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Tobler, Major Douglas H.(Signed)
Intelligence in the Desert: The Recollections and Reflections of a Brigade Intelligence Officer
85 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by author. "... A most admirable narrative... Clear and vivid in its descriptions and written with engaging modesty... Will be invaluable for anyone who wants to know what the task of a Brigade Intelligence Officer was like." - Colonel Sir David Hunt, Chief Intelligence Staff Officer to Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
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Mitchell, Joni
Turbulent Indigo
56 pages. Contains piano music, lyrics and guitar chords for the following songs: Sunny Sunday; Sex Kills; How Do You Stop; Turbulent Indigo; Last Chance Lost; The Magdalene Laundries; Not to Blame; Borderline; Yvette in English; The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song). Includes four colour paintings by Joni Mitchell. Clean, bright and unmarked with neglible wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Keeler, Mary F.; Cole, M.J.; Bidwell, W.B: Editors
Lords Proceedings 1628 - Volume V of Proceedings in Parliament Sixteen Twenty-Eight
737 pages. Provisional Index. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Great War Magazine - Part 255 - 5 July 1919 *Records of the English Regiments in the War*
Please note: Coloured map not included. Cover portrait of the London Scottish marching past Crimea Memorial on arrival home. Chapter CCCII - Records on the Regiments, II - English 1914-15, with photos. Great centerfold photos. First portion of Chapter CCCIII - Records of the Regiments: III. English, 1916-18. Many great photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Great War Magazine - Part 256 - 12 July 1919 *Record of Irish and Welsh Regiments in the War*
Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "Records of the Regiments - III, English, 1916-18, with photos. Chapter CCCIV - Records of the Regiments: IV. Irish and Welsh. Many photos. Many great photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine - a Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: August 1971
46 pages. Features: Ceramics from France - the middle ages to the revolution; William Morris and Art Nouveau; Douglas M. Duncan, 1902-1968 - Uncommon Collector; How Much is my Antique Worth?; A Brief History of English Furniture; A Sailor's Chest; A Dutch Bird's Eye of the Fine Arts; The Penetanguishene Glass Factory; Early Books are Canadian Too; Irish Follies; England's Monastic Inns; Button Collecting; Unmarked with average wear. Address label clipped from front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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Ballantine, William G.
The Riverside New Testament: A Translation from the Original Greek Into the English of To-day
449 pages. Index. Revised edition of the 1923 first edition. Written in contemporary English in paragraph form with no verse numbering and chapter numbers in Roman numerals. Gift greetings upon half-title page. Brief ink marginalia on pages 4 and 9. Binding and hinges sound. Average wear. Gilt lettering upon backstrip and front board still legible. A sound copy. Book
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Author Not Stated
Practical English for Arabic Speakers: A Self-Teaching English Course - 2 Audio Cassette Tapes Plus Book in Case
104 page book. Tapes contain over 1.5 hours of English dialogs and practice exercises. Recommended for beginners or as a refresher course. Usual library markings. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
True West Magazine, February 1969
Features: The Injuns called him Medicine Man - Charles M. Russell, Painter; How Great Falls, Montana Began; Belle Starr's Killer Revealed; Roll Up and Roll Out - a logging story by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; John Jennings' Diamond; Long Remember - Thomas H. Graham, murdered husband of Anne Melton Graham; The Adventure of a Buffalo Hunter - Seth Hathaway; The Mighty McClure - Jake McClure revolutionized calf roping; Elusive loot of Shell Canyon; Wild Old Days; Jail Break - farmer style; The Trap Didn't Spring on Butch Cassidy?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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Heaver, Nelson
The English People
102 pages. A critical appreciation of Herr Dibelius's masterpiece "England". Average wear. Spine sunned. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, November-December 1976 - Fraktur Artist Joseph Bauman
62 pages. Features: Collectors and Dealers - Antours; Collecting Ironstone; Christmas in Canada; Fraktur Artist Jospeh Bauman, 1815-1890; Letters from Beatrix Potter; English Silversmiths in the Family Business; Blanket Chests from Prince Edward Island; The Potters of Paris, Ontario; Watches for the Collector. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Burgess, Anthony
A Mouthful of Air : Languages, Languages - Especially English
347 pages. Index. "This is the most engaging, erratic, yet curiously persuasive work written about the language for some time." - Weekend Telegraph. Prior owner's rubber stamp to first leaf and fore-edge else unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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McClure, James G.K.
The Supreme Book of Mankind - The Origin and Influence of The English Bible - The Bross Lectures... 1929
227 pages. Index. "A storehouse from which to draw material for many a sermon and prayer-meeting talk." - George D. Dayton. Binding intact. Average wear. Gift greetings and prior owner's name and date upon front free endpaper. Marginalia and underlining to approximately 1/3 of pages. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Chip Chats Magazine, March/April 1986
72 pages. Features: Magnificent Ursis Horribillis (bear carving unveiled at Ursinus College, PA; Totem Pole honours Willie Keil Memory; The Hegler Workshop; Thomas Glover White is Top Winner; Exploring Power Carving - carve a realistic bear from laminated pieces of wood; Jan Low - Country-Loving Carver; English Bull Dog pattern; Extensive list of sources of supplies and books; Many show photos and reports; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Gabriel, Peter
Peter Gabriel - All About US: 55 Minute VHS Videotape with Case
55 Minute VHS videotape with case. A collection of videos from the US album, including the top hit Steam, which won two MTV video awards, the Grammy Award winning Digging in the Dirt, Blood of Eden and Sosbury Hill. Also featured for the first time ever are videos for Come Talk to Me and Zaar, and the first music video ever to be turned into a ride, Kiss That Frog. Two of these videos feature the work of painters. Zaar shows the work of the German painter and sculptor, Stefan Roloff and the English painter, Graham Dean, collaborates with Peter on Solsbury Hill. The video also includes rare interview and behind the scenes footage, and shows some of the artists involved in the sleeve of the album." - from cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Discard stamp upon case and tape. A wonderful Peter Gabriel collectible. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, March 1971 - Ontario County Atlases
40 pages. Features: County Atlases of Ontario; For to Breakfast on - Pembroke Tables; How Old is My Antique; Old Toronto on the Move - moving homes; Leading English Dealer Crosses Atlantic - Mallett and Son; and more. Crossword on back cover has been completed. Address label on front cover has been blacked out. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
The Canadian Magazine, 20 Mar 1971 *WHAT MAKES QUEBEC QUEBEC?*
Features: What Makes Quebec Quebec? - text and photos; Children of the Quiet Revolution - the first generation to feel that they, not the 'English', will determine the future of Quebec; How do you carry on business in Quebec? - at your leisure; Please note: most of page 13 has been clipped and is not present; What Price Terrorism? - it could corrupt everything the Quebecois are striving for; Has the Church gone Underground in Quebec? - some Quebecois think so; Canada's best young skier since Nancy Greene and Betsy Clifford - 13-year-old Kathy Kreiner *Sadly, page 21/22 are not present and they constituted the bulk of the Kreiner article; What's Big Bad Ben Ginter up to now? - B.C.'s big-talking businessman and brewer; Maggie Grant; and more. Doodling to front cover which has had a portion neatly clipped out. Book
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Sharp, Cecil J. (Arranger)
Country Dance Tunes from the English Dancing Master (1650-1728) - Set VII (Seven/7)
24 pages. Circa 1916. Contains 22 songs. Average wear. Covers protected by homemade cover (easily removeable). A sound copy. Book
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Author Not Stated
Slovenly Peter, or Cheerful Stories and Funny Pictures for Good Little Folks - Illustrations Colored By Hand After the Original Style (English Version of the German "Der Struwwelpeter ")
Unpaginated. Approximately 0.5" thick. Nice colour illustrations throughout. Red front board nicely decorated in black with gilt lettering. Gift greetings (dated 1926) upon front free endpaper. Three inch opening at base of front hinge. Numerous old tape repairs to pages. Wonderful old stories which likely would not pass modern requirements for political correctness. Book
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Kirszner, Laurie G.; Fertile, Candace Evelyn; Mandell, Stephen R.
Literature : Reading, Reacting, Writing
1365 pages. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound working copy. Book
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Author Not Stated
Russian Silver of the Fourteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries from the Moscow Kremlin Reserves - Bilingual Russian/English
249 pages. 193 items displayed in magnificent glossy colour photography. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this wonderful work. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, August 26, 1961 *WHY PRISONS FAIL*
Features: I say prisons are a failure, by Hal Hollister; England, Ever England - the English village survives the storms of social revolution; Hot-Tempered Baltimore Oriole - Jim Gentile ; Glamour Treatment for the Mentally Ill - helping women in mental hospital; He's Got Artistic Drive; The Untold Stories of the Civil War - An Infidel's Sword - Johnnie Ring's high sense of duty converted the captain; Adventures of the Mind - The Revolution in Western Thought, by Huston Smith; The Face of America - Nose Job on Lincoln at Mount Rushmore. First page of advertising missing. Pages 65/66 missing. Page 67 loose but present. Above-average wear. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Ikebana International, Issue No. 24, Fall-Winter 1968
Features: Happy (Painted) Rocks - for the person who has everything; The Land of Flowers - The Hawaiian Isles; Ohara School; Ryuseiha; The Magic of Camellias; Ichiyo School; Authentic Japanese Landscapes; Sogetsu School; History through Flowers; Ikenobo School; Fun with Flowers; Fall Exhibition; Kofu School. Full-page Japanese Coke ad (text in English) . A now unthinkable ad shows a girl about to bite into a hamburger with a dash of 'super seasoning Ajinomoto, The Original MSG'. Writing in top corner of front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Reser, Dr. William M.; Billings, Dr. John Shaw; Griffith, Dr. Thomas J.; Amick, George E.; Van Deusen, John G.; Knox, Julia Le Clerc; Kenworthy, Leonard S.; Coleman, Christopher B.
Indiana History Magazine, December 1934
Pages 309 - 403. Features: The Wabash and Erie Canal at Lafayette; High Points in the Life of Dr. John Shaw Billings; Post Roads in Southern Indiana;; Did Republicans "Colonize" Indiana in 1879?; A Survivor of "The Charge of the Light Brigade"; Henry Clay at Richmond in 1842; The Discovery and Identification of an Original Copy of the Constitution of 1816; Some Letters of Jesse D. Bright to William H. English; and more. Two closed openings to top of front cover. Prior owner's ink stamp atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Klyn, Doyle; Forbes, Jonathyn; McKeown, Robert; Marjoribanks, Robert
Weekend Magazine, 27 April 1968 - Talk-In at York University
32 pages. Features: York University study on Talking; Colour Photo Feature on Texan and Canadian Fashions; Galt MacDermot - this square-looking Canadia music writer has New York rocking with his wilid hippy show; Nice full-page colour photo for the Chevrolet Chevelle; The Wealthy Waifs of Rome - two adopted English children will inherit a Roman palace and one-tenth of Italy's land; FANTASTIC Chrysler centerfold features colour photos of the Coronet Special, Dart Special, Barracuda Special, Satellite Special, Monaco Special, Polara 500 Special, Fury Special and Valiant Special; Winnipeg Mayor Steve Juba - article with photos; Neilson's chocolate bar ad; Scientist Brock Fenton Studies Bats - article with great colour photos; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Metcalf, H.H.; Sanborn, Victor Channing; Locke, G. Scott; Jensk, Edward A.; Robinson, Henry; Hurd, Willis Edwin; Tenney, E.P.; Brown, Emma E.; Chapin, Bela; Swett, Sara M.; Mason, Mrs. Ellen M.Gowing, Fred
The Granite Monthly - A New Hampshire Magazine, January 1896: Newport - a Model New England Town
98 pages plus ads. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos; Features: Newport - a model New England year; The American and English Sanbornes, with a notice of Rev. Stephen Bachiler (concluded); A Trip to Western Texas; Orphean Music; Dr. J. Alonzo Greene; Rest; The Legend of John Levin and Mary Glasse; Esther's Defense; The Sunset Land; The Doctor's Thanksgiving Story; "Wahlspruche" for the New Year (from the German); Educational Department; New Hampshire Necrology; The Prize Stories. Chipping to periphery of covers and some pages. Back cover loose but present. Contents in quality condition. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
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Moore, Isabel N.; Leslie, Dr. H.G.; Adams, James M.; Shirley, Moses Gage; Cross, Lucy R.H.; Parker, George W.; Litchfield; Bennett, Adelaide George; Butterworth, Walter Cummings; Fisk, Mary Albertine; et al
The Granite Monthly - A New Hampshire Magazine - January 1901
Pages 1-58. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; The Woman's Club of Penacook; The First American Colony in Cuba - Neuvitas - great article with photos; Bygones - Some Things not Generally known in the history of Northfield; The English Guild System; The Statement of Adam More; Harry Bingham as a Schoolmaster; Poems; Nice full-page photo ad for the First National Bank in Concord, N.H.; New Hampshire Necrology. Moderate wear. Piece missing from lower corner of page one - contents unaffected. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Ely, Bertha Comins; Johnson, Arthur; Bridges, H. Styles; Felker, Andrew L.; Upham, George B.; Metcalf, Henry H.
The Granite Monthly - A New Hampshire Magazine - May, 1923: American Legion Feature
Pages 197-249. Black and white photos. Features: Nice full-page photo portrait of Major Charles S. Walker, N.H. Department Commander American Legion; For God and Country - The American Legion - A New Hampshire Asset - major article with many great photos; The Legion - Maker of Americans - an interview with Maurice F. Devine; Behind the Lines; Behind the Lines - The American Legion Auxiliary at work; State Executive Board of the American Legion Auxiliary; A Portrait Gallery of Legionnaires - excellent photos with write-ups of selected individuals; New Hampshire's Labor Commissioner; Their Son; An Anthology of One Poem Poets; Over the Top with Ayrshires - The Sawyer Herd and Farrm Buildings - article with nice photos; In the Springtime; When Claremont was called Ashley III - Two English Maps of Revolutionary Times; Current opinion in New Hampshire; Old Home Week and the Tercentenary; Books of New Hampshire Interest; The Editor Stops to Talk; New Hampshire Necrology. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy of this particularly excellent issue. Magazine
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Martin, E.S.; Bass, John F.; Hale, Edward Everett; Benson, E.F.; Whitney, Caspar; Chambers, Robert W.; Johnson, Robert Underwood
Harper's Weekly (Magazine) - A Journal of Civilization, Saturday, June 24, 1899 - The Philippine Revolt
Pages 612-634. Features: Cover illustration at Herreshoff's Yard, Bristol, Rhode Island, of the launching of "Columbia," built to defend "America's" Cup against "Shamrock"; Our Opportunities; This Busy World; Photos of Men of the Day - A.J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad, W.W. Keen of the American Medical Association, and Henry O. Havemeyer; Photos and brief obituaries for "Waltz King" Johann Strauss and Richard Parks Bland; Photo of Captain H.E. Nichols, U.S.N. who commanded the U.S.S. "Monadnock"; Photos from the Philippines of - General Lawton at the Battle of Baliuag, General MacArthur on the Skirmish Line, Colonel Summers and staff leaving Baliuag with six battalions, General Lawton in his field HQ at Angat, Colonel Summers's troops on the march, Colonel Summers's command advancing to the Battle of Moasin; The Philippine Revolt - The Santa Cruz Expedition; An English Mother (poem); The Fifth Annual Lake Mohonk Arbitration Conference; Image of the French cruiser "SFAX" bringing Captain Dreyfuss home for retrial; Full page illustration "A Faro Game at El Paso"; A Curious Coincidence; A Queen's Charity; London; Two-page centerfold illustration of the North Atlantic Squadron in the Harbor of Cape Haitien, Island of Haiti "A Visit From the Natives"; Hawaiian America - lengthy article with Oahu, Hawaii, Maui and Kauai; Amateur Sport - baseball article with many photos of college players; The Conspirators (continued); Illustration "Forced Inspiration" by Peter Newell on back cover. Great vintage ads. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
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Feinsinger, Henry L.; Peck, D. Cameron; Et al
Antique Automobile Magazine - Dedicated to the History of the Automobile, December 1960 - Silver Jubilee Issue 1935-1960
Features: 25 Years of AACA History; AACA's Silver Jubilee Tour to Europe; Official U.S. Car Completes English Run - Mr. and Mrs. Ray Henry of North Benton, Ohio; Silver Jubilee Meet at Hershey; The Flea Market; The Romance of the Motor Car - Fact, Fancy, and Prejudice about our hobby - and us; The Smithsonian restores America's most famous automobile - the 1893 Duryea - with great photos; Antique Automobile License Plates; AACA Judging Standards; AACA Competition - Classifcation System; AACA Senior Award Winners; AACA National Awards; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Coleman, Emily; Harrison, Jay S.; robinson, Francis; Pepper, Curtis G.; Kolodin, Irving; Cassidy, Claudia; Heinsheimer, Hans W.; Frankenstein, Alfred; Rosenfield, John; Durgin, Cyrus; Green, Adolph; Comden, Betty; Diesel, Leota
Theatre Arts Magazine, March, 1959 - Special Opera Issue/Maria Neneghini Callas Cover Photo
82 pages. Features: Metropolitan Malaise; "Wozzeck" in the Wings; Home of the Hunter; Luchino Visconti - Composer's Director; Caruso, Go Home!; Boris Godunov, by Modest Mussorgsky - English text of this play; Theatre, U.S.A.; Chicago - Orbit Routine - With Flares; New York's Own Volksoper; Farrell and San Francisco; Callas and Dallas; Boston - Home-Grown, Short Supply; Three pages of photos of Maria Callas. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
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Morrison, J. Warcup; Barratt, Bob; Jones, Hal; Landis, C.S.; Gillese, J.P.; Morrow, Les; Nicholson, H.P.McGillen, Pete; Frost, Rex
Rod & Gun in Canada Magazine, February 1958 - New Look at Archery - Banned Handguns
Features: Cover photo of Caribou in the Yukon; Editorial - How to Disarm Citizens; Who's Got the Gat? - J. Warcup Morrison objects to being disarmed by Legislation; A New Look at Archery; Our Battle for Old Man Mose; The Windage Adjustable Rear Sights; The Bloodlust Hunters; How About a Houseboat?; The English Pointer; Rainbow Trout Answers; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Small, Collie; Reynolds, Quentin; Swing, Julian; Rasky, Frank; Frank, Pat; Velie, Lester; Hartwell, Dickson; Monroe, Keith; Findlay, D.K.; Critchell, Laurence; Worden, William L.; Baldwin, Faith; Yerby, Frank
Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, April 30, 1949 - Tennis Player Gertrude Moran
82 pages Features: Robert Sherwood - King of English; I Flew for Israel - Julian Swing explains why he fought for Israel; The Truth About Mail-Order Marriage; New Jobs for Liberty Ships - article with amazing photo of dozens of ships at anchor; John Bull in search of a Future - Britain is on the road to being a power again; White Brother of the Navajo - Indian Trader Roman Hubbell; Tennis Town Tempest - Great article and color photos of Gertrude Moran; Two-page photo of the Grand Canyon. Fiction: I Never Dream; The Conquest of Jan; The Queen Maker; A Sitter for Mother; Pride's Castle. Ads include: Chevrolet trucks, Fisher Body, Dodge trucks - featuring a blue grocery van, Kleenex - featuring Little Lulu and Tubby, Back cover Chesterfield Cigarettes ad featuring John Lund and James H. Darden (of Farmville, H.C.), Coke - drinking from bottles near a lighthouse, Pennsylvania Railroad - the new Broadway Limited, MontaMower, Pepsi, Pontiac cars, Amazing two-page color-photo ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer features Gary and Mrs. Cooper, Jonathan M. Wainwright, Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, James Montgomery Flagg, Gladys Swarthout and husband Frank Chapman, Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Robinson and Mr. & Mrs. F. Warren Pershing. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Ross, Alexander; Fraser, Blair; Newman, Peter C.; Stein, David Lewis; Sclanders, Ian; Bruce, Harry; Pearson, Lester B.; Gzowski, Peter; Allen, Ralph; Hutton, Eric; Godin, Gerald; Mitchell, W.O.; Fulford, Robert; Michener, Wendy; Due, John
Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, May 2, 1964 - K.C. Irving (Part 2)
48 pages. Features: The Bumper Crop that's changing life in the dust bowl; How Rene Levesque May Soon Make Jean Lesage His Puppet; M.P. Ralph Cowan Hates the CBC; Lester Pearson Proposes a New Kind of Peace Force; Native Canadian Kahn-Tineta Horn - Portrait of a Beautiful Segregationist; K.C. Irving - The Last of a Breed of Kings (Part 2) - article with photo; Handsome Young Playboy Peter Lerch - article with photos; The Public Nightmare of Professor Roland Haumont - accused of the murder of his wife and children; Writing by W.O. Mitchell; The French Fact You Can't Explore in English Canada; Canadian Taxes are Not Too High. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
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Phuc, Luong The
Heritage Magazine, January/February 2007 - Vietnam Airlines Inflight Magazine
134 pages. Bilingual English/Vietnamese. Beautiful colour photography throughout. Features: Festivals in Springtime; Tet Rituals; Photo Essay on Festivals; Tet in the City - a summary of preparations for and significance of New Year's celebration; Celebrate Sticky! - Banh Chung; Chinese Flavor Hits Hanoi; The Kitchen Gods; Nguyen Tu Nghiem; Vietnamese Contemporary Art; Water Puppets - Phan Van Ngai; Fog Season in the Highlands; APEC 14 - The Imprint of Vietnam; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Lenta, Margaret; Le Cordeur, Basil: Editors
The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799-1800, Volume Two (2) Only, Second Series No. 30
328 pages. Glossary, selected bibliography and index. Multi-panel fold-out illustration at back. Volume II of "the never previously published private and unrevised records of the life of a remarkable Scotswoman, the wife of the Colonial Secretary during the first British occupation of the Cape. They tell of her attempts to reconcile the Dutch to British rule, and are particularly important in recording what official accounts ignore.... Vivid accounts are given of events such as the abortive mutiny in the Castle and the imprisonment and trial for high treason of the Graaff-Reinet rebels." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
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Lenta, Margaret; Le Cordeur, Basil: Editors
The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799-1800, Volume One (1) Only, Second Series No. 29
368 pages. Volume I of "the never previously published private and unrevised records of the life of a remarkable Scotswoman, the wife of the Colonial Secretary during the first British occupation of the Cape. They tell of her attempts to reconcile the Dutch to British rule, and are particularly important in recording what official accounts ignore.... Vivid accounts are given of events such as the abortive mutiny in the Castle and the imprisonment and trial for high treason of the Graaff-Reinet rebels." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
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Van Rys, John; et al
COMP
Over 400 pages. Includes unused access code. An unused copy. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A super copy. Book
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Grant, Maggie; Meyer, Helen; Benoit, Jehane; Proudfoot, Dan
The Canadian (Magazine) / Star Weekly, December 31, 1966 - January 7, 1967 - Artist Feliks Topolski / Hockey Player Doug Barkley's Recovery from Eye Injury
20 pages. Features: The Outstanding Canadians of 1966 - Isabel LeBourdais, Dr. Gustave Gingras, Elaine Tanner, Joseph Papp, Bonny Rush, Georges Lemay, Lili St. Cyr, Jean Drapeau, Norma Lougheed, Dalton Camp, Elmer Sopha, Joey Smallwood, Eric Griffiths, Martine Van Hamel, Harry Jerome, Glenn Hall, Dirk Hoogendoorn, Constable Del Moore, Joe Borowski, Mary English; Photo and brief write-up of Medicine Hat farmer Art Millington and his battle to sell unpasteurized milk; Colour fashion photos 'hide-and-seek sex'; Artist Feliks Topolski; Doug Barkley's fight to recover from a serious hockey eye injury; Len Johnson and how this captain of an Empress found happiness as a second mate on a B.C. ferry. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors; Dintgle, Captain A.E.
Pathfinder Magazine - A Weekly Digest of World Affairs From the Nation's Capital, July 1, 1933 - Uncle Sam is Partner in All Industry
24 pages. Contents: Uncle Same is Partner in All Industry - Labor to Get Rights and Consumer to Gain; Australian Representatives Now in Washington; No 'Overproduction' if masses get theirs, says Rexfor Tugwell, Your Friend at Court; War Debt Payments From Europe are Slim; Changes in Veteran Aids Softened by Compromise; Record-Breaking Congress Adjourns Leaving the President a Free Hand; Foreign News; Stabilization Snag at World Monetary and Economic Conference at London; Current Events - with illustrations of Bernard M. Baruch, Speaker Rainey, Sec. Perkins and Col. Howe; Was the Declaration of Independence Signed on July 4, 1776; Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers; Mrs. Daniel C. Roper; Glass-Steagall Banking Bill Solidifies Banking; Marketing; Great photo of feminine employees of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing counting and sorting new greenbacks; How did money come to take barter's place?; Capital Chat; Science News; Aviation - discussion of the Akron disaster; English Ancestry of the Liberty Bell; "Sunken Dollars" - a real old-time thriller story of the sea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Thoms, Edith and Herbert; Dunlea, D.; Ware, R.B.; Stanley, H.; Sherlock, Chesla; Peyser, E.R.; Butler, E.P.; Grey, J.L.; Et al
Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, January 1925 - Gunston Hall, the Home of George Mason
54 pages. Features: We Build Grandfather's House; Making the most of the backyard; Amateur water gardening; Furnishing the small house; Gunston Hall - The Home of George Mason - article with photos; Firing Your Garbage - brief article with photo of incinerator and incinerator chute; Does your budget budge much?; The charm of decorative iron; Making a small lot productive; A little house of English type; Landscape planning service; Salads ad interest to winter meals; One-page ad for Dodge Brothers cars, featuring their new Coach; My forty years with plants - D.W. Coolidge; Nice one-page ad for Montgomery Ward & Co. advertises their catalog; Ad for the Davenport bed; 2/3-page "Come to Canada" ad features Mr. Henry C. Wallace, former U.S. Agriculture Secretary; Folks not afraid of an idea - Charles Lathrop Pack; Where to put chickens on a city lot; 25 ways to improve the old home; Buckwheat cakes and sausage; The Music of the American Indians; Fascinating embroideries; Color ad inside back cover features photo inset of Earl E. May and color illustrations of his Zinnias; Two-color ad on back cover for Stark Bros. features their Delicious variety of apple. Above-average wear and soiling. Peripheral nibbles. Middle page loose but present. First two pages loose but present. Two-inch x two-inch piece missing from corner of page 16. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
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Doyle, Harry; Blair, Emily N.; Ehlert, Harold H.; Robinson, Francis A.; Windsor, Roberta E.; Parker, Ralph; Blackburn, Glen A.;
Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, October 1929 - Dr. David Starr Jordan
134 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Capital Boilers inside front cover; Nice one-page ad for Anaconda Copper and Brass features architect Dwight James Baum; The Mystery in an Autumn Leaf; The Diary of a Plain Dirt Gardener; Color one-page ad for Armstrong's Linoleum Floors; Nice color one-page ad for Chipso dish soap; The Creation of a Home Proportion; A well-gardened home of old Virginia; Treated in a typical English manner; American bulbs that beat the Dutch; Praiseworthy bulbs in the home; The schoolhouse that became a home; photo-illustrated article about Dr. David Starr Jordan; With the Junior Garden Clubs of America; Parents Should Know - what the college professor thinks of their children; Symbols of Home and Happiness - fourteen chimneys that picture to the houses from which they grow; There's magic in wallpaper - use it to conceal structural faults; Furniture periods that combine - Spanish and Italian; The parade of gay-colored lilies; Getting started right with baby - his mental health and well-being are dependent upon the establishment of definite physical habits; Putting variety into meals; Using the pressure cooker to advantage; The country's best cakes - winners in the cake recipe contest; Nice color one-page ad for Swift's Brookfield Butter; Nice color one-page ad for Weathermaster Stained Shingles; A chat about curtains; Maytage aluminum washing machine ad; New dresses for your bed; 2/3-page Kaffee Hag Coffee ad; Autumn suggests hostess aids; Nice two-color one-page ad for Chevrolet features the Chevrolet Six; uncommon 2/3-page ad for the portable Whirldry clothes washer from the Whirldry Corporation; 2/3-page ad for Monarch electric ranges; Nice 2/3-page Frigidaire refrigerator ad; Nice one-page color ad for General Electric Wiring Systems shows child's room with toys; Super one-page color art deco-style ad for Standard plumbing fixtures features black bathtub and toilet!; Seth Thomas Clocks ad; full-page Listerine ad; Nice one-page ad for Insulite insulating board; Choice shrubs for Southern California; Nice one-page two-color ad for Weyerhauser's 4 Square Lumber; Nice art-deco-style color one-page ad for Bigelow-Hartford Rugs and Carpets; Nice one-page color ad for Upson Board and Fibre Tile; Ad for Fairbanks-Morse home water systems; Wherever you live - Try Grapes!; Simmons mattress ad features photo of Mrs. John Sargent Pillsbury; unusual illustrated ad for the W.A. Case and Son one piece water closet; color one-page ad for Sherwin-Williams SWP House Paint; Nice one-page color ad for Knox gelatine; Chrysanthemums in a garden; Nice one-page ad for The Iron Fireman automatic coal burner; City water and sewer services are now available to the homeowner; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Eveready flashlights and batteries; One-page color ad for Cannon towels; Nice one-page two-color ad for General Electric refrigerators; Methods of storing surplus vegetables; Teach your community musical expression; Model airplanes your boy can build; A pergola of small price; Color ad for Congoleum inside back cover; Color ad for Old Dutch Cleanser on back cover. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Allison, Sam
French Power: The Francization of Canada
112 pages. "English Canadians are accepting injustices and hardships imposed by French-dominated Big Governments as a sort of atonement for the supposed sins of the past." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Cougle, R. James
Not by Choice : The True Story of the French-English Struggle
148 pages. "...Tells the story of the French-English problems without being biased. I found it a real delight to read." - from back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Weir, Joan
Walhachin: Catastrophe or Camelot?
103 pages. Index. Many archival black and white illustrations. "The (B.C.) sagebrush desert was transformed into orchards through the imagination and industry of English settlers from 1907 to 1914. Then the men left to fight and die for king and country. A storm wrecked the vital irrigation flume. Now all that remains are ghosts of the flume, trees and homes which mock this once thriving settlement." - from back cover. Address label remnant atop title page. Average wear. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Air Classics Quarterly Review, Vol. 5: Spring 1976 Through Winter 1976, Including 1976 Yearbook
Features: ACQR Scale Drawing Portfolio - Martin Seamaster, Cessna OE-2 Birddog, Northrop Snark, Cessna L-27A, Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Sikorsky Ilia Mouremetz D; Albatross B.I Series 23, Albatross B.I Series 22 (Knoller Wing); The Hawker Sea Fury; Greenham Common Air Tattoo; Strange WWII aircraft; USAF in Europe - today and tomorrow; RAF Mildenhall Open House; Diamond Jubilee Airfield; Tracking hurricanes in C-130 Hercules; Sopwith Z00 - a collection of scale drawings; Southend Air Museum; The Birth of Naval Aviation - the story of the first shipboard landing; RNAS Lee-on-Solent - visiting one of the last Royal Navy air bases; RNAS Yeovilton - an interesting display; Rolls-Royce Spitfire; Super Spad - little known attack aircraft from Douglas; Sweden's new Air Museum; Liberator Nose Art - pin ups from WWII; China's Warbirds - rare look into aviation in China after WWII; Blackbushe Air Festival - we visit an English Warbird mecca; Enter the Lynx - a new helicopter becomes operational; ACQR Scale Profiles - a selction of classic aircraft drawings; Genie named John - first operational use of the Genie atomic missile; Aircraft cutups - can you guess these mismatched airframes; Combat aircraft of the USN - special pictorial report; Maple Leaf Seafires - Canadian Navy Supermarine Spitfires; Forgotten Swingwing - does anyone remember the USN's F-111B?; America's Early Wings - photos from an early flier's album; Fleet Air ARM Museum Update - new exhibits at the FAA Museum in England; Harvard's 40th Anniversary!; How the USAF established an air safety program; Those weird and wild triplanes; The last Falcon - the last Falcon from the Curtiss stable; Bassingbourn Anglo-American Air Festival - a tribute to the 91st Bomb Group; Red Star over California - a Russian record flight of the 1930s; Forgotten Warbird Graveyard; Helicopter Rescue; Strangers in 'Port - unusual aircraft that visit an airfield; Biggen Hill Air Fair; Mustang Guardsmen - the P-51 Mustang helped form the modern Air National Guard; Boeing's Grasshopper - Nifty little observation type lost out to the L-19; Kingfisher Wreckovery; Lady Peace - the Ping Pong Special - V-1; Twilight for the Sikorsky Giants; 18 days of Hell - the brief combat history of the Belgian Air Force in WWII; Mission U-5 - Abort! - the discovery of a rare P-39 combat veteran in Australia; Typhoon! - deadly fighter-bomber of WWII from Hawker Aircraft Co.; Famous Alaskan Bush Pilots - these pioneers helped develop flying in the north; Mountain Air Force - Switzerland maintains a strong and interesting air force; Zerbe's Air Sedan - a flying oddity; Flying the F-82 in combat - the Twin Mustang is pitted against MiGs; Deuces Wild - swan song of the Convair F-102 Interceptor; Service on Sunday - flying a preacher in an SBD and almost meeting the Maker; Sea-going Gliders - USN experiments in amphibious gliders during WWII; Magnificent Men in their Flying Boats - early aerial developments with flying boats; Messerschmitt's Super-Secret P.1101 - this German aircraft helped USAF researchers in the 1950s; Roscoe Turner Special - the famed unlimited racer he flew; Hot Deck! - landing combat aircraft on aircraft carriers is a dangerous business as these photos prove; Japan's newsboy warrior - little-known Japanese biplane. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Privately bound in blue buckram-covered boards with gilt lettering to backstrip and front board. A sound copy. Book
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Campion, Rev. W.J.H.; Carter, Rev. J.; Phelps, Rev. I.R.; Et al: Editors
The Economic Review: Complete in Twenty-Four (24) Volumes, 1891-1914
The complete works of this early British learned economic journal which was published quarterly between 1881 and 1914 for the Oxford University Branch of The Christian Social Union. Includes writings by many names familiar to the modern historian of economic thought including: W.J. Ashley; W.H. Beveridge; J. Bonar; A.L. Bowley; Edwin Cannan; S.J. Chapman; A.W. Flux; L.L. Price; J.C. Stamp; R.H. Tawney; Sidney Webb; Beatrice Webb. Usual library markings. Most volumes bound in three-quarter leather with raised bands. Many later volumes bound in black buckram. Buckram volumes in good condition although all volumes bear varying degrees of external dustiness due to the partial disintegration of the leather on the leather-bound volumes which has produced considerable residue. Some leather backstrips partially loose. Gilt lettering upon all backstrips bears varying degrees of wear. Bindings generally sound. Leather volumes bear heavy external wear. Aside from the external soiling/dust, a worthy working compilation of this rare and interesting journal. Total weight approximately 90 pounds. Book
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Ingles, David
David Ingles - There's A Whole Lot of People Going Home: Songbook
23 pages. Songs include: A Brand New Tongue; For This Cause; He's a Prayer-Answering Father; I Am the Righteousness of God (in Christ); In the Chamber; It May be Old Fashioned; Jesus is Lord; That Name; There's A Whole Lot of People Going Home; This is the Refreshing; Who Shall Declare His Generation? Somewhat above-average wear. Few markings to contents. A sound copy. Book
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Ingles, David
David Ingles: I Want to Stroll Over Heaven With You - Songbook
24 pages. Includes piano music, lyrics and chords. Songs include: Free From the Curse of the Law; Garment of Praise; He's More Than Enough; I Want to Stroll Over Heaven; I will Arise and Go Home; In Jesus' Name; It is Written; Mightily in Me; Peculiar; That's What I Have, That's Who I Am; The Key; Wonderful, Excellent, Mighty. Average wear. Few markings to contents. A sound copy. Book
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Berthoff, Rowland Tappan
British Immigrants in Industrial America 1790-1950
296 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. Includes maps, charts and tables. Reprint of the 1953 first edition. Part I considers 'The Economic Adjustment' while Part II looks at The Cultural Adjustment. Usual library markings. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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