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1970Features: The fashion industry has you under heel; The RCMP - Why the mounties have red faces - their image has been slipping; Onward to Alaska - up the Alaska Highway to the Yukon; The Road to Murder - Part 3 of 3 of the story of the murders of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on a road near Almonte; Stop killing Canada - letters from Canadians about their environment; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Please note that page 19 is missing - it appears to have been a story about a New York Met baseball player. Nice colour International pickup ad on back cover. Book
1970Features: The Moonlighters - who they are and what they do, and why they need the money; Facts for Fatties - and for thinnies who don't want to become Fatties; The Now Dictionary - new cool words; The ten best fishing lures and why they work so well - Rapala, Arbo-Gaster, Johnson's Silver Minnow, The Mepps, Williams Whitefish, Eppinger Daredevle,Arbogast Jitterbug, Canadian Wiggler, Panther Martin, Jig-Fly; The Manhunt Ends - Part 2 of a 3 part story of the murder of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on the Almonte Road not far from Ottawa; The fastest brush in the East - Montreal's Claude Langevin can finish three paintings in a day; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Centerfold held by one staple else a sound copy. Book
1970Features: Everything you wanted always wanted to know about the life of a stewardess... but were too shy to ask; On the Road with Young Canada - Part 2 of Dave Cobb's motorbike ride across Canada; So you think Pierre Trudeau's Doing a Lousy Job? - test your knowledge of the P.M.; The Quarterback's Bodyguards - offensive guards - Bill Danychuk, Jack Abendschan, Ken Sugarman, Roger Scales (Please note: pages 15 and 16 of this article are missing from this copy); Nancy Greene in the Marketplace - she makes $100,000 a year but she only endorses products she believes in; Professor Igor Kusyszyn teaches a course on betting on horse races; Kurt Weber's Roulette system won him $150,000; Our pick of the best Canadian fashions the federal government could find; half-page colour ad for Polaris snowmobiles; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
196820 pages. Features: Life in an Ottawa old folks' home; Life on the Road Makes Rock Group Cream turn Sour; The Bank of Montreal's Ladies' Branch on Sherbrooke St. in Montreal; George Fejer, George Eaton, Bill Brack and Craig Fisher - Canadians in Auto Racing - article with colour photos; The Ocean-Going Spies - ships and submarines are used to listen in on emenies; Plum recipes; Doug Wright's Family. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1886Best.-Nr. 0011204Chicago: Percival Lowell General Passenger Agent C. B. & Q. R.R. 1886. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Sewn wrappers. Good. 16mo 88 pages dedication page chipped lacks 99% of its flexible covers The prior 1885 edition had only 80 pages. This has its frontispiece and numerous small maps other illustratios throughout. This includes travel to Mexico. Percival Lowell, General Passenger Agent, C. B. & Q. R.R. unknown
19078vo., First Edition, some moderate offsetting to free endpapers, front preliminaries and title lightly spotted; original blue cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. NCBEL IV, p.660.
1886Best.-Nr. 47038Lincoln: Journal Company State Printers 1886. 1886. NEBRASKA RAILROAD. First edition. 8vo. Original orange printed wrappers 16 pp. folding map: Map of Nebraska 1886. 59 x 99 cm. 23 1/4" x 41" 12 miles to one inch. The map was the project of the Burlington Route for selling land. Very detailed and routes outlined in bright red. Broken Bow was to be the new center of life in Nebraska. The map is in fine condition some splitting at the bottom two inches of the spine due to the folded size of the map and a tiny closed tear and a few minor nicks to the rear cover fore-edge overall a near fine copy. Journal Company, State Printers, 1886. unknown
2009Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 249pp. The first thorough study of medieval bridges which rewrites their history from early Anglo-Saxon England right up to the Industrial Revolution, providing new insights into many aspects of the subject.
1986No 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. 173pp. The evolution of the bridge over the centuries. With a wealth of examples and drawings and their associated social histories. The counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire are chosen because many of the country's most historic and attractive bridges are to be found there.
1924Finger marks to a small number of pages. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. Mainly clean tight pages with soiled boards and page edges. 40pp. Illustrated instructions in the care and management of the Scott motor cycle including the Scott three-speed counter-shaft gear clutch and kick starter. It includes some detailed technical drawings of the gear box, gears, hubs, brakes, front fork and engine. The eight available models illustrated at the end. Extremely scarce. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
1999No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, label removal marks on front and no bumping to corners. 121pp. Over sixty years history of Manchester City Football Club plus biographies of over sixty players from those years.
2010Best.-Nr. Q-0802170684Grove Press Black Cat 2010-05-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Grove Press, Black Cat paperback
2010Best.-Nr. 53686Grove Press Black Cat. Near Fine. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Softcover first edition stated with full number line. Inscribed/signed to the ffep by Solares with his doodle. Inner covers toned. Plastic protective cover. ; 5.3 X 1.3 X 8.1 inches; 436 pages; Signed by Author . Grove Press, Black Cat paperback
1983Contains separate piano and trumpet sheet music, plus guitar chords and lyrics, for some of the most popular music of the 1960s and 70s. Songs include: Acapulco 1922; Fandango; Jerusalem; (The) Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro); Magic Man; Mexican Shuffle; Rise; Rotation; Route 101; So What's New; Spanish Flea; (A) Taste of Honey; This Guy's In Love With You; Tijuana Taxi; Up Cherry Street; Wade in the Water; What Now My Love; Whipped Cream. Four pages of colour photos of Herb Alpert, with two more pages in black and white. Prior owner's reference page of instrument transpositions fastened inside front cover by a staple. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. It is hard not to feel good when you listen to these timeless songs! Book
1982No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to upper edge of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. The single-decker bus so well-known on British roads from the 1920s onwards.
1993No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 96pp.
1993No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked glazed laminated boards surface storage rubbing and no bumping to corners. 96pp. The story of British buses specifically built for wartime service, many of which were unexpectedly still in use in the 1960s. Very well illustrated.. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
195658 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: The Caribou Crisis - informative article in the state of the caribou; The Narwhal - Canada's Horn of the Uniforn; The Living Stone - photos of stone carvings of the Eskimos of the Eastern Arctic; Pierre Falcon - Bard of the Prairies; Governor George Simpson - "The Strangest Man I Ever Knew"; Samuel Black on the Finlay; Winston Churchill accepts appointment of Grand Seigneur of the Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay; Ninety Years Later - a tale of hard northern travel in the old style, exploring the wild Upper Finlay, 90 years after Samuel Black - great photo-illustrated article; Retreat of the Sea - photos taken in the neighbourhood of Fort Severn; The Minnesota Route - in the late 1850s the Hudson's Bay Company began to abandon the historic York Factory route to Lake Winnipeg in favour of that via St. Paul and the Red River; Sir George Simpson as Banker; Nice colour ad for Hudson's bay shirts for men on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
199956 pages. Features: In the spirit of the Voyageurs - Two moderns paddle an old fur-trade route; The great gopher war - building a prairie tradition on pest control; The architect and the lady - The Rattenbury affair; Portraits of a first family of New France; Volunteers on guard for thee in the 18th century; Steamboat follies - the pleasures and perils of crossing Lake Simcoe. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
199456 pages. Features: Annals of the fur trade - the making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives; The story of the HBC Museum Collection; On the Cariboo Gold Rush Road; 1919 - the Winnipeg General Strike reconsidered; George Back's sketchbooks come to Canada. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
1977Best.-Nr. 2091202133100762Maruzen Co. Ltd. 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Maruzen Co., Ltd. paperback
18998vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, title-vignette, and numerous plates and illustrations in the text, frontispiece guard spotting lightly offset to title; original pictorial buff cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, uncut, a very good, bright, fresh copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1991Unpaginated. Lovely colour photographs from the Sullivan Films television series based on the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery. Clean, bright and unmarked. Light wear. Attractive copy. Book
195596 pages. Features: Reports on Wasthington, North Africa, and Israel - David Ben-Gurion becomes Minister of Defense; Owen Wister's Journals - the unpublished journals; Russia's Calamity, by Edward Crankshaw; The Grand Trunk Road to Agra, by Vice Admiral Leslie C. Stevens; Streams (poem), by W.H. Auden; A Patron of the Arts, story by Donald Heiney; Have we Conquered the Business Cycle?, by Sumner H. Slichter; The Diamond Cutters (poem), by Adrienne Cecile Rich; The Oedipus Myth, by Robert Graves; The Under-Educated, by Robert C. Wilson; What Happened to the Girl Scouts?, by Ben H. Bagdikian; Twenty Years of Writing, by William Saroyan; Teaching Creative Writing, by Roy Cowden; Styrian Festivities, by Merloyd Lawrence. Color ad for the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover. Color ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whisky on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Best.-Nr. 1527846164.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
