Easton, Robert; Brown, MackenzieMareMagnum
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1961287 pages. References, bibliography, index. "Episodic and fast-paced, the narrative runs free as a wild stallion through the pages, pausing for scholarly introspection only in notes at the end of the book." - from dust jacket. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Nice solid copy. Book
1965157 pages. Index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. 43" x 21" fold out chart of the Great Lakes mounted inside back board. "The central role played by the Gildersleeve family in the saga of Great Lakes shipping is Miss Young's theme in this volume." - from Foreward. Light yellowing beginning at edges. Very light wear to book. Gift greetings upon front map endpaper else unmarked. Average wear to and chipping from dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Very nice copy overall. Book
1970Features: Europe will bring closer links to Africa; Man and the Heavens - 1; The Supermen; Southland Saga; In Search of the Sun God's Gold; Britain's rebel doctors; Earthquake devastates Peru; How Men turned Myths into facts; Cracking the cosmic code - signals from space; When life will be too rich for work; Southland (USA) Saga; Christian Roman Britain; Colin Chapman's super car - Elan Plus Two; Touchstone for T'ang; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Magazine
1976Features: Prehistoric Plainsmen; Fort Chipewyan; Saint Albert; Writing on Stone - Milk River Valley; The Ranching Saga of Southern Alberta; Home, House and Temple Among the Plains Indians; Oil City, Alberta; Some Early Travellers' Accounts of Alberta; The Mountains in Maps; The Frontier Art of R.B. Nevitt; Gerald Tailfeathers; Carl Rungius - An Artist's View of Nature; Architectural Heritage; Heritage Park; Ukrainian Vernacular Architecture; Medalta Pottery; Saddles; Hutterites - The Peaceful People; Cattle Brands; From an Alberta Kitchen; Beadwork by Alberta Native Peoples; The Doukhobors; Museums in Alberta; and more. Average wear. Date hand-written atop front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
1984Features: Perpetual seafloor metal factory; Swallow-tailed gull of the Galapagos Islands; The cooperative whale and its rescuers; Frying Pan Shoals Light Station - an aid to seafarers and biologists; Sea Squirts; The short , unhappy saga of Steller's sea cow; Milkfish - Southeast Asia's protein machine; Unpalatable Goby. Sound copy. Book
1959Features: Collision on the High Seas; The Co-ed or the Townie; By Boats Possessed; The Sheriff Who Never Gave Up; Fire at the Cocoanut Grove - the Boston nightclub became a furnace, trapping 1,000 revelers in one of the worst disasters in America's history; Three Brides, a Bathtub, and Murder; Saga's Photo Contest; Mel Ott - The Boy Wonder; The Marine in the Halloween Mask; The Big Build-up; The Most Versatile Shotgun Sport; Von Richtofen - The Last Knight of Battle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1974162 pages. Features: Churchill Centenary; The Sargassum Saga; The Turner Mystery; Before Columbus; Treasures of the Medici; Jungle City Gone to Seed; New Building in Bath; The Victorian Seaside. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
1994Features: The New Nature - welcome to the world of digital media; Polar Energy - the annual gathering of Polar Bears near Churchill, Manitoba has brought tourism to the tundra; Swampbillies no longer - Canada's Cajun cousins are reborn on the bayou, leading a French revival in the Deep South; Spirit of the Land - a pilgrim's tribute to soul power in native North America; The Sorry Saga of Superjuice - Premarin is a popular menopause drug... Few users know the side effects of its creation - horses as urine machines and a fouled prairie river. Light wear. Quality copy. Book
1987210 pages. Describes "... a harsh land and memorable people... Tells the Canadian experience of pioneering common to most regions of this country; of close-knit groups and their struggle to get ahead on a cold and lonely frontier." - back cover. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1966Features: Gold Canyon - the true saga of a lost mine; The Tragic Ward Family - Lay Creek, Colorado; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Come Hard, Go Easy Country - Lost Horse Mine and Billy Keys; Jack Morrow - Road Rancher, Benton, Wyoming; Buck Jones - Hero; The Boom Days of Staging - California Express Companies; Oregon's Buried Tresure; The Courier's Ordeal - Brigadier-General O.O. Howard; Ruby - 8th in a series of 'Ghosts along the Yukon'; A Bank for the 'Little Guys" - A.P. Giannini and the Bank of Italy; The Mystery of Little Wing's Medicine Sack - did she has ESP?; Wild Old Days; Identify these objects!; Mexican Bullion on the Flying H Bar Ranch; Cowboys in Town - Thad Sowder at the 1902 Mountain and Plain Festival; Messages in Beeswax from a Missing Galleon - does this spot at the mouth of the Nehalem River mark the final destination of the San Francisco Xavier?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1975Features: The Saga of John Moss; Outwitting the Daltons - Jerome S. Workman; The Earps in Jonopah; Legendary Tom Threepersons; Yosemite Turnpike's Crack Reinsman - George Monroe; 137 Years Old - Francisco Sais; When a Cowboy Falls in Love - a bit of romance involving a lady's watch and an automatic pistol; Getting Acquainted with Mules; Mollie Thumm - an honest gold digger in the Yukon; A Mix of Shrewdness and Nerve - Bill Hay; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1998VHS video tape in case. An exploration of director Juliann Blackmore's newly discovered Icelandic ancestry. Her great-great-grandfather, Sigursteinn Oddson left Iceland in 1883. His neighbour, Hans Peter Tergesen, left in 1887. The two men were part of a massive exodus from Iceland to Canada after a devastating volcano drove 1/3 of the population from their island home. The majority went to a settlement in Manitoba they named 'New Iceland'." - cover. Former library copy with usual markings. Book
1979178 pages. Index. "A microanalysis of those social, economic and cultural developments that led to the gradual breakup of an ancient way of life in the Swedish countryside and the migration of growing numbers of Swedish peasants across the Atlantic to America... Contains a Wealth of practical genealogical information and is a good case history of a typical immigrant family." - from dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket light worn with small chip from back panel. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1965Features: If Ho Chih Minh's Army Moves South in Force...; William F. Buckley seeks the Mayor's job in New York; The Wonder is There have been So Few Riots - American Racism; The Way it Was in the London Blitz - Londoners look back with nostalgia; Saga of Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (Garbot); TV Shows for the new season - Eagle in a Cage with Trevor Howard, The Steve Lawrence Show, I Spy with Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, Henry Moore - Man of Form, Trials of O'Brien - Peter Falk, and Jimmy Durante meets the Lively Arts; Feliciano Bejar's Special Niche in Mexico. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1963Features: England's place in the sun - Selwyn Lloyd; Birmingham, Alabama - a City in fear as racial violence smolders in this Deep South inderbox - with black and white photos; The new pulse of Australia - Jolly swagmen, kangaroos and tough outback cowboys are waltzing, like Matilda, toward a new destiny; Buck$ Benny Rides Again - the world's best-paid comedian, Jack Benny, still 39, returns to Broadway after a 32-year absence; Why I Didn't Quit the Ministry - by Norman Vincent Peale; Funny Side of the Bunny Business - a new Playboy Club whirls in a tangle of corn, beefs and cabbage; Dishrags to Riches - The Saga of Heloise Cruse; The Convict Volunteers - when scientists need human guinea pigs to submit to cancer shots or to test drugs, thousands of prisoners step forward, for surprising reasons; Atomic Bombs for Everyone - the exclusive 'nuclear club' may become crowded with new members including Egypt, Indonesia, the Congo. Absolutely *fantastic* colour full-page ad for 12 huge Cadillac models of varying colours. Book
1984Features: Cover artist - Daniel Kelly; Ikenobo School; Sangetsu School; Sogetsu School - Hiroshi Teshigahara; Chiko School - Kobai Naruse; Saomi School - Soshoen Yokochi; Ryusei-Ha - Kasen Yoshimura; A Reflection of Japan's Elegant Culture; Shodo - the way of writing; Saga Goryu; Koryu Shohtoh-kai - Riei Ikeda; Ichiyo School - Akihiro Kasuya; Ohara School - Houn Ohara; Ikebana for the Gourmet - lovely colour photos. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
1984Features: The Headmasters' Exhibition; Ichiyo School - Meikof Kasuya; Ikenobo - Sen-ei Ikenobo; Morimono of the Chiko School; Soami School - Soshoen Yokochi; Koryu Shohtoh-kai - Riei Ikeda; Kasumi Teshigahara, in Memory - many lovely photos, some in colour; Ryusei-Ha - Kasen Yoshimura; Ohara School - Houn Ohara; Shimpa Seizan School - Kogetsu Kamijo; Saga; Sogetsu School - Hiroshi Teshigahara. Some writing on front cover. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
1984Features: Seifu Enshi School - Teishosai Yoneichiba; Koryu Shohtoh-Kai - Rei Ikeda; Morimono of the Chiko School - Kobai Naruse; The Ohara School - Houn Ohara; Ikenobo - Senei Ikenobo; Container of your own; Sculptures of Masayuki Nagare; Crypto-Christians in Japan - long interesting article with many photos; Ryusei-Ha - Kasen Yoshimura; Soami School - Soshoen Yokochi; Ichiyo School - Meikof Kasuya; Saga; Sogetsu School - Sofu Teshigahara; Introducing - New Sogetsu Kaikan; Some writing on front cover. Average wear. A quality copy. Book
1974Features: Ikenobo School - Senei Ikenobo; Ryusei-ha School - Kasen Yoshimura; Ichiyo School - Meikof Kasuya; Saga School; Sogetsu School - Sofu Teshigahara; Ohara School - Houn Ohara; Shuho School - Shuho Sato; Soami School - Soshoen Yokochi; Introduction to Japanese Pottery; Autumn Exhibitions. Moderate wear. Bit of writing on front cover. A sound copy. Book
1980Features: Cover artist - Liao Shiou-ping; Saga School - Chiko School; Ikenobo School; Ichiyo School; Koryu Shohtoh-kai School; Floral Designs in Japanese Lacquer - many lovely colour photos with article; That day in Tehran when Ohara Houn Made an Old Man Cry; Ohara School; Soami School; Ryusei School; Japanese Contemporary Prints; Sogetsu School. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1980Features: Cover artist - Shigeki Kuroda; Notes on flowering material; Saga Goryu; Ohara School; Ichiyo School; Koryu Shohtohkai; The Genius of Japanese Design; Ikenobo School; Sogetsu School; Ryusei-Ha; Chiko School; Soami School; On Tour in a Japanese Play. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1980Features: Cover Artist - Junsuke Watarai; Ohara School; Ryusei School; Korean Celadon; Ikenobo School; Sogetsu School; Summer in Japan; Ichiyo School; Soami School; Saga School; There's a Special Welcome for Women in Japan; Koryu Shohtoh-kai School; Chiko School. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
1985Features: Cover Artist - Shuji Wako; Ikenobo School; Chiko School; Sogetsu School; Rysei-Ha; If you were a Heian Lady; Kasen Yoshiura, Headmaster of Ryusei-Ha; Ichiyo School; Koryu Shohtohkai; Ohara School; Soami School; Saga Goryu; Waka; Flowers with a Flair. Average wear. Crease to front cover. A sound copy. Book
1984Features: Cover Artist - Shuji Wako; Saga Goryu; Chiko School; Ichiyo School; Ikenobo School; Ikenobo School; Shinto - Japan's Spirit of Endless Renewal; Ohara Iemoto & Iemoto Designate; Rysei-Ha; Sogetsu School; Koryu Shohtohkai; Soami School; Ohara School; Japanese Gardens in England and elsewhere; Past, Present and Future - some thoughts. Average wear. Cup ring on front cover. A sound copy. Book
1973Features: Soami School; Ikenobo School; Ichiyo School; Ohara School; Sogetsu School; Ryusei-ha School; Chiko School; Japanese Silk History - unraveling the Japanese Silk Skein - nice colour photos with article; Creating Mini-Park - making use of boulevards; Legend of Dogwood; Saga School; Peter Smith's One-Man Display; Koryu Sho-o-kai Exhibition. Bit of writing on front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
