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GATEWAYS OF HOPE: BEING GLIMPSES OF THE WORK OF THE MISSION TO LEPERS.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, The Mission to the Lepers: 1937

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 30006

Binding: Card

Condition: Very Good

80 pp, 7 1/4" H. Sepiatone photographs, maps. Contents: Introduction; Early Years; India - On Northern Plains; India - West and South; From Burma to Malaya; China; Japan and Korea; Africa and Elsewhere; Among the Children; Medical Treatment; Conclusion; Appendices: The Mission to Lepers - Its Objects and Methods; How Supported; Its Fields and Stations. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - fading to spine/hinge colour and at top edge of rear cover, light rubbing and soiling on covers.
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DEFENDERS OF PAKISTAN.

By: Amin, Mohamed; Quraishy, Masud; Willetts, Duncan; Tetley, Brian.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Midland Counties, (Leicester, 1988).:

Seller ID: 15424

200 pp, 4to (12 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. "Few nations in history came into the world so empty-handed as Pakistan. Born at the stroke of midnight on 14 August 1947, it's bounded in the east by India, in the north by China and the Soviet Union and in the west by Afghanistan and in the south-west by Iran. More recently a simmering war - perhaps the most astonishing one of all - goes on at heights of more than 20,000 feet, in the great H imalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges of northern Pakistan. On its North-West Frontier, the...
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WORLD AIRCRAFT: COMMERCIAL, 1935-1960.

By: Angelucci, Enzo and Matricardi, Paolo.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Rand McNally, Chicago, (1979).:

Seller ID: 16187

317 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), soft cover. ISBN 528882066 Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with drawings, profiles, insignia, reproductions of posters. Contents: United States; Great Britain; USSR; France; Italy; Germany; Sweden; Japan; Holland; Canada; Poland; Czechoslovakia; Romania; Spain; Argentina; Australia; Switzerland; People's Republic of China; Major Commercial Aircraft; Civil Aviation Registration Letters - 1960; Insignia of the Major Airlines in 1960; Principal Airports of the World - 1960; Engines. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior...
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THE EMPIRE IS MARCHING: A STUDY OF THE MILITARY EFFORT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1800-1945.

By: Barclay, Glen St. J.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25467

ISBN: 0297771256

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

276 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w plates. "(A) study of the military strength of Britain and her Empire during the Boer War, First World War and Second World War. Dr Barclay evaluates the contributions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, and the changing roles played by the colonies during times of crisis. He explains British attitudes to colonial troops - Australian indiscipline and New Zealand thoroughness - and the lack of diplomacy on the part of British military leaders when dealing with their colonial counterparts. After the South Africa War the British government sh...
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ON PAPER: THE EVERYTHING OF ITS TWO-THOUSAND-YEAR HISTORY.

By: Basbanes, Nicholas A.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2013

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30608

ISBN: 0307266427

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

430 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w illustrations. "A consideration of all things paper - its invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousandfold uses (and misuses), proliferation, and sweeping influence on society; its makers, shapers, collectors, and pulpers. Nicholas Basbanes writes about paper, from its invention in China two thousand years ago to its ideal means, recording the thoughts of Islamic scholars and mathematicians that made the Middle East a center of intellectual energy; from Europe, by way of Spain in the twelfth century and Italy in the thirteenth at the time of the...
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STRATEGIC SURVEY 1991-1992.

By: Bearman, Sidney, ed.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Brassey's / International Institute for Strategic Studies, (London, 1992).:

Seller ID: 15452

248 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), soft cover. Contents: The End of an Empire; Central Europe's Struggling States; Turmoil in the Balkans; European Integration: On the Horizon; The US Looks Inwards; North American Free Trade Area in Trouble; Latin America: Orthodoxy and Uncertainty; Cuba: Teetering on the Brink; Prospects for Arab-Israeli Peace; Iraq and the Gulf States; Iran Sheds its Radical Image; The Maghreb: The Rise of Radical Islam; China On the Move; Japan: Still Searching; The Two Koreas: Cooperation or Crisis?; Indochina: A Fragile Peace; Central Asia: Shaping New States; India and its Nei...
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A LITTLE PORTFOLIO ILLUSTRATING SOME OF THE EXCEPTIONAL VALUES IN FINE ENGLISH EARTHENWARE AND ENGLISH BONE CHINA NOW BEING SHOWN BY BEESHY'S, THE CHINA SHOP, RIDGEWAY, ONTARIO.

By: Beeshy's , The China Shop.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Ridgeway, Ontario, Beeshy's, The China Shop:

Seller ID: 29177

Binding: Card covers in wire Binding

Condition: Very Good -

48 pp, 9 3/4" H. Orange card covers with black lettering/illustration on front cover. No date, but the text references two patterns introduced in 1937 and there is a printed note on the back cover stating that the Wire-o-binding was patented 1936. B&w photographs of the shop (exterior & interior) and the proprietors, plus b&w (and a few colour) photographs of china (Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Johnson Bros., Adams, etc.). Short historiesy of the store, the family, the decoration of English china. Pages 12-48 show examples of some of the different patterns carried with descriptions. "...
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AIR FORCE COLORS. VOLUME 3. PACIFIC AND HOME FRONT, 1942-47.

By: Bell, Dana.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Carrollton, Texas, Squadron/Signal: 1997

Seller ID: 24918

ISBN: 0897473760

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

95 pp, 11" H. B&w photographs, color profiles, markings. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - two soft corner creases, one tiny corner crease.
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THE BALANCE OF POWER. BEATTY MEMORIAL LECTURES.

By: Beloff, Max. Preface by H. Noel Fieldhouse.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, McGill University Press: 1967

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28359

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

73 pp, 7 1/2" H. Contents: Preface; Foreword; The Partition of Europe and Afterwards; Post-Imperial Asia; International Organizations: Records and Prospects. Dust jacket has very light edge wear, very light rubbing and soiling, a few tiny scuffs, small dent on spine.
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WORLD WAR II IN PHOTOGRAPHS.

By: Boyle, David.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Lisse, Netherlands, Rebo: 1998

Seller ID: 22955

ISBN: 1840530898

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

600 pp, 4to (11 15/16" H). "World War II was the most intensively photographed conflict in history. Military and press photographers, propagandists, camera-wielding soldiers and civilians - all took the opportunity to record the tumultuous events of 1939-45. The scenes they captured of mass suffering and individual heroism, of atrocious cruelty and humanitarianism against the odds, of hate and comradeship, misery and hope, remain undiminished in their intensity and constitute a vital record of an extraordinary period. (This book) features 900 clearly captioned images selected from a w...
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DOORS HELD AJAR.

By: Brown, Isobel; Krachun, Peggy Smith; Strowbridge, Nellie P. Helen Fogwill Porter and Bernice Morgan, compilers.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland, Killick Press: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1447

ISBN: 1895387760

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good+

182 pp, 8 3/8" H. "(This book) reflects not only the distinctive narrative voices of its authors, but also the diverse life-experiences of these three women: growing up in Glasgow between the wars, growing up in a small Newfoundland outport, growing up within the constraints of a fundamentalist religion, coming to this country after World War Two as the bride of a Newfoundland serviceman, leaving Newfoundland as the bride of an American serviceman in the 1960s. All this, and more, informs the short stories and essays contained in this book." Contents: Isobel Brown (November Memo...
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DOORS HELD AJAR.

By: Brown, Isobel; Krachun, Peggy Smith; Strowbridge, Nellie P. Helen Fogwill Porter and Bernice Morgan, compilers.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland, Killick Press: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30527

ISBN: 1895387760

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good

ROUND THE WORLD.

By: Butler, Frank Hedges.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1924

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29738

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good-

269 pp + 2 pp publisher's advertising, 9" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering & decoration on spine and front board. Illustrated with numerous b&w photographs (collated). The author was the founder of the Royal Aero Club (1901) and the first Hon. Treasurer of the Royal Automobile Club (1897) and wrote two previous books - "Fifty Years of Travel by Land, Water and Air" and "Through Lapland with Skis and Reindeer". Chaper headings for "Round the World": The Voyage Out; From America to Hawaii; Pictures of the Pacific Islands; A Visit to Japan; Japanese Entertainment a...
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POTTERS PROGRESS: A SHORT HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE ART OF POTTERY MAKING FROM THE EARLIEST AGES.

By: Chisnall, Peter. Illustrated by Richard Grasby.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Allied English Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, 1966.:

Seller ID: 6272

27 pp, 8vo, hard cover in glassine wrapper. Monotone illus by Richard Grasby. Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Glassine is lightly browned at spine and edges, minor creasing at corners, top/bottom of spine. VG+/VG
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ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND CAMPAIGN MEDALS. THURSDAY 14 MARCH 1985.

By: Christie's London.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1985.:

Seller ID: 10289

29 pp + 10 b&w plates at rear + prices realized list laid in, large 8vo, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Auction catalgue with items grouped as follows: Single Campaign Medals; From the Collection of Group Captain F.L. Newall; Groups and Pairs Incl uding Orders and Decorations for Gallantry or Distinguished Service; Campaign Groups and Pairs; British Orders; Single Decorations, Long Service and Miscellaneous Awards; Foreign Orders, Decorations and Badges. Interior - price notation written in pen on two listings on pages 24 & 25, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exter...
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Image for DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. (ALSO INCLUDES: THE HALF-CHICK; THE LITTLE RED HEN AND THE GRAIN OF WHEAT; FIVE LITTLE CHICKENS; CHICKS; HIDE-AND-SEEK; IN THE CHICKEN YARD; FAITHFUL GOLDIE; THE MAGPIE'S NEST; WEE ROBIN'S CHRISTMAS SONG; ETC.)

DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. (ALSO INCLUDES: THE HALF-CHICK; THE LITTLE RED HEN AND THE GRAIN OF WHEAT; FIVE LITTLE CHICKENS; CHICKS; HIDE-AND-SEEK; IN THE CHICKEN YARD; FAITHFUL GOLDIE; THE MAGPIE'S NEST; WEE ROBIN'S CHRISTMAS SONG; ETC.)

By: Clinton, Althea L., editor. Illustrated by Bill Bailey.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Saalfield, Akron, Ohio, c1931.:

Seller ID: 20560

Unpaginated, large 8vo (9 5/8" H), hard cover (pictorial front cover) - no dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Additional stories, verses: Something About Tommy; Do Not Boast; The Cats and the Monkey; What Kitty Said to the China Cat; Our Barnyard; On ce There Was a Kitty; Why Cats Wash Their Faces After Eating; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. Book light cracked at several places - pages holding well, moderate to heavy edge wear, a few scattered tiny light foxing marks and rubbing marks on b o a r d s , s l ight bump at corners. Good
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NINETEENTH-CENTURY POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN CANADA.

By: Collard, Elizabeth.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, McGill University Press: 1984

Edition: 2nd Edition

Seller ID: 26014

ISBN: 0773503927

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

477 pp, 4to (10 1/2" H). B & w illust. A survey of the ceramic wares used by Canadians in the 19th C. Deals with both imported and Canadian made wares, setting them against the social, economic, and artistic background of the time. It tells of how the potters of Britain vigorously built up trade with British North America and how their wares travelled to the farthest outposts of a pioneer land. Also covers the popular "Historical China", "Portneuf" and the important potters of St. Johns, Quebec. Previous owner's bookplate and erased pencik mark on free front endpaper...
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THE POTTERS' VIEW OF CANADA: CANADIAN SCENES ON NINETEENTH-CENTURY EARTHENWARE.

By: Collard, Elizabeth.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1983

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 26015

ISBN: 0773504214

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

194 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). Inscribed by author - "Best wishes to ..... from Elizabeth Collard". B&w photos, reproductions, marks. "This is the first book to be devoted exclusively to potters' views of Canada...The potters' views of Canada have a many-sided appeal, linking the world of artists, printmakers, and photographers to the ceramics industry...Covering the period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of Queen Victoria's reign, this volume focuses chiefly on wares made for the dinner table or the washstand. All are earthenware, decorated by transf...
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THE POTTERS' VIEW OF CANADA: CANADIAN SCENES ON NINETEENTH-CENTURY EARTHENWARE.

By: Collard, Elizabeth.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28145

ISBN: 0773504214

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

194 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, marks. "This is the first book to be devoted exclusively to potters' views of Canada. The potters' views of Canada have a many-sided appeal, linking the world of artists, printmakers, and photographers to the ceramics industry. Covering the period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of Queen Victoria's reign, this volume focuses chiefly on wares made for the dinner table or the washstand. All are earthenware, decorated by transfer printing, and produced by British potters. The scenes they depict range ...
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THE WINGED GOSPEL: AMERICA'S ROMANCE WITH AVIATION, 1900-1950.

By: Corn, Joseph J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28427

ISBN: 0195033566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

177 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "(R)econstructs America's first era of manned flight and brings back to life the famous and less-known aviators who became the nation's heroes: Charles Lindberg, whose achievement was the great event of the 1920s - Amelia Earhart, one of the many women 'aces' (the aviation industry encouraged women because, as pilot Louise Thaden put it, 'If a woman can handle a plane, the public thinks it must be 'duck soup' for men.') - Calbraith P. Rogers, who made the first transcontinental flight, surviving a dozen crashes, a broken arm and colla...
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