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unknown Handley Page Ltd. ca. 1947-1948 Original photograph silver print 22 x 166 cm. Sir Frederick Handley Page CBE FRAeS 15 November 1885 - 21 April 1962 was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft. His company Handley Page Limited produced a series of military aircraft including the Halifax bomber in World War II of which around 7000 were produced. They also produced civil aircraft including the H.P.42 flagships of the Imperial Airways fleet and remarkable at the time for no passenger deaths. Page was the uncle of the World War II flying ace Geoffrey Page. He was the son of Theodore Page a furniture maker and Non-Conformist Minister of the Plymouth Brethren. He married Una Thynne 1890-1957 in 1918; they had three daughters Helen Anne born on 5th November 1919 m. Manley Walker d. 2001; Phyllis Elizabeth "Buffy" on 10th December 1921 m. Winfield d. 1987 and Patricia Mary on 14th June 1923 d. 1992. - - - - - Frederick Handley Page born in 1885 grew up in a modest-size town in Gloucestershire England. In 1902 he entered college in London and enrolled in a program in electrical engineering. Graduating in 1906 he swiftly secured a position as chief engineer with a small electrical manufacturer. He proved so capable that only a year later he was offered a position with Westinghouse a manufacturer of electrical equipment in the United States. By then however he had begun to learn about aviation. Seized with enthusiasm he took to carrying out experiments at his place of employment that had nothing to do with the task at hand!which soon got him fired. He started working on his own in a shed carving wooden propellers for aircraft and building an airplane that a fellow aviation enthusiast had designed. In June 1909 he turned his shed into the firm of Handley Page Ltd. This was Great Britain's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing corporation. Handley-Page built a succession of biplanes and monoplanes. Then in August 1914 Britain entered World War I. He approached the Admiralty and offered to provide planes for the Navy. A senior official took him up on his offer and asked him to create "a bloody paralyzer of an airplane" to hurl back the Germans. This led to the development of the twin-engine 0/100 bomber which first flew late in 1915. The 0/100 started the company on its way. Built as a biplane it led to two larger successors: the 0/400 and the V/1500. The 0/400 was selected for production in the United States. The V/1500 was one of the first four-engine aircraft. Weighing 15 tons when fully loaded it was built to bomb Berlin. The first of them entered service late in 1918 but the war ended just before they began to carry out their raids. There was little further demand for bombers after the war but Handley Page found new opportunities in carrying passengers. London and Paris were two of Europe's largest cities and were only about 200 miles 322 kilometers apart. But the journey required the inconvenience of a transfer from a train to a boat for the trip across the English Channel and then a transfer back to a train to get from the coast to London. Moreover the war had severely damaged the railroads in northern France. However the distance between these cities was well within the range of the aircraft of the day. The 0/400 had a fuselage that was large enough for passengers. Several of them became airliners with minimal modification while the new firm of Handley Page Transport which opened in 1919 became one of the world's first airlines. The V/1500 was too large for commercial use but it had attractive design elements. These went into a modified 0/400 the W.8 which became the company's standard. In 1924 Handley Page Transport merged with three other carriers and formed Imperial Airways Britain's first national airline. Handley Page also had a strong commitment to research. His company may well have been the first to install its own wind tunnel for in-house experiments. He was keenly interested in air safety more so because he had lost close friends in crashes. A serious problem of the day lay in the tendency of airplanes to go into a spin and often crash and he looked for ways to counter this. He decided that a solution lay in running a slot down the length of the wing from the fuselage to the wing tip. This in effect divided it into two wings set closely together. Airflow through the slot would flow evenly over the rear wing to produce more lift for better control. A German inventor Gustav Lachmann had developed similar ideas on his own and Handley Page brought him into the company. Handley-Page received a patent for the invention on October 24 1919 and slotted wings became a key to the firm's fortunes as sales of patent rights earned !750000 about $3.6 million at the time in payments from other planebuilders. In turn slotted wings led to the development of flaps for wings. These extended to give extra lift and also greater drag permitting takeoff and landing at relatively low speed. The flaps then folded into the rear of the wing for the reduced lift that was appropriate at high speed during cruising flight. Handley-Page remained involved with airliners during the next decade. In 1931 Imperial Airways began flying the Handley Page Hannibal a four-engine biplane. It was built for comfort with wall-to-wall carpeting and a bar. Stewards served four-course hot lunches and seven-course dinners while soundproofing diminished the roar of the motors. The Hannibal carried up to 40 passengers and remained in service through the 1930s. Like the 1920s the first years of the 1930s were lean years for the company when few orders came in. That situation changed in 1935 for with the threat of war in Europe now looming again the British government launched a military buildup. Handley Page contributed a twin-engine monoplane bomber the Hampden. The fortunes of war soon would give this plane a key role in saving Britain from Nazi invasion. This happened in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. Nazi air fleets hammered hard at airfields of the Royal Air Force slowly weakening it. Had they continued they might well have won air superiority opening the way for a German conquest of England. However on August 24 the RAF sent a force of medium bombers including Hampdens to attack Berlin. The bombers did little damage but this raid prompted the Nazis to seek revenge. German leaders ordered their own bombers to strike the city of London. They killed and injured a great many people!but they did not continue their attacks on the RAF itself. This gave the RAF time to recover. It went on to defeat the Germans in the air forcing them to abandon their plans for invasion. That British raid on Berlin was small in its destruction but very large in its consequences. The Handley Page Hampden played a central role. By then the company was already producing the Halifax a large four-engine bomber. It was one of three such aircraft designed and built by Britain the others being the Avro Lancaster and the Short Stirling. More than 6000 Halifaxes came off the assembly lines with other planebuilding companies sharing in the production. At the height of Britain's bomber offensive the Halifax comprised 40 percent of the strength of the RAF Bomber Command. Frederick Handley Page was knighted in 1942 becoming Sir Frederick. After the war he again had to seek new opportunities. For a time he continued to find them in military orders for the Cold War with the Soviets soon began and Britain upheld its centuries-old policy of maintaining its own offensive force. Sir Frederick contributed the Victor a four-engine jet bomber. Full of years and honors he died in 1962. His company could cherish a proud boast!that Handley Page aircraft had served continually with the RAF since it had been founded in 1918. By 1962 however the days of his firm were numbered. The Minister of Defence Duncan Sandys had launched a plan to combine Britain's aircraft companies into two large corporations. This reflected the growing cost of major civil and military aircraft programs which were becoming too expensive for the relatively small aviation companies of prior decades. However the firm of Handley Page elected to remain independent and it soon felt the consequences. Business dried up; new orders went to Sandys's big combines. In 1970 the firm of Handley Page Ltd. still using its name that dated to 1909 filed for bankruptcy. It soon vanished in a corporate collapse.- Bron: T.A. Heppenheimer. KEYWORDS:Handley Page ISBN : 0 
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Portrait of Frederick Handley Page at his desk unknown ca. 1940-1945 Original photograph silver print 192 x 242 cm. Sir Frederick Handley Page CBE FRAeS 15 November 1885 - 21 April 1962 was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft. His company Handley Page Limited produced a series of military aircraft including the Halifax bomber in World War II of which around 7000 were produced. They also produced civil aircraft including the H.P.42 flagships of the Imperial Airways fleet and remarkable at the time for no passenger deaths. Page was the uncle of the World War II flying ace Geoffrey Page. He was the son of Theodore Page a furniture maker and Non-Conformist Minister of the Plymouth Brethren. He married Una Thynne 1890-1957 in 1918; they had three daughters Helen Anne born on 5th November 1919 m. Manley Walker d. 2001; Phyllis Elizabeth "Buffy" on 10th December 1921 m. Winfield d. 1987 and Patricia Mary on 14th June 1923 d. 1992. - - - - - Frederick Handley Page born in 1885 grew up in a modest-size town in Gloucestershire England. In 1902 he entered college in London and enrolled in a program in electrical engineering. Graduating in 1906 he swiftly secured a position as chief engineer with a small electrical manufacturer. He proved so capable that only a year later he was offered a position with Westinghouse a manufacturer of electrical equipment in the United States. By then however he had begun to learn about aviation. Seized with enthusiasm he took to carrying out experiments at his place of employment that had nothing to do with the task at hand!which soon got him fired. He started working on his own in a shed carving wooden propellers for aircraft and building an airplane that a fellow aviation enthusiast had designed. In June 1909 he turned his shed into the firm of Handley Page Ltd. This was Great Britain's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing corporation. Handley-Page built a succession of biplanes and monoplanes. Then in August 1914 Britain entered World War I. He approached the Admiralty and offered to provide planes for the Navy. A senior official took him up on his offer and asked him to create "a bloody paralyzer of an airplane" to hurl back the Germans. This led to the development of the twin-engine 0/100 bomber which first flew late in 1915. The 0/100 started the company on its way. Built as a biplane it led to two larger successors: the 0/400 and the V/1500. The 0/400 was selected for production in the United States. The V/1500 was one of the first four-engine aircraft. Weighing 15 tons when fully loaded it was built to bomb Berlin. The first of them entered service late in 1918 but the war ended just before they began to carry out their raids. There was little further demand for bombers after the war but Handley Page found new opportunities in carrying passengers. London and Paris were two of Europe's largest cities and were only about 200 miles 322 kilometers apart. But the journey required the inconvenience of a transfer from a train to a boat for the trip across the English Channel and then a transfer back to a train to get from the coast to London. Moreover the war had severely damaged the railroads in northern France. However the distance between these cities was well within the range of the aircraft of the day. The 0/400 had a fuselage that was large enough for passengers. Several of them became airliners with minimal modification while the new firm of Handley Page Transport which opened in 1919 became one of the world's first airlines. The V/1500 was too large for commercial use but it had attractive design elements. These went into a modified 0/400 the W.8 which became the company's standard. In 1924 Handley Page Transport merged with three other carriers and formed Imperial Airways Britain's first national airline. Handley Page also had a strong commitment to research. His company may well have been the first to install its own wind tunnel for in-house experiments. He was keenly interested in air safety more so because he had lost close friends in crashes. A serious problem of the day lay in the tendency of airplanes to go into a spin and often crash and he looked for ways to counter this. He decided that a solution lay in running a slot down the length of the wing from the fuselage to the wing tip. This in effect divided it into two wings set closely together. Airflow through the slot would flow evenly over the rear wing to produce more lift for better control. A German inventor Gustav Lachmann had developed similar ideas on his own and Handley Page brought him into the company. Handley-Page received a patent for the invention on October 24 1919 and slotted wings became a key to the firm's fortunes as sales of patent rights earned !750000 about $3.6 million at the time in payments from other planebuilders. In turn slotted wings led to the development of flaps for wings. These extended to give extra lift and also greater drag permitting takeoff and landing at relatively low speed. The flaps then folded into the rear of the wing for the reduced lift that was appropriate at high speed during cruising flight. Handley-Page remained involved with airliners during the next decade. In 1931 Imperial Airways began flying the Handley Page Hannibal a four-engine biplane. It was built for comfort with wall-to-wall carpeting and a bar. Stewards served four-course hot lunches and seven-course dinners while soundproofing diminished the roar of the motors. The Hannibal carried up to 40 passengers and remained in service through the 1930s. Like the 1920s the first years of the 1930s were lean years for the company when few orders came in. That situation changed in 1935 for with the threat of war in Europe now looming again the British government launched a military buildup. Handley Page contributed a twin-engine monoplane bomber the Hampden. The fortunes of war soon would give this plane a key role in saving Britain from Nazi invasion. This happened in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. Nazi air fleets hammered hard at airfields of the Royal Air Force slowly weakening it. Had they continued they might well have won air superiority opening the way for a German conquest of England. However on August 24 the RAF sent a force of medium bombers including Hampdens to attack Berlin. The bombers did little damage but this raid prompted the Nazis to seek revenge. German leaders ordered their own bombers to strike the city of London. They killed and injured a great many people!but they did not continue their attacks on the RAF itself. This gave the RAF time to recover. It went on to defeat the Germans in the air forcing them to abandon their plans for invasion. That British raid on Berlin was small in its destruction but very large in its consequences. The Handley Page Hampden played a central role. By then the company was already producing the Halifax a large four-engine bomber. It was one of three such aircraft designed and built by Britain the others being the Avro Lancaster and the Short Stirling. More than 6000 Halifaxes came off the assembly lines with other planebuilding companies sharing in the production. At the height of Britain's bomber offensive the Halifax comprised 40 percent of the strength of the RAF Bomber Command. Frederick Handley Page was knighted in 1942 becoming Sir Frederick. After the war he again had to seek new opportunities. For a time he continued to find them in military orders for the Cold War with the Soviets soon began and Britain upheld its centuries-old policy of maintaining its own offensive force. Sir Frederick contributed the Victor a four-engine jet bomber. Full of years and honors he died in 1962. His company could cherish a proud boast!that Handley Page aircraft had served continually with the RAF since it had been founded in 1918. By 1962 however the days of his firm were numbered. The Minister of Defence Duncan Sandys had launched a plan to combine Britain's aircraft companies into two large corporations. This reflected the growing cost of major civil and military aircraft programs which were becoming too expensive for the relatively small aviation companies of prior decades. However the firm of Handley Page elected to remain independent and it soon felt the consequences. Business dried up; new orders went to Sandys's big combines. In 1970 the firm of Handley Page Ltd. still using its name that dated to 1909 filed for bankruptcy. It soon vanished in a corporate collapse.- Bron: T.A. Heppenheimer. KEYWORDS:Handley Page ISBN : 0 
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Portrait of Frederick Handley Page from the back unknown 1930. Original photograph silver print 57 x 104 cm. Sir Frederick Handley Page CBE FRAeS 15 November 1885 - 21 April 1962 was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft. His company Handley Page Limited produced a series of military aircraft including the Halifax bomber in World War II of which around 7000 were produced. They also produced civil aircraft including the H.P.42 flagships of the Imperial Airways fleet and remarkable at the time for no passenger deaths. Page was the uncle of the World War II flying ace Geoffrey Page. He was the son of Theodore Page a furniture maker and Non-Conformist Minister of the Plymouth Brethren. He married Una Thynne 1890-1957 in 1918; they had three daughters Helen Anne born on 5th November 1919 m. Manley Walker d. 2001; Phyllis Elizabeth "Buffy" on 10th December 1921 m. Winfield d. 1987 and Patricia Mary on 14th June 1923 d. 1992. - - - - - Frederick Handley Page born in 1885 grew up in a modest-size town in Gloucestershire England. In 1902 he entered college in London and enrolled in a program in electrical engineering. Graduating in 1906 he swiftly secured a position as chief engineer with a small electrical manufacturer. He proved so capable that only a year later he was offered a position with Westinghouse a manufacturer of electrical equipment in the United States. By then however he had begun to learn about aviation. Seized with enthusiasm he took to carrying out experiments at his place of employment that had nothing to do with the task at hand!which soon got him fired. He started working on his own in a shed carving wooden propellers for aircraft and building an airplane that a fellow aviation enthusiast had designed. In June 1909 he turned his shed into the firm of Handley Page Ltd. This was Great Britain's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing corporation. Handley-Page built a succession of biplanes and monoplanes. Then in August 1914 Britain entered World War I. He approached the Admiralty and offered to provide planes for the Navy. A senior official took him up on his offer and asked him to create "a bloody paralyzer of an airplane" to hurl back the Germans. This led to the development of the twin-engine 0/100 bomber which first flew late in 1915. The 0/100 started the company on its way. Built as a biplane it led to two larger successors: the 0/400 and the V/1500. The 0/400 was selected for production in the United States. The V/1500 was one of the first four-engine aircraft. Weighing 15 tons when fully loaded it was built to bomb Berlin. The first of them entered service late in 1918 but the war ended just before they began to carry out their raids. There was little further demand for bombers after the war but Handley Page found new opportunities in carrying passengers. London and Paris were two of Europe's largest cities and were only about 200 miles 322 kilometers apart. But the journey required the inconvenience of a transfer from a train to a boat for the trip across the English Channel and then a transfer back to a train to get from the coast to London. Moreover the war had severely damaged the railroads in northern France. However the distance between these cities was well within the range of the aircraft of the day. The 0/400 had a fuselage that was large enough for passengers. Several of them became airliners with minimal modification while the new firm of Handley Page Transport which opened in 1919 became one of the world's first airlines. The V/1500 was too large for commercial use but it had attractive design elements. These went into a modified 0/400 the W.8 which became the company's standard. In 1924 Handley Page Transport merged with three other carriers and formed Imperial Airways Britain's first national airline. Handley Page also had a strong commitment to research. His company may well have been the first to install its own wind tunnel for in-house experiments. He was keenly interested in air safety more so because he had lost close friends in crashes. A serious problem of the day lay in the tendency of airplanes to go into a spin and often crash and he looked for ways to counter this. He decided that a solution lay in running a slot down the length of the wing from the fuselage to the wing tip. This in effect divided it into two wings set closely together. Airflow through the slot would flow evenly over the rear wing to produce more lift for better control. A German inventor Gustav Lachmann had developed similar ideas on his own and Handley Page brought him into the company. Handley-Page received a patent for the invention on October 24 1919 and slotted wings became a key to the firm's fortunes as sales of patent rights earned !750000 about $3.6 million at the time in payments from other planebuilders. In turn slotted wings led to the development of flaps for wings. These extended to give extra lift and also greater drag permitting takeoff and landing at relatively low speed. The flaps then folded into the rear of the wing for the reduced lift that was appropriate at high speed during cruising flight. Handley-Page remained involved with airliners during the next decade. In 1931 Imperial Airways began flying the Handley Page Hannibal a four-engine biplane. It was built for comfort with wall-to-wall carpeting and a bar. Stewards served four-course hot lunches and seven-course dinners while soundproofing diminished the roar of the motors. The Hannibal carried up to 40 passengers and remained in service through the 1930s. Like the 1920s the first years of the 1930s were lean years for the company when few orders came in. That situation changed in 1935 for with the threat of war in Europe now looming again the British government launched a military buildup. Handley Page contributed a twin-engine monoplane bomber the Hampden. The fortunes of war soon would give this plane a key role in saving Britain from Nazi invasion. This happened in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. Nazi air fleets hammered hard at airfields of the Royal Air Force slowly weakening it. Had they continued they might well have won air superiority opening the way for a German conquest of England. However on August 24 the RAF sent a force of medium bombers including Hampdens to attack Berlin. The bombers did little damage but this raid prompted the Nazis to seek revenge. German leaders ordered their own bombers to strike the city of London. They killed and injured a great many people!but they did not continue their attacks on the RAF itself. This gave the RAF time to recover. It went on to defeat the Germans in the air forcing them to abandon their plans for invasion. That British raid on Berlin was small in its destruction but very large in its consequences. The Handley Page Hampden played a central role. By then the company was already producing the Halifax a large four-engine bomber. It was one of three such aircraft designed and built by Britain the others being the Avro Lancaster and the Short Stirling. More than 6000 Halifaxes came off the assembly lines with other planebuilding companies sharing in the production. At the height of Britain's bomber offensive the Halifax comprised 40 percent of the strength of the RAF Bomber Command. Frederick Handley Page was knighted in 1942 becoming Sir Frederick. After the war he again had to seek new opportunities. For a time he continued to find them in military orders for the Cold War with the Soviets soon began and Britain upheld its centuries-old policy of maintaining its own offensive force. Sir Frederick contributed the Victor a four-engine jet bomber. Full of years and honors he died in 1962. His company could cherish a proud boast!that Handley Page aircraft had served continually with the RAF since it had been founded in 1918. By 1962 however the days of his firm were numbered. The Minister of Defence Duncan Sandys had launched a plan to combine Britain's aircraft companies into two large corporations. This reflected the growing cost of major civil and military aircraft programs which were becoming too expensive for the relatively small aviation companies of prior decades. However the firm of Handley Page elected to remain independent and it soon felt the consequences. Business dried up; new orders went to Sandys's big combines. In 1970 the firm of Handley Page Ltd. still using its name that dated to 1909 filed for bankruptcy. It soon vanished in a corporate collapse.- Bron: T.A. Heppenheimer. KEYWORDS:Handley Page ISBN : 0 
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Portrait of Frederick Handley Page unknown Flight ca. 1940-1945 Original photograph silver print 216 x 167 cm. Sir Frederick Handley Page CBE FRAeS 15 November 1885 - 21 April 1962 was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft. His company Handley Page Limited produced a series of military aircraft including the Halifax bomber in World War II of which around 7000 were produced. They also produced civil aircraft including the H.P.42 flagships of the Imperial Airways fleet and remarkable at the time for no passenger deaths. Page was the uncle of the World War II flying ace Geoffrey Page. He was the son of Theodore Page a furniture maker and Non-Conformist Minister of the Plymouth Brethren. He married Una Thynne 1890-1957 in 1918; they had three daughters Helen Anne born on 5th November 1919 m. Manley Walker d. 2001; Phyllis Elizabeth "Buffy" on 10th December 1921 m. Winfield d. 1987 and Patricia Mary on 14th June 1923 d. 1992. - - - - - Frederick Handley Page born in 1885 grew up in a modest-size town in Gloucestershire England. In 1902 he entered college in London and enrolled in a program in electrical engineering. Graduating in 1906 he swiftly secured a position as chief engineer with a small electrical manufacturer. He proved so capable that only a year later he was offered a position with Westinghouse a manufacturer of electrical equipment in the United States. By then however he had begun to learn about aviation. Seized with enthusiasm he took to carrying out experiments at his place of employment that had nothing to do with the task at hand!which soon got him fired. He started working on his own in a shed carving wooden propellers for aircraft and building an airplane that a fellow aviation enthusiast had designed. In June 1909 he turned his shed into the firm of Handley Page Ltd. This was Great Britain's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing corporation. Handley-Page built a succession of biplanes and monoplanes. Then in August 1914 Britain entered World War I. He approached the Admiralty and offered to provide planes for the Navy. A senior official took him up on his offer and asked him to create "a bloody paralyzer of an airplane" to hurl back the Germans. This led to the development of the twin-engine 0/100 bomber which first flew late in 1915. The 0/100 started the company on its way. Built as a biplane it led to two larger successors: the 0/400 and the V/1500. The 0/400 was selected for production in the United States. The V/1500 was one of the first four-engine aircraft. Weighing 15 tons when fully loaded it was built to bomb Berlin. The first of them entered service late in 1918 but the war ended just before they began to carry out their raids. There was little further demand for bombers after the war but Handley Page found new opportunities in carrying passengers. London and Paris were two of Europe's largest cities and were only about 200 miles 322 kilometers apart. But the journey required the inconvenience of a transfer from a train to a boat for the trip across the English Channel and then a transfer back to a train to get from the coast to London. Moreover the war had severely damaged the railroads in northern France. However the distance between these cities was well within the range of the aircraft of the day. The 0/400 had a fuselage that was large enough for passengers. Several of them became airliners with minimal modification while the new firm of Handley Page Transport which opened in 1919 became one of the world's first airlines. The V/1500 was too large for commercial use but it had attractive design elements. These went into a modified 0/400 the W.8 which became the company's standard. In 1924 Handley Page Transport merged with three other carriers and formed Imperial Airways Britain's first national airline. Handley Page also had a strong commitment to research. His company may well have been the first to install its own wind tunnel for in-house experiments. He was keenly interested in air safety more so because he had lost close friends in crashes. A serious problem of the day lay in the tendency of airplanes to go into a spin and often crash and he looked for ways to counter this. He decided that a solution lay in running a slot down the length of the wing from the fuselage to the wing tip. This in effect divided it into two wings set closely together. Airflow through the slot would flow evenly over the rear wing to produce more lift for better control. A German inventor Gustav Lachmann had developed similar ideas on his own and Handley Page brought him into the company. Handley-Page received a patent for the invention on October 24 1919 and slotted wings became a key to the firm's fortunes as sales of patent rights earned !750000 about $3.6 million at the time in payments from other planebuilders. In turn slotted wings led to the development of flaps for wings. These extended to give extra lift and also greater drag permitting takeoff and landing at relatively low speed. The flaps then folded into the rear of the wing for the reduced lift that was appropriate at high speed during cruising flight. Handley-Page remained involved with airliners during the next decade. In 1931 Imperial Airways began flying the Handley Page Hannibal a four-engine biplane. It was built for comfort with wall-to-wall carpeting and a bar. Stewards served four-course hot lunches and seven-course dinners while soundproofing diminished the roar of the motors. The Hannibal carried up to 40 passengers and remained in service through the 1930s. Like the 1920s the first years of the 1930s were lean years for the company when few orders came in. That situation changed in 1935 for with the threat of war in Europe now looming again the British government launched a military buildup. Handley Page contributed a twin-engine monoplane bomber the Hampden. The fortunes of war soon would give this plane a key role in saving Britain from Nazi invasion. This happened in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. Nazi air fleets hammered hard at airfields of the Royal Air Force slowly weakening it. Had they continued they might well have won air superiority opening the way for a German conquest of England. However on August 24 the RAF sent a force of medium bombers including Hampdens to attack Berlin. The bombers did little damage but this raid prompted the Nazis to seek revenge. German leaders ordered their own bombers to strike the city of London. They killed and injured a great many people!but they did not continue their attacks on the RAF itself. This gave the RAF time to recover. It went on to defeat the Germans in the air forcing them to abandon their plans for invasion. That British raid on Berlin was small in its destruction but very large in its consequences. The Handley Page Hampden played a central role. By then the company was already producing the Halifax a large four-engine bomber. It was one of three such aircraft designed and built by Britain the others being the Avro Lancaster and the Short Stirling. More than 6000 Halifaxes came off the assembly lines with other planebuilding companies sharing in the production. At the height of Britain's bomber offensive the Halifax comprised 40 percent of the strength of the RAF Bomber Command. Frederick Handley Page was knighted in 1942 becoming Sir Frederick. After the war he again had to seek new opportunities. For a time he continued to find them in military orders for the Cold War with the Soviets soon began and Britain upheld its centuries-old policy of maintaining its own offensive force. Sir Frederick contributed the Victor a four-engine jet bomber. Full of years and honors he died in 1962. His company could cherish a proud boast!that Handley Page aircraft had served continually with the RAF since it had been founded in 1918. By 1962 however the days of his firm were numbered. The Minister of Defence Duncan Sandys had launched a plan to combine Britain's aircraft companies into two large corporations. This reflected the growing cost of major civil and military aircraft programs which were becoming too expensive for the relatively small aviation companies of prior decades. However the firm of Handley Page elected to remain independent and it soon felt the consequences. Business dried up; new orders went to Sandys's big combines. In 1970 the firm of Handley Page Ltd. still using its name that dated to 1909 filed for bankruptcy. It soon vanished in a corporate collapse.- Bron: T.A. Heppenheimer. KEYWORDS:Handley Page ISBN : 0 
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Portrait of Frederick Handley Page at Airfield Le Bourget Paris in front of one of his aeroplanes unknown 1930. Original photograph silver print 18 x 13 cm. Sir Frederick Handley Page CBE FRAeS 15 November 1885 - 21 April 1962 was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft. His company Handley Page Limited produced a series of military aircraft including the Halifax bomber in World War II of which around 7000 were produced. They also produced civil aircraft including the H.P.42 flagships of the Imperial Airways fleet and remarkable at the time for no passenger deaths. Page was the uncle of the World War II flying ace Geoffrey Page. He was the son of Theodore Page a furniture maker and Non-Conformist Minister of the Plymouth Brethren. He married Una Thynne 1890-1957 in 1918; they had three daughters Helen Anne born on 5th November 1919 m. Manley Walker d. 2001; Phyllis Elizabeth "Buffy" on 10th December 1921 m. Winfield d. 1987 and Patricia Mary on 14th June 1923 d. 1992. - - - - - Frederick Handley Page born in 1885 grew up in a modest-size town in Gloucestershire England. In 1902 he entered college in London and enrolled in a program in electrical engineering. Graduating in 1906 he swiftly secured a position as chief engineer with a small electrical manufacturer. He proved so capable that only a year later he was offered a position with Westinghouse a manufacturer of electrical equipment in the United States. By then however he had begun to learn about aviation. Seized with enthusiasm he took to carrying out experiments at his place of employment that had nothing to do with the task at hand!which soon got him fired. He started working on his own in a shed carving wooden propellers for aircraft and building an airplane that a fellow aviation enthusiast had designed. In June 1909 he turned his shed into the firm of Handley Page Ltd. This was Great Britain's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing corporation. Handley-Page built a succession of biplanes and monoplanes. Then in August 1914 Britain entered World War I. He approached the Admiralty and offered to provide planes for the Navy. A senior official took him up on his offer and asked him to create "a bloody paralyzer of an airplane" to hurl back the Germans. This led to the development of the twin-engine 0/100 bomber which first flew late in 1915. The 0/100 started the company on its way. Built as a biplane it led to two larger successors: the 0/400 and the V/1500. The 0/400 was selected for production in the United States. The V/1500 was one of the first four-engine aircraft. Weighing 15 tons when fully loaded it was built to bomb Berlin. The first of them entered service late in 1918 but the war ended just before they began to carry out their raids. There was little further demand for bombers after the war but Handley Page found new opportunities in carrying passengers. London and Paris were two of Europe's largest cities and were only about 200 miles 322 kilometers apart. But the journey required the inconvenience of a transfer from a train to a boat for the trip across the English Channel and then a transfer back to a train to get from the coast to London. Moreover the war had severely damaged the railroads in northern France. However the distance between these cities was well within the range of the aircraft of the day. The 0/400 had a fuselage that was large enough for passengers. Several of them became airliners with minimal modification while the new firm of Handley Page Transport which opened in 1919 became one of the world's first airlines. The V/1500 was too large for commercial use but it had attractive design elements. These went into a modified 0/400 the W.8 which became the company's standard. In 1924 Handley Page Transport merged with three other carriers and formed Imperial Airways Britain's first national airline. Handley Page also had a strong commitment to research. His company may well have been the first to install its own wind tunnel for in-house experiments. He was keenly interested in air safety more so because he had lost close friends in crashes. A serious problem of the day lay in the tendency of airplanes to go into a spin and often crash and he looked for ways to counter this. He decided that a solution lay in running a slot down the length of the wing from the fuselage to the wing tip. This in effect divided it into two wings set closely together. Airflow through the slot would flow evenly over the rear wing to produce more lift for better control. A German inventor Gustav Lachmann had developed similar ideas on his own and Handley Page brought him into the company. Handley-Page received a patent for the invention on October 24 1919 and slotted wings became a key to the firm's fortunes as sales of patent rights earned !750000 about $3.6 million at the time in payments from other planebuilders. In turn slotted wings led to the development of flaps for wings. These extended to give extra lift and also greater drag permitting takeoff and landing at relatively low speed. The flaps then folded into the rear of the wing for the reduced lift that was appropriate at high speed during cruising flight. Handley-Page remained involved with airliners during the next decade. In 1931 Imperial Airways began flying the Handley Page Hannibal a four-engine biplane. It was built for comfort with wall-to-wall carpeting and a bar. Stewards served four-course hot lunches and seven-course dinners while soundproofing diminished the roar of the motors. The Hannibal carried up to 40 passengers and remained in service through the 1930s. Like the 1920s the first years of the 1930s were lean years for the company when few orders came in. That situation changed in 1935 for with the threat of war in Europe now looming again the British government launched a military buildup. Handley Page contributed a twin-engine monoplane bomber the Hampden. The fortunes of war soon would give this plane a key role in saving Britain from Nazi invasion. This happened in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. Nazi air fleets hammered hard at airfields of the Royal Air Force slowly weakening it. Had they continued they might well have won air superiority opening the way for a German conquest of England. However on August 24 the RAF sent a force of medium bombers including Hampdens to attack Berlin. The bombers did little damage but this raid prompted the Nazis to seek revenge. German leaders ordered their own bombers to strike the city of London. They killed and injured a great many people!but they did not continue their attacks on the RAF itself. This gave the RAF time to recover. It went on to defeat the Germans in the air forcing them to abandon their plans for invasion. That British raid on Berlin was small in its destruction but very large in its consequences. The Handley Page Hampden played a central role. By then the company was already producing the Halifax a large four-engine bomber. It was one of three such aircraft designed and built by Britain the others being the Avro Lancaster and the Short Stirling. More than 6000 Halifaxes came off the assembly lines with other planebuilding companies sharing in the production. At the height of Britain's bomber offensive the Halifax comprised 40 percent of the strength of the RAF Bomber Command. Frederick Handley Page was knighted in 1942 becoming Sir Frederick. After the war he again had to seek new opportunities. For a time he continued to find them in military orders for the Cold War with the Soviets soon began and Britain upheld its centuries-old policy of maintaining its own offensive force. Sir Frederick contributed the Victor a four-engine jet bomber. Full of years and honors he died in 1962. His company could cherish a proud boast!that Handley Page aircraft had served continually with the RAF since it had been founded in 1918. By 1962 however the days of his firm were numbered. The Minister of Defence Duncan Sandys had launched a plan to combine Britain's aircraft companies into two large corporations. This reflected the growing cost of major civil and military aircraft programs which were becoming too expensive for the relatively small aviation companies of prior decades. However the firm of Handley Page elected to remain independent and it soon felt the consequences. Business dried up; new orders went to Sandys's big combines. In 1970 the firm of Handley Page Ltd. still using its name that dated to 1909 filed for bankruptcy. It soon vanished in a corporate collapse.- Bron: T.A. Heppenheimer. KEYWORDS:Handley Page ISBN : 0 
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The Macmillan Co hardcover New York: . Hardcover. This book has some shelf wear as well as tanning and marks on the cover and pages. The library stamps and stickers are still on this book. This book is 338 pages. . Fair. . Reprint. ISBN : 0 
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Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend ----signed By Bettie Page ( Betty Page ) Los Angeles: General Publishing Group, 1996, 1st Edition, 1st Printing hardcover . ----------hardcover Very Fine in a Very Fine dustjacket unread signed by Bettie Page without inscription packed with colour and b&w photos 288 pages contents include: Foreword By Bettie Page; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE: PRELUDE to a PIN-UP: The Early Years 1923 to 1936; Swan Emerging 1936 to 1940; College Girl 1940 to 1946; Drifting 1947 to 1950 --- ACCIDENTAL LEGEND: The Camera Clubs; The Men's Magazines; Dark Angel: Fetish Bondage & Method Acting; Trips to Florida; The End of an Era: Preparing to walk Away; Life Goes on 1958 to 1978 ----- CULT ICON: The Revival Begins; The Muse Art & Comics; In Vogue: Fashion & Style; Conclusion The Real Bettie Page any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Illus. by Photo Cover. ISBN : 0 
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Finding Marie by Susan Page Davis by Susan Page Davis by Susan Page Davis by Susan Page Davis Harvest House unknown . Used - Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! ISBN : 0 
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Finding Marie by Susan Page Davis by Susan Page Davis by Susan Page Davis by Susan Page Davis Harvest House unknown . Used - Like New. Book in almost Brand New condition. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! ISBN : 0 
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Finding Marie by Susan Page Davis by Susan Page Davis by Susan Page Davis by Susan Page Davis Harvest House Pub hardcover Eugene Oregon: . Hardcover. This book has some shelf wear as well as marks on the cover and pages. This book is 392 pages. . Good. . Reprint. ISBN : 0 
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The Chestnut Tree by Evelyn Page by Evelyn Page by Evelyn Page by Evelyn Page The Vanguard Press hardcover New York: . Hardcover. This book has some shelf wear as well as tanning and marks on the cover and pages. The library stamps and stickers are still on this book. This book is 287 pages. . Fair. . Reprint. ISBN : 0 
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Walter J. Black, Inc. hardcover New York New York U.S.A.: Hardcover. The cover have a little shelf wear and some staining. The covers are slightly loose. There is writing in pen on the front endpaper. The covers are light brown with dark brown lettering and the book contains three different mystery stories. . Fair. . Reprint. ISBN : 0 
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La Baïonnette (N° 89) - Menus de guerre. PARIS, L'Édition Française Illustrée - 1917 - FA.31x23,5 - Fascicule en un cahier agrafé au dos; couverture illustrée en couleurs; 16 pages [161 à 176], y compris la couverture; illustrations en noir et en couleurs in et hors-texte. (Collection La Baïonnette - 3e Année - N°89 - 15 Mars 1917). Rousseurs sur couverture. Bon état général. Illustrations couleurs à pleine page de GUILLAUME, LEROY, Marcel CAPY (double page), Gus BOFA, LE RALLIC, Lucien MÉTIVET (double page), Gus BOFA (double page). ********** SI VOUS PASSEZ SPECIALEMENT AU MAGASIN, assurez-vous (quelques jours avant) que les ouvrages sont bien disponibles et réservez-les!... Mardi, Mercredi et Vendredi, 14h à 18h - Samedi, 10h30 à 17h - 33+ 04 77 58 63 38 - librairie.passe-temps@orange.fr Bookseller reference : 44884 |
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London: Tho. Johnson for the author, 1671. hardcover Folio. 16 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches. Letterpress title-page printed in red and black. Engraved additional title-page dated 1671 four FINE double-page and folding plates 28 double-page plates all mounted on guards 6 single leaf plates and 57 vignettes in the text bound without the two maps some plates with short clean tears in the margins at mounts one or two early repairs to short marginal tears offset image of an unrelated but contemporary title-page made while the ink was still wet to page 617. Contemporary mottled calf the spine in seven compartments with six raised bands red morocco lettering-piece in one the others finely decorated with small gold tools expertly rebacked preserving the original spine corners strengthened. Provenance: Frank Sherwin Streeter 1918-2006 Collection of Important Navigation Pacific Voyages Cartography and Science his sale 17th April 2007 lot 395. First edition in English from works mistakenly attributed to Montanus on the title-page but in fact a translation of Olfert Dapper's work published the year before in Dutch as "Gedenkwaerdig Bedryf der Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Maetschappye op de Kuste en in het Keizerrijk van Taising of Sina" Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs 1670. Clearly bound without the general map of China and one other map sometimes recorded. John Ogilby had led a full and interesting life even before began printing the famous series of travel books that bear his name of which "America" is the second preceded by "Africa" in!. He was an investor in the Virginia Company lottery a reknowned dancer even owning his own dancing school and dancing before the King founder and managing director of the first theatre in Dublin. Ogilby only turned to publishing after an accident left him lame and he was no longer able to dance and the rise to power of Oliver Cromwell made frivolities like dancing unfashionable. Cordier Sinica 2349; Lowndes 1719; Lust 525; Wing D-242. Catalogue description prepared for and on behalf of Arader Galleries by Kate Hunter. . ISBN : 0 
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Jet Set Sex ---by Mel Murray ( Bettie Page Cover photo) No Place: Arrow Reader # AR 103, no date, 1st Edition, 1st Printing paperback . -----------paperback a strong Good copy but I believe this has been reglued it seems that it was reglued as there is a small patch of glue on the verso of each cover which has left a glue pull to the first and last pages small glue scar patch on first page of text from glue pull small hole on final page from glue patch pull as well there is no title page and therefore no copyright page nonetheless an attractive copy of a scarce Bettie Page item photo cover shows a nude shot of Betty from the rear she is wearing black nylon stockings and black gloves a la Irving Klaw imagesany image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Photo Cover. ISBN : 0 
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Sidgwick and Jackson Hardcover London: . Un-clipped has moderate wear and light bumping. Age toning to top edge of page block and minimal foxing to other edges. feint yellowing to page margins. Superb autobiography of the singular Tim Page - legendary photographer of the Vietnam War.and more. 241pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/Good to Very Good. 165mm x 240mm. ISBN : 0 
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Jet Set Sex ---by Mel Murray ( Bettie Page Cover photo) No Place: Arrow Reader # AR 103, no date, 1st Edition, 1st Printing paperback . -----------paperback a strong Good copy but I believe this has been reglued it seems that it was reglued as there is a small patch of glue on the verso of each cover which has left a glue pull to the first and last pages small glue scar patch on first page of text from glue pull small hole on final page from glue patch pull as well there is no title page and therefore no copyright page nonetheless an attractive copy of a scarce Bettie Page item photo cover shows a nude shot of Betty from the rear she is wearing black nylon stockings and black gloves a la Irving Klaw imagesany image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Photo Cover. ISBN : 0
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap hardcover . HB NODJ ISSUED 1st edition VG- interior Bk; GOOD- Cover NODJ SOLD AS-IS RED Pictorial Boards with BlackHaired Girl on Green Trycicle wearing Blue Dress & Bonnet Cover Scuff Rub Wear Tiny Chips Tears Extremities Outside Cover Spine Strip MISSING & Torn Interior relatively nice light FoX Wear & few Page Tears Unpaginated Few edge Tears pages Page SMALL TAPE RESIDUE & A TEAR at Bottom flap on last page intact. Last page shows Corally peeking out from behind a tree with folding flap obscuring her approx 7 X 7 1/4 in. THE BINDING IS A LITTLE RIPPED AND THE PAGES HAVE YELLOWED WITH AGE THE LAST PAGE HAS A 2" RIP AT THE BOTTOM. REALLY NICE OLD CHILD'S BOOK. First Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN : 0 |
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Kane: The Model Killer ( Bettie Page Cover, Betty) Sydney, Australia: Webster, no date ( ca. 1950 ), 1st Edition, 1st Printing paperback . ----------digest sized paperback Good chip out of front cover tear on back has been re-glued sticker pull on rear a mystery featuring Kane lovely cover art of Bettie Page in an orange bikini rea r cover has Bettie Page lounging while reading and in the background is a portrait of a nude Bettie with her back turned a very scarce Bettie Page paperback not included in Bettie Page The Life of a Pin-Up Legend any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Bettie Page Cover Art . ISBN : 0 
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CONSTRUIRE SON TELESCOPE by PAGE DOMINIQUE by PAGE DOMINIQUE by PAGE DOMINIQUE BROQUET unknown . BOOK. 05/28/ Weight: 632g. / 1.39lbs Great Customer Service! . New. . ISBN : 0 
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Dance Horizons hardcover Brooklyn NY: . Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.. First Edition. Hardcover. 0-87127-102-8 . nice unworn copy faint dust-soiling to top edge; jacket has a few short closed tears and associated creasing color-shifting to spine with a little bleed-over to front panel shallow chip at top rear hinge. B&W photographs INSCRIBED to actress Lois Nettleton "with my sincere admiration" and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Page was a dancer and choreographer who achieved great renown for her creation of ballets with uniquely American themes. Signed by Author . ISBN : 0 
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SCRIBNERS Hardcover NEW YORK: . Very Scarce First Printing with the last page including adv with "A New Book by Robert Louis Stevenson". From the recently auctioned collection of well known collector M.B. Goldstone--with his gold bookplate and penciled notations on the ffep. One of his notations is on a separate typewritten sheet explaining that there were three separate binding orders of the first edition sheets during . Each was bound with current advertisements. The earliest had the last page with the Stevenson ads for "Kidnapped" and "A Child's Garden of Verses". This is the scarce first issue with 12pp of ads including the last page about Stevenson. Included in this copy is a signed note from Page to the Omaha Literature club 3"x4"--who had requested his autograph. His note is written on the back of the original letter and reads--"Dear Madam: Never since I was a college boy. Yours very truly Thomas Nelson Page". The inscription must have had something to do with the enclosed note--although it is only a partial note so much is missing. This is a very good copy. There are some light blotches to the rear olive cloth--or would be near fine. A square copy with tight hinges and only a little dustiness to the page ends. A beautiful front board and spine. The author's first book and the first printing--with a tipped in signature and from the M.B. Goldstone collection. Signed by Author. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. ISBN : 0 
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The Chief American Poets by Curtis Hidden Page by Curtis Hidden Page by Curtis Hidden Page Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover New York: . Hardcover. This book has some shelf wear as well as tanning and marks on the cover and pages. This book is 713 pages. . Fair. . Reprint. ISBN : 0 
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1995 hardcover . FIRST EDITION. PAGE Tim. Mid-Term Report. New York: Thames and Hudson . Square quarto original stiff photographic wrappers. $75. First edition in wrappers of this moving photobook by the Vietnam War's legendary photographer Time Page vividly illustrated with 78 photographic illustrations many double page this association copy from the library of award-winning Newsweek photographer Peter Turnley. Recalling the Vietnam War in which British photographer Tim Page was singled out by Michael Herr's Dispatches as the most outrageous of all the "apolitically radical wigged-out crazies running around Vietnam" Page writes in Mid-Term Report that photographing that war "was addictive we became junkie moths to the chromed recording of the most perverse most emotive most edgelike scene that boyhood novels had ever possibly illuminated! It was good to have put Vietnam aside." In moving from those years to his discover of Buddhism Page here affirms his sense of himself as "a frustrated painter! I see photography as being a bridge between painting and reality" Independent. Issued same year as cloth edition no priority established. From the library of Peter Turnley. who has "photographed almost every important international news event of the last 15 years" as a leading photojournalist for Newsweek and contributing editor for Harper's Magazine New York Times. A fine association copy. ISBN : 0 
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Integrated Pharmacology [Hardcover] by Page Clive; Page Clive P.; Curtis Mike C.V. Mosby hardcover 1997-01-15. Hardcover. Like New. Pharmacology can be a daunting subject matter to comprehend but the authors with their clear concise and understandable writing styles have made the book a pleasure to read and look at.Highly recommended." LBLB- Life Science Book Review of second edition --This text refers to the Paperback edition. ISBN : 0 
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children hardcover . Hardcover. 061864637X From School Library Journal Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 2–In this eye-popping book illustrated with cut- and torn-paper collages animals leap swim slide swing and waddle. Each spread contains one action word and two animals for whom that behavior is typical. One of the animals turns up again on the next page alongside a different creature both of them representing another kind of motion. For example on one side a crocodile slithers into the water opposite a snake slithering through leaves; with the turn the snake climbs a tree and a praying mantis climbs a blade of grass. The information will pique readers' interest. Jenkins uses brief phrases as captions and provides a well-written concise appendix. A sharp-headed blue-eyed bird hovers over the caption A roadrunner flies but not too far…. On the next page the bird clasping a lizard in its beak sprints away to the words …it would rather run to catch its prey. The end matter explains where the roadrunner lives what it eats how large it is and why it is more suited to running than flying. This book is gorgeous and educational.–Susan Weitz formerly at Spencer-Van Etten School District Spencer NY Copyright Reed Business Information a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist PreS-Gr. 2. In this lively collaboration by spouses Jenkins and Page a host of animal movements are sure to leave children wanting to imitate the animals' swinging waddling and jumping actions. Jenkins' signature paper collages boldly set against white backgrounds illustrate each of two actions per animal; these are preceded and followed by parallel movements performed by different animals. "A jacana a waterbird walks on floating lily pads . . . " reads a right-hand page. The page turn completes the sentence: "then dives to catch a fish." The blue whale pictured alongside dives too but the next page reveals that it also swims just like the adjacent armadillo. The running text arcs around the images often mimicking the featured movement which also appears in large boldface type on each spread. The text ends with an invitation--"Move!"--accompanied by a picture of bare human feet. Further information about each animal concludes indicating sizes for readers who may find the pictures' inaccurate scale confusing. Use this as part of a storytime-with-movement perhaps alongside Karen Pandell's Animal Action ABC 1996. GraceAnne DeCandido Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved . New. . ISBN : 0 
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A Letter From My Father The Strange Intimate Corrspondence of W. Ward Smith to His Son Page Smith William Morrow and Company hardcover New York: . Very Good in Good dust jacket; Slight foxing to half-title page and . outside page ends. Dustjacket is lightly rubbed and has numerous small . tears. . First Printing. Hardcover. 0688030033 . Inscribed by Page Smith on the half-title page. ; Signed by Author . ISBN : 0 
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Yale University Press paperback . SOFTCOVER. Prerelease version. From The New YorkerThis richly detailed celebrates the enduring cultural significance of New York with an account of our unending desire to envision its demise. Since the nineteenth century when the city established itself as a symbol not only of power and wealth but of racial diversity and class stratification New York—beset by immigrants crime and crises real and imagined—has been the locus of America’s apocalyptic anxieties. Page a professor of architecture and history charts the evolution of popular fears in films drawings literature video games and amusement-park rides. His argument that “each era has found it useful to destroy New York in its own particular way” draws on theorists like Spengler and Sontag but they are less illuminating than the gleeful illustrations which attest to the notion that “no place looks better destroyed than New York.” !ahref="http:///gp/product/B00005N7T5" Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker Review"Page provides a unique well-researched and insightful analysis of why so many authors readers and viewers have loved to destroy New York."-Jonathan Soffer Polytechnic University Brooklyn Jonathan Soffer "This is a dazzling book highly original and with a distinctive voice. It has no competitor."-Clifton Hood Hobart and William Smith Colleges Clifton Hood "Max Page''s account of New York''s pre- and post-9/11 disaster fears illuminates our deepest subliminal fantasies and provides unexpectedly profound observations about American culture and its love-hate relation with city life."-Alexander Garvin author of The American City: What Works What Doesn''t Alexander Garvin "Can this be the end-gasp-of Gotham For two centuries now this question has been posed by the innumerable writers artists and film makers who have targeted New York for fictional destruction. The city has been bombed burned drowned frozen invaded by aliens and stomped by monsters-a harrowing and occasionally hilarious record of imagined carnage that Max Page masterfully recounts. Then came 9/11. The City''s End enlightening and entertaining provides much food for thought."-Mike Wallace co-author of Gotham Mike Wallace "The City''s End is a great Times Square of a book an urban spectacle in its own right. Max Page one of the most creative urbanists writing today shows how our capacity to imagine New York's destruction is actually a sign not only of the city's inner strength but of our own. Reading The City''s End can help us all grow up."-Marshall Berman author of All That Is Solid Melts into Air Marshall Berman . Paperback. Fine. ISBN : 0 
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Family: All Age Worship [Paperback] by Page Nick; Page Claire Authentic paperback 2008-01-15. Paperback. New. Brand new! Search our inventory for more books on this subject. We offer shipping discounts on multiple book orders. ISBN : 0 
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BOOKHOLDER FOLDING PAGE BOY by Page Boy by Page Boy Nacscorp unknown . 0962698601 NEW BOOK! RETURNS ARE NO PROBLEM! We LOVE happy customers. All our orders sent with tracking information. Biblio . New. ISBN : 0 
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PAGE BY PAGE. Inscribed by author Dance Horizons hardcover Brooklyn, NY: Dance Horizons, 1978. xvi, 224 pages of text including an index. Green hardcover cloth binding. Unclipped dustjacket with moderate rubbing to the extremities, including a few small tears and creases; spine slightly faded; protected in archival mylar. Inscribed by author on title page "To Rosalie and Ben [Gingiss of tuxedo fame] with very much love from [signed] Ruth Page." Edited and with an introduction by Andrew Mark Wentink. Illustrated with numerous historic black & white photographs. A tight and attractive copy of this publication.. ISBN: 0-87127-102-8. Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+ condition/Very good condition (DJ). Octavo (8vo). Modern Dance, Performing Arts. Catalogs: Autograph & Manuscript. Bookseller reference : 004770 ISBN : 0 |
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A Letter From My Father The Strange, Intimate Corrspondence of W. Ward Smith to His Son Page Smith William Morrow and Company hardcover New York: William Morrow and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Slight foxing to half-title page and . outside page ends. Dustjacket is lightly rubbed and has numerous small . tears.. 1976. First Printing. Hardcover. 0688030033 . Inscribed by Page Smith on the half-title page. ; Signed by Author . Bookseller reference : 44709 ISBN : 0 |
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Doubleday Page & Company. softcover NY.: Doubleday, Page & Company., 1910 near fine. Two Letters, each measures 11" x 8 1/2" folded to 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"; Letter head - "The World's Work / Doubleday, Page & Company-Publishers / 133-137 ast Sixteenth Street, New York / Walter H. Page, Editor"; each letter is typed and signed in ink; Page [1855-1918] was editor, publisher, diplomat; born in Cary, N.C. As editor of the Atlantic Monthly [1895-98], he added a political dimension to its coverage, boosting its popularity and priesige. Also a partner in Doubleday, Page & Company. He served during a crucial period as U.S. Ambassador to Britain [1913-18].. Signed by Author. Wraps. Near Fine. 9". Bookseller reference : 036279 ISBN : 0 |
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1995 hardcover 1995. FIRST EDITION. PAGE, Tim. Mid-Term Report. (New York): Thames and Hudson, (1995). Square quarto, original stiff photographic wrappers. $75. First edition in wrappers of this moving photobook by the Vietnam War's legendary photographer Time Page, vividly illustrated with 78 photographic illustrations (many double page), this association copy from the library of award-winning Newsweek photographer Peter Turnley. Recalling the Vietnam War, in which British photographer Tim Page was singled out by Michael Herr's Dispatches as the most outrageous of all the "apolitically radical, wigged-out crazies running around Vietnam," Page writes in Mid-Term Report that photographing that war "was addictive, we became junkie moths to the chromed recording of the most perverse, most emotive, most edgelike scene that boyhood novels had ever possibly illuminated It was good to have put Vietnam aside." In moving from those years to his discover of Buddhism, Page here affirms his sense of himself as "a frustrated painter I see photography as being a bridge between painting and reality" (Independent). Issued same year as cloth edition, no priority established. From the library of Peter Turnley. who has "photographed almost every important international news event of the last 15 years" as a leading photojournalist for Newsweek and contributing editor for Harper's Magazine (New York Times). A fine association copy. Bookseller reference : 71682 ISBN : 0 |
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Scribner's hardcover pstrongemspan style="text-decoration: underline;"Very Scarce First Printing/span/em/strong with the last page including adv with "A New Book by Robert Louis Stevenson". From the recently auctioned collection of well known collector M.B. Goldstone--with his gold bookplate and penciled notations on the ffep. One of his notations is on a separate typewritten sheet explaining that there were three separate binding orders of the first edition sheets during . Each was bound with current advertisements. The earliest had the last page with the Stevenson ads for "Kidnapped" and "A Child's Garden of Verses". This is the scarce first issue with 12pp of ads including the last page about Stevenson. strongIncluded in this copy is a signed note from Page/strong to the Omaha Literature club 3"x4"--who had requested his autograph. His note is written on the back of the original letter and readsstrong--"Dear Madam: Never since I was a college boy. Yours/strong strongvery truly Thomas Nelson Page"./strong The inscription must have had something to do with the enclosed note--although it is only a partial note so much is missing. This is a very good copy. There are some light blotches to the rear olive cloth--or would be near fine. A square copy with tight hinges and only a little dustiness to the page ends. A beautiful front board and spine. strongThe author's first book and the first/strong strongprinting--with a tipped in signature and from the M.B. Goldstone collection./strong/p ISBN : 0
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REILLY & LEE CO Chicago hardcover . HARDBACK NODustJacket 1ST Edition THUS VeryGOOD/GOOD CONDITION NOJACKET SOLD AS-IS SPINESTRIP MISSING Expect Small 1 in. piece Beige BlueGreen REd & Yellow Illustrated ClothCover picture Light Scuff Cvr Colors Bright on Front Woodchuck on Front in Black Hat with Glasses Cvr light Scuff but Titles Clear Back cover light Soil & very light Stains Light Stains bottom Cvr Front & small Chip by Mr. Interior Light FoXing light WEAR O/W Very Nice Small 4 3/4 X 6 3/4 in Approx Light chipping along Spine edge All color plates are present and in good shape . Not perfect but this is a hard book to find in any shape. 62 pgs Slightly Fragile. Original color cover is in very good condition with bright colors and just a little rubbing. Page 1-2 containing the listing of other titles before the actual title page small FoX . All story text pages are included and are in Pretty good shape A charming and very hard to find little book in any condition!.Title Page in Color of Woodchuck in Hunting Attire red Pants Boots & Green Jacket & Black Hat Blank Endpapers slight FoX. All 14 color plates are present and in good shape Back of Book The Twinkle Tales at top & Talks about 6 Vols slight Stain Marks Soil. Chapters include Twinkle is Condemned ETC Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright Frank Lloyd Wright's sister . Contains full-page and one half-page color illustrations including title page by Maginel Wright Enright. First Thus. Hard Cover. ISBN : 0 |
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POSITIVELY PAGE The Diamond Dallas Page Journey Positive Publications hardcover Baltimore Maryland: . Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Book is signed on special page also inscribed and signed on the facing page. ; 8vo; 443 pages; Signed by Author . ISBN : 0 |
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. hardcover - Octavo green cloth with a printed label on the front cover. The head & tail of the spine are slightly chipped. x i & 9 pages printed in French fold. The book is lightly cracked at page 2. Very good. pFirst edition.pHendrik notes that this letter was written by Page the American Ambassador to Britain in 1915 at a crisis point in the First World War. ISBN : 0 
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THE BOYS' BOOK OF INSECTS E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. hardcover New York: 1st ed. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket hardcover - signed by. "Interesting Facts about the Lives and Habits of the Common Insecdts together with Simple Instructions for Collecting Rearing and Studying Them." Signed by Teale under his name on the title page AND inscribed by Teale on the Dedication page. The printed dedication page is to Teale's son "the first boy to read these pages" and Teale's handwritten dedication is also to his son and dated April 7 . . 237pp ISBN : 0 
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit Free Press hardcover . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. . First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Clean DJ in mylar cover. Upper front corner bumped. Else fresh and clean with squared binding. B&W Illustrations 1.42 x 9.4 x 6.3 Inches 480 pages P The story of the American Indians has until now been told as a 500-year tragedy a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases followed by steady retreat defeat and diminishment. Yet the true story begins much earlier and its final recent chapter adds a major twist. Jake Page one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a longtime student of Indian history and culture tells a radically new story thanks to an explosion of recent archaeological findings the latest scholarship and an exploration of Indian legends. Covering no less than 20000 years IIn the Hands of the Great Spirit/I will forever change how we think about the oldest and earliest Americans. P Page writes gracefully and sympathetically without sentimentality. He explores every controversy from the question of cannibalism among tribes to the various theories of when and how humans first arrived on the continent to what life was actually like for Indians before the Europeans came. Page dispels the popular image of a peaceful and idyllic Eden and shows that Indian societies were fluid constantly transformed by intertribal fighting population growth and shifting climates. P Page uses Indian legends and stories as tools to uncover tribal origins cultural values and the meaning of certain rituals and sacred lands. He tells the story of contact with Europeans and the multipower conflicts of the Seven Years War the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 from the Indians' point of view. He explains the complex and shifting role of the U.S. government as expressed through executive decisions and through the role of the courts. Finally he tells the fascinating story of the late-twentieth-century upsurge in Indian population and resources which began as a social movement and exploded once casinos came into fashion. P Author and editor of over a dozen books on American Indian life and culture Page is a masterful teller of this incredible story. IIn the Hands of the Great Spirit/I will forever change the familiar story of recent centuries replacing it with a far more sweeping and meaningful story of tribes and peoples who have suffered enormously yet endure and enrich the American experience. . ISBN : 0 
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Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia. Also a Condensed Account of hardcover 0. PAGE. PAGE Richard C.M. Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia. Also a Condensed Account of the Nelson Walker Pendleton and Randolph Families With References to.Other Distinguished Families in Virginia. N.Y. 1893. 2nd ed. Illus. x 275pp. Orig. cloth. Covers worn else a very good copy. ISBN : 0 
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Vintage paperback . 1st Books Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Binding VG- Minor edge & shelf wear. Corners bumped. Bottom front corner creased. Personal Name: Page Russell 1906-. Main Title: The education of a gardener / Russell Page. Edition Information: 1st Books ed. Published/Created: New York : Books c1983. Description: 381 p. 48 p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. ISBN: 039472920X pbk. : Notes: Reprint. Originally published: London : Collins 1962. Includes index. Subjects: Gardens --Design. Landscape gardening. Landscape architecture. Table of Contents Preface to the 2007 Edition ix Author's Preface to the 1983 Edition 4 Introduction: The education of a gardener 13 Part 1 In search of style 45 Notes on composition and design 67 Sites and themes 91 Near the house 113 On planting: trees 144 On planting: shrubs 175 On planting: flowers 202 Water in the garden 222 Part 2 Town gardens and others 251 Switzerland and Italy 273 The South of France 295 For the public eye 312 My garden 347 Index 365 Synopsis Russell Page one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs born of a lifetime of sketching designing and working on site are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence keen critical intelligence and practical know-how. They are not only essential reading for today's gardeners but a master's compelling reflection on the deep sources and informing principles of his art. The Education of a Gardener offers charming sometimes pointed anecdotes about patrons colleagues and of course gardens together with lucid advice for the gardener. Page discusses how to plan a garden that draws on the energies of the surrounding landscape determine which plants will do best in which setting plant for the seasons handle color and combine trees shrubs and water features to rich and enduring effect. To read The Education of a Gardener is to wander happily through a variety of gardens in the company of a wise witty and knowledgeable friend. It will provide pleasure and insight not only to the dedicated gardener but to anyone with an interest in abiding questions of design and aesthetics or who simply enjoys an unusually well-written and thoughtful book. Annotation A worldly and brilliant landscape designer writes about gardening for beginner and expert alike. Biography Russell Page 1906! is considered one of the leading British landscape architects and garden designers of his time. He designed both private and public gardens most famously the gardens at Leeds castle and the grounds of PepsiCo!s world headquarters in Purchase New York. ISBN : 0 
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Book of Common Prayer in the Collection of James R. Page The Plantin Press hardcover Los Angeles: . Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover in gray paper boards. 4to. First printing. No dust jacket. Rough-cut pages. Laid paper. Corners show spots of wear. SIGNED and inscribed on the front free endpage: "Inscribed for my oldtime friend John E. Barber with regards and affection James R. Page June ." Laid in is a handwritten letter from John E. Barber a Pasadena resident who was instrumental in arranging the financing of Disneyland and was also a friend of the Huntington Library dated May 13 1968 five years before his death: "This Descriptive Catalogue of the Book of Common Prayer in the collection of James R. Page is a duplicate copy of a limited edition presented and autographed to me by John but subsequently mislaid. It was received today from Miss Dorothy Bowen of the Huntington Library Staff who wrote it and prepared it for Mr. Page. It is a rare collectors' item. John E. Barber." Printed by Saul and Lillian Marks. 67 pp. Protected in a clear polyester jacket. ISBN : 0 
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Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover London: . Title page missing. Pages yellowed otherwise Very Good. ISBN: 0283994398. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY. Catalogs: Biography/Autobiography. ISBN : 0 
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Company Savage Page by Page Martin Coronet Books paperback . Paperback. Acceptable. Spine ribbed and fadedsome scuffing to cover and page edges are tanned. - Dispatched from the UK usually within 24 hours. ISBN : 0 
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Bettie Page The Life of a Pin-Up Legend General Publishing Company hardcover Bx627: . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. . First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1881649628 . Hardcover. 4to. . . 288 pgs. Illustrated with over 500 black and white and color photos. Signed by Bettie Page on the half-title page in blue ink. DJ in excellent shape unclipped and with no tears present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks binding tight and solid boards clean with no wear present. The definitive book on Bettie Page who left and indelible mark on the world of fashion and popular culture. Photos sent upon request. Bx627; 0.75 x 11.25 x 9.5 Inches; 288 pages; Signed by Author . ISBN : 0 
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THE REBUILDING OF OLD COMMONWEALTHS: BEING ESSAYS TOWARDS THE TRAINING hardcover . PAGE Walter H. THE REBUILDING OF OLD COMMONWEALTHS: BEING ESSAYS TOWARDS THE TRAINING OF THE FORGOTTEN MAN IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. NY: Doubleday Page and Co. . 12mo. blue cloth stamped in gilt top edge gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation from Page on the half-title page: "Magazines books and schools are all machinery to do the same work; & the best of it is that we who turn some of the wheels catch a little of the glory of the great result which a Democracy at last works out. From work fellow Walter H. Page. To J.F. Marcosson Esq. New York January 30 1904." Marcosson was a journalist and author. Very Good gouge lower portion spine. ISBN : 0 
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Salem: Peabody Museum, hardcover . 8vo xxx 88pp 8 collotype plates. Cloth joints cracking some wear else a very good copy. One of 500 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press. The sixteen-year old Ms Page embarked in 1852 on the ship George Washington out of New York and her brother voyaged on the same ship in 1856. There are references to Cuba New Orleans whaling and P.T. Barnum. ISBN : 0 
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Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover London: . . Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 241 pages The autobiography of Tim Page one of the most celebrated photographers of the Vietnam War. . 1st Edition. Hardback. ISBN : 0 
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Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover . B/W Sepia Frontispiece the Custodians of the Keystone by Ralph Burton Illustrated in B/W by Alfred Frueh George Herriman Fernand Leger a cartoon by R. L. Goldberg etc Photo by Bert Savoy ETC . HB NODJ VG-/VG AS-IS NOJACKET Stated 1st Limited Edition 1st Printing Dates Agree on Title & Copyright page Pg 3-24 devoted to Keystone cops #185 of 300 Copies Specially Bound in Javanese Batik Numbered & Signed Interior nice tight FOX WEAR 398 Pgs Index Brown Designed Boards with Beige Cloth Spine with Label light rub wear Scuff contains 6 appendixes in all plus acknowledgments. With "First Edition" and Harper code "B-Y" i.e. February on title page verso. Includes Tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld Vulgar Comic Strip Irene Castle Tipped In Photo Notable Critical work covering the "lively" American art forms of theater dance cartooning vaudeville jazz music and "the flickers" all of these then considered unworthy of consideration as being "lowbrow"; Signed by Gilbert Seldes in blue-gray ink on limitation page. Seldes's ground-breaking popular expose of American culture at the beginning of the Jazz Age championed the new arts including cinema comic strips pop journalism jazz and American musical theatre. A classic work on the popular arts. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN : 0 
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