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Brand new book in blue boards with silver titling on spine. 15 prelims plus title leaf, plus 314 numbered pages, plus 2 leaves of titles plus blank leaf Dust jacket new save for nicks. see scans

first editionFirst edition. Hard cover. Queen's Printer, Ottawa (1970) New. 728 p. Includes index. Fresh and gleaming in a pebble-black boards with bright gilt on front and spine. Includes Italian and Hungarian Treaty Claims, report on pow in Europe, Estonian line.HIGHEST QUALITY

415 pages. Illustrated. Includes historical solutions by the ancient kings, the Dutch and the British as well projects under consideration. Maps of river basins etc. Corner bumps but otherwise near fine. Shadow on scan is from camera.

Publisher: Friesens Corporation, 1996Brand new white gloss boards with black/white title and illustration. Dust jacket also bright, new, and perfect. This book is the First Edition self-published by Wallace L. Liddicoat in 1996 and has First Edition on copyright page. Maps, diagrams, photographs.
The author presents the many configurations in which the early waterwheels were installed, overshot, undershot, Noria, pitch-back followed by beam pups and turbines. He shows the development of their application: milling, mining, and electric power generation. And he shows pictures of waterwheels at locations in B.C. (and elsehwere in the Oregon Territory) . I ship within 24 hours except when the post office is closed for hoilday

XV + 147 pages totally unmarked with large fold-out map in brand new untouched condition Coloured illustrated dust jacket has edge nibble and quarter-inch closed split at fold over. Shadow is from scannner, not in bookWhen Russia Was in AmericaThe Alaska Boundary Treaty Negotiations 1824-25 and the Role of Pierre de PoleticaAuthor Huculak 1971

Publisher: Gill, 1894Used - Good, Graded good but many would grade it Very Good. Green board decorated with gilt whippets and author's name plus some half-tone whippets in lighter green. End pages are decorated with UG monograms of the publisher Upcott Gill. Corners bumped. vi, contents page, prelims 199 text pages. ad, index p201-204,, 11 numbered pages of catalogue, 4 pages ads. Six sepia plates of whippets as show and race dogs. When I check WORLDCAT, I learn that copies of this first edition exist in some UK and US libraries but not in Canada. One Canadian library has a later reprint. And that's it. This not the cheapest offered at the the moment but is far the best.

Tony presented this to me not long before his death at Williams Lake in 1995. I have presevred it carefully and offer it as NEW signed with the proviso that I have read it. Rattling good account of Canada's Motor Torpedo Boats from commissioning, hisa early service, and his time commanding the 29th Canadian Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla. He was a noted war artist.OUTSTANDING QUALITY

colored frontis plus 16 coloured plates plus 64 uncoloured plates Index. board edges color rubbed and nicked but book is very good and nearr Fine for age.X prelims 383 pages

Hard cover. Broadfoot, Wilmington N.C. (1989) New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand new bright and fresh. Seal of Military Historical Society of Massachusetts on front board. (No dj as issued) 409 pages plus many plates of maps. First but note it is only FIRST THUS, (a horrible and misleading term I hate) a republication of a much older documeet

First edition. Hard cover. (1929) Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. At least GOOD. Library pocket etc 139 p. Includes maps. 2 maps, both fold out of which one is extremely large Full title The Wintering Partners on Peace River From the Earliest Records to the Union in 1821 with a summary of the Dunvegan Journal 1806. Author James Nevin Wallace was a land surveyor. Book outlines movements of leaders in exploration and the fur tradeBooks look like it has half leather but it may be all cloth and made to look like half leather. I would have thought that unlikely for a 1929 book, but I am no expert. Whichever it is, it is in very good collectible condition with red boards and decorated cloth, library provenance (pocket and BOOKSALE etc.) and no writing etc. 139 pages. It was published with two LARGE pull-out maps Peace River and Western Canada Map of the Peace is complete and good to very good with no damage. Because it so huge, the map of western Canada has repaired splits but nothing missing. Obviously… Read More

Publisher: McClelland Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto, 1916 First edition.. Hard cover. Used - Good No dust jacket top edges of pages and boards frayed Absolute minimum of bumps Title page just slightly loose lower portion . 231 p. Red boards with black lettering. Scarce WWI memoir of an infantry officer of the pre-1914 army, mobilised and at the front within weeks. First Canadian edition. Platoon Commandeer was the pen name of Arthur Mills (1887-1955). He was wounded at La Bassee and invalided home.store 2-3-red-with

FIRST EDITION 119 pp. A high quality copy that is LIKE NEW but toned WITH DUST JACKET that has a half-square inch)chip at bottom right front and another chip at top of spine. All tissues there. All plates/photos there. Plus printed letter from Canadian Field Comforts Commission. Gift inscription on fep. Highly unusual and collectible.: IMPORTANT This book must have ben very expendive to producd because it consists not only of text and the usual printed illustrations but ALSO a large number of lightly tipped in photographs:Full sepia plate of General Hugheshalf plates Valcartier; half plates at seafull plate General AldersonHalf plate King George Vhalf plate General Carltonhalf plates training Sussexhalf plates Salisbury Plainhalf plates "at the front"half plates at the frontone third (3) plates artilleryfull plate General MacDougall Shorncliffehalf plates Folkestone and Dibgatehalf plate ShorncliffeThus it has the full complement of tipped-in plates all like newThe illustrated dust jacket that is… Read More

poetry of 1888 82 pages plus one leaf of ads. Edges rubbed and thus GOOD but VERY GOOD for age
https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=0271027819Brian Tyson - 2008 - ‎Preview - ‎More editionsRowe Lingston, author of "Woodland and Dreamland," has a modest measure of the genuine poetic melody and fancy. ... Mr. Rowland Hill's "Jewels" will be read and recited for many a year wherever the English language is spoken.

Publisher: , Victoria B. C, 1984First edition.. Hard cover. New No dust jacket New or as new feels new And the way it opens indicates it has not been read . 134 p. Includes: index, bibliography. forms of verse, a scholarly work. New. No dust jacket. New or as new. feels new. And the way it opens indicates it has not been read. Handsome blue boards with bright gilt. First edition. The shadow is from my scanner

works of peter pindar in two volumes. Volume 1 Portrait of Peter Pindar(John Walcot 1738-1819)) 463 pp and volume 2 464 pp. The whole bound into the one book. Half leather (red) with raised gilt spines title and publisher's intitials on spine. Matching leather corner protectors. Marbled page edges. Pink end papers. VERY minor edge rubs and front hinge showing mull . Very strong and tight. Book would grade very good if it were modern, but this is 213 years old and deserves a FINE. No writing. Second volume has more tanning than first: I do not know why, but it appears to a common phenomenon. The opening poem is the "Poetical, Supplicatng, Modest, and Affecting Epistle to those Lietrary Colossuses, the REVIEWERS. Satire was the strong characteristic of Pindar's. works. He was the most prolific and successful burlesque poet of the later eighteenth century. His particular targets were the Royal Academy and the royal familyincluding the king and John Payne (Rights of Man).
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X prelims plus 297 pages Thjis is ex-library although the only signs are the label on soine and a blind impressed stamp. Double-page map north western Arabia "travels Nov 1876 to Aug 1878 in Arabia May and June 1875 in the Perea.Duckworth published Charles Doughty's fascinating book in1905. It is an expensive very-detailed book that I have enjoyed many times and shall not sell Doughty was a famous explorer of the Middle East and was writing of Arabia in 1875 to 1878 in Ottoman times. The book was in 2 volumes and massive. In 1908 Scribner's published an abridged version, also in two volumes. I am offering just volume 2. I have graded it very good because the text pages, the frontis, and terrific map are in top like-new condition even though this is ex-library with the front board covered in white, clean, sheet of paper and a pocket at the back. Shadows are from my scanner

Brand new unread book of XI plus 220 pages by a leading sociologist. She holds a Ph.D. from the Free University of Berlin, has worked for national and international organizations in Jordan and in Germany, World Bank, Inter-American Development Babk, and the House of World Cultures in Berlin