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1954Approx. 1 inch thick. Provides the service man with complete information on the construction, operation, maintenance and repair of various units of the 1949 to 1954 Series 2000 and 2200 Pontiac passenger cars. Sections include: unit serial numbers/lubrication; body; frame/shock absorbers; front suspension; rear axle/universal joints/rear springs; brakes; engine mechanical/engine cooling/engine fuel/engine clutch; transmission/1951-52 Powerglide/1953-54 Powerglide; fuel and exhaust; steering gear/power steering; wheels and tires; chassis sheet metal; electrical system. Bit of writing at top of front cover. Orange covers with average wear. Major lean to spine. Average soiling and wear to unmarked contents. Decent copy. Book
19621293 pages including index. 74 chapters divided into the following nine sections: The Ingredients of Western Civilization; The Early Middle Ages (400-1000); The High Middle Ages (1000-1300); The Age of Transition (1300-1500); The Age of Religious Revolt and Reform (1500-1600); The Age of Dynastic Statecraft (1600-1775); The Age of Revolution (1775-1850); The Age of the National State (1852-1919); The Age of Total Politics (1919- ). Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Bookplate upon front endpaper. Minimal wear. Unmarked. Bright silver lettering upon navy boards and spine. Excellent copy. Book
1936447 pages. A rough but usable copy of this excellent reader. Binding intact but spine heavily twisted. Various other defects. Book
1965316 pages. Reminiscences of this influential woman. "... I cannot look back without regret. I can see too many places where I could have been more obedient to the heavenly vision, for a vision I surely had for the creation of a better world. But I hope I am leaving at least some small legacy of truth." - from the introduction. Gift inscription on back of half-title page, else unmarked. Average wear. Spine leans to right. Book
1978144 pages including index. A detailed and well-illustrated explanation of the technical terms and rules of blazon and of the science of Armory. Explains how individual coats of arms properly interpreted can be a valuable source of historical knowledge. Chapters include: heralds and heraldry; tinctures, partitions, ordinaries and sub-ordinaries; common charges; the rules of blazon; differencing and marshalling of arms; crests, crowns and coronets; the description of the achievement, and some famous arms; ecclesiastical heraldry; arms of heiresses, and hatchements; the seal; the badge; banners of arms, standards and flags. Average wear. Usual library markings else unmarked. Minor lean to spine. Book
1953428 pages including index and black and white plates. Represents the outcome of many years' experience in the coaching of midwifery students for the examination of the Central Midwives Board. Contents follow an arrangement in which normal pregnancy, labour, and the puerperium are explained on simple lines while the complications of childbearing are introduced later as a separate section. Revised to reflect the trend towards hospital confinements and the necessity for ante-natal care. Further, advances in medicine have benefitted midwifery and are reflected. Average wear. Binding narrowly open behind front free endpaper. Gift greetings upon front flyleaf else unmarked. Blue boards and spine partially faded, moderately soiled and showing average wear with significant bump to bottom corner of front board. Book
1986260 pages including index. Bodywork has emerged in the past decade as the most sophisticated process for restoring the body to its maximum state of well-being. As is Rolfing, the Alexander technique, and other forms of bodywork, Hellerwork is designed to reverse the negative effects that physical and emotional traumas have had on any body *in the course of a lifetime.* Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some fading to spine and covers. Book
1993172 pages. "Aboriginal heroes are everywhere... Who is Yours?" With these words, the Aboriginal Heroes Contest on which this book is based was introduced to students and teachers across Canada. The heroes theme is an important one. The very concept of heroes invokes special images for nearly everyone - of someone who eximplifies courage, moral strength, or other sterling qualities which somehow allow them to exceed the normal bounds that seem to limit human endeavour. Aided by this book, teachers and parents can communicate to students that everyone has something of the heroic in her or him; that everyone can think deeply and feel deeply about issues of importance; and, as a curricular consideration, that everyone can learn to express those feelings in thoughts and written words. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Glossy colour illustrated covers. Two inch tear to top of front cover at spine. Children's hero stories are grouped by province/territory. Book
1972181 pages including index, bibliography and black and white plates. The first book in a series of Concise Guides to various campaigns. A short guide to the whole war. Includes among the appendices a complete key to the British cavalry and infantry regiments with their titles i n1854, 1900 and 1971. Illustrations lean heavily upon the well-known engravings from the drawings by William Simpson. Usual library markings. Moderate lean to spine. Above average but not excessive wear. Pocket removal from front endpaper has caused some peeling. Book
1975246 pages. The homeowner who has a new house without improvements or one with an established landscape will find here the information necessary to make the property both beautiful and functional. For the nursery operator and landscape contractor, it will serve as a source of ideas and provide a practical approach for further developing skills in designing and constructing residential landscapes. Minimal markings to text. Former owner's address label upon front cover. Average wear. Two inch opening to back cover at foot of spine. Small tear to top of spine. Book
2001480 pages including index. Asks "Can we create and implement useful ideas fast enough to solve the very problems - environmental, social, and technological - we've created?" Pinpoints the ingenuity gap as the critical problem we face today. "Reading the meditations that his travels around the world prompt in him (the author) is addictive." - National Post. Underlining and marginalia throughout. Extensive handwritten notes on pages following index. Reading crease and moderate lean to spine. Average wear. Book
1971Unpaginated. Large black and white photographs throughout. Gendarme was to be a Police Horse, but he was big and awkward and slow to learn, and it seemed he would never be a trooper's mount. His trainer called him "Ugly Duckling", but he liked Gendarme's calm, quiet nature and patiently began to train the horse. The true story of how Gendarme learned the ways of a Police Horse. Average wear. Blue boards moderately bumped. Dust jacket well-worn with three inch tear at top of front panel near spine and some smallish chunks missing. Despite this, the brightly illustrated dust jacket has the potential to be quite attractive, given some tlc and the addition of a glossy protective sleeve. Book
1965157 pages. Book #8 in the series. Brad has just settled into a job in his father's London office when he is engaged in a hunt for a missing person whose disappearance means the loss of a scientific secret of urgent national importance. Large tear to base of spine. Scribbing upon endpapers, etc. Writing upon front board has been coloured in with blue pen. Well-worn. We could go on, but all pages seem to be here and binding remains intact. Book
1978160 pages. Author's inscription and signature upon half title page. Presents colour and black and white photographs of remarkable scope and diversity ranging from mood shots to landscapes; from portraiture to sports; from architecture to humour. The total effect is a matchless profile of the whole panorama of life that is Calgary. Book shows minimal wear and remains attractive with bright gilt lettering upon front board and spine. Minor warp to front board. Some soiling and a variety of tears to dust jacket. 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
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
1981Undated. Provides the meaning of over 140 opposites words made clear to all young readers through bright colourful pictures full of humourous details. Average wear. Contents unmarked. Two inch tear to outside of back hinge at base of spine, else average wear to yellow laminated boards. Book
1959168 pages. Features: The second of two articles on legal liability of teachers and school boards when school children suffer accidents; Some thoughts on the teacher and her personality in the classroom; and much more. A nostalgic look back at the British Columbia teaching profession in the late 1950s. Two inch crease to front cover. Original owner's mailing address typed onto back cover. Soiling along spine. Average wear. Moderate "old book" odour. 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
1981Unpaginated. This wonderfully illustrated book teaches young children how to count. Bottom three inches of spine missing. Front endpaper loosening from front board. Average bumping and wear. Contents unmarked and lightly soiled. Book
1909288 pages including index. Illustrated with line drawings. Chapters include: Introductory; Different Ends for Which Pictures Have Been Used; The Different Kinds of Pictures; Stereographs and the Stereoscope; Experiences of Travel with Stereographs; The Importance of Environment; The Limitations of Language; The Wide Environment The Stereograph Travel System Gives. Part II includes the following chapters: What are the Necessities of Life; Life is the Purpose of Our Existence; What is the Life We Are Here to Develop?; Happiness vs. Pleasure; The Different Needs of Our Life; The Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Intellect; The Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Aesthetic Nature; Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Moral Nature; Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Religious Life; Summary and Conclusion. Small dab of liquid paper upon front endpaper. Minimal markings to text. Some pencil markings have been erased. Lettering worn from spine. Above average wear to boards. Hinges intact. Minor lean to spine. Average soiling. Moderate yellowing to contents. Book
1979120 pages. Chapters include: The 'Gene-Rich' and the 'Gene-Poor'; Genetic Erosion; Genetic Conservation; The Green Revolution; The Seed Revolution; The New Seedsmen; The Implications fo Restrictive Varietal Legislation; Biases in Corporate Breeding; Learing from the Corporate Experience. An early work on this vital and increasingly contentious issue. Well-worn. Unmarked. One inch opening between top of front cover and spine. Book
199110 page board book created specially for very young children. Babies and toddlers will enjoy the beautiful illustrations scenes taken from some of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Pre-schoolers as well as school-age children will learn from imaginative adult readers how Shakespeare understood man's changing roles through life depicted in this famous speech. Well worn with some chipping to base of spine. Binding intact. Unmarked. 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
199518 page board book. Undated. Perhaps 1995? Ten little Indians paddle their canoe. Look inside and you will see what all these Indians will do! Well worn copy of this charming work. Child's name on page two else unmarked. Yellow cloth loosening from base of spine. Top right corner of last two boards well worn. Book