Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

By: Alinsky, Saul D.

Price: $950.00

Publisher: New York, Random House Books for Young Readers : 1971

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 767h5077

ISBN-13: 9780394443416

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Fourth printing of the 1971 first edition. "Lest we forget... the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer." - page ix. "The revolutionary force today has two targets, moral as well as material. Its young protagonists are one moment reminiscent of the idealistic early Christians, yet they also urge violence and cry, 'Burn the system down!' They have no illusions about the system, but plenty of illusions about the way to change the world. It is to this point that I have written this book....
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From Sea Unto Sea: Art & Discovery Maps of Canada

By: Armstrong, Joe C.W.

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Canada, Fleet/Lester & Orpen Dennys : 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24802357

ISBN-13: 9780770600303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Approximately 75 pages. "Brings together for the first time thirty-eight stunning, original Canadian maps - many of them national treasures - and the fascinating stories of the explorers and cartographers who made them. From Gastaldi's woodcut map of 1556 in which monsters roam the sea, through Champlain's 1612 collage map of Canada's bounty, to Sanson's foundation map of 1656 - the first to show all five Great Lakes - this superb 'atlas' takes the modern navigator on a voyage of rediscovery to Canada's beginnings, beginnings not only in strength and adventure but also in humanity and art. ...
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The Handmaid's Tale

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $495.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : 1986

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 358h4719

ISBN-13: 9780395404256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

First printing of the American edition. "An accomplished novel so powerful as to shut out events in the real world, while answering forever the question of whether there is such a thing as a woman's novel." - Judith Rossner. 311 pages. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Margaret Atwood
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The Handmaid's Tale

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Toronto, Canada, McClelland & Stewart / CBC Television : 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 869h5609

ISBN-13: 9780771008139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

"Set in the near future in a locale resembling Cambridge Massachusetts, this work describes life in what was once the United States - A Clockwork Orange, as seen by women." - dust jacket. Second printing of the first Canadian edition. [12], 13-324 pp. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Light wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality early copy of this treasured work. SPADONI & DONNELLY 3587; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Handmaid's Tall, Margaret Atwood, Canadian Literature
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Secret Germany - Claus Von Stauffenberg and the Mystical Crusade Against Hitler

By: Baigent, Michael; Leigh, Richard

Price: $69.95

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape : 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 342h6091

ISBN-13: 9780224035255

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

"What was it that motivated this extraordinary aristocratic soldier, with the looks of a Hollywood idol, who was said to be the only man to stare the Fuhrer down until he averted his eyes? For Stauffenberg the bomb plot was not a political move but a moral and spiritual necessity. After forty-two serious attempts on Hitler's life in the previous twenty years, why did he too fail? In this remarkable investigation his whole life explains a troubled past to the present generation of Europeans as few have done in recent history." - dust jacket. 337 pages. Footnotes, Bibliography and Index. B...
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The World of Bemelmans; An Omnibus By Ludwig Bemelmans

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig (Signed)

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1955

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 561h1808

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Signed and briefly inscribed by author upon half-title page. "Here are four favorite Bemelmans books that have not been easily available recently. My War with the United States is his discovery of America in 1914. Small Beer is the risible saga of his adventures and discoveries on the long road from Tirol to New York. The Donkey Inside takes us on his own magic carpet to the little-hidden-away country of Ecuador. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You is a star-spangled pot-pourri that presents the author in his various roles of bon vivant, doting parent, luxurious vagabond, and somewhat gull...
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Japanese Life and Character in Senryu

By: Blyth, R.H.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: Japan, The Hokuseido Press : 1960

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 564g0712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

630 pages. Index. "Senryu enable us, as they enabled the Japanese, to understand and forgive others, and, what is vastly more important, to understand and forgive ourselves. Not only the life and character of the Japanese, but our own life and character are to be seen in this book, which is thus not merely a picture, but a mirror. Look well in it!" - from dust jacket. Decorated endpapers. Tissue-protected colour frontisplate. Book clean with light wear. Pencil underlining and marginalia to some pages. Moderate lean to spine. Binding tight. Average wear and soiling to dust jacket whic...
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The Last Best West

By: Bruce, Jean

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Canada, Fitzhenry and Whiteside : 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 71205890

ISBN-13: 9780889024014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

117 pages. Between 1896 and 1914, the Canadian government carried out a vigorous programme in central Europe, Britain, and the United States to persuade people to immigrate to the Canadian west, "The Last Best West." Hundreds of thousands of prospective settlers from diverse and distinctive ethnic backgrounds responded, leading to an extraordinary mass migration which changed the face of Canada. The great campaign to populate the west is presented here in a compelling and moving selection of more than 190 photographs of the period, together with short related texts. We see all the paraphern...
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Herbert H. Dow - Pioneer in Creative Chemistry

By: Campbell, Murray; Hatton, Harrison

Price: $79.95

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Appleton-Century Crofts : 1951

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 86302254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

168 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Working with borrowed money and homemade equipment of his own devising, Dow first manufactured bromides, later adding bleach to his line. Eventually phenol, magnesium, and sythetic indigo were only a few of the spectacular products that made Dow one of the great men of the chemical industry. He even developed a process for extracting bromine from sea water. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket bears moderate wear and is protected by clear plastic cover.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Campbell, Murray; Hatton, Harrison ...
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INVASION - They're Coming! The German Account of the Allied Landings and the 80 Days' Battle for France

By: Carell, Paul. ; Osers, E. (Trans)

Price: $149.95

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. : 1962

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 223h6152

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

"Succeeds superbly in conveying the atmosphere inside the German strongpoints on the coast, and among the infantry and armoured units stationed along and behind the 'Atlantic Wall' that was to guard Hitler's 'European Fortress.' At the same time it enables the reader to grasp and follow the tactical and strategic moves in this decisive battle. We witness the confident morale of the German troops, born of discipline and a belief in the efficiency of higher commands and staffs, give way to the first doubts as the promised reinforcements and air support fail to materialise; we watch these doubt...
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To See the Dawn Breaking - 76 Squadron Operations

By: Chorley, W. R.

Price: $295.00

Publisher: U.K., W.R. Chorley : 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 622h5831

ISBN-13: 9780950746708

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

"An excellently detailed and illustrated comprehensive history of 76 Squadron RFC/RAF." - Flypast. "His narrative, with personal recollections, is a faithful blow-by-blow account of many wartime operations." - Hamilton Spectator, Canada. 272 pages. Index and bibliography with many excellent black and white photographic plates. Appendices include: Squadron Bases, Commanders and Equipment; Operational Sorties; 'Roll of Honour'; Squadron Aircraft; The Middle East Detachment; Extended Photograph Credits and Captions. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket from wh...
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Medieval Fables

By: De France, Marie; Beer, Jeanette (translator)

Price: $69.95

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1983

Edition: First American Printing

Seller ID: 16602622

ISBN-13: 9780396081692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

71 pages. Lavishly illustrated and meticulously crafted, this collection of thirty fables is the perfect introduction to this most universal of literary forms. Very light wear to clean and unmarked book in maroon cloth boards. Dust jacket bears moderate wear with several small closed tears. Nice copy of a lovely work.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; FABLES SOCIAL SCIENCE FOLKLORE MYTHOLOGY De France, Marie; Beer, Jeanette (translator) Medieval Fables
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A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars

By: Esposito, Vincent J.; Elting, John Robert

Price: $395.00

Publisher: USA, AMS Press, Inc. : 1980

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 622h5785

ISBN-13: 9780853684343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Over 300 pages. 1980 Reprint of the 1968 Praeger edition. Includes 169 full-page maps and supporting text plus a substantial list of recommended reading. Oblong 9.25" x 12.25". Book unmarked with light wear to publisher's illustrated red cloth. Binding tight. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this superb Napoleonic reference. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Napoleonic Wars - Maps, Napoleonic Wars - history, Napoleon, Europe - History - 1789 - 1815 - Maps, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, Military History - Modern
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By: Heath, Ambrose

Price: $195.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber Limited : 1950

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 616h6142

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

The interesting dust jacket description, written in the wake of WWII, reads as follows: "[This book was] first written in 1945 when we felt it necessary to postpone publication till we could look with more confidence to the future. We venture to hope that this time has come at last. Sometimes at any rate, we can again provide the meals we have so long dreamed of enjoying. This is not, however, an unpractical volume of fancy dishes; but what Mr. Heath himself calls a 'culinary anthology', a collectiion of simple recipes to remind us how to prepare the good and pleasant - and occasionally rat...
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The Last Canadian

By: Heine, William C.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, Robert Hale and Company : 1976

Edition: First British Edition

Seller ID: 562h5288

ISBN-13: 9780709154488

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

"Eugene Arnprior is one of a few thousand survivors after an uncontrolled plague strikes Canada and the United States. His family becomes a modern Swiss Family Robinson in northern Quebec, then becomes a pawn in a dramatic confrontation between Britain and Russia." - dust jacket. 224 pages. 8" x 5". Very light wear to clean and unmarked book which is tight and square. Light foxing to edges with slight related scent. Moderate wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An uncommon hardcover edition of this work which was much sought even prior to the outbreak of ...
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Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket