Original black paper boards. DJ corner-clipped and taped to boards. Clear plastic jacket. Valuable reference for movie or live theatre sets featuring interiors in the 50's, whether traditional or modern. Library bookplate, discard stamp, card envelope, etc. Very informative description/illustration of various styles and periods. 319 pp. This heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Original dark blue cloth on boards. No writing or damage. DJ has a few tiny tears head and foot. Jigs, reels, hornpipes, and a whole lot of history ! This meaty volume will be of much interest to the student or teacher of dance as well as the historian. ISBN 0-7735-0087-1. Heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Original bright blue cloth on boards. Just reading the author's bio is enough to make me want to read this book. That should ameliorate my ignorance when asked, "What's the difference between the Mennonites and the Amish ?" Heavy book will need extra postage. 640 pp. View More...
Original dark blue cloth on boards. DJ chipped at foot of spine, with price tag removal stain. Previous owner's name in ink with no other writing or damage. A Muslim order in Libya and Sudan, founded in Mecca in 1837. This book describes the nature of an Islamic order and how this particular order was founded and spread, with special reference to its relations with Italy. Origin and expansion of the Sanusiya, Bedouin of Cyrenaica, Sanusiya and the tribes, Turkish administration, First Italo-Sanusi war, Period of the accords, Second Italo-Sanusi war, Italian rule and colonization, Appendices... View More...
Original white trade paperback. Edited by a British Member of Parliament, this book is an excellent case study for anyone interested in human relations. This island has a history of victimization by outside interests. Recently it has been a standoff between Greeks in the South and Turks in the North, stirred up by Britain and chastised by the United Nations. Although 95% of voters in 1949 favoured "enosis" (union with Greece) it still hasn't happened. 224 pp. View More...
Dark blue paperback. From the Series, Women in the Political Economy, by Ronnie J. Steinberg. This book has light-medium underlining and highlighting. Disagreement of ISBN - back cover lists it as 0-87722-400-5. "Ferguson maps new terrain for radical feminism, reduces liberal feminism to a heap of false promises, forces Leftists toward feminism to a degree unapproached by the 'Marxist-Feminist' literature, and, of course, makes a case against bureaucracy." - back cover. 286 pp. View More...
Grey cloth with spine designs on boards. Various dances of Southwestern U.S. as practiced by Pueblo groups, Hopis, Navajos, and Apaches. Dance as prayer and of "things that matter." 276 pp. plus index. View More...
Original bright red paper boards. Unclipped DJ. A revelation of how wealthy, well-known American businessmen have associated with top Kremlin figures for years. 372 pp. View More...
Original royal blue cloth on boards. Remains of DJ taped to covers. Purchased at library book sale, but no evidence of circulation (Notes on title page.) Withdrawn stamp on bottom edge. Celtic and Pre-Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Norman, Middle Ages, Tudor, Puritan, The Inventors. Black-and-white photos. 264 pp. View More...
Original black cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ shows water stain. One chilling account from 1958 records the execution of a couple for murder - the man by decapitation and the woman by stoning - in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 284 pp. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. Charles Foley's account of life in Nicosia as the editor of a newly-founded newspaper. Moves along quickly. Brits sem to be regarded as not-so-necessary evils as the struggle for "enosis" (union with Greece) heats up. EOKA and General Grivas will give him something to write about ! Designated to be given to Jane Armstrong, signed "With love, Charles" on title page, and a longer inscription to Jane, "who has the bug, too". Jane was the wife of and fellow -correspondent with her husband, Lawrence Earl, formerly Larry Wiezel, of Saint John. DJ a little browned... View More...
Original illustrated cover trade paperback. Add this to your collection of Mulroney-bashing books ! Even though it's 20 years old it can probably get your juices flowing again ! 182 pp. View More...
Original black paper boards. Previous owner's name, notes, and bookplate on endpapers. Background and Perspective; The Provincial Corps, Northern Department; and Afterwards. Another book by a respected author on the subject of the Loyalists. Fifteen maps, colored photos, and a few clippings laid in make this another valuable resource. 392 pp. Heavy book might need extra postage. View More...
Original reddish-brown cloth on boards. Cover title rubbed. No writing except "1946, Christmas Greetings, Bill Kotchapaw "(signed). I twigged to the name Kotchapaw because I lived in Prince Edward County, Ontario, for many years and had heard it there. Roe Parham Fulkerson was the first editor of Kiwanis Magazine, and was known as a popular speaker and writer. Among his credits is the first appearance in print of the words, "He Aint Heavy, He's My Brother," which was later chosen as title of the popular song as well as the motto of Boystown. William Gorsline Kotchapaw was born in Picton,... View More...
Original black cloth on boards. Library bookplate and return label. Small nick head of spine. The author (1869-1951) was a prolific writer who had served as a war correspondent in World War I. 272 pp. including index. View More...
