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SO MANY: A FOLIO DEDICATED TO ALL WHO SERVED WITH RAF BOMBER COMMAND, 1939-45.

By: N/A

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan, [Toronto], (1995).:

Seller ID: 5306

276 pp, folio, HC. "The central theme is the courage of thousands of men - most of them from ordinary backgrounds in Britain and the Empire, but including important groups from countries overrun by Germany - who survived one of the most severe and prolonged periods of physical danger and mental strain any group of people has ever been asked to bear. Over 55,500 of them were killed. The principal content allocates ten pages to each of 25 aircrew, who, often straight from school, served as pi lots, navigators, bomb-aimers, signallers, flight engineers and air gunners in Bomber Command in ...
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WHO'S WHO IN TORONTO: A CELEBRATION OF THIS CITY.

By: N/A

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, CHMH Association: 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28475

ISBN: 0969169701

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

598 pp + index and abbreviations, fold-out family tree (not filled in) at rear, 11 1/4" H. Blue imitation leather boards with gold lettering/border on spine, gold lettering/border/illustration on front board - no dust jacket (as issued). B&w photographs. Contents: Introduction; Media; Business; Government; Professionals (Architects / Engineers / Legal Profession / Medical); Sports; Academia; Community; Artists; Name Index (Alphabetical); Abbreviations; Family Tree Chart; Community Homes for the Mentally Handicapped. Minor edge wear.
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LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY: "THE ISLAND'S LADY OF STORIES".

By: (Montgomery, Lucy Maud - L.M.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Springfield, Prince Edward Island, Women's Institute: 1975

Edition: 4th Printing

Seller ID: 12347

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

20 pp, 7 1/4" H x 5 1/4" D. B&w photographs. A short biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables and other children's classics. Includes three poems: "Twilight in Abegweit"; "In Lover's Lane"; and, "Off to the Fishing Ground", an essay entitled "Prince Edward Island", plus the words and music for "Island Hymn". Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very small # 69 written in pen at top corner of front cover, tiny stain and small light water stain on rear cover. Postage for this light i...
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PRAGUE WINTER: A PERSONAL STORY OF REMEMBRANCE AND WAR, 1937-1948.

By: Albright, Madeleine. With Bill Woodward.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper: 2012

Seller ID: 29612

ISBN: 0062030310

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

467 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(T)akes readers from the Bohemian capital's thousand-year-old castle to the bomb shelters of London, from the desolate prison ghetto of Terezin to the highest councils of European and American government. Albright reflects on her discovery of her family's Jewish heritage many decades after the war, on her Czech homeland's tangled history, and on the stark moral choices faced by her parents and their generation. Often relying on eyewitness descrip-tions, she tells the story of how millions of ordinary citizens were ripped from familiar surroundin...
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SIR JOHN REITH.

By: Allighan, Garry. 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-infor...
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THE BARE FACTS: MY LIFE AS A STRIPPER.

By: Ample, Annie.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28704

ISBN: 1550130943

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

177 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs. "She was notorious for taking off her clothes. Movies, magazines and TV shows, and fame as 'the girl with the million dollar chest' after her breasts were insured by Lloyds of London, helped create her very successful career as celebrity stripper, 'Annie Ample'. But behind all the hype was a real person. (Annie) looks back candidly on her turbulent childhood in a small town in California and her showbiz start as a 'go-go' dancer in a local club. 'Annie Ample' was the ingenuous character she devised to exploit the sex industry rather than be explo...
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JULIANA: EVERYBODY'S SISTER.

By: Armour, Elizabeth P. Signed by author.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Elizabeth P. Armour, Oakville, Ontario, 1980.:

Seller ID: 22265

320 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0919670458 B&w photographs. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. "(The) story of Sister Juliana, for over forty-five years a member of the Community of Sisters of the Church. Sister Julia na was one of those rare individuals who was able to combine a profound interest in her own spiritual development with an active, even aggressive, desire to assist everyone who sought her aid. From the Arctic to the Caribbean, from Anglica n W o m e n ' s groups to jails, Sister Juliana spread the same message of love - love of God and f...
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MIDDLETON: THE BELOVED JUDGE.

By: Arnup, John D.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28506

ISBN: 0771007959

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

202 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "(T)he story of one of Ontario's and Canada's greatest judges, William Edward Middleton (1860-1948), who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario for thirty-three years, twenty-two of them as an appellate judge. At a time when a number of Supreme Court justices were belligerent to counsel and irascible toward their brother judges, Mr. Justice Middleton set a high standard of courtesy and civility that has carried on to the present day. Because (he) never sought attention or encouraged controversy, his contributions have been known heret...
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MOMENTS OF MEMORY: RECOLLECTIONS AND IMPRESSIONS.

By: Asquith, Herbert.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1937

Edition: Second Impression.

Seller ID: 29238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

382 pp, 9 1/2" H. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. B&w illustrations. The author's memories of his father, Herbert H. Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1908-1916. Contents: Cricket at Keats Grove; Early Friends; Grasmere and London; The Journey to Scotland; Fact and Fancy; A New Outlook; Winchester; Some Oxford Characters; A Generous Settlement; Asquith and Balfour; Force and Ferment; A Poet in Revolt; The Outbreak of War; Flanders in 1915; Men and Problems; The Somme and Whitehall; Arras and Passchendaele; The Battle in the Mist; Lord Oxford in Later Years; In...
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THE HISTORY OF SCARBOROUGH, FROM THE EARLIEST DATE.

By: Baker, Joseph Brogden.

Price: $130.00 USD

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green: 1882

Seller ID: 29847

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

527 pp, 10" H. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering/decoration, black banding on spine/front board, black endpapers. B&w illustrations (some fold-out). ***Please note: the illustration titled "Drawbridge of the Castle" is missing.*** Section headings: Introduction; Charters; The Castle; Siege of the Town; Religious Houses and Ancient Churches; St. Mary's; Modern Churches; Governing Body of the Borough; Parliamentary History of the Borough; Corporate History; Charities and Public Schools; Markets, Fairs, and Commerce; Harbour and Shipping; Recreations and Amusements; Biography; ...
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THE INVENTOR AND THE TYCOON: A GILDED AGE MURDER AND THE BIRTH OF MOVING PICTURES.

By: Ball, Edward.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2013

Seller ID: 28402

ISBN: 0385525753

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

447 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "(T)he compelling saga of an artistic genius, a ruthless railroad tycoon, and a sordid crime of passion. In frontier California 130 years ago, English immigrant Eadweard Muybridge managed to capture time and play it back on a screen, inventing stop-motion photography and moving pictures, breakthrough technologies that ushered in our age of visual media. Bankrolling his endeavor was tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, who built the west half of the transcontinental railroad and personally drove in the last golden...
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MR BONAPARTE OF CORSICA.

By: Bangs, John Kendrick.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Mississauga, Ontario, Poniard: 1996

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 17383

ISBN: 0968087515

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

265 pp, 7" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w humorous drawings by H.W. McVickar. A comic biography of Napoleon from infancy in Corsica to his new emperorship in Hades. Interior - clean and tight with no previous owner ship marks. Exterior - minor soiling on rear cover, slight soiling to edges of textblock.
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CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF: PIONEER PAINTER OF NORTH AMERICA.

By: Barbeau, Marius.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada: 1934

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28766

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

152 pp, 9 3/4" H. Red cloth with silver lettering on spine and front board. Colour and b&w plates. The 'First Part' consists of a short biography of the artist. 'Second Part': Chronological List (of Kriefghoff's dated pictures); Notes and Information; "Catalogue Raisonne" - French Canada; Bourgeois and Sportsmen of Montreal and Quebec (1847-1871); Canadian Indians; Miscellanea - Nude, Still Life, Copies, Illustrations, Lists. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, browning to edges of text block with tiny foxing marks on bottom, spine is heavily sun faded - tiltle is l...
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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: Collins, London, 1953, 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 21454

320 pp, small 8vo (7 15/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers. "....gives 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 . . . H e h a s very much on his mind the cares of a wife and family, for whom he is determined to m...
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EVERYONE IN THE BIBLE.

By: Barker, William P.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Old Tappan, New Jersey, Fleming H. Revell: 1966

Edition: Book Club

Seller ID: 27726

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

370 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "Who was Izri, Rinnah, Heli? Are Mica, Micah, Micaiah, and Michaiah the same person or four different people? Where is the story of the scheming villain Haman found? What is meant by 'she's a real Jezebel' or 'he's a doubting Thomas'? Clearly identified in these pages are nearly 3,000 individuals - absolutely every man, woman, and child, important or obscure - named in the Bible. In cases of multiple spelling, the names are carefully cross-referenced. When more than one person bears a particular name - there are twenty-five Azariahs, for example, an...
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BATA: SHOEMAKER TO THE WORLD.

By: Bata, Thomas J. With Sonja Sinclair.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28156

ISBN: 0773724168

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

341 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs. "In 1932, when young Tom Bata watched his father's coffin being lowered into his grave, he silently promised to abide by the wishes expressed in his father's 'moral testament': that the Bata Shoe Company was to be treated not as a source of private wealth, but as a public trust, a means of improving the liviing standards within the community and providing customers with good value for their money. At the time, Tom had no idea of the challenges he would face in fulfilling that promise. Not only was he ill-equipped, at age eighteen, to step into the...
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GREAT AMERICAN FIGHTER ACES.

By: Bauer, Dan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Osceola, WI, Motorbooks: 1992

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 25231

ISBN: 0879385855

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

192 pp, 10 5/8" H. "(A) unique collection of biographies of twelve of the greatest and most interesting American fighter pilots of World War II. With the exception of Tom McGuire and Butch O'Hare - who were killed in action - these biographies (of John Alison, Charles MacDonald, Joe Foss, Tex Hill, Marion Carl, Jim Howard, Tom Blackburn, Jim Goodson, Perry Dahl, and Jerry Collinsworth) are based on extensive interviews with the aces and told largely in their words. Their recollections are vivid and their stories are fresh because these are the first detailed biographies of most of the...
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A POUND OF PAPER: CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK ADDICT.

By: Baxter, John.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Doubleday: 2002

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 30604

ISBN: 0385603681

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

417 pp, 7 1/4" H. Integral red ribbon bookmark, pictorial endpapers. In the 1950s, at the age of eleven, John Baxter "collected his first book - 'The Poems of Rupert Brooke'. He'd read the volume often, but now he had to own it. This was the beginning of what would become a major collection and a lifelong obsession. His book-hunting would take him all over the world, but his first real find was in London in 1978, when he spotted a rare copy of a Graham Green's children's book while browsing on a stall in Swiss Cottage. It was going for 5 p. This would also, fortuitously, be the day w...
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LOUIS WAIN'S CATS.

By: Beetles, Chris. With contributions from Rodney Dale and David Wootton.

Price: $120.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Worth Press: 2011

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27903

ISBN: 1849310262

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

256 pp, square small 10to (10 1/4" H x 10 1/4" D). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w reproductions of Wain's art. "During their heyday, in the time before the First World War, Louis Wain's cats, dressed as humans, portrayed (the) stylish Edwardian world having fun; at restaurants and tea parties, going to the Races and the Seaside, celebrating Christmas and Birthdays, and disporting themselves with exuberant games of tennis, bowls, cricket and football. This is a titillating world of cats at play, uninhibited and slightly dangerous, with most group activities likely to t...
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MADAME TUSSAUD: A LIFE IN WAX.

By: Berridge, Kate.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins: 2006

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30116

ISBN: 0002008122

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

352 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "When she died in London at the age of ninety, a survivor of one of the most tumultuous epochs in history, Madame Tussaud had travelled far from her inauspicious beginnings in Strasbourg as the daughter of a common soldier and a housekeeper. Moving to Paris as a child, Marie climbed through the ranks of French society as the protegee of charmismatic showman artist Philippe Curtius, and witnessed the French Revolution in all its grisly detail. She survived the Terror and moved to London, where she struggled to find a foothold amidst the desperate c...
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Keyword: Biography