Search Results: Non-fiction from JWMah

USA: Pioneer Press, 1975. (USA) No markings, crease to cover, a couple of small spots to cover, about Very Good used copy. Wraps, iv, 92pp then about 500 unnumbered pages of technical information on the Trapdoor rifles in the Dixie Collection. B&Wphotos. The Model 1873 Springfield 45/70 Trapdoor rifle remains one of the most famous military arms ever adopted by the United States government, and was the standard military arm for some 25 years. However, it is said that Custer and his men were slaughtered at the Little Big horn because their Springfields had bullets jammed in the breeches of the rifles. (1.7 JM HOQ 103/b2. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Saulnierville NS: Femmes Acadiennes, 1981. (CAD) No markings, there is a hole punch through the top corner for a string to hang the book, about Fine. Whie card, side stapled, [30]pp. Line drawings. Printed in blue ink, with parallel French and English text. (1.0 JM HOX 1/a18. Staple Bound. Near Fine. Illus. by Pelletier, Valerie . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: Public Affairs Press, 2009. (USA) 1st printing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to the half-title: "To P---/ with best wishes for your help in the field/ Richard Dowden, March 2009", no other markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 576pp, index, no illus. The author is dorector of the Royal African Society. From the jacket: After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. In captivating prose, Dowden spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo. From the individual stories of failure and success comes a surprising portrait of a new Africa emerging?an Africa that, Dowden argues, can only be developed by its own people. Dowden's master work is an attempt to explain… Read More

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine wrap-around band as dust ajcket. Boards, xivm 265pp, index, bibliography. A few B&W illus. This is a book on footbinding in China written by an assistant professor of English who was born in Shanghai. (1.7 JM HOZ 402/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Washington DC: American Chemical Society, 1990. (USA) Presumed first edition. Owner's name which has been scratched out with black marker to front end paper, owner's nameto inside bck cover, , no other markings, Near Fine; no dust jacket as published. Boards, 472pp, index. B&Wphotos and illus. This is a series of paperson archaeological wood developed from a symposium sponsored by the Cellulose, paper, and Textile Division at the 19th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in 1988. (2.1 JM LVR 200/b5. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY / London: Routledge, 2009. (USA) 1st American edition, No markings, Fine. Wraps, 671pp, index, graph. This book covers classic philosophical sources such as Rousseau and Locke, as well as contemporary writers such as Nozick and Dworkin. In addition, this text includes a number of readings drawn from economics, literature, and sociology which serve to introduce philosophical questions about politics in a novel and intriguing way. As well as standard topics such as political authority and distributive justice, special attention is given to global issues which have become especially pressing in recent years, such as the right of individuals or groups to secede, the nature of global distributive justice, the morality of immigration, and the moral status of war and terrorism. (2.7 JM LVR 201/b2. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Toronto: Random House Canada, 2013. (CAD) 1st edition. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "For G---/ Stay inspiring/ Best/ Sally Armstrong' March 25, 2013", no other markigns, Fine in Very Good dust jackdt with small crease to the top edge of rear panel. Boards, 311pp, index, no illus. Sally Wishart Armstrong, OC is a Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. This book is about the final frontier for women: having control over your own body, whether in zones of conflict, in rural villages, on university campuses or in your own kitchen. This control is the key to economic justice and the end to violence in developing countries around the world. (1.9 JM LVR 202/b4. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY / London: Sterling Epicure, 2008. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, corner of the title page is creased otherwsie Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket. Boards, 468pp,index, mostly colour illustrations throughout. A heavy boook. (4.9 JM HOQ 103/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

U.S.A.: hf ULLMANN, 2009. (USA) 1st American printing. No markings, Near Fine in about Very Good dust jacket with serveral closed edge tears and a coupleof edgefaults; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Boards, 439pp, index. More than 600 colour illustrations and photos with the illustrations takenfrom the famous Sobotta Atlas. A massive heavy book. (9.0 JM HOQ 102/0. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Sobotta. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

USA: The Author, 2018. (USA) Stated first edition, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to the title page: "For ____ &----/ In the ame of new futures and old memories/ Janine ", no other markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 301pp, colour photos and illus. This is not a how-to guide with checklists for a good death. Janine tells the stories of her life with death and how she, the dying, and their loved ones puzzle through each situation to discover what is possible. Finding the order of a death often means finding the order of the life. These stories are individually and collectively timeless in their grace, paralleled only in the love and faith in which they have been poignantly gifted and inspirationally collected for sharing. (2.5 JM LVR 200/b1. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Berkeley CA: Serendipity Books, 1976. (USA) First Edition No markings, Fine in unclipped Fine (-) Dj. Blue cloth, 428pp. These are bibliographic notes for writers such as Saul Bellow, Richard Brautigan, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Diane Wakoski, Hortense Callisher, Truman Capote for their works up to about 1974. (2.7 JM HOQ 103/b4. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Athlone Press, 1988. (UK) this book originally appeared in 1968; this is the first printing of the revised and expanded (second) edition. No markings, Fine in Fine(-) dust jackdt with a hint of rubbing to the head of spine of DJ and rubbing to panel gloss of rear panel. Hardcover, 160pp, index, no illus. This new edition is considerably epanded to take account of the Waley literature of the past 20 years. It is an essential reference for all researchers concerned with Chinese and Japanese literature. (1.4 JM LVR 205/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine (-). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Vancouver: The Author, 2010. (CAD) No markings, Fine. Blue plastic spiral binding, clear vinyl cover sheet over blue title sheet, unpaginated [about 100pp], 1 B&W photos and head shot of the author above his byline in his articles. This is a collection of articles written for the North Shore News (North Vancouver) under the rubric of "judicial Gadfly" from 2004-2009. Articles include : ' Police have the right to speak out publicly"; " You cannot rehabilitate a pychopath"; "There are no maximum sentences'; "Plea bargains ignore victims". In 1975 Wallace Craig was appointed to the bench of the Provincial Court of British Columbia (Vancouver Criminal Division). He retired in 2001. During his 26 years in court he sensed that the criminal justice system and particularly the judiciary was dispensing justice without any real sense of law and order. In his view, the criminal justice system has ceased to be a deterrent to criminal behaviour. (2.0 JM LVR… Read More

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2019. (CAD) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 450pp, index, B&W and colour illus and photos. Bryson gives us a deeper understanding of our bdies through a readable explanation of bodily functions which are full of extraordianry facts and Brysonesque anecdotes. (2.5 JM HOZ 402/b2. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022. (CAD) 1st printing. No markings, Fine, no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, xii,353pp, index, a few B&W illus. This book examines how copper has been produced distributed, controlled and sold on a global scale. Large scale production for this essential mental, has affected ecologies, states and companies, while creating and destroyoing local communities dependent on volatile commodity markets. (2.0 JM HOZ 403/0. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1980. (CAD) No markings, Fine. Card covers, side-stapled, 46pp, drawings. This is a booklet on emergency rescue skills in times of disaster. showing forms of collapse, use of ropes, levers and jacks, ladders and tackles, casualties. (1.0 JM HOX 2/a12. Staple Bound. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2000. (USA) 1st printing. No mrkings, Fine in Very Good dust jacket with a 1/4" closed tear to the head of spine panel. Boards, 323pp, index, B&W photos and illus. From the dust jacket: Beauty and the Book is a cultural history of the craze for fine books which began after WWI and ended with the Depression. Benton begins by describing the massive public demand for fine editions, and the anxieties about class, literacy and culture which this craze reflected. She goes on to tell the stories of a range of publishers (from Bennet Cerf at Random House to owners of small, private presses) who catered to this demand by producing absurdly expensive editions, whose prices were justified both by the materials used (vellum, gold leaf, etc.) and the labor intensive processes by which they were created. Ostensibly, these limited editions were an antidote to the rise of mass literacy, and the consequent decline in literary taste. Unlike cheap romances and… Read More

London: Battlebridge Publications, 2009. (UK) Presumed 1st edition. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "Best wishes! J. Pauwels:, no other markings, Fine. Wraps, 220pp, index, B&W illus. Beneath the Dust of Time is an unconventional combination of history and the etymology of names. It was inspired and guided by two new paradigms. The first is the "Sahara hypothesis." This theory postulates a historical migration from North Africa to Europe, the Middle East and deep into Central Asia thousands of years ago, namely, when the end of the last Ice Age led to the emergence of the Sahara Desert in North Africa and to the retreat of the glaciers in Europe. The second is a radically new view of the history of the languages conventionally classified as Indo-European and Semitic. While there are countless studies of ancient history, almost all of them ignore the origins of the names of the peoples and places that determined the course of history. This study is Different. It aims to explain the origin and… Read More

NY: The Corning Museum of Glass, 2004. (USA) Presumed 1st edition, No markings, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with 1/4" closed tear to top edge of front panel and light rubbing to back panel. DJ is in mylar sleeve. Cloth, illus end papers, 339pp, index, colour photos throughout give a history of Venetian glass in its heyday. A heavy book, (5.0 JM LVR 201/a0. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2015. (CAD) 1st printing. Remainder dot to bottom edge of pages, no other markings, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Boards, 238pp, index, no illus. (1.8 JM LVR 202/a2. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Remainder.