48 pages. Text in German. Many black and white photos. Undated but appears to be circa 1950s. No indication if this is a reprint or not. Bits of pencil writing to contents. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy of this charmingly diminutive vintage German cookbook. 14 x 13.5cm.; 24mo View More...
61 pages. This well-travelled copy is boldly signed by former owner, J.C. Frith of the Canadian 18th Battalion at Hastings, England, April 1917. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding tender. Underlining on two pages. A wonderful WWI collectible. View More...
144 pages plus adverts at back. Contents include: On Making Hair-Springs; On Fitting Hair-Springs; The Adjustment to Positions; The Adjustment to Isochronism; Regulating, or Rating; The Adjustment for Heat and Cold. Hinges intact. Above-average but not excessive wear. Silver lettering on backstrip still legible. Small chips from each end of backstrip. Blind-stamped boards. Unmarked.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; A Practical Treatise on the Balance Spring, Including Making, Fitting, Adjusting to Isochronism and Positions, and Rating; Also The Adjustment for Heat and Cold *FIRST EDITION* Cloc... View More...
302 pages plus 6 pages of ads at back. Maroon leather backstrip. Olive cloth-covered boards. Gilt decoration of hound upon front board. Several black and white illustrations. Narrow openings along each hinge. Front free endpaper removed. Above-average wear and soiling. Moderate spine lean. Few pencil markings to contents. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy of this fascinating work. View More...
218 pages. Many black and white illustrations and wonderful black and white archival photographic plates. Contents include: The Year the Store Opened; T. Eaton & Co. Makes Its Bow to the Public; From Past to Present; The Founder and His Successor; Eaton's of Today; The Celebration of the Jubilee. Prior owner's details upon page following title page. No other markings. Hinges open. Front free endpaper removed. Above-average wear. A worthy reading copy of the delightfully nostalgic piece of Canadiana. View More...
Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa - part 2 - tales from the log book of an R.A.F. officer during the campaign in German East Africa - article with interesting photos; Torn by Starving Jackals in Macedonia - Private James McDade of the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers recounts his experience - with photo of McDade; Death-Struggle with An Alligator - what happened to Van Campen Heilner when he was photographing an alligator in a Florida swamp - photo-illustrated article; The Thrills of Parachuting - early and marvelously photo-illustrated article ... View More...
80 pages. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: How Dare You; Lazy Ways; Iceberg; Don't Hang Up; I'm Mandy, Fly Me; Art for Art's Sake; Rock 'N' Roll Lullaby; I Wanna Rule the World; Head Room. Faint store inkstamp on title page, otherwise contents pleasantly clean and unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear to great seventies-style colour-photo illustrated covers. Binding intact. Includes black and white photos of members of the band. A fantastic 10cc memento.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 10cc How Dare You!: Songbook (Song Book) with Sheet Music for Piano an... View More...
280 pages. Intended to "Give glimpses of life - of real homely life - among the early pioneers." - from Introduction. Black and white photographic plates. Bright gilt lettering and decorations upon backstrip and front board. Unmarked. Back hinge open else respectfully worn. Front free endpaper removed. Tissue protected frontis. A pleasing copy. View More...
"Few of us have known until the release of this book that NAFTA may be an elaborate camouflage for a totalitarian police state stretching from the Canadian Arctic to the southernmost reaches of Mexico. Yet this is the thrust of a Secret Report by a North American Counter Intelligence Military Team and certain ancillary documents. The Report cites far-reaching legislation which shifted the responsibility for law enforcement in the U.S. to the U.N. The creation of MJTF and FINCEN seem preliminary to a massive round-up of North American citizens opposed to the New World Order." - back cover. ... View More...
103 pages. Match wits with hockey's top coaches in 10 exciting NHL and international games. Usual library markings. Book is well-worn and not so pretty but abundantly illustrated with old black and white photos of yesteryear's stars, including a shot of the brothers Hull with their mom. Binding intact. Colour boards feature Bryan Trottier on front. Fun book for the true hockey fan. View More...
56 pages including eight pages of wonderful colour photos of the band. Songs: Arrival; Dancing Queen; Dum Dum Diddle; Fernando; Knowing You, Knowing Me; Money, Money, Money; My Love, My Life; That's Me; Tiger; When I Kissed the Teacher; Why Did it Have to Be Me? Above-average wear. Some pages taped in place. Still a worthy copy of this vintage ABBA songbook - probably their best. View More...
10 page colour-illustrated board book. Undated. Circa 1945? No text. Illustrator is unstated but may be E.V.A., Eleanor Vera Abbott. Three-inch opening to base of backstrip. Above-average external wear. Gift greetings inside front board. A worthy vintage copy of this charming work. View More...
xi, [3], 322 pp. Index. Chronology of the Hitler movement. Statistical tables. "Professor Abel went directly to the source of Hitler's power - the German people - for the truth, and by an ingeniously contrived literary contest secured this collection of simple and eloquent life histories. The direct testimony of eye witnesses and participants in the revolutions, riots and coups ushering in the most powerful of modern dictatorships gives this book a stirring and realistic validity." - dust jacket (not included). Rebound former library copy with usual markings and above-average wear. Bind... View More...
319 pages. List of sources. Index. "Presents a challenging analysis of the changing place of land in the American economy. Traces the development of the growing conflict between the land and industry, and sets forth the more fundamental principles which must be applied to find a real solution to the land problem." - Joseph Ackerman, Journal of Farm Economics, May, 1940. Writing, erasures and stamps upon front free endpaper which is peeled along fore-edge inside board. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Dust jacket not included. A worthy reference copy of this fascinating study. View More...
423 pages. Index. Glossary. Printed upon glossy stock. "The clues in this volume are organized accoring to where in the skin they are positioned, the first being in the cornified layer and the last one in the subcutaneous fat. Each of the 100 chapters consists of four pages. On the first page appears a single photomicrograph that depicts a clue, but provides no further aid to identification of it. On the second page, the same photomicrograph that was used to picture the clue on page 1 is shown again but this time as one among a sequence of three photomicrographs taken at low, intermedia... View More...
Approximately 110 pages. Black and white illustrations. "... Because these words were born of the visual images and impressions of a child and teenager, I beg you indulge the juvenile slant of these vignettes, excuse the fragmented and often chronologically disjointed record, and perhaps join me in returning to these simpler, kinder and happier days." - from back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy. View More...
179 pages. Index, bibliography and glossary. "More than twenty-five species or groups of related species are described here in detail. Each includes a botanical description, colour photo, notes on habitat and distribution in Canada, and general information on how it can be used as food. Also includes recipes and related notes about history and folklore. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. View More...
