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1914pp. xx, 882 + Plus thirty-six full page plates. 4to. Original printed wraps. Wraps have a small library stamp. A serious ornithological study. NH 5
1939292p. Thirty-two illustrations by the author. Tall 8vo. Original full decorated cloth binding. Original very worn and torn dust jacket. Inked ownership. First Edition. Hardbound. Very Good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NH 1
1903pp. xi, 282 + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page drawings, photographs and a map. Uncut and unopened. Top edge gold. Bookplate of Charles P. Stahr. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding with gold decorated and lettered spine. Hardbound. Nice copy. Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was a famous American author and journalist. In 1890 he became managing editor of Harper's Weekly and began making trips in its behalf to various parts of the world. As a foreign correspondent he covered all the wars of his day and published several books recording his experiences. His war dispatches were colorful and dramatic. His other writings include some of the best tales to come out of the Edwardian era. This lovely copy would make a fine gift. W53
in-8°, 254 pages, broche, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire. [CA28-3]
in-12, 217 p., photos h-t. n/b, broché, couv., jaq Bel exemplaire. [GE-2]
1994Signed 'Scott Stallard' to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. pp. Lavishly illustrated book with 117 mainly full-page coloured photographs of Bermuda and an introduction by Peter Benchley.
1983271 pages including list of abbreviations. Well-worn but unmarked copy. Draws together analyses of some of the most salient political developments to have taken place in the circum-Caribbean during the last few years. In this period we have witnessed a qualitative heightening of class contradictions in most countries and a growing crisis of US foreign policy in the region. Each author poses critical questions regarding the political strategy and institutional forms necessary to effect an authentic transition to socialism. Book
1973344 pages. Spans the period of eighty years of Jamaican history following the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865. This period is seen through the eyes of Johny Campbell, who is of mixed African and European blood. Contents clean and unmarked. Covers significantly rubbed and showing average wear. Solid copy. Book
1979183 pages. From a tug in Halifax Harbour to a destroyer in Norwegian fiords, from the balmy Caribbean to the frozen reaches of Murmansk, Hal Lawrence spins an engaging personal account of a young man growing up at sea. Author commemorates with genuine affection the dedicated men with whom he served and the fighting navy which shaped them. Includes numerous interesting black and white photographic plates. Endpapers decorated with maps. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
1999297 pages including index. One of Canada's foremost experts on racism examines the everyday life of the approximately 300,000 people of Caribbean origin in southern Ontario. "Worthwhile reading for anyone seriously concerned about racism." - Gordon W.E. Nore, Books in Canada. Very clean and unmarked with very light wear. Wonderful copy. Book
1973246 pages. "Granny Brown, known as GB to her many friends and enemies, was tennant of one of the king-sized dust-bins constructed and filled with rubbish by the slum area behind Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was a stonebreaker by profession and by genius historian of all the scandalous gossip of the community". - from back cover. Underlining and/or marginalia interspersed throughout. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
1983159 pages. "Deserted by his wife Estella, Jake is engaged in the symbolic carving of Samson whose story is not unlike his own." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1948Stories: Murder Island; Land of still waters; an accessory after the fact; on the north-west frontier; the professor; Caribbean ordeal; the lion-man; twenty pigs; fighting the locust; the wide world in captivity; the dingo hunter. Front cover missing. Well-worn. Book
1902Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
1982Features: Fiddlers of the Marsh; Diamond Rock - Gibraltar of the Caribbean; Internal Waves - The Wake of Sea Monsters; Oyster Reefs - Valuable to More than Oysters; Hospital for Marine Mammals; Flamingo Tongues; Biological Sources of Energy from the Sea; Lighthouse Hostels; Black Bottlenosed Dolphin. Sound copy. Book
1982Features: Carmel Bay - Marine oasis in the cold Pacific; Leatherjackets - savory stingers; nations unite to fight pollution; Protecting the Caribbean; Oama summer; Cocos Island - Verdant treasure; Miniature marine foulers; Man-made Island - solution to economic and environmental woes. Sound copy. Book
1985Features: New trouble in the tide pools; Northern elephant seals return; Sunburst after nightfall; Will the Caribbean hawksbill turtle survive?; Unwanted oil and gas production; Li'l Red; Shark hunting on the Arkansas ocean deep; Follow up - Source of the Bermuda freak waves. Sound copy. Book
1987Features: What's in a cave?; Painting with pesticides - the controversial organotin paints; Stars with thousands of feet (star fish); The see-through salp; Lighthouse reef - a Caribbean atoll; Coralline algae - pink plants of fhe seafloor; Oceanography on stamps - the Christmas Island Phosphate Company. Sound copy. Book
1982Features: Malevolent Mountain - The Western Hemisphere's Highest Peak Challenges Canada's Himilaya-Bound Mountaineers; The Quiet Famine - Biologists Protest and Bureaucrats Ponder as Hunger Decimates Canada's Seabird Colonies; Reflections in an Orbiting Eye - Canada from Space, Beauty and Science in the Images of Landsat; Leduc - A Legacy of Eclectic Excellence from a Quebecois Painter Undiscovered in his own time; Caribbean Backwaters - Riding the Ebb Tides of Colonialism in the Turks and Caicos. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1996Articles: The Challenge of Navigation to Hydrography on the British Columbia Coast, 1850-1930; Prisoners of War and British Port Communities, 1793-1815; A Private War in the Caribbean - Nova Scotia Privateering, 1793-1805; Labour and the Unions in Wartime Essential Industry - Shipyard workers in British Columbia, 1939-1945; Port Cities in the French Wars - The Responses of Merchants in Bordeaux, Hamburg and Livorno to Napoleon's Continental Blockade, 1806-1813; plus several book reviews. Bit of high-lighting to table of contents else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1982Features: Setting the Scene - Julia Clements; Birch Structures - Sylvie Expert-Bezancon; Bright and Beautiful - Baskets and Trays; Flower Arranging in the Caribbean; Reminiscences of a flower arranger - Joy Fleming; Winter Foliage - Rona Coleman; The Arum Family - Virginia Black; My Garden - George Foss; Flowers from a Winter Garden - Sheila Macqueen; A Wild Flower Sanctuary - W.J. Wegg; February in Your Garden - Frances Perry; Spring-Flowering Shade Plants - Edna Knowles; Natural Wood Containers; More Exotic Flower Lovers; Camilias in the British Isles; Silk Camelias; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
197072 pages. Features: Caribbean hostiility to Canada's $600 million of investment in the region - with illustration of Trinidadian riot cop after assaults on Canada's banks; Feature article on "The Middle Canadians" - the people who don't make the news; Rusty Staub - the making of a Muscular Miillionaire - major article with large colour photos; The Great Canadian Peace Festival at Parkhill, Ontario - that never was; Peter Stollery's 2,200 mile bike ride through Central America; Nice colour photo two-page ad for CP Air; The entertainment wall of tomorrow; Film in the high schools; From Men to Fiends at My Lai 4; Why the CBC is phasing out the tv show Bonanza; Nice colour photo Coke ad of beach scene on back cover; and more. Two smallish red marks atop front cover otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
195734 pages. Includes one page of photos and biographical information inside front cover. Songs include: Island in the Sun; Scratch, Scratch; Don't Ever Love Me; Lucy's Door; Coconut Woman; Haiti Cherie; Cordelia Brown; Angelique-O; Judy Drownded; Calypso Carnival; Brown Skin Girl; Balance. Above-average but not excessive wear. Minimal markings to contents. A sound vintage copy of this nostalgic compilation. Book
199848 pages. Features: A Woodfire Apprenticeship; An Uneasy Familiarity - Mimi Cabri's Work; The Sophistication of the Anagama - Chester Nealie; Susan Low-Beer; The making of Terracotta Pots in the Caribbean; The Work of Jun Kaneko. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
196088 pages. Short Stories: Rigged Race; Not Her Kind; The Tailor's Secret; Challenge in the Sky. Novelette: The Hands of Cormac Joyce. Articles: The Difference Between Black and White; Bowling is Booming; The Face of America - Great color photo of digging out from deep snow in Oswego New York; Tales of the Laundry Sleuths - these investigators discover the causes of mystery rips and stains which occasionally plague laundries and irritate customers; Castro, Trujillo and Turmoil - a report from the uneasy, strategic Caribbean, where the Communists are exploiting political unrest to turn Latin Americans against the US - with many photos, including Che Guevara; Our Urban Revolution - Can We Halt the Chaos? (conclusion); Big, Happy Family - The Soldi clan of Italy has 31,000 members; Riddle of the Frozen Giants - what may have killed the prehistoric mammoths. Ads: Calvert Reserve - with sexy lady eating from her partner's toothpick; Dodge Trucks - with push-button transmission; Seven-Up (7up) - one-man-band entertains his lady; Campbell's Soup; Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight (98); Tareyton cigarettes; Colgate toothpaste; U.S. Savings Bonds; Great one-page Budweiser color-photo ad features lady looking over her shoulder; International Trucks; Nice color-photo Coke ad on back cover features debutante being offered Cokes by four young men. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine