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1944Photos: The town of Stettin illuminated by R.A.F. flares; The Battle for Ortona; After the fall of Leros in the Aegean; General Montgomery in London; Pictures from Germany and the occupied countries; Action in the Bay of Biscay; Bomber onslaught on France; Street fighting in Ortona; Mountain warfare on the road to Rome; Scenes from the Southwest Pacific incl. Tarawe (Tarawa); and more. Nice Daimler advert. on back cover. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1922ref. 71322Miles City MT: Students Association of Custer High School 1922-23. First edition of this student newspaper. Folio. 29 consecutive issues commencing in October of 1922 and ending in May of 1923. Each issue is 4 pages and all are filled with new of Custer High School. Numerous ads for local businesses. Bound together in quarter cloth over marbled boards. Very good.This file belonged to William W. Boorse the student business manager of the paper. Miles City named after general Nelson Miles was and is a smallish town in Montana. This effort is substantial given the population and the fact the it comes from the only high school in the area. More than likely it was the all year project of the Printing Department. There are many articles about the local football team. Vol. # No. 1 laid in. Students Association of Custer High School hardcover
194716"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Fascinating photos and text present harsh life behind bars for Netherlands black market criminals; Beautiful large photo of Penny Edwards - discovered for movies because of her 'lovely legs'; Colour ad for Chase & Sanborn coffee; Armadillos on Texas Farm turned into lampshades by Mr. Apelt; King of Lumberjacks - Benoit Turcotte averages 3.5 cords a day - fantastic photos and text *Will be of considerable interest to anyone who has marvelled at William Kurelek's book "Lumberjack"; Icebreaker - opening of Stl Lawrence ship channel marks the first coming of spring - with photos of icebreaker the N.B. McLean at work in the St. Lawrence; Experiment in Socialism - A.J. Cummings reviews Labor's 20 months of office in London; Bulls and Banderilleros - Mexico ads new color to the traditional Spanish sport of bullfighting - photo and article; NHL Hockey Playoffs Are Here Again - Article and photos of (much smaller) Stanley Cup; Experts predict world mineral supplies will not last another war - major article by C. Fred Bodsworth; Big Business Comes to Ste. Marie - story by Eric Morris; Roy Thomson and Jack Kent Cooke - They Built a warehouse of radios into a gangling Canadian business empire - photo and article; Leave it to the Ladies - fiction by Gregory Clark; The Peer and the Pit-Lamp - fiction by Peter Carter-Page; A Lady to Dinner - fiction by Marsden Starkey; 20 page colour comics section; Prescription for Murder - fiction by Jane Layhew; Amazing photo of a "Snow Egg" on Plateau Mountain in northern B.C.; Pint-Size Pottery - Mrs. Trasey Bond lives near New Westminster, B.C. - photos and article; Isaac Kert creates crossword puzzles - photo and article; New Diamond Industry beginning in Montreal - Julius Gutwurcel and Hermann Good and their diamon cutting operation in the CNR's Bonaventure station - photos and article; Richard Pifer - leader of northwestern Ontario's Secession Movement - photo and article; Electronic Piano - Don L. Hings is in charge of the Vancouver Electronic Laboratories - great article and photos; Net Factory - The manufacture of fishing nets at Drummondville, Quebec - interesting article and photos; Photo of Canadian WREN Frances Conley - Canada's newest screen starlet; Randi Andersen - flew to northern Manitoba on a picture-taking assignment and stayed to become the region's most beautiful prospector - story with photo; Geophysics Expert Dr. John Tuzo Wilson; U.S. company General Analine and Film Corp. received secret patents from Hitler's scientific plotters; Fishwife Extraordinary - Margaret Chambers of Toronto manages four highly-successful fish shops; Streamline Your Bathroom - design article with illustrations; Dorothy Henzel Willis Paints Her Dreams - photo with article; Hope for the Blind - Canadian government seeks to help Canada's 14,000 blind persons; Sports News; Story and photo of "Knucker" Burns of Halifax - the Boston Bruins' number one long-distance fan; Roger Whynott of Mahone Bay, NS - Middleweight Champ - photo and article; First Canadian surgery to insert esophagus into baby at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children - illustration and story; Flying Fairies - Arthur Kirby Trains Aerial Ballets for England's Theatre Pantomimes - wonderful photos with brief write-up; Water Polo Revial in Montreal under the coaching of Jimmy Rose - write-up and photos; Barmen's School - Stan Owen and Pat Morell train 200 bartending students after 31 arid years in Toronto; Great colour ad for Horlicks Malted Milk on back page; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Unmarked. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
ref. 0331032805.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 0331321777.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1938ref. 2573Medicine Lake Mt. 1938. Very good. 90pp. containing 147 photographs as well as newspaper clippings ephemera and several manuscripts. Folio. Original green cloth stamped in black. Light soiling and wear to covers. Internally clean one or two items loose. A charming scrapbook kept by Antoinette Olsen Faaborg documenting her married life. Antoinette 1891-1969 married Simon Carl Faaborg 1885-1938 in North Dakota in 1919 settling afterward in Medicine Lake Montana. At the time Medicine Lake had a population of about 300 people. Clippings in the album indicate that Simon was a banker originally from Iowa who served for a year during the Great War before marrying Antoinette. The couple had a daughter Norma Lucia. Images here show their wedding photos their early life together and their daughter's childhood. There are images of their house the bank of Simon in his military uniform and numerous family events. There are also many Christmas cards newspaper clippings and other ephemeral memorial items included. Altogether an interesting portrait of one family's life together over twenty years in Montana. unknown
1938ref. 2573Medicine Lake Mt. 1938. Very good. 90pp. containing 147 photographs as well as newspaper clippings ephemera and several manuscripts. Folio. Original green cloth stamped in black. Light soiling and wear to covers. Internally clean one or two items loose. A charming scrapbook kept by Antoinette Olsen Faaborg documenting her married life. Antoinette 1891-1969 married Simon Carl Faaborg 1885-1938 in North Dakota in 1919 settling afterward in Medicine Lake Montana. At the time Medicine Lake had a population of about 300 people. Clippings in the album indicate that Simon was a banker originally from Iowa who served for a year during the Great War before marrying Antoinette. The couple had a daughter Norma Lucia. Images here show their wedding photos their early life together and their daughter's childhood. There are images of their house the bank of Simon in his military uniform and numerous family events. There are also many Christmas cards newspaper clippings and other ephemeral memorial items included. Altogether an interesting portrait of one family's life together over twenty years in Montana. unknown books
ref. 138778658X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 76730Chillicothe Ohio: The Scioto Society Inc. Very Good. N.D. First Edition. Single Sheet Folded. This promotional prospectus for The Sugarloaf Amphitheatre is soft-bound a single sheet folded to created a booklet. There is some toning to the edges of the covers. The contents are bright and clean with black & white and color illustrations. Mentions Tecumseh! By Allan W. Eckert. . The Scioto Society, Inc. unknown books
ref. 09211508Paperback. Good. Softcover. Front cover has a crease. Back cover has a 1.5 inch crease with a one inch tear at the bottom edge. No writing. paperback
1960Small spots on cover. Tears on worn dust jacket. Age-toned paper. 186 pages.
1997ref. A110210Bogota: Villegas 1997. 1st edition. Near Fine. quarto. hardback with dust jacket 223pp. col. pls. bibliog. index Superb production Villegas hardcover
1971ref. 20181Fort Worth: Western Heritage Press 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition no additional printings; SIGNED by Hornung on title page here at Page 1 Books on 11 August 2019; 8vo brown cloth; vg cocked; shelfworn; white mark on very bottom edge of rear board; spine ends bumped and rubbed; corners worn; top corners of pp 13-4 17-8 31-2 37-8 and 45-6 creased; edges eps and pages toned in good dj toned; spine faded; rear panel soiled; edges chipped torn worn and creased; spine head chipped off; two inch chip to top edge of rear panel; 202pp. Western Heritage Press hardcover
ref. 0484755595.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1973236 p. Profusely illustrated in color. Small 4to. Original faux leather binding embossed in the style of saddle leather. Front board decorated with a color oval portrait of The Trapper by Charles Deas. Hardbound. Near fine. W9
2019ref. 1-1599621533Welcome Books 2019. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 10.50x10.50x1.00 inches. Welcome Books hardcover
1960ref. 231891960. Labor Industrial rock drilling photograph archive documenting Gardner Denver and drill carrier machinery in factory yard and field settings circa 1960s recording how specialized drilling equipment was designed serviced and operated in steep-cut and tunnel construction environments. The group centers on crawler-mounted drills compressor-fed hose systems and rail-mounted heavy equipment photographed both as machines and in use by work crews. Gardner Denver is identified directly by company stamps and visible signage while the field views place the machinery within active excavation and blasting work rather than isolated product display. Photo archive of 19 Large silver gelatin photographs all 8 x 10 inches Quincy Illinois and unidentified mountain construction sites circa 1960s. Views include operators seated or standing at tracked drill carriers on exposed rock faces; close mechanical studies of valves feed assemblies hoses and fittings; factory-yard portraits of articulated drill rigs parked on pavement; and a large rail-mounted drilling platform photographed on tracks with crew members standing above it. Several photographs show men in work clothes and caps monitoring or operating the machines on steep slopes with forested ridgelines behind them. One image records a tunnel portal marked BLUE MOUNTAIN with adjacent heavy construction equipment and rails leading into the opening. Blue Mountain Tunnel belonged to the original Pennsylvania Turnpike system opened in 1940 and by the 1960s it stood within a corridor undergoing major modernization as rising traffic as Americans in the postwar years increasingly relied on automobile ownership suburban commuting and highway expansion ultimately reshaping infrastructure construction and everyday mobility from the late 1940s through the 1960s. Advances in carrier-mounted rock drilling concentrated labor on machine operation positioning maintenance and coordinated blasting making work at Blue Mountain Tunnel faster more systematized and less dependent on earlier hand-held drilling methods. After World War II postwar conditions produced the demand capital and public-works agenda that made this machinery necessary: rising automobile traffic highway expansion tunnel widening and large earthmoving projects pushed contractors toward faster more powerful and more standardized drilling systems. Drilling was one of the mechanical developments that transformed rock excavation in the 1950s and 1960s and moved from more limited portable systems toward carrier-mounted equipment able to work faster more consistently and on more difficult terrain for highway cuts tunnel approaches and other large infrastructure projects. Because the group includes stamped manufacturer views shop and yard photographs working machine close-ups and field operation scenes it shows the full operating system of industrial drilling technology rather than a single machine in isolation. Light handling wear and minor curling at edges; one print with blueprint attached to verso; all images otherwise clean and in good condition. Depicting the industrial postwar boom and infrastructure investments carried out by mid-century American excavation technology manufacturer documentation and construction labor in practice. unknown
1960ref. 231891960. Labor Industrial rock drilling photograph archive documenting Gardner Denver and drill carrier machinery in factory yard and field settings circa 1960s recording how specialized drilling equipment was designed serviced and operated in steep-cut and tunnel construction environments. The group centers on crawler-mounted drills compressor-fed hose systems and rail-mounted heavy equipment photographed both as machines and in use by work crews. Gardner Denver is identified directly by company stamps and visible signage while the field views place the machinery within active excavation and blasting work rather than isolated product display. Photo archive of 19 Large silver gelatin photographs all 8 x 10 inches Quincy Illinois and unidentified mountain construction sites circa 1960s. Views include operators seated or standing at tracked drill carriers on exposed rock faces; close mechanical studies of valves feed assemblies hoses and fittings; factory-yard portraits of articulated drill rigs parked on pavement; and a large rail-mounted drilling platform photographed on tracks with crew members standing above it. Several photographs show men in work clothes and caps monitoring or operating the machines on steep slopes with forested ridgelines behind them. One image records a tunnel portal marked BLUE MOUNTAIN with adjacent heavy construction equipment and rails leading into the opening. Blue Mountain Tunnel belonged to the original Pennsylvania Turnpike system opened in 1940 and by the 1960s it stood within a corridor undergoing major modernization as rising traffic as Americans in the postwar years increasingly relied on automobile ownership suburban commuting and highway expansion ultimately reshaping infrastructure construction and everyday mobility from the late 1940s through the 1960s. Advances in carrier-mounted rock drilling concentrated labor on machine operation positioning maintenance and coordinated blasting making work at Blue Mountain Tunnel faster more systematized and less dependent on earlier hand-held drilling methods. After World War II postwar conditions produced the demand capital and public-works agenda that made this machinery necessary: rising automobile traffic highway expansion tunnel widening and large earthmoving projects pushed contractors toward faster more powerful and more standardized drilling systems. Drilling was one of the mechanical developments that transformed rock excavation in the 1950s and 1960s and moved from more limited portable systems toward carrier-mounted equipment able to work faster more consistently and on more difficult terrain for highway cuts tunnel approaches and other large infrastructure projects. Because the group includes stamped manufacturer views shop and yard photographs working machine close-ups and field operation scenes it shows the full operating system of industrial drilling technology rather than a single machine in isolation. Light handling wear and minor curling at edges; one print with blueprint attached to verso; all images otherwise clean and in good condition. Depicting the industrial postwar boom and infrastructure investments carried out by mid-century American excavation technology manufacturer documentation and construction labor in practice. unknown books
ref. 1332427030.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 0332867676.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19558vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. A story of climbing adventure set in the smaller Welsh mountains to the west of Snowdon. Scarce.
ref. 1026050898.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1930ref. 45307162London: The Covenant Publishing Co. Ltd. Fair with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Claims to completely vindicate British-Israel teaching. Claims the Anglo-Saxon race are lineal descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel who were taken away as captives to Assyria about the years 770-721 B.C. by Tiglath Pileser Ahalmaneser and Sargon. Claims the Almighty is today fulfilling in Anglo-Saxons in their British Empire the national promises he made between three and four thousand years ago to Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Israel and David and that in fact they are British Israelites - literal descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes; the continuation of the Israel nation; the inheritors of her Charters; the possessors of her guarantees and immunities from destruction; and the executors of her commissions. A fascinating exposition. Average wear and soiling. Former owner's inkstamp upon front endpaper. Few library markings. Yellowed tape ghosts to endpapers. A worthy reading copy. ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; The Triumph of British-Israel - a Reply to Rev. D. Lee Pitcairn Mr. George Goodman Mr. Avary H. Forbes and Others 336 pages plus index and advertisements. Frontis is black and white plate of author. Completely vindicates British-Israel teaching. Cla . The Covenant Publishing Co. Ltd. hardcover
1956ref. 59053New York: Random House 1956. 8vo. 8 214 pp. Illusts. 1 double page. Red publisher’s cloth black & yellow lettering on spine slight shelfwear very slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art of Forest Service ranger & helicopter fighting forest fire very slight chipping at foot of spine NF/NF copy. Second printing of this scarce juvenile mystery set in the Northern Rocky Mountains involving the U.S. Forest Service Forest fires and smokejumpers working to prevent the theft of a shipment of Platinum. Atwater 1904-1976 born in Baker City OR and Harvard grad worked as a Montana racher and trapper forest ranger and was WWII 10th Mountain Division veteran. Later through his work at Wasatch National Forest he became known as the father of the Snow Avalanche work in the U.S. and this title has become very scarce. Random House, hardcover
193251 pages including index and 7 attractive colour plates, as well as line diagrams. Features species include: Steelhead Trout; Kamloops Trout; Coastal Cut-Throat Trout; Yellowstone Cut-Throat Trout; Mountain Cut-Throat Trout; Hybrid Trout; Atlantic Salmon; Brown Trout; Dolly Varden; Great Lake Trout; Eastern Speckled Trout; Spring Salmon; Coho Salmon; Kokanee; Grayling; and the Rocky Mountain Whitefish. Clearly legible gilt lettering upon forest green front board. Binding open at page 36. Small faint cup ring upon front board else average wear and bumping. Inside front board are the following: Office of Supervisor of Fisheries rubber stamp dated 1932, prior owner's written name, and a sticker approximately 3"x 4" which reads "Note: This publication is the property of the Department of Fisheries. It is to be kept in good state of preservation and is to be surrendered to the Department upon termination of service of any officer who may be supplied with a copy. No. 14". A nice copy of this informative and sentimental reference. Book
