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Tarpley, Webster G.; Chaitkin, Anton; Wertz, Marianna (editor)
George Bush : The Unauthorized Biography
659 pages plus advertisements. Includes index and references. "Here are the details - frightening, gory, hilarious - the background and life of the President: How the Bush family made its money promoting Adolph Hitler and the Nazi war machine; Jupiter Island, Skull and Bones, and other bases of power; the 'war hero' story; George Bush and the secret government - from population control, to Zapata's Watergate burglars, to Iran-Contra; Kissinger, China and genocide in the Third World; Bush's Leveraged Buyout Mob, or the theft of a nation.... Breaks the code of silence which Anglo-American financial oligarchs have imposed around their conduct of U.S. Affairs... A vivid x-ray of the private forces dominating both Republican and Democratic parties - and of the man who occupies the highest seat of power in the nation." - from back cover. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Very nice copy. Book
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Botting, Gary
Fundamental Freedoms and Jehovah's Witnesses
214 pages including index and bibliography. This study of the Canadian legal history of this religious movement from 1870 to the present also traces the response of prominent Canadian jurists, lawyers, politicians and academics to the jurisprudence discoverable within the central cases. Describes censorship of Witness publications and the banning of the sect during World War II, and focuses on central cases arising out of the persecution of the sect in French Canada. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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McIntosh, Walter H.
A Record of the Descendants of John McIntosh of Bedford New Hampshire - Third Edition
129 pages. Black and white illustrations. Takes descendants through 7 or 8 generations in both the male and female branches to the mid-1960s. John McIntosh was a colonist and Revolutionary War patriot. Author, who passed away in 2002, was a genealogist for Clan Mackintosh of North America. "His contributions to his Scottish heritage and to Clan Mackintosh of North America were highly significant." - Larry Young, FSA Scot. Clean and bright. Some names underlined and highlighted else unmarked. Lightest wear. Excellent copy. Book
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P.H. Sheridan
Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan: Complete in Two Volumes
986 pages in total. Black and white illustrations. Fold-out maps. Memoirs of the prominent Civil War Union General. Bright gilt lettering upon spines and front boards with large attractive gilt illustrations upon front boards. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Hinges intact. Bottom half of contents of both volumes bear varying evidence of past moisture exposure i.e. light waviness and mild beige discolouration. No foxing, odour or stuck pages. Nice set overall. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Soldier of Fortune Magazine - October 1995
130 pages - Expanded 20th Anniversary Issue. Features: SOF exposes ATF's warbirds; Waco hearings - somebody's lying; Liddy's side of 'Shooting Feds' controversy; American mercs bomb Haiti; U.S. Specops pistol update; Secret SOG Ops - HALO into Laos and Cambodia; Trap team springs downed U.S. pilot; Proof - Chemical/Biological Agents used in Gulf War; D-day for X-ray - SEAL mission goes bad. Average wear. Solid unmarked copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Soldier of Fortune Magazine - June 1996
98 pages. Features: Is Clinton destroying special forces?; Inside special Salvo Specops; Trails of bodies from CIA to ATF; Top secret UDT Subs; Bosnia - Apaches rule; Asia's hottest war; James Bond hideout guns. Average wear. Solid unmarked copy. Book
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First Ed
Fighting Firearms - Journal of Armed Professionals: Fall 1995
82 pages. Features: Exclusive look at mysterious PM-84 SMG; PM-63 - Terrorists' cold war weapon of choice; Astonishing new training ammo; truth about training drills; what happened to the M14?; U.S. Krag - An arms race America lost; Silent CQB Suppressors; Hot Sniper Gear; Stechkin Micro-SMG. Moderate wear. Solid unmarked copy. Book
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Posten, James
The Milestone
15 pages. A short play which takes place 16 years after total nuclear war, somewhere in the U.S.A. Above-average wear. Initials atop front cover. Book
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Time-Life Editors
The Age of Calamity: AD 130-1400
175 pages. Index. Colour illustrations. The Hundred Years' War. The Rise of the Ottomans. The Fury of the Steppes. China's Brilliant Dynasty. The African Empires. Clean, bright and unmarked with virtually zero wear. Beautiful copy. Book
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Mallett, Eric; Conway, W. Ronald: Editor [Signed]
Eric Mallett's Story - Through the German Lines with Forged Identify Papers
Editor's inscription atop half-title page states this is copy#2. Includes note from Editor to his daughter laid in. 78 pages. Black and white illustrations. Mallett was shot down over Belgium on May 26th, 1944. Thanks to the well-organised Belgian Maquis and their support by Allied Intelligence, he and his bomb-aimer managed to avoid capture and after many adventures eventually returned to Canada." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Book
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Temple, Willard
Web Adams
199 pages. Usual library markings to contents only. Exterior unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Binding sound. Illustrated front board. Book
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Meyers, Edward C.
Thunder in the Morning Calm : The Royal Canadian Navy in Korea, 1950-1955
248 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Black and white photographic plates. "...Depicts a navy at mid-century determined to assert its distinct Canadian identity. Here is an account of a war viewed from the vantage point of the lower deck; of one whose own experience and those of his shipmates are testimony to the fact that those who served with the RCN in Korea acquitted themselves admirably and in a manner that has long deserved the recognition and respect of all Canadians." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Attractive dust jacket now in archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Gift quality. Book
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Guard, J. S. (Signed)
Improvise and Dare : War in the Aegean 1943-1945
257 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "J.S. Guard has painstakingly researched published sources and original PRO records to produce an absorbing, definitive story of military opportunism and indiscretion; of extreme endurance punctuated by sudden, sharp action; and of clandestine, courageous enterprise and ingenuity in the idyllic setting of the Greek islands. An intriguing account of one of the least publicised campaigns of the war, this work examines all aspects of the campaign, makes impartial assessments... and dispels some of the myths and misstatements associated with it." Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket now in archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
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Rubinstein, Norman
The Invisibly Wounded (from the Jews in Wartime Series 1939-1945)
220 pages. Signature and inscription of author's son David upon front free endpaper else clean and unmarked. Author was 25 years old when he returned from being a prisoner-of-war... The scars he received as a POW were never completely to leave him; the horrors that he had seen and endured haunted him both mentally and physically throughout his life." - from dust jacket. Author passed away in 1984, truly one of the Invisibly Wounded survivors of the war. Light wear to book and dust jacket which is now in an archival-grade Brodart cover. Closed half-inch tear to dust jacket at top of spine. Nice copy. Book
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Allinson, Sidney (Signed)
The Bantams : The Untold Story of World War I
287 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon half-title page. Index. Black and white photographic plates. The story of short soldiers in Word War I. "Author tracked down 300 surviving Bantams and made good use of unpublished journals and letters. His experience documents again the widespread illogical prejudice against people who happen to be short." - from back cover. Small inkstamp to bottom of front flyleaf else clean and unmarked. Very light wear. Minor curl to front cover. Very nice copy. Book
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Fowler, T. Robert (Signed)
Valour in the Victory Campaign : The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division Gallantry Decorations 1945
235 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Bibliography. Index. Black and white illustrations. "The skill, bravery, and perseverance of the Canadian soldier in the dying months of the war leap off these pages. Mr. Fowler has performed a valuable service in confirming once again the proud military tradition enjoyed by Canada." - from Foreward. Clean, bright, tight and square with very light wear. Quality copy. Book
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Cosmos
The Basis of Durable Peace - Written at the Invitation of the New York Times
144 pages. Few pencil markings. Average wear. Binding intact. Inkstamp upon front free endpaper states "Premier's Office." News clipping affixed inside front board. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Canadian Historical Review: Volume XL, No. 4 December 1959
Features: Canada's Negotiations with Newfoundland 1887-1895; The Quebec Resolutions and Le Courrier du Canada 1864-1865; W.T. Stead and the Boer War - The Irony of Idealism; David Thompson and Defence Research. Average wear. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
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"The Buffer" (Ron Elliott) (Signed)
Eight Bells and Green Ones - Memories of a Retired Chief Boatswain Mate
56 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1985. A brief history of service at HMCS Cornwallis from May-Sept 1949. "Gives the reader a look at New Entry Training, Naval Lore, Human Interest Stories and some Naval Characters, of which the Navy had its share." - Joseph Lay. Black and white photographs. Author's signature and lenghty inscription to V.L. Swanton inside front cover. Foreward by CIER Joseph Lay G.M. C.D. taped to page one. A quality copy. Book
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Roehrenbeck, William J.
The Regiment That Saved the Capital
244 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. The events surrounding the march of New York's famous Seventh Regiment to the defense of Washington during the critical opening months of the Civil War. Unobtrusive library markings to interior only. Average wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy. Book
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Polevoi, Boris; Simonov, Konstantin; Trachmann, Michael; Pavlenko, N.G. (Editor)
Liberation - in Slipcase
Unpaginated. A substantial and sobering pictorial review of the Second World War through the eyes of those in the USSR. Significant accompanying text in English. Book approximately one inch thick. Contains many dozens of black and white photos from the USSR National Archives of Film and Photo Documents. Binding secured at spine by masking tape. Book clean and unmarked. Moderate wear to illustrated slipcase. Book
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Riding, Richard T.: Editor
Aeroplane Monthly Magazine - December 1978 Volume 6 Number 12
Features: Mike Beach's little S.E.5a; By Handley Page to India 1918/19; French Mountain airmen; Lockheed Starfire; Cranwell C.L.A.4; Hair-raising Whitley flight; Radar War; Austin A.F.B.1; D.H. Humming Bird; Double Eagle-transatlantic balloon. Light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Grossman, Dave
On Killing : The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
366 pages. "An illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experience of having killed." - Washington Post. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Some curl to front cover. Book
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Mayers, Adam
Dixie and the Dominion : Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union
244 pages. Notes. Index. A riveting look at Canada's role in the last great military struggle on the continent, the American Civil War. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
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Keun, Odette
And Hell Followed... A European Ally Interprets the War for Ordinary People Like Herself
296 pages. Prior price upon front board. Markings erased from front endpaper which bears dab of liquid paper. No other markings. Binding open at title page. Two-inch tear to exterior base of front hinge. Moderate lean to spine. Remains a worthy reading copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
World War Investigator: Volume 1, No. 12, 1989
64 pages. Features: Massacre on Prebichl; Nakano School for Spies; Commandos in the Aegean; My Story - Mrs. Turner. Average wear. Unmarked. Good working copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
World War II (2) Magazine, November 1987
66 pages. Features: Night Cruiser Battle; Porsche's Super Tank; Buzz Bomb Ace; Sea Lion Thwarted; Surprise Attack on Formosa; Ordeal at Huertgen. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound working copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
World War II (2) Magazine, September 1997
82 pages. Features include: Secret Missions of Luftwaffe KG 200; American Tank Destroyers; Bougainville - Hell on hill 700; Firsthand account of Patton's Spearhead across the Moselle; 10th Panzer's Eastern Front Onslaught; Controversial British Attack on French Fleet. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Magazine
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Rawlings, Alf (Signed)
Diary of Life in a Stalag - A New Zealand Soldier's Wartime Story
69 pages. Author's signature upon title page. "World War II finished in 1945; a book about it in 1991 might seem unnecessary, but friends who have read the diary I kept in Germany, and know that I was taken prisoner four times, have encouraged me to put this book together." - from Foreward. Nine black and white illustrations. Chapters include: Early Days; Egypt and "The Blue"; P.O.W. Number 2 and 3; Bricks and Soap Powder - P.O.W. Number 4; Peace at Last!; Italy Re-visited; Poems written in Captivity. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Clouse, Robert G. (editor)
War : Four Christian Views
210 pages. Presents modern expressions of four classical views: Biblical Nonresistance; Christian Pacifism; Just War; Preventive War. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Wolters, Syrt
The Hidden Family Upstairs : A True War Story
136 pages. Author was born in Holland and during WWII was involved in the underground resistance. His family sheltered a Jewish family in their home for 2 and a half years. This work describes vividly how the war years affected the family and their hidden guests. Ends with liberation in 1945 by the Canadians. Gift greetings atop title page else clean, bright and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy. Book
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Sjoblom, Paul
Finland from the Inside
205 pages. Index. Eyewitness reports of a Finnish-American journalist, 1938-1997. Author spent a lifetime bridging the linguistic and cultural gap between Finland and North America. Covers Sibelius, the Winter War, the Continuation War and Finnish identity. Clean, bright and unmarked but for discard stamp upon top edge of text. Negligible wear. Very nice copy. Book
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Graves, Sandham
The Lost Diary
131 pages. "...Written in affectionate remembrance of the Canadian Corps, 1914-17, and the Royal Flying Corps, 1917-18... Appeared first in my own column... in the Victoria Daily Colonist... Written as impersonally as possible, from the standpoint of one who shared with many others the privilege of seeing Canada's honours won on the field of battle." - from Introduction. Text in three sections: Canada's Fighting Men; Wings; Mediterranean Days. Apparently issued without a dust jacket. Somewhat above-average wear to dark green publisher's cloth. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A sound copy. COOKE [3e] p.309, LENGEL 230, NOFFSINGER 564. Book
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Ennes, James M., Jr.
Assault on the Liberty : The True Story of the Israeli Attack on an American Intelligence Ship
299 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "In June 1967, jet aircraft and motor torpedo boats of Israel brutally assaulted an American naval vessel, the USS Liberty, in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula... The attack lasted more than two hours - killing 34 Americans and wounding 171 others... Israeli forces machine-gunned her life rafts." - from dust jacket. Average wear to book which bears small address label of prior owner upon front free endpaper else is unmarked. Average wear and two closed tears to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. [Stimely p.19] Book
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Rhea, Gordon C.
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864
512 pages. Index. Maps. "The definitive study of the Wilderness, better than anything published heretofore and certain to stand for decades as teh ultimate authority on the battle." - Robert K. Krick, Chief Historian, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Clean bright and unmarked but for a few droplets of water to front board. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book
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Lowry, Thomas P.
The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell : Sex in the Civil War
209 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Illuminates the underside of the Civil War." - James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
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Copp, Terry; Vogel, Robert
Maple Leaf Route: Caen
122 pages. Index. "The first volume in a series on the Canadian campaign in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945. This volume contains the story of the planning of Overlord and the details of Canadian operations during the first month of the campaign." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Very nice copy. Book
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Musham, H.A.
The Technique of the Terrain: Maps and Their Use in the Field in Peace and War
228 pages. Index. "Intended as a text on maps and their uses in field operations in war and peace." - from Preface. Prior owner's details inside front board. Book
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Jaccottet, MM. G.; De Fourmestraux, Marcel; Baud-Bovy, D.; Locking, John
L'Etape Liberatrice - Au Soleil et Sur Les Monts: Scenes De La Vie Des Soldats Allies Internes En Suisse
289 pages. Leather binding. Many dozens of artistically presented black and white photographs. All text in French but for pages 286-288 which are in English. Prior owner's name upon decorated front free endpaper. Small crack along front hinge. Average wear externally. Damp stain to fore-edge of relatively few leaves. Ink stamp to base of half-title page. Sound copy. Book
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Matloff, Maurice: Editor
World War I : A Concise Military History of 'The War to End All wars' and the Road to the War
119 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Usual library markings. Average wear. Useful working copy. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News - April 6, 1968
42 pages. Features: LBJ on his way out; New Jersey Nuns Win Lottery!; Britain's Application to join the Common Market; Nigeria's Grim War Dance; Chelsea/Royal Engineers; Rotary International; Sardis and the Sons of Herakles; Herb Gardens; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News - November 2, 1968
38 pages. Features: Vietnam War Protests; The New 747 Jumbo Jet; The Butterfly Business; Cyprus - the mine of treasures; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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The Beaver - Canada's History Magazine - April/May 1998
56 pages. Features: The Canadian Battle of Normandy Foundation; The postcard war 1914-1918 - Postal images reveal a unique pictorial record of war; Jim Jenson's Journey; The Great Canadian Dinosaur Rush in the Alberta Badlands; Sointula - harmony and turmoil on the B.C. coast; Abraham Groves - early Canadian surgeon; To Canada by sail - a young man's voyage to work for the Hudson's Bay Company. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Beaver - Canada's History Magazine - April/May 1995: War on Lake Ontario
56 pages. Features: War on Lake Ontario - a costly victory at Oswego, 1814; Rescue Mission - Canadian soldiers and airmen in an arctic ordeal; Quebec and Conscription - the death of Ernest Lapointe and a fateful change of policy; Mysterious deaths at Onion Lake - were two union men murdered?; Reflections from The Beaver 1936. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Beaver - Canada's History Magazine - December 1993/January 1994
56 pages. Features: Christmas Past - Maritime traditions with a touch of Dickens; Making fun of the hero of the Plains of Abraham; The fate of Tecumseh - learning from 'war crimes' and the lesson of 5 October 1813; Fifth Column crisis - war jitters on the home front, 1940; Canada's forgotten railway tycoon - Charles Melville Hays; Feasting with the North Westers at Old Fort William. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Beaver - Canada's History Magazine - April/May 1994
56 pages. Features: Assoro - Canadians battle in Sicily, 1943; A new look at the Conscription Crisis; Kurt Meyer - from Normandy to Dorchester Prison; Motor Torpedo Boats to the rescue, 1942; D-Day plus 50 years - the lost poetry of war rediscovered; 'Professor' Pyke's Secret Weapon - putting the sea war 'on ice'. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Rickards, Maurice; Moody, Michael
The First World War - Ephemera, Mementos, Documents
244 pages. Index and dozens of black and white illustrations. "Brings together a wide range of items from over half a dozen countries. Much of the material is poignant, some of it is naive, all of it is powerfully evocative." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Dust jacket, now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover, bears sunning to spine and is otherwise fine. Beautiful copy of this attractive work. Book
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Kennedy, G.A. Studdert (Woodbine Willie)
More Rough Rhymes of a Padre
89 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1919. Pertinent poetic verses neatly hand-written upon verso of dedication page. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling to red cloth-covered boards. Small opening at top of front hinge. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Printed in Great Britain. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Maclean's Magazine - December 16, 1961
72 pages. Features: High Moment of Faith - a gallery of children in first communion, confirmation, bar mitzvah; Report from Asia - We're arming for the wrong war; A Mechanic Tells why we should scrap 10-year-old cars; The Uncanny art of 27 drugged painters; a 10-day trencherman's tour of Winnipeg; What it's like to drive a Buick to Moscow; Why Hockey Keeps Getting Faster... and Gentler; Our risky place in the grand design for the Atlantic. Great colour ads include: Pepsi; Hammond Organs (2-page); Coke-coloured Santa (back cover). Average wear. Pages 17 and 19 loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Marten, C.H.R.
The Groundwork of The War
48 pages. Circa 1921. Binding fragile. Some markings. Worthy reference copy. Book
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