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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. "Promises To Keep" not only continues the story of Amway's growth, but also contains exclusive interviews with Amway officials discussing how the media have treated the company. Photo section present. Grey boards with green spine. Silver print to spine. No ownership markings. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Light soiling to bottom edge of book. This book remains bright and respectable.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Crown Publishers,Inc, 1978. . A little boy who has never been allowed to have a pet finds the perfect solution to his problems..... a warm and humorous story. Very well illustrated by free-lance illustrator, Arthur Cumings who has devoted much of his time to illustrating books for children. Cloth boards with black title print to front board and spine. Price-intact illustrated dust jacket. A bright, clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Poor.

Halifax, N.S: Nimbus Publishing and The Herald, Publisher of The Chronicle-Herald, The Mail-Star and The Sunday Herald, 2003. Oblong paper format. Photo illustrated card covers. At 12.10 A.M. on Monday, Sept 29, 2003 the worst storm to hit Nova Scotia in more than a century made landfall near Shad Bay. It took only a few hours for Hurricane Juan to tear across the province, but it left a trail of devastation in its wake. Two people were killed, Juan levelled homes, ripped apart the province's electricity grid and turned forests into splinters with winds gusting up to 175 kilometers per hour. The Chronicle-Herald documented the storm, the damage, the tragedies, the struggle to cope and the recovery. This book is built around the best of that coverage. Many photographs in full-page color. Book clean, bright and glossy.. ISBN: 1-55109-477-0. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Hurricane Juan + Hurricanes + Nova Scotia + Stephen Mahar Editor + Natural Disasters + Shad Bay N S + The Chronicle Herald + Halifax.… Leer más

London: Salvationist Publishing and Supplies, Ltd, 1968. SBN 85412-009-2 This book is the result of a lifetime of public speaking and writing with particular interest in the needs of women. The author offers from her store twenty-two talks suitable for the hard-pressed leader of women's meetings, and for those who want a devotional reading for the 'quiet time'. The shut-ins will gain much from sharing the thoughts of one who has travelled far and has always been able to see divinity in the ordinary things of life. Colonel Mrs. Ivy Mawby is a retired Salvation Army officer who has served in France, Great Britain and at International Headquarters in editorial work. Gift inscription to ffep. A bright, sound copy in an illustrated dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: A.L.Burt Company 1917 Published March 1917. This book without dust jacket is being offered as a READING COPY. The book is a journal of the author's experiences in warring Europe. Text is accompanied with illustrations from photographs. A map of the author's two trips in a two-page spread is also present. Photo frontispiece. Preface by the author. The contents provide eleven chapters which has been divided into two parts. Brown cloth boards. Well designed front board. A square, complete and serviceable book.. Hard Cover. Reading Copy.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979. 'A Norton Critical Edition.' Illustrated glossy card covers. Robert M. Adams...Professor Emeritus of English, University of California at Los Angeles. This volume presents a new and fresh selection of Ben Jonson's dramatic works. A chronology of the playwright's life and works ans a selected bibliography provided.. First Edition Stated. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York,: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1979. This is Sophia, telling you not just what she wants you to know, but everthing - turning herself inside out and filling the pages with the pain, sorrow, joys, wisdoms, frustrations, and dreams which have constituted her life. There are 40 pages of photographs and filmography. Blue boards - lighter blue cloth spine with blue title print. Bookplate to fep, name to prelim. Jacket photograph by Albert Watson. Top and fore edge of book shows some light brown spotting. Overall - a very good copy about this talented film actress who has made seventy movies. . Eighth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973. Illustrated card covers. In this lively, entertaining account of the curiosities and off-beat wonders of Stuart Trueman's fabulous province of New Brunswick you will discover or re-discover Magnetic Hill, St. Andrews -by-the-Sea, Campobello, Ghosts, The Hub of the Maritimes, The World's Happiest Man, The Fundy Tides, The Madawaska Weavers, The Miramichi Folk Festival, The Longest Covered Bridge in The world, etc. Very well illustrated full-page illustrations by the talented illustrator Tom Athes. Stuart Trueman is New Brunswick's most vocal native son and a winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour.. ISBN: 0-7710-8611-3. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Canadiana + New Brunswick History + Humour + Madawaska Weavers + Fundy Tides + Miramichi Folk Festival + Magnetic Hill + Ghosts + Kings Landing + Tom Athes Illustrator. Catalogs: Maritime Provinces.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1989. Colette Sinclair has everything: beauty, brains, glamerous clothes, an adorable three-year old daughter...and expensive taste. What she does not have is a man, so Colette is on the hunt. With insight and humour Colette describes her sifting of replies to her advertisements, her approach to blind dates, etc. and explains why she continues with her quest. Black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Remainder mark to top edge. No ownership markings. Illustrated photo dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Minister of Supply and Services, Canada, 1982. Red textured card covers. " This document has been published to increase understanding of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and to heighten awareness of its significance in our daily lives." Foreword by Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Preface by Jean Chretien.... who was then Minister of Justice. The contents are provided in the English and French language. A bright, clean, tight copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Simon and Schuster (c.1962) Book Club Edition. The novel opens with a telegram that is sent to six people informing them that each has been voted this years Nobel Prize. Each realizes that from now on not only his achievements but every aspect of his private life will be bathed in the glare of international publicity. All six must examine their weaknesses. They are the major actors. Above all, this novel is a vivid behind-the-scenes anatomy of the Prize itself: how the Nobel jurists secretly reach their decisions; how attempts are made to influence them; how the awards have changed the winner's lives for good or evil. A bright square book. No previous ownership showing. Dust jacket design by Ben Feder, Inc. A sound presentable copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Villard Books, 1993. Robert Fulghum.... philosopher and essayist. Maybe (Maybe Not), is Fulghum at his best: balancing levity and gravity with amazing grace as he makes us a little more aware of the richness and fullness of our lives. Erasure scrub mark to ffep. A bright book in a bright dust jacket.... a most serviceable copy!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Halifax: Formac Publishing Company Limited. 1989 (c.1989) First Edition. First Printing. Book Near Fine in photo illustrated card covers. Softcover. Foreword by Richard B. Goldbloom. Fiddlehead ferns, fish and a drink called swish, long underwear, Digby chicks, black rum and blueberry pie - its all here. In doggerel, song and ballad form, Jim Bennet presents an artful collection of rhyme written from the perspective of one whimsical Nova Scotian. Though written primarily for sheer fun, Jim Bennet's verses also document important facts of the social anthropology of the regions. The cartoon illustrations are by Catherine MacLean. Dick Goldbloom who provided the foreword is Jim Bennet's friend and who is also physician, musician, writer and skipper of the 'Papillon II'. A bright book - a very nice copy.. ISBN: 0-88780-076-9. Atlantic Canada-Humour Atlantic Canada-Verse Nove Scotia-Poetry Canadiana. Catalogs: Maritime Provinces.

New York: The MacMillan Company 1961 (1961) Money is the proverbial root of many evils in this romantic novel of the personalities and circumstances - the discoveries and secrets - that shape a warm and talented woman from a lonely, sensitive child. Highly charged and dramatic, the author's plot mounts swiftly to an unusual, ironic climax when the innocent appearance of a coin pin produces a revelation affecting the lives of all her characters. Grace Carstens is a New Englander by heritage and a Cape Codder by adoption. Maroon boards with blue title print to front board and spine. A small, neat ownership sticker to fep. Edges of text darkened. Illustrated dust jacket.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978. Author's First Novel. Los Angeles Times sums it up with this review: " Belongs on the shelf with Animal Farm, Watership Down, and Lord of the Rings. It is, like them, an absorbing, fanciful parade of the war between good and evil. A powerful and enjoyable work of the imagination." Walter Wangerin,Jr. was born in Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Evansville, Indiana where he is pastor of a small inner-city congregation, Grace Lutheran Church. Blue boards with light grey cloth spine. Well illustrated jacket art by Ronald Keller. The same illustration adorns title page.. BOMC. Half-Leather. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Halifax: Formac Publishing Company Limited, 1988. Illustrated card covers. Bernard Meyer has combined his French heritage with regional produce to create a new style of cooking. He has taken many of the classic dishes of french cuisine and adapted them to take advantage of the wonderful array of Atlantic ingredients. He presents more than 100 recipes with clear and easy-to-follow instructions. Bernard Meyer was Chef de Cuisine at the Pines Resort Hotel in Digby, Nova Scotia. He has won the Regional French Wizer Deluxe competition and the silver medal at the Hotel Olympia in France.. ISBN: 0-88780-063-7. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Digby Nova Scotia + The Pines Resort Hotel + French Cooking + Seafood + Recipes + Maritime Provinces + Atlantic Canada. Catalogs: Cookbooks.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1947 (c.1947) Book Club Edition. This colorful and romantic novel of Montreal and Eastern Canada in the early 1700's is not only a dramatic and turbulent love-story but also a fine re-creation of daily life in Canada while it was still New France. It is essentially the love-story of Elise de Courville-Boissart, the daughter of one of Montreal's oldest families, and Antoine de Brievaux, a young officer in the French Navy. The troubled times that culminated in the French and Indian War play a prominent part in the story. Then, too there was a smouldering enmity between French and English which at last broke into open warfare. Both the Indian raiders and the English invaders play their roles in some of the most exciting scene of the story. Endpapers make up a two-page historical scene. Name to ffep. A sound book in a well-illustrated dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1978. This is a biography of one of Hollywood's most prolific and talented film-makers, John Huston. Huston's magical masterful direction has produced dozens of American film clasics: The Matlese Falcon, The African Queen, The Night of The Iguana, etc. John Huston is a remarkable story - an epic tale of a man whose own life has been as colorful and dramatic as any of his movies. Photos, bibliography and index supplied. Photo illustrated, price-intact dust jacket. Remainder spray to bottom edge 0f book. Some soiling to a few page edges that does not affect text. This copy remains bright, tight and most serviceable.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1991. A rousing adventure tale skillifully interwoven with one of Japan's great stories; the early eighteenth-century vendetta of the Forty-seven Ronin or masterless samauri. A bright clean copy./. Book Club Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. Robert M. Fomon was a man dedicated to E.F. Hutton. He envisioned the firm's new, pink marble headquarters in Manhattan as a prominent symbol of the giant corporation that Hutton had become under his leadership. Everything about the building bespoke success. Unfortunately, by the end of 1987, when Bob Fomon's twenty-nine story memorial to his own achievement was finished, so was the firm. 'The Fall of the House of Hutton' untangles a web of intrigue unlike anything Wall Street has experienced in recent years. Hutton, one of the oldest and best-known names on Wall Street, did nor fall victim to a stock market crash or the industry's relentless drive toward consolidation. The end began with check-kiting...a scam to defraud large and small banks that almost gave the company interest-free loans..... A bright square copy....remainder mark to bottom edge. No ownership markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.