Search Results: Books from Reading Rat

Great Britain: Penguin Books, 1978. First edition thus. Paperback. Good +. 284 p.; PB, moderate reading wear, age darkening; overall G+. Fictional thriller inspired by the work of Chaim Weizmann on synthesizing oil. What if Weizmann succeeded in finding cheap way to synthesize oil, but died without passing on his secret? Fast forward to the oil shock of the 1970s and the attempt to rediscover Weizmann's secret. (Note: this is fiction!)

Winnipeg: International Centre, n.d.. Not stated. Staplebound. Very Good- . 60 p. booklet of medical terms in three languages, One of a series of 6 multilingual booklets compiled by MOSAIC of Vancouver. Printed for the Language Bank of the IC in Winnipeg. Undated,, may be from the 1970s Overall VG-.

Annapolis MD: 2Way Media, 1997. Not stated. CD_rom. As New. CD ROM in original cardboard sleeve and plastic wrap; multimedia; includes live track from Sarah McLachlan's album Surfacing, also Meredith Brooks and Ben Folds Five, song samples and interactive reviews, movie interviews with John Leguizamo, Noah Wyle, Ben Affleck; game demos.

Pleasantville, NY, U.S.A.: Reader's Digest Children's Publishing, Incorporated, 2000. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. A Board game book about Barbie. Has spinner on the front but only partly works. Some age darkening, and a bit of edge wear. Not bad condition for playing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London Ontario: Kellogg Company of Canada , n.d.. Unstated. VG-. 20 p. small booklet of cookie recipes; promotional item; undated, probably from the 1970s. Has some staining on front, possibly from someone's cookie baking. Recipes include bars, drop cookies, molded cookies, etc.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dell Publishing, 1977. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. VG+, light spine creases, great reading copy 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London UK: Corgi, 1972. Later printing. Paperback. Good. 141 p. PB; orig. pub. 1938. Three sisters reunite in the house where they grew up. Penelope, Megan, Polly and Dahlia at Pedlar's Green. Good condition.

Winnipeg: Pachyderm Press, 1993. Apparent First. Staplebound. Very Good. 33 p. staplebound; VG. Poems; cover design of woven heart. One of a series of chapbooks published by St. John's College, University of Manitoba ISBN handcorrected

New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1951. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Louis Glanzman. 1968 10th printing; Overall good condition but spine starting to separate a bit at the bottom. VG-. Life - and secrets - of the master magician. 275 p. including index. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1978. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Paperback reprint; 162 p.; clean, very lightly creased spine, small coffee ring on back cover, pages lightly age-tanned, overall VG. "A caustic, amiable, and unflinchingly honest account of one young man's first collision with reality - an ill-paid teaching assignment in an isolated country school during the Great Depression." A Canadian classic. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: HARPER, 1999. Later printing. Mass Market Paper. 894 p incl list of sources. PB. G+. May show minor signs of wear.

USA: Harcourt Children's Books, 2002. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. 136 p.; small pb, red paper wrappers. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Set in 1935; nine year old Jon Jeffers, stuck on a rocky island 19 miles offshore from San Francisco with his lighthouse keeper father, his mother, and a dog, inadvertently summons a magician who teaches him the secret of flying.

Boston, MA, USA: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1965. Soft Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 48p. small tear on spine near bottom. Book is in very good condition other than that. very little corner and edge wear. Great story, well illustrated. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. delist

UK: Collins, 1963. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 5th impression September 1964; ex-library; DJ clipped, but otherwise good, in plastic cover; front hinge cracked; tape marks on cover. Jacket design by John Heseltine. Good reading copy of a classic suspense/adventure story. "On a stormy winter night at Holy Loch, the U.S. atomic submarine 'Dolphin' leaves in a hurry, with orders to take a Dr. Carpenter under the North Polar ice-cap and to surface with him near a burnt-out weather station, called Zebra. Who is he and what does his locked bag contain? What has happened at the lonely station, what is wrong with the 'Dolphin'? Who could possibly put this book down before he knew the answers? This is a subtle, fast and violent novel." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Redlands CA: Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc (ESRI), 2000. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 109 p.; small tradepaper; designed for classroom use, with explanation of GIS systems and examples of the use of GIS, including tracking wildlife, mapping a toxic waste spill, and investigating an urban watershed. Many colour photos. Included CD, still sealed. VG condition, book has minor shelfwear.

Santa Cruz CA: Any Key Press, 1992. Apparent First. Staplebound. VG. Small 50 p. cbooklet. vg condition. Short humourous pieces from the DOS era of computing.

Winnipeg: Sororal Publishing, 1990. First edition. Staplebound. Very Good. Unpaginated; staplebound; a collection of poems written from the first-person experience of domestic abuse. Dedicated to the author's daughters and son. "Robin Moore" is a pseudonym for a Winnipeg woman whose outward life as an active, successful woman with a nice home and children concealed a personal history of systematic abuse by her father and her husband.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Baen Books, 1994. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Part of series, VG-, light creases on spine, good reading copy

Toronto: Self-Published, 1996. First edition. Very Good. Small staplebound chapbook containing short stories. Cover photo in B & W of young man in plaid shirt and jeans, presumably the author. Edited by Jill Ruby, with the author`s thanks to Jill and all the fine people at WiP Magazine.``

London UK: Faber & Faber, 1983. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. George Adamson. Small pb; 59 p; orig. pub. 1968. A strange fantasy for younger readers or adults by noted poet Hughes. B & W illustrations. Small sticker pull on back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked.