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Image for JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. FROM THE 17th JANUARY, 1935 TO THE 5th JULY, 1935, BOTH DAYS INCLUSIVE. VOLUME LXXIII. SIXTH SESSION OF THE SEVENTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF CANADA. SESSION 1935.

JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. FROM THE 17th JANUARY, 1935 TO THE 5th JULY, 1935, BOTH DAYS INCLUSIVE. VOLUME LXXIII. SIXTH SESSION OF THE SEVENTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF CANADA. SESSION 1935.

By: N/A

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, J.O. Patenaude: 1935

Seller ID: 28949

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

795 pp, 10" H. Orange cloth with black lettering/banding on spine, black borders on front/rear boards. Contents: Proclamations; Journals of the House of Commons; Index. Very light browning in margins of pages, waviness at top edge of last few page leaves, darkening and a small liquid stain on top of text block, light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block, light browning to spine, some soiling to rear board and light soiling on front board, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, small bump at top edge of front board.
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Image for HIT SONGS FROM THE "GLENN MILLER STORY". STARRING JAMES STEWART & JUNE ALLYSON WITH FAMOUS GUEST STARS FRANCES LANGFORD, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, GENE KRUPA, BEN POLLACK, THE MODERNAIRES, ETC.

HIT SONGS FROM THE "GLENN MILLER STORY". STARRING JAMES STEWART & JUNE ALLYSON WITH FAMOUS GUEST STARS FRANCES LANGFORD, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, GENE KRUPA, BEN POLLACK, THE MODERNAIRES, ETC.

By: N/A

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: London, Robbins Music Corporation:

Seller ID: 27834

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

30 pp, 11" H. 9 full-page b&w photos from the film showing James (Jimmy) Stewart, June Allyson, Louis Armstrong, Frances Langford, the Modernaires, Gene Krupa, etc. Songs: Moonlight Serenade; I Know Why; Over the Rainbow; Cattanooga Choo Choo; At Last; Stairway to the Stars; Pennsylvania 6-5000; Elmer's Tune; Little Brown Jug. Musical notation for piano, accordion, guitar and ukulele. Pennsylvania 6-5000 has piano arrangement only (by Thomas "Fats" Waller). Postage to most destinations will be reduced for this light item - please inquire. Interior - clean and tight with no previous owne...
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Image for HENDERSON'S WINNIPEG DIRECTORY 1939. EMBRACING THE AREA OF GREATER WINNIPEG. COVERING THE CITY PROPER, ELMWOOD, ST. BONIFACE, NORWOOD, ST. VITAL, FORT GARRY, ST. JAMES, ASSINIBOIA AND KILDONAN.

HENDERSON'S WINNIPEG DIRECTORY 1939. EMBRACING THE AREA OF GREATER WINNIPEG. COVERING THE CITY PROPER, ELMWOOD, ST. BONIFACE, NORWOOD, ST. VITAL, FORT GARRY, ST. JAMES, ASSINIBOIA AND KILDONAN.

By: N/A

Price: $90.00 USD

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Henderson's Directories Limited: 1939

Seller ID: 28478

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Reference Copy

1336 pp, 10 3/4" H. Medium green cloth with black and orange lettering/banding. Title page continues: COMPRISING A MISCELLANEOUS SECTION AND STREET DIRECTORY OF THE CITY, AN ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED LIST OF RESIDENTS OF GREATER WINNIPEG AND A Classified Business Directory and Buyer's Guide. Vol. LXI. Moderate to heavy edge wear - mainly at top/bottom of spine/hinges and at corners. business information stamps on fore-edge and bottom of text block, browning and soiling to edges of text block, small business name stamp on endpapers, light browning in margins of most pages, rubbing and a few ...
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PILOT'S NOTES FOR SPITFIRE F XII - GRIFFON III OR IV ENGINE. A.P. 1565K-P.N.

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

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

Edition: Facsimile Reprint

Seller ID: 29180

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good

24 pp, 7 1/2" H. Facsimile reprint of the Air Ministry, November 1943, publication. Blue card covers with black lettering/illustration on front cover. B&w frontispiece (Spitfire F XII), 2 fold-outs (4 figures - Instrument panel / Port side of cockpit / Starboard side of cockpit / Simplified fuel system diagram). Section headings: Descriptive Introduction; Fuel, Oil and Coolant Systems; Main Services; Aircraft Controls; Engine Controls; Other Controls; Handling; Operating Data; Emergencies; Illustrations. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor browni...
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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.

By: N/A

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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PILOT'S NOTES FOR MOSQUITO MARKS F II AND NF XII - MERLIN 21 OR 23 ENGINES. (MOSQUITO MARKS F II AND NF XII PILOT'S NOTES).

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

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

Edition: Facsimile Reprint

Seller ID: 29182

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good

36 pp, 7 3/8" H. Facsimile reprint of the Air Ministry, January 1944, publication - including the pen annotations made in 1944 to the original "Notes". Blue card covers with black lettering/illustration on front cover. B&w frontispiece (Mosquito), 3 fold-outs (6 figures - Instrument panel / Cockpit - port side / Cockpit - starboard side / Simplified fuel system diagram - Marks II, XII and XVII only / Emergency exits and equipment / Simplified fuel system diagram - Marks XIII and XIX only). Section headings: Descriptive Introduction; Fuel and Oil Systems; Main Services; Aircraft Controls; E...
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PILOTS AND FLIGHT ENGINEER'S NOTES - HALIFAX III & VII. FOUR HERCULES VI OR XVI ENGINES. (PILOT'S & FLIGHT ENGINEER'S NOTES HALIFAX III).

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

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

Edition: Facsimile Reprint

Seller ID: 29183

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good-

46 pp, 7 1/2" H. Facsimile reprint of the Air Ministry, October 1944, publication. Blue card covers with black lettering/illustration on front cover. B&w frontispiece (Halifax III), drawing (Locking of Flying Controls), 4 fold-outs (8 figures - Instrument panel / General view of cabin / Flight engineer's panel /Cockpit - port side / Fuel system diagram / Hydraulic system diagram / Mark VII Simplified Fuel System Diagram / Mark VII Flight Engineer's Panel). Section headings: Descriptive Introduction; Fuel and Oil Systems; Main Services; Aircraft Controls; Engine Controls; Operational Contro...
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THE EFFECTS OF FLIGHT: PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ASPECTS. FLIGHT PREPARATION TRAINING SERIES.

By: N/A

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill / Under supervision of Training Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, U.S. Navy: 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28633

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

126 pp, 7 5/8" H. Dark blue cloth with pale yellow/green lettering on spine and front board. B&w illustrations. Contents: Preface; Fitness for Flying; First Aid; Effects of Altitude; Effects of Accelerations; Sensations While Flying; Difficulties in Flight Training; Difficulties in Flight Training (Continued). Very light edge wear, small label from bookstore on front pastedown, a few tiny foxing marks on top of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, is lightly browned - mainly on spine and front panel, tiny tears and wear - mainly at top of spine and front panel, light rubbing/soilin...
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RULES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA WITH APPENDIX, APRIL 23, 1913.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, C.H. Parelee: 1913

Seller ID: 28702

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

90 pp, 6 1/2" H. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering on front board. Contents: General Rule / Sittings of the House / Quorum / Order in the House / Casting vote of Speaker / Divisions / Yeas and Nays / Internal Economy Report / Select Standing Committees / Quorum of Committess / Deputy Speaker / Rules of Debate / Question of Order / Decorum in Debate / Reading the Question / Members not to speak twice / Conduct of Members as to Voting - Personal interest / Decorum in the House / Attendance of Members / Business of the House / Officers of the House / General Regulations / Intercourse between...
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ALBERTA HORSE, CATTLE AND SHEEP BRANDS. ALSO TATTOO MARKS FOR FUR-BEARING ANIMALS AND POULTRY. 1958.

By: N/A

Price: $250.00 USD

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Ministry of Agriculture: 1958

Seller ID: 28724

Binding: Flexible Clothcovers

Condition: Very Good -

823 pp, 8 1/8" H. Black cloth with yellow lettering/Alberta crest on front cover. Title continues: Being a Record of Cattle and Horse Brands, Also Tattoo Marks Which Have Been Allotted, Renewed, Transferred or Reissued and Were in Good Standing as at June 30, 1958." "This issue contains a total of 30923 Brands." Cattle Brands; Additional Cattle Brands; Index to Cattle Brands; Horse Brands; Index to Horse Brands. The bulk of the book comprises Cattle Brands and there are very small listings incorporated into the Horse section for Sheep, Fur-bearing Animals and Poultry. Edge wrinkling to ...
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STRENGTH OF METAL AIRCRAFT ELEMENTS. ANC-5 BULLETIN.

By: N/A

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, Munitions Board Aircraft Committee, Subcommittee on Air Force-Navy-Civil Aircraft Design Criteria: 1951

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 28753

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

125 pp, 10 1/4" H. Figures, tables. ANC-5 June 1951 Ammendment-1, 9 April 1952 taped in at rear. Chapter headings: General; Steel; Aluminum Alloys; Magnesium Alloys; Miscellaneous Metals. Interior - previous owner has updated, asterisked and neatly written cross references in black ink on some pages; small tear at top edge of pages 115 to end of book - archivally taped; otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - previous owner's name in ink at top of front cover, one small corner crease on front cover, one small edge tear archivally taped at top of rear cover.
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THE POST-OFFICE ANNUAL DIRECTORY FOR 1836-37: CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE MERCHANTS, TRADERS, MANUFACTURERS, AND PRINCIPAL INHABITANTS: AND A SECOND LIST OF THE NAMES OF MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS, IN GLASGOW AND SUBURBS.

By: N/A

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Glasgow, John Graham (For the Letter-Carriers of the Post-Office): 1836

Seller ID: 29484

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good-

xv, 341, 118 pp, 7 1/8" H. Brown leather spine and corners, marbled paper-covered boards, black leather title label on spine with gilt lettering, additional gilt date and decoration, blindstamped design. Small label at top of front pastedown: "J. Carss & Co., Bookbinders, 31, Argyle Street, Glasgow." Title page continues: "Classed and Arranged Under Each Distinct Head of Trade or Profession: With a Street Directory: and An Appendix Containing many Useful Lists. Ninth Publication." The first section (xv pp) consists of a Calendar (July, 1836 to December, 1837); Stamp Duties; Index. The s...
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Image for THE TOUR THROUGH CANADA OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, AUGUST-OCTOBER: 1919. EMBRACING THAT PORTION OF THE GRAND TRUNK SYSTEM IN THE PROVINCES OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC TRAVERSED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. ANNOTATED TIMETABLE.

THE TOUR THROUGH CANADA OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, AUGUST-OCTOBER: 1919. EMBRACING THAT PORTION OF THE GRAND TRUNK SYSTEM IN THE PROVINCES OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC TRAVERSED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. ANNOTATED TIMETABLE.

By: N/A

Price: $250.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, Grand Trunk Railway: 1919

Seller ID: 28836

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

63, (3) pp + b&w plates and folding map at rear, 9 1/2" H. White spine with gilt lettering, brown paper-covered board with gilt lettering/decoration, black & gilt crest on front board, brown endpapers. 27 b&w plates with tissueguards bearing captions in red. An annotated timetable of the route taken by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII/Duke of Windsor) on the Grand Trunk Railway through Ontario and Quebec in 1919. The Foreword gives a brief history of the Grand Trunk Railway/Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the book closes with a list of directors, etc. of company. The illustrati...
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VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CARD "MAY THE PEACE OF ALLAH". DECORATED ENVELOPE.

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Seller ID: 30510

Binding: In Envelope

Condition: Very Good

Single sheet card (i.e. not a folded card), c1920/30s, with unusual verse. "Christmas Greetings / I pray the prayer the Easterners do, / May the Peace of Allah abide with you / Wherever you stay, wherever you go, / May the beautiful palms of Allah grow; / Through the days of labor and nights of rest, / May the love of sweet Allah make you blest, / So I touch my heart as the Easterners do, / May the Peace of Allah abide with you." Colorful illustration at top of card has a gilt sky, the star over Bethlehem the three kings & their camels with holly below. The card has not been used - no signa...
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LETTERS FROM COMPTON DEVERELL.

By: 'BB'. Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1950, "First Cheap Edition", with 7s. 6d. price on dust jacket flap.:

Seller ID: 18690

281 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover (green boards with black lettering on spine) in dust jacket. Green, black & white map endpapers, b&w illustrations. "Where is Compton Deverell? It may be anywhere you choose in the English countryside, because ' BB' has drawn a living picture of that sort of delightful old house among fields and woods, the ideal English home which thousands remember from their childhood or hope to have in that future for which they work and plan. The letters are w r i t t e n b y a countryman to a younger friend abroad and they describe the routine of country life throu...
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AN AUTUMN ON THE RHINE; OR, SKETCHES OF COURTS, SOCIETY, SCENERY, &c. IN SOME OF THE GERMAN STATES BORDERING ON THE RHINE.

By: (Dodds, Charles Edward.)

Price: $175.00 USD

Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.: 1818

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30681

Binding: Quarter-Leather

Condition: Very Good -

524 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), medium brown leather spine/corners, maroon leather title block, gilt lettering/decoration on spine, marbled boards. The spine has been professionally and sympathetically replaced at some date, preserving the book in a sturdy, usable state. Fold-out colour map after title page, Errata slip bound in after final text page. Presented as a series of 32 letters, this journal of trip through some early 19th century German states provides information on city and country life, the aristocracy, hunting, duels, fashion, food & drink, architecture, entertainments, manners, etc. So...
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Image for THE ONLY TRUE MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES. AN EXACT REPRODUCTION OF THE TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION PUBLISHED AND COPYRIGHTED IN BOSTON IN THE YEAR 1833 BY MUNROE & FRANCIS.

THE ONLY TRUE MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES. AN EXACT REPRODUCTION OF THE TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION PUBLISHED AND COPYRIGHTED IN BOSTON IN THE YEAR 1833 BY MUNROE & FRANCIS.

By: (Mother Goose). Introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale. Edited by Harriet Blackstone C. Butler.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard: 1905

Edition: Facsimile Edition.

Inscription: Signed by Editor.

Seller ID: 30551

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii, 100 pp, 24mo (5 3/4" H). Yellow paper-covered boards, reproducing the illustration from the original 1833 edition (as does the dust jacket), cream-coloured cloth spine. B&w illustrations, black borders to pages. Signed "Harriet Blackstone C. Butler" at the bottom of the Introduction and with a quotation in the same hand on the front free endpaper, dated 1929. This facsimile of the 1833 "Mother Goose" begins with a "History of the Goose Family", which claims an American origin for the collection of nursery rhymes. Light browning to endpapers, slight toning to pages, slight variation to c...
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MOTHER GOOSE. SEVENTY-SEVEN VERSES WITH PICTURES BY TASHA TUDOR.

By: (Tudor, Tasha, illustrator.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1945

Edition: Fourth Printing

Seller ID: 29682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

87 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on front board. Pictorial endpaper, beautifully illustrated throughout with Tasha Tudor's charming colour and b&w drawings. Contents include: Bye, baby, bunting; Ding, dong, bell; Georgey Porgey, pudding and pie; Heigh, diddle, diddle; Hickory, dickery, dock; Hot Cross Buns!; Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall; Jack and Jill went up the hill; Jack Spratt could eat no fat; Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home; Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, London bridge is broken down; March winds and April showers; Mary, Mary, ...
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PLAIN SERMONS PREACHED IN A VILLAGE CHURCH. 3 VOLUME SET.

By: A Country Clergyman. (C.G. Perceval.)

Price: $250.00 USD

Publisher: London / Stony Stratford, Joseph Capes / Gossling and Egley / John Sleath: 1837

Seller ID: 29488

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

3 volume set, 7 1/4" H - medium brown leather with two black leather title labels/gilt lettering on each spine. Gilt banding on spines, gilt decoration to edges of boards, gilt border to front and rear boards. All textblock edges have a dark red speckled finish. Vol. I is the third edition, printed 1837, 336 pp. Vol. II is the second edition, printed 1838, 323 pp + (1) pp advertising for other works by author. Vol. III is the first edition, printed in 1839, 348 pp. Vol. I has a 1895 gift inscription on the front free endpaper and a 1846 gift inscription on a preliminary page. Vol. II ha...
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FROM RAGTIME TO ROCK AND ROLL: TWELVE EASY-TO-PLAY PIECES IN "POP" STYLE.

By: Agay, Denes, compiler.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Sam Fox, Neew York, c1959.:

Seller ID: 22211

24 pp, 11 7/8" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Contents: Harmony Rag; "Softshoe" Lullaby; Invitation to the Blues; Harvest Moon Hoe Down; Swingopation (Black Raspberry Jam); Prelude to a Moonlit Night; Nola; Rock-a-billy Jump; Mary and the Boogie Man; Party Hop Boogie; Rockin' Washerwoman; When the Saints Come Marchin' In. Interior - faint cigarette odor, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light to moderate rubbing, tiny tear archivally taped a t t o p o f rear cover, heavy wear on spine, old price sticker on front cover, small closed tear at top of...
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