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Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780443101175.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9780443102707.

Condizione: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780727918130.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780727918130.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9780443102707.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:9780443102707.

Condizione: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9780443102707.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Small booklet, not dated, modern. Illustrated booklet with some text of the area in the 20th C. Very clean, not inscribed.

Stapled Wraps. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 51. 8vo., measuring 6.75" x 10". Plain, twice-stapled, card covers illustrated vibrantly in colour. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. COrresponds to OCLC #427384881. Exceptionally well-preserved, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; fine. Appears unread.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. G. H. Jalland; Hugh Thomson; E. Caldwell; Fred Roe; et al. (illustratore). A limited edition ten-volume set of the prose and poetry of the Scottish novelist George Whyte-Melville. A ten-volume collection of works in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Ink inscription to the title page of each volume, dated 1899. G. H. Jalland illustrated Volumes II and XIII with fourteen plates. E. Caldwell and H. M. Brock illustrated Volume III with fourteen plates. Pinch Mason and Hugh Thomson illustrated Volume IV with fourteen plates. E. Caldwell illustrated Volume VII with fourteen plates. H. M. Brock illustrated Volume VIII with thirteen illustrations and Volume IX with ten plates. Fred Roe illustrated Volume X with twelve plates. Harrington Bird illustrated Volume XI with ten plates. Cecil Alden illustrated Volume XII with twelve plates. All frontispieces are depicted in colour. Collated, complete.One of 1050 copies printed of this edition of Whyte-Melville's works. George John Whyte-Melville (1821-1878) was a Scottish poet and novelist whose work mainly concerned field sports. This ten volume set of his prose and poetry includes: Volume II: Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor (1898) Volume III: Uncle John: A Novel (1898) Volume IV: Market Harborough or How Mr. Sawyer Went to the Shires/Inside the Bar or Sketches at Soakington (1899) Volume VII: Tilbury Nogo or Passages in the Life of an Unsuccessful Man/Scotland and the Moors (1899) Volume VIII: Songs and Verses/Bones and I or the Skeleton at Home (1899) Volume IX: Black but Comely (1899) Volume X: The Brookes of Bridlemere (1899) Volume XI: The White Rose (1899) Volume XII: Roy's Wife (1899) Volume XIII: Satanella: A Story of Punchestown (1899) In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally sound, though faded to the spines, with shelf wear to the boards. Small marks to the spines of Volume IX, X and XII. Front hinge to Volume XI is slightly strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally clean, with the odd spot and offsetting to the first and last couple of pages. Some age toning to the pages of Volume VII, XI, XII and XIII. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condizione: Good Only. Bernard Partridge; E. Caldwell; G. H. Jalland; H. M. Brock; et al. (illustratore). A complete set of George Whyte-Melville's works, being a limited edition run with charming illustrations throughout each volume. A limited edition set of these works from Scottish novelist and poet, George Whyte-Melville, being one of 1,050 printed by Morrison and Gibb Limited, Edinburgh.Complete in twenty-four volumes.In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with gilt stamp to the front boards.George Whyte-Melville's novels regularly revolved around field sports, such as his first work 'Digby Grand', which was originally published in 1852.Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece and a number of monochrome plates, from a variety of artists such as Henry Matthew Brock and Bernard Partridge.This set contains the following titles:Volume I - Riding Recollections (1898). Eleven plates.Volume II - Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor (1898). Thirteen plates.Volume III - Uncle John: A Novel (1898). Thirteen plates.Volume IV - Market Harborough: How Mr. Sawyer Went to the Shires; Inside the Bar or Sketches at Soakington (1899). Thirteen plates.Volume V - Contraband or A Losing Hazard (1899). Eleven plates.Volume VI - M. or N. (1899). Thirteen plates.Volume VII - Tilbury Nogo or Passages in the Life of an Unsuccessful Man; Scotland and the Moors (1899). Thirteen plates.Volume VIII - Song and Verses: Bones and I or The Skeleton at Home (1899). Twelve plates.Volume IX - Black but Comely (1899). Nine plates.Volume X - The Brookes of Bridlemere (1899). Eleven plates.Volume XI - The White Rose (1899). Nine plates.Volume XII - Roy's Wife (1899). Eleven plates.Volume XIII - Satanella: A Story of Punchestown (1899). Thirteen plates.Volume XIV - Digby Grand: An Autobiography (1900). Eight plates.Volume XV - Sarchedon: A Legend of the Great Queen (1900). Nine plates.Volume XVI - Sister Louise or The Story of a Woman's Repentance; Rosine (1901). Nine plates.Volume XVII - Kate Coventry (1901). Nine plates.Volume XVIII - Cerise: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century (1901). Nine plates.Volume XIX - The Queen's Maries: A Romances of Holyrood (1901). Eight plates.Volume XX - Holmby House: A Tale of Old Northamptonshire. Eight plates.Volume XXI - General Bounce or The Lady and the Locusts (1901). Eight plates.Volume XXII - The Gladiators: A Tale of Rome and Judaea (1901). Nine plates.Volume XXIII - Good for Nothing or All Down Hill (1902). Eight plates.Volume XXIV - The Interpreter: A Tale of the War (1902). Eight plates.Collated, complete. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth, with gilt stamps to the front boards. Externally, generally smart, with fading to the cloth, heaviest to the spines. With heaviest instances of fading to the boards of 'Riding Recollections', 'Market Harborough', and 'Brooks of Bridlemere'. Rear hinge tender to 'Good for Nothing'. With varying degrees of damp staining to the extremities. Heaviest instances to 'Uncle John', 'Songs and Verses', 'Digby Grand', 'Kate Coventry' and 'Sarchedon'. With rubbing to the extremities, causing cloth to come away from the spines, heaviest to 'Roy's Wife', 'Kate Coventry', 'Cerise', 'Holmby House' and 'The Interpreter'. With a bookplate of one Alfred Acland to the front pastedowns of 'Katerfelto'. Internally, generally firmly bound, with the title and frontispiece leaves detached but present to 'Satanella'. With some leaves uncut. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves, and the odd spot throughout. Good Only. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Neff, R.W. (cover); Mastri, Fiore; Burke, May C.; Holmgren,John; Macdonald Al (illustratore). First Edition. 60 pages. Features: Cover photo of baby gnawing on huge Easter egg; Canadian National - Canadian Pacific ad inside front cover called "War Whoop" shows speeding night train and illustration of native warrier to explain how the night-time whistle of a locomotive means men and materiel are being rushed to the front; News digest discusses German propaganda efforts to incur western suspicion against Russia; One-page Trans-Canada Telephone System ad implores long distance users to "Be Brief!", given wartime restrictions on their ability to increase capacity; Editorial comments on support for Russia and the need for those unable to fight in person to contribute financially to the war effort; Brain Waves For Winning the War - photo-illustrated article on technical innovations used in the war effort; Excellent photo-illustrated article on the new Canadian Pacific Airlines includes photos of Stewardess Ethel Hailes, Air Commodore H. Hollick-Kenyon, Grant W.G. McConachie, C.H. Dickins, and veteran parachutist Jack McGovern (at No.l 2 Air Observer School); Earthbound (short story); The Pomander Walk Myster (short story); Alterations (short story); The Royal Engineers - The Army's Pathfinders - nice photo-illustrated article; Sight Unseen (short story); Hollywood news and photos; GM one-page ad highlights their "Victory Service"; One-page Ford ad features illustrations of some of their 1943 military vehicles; The United Service Centre, located in the Eaton Annex, Winnipeg; Centrefold Victory Bonds ad sponsored by the National War Finance Committee illustrates seven Canadians from various walks of life and explains their financial contributions to the war effort; Woodbury Soap ad includes photos of Barbara Sellers of Winnipeg; Woodbury Cold Cream ad includes photo of film star Janet Blair; Food article on "Russia's Nutrition" explains how Russia is tightening its belt to support the Red Army - with photos; Fashion illustrations; Photo-illustrated article on the women of Russia; Quotes from around the world; H.J. Heinz ad inside back cover explains how "To Make Plain Foods Taste Like Banquet Fare"; Fantastic colour-illustrated back cover Coke ad shows soldier proudly walking in great coat, with smaller images of additional members of the military; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; National Home Monthly Magazine, April (Apr.) 1943 - New Canadian Pacific Air Lines / The Royal Engineers - The Army's Pathfinders Sappers Cover photo of baby gnawing on huge Easter egg; Canadian National - Canadian Pacific ad inside front cover called "W.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Smith, Hall; Warner, Charles; Jousset, D.A.; Greene, Hamilton; Clymer, John F.; Greene, Hamilton (illustratore). First Edition. 56 pages. Features: Nice colour Christmas Wabasso Cottons ad inside front cover; News digest includes nervous tension in Germany, turning the tide in Egypt, and fascism's twentieth anniversary; One-page ad for Trans-Canada Telephone System includes illustration encouraging citizens to minimize long distance usage in favour of wartime needs; Nice colour-illustrated Ritz ad shows ladies in grocery store; Secret Eyes - fascinating photo-illustrated article on wartime espionage, with photos of Lieut.-General H.R. Pownall and "The Lark", Marthe Richer; Houses of Glass (short story); Low Pressure Salesman (short story); Unprofessional Services (short story); After They Bale Out - photo-illustrated article on what happens to pilots when they have to bale out of their planes; Ace High (short story); Hollywood news and photos; Nice colour one-page ad for GM of Canada says "Victory is our Business" and shows armoured vehicles in service; One-page Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.) recruiting ad says "We're in another Team now"; Ford Motor Company ad shows wartime manufacturing; Woodbury Soap ad includes photos of Miss Mary Bishop of Toronto, in training as a field-to-field ferry pilot; Photo of Brenda Joyce in Woodbury Cold Cream ad; On the Kitchen Front - turkey recipe article; Nice one-page colour-illustrated Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Suggested gifts for women in uniform; Nice one-page Yardley ad; Fashion illustrations; Sayings from around the world; Nice colour Coke ad inside back cover shows Santa and Christmas scenes; Nice colour back cover ad for B.C. (British Columbia) apples includes illustration of men in uniform; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this excellent wartime issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Engstead, John (cover photo); Brigden, Fred H.; Iligan,Ralph; Blaisdell, Elinore; Leake, Gerald; Lousset, Albert; (illustratore). First Edition. 60 pages. Features: Ford ad inside front cover shows Canadian troop being welcomed home; On To Berlin - final days of the European war; Colour Canada Dry ad; Memorial photo of FDR; One-page GM ad features colour preproduction of rural fall leaf scene by Fred H. Brigden; They Stuck To Their Posts - article on Westerners who resisted the Japanese, including Emily Sprott of Ysabel Island and Archdeacon S.R. M. Gill of New Guinea; A Token for Tokyo (short story); Crime Behind the Front - photo-illustrated article on crime in Italy; Dog for Sale (short story); A Girl, A Bet and a Sailor (short story); Front Line Padre - wonderfully photo-illustrated article on Canada's men of the cloth who marched side-by-side with her troops - with photos of H/Major Cyril Stone of Vancouver, H/Capt. Rabbi Samuel Cass of Vancouver, H/Capt. E.C. Royle of Montreal, Captain George A. Harris (the only Canadian Jumping Padre) plus a group photo taken in Belgium of twenty-one Canadian Army Padres (too many names and ranks to list so please inquire for details); Adam Does a Job (short story); A Children's Charter - photo-illustrated article on Canada's new family allowance payments; Victory Bond ad; Victory Bond centrefold ad contrasts pastoral home scene with war-torn European scene; Health for Children - an ounce of prevention; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of newlyweds Mary Elizabeth Graham of "Greenacres", Aylmer and Gustave Eduardo Leguizamon, Chancellor of the Legation of Argentina; 1/3 Canadian Ice Foundation ad shows man carrying large block of ice; Colour Gold Seal Salmon ad features Walt Disney illustrations; Chase & Sanborn ad is colour Charlie McCarthy comic; Nice photo of Diana Barrymore in Arrid ad; Illustrations of Hollywood patterns; Should Women Return to the Home?; Nice colour illustration of Gloria De Haven in Woodbury Powder ad; Portrait of Mrs. Charles Boyer in Tangee ad; World Sayings; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; National Home Monthly Magazine, May 1945 - Emily Sprott of Ysabel Island / Crime Behind the Front in Italy / Front Line Padre Ford ad inside front cover shows Canadian troop being welcomed home; On To Berlin - final days of the European war; Colour Canad.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Lingley, H.P. (cover photo); Clymer, John F.; Mastri, Fiore; House, Nathan (illustratore). First Edition. 48 pages. Features: Cute photo of skinny-dipping little girl with huge Newfoundland dog; Wartime ad by the Trans-Canada Telephone system explains how citizens must limit use of their services in favour of war activity; Monthly war news update; The Tale of the Lonesome Swine (short story); Drama in the Union Station - Canada's National War Labour Board listens to all comers as it progresses toward its goal of a workable plant for industrial peace - article with photos of Mr. Justice C.L. McTague, Chairman of the Board, Mr. Leo. Lalonde, and Mr. J.L. Cohen, K.C.; Susabelle and Stoney Joe (short story); It's a Rough Road to Rangoon; His Honour the Judge (short story); Hollywood news; Once -age recruiting ad for the WRCNS / CWAC / RCAF; Mosquitoes Sting the Axis - photo-illustrated article on the R.A.F. Mosquito, Mark 11 (Fighter Intruder); Ford Motor Company one-page ad features allied spotters observing an enemy column; Their Watchword "Be Prepared" - the Girl Guides; Nice one-page photo-illustrated Westinghouse ad entitled "The Most Powerful People In the World"; Woodbury soap ad features photos of geology student Joan Patterson of Montreal and her pilot officer fiancee; Colour Orange Crush ad; Interesting article on munitions workers meals; Canadian General Electric ad entitled "Avoid Food Waste"; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Veronica Lake; Wings on Their Feet - part 2 of a series on AW2 Heck's experiences in the Air Force; Ontario Liberal Harry Nixon; RCAF half-page recruiting ad; Highway Women - interesting article on Canadian women who have moved to Northern Canada to support its development; Kotex ad includes illustration of lady building planee; World Sayings; Great colour-photo Coke ad inside back cover shows men working in heavy industry; Nice colour back cover recruiting ad for Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.); and more. Faint pencil name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A qualilty copy of this excellent vintage issue.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Bernard Partridge; E. Caldwell; G. H. Jalland; H. M. Brock; et al. (illustratore). Eighteen smart volumes of the twenty-four-volume limited edition set of the works of Scottish novelist George Whyte-Melville. One of one thousand and fifty limited edition copies of this edition, printed by Morrison and Gibb Limited, Edinburgh, in the publisher's original cloth binding. Top edge gilt. Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece and numerous black-and-white plates. Volumes II, XIII, XIX, and XXwere illustrated by G. H. Jalland. Volumes VIII, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XXI, XXIII, and XXIV were illustrated by H. M. Brock. Harrington Bird illustrated Volumes XV and XXII. E. Caldwell and H. M. Brock illustrated Volume III. Bernard Partridge illustrated Volume V. E. Caldwell illustrated Volume VII. Fred Roe illustrated Volume X. Cecil Alden illustrated Volume XII.George John Whyte-Melville (1821-1878) was a Scottish poet and novelist whose work mainly concerned field sports. His first novel "Digby Grand" was an instant success when it was published in 1852. Whyte-Melville went on to publish another twenty-one novels before his death after a hunting accident in 1878. This set includes: Vol II. Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor (1898)Vol III. Uncle John: A Novel (1898)Vol V. Contraband (1899)Vol VII. Tilbury Nogo/Scotland and the Moors (1899)Vol VIII: Songs and Verses/Bones and I or the Skeleton at Home (1899)Vol X: The Brookes of Bridlemere (1899)Vol XII. Roy"s Wife (1899)Vol XIII. Satanella: A Story of Punchestown (1899)Vol XV. Sarchedon: A Legend of the Great Queen (1900)Vol XVI. Sister Louise/ Rosine (1901)Vol XVII. Kate Coventry: An Autobiography (1901)Vol XVIII. Cerise: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century (1901)Vol XIX. The Queen"s Maries: A Romance of Holyrood (1901)Vol XX. Holmby House: A Tale of Old Northamptonshire (1901)Vol XXI. General Bounce, or The Lady and the Locusts (1901)Vol XXII. The Gladiators, a Tale of Rome and Judaea (1901)Vol XXIII. Good for Nothing or All Down Hill (1902)Vol XXIV. The Interpreter (1902) In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with fading to the spines and very light shelf wear to the boards. Small marks to the spines of Contraband and the Queen"s Maries, and stain to the spines of The Interpreter and The Gladiators. Fading to the front boards of The Interpreter and Sarchedon, and to the rear boards of Uncle John and Good for Nothing. Small marks to the front boards of General Bounce and The Gladiators. Front hinge starting to Sarchedon. Bookplate of Douglas Kerr to the front paste down of Sarchedon. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, except for offsetting to the paste downs and end papers, and a little spotting to the title pages. Very Good. book.