Authors starting with S from Capricorn Books

McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, (1937), first Canadian edition.. 379 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H), hard cover (black cloth with red lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. An adventure story of revolutionary France. Very light browning to pages, very light rubbing to top of textblock, light browning to fore. -edge and bottom of textblock, very light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. VG. ... more information

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McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, (1935), first Canadian edition.. 292 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), hard cover (black cloth with red lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. High adventure in Italy. Light browning to endpapers, small stains in margins and gutter of pages 48/49, light browning to edges o. f textblock, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. VG-. ... more information

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Thames and Hudson, London, 1981, first edition.. 223 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0500012466 B&w plates, map. "As Puritan religious fervor sweeps across Islam, God-inspired militants rise up to purge Arabia of corrupt foreign influences, to secure the Holy Places o. f Islam from idolatrous Westerners and Western-backed Egyptian mercenaries. The time is early in the 19th Century, but the bitter clash between the Egyptians and the Wahhabis will reverberate thr... more information

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Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1945, first edition.. 285 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Chapter headings: Part One. The French Regime - First Contact with the Country; The Jewish Contribution to New France; Abraham Gradis and General Montcalm. Part Two. The English Colonial Pe. riod - The Beginning of Jewish Settlement; The Founding of the First Community; During the American War of Independence. Part Three. The Formative or Sephardic Period - The "Jewish Question... more information

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Mushinsha / Grossman Publishers, New York, 1971.. 174 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), soft cover with self-flaps. "The collection begins with examples from the 'Book of Odes', China's oldest extant literary work, and moves through the various song forms of the late Han and the work of many of the major poets . (Ts'ao Chih, T'ao Ch'ien, Hsieh Ling-yun, Yu Hsin, etc.) of the great lyrical efflorescence of the Six Dynasties Period. Though the translations are extensively annotated, and ... more information

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Spring Books, London, (1961).. Unpaginated, small 4to (10 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with 24 tipped-in color plates plus a tipped-in color frontispiece and 10 additional illustrations at rear. "One of the most representative of (Canaletto's) paint. ings from his English period is the famous 'View of London with Westminster Bridge from Lambeth Palace', which is the subject of this book. The painting is reproduced in colour, first as a whole, and then... more information

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Cornell University Press, Ithaca, (1993).. 252 pp, 8vo, soft cover. B&w reproductions. "The period from 1500 to 1800 witnessed a dramatic transformation of the workplace in Europe and North America. As entrepreneurs accumulated capital and invested it in new production methods, their work. ers gradually lost control over the organization of both the work process and its products. The collection of (11) essays in this book ranges across a wide variety of crafts and industries to offer a uniq... more information

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Pantheon Books, New York, (1980), Ist ed.. 256 pp., 4to, HC A striking biography, the first to make use of all of Lawrence's letters and of an exceptional collection of photographs, over 200 of which are reproduced in this book. Minor wear and closed tears with creases on dj, soft crease d. own front flap and is price clipped. Large remainder mark on bottom of text block. Minor fading to top and bottom of boards. VG/VG. ... more information

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Workman/King Features, New York, (1979), Ist edition.. 144 pp, 4to (11 1/8" H), hard cover (bright red boards with gold lettering on spine and front board) in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated throughout in color and b&w. "With absolutely everything, including Olive Oyl (it was love at first kiss), h. ow Popeye found Swee'pea (first in the mail, then on the doorstep), how J. Wellington Wimpy finds a hamburger (it can take all day), and how 'jeep', 'glop', and 'goo... more information

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Daw, New York, (1984), 2nd Daw printing.. 254 pp, PB. An anthology of fantasy short stories by Tanith Lee, Paul Darcy Boles, Larry Tritten, William F. Wu, Ennis Duling, Fritz Leiber, Leigh Kennedy, Karl Edward Wagner, John Alfred Taylor, Avram Davidson, Grania Davis, James Tiptree. Interi. or - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear, spine flat and uncreased. VG. ... more information

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Daw, New York, (1987), book club edition.. 178 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. Jacket art by Daniel R. Horne. "Eleven of the finest tales from masters of fantasy...an arresting anthology that gathers together the most memorable, magical stories of swordmasters and sorcerers, of ghosts, dragons. and other legendary beasts, of demons and vampires, elves and dwarves, and all the enchanting beings of light and dark who inhabit the diverse lands of fantasy..." Minor edgewear to boards. Dust jack... more information

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Daw, New York, (1983), Ist printing.. 192 pp, paperback. Cover art by Sanjulian. Contents: Influencing the Hell Out of Time and Teresa Golowitz; Mirage and Magia; "Other"; The Horror of the #33; Another Orphan; Les Levitation Come Upon Us; Sentences; Square and Above Board; The Malay. sian Mer; Djinn, No Chaser. Interior - pages browning, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear, minor soft creases to front cover, faint creases down rear hinge... more information

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Hart, Welwyn, (1999), Ist edtion.. 290 pp, 4to (11 11/16" H), soft cover. Many b&w photographs, reproductions, 5 color plates. Chapter Headings: Historical Background to the Territorial Artillery, 1920-1945; The Development of Field Artillery Tactics, Organisation and Equipment, 19. 20-1945; Between the Wars, 1920-1939; The Original Unit - 86th Field Regiment, R.A., September 1939-April 1946; The Duplicate Unit - 135th Field Regiment, R.A., September 1939-August 1945; The War-formed Unit - 191... more information

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Davis-Poynter, London, (1976).. 215 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w maps. ISBN 0706701860 "...(examines) the long drawn-out arguments that raged between London and Washington, and especially those between Churchill and General Marshall, the US Army Chief of S. taff. (Sainsbury) has analysed the motives of both men, and in particular the question of the political motives wrongly attributed to Churchill, in his preference for Mediterranean operations, by some American h... more information

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Henry Holt, New York, (1993), Ist American ed.. 128 pp, 4to, HC in dust jacket. "...thirty needlepoint and cross stitch designs based on versatile and popular themes such as fruits, butterflies, roses, ribbons, alphabets, and plaids...(shows) how charted patterns can be fully interchangeable bet. ween needlepoint and cross stitch." Includes cushions, table linens, curtains, upholstery, clothing, etc. Gives advice on materials and techniques to use to give your work a professional-looking ... more information

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Dark Horse, (Milwaukie, OR, 2001), Ist printing.. 222 pp, 8vo, soft cover. Created, Written and Illustrated by Stan Sakai. "At the close of violent, 16th -century Japan, Miyamoto Usagi braved many a battle only to lose his lord and become a masterless samurai, or ronin. While many ronin became b. andits or mercenaries, Usagi chose the warrior pilgrimage, travelling the land in search of enlightenment and justice. From struggles against the dark ambitions of evil men to clashes with supernatura... more information

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Penguin, (Toronto, 1991), Ist Penguin.. 247 pp, PB. Interior - very lightly cracked between pages 80-81, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, book slightly cocked, spine creased but still legible. VG-. ... more information

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Evangelical Press, Harisburg, Pa., (1934).. 14 pp + ads, 7 1/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Contents: The Postponement Theory; Israel's True Separation; Israel's Failure and its Result; Has God Forgotten His Promises?; Regathered the Second Time; Proofs of the Final Return; The Purpose. of the Regathering; International Movements, and the Return; The Regathering and the Church; The Purpose and the Consummation. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior -... more information

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William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1953.. 287 pp, large 8vo (9 15/16" H), hard cover (red cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold insignia on front board) - no dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions, maps/battle plans. "This is the tale of an infantryman whose weapon was essentially. a sword, although that sword was fixed on the end of a rifle and designated a bayonet. It is the tale of a Scottish infantryman, who was essentially a clansman with all the glorious traditions, es... more information

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Methuen, London, 1953, first edition.. 258 pp, small 8vo (7 7/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers, b&w photographs. "Cedric Salter has lived in Spain for six years and knows it as few other Englishmen do. His book has been written for those middle-of-the-way travellers who. are interested in food, wine and their creature comforts as well as in art and architecture. It is not primarily an account of such well-known tourist attractions as Easter Week or the Spring Fair in Sev... more information

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