Titles starting with A from Capricorn Books

Phelps, London, Ontario, 1978, first edition.. 151 pp, large 8vo (9" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions. "The first Hamilton Water Works system was built about 120 years ago (at time of printing) to supply the citizens of an ambitious city with sufficient clean water. . The construction followed years of epidemics, fires, dust, and political intrigue. The pumping machinery, erected by Keefer, Gartshore, and McFarlane was among the finest of its day and still exi... more information

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Squadron/Signal, (Carrollton, Texas, 1983).. 50 pp, oblong 8vo, soft cover. Aircraft No. 59. Many b&w photos and profiles plus 10 color pictures in centrefold. Very minor wear to spine. Near Fine.. ... more information

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Elek, London, (1970), reprint.. 312 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 02363080804 "In this novel, Zola studies the problem of male chastity. How does the Roman Catholic priest, sworn to celibacy, reconcile his vow with human nature? With great and poetic delicacy and ho. nesty, he tells the story of young Serge Mouret, Vicar of Artaud in Southern France, the victim of a conflict between a morality that has made sex evil and a natural impulse to love, purely and utterly, a young girl...&qu... more information

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Sankey, Hudson, Manchester, n.d.. 64 pp, 8 3/8" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, map. Consists of one page of introductory text followed by pages of captioned photographs showing interiors, exteriors and architectural details. Interior. - light browning to inside of covers, , minor browning to pages, rusty staples, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - browning to edges of covers, rusty staples, light browning to edg... more information

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Headline, (London, 1998), Ist PB printing.. 336 pp, PB. "It is 1319. Tavistock's fair has drawn merchants to Devon from all over England and beyond. Keeping the streets clean and the locals in order is no easy task, for the influx of visitors and their money puts temptation in the way of c. ut-purses and other villains. But no on expects a murder, and butcher Will Ruby is stunned to discover a corpse - a headless corpse at that..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownersh... more information

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Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, n.d., 2nd edition.. 78 pp, 7 5/8" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Contents: The A B C of the Isms; A Drive for Birth Control; Modern 'Satan Worship'; Modernistic Atheism; The Menace of 'Educational Totalitarianism'; Beyond the Campaign for Sex Education. Interior -. clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light fading on spine and part of covers, two small very light stains and small soft corner crease on front cover, tiny... more information

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Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, 1957.. 62 pp (including colophon), 12mo (7 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Red, yellow, black and white illustrations. A collection of recipes involving alcoholic ingredients (wine, rum, sherry, port, etc.), arranged alaphabetically, with illustrated. short humorous rhymes with each letter (e.g. the letter H begins: "Happy the bride / Upon whom the sun shines; / And happy the sauces / Concocted with wines!" - which is followed by recipes fo... more information

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Platt & Munk, n.p., (c1936).. Unpaginated, (12 pp including covers), 8vo, stapled in wraps. Color and b&w illustrations by Ninon MacKnight. The story of Abdul, a little Bedouin boy who lives with his family in a tent in the desert and travels with his camel to a village with h. is friend Hammed. Interior - one page has soft crease at top corner, a few small faint spots, otherwise clean and sound. Exterior - light edgewear, soft crease to top corner of rear cover, 1/2" tear at bottom of... more information

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Frederick D. Goodchild, Toronto, 1918, first Canadian edition.. 323 pp + ads, small 8vo (7 9/16" H), hard cover (maroon cloth with gold lettering and RFC insignia on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. The Canadian edition (with Goodchild on the spine) was prepared from sheets of the American first edition. (D. Appleton with '1' on last page of text and Appleton's ads at rear) with the Goodchild title page tipped-in. The author's personal reminiscences of his time in the Roya... more information

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University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996.. 244 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover. ISBN 0520203240 "What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? What are the implications of such a relationsh. ip with sacred beings for the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Babb explores the ritual culture of image-worshiping Svetambar Jains. Jainism is, aside ... more information

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Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1965.. 185 pp, mass market paperback. Interior - light browning to pages, small scoft bump to bottom corner of last 30 pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - previous owner's label on front cover, very light edge wear,. small corner crease on rear cover, spine is slightly concave. Very Good-. ... more information

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Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, B.C., (1988).. 248 pp, 8vo, HC. The incredible story of how an itinerant radio repairman accidentally started Queen Charlotte Airlines, Canada's largest bush flying outfit. B&w photos. Map eps. Great dj art by J. Spilsbury shwoing a wraparound picture of a fly. ing boat, mountains, islands and canoes. NF/NF. ... more information

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Chapman & Hall, London, 1954, Ist edition.. 224 pp, small 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "Would you - in peace time - kill a man to save innocent lives, if that was the only means by which those lives could be saved? And, if you did so, would it be murder? It certainly would be if, at the. actual time you killed, you did not do so in immediate defence of yourself or someone else. (This book) deals with the trial for murder of Alec Morland, who is alleged to have been guilty of killing a m... more information

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Folio Society, n.p., 1955, (1992 re-issue).. 127 pp, 8vo (9"H), hard cover in yellow slipcase. Bound in quarter dark red cloth, yellow paper boards with repeat pattern in dark red by Robert Gibbings; dark red endpapers. 10 wood-engravings of various sizes, including the frontispiece map of T. ahiti and the title-page vignette. "For this impression the wood-engravings were printed lithograpically from good pulls, rather than from the poor impressions found in the earlier printings." &quo... more information

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Lester & Orpen Dennys, (Toronto, 1982), Ist Canadian edition.. 262 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "...set against the gigantic canvas of the air battles of World War II. (The) protagonist is Ernst Brehme, a fighter pilot serving with the Luftwaffe. But Brehme is no ordinary flyer. He possesses the one-. in-a-million combination of qualities that makes him the complete master of his profession - one of the top-scoring pilots of all time - a national hero, idolized, adored. Like so many ... more information

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Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1967, first U.S. edition.. 164 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs. "Born in 1894, Rene Fonck was a young French farm boy with a dream of righing the wrongs that had been wreaked on his homeland by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. He would be the. avenger, the savior of France, riding to victory on a white charger, lance in hand, like Joan of Arc. It's a far cry from a young boy's dream of glory to the world of reality,... more information

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HarperPrism, (New York, 1998), Ist edition.. 282 pp, 8vo, HC. "In all the universe of literature, there is surely no creature more wondrous, no being more beautiful, and no youth more adventurous than Acorna, the Unicorn Girl..." Dj has very minor edgewear. NF/VG+. ... more information

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Canadian Plains Research Center/University of Regina, n.p., (1988).. 169 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos. "Regina College, opened by the Methodist church in 1911 to offer academic, music and business training to the young people of Saskatchewan, played a vital role in the educational and cultur. al life of the province during its formative years. The church placed its stamp on the college and on the students who passed through it. Regina College stood for academic excell... more information

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[Manitoba Club, Winnipeg, 1959].. 39 pp, 6" H, stapled in stiff card wraps. Contents; Presidents; Amendments to "The Manitoba Club Act"; General By-Laws and Reglations; House Rules; Ladies' Section - Rules and Regulations; First Annual Report and List of Members; Entrance Fees, etc. . Interior - a very tiny dint at top corner of last few pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear to spine, very light soiling to covers. VG. ... more information

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McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, Toronto, c1916.. 295 pp, small 8vo (7 9/16" H), hard cover (beige cloth with dark blue lettering on spine, dark blue lettering and illustration on front board) - no dust jacket. A novel of World War I based on official despatches. Contents: In Enemy Hands; A Bene. volent Neutral; Drill; A Night Patrol; As Others See; The Fear of Fear; Anti-Aircraft; A Fragment; An Open Town; The Signalers; Conscript Courage; Smashing the Counter-Attack; A General Action; At Last... more information

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