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FASCIST ERA YEAR XVII (28th OCT. 1938 - 27th OCT. 1939).

By: N/A

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Rome, Fascist Confederation of Industrialists: 1939

Seller ID: 29905

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Fair

212 pp, 7 1/8" H. Light blue leather spine and corners, gilt lettering/banding on spine, marbled boards. Blue slip tipped in on blank preliminary "Compliments of / ITALIAN LIBRARY / OF INFORMATION / New York City 595 Madison Avenue". Contents: Foreword; Basic Facts; The Structure of the Totalitarian State; Guild Economy - Purpose; Guidl Economy - Machinery; Financial and Monetary Policies; Credit Policies; Credit Policies; Agricultural policies and achievements; Industrial policies and achievements; Commercial policies and achievements; Price Policies; Economic Self-sufficienc...
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CONSTITUTION OF THE GRAND LODGE, DISTRICT AND LOCAL LODGES, COUNCILS AND CONFERENCES. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Grand Lodge, International Association of MacHinists: 1949

Seller ID: 28927

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

117 pp, 5 3/4" H. Title page continues: "Revised by the Committee on Law as recommended by the Twenty-Second Convention of the Grand Lodge of The International Association of Machinists, held in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 13 to 24, 1948, and thereafter adopted by referendum vote in the month of December, 1948, effective April 1, 1949." Information on apprenticeships, benefits, Grand, District & Local lodges, dues, fines, elections, initiation, membership, pensions, salaries, strikes, etc. Interior - tiny staple dent at top of first oage, small soft crease at bo...
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NAVAL ELECTRICAL POCKET BOOK. B.R. 157/1933 bound with ADDENDUM NO. 2 TO B.R. 157/1933. B.R. 157 (2)

By: Admiralty, Torpedo and Mining Dept.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, King's Printer, Ottawa, 1943.: 1943

Seller ID: 22906

Binding: Heavy Card

Condition: Good reading copy only.

92 pp + 399 pp, 6 1/2" H - stiff navy blue card covers with cloth spine. Many b&w drawings/diagrams - some fold-out. From title page: "Reproduced as amended in Canada (Jan. 1943) by the King's Printer, Ottawa, with permission of the Controller, H.M. Stationery Office, London, for the exclusive use of His Majesty's Canadian Naval Forces. 1941. Note. - In this Addendum is included Addendum No.1, so that the latter may now be destroyed. Addendum No. 3 amending Addendum No. 2 has been incorporated in this reprint." The section headings include: Measuring and Testing Instruments and the...
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AIR NAVIGATION: AN INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL NAVIGATION.

By: Allan, W.J.D.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons: 1940

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28652

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

80 pp + publisher's catalogue, 7 1/2" H. Blue cloth with red lettering on spine and front cover. Drawings/diagrams, projections, tables. Contents: Preface; Maps and Charts; Instruments; Compasses; Dead-Reckoning Navigation; Dead-Reckoning Navigation (Contd.). Tiny foxing mark on page v, a bookstores small label on front pastedown, light fading to color on spine and slightly at two edges, minor rubbing, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine.
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WORLD AIRCRAFT: COMMERCIAL, 1935-1960.

By: Angelucci, Enzo and Matricardi, Paolo.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Rand McNally: 1979

Seller ID: 16187

ISBN: 528882066

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

317 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H). 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 - book lightly cocked, very l...
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MEN AT ARNHEM.

By: Angus, Tom.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1977

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 16843

ISBN: 0850522153

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

208 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w maps, organization chart. "Tom Angus sets out to apportion no blame, nor does he seek to analyse the reasons for the failure of the operation. His aim is simply to describe what it was like to be a 30-year old company commander during those eight days in hell. For obvious reasons, the characters are not all drawn straight from life. The names are changed and he does not specify the units concerned. But the events he describes did happen just where and when and how he describes them; so if this is not a conventional work of military history nor is it by any ...
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BRUMAS THE POLAR BEAR CUB.

By: Armistead, Elizabeth.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Britannicus Liber: 1950

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30452

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

31 pp, 8 5/8" H. Pictorial front board, red cloth spine. B&w photographs. On November 27th, 1949, the first polar bear cub to be successfully reared in Britain was born at the London Zoo. Originally thought to be male, she was named for her two keepers, Bruce and Sam (reversed). The text of this book describes a series of photographs showing Brumas and her mother, Ivy, exploring their enclosure and 'searching for Brumas' father, Mischa'. Top half of paper on both inside hinges is split - hinges are holding well, light to moderate edge wear - mostly at corners, light fading to spine c...
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1968 COOKING CLUB CALENDAR - ADVERTISING PIECE FOR MOOTE & HODGSON LIMITED, ORANGEVILLE, ONTARIO.

By: Baker, Betty / Moote & Hodgson, Orangeville, Ontario.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: 1967

Seller ID: 28874

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Approx. 11 3/8" H x 8" W. This calendar was an advertising piece for Moote & Hodgson Limited of Orangeville, Ontario. The binding quite cleverly consists of a piece of flexible 'gold' coloured metal, with a hole for hanging at top, which loops through all the pages of the calendar. When the 'gold' pencil that slots into the loop is removed, the pages can be taken out and re-ordered (the instructions suggest that each finished month be placed at the back of the calendar in sequence). The twelve sheets for the months each form a pocket at the bottom (for storing receipts, recipes, note...
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AIRCRAFT OF THE LUFTWAFFE FIGHTER ACES I.

By: Barbas, Bernd.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Atglen, PA, Schiffer: 1995

Seller ID: 24803

ISBN: 08740751X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

263 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). B&w photographic endpapers, profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, profiles. "Bernd Barbas' classic studies on the aircraft of the Luftwaffe fighter aces are presented now in expanded, revised and updated editions. Volume I covers: JG 1 Oesau; JG 2 Richthofen, JG 3 Udet, JG 4, JG 5 Eismeer, JG 6 Horst Wessel, JG 7 Nowotny, JG 11, JG 26 Schlageter, JG 27, JG 44, JG 51 Molders, and JG 52." Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very small light bump at top corner of front board. Dust jacket has light wrinkling at top of front hinge and fron...
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RHODESIA: THE ROAD TO REBELLION.

By: Barber, James.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press / Institute of Race Relations: 1967

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 25436

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

338 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "As a result of the dramatic Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Ian Smith and his Cabinet in November 1965, Rhodesia is now the centre of an international crisis, a focal point in a rapidly changing scene. But the act should not be seen as an isolated incident; it is part of a political and constitutional pattern which has developed gradually, and of which the outstanding feature is the division between Europeans and Africans. In this careful and thorough study Mr. Barber traces the various strands which make up this pattern, analysing the origins of thi...
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FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE: THE BATTLE OF THE HOOK, KOREA 1953.

By: Barker, A.J.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1974

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16856

ISBN: 0850521084

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

170 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs, maps. "The Battle of the Hook was probably the last full-scale infantry battle, fought on traditional lines, that the world will ever see. It was also a classic set-piece example of a battalion in defence and was, in terms of steel, the biggest battle of the Korean War, and the most concentrated confrontation of artillery support and engineering effort since the First World War. In it the Black Watch and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment defeated and completely routed a fanatical Chinese army who attacked them over a period of some fifteen days...
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BABAYAGA.

By: Barlow, Toby.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2013

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27932

ISBN: 0374107874

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

383 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "Paris, 1959" The City of Light is the center of the universe. Expats flock to exercise their loftiest ambitions and most libertine fantasies, and maybe dabble in a bit of Cold War spycraft along the way. Refugees from the East - a few babayagas among them - arrive to start their lives anew. The world's greatest city is as cosmopolitan and alive as it's ever been. Will is just another young American seeking his fortune in Paris - except that the ad agency that employs him is a front for the CIA. He's been in the city a few years now and is beginning t...
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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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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 t...
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SUPERMARINE ATTACKER, SWIFT AND SCIMITAR. POSTWAR MILITARY AIRCRAFT: 7.

By: Birtles, Philip.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Shepperton, Surrey, Ian Allan: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24576

ISBN: 0711020345

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

112 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings/diagrams. "The name Supermarine is universally associated with the Spitfire, an aircraft which helped to defeat the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain; the company's fundamental role in the development of Britain's military jet aircraft is less well known. Although now overshadowed by the success of the Hawker Hunter and of the BAC Lightning, the Supermarine Attacker, Swift and Scimitar were among the most influential of Britain's post-war military aircraft. The Attacker, first flown in 1946, was th...
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THE BATTLE OF THE GENERALS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE FALAISE POCKET - THE CAMPAIGN THAT SHOULD HAVE WON WORLD WAR II.

By: Blumenson, Martin.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, William Morrow: 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24669

ISBN: 0688118372

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

288 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, map/battle plans. "According to General Omar Bradley, it was a chance that 'comes to a commander once in a century'. The opportunity was to surround and destroy the enemy armies opposing the Allies in Normandy. Three months after the Allies invaded France on D-Day, the Germans had stuck their head into a noose and made themselves vulnerable to encirclement and annihilation in the Falaise Pocket. Had the Allies succeeded in springing the trap at Falaise quickly enough, they would certainly have brought World War II in Western Europe to a t...
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PRIVATE WORDS: LETTERS AND DIARIES FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Blythe, Ronald, ed.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Viking: 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23312

ISBN: 0670832049

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

310 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "The Second World War was, among other things, a great 'reading and writing' war. There was a passion for books of all kinds, and also a remarkable outpouring of personal writing in the form of letters and diaries. The latter were actually forbidden in the services because they might fall into enemy hands, but this did not prevent them from being kept in startling quantities. The young especially, whether on the Home Front or fighting abroad, became extraordinary self-examiners and communicators, finding all kinds of outlets for what was happening to the...
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FASTEST IN THE WORLD: THE SAGA OF CANADA'S REVOLUTIONARY HYDROFOILS.

By: Boileau, John.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, Formac: 2004

Seller ID: 22591

ISBN: 088780621X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

96 pp, large 8vo (9 1/8" H). B&w and colour photographs. "In the search for the perfect flying machine, hydrofoils were born. In 1919, Alexander Graham Bell and his young collaborator, Casey Baldwin, broke a world speed record when their hydrofoil prototype, HD4, skimmed across Lake Bras d'Or at 61.5 knots. This book is a complete re-examination of the Canadian research into hydrofoil vessels in the twentieth century. It describes how Baldwin and his colleagues, generously supported by Mabel Bell and under the guidance of the great inventor, built and tested numerous prototypes until ...
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NIXON: ACCLAIM AND SHAME.

By: Bowers, Dorrance. Inscribed.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Kelowna, British Columbia, Self-published: 2009

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 23817

ISBN: 143633506X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

768 pp, large 8vo (9 1/8" H). Promotional postcard laid in. Inscribed on half title page: "With the Compliments of the author Dorrance Bowers June 2009 Recoll (?), University of Toronto Medical School Trinity College Fleet Air Arm England & the U.S.A." "The self-destruction of the highest and mightiest among us seems incomprehensible to the average mortal. One can only ask 'How could it happen?' In the case of the 37th President of the United States of America, Richard Nixon, January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974, the answer seems clear. His undoubted intelligence, ambition and i...
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WELCOME TO THE BAY OF BENGAL. A TRUE WARTIME STORY.

By: Bowman, David S.J. Inscribed.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Belleville, Ontario, Epic Press: 2002

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 22219

ISBN: 1553063996

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

64 pp, 8 1/8" H. B&w photographs, map. Inscribed on half title page: "To Mabel / Enjoy / Dave Bowman". "It was bad enough that Royal Canadian Air Force warrant officer David S.J. Bowman was fighting in a war, but then on April 23, 1945, David encountered an unexpected and terrible twist of events that changed his life forever. After a fairly routine enemy target attack on a munitions dump near Rangoon, Burma, his Liberator aircraft was making its way back across the Bay of Bengal, bringing David and his comrades back to home base for a debriefing and a beer. Ten miles from the...
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Keyword: Mid 20th Century