Ottawa: Author, 2005. Card covers. pp 390. B&w illustrations, maps. Front cover rippled, near fine otherwise. Edition of 500 copies.

George Prior, 1980. Red boards. pp 240. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket. First published in 1843. This is a facsimile reprint, with new introduction, of the London: Arthur Barker, 1953, edition. " "His observations on the social, political, and religious state and prospects of Russia, made during a journey in 1839, led him to dire forebodings. He found that Russia's goal was conquest of the world and that she looked upon Europe as a prey which our dissensions will sooner or later deliver up to her." Felt to be a timely publication in the years of the Cold War.

New York: New American Library, c1966, 1890. Red & black cloth. pp 352. Index. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. Title page continues "To which are prefixed, a memoir by Mrs Opie, and other accounts of Mr.Opie's talents and character." Quarto, 28 cm. Bound in modern half calf and marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with five raised bands and maroon morocco label, top page edges gilt, others rough trimmed. New endpapers and fly leaf front and rear. pp vi, [2], 186 pp + mezzotint frontispiece portait engraved by S.W. Reynolds, and nine plates of Old Masters with two colour backgrounds, etched by J. Girtin, plus a portrait of William Hogarth etched by Samuel Ireland; list of subscribers at front, Index at rear. Binding with some light rubbing to the corners and spine, else fine. Contents have some offsetting from the plates, especially to the title page and leaves adjacent to the Hogarth etching; a few small margin spots, early owner's signature to title-page, else fine. A memorial volume for John Opie, an accomplished late Georgian painter noted for his portraits and epic historical subjects. His fame, however, would be eclipsed by that of his wife Amelia, author of the memoir included here, who would go on to a long and successful career as a novelist and poet. Includes tributes by colleagues and the text of four of his lectures before the Royal Academy in his capacity as Professor of Painting.The plates include a self-portrait of William Hogarth etched by Samuel Ireland. The subscribers list includes the names of many notables of the period, including John Soane, J. M. W. Turner, Benjamin West, George Canning, Sir Samuel Romilly; Samuel Whitbread, etc. A nice, clean and unworn copy. "With the exception of those of Sir Joshua Reynolds, no series of lectures emanating from the Royal Academy are better worth reading. Their views are original and just, and they contain much excellent criticism in language which is clear and vigorous. They are permanent contributions to critical literature." - DNB. Note: this copy, which is complete, does not have three inserted leaves starting with 80* after page 81, as found in other copies. It is paginated normally. 1.5 kg parcel.

Toronto: New Press, 1976. Purports to be "The First Anthology of Black Poetry and Prose in Canada." Blue cloth. pp 144. Fine copy. Jacket has some rubbing to rear panel and lightly to rear spine fold, else fine, no fading to the red spine. Contributions by Austin Clarke, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Charles Roach, Dionne Brand, the editor, Arthur Nortje, and others. This hardcover issue is scarce and the paper issue is not common.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967. Liight blue-grey boards. pp 87, including four double-sided colour plates on glossy paper. Fine copy. Dust jacket has nicks and shallow chips along top edge, mainly to rear panel, small tear and rubbing to spine ends, VG otherwise.

Toronto: Macmillan, no date (1909). Made from sheets of the London: T.Werner Laurie, 1909, first edition. Red pictorial cloth stamped in black and white, spine gilt lettered. pp (viii), 300 (12, Laurie ads). Mild flaking to the white band of sky in top margin of front cover; else a fine, bright copy. Hyatt, an Englishman from a well-to-do background, threw it all off for a life of adventure and exploration, which he certainly had, traveling to Australia, up the China coast to Vladivostok, fighting for the Americans in the Philippines, Mozambique, and most notably Rhodesia, where he was a considerable presence and where this novel is set.. In his autobiograpy, 'The Diary of a Soldier of Fortune', Hyatt described his experiences as "Engineer, Sheep Station Hand, Nigger Driver, Hunter, Trader, Transport Rider, Labour Agent, Cold Storage Engineer, Explorer, Lecturer, Pressman, American Soldier, Blockade Runner and Tramp". Having had successes and many failures in his business ventures in Africa, he returned to England where he had a successful career as a novelist and writer. He became quite ill from his travels, contracting malaria, becoming a morphine addict and dying of tuberculosis at age 37. The present novel is scarce in any edition and rare in this Canadian issue. AMICUS locates only one copy in Canadian libraries.

Toronto: Stoddart, 1993. Grey boards, red endpapers with maps. pp (xvi), 345, [7] + plates. Index. Remainder dot to bottom page edges, else fine. Jacket has nicks to head of spine, short corner tear to front panel, VG otherwise. "Lieutenant General Guy Granville Simonds was one of the Second World War's most dynamic strategists and commanded enormous respect from British generals such as Bernard Montgomery and Alan Brooke." - jacket. In his book "The Normandy Campaign" Victor Brooks lists Simonds as the most effective corps-level commander of the Allied Forces in Normandy.

Toronto: Royce Publications, 1984. Blue boards. pp 128. Many photos, a few in colour, index. Fine in very nearly fine jacket. 1.5 kg parcel

Toronto: Natural Heritage / Natural History, 1996. Card covers. pp 192. Photos, index. Fine copy. Neuman was a signals officer with Rommel and who was captured in 1941. He wound up in a POW camp in Gravenhurst, Ontario, where he helped create a farm which fed the prisoners. He settled in Canada in 1950.

Macmillan of Canada, 1992. Orange boards, endpaper maps. pp 358 + plates. Index. Fine copy. Jacket has a crease to front flap, else fine. "When war broke out in Sept. 1939, the Allied air forces had few combat aircraft and even fewer military pilots ready to fight. In December 1939, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada created the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Most of the air crew training took place in Canada. The instructors moulded thousands of teenaged recruits into fighter and bomber pilots, navigators, air gunners, bomb aimers, wireless operators, and ground crew. They took pilots from elementary 'circuits and bumps' on Fleet Finches to the rigours of aerobatics in Harvards, navigational practice in Ansons, or gunnery exercises in Fairey Battles. At its peak, the plan adminstered 107 schools and 184 other units at sites all across Canada, operated 11,000 aircraft, and employed 104.000 men and women. The BCATP trained 200,000 air crew in less than five years."

London: Spink, 1988. Blue boards. pp (299). Illustrations in text plus four pages of colour ribbons. Index. Fine copy. Jacket has nicks and small tears to front panel, spine very lightly sunned; VG otherwise. 2.5 kg parcel.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1951. Yellow cloth. pp 293. Small rubber stamp and sticker scar to front endpapers, else fine, no owner names, in a lightly used VG jacket. Over 7000 entries for all branches of the US military and Civil Defense. State of knowledge at the time, many non-current abbreviations, useful reference still.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1954. Red cloth, spine gilt, endpaper maps. pp [14], 401; numerous maps in text, indexed. Slight corner wear to spine ends, page edges yellowed, else a VG jacketless copy.

New York: TV Books, 1999. Cloth & boards. pp 350. Review copy with promotional sheets laid in. Fine in fine jacket.

London: Spink & Son, 1971. Green cloth. pp 440 + b&w plates + colour frontispiece + folding colour plate and key. Vertical tape stain to both pastedowns and free endpapers, VG clean & unworn jacketless copy otherwise. "A Description of Every Campaign Medal and Bar Awarded Since the Armada, With the Historical Reasons for Their Award and the Names of All the Ships, Regiments and Squadrons of the Royal Air Force Whose Personnel Are Entitled to Them". 1.5 kg parcel

Oakville, Ontario: Blake Book Distribution, 1999. Card covers. pp 222. Photos in text. Fine copy. WWII top secret Agent Training School located at Whitby, Ontario. Ian Fleming trained there.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994. Black boards. pp 399 + plates. Index. Fine in fine jacket.

Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1995. Brown boards. (xvi), 367 pp, index, maps & photos in text. Fine copy. Near fine jacket has one small chip.

Etobicoke, ON: Prospero Books, 1999. Glossy silver boards. pp 544. Colour and b&w photos. Glossary. Fine in very nearly fine jacket. 2.5 kg parcel.