Authors starting with L from Capricorn Books

Boston Mills Press, Erin, Ontario, 2000, first edition.. 168 pp, oblong small 4to (10" H x 11 3/4" D), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1550462830 Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. "....the official book of the Trans Canada Trail, the longest recreational trail on the planet, a 16,000 kilo. metre dream that celebrates our vast nation by connecting its people from coast to coast to coast. Approximately three-quarters of Canada's population live within a fifteen-minute dr... more information

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McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1990), Ist edition.. 305 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0771046995 INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE: "BONNE CHANCE LAURIER L. LaPIERRE, NOV/90". B&w illus. and maps. "(This book) is no scholarly history. Rather, it is a re-creation of t. he battle and of the long siege that preceded it...Lapierre conjures up the rain, the deafening noise of bombs falling on Quebec, the petty squabbles that threatened the military s... more information

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Bramley, (Stroud, 1997).. 170 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1858337321 B&w photos, reproductions, maps. "...explores the war as it appeared to the professional and amateur war correspondents who covered it in extraordinary depth in both the Bri. tish and colonial press, describing not only the pitched battles but much of the human drama of everyday campaigning from a variety of perspectives. These reports are linked together in a narrative which places them i... more information

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Nord-Sud, Zurich, 1997.. Unpaginated, 11 1/2" H, hard cover (glazed pictorial boards) - no dust jacket. ISBN 331421071X A picture book of strange, magical creatures who live in a forest. French text. "Aubepin ne retrouve plus la magnifique couronne de plumes qu'il s'est. fait et accuse tour a tour chacun de ses amis de la foret de la lui avoir derobee. Aussi est-il tre confus lorsqu'il la decouvre chez lui. Mais ses amis, indignes, n'entendent pas se laisser ainsi accuser a... more information

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Daw, New York, (1988, 9th printing/1989, 7th printing).. 302 pp, 318 pp, 2 volumes, PB. Cover art by Jody Lee. B&w maps. "They were Goddess-united, sworn to defend women in peril by the powers of sorcery and the sword!" Interiors - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exteriors - light e. dgewear, two small areas of color loss on back cover of book two, spines flat and uncreased. VG. ... more information

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Daw, New York, (1997), 7th printing.. 350 pp, PB. A collection of 18 stories adding new "chapters to the history of Valdemar. Meet with a Herald-assassin known only to the Queen...learn why in Karse, a question can be deadlier than any sword...and discover how for two lifebonded Heral. ds justice prevails over honor..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear, spine flat and uncreased. NF. ... more information

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Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, (1984).. 259 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. A collection of over sixty short gardening essays "...about some of the plants I have lived with and loved (and a few that I have disliked or that did not return my affections) over a lifetime of garden. ing...It is also about places where I have lived and gardened...And it is about people..." Small bookstore label on rear pastedown. Dust jacket is price-clipped, minor edgewear/wrinkling/rubbing, very lig... more information

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Arms and Armour, London, 1983, first printing.. 283 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0458968900 B&w photographs, maps. "Together with the SAS, LRDG and other such specialist units, the Special Boats Squadron traces its origins back to the Mediterranean theatre of opera. tions during the Second World War. Originally part of Laycock's 8 Commando, the SBS rapidly developed its own skills, expertise and identity, despite technically serving as part of the SAS for ... more information

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Dundurn Press, Toronto, 1985, Ist edition.. 150 pp, oblong 8vo (8 3/4" H x 11" D), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in b&w with photos, reproductions, maps. "...a collection of stories that pays tribute to hundreds of years of farming in Ontario, and to the varied cross-sect. ion of people who are proud to call themselves farmers today. Set against the political, cultural and economic forces that shaped Ontario, the stories are engaging accounts of family history pas... more information

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Key Porter, (Toronto, 1998). 270 pp, small 4to (10 1/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1550139940 Color and b&w illustrations. "This collection will take unsuspecting readers on a strange and surprising journey. They will visit a ship adrift on the Pacific Ocean and le. arn of a strange moss that grows everywhere. They will meet a weary prospector at the North Pole, burdened by the promise to a now-dead companion. They will encounter witches in a lonely mountaintop cabin, and ghou... more information

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Abelard-Schuman, London/New York, (1967).. 192 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "Throughout history, boys of many nations have found themselves involved in battles of the armed forces, and it is to their credit that they have come through these ordeals with courage an. d endurance. The author of this book was himself a soldier as a boy - and as a man - and knows too much about war to find in it anything glorious. He feels however that the boys who fought so bravely in c... more information

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Cassell, London, (1966), Ist edition.. 235 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions. A look at the history of the English soldier, from Cromwell's New Model Army up to the end of the Second World War. Separate chapter on "Punishment: 'Europe's Most. Barbarous Martial Laws'." Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown, slight crease at top of spine, bottom of spine lightly bumped, tiny bump at bottom rear corner. Dust jacket i... more information

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J.M. Dent, London, (1973), 1st edition.. 213 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0460039849 B&w plates. "This study of the American fighting man, of all ranks and in all services ranges from the War of Independence to Vietnam to Pinkville. Part One provides graphic acco. unts of all the major and many of the minor conflicts in American history, with close-ups of the man in the line of battle - from the victory over the British at New Orleans in 1814, the American Civil W... more information

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Alan Sutton, (Gloucester), 1985, Ist edition.. 277 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0862992427 B&w photos, maps, cartoons. "...at its lowest level the history of the 'Great War' is made up of millions of trivial incidents, for something happened each day to each man - somet. hing that made him laugh or cry or sigh...And he told stories - about the things that happened to him. Those stories reveal, collectively, much about the 'real' war. Most were for... more information

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Bramley, Godalming, 1998, reprint.. 214 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1841000124 B&w plates, maps/battle plans. "....a forceful and probing analysis of the British generals' leadership. For too long, Dr John Laffin maintains, the military reputation of . the generals has not been critically enough examined, and he asks how those responsible for such catastrophic defeats were able to retain their commands. Haig, whose army suffered 60,000 casualties on the f... more information

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Brassey's, London, 1990.. 194 pp, small 4to (10" H), hard cover with glazed boards - no dust jacket. ISBN 0080373348 B&w maps. Contents: Introduction; Afghanistan War; Guerrilla-Civil War in Angola; Bangladesh Guerrilla War; Burma Guerrilla War; Cambodia's New Phase; The . Central American Arena; El Salvador Civil War; Guerrilla War in Guatemala; Nicaragua - The Contra War; Chad and Libya; Colombia Civil War; East Timor Resistance War; Ethiopia - Eritrea - Tigre - Somalia; India-Pakistan... more information

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Cassell, London, 1963, first edition.. 191 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Colour frontispiece, b&w plates. Contents: 'The Wild and Savage Scots'; Pitt and the Highlanders; Loyalty and Duty; Martial Humour; The Kilt; The Pipes and Cold Steel; Scottish V.C. Winners; Life. in the Army; The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons); The Scots Guards; The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment); The Royal Scots Fusiliers; The King's Own Scottish Borderers; The Cameronians (Scottish Rifl... more information

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Budding, (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2000), reprint.. 258 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs. "...looks at each gallant deed that led to the award of a VC in the context of the war and the land, sea or air campaign in which it was won. In what way did any particular exploit af. fect the outcome of a larger action? Was it more difficult to win a VC in a jungle campaign than in a desert? What made the award of a VC for a submarine or aerial action different from those ea... more information

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(Osprey, London, 1991), reprint.. 40 pp + 8 pp of plates, large 8vo (9 3/4" H), soft cover. B&w photos, 8 pages of uniform studies/insignia in full-color. Contents: The Seeds of Legend; South Africa 1899-1902; Pre-1914 Training; The Diggers 1914-18; The 'Young' Diggers - 1939-45;. Korea, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam. Interior - faint cigarette odor, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light yellowing to covers and edges, area of faint scratches on r... more information

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Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, n.d.. 310 pp, 8vo (8 13/16" H), hard cover (cloth spine, pictorial boards), red ribbon book mark (frayed at end) - no dust jacket. B&w illustrations. When 6th-grade student Volka Kostylkov becomes involved with Hottabych, a genie, all kinds of adventure. s ensue. 1" split in gutter of pages up to page 14, few pages with tiny corner crease, large corner creases at top corner of pages 107 to 110, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, tiny bump an... more information

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