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SOLDIER ON: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

By: Ansell, Mike, Colonel Sir. Foreword By H.R.H. The Prince Philip.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Peter Davies: 1973

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 27028

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

180 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). **Inscribed on half title page: "G_____ A_____ Best wishes Mike Ansell Oct. 14th 1973". B&w plates. "In June, 1940, when Colonel Mike had just been awarded the D.S.O. and was the youngest Commanding Officer in the Army, disaster struck: he was blinded in a hail of bullets at St Valery. The way he has overcome this handicap, and other more heartbreaking losses, is the inspiring theme of this book. For Colonel Mike has never failed to 'soldier on' in the face of adversities that would have broken lesser men. Whether catching salmon on the Torri...
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JUST RAOUL: THE PRIVATE WAR AGAINST THE NAZIS OF RAOUL LAPORTERIE, WHO SAVED OVER 1,600 LIVES IN FRANCE.

By: Bacque, James. (Raoul Laporterie.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Rocklin, CA, Prima: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19098

ISBN: 1559581425

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

192 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). Map endpapers, b&w illustrations. "In German-occupied France in 1940, only a few people refused to give up the great ideals of their country - liberty, equality, and fraternity. One of these was Raoul Laporterie. Starting right after the fall of France, he supplied false documents, money, transport, and shelter to more than 1,600 people. Those rescued were chiefly Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux, but also included a covey of nuns, some French soldiers evading prison camps, and Allied flyers fleeing captivity. He was assisted by his wife, Laure, and his daughter, Ire...
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CASSANDRA, PRINCESS OF TROY.

By: Bailey, Hilary.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, (1993), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 10788

325 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Cassandra, having lived quietly on a farm for twenty years, begins to write her reminiscences of the past. It is a "tragic story, taken from one of the oldest and most famous tales ever told - the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. It begins with Helen's flight, with Paris of Troy, from her husband. It tells of how a Greek army crossed the sea to attack Troy and bring back Helen, of the fall of Troy and its terrible aftermath. In this wonderfully vivid historical novel the author imagines Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess, did not die ...
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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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THE TRIAL OF THE TEMPLARS.

By: Barber, Malcolm.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, reprint.:

Seller ID: 20800

312 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H), soft cover. ISBN 0521457270 "On 18 March 1314, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Templars, was burned at the stake. For almost two centuries the knights of the Order of the Temple had flourished during the Crusades in Palestine and Syria, and in the West, notably in France. But in 1307, the Templars in France were arrested by King Philip IV's officials in the name of the Inquisition, their property seized and the men charged with serious heresies, including the denial of Christ, homosexuality, and idol worship. Confessions, extracted under torture, were ...
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THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF A TERRIBLE SUPERSTITION.

By: Baring-Gould, Sabine. Introduction by Michael Lord.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Causeway Books: 1973

Seller ID: 29056

ISBN: 0883560089

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

266 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Werewolves are human beings who through magic change into animal form and lust for the flesh of other humans or animals. The tradition of werewolves goes back to the dawn of history and it is found in countries all over the world. There is even a scientific term for it - Lycanthropy - which denotes the magical transformation of man into beast or the belief that such changes take place. In this book, (first published in 1865, the author) advances as an explantion of werewolves, a theory of an innate cruelty and blood lust in mankind, dimly veiled by civilization.&...
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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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ALONE IN THE SKY.

By: Batten, Jean. Drawings by L.R. Williams. Foreword by J.M. Ramsden. Dust jacket art by Lynn Williams.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Shrewsbury, Airlife.: 1979

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25863

ISBN: 0906393019

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good +

190 pp, 8vo (8 13/16" H). B&w photographs, drawings. "Jean Batten is one of the great names in aviation history. She was born in New Zealand in 1909, a few weeks after Louis Bleriot flew the English Channel, and qualified for a flying licence at the London Aero Club in 1930. (This book) tells the story of (her) early life and of all her famous flights. The vivid descriptions of these flights, made nearly 50 years ago, highlight the hardships and dangers faced by the early aviators. Quite alone she flew immense distances in record times and in the most basic of aeroplanes. Not on...
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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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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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PRINCE IMPERIAL.

By: Bibesco, Marthe, Princess. Translated by Roland Gant.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Grey Walls, London, 1949, first British edition.:

Seller ID: 18709

204 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates. "Princess Bibesco has taken for her novel the story of the son of Napoleon III. Brought up in the Bonaparte tradition and used as a political instrument by his parents, who exploited his popularity with the French people as a means to consolidate their regime, he was forced to flee France when the Prussians inflicted the crushing defeat of 1870. He came to England and later became an officer in the British Army and was killed i n the Zulu War. Princess Bibesco tells the story of his life and his love affair with an Eng...
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THE EARLY TRADING COMPANIES OF NEW FRANCE: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF COMMERCE AND DISCOVERY IN NORTH AMERICA.

By: Biggar, H.P.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Library: 1901

Edition: First, Limited Edition.

Seller ID: 30127

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

308 pp, 10 1/4" H. No. 118 of the limited first edition of 600 copies. Rebound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, new endpapers. An ex-library copy with college stamp on top edge of textblock, library stamps, etc. on free endpapers. *Please note: lacks fold-out map that should accompany text.* Chapter headings: Introduction: Brief description of early expeditions to the regions of the St. Lawrence; The Discovery and Occupation of the St. Lawrence Valley; The Birth and Growth of Trade and Commerce, 1497-1597; The Two Attempts of La Roche and the First Fur-Trade Monopoly; The...
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SECURITY FOR A NEW EUROPE: THE VIENNA NEGOTIATIONS ON CONFIDENCE- AND SECURITY-BUILDING MEASURES 1989-90, AND BEYOND.

By: Borawski, John.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Brassey's (UK): 1992

Edition: First English Edition

Seller ID: 14265

ISBN: 1857530403

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

235 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "While the 'traditional' threat of East-West military confrontation appears much reduced, events in Yugoslavia have removed any complacency about the stability of the new Europe unfolding around us. New threats - territorial quarrels, nationalism, and the demise of the Soviet Union as a unitary state - require a radically new approach to European security. The creation of an effective security system will be highly dependent on the trust and co-operation between the former Warsaw Treaty Organisation countries and their new-found NATO allies. As their ti...
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SECURITY FOR A NEW EUROPE: THE VIENNA NEGOTIATIONS ON CONFIDENCE- AND SECURITY-BUILDING MEASURES 1989-90, AND BEYOND.

By: Borawski, John.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Brassey's (UK): 1992

Edition: First English Edition

Seller ID: 29458

ISBN: 1857530403

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

LEGENDS OF QUEBEC. FROM THE LAND OF THE GOLDEN DOG.

By: Boswell, Hazel.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

120 pp, 8" H. Colour illustrations. Contents: Foreword; The Feast of St. John the Baptist; The White Owl; The Weeping Rock; Felix the Obstinate; Old Desanges; The Lighthouse of Ste. Julie; Josephine's Promise; The Man Who Shot the Cross; The Little Bear; The Trip to Paris; Notes. Small McClelland and Stewart stamp mark on free front endpaper, some light toning on free endpapers from dust jacket flaps, minor edge wear, minor wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped, three edge tears with creases archivally taped, wear, most edge wear has been dyed green to match dust jack...
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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 boo...
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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 sor...
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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+

THE IMPRESSIONIST AND THE CITY: PISSARRO'S SERIES PAINTINGS.

By: Brettell, Richard R. and Pissarro, Joachim. Edited by Mary Anne Stevens.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Museum of Art, Dallas, 1993.:

Seller ID: 24415

230 pp, 4to (11 5/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket and publisher's plain cardboard slipcase. ISBN 0300053509 Profusely illustrated with color reproductions. "In the final decade of his life Camille Pissarro abandoned his experimentation with Neo -Impressionist technique and developed new forms of pictorial expression that drew more on the Impressionism of his earlier career. During this period - from 1893 to 1903 - Pissarro, besides continuing to explore the landscape genre that had b e e n h is main subject-matter, also began to grapple with urban scenes, and his paintings of Pa...
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THE ROYAL ALEXANDRA THEATRE: A CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS.

By: Brockhouse, Robert.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McArthur: 2007

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29176

ISBN: 155278648X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

346 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated in colour, b&w and sepiatone with photographs/reproductions. "It was one of those grand civic gestures so loved by the aristocracy of the Gilded Age: a gift to Toronto meant to call the world's attention to its blossoming as a great city. The giver was Cawthra Mulock, 'the boy millionaire', one of the wealthiest men in Canada. The gift was the Royal Alexandra, a magnificent new theatre built - with no regard to cost - to equal the most splendid houses of London, Paris and New York. It was to be the lodestar of North American theatres, attr...
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Keyword: Paris