Condition: Fine

ORDRE DE BATAILLE OF THE TURKISH ARMY. CORRECTED TO AUGUST 16, 1915. FIFTH EDITION.

Price: $20.00 USD

Seller ID: 27165

Condition: Fine

Pagination runs 119 to 164. 8 1/4" H. Facsimile reprint of the edition of 1915, "Prepared at the Intelligence Department, General Staff, Cairo." Contents: Introduction; Composition of Regiments; Turkish Local Armies; Army Corps; Irregular Formations; Gendarmerie; Mesopotamian Army; Fortress Troops; Regimental Index. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean.
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THE CANADIAN AIRBORNE REGIMENT 20th ANNIVERSARY AIRBORNE SPECTACULAR / LE REGIMENT AEROPORTE DU CANADA 20ieme ANNIVERSAIRE SPECTACLE "PARA".

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Petawawa, The Regiment : 1988

Seller ID: 27199

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Fine

8 pp (including covers), 10 15/16" H. 2 colour photographs. Bilingual (English/French). The programme for the 20th anniversary celebrations of The Canadian Airborne Regiment, held at CFB Petawawa on the 27th of August, 1988. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean.
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TIGER COLOURS. WYDAWNICTWO MILITARIA 136.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Militaria : 2001

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 30816

ISBN-13: 9788372191052

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

50 pp, 11 5/8" H. Full colour illustrations (generally three per page, including inside of covers and rear cover) of German Tiger tanks. The text consists of bilingual captions (Polish/English) under the illustrations. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright.
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TIM TO THE RESCUE.

By: Ardizzone, Edward.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard : 2000

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 18234

ISBN-13: 9780688176792

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Unpaginated, small 4to (10 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with wonderful colour and b&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. "Bored with his schoolwork, Tim was longing to be at sea again, when who should appear but his great friend, Captain McFee, the old sea captain. Soon Tim was on his way to new adventures on the salty main, including a mighty storm and a daring rescue." One of the classic Little Tim stories, loved by generations of children. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top of spine. A bright, clean copy.
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TIM TO THE RESCUE.

By: Ardizzone, Edward.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard : 2000

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 29741

ISBN-13: 9780688176792

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Unpaginated, small 4to (10 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with wonderful colour and b&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. "Bored with his schoolwork, Tim was longing to be at sea again, when who should appear but his great friend, Captain McFee, the old sea captain. Soon Tim was on his way to new adventures on the salty main, including a mighty storm and a daring rescue." One of the classic Little Tim stories, loved by generations of children. Book is Fine. Dust jacket has very minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds.
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RUDE RAMSAY AND THE ROARING RADISHES.

By: Atwood, Margaret.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter Kids : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27792

ISBN-13: 9781552632444

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Unpaginated (approx. 29 pages), 9 1/2" H. Errata slip laid in at front with explanation of errors and peel-off words to be inserted into the text (all present). Colour illustrations. "(B)est-selling author Margaret Atwood offers a delightfully ridiculous (alliterative) tale about the virtues of resisting restrictions. Rude Ramsay has reached the end of his rope! Sick of dining on rock-hard rice, rubbery ribs, wrinkled ravioli, and raw rhinoceros, Ramsay and Ralph the red-nosed rat resolve to leave their rectangular residence (and Ramsay's revolting relatives) on a quest for a refreshing r...
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BABAYAGA.

By: Barlow, Toby.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux : 2013

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27932

ISBN-13: 9780374107871

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

383 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "Paris, 1959" The City of Light is the center of the universe. Expats flock to exercise their loftiest ambitions and most libertine fantasies, and maybe dabble in a bit of Cold War spycraft along the way. Refugees from the East - a few babayagas among them - arrive to start their lives anew. The world's greatest city is as cosmopolitan and alive as it's ever been. Will is just another young American seeking his fortune in Paris - except that the ad agency that employs him is a front for the CIA. He's been in the city a few years now and is beginning to sense that...
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BELLEVILLE: A POPULAR HISTORY.

By: Boyce, Gerry.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage / Dundurn : 2008

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24510

ISBN-13: 9781550028638

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

310 pp, square large 8vo (9" x 9"). B&w photographs, reproductions, maps. "(A) treasure trove of stories - 'glorious and not-so-glorious' - embodying the history of the city of Belleville (Ontario) and its beautiful surroundings. Gerry Boyce, the dean of the area's historians, has done a masterful job of pulling together the best of Belleville's storied past, episode by episode, decade by decade: here one learns about the Native roots of the place, its debatable 'discovery' by Champlain, its hot-headed pre-Confederation politics, its involvement in Spiritualism in the 1850s and the spread o...
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FORESTERS: THE CANADIAN QUEST FOR PEACE.

By: Brown, Brian A. Foreword by H.R.H. Princess Anne.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Boston Mills Press : 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28061

ISBN-13: 9781550460179

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

176 pp, 10 1/2" H. B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. Contents: Foreword - On Guard For Thee; Dedication - To the Grey and Simcoe Foresters; Prologue - The Canadian Quest for Peace; Introduction; Revolution Aborted; The Peaceable Kingdom; The Fenian Threat; Invasion Thwarted; Causes of Rebellion; Civil War Averted; The War to End All Wars; The Cost of Peace in Europe; Blessed are the Peacekeepers; Best Suited for Defence; Power Shift; Epilogue On Implementation; A Final Word - Hitting the Mark; List of Illustrations; Index. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, minor rubbing.
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STERLING SILVER: RANTS, RAVES & REVELATIONS.

By: Cameron, Silver Donald. Selected and edited by Ronald Caplan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Wreck Cove, Cape Breton Island, Breton Books : 1994

Seller ID: 24247

ISBN-13: 9781895415384

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

217 pp, 9" H. "(A) marvellous selection from over 25 years of Silver Donald Cameron's writing. Like visits with an entertaining and deeply committed friend, 'Sterling Silver' takes on suicide and love, fear and community and craftsmanship - and a Canada in which a good life should still be possible. (He) has opened his archives of published and unpublished works, and trusted his editor to make the selections - turning (this) into a rare opportunity for his fans and an extraordinary introduction for new readers." Contents include: In the Spiral; Fear of Fearing; How I Faced the Fuel Crisis; At...
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND & THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE.

By: Carroll, Lewis. (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.) Afterword by Anna South.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collector's Library : 2004

Seller ID: 29131

ISBN-13: 9781904633860

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

283 pp, 6 3/16" H. Crimson cloth with gold lettering/ship on spine, blind stamped ship on front board. All edges gilt, patterned endpapers, integral ribbon bookmark. B&w illustrations. "When Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit she finds herself in Wonderland. And here begin the fantastical adventures that will see her experiencing extraordinary changes in size, swimming in a pool of her own tears and attending the very maddest of tea parties. For Wonderland is no ordinary place and the characters that populate it are quite ...
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SILVER EVERYTHING and MANY MANSIONS.

By: Cawley, Winifred.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16820

ISBN-13: 9780192713896

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

182 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w illustrations. "Stratford Street was certainly a come-down after Pilgrim's Buildings. No wonder Dad had been in two minds about The Shop. Why did they have to move there? (Eight-year-old Jinnie Friend has many alarming experiences as she learns to cope with a new neighbourhood and new neighbours and) clings desperately to her family pride. The Friends are a Cut Above their neighbours. They must be. After all, Dad was a butler once upon a time, the next best thing to being a Toff himself. And they aren't poor. Haven't they savings, and a carpet, and mahogany furnit...
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WELLINGTON WINGS: AN RAF INTELLIGENCE OFFICER IN THE WESTERN DESERT.

By: Chappell, F.R. Foreword by Air Commodore C.J. Mount.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Somerton, Somerset, Crecy : 1992

Seller ID: 30425

ISBN-13: 9780947554279

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

282 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, maps. "The author was a squadron and wing intelligence officer and kept long and detailed diaries of the day to day life in the Desert Group, and on these the book is largely based. The result is a vivid and realistic picture of the Desert atmosphere; he communicates the tenseness during the nights when the Wellingtons were away on missions, the crashes, the accidents, the debriefings, and the dreaded sandstorms. He recaptures the excitement of the perilous operations, some of which he flew on himself, as well as the lighter moments during stand downs and l...
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SOMEONE SAW A SPIDER: SPIDER FACTS AND FOLKTALES.

By: Climo, Shirley.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell : 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27758

ISBN-13: 9780690044355

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

133 pp, 9 1/4" H. Charming b&w illustrations throughout. "Spiders were spinning silk and weaving webs before mammals, before birds, even before insects appeared on earth. Early man scratched pictures of spiders on the walls of his cave, and from the ancient myth of Arachne to the present, spiders have been the subject of many a folktale and the object of many a superstition. In these pages are to be found tales from around the world - Japan, Africa, Portugal, Scotland, Russia, America - of spiders crafty and magical, foolish and kind. You will also find fascinating facts about how spiders...
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ARTIST AT WAR.

By: Comfort, Charles Fraser. Introduction by Eric Harrison. Afterword by Charles Fraser C. Jackson.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Pender Island, British Coumbia, Remembrance Books : 1995

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 27533

ISBN-13: 9780920270219

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

197 pp + 4 pp of colour maps, 9" H. Colour plates, b&w portraits. "In 1943, Charles Comfort was sent into battle to make a painter's record of the Canadian army's fight against the Germans on the Italian peninsula. (This) is his account of that fight. Enduring the shellfire, the mud, and the fatigue of battle, Comfort watches war being waged amidst the treasures of centuries of Italian art and culture. From the horrors of Ortona to the jubliant liberation of Rome, (this book) gives us a view of the war unlike any other - the vivid and penetrating view of a soldier armed not just with a rifle ...
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JACK'S WAR: LOWER-DECK RECOLLECTIONS FROM WORLD WAR II.

By: Connell, G.G.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Crecy : 1995

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 29570

ISBN-13: 9780947554552

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

236 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. "Ordinary seamen far outnumber their officers, yet most naval books are written from the officers' standpoint. In a wide variety of reminiscences the author reconstructs the matelot's life, whether in corvette, battleship or destroyer, or whether as Royal Navy, Reservist, RNVR or Hostilities Only; he writes both of the pleasures of shipboard life and of the often harsh discipline meted out for lapses from the strict naval code. There were happy ships and unhappy ships, lucky ships and unlucky ships, and he instances experiences from them. Thro...
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THE BRIGADE: THE FIFTH CANADIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE, 1939-1945.

By: Copp, Terry.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Stoney Creek, Ontario, Fortress Publications : 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27688

ISBN-13: 9780919195165

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

208 pp, small 4to (10 1/4" H). B&w photographs (including aerial) and maps. Contents: Mobilization; Preparation; Initiation; Verrieres; Falaise; Pursuit; October; Victory; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Photo Credits; Bibliography; Index. A history of the Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade in North-West Europe during World War II. Dust jacket has very minor rubbing, small slight dent on rear hinge.
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BETWEEN THE SEVERN AND THE WYE: POEMS OF THE BORDER COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

By: Coppin, Johnny, selected by. (Francis Brett Young, Mary Webb, Margery Lea, Leonard Clark, John Masefield, John Betjeman, Molly Holden, Ivor Gurney, Laurie Lee, A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, U.A. Fanthorpe, et al.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Gloucestershire, Windrush : 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 15968

ISBN-13: 9780900075230

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

163 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w map, wood engravings. "This collection of poems has been selected by the singer and songwriter, Johnny Coppin, to celebrate the 'spirit of place' and evoke the atmosphere and character of the area. (It) is a meandering journey from the source to the sea, featuring spectacular hills and quiet valleys, moorlands and forests, cathedral cities, historic towns and villages. John Betjeman, Mary Webb, A.E. Housman and Ivor Gurney are some of the established poets chosen, but the anthology also has many contemporary writers such as R.S. Thomas, U.A. Fanthorpe, and Helen D...
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CHARIOT: THE ASTOUNDING RISE AND FALL OF THE WORLD'S FIRST WAR MACHINE.

By: Cotterell, Arthur.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Pimlico : 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29759

ISBN-13: 9780712669429

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

344 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, drawings, maps. "The chariot changed the face of ancient warfare. First in West Asia and Egypt, then in India and China, charioteers came to dominate the battlefield. In 1274 B.C. at Kadesh in present-day Syria - where the untried pharoah Ramesses II was nearly defeated by the Hittites - some 5,000 chariots were deployed in battle. Its use as a war machine is grapically recounted in Indian epics and Chinese chronicles. Homer's Illiad tells of the attack on Troy by Greek heroes who rode in chariots. In 325 B.C. Alexander the Great faced charioteers in northe...
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SIMCOE COUNTY: THE RECENT PAST.

By: Craig, John. Introduction by Allan Glassford.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: The Corporation of the County of Simcoe : 1977

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28041

ISBN-13: 9780969069829

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

306 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). Map endpapers. B&w drawings by Margot Anderson. "(T)he fascinating account of life in Simcoe County from the 1890s to the present." Contents: Foreword; Preface; Simcoe County, 1895; Huronia; The Great Days of Lumbering; Into the Modern Era; The Sunshine Years; The Great War, 1914-18; The Postwar Years; The New Forests; Sports; The Dirty Thirties; Ships in War and Peace; The Women of Simcoe County; Into the Fifties and Beyond; Agriculture; Past and Present; The County Government; Notes on Sources and a Short Bibliography; Index. Dust jacket has some light ed...
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Condition: Fine