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1900rif. 104015Slnd (ca 1900) 1900 In-12 oblong, dos toilé, plats à décors nacrés, 23 photogravures à pleine page, coloriées et légendées en anglais. Plats un peu ternis, le second griffé.
rif. 1787Retaux-Bray, Libraires-Editeurs, Paris, circa 1890.
rif. 12067Bruxelles, Aux Editions du Nord, 1929. Tirage à 1076 exemplaires destinés à la vente et 48 exemplaires hors commerce (celui-ci No 672 sur vélin Allura). 1 volume in-8, broché, sous couverture souple illustrée et rempliée, 283 pp., enrichi de nombreuses illustrations naïves et colorées in texte et hors texte de Pierre Falké. Très bon exemplaire.
rif. 11572Paris, Just Rouvier - A. Ledoyen, 1853. 1 volume in-8, 466 pp., reliure ancienne demi-basane, plats cartonnés marbrés, dos lisse, intérieur présentant quelques traces claires de mouillure, bon état général.
1942A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Cover illustrations of old Watch Cocks; Alsatian Knit Carpet frontispiece illustration (1706); Knitting - a little-known field for collectors; Watch Cocks as Collectibles; Prints After Lost Paintings by William Sidney Mount; New Bottles for Old Wine - American Artisan, Amateur, and Folk Paintings; Antiques in Domestic Settings - The New York Apartment of Mrs. Clendenin J. Ryan Sr.; Chippendale Influence in a Philadelphia Sofa - attributed to Jonathan Gostelowe (c. 1745-1795); The Hornbook for Collectors - The ABC's of American Windsor Chairs; Admiral Dewey - The First Hero of Manila; Pots for celestial beverages; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 221-280. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
1906350 pages. Index. "In the following letters, written during a stay of nine months in the Philippine Islands, I tried to convey to those at home a faithful impression of the country I was in and the people I met." - from Introduction. Above-average wear. Sturdy library binding remains intact. Please note: map and several plates not included. Book
1936Features: The last stretch - in which a man squares himself with a horse (Max Brand); The Natural Thing - the happy consequences of bringing strangers home for dinner (Petere Paul O'Mara); Manila (Philippines) Merry-go-round - Mr. and Mrs. Ramirez at home (Jim Marshall); Little Red Rooster - a girl to crow about (Blake Cabot); Hand in Glove - Tony Canzoneri - a good little man (Quentin Reynolds); Meals a la Cart - Streamlined Eating (Ruth Carson); The Prodigal Nurse, Part IX - Mrs. Daklin takes a hand (Teresa Hyde Phillips); Fog on the Bay - Modern piracy in New York Harbour (Paul Deresco Augsburg); Comedy - Six days a week - Edward Everett Horton, funny fellow (Kyle Chrichton); Three in a Row, by James Aswell; Trouble Shooter, Part V - a wedding is scheduled (Ernest Haycox); Cancellation comes home - why pay your debts? (George Creel); Keep up with the world - Things you never expected (Freling Foster). Colour ad for Camel cigarettes reads "For Digestion's Sake... Smoke Camels!" Great colour GM centerfold. Average wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1945Contents: Color Parker pen ad inside front cover; Nice ad for International Harvedster crawler tractors; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color Packar Car ad - a Patriotit Hoarder!; Color Texaco ad; Washington's higher wage plan fails to meet U.S. strike crisis - Administration behind pay boost of at least 15%; Dodge truck ad; Behind Anglo-US Peace Line-up lies horror of Atom Bomb War; Irma Grese - the lady butcher confesses; Swiss Stake - war paid off, peace pockets are empty; Photo of General Yamashita and friends dining on Army chow in a Manila prison; Marshall weighs war and peace - 'Keep our arms, Train our men!' - urges year of service for America's Citizen Army; Color ad for Oldsmobile, with Hydra-matic drive; General Patton - The Mouth; David Dubinsky - leader of the 360,000 member International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Now Chemical War Secrets of the war can be told - with photos and long article; red Rio truck ad; Photo of schoolboys throwing banned Nazi flags and textbooks on a bonfire in Cologne; 1945 World Series; Color TWA ad; Higgins boat ad; Nice color Diamond T truck ad; Nice color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
rif. 4000Manila P.I.:: Central Station and Offices . Not illustrated; single sheet printed on both sides 10 33 inches accordion folded to 10 4 inches. The Manila Railroad was founded by the Spanish in the 1880s. After the Spanish American War the Americans took over control and before WWII there was quite a network on Luzon amounting to some 700 miles of track when the Japanese were approaching Luzon the Americans and the Philippine army destroyed much of the infrastructure. When the Allies finally took back the Islands there was only 452 usable miles of track.This timetable was for the Northern line and was published just a year before the Southern Line opened which ran from Manila to Legazpi on the Bicol Peninsula at the southern tip of Luzon. Attempts to build back the Philippine rail system have been many and sporadic and have been hampered by hurricane and volcano damage by illegal settlement on the rights of way and by general inertia Manila, P.I.:: Central Station and Offices, ,. unknown
rif. 4000Manila P.I.:: Central Station and Offices . Not illustrated; single sheet printed on both sides 10 33 inches accordion folded to 10 4 inches. The Manila Railroad was founded by the Spanish in the 1880s. After the Spanish American War the Americans took over control and before WWII there was quite a network on Luzon amounting to some 700 miles of track when the Japanese were approaching Luzon the Americans and the Philippine army destroyed much of the infrastructure. When the Allies finally took back the Islands there was only 452 usable miles of track.This timetable was for the Northern line and was published just a year before the Southern Line opened which ran from Manila to Legazpi on the Bicol Peninsula at the southern tip of Luzon. Attempts to build back the Philippine rail system have been many and sporadic and have been hampered by hurricane and volcano damage by illegal settlement on the rights of way and by general inertia Manila, P.I.:: Central Station and Offices, ,. unknown books
2003rif. __1843762641Edward Elgar Pub 2003. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 400 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.00 inches. Edward Elgar Pub hardcover
1976rif. DNIieMAN42Manila: 1976. 1976. folio. pp. unpaginated. biblio. 96 full-page colour illus. 1 double-page colour map & colour portrait of Imelda. cloth. dw. edges little chipped. cloth slipcase little worn. First Edition. F. Hardcover. Manila: 1976. Hardcover
1886rif. PHO-2621Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1886, in-12, VIII-351 pp., pleine toile, pièce de titre au dos. Reliure sale, ressauts de feuillets, coutures lâches, manque en marge sur 3 feuillets, 1 gravure avec manque, carte déchirée sans manque.
1945108 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Fiberglas ad shows military water tank in Pacific war theatre; Nice photo ad for the National Dairy Products Corp. features sailors doing laundry in South Pacific; United States Rubber ad features tractor tires from 1941 and tank tires from 1945; Uncommon E.H. Scott Radio ad features photo of E.H. Scott; Nice one-page two-color ad for Baldwin diesel locomotives; AiResearch ad features photo of Eddie Rickenbacker; Nice photo ad for Bristol Brass of Bristol, CT features snarly executive; Japs Lose Hope - Nazis Hide Away - Major war coverage; Amazing photos of Third Army rolling two columns along an autobahn while a massive column of prisoners marches the other way; Down Together - Wehrmacht and People; Photos of emaciated US POWs from near Limburg; Nazis killed Vienna's Spirit - Now they doom its beauty to ruin; Sea Blockade by Air - The Modern Way; Nice one-page color ad for Borden's features Elsie the Cow; Dodge Truck ad features nice photo of milkman; Veterans' Administration Under Fire - Hospitals said to be mismanaged; The Crumbling Reich; Nice one-page color ad for Johnson's Wax features photo of Fibber McGee and Molly; Ann Mealer of the Army Nurse Corps; Hunger in Manila; Photo of Billy Hamilton of Brooklyn who is the champion paper collector of his neighborhood; Really nice one-page ad for New York Central shows many jobs/services provided on their passenger trains; Futuristic lawn mower on one-page ad for Bohn; 1941 photo of Japan's Matsuoka signing neutrality pact with Stalin and many others; Lost battles and slap from Moscow shake props of Jap ruling clique; While Holland Starves; Nice color-photo Kokak ad; Photo of L/Cpl. James Howe and his mother Pvt. Minnie Howe of Collingwood, Ontario; Great one-page photo ad for Speed Nuts shows B-29 over Tokyo; Battle against Pellagra in Deep South; Photo of Babe Ruth as wrestling referee; Nice one-page two-color ad encourages people to move to Seattle; A planned economy for Germany; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194974 pages. Features: I Stole a Million (part 1 of 2 - Insurance Fraudster David Schiffer; Hell on Ice - Ice boating; It's Smart to be Stupid; The Greatest Drug Since Penicillin - Chloromycetin; A Murder a Minute; Peak of a Skyline - The Empire State Building; Nightmare in Santo Tomas - Robert Robb was kept prisoner by the Japanese in Manila; Penny and Me - number 6 in a series devoted to America's top comic strips; Tulsa, Oklahoma - Great Aerial color photo; Red Hysteria Pleases Moscow - back page editorial. Short Stories: The Girl Who Wasn't For Sale; Tiger, Tiger; A Time to Mourn; The Three-Cornered Heart; Mrs. O'Brien Cures The Seven-Year Itch; Ringside Maiden (part 6 of 8); Ads for: Philco televisions, Heinz Soups - super two-page ad, 1949 Ford cars, Chesterfield cigarettes back cover color photo ad featuring Joan Fontaine and Van W. Daniel of Ruffin, N.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
rif. 11571Paris, Just Rouvier - A. Ledoyen, 1853. 1 volume in-8, 466 pp., reliure ancienne demi-basane, plats cartonnés marbrés, dos à nerfs orné de caissons, intérieur très frais, très bon état général.
rif. 13467Paris, Just Rouvier - A. Ledoyen, 1853. 1 volume in-8, 466 pp., reliure ancienne demi-basane, plats cartonnés marbrés, dos à nerfs orné de caissons, intérieur très frais, très bon état général.
rif. 8386Paris, Just Rouvier - A. Ledoyen, 1853. 1 volume in-8, 466 pp., reliure ancienne demi-basane, plats cartonnés marbrés, dos à nerfs orné de caissons, intérieur très frais, très bon état général.
1945rif. List3159Manila The Philippines 1945. Twenty-one photos: twelve measuring 2 ½ x 2 ½ inches most with stamped captions verso; nine measuring 2 x 3 ¾ inches most with captions on negative. Some wear; excellent. Imperial Japan occupied the Philippines from 1942 until its surrender in 1945. From early February to early March of 1945 American and Filipino forces fought to drive the Japanese out of the Philippines’ capital city of Manila. Though successful this campaign was incredibly destructive to both the infrastructure of Manila and to its people—including mass murder and rape of Filipino civilians by Japanese forces. Offered here are twenty-one photographs of buildings taken before and after the destruction of the city with most the twelve smaller photos showing the aftermath. Locations include several churches and university buildings the treasury building legislative building Manila Central Post Office and others. The photos taken after the battle are arresting showing Manila’s ruined architecture burnt out trees and downed power lines. unknown
1945rif. List3159Manila The Philippines 1945. Twenty-one photos: twelve measuring 2 ½ x 2 ½ inches most with stamped captions verso; nine measuring 2 x 3 ¾ inches most with captions on negative. Some wear; excellent. Imperial Japan occupied the Philippines from 1942 until its surrender in 1945. From early February to early March of 1945 American and Filipino forces fought to drive the Japanese out of the Philippines’ capital city of Manila. Though successful this campaign was incredibly destructive to both the infrastructure of Manila and to its people—including mass murder and rape of Filipino civilians by Japanese forces. Offered here are twenty-one photographs of buildings taken before and after the destruction of the city with most the twelve smaller photos showing the aftermath. Locations include several churches and university buildings the treasury building legislative building Manila Central Post Office and others. The photos taken after the battle are arresting showing Manila’s ruined architecture burnt out trees and downed power lines. unknown books
1905rif. 78759n9Manila: Limited Edition for Private Distribution 1905. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original grey flexible cloth covers with gilt titles to front. Moderate surface and shelf-wear to covers; edges and endpapers toned. A presentation inscription by author on front endpaper as follows: Lieut. James J. McLain / Compliments of the Author." Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. xvi186pp. Limited Edition for Private Distribution Hardcover
1926Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Paymaster's Dillemma - A story of American Army life in Manila; The "Place of the Evil Spirit" - The history of Strathcona National Park on Vancouver Island, with photos; The Blind Seer - A curious story of native "magic" in Egypt showing how a blind "wizard" undertook to discover a thief; Fighting the Dingo - The greatest menace to the prosperity of Australian sheep-farmers - with intersting photos; The Saving of Montague Smith - A West African, condemned to death, evades the death-penalty and turns his 'execution' into a roaring farce; On Patrol in Cannibal Papua - interesting leaves from the log of a Patrol Officer in primitive Papua - with fascinating photos; "Poppy" - A strange story from the wild Bushveld country of South Africa; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part III - Jack McLaren spent years settling on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula; At the End of a Rope - A tale from the oilfields of Venezuela; Two Men on a Raft - Two railroad workers try to navigate a swift stream in the Canadian Rockies on a raft; What Happened to Murphy - A young officer of the Burma Military Police sets out to find a Chinese gambling den in the jungle; Schearer's Man-Hunt - A vivid story about the dogged devotion to duty of a young "Wild Cat" (i.e. Pennsylvania State Policeman); In the Shadow of the Gallows - A timber-cruiser for the Conrad Martin Timber and Exporting Company, of San Francisco, wakes up to find his bed-fellow lying dead, stabbed in the heart with his knife; Some African Snake Stories - Patrick Bowen has been an explorer and hunter in Africa for thirty years. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1930Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Man Who Was Buried Alive - Part I - The Amazing Adventures of the "Marquis de Champaubert"; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part VI (conclusion) - John Gibbons wraps up his amusing walking tour of Southern Italy; A Himalayan Marriage Market - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article about a quaint annual fair where all eligible girls of the district assemble to be inspected by young men with a view to marriage; Filming in the Wilds - Part III of Major C. Lestock Reid's account of his major adventures attempting to film an adventure story in the Far East, this time in Indo-China - with two photos of Angkor Wat; A Deal in Diamonds - Dr. T. Hilding Svartengren was nearly swindled out of a fortune in Paris; The Town of Ghosts - Walter F. King discovers a deserted mining camp in the High Sierras which was abandoned in haste; Wreck-Hunting - For fifty years Herbert J. Gibson of Penzance, Cornwall, has built a photographic record of the ships driven onto the local rock-bound coasts - article with many dramatic photos; "Monty" The Man-Eater - Part I - One of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; The Ship of Mystery - The strange last voyage of a vessel to Manila where a soldier of fortune hoped to profit by the ship's cargo; Premonition - Can a man prevent his death after he has had a premonition of it?; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
1899Pages 588-610. Features: Cover illustration by Ernest L. Blumenschein entitled "Wards of the Nation - Their First Vacation From School" depicts a Native American scene; British Problems in Asia; This Busy World; The Passing of John Barrett, United States Minister to Siam; Photos from the Philippines - Admiral Dewey Going for a Drive Around Manila, Admiral Dewey at the Office of the Captain of the Port at Manila, Dakota and Montana Troops Crossing Wrecked Bridge over the Rio Grande; The Philippine Revolt - The Malolos Campaign; Photos and write-ups of these men in the news - Frank Thomson of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Major Arthur M. Diggles who was lost in the Malolos Campaign, Augustin Daly, Rev. W.H.P. Faunce of Brown University, and George K. Nash, Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio; Full-page illustration by W.A. Rogers entitled "Conquering a Desert in Southern Arizona"; A page of photos and illustrations along the route of the proposed Nicaragua Canal; The Nicaragua Canal in Sight - article by Francis E. Leupp; Ballad of Leiutenant Miles; Two-page centerfold compilation of photos and illustration depicting the proposed Nicaragua Canal, the country through which it will pass, and the people along the route; Hawaiian-America; An American Sovereign (continued); Amateur Sport - considerable text with six photos; Poem To Augustin Daly; The Conspirators (continued); Great vintage ads, including an illustrated one for the Columbia Bevel-Gear Chainless Bicycle from the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Conn. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
198190 pages. Wonderful colour and black and white photography. Features: Two pages of colour photos of hunky and sweaty topless Jackie Chan in denim overals posing with antique hand truck; Nice colour foldout photos of Lin Fung Chiao; Manila International Film Festival; Colour one-page photo of Jackie Chang swinging from lamppost; Two pages of colour photos of Lin Fong Chiao, Chin Han, and Kenny Bee; Two pages of lovely colour photos of Kenny Bee and Ming Ming; Two beautiful pages of colour photos of Peng Hsueh Fun; One-page colour photo of Ou Yang Ling Lung; The 36 Goldmen; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
