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CLASSIC RAF BATTLES FROM WORLD WAR ONE TO THE PRESENT.

By: Armitage, Michael, editor-in-chief. (Peter Kilduff, Peter Cooksley, Michael Burns, John Ray, Ray Sturtivant, John Maynard, Tony Mason, Michael Gething, Ron Dick, Ken Delve, Mike Spick, et al.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour: 1995

Seller ID: 9850

ISBN: 185409291X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

171 pp, oblong large 8vo (8 7/8" H x 11 1/4" D). B&w maps. "Forty superb full-colour paintings, accompanied by detailed background narratives, show the RAF in action, from the dogfights of the First World War to missions in the Gulf War. (Represents) work of some of the very finest aviation artists working today. Sir Michael Armitage has assembled a first-class team of RAF veterans, historians and aviation experts with the brief to write the background history of the action depicted in each painting - arranged chronologically within the decades of RAF service." Dust jacket has a tiny closed ...
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BARBED LYRES: CANADIAN VENOMOUS VERSE.

By: Atwood, Margaret, foreword. (Tom Denholm, Glen Stone, Denis Woollings, Brian Davis, Gerry MacIntosh, Pierre Berton, Robertson Davies, Hoard Engel, Tomson Highway, Dennis Lee, Robert Priest, al Purdy, Charles Pachter, Mavor Moore, Don Harron, et al.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30244

ISBN: 1550132520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

112 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w illustrations by political cartoonist Aislin. "(W)inning entries and special celebrity submissions from a nationwide contest for satircal verse (judged by) author Margaret Atwood, columnist Allan Fotheringham and songwriter Nancy White. Over 100 of the best entries are featured. Also included are poems submitted by invitation from: Pierre Berton, Robertson Davies, Howard Engel, Don Harron, Tomson Highway, Dennis Lee, Mavor Moore, Susan Musgrave, Eric Nichol, Charles Pachter, Robert Priest, Al Purdy, Erika Ritter, Robin Skelton, et al." A 1/2" dia raised area under the ...
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RIDLEY: THE STORY OF A SCHOOL. 2 VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE.

By: Beattie, Kim. With collaboration in research by A.H. Griffith Introduction by Arthur L. Bishop.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: St Catharines, Ontario, Ridley College: 1963

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28679

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

Volume One: 612 pp.- Volume Two's pagination runs 613-1265, 9 1/4" H, black boards with gilt lettering and school crest on front boards, orange spines with black title blocks/gilt lettering. Black endpapers with illustration by Edward Goodall. B&w photographs, reproductions. A history of Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario. Light rubbing and soiling on boards and spines. Volume One has minor discoloration at top corner of front board. Volume Two has faint foxing marks on front board, one slight corner bump. Slipcase has moderate wear and rubbing, one top rear corner is bumped.
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BOMBER BARONS.

By: Bowyer, Chaz.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Leo Cooper: 2001

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 27030

ISBN: 085052802X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

222 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs. "By the end of the Second World War, a grim total of 55,000 air crew of Bomber Command has lost their lives. This figure comprised no less than seventy per cent of RAF fatalities. Yet, unlike their more glamorous fighter pilot colleagues, very few bomber pilots or crewmen were familiar household names to the general public. However, within the ranks of the RAF itself, some individuals stood out gaining high reputations for their courage and leadership, a respect achieved regardless of the decorations they had won or the number of sorties flo...
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FOR VALOUR: THE AIR VCs.

By: Bowyer, Chaz.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Grub Street: 1992

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 9350

ISBN: 0948817577

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

548 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs. Of the 1,350 Victoria Crosses awarded since 1856, only 51 have been conferred on airmen. "Here, for the first time, are the complete and accurate biographies of each of those 51 men. Though primarily regarded as a British honour, of those 51 airmen, 16 were not British-born; coming from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Eire willingly to pledge their lives in Britain's cause during the two major world wars of this century. Resulting from several decades of private research on an international scale, and profusely illustrated, this book has un...
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FOR VALOUR: THE AIR VCs.

By: Bowyer, Chaz.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Grub Street: 1992

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 29734

ISBN: 0948817577

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

BRYAN'S REVIEW OF OAKVILLE. ILLUSTRATED. 1923-4.

By: Bryan, George J.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Bryan's Publications:

Seller ID: 29178

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good-

33 pp, 9" H. c1924. B&w photographs, drawings, advertisements. Section headings include: Commerce of Oakville; Building Activities; Industries of Oakville; A Successful Industry; Where Oakville Aluminum is Made; Highway Floral Display; Oakville Utilities Commission; Schools of Oakville; War Monument; Lake Shore Motor Bus Line; Hotel Gibson, etc. Many advertisements for local and Toronto businesses. Interior - light rusting to staples with old tape re-inforcement at center of book, tiny bump at fore-edge of pages 1 to 16, small soft crease at top/bottom corners of pages, a few tiny faint f...
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SCIENCE FICTION: THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA. (SF)

By: Clute, John.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Canada: 1995

Edition: First Canadian Edition

Seller ID: 25258

ISBN: 0771573170

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

312 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with photographs, drawings, reproductions of book and magazine covers and author signatures, etc. "Covering the history of the genre in all its forms, and lavishly illustrated with images from books, films, magazines, comics, and graphic novels, (this book) presents one-of-a-kind, decade-by-decade time charts with fascinating insight into the cultural influences that shaped the Science Fiction of each period. In over 100 detailed biographies (it) introduces the world's greatest Science Fiction writers - from Mary Shelley and H.G....
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THE MEN WHO BREACHED THE DAMS: 617 SQUADRON 'THE DAMBUSTERS'.

By: Cooper, Alan W. Foreword by Air Marshal Sir Harold Martin.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Shrewsbury, Airlife: 1993

Seller ID: 24375

ISBN: 1853103969

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

204 pp, 8 5/8" H. B&w photographs. "Alan Cooper writes about an operation which at the time and ever since has captured the imagination of the world - the attack on the German dams in May 1943. This forms a deeply-researched history of one of the most successful operations of the Second World War carried out by the famous 617 Squadron led by Guy Gibson. This account includes the whole lead up to the final mission; the development of the bouncing bomb, the forming of 617 Squadron and the intense course of training carried out to make the operation a success. The raid itself is viewed from both...
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Image for THE SWIMMING TIMES. VOL. XVIII. NO. 1 MARCH 1940 + NO. 3. MAY 1940 + NO. 4, JUNE 1940. WITH: SWIMMING INSTRUCTION: LAND DRILLS AND WATER PRACTICE. 4 SWIMMING-RELATED ITEMS.

THE SWIMMING TIMES. VOL. XVIII. NO. 1 MARCH 1940 + NO. 3. MAY 1940 + NO. 4, JUNE 1940. WITH: SWIMMING INSTRUCTION: LAND DRILLS AND WATER PRACTICE. 4 SWIMMING-RELATED ITEMS.

By: Cummins, B.W., Capt. & Bassett-Lowke, Janet, editors. Besford, John; Desjardins, Pete; Larkin, E.J.; Biscoe, A.E., Capt.; Sturrock, Alexander; Hardidge, P.H.; Underell, J.W.J.; Chatfield, R.C.; at al.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Croydon / London, Capt. B.W. Cummins / Simkin Marshall:

Seller ID: 28793

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good

3 issues of 'The Swimming Times' from 1940 - 20 pp, 20 pp, 24 pp - 8 1/2" H + 'Swimming Instruction', rewritten 1937, 64 pp, 7 1/8" H. All with b&w photographs. 'The Swimming Times' includes articles on: War Work by Swimmers, Officials and Coaches; The Elements of Diving; Amateur Swimming Assoc-iation: A Record of Progress; The Royal Life Saving Society; Swimmers and Swimming in the Navy; A Scottish Club in Wartime; World Classification of Swimmers; Water Polo; etc. 'Swimming Instruction' contents: Preface; General Notes; Class Instruction; Breast Stroke; Back Stroke; Crawl Stroke; Back Cra...
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WELCOME TO FLANDERS FIELDS. THE FIRST CANADIAN BATTLE OF THE GREAT WAR: YPRES, 1915.

By: Dancocks, Daniel G.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Douglas Gibson/McClelland and Stewart: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25371

ISBN: 0771025459

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

292 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Map endpapers, b&w photographs. "The second battle of Ypres provided the First Canadian Division with its baptism of fire, and it could not have been worse. They were holding a salient, jutting out so that they were targets from three sides. The Germans, for the first time ever, used chlorine gas, which turned the Canadians' bayonets green and destroyed their lungs. Then they discovered that in combat conditions their Ross rifles jammed, as the waves of Germans hit their trenches. At the end John McCrae looked across the battleground where so many hundreds of his...
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CAP OF HONOUR: THE STORY OF THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT (THE 28th/61st FOOT) 1694-1950.

By: Daniell, David Scott. Material provided by Colonel R.M. Grazebrook. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap: 1951

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23065

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

344 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H) - black cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold badge on front board. B&w photographs, drawings, reproductions, maps. Light browning to pages, small stain in gutter of pages 254 to 271, browning and light staining to edges of text block, light to moderate edgewear on boards, light fading to spine colour, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor bump at corners.
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THE FOURTH OMNI BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION. (IV)

By: Datlow, Ellen, ed. (Ian Watson, Spider Robinson, Nancy Kress, Robert Silverberg, Jack Dann, Barry Malzberg, Paul Nahin, Orson Scott Card, Melisa Michaels, Scott Baker, William Gibson, Kate Wilhelm, Gene Wolfe, Harlan Ellison, George R.R. Martin, et al.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, General: 1985

Edition: First Printing.

Seller ID: 10739

ISBN: 0773784047

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

397 pp, 6 7/8" H. Contents: The Way of Cross and Dragon, by George R.R. Martin; The Thousand Cuts, by Ian Watson; Serpent's Teeth, by Spider Robinson; Boundary Echoes, by John M. Ford; With the Original Cast, by Nancy Kress; Our Lady of the Sauropods, by Robert Silverberg; Going Under, by Jack Dann; Sigmund in Space, by Barry N. Malzberg; The Invitation, by Paul J. Nahin; Unaccompanied Sonata, by Orson Scott Card; The Mickey Mouse Olympics, by Tom Sullivan; I am Large, I Contain Multitudes, by Meisa Michaels; The Lurking Duck, by Scott Baker; Hinterlands, by William Gibson; Sister Anger, by K...
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COURAGE REMEMBERED: THE STORY BEHIND THE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH'S MILITARY CEMETERIES AND MEMORIALS OF THE WARS OF 1914-1918 AND 1939-1945.

By: Gibson, Edwin, Major and Ward, G. Kingsley. Introduction by Major F.A. Tilston VC. Foreword by Field Marshall the Lord Bramall.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1989

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29150

ISBN: 0771087861

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

282 pp, 10" H. B&w and colour photographs. Map endpapers. "In the Beach Cemetery, Anzac, on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey lie the remains of Private John 'Simpson' and his donkey, Duffy. For three weeks, until they both were killed on 19 May, 1915, Simpson (whose real name was Kirkpatrick) and Duffy moved wounded men from the front lines to the army hospital a mile away. Two young brothers, Major P.K. Kennedy and Major D.P. Kennedy of Guelph, Ontario, fought side by side in France during World War II. They died in battle within two days of each other in September 1944. Their remains...
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Image for MEMOIRS OF THE BRAVE: A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLES OF ALMA, BALAKLAVA, AND INKERMAN, WITH BIOGRAPHIES OF THE KILLED AND A LIST OF THE WOUNDED.

MEMOIRS OF THE BRAVE: A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLES OF ALMA, BALAKLAVA, AND INKERMAN, WITH BIOGRAPHIES OF THE KILLED AND A LIST OF THE WOUNDED.

By: Gibson, James.

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: London, London Stamp Exchange: 1989

Edition: Facsimile Edition.

Seller ID: 16663

ISBN: 0948130628

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

148 pp, 6 13/16" H. "This little Victorian gem was (first) published in 1854, the first year of the Crimean War. The accounts of the battles are cursory, but the real fascination of the book lies in the biographical details of some two hundred officers who were killed or who died in those first few months of the war, written as they are in that flowery Victorian prose. They contain a great deal that would be of interest to the historian, genealogist and researcher as well as to regimental records. There is a separate list of officers wounded, divided in two parts; one for those wounded up to ...
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Image for SWEET POISON. (CONTAINS: BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS; CHARLEY'S TALE; THE SEASON OF THE WITCH-HUNTER; SMILE, PRETTY BABY; SWEET POISON AND OTHER SONGS; THE HOUSE THAT STAN AND ROSIE BUILT; GOLDEN BOY.)

SWEET POISON. (CONTAINS: BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS; CHARLEY'S TALE; THE SEASON OF THE WITCH-HUNTER; SMILE, PRETTY BABY; SWEET POISON AND OTHER SONGS; THE HOUSE THAT STAN AND ROSIE BUILT; GOLDEN BOY.)

By: Gibson, Margaret.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins: 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20232

ISBN: 0006475140

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

175 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "Each of these seven stories explores the intimate psychological journeys of women in crisis. We meet Jasimine, an adolescent imprisoned in an illusory world and the bonds of an asylum; Cleo, who survives the terrors of madness and the shocking betrayal of her psychiatrist; Rosie, who at the end of her life finds herself tormented by her unborn children; and Meg, who must say goodbye to the love of her life and face the future on her own. In a style that is devastatingly honest and disturbingly beautiful, Gibson pieces together the shattered lives and allows us to see ...
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A DOCTOR'S CALLING.

By: Gibson, Morris.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28670

ISBN: 0888945213

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

224 pp, 9 1/4" H. "In this anecdotal recounting of his boyhood years, his experiences in medical school, where he met his wife Janet, also a doctor, and his service in the armed forces during World War II and after, Morris Gibson shows what life is like for a doctor at large. He is a man devoted to healing, whether in England, or in a foothills town in Alberta, a western province of Canada. With his family, he makes his way with skill and intuition, curing when he can, listening and learning when he cannot. He recalls simple people in complex situations, the amazing effects of medical brea...
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SCIENCE FICTION FILMMAKING IN THE 1980s: INTERVIEWS WITH ACTORS, DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS AND WRITERS.

By: Goldberg, Lee, et al.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, (1995).:

Seller ID: 1807

267 pp, large 8vo, hard cover (no dj as issued). "Each chapter covers an individual movie, often from several perspectives, and is preceded by an introduction that puts the film and interview in historical context. It is our sincere hope that these articles will help create a better understanding of this turbulent and exciting decade in the history of science fiction filmmaking." Movies covered: Aliens, Blade Runner, Blue Thunder, Cocoon, Dune, Enemy Mine, The Mad Max Movies, Return of the Jedi, Robocop, The Star Trek Movies, 2010, War Games. Near Fine.
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SEMPER PARATUS: THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL HAMILTON LIGHT INFANTRY (WENTWORTH REGIMENT) 1862-1977.

By: Greenhous, Brereton (ed.) and Brown, Kingsley.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Hamilton, The RHLI Historical Association: 1977

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 28047

ISBN: 0969075405

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

446 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs, maps, color plates (including uniforms), map endpapers. Contents: The First Mess Dinner; Early Days; A Change of Command; On Active Service; Ridgeway; Lessons Learned; The Late Victorian Years; Th e South African War; The Twentieth Century; The Great War; An 'In-Between' Time; The Second World War; Operation Jubilee; The End of Jubilee; The Return to Europe; Verrieres Ridge; Back to Dieppe; Dieppe to Woensdrecht; South Beveland and the Watch on the Maas; The Drive to the Rhine; Xanten - The Last Battle; Forty Years On. Tiny bump at bottom corner of...
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NORTHERN STARS: THE ANTHOLOGY OF CANADIAN SCIENCE FICTION.

By: Hartwell, David G. and Grant, Glenn, eds. (Spider Robinson, Charles de Lint, Terence M. Green, Phyllis Gotlieb, Lesley Choyce, William Gibson, et al.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, TOR: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22802

ISBN: 0312857470

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

383 pp, 8vo (8 1/2"). "Complete with introductory notes and a comprehensive listing of Canadian science fiction award winners, (this book) is the definitive overview of science fiction's northern frontier and a valuable addition to any fan's library." Wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, tiny light stain on bottom of text block, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very light edge wear, one small tear with creases.
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Keyword: G.P. Gibson