Author: Bailey, D.W.

THE SECRET ROOMS: A TRUE GOTHIC MYSTERY.

By: Bailey, Catherine.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Viking : 2012

Seller ID: 29018

ISBN-13: 9780670917556

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

466 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, floor plans, map, family tree. "At 6 a.m. on 21 April 1940 John, the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank, cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his own home, Belvoir Castle. For weeks, as his health deteriorated, his family, his servants - even the King's doctor - had pleaded with him to come out, but he had refused. After his death, his son and heir, Charles, the 10th Duke of Rutland, ordered that the rooms be locked up and they remained untouched for ...
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BRITISH MILITARY LONGARMS 1715-1865. (COMBINES THE TEXT OF THE PREVIOUS TWO VOLUME SET PUBLISHED IN 1971 & 1972, WITH REVISIONS AND NEW MATERIAL.)

By: Bailey, D.W.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour : 1986

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 31113

ISBN-13: 9780853688358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs, reproductions, marks. "From 'Brown Bess' to the American Civil War, the military muskets, rifles and carbines made in Britain are described and illustrated in this concise, but authoritative pictorial study. The first part covers the years 1715 to 1815, and described the regulation service longarms of the British Army and Navy throughout the century of conflict in Europe, America and India. It classifies all those weapons that are considered as regulation issue and service issue, and sections devoted to each of the major types of weapon - musket, rifle and c...
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CASSANDRA, PRINCESS OF TROY.

By: Bailey, Hilary.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, (1993), Ist edition.

Seller ID: 10788

325 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Cassandra, having lived quietly on a farm for twenty years, begins to write her reminiscences of the past. It is a "tragic story, taken from one of the oldest and most famous tales ever told - the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. It begins with Helen's flight, with Paris of Troy, from her husband. It tells of how a Greek army crossed the sea to attack Troy and bring back Helen, of the fall of Troy and its terrible aftermath. In this wonderfully vivid historical novel the author imagines Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess, did not die as i...
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THE CULTIVATED CONIFERS IN NORTH AMERICA, COMPRISING THE PINE FAMILY AND THE TAXADS.

By: Bailey, L.H.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Macmillan : 1933

Seller ID: 17215

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

404 pp, large 8vo (9 11/16" H) - green boards with gold lettering on spine and front board. B&w photographs and drawings. Chapter headings: Preview of the Systematic Treatment; The Taxads, or Yews and Their Kindred; The True Cone-Bearers - Pines; The True Cone-Bearers - Firs and Spruces; The True Cone-Bearers - Cedars, Larches, Cypresses, and Others; The True Cone-Bearers - Junipers; Conifers in the Landscape; Cultivation and Propagation of Conifers; Experiences with Conifers; Insects, Diseases and Injuries of Conifers in North America. Interior - browning to endpapers, a few light foxing mar...
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Image for DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. (ALSO INCLUDES: THE HALF-CHICK; THE LITTLE RED HEN AND THE GRAIN OF WHEAT; FIVE LITTLE CHICKENS; CHICKS; HIDE-AND-SEEK; IN THE CHICKEN YARD; FAITHFUL GOLDIE; THE MAGPIE'S NEST; WEE ROBIN'S CHRISTMAS SONG; ETC.)

DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. (ALSO INCLUDES: THE HALF-CHICK; THE LITTLE RED HEN AND THE GRAIN OF WHEAT; FIVE LITTLE CHICKENS; CHICKS; HIDE-AND-SEEK; IN THE CHICKEN YARD; FAITHFUL GOLDIE; THE MAGPIE'S NEST; WEE ROBIN'S CHRISTMAS SONG; ETC.)

By: Clinton, Althea L., editor. Illustrated by Bill Bailey.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Saalfield, Akron, Ohio, c1931.

Seller ID: 20560

Unpaginated, large 8vo (9 5/8" H), hard cover (pictorial front cover) - no dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Additional stories, verses: Something About Tommy; Do Not Boast; The Cats and the Monkey; What Kitty Said to the China Cat; Our Barnyard; On ce There Was a Kitty; Why Cats Wash Their Faces After Eating; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. Book light cracked at several places - pages holding well, moderate to heavy edge wear, a few scattered tiny light foxing marks and rubbing marks on b o a r d s , s l ight bump at corners. Good
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LITERARY HISTORY OF CANADA: CANADIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH.

By: Klinck, Carl F., general editor. Alfred G. Bailey, Claude Bissell, Roy Daniells, Northrop Frye, Desmond Pacey, editors. Victor G. Hopwood, Fred Cogswell, Munro Beattie, Gordon Roper, Elizabeth Waterston, Edith Fowke, Frank W. Watt, Michael Tait, et al.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press : 1973

Edition: Reprinted with Corrections

Seller ID: 28438

ISBN-13: 9780802051479

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

945 pp, 9 1/2" H. "This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of Canadian literature provides a comprehensive, up-to-date reference work on the English literary history of Canada. It will be invaluable as a source of information on authors, genres, and literary trends and influences. It is also a fascinating account, lively and well written, of the ways in which writers have over the centuries striven to record reactions to a powerful natural environment and to their society against the background of other literary traditions in English. This volume represents a po...
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CHARLES LISTER: LETTERS AND RECOLLECTIONS. WITH A MEMOIR BY HIS FATHER LORD RIBBLESDALE.

By: Lister, Charles. With recollections by Mrs. Warre Cornish, Rev. Ronald Knox and Cyril Bailey.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin : 1917

Edition: 5th Impression.

Seller ID: 24857

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

256 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H) - grey cloth with gold lettering & banding on spine. Tissue-covered frontispiece plus 4 additional illustrations. Contents: Prefatory Note; Memoir; Letters, July 1909 to May 1911, From Germany and Elsewhere; Roman Letters; Indian Letters; Pre-War Letters from Constantinople; Letters from Constantinople; With the Middlesex Yeomanry; Letters from S.S. Franconia, with Headquarters Staff; With the Hood Battalion at Port Said; Letters from the Aegean; Landing of the Hood Battalion on the Gallipoli Peninsula; Constantinople During July and August 1914; With the Dardanelles E...
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SALTY DIPS. VOL. 3. "DID WE SAY ALL?"

By: Lych, Mack, ed. (W.B. Creery, Mildred Bailey Blais, R.W. Timbrell, O.C.S. Robertson, R.L. Lane, E.S. Brand, J.M. Robertson, T.W. Watson, L.M. Langstaff, R. Campbell, L.M. Patterson, G.A. Olmstead, G.F. McElroy, B.R. Burrows, E.W. McLeod, et al.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, Ottawa Branch, Naval Officers' Associations of Canada : 1988

Edition: First Printing.

Seller ID: 22909

ISBN-13: 9780969134237

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Contents: From the Beginning to the first Disaster; Everyone was "Tea-ing" and then the War came; There, but for the Flip of a Coin; Big Robbie's War; To the Engineroom by Motorcycle; Not all the Work was done at Sea; Saga of a Four-Stacker; Hurricanes at Singapore - Liberator over Burma; What the Captain's Writer saw; Those daring young Men in their fast MTBs; Of Brigs and Barracudas; Prisoners of War: 1. Milag - Four Long Years - 2 . Stalag - Tail Gunner - 3. Marlag - Athabaskan Survivor; There I Was, upside-down, two Fathoms on the Clock; "You'll get used to i...
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Author: Bailey, D.W.