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1974215 Pages with index. Sticker patches on front and spine of dust jacket. Price sticker on back of dust jacket. One closed 1/2" tear to dust jacket. Replete with black and white historical plates, this book is the author's highly personal account of his adopted province. Book
1984357 pages including index and bibliography. Draws upon newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response. Illuminates in detail the family life of nineteenth-century French poor. Average wear. Moderate lean to spine. Average quantity of highlighting else unmarked. Some reading creases along spine. Book
1947416 pages. Written in German. A large work abundantly studded with attractive black and white plates. Contents yellowed. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Attractively decorated boards and spine. Solid copy. Book
1971382 pages including index. Relates marketing to society. The carefully edited readings view the most important influences of the marketing system in the United States and describe the problems, solutions, and future directions of marketing. Average wear. Unmarked. Half-inch tear to top of front cover at spine. Solid working copy. Book
ref. 20601Paris, Norma, 2006 Relie, cartonnage noire, jaquette illustree, 235 x 310mm., 286pp., illustration tres profonde en couleurs. Edition bilingue Fr/ Angl. *Neuf. ISBN 9782915542004.
1948ref. 10112Sporting News Publ Charles C. Spink Saint Louis 1948. PBO Red & White & Blue & Black decorated Wraps minor Rub Wear Scuff & small rust stains staples & small creease corner Cover Internally Nice Tight Clean minor Wear & Rub & 1st pg small ink number NF/NF AS-IS SOFTCOVER. First Edition. Soft Cover. Sporting News Publ Charles C. Spink Saint Louis paperback
1974193 pages. Examines the adaptation of agricultural species to climate through flowering responses. Intended primarily for agronomists and the advanced student of agricultural science but will enlighten the interested general reader as well. Book clean, bright and unmarked but for small signature atop title page. Minor lean to spine. Bright green boards. Brilliant gilt lettering upon spine. Several closed tears to dust jacket with several chips missing. Nice copy overall. Book
1885233 pages. "An English treatise dealing rather fully with the subject of Neuralgia." - from Preface. Occasional markings to contents. Hinges and binding intact. Above average wear to boards and spine. Library markings consist only of shadow of former spine label and prior owner's rubber stamp upon front endpaper. Book
1963563 pages including index. An attempt to meet the undoubted need for an up-to-date account of the theory of the subject. Binding open at half-title page. Back hinge open. Damage to top half inch of spine. Average wear. Ink stamps upon front endpaper. Minor quantity of markings to text. Book
193552 pages of poetry including black and white sketches. Circa 1935. "This volume of verse has grown out of a deep human sympathy with life as lived each day in and around the small walled city of Changli (North China) and neighboring districts. Each poem imparts an experience of the writer, who has resided in North China for twelve years. As we read her poems they live for us, who know and love China." - from the foreward. Blue patterned cloth-covered boards show moderate wear and sunning at spine. Pages unmarked and moderately yellowed. Gilt title upon front board. Book
1994128 pages. From an enthusiastic start in 1984, this West Vancouver institution has developed to march in step with the best independent schools anywhere. Starting with nothing, a determined group of parents have created a valuable capital plant. There are more than 600 students from kindergarten to Grade 12, and the first five graduating classes are beginning to bring great honour to the school as they pursue scholarship and professional standing far afield. Collingwood students have earned provincial and national recognition in academics, the arts, athletics and increasingly, service and citizenship pursuits. For faculty members, Collingwood on the personal resume has become increasingly respected... This is a celebration, the story of dedication, volunteerism and committment. We hope it will serve as an inspiration to groups of parents everywhere that education can be just as good as they make it." - from the Preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book
1987316 pages. "By providing only a glimpse of northern people's own statments and the problems of uranium mining, this book proves that the real 'outside agitators' are the mining companies." - from introduction. "We as a society have failed the Wollaston Lake community in the basic human right to information and to health. We are multiplying comparable self-destructive behaviors all over the world. Please read on because the story of Wollaston Lake is our own story, the story of our land, our food and our brothers and sisters." - from Foreward by Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Mild lean to spine. Very good copy. Book
192268 pages. Student publication with the following features: Dorothy's Disappointment; Life in Cuba; Principal's Page; Learning by Doing; Brain and Backbone; Staff Page; Editorial Page; Student Council; Spring Fever; An Appreciation; School News; Exchanges; Athletics; Ruthless Rimes; Jokes. Many nice ads for local businesses. Pencilled name atop first page. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1933161 pages. Author's prescription to cure the Great Depression, written in the depths thereof. Average to above average wear. Erasure and small bookseller's sticker to front endpaper. Occasional pencil marks to text. Damage to top quarter inch of blue cloth spine. Book
1950Features include: The Road to Wonderland - Construction of a highway and tunnel through a mountain wilderness in the South Island of New Zealand; Kamal Ram's Come-Back - tale of a stationmaster at Manijan, in northern Assam; Saga of the Snow-Dogs - An account of the Arctic Husky; The Hut-Tax Affair - a tale from Northern Nigeria; All Aboard For Adventure - Part I of a tale of 5 young Americans who set out on a sailboat for tropic seas; The Beneficent Bamboo; Dogsbody - an amusing incident involving a very junior officer aboard a British freighter; The Telephone Mine - Adventures of two South African prospectors in search of King Solomon's Mines; Our Leopard - A Kenyan farmer's story; Down Texas Way - the story of 3 youngsters, a gang of desperate escaped convicts, and a night alarm; Appointment with the Devil - An extraordinary story from Abyssinia; Illustrated in black and white. Covers and spine missing. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
1998391 pages including index and many black and white photographs. Part aviation history and part adventure tale, this book is an engaging, affectionate, carefully researched history of Canadian Airlines International, a company which, in the best wingwalker tradition, has performed in a series of heart-stopping, life-and-death dramas for more than seventy years. Usual library markings. Moderate lean to spine. Book
1976146 pages. Founded in 1876, Victoria was not merely British Columbia's first secondary school: it is Canada's oldest public high school west of the Great Lakes. A carefully researched account of Victoria High School's origins and development, emphasis is placed upon the school's social values and attitudes, its colourful personalities, and its close interaction with the community. A wealth of historic photographs and verbal flashbacks offer a nostalgic, evocative picture of a representative Canadian Institution. Book unmarked and lightly worn. Moderate wear and sunning to spine of dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
1978162 pages. This incisive analysis of the teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses is the kind of clear-cut thorough-going refutation many Christians have desired. It will be welcomed by those who have been confronted with the doctrines of the Jehovah's Wintesses, realized they were "benders of the truth and weavers of deception," but were at a loss as to just how to make a convincing rebuttal. Author has probed the complexities of the Watchtower thinking and presents a revealing expose that is well-organized and easy to grasp. Places the major tenets of Jehovah's Witnesses under the spotlight of God's Word. A scriptural index adds to the book's utility. Prior owner's name and author's rubber stamp upon half-title page, else unmarked. Well-worn. Binding intact. One inch opening to front cover at base of spine. Book
1929163 pages including index. Includes black and white illustrations. Chapters include: air, ventilation, heating, lighting, humidity; Water; Disposal of Refuse; Infection and Infectious Diseases; Insects and Parasites; Food; Infants; Personal Hygiene. Issued under the auspices of the Press Committee of the Middlesex Hospital. Prior owner's name and information upon front endpaper. Her name also written upon several additional pages and upon top and fore-edges. Olive-coloured boards well-worn. Spine leaning to right. Book
2017ref. TH254686Royal Academy of Fine Arts Stockholm 2017. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Inscribed and signed by Sten Ake Nilsson as Sten on the half title leaf no other marks or inscriptions. Thick 4to in illustrated boards 190pp on thick paper colour plates etc. Text in English throughout __CONDITION : A well preserved AS NEW unmarked copy. __NOTE Due to size and/or weight posting to some destinations outside the UK will cost more than the shipping price shown. If so orders made by card will only be completed after you have approved any extra cost. . __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm hardcover
1910ref. 40113ABGießen, Töpelmann (= Zur historischen Biologie der Krankheitserreger, 3. Heft), 1910. 8°, 16 S. mit 2 Tafeln (eine s/w, eine farbig), original Kartonage (fadengeheftet), Erstausgabe ordnungsgemäß ausgesondertes Exemplar aus der alten Bibliothek des Senckenbergischen Institut f. Geschichte der Medizin (Frankfurt) mit entspr. Stempel, sonst altersgemäß gut und textsauber
1965ref. 018196: Universiteitskrukkerij Nijmegen 1965. Soft cover. Fine. 1965 B00K: Fine/Almost As New . B00K: Fine/Almost As New $130.78 Reduced From. STABILITY in NON~COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY Een Wetenschappelijke Proeve Ophet Gebied Van De Wiskunde En Informatica VERMEULEN Andries Joseph; Spine Title Shows: Dries VERMEULEN. Universiteitskrukkerij Nijmegen 1965 UnStated 1sT Edition S/c. Very Light Grey With A Light Blue Rectangle On Top End Spine With Title In Black Letters Soft Cover B00K: Fine/Almost As New Slight Shelf Edge And Corner Wear. 229 Numbered Pages Lightly Read Clean And Tight To The Spine Printed On 0ff~White Paper In As New/ Condition. D/j: None. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic Taped Shut And In A = Corrugated Mailing B0X Padded Mailing Envelope To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This B00K Only. = No Odors No Writing No Names No Rippling Not Stuck Together No Book Plate Not X~Library No Other Marks. = Will Make It An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection Or As A Gift For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING AVAILABLE Universiteitskrukkerij Nijmegen paperback
1927120 pages including fold-out. Front endpaper decorated with the signatures of several dozen contemporary students of the school! Book is tired but gilt lettering and school crest upon front board remain bright. Spine leaning. Edges foxed. Average wear. Book
1953148 pages. University College, the successor and heir of King's College, is at once the foundation on which the University of Toronto was erected and a separate and self-contained college with a peculiar history and distinctive characteristics. For a century it has been at the centre of humanistic studies in Canada, and its influence on the cultural development of the country has been continuous and profound. Bright gilt upon bright red cloth front board and spine. Writing upon front endpaper. Some names underlined in lists at back of book. Spine leans to right. Dust jacket well worn. Book
1967719 pages including index. Describes and analyses the economics of transport in Canada whether by rail, highway, inland and coastal waterways, the high seas, air or pipeline. Written to be of interest to employees of railways, steamship companies, airlines, and pipelines, to operators of motor vehicles, to shippers, consignees, and other businessmen, to professional economists and to citizens generally. Students writing upon front endpaper. Minimal markings to text which remains bright and clean. Moderate wear and bumping to blue boards. Silver lettering upon front board and spine. Book