Search Results: Titles starting with T from Ainsworth Books

Don Mills, ON: Press Porcepic. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0888780044 . Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 79 pages; Only slight wear, small mark front of DJ. Dust jacket in Mylar, a tight bright book. A lovely square volume of one page pieces in French with English on facing page. DJ flaps have deckled edges. .

Toronto, ON: Lester and Orpen Dennys. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1985. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0886190789 . DJ has very light scuffing, lightly creased top of spine.; Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 157 pages; "Graham Greene`s The Tenth Man is one of his most startling and unexpected major novels. Set in wartime occupied France, it is about a man who buys a life in a moment of fear. It begins in the depths of a Gestapo prison, where ten men have been taken hostage by the Germans. Three of them must die, but it makes no difference to the Germans which three - the ten must choose among themselves by ballot." .

New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1935. Hardcover. Green cloth boards have some light soiling, wear, sun-faded on spine. Previous owner's name written on dedication page. Untrimmed fore and bottom edges. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. Hardcover. Some spotting and wear to extremities, previous owner's name on front free end paper, page edges a little soiled.; 67th thousand, tight solid book, hinges intact. ; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 201 pages; Green cloth spine with holly design in gilt running down the length. Red cloth covered boards. Wilkins's Wood was a quiet stretch of timber land that lay along the banks of Pleasant River; and though the natives, for the most part, never noticed that it was paved with asphalt and roofed in with oilcloth, yet it was, nevertheless, the most tranquil bit of loveliness in all the country round.Here was a quiet pool where the rushes bent to the breeze . . . and there, a winding path where the cattle came down to drink of the river's nectar. Here the first mayflowers pushed their sweet heads through the reluctant earth, and waxen Indian pipes grew in the moist places . . .And here sat Timothy Jessup,… Read More

Vancouver BC: TNT Publishing. Very Good+. 1995. First Edition. Paperback. 0969910002 . Signed by Author; Light corner curl of decorative card covers ; Signed by author on title page, 2 pages bound in at front of book.A bright, solid book ; Trade PB; 194 pages .

New York: Mcgraw-Hill. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1967. Third Printing. Hardcover. DJ has some light soiling, edgewear, short tears, front flap creased. Small stain lower fore edge of front free end paper. Previous owner's name on top of FFEP. ; Very Good in Very Good- DJ. DJ in mylar, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Vancouver, BC: Douglas & Mcintyre Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0888943660 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages; DJ in mylar. DJ has light soiling, scuffing, water stain on inside of DJ at top of spine. Minor chipping on spine. A novel speculating that in a time just before 2000, the earth is going through severe physical upheavals, vegetation dying due to ultraviolet radiationsevere solar flares. The world's economy is collapsing. An earthquake causes an Antarctic icecap to break apart causing tsunamis. San Francisco is severely damaged and government breaks down. A young couple struggles to survive and to help save many others in the face of the threat of more tsunamis. Kilian, a university instructor in North Vancouver, BC, has written a number of science fiction and fantasy novels .

Vancouver, BC: Douglas & Mcintyre Ltd.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0888943660 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages; DJ in mylar. A novel speculating that in a time just before 2000, the earth is going through severe physical upheavals, vegetation dying due to ultraviolet radiationsevere solar flares. The world's economy is collapsing. An earthquake causes an Antarctic icecap to break apart causing tsunamis. San Francisco is severely damaged and government breaks down. A young couple struggles to survive and to help save many others in the face of the threat of more tsunamis. .

Surrey, BC: Heritage House. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Softcover. 1895811104 . Card covers show very light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book.; B&W Illustrations; 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.0 inches; 64 pages; After a stint in the Canadian army during WWII, Ron Purvis came to British Columbia looking for work. He found a job at St. George's Indian Residential School and worked with the children, teaching them life skills and learned from them as well. .

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ chipped and worn, light soil, short tears with some creases, only light wear to book ; DJ in Mylar, tight solid book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; A humorous novel about life in the army by one of Canada's most distinguished poets. .

Burns and Maceachern. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; DJ in Mylar. DJ has 2 short tears, shelf wear, some scuffing and small red stain on front, book has only light shelf wear. A coming of age story for a young man growing up in rural British Columbia. He has to make some hard decisions about his future. Illustrated by Louise Sheppard. .

London: Science Fiction Book Club. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1970. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Corners bumped, DJ shows some edge wear, scuffed and scratched ; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar ; 174 pages .

London UK: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Later Printing. Hardcover. 0670914568 . Slight wear only; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Map endpapers, B&W photographs. ; 9.2 X 6.4 X 1.7 inches; 470 pages; "In Tail-End Charlies, John Nichol and Tony Rennell tell the astonishing and deeply moving story of the controversial last battles in the skies of Germany through the eyes of the forgotten heroes who fought them. Night after night they stifled their fears and flew through flak and packs of enemy fighters to drop the bombs that would demolish the Third Reich. The airmen of the United States 8th Army Air Force American and British Bomber Command were among the greatest heroes of the Second World War, defying Hitler in the darkest early days of the war and taking the battle to the German homeland when no one else would." .

Japan: Konishi Tomoshichi. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1989. Flexible vinyl. 4469041041 . Some creasing of end papers ; A bright solid, book. Mauve vinyl covers with gilt titles front and spine are undamaged .

Taiwan: Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. Very Good. 2013. Paperback. Bottom fore corner bumped. ; A bright, solid book ; Trade PB; Special issue, May 2013, ISSN 1815-7238; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170+ pages; This was issued in honor of Arend Lijphart on the tenth anniversary of the Foundation of Democracy .

Markham, ON: Overlea House. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 071722158X . Some edge wear and creasing top top edge of dust jacket, lightly scuffed. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar. ; B&W Illustrations; 0.75 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches; 173 pages; "a sensitive story of a talented young musician trying to come to grips with the conflicting expectations of his peers and the adults in his life." It is set in WWII era Calgary. .

Don Mills, ON: General Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 0773600582 . Boards and price clipped DJ show light edge wear.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Color Photographs; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 436 pages; Deals with the old buildings, generally not built to last a long time, that populated farms, ranches and towns of western Canada and the US. These buildings, usually made from wood are disappearing fast fom our landscape. .

Hanover NH: Brandeis University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0874516099 . A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Brandeis Series In American Jewish History, Culture, And Life; B&W Photographs; 9.3 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches; 341 pages; "Jews seeking a new life in Canada faced problems beyond those of other immigrants. Farm colonists often lived in communities too small to afford a rabbi or ritual slaughterer, or even to form a minyan for worship. In French Canada, Protestant and Catholic school boards battled over who was responsible for educating Jewish children. In the cities, the socialist philosophies of Jews fleeing the poverty and oppression of Europe were anathema to aggressive New World capitalists. And when suspicion or resentment arose, there was always someone to revive the old antisemitic slurs and myths.Taking Root is the meticulously researched record of how Canadian Jewry coped with these obstacles, and flourished… Read More

Milwaukie OR: Dark Horse Comics, Inc.. Near Fine. 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, intro by Neil Gaiman.; Tale of One Bad Rat # 1; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall .

Massett, BC: Senior Citizens of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Very Good. 1983. First Edition; Third Printing. Softcover. 0889251193 . Card covers show light shelf wear, light soiling. ; A tight solid book. B&W photos throughout ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 125 pages; An oral history of the remote Queen Charlotte Islands, known locally as Haida Gwaii - a look at the people, history as well as flora and fauna of the islands. .