Roberts, Charles George Douglas; Adams, John Coldwell:THE LURE OF THE WILD; Three Animal Stories
- First edition 2007, ISBN: 9780888870681
Paperback, Hardcover
London: Grub Street, 2001. 179 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs, Spitfire profiles. "Robert 'Buck' McNair came from Nova Scotia, the second of three sons… More...
London: Grub Street, 2001. 179 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs, Spitfire profiles. "Robert 'Buck' McNair came from Nova Scotia, the second of three sons born of a mix of Scottish and German parents. As a young man he became interested in flight, and was lucky enough to be able to fly floatplanes off the Canadian lakes. When war came, he went through flight training in Canada, sailed to England, and in the summer of 1941 found himself in the newly formed 411 Squadron RCAF. Eventually this unit began flying sweeps over Northern France and he saw his first combat actions during that autumn. An aggressive fighter pilot, he was chosen by his Canadian CO to accompany him to the besieged island of Malta in the spring of 1942, to coincide with the arrival on that island of the first Spitfires." McNair went on to win three DFCs and a DSO among other awards and although he was twice wounded, his score of victories reached 16, "with others probably destroyed and damaged. This is a remarkable story of courage and heroism by one of the Second World War's top-scoring fighter pilots who inspired his men and fellow pilots in actions above the skies of France and Malta, and who, despite being almost blind in one eye, continued to lead and spur his men onto greater actions." Tiny wrinkle at top of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, minor rubbing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+., Grub Street, 2001, 3.5, Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1966. (xxxiii) 298 pp. Black cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with half-tone paintings. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few small nicks and chips around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. The Contents are: Editor's Introduction; Author's Introduction; Indian Summer; Belleville; Sketches of Society; Thoughts on Education; Amusements; Trials of a Travelling Musician; Camp Meetings; Wearing Mourning for the Dead; Odd Characters; Grace Marks; Michael Macbride; Jeanie Burns; Lost Children; Toronto; Lunatic Asylum; Provincial Agricultural Show; Niagara; and Goat Island; followed by Conclusion; Introduction to Mark Hurdlestone; and an index.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. Book., The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1966, 3, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Very good brown cloth hardcover with hinges intact and binding secure, has tattered and torn dustjacket.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box., University of California Press, 1966, 2.75, Oakland, CA: The Black World Foundation. A left-stapled magazine containing 64 internal pages. Special Issue on Black America: After 9/11. The contents are: 2002 NAACP Convention Address: George Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas, July 7, 2002 ("Freedom Under Fire" by Julian Bond); Statement of Congresswoman Barbara Lee on Opposing the Use of Force Resolution; 9/11, Liberation Struggles and International Relations: Sharing the Burden and the Possibilities of the Crisis by Maulana Karenga; "Lest We Forget" by Americans for Middle East Understanding (AMEU); Banned Book Week September 22-29, 2001: Look What They've Done To My Books, Mom! by Daphne Muse; poetry by Jayne Cortez; In Memoriam: June Jordan (1936-2002) by Sally Ann Brunot, Lori M. Evans, Daniela Kocoska, Megan Quinn, and Carla Silva; Into the Academy: The Black Intellectual and White Influence by Henry Vance Davis; The Heart of the Matter: Motherhood and Marriage in the Autobiographies of Maya Angelou by Siphokazi Koyana; Book Reviews; poetry by Murray Jackson; Books Received; In Memoriam: Lee Brown (1921-2002); Letters to the Editor; Classifieds; Contributing Authors. . Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2002., The Black World Foundation, 2002, 5, Oakland, CA: The Black World Foundation. A left-stapled magazine containing 64 internal pages. Special Issue on Black Election: 2000. The contents are: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Status Report on Probe of Election Practices in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election by Mary Frances Berry; Letter to Governor Bush from Chairperson Mary Frances Berry, March 8, 2001; Why Did the U.S. Media Black Out the Civil Rights Commission Report on the Florida Vote? by Jerry White; Putting Election 2000 in Perspective: A Declaration of War by Hermon George, Jr.; Bushed, Bothered and Bamboozled by Herb Boyd; Civil War 2000 by Charles P. Henry; The Disenfranchisement of the African American Voter in the 2000 Presidential Election: The Silence of the Winner and Loser by Hanes Walton, Jr.; Winter in America: Color, Democracy, and the Presidential Election by Peniel E. Joseph; Criminal Archetypes in the 2000 Presidential Election: How Black Votes Were Stolen by Molefi Kete Asante; The Length of Memory: The Black Population and the Presidential Election of 2000 by David Covin; Permanent American Hegemony: Liberalism, Domination, and the Continuing Crisis of Black Leadership by Ricky L. Jones; "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too" by David Horowitz; Ten Reasons: A Response to David Horowitz by Ernest Allen, Jr. and Robert Chrisman; Books Received; Addresses of Publishers; Classifieds; Contributing Authors. . Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2001., The Black World Foundation, 2001, 5, Oakland, CA: The Black World Foundation. Offered is the Summer 1996 (Vol. 26 No. 2) issue of "The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research" edited by Robert Chrisman and published by The Black World Foundation out of Oakland, California. A left-stapled magazine containing 76 internal pages. Special Issue on Black Culture 1996. The contents are: Photograph (Herbert Aptheker reviewing soldiers of the 350th Field Artillery Battalion); A Few Battles Against Racism by Herbert Aptheker; Langston Hughes and the Development of Afro-Hispanic Literature: Diasporan Connections by Edward J. Mullen; Rage and Passion in the Poetry of Frank Marshall Davis by Kathryn Waddell Takara; A Profile of John La Rose by New Beacon Press; Unemployment, Leisure and the Birth of Creativity by John La Rose; Review Essay: Earthstepper/The Ocean is Very Shallow: Poetry of Seitlhamo Motsapi by Laura Chrisman; Selected Poetry from Earthstepper/The Ocean is Very Shallow by Seitlhamo Motsapi; In Memory, Toni Cade Bambara: Passing on the Story by Li Onesto; Lithograph by William Blake; poetry by Lemuel Johnson and Melba Joyce Bond; Che Guevara: Poster Illustrations by Ospaaal; Letters to the Editor; Book Reviews; Books Received; Addresses of Publishers; Announcements; Classifieds; Select Bookstores that carry The Black Scholar; Contributing Authors. . Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1996., The Black World Foundation, 1996, 5, San Francisco, CA: The Black World Foundation. Offered is the Summer 2007 (Vol. 37 No. 2) issue of "The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research" edited by Robert Chrisman and published by The Black World Foundation out of San Francisco, California. A left-stapled magazine containing 72 internal pages. Special Issue on Facets of Black Masculinity. The contents are: Fatherhood in Contemporary Black America: An Invisible Presence by Michael E. Connor and Joseph L. White; Fathering and the Afrikan-centered Worldview / Paradigm by Hurumia Ahadi (Lionel Mandy); Multiple Roles: The Diversity of Male Familial Roles by William Deryck Allen; Marriage and Fathering: Raising Our Children Within the Context of Family and Community by Daryl M. Rowe; Shrinking Empty Spaces by Andrew Williams; A Father's Call: Father-Son Relationship Survival of Critical Life Transitions by Ivory Achebe Toldson and Ivory Lee Toldson; Bobby Joe Was From Highland Park: Musings On Glory Road by Henry Vance Davis; Race and Empire: W.E.B. Du Bois and the US State by Anthony Monteiro; A Comparison of the Political Thought of Huey P. Newton and Osama Bin Laden by Robert Stanley Oden; In Memoriam: John La Rose (1927-2006) by Linton Kwesi Johnson; In Memoriam: Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007) by A.O. Scott; Books Received; Contributing Authors. . Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2007., The Black World Foundation, 2007, 5, Sausalito, CA: The Black World Foundation, 1975. Magazine. 64p., stapled wraps, 7x10 inches, address label and penned date on front wrap, else very good condition. Includes an article on COINTELPRO and the FBI's harassment and surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, and contributions from Ron Karenga., The Black World Foundation, 1975, 0, Toronto: The Tamarack Review, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Includes review essays on Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons H3) and Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen. Unmarked copy, a bit of reading wear., Toronto: The Tamarack Review, 1966, 3, Berkeley, CA: The Threepenny Review, 1999. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear. Very good. 36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Opera: Peony Pavilion: with commentary by Peter Sellars, Robert Chi, Wendy Allanbrook, Carol Christ, Summer Brenner, Kristine Harris, Robert Polito, and Francie Li. Anne Carson: The Idea of a University ((lecture delivered at McGill University). Henk Romijn Meijer on the Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Evelyn Toynton on William Trevor. Michael Ryan on T. S. Eliot. A. S. Byatt: Arachne. Clifford Thompson: On Jazz. Fiction by Daniel Wolff, Kathryn Ma. Poetry by C. K. Williams, from Seamus Heaney's Beowulf translation, Ruth Fainlight, Thom Gunn, Dean Young, Martin Taylor, Peter Sacks, Carolyn Kizer, Hayden Carruth., The Threepenny Review, 1999, 3, Berkeley, CA: The Threepenny Review, 1992. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear. Very good. 36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Robert Hass on Wallace Stevens. James Merrill memoir of Roman Days and his opera-going self. Greil Marcus: History Lesson. Herb Kohl: On Not-Learning. Lars Eighner, On-Line. Steve Vineberg contributes an interesting essay on Pauline Kael. Richard Wollheim on Mark Boxer. Fiction by David S. Reynolds, Jane Meredith Adams, Norman Wong. Poetry by August Kleinzahler & Deborah Treisman, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Ricki Thompson, Michael Citwood, Walter Mosley, Sally Ball, Thom Gunn. Art by Joseph Goldyne., The Threepenny Review, 1992, 3, Berkeley CA: Last Gasp, 1982. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover The Summer, 1982 issue of the famed Weirdo comics series, created by Robert Crumb, his wife Aline and others, featuring a beautiful, color collage front cover with a border of "girlie" photos and a full color rear drawing by Aline Kominsky Crumb; contributors include Terry Boyce, Norman Dog, a fabulous, four page piece by Robert, entitled Trash:What Do We Throw Away, a funny 4-page, photo piece called Untamed Passion For Pasta, Jeff John, Fried Nuts by Robert, and a terrific Drew Friedman piece called Joe Franklin Is A Dream Walkin' and Old Bud Abbott, also by Drew; a wonderful issue, this is the true first printing, in stapled wrappers. Record # 367578, Last Gasp, 1982, 3, Toronto: Merritt, 1980. 176 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w reproductions, b&w photographs. "This study of the life and work of Andre Bieler, one of Canada's most important living artists, spans eighty-three years of his life and art in Europe, the United States and Canada. It studies him against the flowering of twentieth-century Canadian art, a fascinating history in itself. (S)tarts with (his) birth in Switzerland in 1896, tracing his European family roots, his World War I experiences and his traditional artist's apprenticeship in Europe, his arrival in Canada as a young artist and subsequent exploration of the rural 'habitant' way of life in Quebec's L'ile d'Orleans and on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. Most important, the author shows us the extraordinary creative energy of Andre Bieler, his exuberance and intense love of people and life that, even in his eighties, keep him experimenting in art, traveling across Canada, Europe and Mexico in search of his subject, and which define him as an artist of classic, versatile and sustained talent." Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling at top/bottom of hinges and flap-folds, 1" faint line indentation on front panel, tiny dent/closed perforation on rear hinge.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Andre Bieler.., Merritt, 1980, 3.5, Buffalo, N.Y: Robert Allan Reid, 1901. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Smudge on rear wrapper. 1901 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. A black-and-white photograph collection of Niagara Falls., Robert Allan Reid, 1901, 3, Sausalito, CA: The Black World Foundation, 1975. Magazine. 64p., stapled wraps, 7x10 inches, wraps lightly worn and soiled, else very good condition. Includes an article on COINTELPRO and the FBI's harassment and surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X., The Black World Foundation, 1975, 0, Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1980. Book. Fine. Paperbound. First Paperback Edition. pict paper wraps, pp., vii, 38, port. frontis., Edited with and introduction by John Coldwell Adams, This is the first appearance in book form of Robert's last 3 animals stories; "The Odyssey of the Great White Owl","The Den of the Otter", and "In a Summer Pool" . Size: 8 Vo.,., Borealis Press, 1980, 5<
