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Hardcover. Zustand: Good - Cash. No Jacket. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Corners are bumped. Unmarked pages. Secure pages, solid binding. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 71pp. Moderate wear to covers. Previous owner's ex libris stamp on flyleaf, which has also been clipped at upper right corner; otherwise unmarked. Includes Brooker's essays Mysticism Debunked and The Poetry of E.E. Cummings.

Zustand: New. In.

[0-88884-242-2] 1973, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) As new. 87pp.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnBertram Brooker (1888-1955) was one of Canada s first abstract painters. A self-taught polymath, in addition to being a visual artist, Brooker was a Governor General s Award-winning novelist, as well as a poet, screenwr.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the original dust jacket: Here is that rarity, a detective novel with an original setting. A miracle is expected at Port Fletcher, Connecticut. Mrs. Agatha Weir, priestess of a strange new cult of 'Assumptionism,' is to be some day recieved up into heave as were Enoch and Elijah; and her bedroom in the temple has been specially constructed for such an eventuality. A medium prophesies the date, publicity gets to work, and all America hums with anticipation. The lady disappears. Mortimer Hood, the scientist who was called in to vouch for the miracle, finds himself with a very pretty problem to investigate. The priestess has indubitably disappeared. But how Had her disciples faked the miracle If so, why Why was there a stain of egg nog on the bedspread And why was Mrs. Weir's old mother so sure she was dead This is a first-rate and most thrilling thriller.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 215 pp. ; green textured cloth with gold lettering and designs ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Patrons, Officers and Council -- Arrangements For 1963 -- Report Of The Council -- Balance Sheets -- Presidents and Awards -- The President -- The Judging Of Roses / F. Fairbrother -- A Symposium On Mulching and Fertilizing / Dr. A. Dick, B.Sc., M.D., Nigel Raban, F. A. Gibson, Colonel W. B. Wright, Lieut.Col. D. Pope, Joan E. Fulford -- Roses In The Home / Ann Orci -- The Rose Of St. Francis Of Assist / Arbel M. Aldous -- The Rose Garden At Roath Park, Cardiff / W. Nelmes -- Fragrance / Rosemary James -- Roses As Specimen Plants / André Leroy -- Spraying Appliances For The Small Garden / Roy Hay -- Rose Root-Stocks: A First Field Trial / O. D. Rowley -- The International Rose Competition and Permanent International Rose Show Of The Hague, Netherlands / I. Rijnveld -- 'Peace' (Mme Antoine Meilland) / Bertram Park -- Rose Growing On A Chalk Soil / W. A. James -- When The Sub-Soil Is Gault / Vera F. P. Day, N.D.H. -- Pruning and The Winter Of 1961-2 / Leonard Hollis, Dr. A. Dick, B.Sc., M.D., G. D. Burch, S. M. Gault, F. A. Gibson, R. L. Pallett -- 'Melrose' / Bernard Jones -- On Beginning Again / J. H. Wilding -- Almost Idolatrous / Nigel Eva -- Repeat Flowering Climbers and Shrub Roses / S. M. Gault -- Chromosomes / Norman Young -- Recent Research On Roses / E. F. Allen -- Some Roses To Grow In Yorkshire / R. C. Balfour -- Book Reviews -- The Amateur Hybridist / The Late Albert Norman -- Albert Norman, A. B. Griffith, William B. Moore, Past Presidents -- The Decorative Classes / Julia Clements -- Bristol Group Summer Show, 1962 / L. A. Anstiss -- Cardiff Group Summer Show, 1962 / Alan Gibbs -- The Summer Show / A. G. L. Hellyer -- Contents -- Northern Rose Show / J. C. Watson -- Autumn Rose Show / Gordon Forsyth -- The Lakeland Rose Show -- The Trial Ground / H. Edland -- Show Awards and Trial Ground Awards 1962 -- International Awards 1962 -- Rose Analysis / L. G. Turner -- By Road To Bone Hill -- Maj.-Gen. R. F. B. Naylor, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., President 1963 -- Two Arrangements For The Home -- The Rose Garden Of Sta Maria Degli Angeli At Assisi -- The Rose Garden At Roatii Park, Cardiff -- Two Types Of Sprayers With Plastic Containers -- Small Hand Pressure Sprayer -- Spray Attachment Using Water Pressure -- Canes Of 'Peace' Showing Effects Of Different Root-Stocks -- International Rose Trials At The Hague -- Colour Plates -- Ambrosia -- King's Ransom -- Casino -- Decoration / Mrs. M. Brooker -- Decoration / Mrs. Bernard Green -- Diamant -- Gavotte -- Wobijrn Abbey -- Hassan -- Milord -- Allegro -- Colibri -- Chinatown -- Europeana -- Anne Watkins -- Summer Sunshine -- Q Lady Sonta -- I Celebration ; G. Book.

8vo. pp. 7 p.l., 306, [3]. 49 plates. cloth-backed bds. dw. (edges of dw. chipped). First Edition, Limited to 999 copies, of which 950 are for sale. The book was designed and decorated by Brooker. Contributors include Eric Arthur, Marius Barbeau, Bliss Carman, William Arthur Deacon, Merrill Denison, Lawren Harris, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H.MacDonald, &c.

8vo. pp. xxviii, 256, [2]. frontis. & 98 other illus. cloth (cloth faded, covers bowed, upper rear & corners starting to fray, newsprint browning on 2 pages). Thoreau Macdonald designed bookplate. First Edition. The book was designed and decorated by Brooker. Including poems, stories, and essays by E.J.Pratt, Dorothy Livesay, F.R.Scott, Raymond Knister, Morley Callaghan, Mazo de la Roche, Mary Quayle Innis, Barker Fairley, &c.