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Barrie, Ontario: The Barrie Examiner Limited, 1951. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 184 pages. Many black and white reproductions of fascinating archival photos. "This is a story in the life of a Canadian township, during its first hundred years. Hewn from the virgin forests, which heretofore had been the home of the Huron Indians, the settlers who came from the old lands to make their homes and raise their families, tell in these pages the story of development, of a community with top place in the affairs of the nation". - Introduction. Unmarked. Considerable tanning to contents and covers. Tape repairs to backstrip. Binding intact. A sound copy of this highly informative history and genealogical reference. Bishop p.1105..

London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, [1], 321 pages. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "The Emden is credited with capturing or sinking nineteen merchant ships while sweeping the seas from Diego Garcia to Calcutta, from the Maldive islands to the Malay Peninsula during WW I. After she was defeated by an Australian cruiser her survivors embarked on an adventure-filled journey across the Indian Ocean, overland on the Arabian Peninsula, to Constantinople and the safety of a German squadron. Provides a colourful portrait of a lost era of naval warfare that will engage the imagination and intellect of all readers." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. A high quality copy..

USA: Columbia Pictures Publications / Ensign Music Corporation, 1981. Book. Illus. by Parker, Beverly. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 60 pages. Biographical details of Eddie and the band plus photos of them in color and black and white. Includes piano music, lyrics and guitar chords for these great songs: Do You Right Tonight; Drinkin' My Baby (Off My Mind); Drivin' My Life Away; Every Which Way But Loose; Gone Too Far; Hearts On Fire; I Can't Help Myself; I Just Want to Love You; I Love a Rainy Night; Pour Me Another Tequila; Rocky Mountain Music; Suspicions; two Dollars in the Jukebox; We Can't Go On Living Like This; You Don't Love Me Anymore. Few pencil markings to table of contents otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy..

Canada: Telemedia Publishing / Random House Canada, 1999. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 224 pages. Index. 150 recipes with at-a-glance cooking lessons and tips from the Canadian Living Test Kitchen. Printed upon glossy stock with gorgeous colour photography throughout. Some writing atop front free endpaper, otherwise clean with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy..

New York: Thomas Yoseloff. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1960. Reprint. Hardcover. pp. [8], 9-231. Index. Footnotes. Reprint of the softcover 1956 first edition. "A dynamic and scholarly study of one of the greatest statesmen of our times whose honorable place in Jewish history has never before been fully determined and allocated. Not only his personal letters and speeches but press and political literature of half a century attest the devotion and sympathy of this great man to the Jewish cause." - dust jacket. Book clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. 21.5 x 14cm. Zoller A 182, Woods (Rev.) D[b]108.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Winston Churchill - Jews, Winston Churchill - Zionism, Winston Churchill - Israel, Aliens Bills, .

UK: Haynes Publications, Incorporated, 1974. Book. Fair. Paperback. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 132 pages. Index. Covers all models 1957 to 1970 (excluding Commando). Average wear and soiling for a shop manual. Binding intact. Good working copy..

U.K.: Centoria Limited, 2009. Book. Fair. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 240 pages. Features: The Energy of Bobby Kennedy, Jr.; Stella McCartney on Design & Ethics; Roberto Saviano on Life After Gomorrah; David de Rothschild's Anti-Plastic Pacific Adventure; Jacques Cousteau's Underwater House; Deep Ecology; Philippe Parreno's Post-Apocalypse; Sustainable Sushi; The Missing Link Between Fashion & Fish. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy reading copy..

New York: Charles Foley, 1953. Book. Fair. Paperback. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 5 pages. Taped together else average wear. Few markings. A worthy working copy..

Canada: Self-Published, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 191 pages. Signed by author/subject upon title page. Reproductions of black and white photos in text. "Mr. Rackham joined the O.P.P. in 1949 and retired after a 26 year career never having drawn his gun once. He was an identification officer involved in more murder and serious crime investigations than he can remember." - from page xii. Prior owner's name and date neatly atop front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy..

Montreal: Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers, 1936. Book. Illus. by Sambrook, Russell (Cover Art); Wilcox, C.R.; Hallam, J.S.; Keay, Jack; McCrea, H.W.; Eldridge, H.. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 60 pages. Features: Russell Sambrook cover illustration of boy in pajamas sneaking his dog upstairs; Dominion Linoleum colour ad inside front cover features yellow and maroon interior design of a 'very lucky' young person's bedroom; AC spark plug ad features horse talking to man cleaning his shotgun; Premier Aberhart of Alberta ponders 'licensing' newspapers; Fantastic one-page photo-illustrated ad for Marconi radios includes photos of newscaster Christopher Ellis and Frances James, plus photos of the model 79 A.C., 81 A.C. and 85 A.C. radios; One-page ad for the Parker Vacumatic pen features marathon theme; The Red Boar (short story from Rajputana); Revolt in Quebec - The English-Canadian View - article with photos of C.E. Gault,… Read More

Toronto: The Maclean Publishing Company, Limited, 1940. Book. Illus. by Price, Norman; Eldridge, Harold; LaSalle, Charles; Summers, Gloyne. Fair. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 48 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover features a pop (beverage) truck at work; Supita (fiction); Design for a new Dominion - The Rowell-Sirois Report is charged with significance for every individual Canadina living today and for his children and his grandchildren after him - with photo of the Dominion-Provincial Relations Committee; Sam Small's Better Half (fiction); Gerard Cote - Canadian Marathon Champ - article with photo; Twilight for Neville Chamberlain; Check Rein (fiction); Treasure in Iron - article and photos of the Steep Rock Mine near Atikokan, Ontario; Murder Off Stage (fiction); A Century in Steam - the story of the first transatlantic steamship to dock at a Canadian port on June 1st, 1840; Nice full-page ad for RCA Victor… Read More

Canada: M&C, 1998. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 24 Minute VHS tape with case. Traces the legacy of three generations of the Westvick family that immigrated from Norway to Alberta in 1912." - from cover. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy..

Canada: Victoria Publishing, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pages. Written in poetic form. Black and white sketches. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear in glossy boards. Lovely copy..

New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1917. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 4 pages. Larg cover photo portrait of Henry Lewis. Somewhat above-average wear. Still a sound working copy..

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxxii, 336 pages. Footnotes. Index. Twenty pages of black and white reproductions of photos. "In this far-ranging study, Ian Radforth charts the course of the transition of Ontario's twentieth-century logging industry and the response of its workers to the changes - from the rough-and-ready days of the primitive camp bunkhouse to the development of a highly mechanized and closely managed industry." - half-title page and back cover. Prior owner's name atop first leaf. Moderate quantity of markings to contents. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating history..

New York: Rizzoli. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. First English Edition. Hardcover. 0847807983 . 119 pp. 179 illustrations, 107 in color. Text in English. Translated from the Italian first edition entitled Gioielli di architetti. "The modern jewelry featured in this unusual and handsome publication was commissioned by collector Cleto Munari from some of the most renowned post-modernist architects of our time. The imagery of their jewelry is a miniaturized architectural journey in itself." - dust jacket. Includes works by: Mario Bellini, Michele De Lucchi, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Hans Hollein, Arata Isozaki, Richard Meier, Alessandro Mendini, Paolo Portoghesi, Peter eShire, Ettore Sottsass, Stanley Tigerman, Oscar Tusquets, Robert Venturi, Lella Vignelli, and Marco Zanini. Architect's stamp and date discreetly appear on page 118, otherwise book virtually as new. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent… Read More

Franklin Park, Illinois: Zenith Radio Corporation, 1978. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 88 pages including many fold-out schematic diagrams. Chapters include: adjustments; a.c.f. alignment; chassis schematic diagrams; dura-modules; i.f. alignment; model and chassis information; purity and convergence; triple-plus interconnect diagrams; triple-plus modules..

Franklin Park, Illinois: Zenith Radio Corporation, 1979. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 85 pages including many fold-out schematic diagrams. 30 chapters include: model and chassis information; adjustments - vertical chassis; if alignment - 150-190 series; adjustments - triple plus; field alignment, plus many chapters on various modules, channel selectors, etc..

Canada: MacLeod Gazette, 1935. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 20 page booklet. "A searching examination of the Douglas Report that will assist you to read and understand it.... Don't let the politicians fool you by tellilng you that you can't understand it." - from front cover. Unmarked. Average wear. A quality copy of this interesting work..

Detroit, MI, U.S.A.: Raymond F. Radway, 1971. Book. Good. Plastic Comb. North American Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 63 pages. "A catalogue of all English language history books published on Interurbans, Street Railways, and Rapid Transit Systems in the United States and Canada." - Foreword. Listings are separated by state/province. For each book listed as many as ten details are provided: title, author, publisher, year of publication, number of copies printed, number of pages, type of cover, original price, current price, comments on the book. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this informative bibliography..