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2017ref. BN225397Forgotten Books 2017. 2017. Hardcover. The Miscellaneous Writings Literary Critical Juridical and Political of Joseph Story LL. D The Miscellaneous Writings Literary Critical Juridical and Political of Joseph Story LL. D Joseph Story Forgotten Books hardcover
1958Features: Report from William Pollock, President, AACA; How to Find Antiques Under Water; Honorary Member - Perry Okey - article with photos; Napier 150th Anniversary - the first British car race and its great story; Cars in Miniature - story of the International Ass'n of Automotive Modelers; A Woman Speaks - antiques will change your way of living; The Man Who Sold Duryea the Buggy That Gave America its First Automobile; Racing Memories - Targa Florio 1907; Jennis - The Only One in the World; Early Tour to Promote Roads - recalled by Leroy Eschner; You Can Still Find Them - hidden gems continue to be discovered; Duster and Veil; Curved Dash Olds Reunion; The Elmore; Monument to Karl Benz; The H.H. Franklin Club; 1958 Trek Cars; Guest Artist - Terry Lee Fergerson; Genesee Valley Meet; Tips on Restoration; Understanding Brass Plating; Restoration and Maintenance Feature - The Steering Gear - a detailed and illustrated article; Origin of the Round Grille; The Cadillac Coat of Arms; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1957xxiv, 129-194 pages. Features: Heroes of the Tractor Trails (with cover illustration) - photo-illustrated article on the men who blaze tractor trails across the frozen north to supply mines and the military; Full Ahead to Destruction - a ten million dollar smuggling operation in the Mediterranean - article with photos; Red Eyes of Evil - hunting a 15' crocodile on the Zambezi; The Temple of Snakes - five white men filming a documentary amongst the savage Arusi tribesmen find trouble; Murderers in my Kitchen - the author's two jungle workers were convicted murderers; Trapped in a Floating Tomb - an astonishing sea story from off the Prussian coast involving the "Aurora"; Tooth for a Tooth - a Scotish flyer creates trouble in the city of Kandy on Ceylon when he violates a sacred shrine; Squeeze to Freedom - the amazing escape of a British P.O.W. from a German train in WWII; Caught in a Whirlpool in the Vialala river in Eastern Papua - article with photos; Sports Day with the Veiled Warriors - the Oulliminden Tuaregs of the French Sudan - article with photos; Jungle Guinea Pigs - Sgt. Ken McConnell's Auster crashed in Malaya - his nightmare trip to safety; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
195372 pages. Features: The Caustic Genius of Sir Thomas Beecham; Christianity - Revival or Decline?; The Polish Art Treasures - colour Karsh photos of ancient and priceless heirlooms rushed from Poland at the outbreak of WWII; A Gift from the Princess - story by Mary E. Grannan - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; A Winter Vacation on a Summer-Cottage Budget - a cheap holiday for a family of four in hot Florida; Two-page colour-illustrated "Christmas Shopping Game" by Peter Whalley; An Excursion into Canada by Charles Dickens - a Maclean's flashback; The Alien - story by W.O. Mitchell - chapter 7. Average wear. External soiling. Coverfold partly open. Center page holding by one staple. Fore-edge opening to back cover which is missing 7"x2" chunk from bottom edge. Book
1918Cover Illustration - King Albert Enters Into His Own. From Mourning to Rejoicing - The Strasbourg Statue (Illustration). Exit Mediaevalism - editorial. A Surrender Without Parallel - The Great Naval Drama in the North Sea, by Percival A. Hislam. Ending the Vain Dream of German Sea-Dominion - photos. France on the Rhine - Alcase restored at last to the Alsatians - article by Hamilton Fyfe. 1870 - End of Alsace-Lorraine's Martyrdom - 1981 - Photos. Great Britain's Misused Island Gift to Germany, Heligoland (photos). Photo of General Currie taking the salute in the Grand Parade in Mons. Photo of Canadians marching through Mons. Royal welcome home for prisoners of war - photos. "The King is Coming" - story by Sydney A. Moseley. Photos of Lille during and after occupation. The Secret City of Arras - article. Tragedy of the Sea Revealed after Four Years - The H.M.S. Audacious, lost off the Irish coast - 3 photos. Pan-German Republicanism? - article by Frederic William Wile. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
1954Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book
1956Features: Killer Whale in the Net - Alaskan Diver Virgil Burford tells his tale; Take off to Trouble - Blizzard forces a crash landing in Greenland for Gerald Abrahams; Night Duel with a Bear - Young men out for fun on the Queen Charlotte Islands have a near-tragic experience; How I became a White Fulani Warrior; Toopua - I Know An Island - Part I; Soldiers of the Sky - Paratrooper John Seymour Townsend; Hekla - Gateway to Hell (the worst volcano in the world); The Night it Rained - a Northern Quebec Adventure by Ronald H. More; The Belles of Mbowe; Ask the Man Who Owns One - a story about dogs by Lt.-Col. T.A. Lowe; Little Sir Echo - Bats; Ham-Handed Hero - Harry Higgs; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
1952Features: The Envelope - The author worked in the wilds of British Columbia on a ranch where he was involved with a mix-up involving illegal whisky-peddlers and a shrewd policeman; Tough and Go - a boundary dispute in the former Italian Somaliland; The Mariba Affair - an account of an experience in Rhodesia; Seeking the Amazon's Source - Sebastian Snow and John Brown clear up the mystery beyond any reasonable doubt - photos; The Strangest House in Iceland; Timber Laden Round the Horn - a windjammer adventure; Banda Makes a Speech - a story from Ceylon; Australia's Black Trackers; Tough Prospector Breaks Curse of Lost Creek Mine, British Columbia (facsimile of news clipping); Where Adventure Beckons - a 300 mile canoe trip though Southern Ontario and Northern Minnesota, by Austin H. Phelps; Mahoney's Folly - a wierd story from Ireland related by a doctor; and more. Chipping to backstrip. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
1952Features: The Envelope - the author worked on a British Columbia ranch where he became involved in a mixup with illicit whisky-peddlers and a shrewd policeman; Touch and Go - a story from Somaliland; The Mariba Affair - a tale from the days of the South African Police in Rhodesia; Seeking the Amazon's Source - Sebastian Snow and John Brown succeeded in clearing up the mystery beyond any reasonable doubt, with several photos; Timber-Laden Round the Horn - a windjammer adventure; Banda Makes a Speech; Australia's Black Trackers; Where Adventure Beckons - a 300 mile canoe trip through southern Ontario and Northern Minnesota; Mahoney's Folly - A weird little story from Ireland; and more. Each cover partially loose. Openings to backstrip. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
1954Features: A Tigress for Escort - an amazing story of Indian big-game hunting; Football Crazy - An amazing story of the merchant navy in South Africa; Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a long-delayed 'sequel' to "The Wreck of the General Grant", originally published as far back as 1899; Garcia - by Kerry Wood of Red Deer, Alberta; Saskatchewan "Snowplanes" - includes photo of the winner of the 1938 'Derby Cup' race; The Land of Wonders - a visit to a little-known region in the heart of Turkish Anatolia; Diamonds Cut Diamonds - a quaint story from Queensland involving beachcombers collecting loot from a wrecked steamer; Search and Rescue - stirring stories of rescues by the Royal Canadian Air Force; Alpine Killer - an unusual story from the Austrian Tyrol by a chamois hunter - involves a savage ibex; The Death-Track - a white man seeks to develop land considered sacred. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
1951xxiv, 64 pages. Features: The Hunting of Harry Tracy - the 1902 account of one of the most remarkable manhunts to ever take place in America; Pete the Pelican; Between Ourselves; Sahara Safari - photo-illustrated account; Remote Control - a strange story from the Northwest frontier of India; Awachomo Natural Bridge, Utah, USA (cover illustration); Land of Blood-Feuds - photo illustrated article about the mountain people of Crete; The Death-Divers - a former Swedish deep-sea diver recounts how in 1937 he and Chief Diver Matsson were detailed to assist in the raising of a wreck off Italian Somaliland; The Throw-Back - strange story from a South American gold mine; The Night Alarm - ; Wealth on the "Skeleton Coast"; Bush Interlude; The Vanished Waggons - a remarkable story from the Northern Territory of Australia where three laden vans mysteriously disappeared from a train running south from Darwin; many nostalgic ads; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
2018ref. BN643584SCM Hänssler 2018. 2018. Selbst wenn du mich vergisst: Mein Eheglück mit einem Mann ohne Kurzzeitgedächtnis Selbst wenn du mich vergisst: Mein Eheglück mit einem Mann ohne Kurzzeitgedächtnis Schuchmann Jennifer und Laura Story SCM Hänssler unknown
1947Signed and inscribed by author atop map of the west coast on first leaf. xiv, 200 pages. Black and white photographic plates. The story of Captain William Oliver, as told by the man who replaced this pioneer of the Marine Work of the Methodist Church on the B.C. coast. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
1957xxiv, 62 pages. Features: First to Sail the Sahara - article (with cover illustration) about the Sheppard family which attempted to windsail across the Sahara Desert - with map and photos; The Bull of Contention - melons of the Bhelwah plantation in north Bihar are being destroyed by a bull antelope which the Hindus consider a sacred nilgai; The Forest Glade Murders - photo-illustrated article from Northern Rhodesia; Captain Mitchell's Last Fight - his schooner spots a U-boat in 1942 (article with photo of the U-boat); The Incredible Snake Man - "Professor" Morrisey deliberately exposed himself to venomous snake bites in Africa; Black Death - a wolf terrorizes farmers and livestock near Kamloops, B.C.; Eggs for the Prisoner - the author was accused of smuggling and imprisoned without food or drink in a cabin of a stifling Pakistani river steamer; March Macabre - horrific ant attacks while obtaining WWII rubber in Ecuador; Britain's Unmapped Outpost - St. Kilda; Trouble at Thirty Fathoms - something goes wrong while welding underwater in a fast-flowing Papua, New Guinea river; Killer Turned Preacher - last instalment of "West to Adventure", the thrilling story of the life of "Jack" Letheby, trapper, prospector and professional gambler; The Squaw's Curse - Marie was the prettiest girl in the Spalumcheen tribe near Kamloops, British Columbia; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1988245 pages. Index. Bibliography. "In 1926, four months after leaving his father's once-prosperous farm in Galicia (then a part of Poland), Jack Diamond - age 17 - got off a rickety old boat in Quebec City with a straw suitcase and barely enough money to get him to Vancouver. Ten years later he was battling Canada's national corporations for control of British Columbia's meatpacking industry. Follows Diamond from horse-and-buggy potato pedlar to king of B.C.'s thoroughbred racing; from butcher to university chancellor (SFU)... Along the way, his story is interlinked with the collapse of three European empires, the growth of Vancouver into a burgeoning metropolis and influential people including W.A.C. Bennett and Supreme Court Justice Angelo Branca." - from dust jacket. A well-researched and very readable biography of this amazing sportsman, businessman and philantropist. Will be of special interest to those whose ancestors lived in Galicia early in the last century. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
1963Features: The White Steam Car - an incredibly informative article with wonderful archival photos; Firing up a White Steamer; The Story of Herkimer - a 1907 White Steamer; 1913 National Model "40"; A 1922 Chandler; Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach; Bring back Closed Cars; Senator Norman Larson's Lady - a 1904 Queen; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1916Cover portrait of The Right Hon. Joseph Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India since June 1915. Feature: The Heroic story of the church on the battlefield. The 'Padre' in the fighting line (conclusion). Interesting photo of tunnel dug beneath a church on the Eastern Front. Multiple photos of the clergy in action. The Campaign in Mesopotamia to the Fall of Kut. Full-page photo. portrait of Major-General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, Defender of Kut-el-Amara. Iinteresting Mesopotamian centerfold photos; and more. Covers detached but present. Above-average wear. Book
1916Cover portrait of Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty - in command of the Battle-Cruiser Fleet. The undying story of the Battle of Jutland (Part II) - Cruiser Squadrons in Action. Full-page photo portrait of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden - Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet. Centerfold photo portraits of 14 British Naval leaders. The Jutland Battle - Part III - The Grand Fleet Action and Minor Cruiser Engagements. Actual photo of Admiral Beatty's Battle-Cruiser squadron - engaging the German high sea fleet off Jutland. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1916Cover portrait of The Duke of Abruzzi, First cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, Chief Commander of the Royal Italian Navy. Feature: Italy's war in vivid picture and story. Concluding portion of "The Mountain Battles for 'Italia Irredenta'. German Inhumanity to British Prisoners. Photos/Illustrations: full-page photo of Italian troops entrenching at the foot of a glacier on the Austrian Alps; Centerfold illustrations of heavy Italian artillery and before/after views of the Austrian armoured fort at Malborghetto, in the Carnic Alps; and more. Two pieces of tape inside front cover. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
ref. BN93829Hardcover. You must remember this. Die Warner Bros. Story. You must remember this. Die Warner Bros. Story. You must remember this: Die Warner Bros. story Oct 01 2008 Schickel Richard und Perry George hardcover
2019ref. BN641064BRITISH LIB 2019. 2019. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art Word War Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art Word War Breay Claire and Joanna Story BRITISH LIB unknown
ref. BN67937Titanic Story Book Cameron James unknown
1857ref. 3644FBGotha, Verlag Christian Beck, 1857. 8°. 18,5 x 12 cm. 368 Seiten. Pappband der Zeit mit geprägtem Titel auf rotem Rückenschildchen. [3 Warenabbildungen]
1940ref. 11738DBRadebeul bei Dresden, Karl-May-Verlag, [1940]. Klein-8°. 17,5 x 11,5 cm. 444, (4) Seiten. Grüner illustrierter Halbleinenband mit goldgeprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel. Original-Schutzumschlag. [3 Warenabbildungen] (= Karl May Gesammelte Werke. Band 57).
ref. 8402 parties en un volume,petit in 8 plein cuir fauve raciné. dos lisse,fers,filets dorés.double filet doré sur les plats,166,IV et 190 pages,tranches marbrées,à Berlin et à Paris F.Bastien 1780.(une coiffe réparée).recueil d'historiettes libertines,édition originale.Gay,III,197
