Authors starting with U from Capricorn Books

Dargaud, Paris, 1982.. 48 pp, 4to (11 5/8" H), hard cover (glazed pictorial boards) - no dust jacket. ISBN 2205001345 FRENCH TEXT. Profusely illustrated with full color cartoons. Asterix and Obelix go to Rome and end up as gladiators in the Forum. Slight bump to top/. bottom of spine, tiny scuff at top rear corner, minor rubbing yo glossy boards. VG. ... more information

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Ediciones Junior, Barcelona, 1977.. 48 pp, 11 13/16" H, hard cover with glazed pictorial boards - no dust jacket. SPANISH TEXT. Pictorial endpapers. Colour cartoons. Minor browning to pages, two very tiny dints on bottom edge of front board, area of wrinkling in lamination on rear. board. Very Good. ... more information

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Delta, Stuttgart, 1973.. 48 pp, 11 1/2" H, hard cover (glazed pictorial boards) - no dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. Illustrated throughout with colour cartoon strips. Minor bump at top/bottom of spine, very light browning on spine. Very Good. ... more information

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Delta, Stuttgart, 1973.. 48 pp, 11 1/2" H, hard cover (glazed pictorial boards) - no dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. Illustrated throughout with colour cartoon strips. Bump at bottom of spine, light browning on spine and rear hinge. Very Good. ... more information

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Delta, Stuttgart, 1970.. 48 pp, 11 1/2" H, hard cover (glazed pictorial boards) - no dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. Illustrated throughout with colour cartoon strips. Minor rubbing. Very Good+. ... more information

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Frederick Muller, (London, 1967), 1st edition.. 147 pages, small 8vo, hardcover in dust jacket, Ex-library copy. "...gives an overall picture of the progress of pewter ware from the days of Edaward I...telling how to date specimens, how to detect alterations and faked pieces, and how to build up. a profitable collection and how to display it...useful sections on restoration..." This copy has library stamp, spine label, library mylar on dust jacket, free front endpaper missing, tape marks - n... more information

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Ariel, Columbus, Ohio, (1942), reprint.. 191 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H), soft cover. Contents: What is Mysticism?; The World of Reality; The Preparation of the Mystic; Meditation and Recollection; Self-Adjustment; Love and Will; The First Form of Contemplation; The Second Form of Contemplation; . The Third Form of Contemplation; The Mystical Life. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear, flat uncreased spine. VG+. ... more information

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Maritime Books, Liskeard, 1983.. 144 pp, 9 1/2" H, soft cover. B&w photographs, map. ISBN 0907771084 Interior - soft crease/bump at top corner of approx. last 20 pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - a few soft creases on covers, two very sma. ll corner creases on front cover, minor rubbing. Very Good-. ... more information

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Clock House, (Peterborough, Ontario, 1969), second edition, 6th printing.. 280 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hardcover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in b&w showing patterns, shapes, advertisements, color plates, pictorial endpapers. Contents: Glass Factories; Mallory Glass; Burlington Glass; From Nova Scotia; References . and Abbrevia tions; Whimseys; Miscellaneous Glass; Pattern References; Pattern and Form of Canadian Glass; More from Nova Scotia; More Canadian Forms; Rayed & Other Bases; ... more information

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Clock House, Peterborough, Ontario, 1977.. 128 pp, 11" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with b&w drawings. "This book is a collection of reprints from the 1888 catalogue of the Toronto Silver Plate Company. (The compilers) purchased a scrap book from the late Charle. s Williamson, some of the pieces pasted in were loose and (they) realized the book was, in fact, an old catalogue. As many pages as possible were salvaged by patiently soaking them in warm water....Unfo... more information

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Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1983, Ist edition.. 443 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "Constantinople, May 1908. City of the Golden Horn and the Sublime Porte; city of endless bazaars and sequestered palaces, glittering mosques and foreign compounds; ancient capital of an immense feudal autoc. racy teeming with different races and caught in the crosscurrents of European power struggles...(here, Englishman Robert Markham who stood by helplessly as his Armenian fiance was raped and murdered twelve... more information

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Peter Smith, Gloucester, Mass., 1965, reprint of 1915 edition.. 494 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover - no dust jacket. Contents: Preface; Impressment; Neutral Trade; Declaration of War and Peace Proposals; Acceptance of Great Britain's Proposal for Direct Negotiations; The Opening of Peace Negotiations at Ghent; . The Indian Question and the Canadian Boundary; Modification of British Demands; Conclusion of the Peace Negotiation; Ratification and Reception of the Treaty; The Execution of the Treaty o... more information

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Elephant's Eye / Overlook Press, Woodstock, 1998.. 160 pp, 4to (12" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0879518804 Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. "....the first comprehensive exploration of Blumenfeld's work, (this book) forms a uniquely detailed study of her development. D. ividing her sculpture into eight themed chapters, it concentrates on the major ideas and technical concerns that have preoccupied the artist from the beginning: Two Sides of a Woman; Cre... more information

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The Champlain Society, Toronto, 1963, 1965 - copies 218 of limited editions of 725 copies (Vol. I) and 775 (Vol. II.).. 295 pp, 335 pp, large 8vo, hard covers (red cloth with gold lettering, medallion on spine) - no dust jackets. William Smith, a wealthy and well connected New York lawyer, ended up on the 'wrong' side of the American Revolution and left for Canada w. here he became deeply involved in the government and legal system of the young colony. Interiors - many page unopened, otherwise... more information

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New American Library, New York, (1987).. 327 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "...provides descriptive definitions of 1500 real, legendary, and fictional places, streets, natural wonders, landmarks, and other sites of significance around the world..." Covers everything from 'banana republics' and 'T. he Magnificent Mile' to 'Spanish Harlem' and 'The Wickest City on Earth'. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, light rub... more information

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Emblem/McClelland & Stewart, (Toronto, 2002), 2nd printing.. 392 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, (this book) weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centr. e of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of a master carver, a seamstress haunted by a love affair cut short by the First World War, and by the frequent disappea... more information

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Macmillan, London, (1983), first edition.. 224 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0333341295 INSCRIBED ON HALF-TITLE PAGE, "BEST WISHES PETER USTINOV". Map endpapers, profusely illustrated in b&w and color with photographs and reproductions. "Russia has always been. considered a sleeping giant by those frightened by the spectre of an awakened giant. But people forget that Russia was once very small at a time when Poland and Lithuania were very large, a... more information

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Bodima, (Vancouver, 1978).. 140 pp, oblong 8vo (8 1/2" H x 11" D), soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. A look back at Toronto of old through vintage photographs - sports, social life, architecture, stores, streetscapes, etc. Interior - previous owners name o. n inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - front hinge crease, very light rubbing, area of soft creasing on front cover, very light browning to rear cover, two sm... more information

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Collins, London, 1972, 17th impression.. 63 pp, 16mo (6 7/8" H), hard cover (with pictorial boards), in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers, charming colour illustrations by Margaret Tempest. " 'Everything was frozen. Even the brook which ran past little Grey Rabbit's house on the edge of . the wood was thick with ice.' So Squirrel and Hare and Grey Rabbit and all their woodland friends decided to go skating. What an exciting day they had! And what a shock awaited them when they got... more information

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