Condition: Good+

HISTORICAL TIMES. KINGSTON COLLEGIATE AND VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE. (KCVI)

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Kingston, Ontario, Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute : 1973

Seller ID: 28607

Condition: Good+

128 pp, 11" H. Peacock blue cloth with gilt lettering on front board. Pictorial endpapers, Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions. Chapter headings: The History of a School; Epilogue; The Glass of Time: Reminiscences of Dr. E.L. Earl; The Students Association 1925-1973; The Past 80 Years; The K.C.V.I. Times; School Newspapers; Drama; Music; Literary: The Flavour of the Times; Literary: Parody and Humour; The Cadet Corps; Clubs; Sports; 27 June 1973 (Royal Visit); Acknowledgements; In the Cellars of Old K.C.I. Remains of a partially removed label at top of front pastedown...
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Image for PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. HAMILTON, ONTARIO FAMILIES: SMITH, McDUFFEE, BAILLIE, FAREWELL, GILRAY, FITCH. PHOTOGRAPHERS: ECKERSON, BELL SMITH, MILNE, INGALLS, INGLIS.

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. HAMILTON, ONTARIO FAMILIES: SMITH, McDUFFEE, BAILLIE, FAREWELL, GILRAY, FITCH. PHOTOGRAPHERS: ECKERSON, BELL SMITH, MILNE, INGALLS, INGLIS.

Price: $150.00 USD

Seller ID: 30494

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

Small green cloth-covered photograph album, 5 5/8" H x 4" W, blind stamped decoration on spine and boards, gilt decoration on front board, gilt "Album" on spine, all edges gilt, metal clasp, decorative endpapers. 6 leaves, each page having a cut-out for photograph and decorative gilt border with the letters "E.&H.T.A." printed at bottom. This album contains 8 photographs and 1 tintype (three openings do not contain images). 1. Pencil notation identifies this small head shot as "Ezekiel Smith" and the photographer label reads "Made by / C.H. Ingalls / 53 King Street, / Two Doors West of the /...
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PILOT'S AND FLIGHT ENGINEER'S NOTES - LANCASTER I, III & X. MARK I - FOUR MERLIN XX, 22 OR 24 ENGINES. MARK III & X - FOUR MERLIN 28 OR 38 ENGINES.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: St. Annes on Sea, Lancashire, Air Data Publications

Edition: Facsimile Reprint

Seller ID: 29181

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good+

46 pp, 7 1/2" H. Facsimile reprint of the Air Ministry, May 1944, publication. Blue card covers with black lettering/illustration on front cover. B&w frontispiece (Lancaster), 3 fold-outs (6 figures - Instrument panel / Port side of cockpit / Flight engineer's panel, Lancasters I & III / Flight egineer's panel, Lancaster X / Simplified fuel system diagram - Pulsometer pumps / Simplified fuel system diagram - Immersed pumps). Section headings: Descriptive Introduction; Fuel and Oil Systems; Main Services; Aircraft Controls; Engine Controls; Other Controls; Handling; Operating Data; Emergenc...
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THE OLD SCOTS SONGS WITH MUSIC.

By: (T.S. Gleadhill).

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Newtongrange, Lang Syne Publishers : 1983

Seller ID: 21333

ISBN: 0946264181

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

Unpaginated, 11 5/8" H. 38 traditional Scottish songs for voice and piano. "(Presents) dozens of marvellous works ranging from the romantic Bonnie Mary of Argyle; to the reminiscent When you and I were young, Maggie; to the lighter songs like Wee Willie Winkie and The Deil's Awa' wi' the Exciseman. The songs are reprinted from a book by T.S. Gleadhill published in 1880." Interior - cigarette odour, minor browning to pages, tiny bump to top corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light browning to edges, slight bump to top/bottom of spine with clos...
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DUNGEON MASTER'S SCREEN. ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS OFFICIAL GAME ACCESSORY. REF1. 9146.

By: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Lake Geneva, WI, TSR : 1985

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 30739

ISBN-13: 3945454860600

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Good+

10 5/8" H - 2 three-fold card screens (Dungeon Master's Screen / Player's Reference Screen) in printed paper folder. "This all new edition of the ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Dungeon Master's Screen has been redesigned. Consisting of two durable cardstock screens, it places all those much used tables at your fingertips. One screen for the DM with al the important combat, weapon and saving throw charts; the second for the Player." The Dungeon Master's screen has light edge wear, previous owner's name in ink at the top inside corner. The Players Reference Screen has light edge wear, previous ...
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SIR JOHN REITH.

By: Allighan, Garry - inscribed. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Lord Gainford.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul : 1938

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 30130

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

287 pp + publisher's advertising, 8 3/4" H. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering & banding on spine. B&w photographs, drawing. Inscribed in green ink on front free endpaper: "To my very good friends / Tom & ? Wheeler / Sharers of many happy hours / Garry Allighan". The second name has been inked over at some later date. "Controlling one of the greatest forces in international affairs, the Director-General of the B.B.C. has attained a position of power second only to that of a Prime Minister. He directs a machine that produces mass-education, mass-entertainment, and mass-information for conti...
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Image for THE COLOPHON: A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN. NEW SERIES - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1: SUMMER 1935, NUMBER 2: AUTUMN 1935, NUMBER 3: WINTER 1936 & NUMBER 4: SPRING 1936 - 4 BOOKS IN TOTAL.

THE COLOPHON: A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN. NEW SERIES - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1: SUMMER 1935, NUMBER 2: AUTUMN 1935, NUMBER 3: WINTER 1936 & NUMBER 4: SPRING 1936 - 4 BOOKS IN TOTAL.

By: Anderson, Sherwood; Cohn, Louis Henry; Carter, John; Coleman, Carroll D.; Jackson, William Alexander; Newton, A. Edward; Adams, Frederick B., Jr.; Rockwell, Norman; Kent, Rockwell; Winterich, John T., et al.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Pynson Printers : 1935

Seller ID: 28901

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

4 volumes, consecutively paged - No. 1, pp.1-160 / No. 2, pp.161-316 / No. 3, pp.317-480 / No. 4, pp.481-644, 9 1/2" H. Cream-coloured, paper-covered boards with series decoration on front boards, varying in colour (teal, pink, blue, beige). Some b&w illustrations. Articles of interest to bibliophiles, including: America's First Bibles, by Randolph G. Adams; Herman Melville as I Recall Him, by Oscar Wegelin; A Note on Ernest Hemingway, by Louis Henry Cohn; Frank Holme: Newpaper Artist and Designer of Books, by Rudolph Gjelsness; A Frontier Bibliophile, by Howard C. Rice; Proof-Reading in th...
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PARENTAL TRAINING.

By: Bacon, William, Rev.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, Presbyterian Publication Committee

Seller ID: 27893

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

209 pp, 6 13/16" H. Black cloth with gold lettering/banding on spine. Title page states "By the late Rev. William Bacon" / copyright page states "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six by William Bacon". Contents: Introduction; Preface; Lecture I. Importance of Parental Training; Lecture II. The Birth and Death of Infants momentous Events - Right Views of our Lost, and Right Treatment of our Surviving ones; Lecture III. Parental Government an Important Duty; Lecture IV. Government by Authority; Lecture V. Government by Love; Lecture VI. Pare...
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Image for THE DOMINION OF CANADA WITH NEWFOUNDLAND AND AN EXCURSION TO ALASKA. HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS. FOURTH REVISED AND AUGMENTED EDITION. (BAEDEKER'S CANADA.)

THE DOMINION OF CANADA WITH NEWFOUNDLAND AND AN EXCURSION TO ALASKA. HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS. FOURTH REVISED AND AUGMENTED EDITION. (BAEDEKER'S CANADA.)

By: Baedeker, Karl.

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: Leipzig, Karl Baedeker : 1922

Edition: Fourth Revised and Augmented Edition.

Seller ID: 28979

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

420 pp, 6 1/4" H, red cloth over card covers, gilt titling on spine and front board, blind stamping to spine and covers, text block edges marbled, two ribbon book marks. 14 maps (some fold-out) and 12 plans (all present). The fourth and final edition. A paper label pasted on the title page gives addresses for George Allen & Unwin and Chas. Scribner's Sons. The introductory section includes a "Geographical and Geological Sketch" by G.M. Dawson and "Sports and Pastimes", by E.T.D. Chambers and W.H. Fuller. The following sections (routes) comprise: Approaches to Canada; New Brunswick; Nova Scoti...
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THE WESTERN FRONT 1914-1918.

By: Banting, D.R. and Embleton, G.A.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Almark : 1974

Seller ID: 23825

ISBN: 85524173X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

80 pp, 8 1/4" H. B&w photographs, maps/battle plans, reproductions, colour uniform studies, reproductions. An overview of the countries and leaders involved, the weapons, tactics and uniforms, and the aftermath of "the war to end all wars". Interior - light cigarette odour, slight browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - two tiny corner creases, minor edge wear, crease and small scratch on rear cover, light browning to top and fore-edge of text block.
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THE CREST OF THE BROKEN WAVE: A NOVEL OF THE LIFE AND LOVES OF ROBERT BURNS. (VOLUME 4 OF "THE IMMORTAL MEMORY" SERIES.)

By: Barke, James.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Collins : 1953

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21454

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

320 pp, small 8vo (7 15/16" H). Map endpapers. "(G)ives a vivid picture of Robert Burns at the height of his creative powers, acclaimed as Scotland's national bard and yet bitterly aware of the empty glory of that fame so far as any worth-while improvement in his immediate prospects are concerned. He has left the scene of his brief triumph in the Edinburgh drawing-rooms. He is a farmer again, trying to wrest a living from the grudging soil of Ellisland. He has very much on his mind the cares of a wife and family, for whom he is determined to make a home. Through these pages the sterling worth ...
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THE CONCEITED LAMB. LADYBIRD SERIES NO. 497.

By: Barr, Noel.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Loughborough, Wills & Hepworth : 1953

Edition: Third Edition

Seller ID: 29677

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

Unpaginated, 7" H. Buff paper-covered boards, colour pastedown on front board, black lettering on spine and front board. B&w pictorial endpapers showing pet lamb, pig, cows and horses in farm setting. Text pages alternate with charming colour illustrations of idyllic farm life. A pet lamb teases the working animals on the farm for not having beautiful white coats like he does, ultimately testing their patience. When he finally get his just reward, he is wise enough to laugh along with the others, finding friendship counts for more than looks. Wrinkling and wear at top/bottom of spine; li...
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THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK. IN AID OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH OF YORK HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

By: Barrie, J.M.; Kipling, Rudyard; Young, Francis Brett; Chesterton, G.K.; Uncle Dick (B.J. Lamb); Blackwood, Algernon; Struther, Jan; Tourtel, Mary; Bagnold, Enid; Davies, W.H; Hilton, James; Mackenzie, Compton; Asquith, Herbert; de la Mare, Walter; et al.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1935

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 31038

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

224 pp, 10" H. No date, but c1935. White cloth with blue lettering/decoration on spine and front board. Endpaper and title page decorations by Rex Whistler. B&w double page spread of some of the authors/artists as children, colour plates including 2 double spreads of Mickey Mouse and gang, frontispiece of Princess Elizabeth, and illustrations by Sylvia Salisbury (2), A.H. Watson, Herbert Foxwell, Frank Salisbury and H.M. Talintyre. B&w illustrations by Paul Bloomfield, Mary Tourtel, Bip Pares, A.B. Payne (cartoons), Herbert Foxwell, H.M. Talintyre, Laurian Jones and R.L. Brightwell. All pla...
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THANK YOU TWICE, OR HOW WE LIKE AMERICA.

By: Bell, Caroline and Bell, Eddie. Edited by Alden Hatch.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace : 1941

Edition: Second Printing.

Seller ID: 25207

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

112 pp, 8vo (8 3/16" H). "This is the unvarnished narrative of the adventures of Caroline and Eddie Bell, aged twelve and ten, who were among the first children sent from England to America in the summer of 1940. The man who asked them to write their own book said: 'Tell about the things you like and the things you don't like. Don't pull any punches. Americans can take it.' Americans can not only take it, but will love it. It is a gorgeous, high-spirited document. The impact of our daily routine, with its excitements and it disappointments too, seems just as diverting to us as it is to them....
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A MORAL ALPHABET. IN WORDS FROM ONE TO SEVEN SYLLABLES.

By: Belloc, H. (Hilaire).

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Gerald Duckworth : 1950

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 12675

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

63 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H) - black lettering on spine and front board, black and dark green illustration on front board. B&w illustrations. A comic alphabet in rhyme. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - browning to covers - slightly darker on spine, very small light red stain on front hinge, light soiling lines down rear board.
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THE RIVER OF LONDON.

By: Belloc, Hilaire.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, T.N. Foulis : 1912

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30372

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

145 pp + publisher's catalogue, 7 7/8" H. Green cloth faded to brownish hue, gilt lettering on spine and front board, top edge faded gilt. 16 colour plates, including frontispiece, all mouned on gray stock, with tissue guards except for "Greenwich" which is a double spread - all present. Several pages as yet unopened. Chapter headings: Introduction; The Approach Up River; London, The First Crossing on the Thames; London, the Port of the Thames; London and the Lower Thames in Warfare. A bookstore's small label on front pastedown, very light browning to pages in margins, one tissue guard is ...
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THE WEST AND THE NATION: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF W.L. MORTON.

By: Berger, Carl and Cook, Ramsay, editors. (John Warkentin, Frits Pannekoek, Arthur Silver, Alan Wilson, Robert Page, Robert Craig Brown, Richard Allen, Donald Avery, J.E. Rae, Lewis H. Thomas, Morris Zaslow, D.G. Creighton, Jacques Monet.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart : 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28426

ISBN-13: 9780771011924

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

335 pp, 8 1/2" H. "The contributors to (this book) consist of eminent colleagues of Dr. Morton, including his equally renowned contemporary, Donald Creighton, plus Ramsay Cook, Craig Brown, Jacques Monet, Richard Allen, and others. Each of them has prepared for this volume an article which adds a new dimension to areas of Canadian history in which Dr. Morton specialized: western Canadian history from the earliest explorations to the protest movements of the twenties and thirties, the history of the Conservative Party, and the role of the monarchy in Canadian life. In addition, Carl Berger h...
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THE STORY OF LITTLE-BIG.

By: Beyer, Ernestine Cobern.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Reilly & Lee : 1962

Seller ID: 8268

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

48 pp, 8 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with monochrone drawings by Vee Guthrie. "As Little-Big ('very little, but big, very big in our hearts') grew older, he learned many things. Chief Thundercloud taught him to see the wonders of the forest and to hear its sounds. Little-Big was happy except for one thing. He was lonely. He decided to look for a playmate. Where his search leads him is 'The Story of Little-Big'." A few scattered small finger marks and faint wrinkling on some pages, light edge wear to boards, small bumps to top corners, light soiling. Dust jacket is basically complete...
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THE SECRET SEVEN: SHOCK FOR THE SECRET SEVEN; LOOK OUT, SECRET SEVEN; FUN FOR THE SECRET SEVEN; PUZZLE FOR THE SECRET SEVEN; SECRET SEVEN FIREWORKS; GOOD OLD SECRET SEVEN. 2 VOLUME SET.

By: Blyton, Enid.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder Children's Books

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 27524

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

107 pp, 103 pp, - 2 volumes (mass market paperbacks), each containing three Secret Seven stories. ISBN 0340678038 (1996) and ISBN 0340629738 (1995). Interiors - one vol. has soft creases at fore-edge of pages 57 to 78, tiny edge tear on one page; the other vol. has soft corner crease to approx. first 30 pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - one vol. has very light edge wear, several corner creases and hinge crease on rear cover, small area of label residue on rear cover; the other vol. has very light edge wear, corner crease and several tiny dents on fro...
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THE ROMANY RYE.

By: Borrow, George. Introduction by Brian Rhys.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Collins Clear-Type Press

Seller ID: 30032

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good+

498 pp + publisher's catalogue, 16mo (6 1/8" H), thin burgundy leather over card covers/spine - gold lettering and decoration on spine, top edge gilt - in slipcase. Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone illustrations, including frontispiece. A semi-fictionalized account of the author's travels on the open roads of early-19th century Britain and the colourful characters who lived the vagabond life at that time - a sequel to "Lavengro". Previous owner's name, place and date (1930) in ink on rear of frontispiece; small newspaper clipping of a poem tipped-in on the front free endpaper; minor to light ed...
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Condition: Good+