Search Results: Authors starting with M from Ainsworth Books

New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing Company. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 981270860X . Only slight wear ; Bright, solid book, text unmarked ; World Scientific Series on Energy and Resource Economics Vol. 5; 8.98 X 6.06 X 0.87 inches; 220 pages; This book offers the first set of quantitative analyses of the results of deregulation of the gas wellhead process coupled with partial deregulation of pipeline transportation and product storage. This complex process which involves taking pipelines out of the field markets as product purchasers, and creating spot gas and pipeline space markets has changed the nature and extent of services for gas at the burner tip, and the level as well as volatility of prices for these services. Using econometric tools of analysis, the authors concentrating on these changes uncover surprising findings in contrast to what regulatory reform was supposed to accomplish.Contents: Quantitative Study Number One: Regional Markets… Read More

Kingston, ON: Queen's University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0889114730 . Extremities bumped, otherwise tight and solid ; Presentation letter with university letterhead signed by both editors who are both archivists. ; 0.5 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 137 pages .

Surrey, BC: Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd. Very Good. 2000. First Edition. Softcover. 1894384113 . Card covers show very light shelf wear and corner curl. Some spotting of page fore edges ; A bright, solid book, card covers are clean and crisp.; 8.40 X 5.50 X 0.70 inches; 236 pages; "Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith was the victim of a 1924 tragedy that ignited racial tension in a very young Vancouver. At the core of the issue were the mysterious circumstances surrounding Smith's death, particularly the fact that the only other adult in the house at the time was the Chinese houseboy. When Smith's death was followed by the assassination of Davie Lew, a well-known Chinese man, it only strengthened the European view that Vancouver's Asian community was a hotbed of violence and corruption.Newspaper editors and most of Vancouver's white community raised an outcry, charging the police with incompetence and demanding arrests, while Presbyterian indignation called for law… Read More

Toronto, ON: Harpercollins Canada. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002007878 . Light wear to dust jacket, trace of previous owner's stamp on front free end paper, light damage from removal of sticker on FFEP ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 346 pages; "The events of the horrific Halifax explosion are well documented: on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Belgian relief ship Imo collide in the Halifax harbour. Nearly 2,000 people are killed; over 9,000 more are injured. The story of one of the world’s worst non-natural disasters has been told before, but never like this.In a sweeping narrative, Curse of the Narrows tells a tale of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation, retracing the steps of survivors through the wreckage of a city destroyed. Laura M. Mac Donald weaves a panoramic chronicle of the astonishing… Read More

New York: Avenel Books. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1985. Omnibus; Later Printing. Hardcover. 0517476711 . Pages show yellowing as is common for books printed on poor quality paper, otherwise only light wear. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 692 pages; Five early novels in the Travis McGee mystery series. McGee, the perennial bachelor, lives on the richly appointed houseboat that he won in a poker game, works as a detective only when he runs out of money. Victims come to him when they get scammed out of substantial amounts of money and for a percentage of what is recovered, he puts his life on the line scamming the scammers. .

London: Collins/Crime Club. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1971. First British Edition. Hardcover. 0002318482 . DJ chipped with some edgewear, short tear bottom back DJ spine, some scuffing, sticker stain back flap. Previous owner's name on front free end paper. ; A bright solid, book, DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; Lew Archer Mystery; 255 pages; As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder—and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. The Underground Man is a detective novel of merciless suspense and tragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of California's version of the American dream.If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1955. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Book has gift inscription on FFEP. DJ shows shelf wear, with tears, chipping and scuffing. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, hinges intact; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; ""For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's final memoir, Onions in the Stew recounts her second attempt at farm-living, this time on Washington's then-remote… Read More

London: Penguin. Very Good+. 2013. Reprint; First Printing. Softcover. 0241952417 . Card covers show light shelf wear. Light toning of pages. Previous owner's bookplate tipped in to half-title page.; A tight solid book. B&W illustrations. This was was first issued as 'They Called It Passchendaele' by Michael Joseph in 1978 ; 5.1 X 0.75 X 7.8 inches; 304 pages; "The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country. Lyn Macdonald's Passchendaele tells their tale of mounting disillusion amid mud, terror and desperate privation, yet it is also a story of immense courage, comradeship, songs, high spirits and bawdy humour." .

Toronto: Harper Perennial. Very Good+. 2005. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 0006394892 . Card covers show light shelf wear, remainder mark on pages bottom edge.; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 356 pages; "on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Belgian relief ship Imo collide in the Halifax harbour. Nearly 2,000 people are killed; over 9,000 more are injured." The harbour is destroyed with many civilian deaths .

Don Mills, ON: Addison-Wesley. Very Good. 1999. First Edition. Paperback. 0201613735 . Card covers show light shelf wear with light creasing. ; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages; A collection of essays by Canada's finest writers .

New York: Bantam. Very Good-. 1985. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 0553342266 . Some creasing of card covers, pages lightly tanned ; A tight solid book. ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 712 pages; "On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, achieving what had been considered impossible -- total surprise. In the most abysmal failure of battlefield intelligence in the history of the U.S. Army, 600,000 American soldiers found themselves facing Hitler's last desperate effort of the war." .

London: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows shelf wear with tears, creasing and chipping, spine lightly faded. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. Endpapers feature art by Thoreau Macdonald, B&W plates throughout. ; B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 274 pages; Malcolm John MacDonald was a British politician who was appointed High Commissioner of Canada in March 1941. In the performance of his duties he took a two week tour of northern Canada in August 1942. His observations of the land and the people he met form the basis for this book. .

New York: Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1981. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Travis McGee ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages; Dust jacket lightly chipped, some scuffing and light soiling. 19th in the Travis McGee series. "This time out, McGee came close to losing his status as a living legend when he agreed to track down the killers who brutally murdered an ailing millionaire. For starters, he renewed an unfinished adventure with a famous--and oversexed--Hollywood actress, who led him into a very nasty nest of murderers involving a motorcycle gang, pornographic movies, and mad balloonists. And Mcgee relearned the old lesson--that only when he came close to the edge of death was he completely alive." .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ shows shelf wear with small tears and chipping, creasing, previous owner's name on front free end paper. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. No additional printings mentioned. Yellow paper covered boards over black cloth spine ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; ""For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's… Read More

Buffalo, NY: The Broadway Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Author; DJ shows edge wear, small tears and light soiling. Bookstore stamp on front pastedown. Marks on top and bottom pages edges have appearance of remainder marks. ; Signed by the author with a lovely notation. A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 233 pages .

Self Published. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 1553831837 . Illustrated boards show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book. Glossy yellow paper covered boards features a reproduction of 'Waskesiu Lake' a painting by Augustus Kenderdine, B&W and colour illustrations and maps throughout. Extensive historical sources and bibliography. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 103 pages; "Waskesiu Lake, also referred to as Waskesiu, is a hamlet in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hamlet, the only community within the park, located on the southern shore of Waskesiu Lake, is about 90 km (56 mi) north of Prince Albert" This is a colourful history of the park and the community. .

Durham: The Pentland Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. Second Printing. Hardcover. 1858210569 . Some shelf wear present. Gift inscription on FFEP. Book has slight lean, corners a little bumped ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Illustrations; 8.50 X 6.10 X 0.70 inches; 201 pages; "The Figurehead presents a unique account of life in the destroyer HMS Fortune, commanded by an eccentric at odds with both officers and ship's company in the early 1940s during the deepest pit of WWII" The ship saw action in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean .

New York: History Book Club. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2006. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 1582882509 . Laid in is the map, (ISBN 1885294328) as new in plastic, that show the action described in the book. A bright, solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Map; 9.40 X 6.30 X 0.90 inches; 309 pages; As a newly commisioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald's first combat was war at its most hellish—the Battle of the Bulge. In this plain-spoken but eloquent narrative, we live each minute at MacDonald's side, sharing in all of combat's misery, terror, and drama. How this green commander gains his men's loyalty in the snows of war-torn Europe is one of the great, true, unforgettable war stories of all time. This is a reprint of a book originally published in 1947. .

Toronto, ON: Knopf Canada. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 0394281594 . Light wear to extremities, bottom fore corner of DJ chipped ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. A bright solid, book. This is the full size first edition, not the smaller reprint. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 566 pages; Set largely in a Cape Breton coal mining community called New Waterford, ranging through four generations, Ann-Marie MacDonald's first novel focuses on the Piper sisters and their troubled relationship with their father, James. At the start of the 20th century, James Piper sets fire to his dead mother's piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live, eventually eloping with 13-year-old Materia Mahmoud, the daughter of wealthy, traditional Lebanese parents. .. some major themes: racial tension, isolation, passion and forbidden love, which will gradually lead to incest, death in childbirth, and even murder. At the centre of… Read More

Toronto, ON: Harpercollins Canada. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002007878 . Only slight wear to book and dustjacket ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 346 pages; "The events of the horrific Halifax explosion are well documented: on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Belgian relief ship Imo collide in the Halifax harbour. Nearly 2,000 people are killed; over 9,000 more are injured. The story of one of the world’s worst non-natural disasters has been told before, but never like this.In a sweeping narrative, Curse of the Narrows tells a tale of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation, retracing the steps of survivors through the wreckage of a city destroyed. Laura M. Mac Donald weaves a panoramic chronicle of the astonishing international response to the explosion, telling of the generous donations of money and medical… Read More