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197047 pages. Covers: blue grouse; spruce grouse; franklin grouse; ruffed grouse; willow ptarmigan; rock ptarmigan; white-tailed ptarmigan; sharp-tailed grouse; sage hen; european grey partridge; chukar partridge; bob-white quail; California quail; mountain quail; ring-necked pheasant; band-tailed pigeon; mourning dove. Top corner clipped from title page. Ink stamp atop page 25 else unmarked. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1983160 pages including index and glossary. A beautiful compendium of the world's most entertaining and universally popular games. Every board in this fascinating and unique collection of over eighty games can be played on the page as book is designed to open flat. Instructions are on adjoining pages while all the pieces and other equipment needed for play are supplied on a separate cut-out sheet laid-in back board. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Moderate wear to attractive dust jacket which bears a closed two inch tear to top edge of back panel. Nice copy. Book
19364 works in 1 vol., 8vo., Seventh Edition, the four divisions separately titled and paginated, with a frontispiece, 23 plates and over 320 illustrations and diagrams in the text; original plum cloth, upper board with blind frame border enclosing title and author lettered in gilt, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned (but all lettering wholly legible) else a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements throughout. The work comprises Division I: Angling for Coarse Fish. Fifth Edition, revised Courtney Williams; Division II: Angling for Pike. Tenth Edition, revised Courtney Williams; Division III: Angling for Game Fish. Seventh Edition, revised Courtney Williams; Division IV: Angling in Salt Water. Sixth Edition, revised Arthur Bell. A very nice copy of 'the most widely read work on angling in the world' (Publisher's Note). Hampton p.75.
1978Features: Jean Chretien - the Finance Minister as tough guy - with a weakness for one-liners; Rush Rock - feature article on rock group Rush, consisting of Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson; Name Game - an unusual exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Chowder recipes; Hockey's Roger Neilson - coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Somewhat above-average external wear. Small chip from front cover which bears a two-inch tear to fore-edge. Similar tear to first leaf. Center page holding by one staple. Book
1971Features: The World Wildcat (bobcat) Hunt - Canadian guide Ron Hoare and American hunter Norm Wheeler at Truro, Nova Scotia; Professional patients - they can fake symptoms well enough to fool most doctors so they can enjoy all that tender, loving (and free) hospital care; Al Stewart of West Hill is a jack of all trades, and master of just about all of them - he, Bill Fields, Izzy Flader, Nick Kioussis, Aron Frydman, Alan (and Percy) Lepke are some of the very best and absolutely most reasonable repairmen anywhere; Tie One On - fashion segment featuring decorative tie-ons for bare legs named 'Gammies"; Do Canadian workers need American salaries? - a question being considered by North America's giant international unions - carpenter Harry Peck of Portland, Oregon is compared with carpenter Floyd Holly of Vancouver, BC; Nice colour full-page ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken; Prosperity is Killing the Game of Marbles - Why should a kid work for his water babies when he can buy all he wants?; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1972Features: Canada's a great place to visit, especially if you live here! - great places to visit are presented with photos, some in colour; Colin Brown - right-wing revolutionary, fighter against medicare and tax reform - Canada's leading crusader against big government and modern permissiveness; 'Jailbreak Canada' game; *Please note that pages 23-26 are missing*; Cheer up Ron - Ron Taylor, relief pitcher from Toronto whom the Montreal Expos bought from the New York Mets last October, is released by GM Jim Fanning; Doug Wright's Family; Maggie Grant. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1970Features: The Home Sales Game - coffee, cake, and buy, buy, buy - Tupperware, etc.; The Loneliness of an Old Master - Snooker Champion George Chenier; The Auto Theft Industry; The real truth about the bible baddies; Sand Skiing at Tadoussac; Maggie Grant; Snake Charmers (fashion feature); Cybermedix - get Canada's most complete medical checkup without seeing a doctor; Part of page 33 has been clipped out - it appears to have been from an article about coloured rock; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
1971Features: Great colour photo of New York's WTC twin towers under construction - Newfies are making up to $23k/yr on high steel jobs; Any Game Played by 750,000 people can't be dull - curling... the world's top skip, Don Duguid; Maggie Grant; Art Galleries are great places to be caught dead in - how to beat the art snobs; So who needs a Ferrari? - a handful of Canadians who have up to $22k to spend; Girls, your Canadian manners simply won't do! - so says the London of England Modelling Academy - Clementina Chilvers; The backroom boys of the food business - they make Colonel Sanders (KFC/Kentucky Fried Chicken) secret blend - the industrial seasoning suppliers; and more. One-ince tear to magazine near base of spine else sound. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
réf. 1391643895.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2004Generically signed and dated by author atop first page, which also bears dabs of liquid paper. 318 pages. Several black and white reproductions of photos. Contents include: Six Murders and a Disapperance; Fur Bootlegging Trials; The New Brunswick House Indian Band; Chapleau Roads; The Indian Schools; The Fires of 1948; Historic Missanabie; The Grey Owl Conneciton; The Origin of Ontario's Trapping Laws; Shipping Sudbury's Old Folks to Chapleau; and more. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy of this interesting work. Book
194696 pages. Attractive large colour pastedown on front board. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Dust jacket heavily worn with many tears and chips - now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A worthy copy of this charming work. Book
réf. 63841London: Published by “East Africa” East Africa Ltd. 1928. Tall 8vo. xvi 318 pp. Frontisp. map with numerous photo plates. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear edgewear rubbing w/ printed dark brown d.j. minor scuffing edgewear couple closed tears tidemarks at couple corners still VG-/G copy. First edition of this very scarce follow-up to this African adventurer’s “King of the Wa-kikuyu” and relates his adventures as an elephant ivory poacher in the Lado Enclave of East Africa and travels through British East Africa Uganda Belgian Congo and Ethiopia. He was the first Eurocaucasian trader to travel from Addis Ababa Ethiopia to the capital of Kenya. Boyes 1874-1951 first arrived in East Africa when Nairobi was largely uninhabited made friends with the Kikuyu was admitted to their blood brotherhood became their uncrowned king and later settled down as a coffee grower and dairy farmer. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Published by “East Africa,” East Africa, Ltd., hardcover
1981No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to spine ends. 198pp. A book for those wishing to improve their skill at the sport of shooting covering its history, guns, marksmanship, fieldcraft, safety, rough shooting, driven game, wildfowling and shoot management.
réf. 017115The original and unusual chessmen for Chess '72 were designed and sculpted by Alexander Silveri of Graz Austria. Silveri a retired professor of art has since winning his first state prize in Vienna in 1933 won many European art prizes and exhibited his works throughout most of Europe and Brazil. Each piece is molded from ridged plastic. The set includes George McGovern Richard Nixon Henry Kissinger Eugene McCarthy J. Edgar Hoover Edward Kennedy and more. All housed in original black box with board. unknown
19688vo., First Edition; cloth, very slightly browned at extreme head and tail of backstrip else a very good, c clean copy in the dustwrapper
192632 pages. Features: The Queen of Kipling's Mandalay - article on Burma with photo of Supayalat and King Thibaw; The New 'Real Estate Bond' Industry (2nd article of 2) - First Mortgages on the Unknown Future Amount to Many Millions; A Good Look at Our Young People - analysis discloses that the newer generation is not deteriorating; Why Not Keep Faith with the Moro Race? - Justice is due to these people as well as to the other natives of Philippines - photo illustrated article on these people of Mindanao; What Has Become of Ben? - a boy whose restless gypsy blood made him an aimless wanderer; Mr. Henry Ford's Page - "Low wages shows poor management, poor finance, poor production"; Editorials - Senator Borah to the Lead, The Unitarian Women of the U.S., How important is news?, Which way is Coolidge going?, Anesthetic discovery at the University of Wisconsin; African Lions Roamed in Hollywood - discoveries indicate prehistoric game trail once extended from Old World to New; Why the Great Strike Failed - American gives vivid pictures of English lovel-headedness when millions of workers downed tools - article with photos; The Voyage of the Victoria - Westward Ho! (part 5 of a series); When General U.S. Grant Gathered Hides at Galena - for a time he forsook army life to engage in humble ways of earning a living in commerce; Ad for The Canal Band and Trust Co. of New Orleans; interesting piece about Jewish historian Josephus and his original text, in Aramaic, describing Jesus and his life; Mark Twain as Traveler (short article); New Oriental Limited ad features Glacier National Park; A Dance a Week - Positions of Feet in Dancing; Wild Flower Gardens - The Pansy King of Wisconsin, William Toole, Sr.; Fascinating illustrations of Pioneer tests in Aerostats (balloons). Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: A Wasted Sugar Supply - Honey from Honeybees; Wild Youth Proves a Myth - 'girls and boys' between 35 and 45 are rolling up the crime wave; Making the Government Efficient - reorganization would cut 100,000 unnecessary employees from federal payrolls; The White House - a Mecca for Cranks - Secret Service men must be ever alert to guard the President from the Unbalanced; Missionaries and Machine Guns - many preachers of the gospel do not want the protection of bullets; Tom Learns to Play the Game - an American boy who on mastering himself was able to direct others; Henry Ford's Page - Lower price no longer means lower equality; Editorials - making the movies dry, the value of vulgarity, Mussolini forbids earthquake prophet,exams proposed for ministers of religion, Washington's inability to think in other than political terms; Writing Verse for Composite Readers - some versifiers cultivate eccentricity, others are themselves, and therefore poets; Sad Men Who Look So Wistfully at the Sky - author, William F. Hopp has been chaplain of the Michigan State Prison for over seven years - article with photos; Duelists (Fighter Pilots) of the Sky - a tale of knights-errant and their deeds - of their light-heartedness, and their gallant, tragic fate; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 3) The Big Snake and the Little Dog - and how a darky made millions from circus side shows; Chats with Office Callers - Christmas cards began with Jewish Adolph Tuck, controversy in Canada over union with the U.S., sighting of monster near Prince Rupert, B.C.; The Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Fascinating illustrated ad for homes which can be built for under $1k in materials; I Read In the Papers - article by Nathaniel Zalowitz in the 'Jewish Daily Forward' declares "...For the overwhelming majority of Jews in American assimilation in any true sense of the term is absolutely out of the question."; The Barefoot Boy - poetry by J.G. Whittier inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1989xv, 225 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. The ultimate source book on elk and elk hunting from past to present, for the beginner and expert alike. - subtitle. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
1971réf. 147961Franklin Watts. London and New York. 1971. Title, 77, (1) pages. With a lot of illustrations in colour. Red hardcover binding and an illustrated dustjacket. 22x18 cm
réf. 93064Nebraskaland Magazine Vol 62 N° 1. January-february 1984. 1 vol in-4 broché couverture illustrée (peinture d'indien). 130 pages. Très nombreuses illustrations sur les indiens du Nebraska
1934réf. 025031Meredith NH: Banfield and Crowell 1934. No Binding. Near Fine. 12 - Digest. Assorted. Stamped inside verso of title page with Eagle Logo 'Surplus - 1 Library of Congress Duplicate' and stamp dated on the bottom 'May 29 1934' also: ' Copyright symbol CIA A 147706' these terms/numbers are unknowm to me but are likely a designation of the LOC. This assures anyone that this is a first printing of this early NH F&H guide. Self-published by the authors and printed in Meredith NH jus aboutt 10 miles away. Quite Scarce TP loose and brittle with small corner chip small blue colored pencil checkmark to upper left corner light very edge creasing Spne and RC both about fine in look and condition. NOTE: though this was self-published it did have the backing of the NH Commissioner of F&G J. H. Finley and had a comment by him printed on the verso of the FC. Why it was not published by the NHF&G is a mystery to me. Banfield and Crowell unknown
1987304 pages including index. A companion to the completely new nationally syndicated television series Wild Game and Country Cooking. Removes the mystique from wild game cooking and presents a step-by-step guide to making fresh fish and game dishes, from the time the quarry is shot, hooked or bought in the store; to the cleaning, storage, and preparation; to the presentation at the table. Former owner's name upon front endpaper, else book as new. Book
réf. 0259883298.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 0364601205.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 0666328293.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover