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ref. GOR013602518Paperback. Very Good. paperback
2011ref. 074714Canterton Books 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. 10x1x9. Signed by AuthorsI. Signed by Authors Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Canterton Books paperback
2011ref. DADAX3838114906Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG 2011-08-05. paperback. New. 5.91x0.31x8.66. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG paperback
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ref. 0464973635.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1925ref. 23982A. L. Burt NY 1925. HBDJ 1925 1st Edition Pretext lists thru Director VG-/FAIR AS-IS Bright lightLy Rubbed & Scuffed Front of Dustjacket with small chips CreaSes Tears Tiny chips Tears Extremities DJ DJ Spine ends chips Tears with part Publ. Name out BottoM Back DJ list Girl Scouts thru Captain & Carter Girls of Carter House Rub light Soil tiny Chips Tears Blue GreY & Yellow Cloth Cover with Gold Gilt Titles rubbed Cover light Rub Wear Interior tight clean Light Rub wear FOX 253 pgs ADS IN BACK thru Camp fire Girls Keewaydin B/W Glossy Frontispiece Replicates DJ Illustration she did not say much as she paddled Front Inner Flap DJ Blank with tears Chips Creases. BY Van Dyne Edith AKA Baum L. Fran. Hard Cover. A. L. Burt NY hardcover
2000ref. x-0122871553Emerald Group Pub Ltd 2000. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 302 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. Emerald Group Pub Ltd paperback
193396 pages. Features: Nice Plymouth Six ad featuring interview with G.R. Stevens of Elgin, Illinois; ATT ad features woman using old-style phone; Buying automatic refrigerators; "Human-Eye" camera opens new way to television; Snakeskin and marble made by photography; Planes to dump rain on crops; Photo of tidal wave in the River Severn, in England; Queer jobs in the Arctic - Major L.T. Burwash in pursuit of the North Magnetic Pole; Two-passenger sailplane has closed cockpits; Rare Stamp Racketeers thwarted by black light; Human body gets machine tests; Freak vehicles for air, land, and water; Animal movie actors trained by strange tricks; Tires torn to pieces in safety tests; Homemade Sextant; Is Rudy Hofmeister the fastest wood carver?; War Waged on Insects with Lights and Odors; Microscope "Movies" on Screen; Newest Household Devices; Weird stunts with aluminum in the home laboratory; One-man show with a magic hat; Adding earphones to your radio; Radio sets now tuned by sight; New gears shift themselves; A simply built high striker; Tools and Materials Captain McCann uses to build ship models; Graceful stool built from coat hangers; Sport belt made of knotted string; Simple design for boy's auto (go-kart); Luggage Making on the kitchen table; Taking telephoto shots with your own camera; Helpful hints for motorists; plus dozens of other brief and interesting illustrated items. Great cartoon-style ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover features magic tricks. Somewhat above-average wear. Faint store stamp on back cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1982Approximately 75 pages. "Brings together for the first time thirty-eight stunning, original Canadian maps - many of them national treasures - and the fascinating stories of the explorers and cartographers who made them. From Gastaldi's woodcut map of 1556 in which monsters roam the sea, through Champlain's 1612 collage map of Canada's bounty, to Sanson's foundation map of 1656 - the first to show all five Great Lakes - this superb 'atlas' takes the modern navigator on a voyage of rediscovery to Canada's beginnings, beginnings not only in strength and adventure but also in humanity and art. Charts a compelling route to the nation's past." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear to navy cloth boards. Price clipped dust jacket bears two closed tears and average wear. Overall a nice copy of this spectacular work. Book
1967186 pages including index. An exact reproduction of the 1872 edition with an introduction (including a select bibliography of Midwifery) and Biographical sketch of the author, with a list of his writings and frontis portrait. Clean, tight and unmarked with very light wear to brown boards. Excellent copy. Book
1953Pages 593-636. Features: Photos of U.N. and Communist negotiators who reached agreement on the repatriation of sick and wounded POWs at Panmunjom, Korea; Photos of Egyptian Cabinet Ministers receiving firearms training at the request of General Neguib; Interesting photos of Coronation preparations including some of the Gurkha contingent and the Sultan of Selangor with members of his family and retinue in London; Interesting photos from Panmunjon and Seoul; Photos of personalities of the week, including the victorious F.A. Amateur Cup-winning Pegasus team and wedding photo of Sir Alexander Fleming and Amalia Coutsouris; Photos from the Royal Wedding in Luxemburg; Amazing underwater shark photos; Photos of Kenya's strengthening hand against Mau Mau; Photos of Kenyan women being trained to shoot; Cyprus dig sheds new light on ancient siege warfare - with photos; Excellent centrefold illustration depicts how the Persians laid siege to Paphos in 498 B.C.; Photos of village of Lambourn wrecked by fuel tanker; London tube train disaster; Photos of world's largest model highway and railway track layout owned by Herr Rossmaier of Augsburg, Bavaria; Photos of 7,000 year old portrait busts discovered at Jericho; Photo of Turkish submarine Dumlupinar which sank in the Dardanelles after colliding with Swedish freighter Naboland; and more. Moderate wear. Centerfold holding by one staple. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
1896Pages 158-218. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Charles Anderson Dana; The Spare Front Room; The First Snowshoe Club in New Hampshire; Moments of Light; Lost in the Woods; Morning Among the Hills; Berlin - a town of today; Elbridge A. Towle; An Evening Prayer; The Legend of John Levin and Mary Glasse; A Wish; Educational Department; New Hampshire Necrology. Some peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
196347 pages. Profusely illustrated. The overall study examines the quality of housing stock in the Edmonton Metropolitan Area and seeks appropriate methods for overcoming its inadequacies. This volume, Part 1 of the study, illustrates the effects of poor housing and poor neighbourhood environment relative to the City of Edmonton and Town of Jasper Place. Districts with the hightest incidence of physical, mental and social health problems (per capita) are identified and, by comparison with statistics for the city at large and other metropolitan areas, evaluated to obtain a perspective of the severity of blight. Undertaken by the City Planning Department, under the terms of the National Housing Act 1954 with a grant administered by CMHC, and with the approval of the Minister of Municipal Affairs of the Province of Alberta. Unmarked. Light wear. Excellent copy. Book
199366 pages. Songs include: The Future; Waiting for the Miracle; Be For Real; Closing Time; Anthem; Democracy; Light as the Breeze; Tacoma Trailer. Unmarked. Moderate wear and soiling. Binding intact. A quality copy of the beloved compilation. Book
1972128 pages. "The personal history that is unfolded in the following pages is a unique account, a dramatic story of a man of courage and conviction under the most trying of circumstances. No attempt has been made to idealize the events contained herein nor to ascribe perfection to the central figure... There are certain elements in this history that one may classify as super-natural. The reader is left to decide for him/herself whether to accept these as miraculous or coincidental. Includes black and white illustrations. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Quarter inch opening at bottom of spine. Very nice copy. Book
198416 pages. Exhibition catalogue for the works of one of Southern California's most sensitive and adventurous artists. Includes color and black and white reproductions of selected works. The Akroteri Series represents a continuation of her past aesthetics but in these new works there is a spectacular change in scale, structure and content. In this series of paintings, constructed of multi-layered materials, she has created an illusion of overwhelming depth. There is a mythic sense of time and space in her provocative references to archeological ruins. Very light wear. Unmarked. Brown textured card covers. Book
1982191 pages including index. A pictorial celebration of what began as a tentative enterprise in 1882 under the name Dominion Bridge and has since grown into a strong company today called AMCA International. Reveals that founder Job Abbott was a man of vision. Chapters include: Birth of a Country and a Company; The First Two Decades; Turn of hte Century to the Great War; Plowshares into Swords; The Postwar Crescendo and the Great Crash; Civilian Skills Make Military History; Modern Cityscapes; Rebirth for a Second Century. Attractively illustrated, primarily with glossy colour photography. Includes introductory letter above faux signature of Kenneth S. Barclay, Chairman and CEO. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1936Pages 263-310. Features: Fortunes in Scrap; "Falling Stars"; To the Moon - by Movie; Transcontinental Road-Air Highway; Science Reconstructs Facial Features from Skulls; Garments of Glass; Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" and its modernistic machinery; Dornier's Latest Roto-Wing Flyers; New "Public Address" System; New Features of the "Queen Mary"; Novel Devices; New in Mechanics; Neon Tubes to Light Live Wires; Latest European Novel Ideas; Newest Devices for the General Use; Latest Patents; Earth's Next Moon?; Can You Make 50 Folds?; Uncle Sam's Growth; Artificial Earthquakes test Depth of Soil; Cold weather brings thinner ice; Skin of back a hearing organ; Radioactivity perhaps cause of plagues (by mutating disease germs); Microscopy for the Beginner; Demagnetizing Coil for 110-Volts, A.C.; Siren for Small Town or Camp; raised Grain Wood; Mechanics of Magic; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1958Approx 1.75" thick in light blue covers. Provides the service man with complete information on the maintenance and repair of various units of the 1958 model Chevrolet passenger car including the Delray, Biscayne, Bel Air, Yeoman, Brookwood and Nomad. Sections include: general information; lubrication; frame and suspension; steering; rear axle; brakes; engine tune-up; engine mechanical; electrical systems; fuel and exhaust systems; clutch; transmission- manual; transmission - automatic; body and sheet metal; air conditioning. Only moderate wear. Average soiling. Unmarked. Sound, square copy. Book
194950 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Winnipeg and the HBC; The North Magnetic Pole; Early Western Paintings; New Light on Hearne; Royal Road to the Yukon - the Alaska Highway; Early Days in Winnipeg; Grassy Narrows - photo study; Consul Taylor of Winnipeg - part 2 of an article on James W. Taylor, U.S. Consul at Winnipeg from 1870 to 1893; Iron in Labrador - illustrated article; Expeditions to the Arctic - Part 2 of 3 listing the various expeditions to the Canadian Arctic, this part covering the years 1800-1860; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1995380 pages including index and some black and white illustrations. Author's signature atop title page. "What was it like to serve in the Canadian Army during the Korean War? Here are their unpublished stories, from lieutenant to private, their everyday life in a peculiar war. This book is a soldier's view of the war, some stories startling, all interesting, and often in stark contrast to the official version of the war. A once in a lifetime of treasured memories, experienced by a few, who are now willing to share their experiences with you." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear to red illustrated covers. Tight and square. Excellent copy. Book
1991"Be the man your lover has always dreamed of! Don't leave your personal life to luck or chance. Take the most valuable part of your life, your personal relationship, and make it more than you ever dreamed it could be. Start listening and start kindling that flame today!" - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Lovely set. Book
1995295 pages including index and lists of sources. Author's signature upon half-title page. "Fifty years after a defecting Ottawa Soviet embassy cipher clerk (Igor Gouzenko) brought the RCMP a shirtful of incriminating documents about an espionage ring operating in Canada, this book provides us with the first insider's account of the incidents which many feel triggered the Cold War." - from back cover. Author was a Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces and speechwriter for Paul Martin Sr. His story differs in many respects from the officially sanctioned version. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book