Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

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As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me - The Extraordinary Account of One Man's Escape From a Soviet Prison Camp and His Three-year Flight Across Siberia to Freedom

By: Bauer, Josef M.; Translated By Lawrence P.R. Wilson

Price: $195.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1957

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 431g2176

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

347 pages. "Surely one of the most dramatic human adventures of our time is this amazing escape story of a German prisoner of war, sentenced to twenty-five years of forced labor in a Siberian mine. Rebelling against the brutal life of a Soviet prison camp, Clemens Forell undertook three years of lonely, fear-haunted flight across the endless wastes of Siberia - in pursuit of freedom." - from dust jacket. Average wear to unmarked book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy mylar cover. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; As Far As My Fe...
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The Blue Danube

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1945

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 563h5802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Signed and briefly inscribed by Bemelmans upon half-title page. "In good-natured Bemelmans fashion, this tale gives us hope for the remnants of German decency and Gemutlichkeit which we may be able to salvage, if we are wise, when the foul Nazi waters have receded." - dust jacket. [6], [1]-153 pp. Colour plates. Illustrated endpapers. Unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's blue cloth illustrated in red. Moderate foxing to bottom edge. Binding sound. Average wear to mylar-protected dust jacket which bears foxing on flaps and verso. Binding sound. A worthy copy of this wonderful B...
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The Canadiana Cookbook: A Complete Heritage of Canadian Cooking

By: Benoit, Mme. Jehan

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Toronto, Pagurian Press Limited : 1974

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 757h1967

ISBN-13: 9780919364059

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

207 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "One of Mme. Benoit's ambitions has been to prove that Canada has a cuisine of which we can be proud. Her awareness of history makes her views on traditional Canadian cooking particularly authoritative. These recipes are based upon traditional recipes gleaned from every corner of Canada and she has personally tested each of them." - from dust jacket. Bookplate and gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Average wear to book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy...
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The Engineering of Consent

By: Bernays, Edward L. [Editor], Cutler, Howard W.; Dodge, Sherwood; Fine, Benjamin; Fleischman, Doris; Ginsburgh, A. Robert; Jones, John Price; Samstag, Nicholas [Contributors]

Price: $5,950.00

Publisher: Norman, OK, U.S.A., University of Oklahoma Press : 1956

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 237h5282

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Second printing of the 1955 first edition. pp. viii, 246. Index. "A well-planned public relations program, says Edward L. Bernays, U.S. Publicist Number 1, is executed in accordance with scientific principles. This book is based on the findings of social scientists, whose dispassionate approach and methods may be likened to those of the engineering professions... A systematic presentation of the principal organizational problems in any public relations undertaking." - dust jacket. Unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's navy blue cloth brilliantly lettered in silver along backstrip. Ti...
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Kamloops Cattlemen: One Hundred Years of Trail Dust!

By: Bulman, T. Alex

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Grays : 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 744a9442

ISBN-13: 9780888260352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

183 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Author is "First, last and always a cattleman, proud of Western Canadian history and the pioneers who made it great." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. Sound working copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; RANCH LIFE SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY Kamloops Cattleman: One Hundred Years of Trail Dust!
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Pioneers of the Peace [Local History of the Grande Prairie District, Alberta, Canada]

By: Campbell, Isabel M. (Signed)

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Grande Prairie, Alberta, Grande Prairie and District Old Timers' Association : 1975

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 526j0257

ISBN-13: 9780919212756

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Signed by Editor Isabel M. Campbell, Artist Robert C. Guest and Old Timers' Association Secretary Gerald Carveth atop Table of Contents. Presents the local history of Alberta's Grande Prairie district. 428 pages. Extensive index. Large fold-out map inside back board. Hundreds of pages of local family histories. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. Illustrated endpapers. Unmarked with average wear to burgundy cloth decorated in gilt. Slight lean to spine. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new arc...
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Onwards to Victory - War Speeches By the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill C.H., M.P.

By: Churchill, Winston S.; Eade, Charles [Compiler]

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company/New York Graphic Society : 1944

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 767h4439

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

xi, 357 pages. "The sixty-five speeches, broadcasts and messages which make up this new book cover the momentous events of 1943, as the Allied nations continued their common battle against totalitarianism all over the world. This is the year when the tide turned." - dust jacket. Publisher's red cloth handsomely adorned with black and gilt. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight and square. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Winston Churchill - Speeches
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A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960 A Study By The National Bureau of Economic Research, New York

By: Friedman, Milton (Signed); Schwartz, Anna Jacobson

Price: $15,000.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press : 1966

Edition: Third Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 443h6104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Signed and inscribed by Milton Friedman upon half-title. "Uses historical time series and economic analysis to argue the then-novel proposition that changes in the money supply profoundly influenced the U.S. economy, especially the behavior of economic fluctuations. The implication drawn is that changes in the money supply had unintended adverse effects, and that sound monetary policy is necessary for economic stability. Orthodox economic historians see [this] as one of the most influential economics books of the century. Friedman, 1912-2006, won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. U...
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Now You're Logging

By: Griffiths, Bus

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Madeira Park, BC, Canada, Harbour Publishing Company, Limited : 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 257c7712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

119 pages. "Once in a while a book is published about the Pacific Northwest's past that is so remarkable for its insights and honest portrayal of events that it deserves special attention. This book by Bus Griffiths (an author whose own life story is no less fascinating than the subject of which he writes), is such a book.... A picture story, a historical fiction in comic book form recalling life in the B.C. woods as it happened a generation ago. Probing deeper, the reader soon realizes he/she is seeing a fully comprehensive account of day-to-day logging operations as would have occured in ...
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The Constitution of Liberty

By: Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Signed)

Price: $9,500.00

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press/Phoenix Books : 1961

Edition: Third Impression

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 313a8097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper to Swedish journalist Arvid Fredborg, dated 1982 in Berlin. 570 pages. A National Review Panel ranked this work as the ninth best non-fiction book of the twentieth century. "A positive statement of the principles of society that in scope and breadth is more like a new Wealth of Nations... A thorough exposition of a social philosophy which ranges from ethics and anthropology through jurisprudence and the history of ideas to the economics of the modern welfare state." - Publisher. Moderate wear to clean and unmarked book. Binding soun...
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Ytek and the Arctic Orchid

By: Hewitt, Garnet

Price: $99.95

Publisher: New York, Vanguard Press, Inc. : 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 738h6167

ISBN-13: 9780814908365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

"There are many exciting Inuit stories, but none so stirring or strange as Ytek's, combining as it does action and mythology, drama and fantasy. Vigorous, inventive illustrations capture the story's mixture of earthy reality and otherworldy beauty." - dust jacket. 38 pages. Color illustrations. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy.; Color Illustrations; 8vo
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Hitler Was My Friend

By: Hoffmann, Heinrich; Stevens, Lt.-Col. R.H. (Translator)

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, Burke Publishing Company Ltd. : 1955

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 106j0219

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

"Here for the first time are disclosed secrets of the Nazi regime which were only known to two people - Hitler and his friend Hoffmann. For more than twenty years Heinrich Hoffmann was Adolf Hitler's most intimate and trusted friend. They were inseparable from the days when Hitler was an unknown Munich rabble-rouser to the end in the bunkers of Berlin in 1945. Hoffmann was a photographer: one of the world's greatest, and probably the most famous of the present era. His position is unique, for he not only lived through the most chaotic years in history as the Fuhrer's confidant - but is stil...
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Terror in the Name of God - The Story of the Sons of Freedom Doukhobors

By: Holt, Simma [Signed]

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Canada, McClelland and Stewart Limited : 1964

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 715h5549

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Signed and generically inscribed upon title page by Simma Holt. 312 pages. Bibliography, index, and many pages of dramatic black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. "Shocking, tragic, unbelievable, is this account of the strange sect and its fanatic leaders who have defied the laws of Canada for over fifty years. A story of fanatical terrorism let loose in the name of religious freedom; of a Mafia-like organization growing more sophisticated in its criminal activities with each passing year." - dust jacket. Tiny ink stamp to bottom edge, otherwise clean and unmarked with averag...
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Brandon - A Prospect of a City: A Project of the Brandon Division Association Manitoba Teachers' Society

By: Hume, Mary: Editor

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Brandon, MB, Canada, City of Brandon : 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 72207871

ISBN-13: 9780920436073

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

207 pages. Profusely illustrated with over 400 black and white photographic reproductions and sketches. Circa 1982. Presents a 100 year guided tour of Brandon from the days of bald prairie and buffalo wallows to the present-day picturesque city on the banks of the Assiniboine. Light wear to original green cloth lettered brightly in gilt. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Some cigarette odour. Hackett (2) 359.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Brandon - A Prospect of a City: A Project of the Brandon Division Association Manitoba Teachers' Societ...
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Madame Benoit Cooks at Home

By: Jehane Benoit

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. : 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 747h3080

ISBN-13: 9780070827752

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

xiv, 335 pages. Index. Color photos. "Here at last the legendary Madame Benoit opens the door to the kitchen in her own home, at Noirmouton, her sheep farm near Sutton in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She tells of her own cultural heritage, in which food has played such a large part, enriched by her own studies and travel. A practical and valuable cook book with fascinating sections on Herbs and Spices, Beverages, Soups, Salads, Breads, Cereals (including her granola recipes), Egg and Cheese dishes, Fish, Meat, and Poultry, Vegetables, and much more." - dust jacket. Prior owner's deta...
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Madame Benoit Cooks at Home

By: Jehane Benoit (1904-1987) [Signed]

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Canada, McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. : 1978

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 747h3317

ISBN-13: 9780070827752

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Signed "In Friendship" upon title page by the author in July 1982 in her home town of Noirmouton, Quebec. "Here at last the legendary Madame Benoit opens the door to the kitchen in her own home, at her sheep farm near Sutton in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She tells about the joys of cooking at home with her family, and she shares recipes that are her own personal and family favorites from the many she has collected and developed over the years." - dust jacket. "Jehane Benoit is a remarkable woman, filled with exhuberance, warmth and love. Her cooking reflects these qualities. I could...
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The Financiers and the Nation

By: Johnston, Thomas (Signed); Webb, Sidney (Preface)

Price: $1,950.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. : 1935

Edition: Second Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 163c9799

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. "... A complete survey from a democratic point of view of the financial machinations of the last century." - dust jacket. 206 pp. Index. Average wear to book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; The Financiers and the Nation Bankers Banksters Conspiracy Rothschild Bank of England Banking First World War Financial Fraud Swindles Swindlers; Signed by Author(s)
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Rockefeller "Internationalist": The Man Who Misrules the World

By: Josephson, Emanuel M.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, Chedney Press : 1952

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 328c6192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

448 pages. Index. "... Rockefeller's Institute of Pacific Relations controlled the spy ring that instigated the attack on Pearl Harbor, ... they knew in advance, to the very day, when it would occur and involve us in the war." - page 281. Moderate wear to book. Binding sound. Prior owner's address label atop front free endpaper. Publisher's address corrected in ball pen upon back panel of dust jacket. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is missing several chips and bears a variety of short openings. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Rockefeller "Internationalist": The Man W...
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Documents of the Canadian Constitution 1759-1915

By: Kennedy, W.P.M.: Editor

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press : 1918

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 105c5883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

707 pages. Prior owner's small, faint ink stamp to front free endpaper else unmarked. Slight foxing to fore- and top edges. Binding sound. Dust jacket soiled with average wear - now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this excellent vintage reference.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Documents of the Canadian Constitution 1759-1915 BNA Act
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Siamese Harem Life

By: Leonowens, Mrs. Anna H.; Stark, Freya (Introduction)

Price: $149.95

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. : 1953

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 524j0286

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

"In 1862, at the age of twenty-seven, Anna H. Leonowens became the governess of king Mongkut's children. In those days Siam was a little known, exotic, primitive country. The City of Veiled Women, - a city within a city, - had a population of nine thousand royal princesses, wives, concubines and servants completely dependent on every whim and passion of King Mongkut. This book reflects the shimmering beauty of the harem as well as its brutality. Girls were taken into the pleasure dome as children to be turned into actresses, dancers, musicians and singers. Theatrical triumphs were followe...
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Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket