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1966Features: Vietnam - the American Agony; One Woman's War - Beryl Fox of CBC-TV directs filming in Vietnam of a widely acclaimed documentary on jungle fighting; Herbert Irvine - Benevolent despot of decor - with many colour photos; Warrendale Treatment Centre near Toronto treats children from troubled prisons of fear and loneliness; Journey to the last frontier, by Stephen Jones Gamester; Ken Johnstone describes how he transformed a little orchard into a booming pocket of poverty; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
197666 pages. Features: Dead Money Jewelry; Eagles in American Quilts; Collecting Civil War Images; Are You Sure It's a Real Arrowhead?; Documentary Dolls - costume dolls of Jacques and France Rommel; Quintuplet Collectibles; Victorian Bracelets. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
197978 pages. Features the works of Edward Parker Bedwell, Henry James Warre, John Clayton White and Frederick Whymper. Monograph from an Exhibition at the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria June-July 1979. Four British artists who recorded the British Columbia landscape in the third quarter of the nineteenth century constitute the material of this study. Eschewing dependence on formal art criticism she chooses rather to focus on the historical function of the works as documentary records. The biographies and catalogue raisonnes which conclude the study are major contributions to the history of Canadian art. - Excerpts from Preface by Martin Seeger, Director, Maltwood Art Museum. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound reference copy. Book
1983Features: Krugerrand advertisement; Belgium - a flourishing hub of illicit trade in endangered species; Q and A with Alvin Toffler; Arafat leaves Beirut for Greece, ending 12 years of PLO activity in Lebanon; Marc Lalonde's federal budget - big for business; Is Canada's Tax System Fair? - by Linda McQuaig; Questions about Bryce Mackasey's Finances; Peter Blaikie leaves the federal PC leadership contest; Politics and property rights in Canada; Central American dilemmas; Bombing at U.S. embassy in Beirut - with photo; Vintage colour ad for Radio Shack TRS-80 computer family; Poland - heading back to the brink?; Ontario's great Trust Affair - Leonard Rosenberg; Brazil's struggle with debt; Peter C. Newman on Walter Gordon; Carling Bassett scores a big breakthrough; Canada's field hockey future; The new bad nuclear news - with photo of a B-52 on the 'Trestle' - shielding electronic circuitry from the EMP threat; Acid Rain controversy; Allan King's controversial documentary on the effects of unemployment; Great vintage colour ad for the Apple personal computer; the University of Waterloo has quietly become one of North America's leading training grounds for computer scientists; Canal to connect the Danube with the Rhine; Fine tuning for Canadian pay TV. Average wear. Book
1984329 pages. Index. Referrences. List of primary sources. Reproductions of black and white photos. "John Grierson, documentary film pioneer and founder of the National Film Board of Canada was a self-proclaimed propagandist who offered himself to Canada in the Second World War and won a place as director of Canada's official propaganda machine... But after the crisis had passed, Grierson and his idealistic associates ran up against the emerging pragmatic and functional policy approach of Mackenzie King's government." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
201082 pages. Features: Iceland volcano halts European flights - many photos; Andrew Coyne comments on Maxime Bernier; What our comrades in Afghanistan have to say; Matthew Syed on the making of great athletes; Guergis, Bernier, and Prime minister Harper's secrets; Jean Charest's last stand; Can the U.K.'s Liberal Democrats really beat Labour and the Tories?; Canadian Invasion - our companies are taking over companies in other countries; Thomas and Sally Cook successfully generate business referrals; Employees are turning their employers onto environmental sustainability; Lush sells shampoo bars; Jellyfish could help unlock health secrets; Tekakwitha - the case for a saint; Blood and Bhutto - new documentary; TV show "The Good Wife"; Mark Steyn says "Fight up to fight unilinguaphobia!"; Obituary of Ilona Koroleva. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound and complete copy. Magazine
1979403 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Describes the birth of the province in the words of the particicpants... Shows all the elements that went into the making of Alberta: lofty aspirations and self-interest, ambition and faith in the future, high statesmanship and low politics." - from dust jacket. Small name stamp upon front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
198652 pages. Text in English. Features: Bernd Lohse turns 75; Africa in colour - Erna and Helmut Blenck; Rencontres d'Arles '86 - Kodak courts the younger generation of photographers; Yvette Troispoux; Kodachrome 1936 - 10 DIN; Erich Salamon - the discovery of a Leica photographer; Super - Kodachrome 200; Photokina 1986; Setyadi Yoedaatmadja; Red and Blue - colour as the triggering element; Documentary photography; New colour materials for even better print quality; Agfa's 70 years in colour photography; Title slides with computer and camera; Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1957xxiv, 129-194 pages. Features: Heroes of the Tractor Trails (with cover illustration) - photo-illustrated article on the men who blaze tractor trails across the frozen north to supply mines and the military; Full Ahead to Destruction - a ten million dollar smuggling operation in the Mediterranean - article with photos; Red Eyes of Evil - hunting a 15' crocodile on the Zambezi; The Temple of Snakes - five white men filming a documentary amongst the savage Arusi tribesmen find trouble; Murderers in my Kitchen - the author's two jungle workers were convicted murderers; Trapped in a Floating Tomb - an astonishing sea story from off the Prussian coast involving the "Aurora"; Tooth for a Tooth - a Scotish flyer creates trouble in the city of Kandy on Ceylon when he violates a sacred shrine; Squeeze to Freedom - the amazing escape of a British P.O.W. from a German train in WWII; Caught in a Whirlpool in the Vialala river in Eastern Papua - article with photos; Sports Day with the Veiled Warriors - the Oulliminden Tuaregs of the French Sudan - article with photos; Jungle Guinea Pigs - Sgt. Ken McConnell's Auster crashed in Malaya - his nightmare trip to safety; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
199148 pages. Bilingual English/ French. Many black and white photos. Features: The Canadian Human Rights Commission and multicultural identity in Canadian society; Pamphlets and the European immigration campaign; The multicultural mosaic in documentary art; German-language groups in Canada; Hungarian Canadiana at the archives; A century of Ukrainian life in Canada; Arabs in Canada; Keeping Latvian film arts alive; Canada's Irish regiments. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
1939320p., illus. Jacket sub-title: How the Motion Picture Records Our Civilization Hardcover Good condition; scotch tape residue on cloth boards in taped d.j. fair
1992243 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good History of filmmaking for the U.S. Government during the Depression
1953In 4°. Pagine 150 ca. Album contenente uno studio preparatorio (probabilmente avente anche uno scopo pubblicitario o di presentazione) per il documentario cinematografico ’’Gli eroi dell’Artide’’ di Luciano Emmer, poi uscito nel 1954 per la Lualdi film, con fotografie applicate, mappe e disegni realizzati anche a mano, testi dattiloscritti in lingua inglese. Rarissimo ed introvabile. Album containing a preparatory study (probably also having an advertising or presentation purpose) for the film documentary `` Gli eroi dell'Artide '' by Luciano Emmer, later released in 1954 by Lualdi film, with photographs, maps and drawings also by hand, typewritten texts in English. Extremely rare and almost unobtainable.
1978CENTROSTAMPA 1978 (DATA PRESUNTA) UN CENTINAIO DI PP (PERALTRO NON NUMERATE), CON NUMEROSISSIME FOTO B / N. SEGNO DI CATALOGAZIONE A BIRO AL MARGINE DELL'ANTIPORTA, OTTIME ED ECCELLENTISSIME CONDIZIONI GENERALI.
1978In 8°,leg .ed. t.t.sovrac.pp.158 con num tav , ill. a colori .legg,fioriture sul frontespizio.brunitura del tempo.nel complesso ottimo
1969In 8 (18x11,5) Dieci volumi in brossura illustrata, con cofanetto pure illustrato; pp. 200 per ogni volume con numerose illustrazioni; Ottimo
1980In 4 (32x22) Legatura in tela con sovracopertina illustrata; pp. 259 con numerose illustrazioni a colori e in b/n; esemplare numerato n?° 376 di 1500 stampati; sovracopertina con qualche piccolo strappo, per il resto ottimo
réf. 98333Paris, Gallimard, 1979. 14 x 20, 92 pp., broché + jaquette, très bon état.
réf. 98334Paris, Gallimard, 1986. 14 x 20, 210 pp., broché, très bon état.
1971réf. 3395Édition spéciale 1971 388 pages in8. 1971. broché. 388 pages. Biographie historique de Louis Mandrin (1724-1755) célèbre contrebandier français du XVIIIe siècle qui cherche à démêler la vérité historique de la légende autour de ce personnage. L'ouvrage préfacé par l'historien Alain Decaux se présente comme un reportage historique rigoureux
1958réf. 3403Plon 1958 184 pages in8. 1958. broché jaquette. 184 pages.
1987réf. 3454CIL 1987 190 pages in8. 1987. broché. 190 pages.
1987réf. 3455CIL 1987 191 pages in8. 1987. broché. 191 pages.
1991réf. 3522France-empire 1991 571 pages in8. 1991. broché. 571 pages.
1980réf. 3523Éditions Payot 1980 204 pages in8. 1980. Reliure Editeur avec jaquette. 204 pages.