Thomas Simpkins (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1981 PUBLICATION; softcovers; light creasing of corners of wraps and leaves, o/w in very good condition. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1981 PUBLICATION; softcovers; ex-corporate library; in very good condition. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1989 PUBLICATION; softcover; ex-library; in very good condition. Book.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 94p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a good dustjacket. The book itself is like-new. The jacket has noticeable wear at the corners, and the bottom inch of spine is torn off. Otherwise intact. A book of poems about boxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). 1st ed? (No additional printings listed. Norwell, Massachusetts: The Christopher Publishing House, 1986. RARE TITLE that includes poems about the sport of Boxing. NOT a library discard. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket with two closed tears that have been reinforced with clear tape on the jacket's blank side. NO chips or fading. NOT priced or clipped. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked with NO highlighting. NO underlining. NO margin notes. Poems by the author of Rhymes of the Ring and Potpourri and Rhymes of Puppy Love: and Others, Including Negro Dialect. This book includes poems on a boxing theme among other subjects. The author was a former professional welter-weight boxer who fought under the name of "Whirlwind Vito." Bound in the original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Complete with dust jacket. . 1st ed? (No additional printings listed. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 156pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

soft cover. No Jacket. University of New England teaching monograph 6. 23.5 cm. XIII, 330 pages VG. Very good condition with light soiling and shelf wear to covers, light soiling to page edges, name on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. A short tear to the front fold, and a small chip to the head of the spine. A small tear to the rear pastedown endpaper. Publisher's price of $4.00 on the front flap. A poetry collection celebrating the sweet science. OCLC records only one copy.; 84 pages.

hard cover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 24 cm. XVI, 220 pages VG/VG. Very good book in very good dust jacket, to corner of front endpaper clipped. Dust jacket protected by a removable plastic cover.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; x,[2],94pp. Foxing along jacket spine and folds, else About Fine. Poetry collection by a "graduate, Suma Cum Laude, of the 'school of hard knocks.'" The contents of the first half of this collection, titled "The Ring," deal exclusively with boxing. Poems from the "Potpourri" section include the pieces "John F. Kennedy," "Birth Control," "Black Men of the G.A.R.," "The Racist," "To a Lady M.D." and many others.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Arbuckle, Franklin (cover art); Simpkins; Furofsky;Lessing, Erich; Long, Jack V.; Harrison, Lois; Sebert, John; Fraser,Blair; Macpherson, Duncan; Whalley, Peter (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Me and My Family - The Story of the Conachers, one of Canada's most famous families - with photos (part 1); Franklin Arbuckle cover illustration of the ice-canoe race across the St. Lawrence, a highlight of Quebec's annual Winter Carnival; Every nation is a bully at heart; Inside the Iron Curtain; Two-page colour-photo ad for Domil fabrics; Nostalgic colour ad for General Electric Filter-Flo automatic washer (teal in colour); I'm sick of being a good listener (humour); How red tape is stalling our refugee program - article with colour photos; The Inn of the Two Adventurers; Why our boom has the experts scared; Robert Stanfield - The Tory who wouldn't stay dead - article with nice photo; Remember when kids had real fun? - they had no radio or TV; Edith Read's ungentle formula for raising young ladies - Branksome Hall in Toronto; Nice colour Chrysler centerfold ad shows the tail fins of one of their 1957 models; Nice colour photo ad for Studebaker-Packard; and more. 56 pages. Center page holding by one staple. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage example.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, March 2, 1957 Every nation is a bully at heart; Inside the Iron Curtain; Two-page colour-photo ad for Domil fabrics; Nostalgic colour ad for General Electric Filter-Flo automatic washer (teal in colour); Me and My F.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Whalley, Peter; Herrington, Dick; Kipp, Robert; Curtin,Walter; Rider, Dennis; Wilson, Bill; Simpkins (illustrator). First Edition. 60 pages. Features: Is the RCMP a Threat to Our Liberty?; Nice full-page colour ad for the '57 Chevy (Chevrolet); Where Canada Stands in the World Crisis - Lester Pearson speaks with Maclean's panel; Lester Pearson on the case of Herbert Norman; My Strange Encounter with The Diamond King - John Thoburn (Doc) Williamson, discoverer of an African diamond Mine - article with photo; There's Nothing Phonier Than a Grateful Author; Marvelous colour photo feature of Toronto's Spadina Avenue; The Magic World of Johnny Giordmaine, King of Canadian Magicians - article with photos; The Bequest (short story); General Motors centrefold ad boasts of how they spend $434 million per year supporting Canada's main streets; Great two-colour ad for movie "Night Passage" starring James Stewart and Audie Murphy; Coke ad on back cover showscouple at Lake Louise. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A nice vintage issue.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, July 6, 1957 Tanganyika RCMP a Threat to Our Liberty?; Nice full-page colour ad for the '57 Chevy (Chevrolet); Where Canada Stands in the World Crisis - Lester Pearson speaks with Maclean's panel; Lester Pearson on.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by McNally, Ed (Cover Art); De Visser, John; Sebert, John;Gilliat, Rosemary; Olsen, Jack; Martin, Roy; Zarov, Basil; Simpkins (illustrator). First Edition. 64 pages. Features:Nice one-page colour ad for the '58 Plymouth with "Torsion-Aire; We must come to terms with Russia - or perish; Britain is rocked by air crash of Manchester United; Nostalgic full-page colour-photo ad for Aquascutum short wool coats; The Private Side of Politics - a panel speaks informally with John Diefenbaker adn Mike Pearson; Margaret - sister of the Queen - great article with many photos; Bruce Hutchison explains "What Went Wrong with the Boom" - economic analysis; Colour photos by John de Visser; How Henri "The Pocket Rocket" Richard Beat His Kid-Brother Jinx - article with great photos; Nostalgic centrefold ad for Inglis appliances for 1958; Uncommon colour photo ad for Scott-Atwater outboard motors; Huge two-page ad for the Conservative Party of Canada features full-page black and white photo of John Diefenbaker; Snappa Cappa Red Cap Ale - colour one-page photo ad shows fisherman opening bottle; Nice B/A ad on back cover. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, March 29, 1958 Montreal Canadiens '58 Plymouth with "Torsion-Aire; We must come to terms with Russia - or perish; Britain is rocked by air crash of Manchester United; Nostalgic full-page colour-photo ad for Aquascut.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Whalley, Peter (cover art); Stearns, Howard B.; Fraser, Blair; Zarov, Basil; Curtin, Walter; Sebert, John; Crowther, Bosley; Turofsky; Newman, Arnold; Simpkins (illustrator). First Edition. 72 pages. Features: Canadians are the worst loudmouths; Nice colour ad for Matinee cigarettes; Fantastic colour ad for the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere 4-door Hardtop (black on red); Blair Fraser Reports from Moscow - article with photos; Nostalgic full-page colour ad for the General Electric Stratoliner Range (teal in colour); She sells glamour with a growl - Lillian Farrar; What happened when we threw out our TV set - The Kimber Family - Vivien, Carol, Ruth, Ann, June, Earl, and David gave up TV for a month - family photo with article; Is smog the real culprit in lung cancer?; The wonderland of Louis B. Mayer - this Canadian started as a junk dealer and wound up bossing M-G-M, Hollywood's biggest, richest, gaudiest studio - here's the never-before-told story of his incredible career and the tinsel world he ruled - article with many wonderful photos; "Lionel Could Do Anything" - Part 3 of The Story of the Conachers keys on Lionel Conacher - Canada's athlete of the half-century - article with manyy great photos of Conacher engaged in numerous sports; We can't fight without a merchant navy; Uncommon photo ad for Maxwell Limited of St. Mary's, Ontario - yard equipment, white goods, etc.; Awesome colour photo centrefold ad for Caterpillar features a Cat D9 ata work with other pieces working in the background; Very attractive colour ad for Oldsmobile shows at teal coupe on a ski hill; Marconi TV ad; Beautiiful colour 1957 DeSoto ad inside back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Minor moisture signs to lower edge of back pages. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Max, John; Newlands, Don; Macpherson, Duncan; Burns,Michael; Turofsky; Burns, Michael (illustrator). First Edition. 56 pages. Features: The last chapter of the great E.P. Taylor Myth - the E.P. Taylor of modern Canadian folklore, reighning tycoon of a nation and master of all the hidden levers of power - he is not and never was, by Barbara Moon with many photos; Anatomy of a world-wide sensation - pilot Ralph Flores and his passenger Helen Klaben survived a 48-day ordeal in the winter wild; What the new drive for church unity means to Christians; How I was trapped by Jasper the Cartoon bear for Maclean's Magazine - the true confessions of the cartoonist who created Jasper the bear in 1948 and has been running hard to keep up with Canada's most famous bear ever since, by James Simpkins; The Tribal Customs of space-age children - an eyewitness account by Robert Thomas Allen; Our Alabama - a report by Peter Gzowski on the harsh realities setting whites against Indians near Glaslyn, Saskatchewan - article with many great black and white photos; The Montreal Stampede to Learn French; Colour photo Coke ad of a young lovely lifeguard and her many admirers. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Maclean's Magazine, July 6, 1963 - E.P. Taylor Features Northern Dancer Carling Breweries Canadian Windfields Farm Oshawa tycoon of a nation and master of all the hidden levers of power - he is not and never was, by Barbara Moon with many photos; Anatomy.