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Viereck, George Sylvester: Editor
The Fatherland - Fair Play for Germany and Austria-Hungary, January 27th, 1915 - Cover Portrait of Imperor William on His Fifty-Sixth Birthday
16 pages. Features: Organize! Organize! - organizing the German-American element and all German and Austro-Hungarian sympathizers; France in Desperate Straits; Our Debt to Germany; "Hoch Der Kaiser!"; For English Colonies - Peace with Freedom; Responsibility of the Press, by Frank Koester; The Division of the Nations' Forces, by Dr. Hanns Heinz Ewers; Causes of the War - Cecil Chesterton, of London, and George Sylvester Viereck of New York, in Joint Debate; Steinway Piano ad and many more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Time Magazine, April 7, 1967 - The Pill
Contents: Article and many haunting photos of Communist East Germany; "Torrey Canyon" oil spill; Genetics - Dr. Dobzhansky; Nice Cadillac ad; Estimating crowd size; Nice color photo ad shows the VW bug, squareback and van; Manhattan "Be-in"; Great page of color psychadelic posters; Birth Control/The Pill - feature article; Sam 951 - Charolais breeding bull; U.S. King Crab Catch; Unemployment in Israel; Nice Ford Thunderbird ad on back cover; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar), May 27, 1871 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Front cover illustration of ladie's traveling suit; May-Day; New York Fashions - Traveling Dresses, Cretonne Costumes, Parasols, Various Embroidery Illustrations; Basket for keeping boiled eggs warm; Net for Boiling Eggs; Bag for Keeping Boiled Eggs Warm; Crochet Border for Curtains, Covers, Hangings, etc.; Dr. Arnold's Prescription; A French Home; Looking for a Pattern; Lilies; Useful Recipes; Sayings and Doings; Dramatic full-page illustration of a French home after the Bombardment of Paris; Nice illustration entitled Looking for a Pattern by W.L. Sheppard; How Kaiser Wilhelm's Sister was Won; Living in Germany - Marketing and Table; The Lovels of Arden (continued); Nothing to Wear - an episode of city life by Wm. Allen Butler; Nice illustrated ad for Helmbold's Catawba Grape Pills; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, November 4, 1871 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Features: Girl's Water-proof cloak; Too Poor to Marry; New York Fashions - small features of fashion, black suits; Personal; Ladies' winter hats and bonnets; ladies' house and street dresses; Besieged at Michaelmas; 4"x4" clipping from page 693; Maud's Mishaps, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Living in Germany - American Incompliance; Nice centerfold illustration "Dancing an Irish Jig before Royalty"; The Lovels of Arden - continued; large illustration "There Stood Our Good Bear, Who was Received with Open Arms"; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, 22 July, 1871 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Boy's knee-breeches, vest, and jacket; "Our Extravagant Girls!"; Activity of Children; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - hats and hints for gentlemen, varieties for ladies; Personal; crochet and other suspenders; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Point lace and white needle-work edging for lingerie; netted guipure insertion for covers, pillow-slips; Medallion for porte-monnaaies, cigar-cases, etc., colored embroidery; design for sofa-pillow, etc., application, point russe, and satin stitch embroidery; tapestry designs for covers of pincushions, emery cushions, etc.; embroidery design for cigar-cases, card-cases, etc.; Swiss muslin chemise russe; tatted rosettes; Shirts versus Wives; Vassar College; Living in Germany - high schools and colleges; Sea Weeds; Useful Recipes; Nice full-page illustration "The Fourth of July"; A Lover's Device; humor. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, March 4, 1871 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Silk dinner with basque-waist and over-skirt; ball or evening dress for young lady; Culture of hardy roses; A Lesson from Germany; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - hints of spring styles, mourning goods; Personal; Lambrequin in Venetian embroidery; sofa pillow with serpentine braid and crochet cover; tassels for trimming curtains, curtain loops; duchesse toilette-table with figured percale drapery; dog's collar of brass rings covered with crochet-work; smoking set with stand; case for playing cards; Hannah - continued; Family breakfasts and dinners; Novel variety of church music; Sayings and Doings; beaded lamp screen; Embroidered work-bag; embroidered foot muff; netted and bead worsted basket; Charley's Maiden Aunt; Microscopic Writing; The Gifted Frog; Remarkable Days in February; Nice full-page illustration "The Turn-Over" shows smiling group after their sleigh has overturned; humor. Average wear. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, October 14, 1871 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: The Return of Autumn; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - the vest-basque costume, bonnets, round hats; Ladies' Fall Toilettes; Personal; Tatted, needle-work, and point lace rosettes; tatted barbe; corner of border for table-covers, cashmere scarfs, etc.; crochet work-basket; corner of border in guipure embroidery; Poplin walking suit; How Marriages are managed in Germany; The Sentence of Pontius Pilate; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Indian Summer; Ladies' and children's fall dresses; Bruised Reeds; Bridal Toilette; Paris Fashions; Down at Salt; ; humor. Average wear. Large clipping from page 651. Large clipping from page 653. Book
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Lagrandeur, Philip G.
We Flew, We Fell, We Lived : Stories From RCAF Prisoners of War and Evaders 1939-1945
400 pages. Bibliography. "Forty Canadian officers and men offer their personal accounts of the Nazis' treatment of captured Allied air force personnel, and of the organization of the PoW camps where they were held. The Great Escape is covered in detail." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Relatively few library markings. A sound copy. Book
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Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley (Signed); Pyke, Diana (Translator)
My First Seventy-six Years: The Autobiography of Hjalmar Schacht
Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. 552 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "One of the most important autobiographies of the post-war period, for there can be few personalities still alive who have been so intimately connected with the march of world events for so many years... His first great triumph was to rescue the German Mark from the inflation of 1921... As the Nazi avalanche swelled, Hitler persuaded him to occupy the Presidential chair at the Reichsbank... but (Schacht) soon saw that the Fuhrer was driving relentlessly towards war. A quarrel resulted and he left the Government, remaining under a cloud until he was arrested towards the close of the regime." - from dust jacket. Schact was aquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg. Moderate wear to book. Binding intact. Several patches and touch-ups to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Kehr & Langmaid 1217, Aldcroft & Rodger p.83. Book
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Theater Zeitung, August 1934, Nummer 15 - Theater am Gartnerplatz - Paganini Theatre Program
16 pages. Direktion: Paul Wolz, Otto Reimann. Includes black and white photos of Otto Reimann, Paul Wolz, Kappellmeister Karl Furmann, Franz Zwonik, Rudolf Seibold, Els Brandstatter, Mizzi Seibold, Fritz Radant, Hans Imhof - Spielleiter und Ballettmeister, Karl Gullich, Martin Kerble, Mathias Olschinski, Anny Horst, Franzi Heubl and Otto Guhl. Bits of writing on pages 8 and 9. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Mazzetti, Mark; Sargent, Lia; Palka, Kurt W.; Ryan, Kathleen; Mertz, Ursula R.; Graff, Mary; Wood, ScottHeyerdahl, Virginia Ann
DollReader (Doll Reader) Magazine, November 1998 - Mattel's Chatty Kathy Returns!
176 pages. Features: Mattel's Chatty Cathy - a classic introduced in 1960 is back for a new generation; Madame Alexander's fascination with English royalty led to the creation of magnificent Queen Elizabeth dolls; Doll Masters of Germany - J.D. Kestner and other manufacturers of his time produced the dolls we treasurein the Thuringia region of Germany; Collectible Concepts makes history - the company is making a name for itself with antique reproductions as well as dolls by top artists; Fashion dolls hit the runway - a style show of some of the neweset of these popular creations; Horsman's Peterkin - discover a family of unique composition dolls; Walt Disney World Convention - review some one-of-a-kind auction dolls and limited editions created exclusively for this show; Home Shoppping Network's Festival of Dolls - discover new dolls from the comfort of your living room; Joke Grobbin wins a World of Collectors - the Dutch artist celebrates 25 years of making people happy with her dolls; Hitty Approches the Milennium - a 6.5 inch wooden doll, nearly 200 years old, provides inspiration for artists and collectors alike. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
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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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Sulzberger, C.L.; Hutton, Sgt. Bud; Baxter, B.; Efron, Edith; Owen, Russell; Greenbaum, Lucy; Stanley, Fred M.; Magidoff, Robert;
The New York Times Magazine, March 18, 1945 - The War Comes Home to Germany
56 Pages. Features: Dramatic front cover photo of dozens of German POWs being marched through urban destruction; Commercial Travelers ad with color photo of man at green mailbox; One-page ad for General Electric medical products; Europe, The New Dark Continent - the task of restoration is formidable, but there is the old vital spirit; Large photos of German citizens in a captured town; Large photo of the utter destruction of Cologne, Germany; Inside a front-line hospital - a doctor's story as told in letters home from the Western Front; Goebbels is now a prophet without honor is his home town of Muenchen-Gladrach-Rheydt - article with photos; Britain's House of Commons is a Cockpit, Not a Forum; Old Jobs or New Ones for the Veterans?; Wonderful one-page color illustrated ad for the Electric Boat Company (EBCo) features submarine surfacing; Cuba Mail Line ad; There the Impossible is Done - photo-illustrated article on the strange planes which fly at Wright Field; Nice one-page color ad for Celanese shows ship being painted; Excellent color-photo one-page ad for McGregor Sportswear features golfers and dog with ball; The life and times of the Oscar award - article with many photos of stars receiving their awards over the years; Dmitri Shostakovich Listens for Victory - photo-illustrated article on how Russia's greatest living composer's ninth symphony, voicing Russia's joy, will complete a trilogy born of the war; Rinso ad features young John (Johhny) Craig of Arlington, MA who has appeared in War Bond ads and Treasury Department movies; Ceiling Price Court; Barmaids come back; Movie photos of Tallulah Bankhead; Presto Cake Flour color ad; Nice ad for Chantilly Bath Tablets; Fish recipes; Care of the neck; Nice color Crisco ad shows cake; Without a Rug; Aids to Family Life; Wheatena ad; Two pages of lovely fashion photos inspired by the Metropolitan Museum; Ad for Revere Ware copper-clad stainless steel pots; Nice one-page color-photo ad for new Chen Yu Sea Shell nail products; Andrea Radio ad for 'Sharp-Focus' Televisioin shows basketball game; Gem Razors and Blads ad shows intimate golf couple; Color ad for Sheaffer's Pens on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue. Book
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Sclanders, Ian; Katz, Sidney; Newlands, Don; Callwood, June; Krantz, Judith; Fraser, Blair; Hailey, Arthur; Callaghan, Morley
Maclean's Magazine, January 5, 1963 *THE KENNEDY DYNASTY*
48 pages. Features: Hilda Neatby makes the case against production-line education; The Kennedy Dynasty - the most powerful family in the world; Overmedication (part two) - the criminal record of the miracle drugs; Pauline Julien - the moods of a girl who sings about love; The Emotion of Fear, by June Callwood; Norman Jewison - the stars' status symbol; The case for a divided Germany, by Blair Fraser; Some people 'should' live in sin - so says Arthur Hailey; Those Summers in Toronto - episodes from Morley Callaghan's new book 'That Summer in Paris'; Phyllis Diller does the XBX - with photos. Unmarked. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Meissner, Hans-Otto; Keeble, Gwendolen Mary (Translator)
Magda Goebbels - A Biography
288 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. Translated from the German. Biography of the wife of Hitler's confidant and foremost protagonist, Dr. Joseph Goebbels. Heavily-worn former library copy with usual markings. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Book
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O'Connor, Patrick J (Signed)
People Make Places: The Story of the Irish Palatines
229 pages. Index. Footnotes. Reproductions of black and white photos. Signed by author upon title page. "This is a book which seeks for the first time to distill in detail the Irish Palatine experience. It reaches back into the German past of a people who came to Ireland in 1709 and it opens out on to the world fashioned by Irish Palatine emigration." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy. Book
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Urwin, G.; Veremakis, D.; Riehn, R.; Marrion, R.; Katcher, R.; Klem, B.; Jones, E.; Heap, S.
Campaigns Magazine, Issue Thirty-Eight (38), 1981 - The Work of Mike Leonard
54 pages. Features: The Fall of Wake Atoll; U.S. Civil War Cavalry; The Legend of Camerone; The Myths and Reality of the French Foreign Legion; Uniforms of the Continental Army; Propaganda in Hitler's Germany; The Work of Mike Leonard; How to Determine when a particular uniform was worn by Napoleon's hussar regiments; An overview of the uniforms of Russian Guard cavalry in the Napoleonic era; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Burnett, Philip Mason; Dulles, John Foster (Foreword); Shotwell, James T. (Editor)
Reparation at the Paris Peace Conference - From the Standpoint of the American Delegation: Complete in Two (2) Volumes
1148 + 833 pages. Index. "Extremely interesting story of the origins of reparations, leaving the impression that the French were unreasonable and the Americans unrealistic in their hopes." - Edward N. Peterson (from bibliography of his work 'Hjalmar Schacht - For And Against Hitler"). Moderate quantity of neat ink underlining in each volume. Usual library markings. Above-average but not excessive wear. Quarter-inch opening in binding at half-title page of volume I. A worthy reference copy of this important work. Book
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Taaffe, Brendan; Simmons, Michael; Anick, Peter; Horgan, Candace; Hart, Laurie; Anick, Peter; Hansen, Ellen; Kuntz, Andrew; Stobbe, Gordon; et al
Fiddler Magazine, Winter 2003 / 2004, Vol. 10, No. 4 - Hollis Taylor Cover Photo
62 pages. Features: Matt Cranitch - Knee deep in Rushy Mountain; John McCusker - Modern Traditionalist; Hollis Taylor - from concertos to fiddle tunes to jazz to fences - playing it all; String Cheese Incident's Michael Kang; Norwegian Folk Festival Diary, Summer 202; Norway in a nutshell at the Telemark Folk Festival; Jan Beitohaugen Granli - Norway's 2002 Landskappleik Champion; Daniel Sanden-Warg - Swedish fiddler with a Setesdal accent; Mittenwald, Germany - a 300-year-old tradition of violin-making, featuring Anton Maller and Anton Sprenger; Mellie Dunham; Fiddle Tune History - "Oh, Ned!"; British Columbia's Frankie Rodgers; and much more. Above-average wear. A worthy copy of this interesting issue. Magazine
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Fisher, Irving; Cohrssen, Hans R.L. (Assistant)
Stable Money - A History of the Movement
442 pages. Index. Selected bibliography. Signature of Frank Cyril James upon front free endpaper. Dr. James earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1922 and went on to serve as Principal of McGill University from 1939 to 1962. - online reference. This copy was apparently donated to McGill as its deaccession stamp is placed over Dr. James's signature and faint evidence remains of a label removed from the spine. "No one... can possibly appreciate the great importance of the subject of which this book treats until he has acquired a realizing sense of how, all his life, he has been the victim of the 'money illusion.'" - Introduction. Textured navy boards. Backstrip lettering rubbed but legible. Moderate soiling to edges. Binding intact. Average external wear. A sound first edition copy of this monetary classic. Fisher M-2058, Cohen p.186. Book
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Zacks, R.; Felsen, H.; Falstein, L.; Dugan, J.; Perl, A.; Graziano, Rocky; Frazier, G.; Leiser, E.; Gilpin, D.; Engle, L.; Flaherty, P.; Fields, J.; Jacobs, B.; Flannery, T.; Hall, D.; Et al
Salute Magazine, Mar. (March) 1947, Vol. 2, No. 3 - Exposing a Campaign to Smear Unemployed Veterans
50 pages. Short Stories: Dream of Love; The High Cost of Babies; Major Arrowtoss. Articles: Heroes - or Bums? - campaign to smear unemployed vets; Citadel of Jump - Great photo-illustrated article on Robert M. Weitman's Paramount Theatre in New York; "I'll Take Zale in Two" - photo-illustrated boxing article by Rocky Graziano; The Decline of Bing Crosby - photo-illustrated article on his voice problems; Billion Dollar Haul - fascinating article on war booty at the end of WWII, with photo of Hjalmar Schacht; War Against West Point; About that Sinus Trouble. Special Features; Sexiest Gal in Town? - photo-illustrated article about Ruth Gilbert; Wackies - article with great one-page photo of Barbara Bates and Julie Gibson; Lion Hunt - photo-illustrated article of Metropolitan Opera tenor Lauritz Melchior hunting mountain lion; Hockey's Hardest Hoodlum - John "Choo-Choo" Mariucci of the Chicago Blackhawks; On the Bowery; The Name is Sheridan - lovely photos of Ann Sheridan; Smokechasers - photos of parachuting forest fire fighters; Photos of Marvin S. Kite marrying Doris Press by phone; Salute of the Month - photo of Lloyd F. Oleson, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans; Before and after photos of 1st Lt. William D. Robertson, the first GI to contact the Russian Army at Torgau, Germany; and more. Nice ad for movie "The Man I Love" features photo of Ida Lupino; Light wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
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Rovere, Richard H.; Schwartz, Harry; Hamilton, Thomas J.; Gumpert, Martin; Clark, Delbert; Palmer, C.B.; Mauldin, Bill
The New York Times Magazine, March (Mar.) 22, 1953 - The Iron (Communist) Barrier
80 pages. Features: Many sensational color ladies' fashion ads; Cover photo of Dwight Eisenhower with Robert A. Taft; Interesting one-page RCA ad featuring the transistor; What Course for the Powerful Mr. Robert A. Taft?; The Iron Barrier - photos from seven frontiers where the Communists face the rest of the world - Korea, Turkey, Austira, Indo-China, Yugoslavia, Germany and Iran; Anatomy of the Russian Communisty Party - from a small band of hunted revolutionaries it has developed into a sanctuary for the privileged; U.S. and U.N. - The Choices Before Us - criticisms from the American public; We can live longer - but for What?; Danger in What We Don't Know - high school seniors show appalling ignorance of the world they live in; Class of '53 - The men leaving college this year are perhaps the most popular in years - with business, industry and the military competing; Bill Mauldin's cartoon art from three wars; Then and Now - Celebrated German Aeronaut Hugo Eckener; One page photo-illustrated ad for State of Israel Bonds entitled "Out of the Desert... A Great Chemical Industry" with photos of the new fertilzier and chemical plant at Haifa; Nice one-page ad for the 1953 Nash Rambler; Fantastic one-page color ad for colorful Crosley plastic (bakelite?) radios; Nice color ad for Cheer laundry detergent; Photos of home interior designed by architect Oskar Stonorov; Samuel Plotkin - New York City's expert on food contamination, detects it largely by tasting; Rare one-page color ad for F.W. Woolworth Co. Easter treats; and more. Above-average external wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Russell, John; Halberstam, John; Shabecoff, Philip; Esfandiary, F.M.; Plumb, B.; Claiborne, C.; Peterson, P.; Yolles, Stanley
The New York Times Magazine, February (Feb) 5, 1967 - Aubrey Beardsley Is Back
92 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Cover photo of Willy Brandt and Kurt Georg Kiesinger; Sony Reel-to-Reel tape recorder ad inside front cover; Lovely Tweed fragrance ad features flirtatious scene on aircraft; Nice color Jade East ad; The Case for a Family Allowance; Why Aubrey Beardsley is Back - nice illustrated article; Patients Who Make the Doctor Feverish; The Fox and the Bear are Cautious Partners - the unlikely alliance of a Christian Democrat and a Social Democrat has given West Germany the chance "to make a new start for the first time in 18 years'; The Mystical West Puzzles the Practical East - contemplating the West's current absorption in the past of the East; Great color-photos of The Moulin des Corbeaux near Paris was transformed from a mill into a luxurious residence for Yves Vidal by Charles Sevigny; Fashion 'Shirting' photos; How Different are Girls than Boys?; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Vogue (US) Magazine, March (Mar.) 1993 - 50 Best Jackets of the Season
434 pages. Features: Had it with Hemlines? - pants provide an answer; Baryshnikov remembers Nureyev; Inside Germany - confronting the neo-Nazi nightmare; plus spring's softer evenings, sexy sandals, brightest bags, and big news from Paris couture. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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Acheson, Dean; Hunter, Marjorie; Morris, Richard B.; Graubard, Stephen R.; Galphin, Bruce M.; Willig, John M.
The New York Times Magazine, December 15, 1963 - When a Negro is on Trial in the South
80 pages. Features:. Withdrawal from Europe "An Illustion" - we must have close co-operation with West Germany; Lest Us Reason Together - photo feature on LBJ; Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson (Lady Bird) - article with photo about the public servant without pay; The Muddled Problem of Presidential Succession - which was brought home by the death of JFK; After Five Years, de Gaulle Still Towers; The average height of Americans is increasing; A Master Builder at 75 - photo feature on the works of New York's Robert Moses; When a Negro is on Trial in the South - is the picture painted by novels and films correct?; Crosswords - the most popular game; Christmas Wraps - fashion photos; Photos of tapestries in the apartment of Allen Porter; and more.. Ads: Selchow & Righter Company board games in color; Pepperidge Farm Devil's Food Cake; Ella Fitzgerald albums by Verve; Thomas Date Nut Loaf; and more. Four-inch opening to back cover, otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
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Keeling, Ralph Franklin
Gruesome Harvest - The Costly Attempt to Exterminate the People of Germany
140 pages. Footnotes. "Portrays what Time Magazine has aptly called 'history's most terrifying peace', a peace which fully explains why many Germans are ready to turn to communism, or worse." - from Introduction. Chapters include: War Devastation; Extermination by Overcrowding; Pulling Down the Pillar of Labor; The Attach Against German Capital; Bastardizing the German Race; The People Hunger; Economic Tribulation; Teaching Democracy in Reverse; The Kremlin's Program; Facts We Must Face. Prior owner's address label atop first blank leaf. Average external wear and soiling with short opening to top of front cover. Binding intact. Contents moderately age-toned. A sound first edition copy of this important work. Book
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Lippmann, Walter; et al
Newsweek Magazine, January (Jan.) 2, 1967 - Otis Chandler Cover Photo
68 pages. Features: Jacqueline Kennedy's 'Victory' re: William Manchester's "The Death of a President"; The FDR Memorial; R. Sargent Shriver's Last Stand?; Adam Clayton Powell; Clark McAdams Clifford - man for all Caesars; War of Ambush in Vietnam; Photo of Ho Chi Minh; Turkey's Premier meets Kosygin; How to Build a Publishing Empire - Otis and Norman Chandler of the Los Angeles Times; Fernand Petiot - the Bloody-Mary Man; Sensuous KDKA-TV ad; Buel Ray Wortham and Craddock M. Gilmour, Jr. in trouble in Russia; Charming Japan Airlines ad announces their new New York to Tokyo direct flight; The Reichstag fire and the Remagen Bridge capture are back in the news in Germany; Color-photo centerfold IBM ad features large image of astronomer Dr. Wallace J. Eckert; Photo of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) with Marianne Moore; The Times-Mirror Co.; Edward (Zeke) Bratkowski; Rosemary Casals; Atomic test code-named Greeley; Father Charles Davis; How to Float on a Sea of Red Ink - The U.S. Post Office; Disney's Legacy - with photo of Roy Disney; Ravi Shankar; Lawrence Stehen Lowry; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), August (Aug.) 3, 1970 - Growing Old in America
56 pages. Features: Interview with Hugo McPherson, formerly chairman of the NFB (National Film Board); Free-form FM and Montreal's CKGM-FM; Vancouver falconer George Galicz; Photo of Strom Thurmond after being pelted with marshmallows in Pittsburgh school last January; Storm clouds for the Weathermen; Article on Charles Manson and Linda Kasabian; Hero's welcome for Army Sergeant Esequiel Torres of Brownsville, Texas; The Deep River Ancient Muster; Yes from Nasser, Dilemma for Israel; The Points of Issue in the Hostile Middle East; Soviet AN-22 crashes into the North Atlantic while delivering relief supplies to Peru; Germany - the rocky road to recognition; Cambodia - the discreet U.S. Presence; The Caribbean - 'Tourism is Whorism"; Photo of Joe Pepitone sitting on Cadillac; Street Christians - Jesus as the ultimate trip; Color photos of art dealers Ben Heller, Sam Salz, Eugene Thaw, Michael Hall, Jane Wade, Charles Slatkin, Harold Diamond, and Harold Reed; Passing of Phillip J. Lucier, Jim G. Lucas, Iain Macleod, Barry Wood, Ilse Stanley and Panayotis Pipinelis; Major article and photo of singer Bessie Smith; The Old in the Country of the Young; The Prospects for Living Even Longer - Dr. Alex Comfort; A Kingdom Besieged - John M. King of Denver; Germany's Krupp rises again; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Becker, Peter; Wetzell, Richard F.: Editors
Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
492 pages. Index. Presents recent research on the history of criminology from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy) and in Argentina, Australia, Japan, and the United States... Seeks to elucidate the relationship between criminological discourse and politics, society, and culture." - from preliminary page. Book
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Steinbeck, John; Long, Tania; Lawrence, W.H.; Gruening, Ernest; Landis, Millay, Edna; Et al
The New York Times Magazine, November 22, 1942 - The Pacific Sailor
40 pages. Features: Cover photo of naval gunners in action; Military photo-illustrated poem entitled Thanksgiving, 1942, by Edna St. Vincent Millay; Intimate Portrait of the Pacific Sailor - The Cock of the Walk; Fiery Frenchman General Henri Honore Giraud says "Always Attempt the Impossible!"; Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and his mastery of the art of surprise has been vividlly shown in recent military events; Governor Ernest Gruening tells the story of the building of the great Alaska Highway; Great one-page color Navy recruiting ad with title "You Can Fight Best Where You Fit Best" offers free training in 49 trades; The CD (Civil Defense) Army swings into full action; The Nightmares That Haunt Germany; - appearance of an American army in Africa is one; "Our Best" - Our Fliers - John Steinbeck writes of a very special kind of man on that can be welded firmly into bomber teams; Beau Catchers - great fashion photos of ladies' hats; Article on Canada's Air Fighters, with photo of Wing Comdr. Douglas Bader; Soiling to covers. Unmarked. Average wear. Moderate age-toning to contents. A sound copy of this vintage WWII issue. Book
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Slichter, Sumner H.; Laski, Harold J.; Sulzberger, C.L.; Et al
The New York Times Magazine, June 17, 1945 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower Cover Photo
48 pages. Features: Nice Dumont TV ad inside front cover features photo of Fred Allen; Nostalgic one-page color ad for Revlon's new ''Sheer Dynamite" face powder; A Formula for Avoiding a Tailspin - converting to the post-war economy; Eight great military photos of Ike, our favorite being the 2/3-page shot of him addressing members of the 29th Division, poised for the final drive into Germany; Is Tomorrow's World Going Left?; Fires That Flame Behind the Arab Crisis - lands of danger and trouble; Above and Beyond the Call of Duty - Staff Sergeant Henry Eugene Erwin of Alabama is the first B-29 crewman to win the Medal of Honor; One-page aerial photo of Osaka ablaze after devastating B-29 attack; How to Make Germans Men of Peace? - a psychiatrist prescribes a possible cure; Shortage of men means some women must learn to live alone and like it; Dean Dixon discusses his mission to bring classical music to the millions; Pro Baseball Article - "Not even the war could put a damper on baseball or on the enthusiasm of fans, with photo of the Red Sox' Cronin sliding into home plate; Lovely one-page color ad for Woodbury powder includes photo of Laraine Day; Two pages of nice dress fashion photos for women; The Bell of Okinawa - located in a pagoda beside Annapolis' Lover's Lane; Nice one-page color ad for Chen Yu nail lacquer and lipstick; and more. Average external soiling and wear. Unmarked. Moderate age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII issue. Book
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Sweanor, George; Crease, Harry
It's All Pensionable Time: 25 (Twenty-Five) Years in the Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.)
333 pages including index and glossary. Many black and white illustrations including sketches, maps, and reproductions of photos and documents. The author's Halifax bomber was shot down over Germany in March, 1943 and he was sent to POW camp Stalag Luft III, made famous by the film The Great Escape. Printed upon glossy stock. Small phone number written atop title page, otherwise unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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McQuiston, John H.
Tannoy Calling: A Story of Canadian Airmen Flying Against Nazi Germany
210 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos. "A personal and colorful account of the author's experience, and that of his crew, while serving with Bomber Command's 415 Squadron." - from Foreword. Prior owner's name and purchase details atop front free endpaper. Light wear to book. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
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Ellis, Howard Sylvester
German Monetary Theory 1905-1933: Harvard Economic Studies Volume XLIV
xv, [1], 462 pages. Index of names. Index of subjects. Bibliography. "The purposes of this book are two: to make available in summary form the content of a large literature from which many students are debarred by the obstacle of language or time, and to present critical comparisons and appraisals of its outcome in the light of monetary science generally." - from viii. Binding intact. Few library markings. Above-average external wear. A sound first edition copy of this informative reference. ALDCROFT & RODGER p.82, PETERSON p.371. Book
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Stachura, Peter D.
Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism
xiv, 178 pages. Extensive footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Gregor Strasser was the most influential and substantial leader, after Hitler, in the pre-1933 National Socialist Party. This work offers a comprehensive and scholarly assessment of Strasser's significant and ultimately tragic career, based largely upon previously unpublished German archival material. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Pencil markings to contents. Binding intact. Includes facsimile dust jacket in archival-grade Brodart. A worthy reading copy of this informative work. Book
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Melady, John
Escape from Canada!: The Untold Story of German POWs (Prisoners of War) in Canada, 1939-1945 - Macmillan Paperbacks 14
210 pages. Black and white reproductions of fascinating archival photos. Footnotes. Bibliography. During WWII "25,000 German officers and other ranks were sent to POW camps across Canada to live out the duration of the war behind barbed wire. Their fascinating story makes for exciting and provocative reading." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this little-known Canadian history. Book
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Scalia, Joseph Mark
Germany's Last Mission to Japan: The Failed Voyage of U-234
250 pages. Footnotes, bibliography, index. "The first book solely devoted to U-234. Provides a thorough examination of the 1600-ton Type XB minelaying submarine from its launch on 23 December 1943 to its surrender to an American destroyer on 15 May 1945. Evaluates the technology carried aboard - an entire ME_262 fighter and submarine stealth electronics - and places the mystery of the uranium oxide cargo in perspective." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's ink stamp inside front board and upon title page, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
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Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley; Pyke, Diana (Translator)
My First Seventy-six Years: The Autobiography of Hjalmar Schacht
vi, [2], 552 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "One of the most important autobiographies of the post-war period, for there can be few personalities still alive who have been so intimately connected with the march of world events for so many years... His first great triumph was to rescue the German Mark from the inflation of 1921... As the Nazi avalanche swelled, Hitler persuaded him to occupy the Presidential chair at the Reichsbank... but (Schacht) soon saw that the Fuhrer was driving relentlessly towards war. A quarrel resulted and he left the Government, remaining under a cloud until he was arrested towards the close of the regime." - dust jacket. Schact was later aquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg. Average wear to unmarked book. Above-average wear and soiling to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. KEHR & LANGMAID 1217, ALDCROFT & RODGER p.83. Book
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Wolff, Dr. Paul
Das Deutsche Lichtbild Jahresschau 1938 (German Photography Annual)
From the estate of Karl Gerhard, NSDAP member and leader of Deutscher Bund Canada. 14, [2], 224 pages. 144 full-page black and white photographic plates. Text in German. Fourteen wonderful glossy one-page ads for vintage photography products by Leica, Exacta, Rollieflex, Zeiss Icon, and others. Moderate wear to attractive beige publisher's cloth. Unmarked. Binding intact. Moderate toning to contents. Includes dust jacket from the 1936 yearbook. A quality copy. Book
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Author Not Stated
Harz-Braunschweig: Kyffhäuser, Elm-Lappwald, Heilbader, Kurorte, Sommerfrilchen, Fremdenoerkehrsorte (Vintage German Tourism Ephemera)
Seven-panel two-sided travel brochure. 21cm x 10 cm. Text in German. Includes five maps which indicate local transportation systems and area attractions. Undated but appears to be circa mid-1930s. Small piece missing from bottom edge with minimal loss to text, otherwise unmarked with light wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
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Author Not Stated
Cologne (Germany) On the Rhine: The Cathedral Town (Vintage Tourism Booklet)
32 page booklet intended to attract English-speaking tourists to Cologne, Germany. Profusely illustrated with attractive black and white photos of local sites and attractions, supported with English text. Soiling to illustrated covers. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Hallama, George
Travel in Germany to Beautiful Silesia (Schlesien)- Visit Breslau, the Beautiful Thousand Year Old Metropolis of Eastern Germany
24 page English-language tourist booklet illustrated with very attractive colour paintings of local scenes. Includes tourist map of Silesia (Schlesien) inside front cover. Some pages loose but all present. A worthy vintage copy of this charming piece of Silesian ephemera. Book
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Author Not Stated
Chronik Des Deutschtums in Ulberta (The Yearbook of Germans in the Province of Alberta, Canada), Heft I, 1934
From the estate of Karl Gerhard, NSDAP member and leader of Deutscher Bund Canada. 34 pages. Black and white reproductions of nostalgic photos. Considerable text, all in German. Alberta immigrant statistics. Apparently intended to document and extol the lifestyle of German immigrants in 1934 Alberta. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Baumann, Dr. Hans (Chefredakteur)
Deutschland Revue (Journal/Magazine of the German Center For Tourism) Jahrgang 1954, Heft 1
32 pages. Text in German. Printed on glossy stock. Many black and white photos plus two colour plates. Features: Kunststadt Dusseldorf; Barockkirchen in Oberbayern; Cosmas Damian Asam - St. Nepomuk vom Volke verehrt; Zunft der schwarzen Ehrbarkeit; Fulta - Stadt des Bonifatius; Bergland an der Weser; Die Nymphe mit dem Schaferhund; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Baumann, Dr. Hans (Chefredakteur)
Deutschland Revue (Journal/Magazine of the German Center For Tourism) Jahrgang 1954, Heft 3
32 pages. Text in German. Printed on glossy stock. Many black and white photos plus one colour plates. Features: Lebensfrohe Grossstadt - Augsburg; Wiedersehen with Germany! - Mary und Bill reisen durch die Bundesrepublik; Wunderwelt der Watten; Wilhelm Leibl - Frauen in der Kirche; Gipfelfahrt zum Kehlsteinhaus; Nationalpark Konigssee; Exzellenzen auf diplomatischer Buhne - 12 Kurzportats auslandischer Diplomaten; Ein Park erwacht zu neuem Leben; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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Brand, Guido K.
Picturesque Germany - Fifth (5th) Series
96 pages. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos of picturesque German scenes, apparently with a view to attracting tourists to the country. Undated but appears to be circa 1930s. Average wear. Prior owner's name on title page. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Kahn, Otto H.
Prussianized Germany: Americans of Foreign Descent and America's Cause
21 page pamphlet. From an address before the Harrisburg, PA, Chamber of Commerce, September 26, 1917. Using genteel language the author appeals to Americans to shed more of their blood and fortune in WWI (in furtherance of the Balfour Declaration). Author's "Compliments Of" bookplate inside front cover, otherwise unmarked with light wear. The more things change... Book
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Marlborough Graphics Gallery
Prints and Drawings From Germany, 1894-1931: Marlborough Catalogue No. 3 - Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Master Prints
32 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Twenty-eight prints Illustrated in colour and black and white. Features works by Edvard Munch, Kathe Kollwitz, Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Erich Heckel, Emil Nolde, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Lyonel Feininger, Emil Nolde, Otto Muller, and others. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Price list laid-in. A nice copy. Book
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Scarfe, Norman; Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (Foreword)
Assault Division: A History of the 3rd [Third] Division from the Invasion of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany
288 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Maps. Glossary. Endpaper maps of The Assault Beach and Bremen. "I had the great honour to command the 3rd Division in the early days of World War II. During those days the Division gained for itself a very fine reputation; it never failed to achieve what was required from it; it always stood firm as a rock in battle. This reputation was maintained in the campaign in North-West Europe from the assault on the beaches of Normandy until the capture of the City of Bremen; right up to the end of the war." - Foreword. Name upon verso of frontispiece photo. Narrow opening in binding at last page. Dust jacket not included. A worthy reading copy of this important history. . Book
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Lavin, Maud
Cut With the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch
xviii, 260 pages. Index, bibliography, chronology and footnotes. "Investigates the multilayered social construction of femininity in the mass culture of Weimar Germany, focusing on the intriguing photomontages of the avant-garde artist Hannah Hoch." - dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy of this fascinating work. Book
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