Authors starting with G from Capricorn Books

D. Appleton, New York, 1924, 2nd printing.. 223 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H), hard cover (blue-patterned cloth) - no dust jacket. Charmingly illustrated throughout with b&w drawings and 8 tipped-in color plates. A collection of fairy tales, adventures stories, poetry, fables, etc. by some of th. e eras most famous authors. Some are illustrated by the authors, while others enjoy the talents of J.R. Monsell, Alec Buckels, Kenneth Harrow, Harry Rountree, C.T. Nightingale, Roy Meldrum, Tinker Taylor,... more information

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Meyer & Brother, Chicago, 1896.. 64 pp, 6 11/16" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). A collection of 54 songs with music for Sunday School use, including: A Loyal Band; Angels Guard; Blessed Jesus; Children's Praise; Dare to Do Right; Four Little Robins; He Shall Gather the Lambs; I. Belong to Him; Jesus Bids Us Shine; Little Candles; Mind what your Mamma Says; Our Gifts to Jesus; Rock-a-bye; Song so Fair; The Discontented Seeds; The First Christmas Eve; The First Commandment; We are Little ... more information

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BBC Radio Derby/Derbyshire Library Service, (Derby, 1984).. 101 pp, 8vo, soft cover. B&w photos and drawings. The author's reminisences of Derbyshire from the late 1920s through the war years. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, light rubbing/soiling, s. mall area of surface paper loss at edge of back cover, spine flat and uncreased. VG-. ... more information

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E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, (1976), Ist ed.. 138 pp., lg 8vo., HC This great author wrote novels that were so critically successful and sold so well that of all the contemporary Victorian literary figures sho speculated about the author's identity, only one suspected she was a woman. A stran. ge, contradictory personality. Minor spot stains on front of dj, minor soiling elsewhere on surfaces. Dj is also price clipped. VG/VG-. ... more information

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Smithmark, (New York, 1998), Ist Smithmark printing - originally published in 1931.. Unpaginated (approx. 48 pp.), oblong 4to, hard cover in dust jacket. Color patterned endpapers, beautifully illustrated throughout with Wanda Gag's charming b&w drawings. "One day, when Snippy and Snappy (two little field mice) chase Mother Mouse'. s ball of wool too far, it rolls beyond their hay field, and out into the world they've never seen - the world they've only heard of in Father Mous... more information

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Mosaic, (Oakville, Ontario, 2001).. 166 pp, 8vo, soft cover. B&w photos. "Across the broad expanse of Canada's North there are few physical reminders of the rich history of the land and its people. (This book) examines three rare cases where heritage structures have withstood the r. avages of time and an unforgiving climate. York Factory was the key staging area of the Hudson's Bay Company for over two hundred years. From its construction in 1830, the 'Depot' warehouse held... more information

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Totem Crime, (Don Mills, Ontario, 1986).. 172 pp, PB. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, book cocked, spine lightly creased. VG-. ... more information

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J.M. Dent & Sons, London, (1971).. 179 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates, music examples. "...traces (opera's) development from the first fine flowering in the Renaissance and its progression to more spectacular, gay, dramatic and intense phases in the. hands of such geniuses as Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini. The lives and careers of all the great Italian opera composers are touched upon and their major works introduced, with intere... more information

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University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2000, first edition.. 229 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0802044514 B&w illustrations. "This ground-breaking study explores the treatment of the boundaries between poetry and history in three epic literary works: Spenser's 'Faerie Queene', S. amuel Daniel's 'Civil Wars', and Michael Drayton's 'Poly-Olbion'. David Galbraith argues that each of the three national poems enters into a dialogu... more information

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(Breakwater, St. John's, Newfoundland, 1988).. Unpaginated (approx. 30 pp.), oblong large 8vo, HC in pictorial boards (no dust jacket). Profusely illustrated with colorful drawings by Shawn Steffler. The story of a young girl, Sooshewan, a Beothuk Indian of Newfoundland, and her search for her. lost hunter father. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, light rubbing, tiny bump at fore edge of boards. VG. ... more information

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Leo Cooper, London, 1970, first edition.. 122 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0850520312 B&w photographs, reproductions. "Since their formation in 1694 as Farrington's Regiment the Worcestershire Regiment (bearing the numbers 29 and 36) has achieved almost unique stat. us, being one of the only four British regiments to have an English motto and one of the only two to bear the elongated garter star as a badge as well as having a naval crown above it. This last dis... more information

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Osprey, Oxford, 2003.. 328 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H), soft cover. ISBN 1841767360 Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs, reproductions, maps/battle plans. Combines four previously published Osprey Essential Histories of the American Civil War: The War. in the East 1861-May 1863; The War in the West 1861-July 1863; The War in the East 1863-1865; The War in the West 1863-1865. "Undoubtedly the most cataclysmic military struggle of the late nineteenth century, the America... more information

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McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1974.. 167 pp, mass market paperback. ISBN 0771091915 "The men and women who inhabit the short stories of Mavis Gallant fall in love, squabble, grieve, dream and ultimately survive in ways that reflect the human condition with deadly accuracy. Whether s. et in rural Quebec or the cosmopolitan world of Paris, these stories are crafted with subtlety, compassion and an irrepressible wit." Contents: Introduction; The Other Paris; The Picnic; About Geneva; Acce... more information

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Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, 1985, reprint.. 32 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs, maps, drawings, diagrams. A brief history of the WWII German submarine U-505, its capture by U.S. Navy Task Group 22.3, its transfer to the M. useum of Science and Industry in Chicago and a description of the ship itself. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light to moderate rubbing - with slight... more information

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Dennis Vanderkar Gallery, London, 1969.. Unpagnated (43 pp), 12" H, pebbled card covers. 40 b&w and color reproductions. Interior - clean and tight. Exterior - light edge wear wrinkling to covers, soft bump to bottom corner of book causing soft creases/curling - one page with tiny close. d tear at bottom edge. VG-. ... more information

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Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, (1981), Ist edition.. 222 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "...explores the possibilities of the 'real' world of the European Dark and Middle Ages as a setting for role-playing adventures. The book covers the cultural background, the preval. ent religious and magical beliefs, the mythology, the armour, weapons and military systems of the mediaeval period. It also contains a guide to the best reading in modern fantasy novels, a... more information

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(The Royal Canadian Regiment, n.p., 1983).. 223 pp, 8vo, soft cover - pictorial wraps. B&w photos. Taken from Colonel Galloway's "personal diary covering the period from 11 July to 31 December 1943...When the Ist Canadian Infantry Division landed in Sicily on 10 July 1943 Strome Galloway wa. the only officer in The Royal Canadian Regiment with battle experience, having served in North Africa on exchange with the 2nd Battalion London Irish Rifles. He proved his battle worthiness many time... more information

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Mika, Belleville, Ontario, 1981.. 295 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0919303544 Ex-library. B&w photographs. A large part of the book focuses on the author's experiences with the Royal Canadian Regiment in Italy/Sicily during WWII. Contents: The Gene. ral Speaks Out; Amateur Soldier Between the Wars; When England Stood Alone; Low Point at Dieppe; Drinking The King's Red Rum; Naked Bayonets at Stuka Farm; The Irish Brigade Fought On; "Down Doors!"... more information

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Privately printed, 1979.. 238 pp, 8vo (8" H), soft cover. (First published in 1946 under the title, "55 AXIS"). B&w photographs. Contents: "Gentlemen, The Regiment!"; Mobilization to the Fall of France; The Defence of Britain; The Conquest of Sicily; The Fighting Pursuit . From Reggio; The Moro River and Ortona Road; The Adriatic Barricade; The Liri Valley Campaign; The Battles of the Gothic Line; The Po Valley Denial; Victory in the Netherlands; The Return of the Warriors; T... more information

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Bantam, New York, (1973), Ist printing.. 202 pp, PB. "The God Within. IT lived in Milton Bradford. IT could make planets vanish, alter mathematical constants, erase the laws of chance. IT had the power to change the entire Universe... Or destroy it utterly." Interior - clean and tigh. t. Exterior - corner creases, moderately soiled, spine creased but still legible. G. ... more information

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