Search Results: Titles starting with M from Capricorn Books

London: Osprey, 1998. 48 pp, 9 3/4" H. B&w photographs, diagrams, 8 pages of color plates. Contents: Developmental History; Operational History; Desert Storm: M1A1 Tank Battalions; M1 Abrams Variants. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - 3" faint rub mark on rear cover, tiny crease at bottom corner of front cover.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Peter Sarson, colour plates..

Oxford: Osprey, 2000. 48 pp, 9 3/4" H. B&w photographs, drawings, 8 pages of color plates. Contents: Background; US Tank Design Policy; The Normandy Tank Crisis; The Pershing Tank Emerges; Late-War Developments; The M46 Patton; The Pershing in Korea; The M26 and M46 in Foreign Service; The Plates; Index. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright.. First Printing.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Tony Bryan and Jim Laurier, colour plates..

Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal, 1992. 50 pp, oblong (8 1/4" H x 11" D). B&w photographs, drawings/diagrams, 2 pages color profiles. Contents: Introduction; M2/M3 Bradley; M2A1/M3A1; M2A2/M3A2; ADATS; Future Bradleys; Close Combat Vehicle, Light (CCVL); M987 Fighting Vehicle System (FVS); Into Service. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright.. Stapled in Wraps. Near Fine. Illus. by Joe Sewell. Color by Don Greer..

Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Militaria, 2000. 50 pp, oblong (8 11/16" H x 9 7/16" D). Profusely illustrated with colour photographs and profiles, b&w scale drawings. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor curl at bottom corner of covers.. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Krzysztof M. Zurek and Grzegorz Jackowski..

Oxford: Osprey, 2001. 64 pp, 9 3/4" H. "The second of a regular subseries on modelling tanks and AFVs, 'M4 Sherman' covers the Allies' most important tank of WWII, the US M4 medium, or Sherman, of which 49,234 were built. With detailed step -by-step model photography, specially commissioned walkround photos, scale drawings and wartime shots, this book will provide all the details needed to model the M4 Sherman in the desert, north-west European and Pacific theatres. It covers the main M4 versions including the Firefly, the Calliope multiple rocket launcher and T1E3 mine roller." This series provides a: "Comprehensive 'how-to' guide to all aspects of military modelling, from the initial choice of tools and materials to the all-important finishing touches; With their emphasis on step-by-step detail, each book represents an in-depth guide to modelling one particular subject; More than 150 illustrations including wartime shots, colour modelling photographs, colour… Read More

London: Penguin, 1976. 311 pp, 7 3/4" H. "Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of 'The Mabinogion' passed through generations of storytellers before they were written down in the thirteenth century in the form we now read them. Set in dual realms of the forests and valleys of Wales and of the shadowy otherworld, the tales are permeated by a dreamlike atmosphere. In 'Math Son of Mathonwy' two brothers plot to carry off the virginal Goewin, while in 'Manawydan Son of Llyr' a chieftain roams throughout Britain after a spell is cast over his land. And King Arthur's court provides the backdrop to tales such as 'How Culhwch Won Olwen', in which a young man must complete many tasks before he can marry a giant's daughter, and 'Peredur Son of Evrawg', who strives to prove his valour as a knight. In his introduction, Gantz discusses the sources, oral tradition and artistry of the tales. This edition includes introductory prefaces to each… Read More

Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal, 1980. 50 pp, oblong (8 1/4" H x 11" D). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, technical drawings/profiles, color plates. Contents: Introduction; Maachi Development; C.202 in Production; C.202 in Combat; In Africa; Over Malta; Russian Adventure; From C.202 to C.205; The Defense of Italy; With the Allies; In the North; Final Developments. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wrinkle at bottom corner of front cover.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good+. Illus. by Don Greer..

New York: Arco, 1974. 64 pp, 10 3/8" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w. "Some military writers have described the machine gun as 'the supreme infantry weapon' and during World War 2 it certainly maintained its tactical role inherited from the battlefields of World War 1. Its importance to all the combatant armies cannot be over-estimated as it played the part of prime fire-power source of all the infantry units of every combatant. This Fact File sets out to describe the machine guns used by all the warring nations involved in World War 2. Each machine gun is described and illustrated along with its data. All the machine guns used are mentioned including World War 1 veterans such as the German MG08 and the British .303 Vickers, and going right up to the famous German MG42. The coverage includes such items as the Indian Army's Vickers-Berthier, the Japanese Nambu series, the Russian M1910, and the Czech ZB26. Also included are the numerous light machine guns such as the Bren and… Read More

New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1968. 237 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w maps/battle plans, photographs. "Citing examples from both World Wars, the Korean War and Vietnam, the author shows how the concept of material destruction of the enemy through attrition warfare has prevailed in official thinking, despite the persistent lesson of negligible achievement at enormous cost. In his discussion of present trends in machine warfare, he emphasizes the vital importance of army-air mobility, at present being pioneered in the U.S.A. The twentieth-century phenomenon of machine warfare has highlighted mankind's alarming slowness in adapting its military ideology to technological innovations. (This book) provides an authoritative and absorbing insight into this basic aspect of human behaviour, and stresses the need for fuller study by psychologists of armed group conflict." Two small areas of surface paper loss on contents page, tiny corner bump on rear board, minor edgewear. Dust jacket has light… Read More

Paris: J'ai Lu , 1988. 348 pp,6 7/16" H. "C'etait a Londres, un matin - L'orage menacait. George Dower vit entrer dans sa boutique celui qu'il appellera l'Homme de Cuir Noir - Des lors, il devint le jouet d'evenements dont le sens lui echappait. Le plus etrange etait ces etres disgracieux qu'il rencontrait partout - Peuple difforme descendant d'une race amphibie, aussi pitoyable que ces 'filles vertes' aux voluptes poissonneuses qui excitaient la convoitise de jeunes aristrocrates debauches. Au comble de l'angoisse, Dower comprit peu a peu qu'on s'acharnait a vouloir le tuer. S'agissait-il du Regulateur Etherique? Une machine infernale apparemment? Mais le pire etait encore a venir. Et le pire, il etait loin de l'imaginer - ." Interior - very light browning in gutter and margins of pages. Exterior - light edge wear, very light browning to edges of text block, tiny light scuffs and cup ring on front cover.. Mass Market… Read More

Viking, (London, 1994), Ist thus. 182 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Bilingual text (English/Welsh). "A Machynlleth Triad, whose title recalls a medieval Welsh literary and gnomic device, fancifully describes - in both English and Welsh - the Welsh town of Machynlleth at three moments of its history. In 'Y Gorffennol: The Past', we visit Machynlleth during the Welsh rebellion of the early fifteenth century, when Owain Glydwr the patriot leader held a parliament and, according to tradition, was crowned Prince of Wales. 'Y Presennol: The Present' examines the town's personality in 1991, when it celebrated the 700th anniversary of its foundation. The English conquerors are gone; yet the Cymry Cymraeg, the Welsh-speaking Welsh, are not obviously in the ascendant. Wales is still in a kind of historical limbo. In the third part, 'Y Dyfodol: The Future', we are projected into the twenty-first century to visit a Machynlleth celebrating its… Read More

Copp Clark, (Toronto, 1969). 285 pp, small 8vo (8" H), soft cover. B&w photos, maps. A regimental history of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion during their participation in the Spanish Civil War. Interior - previous owner's bordered stamp and personal library number on inside of front cover - stamp also on inside of rear cover, publisher's place and date hand written in ink on title page, very light browning to page margins, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, t w o t i n y c orner creases, crease down front hinge, very light rubbing, two tiny scuffs on front cover, re-glued small tear at bottom of spine, owners stamp on bottom of textblock. Very Good-.

Warner, New York, 1989, 1st Warner printing. Upaginated, mass market paperback. ISBN 0446353221 Profusely illustrated with b&w cartoons. Interior - tiny crease at top corner of last half of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, a few so ft small wrinkles on covers, tiny corner crease on both covers. Very Good-.

London: Quiller, 1992. 117 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w illustrations. "Marie Tussaud's achievement was phenomenal. In the first half of the nineteenth century it was hard for a woman to make a success of any kind of business without male partnership, money, or influence behind her. Marie had none of these, and yet proved herself a career woman ahead of her time. From her arrival in England in 1802 with a small collection of her wax portrait figures, she worked, a single-handed Frenchwoman, to create an exhibition which, when she died forty-eight years later, was a London institution and famous worldwide. The story of how she did this through talent, steely determination, and a capacity for hard work, is remarkable. She combined these qualities with a keen journalistic flair for what would catch the public eye." A small light soiling mark at the top edge of pages 7 & 8, a previous owner's name and date in ink on the front free endpaper, wrinkling at the bottom of the spine, minor… Read More

Fantasy House, Concord, N.H., 1954. 127 pp, soft cover (digest size). Contents: Heirs Apparent by Robert Abernathy; Miss Prinks by Gordon R. Dickson; Time Payment by Michael Shaara; Fish Story by Leslie Charteris; Mousetrap by Andre Norton; Warrior in Darkness by Levi Crow; Recommended Reading by the editors; Mint, in d/j by Ruth Laura Wainwright; Star Lummox (second of three parts) by Robert A. Heinlein; Visitors from Venus by T.S. Watt; Index to Volume 6. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, very light rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. VG+.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971. Unpaginated, 8 7/16" H. Profusely illustrated in colour. "Ever since Amanda could remember, she wanted to be a magician like her uncle Bill. When he came to New York to attend the magic convention, she went with him to the Commodore Hotel and watched while professional magicians from the world over performed their newest and most exciting tricks. The most thrilling moment of all came when Perry the Magnificent asked Amanda to help him perform a trick on stage, and she took her first step towards her future career." Christmas gift inscription on front free endpaper, remainder spray on bottom of book. Dust jacket is price clipped, has light to moderate edgewear/wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, small closed tear and tiny chips at top of spine (archivally taped), light rubbing and soiling - mainly on rear panel, gold publisher's label on spine/front panel stating - "Doubleday Reinforced Library Edition" - this is not a… Read More

Whitby, Ontario: Gutteridge-Pratley, 2000. 258 pp, 10 7/8" H. Over 200 (b&w) illustrations. Errata slip tipped in at dedication page. **INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE: "BEST REGARDS ROBERT W. GUTTERIDGE APRIL 5, 2011". Contents: Foreword; To the Reader; Acknowledgement; Pre-Cinema; The Kinetoscope; The Vitascope; The Eidoloscope; The Lumiere Cinematographe; The Kinematograph(e); The Cinematographe Returns; The Animatograph; The Motograph; The Jubilee; Fire! Fire!; The Bioscope; The Biograph / The Mutoscope; Early Film Genres: Fight Films / War Films / Trick Films / Religious Films; Toward the Nickelodeon; Age of the Nickelodeon; Photo-Playhouse Boom!; Sound: The Lecturer / Music and Effects / Synchronization; Colour; Specials: Hale's Tours / Lyman H. Howe's Travel Festival / Kinemacolor / Adventure / Moving Picture Convention / War Films; Production and Distribution: Living Canada / S. Max Walkinshaw / George Scott / Conness-Till Film Co. / Canadian Themes from… Read More

New York: Margaret K. McElderry, 2004. 101 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). B&w illustrations. "The Boy polishes the Magician's wands, and catches the rabbits that the Magician pulls out of hats. But the Boy's favorite job is operating the puppets for the Magician's famous puppet play, 'Saint George and the Dragon' - until one terrible day when, in the middle of a performance, the Boy can't find the Saint George puppet. The Magician is furious. He points a long magical finger at the Boy, and - poof! - the Boy is suddenly in the strange Land of Story, where he must find Saint George. The Boy's hunt for Saint George is full of adventures with oddly familiar people. He saves the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe from losing her children; he spoils the wolf's plan to eat Little Red Riding Hood; and he narrowly escapes being eaten himself by the Giant at the top of Jack's beanstalk. But the Boy's last adventure is the most amazing of all - and changes his life forever.… Read More

Toronto: Aya Press, 1981. 90 pp, 8 11/16" H. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear, faint soft crease at bottom corner of the back cover, light dust staining to top of text block, spine flat and uncreased.. Not Signed. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+.

Phillimore, London, (1971), first edition. 240 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates. "Born in Brighton in 1851, Magnus Volk was a true pioneer of electrical engineering. While still in his early twenties he was employing a dozen or more workpeople, making a simple telegraph set which sold all over the world. In 1879, when he married, his house was the first in Brighton to have electric lighting...It was in 1883 that he built his original little railway in Great Britain. This was the start of a long struggle against both man and nature; but Magnus reacted typically to opposition, and extended the line - twice. Not content with this, he built another railway further east - a truly fantastic conception, nick-named 'Daddy-Long-Legs'. The book tells the extraordinary story of the electric motor-car he made; of the order he received for another like it from the Sultan of Turkey - surely the earliest export order for a car ever to reach this country; and of… Read More