Authors starting with R from Capricorn Books

Cornell Maritime Press, Cambridge, Maryland, 1949, Ist edition.. 277 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "The year 1809 found shipping in the young American Republic paralyzed by the Embargo Act of Thomas Jefferson, its President. From this beginning, Mr. Rabl has unfolded a thrilling tale of men, ships and pri. vateering in the War of 1812...the story of Eduardo Chavez who dreamed of a ship that would outsail and out-maneuver any ship afloat; of Captain Thomas Boyle, America's greatest darede... more information

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Hilprand Press, Los Angeles, California, 1951.. 40 pp. text + 15 pp. plates, large 8vo, HC in glassine wrap. Tipped-in frontis. of Samuel X. Radbill's bookplate. "Dr. Radbill is well known as a bookplate collector, and while he has an interest in bookplates generally, his special interest is in. the medical ex-libris and he is an authority in this special field. A volume such as his will be of great use to collectors, in fact another took collectors of bookplates will welcome." Ligh... more information

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Nimbus, (Halifax, N.S., 1992).. 421 pp, mass market paperback. Set around Halifax, Nova Scotia at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this book "evokes the scene as it was: the lusty, bustling life of a peaceful place soon to be invaded with unexpected force by the grim realities of. war. And a few miles away on Melville Island, thousands of French prisoners of war live out despairing, close-packed lives, with no hope for tomorrow. One of those prisoners daily faces the agonizing question: what wou... more information

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McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1976.. 240 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover. ISBN 0771072562 B&w photographs. "One of the larger segments of the Canadian cultural mosaic, the Polish people have made outstanding contributions to this country's progress. While taking note of important indivi. dual contributions, this study concentrates on the general patterns and broad scope of the community's experience as a whole, portraying the distinctive character of the Polish Canadians, their de... more information

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Osprey Aerospace, London, 1993.. 128 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover (glazed pictorial boards) - no dust jacket. ISBN 1855322676 Profusely illustrated with colour photographs, b&w cutaway, profiles. "One of the greatest British aircraft of all time, the Avro Lancaster was t. he mainstay of RAF Bomber Command in World War 2. This book features the only two airworthy Lancs in existence: the B Mk 1 operated by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, and the B Mk X flown by the Canadian W... more information

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Unicorn, (Paddock Wood, Kent, 1988).. 144 pp, 4to (11 7/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. "When the Midland decided to extend its lines to reach Manchester, the sheer scale of the engineering works were daunting in the extreme; th. e routes had to pierce the rugged limestone hills of Derbyshire and massive viaducts had to be built to cross the fast flowing rivers which cut between the hills in this part of the country. The author sta... more information

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Folio Society, London, 1992, first printing.. 150 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H), hard cover in dark blue slipcase. Full blue-green artificial moire silk; cream endpapers. XXII pages of colour lithographic plates, reproducing "12 of a series of 54 nineteenth-century Indian paintings depicting scene. s from the story. The main text of the book is a translation of Kalidasa's play, probably written during the late fourth or early fifth century. This is followed by prose translations of the earli... more information

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Abbey Library, London, (1973).. 37 pp of text + unpaged 'Reproductions' section, 4to (12 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w and color reproductions. Slight soft wrinkling to last few pages, small tear in gutter at last picture page, minor edge wear and minor soiling to boar. ds. Dust jacket has light rubbing, small dint on rear hinge, small paint smudge on rear panel, very light edge wear, 3" wrinkle/light de-lamination at bottom of hinges and rear flap-fold. VG-/VG-. ... more information

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Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge, 1994), reprint.. 123 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), soft cover. B&w illus. "Albert Einstein's celebrated remark that 'God does not play dice' was his response to a set of new scientific ideas now known as quantum physics. These theories threatened the ordered determination . of the Newtonian universe, presenting the radical callenge of an unstable world disturbed by our very attempts to measure or observe it. One of the prime fascinations of quantum... more information

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Collins, London, (1978), Ist edition.. 191 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. A collection of short stories written by Scottish writers or writers living in Scotland - Graham Petrie, Bernard MacLaverty, James Shaw Grant, Alan Spence, Una Flett, Robert A. Crampsey, Cambell Black, Arthur. Young, Carl MacDougall, Peter Chaloner, Lorn M. Macintyre, Alan Mason, Alanna Knight, Anne Turner, Richard Fletcher and P.M. Hubbard. Biographical notes at rear. Minor wrinkles at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket h... more information

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Popular Library, Toronto, 1954.. 191 pp, mass market paperback. "When the Texan stormed into the Valley he was on a mission of vengeance - to hunt down his father's killers. But the killers were ready for trouble and they sent Tracy against him - Tracy, the hard-fisted giant who . had never been beaten. The Texan smashed Tracy in a slugging brawl. Then came Parker and Peake, two hired gunhawks. But the Texan calmly blasted them out of his way. Suddenly the killers found themselves on their ow... more information

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Heinemann, London, (1944).. 238 pp, small 8vo (7 1/4" H), hard cover - no dust jacket, green cloth, red lettering on spine. Map endpapers, b&w maps. "By profession a mining engineer...Major Rainer was assigned the task of getting water to the men on the front lines. When th. e British advanced, he would build pipelines just as close behind the foremost column as he possibly could. When they retreated, he would destroy his work - if he could. In the course of the three years of the dese... more information

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(Oberon, n.p., 1984).. 161 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FREE FRONT ENDPAPER. "Negovan Rajic, like Orwell, is preoccupied with the dehumanization of modern society, the alienation of brother from brother and sister from sister. In each of t. hese stories, the protagonist is deprived of his integrity, his will, is turned into an object of manipulation. In the end, however, we see that each of us is involved in the inhumanity of the society we have fashioned. Each of... more information

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Thomas Nelson and Sons, New York, n.d.. 224 pp, 7 3/8" H, Ex-library, hard cover (dark green cloth with gold lettering and banding on spine, gold lettering and black, pink and blue decoration on front board) - no dust jacket. 12 b&w plates, including tissue-covered frontispiece - collate. d. Ex-library copy with gift inscription on one preliminary page; large surface paper pull, old glue residue and small number in ink on rear pastedown, very light browning to pages, tiny brown stain on two rea... more information

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Doubleday, (Toronto, 1997).. 308 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0385256825 B&w photos. "When William Barker died in an air crash in March 1930, his state funeral was the largest in the history of Toronto. He had been a magnificent airman, a great . war hero and holder of the Victoria Cross, the DSO and Bar, the MC and two Bars, the Croix-de-Guerre, Two Italian Silver Medals for Valour and three Mentions-in-Despatches. Moreover, he had fifty Great War victories i... more information

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Self-published, n.p., (1970), 3rd printing.. 55 pp, 8vo, soft cover. A collection of 33 poems, including Gaspe, The River of Saint John, Bay Chaleur, My Home by the Bay... Interior - previous owner's name on ffep, otherwise clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear, two small marks (approx. . 1") on front cover, soft creasing to edge of front cover, migrating into first twenty pages, spine flat and uncreased. Scan available on request. VG-. ... more information

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Corgi, (London, 1972), reprint.. 223 pp, paperback. B&w line drawings by Victoria Harvey. "Lobsang Rampa, mystic, sage and student of the Astral, offers another of his profound dissertations on the progress of the psychic world. Here he fortells the disasters and happenings of t. he future, the events to come that will purify and evolve a new cycle of life..." Interior - light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, crease ... more information

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Corgi, (London, 1971).. 189 pp, paperback. "...mainly concerned with answering some of the many questions which Dr. Rampa's readers have put to him over the years. It covers such subjects of Life after Death, Suicide, Meditation, and Ouija Boards, and includes many inval. uable observations on the modern world..." Interior - light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, crease down spine, slight fading to spine color. Very ... more information

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Corgi, (London, 1972), reprint.. 159 pp, paperback. "A young monk (Lobsang Rampa) had come to the cave of the old, blind hermit to learn something of his wisdom. 'When I was young', the hermit told him, 'I had many painful experiences. I left our great city of Lhasa and wandered. blind in the wilderness. Starving, ill and unconscious, I was taken I know not where and instructed in preparation for this day. When my knowledge has passed to you my life's work is ended and I can go... more information

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The Piping, Drumming and Highland Dancing Journal, Edinburgh, 1948.. 20 pp, 8 3/8" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs. Contents: Editorial; Piping; Drumming in the Army Today; Personalities in the Branches; A B C of Pipe Bands (Aberdeen City Pipe Band, Anchor Mills Pipe Band, 1st Auchinleck Company . - The Boys Brigade); News and Views; Postbag. Interior - light cigarette odor, moderate browning to pages and inside covers, slight rusting to staples, archival tape repair to top st... more information

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