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St. John's, Newfoundland: Harry Cuff, 1987. 89 pp, 8 3/8" H. Signed and dated by the author on front free endpaper. A collection of anecdotes, legends, folklore by a Newfoundland author. Previous owners' names on ffep, otherwise clean and tight. Minor edgewear to covers, spine flat and unceased.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Sylvia Quinton Ficken, cover art..
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OLD FOOLISHNESS...OR FOLKLORE?
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EXPATRIATES AND PATRIOTS: AMERICAN ARTISTS, SCHOLARS, AND WRITERS IN EUROPE.
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Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1968. 310 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). "A considerable amount of our literary and social criticism has been based on the premise that during much of our history the United States has been inhospitable to the intellectual and the artist. The term 'exile' has been used frequently and Henry James has been pictured as the prime victim. The present study is a detailed examination of a selected number of representative writers, artists, and intellectuals who spent a considerable amount of time abroad. Its purpose is to determine the extent to which they were 'exiled', and especially to learn what they had to say about the contrast between the American and European scenes. Those discussed are Irving, Ticknor, Bancroft, Cogswell, Cooper, Morse, Greenough, Powers, Allston, Story, Fuller, Hawthorne, James, Frederic, and Wharton. In a special chapter devoted to the unique problems of the expatriates of the 1920's, such figures as Stein,…
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HOME & DRY IN NORMANDY. A MEMOIR OF ETERNAL OPTIMISM IN RURAL FRANCE.
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London: Orion, 2005. 276 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w map. "Follows the adventures of George and Donella East as they gamble everything and try to survive living off the land in rural France. After months of property hunting, the couple discover The Mill of the Flea set in ten acres of fields, woods, streams (and mud) in the heart of the magical Contentin peninsula. There, they set about renovating the dilapidated farmhouse and tiny mill cottage. What they have no inkling of, however, are the hilarious misadventures to follow, or the cast of unlikely and even bizarre characters they will encounter along the way. The charming and true story of how one couple set out with a dream of moving to Normandy, and got far more than they ever bargained for." Previous owner's name in ink on the free front endpaper, minor wrinkling at the top/bottom of the spine, light toning to the edges of the text block, slight lean to the spine. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling, tiny dent on the front…
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PAUL NASH: THE MASTER OF THE IMAGE, 1889-1946.
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London: John Murray, 1973. 156 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). B&w and colour reproductions, b&w photographs. "Paul Nash was always a leading and often a controversial figure in modern English art. His complete integrity of vision, his sturdy individualism and his remarkable ability to evoke the indwelling spirit of his subject - a quiet woodland scene, a menacing prehistoric site, a strange 'objet trouve' or 'monster' bombers on the ground or in the air - set him somewhat apart from his contemporaries. In its later phases his work was marked by a degree of intuitive vision which may well explain why he never adhered closely to any school or sought to found one himself. Despite this apparent isolation, or perhaps even because of it, his contribution to the art of the twentieth century was both vital and unique. No full scale study of his life and work has appeared for nearly twenty years and the Paul Nash Trustees felt that the time had come for a reappraisal of his…
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BIRDS, FLOWERS AND BUTTERFLIES: STAINED GLASS PATTERN BOOK.
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Mineola, New York: Dover, 1999. 60 pp, small 4to (10 15/16" H). 68 b&w line illustrations, 12 color illustrations on covers. "In her latest collection of exquisite patterns, stained glass designer Connie Clough Eaton has put her aesthetic spotlight on these three motifs. Included are full-page designs of lush baskets, vases, and garden flower bouquets, as well as butterflies and birds, set among floral sprays and in various bucolic settings. Masterfully rendered for stained glass work, the beautiful graphics in this rich collection are also suitable for use in a myriad of other arts and crafts projects." Interior - dog-ear crease at top corner of several pages otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - clean.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Connie Clough Eaton..
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THE DEAD DUKE, HIS SECRET WIFE, AND THE MISSING CORPSE: AN EXTRAORDINARY EDWARDIAN CASE OF DECEPTION AND INTRIGUE.
by Eatwell, Piu Marie.
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New York: Liveright, 2015. 338 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w illustrations. "In 1898, an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, came to the British court with an astonishing request. She claimed that the merchant T.C. Druce, her late father-in-law, had in truth been a secret identity for the deceased and enormously wealthy 5th Duke of Portland. Maintaining her composure amid growing agitation from the clutch of lawyers, journalists, and curious onlookers crowded into the church, Mrs. Druce claimed that Druce had been the duke's alter ego and that he had, in 1864, faked the death of his middle-class doppelganger when he grew tired of the ruse. She wanted the tomb unlocked and her father-in-law's coffin exhumed, adamant that it would lie empty, proving the falsehood and leaving her son to inherit the vast Portland estate. From that fateful afternoon, the lurid deatails of the Druce-Portland case spilled forth, seizing the attention of the British public for over a decade. Few tales could surpass…
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NORTHERN APPROACHES: CANADA AND THE SEARCH FOR PEACE.
by Eayrs, James.
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Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1961. 195 pp, 8 3/4" H. "A brilliant intelligence is brought to bear on the vital issues of Canadian defence and foreign policy, on Canada's relations with the U.S. and the British Commonwealth and the Communist bloc. Canadians do not always look at these problems in the same way as their North American neighbours. This book considers the Canadian 'style' in approaching such questions. (Discusses) difficult and frightening issues such as the location of the Great Deterrent, the acquisition of nuclear weaons, the fate of the Avro Arrow, civil defence. (Eayrs) examines the 'Nostrum of Neutralism' and while he concedes its appeal, concludes that the arguments in its favour are not valid at present. Commonwealth concerns, the monarchy, America's ill-fated intervention in Cuba, the role of the United Nations, the non-recognition of Communist China - all these questions and others of the kind are fearlessly and realistically discussed."…
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PAPERS IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS. ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOLUME 318.
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The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1978. 114 pp, 8vo, soft cover. Conference papers. Contents: Forensic Anthropology; Ethnicity and Stratification in the Urban United States; Religious Coexistence in Northern Zambia: Intellectualism and Materialism in Yombe Belief; Double Play: Notes on American Baseball; Are LASSes Better than LADs?; Situational Variability in the Speech of Preschool Children; Testing Morphological Productivity. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, light rubbing, flat uncreased spine. VG.
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THE MYSTERY OF THE PRINCE EDWARD "QUEEN".
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Toronto: Unitrade, 1985. Unpaginated (approx. 14pp.), 9" H. B&w illustrations. "In December of 1866 a peculiar 10 cent 'Prince Edward Island' stamp made its appearance in Europe. It was without perforations, printed in black on yellow paper, and the name of the country was misspelled. Those who saw the stamp said that it had 'an unreal look' about it." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks, staples rusty. Exterior - very light rubbing and soiling to covers, ghost sticker marking on front cover. . Reprint. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good.
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BONFIRES IN THE RAIN.
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Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams, 1991. 241 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w photographs. The second volume of New Zealand poet Lauris Edmond's autobiography. "For Lauris Edmond this was married life in its time of greatest fulfilment, with six children in a small New Zealand country town in the fifties. They were rich years, full of laughter and friendship and solidity - the way, she supposed, women's lives were meant to be. But dreams and expectations change, the experiences of loss and uncertainty impinge, and as the sixties became the seventies the world shifted on its axis. Women everywhere were questioning the old, familiar loyalties; for Lauris there was no ignoring the promptings of a talent - and a way of being - too long supressed. (A) remarkable account of a woman's journey from conformity to a tentative and painful independence; of the growth and death of a marriage, and the questioning and discovery of self. Eloquent and assured, this is autobiography at its…
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VOICES OF THE WINDS: NATIVE AMERICAN LEGENDS.
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Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2003. 368 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(G)athers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and tribal historians. The legends feature a broad array of mythical figures, such as Thunderbird, Coyote and Raven, as well as human like characters, 'The Girl Who Married the Moon', and 'Two Brothers Who Became Stars'. Organized by region - with tales from the Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Southeast and Northeast - the legends are drawn from many tribes, including the Wasco, Aleut, Apache, Yosemite, Cheyenne, Sioux, Hopi, Navajo, Chippewa, Cherokee and others, and are introduced by an informative headnote, accompanied by a hundred evocative drawings." Wrinkling at the top/bottom of the spine. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at the top of the spine.. Not Signed. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. Illus. by Molly Braun..
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CLIVE, THE HEAVEN BORN GENERAL.
by Edwardes, Michael.
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Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1977, first edition. 211 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0246106239 B&w photographs, reproduction, maps. " 'Clive - that man not born for the desk - that heaven-born general': so William Pitt the Elder described the subject of this penetrati ng biography, the most challengingly enigmatic figure in the colourful history of British India. It was Robert Clive who, through a series of astonishing military victories, brought Bengal into the Empire and thus assured the steady exten s i o n o f B r itish rule in India. Yet, as Michael Edwardes shows, he was not so much a military genius as a brilliant opportunist who understood that the game of Indian politics was best played by Indian rules....Here, against the vivid pagean t of e ig h te en t h- ce ntury India, (Edwardes) freshly illuminates the myth, the achievement and the ultimate nemesis of this extraordinary man." Approx. seven leaves with soft crease at…
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THE WILES OF THE FOX.
by Edwards, Lionel.
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London: Medici Society, 1932. 50 pp, 10 1/8" H. Oatmeal cloth spine with brown lettering, red cloth boards with fox's head in brown & white in white diamond. Six colour illustrations on dark olive stock (one double page) and over 15 b&w illustrations (collated). "To admirers of Lionel Edwards's brilliant pictures of the hunting field it is hardly necessary to say that he has all his life been a hunting man. In this sketch-book he gives us the fruits of his experience of the devious and wily ways of the fox, and his rapid, effective pencil illustrates his text with a vividness which has the quality of genius in it." Inside rear hinge paper is torn making hinge weak but it is holding well, slight insect damage at bottom edge of free endpapers, crease at bottom corner of page leaf 31/32, small bump at bottom corner of boards - migrates into pages, tiny bump at top corner of front board, tiny light foxing marks on spine/hinge cloth, very small bump on fore-edge of rear…
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ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND THE FRANCO QUESTION 1945-1955.
by Edwards, Jill.
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 291 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "(E)xamines the formulation of British and American policy between 1945 and 1955 towards one of the most hated regimes of this century. The Franco question, though apparently not of the first importance in the evolution of Cold War policy, nevertheless haunted British and American governments during this period. It posed a problem which epitomizes the difficulty of dealing with pariah regimes. As such it highlights for historians the attempts of these two governments to straddle the contradictions inherent in the emerging dual system of the United Nations, or internationalism, on the one hand, and the older system of balance of power, played out by the superpowers as the Cold War. Set as it is in the domestic and international context, it also exemplifies problems faced today by individual governments and by the United Nations in dealing with questions of intervention or non-intervention in distasteful regimes." Light bump to top…
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MY SCOTTISH SKETCH BOOK.
by Edwards, Lionel. (1878-1966)
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London: Country Life, 1929. VII, 32 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H). Gray/purple cloth with paper title label on front board, purple marbled endpapers. 16 colour plates, including frontispiece (all present - clean, bright, with no tears or creases). All pages (text & illustrations) are printed on one side only on heavy stock (versos blank). Each illustration page consists of a colour plate and a drawing in the margin Lionel Edwards, renowned artist of British hunting life, presents a selection of works produced during "the course of almost annual visits to Scotland", with short notes facing each illustration. Horses, hounds, deer, grouse, foxes, huntsmen and Scottish scenery appear. The page gatherings are loose in the binding but are holding together well, light browning in the margins of the pages, light to moderate browning to the half-title page, a very small stain in the gutter of one or two pages, small bump to the fore-edge of three pages - one page with a very small tear, a bump…
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RAILWAY RECORDS: A GUIDE TO SOURCES.
by Edwards, Cliff.
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Richmond, Surrey: Public Record Office, 2001. 222 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). B&w illustrations. "This guide shows enthusiasts and researchers how to find records relating to railway companies, individuals who served on the railways and the trains themselves. From the first days of steam to the golden age of train travel at the start of the twentieth century, the railways have played a central role in British social history. When the remaining private railway companies were nationalized in 1948, their administrative records and those of the hundreds of companies they had absorbed were passed to the Public Record Office. The records include inform-ation on the estimated half million people employed by over two hundred separate rail companies at the start of the last century, and provide an important source of material for genealogists, economic historians and railway enthusiasts alike." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - three minor soft…
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RAILWAY RECORDS: A GUIDE TO SOURCES.
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Richmond, Surrey: Public Record Office, 2001. 222 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). B&w illustrations. "This guide shows enthusiasts and researchers how to find records relating to railway companies, individuals who served on the railways and the trains themselves. From the first days of steam to the golden age of train travel at the start of the twentieth century, the railways have played a central role in British social history. When the remaining private railway companies were nationalized in 1948, their administrative records and those of the hundreds of companies they had absorbed were passed to the Public Record Office. The records include inform-ation on the estimated half million people employed by over two hundred separate rail companies at the start of the last century, and provide an important source of material for genealogists, economic historians and railway enthusiasts alike." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear at bottom…
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SALVO! CLASSIC NAVAL GUN ACTIONS.
by Edwards, Bernard.
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London: Brockhampton, 1999. 192 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "(T)he theme of this new study (is) the hard-fought ship-to-ship battles where the gun was all-important, and where salvo after salvo were fired by the protagonists at all ranges from maximum elevation and distance to virtual open sights point-blank actions. (The author) skilfully sets the scene for each action, explaining the background to the naval war at the time as well as that of the individual ships involved before retelling the stirring and dramatic story of each actual clash." Contents: Introduction; Yalu River; Heligoland Bight; Carmania and Cap Trafalgar; Emden and Sydney; Falkland Islands; Dogger Bank; Konigsberg; The Destroyers; Rawalpindi and Scharnhorst; Renown and Gneisenau; Cape Matapan; Kormoran and Sydney; Java Sea; Savo Island; Stephen Hopkins and Stier; Guadalcanal; Barents Sea; Surigao Strait; Bibliography; Index. Book is Fine. Dust jacket has very minor wrinkling…
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BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG.
by Edwards, Tudor.
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London: B.T. Batsford, 1951. 128 pp, 8 3/4" H. Colour frontispiece, b&w photographs, 2 maps. "Belgium, Luxembourg and French Flanders are included in this survey of an area which is, intentionally, treated more as a cultural than a nationalistic entity. It is an area whose buildings, customs and people share a common quality that traverses national frontiers: a quality which appears equally in the Grandes Places of Antwerp, Malines and Brussels, in the canal-side architecture of Bruges and Ghent, and in the characteristic processions and fetes of Furnes, Echternach, Binche, Mons and Douai, to name only five of many." Soft corner crease on Preface page, minor winkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light browning on spine and some edges - darker at top edge of flaps, 1" edge tear with soft crease at top of rear panel, protected in a mylar sleeve. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good -.
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London: Brockhampton, 1999. 192 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "(T)he theme of this new study (is) the hard-fought ship-to-ship battles where the gun was all-important, and where salvo after salvo were fired by the protagonists at all ranges from maximum elevation and distance to virtual open sights point-blank actions. (The author) skilfully sets the scene for each action, explaining the background to the naval war at the time as well as that of the individual ships involved before retelling the stirring and dramatic story of each actual clash." Contents: Introduction; Yalu River; Heligoland Bight; Carmania and Cap Trafalgar; Emden and Sydney; Falkland Islands; Dogger Bank; Konigsberg; The Destroyers; Rawalpindi and Scharnhorst; Renown and Gneisenau; Cape Matapan; Kormoran and Sydney; Java Sea; Savo Island; Stephen Hopkins and Stier; Guadalcanal; Barents Sea; Surigao Strait; Bibliography; Index. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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