Search Results: Authors starting with I from Capricorn Books

Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1932. 112 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H). Contents: Systems and Men; The Appeal and Challenge of Communism; Marxism - The New Religion; The Russian and the Bolshevik; The Political Psychology of the Russian; Stalin and the Communist Course; The Reckoning. Gift inscription on free front endpaper, light edge wear, light wrinkle at top of spine, light dust soiling on top of textblock. Dust jacket has light browning on spine and flap-folds, tiny chips at top of spine and flap-folds, light edge wear/wrinkling, minor rubbing. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Calgary, Alberta: The Regiment,, 1978. 84 pp, 11" H. B&w photographs, ads. Contents: Former Commanding Officers and RSMs; Commanding Officer's Message; Message from the Colonel of the Regiment; Message from the Director of Armour; RSM's Note; Recipients of the QSJM; Appointment of the Colonel-in-Chief; Change of Command; A Squadron; Middle East Article; B Squadron; C Squadron; HQ Squadron; Maintenance Troop; Signals Troop; Exchange Officer's Letters; Regimental Museum; Historical Section; Officers' Mess; Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess; Junior Ranks' Club; The Ceremonial Riding Troop; Regimental Notes; Regimental Sports; Regimental Association, Calgary Branch; 1292 LdSH(RC) Cadet Corps; LdSH(RC) Ladies' Auxiliary. Interior - faint water stain at bottom inside edge of rear cover, otherwise clean and tight with no other previous ownership marks. Exterior - front cover has small corner crease, very light rubbing, tiny scuff, soft creasing at spine area;… Read More

Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 1995. 150 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H). B&w photographs, maps. "The Connecticut River Valley runs through New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts and offers everything for which New England is famous, including country roads and scenic byways that are just right for bicycle touring. You can pedal to the top of Mount Greylock, Massachusetts' highest peak, on a road bike; ride through the longest covered bridge in Vermont; take your mountain bike on a gondola to the top of the Mount Snow ski resort; or cycle through the spectacular colors of a New England autumn. This book describes 50 trips - 25 for road bikes and 25 for mountain bikes only. The trips range in difficulty from trips of 1-3 miles with little more than 100 feet of elevation gain, to 50 miles with more than 3,000 feet of gain. Most of the trips cover about 20 miles. Each trip description includes a route map, directions to the start of the ride, total ride distance, elevation gain, time needed to… Read More

Montreal: Molson Industries Limited, 1969. 28 pp (English) / 28 pp (French), 10 7/8" H. "Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders" laid in. Colour and b&w photographs, illustrations, charts. Contents: The Year in Brief; Directors' Report to Shareholders; Financial Statement; Review of Operations; Principal Subsidiary Companies; Financial Charts; 10-year Financial Record; Directors and Officers. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light wear at the top and bottom of the spine.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good.

Montreal: Canadair, 1962. 133 pp (printed on one side of page only), 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w with technical drawings/diagrams (some fold out). This was an in-house document "for training purposes only" and while most of the illustrations are quite legible, a few are very poor quality and virtually unreadable - all text pages are clear. The paging of the text sections is typed and include pages 30A and 49A. Sequentially, there is no page 111, but the text flow from page 110 to 112 reads as if complete. The illustration pages inserted between the text pages have handwritten numbers or no numbers at all, indicating that they were probably assembled separately. Sequentially, there is no No. 37, the run of pages 67-69 contains only two illustrations, there is no No. 80 and no No. 132 - however, there is no indication that anything has been removed. Contents: Section No. 1 - Introduction; System General; Hydraulic System; Hydraulic Fluid; Systems Bleeding;… Read More

Macmillan, New York, (1973), Ist edition. 265 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs. "On the night of June 21, 1944, the Luftwaffe attacked the American air base at Poltava. Unchallenged by the Red Air Force (who were to have provided all air defense), the Germans bombed the field for more than an hour, damaging or destroying more than sixty B-17s, along with virtually the entire supply of fuel, ammunition, and material at Poltava. Why did this tragedy occur? Infield has unearthed evidence that it probably happened on orders from the Kremlin. Stalin, he maintains, was looking not toward the immediate goal of defeating the Axis powers, but toward his own long-range plans for world domination: the Soviet dictator saw 'Operation Frantic' as a way of making U.S. forces look impotent, while still making possible the continued flow of American military equipment and know-how. As a result, the hard work of many courageous and resourceful men - captured in… Read More

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis 6 1/8" H - 4 volumes - no dates. 'Scotland' - medium blue binding with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering/crest on front board. 288 pp + 16 pp Index, Nineteenth Revision - Extensively Revised. 28 pp of maps preceding title page (4 b&w, 24 colour), plus unpaginated section of General Notes, Sunset Tables, Lamp-Lighting Tables, Heights of Road Passes, Heights of Principal Mountains, Suggested Tours, etc. Profusely illustrated throughout with b&w elevation plans of roads. 'Northern Division' - dark red binding with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering/crest on front board. xii, 272 pp + 32 pp Index - introductory section includes 'Gradient Readings', 'Optical Illusions', 'Lamplighting Tables', 'Sunset Tables', 'Pronunciation of Names', etc. Profusely illustrated throughout with b&w elevation plans of roads. 'South East Division' - medium red binding with gilt lettering on spine,… Read More

Toronto: House of Grant, 1976. 63 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs. Introductory section including: History and Style Progression; Construction; Decoration; Restoration; Assessment of Condition; Assessment of Age; Evaluation - followed by photograph section with full-page descriptions and closing with a Glossary. Exterior - very light edgewear/rubbing, small crease at top right corner, migrating into first few pages of textblock. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good.

N.P.: Trust House Hotels, 1972. Unpaginated (12 pp + covers), 6 1/16" H. Blue, black & white illustrations, including double-page floor plan at centre. A brief history of the Swan Hotel, Lavenham, Suffolk. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean.. Third Printing.. Stapled in Wraps. Near Fine. Illus. by Aldo Cosomati..

London: Gollancz, 1976. 192 pp, 8vo (8" H). "A small yacht adrift in mid-Pacific, its main-mast snapped, its navigator dead - that's the highly intriguing (and most uncharacteristic) opening of Michael Innes's latest story. The dead man is Charles Povey, a maverick tycoon. And there's a survivor on board: his brother Arthur, who, when at last he is picked up, semi-delirious, is assumed for several convincing reasons to be Charles himself. As Charles was the wealthy brother, Arthur is very ready to accept the error in identification. He proceeds to enjoy the fleshpots. But of course he also has to have a shot at running Charles's confused financial empire. And, not surprisingly, there are one or two people who see through the impersonation, and make their blackmailing demands. Arthur is driven to marriage, crime, attempted murder and desperation. Unhappily for Arthur, he buys a country estate which makes him a neighbour of that greatest of detectives, Sir John… Read More

London: Gollancz, 1975. 207 pp, 8vo (8" H). "(A) brilliant collection of Michael Innes short stories about the varied adventures of his great detective, Sir John Appleby, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police (and, later, retired). Appleby has to cope with many diabolically ingenious modes of crime: a faked poltergeist; an exploding antique; a balloon to remove a weapon; an arrow to obliterate a trail. Many of the clues that lead to solutions are equally remarkable: a shubunkin in a pocket; the overpainting of a portrait; photocopies that have stuck together; a broken wine-glass; a coat worn inside-out; a London taxi-cab on the Simplon Pass. And the plots involve elaborate double bluffs: suicides designed to look like murders; X disguised as Y disguised as X; and in 'The Memorial Service' the tangle of impersonation develops into a triple - or is it a quadruple? - bluff." Contents: The Appleby File: The Ascham; Poltergeist; The Fishermen; The Conversation Piece; Death By… Read More

London: Gollancz, 1974. 192 pp, 8vo (8" H). "Charles Honeybath's clients are usually successful businessmen, and he does very well out of them, but his latest commission is a most unusual one. He is offered twice his standard fee if he will agree to spend a fortnight in the country, at a place unspecified, painting the portrait of a client who must remain unidentified. Curiosity, rather than cupidity, impels Honeybath to accept the strange terms. Whereupon he is drawn into an extremely bizarre, and for some people fatal, adventure. To give away even the plot's first surprise would be to give away far too much. But when Honeybath discovers the startling motive for the extraordinary commission, this is only the beginning of his own intrepid venture into the field of criminal investigation. True, the police are by now investigating too, and most urgently, for the crime is a big one. But Honeybath goes it alone, with his own private clues, which include the main line from… Read More

London: Gollancz, 1974. 192 pp, 8vo (8" H). "Tytherton was shot dead around eleven o'clock last night. And now, next morning, (Chief Constable) Pride is taking (Sir John) Appleby over to Elvedon in the hope of interesting him in the curious affair of some stolen pictures. Appleby is not responding with any eagerness: he wants to maintain his retired status. But murder is another matter. Especially with such a varied assortment of possible suspects: Tytherton's young wife, who is having an affair with an eminent surgeon, a house guest; his mistress, Cynthia Graves, whom only yesterday he found in bed with his ne'er-do-well nephew Archie; his son Mark, who has just returned from several years in Argentina, and without announcing his arrival in the vicinity; his secretary, Ramsden, who is almost too efficient to be true; and a couple more house guests - the shady art dealer, Egon Raffaello, and the puzzling Miss Kentwell, who claims to be a promoter for charities. They all… Read More

London: Gollancz, 1981. 192 pp, 8vo (8" H). "Mullion Castle is a very Stately Home. When the paying customers aren't cluttering up the place, it's the home of the Earl and his family, who include his delightful daughters Patty and Boosie, and dotty Great-aunt Camilla. Also his wife, whose portrait he has now commissioned his old schoolfellow, Charles Honeybath R.A., to paint. Honeybath (is) an astute and inquisitive observer of events; and now he has another intriguing complex of puzzles to ponder over. For instance, who has removed a valuable Hilliard miniature, an ancestral portrait, and substituted an obvious print; and why? Who has removed two of Great-aunt Camilla's water-colours of Italian scenes, and substituted sketches made by her in France; and again, why? And how does it come about that a young undergardener, with the name of Swithin, should posses the family features so strikingly, and be such an attraction to Lady Patience - i.e., Patty? Honeybath addresses… Read More

London: Gollancz, 1986. 188 pp, 8vo (8" H). "Clusters (a great English country house) is being troubled by bats - bats in the belfry, bats around the moat, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their luncheon guests, who include Sir John Appleby, sometime Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and, though now retired, still keenly interested in any puzzling crime. In the matter of the bats he is unhelpful, but soon he faces the challenge of a murder: the murder of Lord Osprey, stabbed with an oriental dagger, and in the library too. The conventions are properly observed. There's an omniscient butler, Bagot. The moat gleams darkly, guarding its secrets. Inspector Ringwood sets up his 'incident room' in the ballroom, which dazzles with mirrors, chandeliers and trompe l'oeil. The house guests include another title, a QC, and two or three experts on numismatics. And that last point takes us to the heart of the mystery: where, in this vast architectural pile, did Lord… Read More

Grune & Stratton, Orlando, (1987), Ist edition. 179 pp, large 8vo, hard cover - no dust jacket, as issued. B&w photographs, diagrams, charts, graphs, tables, etc. Contents: Ophthalmia Meonatorum; Inclusion Conjunctivitis; Herpes Simplex Virus; Syphilis; Viral Venereal Warts and Molluscum Contagiosum; The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Ophthalmic Disorders Associated with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Index. "...presents current trends in the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases that affect the eye. . . " Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor rubbing. VG+.

Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1989. 575 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H) - red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board. "This work is a supplement to two previous indexes - 'Index to Fairy Tales, 1949-1972', and 'Index to Fairy Tales, 1973-1977' - and covers the period 1978-1987. A total of 261 titles (collections only) have been indexed, selected on the basis of availability and favorable reviews in professional journals. Arrangement is alphabetical, primarily by title and subject; author entries have been included only when an author is specifically listed in a collection. More than 2,700 subject headings have been used, not including cross-references." Slight bump at top corners of boards, light wrinkling at top of spine, very minor edge wear.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket - (as issued).

London: Collins Clear-Type Press 316 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H). Thin burgundy leather over card covers/spine - gold lettering and decoration on spine, top edge gilt. Burgundy endpapers, b&w frontispiece. **No dustjacket or slipcase.** Irish-American author Alexander Irvine's reminiscences of growing up in poverty in Northern Ireland in the mid 19th century. "Our Lady of the Chimney-Corner" particularly focuses on his beloved mother. Minor edge wear.. Full-Leather. Very Good+.

London: Allen Lane, 1981. 446 pp, 9" high. Map endpapers, b&w photographs. "They were allies, but often they were antagonists, scrapping among themselves for power and prestige. They were supposed to be fighting the Germans, but some of their fiercest battles were fought among themselves. At the centre was the Supreme Commander himself, Dwight D. Eisenhower - sincere, indecisive, desperate to hold the Alliance together. Against him was Field-Marshal Montgomery, who strove ceaselessly to gain authority. Manoeuvring between them were the others - the outrageous Patton, the dogged Bradley, the bomber commanders like Spaatz, Vandenberg, 'Butcher' Harris, and Leigh-Mallory. After the war, there was a cover-up. Not until David Irving began his research did the full truth emerge. Among his discoveries was the wickedly candid diary of the obscure general who was Eisenhower's 'eyes and ears'. Through this and other private accounts we see the war as the generals really lived… Read More

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1928. 106 pp, 8 1/4" H. Blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine and front board, dark blue & orange decoration on front board. Pictorial endpapers, color frontispiece and 13 b&w illustrations (all present). Two of Washington Irving's most beloved stories, complete with an introduction and a glossary explaining some of the names, words and phrases (e.g. "Major Andre", "olykoek" and "by hook and by crook"), that Irving uses. Thoreau Macdonald bookplate, depicting a squirrel reading a book, on verso of front free endpaper - no ownership name filled in. Moderate to heavy browning to endpapers, several air bubbles under rear pastedown, moderate browning to pages, 1" edge tear to page leaf 95/96 - archivally taped, heavy browning to edges of text block, slight twist to spine, moderate browning to colour faded spine, light browning to edges of boards, light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine.. Hard Cover.… Read More