Search Results: Titles starting with M from Stillman Books

From the d.j.: "This popular history tells the remarkable story of the men and women who surveyed the province. Using basic equipment, surveyors endured arduous work conditions. They witnessed the tragedy of colonial impact on aboriginal peoples, protected the interests of prospectors, settlers, and entrepreneurs, pioneered aerial technologies in the mountains, and left their names on landmarks all over British Columbia."
Gift inscription to Dad on f.e.p.

"More Fighting Newfoundlanders" is the story of another generation of soldiers, sailors, and airmen who represented Newfoundland with great distinction in the Second World War. Map endpapers, 3 large fold-out maps and numerous b/w photos.
Heavy book (over 3 lb.), will require extra postage.

INSCRIBED to Cyndy by both authors. From the d.j. flap: "Making Music celebrates those remarkable Canadian musical artists who have entertained audiences at home and around the world from the early 20th century to the present day. from Paul Anka to Neil Young, from Maureen Forrester to k.d. Lang, and from The Happy Gang to the Tragically Hip, this volume includes colourful biographies of nearly 200 performers whose talents are as wide and diverse as the country they call home."

The dust-jacket states: "Elizabeth Orton Jones has, through her words and pictures, a special key to the world of childhood, to its laughter and pleasures." "Maminka's Children", now reissued (1967) more than a quarter of a century after its first appearance, is as genuine, gay, and joyous as ever, and its main characters, Nanka, Marianka, and Honzichek, still, as one reviewer said, 'friends to keep","

Raised spine bands, satin endpapers and sewn-in satin bookmark. Illustrated by Richard Powers . All edges gilt.

Mint in original shrinkwrap. 1990. Easton Press. Includes John Tanner's "The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion" authored by John Tanner, a fictitious character. There seems to be a bit of a problem accessing the full description here. Please click on the book title or the "book box" for page 2 and the rest of the description.

Mint in original shrinkwrap. Signed by author. There seems to be a bit of a problem accessing the full description here. Please click on the book title or the "book box" for page 2 and the rest of the description.

From the back of the book: "This wonderful old teaching manual has been out of print for nearly a century. Still very relevant for sailing vessels, it has chapters on signals, boat work, bends and hitches, knots and spicing, rope making, anchor work, compass and helm, rigging, etc. Of the 392 pages, two thirds are devoted to sailing vessels and the balance to steam vessels or subjects common to both, such as sheer and derrick work, storage, etc. It is as relevant today for training sailors as it was in 1904."

2nd printing. From the Foreword by Walter Parks: "Rarely do we see an artistic movement expanding and flowering before our eyes. Usually, the prime period of an art movement which we admire happened in the past or, if in our own era, was over before we recognized it. The ceramic art spilling out of the plains of northern Chihuahua moves today through its prime period, and we can watch it happen. Juan Quezada, the originator and prime mover, continues to experiment and innovate. Dozens of potters pride themselves on following his general style, and dozens more measure their success against how far they can depart from his style and still produce creditble work. This book tells their story."

From the d.j. flap: "Sarah Brown, the vibrant, talented daughter of abolitionist John Brown, finds her life forever altered when she stumbles across her father's work on the Underground Railroad. Although reeling from the shocking news that she won't ever bear children, Sarah realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north. Taking cues from slave-code quilts, Sarah hides maps within her paintings, becoming one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers."
"Over one hundred and fifty years later, Eden Anderson, a modern-day woman struggling to conceive a child, moves to an old house in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., as a last-ditch effort to save her marriage and start a family. There, she discovers a porcelain doll head hidden in the root cellar--the remains of an Underground Railroad doll with an extraordinary past of secret messages, danger, and deliverance."

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From the back cover: "Following the path first charted by "The Mapmaker's Eye", in which Joan Dawson examines the development of early Nova Scotia through maps, The Mapmakers' Legacy carries on, plotting the province's growth through the careful examination and analysis of maps from the nineteenth century. An exciting time in Nova Scotia's history, the nineteenth century saw the first serious attempts to gain knowledge of the entire province, the resources and its inhabitants."

From the d.j. front flap: "Mary Poppins is her own astringent self in any language, and as Maria Poppina, parading primly through the twenty-six alphabetical episodes of this Latin adaptation of "Mary Poppins from A to Z, she demonstrates again that her power is undiminished. With her accustomed aplomb she reprimands and restrains the inhabitants of the Banks House--domus Banci--at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane and all who cross their paths, as she has done since she first appeared with the East Wind."
"G. M. Lyne's scholarly translation, skillfully adapted to the demands of the ancient language, sacrifices none of the incomparable wit and charm of the original. The illustrations, though in a different color scheme, are the same ones that delight readers of the English-language edition."
There are some "raised bumps" on the front and rear boards. I'm not sure if these were there from the beginning or if it was a moisture problem at some point. There is no odor and they do not affect the endpapers.

Some minor scuffing of foredges, o/w VG+. Signed on a tipped-in page by author. There seems to be a bit of a problem accessing the full description here. Please click on the book title or the "book box" for page 2 and the rest of the description.

From the back board: "the unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Lavishly illustrated with never-before-published photographs, this special edition includes a personal message from John Grogan as well as the original Philadelphia Inquirer column that inspired the book."

Mint in original shrinkwrap. 1991. Easton Press. There seems to be a bit of a problem accessing the full description here. Please click on the book title or the "book box" for page 2 and the rest of the description.

Reprint of the original 1914 volume. Includes plans for the doll house. Includes 14 sheets of inserts and 4 sheets of cut-out clothing in a rear pocket. Everything mint.

First Edition of Ann Blades' first book. Ann Blades and her husband taught at a small school in a small community at Mile 18 off the Alaskan highway, where the closest town was Fort St. John, B.C., 45 miles away. Ann came to love the children so much that she wrote this book for them. Missing the d.j.

10-page introduction written by Albert Kostenevich, followed by a Biographical Outline page on Matisse from birth (1869) to death in 1954; followed by 15 tipped-in colour plates plus a colour painting on the front cover. Printed and bound in the USSR.
Front inside flap with photo of Matisse and an excerpt from "Notes of a Painter", where Matisse explains just how he paints a woman.
"All the works reproduced in this edition are housed in Soviet Museums."(Inside front cover.)

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From the d.j. flap: "This is an engaging and highly moving young-adult biography of Lucy Maud Montgonery, author of 'Anne of Green Gables', 'Emily of New Moon', and many more treasured stories, written by one of Canada's most respected writers for young adults."

From the d.j. flap: "This is an engaging and highly moving young-adult biography of Lucy Maud Montgonery, author of 'Anne of Green Gables', 'Emily of New Moon', and many more treasured stories, written by one of Canada's most respected writers for young adults."