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Hall, Carolyn; Ustinov, Peter (Foreword)
The Forties (40s) in Vogue (Magazine)
160 pages. "A unique record of history in the making, as seen on the pages of Vogue magazine." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
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Mercer, Johnny
G.I. Jive - Sheet Music for Piano and Voice with Chords Included
4 pages. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Sheet music
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Malcolm M.P., Ian
War Pictures Behind the Lines
226 pages. Thirty-two black and white plates. The author's "record of things seen during the first year of The Great German War." - from decication page. Small label of military bookseller R.H.S. Spaight inside front board. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News, 30 January 1943
Cover: Queen Elizabeth in a Fragonard Setting. Features include: Our Notebook; The Great World War: Behind the Fronts in Russia; The Glorious Wild Life of Africa; The World of Science: A Citizen of the World - The Pig; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: The End of the Papua Campaign: Japan's Army Annihilated; Three Vantage Sites of Recent Importance: The Siege of Leningrad Lifted, The Germans Surrounded at Stalingrad and Veliki Luki Captured; The Great Russian Drive to the West Goes On; Tripoli, City of a Million Palms, Falls to the Eighth Army; The Mareth Line, Which Rommel May Defend: Some of the Forts (inc map); Christmas Day in Tripolitania: Seasonal Fare and Concert Parties; The "Priest": 8th Army Howitzer Which Beat the German 88-MM Gun; Men Behind Montgomery's Victory: The R.A.O.C., Who Provided the Eighth Army with the Sinews of War (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); Tunisian Background: Scenes from the Area of the North African Campaign; Tripoli Surrenders to Montgomery: Scenes at the Triumphal Entry; Camera Occasions: News Items of Interest at Home and Overseas; Remains of the Great Roman Empire on the Route to Tripoli; Bombs Fall on Lille and Berlin; Daylight Raid on London; and How Pre-Fabricated Sections are used in the Building of Merchant Ships in British Shipyards (illustrated by G.H. Davis). Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Binding loose, staples rusted. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 22 July 1944
Cover: The First Entry of Canadians into Caen. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "The Bank of England: 1694 - 1944" by Reginald Saw; The Great World War: Moving on in Italy (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Wood Comes of Age. Pictorial Journals include: In Liberated Caen: The Mayor Hoisting the Tricolour; Caen After the Battle: The Key City of Lower Normandy, whose Capture Marked a Valorous British Victory; Two Aerial Photos: German Atlantic Wall, Eastern Section of the Cherbourg Peninsula; On the Western Front (Battle of Normandy): War and Its Aftermath; On the Western Front: Scenes From the Battle Zones of British and American Armies in Normandy; The Red Army Surges On: Important Cities in the Path of Battle; A Lancashire Fusilier's V.C.: Fusilier (Francis Arthur) Jefferson, Single-Handed, Breaking Up an Enemy Tank Attack (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); The Onward Advance of Gen. Alexander's Armies: War Scenes at Castiglione, Lake Trasimeno, The French Entry into Siena; Mediaeval San Gimignano and Its Towers; The War in Burma: The Clearing of the Kohima-Imphal Road; The Japanese Main Fleet Caught Napping - Another U.S. Sea Victory (Battle of Philippine Sea); New Additions to our Fighting Power: Flying Bombs from Start to Finish; A Threatened View - Durham Cathedral from River and Railway (illustrated by Sir Muirhead Bone); and War's Trail of Devastation in Normandy: Historic Buildings Wrecked in Fierce Armoured Battles on the Allied Front. Binding sound. Clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 29 July 1944
Cover: Air Chief-Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory Conferring with General Montgomery. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Reviews: "China, My China" by H. Rattenbury and "China and Britain" by Sir J. Pratt; The Great World War: The Stroke Launched at Hitler; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Australia's Wool Effort. Pictorial Journals include: Bombing Used as a Super Artillery Barrage Before an Attack; The Ramparts and Moats of the "European Fortress": A Perspective Map of Continental Europe, Indicating Contours, as Viewed from the Ural Mountains, Looking Westward; Germany's "Human Torpedo" Compared with the British Version; British Offensive On the Western Front: Troops in Action, and a Map of the Normandy Battle Zone; Mr. Churchill Pays a Three-Day Visit to the Normandy Front; Germany's Internal Crisis: Leading Rebel and Pro-Hitler Generals; Battle Scene in Normandy; The Eastern Front: Russian Generals Directing the Westward Surge (inc. map); The Eastern Front: Aspects of the Red Army's Great Forward Drive; U.S. Troops Landing in Guam; The Capture of Saipan Island; Germany's Most Appalling Crime: The Ghastly Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane; Troglodytes of 1944: Some Aspects of Life in London's Deep Shelters; Sidelights on War - And the Peaceful Scene of Ruskin's House; and Army/Air Co-Ordination: A Mobile Control Unit of the 2nd T.A.F. (illustrated by Flight Lieut. H.W. Hailstone). Binding sound. Large clipping missing from page 139/140. Prior owners ink stamp with some writing centre front cover. Some ink smudges to back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Moderate wear. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 12 August 1944
Cover: Our Royal Field-Marshal (King George VI) Viewing the Fighting in Italy. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Excellenz X: The Leader of To-Morrow's Germans" by R.G. Waldeck; The Great World War: What Next on the Eastern Front? (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Summer's Emptying Nests. Pictorial Journals include: The King (George VI) in Italy: His Majesty Awards Honours and Decorations; Obstacles in the Path of Our Normandy Advance: German Defensive Methods in a Compact Countryside (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); Britain's 17-Pounder: More than a Match for German Tanks (illustrated by G.H. Davis); The Armour Against Us: Some Details of Germany's Modern Armoured Vehicles in Use in Normandy To-Day (illustrated by G.H. Davis); Blazing the Trail: Bulldozers Carving Roads Through Debris in Normandy; The Allied Offensive in Normandy: Montgomery's Great Drive; Scenes of Action at Caumont and Other Sites; Advance in Normandy: The Type of Landscape Our Forces Experience; The Devastation of Modern War: St. Lo Cathedral and Other Ruined Sites; Three Famous Places in Brittany - Now in the War News; The Scene of an Invasion Rehearsal - The Invasion Staged in Reality; The 14th Army's Success in Burma Amid Arduous Conditions; Warsaw Yesterday: Poland's Capital Under Nazi Domination; The War From Varied Angles: Topicalities Recorded by the Camera; Flying Our Wounded Home From the Battlefields of Normandy (Illus. by Flight Lieut. H.W. Hailstone); Dover-Photographed by the Enemy for His Cross-Channel Guns; and A Puzzle Posed by High-Speed Photographs of a Bullet in Flight. Prior owners ink stamp with some writing centre front cover. Some ink smudges to back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Moderate wear. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 26 August 1944 - Superb Cover Photo of Major-General George Patton
Cover: Major-General Patton, Commanding the American Third Army in Northern France. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "English Social History" by G.M. Trevelyan; The Great World War: Offensive Campaigns in France (inc map); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: A Secret Weapon in the Insect War. Pictorial Journals include: "The Army of France is in Being Again, Fighting on Its Own Soil for the Liberation of Its Country"; A Massed Daylight Attack by R.A.F. Heavy Bombers on German Positions Near Falaise: Aircraft Flying In and Bombs Bursting on the Target Area; Shattered Falaise: The Birthplace of William the Conqueror To-Day; With the British and Canadian Forces in Normandy: Action Photographs as Our Men Sweep Forward; The Citadel - Last Enemy-Held Strong-Point in St. Malo - Captured; Sidelights on the Fighting in Northern France: The Capture of Orleans and Dreux and Other Points in the General Advance; Destruction of the Retreating Enemy Army - As Seen From the Air; The Allied Invasion of Southern France; The Scene of Successful Allied Landings in Southern France: A Pictorial Map From Coasts to Mountains (Illus. by G.H. Davis); First Allied Landings in Southern France: Mr. Churchill in Italy; The Allied Entry into Florence; Sidelights on the War: News From Various Battlefronts; and One of the Greatest Donations of Eighteenth Century French Painting Ever Received by a Museum - The Kress Collection. Binding Sound. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 23 September 1944: The Invasion of Holland
Cover: Le Touquet, France Canadian Soldiers Walking Along Promenade. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Norfolk Portraits" by R.W. Ketton-Cremer; The Great World War: Is This the Final Round? (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: The Problem of Migrating Birds. Pictorial Journals include: Stubborn Resistance - American Troops in Moving Up for the Final Assault; The Greatest of Airborne Operations - The Invasion of Holland; Canals and Rivers of the Netherlands, Scene of a Vital Battle (inc map); Le Havre: The British Capture of the Important Enemy-Held Port; Infantry and Flame-Throwers in Action: Some of the Prisoners; The Triumphant Advance of the Allies: Scenes of Liberated France and Belgium; The Dutch Landscape Covered with Grounded and Falling Allied Parachutes; The First Penetration By U.S. Troops of the Siegfried Line; The A.V.R.E.: A British Mortar Tank Designed for Breaching Fortifications; The Battle of Britain Commemoration Service in Westminster Abbey on Sunday, September17, 1944; Secrets of the Flying Bomb: Constructional Details Revealed; The Mystery Structure Near St. Omer - Believed a Long-Range V-2 Base; The Quebec Conference, 1944; War Items of Interest; Pencil Studies of Gandhi and Jinnah, Who Recently Met in Bombay (illus. by Feliks Topolski); and Norman Wilkinson's Exhibition of "War at Sea" Paintings in London. Advertising cover: moderate to excessive wear, with prior owners ink stamp with some writing centre front cover. Page 339/340 missing. Page 361/362 loose but present. Covers loose and taped at fold. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy reading copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 21 October 1944
Cover: The Conquest of the Palau Islands. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Bath" by R.A.L. Smith; The Great World War: A New Situation in Russia; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Vegetable Oils in Warfare. Pictorial Journals include: The Palau Isles, Last Stepping-Stone to the Philippines: Landings on Peleliu; Sidelights on the Battle for Aachen as Fighting Rages for the Ancient City; Inside the Battered City of Aachen; Battle Scenes Amid the Smoking Ruins; Watching Germany: British Artillery Observers Overlooking a Countryside Littered with Gliders and Parachutes South-east of Nijmegen (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Advancing on Overloon: British Troops of the Second Army Fighting Eastward From the Nijmegen Salient (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); War News in Pictures; A Birthplace for Robots: Planned for 100 Flying Bombs a Day; Britain's Tempest Fighter; German Jet and Rocket Aircraft; "General Mud" Again Comes into Action on the Eighth Army Front: Italy; Fighting the Japanese in Burmese Jungle During the Monsoon Months; and The Village of Burnham Thorpe - Birthplace of Lord Nelson. Page 453/454 and 471/472 missing. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 11 November 1944
Cover: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Henry Yevele, c. 1320 to 1400" by John H. Harvey; The Great World War: A Survey of Naval Operations (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Pastures of the Sea. Pictorial Journals include: Novel Ships of War of the Royal Navy (illus. by C.E. Turner): Sketches From Holland: Dutch Civil Guards and U.S. Paratroops (illus. Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Ubiquitous Bulldozer: A Mechanical Tool of Peace Now Becomes an Important Weapon of War (illus. by G.H. Davis); Battlegrounds of Holland: Scenes of Walcheren Island and the Moerdijk Bridges; The Perilous and Exhausting Operations of British Troops on Walcheren Island: Landing-Craft Difficulties; The Gallant Landing of British Marine Commandos at Westkapelle, Walcheren Island, in the Face of Heavy Enemy Fire; Our Steady Advance in Italy: Scenes in the Mountain War; Shakespeare's London Modelled; Glasgow Faces Housing Problem; The Funeral of Dr. (William) Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Canterbury Cathedral; The War in Europe: A Gibraltar "Find": An Historic Enthronement; How the Battle of the Flying Bomb was Won: An Exhibition in London; News Items of Interest from Holland, France, Belgium and Russia; Oxford in Wartime: Uniforms, Caps and Gowns; and Oxford "The Mother of Arts and Eloquence". Page 535/536 missing. Page 557/558 loose but present. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 30 December 1944
Cover: Royal Highnesses Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, New Governor-General to Australia. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "U.S. War Aims" by Walter Lippmann; The Great World War: "Mulberry" and the Invasion; Books of the Day and The World of Science: Kew and the War. Pictorial Journals include: Scenes from Athens: A Demonstration, and an Echo of a Shooting (illus, by Flight-Lieut. H.W. Hailstone); The Reign of Anarchy in Athens: Scenes in the Troubled Capital; Von Rundstedt's Sudden Drive into Belgium and Luxembourg (map); Germany's Drive into Belgium and Luxembourg: Towns in the News; Two German "Squirt Planes": The Me.262 and the Me.163 Fighters (illus. by G.H. Davis); The War in Italy: Eighth Army Troops Entering Faenza and Ravenna; London of the XVIth Century: Panoramas of the Ancient City as it Looked Before the Great Fire; London Triumphant: The Great Metropolis of the British Empire (Four page panoramic illustration by Sydney R. Jones); The City of London of the Future: Preliminary Proposals; A Scheme for the Prevention of Overcrowding in London; Aspects of the War in the West: Scenes from the Fighting Zones and a Panoramic of Port of Antwerp; Flooded Walcheren: Life on the Island Following the Devastation Caused by the Smashing of the Sea Dykes; and An Exhibition of Flemish Old Masters in Aid of Belgium Children. Back page missing. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 3 February 1945
Cover: The Battered Belgian Town of Houffalize. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Britain in Pictures" series; The Great World War: The Second Stage on the Eastern Front (inc map); Books of the Day; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and The World of Science: The Last Ice Ages in Russia. Pictorial Journals include: Mortars Firing "Flying Dustbins", Demolition "Beehives" (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Night Retreat of German Guns: Pictures from the Western Front; British Troops in Action in the Snow: The Occupation of Heinsberg; U.S. First Army Takes St. Vith; Masters of a Difficult Technique - Mosquitoes in Norwegian Fjords; Liberated Warsaw - Largely in Ruins; Inside a Modern British Cruiser (Illus. by Lieut. Stephen Bone); The Russian Hurricane Offensive into Germany: Important Cities and Industrial Centres Captured by their Arms; German Pockets Still Resisting in Liberated France (inc. maps); Community Heating: A System Which Keeps an Entire Town Warm (illus. by G.H. Davis); Damaged Naples Churches Repaired in the Face of all Difficulties; and Typifying the Trend of Russian Art in General: An Exhibition of Soviet Graphic Art in London. Page 115/116 missing. Page 137/138 loose but present with moderate wear. A very small soil spot to pages 126 - 130 inclusive. Moderate wear. A sound reference copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 3 March 1945
Cover: A Triumph of Road-making: The First Allied Convoy to China to Break the Japanese Blockade. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Persons and Places" by George Santayana; The Great World War: The American Passage of the Roer (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: The Locust's Year of Decision. Pictorial Journals include: The Rocket That Would Not Go Up! - Photos of an ill-fated rocked experiement by Herr Johannes Winkler in 1932; U-Boat Warfare - 1939 - 1945: A Survey of Changing German Submarines and Tactics in a Never-Ceasing Battle (Illus. by G.H. Davis); War Scraps: Incidents at the Front and Behind the Lines; On the Western Front: The American Advance into Germany; Battle Incidents with the Third and Seventh U.S. Armies; The Battle for Goch: British Troops in the Wrecked German Fortress Town; General Crerar's Offensive: The Storming of Cleve (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); General Crerar's Offensive: British Troops in Mortal Combat With the Germans in the Reichswald (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Zeitz Synthetic Oil Plant: Before the R.A.F. Attack - And After; War in the Pacific: Luzon Island and Iwo Jima; With the Red Army: Scenes From Liberated Poznan; Bombed Bath: Proposals for Replanning; and Masterpieces of Painting From the Cook Collection. 8" opening to page 241/242. Remaining contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 10 March 1945
Cover: The Invasion of Iwo Jima: U.S. Marines Storming the Beaches and Digging in on Suribachi Volcano After Capturing the Enemy Pill-Boxes. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Dismembered Masterpieces" by Thomas Bodkin; The Great World War: Allied Thrust to the Rhine; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Australia's Living Fossils. Pictorial Journals include: Scenes in Manila, The Philippine Capital Destroyed by the Retreating Japanese; General Crerar's Offensive: Allied Armour Driving into the Reichswald (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); General Crerar's Offensive: British Troops and Armour Fighting in the Centre of Cleve (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Battle of the Bridges: Important Rhine Crossings; The Allies' Great Victory of the Rhine from Wesel to Coblenz: A Bird's-Eye Map of the Terrain (Illus. by G.H. Davis); Munchen-Gladbach, Krefeld, and Neuss Fall to the U.S. Ninth Army; U.S. Ninth Army Drive: Scenes in Captured German Towns; Scenes of Bitter Fighting by the Canadian First Army and United Kingdom Forces: Victorious Progress to the Rhine Against Rundstedt's Crack Paratroopers; General Crerar's Offensive: British Infantry of the Canadian Army Penetrating Enemy Positions by Artificial Moonlight South of the Hochwald (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); General Crerar's Offensive: Scottish Medium Artillery Covering the Advance of British Tanks South of Goch (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Invasion of Iwo Jima; The Eastern Front: Some Captured Volkssturmers and Enemy Goods; The Eastern Front: Soviety Guns, Tanks, and Cavalry on the Move; Pagan, the Romantic City of Pagodas Again in British Hands; and Pagan, the Ancient Buddhist Capital of Burma: City of Five Thousand Colourful Pagodas and Sacred Shrines. Binding sound. Prior owners faint ink stamp and signature upon advertorial front cover. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 31 March 1945 - Lieut.-General George Patton Cover Photo
Cover: The "General Sherman" of the Western Front: Lieut.-General George S. Patton. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Witchcraft in England" by Christina Hole; The Great World War: The Campaigns in the Far East (inc map); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Australia's Living Fossils. Pictorial Journals include: The Collapsed Ludendorff Bridge, Remagen: Views From Both Banks of the Rhine; The Storming of Coblenz: American Third Army Troops in Action; Street Fighting Among the Ruins of the Great Rhine Citadel; The Capture of Saarbrucken and Worms: White Flags in Durenbach; General (Miles) Dempsey's Field Headquarters Parked on the Grounds of a Chateau (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); With the Allied Armies on Both Banks of the Rhine; Scenes from the Western Front; Smoke-Screen on the Rhine; The New British 10-Ton Bomb in the Making - And What It Does!; Montgomery's Crossing of the Rhine: The 21st Army Group's Sweep to the East Bank of the Rhine River; The Campaign in the Southwest Pacific: The Australians on Bougainville; The Victorious Drive on Mandalay: British and Indian Troops on Mandalay Hill; and The American Red Cross Club, Rainbow Corner in London (Illus. by Terence T. Cuneo). Binding sound. Prior owners ink stamp and signature upon advertorial front cover which is loose but present. Back advertorial cover missing. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 7 April 1945
Features include: Book Review: "Left Hand, Right Hand!" by Osbert Sitwell; The Great World War: Allied Passage of the Rhine (inc map); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Revelations of an Instrument. Pictorial Journals include: Forgotten Fronts: "Little Wars" By-Passed by the Main Conflict (inc. maps); British and American Examples of Army Bridges Across the Rhine; Spanning the Rhine: Our Answer to the Enemy's Burnt Bridges; (Field-Marshal Bernard) Montgomery Discussing Details of the Great Allied Assault; With the British Second Army in its Advance East: Up to, and Over, the Rhine in a Massed Assault; British Airborne Troops in the Biggest Air Landing to Date; Battle of the Rhine: In Column of Defeat German Troops of the Wehrmacht Marching to Captivity; Commando Troops of the 21st Army Group in Amphibious Buffaloes Crossing the Rhine on March 23, 1945 (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Heavy Resistance to Montgomery's Offensive: Wasp Flame-Throwers "Hosing" Fanatical German Troops Among the Ruins of Emmerich, Holland (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Scenes During the Stirring Allied Advance into Germany; New Zealand Troops at War as Seen by a New Zealand Artist (Illus. by Capt. Peter McIntyre); and A Phase of Polish Heroism to be Remembered. Advertising cover: Moderate wear, with prior owners ink stamp and signature upoin advertorial front cover. Page 361/362 missing. Page 387/388 loose but present. Remainder of contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 21 April 1945 - Passing of FDR
Cover: The Late U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Whose Sudden Death on April 12, Came as a Shock to the Entire Civilized World. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Our Heritage of Widl Nature" by A.G. Tansley; and The Great World War: Nearing the End in Germany (inc map). Pictorial Journals include: Great President: Scenes From the Life of Mr. Roosevelt; Pictures From America, Germany and Italy; The Allied Advance in Western Germany; British Storm Arnhem - Avenging Men of the First Airborne Division; The Invasion of Germany: Incidents in the Allied Advance; The Sharp Point of a Spearhead: British Armour and Airborne Troops (2nd Army) Piercing the Defences of a Village near Hanover, Germany (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Some of the 2,000,000: A Small Fraction of the Total Haul of German Prisoners by the Allied Armies in the West; Lest We Forget: The Massacre of Welsh Prisoners (53rd Welsh Division) at Rethem on April 11 (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Allied Air Power: German Targets Pulverised by Bombing; British Prisoners of War Regain Freedom - The Arrest of (Franz) Von Papen; Bits and Pieces of the V-2 Jigsaw Puzzle: Captured Transport and Launching Equipment; Lauching Sites, Apparatus, and Factories Overrun by the Advancing Allied Armies; Spectators at a London Exhibition Watching a Vivid Reconstruction of a Bomber-Command Raid on a German Target (Illus. by Terence T. Cuneo); and The Eagle's Nest: Hitler's Former H.Q., Now in American Hands. Pages 419/420, 441/442 and back page missing. Remainder of contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 5 May 1945
Cover: At the Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, 1945: H.M. The King, A Portrait for the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Maquis" by George Millar; The Great World War: Breakdown of German Resistance (inc map); Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: The Charnel Pits of the Belsen Internment Camp: Bodies Being Removed for Christian Burial (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Belsen Death Camp, Where Prisoners Were Scientifically Exterminated (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); (Benito) Mussolini Executed April 29: Incidents in His Career; U.S. Victories in Germany: Scenes in Nuremberg, Leipzig and Munich; Pictures from Occupied Germany: East and West Meet; Bremen Captured: Germany's Second Largest Port Falls to the Allies; The Battle of Bremen: British Forces' (52nd Lowland Division) Assault on the Great Port (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); British Tanks of the 4th Armoured Brigade Passing Through the Heart of Bremen (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Scenes from (Field-Marshal) Alexander's Victories in the Long and Arduous Campaign in Italy; News Items from Home and Abroad; Hitler's Mountain Home and Refuge Blasted: Berchtesgaden Bombed; Landmarks of Pre-War Berlin: A Map Illustrating the Great Assault; The Battle for Berlin: Scenes from the Dying Reich Capital; Field-Marshal (Sir Bernard) Montgomery and his Team of Liaison Officers; Northern Italy: A Map Showing the Position of Various Important Towns Taken in the Allied Advance; The Rapid Thrust in Italy: Many Important Towns Captured; and German "Squirt" Planes: Details of Captured Enemy Jet Aircraft (photos and a detailed illustration by G.H. Davis). Binding sound. Prior owners ink stamp and signature upon advertorial front cover. Minimal ink underlining to page 492, otherwise contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 15 December 1945
Cover: The Modern Pompeii - A City Overwhelmed by the Tide of War. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Life, Work and Setting of Philip Wilson Steer" by D.S. MacColl; Aftermath of War: Record of the Eighth Indian Division; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: The Atom and Its Isotopes. Pictorial Journals include: Glimpses of the Japanese Navy: Warships in Their Graves; The Anniversary of Rundstedt's Last Offensive: Bastogne and St. Vith Revisited; The Ardennes Battlefields of Last Christmas: Scenes of Germany's Final Effort; The Price of War in Once-Proud Nurember; The Hutments of Berlin: Wooden Shacks and Improvished Dwellings of Some of the Homeless Hordes in the Shattered Capital; One of the War's Most Daring Exploits: British Midget (XE3Class) Submarine Attack Which Sank the Japanese Cruiser "Takao" at Singapore (Illus. by G.H. Davis); What Happens When You Dial "999": Scotland Yard's "Operations" Room (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Princess Elizabeth at Brighton; Lieut.-Commander E.M. Brown, test pilot of the jet-propelled de Havilland Vampire taking off / landing on the deck of the H.M.S. "Ocean"; A "Shangri-La" for British Troops on Leave in the Far East: The Mullinger Club, Mussoorie; The Weapons of War and War's Aftermath; The New Waterloo Bridge: Officially Opened on December 10; Stills From (Bernard) Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" - Perhaps the Most Important Film Produced in Great Britain (starring Vivian Leigh and Claude Rains); News From All Quarters: A Pictorial Survey; Picasso and Matisse Pictures Exhibited at the Victoria and Albert; and Masterpieces from Lockinge House on Loan to Birmingham Museum. Prior owners ink stamp and signature upon advertorial front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 5 January 1946
Cover: New York's First White Christmas in Fifteen Years. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Burford, Past and Present" by Mary Sturge Gretton; Aftermath of War: Record of the First Canadian Division; "Of Old Sat Freedom"; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Poisoning the Parasite. Pictorial Journals include: Guards Chapel Services Resumed on the Tragic Site; The Railroad of Death: Drawings by Charles Thrale, one of the 7000 P.O.W.s; Life in a Java Refugee Camp: Internees "At Home" in Semarang; Ersatz Foods for Hungry Germany: British Products in Berlin; Preparing Food Substitutes at the British Laboratory in Berlin; The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, Viewed From the East: A Unique Building Designed by John Nash for the Prince Regent (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Centre of Regency Life in Brighton: The Royal Pavilion (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Regency Magnificence as a Present-Day Municipal Asset (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Roosevelt's Hyde Park Home to Be a Public Museum; The Passing of a Great U.S. Soldier: General (George S.) Patton's Funeral in Heidelberg; Germany - Past and Present: Memories and Legacies of the Third Reich; War and Peace: The Past and the Future; Recent Acquisitions by the Victoria and Albert Museum; and The Lost Monastery of Alahan: Christian Remains in Roman Cilicia. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 27 April 1946
Cover: Nature as a Jeweller: Actissa Princeps, One of the Protozoa, Resembling a Jewelled Decoration. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Reflections in a Mirror: Second Series" by Charles Morgan; Aftermath of War: Record of the Seventy-Ninth Armoured Division; Books of the Day; and The World of Science: The Problem of the Edible Frog. Pictorial Journals include: A Drop of Water as Nature's "Jewel-Case": The Strange Beauty of Microscopic Living "Gems" Modelled in Glass; An Echo of Our Greatest Blow at the Ruhr: The Mohne Dam Today; Lord (Harold) Alexander's Installation as Governor-General of Canada; MacKenzie King, Prime Minister, Addressing a Welcome to the Lord (Harold) Alexander, the New Governor-General of Canada; "The Grace of Humility": His Majesty Dispensing Alms in the Royal Maundy Ceremony at Westminster Abbey (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); When Gold is Found: The Ancient Art of Assaying; The New Home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory: Historic Hurstmonceux Castle, in the Sussex Weald; The American Scene: News Pictures From the States; The Ionosphere Rocket: A New Projectile to be Used For Meteorological Purposes; Camouflage on the Grand Scale: A "Housing Estate" on Netting Above a Vast American Aircraft Plant; The British Scene: News Events in London, Yorkshire and Oxfordshire; The Ingenuity of Prisoners-Of-War: Mechanical Gadgets Made of Junk; News Items at Home and Abroad; Classified By Hoefnagel with Insects: The Mysterious Hairy Folk; Pages From Artists' Sketchbook: A Novel Exhibition; and Masterpieces of British Water-Colour at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 1 June 1946 - Mount Palomar Telescope
Cover: Britain Takes "A Most Hazardous Step": Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "The River Jordan": by Nelson Glueck; Aftermath of War: And Some Battles Long Ago; The Martyrdom of St. Euphemia: A Seventh-Century Church Laid Bare in Constantinople; The World of Science: The Return of the Challenger; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: Black Light: The "Cat's Eye" Effect of the German Infra-Red Telescopes and Searchlights in Darkness (Illus. by G.H. Davis); General Mihailovitch Today and As Yugoslav War Minister in 1942; Pictorial Commentary on Air, Sea and Land Events; Budapest - Pre-War and Post-War: Famous Buildings in Ruins; Budapest - Pre-War and Post-War: Famous Bridges of the Hungarian Capital - Then and Now; Europe's Housing Problem: Reconstruction Starts in Greece; Royal Occasions: At Home and Abroad; The Royal Barge of Yesterday and Today; A Ship Which Carries Enough Deep-Sea Cable to Bridge the Atlantic: H.M. Telegraph Ship "Monarch" (Illus. by C.E. Turner); News from America: A Miscellany of Ancient and Modern Inventions; The U.S. Railway Strike: Scenes at Stations in New York; The World's Largest Telescope Takes Shape on Mt. Palomar; A Plague of Locusts; Japanese War Criminals; and Spain's Dictator; Eight Shillings' Worth of Stamps Valued at Thousands of Pounds; and The Passion of St. Euphemia Brought to Light in Byzantine Frescoes. Binding sound. Prior owners ink stamp with some writing on the advertising front cover. Ink smudges on advertising back cover. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 14 December 1946
Cover: The Lastest Portrait of Her Majesty the Queen (Elizabeth I, Queen Mother). Features include: Our Notebook; Aftermath of War: Farewell to the Netherlands East Indies; Book Review: "The Life of Neville Chamberlain": by Keith Feiling; The World of Science: The Mystic Mistletoe; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: Their Majesties and the Princesses: Royal Family Circle Home Portraits; H.M.S. Vanguard's "Shake-Down" Cruise: A Prelude to the Royal Tour; The Viceroy (Viscount Wavell) and Indian Leaders in London for Intensive Talks; The Lights of London: Experimental Fluorescent Lamps By Night; The Worst U.S. Disaster of Its Kind: The Winecoff Hotel (Atlanta, Georgia) Fire; Exiled Italian Royalty: Ex-King Umberto and His Family; Belgian Royalty in Geneva: The King (Leopold III) and His Children; A Window on the World; Events at Home and Abroad; A Sport for Model Enthusiasts: How to Build a Car Which Will Race at Speeds in Excess of 40 mp.h. (Illus. by G.H. Davis); Like a Straw Hat: The Atomic Bomb, A Split Second After Explosion; Harvesting Grapes for Wine: France's Historic Vendange; Gainsborough's Best Portrait of Garrick Lost in a Stratford Fire; Progress of Rocket Research: German Scientists in America; The Bones of Cortez; Palestine Explosions; New and Old Memorials; Where (Horatio) Nelson Flew His Flag as Commander-In-Chief (Antigua) at the Age of 28; and Likely to Become National Possessions: Trafalgar House and Its Nelson Relics. Pages 677/678 and 699/back cover missing. Cover and page 691 loose but present. Average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 28 December 1946
Cover: The Drawing Room Window of Jane Austen's Cottage at Chawton, Hampshire. Features include: Our Notebook; Aftermath of War: The Greek Complaint to the Security Council (inc. map); Book Review: "Foreign Mud": by Maurice Collis; The World of Science: Ennerdale Water and Its Fauna; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: The Birthplace of Immortal Books: Chawton Cottage - Where Jane Austen Lived and Wrote; The Princesses' Personal Setting: T.R.H. in Their Private Apartments; A Problem Confronting the United Nations: The Greek Guerilla War; "Blotmaster" But Notable Artist: The Tate Alexander Cozens Show; India at the Crossroads: Nehru's Proposal of a Republic at the First Constituent Assembly; Events of the Day: Hamburg Tribunal on Inhuman Crimes at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, Manhattan Tenement Disaster; The Setting of the Christmas Story: Christendom's Birthplace; Naval Relics Exhibited in Paris; Clearing the Corfu Channel (Minesweeping); The Glow of Cape Town at Night: Floodlit Table Mountain; The March into Azerbaijan: Persian Troops on the Frontier; Life and Trade in the Deep Snows of the Canadian Arctic (Baker Lake Settlement), Where "Skins" Buy Gramophones for Thriving Eskimos; Heating Homes in England; Clay Sculptures Which Summarise the Blackfellow's Legends and Culture: An Australian Artists's (William Ricketts) Thoughts About The Aborigines; Wild Flowers that Bloom Where Christmas Falls in High Summer; and Unique Flowers of a Unique Landscape: Some of Australia's Lovely Flora. Binding sound. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News, 8 November 1947
Cover: Princess Elizabeth's Last Public Engagement in Scotland Before Her Marriage: Launching the Caronia. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Austrian Requiem": by Kurt Von Schuschnigg; Aftermath of War: Walter Lippmann and American Foreign Policy (inc. map); The World of Science: This Year's Scarcity of Wasps; Notes for the Novel-Reader; The World of Theatre; Books of the Day; and The Valley of the UnKnown: A Unique and Self-Created Civilisation Revealed in the Borderlands Between India and Tibet. Pictorial Journals include: Their Majesties in Devon and Cornwall: Incidents of the Royal Tour; A Fair State Torn With Rebellion: Beautiful But Distracted Kashmir; Srinagar and Its Surroundings: Views of the "Venice of the East"; The "Modern Vermeer" Picture Trial: (Han) Van Meegeren and His Work in Court; Royal Honeymoon Houses in New Forest and Highland Surroundings; The Royal Wedding: A Miscellany of Relevant Events and Items; El Alamein Day in the Desert; Air Achievement and Fire Destruction; Stated to Be "Overwhelmingly Against Trusteeship": South West Africa; Buckingham Palace From the Air; Finished and Accurate to Two-Millionths of an Inch: California's Giant 200-Inch Telescope Mirror; From Isaac Oliver to Cosway: Some Rockliff Collection Miniatures; Tudor Silver for the Victoria and Albert Museum; Exquisite French Furniture; Apa Tani Justice: Private and Public; A Unique People in a Primitive Paradise; Where Neolithic Cultivation Methods Support a Himalayan People in Plenty; The Unknown Valley: Social Types and Rural Customs of a Unique Civilization; Religion and Sport in the Unknown Valley; and The Apa Tani People: Their Homes and Customs. Binding sound. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
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News-week (NewsWeek) Magazine, June 26, 1937 - Charles P. Taft Cover Photo
44 pages. Contents: Color Republic Steels ad; Color Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover; Crisis: The Unconquered Are Conquered, Dictators Are Avenged, and Poetic Justice Overtakes a Premier; Turkey: Dictator (Mustapha Kemal) Caps 16-Year Labours with Unpublicized War and Political Pact; U.S.S.R.: Kremlin, Nazis Combine to Deride Communist Inefficiency; Paraguay: War Hero Dictator (Rafael Franco) Can't Dictate Peace to the Army; Labor: Mr. Roosevelt Helps a Friend, as (Steel Workers) Strike Goes on Its "American Way"; Politician: A Congresswoman (Mary Teresa Norton) Who Learned How From a Master; Farmer-Labor Party Hears Thunder on Right; Sunday Vespers - A Plain Tale from the Hills; Roosevelt: All Butter Not on Bread at Democratic Picnic; John Barrymore Will "Air-Streamline" Shakespeare; Long Arm of Hitler Extends to Hollywood Studio; The (Literary) Digest: Funk & Wagnalls Sell to the Review of Reviews; Flight: 'Soviet Heroes' (Valeri Chkaloff, Georgi Baidukoff, Alexander Beliakoff) Prove That the World is Still Round; Books: A Pioneer's Family (Jean Francis Thrall) Long Pursuit of the American Dream; Religion: Vatican Bids Bishops Ban Them 'With a Strong Hand'; Music: Japanese Jazz Writers Get an American Radio Hearing; Dance: Choreographers Receive Dance Scrolls for Fine Work; Track: (Archie) San Romani's 9-E Feet May Fit the Mile King's Shoes; Taxes: Six Financiers and a Movie Star Play Roles in Congressional Inquiry; Stocks: Strikes, Doldrums and New Lows Hit the Exchanges; Frauds: U.S. Declares War on Cut-Rate Insurance Racket; Shavers: Electric Clippers Give Legal Shocks to Industry (Schick sues Dictograph Products: product infringement); and Today in America: Government and Labor. Binding intact. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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News-Week (Newsweek) Magazine, August 7, 1937 - Cover Photo of Stern Japanese Soldiers
36 pages. Cover: 'Friendly Feelings': Motorized Japanese Machine Gunners in China Contents: Far East: Japan Takes Center of Creation (Peiping), But Both Sides Strive to Avert Much-Feared War; Japan: Hills and Hardihood; Yugoslavia: Death Takes Patriarch (Varnarva) and Casts Shadow of a Religious War; Britain: Partition Troubles, Old and New, Plague the Empire; Spain: Planes Make History And So Does British Premier (Neville Chamberlain); Salvador: Dictator (General Maximiliano Martinez) Relaxes After Writing Note to League (of Nations); Siam: The Little King (Ananda Mahidol) Loses His Government, Doesn't Care; Congress: Wage-Hour Bill Survives Southern Oratory on Uses of Poverty; Labor: Steelworkers Refuse to Admit the Strike is Over; (Charles) Michelson: Rise of a Cynic From Sheepherder to Gadfly; Morning Post: Old Tory Daily Fears Night Will Fall; Syphilis: War on 12,000,000 Cases Progresses on 2 Fronts; Pyorrhea: Harvard Instructors Back a Three-Year-Old Theory; Davis Cup: Americans Win It and Worry About Keeping It; Headliner: A Rich Mixture of Beer, Baseball, Bachelorhood (Col. Jacob Ruppert); Screen: Queen of Burlesque (Gypsy Rose Lee) Changes Name and Profession; Band: Maestro (Edwin Franko) Goldman Seeks to Boost the Brasses' Standing; Stadium Leader (George King Raudenbush) Pays His Respects to the Poet (Shakespeare); Education: University (of Pennsylvania) To Help Solve Civic Problems; (Eugene) O'Neill: NBC Tries to Prove He Isn't Too Good for the Air; Earnings: Six-Months Statements Reveal Effects of Steel and Auto Strikes; Music: Pianos, Tubas, Kazoos Making Money for Their Makers; Investments: Counselors Get Together on House-cleaning; and Today in America: Reform Grows Cautious. Binding sound. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Clean, Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Newsweek Magazine, October 11, 1937
44 pages. Contents: Dams and Dollars Broaden the Federal Sovereignty (Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams); Justice (Hugo) Black: 'I Did Join (Ku Klux Klan)...Resigned..The Case is Closed'; Republicans: (John D.M.) Hamilton Plans Chautauqua Despite His Mistrust; Labor's War: A.F. of L. (American Federation of Labor) Counts Gains and Girds for Battle; Dixie Editor: (Cordell) Hull Calls His Friend (George Fort Milton) to 'Welsh Rabbit' Job; Lawyers: The Bar Blows Off Some Anti-New Deal Steam; Nanking Calls Ablest General (Chung-hsi Pai) To Rally North China Armies; Dictators: Fuhrer (Adolf Hitler) and Duce (Benito Mussolini) Stage a Much Ado About - What?; Palestine: Arab Terrorists Finally Draw Full British Wrath; The Windsors: Duke and Duchess Plan New Thrills for America; Campaign in Rio: Moscow Order Brings Martial Law in Brazil; Mexican Showdown: (President Lázaro) Cardenas Calls the Bluff of General (Saturnino) Cedillo in His Lair; Baseball: Season's Statistics Prove Conclusively - New York (Yankees) Will Win World Series; Theatre Review: Two Strikes and Out for "The Star-Wagon"; Art: Washington Now Takes an Exception to Washington's Crossing of the Delaware; Roosevelt Again Forecasts a Balanced Budget - But Treasury Reports Deficit So Far This Fiscal Year; Meat Prices Up: Butchers Battle to Reduce Rising Prices; (Union Pacific) Railroad: A Company Banquet and a Wage Increase; Aviation: Stocks Lose Altitude After Investors Lose Their Optimism; New York (Hayden) Planetarium Stages Four Ends of the World - While You Wait; Education: Perkins Institution Centennial Recalls Experiment Which Astonished World; Books: Dubliner (Liam O'Flaherty) Recreates the Days of Ireland's Great Famine; and Perspective: Imperfect Contrition, The War of the Congregations and Far From the Madding Crowd. *Gorgeous* back cover color Ad features a pink gown-wearing Carole Lombard promoting Lucky Strike cigarettes. Half page black/white Ol' Judge Robbins Cartoon Ad for Prince Albert Pipe Smoke. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, November 1, 1937
44 pages. Contents: Market Goes on a Bender - Sobers Economic Planners: Business Volume Eases Off, Depression Not Indicated; (Alfred M.) Landon and 'the 17,000,000' Meet at the G.O.P. (Republican) Fireside; Yankee Putsch: Rhode Island Revolution - Angry Irishmen Make War; (Harold L.) Ickes Loses: Senator (Robert F.) Wagner's Choice (Nathan Straus) Gets Biggest Housing Job; War for Peace: Labor's Feudists Come to the Round Table; Who Are the Terrorists Who Are Now Paralyzing Palestine?: The Answer is Known by a Man Named Fawzi Bey; Dictators: (General Francisco) Franco Wins North Coast, Duce (Benito Mussolini) Plots New Victories; Pawns: Nazis Frighten Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Danzig; Far East: Chinese Reds Gum the Works of Japanese War Machine; Book Review: "An Artist in America" by Thomas Hart Benton; A Noted Art Collector (Sam Lewisohn) Explains the New Masters to Laymen; Philadelphia Museum (of Art) Presents a Many-Sided (Honore) Daumier in Lively Show; (Frances) Alda's Life Story Presents a Soprano's View of Men, Women and Tenors; The Monte Carlo Ballet Starts a New Season and Loses a Star (Leonide Massine); Coeds and (Lawrence Morgan) Larry Kelley Active at the Halfway Mark of 1937 Football; Auto Show Visitors Inspect 1938 Models: Executives See Car Sales as Key to Business Outlook; ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) Decision: Freight Rates Increased - Roads May Ask for Still More; Budget: Latest Estimate Shows Further Income Drop; Aviation: A Snow Squall Swirls Out of the Mountains, and 19 Die on Chalk Peak (United Air Lines Douglas Mainliner Crash); Science: Lord (Ernest) Rutherford, the Prober of Atomic Mysteries, Goes to Probe a Greater; A Life-Saving Drug Brings Death to the Careless, Worries to Doctors; Frederick Snite to Get a More Comfortable Iron Lung - Newly Perfected; Education: Formula From Hoboken - For Greater Success Build Up a Larger Vocabulary; Two Newspaper Leaders Criticize the American Press for Its Own Good; The Inside on How Those on the Outside Obtain Inside News of the Vatican; and Perspective: The Lesson of the Break. Full Page Color Ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes on back cover features the Three Musketeers. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, December 27, 1937
44 pages. Contents: The Sinking of a Gunboat (U.S.S. Panay) Changes Aspects of China War - America Leads the World in Warning Japan It Must Curb Military Hotheads; A Congress Revolt Wins, and a Revolution Loses - Legislators Kill Wage Bill, but Won't Desert President Completely; Glenn Frank and G.O.P. (Grand Old Party) - Ousted Wisconsin Educator Goes Into Politics; The Philippines - Elections Reflect Two Fears: Japan and Poverty; (Frank) Hague of New Jersey: Things Get Hot for the Master Politician; Alcatraz - The 'Impossible' Happens on American Devil's Island; Mine War: U.S. and John L. Lewis End Case Against Union; Countess Barbara Hutton Heiress Here a Day, on a Business Visit; Sky Pioneers (Orville Wright and Charles A. Lindbergh); Mysterious Trail Begins in New York, Ends in Moscow - The Couple Nobody Knows Vanishes Into Thin Air or Soviet Prison; France's Friends: Diplomat (Yvon Delbos) at Last Receives a Hearty Welcome From an Ally; Red Snow in Spain; The Ringling Circuses Enter a New Era Under a New Generation of Ringlings; A Mechanical Einstein: Gears, Pulleys, and Bars Solve Polynomial Equations; 1937 Retrospect: Recovery, 'Temporary Slump', Recession - It is Now Possible to See the Facts in True Perspective and Draw a Lesson; Farmers Move One Step Nearer a More Abundant Life; and The S.W.O.C. (Steel Workers Organizing Committee) Sidesteps the Perils of Adolescence - First Convention Counts Membership Gains, Criticizes Wagner Act Administration. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, July 31, 1950 - Korean War Tank Killer Cover Photo
84 pages. Cover: 3.5-inch Rocket Launcher Shown in Action Against North Korean Tanks Contents: The Korean War: Threats at Formosa Take Ominous Turn; As In All Wars, the Korean Conflict Means Watching, Waiting; The Tank War: Bazookas as a Stopgap; Three Phases in Korea: Significance of the Strategy (inc. maps); Some Answers to Korean Questions (by General Carl Spaatz); Counters to the Kremlin's Designs; The Navy: Transport and Strike; (Harry S. Truman's) Call to Arms Against World Aggression; Mobilizing the Men; Spies: Golden Boy - Harry Gold; Civil Defense: There Isn't Any; Tennessee's Tragedy; Tennessee Air Guardsmen and the Crash of the Curtiss C-46 Plane; Britain: Arms Lag, Too - Trouble Coming Up; Diplomacy: (Jawaharlal) Nehru Gets Nowhere; Germany: Comparisons With Korea; Belgium: All the King's Men - King Leopold III returns home to Belgium from exile; Canada: W.L. MacKenzie King; Successful Switch - Ted Cott; Science: Case of the Missing Papyri; Mobilization: Industry's Role - Tips on Procedure; Buying: Hoards at Work; Enterprise: Grape-Soda King - Tyndle Fooks; Modernizing Nabisco (National Biscuit Co.); Program for the Crisis; and Perspective: Republican Advance and the ADA (Americans for Democratic Action). Full page colour vintage print advertising including Schlitz, Goodyear Tires, Nash Airflyte, U.S. Army Recruiting and Standard Oil Company ad with the Pennsylvania Railroad "St. Louisan" locomotive crossing the Juniata River. Full page colour ad with Phil Harris and Alice Faye promoting Lucky Strike Cigarettes. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom right front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Time Magazine, February 19, 1940 - Cover Photo of John H. Levi, Mayor of Miami Beach
92 pages. Contents: National Affairs: When the War Ends; Florida: Pleasure Dome (tourism); Youth: Monstrous Lobby - American Youth Congress; World War: Strategy - Allied Supreme War Council; "One War at a Time" - Asama Maru; Northern Theatre: Planes, Men, Medicine, Soap; Fire Hose - Russians Offensive on Finland; Canada: Wee But Great - John Buchan appointed as Governor General; War in China: Rabbit into Dragon - Japan vs. China; Chile: Don Tinto's Dilemma - President Pedro Aguirre Cerda; Saudi Arabia: Fish to Jidda - Standard Oil and King Ibn Saud; Religion: At Graymoor - the Society of the Atonement, a Franciscan-type religious congregation co-founded by Rev. Paul James Francis (a.k.a. Lewis Thomas Wattson); Art: 20 Years of Gropper - Cartoonist William Gropper; Science: Horatius (Hrdlicka) at the Bridge; Sport: "Most Worstest" - Arturo Godoy / Joe Louis Fight; Music: Mr Big - U.S. Record Corp; Education: Old Blue - Edward Stephen Harkness, heir to Standard Oil and Philanthropist; State of Business: Bull Fever, Bear Facts; and Carriers: Republican Snowplow - Alaska Railroad. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Canadian Club, Budweiser, Ford Motor Company - Mercury 8 and Lucky Cigarettes. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average wear. Small mailing stamp bottom right back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Time Magazine, March 18, 1940 - Mickey Rooney Cover
96 pages. Cover: Mickey Rooney. Contents: National Affairs: Congress - Again, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB); Foreign Relations: Peace Moves - Sumner Welles's mission to Europe; Illinois: Little Black Book - F. Lynden Smith; Foreign News: War and Peace - Sweden tries for peace negotiations between Russia and Finland; Italy: Hot Coal - British warships stop German coal shipments bound for Italy; Three Profound Bows - Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop visits Rome; Great Britain: "Cheap Money!" - Sir John Allsebrook Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer asks House of Commons for money; Leslie Trouble - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's trouble with Leslie Hore-Belisha and Leslie Burgin; Malcom's Day - Malcolm MacDonald, Colonial Secretary; Canada: Kingfish Weasels - Mitchell F. Hepburn; World War: Northern Theatre - Russians and Finns at Viipuri; In the Air: Figures - Royal Air Force and Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood; At Sea: RMS Queen Elizabeth; Radio: Candidette - Gracie Allen; Religion: Trinity to Trinity - Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving and Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving II; Education: Britian's "First Major Casualty" of war's first six months; Indian Talk: Navajos language; Medicine: Carbon Disulfide (CS2) Poisoning - John Nicols; Cosmic Chiropractor - Daniel David Palmer; and Cinema: Success Story - Mickey Rooney. Full page b/w movie advertisement for "Young Tom Edison" starring Mickey Rooney (illustrated by Harold N. Anderson). Full page colour vintage print advertising including Schlitz Beer, 1940's Plymouth, Nash Lafayette, and Lucky Cigarettes. Binding intact. Small mailing stamp bottom right back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
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Time Magazine, March 25, 1940 - Cover Photo of Eamon De Valera
100 pages. Cover: Eamon de Valera. Contents: National Affairs: President (Franklin D. Roosevelt) & Peace, The Congress: (Lester P.) Barlow's Bomb - Liquid oxygen-carbon formula bomb called glmite; World War: Diplomatic Front - Brenner Pass Parley; Northern Theatre: One War Ends - Russia and Finland (inc. map of treaty concessions); Foreign News: Post-Mortem on Peace; Great Britain: Assassination at a Lecture - Sir Michael O'Dwyer; Primose Prince Passes (Sri Kanteerava Narasimharaja Wadiyar); Eire (Ireland): Prime Minister of Freedom - President Eamon de Valera; Japan-Russia: Sakhalin Island Skirmish; Sport: Wonder Girl Bullfighter - Conchita Cintron; The Press: Contempt of Court - St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Education: Church v. College - College of the City of New York; Hillbilly's School System - Blanford Barnard Dougherty; Argentine Art (2 pages colour); and Banking: The Name of (J.P.) Morgan. Full page colour vintage advertisement with Dionne Quintuplets promoting Unisteel Turret Top Body by Fisher. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Packard 120, American Airlines, Old Angus Scotch Whiskey, and Lincoln-Zephyr V-12. Span ad on back cover. Binding sound. Small mailing stamp bottom right back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Cars & Parts Magazine, April 1982
186 pages. Features: Durant's economy model, the Star - a 1927 Model M Roadster; Kaiser-Darrin - the little two-seater designed by Dutch Darrin; DeSoto Adventurer - Few flashy designs of the 50s could compete with this car - a '59 hardtop is shown - owner singer Richard Carpenter; Duesenberg - Eddie Rickenbacker is shown in a 1914 Indy photo with riding mechanic Eddie O'Donnell; Marmon V-16 - stately '32 convertible sedan; War Woodie - Maroon '42 Mercury station wagon; Packard - Dick Teague remembers the Predictor; Mr. Corvette - Chevy's Legendary Zora Arkus-Duntov; Celebrity Car Showcase; How to perform woodgraining like the pros; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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MacKenzie, William; Foot, M.R.D. (introduction)
The Secret History of S.O.E. : Special Operations Executive 1940-1945
814 pages. Index. "Here is a wealth of new insights, kept secret for over fifty years, on the wartime British secret service that armed and encouraged resistance to Nazi occupation. Many books now need to be re-written." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. An excellent copy. Book
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Ellis, Major L.F.; Warhurst, Lieut-Colonel A.E.; Robb, Air Chief Marshal Sir James
Victory in the West - Volume I (One) - The Battle of Normandy
595 pages. Index. "Describes how the British and American naval, army and air forces combined to plan, prepare and carry out the operations that resulted in the Germans being driven back from the beaches of Normandy to the northern frontiers of France within the short space of only three months." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean and unmarked book and dust jacket, which is now protected by an archival-grade Brodart cover. A particularly well-preserved copy. Please note: this offering consists of Volume I only. Book
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Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison; Fenton, Roger
Roger Fenton - Photographer of the Crimean War: His Photographs and His Letters from the Crimea
106 pages. Eighty-five photographic plates. "This documentation of the Siege of Sebastopol in word and picture is largely Roger Fenton's own, preceded by an account of his life and a critical appreciation of his photographic work." - from Foreword. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding sound. A worthy copy. Book
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Hutchison, Lt.-Col. Graham Seton
Pilgrimage
270 pages. Index. Illustrated map endpapers. Black and white photographic plates. Reprint of the 1935 first edition. "Written primarily as a true and accurate guide to those thousands who yet make pilgrimages to France and Flanders, and to those even greater numbers who are debarred from actual journeying yet wish, none the less, to achieve a mental picture of scenes of acute significance to them..." - from dust jacket. inding tight. Average wear to unmarked book. Dust jacket, which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart, is missing a 5"x1" piece from lower corner of front panel. Moderate foxing to book and dust jacket. A sound copy. Book
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Watson, Brent Byron
Far Eastern Tour: The Canadian Infantry in Korea, 1950-1953
238 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. "Tells the story of Canada's 'forgotten war' in which soldiers in Korea suffered needless casualties and endured conditions that bordered on criminal neglect." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Minimal library markings. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
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Reid, Brian A.
Our Little Army in the Field: The Canadians in South Africa 1899-1902
206 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Van Niekerk, Louise; et al
Setempe, SA Stamp News, Vol 6 No. 3, August/September/October 2001
32 pages. Features: Behold South Africa's Natural Wonders; World Conference Against Racism - Commemorative; The Anglo-Boer/South Africa War - Remembering; Celebrate Christmas 2001; Enjoy Music in South Africa. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
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Mitchell, Irene
I'll Come Back to You When It's Over (Je Reviendrai De LA Guerre) - Sheet Music for Voice and Piano with Guitar Chords
6 pages. Great cover illustration of soldier being seen off to war by his girl. As sung by Pierre and Pierrette, photos of whom are on front cover. Above-average wear. Coverfold almost completely open. Peeling to cover illustration. A worthy vintage copy. Sheet music
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MacNutt, Albert; Moran, E.M.; Sawyer, Clarence; Addison, L.F.
We'll Win the War with Wings (Nous Gagnerons La Guerre Avec Nos Ailes) - Sheet Music for Piano and Voice
6 pages. Dedicated to Air Marshall William Avery Bishop, VC, DSO, whose illustration is included upon the martial front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this uncommonn historic item. Sheet music
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King, Constance; Canadas, Michael; Robinson, David; Lau, Linda; Mandeville, A. Glenn; Schwartz, Benita; Izen, Judith; Rubenstein, Myrna; Meledin, Heather
Dollreader (Doll Reader) Magazine, August 2000 - The 7 Wonders of Zapf
128 pages. Features: Early Musical Dolls; The Romance Series - Heroine Lillian Dal Monte triumphs as an opera star; The Dolls of the Morimura Brothers - during World War I Japanese businessmen rush to fill a void; Ideal's Harmony - a music makin' doll struts into the marketplace; The Glamorous World of Dawn - A small doll becomes a big fad during the 60s; Dolls of 1940-1949; Zapf's Seven Wonders - Zapf Creation dolls up the collecting world with irresistible youngsters; Artist Cindy McClure debuts a series of dolls that teach life skills; Dolls that remind us of the brands we use every day lure collectors with a taste for something different; Shopping for dolls on the Home Shopping Network. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Tremain, Rose
Stalin - Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century/War Leader Book No. 31
159 pages. "Stalin... a shoemaker's son, seminary student, Bolshevik agitator, political prisoner, hero of the Communist Revolution of 1917, absolute dictator of the Soviet Union and supreme commander of Russia's military defenses after the German invasion of June 1941. Here, in text and photos, is the story of iron-willed leadership standing firm in the face of an overwhelming Nazi Blitzkreig... at a cost of 22 million lives." - from back cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
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Riess, Curt
Total Expionage
318 pages. Index. Chronology. "The story of the greatest espionage organization of all times; of the apparatus which the Nazis have built up in order to cover the world with a net of total espionage." - from Foreword. Author claims to have obtained his information by reading readily-available German-language publications - which Allied intelligence services ignored - during the 1930s. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper. Above-average but not excessive external wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Bryant, Arthur; Falls, Cyril; et al
The Illustrated London News (ILN), June 9, 1951 - Cover Photo of His Majesty King Haakon II of Norway
Pages 925 - 964. Features: Political protests in Cape Town; Photos of commemoration of "The Epic of Calais" - unveiling of the Green Jacket's War Memorial; Photos of her majesty the Queen and Princess Margaret in Northern Ireland; Neasham Belle winning photo; G. Farina wins the Ulster Trophy Race; Field Marshall Montgomery addresses units of the 16th independent Parachute Brigade Group at Aldershot; Royal visit to celebrate the centenary of Manchester University; Photos of the Festival Gardens at Battersea; General Mark Clark's Story - photo-illustrated article; Photos of the anti-communist force in Indo-China - the army and religion of "Cao Dai"; Photo of Arctic Prince winning the 1951 Derby with royalty in attendance; Centerfold illustrations deal with England's weather and the wettest February for 110 years; Soberinig photos of the National Coal Board's (NCB's) greatest mine disaster at Easington Colliery where 81 died; Samples of Victoria photos at the V.and A. Museum; Photos of Atlantic seal calves; Scenes from the Korean War including communist POWs; Photos of personalities of the week, including Presiident Truman's daughter Margaret and Captain Charles Blair after he set a new record for a flight over the North Pole; Aerial photo of the H.M.S. Theseus at sea with crew spelling out her name on the flight deck; Two Swedish warships, the cruiser Gota Lejon and the destroyer Uppland; Photos from Rome; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
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Bryant, Arthur; Squire, Sir John; Falls, Cyril
The Illustrated London News (ILN) February 21, 1953 - Cover Photo of Preparation of the Magnificent Purple Robe To Be Worn By Her Majesty at Her Coronation
Pages 261-296. Features: Nice colour ad for Dewar's "White Label" Scotch inside front cover; Nice one-page ad for Rootes Group Cars (Sunbeam-Talbot, Hillman Minx); Preparation of the Queen's Coronation robe; Arrival of new U.S. Ambassador, Winthrop W. Aldrrich; Two pages of illustrations of how the Dutch fight their eternal and unwearying enemy - the sea - repairing dykes and reclaiming land; Excellent one-page colour-photo portrait of Dwight Eisenhower; One-page colour photo of the Lord Lyon and Officers of the Scottish Court of Chivalry; The Indo-China War - photos from Nasam and the Qui-Non amphibious landing; Swami Narayan Acharya was buried alive for nine days; Oradour; Shipwrecks at sea and on land; Photo of the New Sudan Agreement being signed by General Neguib and Sir Ralph Stevenson at Cairo; Photos of personalities of the week, including Brigitte Fossey, Sir Holburt Waring, skater Alan Hayes and Sir Percival Sharp; Photos of the Queen supporting flood victims in Essex and Kent, and the fight to defend against the sea; Bomb damage to the Soviet legation in Tel Aviv; Electrical 'traffic control' for salmon used at Scottish power stations; Colour portrait of the Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater; Excavations at Sultantepe and Harran - tablets of the Sabian sect, a priestess's trinkets and an Umayyad mosque; Nice one-page Ford car ad; Sweet half-page photo ad for the Lagonda Mk. II Saloon; Attractive colour ad for Cussons' Blue Hyacinth toiletries inside back cover; and more. Three-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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