ref. 0856471186.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1986ref. 312855LONDON/NY: LORRIMER & UNGER. Fine with no dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. 093062128X . A paperback original. INSCRIBED by Betty Comden & Adolph Green on the title page. Cut autograph of Fred Astaire on a plain white index card laid-in loosely. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Ink stamp of noted Hollywood cinema bookshop at base of title page . LORRIMER & UNGER. paperback
1999256 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Documents the ongoing battle for control of Canada's richest business. "Based upon dozens of interviews with all the major players, including an exclusive one-on-one with Paul Martin, this is a rich story of outsized personalities and egos, brilliant and stupid strategies, and an epic power struggle pitting business against government and corporate Canada against ordinary Canadians." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket in archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
1982287 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 The story of short soldiers in Word War I. "Author tracked down 300 surviving Bantams and made good use of unpublished journals and letters.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
2000ref. mon0003989894CamCat Books 6/13/2023 12:00:01 A. paperback. Good. 1.4173 8.5433 6.2992. Minor shelf wear/ creasing on cover. rn CamCat Books paperback
1976ref. 2111902160800854Scholastic Book Services 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Scholastic Book Services paperback
1932ref. 30203New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good. c.1932. First Edition. Hardcover. lacking the original dust jacket but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing general shelfwear and some deterioration to cloth at base of spine but generally a good sound copy. 4 B&W film stills Novelization of the 1932 film starring Jean Harlow who appears in all four of the stills illustrating the text a gangster tale that was about as down-and-urban-gritty as M-G-M ever got. Warner Bros. was the more natural habitat for this sort of picture. The film represented one of Burnett's earliest Hollywood story credits the actual dialogue being supplied by John Lee Mahin himself no slouch in the hard-boiled department. A terrific feature of this book is an 18-page "Underworld Glossary" with definitions and even occasionally etymological mini-essays for several hundred terms some of them fabulously arcane. Bet you don't know what it means to "Norton-and-Egan" somebody; just hope it never happens to you. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1932ref. 18917New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1932. Hardcover. "Adapted from the original motion picture story by W. R. Burnett." Contains 4 b&w photographs which are stills from the original motion picture starring Jean Harlow. This is book adaptation novelization of the original movie script by W. R. Burnett. Contains an 18 page "Underworld Glossary" in the rear as well as two pages of publisher's ads. The book is in its original red cloth covers with black spine and cover lettering. There is a previous owner's bookplate on front end paper else a nice clean tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings there are a couple of light spots to rear cover; this has obviously been well-cared for over its life. Lacks the scarce original dust jacket. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8"- 9" tall; 218 pages . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1932ref. 30203New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good. c.1932. First Edition. Hardcover. lacking the original dust jacket but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing general shelfwear and some deterioration to cloth at base of spine but generally a good sound copy. 4 B&W film stills Novelization of the 1932 film starring Jean Harlow who appears in all four of the stills illustrating the text a gangster tale that was about as down-and-urban-gritty as M-G-M ever got. Warner Bros. was the more natural habitat for this sort of picture. The film represented one of Burnett's earliest Hollywood story credits the actual dialogue being supplied by John Lee Mahin himself no slouch in the hard-boiled department. A terrific feature of this book is an 18-page "Underworld Glossary" with definitions and even occasionally etymological mini-essays for several hundred terms some of them fabulously arcane. Bet you don't know what it means to "Norton-and-Egan" somebody; just hope it never happens to you. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
2018ref. 572054London: Titan Comics 2018. Hardcover. Fine. First trade edition. Based on a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Quarto. Heavily illustrated. Fine. Titan Comics hardcover books
199456 pages. Features: Annals of the fur trade - the making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives; The story of the HBC Museum Collection; On the Cariboo Gold Rush Road; 1919 - the Winnipeg General Strike reconsidered; George Back's sketchbooks come to Canada. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
194750 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: HBC and the Smithsonian; River of Deadmen's Valley - R.M. Patterson spent three years in the fabled Nahanni Valley; Prisoners of the Indians - continuing the story of the McLean family's adventures in 1885; By God's River to the Bay - God's River in Northern Manitoba; Pullen in Search of Franklin - part II; Tweedsmuir Park - article with photos and map; Voyageur's Artist - Frances Ann (Beechey) Hopkins; Boy Hero - Donald Ayalik; Founding Fort Yukon - the company's most westerly fort was established by Alexander Hunter Murray 100 years ago; Pageantry at York Fort - an eye-witness account of the trading ceremony which was staged at York Factory in the 1770's; ad for HBC prairie farmlands for sale on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
195558 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Glamorous colour photo of woman wearing arctic fox evening cloak inside front cover; The Mad Giant and the Mountie - a huge Swede who worked on a section gang makes a sudden divorce from sanity; Frank Oliver - Spokesman for the West; Cold War on the Fraser River - the Yucultas near Fort Langley were dreaded by all the tribes along the river - until the day when the cold war became a hot war; The Simple Men; First Lady of the Rails - "The Countess of Dufferin"; On Board the M.V. Fort Hearne - great photo study; Robert (Bob) Chambers Edwards (Eye-Opener Bob); Trapping the Big Horn - there was lots of action when some California Bighorn sheep were corralled in the Chilcotin country for shipment to Oregon; The Formative Years - II - part 2 of an article on the early settlement of the area which, 50 years ago, became Saskatchewan and Alberta; The Story of The Sault - on the centenary of the first American locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Dr. Clever Bald sketches the history of the two towns - Canadian and American - beside the rapids; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
194950 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Centenary of Diocese - the Anglican Diocese of Rupert's Land was created in 1849; Thelewey-Aza-Yeth - Guy H. Blanchet searches the headwaters of the Thelon River; Committee's Punch Bowl - the little lake at the top of Athabaska Pass, which Simpson named after the Company's London Board, 125 years ago; Frail American Elizabeth Taylor braves the rigours of wilderness travel 60 years ago, just to see how she can take it; Woodland table manners; New York to Nome and Back - in 1920, eight fliers of the United States Air Service flew from New York to Nome and return - photo-illustrated article; Mistassinia Calendar - a year in the life of a Mistassini Indian - photo-illustrated article; HBC and Vancouver's Island - behind the establishment of Vancouver Island as a Crown Colony lay a tense international drama, and a great story of loyalty; Letters Outward 1679-94 - a review of the 11th volume of the Hudson's Bay Record Society; Expeditions to the Arctic - 3rd of 3 instalments listing the various expeditions to the Canadian Arctic from the year 1004 A.D., this part covering the years 1860-1918; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1957ref. 118260Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1957. Early Draft script for the 1957 film "The Beginning of the End" directed by Bert I. Gordon based on a story by Gordon indicated here though not credited in the film written for the screen by Fred Freiberger and Lester Gorn and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. One of two Republic features produced by AB-PT or American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres "The Beginning of the End" is one of the more famous monster cheapies in which Department of Agriculture functionary Graves and photojournalist Castle discover huge grasshoppers that are part of a gone-awry experiment in radioactivity. The US Army finds out too late and the first target is Chicago. White card wrappers with the stamp of the Sunset Script Service in red on the inside rear wrapper and the film title in black on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for director Gordon original story and screenwriters Freiberger and Gorn with Gordon's name address and phone number at the bottom right corner. 101 leaves mimegraph rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with foxing and some tears at the punch-holes bound with three gold brads. Martin 43. Republic Pictures unknown
1957ref. 118260Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1957. Early Draft script for the 1957 film "The Beginning of the End" directed by Bert I. Gordon based on a story by Gordon indicated here though not credited in the film written for the screen by Fred Freiberger and Lester Gorn and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. One of two Republic features produced by AB-PT or American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres "The Beginning of the End" is one of the more famous monster cheapies in which Department of Agriculture functionary Graves and photojournalist Castle discover huge grasshoppers that are part of a gone-awry experiment in radioactivity. The US Army finds out too late and the first target is Chicago. White card wrappers with the stamp of the Sunset Script Service in red on the inside rear wrapper and the film title in black on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for director Gordon original story and screenwriters Freiberger and Gorn with Gordon's name address and phone number at the bottom right corner. 101 leaves mimegraph rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with foxing and some tears at the punch-holes bound with three gold brads. Martin 43. Republic Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 22094ELondon: Beverley Books 1956. First Edition. Paperback Original. Illustrated 40 pages small format 4” x 6 3/8”. A movie tie-in edition issued to accompany the release of the bio-pic The Benny Goodman Story starring Steve Allen as the ‘King of Swing’ clarinetist and jazz bandleader Benny Goodman co-starring Donna Reed Berta Gersten Herbert Anderson Sammy Davis Jr. and Dick Winslow. Very good bright copy with some minor handling. Beverley Books paperback
1997ref. 11316London, New York, Toronto: BCA, 1997. 358 Seiten , 21 cm, Pappeinband mit Schutzumschlag
1994ref. 166198Liverpool : THE BLUECOAT PRESS, 1994. 187 S.; Ill. 8° , Broschur, quer
196740 pages. Circa 1967. A very rare copy of this songbook which contains many of Sonny and Cher's biggest hits. Includes music, chords and lyrics to: Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down); The Beat Goes On; A Beautiful Story; But You're Mine; Good Times; It's Gonna Rain; I Got You Babe; It's the Little Things; Just You; Laugh at Me; Little Man; Sing C'est La Vie; You'd Better Sit Down Kids. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1987ref. dm575Longman longman simplified english series Dos carré collé 1987 In-12 (11 x 18 cm), dos carré collé, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 91 pages, texte anglais, histoires sélectionnées et simplifiées par Michael Woolf ; coiffes et coins frottés, dos légèrement insolé, plis aux mors, bel état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
197420 page board book. Average soiling and wear to outer boards. No markings. Five inch crease to top right corner of front board. Contents clean and bright. A picture story book with no words providing discovery, surprise and fun for pre-reading children from 3-6 years. Book
1956ref. 132545London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Five vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1956 US film. A star-studded but typical Hollywood biopic based on an original story by John O'Hara "Ten North Frederick" 1955 about a successful 1920s musical writing team DeSylva Brown and Henderson. They score several hits on Broadway but tensions between the three writers mount as two begin to feel neglected. 8 x 10 inches. Moderate rubbing to a couple of stills and faint creases overall else Near Fine. Hirschhorn p. 356. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
ref. 79-XVST-EA9BVery Good. Visually Inspected by Bonnie: 10 Dark brown leather look Hardbacks NO dust jacket no marks in text and binding solid. First edition 1954 . ALMOST LIKE NEW! couple book have light shelf wear. color pictures!! #AZB hardcover
1997264 pages including index. The first full account of a scientific discovery that may change the world, told by a skeptical secular reporter who became part of the story. Clean, bright and unmarked with virtually zero wear. Gift quality. Excellent copy. Book