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1990Anecdotes, legends, diary entries and memories of writers and poets. Illustrated with over 30 engravings, line drawings and photographs. Signed by Shaun Payne and Bob Copper on half-title page. 152 pages.
1997A thorough explaination of masonry structures. x, 160 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography and Index. Creases to lower corner of front cover and top edge.
1953Edge wear and discoloration to cover. Red cloth spine. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription inside. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Oblong format: 12 1/2"w x 9 5/8"h. Color illustrations by Alois Carigiet. The story of Ursli, a mountain boy in Switzerland, and his quest for a big bell for the bell procession in the spring festival. Second impression.
192330p. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Very slightly foxed. Limited Edition. Number 3632. Thin 8vo. Original green wraps lettered and embossed in gold. Very nice copy. PA PAMPH 20_11 BX 4 x2
190940p. + Two Photographs. Tall 8vo. Original printed wraps very slightly soiled. Nice copy. Scarce. PA PAMPH 20_15 BX6
1891pp. x, 354 + Frontis and over twenty photogravure plates. Top edge gold. 8vo. Original full white cloth binding in imitation of vellum. Beveled edges. Binding elaborately decorated in gold, red and blue. Inked ownership of G(eorge) Herbert Jenkins. Hardbound. A better than very good copy. TRAVEL/4x2c
1930pp. 31, 204 + Illustrations. Original printed wraps. Limited edition.
1916212 p. + Thirty colored plates reproducing paintings by Edwards + Color titlepage. 4to. 280 mm. Top edge gold. Original full green cloth binding, highly decorated in gold, red, and black. Cracked at hinges. Binding only slightly rubbed. Really quite bright and impressive. A wonderful account of Flanders just before it was ravaged by World War One. This would make a great gift for any European traveler. NW31.
1966pp. xvi, 262. Numerous illustrations. Small 4to. Original full blue cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket, slightly rubbed and chipped. Volume Two of the Historic Birthplace of California series. Third printing. Hardbound. Very good. W11
1965No marks or inscriptions to contents. Minor creasing to upper corner. A very clean very tight pamphlet with slightly foxed unmarked covers and no rusting to staples. 10pp. Illustrated description and history of the Exeter Cathedral bells.
1990127 pages. Contains words and music for the following songs: Flying in a Blue Dream; The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing; Can't Slow Down; Headless; Strange; I Believe; One Big Rush; Big Bad Moon; The Feeling; The Phone Call; Day at the Beach (New Rays from an Ancient Sun); Back to the Shalla-Bal Ride; The Forgotten Parts I and II; The Bells of Lal Parts I and II; Into the Light. Includes introduction by Wolf Marshall. Please note: color fold-out not included. Creases and above average wear to glossy covers. Contents unmarked with average wear. Book
198556 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
1974Features: A Brief History of Early Days in North Texas and Indian Territory; Ghosts of the Copper Bells; God was with me; The Clearinghouse Mine; Old Boz - Yankee with a Gun; A Stagecoach Reunion; "I Rode for Gerlach"; The Dancing Countryman; River Rider; Old Morenci, Arizona; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
194974 pages. Articles: My Pal, Drew Pearson; Richest Man in the Cemetery - warning to wives who don't want to be widows; It Happened in Mississippi - Thousands of sharecroppers in the 13 fertile delta counties are buying and equipping their own farms with aid from the Farmers Home Administration; Voyage of the Pagan - John Caldwell's Sailing Adventure (part 2 of 3); I Cover the Animals - nature writer John (Tex) O'Reilly; The Surprising Phillip Jessup - the man who helped lift the Berlin blockade; It's in the Cards - Jack Jarvis of Seattle prints funny membership cards; Marvelous Mel Parnell; - Pitcher with a Bat; Johnny Lujack - photos; Green-Eyed Movie Madcap - Shelley Winters - article with color photo. Fiction: The Legal Bride (part 1 of 6); Bitter Honey; Everyone Needs a Pet; Zone of Interior; Just Like I Hate Money; The Bells of St. Pierre. Nice vintage ads include: Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring photo of Miss Audrey Keon; DeSoto cars; RCA Victor radios; Plymouth; Canada Dry - super one-page ad in color; Kool-Aid; Companion Magazine; Oldsmobile; Back cover ad for Lucky Strike features tobacco buyer B.G. Conner. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1977130 pages. Index. Archival black and white illustrations. Unmarked. Light wear. Bit of soiling to back cover. A quality copy of this wonderful historical and genealogical reference. Book
191135 pages. The 21 songs include: Weel May the Keel Row; Coming Thro' the rye; Annie Laurie; The Campbells are Comin'; Within a Mile of Edinborotown; Bonnie Dundee; A Highland Lad My Love was Born; The Yellow Hair'd Laddie; O' Charlie is My Darling; Jean McNeil; Scotland Forever Lancers; Caledonian; Petronella; Highland Scotch No. 1 and Virginia Reels; Highland ScotchNo. 2 and Virginia Reels; The Bonnie Brier Bush; Within a Mile of Edinburghtown; Annie Laurie; The Blue Bells of Scotland; Comin' Through the Rye; Auld Lang Syne. Above-average wear. Book
1949Average wear. A sound copy. Sheet music
1966Features: Why Mrs. Nadine Angeline Wilson, 32, went Militantly to Market; Backstage in Israel - Canadian Sundays are a Bacchanalian orgy after a Sabbath in Jerusalem; The Triumph of Isabel Lebourdais - she watched the Truscott script but watched the drama from the wings; We run our schools like well-kept prisons with bells, imperious rules and regimentation - it's 'efficient', it's orderly, it works - if all we want is the grey conformity of assembly-line minds, Jon Ruddy; The Susie Thing - colour photo fashion feature with article and photos about Susie Kosovic, a 22-year-old Toronto fashion designer - Canada's "Mary Quant"; Inflation & the Biebbers - they're an average family, trying to cope with rising prices - this is how they got by 17 years ago, and how they manage now - they're spending more - but they're living better - with a page devoted to "How Your Dollar Shrinks"; Two Views of Germany, by Irving Layton - with fantastic b/w photos including the Berlin Wall; David Sector's latest film "The Offering" - he's a Canadian curiosity - his films make money; Behavior Therapy; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Football - ah, the sport, the thrill - the blood of it all; The Little Mags - Sexy, Arty, and Obscure - Myer Signer of Causeway Publishing; Barbara Klich argues against boycotting supermarkets and high food prices; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
197766 pages. Features: Red, White and Blue Flower Arrangements; The Moravian tiles of Dr. Henry Chapman Mercer; Barns of Yesterday; The Collectible Cow Bells of Switzerland; Oneida's Plated Baby Sets; Eskimo Artifacts; Lightning Rods; Some Current Prices of Selected Antiques; Yesterday's Elegant Coal Vases. An Update on Herend Porcelain; Lavish Bell Levers; Chain Gang Furniture. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
193764 pages. Selected from the season's most popular song successes. Includes sheet music and guitar chords for the following songs: In the Chapel in the Moonlight; Empty Saddles; The Glory of Love; The One Rose; Timber; It's the Gypsy in Me; The Scene Changes; Sweet Misery of Love; Now or Never; Nobody to Love; A High Hat, A Piccolo and a Cane; A Treat for the Eyes; One Hamburger for Madame; Jingle Bells (I'm in Love); My Midnight Star; Just Say Aloha; I'm Sailing a Dream boat; The Old Country Doctor; Strings that Plead for You; Here Comes the Girl; You will Never be Too Old to Love; Hail, Men of Adventure, Hail; Honey, Please don't turn your back on me; I've Waited a Lifetime; Swing Me a Lullaby; Me and the Sun; Thanks a Lot. Also includes several photos of famous song writers. Average wear. Three-inch opening along bottom of cover-fold. A quality copy of this nostalgic compilation. Book
196548 pages. Circa 1965. Includes Canadian Discography plus lyrics and music for the following songs: The Lads of Bonnie Scotland; Songs of Scotland; By the Lochside; A Scottish Soldier; The Bonnie Lassie o' Dundee; Heather Bells; D'ye Mind Lang Syne; Donald Dhu; Cowboy Jack from Skye; Take Me Back; The Barren Rocks of Aden; The Battles's Over. Also includes these Monologues: The Loch Ness Monster; Tobermory Treasure; A Daunner Through the Toon. The many black and white photo reproductions include photos of Andy in: Hampden Park; Majorca; on two B.B.C. spectaculars; With his family; The Five Faces of Andy Stewart; Visiting the less fortunate; at a field day of the Cameronians in Lanark; Visiting the far east. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Scattered bits of writing to contents. A worthy copy of this warm and nostalgic compilation. Book
1944Features: Nice colour-illustrated military-themed Canada Post ad inside front cover; Assault on Normandy, by Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro, with photos; "Stand By to Beach", by Commander Peter MacRitchie, RCNVR - D-Day Coverage - article with photos; Dinner for Four - fiction by Marguerite Eyssen; How Long will You Live?, by Dr. W.W. Bauer; So This is Rome, by Peter Stursberg - impressions of the eternal city after liberation; Britain After the War, by Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald; 'Stardom's No Joke' says Judith Evelyn, 1,000 times a star in Angel Street; Interesting news bits from across the country; Have a Good Time, John - fiction by Alberta Pierson Hannum; Johnny Longden Up, by Jim Coleman, with photos; Brilliant Business - Canadians are proving they can master the ancient craft of diamond cutting; Wedding Bells for another Woodbury (Soap) Deb - the former Thelma Bertha Bowell of B.C. and Lieutenant Wilbert Kennith Carter - ad with photos; Colour Kodak ad explains colour printing; Lovely colour ad for Dr. West's toothbrushes; Nice colour ad for Nabisco Shredded Wheat; *RARE* full-page colour GM ad commemorates the contribution of the quarter-million vehicles they contributed to the war effort - caption reads "The First Billion Miles are the Hardest!; Similar colour ad by Ford Motor Company inside back cover shows their trucks at work in war and at home; Heintzman & Co. piano ad; *Wonderful* colour-illustrated Coke ad on back cover shows a sailor returning from war being welcomed to his industrial former place of work; Faint bit of writing and address label upon front cover. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this important wartime issue. Magazine
1927192 pages. Cover illustration by Emmett Watson. Contents: The Road to Kandahar, by Harold Lamb; Renegade - The Horse Thief Rendezvous, by Georges Surdez and Raymond S. Spears; Down in a Dugout, by Leonard H. Nason; The Sun Chasers, by Hugh Pendexter; Code, by L. Paul; Uncle Nng and the Pale Blue Dog, by Carroll K. Michener; The Dance Hall Fisherman, by James Stevens; French M.P.'s, by Steamer; The Bells of San Juan, by Alan LeMay; The Lights of Rip Shin Bald, by Hapsburg Liebe; The Bogas of Magdalena, by Edgar Young; Alias The Blackbird, by Joel Townsley Rogers; Dragomen, by Royce Brier. Attractive water-color illustrated ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover. Peripheral wear to covers. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
195612 pages. Published monthly in the interests of employees of the T. Eaton Co., Western Ltd., Edmonton. George Simpson hits the 25 years of employment mark. Guy Turner honoured on retirement. Welcome to many newcomers. New season for Eaton's bowling league. Nurse Joy Cox leaves Eaton's. Mrs. L. Peeling joins staff as welfare nurse. Photo of George Gale with his wonderful new CJCA 'radiobike'. Photos and stories of employee trips. Employee wedding bells. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
196463 pages. French lyrics - chord names included, 22 internationally famous selections in their original French versions. Songs include: A L'Enseigne de la Fille Sans Coeur; Comme Moi; Cri Du Coeur; Dans Leur Baiser; Des Histoires; Il Fait Bon T'Aimer; Je M'Imagine; La Belle Histoire D'Amour; L'Accordeoniste; La Ville Inconnue; Le Ballet Des Coeirs; Les Amants De Paris; Les Mots D'Amour; Les Trois Cloches; Mon Dieu; Mon Manege a Moi; Mon Vieux Lucien; Salle D'Attente; T'es L'Homme Qu'il Me Faut; Toi, Tu L'Entends Pas; Toujours Aimer; Un Etranger. Also includes biography in English and French. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
