Smith, Bert KrugerMareMagnum
1977154 pages with index. "... very readable book (with an) urgent message.... Should be of real value to families who don't know where to get help in solving the problems of their aged relatives." - Publishers Weekly. "A useful book for children of aging parents, as well as for those concerned with community programs for older people." - Mary J. Mayer, New York City Department for the Aging. Moderate soiling and wear. Book
1987136 pages plus index. Have we led past lives? Are we destined to return to this earth again? Can we recall former lives? Offers a clear biblical assessment of this New Age doctrine. Former owner's information upon front flyleaf. Infrequent light pencil markings. Sticker remnant upon back cover. Book
1994Copyright date 1994. 112 pages. Author served in the RCAF in World War II, then re-enlisted after the war. On his retirement at age 47, he began a new career in social work. Contains 21 narratives which depict true experiences of his life, including stories of family, friends, the RCAF, and eighteen years service in the Welfare Departments of Vancouver. Normal library markings. Peeling damage to front cover where large library sticker was removed. Book
197596 pages. Features: Potting Cattleyas - Part 2 - Basic Orchid Culture - 6; Collecting in the Western District of Papua, New Guinea; An F.C.C. at Age 16; Huntleya meleagris 'El Valle de Anton'; Gigantic Doritaenopsis Awarded; Mesophyll Collapse in Phalaenopsis; A Personal Essay - Observations of an A.O.s. Student Judge; A Summer Outing for ORchids; Plectrophora clutrifolia and P.alata - Collector's item; Species Orchid Seed - Conservation and Distribution; Orched Genera, Illustrated - XLV - Huntleya; The Gulf Coast Lath House; F.C.C.'s of 1974. Lovely copy. Book
1988Features: Riding the electric jet - F-16 Fighting Falcom; Burning Japan to the ground - The B-29 fire bomb raids of WWII; Prelude to the atomic age. Photos: F-16s of the 120th Fighter interceptor Gp. Montana National Guard; Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Book
1931Features: Chemistry may become the important post-depression factor; Editorials - extreme naval economy; farm by-products - one dollar for ducks - no dole for us - pilotless plane of the future; Cows fed irradiated yeast give ricket-preventive milk; Space as yet unfathomed - man's report is - "no bottom"; Better engines for navy planes; Speeding rail freight - new merchandise containers carry less than carload lots; Man-made oases in American deserts; Poland becomes a maritime nation - denied use of Danzig, Poland builds her own seaport; Has forest conservation created a false alarm?; Modern coal for modern markets - coal is now washed and thoroughly cleaned; Trademarks in disguise - the secret of a good trademark is its arbitrary nature; How stable is the earth's crust?; Masterpiece of Minoan Art; Babylonian brick reliefs; a link between Hellenistic and Roman painting; Butterfly faking - a new industry - rare and costly species "manufactured" from common varieties; Stone age man's world-wide culture. Back cover boasts colour Lucky Strike advertisement featuring illustration of a sultry Jean Harlow. She is quoted as saying "It's a delight to find a celophane wrapper that opens without an ice pick." Average wear. Unmarked. Two very small tears to fore-edge of back cover. Book
198692 pages including bibliography and some black and white illustrations. A basic book on angels - a perfect introduction to a subject that after many centuries just won't go away and instead is attracting new attention in a New Age. Gift greetings inside front cover. Date upon half title page, else unmarked. Some creasing to front cover. Book
1948126 pages. This little book takes its title from a daily feature which appeared in the Montreal Gazette. The artist depicts a fair cross-section of the life of any big city. His characters are nameless, ordinary people going about the exhausting business of living. The daily aggravations of crowded street cars, jostling pedestrians, rude motorists, sardine housing, and assorted tribulations only affect Moore's funny bone. Author is a Toronto native who moved to Montreal at an early age. Book is well-used with above average wear and soiling but remains intact... and enjoyable. Illustration upon front cover shows three fellows leering at a passing beauty. Book
2000102 pages. Shows how we can use this energy to strengthen our spiritual bodies, to actually experience a direct connection to the ultimate oneness, feeling it with every fiber of our being, knowing it to be the deepest truth. Teaches that this noble enlightenment is meant for everyone, and that by getting into contact with it, we may illuminate the world and liberate our children's future. Book
1916272 pages including glossary. Occasional black and white illustrations. "The literature in the readers of the lower grades must be largely that of the nursery tale and fairy lore, but when the children have reached the middle period of their public school course - in the Third Reader - they may be introduced with profit to more mature forms of literature, and acquire at an early age a taste for reading good books... A careful reading of properly chosen selections cannot fail to extend the knowledge of the pupils as well as to improve their taste and to develop their power of expression... The highest aim of all good teaching is the development of character, and the selections for practice in oral reading should illustrate the virtues in which the children should be established - the virtues that make for material success, and those especially that form and strengthen right principles of conduct and life." - from the preface. Contains primarily selections drawn from the works of writers in Britain with input from some of Canada's best known writers. Prescribed for use in the schools of British Columbia. Illustrated brown cloth front board reads "The British Columbia Readers - Third Reader." Writing and scribbing upon front endpaper, few marks otherwise. Well worn boards with no major defects. Some soiling to contents. 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
1995285 pages including index. Succeeds and replaces the long-established earlier version. Presents a clear and concise account of the principal developments in Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day, intended for both the student of Italian history and culture and the general reader, whether tourist, business-person or traveller. Moderate wear. Yellow high-lighting. Book
1927302 pages. "Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn the works written by himself at the age of seventy-three and the life, with such of his philosophy as is the gift of age and experience taken down here and edited by Ethelreda Lewis." "This is a gorgeous book, more full of sheer stingo than any you are likely to come across in a day's march among the bookshops of wherever you may be. " - from the foreword by John Galsworthy. Well worn green boards. Binding intact. Contents unmarked. Black and white frontis of author. Please note: this may be an ex-library copy as there is evidence upon both endpapers to suggest pocket removal. However, we found no library marks in or on book. Book
1978188 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. The period between 1900 and 1916 was the golden age of the picture postcard in Canada; the craftsmanship evident in hand-tinted and lithographed "postals" was never surpassed, the craze for collecting and sending them never so widespread. In one year Canadians exchanged over 60 million of them, and today, as much-sought-after collectibles, these postcards present an enchantingly candid portrait of Edwardian Canada and its citizens. Average wear. Unmarked. Small patch of peeling from upper corner of front cover where price sticker was removed. Book
1989276 pages. The story of an energetic, involved woman. Her life divides into two phases. As the wife of John Graves Simcoe, Elizabeth is a sensible lady of the Age of Reason, pursuing the picturesque with sketch book and water colours. Following Simcoe's death, her long life as a widow finds meaning in fostering the well-being of her church. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
196974 pages. Features: Jim Beckworth - Saint or Sinner?; Thw Twilight Days of Kit Carson; The Richest Rancho in Texas; The James Gang's Last Survivor; The Chief Who Collected Hats; Memoirs of E.S. Tutt; Captian Tough - Buckskin Patriot; The Agony of Silver Heels; Left Hand - Pledged to Peace; Age of Vitriol and Invective; One Million 606,300 Silver Dollars. Nice copy. Magazine
1990392 pages. Comprises a collection of readings taken from the books and articles of forty-six historians writing on thirteen topics in twentieth-century European history. Light wear. Minor twist to spine. Unmarked. Book
1967182 pages including index. Based upon the work of the Medical Research Council Unit for Research on Occupational Aspects of Ageing which was attached to the Department of Psychology at the University of Liverpool between 1959 and 1963. The study of ageing and of comparative function at given ages is of great practical concern and the analyses given here are the product of physical and psychological tests on 540 normal adult subjects from the population of Liverpool and its environs. One of the most useful contributions made by the present study is the compilation of a table of norms of the level of performance which can be expected from people of different ages. Moderate quantity of library markings else unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket shows moderate wear. Book in lightly worn, moderately soiled orange cloth boards. Book
1987227 pages including black and white plates. Takes readers back to a time of danger and violence as well as action and adventure. Sequel to the popular Pirates and Outlaws of Canada. Continues the colourful survey of violence in Canada from the time of the earliest pioneers to the years preceeding World War II. Book unmarked and showing minimal wear. Glossy attractive dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
1999267 pages. Through telepathic communication with Jerry Garcia, legendary member of the Grateful Dead, Wendy Weir, sister of Dead guitarist Bob Weir, presents Jerry's deep, loving, and often humorous insights from the realm of the spirit and his wishes not only for the band that has become a cultural phenomenon but for each and every one of us. Excellent giftable copy. Book
1986147 pages including index. Prehistoric dates and more dates have been computed to provide admissibility for the mythic history of Homo sapiens in a framework of recorded mythological events, as well as the arrival of a planetoid which triggered the last Ice Age and the Flood, its hypothetical crash in northeastern Canada that brought forth Halley's comet. Atlantis and Mu are refurbished, and the existence of ancient 'atomic piles' in some pyramids of Egypt proclaimed by the author. In all, a think-piece that challenges the imagination of every reader of this controversial thesis! Includes occasional black and white illustrations. Minor rubbing to top corner of front cover. Rubber stamp upon front cover and top edge. Several rubber stamps upon title page. Moderate wear. Book
1966160 pages. Written upon the 100th anniversary of the province of British Columbia. This book is "...within the range of the still camera's lense and the limit of words, enough provocation I hope, to entice you to go see for yourself. See the Abundance! See the Challenges! If you are sixty, cry a little. At any age you will be uplifed, inspired, charged with excitement. Ours is this kind of country." - author. Lovely book is unmarked and showing faintest wear. Attractive brown cloth boards protected by clear plastic sleeve. Slipcase in good condition with top seam peeling. Book
1991162 pages including index. An evocative collection of photographs and archival materials depicting the so-called "Golden Age" of British Columbia, the post-war years of 1945 to 1975, a period during which B.C.'s industries grew to unprecedented heights, and with it a new sense of economic social prosperity. Unmarked. Faint wear. Excellent copy. Book
1994329 pages. Includes some black and white photos. This book is the best gift you could give yourself or anyone you know who needs an upbeat, honest, funny and inspiring role model for life's adventures to 80 and beyond. Crosses generations and time zones with author's witty, well-crafted autobiographical stories. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name atop half-title page else unmarked. Nice copy in illustrated covers. Book
1980305 pages including index. Although this is the story of one county in Ontario, it covers facets universal in Canadian growth: road-building, land-clearing, the development of health and educational services, and the progress and dreams of the people themselves. The story, from Indian times to the present atomic age, is told in more than 500 black and white photographs and illustrations. Moderate wear to book which has moderate twist to its orange cloth spine. Dust jacket, bearing a wonderful large photo of a mechanical railroad shovel, is well-worn but remains functional. Book