Condition: Very Good-

PAJARO-CU-CU: ANIMAL RHYMES FROM MANY LANDS.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Atheneum : 1967

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 30877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Unpaginated, oblong (9 1/4" H x 11 3/8" D). Colourful lithographic illustrations. "The verses in this book have been chosen from nursery rhymes and familiar animal poems of many countries (Mexico, Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, China, England, Russia, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Latvia & Japan). The authors have long since been forgotten, but the verses have lived because they are warm and lively and appeal to the imaginations of children. The illustrations, printed in seven colors, were done in a lithographic technique on film by two German artists. In each picture they capture the gaity and ch...
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THE STORY OF COPPER AND ITS ALLOYS.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Copper & Brass Research Association

Seller ID: 27894

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good-

Unpaginated (20 pp including covers), 9 3/4" H. B&w photographs, drawings. "Reprinted from 'Oil Power" by courtesy of the Industrial Lubricating Department of the Standard Oil Company of New York." Contents: Stone-hammer Days of Copper: A Tale of the First Useful Metal Known to Man (The American Indian / Egyptian Period / The Coppersmith); How Copper Ore is Mined, And What Happens to It After That (The Rolling Mill Sheets / Wire / Tubes); Just a Few of Copper's Uses; Advertisement (What constitutes a Rust-Proof Home?). Interior - soft vrease at top corner of pages, otherwise clean and tigh...
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U.S. FLAGSHIP "OLYMPIA" - 9 POST CARDS + 1 "DES MOINES" + 1 "CLEVELAND". PRE-FIRST WORLD WAR. 11 POST CARDS IN TOTAL.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: England, Gale & Polden

Seller ID: 30721

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good-

9 pre-First World War post cards of the U.S. Flagship "Olympia", with two additional contemporary cards. All from the Gale & Polden "Welligton Series". 1. U.S. Flagship, "Olympia," Protected Cruiser, 5,870 tons. 2. U.S. Flagship, "Olympia." Lieut.-Commander L.S. Van Duzer and Officers. 3. U.S. Flagship, "Olympia." Loading a 5in. B.-L. R Gun on the Gun Deck. 4. U.S. Flagship, "Olympia." Crew of Marines working a 6-pr. Gun. 5. U.S. Flagship, "Olympia." Inside the turret, showing pair of 8in. guns. 6. U.S. Flagship, "Olympia." Gunners' Gang repairing Ammunition Hoist. 7. U.S. Flagship, "Olympia....
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TRUMPETS OF WAR. HORSECLANS #16.

By: Adams, Robert.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Scarborough, Ontario, New American Library of Canada / Signet : 1987

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 25090

ISBN-13: 9780451147158

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

223 pp. "The High King Zastros and his evil witch queen had finally met their match when they'd challenged Milo Morai and his Confederation Army to battle. Yet with the menace of Zastros destroyed, the Confederation faced a still greater challenge - for in his mad campaign, Zastros had drained the very lifeblood from his kingdom of Southern Ehleenoee. Only chaos now reigned there, as bandits, killers, and bands of renegade warriors roved the land, slaughtering all who opposed them. Milo had pledged to bring peace back to this devastated realm. But could his former enemies, now become allies, ...
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ENCHANTMENT'S END. PART THE FOURTH OF THE WELLS OF YTHAN.

By: Alexander, Marc.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Headline : 1992

Edition: First Printing.

Seller ID: 22311

ISBN-13: 9780747238348

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

434 pp. "A small group of ill-assorted questers have reached the end of the Pilgrim Path - the resting place of the enchanted Princess Livia, rightful heir to the Empty Throne. But before she can be woken from her hundred years' slumber they must carry her to the fabled Wells of Ythan to bathe in the magical waters which will restore her to consciousness. Also travelling to the Wells is the Regent who rules in her stead - a mercilessly ambitious man infected with a great evil - the poisoned bite of a homunculus threatens his life and sanity. His only hope of a cure for the creeping decay whic...
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ANZIO: EDGE OF DISASTER.

By: Allen, William Lusk.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Elsevier-Dutton : 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24268

ISBN-13: 9780525930037

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

181 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "What really went on at Anzio? What was the Allied plan when, on 22 January 1944, the invading force waded ashore virtually unopposed by the Germans? In clear and compelling detail, this book gives the answers. It recounts the two battles at Anzio - the high-level plans, debates and doubts of the politicians and the generals, and the muddy, bloody struggle of the GIs on the beach." Slight bump with wrinkling at top/bottom of spine - tiny tear at bottom of spine, slight corner bumps, small bump at bottom edge of front board, tw...
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MILITARIA: REVISTA DE CULTURA MILITAR. NUMERO 14 - 2000.

By: Angel J. Martin Duque; Alfredo Floristan; Javier Donezar Diez de Ulzurrum; Jesus Tanco Lerga; Francisco Castrillo Mazeres; Antonio Mena Calvo; Jose Luis Barrio Moya; Julio Gonzalez Alcalde; Juan Antonio Marrero Cabrera; Carlos Martinez-Valverde; et

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Madrid, Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad Complutense : 2000

Seller ID: 22023

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

244 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). Colour illustrations. **SPANISH TEXT.** Sumario - Las VI Jornadas de la Asociacion de Amigos de los museos militares, "La Historia de Navarra (El Camino de Santiago)" Programa. Palabras de inauguracion del Excmo. Sr. Presidente del Gobierno de Navarra; Presentacion del Excmo. Sr. Presidente de la Asociacion sobre "La Historia Militar de Navarra. Conferencias: Hechura medieval de Navarra; Integracion y renovacion de un reino. Navarra en la Monarquia espanola; Los albores de la Edad Contemporeanea en Navarra; El Camino de Santiago en Navarra. Asociacion: La his...
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TWENTY-SIX CLASSICAL SONGS BY VARIOUS COMPOSERS. NOVELLO'S SCHOOL SONGS, BOOK 240.

By: Arne, Michael; Arne, Thomas Augustine; Bach, J.S.; Bennett, W. Sterndale; Handel, G.F.; Haydn, J.; Lully; Mendelssohn; Purcell, Henry; Schubert, Franz, Composers. Words by William Shakespeare, Rev. Dr. Troutbeck, Goethe, Heine, W.G. Rothery, et al.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Novello : 1936

Seller ID: 30387

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

100 pp, 10" H. Words and music for the following songs: The Lass with the Delicate Air; When daisies pied; Where the bee sucks; Come, let us all this day; My heart, ever faithful; May-dew; Angels, ever bright and fair; Art thou troubled?; How beautiful are the feet; Where'er you walk; The Mermaid's Song; The Sailor's Song; Lonely Woods; Lord, at all times; O for the wings of a dove; On Wings of Song; The First Violet; Nymphs and Shepherds; The Knotting Song; Hark! hark! the Lark!; Rose among the Heather; The Erl-King; The Fishermaiden; The Trout; To Music; Whither. Interior - light toning to...
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CHICKAMAUGA 1863: THE RIVER OF DEATH. OSPREY MILITARY CAMPAIGN SERIES 17.

By: Arnold, James R.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Osprey : 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25464

ISBN-13: 9781855322639

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

96 pp, 9 3/4" H. "Chickamauga - an Indian name meaning 'River of Death' - was one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War. Fought in densely wooded terrain just south of Chattanooga, this was to be the greatest western-theatre battle of the conflict, a hard-fought victory for the Confederates that halted the advance of Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland into Tennessee." "Each volume (of the Campaign series) begins with an assessment of each commander's campaign strategy, then recounts the progress of the fighting, blow-by-blow. More than 90 illustrations, including maps, chart...
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WILLIAM AVERY 'BILLY' BISHOP. THE MAN AND THE AIRCRAFT HE FLEW.

By: Baker, David

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Outline Press : 1990

Seller ID: 21228

ISBN-13: 9781871547078

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

127pp., lg 8vo (9 3/4" H). Story of Canada's top scoring fighter pilot of World War I. "In the ranks of allied air aces, Billy Bishop officially stands third, behind Frenchman Rene Fonck (75 victories), and Irishman Mick Mannock (73 victories). As it is, he was the highest scoring Canadian and with 79 "unofficial" victories to his credit, may have been second only to the war's leading ace, Manfred von Richthofen." Interior - small area of water staining on inside fore-edge of front cover, tiny crease at bottom edge of two pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exteri...
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SEARCHING FOR YOUR ANCESTORS IN CANADA.

By: Baker, Eunice Ruiter.

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, Heritage House : 1976

Edition: Third Printing

Seller ID: 12468

ISBN-13: 9780920018002

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

80 pp, 8vo (8" H). Contents: The Family Genealogist; Searching and Recording; The Archives - National and Provincial; The Genealogical Societies; The Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Heraldry in Canada; The United Empire Loyalist Association; Historical Societies and Museums in Canada; Heritage Canada; The Order of Canada Awards; Indian and Eskimo Research; Reference Section; Sources of Information in the United States; Sources of Information in Other Countries; Books and Publications. Interior - previous owner's embossed blind stamp on free front endp...
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THE SAD SACK.

By: Baker, George, Sergeant. Introduction by Sgt. Marion Hargrove.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 1944

Edition: Fourth printing.

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 30860

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Unpaginated, 7 1/2" H. Maroon cloth with black lettering on spine, small black illustration on front board. Price of $2.00 on bottom of dust jacket front flap. 115 b&w cartoons by George Baker who, prior to being inducted into the army in 1941, had worked for Walt Disney. "The Sack is the perfect personification of the Army's little man, the hopeless underdog who has no stripes, no glory, no friends in the orderly room, no escape from the dread terrors of red tape and higher ranks. He is the military cycle caught in a cartoon." A previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, a 1944 Chri...
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CHILDREN OF THE BENARES: A WAR CRIME AND ITS VICTIMS.

By: Barker, Ralph.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Methuen : 1987

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 22568

ISBN-13: 9780413423108

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

172 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs. "When the passenger liner 'City of Benares' sailed from Liverpool on Friday, 13 September 1940 she was carrying 90 evacuee children from the bombed cities of Britain, bound under a government-sponsored scheme for a safe haven in Canada. Her sinking by U-boat four days later, without warning, in total disregard of the plight of survivors and in defiance of international law, shocked and horrified the civilised world. Of 406 people on board 256 were lost - including, at first count, 83 of the evacuee children. In Britain and the Commonwealth the reaction...
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PLAY IT AGAIN, CHESTER: BOOGIES, RAGS AND BLUES FOR PIANO.

By: Barratt, Carol.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, J. & W. Chester : 1980

Seller ID: 22214

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good-

16 pp, 11 3/4" H). Contents: Navy Blues; Cheese-Cake-Walk; Out of Step; Ripstich Rag; Honky-Tonk Stomp; Lazy Haze; Butterfinger Boogie; Macdonald's Place; "Out to Lunch"; Bobby Shaftoe's Shuffle; Blue Waltz; Beanery Boogie; Coda. Interior - very faint cigarette odour, very small bump at top and bottom corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very light edgewear, a few wrinkles on spine, small corner creases and small bump at bottom of spine.
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A BOOK ABOUT ELBA.

By: Bartlett, Vernon.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus : 1965

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2862

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

174 pp, 8" H. B&w photographs, map. "(P)artly a guidebook, partly a history and partly a study of Napoleon during the period when his empire was reduced from most of Europe to this one small island barely more than half the size of the Isle of Wight." Chapter headings: Unknown Island; Elba in Three Parts; The Elbans as Others Saw Them; From Jason to Barbarossa; From Cosimo to Napoleon; With an Emperor in Exile; Napoleon's Island; The Road to Waterloo; Elba's Debt to its Emperor; Tour Round the Island: I; Tour Round the Island: II; Postscript; Index. Light browning/foxing to edges of textbloc...
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THE TINFISH RUN.

By: Bassett, Ronald.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan : 1977

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23777

ISBN-13: 9780333216149

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

264 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). Includes "a glossary of Naval lower-deck terminology and technical terms" and "a brief account of the fortunes of convoy PQ17". "The year is 1942. A small group of merchant ships escorted by two old destroyers, a corvette and two trawlers are ploughing through Arctic seas to northern Russia in the wake of the ill-fated convoy PQ17. For Ordinary Signalman Ludd - inevitably dubbed 'Lobby' - it is his first trip and likely to be a tough one. The convoy must run the gauntlet of U-boats, aircraft - there is even the threat that enemy battleships will put to sea; finally the...
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A DICTIONARY OF PROVERBS. WITH A COLLECTION OF MAXIMS, PHRASES, PASSAGES, POEMS AND ANECDOTES FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE.

By: Baz, Petros D.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library : 1963

Seller ID: 21918

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

169 pp, 8vo (8 3/16" H). "The product of many years' preparation, this volume is divided into two sections. The first, which gives the book its distinct flavor, is a concise anthology of quotations, phrases, anecdotes and poetic passages from both ancient and modern literature. The second section is a complete compendium of proverbs, aphorisms, homilies and wise sayings from nine languages. The collection is as amazingly diverse as it is astonishing in its demonstration of the profound similiarity of the ideas of the great and near-great thinkers of history." Interior - minor browning to pag...
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WE CAME TO CANADA.

By: Beak, T.W.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, Self-published : 1959

Edition: 3rd Edition

Seller ID: 27843

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

63 pp, 7 5/8" H. "The author, at the age of 39 gave up a good job in the British Civil Service, with pension, security and good prospects, to emigrate to Canada. After three and a half years he is established as a private consultant in his chosen field with an expanding business of his own. In this booklet he sets down with a forth-rightness which only one who has ventured forth and has succeeded has the right to use, his experiences and views on what it takes to make a success of immigration to Canada. (He) aims to supply those who are interested in the possibility of emigration the kind ...
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C. BAILLAIRGE, ARCT., ING.: DESSINS ARCHITECTURAUX. (CHARLES-PHILIPPE-FERDINAND BAILLAIRGE, ARCHITECTE, INGENIEUR.)

By: Beaudin, Francois; Noel, Ginette; Demers, Jean-Maurice.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Quebec, Ministere des Affaires Culturelles : 1979

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 19577

ISBN-13: 9782551036011

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

24 pp, oblong (8" x 10") - stapled in wraps. Illustrated in sepiatone and colour with drawings (plans, elevations, architectural details). FRENCH TEXT ONLY. A look at the work of 19th century Quebec architect and engineer, Charles-Philippe-Ferdinand Baillairge. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light to moderate edge wear, wrinkling on the spine, light rubbing - mostly on the rear cover.
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BRITISH HILLS AND MOUNTAINS.

By: Bell, J.H.B.; Bozman, E.F. and Fairfax-Blakeborough, J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford : 1944

Edition: Second Edition

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 30878

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

120 pp, 8 1/2" H. Map endpapers, b&w photographs, 3 colour plates (including frontispiece). "A vivid and authoritative treatment of the mountains and hills of Great Britain. The emphasis throughout is on practical experience; its appeal is to climbers, ramblers and country lovers who are eager to get first-hand experience of the hills and mountains and to enjoy the delights only to be found in this pursuit." Contents: Foreword to the Scottish Section; The Mountains and Hills of Scotland (Introduction to the Scottish Section / The Southern Uplands / The South-West Highlands / The Grampians / T...
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Condition: Very Good-