Search Results: Authors starting with F from The Mortuary Korps

Rand McNally, 1950. Hardcover. Hardcover Listing in progress, complete details and photos coming soon."

384 p. Black hardcovers with red-gilt illustration have minor edgewear/bumping, ffep has a small stamp of previous author, there is a small stain to Preface, and some minor dogearing to bottom corner of a few pages, otherwise internally Fine, tightly bound and possibly unread. From Worldcat: His code name was The Needle. He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence, a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history ... But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom, and win the war for the Nazis.May require small amount of extra shipping due to size of book.

The Ryerson Press, 1961. Hardcover. Hardcover Listing in progress, complete details and photos coming soon." (jimdisc)

(Voir en bas pour la traduction en français.) RARE COLLECTION. L'Ami du clergé was a French-language weekly review published Langres from 1878 to 1969, with an interruption in 1940-1946 due to WWII. It was concerned with the education of members of the Catholic clergy and sought to promote Social Catholicism, without the use of polemics. A set of 33 volumes of bound periodicals, being volumes 30-40 and 52-72, including a duplicate of 52, and containing issues of L'Ami du clergé dated 1908-1923 and 1935-1962 (with a gap from 1940-46 due to the war). The set is also being sold with a few ephemera items found between the pages of various volumes.Ex-library, coming from the National Library in the Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada, these volumes contain the usual markings (stamps, etc.) and have been bound differently during certain time spans. Some are three-quarter leather-bound with gilt lettering to the spines, some have marbled or speckled boards, and some are cloth-bound. Please see… Read More

Avon Books, 1984. Paperback. Paperback Listing in progress, complete details and photos coming soon." (auction)

First Edition.
219 p.; ill.; includes Notes (p. 207-19). Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine shows some minor bumping and edgewear, with a few tiny spots to foredge, but is otherwise Near Fine, with illustrated (map) endpapers, clean, bright, and well-bound. Price-clipped dust jacket is in Very Good condition with some edge and shelfwear, but is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear. From the dust jacket: On Tuesday morning, June 28, 1887, in the East End of London, Miriam Angel was found dead. Nitric acid had been poured down her throat. Israel Lipski, a twenty-two-year-old Polish immigrant Jew was charged with her murder. This is the story of Lipski's trial, conviction and the fight for reprieve. Martin Friedland, a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, has unearthed the original transcript of the trial, and uses it extensively to demonstrate the evidence relating to the murder and the manner in which it was set out before… Read More

Presumably first edition.

Polyglot version (French, Flemish, English, German languages). 143 p. ; ill. (colour); 29 cm.

Black hardcover with gilt lettering to front and spine, shows very minor edgewear and unobtrusive library markings to title page, otherwise crisp, clean, and tightly bound. The dust jacket has moderate wear, mainly around the edges, including but not limited to a large closed chip held on by tape.

Note: oversized book, may require extra postage fees.


Table des matieres / Inhoud / Contents / Inhalt :

• Les Belges et leur patrie au bord de la Mer du Nord — Het Belgische yolk en het land aan de oevers van de Noordzee —The Belgians and their small country on the shore of the Nord Sea — Des belgische Volk und das Land an der Nordsee

• Illustrations — illustraties — Illustrations — Illustration

• Le visage des villes et des sites belges — Steden en land-schappen — Aspects of the Belgian towns ans landscapes — Stadte und Landschaften

• Le littoral… Read More

First edition, first printing, with bookplate from publisher stating it is a review copy.

229 p. : ill., 8 plates; 21 cm.

Handsome blue hardcover with debossed title, black spine with gilt lettering, exhibits some edgewear and the textblock is completely cracked between 134-137, but is otherwise quite Fine. Please see pictures. Pictorial dust jacket is price-clipped and shows expected wear as well as minor chips/tears to edges.

From the rear:

HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY KNOW?
Where was Camelot? What are the gigantic mathematical lines spotted from the air on the Nazca Desert in Peru? Has fabled Atlantis finally been located? Were the Egyptian pyramids really ancient astronomical observatories? Was the dividing of the Sea of Passage part of a cosmic catastrophe which struck the whole earth?

Shrouded in mystery and obscured by legend, man's prehistory is still largely an enigma. Each year new archaeological and scientific discoveries change our view of the past. Rupert Furneaux's ANCIENT… Read More