Bayhorse Treasure; Last Chief of the Cherokees; When a Man Goes Berserk; The Doomed City; Texan Tamer; Landline Bloodhounds; A Man Who Knew Guns; Double Trouble; A Rumanian Queen in the west; McCaleb's Last Fight; "Shoe and Stocking Men" - The Squatters; Chinese Friend of the Red Man. One inch opening at top of cover fold. Soiling to top half of front cover. Magazine
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Wagner, Pat
Old West: Summer 1970, Vol. 6, No. 4, Whole No. 24
96 pages. Features: 700 Miles to San Simon; Cromson Trail of Qual-Chan; Captain Cooney's Fate; Death of an Outlaw; Tramp Girls; The McCoy Gang; Trouble on the U.P.; Joaquin Murieta's Last Victim was the Man Who Created Him; Little-known Anton Chico; Last Log Drive to Somers Mill; The Short and Miserable Life of the Shoshone; Old Times at the Occidental. Date stamp atop back cover. Magazine
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Wolenik, Robert
Westerner - Volume 2, Number 2, March-April, 1970
64 pages. Features: The West As it Was; Kid Thompson's Silver Pesos; Outlaw!; Gold!; On the Trail of Geronimo; Donald "Putt" Puttman - Western Artist; The Xit Ranch; Call of the Dutchman; Blood Brother to the Apache; Five Cards and Six Shooter; Slaughter of the Mustangs; Monster of the Plains; Six Who Risked Death. Very small scribble on back cover. Magazine
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Willard, Bill: Editor
Golden West - True Stories of the Old West
74 pages. Features: The Indians also Farmed; The Hermit of Arbor Villa; I was a Western Hobo; My Name is James Hannan; Pete Knight's Death Ride; Spanish Fiasco at Fort San Teodoro; Alex Polson - Millionaire Lumberman; Zunis' Pilgrimage to the Atlantic; Cattle King of Mud Creek; The Town that Copper Built; When Horace Greeley Went West. Average wear. Date stamp upon back cover. Magazine
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Snyder, John
Reincarnation vs. Resurrection
110 pages including glossary and bibliography. "When faced with the issue of life after death, we are confronted with the greatest riddle human existence can offer. If we fail to solve this riddle, it promises to destroy us." - from back cover. Unmarked. Average wear. Solid copy. Book
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Meyer, Charles
Surviving Death : A Practical Guide to Caring for the Dying and Bereaved
136 pages. Calls our minds to a practical way of dealing with death, and calls to our hearts the freedom to grieve, the freedom to then move on from our grief. Writing inside front cover and prior owner's name upon front flyleaf, else umarked. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
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Coughlin, Ruth
Grieving : A Love Story
176 pages. "...a gemlike prose elegy of a man and a woman facing the tragedy of their final separation." - Sherwin Nuland, M.D., author of How We Die. Light to moderate wear. Remainder mark upon bottom edge. Solid copy. Book
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Murphy, Christopher Leo; Taylor, John K.(editor)
Facts, Fiction & Philately - United States of America & Canada
145 pages including index. A collection of historic curiosities that are, or may be, associated with North American postage stamps. For the stories presented in this work, numerous dusty history books and reference works have been researched for those little "gems" of information that present the "other side" to generally accepted beliefs and conceptions. Very often, historic information is based on what others wish us to believe rather than the truth. It is only through the passage of time that the shroud of deception wears thin and mouths silenced in death "speak from their graves" in tattered letters and faded diaries. Adds a new dimension to topical stamp collecting by introducting "Philatelic Curiosities" - strange, unusual and bizarre facts associated with postage stamps. Illustrated in black and white. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Dunphy, Catherine
Morgentaler : A Difficult Hero
474 pages including index. Morgentaler's story is an intriguing and unique one, and, until now , a story that has never been completely told. Traces the life of a man forced to face death at an early age, a man who has chosen to live as a perpetual and deliberate outsider and a man who may not himself understand why he feels he must go to battle for an issue that few Canadians are entirely comfortable with. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Probably unread. Excellent copy. Book
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Harper, Jennifer
City Work at Country Prices: The Portrait Photographs of Duncan Donovan
64 pages. In small communities throughout the western world, from the 1880s until the development of the hand-held camera in the twentieth century, the town portrait photographer was the chronicler of his time. Duncan Donovan (1857-1933) of Alexandria, Glengarry County, Ontario, was typical. He portrayed the ceremonial events of life from birth to death, and the stages in between. Author has chosen the most appealing of Donovan's photographs from the plates that have survived. Presents life in a small Ontario town and its environs in the early 20th century. Unmarked. Light wear to edges of dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
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Waterman, Ivan
Keith Moon - The Life and Death of a Rock Legend
142 pages including numerous excellent black and white photographic plates. Up to the time of his death, Keith Moon was a tragic enigma. To the gossip columns, he was "Moon the Loon", "The Wild Man of Rock." To fellow musicians he was a brilliant, original percussionist. To his fans, he was a unique part of a legend called The Who. Author knew Keigh Moon well and has spoken to his closest friends and colleagues of the exhilaration, wild humour and secret tragedy of a rock'n roll legend. Well-worn. Contents partially yellowed. Date and discard inkstamps upon top edge of text. Some lean to spine. Binding intact. Book
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Rosenfeld, Linda; Prupas, Marilynne
Left Alive - After a Death in the Family
100 pages. Written for family members and friends grieving a suicide death and for the helping professionals who work with them. Explores the unique bereavement process associated with survivors of suicide, from initial shock to the healing stages, and the emotions that accompany it. Also examines the social pressures that intensify painful personal feelings. Initial chapters set the stage of a suicide death and examine the stigma, guilt, anger, and related feelings surrounding the event. Then focuses upon the different problems a survivor must face after the loss of a child, spouse, parent, or sibling. The final chapter discusses specific helping processes for the survivors of suicide. Minimal yellow high-lighting and markings to book which is otherwise As New. Very light wear to dust jacket which bears cup ring on front panel. Excellent copy. Book
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Frank, Leonard Roy (editor)
The History of Shock Treatment
206 pages including glossary, bibliography and index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. An anthology of more than 250 chronologically arranged exerpts and articles by proponents and opponents of psychiatry's most controversial procedure, which every year is administered to hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. "A compelling and important addition to the lay literature in this field" - Jessica Mitford, author of The American Way of Death. "What the rack and the stake were to the Inquisition, what the concentration camp and the gas chamber were to National Socialism, the mental hospital and electroshock are to Institutional Psychiatry... This book is a carefully researched documentation of psychiatry's final solution." - Thomas S. Szasz M.D., author of The Myth of Mental Illness and the Myth of Psychotherapy. Minimal high-lighting and prior owner's name inside front cover, else unmarked. Above average wear. Remains a useful working copy. Book
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Wayman, Tom: Editor
A Government Job at Last - an Anthology of Working Poems, Mainly Canadian
176 pages. An offering of some working poems written from inside specific jobs and the working life. "As noted in the introduction to Beaton Abbot, so much English poetry has dealt with the themes of love and death, and so little before now has dealth with the themes of love and death, and so little before now has dealt with the subject that preoccupies most of the human race for most of our time alive on the earth." - from introduction. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Nice copy. Book
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Johnston, Barbara R. (editor)
Life and Death Matters : Human Rights & the Environment at the End of the Millennium
351 pages. A collection of stories, events, and experiences that provide a sense of what life is like for those who confront environmental crises of our time. Topics discussed: Local responses to economic development (cases from Indonesia and china); Conservation and conflict (cases from Africa); Gold mining in the Amazon and Wisconsin; Food, conflict, and justice (cases from the US and Honduras; and more. First half of book is high-lighted in yellow. Second half has blue pen underlining. Moderate wear. Glossy illustrated covers. Solid working copy. Book
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Powell, Dawn; Page, Tim (editor)
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965
373 pages including index. An extraordinary collection of letters by the writer Gore Vidal once called "one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation continues to grow long after her death." Contents clean and unmarked. Discard stamp upon top edge of text. Slight lean to spine. Very light wear overall. Nice copy. Book
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Foster, Harold T. (editor)
The Geography of Death 1985-1989 : Mortality Atlas of British Columbia - Volume 26 Western Geographical Series
223 pages. How often and where do people die, and from what causes? These and related questions are central to the study of population health geography and epidemiology. As one contribution to answering such important questions, and hopefully as a catalyst to the generation of other inquiries, this atlas illustrates spatial variations of all major causes of death in British Columbia for the period 1985 to 1989. Overhead transparencies in pocket inside back board. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear to top edge of dust jacket else an As New copy. Book
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Wise, Robert L.
The Pastors' Barracks - Based on the Experience of a German Minister Who Survived the Nazi Death Camp
200 pages. A story about the triumph of the human will and the follower of Christ's responsibility to stand against false political ideology. A story each of us could someday be asked to relive. Book shows light wear and is clean and unmarked. Average wear to dust jacket. Overall, a nice copy. Book
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Mahood, Ian; Drushka, Ken
Three Men and a Forester
240 pages including index. Through colourful anecdotes, documented reports and personal remembrances, Ian Mahood tells of the birth and eventual death of forest management in British Columbia. Gift greetings and discard stamp upon front endpaper else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Solid copy. Book
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Various
The Wide World Magazine - October 1955
68 pages plus advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Features: 'Twixt Sea and Sand - Drama is the daily diet of those who man the lightships that keep the world's shipping off the dreaded Goodwins; Build or Die! - Describes Canadian Arctic Igloo Building Schools for airmen; Diamonds are Dangerous - Following upon secret investigations by Sir Percy Sillitoe, former head of M.I.5, the De Beers Corporation is said to be establishing a special staff to deal with the menace of the international traffic in stolen stones. Relates remarkable stories concerning diamond smugglers and the 'big men' behind them; Danger, Loco Adrift - A 65-ton locomotive slips its lashings upon the stormbound Norwegian s.s. Belpareil, causing terror aboard; Destination Unknown - Second Instalment of the remarkable post-war Asian adventures of Military Medal recipient Peter Pinney; The Rain Stoppers - In some parts of the world, natives are employed to stop the rain descending; Search for Living Gold - Author ventures to the Andes to acquire chinchilla; Ghost of the White Chief - South African farmer John Roberts and his marble life-sized statue to be opened upon his death; The Very Mysterious Eel- What strange impulse sends the eel thousands of miles out into the ocean to spawn - and die?; A Thousand Miles to Railhead - Motor Transport in North Australia, including photo of a 'road train' carrying 70 head of cattle; Horses on Snowshoes - How snowshoes have been adapted for use by horses, thereby easing the difficult transportation problems of the British Columbia wilderness; Jungle Hideout - Running from the Japanese, eating dog for dinner, teaching guerillas to sing - these are but a few of the adventures of Nona Baker who spent nearly four years in jungle hideouts in Asia; Paddy's Lapse - A Merchant Navy officer's account of a terrifying experience when his ten-thousand ton ship was heading straight for Lundy Island at ten knots; Between Ourselves - notes by the editor, including a prediction of helicopter logging in the future. Top third of back cover missing. Chips missing from spine. Somewhat above average wear. Fascinating tales. Magazine
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Various
The Wide World Magazine - February 1955 Vol.114, No.680
Features: Unknown New Zealand - Two young men set out to explore unmapped territory between Lake Te Anau and the coast, only to meet with disaster - A lake (Bloxham) and waterfall (Dorizac) discovered by these plucky young climbers are officially named after them; Saharan Adventure - includes encounters with the blue-eyed Tuaregs, the veiled nomads of the desert, who wear chain-mail armour of the Crusades and carry swords and lances; Six Wild Sheep - Describes author's experience trying to capture Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo; The Pirates of the Ethel - First published in 1929, this is an authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Oakhill's "Souvenir" - the adventure of a crocodile hunter; The Tame Bandit - An amusing story arising out of the troubles in Malaya - Dragged away from farm and family by the terrorists, and forced to serve with them under the threat of death, an inoffensive little Chinese secretly vowed vengeance, and at long last achieved it; "Cockeye" - Phases of Life From All Over the World - Vivid little close-ups of manners and customs around the world; Guardians of the Mountains - The Wardens of Canada's National Parks. Colour 'Butlin's Holiday Camp' brochure laid-in. Staining to page i of advertisements. Front cover detached. Heavy wear externally. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
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Various
The Wide World Magazine - September, 1951
Please note: Front cover missing. Features include: The Haunted Mine - Author's experiences at a Canadian gold-mine; The Rest-Cure - A sea captain's story of a voyage across the Atlantic with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest - Frank Norfleet, a Texas confidence victim, pursued the pertetrators for three years before achieving vengeance; The Living Death - An eccentric chemist marries an Aztec royal descendant to ferret out the secrets of the ancient Aztec dyes; The Sky Riders - Canada's RCMP, the world's first 'flying policemen'; The Lawra Lion - a lion adventure on the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - A remarkable experience which befell two British officers in the Himilayan foothills; A Matter of Witchcraft - A strange story from New Guinea; The Australian Stockman - the drover of Australia's outback; Tears to spine with chips missing. Contents in good condition. Magazine
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Various
The Wide World Magazine - April, 1951
Features include: The Death Patrol - The story of a strange man-hunt in the Far North of Canada and its tragic sequel, told by former R.C.M.P. member William Brockie; The Tobacco-Farmers - The struggles of three youngsters who put their combined savings into an abandoned North Queensland farm; The Jewelled Cross Part II - Buried treasure comes to light in extraordinary circumstances during the Spanish Civil War; The Stowaway - a story related by a veteran sea captain; The Tale of a Shirt - The amusing tale of an African 'bush-boy' who longed for European clothes; The Miracle of the Sacred Eagles - An eye-witness account of a daily occurence at a hill-top temple in Southern India; The Landlord's Tale - A rousing sea story involving the "Eleanora'; The Wai Wai Indians of South America; The Delectable Island of Re in the Bay of Biscay; Jungle Magic - An inexplicable Malayan performance partaken in by the author; Australian Treasure Trove - a description of some of the buried wealth in the Australian wilds; Front cover detached and in fair condition. Writing upon page i and name pencilled atop back cover. Contents in good condition. Magazine
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Tokes, Laszlo; Corley, Feelix; Eibner, John
In the Eye of the Romanian Storm - The Heroic Stories of Pastor Laszlo Tokes
272 pages. "The compelling, riveting account of how one man's undaunted faith in God upheld him even in the face of death. Offers a behind-the-scenes look at a country torn by physical and spiritual hunger that dared to challenge the forces of a cruel, wicked regime through the inspiration and leadership of Pastor Laszlo Tokes. Here is the story of Laszlo Tokes' quest for true religious freedom, not only for Hungarians but for all under Communist rule." - from back cover. Includes black and white illustrations. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Brown, Sharon
Some Become Flowers : Living with Dying at Home
214 pages. "As I grow old, and see how immeasurably sad life is, I depend on the kind of spirituality achieve when they locate their best self. What Sharon Brown has written is beautiful." - June Callwood. A direct and fearless account of how the author and her husband moved author's dying mother into their home to live her final weeks. Clean, bright and unmarked with faintest wear. Trace of cigarette smoke. Excellent copy. Book
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Rahn, David: Editor
Fisherman Life - October 2001 Volume 1 Issue 9
48 pages. Features include: Fisheries renewal for B.C. put on hold - Board Members axed; Notes from the North Coast - On-Grounds report on the Tangle Gillnet Selective Fishery; Facelift for BCP45; B.C. Farmed Salmon Production Down - New Brunswick production rises as farmers vie for U.S. markets; Senate report on aquaculture; In and around Steveston - boat activity picks up; responsible fishing awards; Model boat launched - miniature seiner built in Sechelt; 43 charged in Fraser Protest Fishery; Death on the High Seas - Tuna Fisherman Fatally stabbed; Net Pen Inquiry; Tangle Net test; Chile-Norway Salmon war heats up. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
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McDougall, Jim
Angel of the Snow
174 pages including black and white photographic plates. In Spence Bay, in the far north of Canada, Judy Hill, a young nurse from Kingsbridge, Devon, decided to devote her life to caring for a community of Eskimos. In reading her story we learn of a hard cruel world where even 'survival' was still a luxury and of the courage necessary for the nurses to look after these still relatively primitive people in very isolated places. Here tragic death in a plane crash in 1972 drew attention to the vitally needed improvements in communications and facilities for these dedicated nurses. The facts of her death, and the controversy that surrounded Hartwell's action when he decided to use her body for nourishment, drew the world's attention to the risks these nurses took everyday in the wastes of the Arctic. Light wear to book which is clean and unmarked but for prior owner's name atop front endpaper. Dust jacket shows average wear, is price-clipped and missing one inch chunk at bottom edge of back panel. Solid copy. Book
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Schnepf, Edwin: Editor
Battleships at War! - A Dramatic Review of the Super-Dreadnoughts & Battle-Cruisers of World War Two: Volume 1 1989
130 pages. Sea Classics Special: 100 Years of the Battleship. Magazine format. Archival black and white photography throughout. Features include: The Bull of Scapa Flow - the Sinking of the Royal Oak; Battleship Losses of World War Two; Japan's Mighty Kongos; The American Dreadnought - 1890-1916; The Death of Force 'Z'; Battleship Shoot-out at Guadalcanal; The Fleet that Rose From the Ashes; Operation 'Cerberus' - the escape of Hitler's navy; Still Steaming 'in harms way' - the Iowas of Today's Navy; U.S. Navy Battleship Directory; For all the World to see - the new Mexico Class BBs; HMS Warspite - England's Grand Old Lady; U.S.S. Utah - The Forgotten Memorial; The Best Kept Secret of WWII - The 'Alaska' Class; The Battleship 'Texas' at Normandy. Average wear. No tears. Binding sound. Nice solid copy. Book
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Haskew, Michael E.
World War II Magazine - September 1998 Volume 13 Number 3
82 pages. Features include: Carrier Strike on Wake Island; Capture of Peleliu - Bravery on the Beach; Andy Rooney' War; Darian Assassination - Death of a Double-Dealer. Moderate wear. Unmarked. No tears. Solid copy. Book
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Silverman, Phyllis R.
Widow to Widow (Springer Series on Social Work)
227 pages including references and index. Presents for the first time the findings of the original Widow-to-Widow project. The lessons of that landmark study are integrated with the growing body of knowledge, concerning peer support programs, social roles, and the psychology of widowhood. Average wear. Usual library markings. Solid working copy. Book
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Harrison, Charles
Ancient Warriors of the North Pacific - The Haidas, Their Laws, Customs and Legends, with Some Historical Account of the Queen Charlotte Islands
222 pages including index and glossary. Fold-out map at page 15. Black and white photographic plates. "This book is the outcome of forty years residence amongst the Haidas, and is an accurate description of what I have seen and heard in the villages and homes. Through my knowledge of their language I have been enabled to get all my information regarding their customs, traditions and social organization direct from the principal chiefs, men who at that time were from sixty to eighty years old." - from Preface. Chapters include: Queen Charlotte Islands; Early History; The Haidas; Haida Customs; Births, Marriages, Divorce, Death and Burial Ceremonies; Tools, Ornaments and Ceremonial Masks; Industries and Medicines; The Sa-ag-ga or Shaman; The Haida Pantheon; Haida Legends; The Haida Traditions of Creation; Chief Edenshaw; The Natural History of the Islands; Geology of the Islands and Natural Resources. Appendix lists cranial measurements. Average wear. Binding intact. Red cloth-covered boards. Black lettering and decoration legible upon spine. Prior owner's stamp to bottom edge, front fixed and free endpapers, and title page. Faint bookseller's stamp to back fixed endpaper. A sound copy. Edwards & Lort 1668, Thibault 2,231. Book
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Magone, Clifford R.
Boys on Coroners - Fifth Edition
320 pages including index. A practical treatise on the office and duties of coroners in the provinces of Canada and the North-West Territories and Newfoundland. Chapters include: Of the Office and Appointment of Coroners; The Duty and Authority of Coroners Generally; Of the Jurisdiction of Coroners in Inquests of Death; Of the Rights of Coroners; Liabilities of Coroners; Offenders; Parties and Accessories; Crimes Which Come Under the Notice of Coroners; Deodands; Flight and Forfeiture; Evidence; Coroner's Court; Proceedings Subsequent to the Inquisition; Cremation of Human Remains; General Order of Proceedings at Inquests. Includes schedule of fees and Appendix of Forms. Names of two prior owner's inside front board. Moderate wear. Partial lean to spine. Maroon textured boards. Hinges intact. Original receipt, dated 1946, laid in. Book
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Van der Kiste, John
Queen Victoria's Children
182 pages including bibliography and index. "This authoritative study explores both the public and private lives of this remarkable family and examines particularly the children's relationship witih Queen Victoria herself and with one another after her death." - from back cover. Prior owner's name atop front flyleaf else unmarked with average wear. Solid working copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Soldier of Fortune Magazine - March 1995
82 pages. Features: What cops really think about gun control; death of a soldier; FBI vendetta lands special forces operator in jail; truth about what's happening in Haiti; How to shoot straight; Robo-Countersnipers. Average wear. Solid unmarked copy. Book
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Marshall, James Stirrat; Marshall, Carrie
Pacific Voyages: Selections from Scots Magazine 1771-1808
100 pages. "These records of famous navigators and expeditions include the first newspaper release of the Mutiny on the Bounty story, the first account of the barbaric death of Captain Cook, and the last record of the tragic La Perouse expedition, with the strange disappearance of its 200-man contingent." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Rowbotham, Michael
The Grip Death : A Study of Modern Money, Debt Slavery and Destructive Economics
337 pages. Bibliography. Index. "A radical, shocking and eye-opening expose of how our monetary system really works." - New Internationalist. "...Offers important insights into subjects that concern us all - mortgages, building societies and banks, food and farming, transport, poverty and wealth, and what's on the supermarket shelf." - from back cover. Average quantity of markings and some high-lighting to text. Moderate wear. Slight lean to spine. Good working copy. Book
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Berger, Joseph
Nothing But the Truth
286 pages. Index. Joseph Stalin's prison camps - a survivor's account of the victims he knew. Author was the founder and General Secretary of the Communist Part in Palestine. He, along with thousands of other patriotic Russians, found himself summarily arrested and imprisoned. He spent 21 years in a dozen now notorious prison and labor camps.... Berger is believed to be the highest ranking political figure to emerge alive from Stalin's camps. Because of his steadfast refusal to speak anything but the truth under interrogation, he was repeatedly subjected to both mental and physical torture. More than once he lay close to death. But with indomitable will, he has survived to bear witness to the suffering of innocent people and to point the way toward a saner world." - from dust jacket. Book
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Gottfried, Robert S.
The Black Death : Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe
203 pages. Index. Notes. Blibliographic essay. "The Black Death was a combination of bubonic, pneumonic, and septicaemic strains. It devastated the Western world from 1347 to 1351, killing 25%-50% of Europe's population and causing or accelerating marked policial, economic, social and cultural changes." - from Introduction. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Blind stamp to dedication page. No other markings. Clean with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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