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Morton, Catherine
Bodiam Castle Sussex
Published in 1970s, 24 pages, illustrated, plans. eng
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Moses John & Paul Selby
The White City. The Historical Biographical and Philanthropical Record of Illinois
Chicago: Chicago World Book Company 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto xx 17 132 pp. printed on acidic paper; decorated brown cloth front hinge cracking free endpapers detached. Ex libris Bohuslav Bartas. <br/><br/>Part 1 covers Illinois. Part 2 is the U. S. Government and the District of Columbia. Part 3 is the managers of the World's Columbian Exposition then focuses on the Illinois Exhibits: reproduces many of the contemporary advertisements for participating Illinois firms. Chicago World Book Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0005502
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Mostaedi, Arian
Factories and Office Buildings (Architectural Design)
Carles Broto & Josep Ma. Minguet, Barcelona & Instituto Monsa de Ediciones, Barcelona, 2002. 34,5 x 25 cm ; Pp.
Bookseller reference : 101904
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Mostaedi, Arian
Innovative Houses [English Edition]
Links International, Barcelona, 2003. 22,5 cm ; kart.
Bookseller reference : 101603
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Mostaedi, Arian (Conception)
Office Interiors [English Edition]
Carles Broto & Josep Ma. Minguet, Barcelona, 2003. 30,5 cm ; Leinen
Bookseller reference : 102432
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Mostaedi, Arian (Conception)
Sustainable Architecture. Hightech Housing
Carles Broto i Comerma, Barcelona, 2003. 30,5 cm ; Pp.
Bookseller reference : 102524
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1953 Through November/December1954
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Port Alberni operator's help save infant's life (photo); Abbotsford and Mission 'cut' to automatic - 8 pages of photos and text; Photo of laying cable between Mission and Abbotsford; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Script of two successive broadcasts by Dorwin Baird of radio station CJOR re: proposed telephone rate increases; Telephone growth sets all-time record in 1952; Interim rate increase authorized; Nice photo of North Vancouver automatic telephone being installed in preparation for cut-over; Photos of cable-laying near Lion's Gate Bridge; new buildings for Albion, Belmont and Colquitz; Company earns dividends but has surplus shortage; Mr. W.S. Pipes; Gerald Clarke - Memoriam with photo; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Photos of expansion of Vancouver Island; Doug Beckett, 19, - Big League Baseball Prospect - photo; New International Radiotelephone Link; The Telephone in our Air Defense Picture - article; farewell to Miss H.L. Montgomery; dramatic photos of conduit installation under and on Lion's Gate Bridge; Photos of Port Coquitlam progress; Cloverdale's automatic program; R.S. Argue is new traffic manager; John Dickson Johnston in memoriam, with photo; Fred Buckle winds up record career; great Cloverdale office photos; Expansion photos from Kamloops, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley; A.J. Jack retires after 41 years; Trail and Rossland favour 'Free Calling'; 18,000 attended civil defense show; Kootenay Company joins B.C. Tel.; wonderful photo of 'sky-riders' working on lines over the Columbia River at Trail; North Van. goes automatic; Stirling Ross closes 50 year career; Nice photos of some of the company's heavy work gangs in the field; Photos of the company's war against winter; Company expansion sets new record; List of Exchanges - # of lines operating per community; Albion-Belmont Colquitz Cut-over; Radiotelephone network still expanding - article with 2 maps; Stirling Ross - in Memoriam, with photo; Port Coquitlam Photos; photos of a cable repair off Mayne Island; new New West Plant Center building; Cranbrook construction - photo of breaking ground; Editor of Telephone Talk, Peard Sutherland passes away - article with photo; Chilliwack joins B.C. Tel; photos of some of the equipment used to serve the British Empire Games in Vancouver; British Empire Games Transmitted in Record time - 2 page article; Inside New Westminster; Victoria Expansion Photos; A.H. Lemmon - Memoriam with photo; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of company employee E.P. LaBelle stamped on top and bottom edges of text. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1927 Through December 1927
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Miss K. Perrin joins as health supervisor; New West office upgraded - super photos; New York Engineer describes latest developments i.e. transmitting photos over phone lines; the truth about instrument zoning; Excitement at Duncan office; Diary describes observations on Chilliwack line; New cable successfully laid from Galiano Island to Point Grey - 9 pages of text and good photos; New Trans-Gulf circuits opened; sleeping car reservations by phone; Joe Gagnon; Phone expansion in Bay store; Seymour remodeling complete; Operating room photos; Coal, Travelling Men and Toll Lines Feature Nanaimo; High Poles removed from Seymour St. - 6 pages of text and great photos; Miss E.R. Walker - manages traffic on Vancouver Island; Cobble Hill Exchange; photo of updated Ladysmith office; Coast now linked with Okanagan by phone; Miss A. Falconer of the Port Coquitlam office; Successful Canadian jubilee broadcast from Ottawa; Photo of Chemainus Office; Royal Alexandra Apartments Fire - phones used from burning buildings by reporters; Company will have its own line to Vernon; Photo of public phones/'Pay Stations'; Photo of Belmont office near Victoria; Table of phones in use per province in Canada; Six pages of info. and great photos re: Kootenay; Battling Storm King; Mexico City can now communicate with Vancouver; Direct cable to be laid to West Vancouver; Article on poles; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Substantial wear to backstrip with some chips missing. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine - January/February 1972 *SPECIAL NOVA SCOTIA ISSUE*
Features: Nova Scotia, 1828; Notable Nova Scotians; You paint me a ship; Goldsmiths and silversmiths; Potters; Halifax Restorations; Furniture of Nova Scotia; Louisbourg - the emerging touchstone; Choice 18th century accents; Halifax - city in midpassage; Nova Scotia Museum; Places to remember; Textile Arts; Folk art in Cape Breton; A Pencil Sketch; Early Buildings; Heritage in Printing; Glass; Artists and their pictures. Average wear. Faint phone number in pencil on front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, May/June 1975, Vol. 10 No. 3 *SPECIAL NEW BRUNSWICK ISSUE*
Features: New Brunswick Heritage; Biographical Studies in New Brunswick; New Brunswick Indian Crafts; Acadian Village - Preservation of a Heritage (bilingual); Early Silversmiths; Two New Brunswick Furniture Craftsmen - Thomas Nisbet and Alexander Lawrence; New Brunswick Before History; Architecture in New Brunswick - an Historical Survey; Of Ships and Shipbuilders; Heritage Under the Sea; Some Historic Buildings; The Acadian Museum of the University of Moncton (bilingual); Kings Landing; Stone Church - St. John's; George Neilson Smith - The Artist in New Brunswick; The Best of Pine and Maple; The Town of St. Andrews; A New Brunswick Contribution to Canadian Potting - Courtenay Bay Pottery; Capturing Canada's Past - The J.C. Webster Collection; The Creek and the Corner - a History of Woodstock, N.B.; New Brunswich Artists - a rapid glance at 18th, 19th and 20th century painting; Museums and Historic Sites. Date hand-written on front cover. Details blacked out on address label atop back cover. Average wear. Moisture exposure has resulted in gentle undulations to most pages, otherwise a sound copy of this very informative issue. Magazine
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Canadian Collector Magazine - July/August 1981, Vol. 16 No. 4
Features: The Buildings of Moose Factory - Preserving historic Hudson's Bay Co. Buildings at James Bay; Signposts for Collectors Part IV - Collecting Canadian Furniture; An Apprenticeship Piece - a pillar and block table made in Halifax in 1848; Hooked and Poked - the hand-crafted mats of Newfoundland and Labrador; The John R. Park Homestead - a monument to a Massachusetts Yankee in Upper Canada; The Glorious Red Ensign; Royal Visit to Montreal, 1860 - Memorabilia of the Prince of Wales' visit to Canada East; Four Centuries of Embroidery - needlework by Stuart gentlewoman highlights a collection. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
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Canadian Collector Magazine, May/June 1976, Vol. 11 No. 3
119 pages. Features: Studying British Columbia - A Recent Burgeoning; The Indians of the Northwest Coast; Discovering Totem Poles; Cook at Nootka - The Engraved Record; Preserving a Precious Heritage - The Totem Pole; An Interview with Bill Reid; Fort St. James; The Royal Engineers in British Columbia; The Restoration of Historic Barkerville; The Architecture of Samuel Maclure and Francis Mawson Rattenbury; The Restoration of British Columbia's Parliament Buildings; British Columbia Painters; A Chinese Herbalist in British Columbia; Artifacts of British Columbia Technology; Domestic Interiors; Two B.C. Samplers - Susan Irving and Mary Irving; Early Banks, Coins and Stamps of British Columbia; Restoring Victoria; Conserving Vancouver; Heraldic Stained Glass in Vancouver; Mission Churches; Maritime Legacy; The Crystal Glass Company - British Columbia's First Glass Factory; Chinese Decorative Art in British Columbia; and more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
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Canadian Geographic Magazine, August/September 1981 - The Log Drive Tradition
86 pages. Features/Articles: Canada's international problems; Our new national currency museum in Ottawa; Log drive - a great Canadian tradition - great photos; Hunting dinosaurs in Alberta's great bonebed; The Acadians who had a problem in France; Salmon revival in Lake Ontario; Atlantic Salmon once teemed in Lake Ontario; How to Raise Sawllowtail Butterflies; Protein-rich wild rice - our only native cereal; Architectural Heirloom - The East Block of Ottawa's Parliament Buildings; Beautiful Barkley Sound - paradise for divers. Above-average wear. Covers almost loose. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
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Concrete and Constructional Engineering Including Prestressed Concrete: Volume LX (60) - Containing All Issues from 1965
470 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Topics include: Some New Concrete Bridges; Stithians Dam; Cruachan Dam; Prestressed Precast Concrete Construction at Cardiff; A Calculator for Concrete Mixes; Motorway M6 - Preston/Lancaster Section; New Equipment for Concrete Road Construction; Piccadilly Plaza Building Manchester; Prestressed Concrete Pressure-Vessel for Wylfa Nuclear Power Station; Building Constructed over a Railway Tunnel; Large Cooling-water Chambers at Tilbury; Sewage Works, Dalmarnock; Sewage Works, Godstone; Restrained Ribbed Slabs with Distribution Ribs; Library and Swimming Baths, Hampstead; The Analysis of Symmetrically-loaded Circular Conical Shells - I; Early Concrete Buildings in Britain; Precast Construction of Asbestos-cement pipe factory, Eire; A Precast Concrete Fire-drill Tower; A Cantilevered Concrete Grandstand - Coventry City Football Club; Pierced Shear-Walls - I; Modern Designs for Prestressed Concrete Bridges; Stockbury Viaduct; The Analysis of Symmetrically-loaded Circular Conical Shells - Parts II and III; Oil-Tanker Jetty at Milford Haven; Repairs to Piles in Sea-water; Market Hall, Wakefield; Pierced Shear-Walls - II; Developments in Formwork for concrete structures; Air-Permeability of Concrete; A simplified Method of Analysing Free-standing Stairs; Pierced-Shell-Walls - III; Recent Lightweight-Concrete Structures; Prestressed Concrete Pressure-Vessels; Research on Concrete Structures in Nuclear Engineering; Stresses in Wide-Flanged T-beams; Members Subjected to Bending and Thrust; Town Hall Extension, Ealing; Foundations and Other Construction Below Ground; The G.P.O. Tower during construction; The Design of the G.P.O. Tower, London; Data for Load-Factor Design of Beams and Slabs; The Interaction of Parallel Frames; A Pioneer of Concrete - George Semple of Dublin; Fatigue Behaviour of High-Yield Steel Reinforcement; A Computer Programme for the Analysis of the Effects of Torsion; Design of Continuous Concrete Slabs Supported on Steel Beams; Concrete Roads in Nigeria; Economic Design by the Ultimate-Load Method - Parts I, II and II; Cracking of Slabs Spanning in Two Directions; Design of Bow Bridge Intersection; Membrane Analysis of Parabolic Conoids; Concrete Dam in Yorkshire - The Thruscross Dam; A Code for Structural Lightweight-aggregate Concrete; A New Gauge for the Measurement of Internal Strains in Concrete; Circular Members Subjected to Bending and Thrust; Recent construction of silos; and more. Prior owner's name in gilt upon front board. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tightly bound. High quality copy. Book
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Earth First! - The Radical Environmental Journal: August-September 1998
Features: Ecoterrorism trials in Congress; Genetic Actions Sweep UK; Winona LaDuke Interview; NAFTA for Africa; Rendezvous Reports; ADC Buildings Torched; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, November-December 1993
126 pages. Features: The very first garden railways; The J.B. Railroad; Kitbashing Bachmann's O-4-0T; Weathering with Chalk; Getting Started in Garden Railroading - Part 8; Build a Smith/Crane car; The Colorado Midland; An inexpensive Feedwater Pump; A New England garden raiilway; Garden railway-assisted therapy; Crates for Loading Docks; Weathering and detailing plastic buildings; Lighting for Outdoor Railroads; Garden Railways - Past, Present, and Future. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Heritage, Fall 2002: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation
Features: Celebrating our Architectural Heritage; The Shapes of Georgian Halifax; Rare Example of Modern Heritage Threatened in Etobicoke; Site Investigations of Heritage Buildings; Preserving those familiar Gems - Two Nineteenth-Century Row Houses Restored in Orangeville; The Jewel of Halifax Harbour - Georges Island; Devolving British Columbia's Heritage Properties; St. Mary's School in Calgary is coming down - restoration bid ignored; Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Minor moisture exposure to upper corner, otherwise an excellent copy. Book
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Heritage, Spring 2001: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation
Features: Mennonite Architecture in Waterloo; Plain Old Heritage - the challenge of protecting old order Amish and Mennonite Landscapes; Looking for a positive outcome for the York Cinema; Fort Henry breaking down; Fire Protection of Seasonal Heritage Structures; Markham's Proud Heritage; Calgary Youth adopt buildings; The St. Roch II - makes a voyage of rediscovery; Harpist buys Stratford Public School; and more. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
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Heritage, Summer 1998: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation - Vancouver's Recent Landmarks
Features: Parodies of the Past - Vancouver is awash with fake heritage homes; New Buildings - Old Values - Vancouver's Recent Landmarks; Opportunity Lost - Vancouver's Canron Steel Plant falls to the wreckers; The economics of conserving built heritage; In Memoriam - Gabrielle Leger; Help for Heritage Tourism; Peterborough Armoury 'structurally unsafe' for Regiment; The Macdonell-Williamson House in Pointe-Fortune, on the Ontario-Quebec border; Heritage buildings on the block in Saint John, NB - Centracare Complex and Centenary Queen Square United Church; Brampton's sense of its own history questioned. (Please note: front cover incorrectly states this is the Spring 1998 issue) Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
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Heritage, Summer 1999: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation
Features: A view from St. John's - heritage conservation and cultural landscape; Fogo Island - last chance for authentic outport culture; Bonavista; Heritage Precinct or Parking Lot - options for a gateway to Canada's National Captain; Fund-Raising for Heritage Buildings - The Saint George's Experience; The Henry Ruckle Farm on Saltspring Island; U.S. introduces Historic Homeownership Assistance Act; Nova Scotians want lighthouses protected by legislation; Gabrielle Roy's House needs donations; Curtain rises again on Montreal's Corona Theatre. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
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Nutshell News Magazine, March 1992 - International Issue
Features: Tin Town - West Bros.' (Brothers) Lithographed Buildings; Ingeborg Riesser; Karl Blindheim; Lauran Stevens; Jim Fainges; Jo Moore Stewart; An 1880 London Townhouse; The grand tour on a small scale; Lagniappe's 1/4" scale little sister ended with 19 fabulous rooms; Making Wheels; Along the Mall XV - an around the world import shop; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Proceedings of New Life for Old Buildings - A British Columbia and Yukon Heritage Conference: February 10-12, 1977 Vancouver B.C.
225 pages. Unmarked. Average wear. Includes useful reference and other material. Solid copy. Book
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The Electrical Engineer Vol. II No. 1 May 22nd, 1936
39 pages. Features: Power Supplies for Large Buildings; Parallel Working of Alternators Simply Explained; Applications of Photo Cells to Mechanical Handling; Modern Methods of Battery Charging; A.C. Carbon Arcs; Electric Heating in Industry; Current Limiting Reactors; The Strowger Photo Tlelmetering System; Control gear for A.C. Motors; Power Factor Correction Plant; Recent Patent Specifications; Engineer's Experiences. Cigarette smoke odour. Small quantity of "nibbling" to top corner of front cover and first few leaves. Well worn but intact. Blue and orange front cover features picture of the vessel Queen Mary in an advertisement for Callender Cable which supplied 650 miles of cable for its construction. Two-colour center-fold advertisement for Crabtree Automatic Control Gear manufactured by J.A. Crabtree & Co. Ltd. Unmarked. Book
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, March 10, 1962
39 pages. Features: My holiday ended in a red jail - Milorad Cop went to see his son in Prague and was accused of spying; Marie St. Laurent at the Florida Message Centre helps Canadians down south; Skiing for Eight - On a Budget: Fun-filled weekends are a way of life for the Moore Family (son Tim went on to great success with AMJ Campbell Van Lines); Arlene Phillips Braves the Heights - goes atop buildings with her high-steel worker father Joey Phillips, one of the hereditary chiefs of the Caughnawaga Indian reservation near Montreal; I live for work and love says Melina Mercouri - the star of Never on Sunday; Seat of Trouble - comic; Great colour photos with story about NHL goalies Gump Worsely and Jacques Plante; The Rockefellers Change with the Times - the fourth generation of the family has a different approach to wealth - inclues 8 interesting black and white photos; The Fleet Nobody Wanted - British Columbia's government-owned ferry service (B.C. Ferries); Nipper by Doug Wright. Many great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
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The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, May 12, 1962: Elaine Kennedy Gombault
47 pages. Features: Prince Philip - Royal Patron of Science; Do-it-Yourself Broadway Musicals - twice a year a part-time Hamilton group stages a glamorous and glittering show - the Hamilton Theatre, Inc.; Winnipeg girl who belongs to Paris - Elaine Kennedy Gombault; Grasstronaut - an old space suit relieves a circulatory ailment and a man once bedridden can now walk again - John Pastor of Santa Monica; Raymond Massey Triumphs as a Doctor; Strong Arm Men - a wrist-wrestling contest held in Quebec produces two champions - O'Neil Corriveau and Andre Desbiens; A New Way with Glass - Artist Eric Wesselow creates stained glass with depth and dimension; Campaigning for Laughs - a cross-section of candidates tells about politics' lighter side - stories and pictures from eight political figures; Warren Spahn shows us baseball's $80,000 screwball; Britain brightens up - improving the appearance of buildings; Nipper by Doug Wright. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Theatre Organ Bombarde, Journal of the American Theatre Organ Enthusiasts, December 1969 *Edwin A. Link and the Roberson Center Organ*
Nice Wurlitzer organ ad inside front cover. Contents: Photo of the interior of the Orpheum Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee. Ad for a Conn Theatre Organ. Edwin A. Link and the Roberson Center Organ - great 2.5 page article with photos. Letters. Theatre Organ Etiquette - don't overburden people who have moved organs to their private homes or buildings. Real Pipes for the Price of a Plug-In? - It Can be Done - comparing electronic with real organs. Did you bring your music with you? - comparing performers who did or did not play from music. Building a Back Beat Relay - technical article. Sooner Sonic Sights and Sounds - the artists and instruments (plus their nostalgic ad). The Real Crawford Special - wonderful 3.5 page article with photos. Record reviews. Hollywood Cavalcade. Eddie Weaver returns to New Haven Paramount. Nuggets from the Golden Days. Wonder Morton to be restored for New York Convention! - the four manual, 23 rank organ in the former Loew's 175th Street Theatre in Nyew York. Billy Nalle entertains at Canton Palace. Lee Erwin plays ten shows at Alexandria. The Tower (Theatre) Lights are Bright in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania - great 3-page article with photos. Tony Fenelon blows in from down under. Loew's Columbus, Ohio Theatre is Saved! Classified ads. Chapter news. Wonderfully nostalgic Larry Ferrari record ad inside back cover, as well as a copy of a Snuffy Smith cartoon from 1961 which features a large organ! Impressive Rodgers Theatre Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book
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Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), April (Apr.) 6, 1970 - Special Issue on Black America 1970 (with Cover Portrait of Jesse Jackson)
92 pages. Features: Renault 16TS ad; In Search of a Community - Blacks in Canada; Labor turmoil in U.S.; Black America 1970 - major article with great photos; Mounting uneasiness in Southeast Asia; Color Cadillac ad features a grey 1970 hardtop Sedan deVille; Mideast conflict news; Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev - how to cope with the Arab armies; Notes from a Soviet Asylum - former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko; Groovy men's color fashion ad for "The Blazer Suit" by Michaels Stern; Education - Young Blacks getting it together - with content on Laura Calhoun, Jennye Guy, Bruce Dalton, Michael Johnson, Chezzie Jordan, and others; Show Business - article with photos of Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, Redd Foxx and Flip Wilson; Nice color-photo ad for a blue 1970 Olds Cutlass Supreme; What America Would Be Like Without Blacks; Excellent one-page color photo of Dana Chandler Jr. standing beside his painting honouring Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton; Two pages of colour photos of amazing black graffitti art on buildings; Color photos of Malcolm Bailey, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt, David Hammons, Sam Gilliam, Daniel Johnson and Joe Overstreet; Environment - Ecology of a Ghetto; Behavior - Black Hangups; Interracial Relationships; Dallas Cowboy running back Calvin Hill; Working in the white man's world; The beginnings of black capitalism; Passing of Joe Pyne, Martin Tananbaum, Major General James Earl Rudder, Oscar Johnson, Vice Admiral Ralph E. Jennings and Jesse M. Donadson; The Black Church - Joseph H. Jackson, Samuel W. Williams; Music - with photos of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman; Blacks in the Press; and more. Provides a marvelous snapshot of how blacks fit into America in 1970. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Time Magazine, July 5, 1976 - America's New Immigrants
90 pages. Features: Celebrating the Bicentennial; Immigrants celebrate coming to America; Nancy Donnelly is removed from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; Italian election results; Shock waves from Soweto Riots; Arab peace-keepers arrive in Lebanon; Lopez Portillo in Mexico; Seychelles President James R. Mancham; Color photos of impressive new buildings in multiple American big cities; Dan Burden and Bikecentennial '76 which saw cyclists pedal from Astoria to Williamsburg; Great color photos of the ol' RWB (red, white and blue); Washington Cathedral - article with color photos; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Weekend Magazine, 29 June 1966 (Newspaper Insert) - Rita Tushingham Cover Photo
32 pages. Features: The C.N.R. gambles on passenger service - article with photos; Rita Tushingham - article and colour photos - filming of "The Trap"; Blair Richardson - The Hard-Punching Bible-Belter - article with photos of Canada's middleweight boxing champion; First Came the Vikings; When Our Parliament Buildings Burned - on a winter night fifty years ago a dreadful fire broke out - article with photos; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
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Munn, Orson D.
Scientific American February 1932 Volume 146 Number 2
Features: How shall we live in the future - houses will be heated in winter, cooled in summer, lighted by man-made healthful sun-lamps; editorials - all honor to marconi - metallic thrift - future leaders - science and art; Commemorating a century of progress - buildings for the 1933 World Exposition are rapidly being completed on a site close to other Chicago attractions; Weighing the satellites - mass, on the astronomical scale, can be measured only by the power of gravitation; Science and the permanent wave - what makes human hair wave when stretched and steamed?; Pigeons go to war college - interesting German method of training carrier pigeon messengers and photographers; "Jobs from Junk - Wages from Waste" - Buffalo, New York , has a good plan to help the unfortunate; Engineering a ski-jump tower - unusual problems are encountered in the construction of the world's highest ski-jump tower; A new style theater, front and back - a trick stage, unusual scenic effects, scientific lighting - a new high point in technique is reached in new theater; Our railroads must be saved - the integrity of the railroad's finances mean much not only to the nation but also to the individual; Science trails the criminal - Laboratory utilizes all the resources of modern science for the benefit of peace officers; A snow avalance "Caught in the Act" - striking photographs of stages of a snowslide; amateur astronomy in the wild west - in tacoma, members of a large club of amateurs have built telescopes; Radio and forest fires - rangers on the lookout for fires, and fire fighters keep in touch with headquarters by means of portable radio sets; Greedy "white ants" cust us millions - termites eat their way into wooden framework of structures and cause great damage. Moderate to average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
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Murotani, Bunji (Publisher)
Process Architecture. Special Issue: American Houses [English - Japanese]
Process Architecture Co., Tokyo, 1985. 29,5 cm ; kart.
Bookseller reference : 102709
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Murray Smith Mrs A and Birchenough Lady
Westminster Abbey Guide The
London 1942. 28th. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Soft cover extremities to spine missing staples rusty. Owners name to front cover. Otherwise a very clean tight copy. Contains a small bound insert stating - 'No new editons with additions or corrections will be issued till after the present war - August 1942' paperback
Bookseller reference : 000390
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Musgrave, E.I.
Hopetoun House West Lothian: An Illustrated Survey of Scotland's Most Famous Adam Mansion: The Historic Home of the Hopes, Earls of Hopetoun and Marquesses of Linlithgow
No date, 32 pages, illustrated, maps, light rubbing to covers. eng
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Möller, Hans-Herbert, Landeskonservator (Hrsg.)
Siedlungen der zwanziger Jahre in Niedersachsen
Hannover, Niedersächsisches Landesverwaltungsamt, 1985. Herausgegeben vom Niedersächsischen Landesverwaltungsamt, Institut für Denkmalpflege - mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen Fotos, Karten und Zeichnungen - Okt., 217 S., 4to. - Reihe: Arbeitshefte zur Denkmalpflege in Niedersachsen Band 4. [2 Warenabbildungen]
Bookseller reference : 23887
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Müller, Friedrich Ludwig (Hrsg.)
Kurioses aus der Denkmallandschaft - in 2 Bänden
Bonn, Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, 2006. Band 1: Von irdischen und himmlischen Geschöpfen; Band 2: Von Flügelwesen und Theaterdonner - mit zahlreichen, meist farbigen Fotos und Abbildungen - Mischauflage: 3., überarbeitete/1. Auflage, OPp., 95/95 S. - Reihe: Monumente. Publikationen der Deutschen Stiftung Denkmalschutz.
Bookseller reference : 23654
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MÜLLER, K
Verkehrsarchitektur in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
München, Moos, (1980). Gr.-8vo. 176 S. m. vielen Abb. Illustr. OKart.
Bookseller reference : 1159509
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N. A.].
[MAP OF EAST & SOUTHEAST ANATOLIA AND CAUCASIA BORDERS] Erzurum, Van, Bitlis vilâyetleri ile bunlara civar olan Trabzon, Sivas, Harput ve Diyarbekir vilâyetlerinin bâzi kisâmi.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Extremely rare huge chromo-lithograph map in 24 sheets mounted on canvas, showing a large zone including Midyat (Mardin), Mosul, Mt. Cilo (Resko-Buzul) on the southeast; Kahta (Adiyaman), Munzur Mt., Divrigi (Sivas) on the west; the Black Sea on north and Turkish borders to Armenia, Azerbaijan on the east, and to Russia on the northeast. In addition shows in separate little portions, roads, mountains and hills, lakes, and telegraph and post ways and borders in that zone. Not in any libraries and any collection. An attractive map with its huge size and decorative surface. Several toponyms are underlined in red ink. Otherwise a very good example. Original folded map mounted on canvas. 118x112 cm. In Ottoman script (Turkish with Arabic letters). Scale: 1/630.000.
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[OTTOMAN MAP OF RHODES] Rodos.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map. Folded. Oblong atlas folio. (50 x 60 cm). In Ottoman script. Shows Rhodes and Tilos Islands. Scale: 1/200.000. Hegira: 1332 = Gregorian: 1916. Not description on map-maker. This is one of the series of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. This is one of the series of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. In order to produce these maps covering Turkish territory, Reconnaissance Branch was incorporated into The Mapping Commission. The maps were produced in the datum based on the latitude and longitude of Ayasofya Mosque in an equal area Bonn Projection. The field works for the 123 sheets covering the country were conducted by 76 staff. The production was completed in 18 years starting from east-west. Fieldworks continued without stopping except in the years 1914 and 1920. This map series called also reconnaissance maps contributed a lot to producing 1:25.000 scale maps. A very detailed and attractive map of Rhodes Island showing its harbors and Ottoman place names.
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Greensted Church A compact history of the World's oldest wooden church
<p>softcover 12mo pamphlet undated c.1973 pp16 bw drawings/diagrams/plates VGlight general wear A pamphlet guide to the Essex wooden church. Associated with the trade union Tolpuddle 'Martyrs' on their return from Australia and includes a facsimile 1839 wedding certificate relating to them. ''Revised Enlarged Edition'' with very small former price label ''15p''.</p> paperback
Bookseller reference : 3378
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La Basilique Santa Croce
<p>in8 62p. ill.couleur traduction d'Anne France Marinari</p> Bonechi Edizioni " Il Turismo" paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio532
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MUSEUM IN THE 21ST CENTURY. CONCEPTS PROJECTS BUILDINGS,
Munich, Prestel, 2008 Illustrated cardboard cover in colour, 230 x 300mm., 223pp., full color illustration. ISBN 9783791338392.
Bookseller reference : 28413
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Naselli Cesar Bergallo Juan M
Miguel Angel Roca. University works 1993-2002
Milano: L'Arca 2002. Preface by C�sar Naselli. Introduction by Juan Manuel Bergallo. English text. Milano 2002; hardback pp. 140 col. plates b/w and col. ill. cm 245x345. I Talenti. Miguel Angel Roca an Argentinean architect has associated his name with a considerable number of public works - town halls medical centres urban schemes university facilities - in which architecture on one hand exalts the key features of a genius loci of great values and on the other inscribes its own powerful signs. L'Arca hardcover
Bookseller reference : 132904 ISBN : 8878381098 9788878381094
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Nash Eric P
MANHATTAN SKYSCRAPERS
1999 . Nash Eric P. MANHATTAN SKYSCRAPERS. NY: Princeton Architectural Press c1999. First printing. 175pp color photos glossary. Sm. folio. As new hardcover copy with as new d/w $40.00 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 72288 ISBN : 1568981813 9781568981819
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National Board of Fire Underwriters. Committee on Construction of Buildings
An ordinance for construction of chimneys suitable for use in cities and towns of any size or as a state law 1921 Leather Bound
2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back 1921. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Pages 32. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LB1111000451745
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National Board of Fire Underwriters. Committee on Construction of Buildings
An ordinance for construction of chimneys suitable for use in cities and towns of any size or as a state law 1921
2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - eng Pages 32. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1921. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback
Bookseller reference : PB1111000451745
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National Board of Fire Underwriters. Committee on Construction of Buildings
An ordinance for construction of chimneys suitable for use in cities and towns of any size or as a state law 1921 Hardcover
2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 32. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1921. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1111000451745
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National Board of Fire Underw Buildings
An Ordinance for Construction of Chimneys Suitable for Use in Cities and Towns of Any Size or as a State Law
HardPress Publishing 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good. HardPress Publishing paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG1290311404 ISBN : 1290311404 9781290311403
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National Buildings Organisation India
Handbook of rural housing and village planning
Used - Good. 1968 illus. plans part fold. . iv 110 p. Includes bibliographies. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. unknown
Bookseller reference : GRP79826520
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National Buildings Organization India
Report on study of methods used for water-proofing of roofs in India
Used - Good. 1962 . 22 p. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. unknown
Bookseller reference : GRP70642002
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National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings
Historic Preservation. volumes 17-47; lacks volume 38. 1965-1995
National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings 1965-1995. Price HAS BEENR REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 sale item volumes 17-47 all complete volumes lacking volume 38; partly bound library markings textually clean & tight price is for the set. Photos available upon request. National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings unknown
Bookseller reference : ZB394226
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