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1761pp. (1) [Title page], (1) ["Advertisement"], (1) ["Dramatis Personae" - a list of the 7 male actors and the 6 women actors, and the roles they play], 106, (2) [Advertisement by the publisher/printer Paul Vaillant offering for sale 24 plays, including four by David Garrick]. 8vo. 5.25 x 8". Some page repairs. Disbound. Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), Irish actor and dramatist, first became an actor in 1754, playing many important roles. He then wrote and produced a series of farces (which were almost all adaptations from the French) that were very successful, securing for their author both fame and wealth. Murphy edited a political periodical, called the Test, in support of Henry Fox, by whose influence he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, although he had been refused at the Middle Temple in 1757 on account of his connection with the stage. Murphy also wrote a biography of Fielding, an essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson and translations of Sallust and Tacitus. FIRST EDITION. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140
1953128p. Cartoon illustrations by Al Ross. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. Rainbow paperback. Original color pictorial wraps slightly worn at extremities. Nice copy. GAMES BOX 4
1942n.p. Illustrated with numerous cartoons from the New Yorker. First and last few signatures foxed. Folio. Original full paper boards binding, cloth backed. Binding somewhat stained and worn. HUMOR 5
194632 p. Illustrated. Text printed in English. 8vo. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps. Very good PA GER-ENG PAMP BX2/BAG 33 x3
1942320 p. Illustrated with drawings by Pete Boyle. . Small 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, with printed paper labels. Dust jacket, worn. The back of the DJ has an appeal from the author (Frances Eisenberg) to buy War Bonds and savings stamps. The illustrator of this book was Pete Boyle, an artist and popular children's show host in Philadelphia. He was the father of "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Peter Boyle (who may have a longer lasting legacy as the monster in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Hardbound. Very Good. First Edition. HUMOR 4
1824Two Volumes bound in one: pp. 323; 347. Engraved bookplate of Macaulay. 12mo. 185 mm. Later 19th century binding. Leather spine over marbled covered boards. Spine decorated and lettered in gold gilt, worn and repaired. Hardbound. Good. Hook was an English man of letters and composer, and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first postcard was received by Hook in 1840, which he probably posted to himself. While he was confined in a debtors sponging-house from (1823-1825), he wrote the nine volumes of stories afterwards collected under the title of Sayings and Doings. After various successes Hook returned to his old habits and a prolonged attempt to combine industry and dissipation resulted in the confession that he was done up in purse, in mind and in body. His estate was seized by the Treasury. He never married but lived with Mary Anne Doughty and they had six children. Hook was one of the most brilliant figures of Georgian times. He inspired the characters of Lucian Gay in Benjamin Disraeli's novel Coningsby and Mr Wagg in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Coleridge praised him as being 'as true a genius as Dante'. First American edition. SCARCE. S&S/AI 16576. PAIMP 23
in-8°, 311 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, relie cartonnage ed., jaquette ill. plast. Jaq. leg. us. [CA26/0]
in-12, 191 pages, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [CA2/3]
In-8 étroit, 221 p., dessins in-t., relié cartonnage illustré. Défauts d'usage. [P-19]
Paperback in-8, 189 pp - Some spine wear. Small moisture stain on cover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. [P-16]
1989176 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Are we and our children being bulldozed into extinction, or have we had enough of this farce? I and others like me have had more than enough. Will you join us? Small piece of masking tape at top of spine. Moderate wear. Light yellowing. Book
198066 pages. Features: The incredible Red Hill treasure; Al Spencer's outlaw loot still missing; fantastic Utah gold mine awaits; silver 'funny money' no joke; New York City coin bonanza; The great silver slabs; The Simplex detector. Moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
199344 pages. Features include: 50 years in an icy tomb - P-38; Air Force buys Airbus; Last Launch - Tracker departs from the Bonaventure; A British Yank in the RCAF; You shouldn't have joined if you can't take a joke; Drug-net - cocaine bust; Air Force engineers and Florida; Flight plan snafu; Dieppe 50 years after. Light wear. Address label upon back cover. Nice clean copy. Book
1942Stories: The Female of the Species; A Weighty Problem; The Town of Ghosts; The Judge's Joke; On Patrol; The Djimat; Adventure Ahoy; The Doctor's Jacket; A New Zealand Man-Hunt; Rough Luck; The Phantom Gunman; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
193796 pages. Features: Thriller - The Frog that Fell out of the Sky; Modern Adventure - Four R.A.F. Planes disappeared before Flying Officer Vickers unmasked the treachery that was to set the frontier aflame with Revolt; The Sky Clown - a joke costs a brave man his courage and makes a fighter of a fool; Call Me Jennie - Major Sharpness made Tigers out of Rabbits - but his first Creation won a most Untigerish name; True Story - The Epic Story of Famous R.F.C Unit - No. 56 Squadron; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
1961Features: Is Abstract Art a Private Joke? - Roger Burlingame; Television USA - John Bartlow Martin's close-up report on the controversial side of TV; People on the Way Up - Brigid Bazlen, Thomas Eagleton, Shelagh Delaney, Jack Heberlig; The Spreading Ocean Floor - Dr. Robert S. Dietz; Many Top-Rated Football Pros were once casual rejects - does their success prove that a coach is no better prophet than anyone else?; The Strange Affair of the Vasa - this unlucky warship sank on her maiden voyage but was found and raised three centuries later; Doctor in the White House - a revealing portrait of Dr.Travell, the first female physician ever entrusted with the President's health; Washington Views Berlin - the strategy Government experts are mapping out to deal with Krushchev. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
198028 pages. Features: Great colour photo ad inside front cover for Borg winter coat fashions for women; Brian Moore - We Were like the Jews in Nazi Germany; On the Rocks - the suburban lives of Vancouver Island lighthouse keepers - feature article with colour photos; 'Exiled' Author Norman Levine Comes Home after 20 years; The Royal Canadian Air Farce - article with great colour photo; Misadventure in the Jade Trade - Laurie Hughes has been fighting to stop the sellout of a rare and precious Canadian resource - article with colour photo of Hughes; Article on she fashion by Marina Sturdza; Howie Meeker appears in ad for Reed Career Service. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
1898Pages 63-124. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: A summer voyage to Greenland; The new sweet-peas; Fred Lewis Pattee; The church and men; Cameron's joke; Coasting on Mile Hill; Hollis - An Agricultural town - feature article with many photos; Dorothys choice; Trust; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
192984 pages plus 36 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part I; The Pirates of the "Ethel" - a tale of Australian piracy from 1899; The White Wanderer - my life among the Nomad Arabs - article with nice photos; The Queer Side of Things - My "Hunch" - a cowboy's plain tale of an odd adventure in Nevada; The Mystery of the "Flying Stones" - a weird story related by a South African policeman; The Judge's Joke - Judge Sawicki of Cleveland was anxious to be rid of three drunks; "Slippery Wiley" Scores Again - an illicit gold buyer in Australia; Photo and caption of a 1.5 ton monster sea turtle caught off Lowestoft, on the east coast of England!; Children of the Desert - a first-hand study of the manners and customs of the Navajo Indians - article with nice photos; Hunter's Luck on the Lion Trail - a lion-hunting story from East Africa - with nice photos; Over the Victoria Falls in a Canoe - Trooper Ramsay survived the 420' fall!; The Haunted Cabin - a queer little tale from Maroon Mountain, British Columbia; Man and his Needs; Stamps of the World. Nice full-page ad for Barney's Tobacco inside front cover. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1965Features: Frank Boucher's Challenge - how we can end the farce of sending fourth-rate teams to the world hockey championships; Nurse Joyce Relyea and her job at the Hospital for Sick Children; Chatham - the good town that's fighting a bad name - its politicians live in fear of nameless terrorists, Ottawa lists it as a 'depressed area', the morals of the children have been thrown into serious question; The Pleasure of Ruins, by photographer Roloff Beny - with great b/w photos, including the Shah and queen of Iran; How the Hedlin family of Winnipeg leaped the language barrier together and learned French; Dr. John Knox, former Danish Ambassador, writes about the Canadian beaver; Robert Thomas Allen on Greece; Volkswagen van ad featuring the entire population of Jiggs, Nevada in one van!. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
198490 pages. Features/Articles: Charlottetown - the pleasures of a small town with the stimulation of a city; Horns and Antlers - Revered, admired, coveted... and different in most respects; Ship-time! - for many northern communities the sea-lift is their life line; Perth Revival - dramatic mainstreet program has restored a small Ontario town's charm and character; The International Plowing Match - Canada's biggest outdoor farm show; Ducks on the Prairies - every western slough has its hungry residents, and their appetite is no joke to grain farmers; When is a tree not a tree - strange shapes and fascinating adaptations at the treeline; Riding the Rails in private style - privately-owned railcars; Fraser Valley Hops - the choice of brewers around the world; Our Endangered Species in Art; Lake Laberge (rhymes with marge) and other Yukon Names. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1944Features: Nice colour-illustrated military-themed Canada Post ad inside front cover; Assault on Normandy, by Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro, with photos; "Stand By to Beach", by Commander Peter MacRitchie, RCNVR - D-Day Coverage - article with photos; Dinner for Four - fiction by Marguerite Eyssen; How Long will You Live?, by Dr. W.W. Bauer; So This is Rome, by Peter Stursberg - impressions of the eternal city after liberation; Britain After the War, by Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald; 'Stardom's No Joke' says Judith Evelyn, 1,000 times a star in Angel Street; Interesting news bits from across the country; Have a Good Time, John - fiction by Alberta Pierson Hannum; Johnny Longden Up, by Jim Coleman, with photos; Brilliant Business - Canadians are proving they can master the ancient craft of diamond cutting; Wedding Bells for another Woodbury (Soap) Deb - the former Thelma Bertha Bowell of B.C. and Lieutenant Wilbert Kennith Carter - ad with photos; Colour Kodak ad explains colour printing; Lovely colour ad for Dr. West's toothbrushes; Nice colour ad for Nabisco Shredded Wheat; *RARE* full-page colour GM ad commemorates the contribution of the quarter-million vehicles they contributed to the war effort - caption reads "The First Billion Miles are the Hardest!; Similar colour ad by Ford Motor Company inside back cover shows their trucks at work in war and at home; Heintzman & Co. piano ad; *Wonderful* colour-illustrated Coke ad on back cover shows a sailor returning from war being welcomed to his industrial former place of work; Faint bit of writing and address label upon front cover. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this important wartime issue. Magazine
1998176 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
196516 pages. Features: Lovely color cover photo of Claudia Cardinale - Girl in the Park; Medical Hypnotism - Part I; Westport's Other Mother - Patricia O'Regan Brown of Westport, CT has started a club called "The Junior Years" to help girls grow up; Taste For Mischief (fiction); Quick and Easy Dessert Recipes; Q&A; My Son, My Son - Don Paul Nathanson's idea to help sons measure up to their fathers; "I Can Never Tell A Joke" - great lines by Groucho Marx, Victor Borge and Sam Goldwyn. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this special vintage issue. Magazine
192632 pages. Features: Cover photo of the U.S.S. West Virginia; New York's Little Joke on New York - a study of the prohibition referendum - an oasis that proved to be a mirage; The Sesqui-Centennial Nears Its End - article with photos; 'Coin' Harvey - Prophet of Monte Ne - he would build a pyramid in the Ozarks to tell posterity why our civilization has failed; Painless Taxation - The Refuge of Quack Politicians who advocate 'painless' taxation; The Greatest Need of the U.S. Navy - an adequate merchant marine; A Tale of The Islands That Dot Boston Harbor; Henry Ford's Page - today's farming problem; Editorials - Judge William S. Kenyon on Official Etiquette, Our new diplomacy, the very mushroom growth of jazz is enough to predict its ephemerality, New light on the Dawes Plan; Our Greatest Football Fable - The All American Team; The Tragic Story of the Jeannette Expedition - Part II of this photo-illustrated article ; Dances of Olden Times; The Lure of the Puppet - Marionettes date from the dawn of civilization; Chats with Office Callers; I Read in the Papers; Great photos inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
