Titles starting with C from Capricorn Books

Ministere des Affaires culturelles, Quebec, 1979.. 24 pp, oblong (8" x 10") soft cover (stapled in wraps). Illustrated in sepiatone and colour with drawings (plans, elevations, architectural details). FRENCH TEXT ONLY. A look at the work of 19th century Quebec architect and engineer, Charles-Phil. ippe-Ferdinand Baillairge. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, light wrinkling on spine, light rubbing. Very Good-. ... more information

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Patersons, London, c1984.. 293 pp, oblong (7" H x 10" D) soft cover. B&w photographs, reproductions. Contents: Regimental Toast; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Index; Preface; Pipe Majors of the Regiment since 1961; Retreat Marches; Slow Airs and Slow Marches; Marches; Str. athespeys; Reels; Hornpipes; Jigs; Piobaireachd; Crimean Reveille; List of Composers and Arrangers of the Pipe Tunes; Notes on the Composers and Arrangers of the Pipe Tunes; A guide to the Regiments, Battalions, Depots... more information

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Boston Mills Press, Erin, Ontario, 1984.. 133 pp, oblong 8vo (8 1/2" H x 11" D), soft cover. ISBN 0919783007 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps. A history of the Toronto neighbourhood locally known as "Cabbagetown". Interior - previous owner's small stamp on inside of fron. t cover, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very minor corner wear. Very Good+. ... more information

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Viking, (London, 1991), first edition.. 275 pp, 8vo (8 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers, b&w maps in text. ISBN 067082481X "This unique series looks at each of the major grape varieties and assesses the wines made all over the world from that variety...Each volume inc. ludes background information on the grape variety and advice on the best way to buy, store and serve the wines. An extensive gazetteer lists the main wines made from the variety in Europe, North and Sout... more information

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M.F. Feheley, (Toronto, 1977).. 156 pp, folio (13 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Errata sheet laid in. ISBN 0919880096 Profusely illustrated with color and b&w photographs. "The fine furniture tradition in Canada's eastern provinces was influenced by the arrival of the Lo. yalists in 1783. Among those who came were people of wealth and quality who transported, by sea, furnishings that were superior in craftsmanship and design. Accomplished cabinetmakers arriving later from Gre... more information

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Vanwell, St. Catharines, ON, (1996), Ist edition.. 104 pp, oblong 8vo (8 5/8" H x 10 5/8" D), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. ISBN: 1551250365 "HMCS St. Laurent was the Navy's first postwar antisubmarine vessel, designed and built entirely in Canada, commissioned. in 1955. Classed as a destroyer escort, she was the most advanced of her kind, and caused a considerable stir in world naval circles. She was the first of twenty very similar ships ... more information

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Tom Doherty, New York, (1991), Ist edition.. 279 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "These three stories, each in a strong and original voice, range from the delicately fantastic and disturbing to the gruesomely horrific. All invoke the weird and uncanny sensations of our hidden fears and desires.". Faint remainder stamp to bottom of textblock, light creases to top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket is price clipped, minor wrinkling at bottom edge of rear panel. VG/VG. ... more information

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Windrow & Greene, London, 1994.. 96 pp, 10 3/16" H, soft cover. ISBn 1872004199 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "Various events contrived to bring about the cafe racer era, together with the advent of the rocker - and subsequently mod - cults. New motorcycles such a. s the BSA Gold Star singles and Star twins, Norton Dominator, Royal Enfield Meteor and Constellation, Triumph Tiger 110 and Thunderbird and Velocette Venom created a new breed of enthusiast, while films such a... more information

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Baen, (New York, 1989), Ist printing.. 402 pp, mass market paperbacks. B&w maps. "He mutinied against her. He sold her into slavery. He destroyed the trading house she built up from nothing. Habiku Smoothtongue had corrupted everyone and everything that had ever meant anything to Me. gan Thanesdoom - including herself. But worst of all, he has filled her soul with a thirst that only vengeance can slake." Interior - pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ow... more information

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Coach House Press, Toronto, 1975, 1st Limited Edition.. 181 pp, 4to (12 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. One of an edition of 1,500 copies. The author's fourth "visual novel", partially infuenced by travel in Mexico. Previous owner's small name label at bottom of free front endpaper, small bump at . top/bottom of spine, very small bump at bottom corner of boath boards, light wear at corners and top/bottom of spine very light on bottom of boards, tiny bump at bottom edge of front... more information

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Harwood-Smart, (London, 1975).. 174 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "It is the 21st Century. The world is poised on the brink of nuclear war - until a greater threat supervenes: scientists discover that destruction will be by cataclysmic natural causes. Panic reunites the divided . nations. In the short time left to man a planet must be colonised, but the space explorers, led by the fearless Colonel Shaw, find that the only one fit for human habitation is also on the brink of destruction - its only li... more information

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Del Rey, New York, (1990, 1991, 1992, 1994), Ist editions.. 311 pp, 324 pp, 339 pp, 337 pp, - mass market paperbacks - 4 volumes. "Magic had ravaged Caithe since ancient times, striking unpredictably and creating men and women with powers they could neither understand nor control. Only the ritual slaughter. of such mad wizards held the land safe from fire and destruction. Yet, even in Caithe, some magic was tolerated by the Church and the people, though grudgingly. Long before, the King had bee... more information

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Pelican, Gretna, (Louisiana), 1985, 2nd printing.. 96 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Charmingly illustrated by the author (who was the illustrator of 'Cajun Night Before Christmas') in sepia tone and color. "Gaston the green-nosed alligator...may sometimes hold his textbook upside. down, but as readers of this volume can attest, the alligator has mastered the language of Louisiana's Cajun French, from A to Z. Using a combination of poetry and color sketches, Ric... more information

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Era, (Flinders Park, South Australia), 1996, Ist edition.. Unpaginated (approx. 45 pp.), small 4to (10 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1863742484 Wonderfully detailed full page b&w illus, every text page bordered by monochrome illus of insects. Young Caleb van Doorn is a genius, obsessed with in. sects. One day, he disappears and some think he may have been murdered - but his college roommate thinks otherwise - he believes Caleb may have evolved into one of his beloved creatures... T... more information

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Ace, New York, (1994,1995, 1997), Ist printings.. 402 pp, 448 pp, 365 pp, mass market paperbacks - 3 volumes. B&w maps. "For decades, the last scions of the Dunladry have languished in luxurious exile, growing soft and weak in the comforts of the Feyan court. Now their highland home cries out fo. r its rulers - Duncan, with his virgin blade, and Mhairi, his sister - to lead the clans in a struggle for freedom from the usurping tyrant. But their battle is no ordinary one of sword and steel. ... more information

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Longmans Canada, (Don Mills, Ontario, 1965).. 243 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos, reproductions. "...actual eyewitness accounts of day-to-day life in the growing city (of Montreal), from Isaac Weld's report of his visit in July, 1796, when Montreal contained twelve hundred hou. ses, 'whereof 500 only were within the walls', to W.G. Radford's recollections of the nineties when horse-cars only ran to Greene Avenue and a Victorian family on its way to church on Sun... more information

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Avon, New York, c1931, reprint.. 221 pp, mass market paperback. "There were primeval rhythms throbbing in Nasa's blood....aboriginal desires that crept like wildfire through her veins. Only one woman knew the secret of her birth; but Nasa's mother never told. Nasa knew only that. she was a flashing black-eyed beauty, and that men desired her. How Nasa, daughter of sturdy pioneers and belle of high society, outraged all who knew her in affair after shocking affair....and how, after one tr... more information

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Parallax Press, Berkeley, 1999, 5th printing.. 202 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H), soft cover. ISBN 1888375167 "Deeply touching, human and lucid, Thich Nhat Hanh's poems have an almost uncanny power to disarm delusion, awaken compassion, and carry the mind into the immediate presence of meditation. It . is because when he writes, (he) writes with the voice of the Buddha." Sogyal Rinpoche. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - a few very tiny dints/scuffs at t... more information

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Corporation of Village of Cannington, Cannington, 1971.. 274 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover (red boards with gold lettering on spine, gold crest on front board) - no dust jacket. Map endpapers, tipped-in colour frontispiece, b&w photographs, reproductions. A local history of the village of Canning. ton, in the County of Ontario, giving information on the families, schools, churches, businesses, doctors, houses, sports and other entertainments, stores, personalities, etc. slight wrinkling... more information

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Book-of-the-Month Club, New York, (1989).. 70 pp, 8vo, soft cover. Small b&w illustrations from childrens' classics. "What was your favorite book as a child? Hundreds of Book-of-the-Month Club members young and old - plus many staffers - wrote from all over the United States and Canada to. answer that very question when BOMC asked it last year. Stories that touched us, taught us, entertained us...from the old and out of print to the newest award winners, the books mentioned here will ... more information

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