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réf. Bloomsbury-9781591581345Libraries Unlimited. Hardback. New. 508 pages Libraries Unlimited hardcover
réf. 35919Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press 1943. Octavo lettered blue wrappers spine and edges sunned as usual over stiff card pp. xvi 7 tipped-in bookplates a fine copy. A checklist of 75 bookplates. The third publication of the Australian Bookplate Club printed in an edition of 150 copies. THP 12. unknown
réf. 62117259Taylor & Francis Group . Hardback. New. pp. 288 1st Edition Taylor & Francis Group hardcover
1942Pages 393-4404 and 406-420. Please Note: Centrefold missing. Features: Cover photo of shattered Stalingrad beneath a pall of smoke; Two fascinating illustrations of Stalingrad's brutal urban warfare techniques; Two pages of illustrations illustrate the technique of Stalingrad's defenders - organised house-to-house fighting defeats mass assaults; Two pages of illustrations explaing what British convoys endure in taking aid to Russia - unceasing forms of enemy attack and our defenses; Winter Prospects (article); Three photos of biggest allied convoy fighting its dangerous way to Russia; Photos from the Desert War; Air photo of bombed dockside in Cologne; Two photos illustrate the death of 29 schoolboys in Southern England after attack by German pilot; Photo of amazingly camouflaged Dutch warship; Photos of fifteen personalities of the week include Mrs. Nancy H. Love, Wing-Commander G. Stainforth, Russian sniper Lindmila Pavlichenko, Leiut.-Col C.C. Merritt, V.C., Major P. Porteous, V.C., Brig.-General B. Davis, Prof. G.G. Henderson, and Sir Ben Turner; Action photos from the Solomon Islands; Photo of U.S. Marine with large group of Japanes POWs on Guadalcanal Island; Photo of 'dog-sleigh' stretcher in Russia; Action photos from Russia and the Baltic; Photos of 10,500 ton ship being built in ten days; Five dramatic photos of when Canadian destroyer "Assiniboine" rammed and sunk a U-Boat in the North Atlantic. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Aside from its missing centrefold, a worthy vintage copy. Magazine
195852 pages. Features: Cover photo of sulphur storage in B.C.'s Peace River Country; The Day the Yanks Flew Through Hell - treetop bombing of Romania's Ploesti oil refineries by 163 giant B-24 Liberators on August 1, 1943 - article with photos and illustration; Nice colour photo full-page ad for Ogilvie Macaroon Mixes; The 500 Children I Short-Changed - Fred Sloman taught school in Northern Ontario between Capreol and Foleyet for 40 years but feels there were many children he could have helped more than the many he did - article by him, with photos; Nice full-page ad for Lux soap featuring Mitzi Gaynor; Why Film Stars Get Into James - photos of Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney and Lana Turner; My MVD Man Can Lick Your MVD Man - Part 2, by Art Buchwald who recounts his recent three weeks behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; How Much Are You Worth To Your Widow? - Lloyd Lockhart examines Death Duties; Hollywood's Secret of Weight Control, by Jean Manning - with flattering photos of Alexis Smith, Ann Miller and Mrs. James Mason; Patterson's Just Too Good - Tex Coulter Writes of his former Montreal Alouettes star teammate Hal Patterson - with photo and illustration; Science Explodes Some Myths About Your Hair, by John E. Gibson; Nice colour full-page ad for Noxzema skin cream; Walter Murdoch - a man of many hassles; Noise Can Change Your Life - man is on the verge of becoming submerged in a sea of intolerable self-made sound; The Spanish Mick - fiction; The Wolf is Here to Stay! - a northern B.C. article with photos including a shot of Sylvia Woywitka with a huge wolf fur; Can We Justify Spending Millions in the Arctic? - photo illustrated article examines the development of infrastructure in the north; The High Places - Fiction; Debbie Reynolds in Lustre-Creme Shampoo ad; Let Teenagers Run Their Own Parties; Crossword; Rural Route Cartoon by Walter Ball; Food Article by Marjorie Elwood with colour photo of judges Denyse Pesant, Laura Pepper, Helen McKercher, and author; Colour photo full-page ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti and meat balls; Nice colour full-page ad for Red Rose tea. Small piece missing from back cover. Above-average soiling and wear. A worthy vintage copy with lots of interesting content and photos. Book
1979Features: Eddie Rickenbacker; The Square J; From Africa to China - Via P-40; Warplanes in Detail; F-15 Eagle; Tinian's B-29s; Spitfire Pilot; Navy's Colorful Jets; Modeling Military Aircraft; Biplanes against the red bear; The deadly D VII; Terro in the Yellow Peril; Ground Attack; Flying the CF-104 Starfighter; The Last Mustangs; An RCAF Crewman Looks back - H.D. (Cherry) Cherrington; Col. Tinker and the Bird-o-prey XIII; Warplanes in detail - the Bf 109G; Flying the Vampire; P-5... Last of the Big Boats; McDonnell's Parasite; Military markings of the world; Counter Invader; Return to Cornino; B-17G Production Line; Czechoslovakian Mule; Warplanes in detail - Me 262; Military Markings, Part II; Black Lady of Espionage; Mosquito Pilot's Escape; YF-17 Rollout; Evolution of the Mitsubishi Zero - part I; The Noblest Knight of Acedom; Curtiss P-6 in the Netherlands and East Indies; Night Fighter from Junkers; Fighter Formations - history of fighter tactics; Not so black widow - P-61s in the Pacific; Messerschmitt Me 410 A/Cross; Fighter Night - dangerous WWII mission in a Hurricane; Bristol Beaufighter - rare example; Bat out'a Hell - history of the Douglas Skyray and Skynight; Deadly Long Nose - Famous Focke Wulf FW 190D and Ta 152 fighters; Farewell to the Ugly Duckling - the Fairyey Gannet has made its last flight; Post-war military Mitchells - they served in the USAF until the early 1960s; Norwegian Warriors - Norwegian Pilots during WWII; Curse of the Lady Be Good; The Return of Halifax W1048; Mission U5 - Abort!; Shoo-Shoo Baby; Holscher's Heinkel; Forgotten Warriors; Death over Flak City; Ghosts of '44; The Deadly Storm; Forgotten Warbird Graveyard; The Deadly Storm; The Atlantic Ferry; Harvesting the Zuyder Zee; The Souvenir; They Returned; The day it rained P-40s; Fortress Ferry - flying one of the last examples of aviation's most famous bomber; Lightning Strikes - we fly a rare P-38 Lightning; A lady named Jenny - America's famous WWI trainer; Missions in the Marauder - a navigator's diary of aerial combat over Europe; Flying the U-2 - a 9th strategic Reconnaissance Wing pilot describes a U-2 mission, from suiting up to shutdown; Attack! - we fly in the LTV A-7; Cat Shooting with the Phantom - a USAF pilot flies with the Phantoms of a Marine fighter squadron; The Beauty of the Beast - adventures with the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver; The forgotten promise - the first carrier landing is an unforgettable experience; Flying the White Rocket - this USAF trainer is one hot aircraft. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. Book
195796 pages. Features: Cover illustrations of Jasper the bear (and cubs) overlaid on Group of Seven paintings; how the Chinese plan to control their birth rate; How limited Free enterprise survives in China; Lovely ballroom colour ad for Matinee cigarettes; Crown Zellerbach ad featuring John MacNaughton, Editor of the Ladysmith Chronicle on Vancouver Island; Author of Jalna, Mazo de la Roche - "I Still Remember..." - our most famous - and least-known writer breaks a lifetime's silence to recall her childhood, books she loved, her first story, the secret drama of Jalna, and celebrities she has known - with nice black and white photos; Blair Fraser Reports from Peking on the spy system that covers all China, a co-operative farm for 82 families, a model factory town and a Shanghai slum, and Christianity under the Chinese rule - great photos; Arthur Hailey - the hottest playwright in the business; How Bamford-Gordon abolished the income tax, by John Gray; The launching of the Encyclopedia Canadiana; The lurking death of our crowded skyways - mid-air collisions; Father Maurice Metayer, OMI photographs the Arctic - great colour photos of igloos, etc.; 'How I'd Make Hockey a Better Game" - by Charlie Conacher with Trent Frayne; Nice colour '57 Plymouth ad; Two-page colour Canadian Pacific ad featuring "The Canadian" and its dome cars; Nice colour ad for the Sunbeam Automatic Mixmaster; Spectacular colour photo ad for the all-new Ford Fairlane 500 Sunliner; Northern Electric centerfold ad entitled 'Forward with Canada'; Colour Pontiac ad; Nice full-page black and white illustrated ad by Trans-Canada Air Lines announcing 'Giant DC-8 jet-liners to bring startling advances in long-distance air travel; Colour O'Keefe ad; Colour ad inside back cover by the Tea Council of Canada. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A nice copy of this particularly wonderful issue. Book
1950Features: Editorial - Housing's a Headache the Provinces Should Handle; Backstage in India - the split with India widens; The Masters at Margate - London Letter by Beverley Baxter; Everybody Boos the CBC, by Pierre Berton; Len Norris on the air with the CBC; Corn and Culture - Max Ferguson is adored by his zany half hour of amusing mimicry while Harry Boyle dishes up those highbrow Wednesday Night sessions; Ted Reeve picks Maclean's All-Canadian football team (The All-Canadian is all-American, with four from the West, eight from the East); How to buy that Christmas Tie; Death of a Union - the Canadian Seaman's Union (C.S.U.) - once strong and respected - had to die for the greater glory of the Communist Party - Here's how it was killed - a frightening, firsthand expose of Red strategy in Labor by an ex-Communist, Gerry McManus (former Secretary-Treasurer) who witnessed the betrayal of 10,000 Canadian workers from the inside; Don't Call me Baby Face - Part V (conclusion) of the story of boxer Jimmy McLarnin; Never get friendly with a friendly bear; The Double Life of Dr. James Barry - Inspector-General Barry ruled the British Army's medical corps in Canada with a bossy efficiency in a thick cloud of rumor and legend... Then, after 53 years' service, a shocking secret came out; Known to be Dangerous - fiction by Octavus Roy Cohen. Colour Studebaker ad inside front cover. Nice colour ad for the 1951 Mercury car on page 25. Nice colour ad for the 1951 Ford Monarch car on page 51. Reading copy only. Above-average wear. Page 9 loose but present. Pages 29-36 loose but present. Book
193856 pages. Features: The Guy With the Face, by Charles L. Shaw - Any dolt could see Igar's face was his future; Out of Torment - Peace!, by Beverley Baxter, who is optimistic about the future of Europe after the Munich conference; You're Driving Me Crazy, by Elmin Sproule - never call your wife a nincompoop; Canon Scott, by Hubert Evans - he was a padre who babbled poetry and ate potatoes out of his hat, but the First Division still remembers him as a hero who deserved a halo; The General Died In..., by Benge Atlee - Kent Power in the puzzling case of the General who thought he had no enemies; Drama the Crowd Misses - by Dink Carroll - the inside story of many a football battle is even more thrilling than the game itself; Medicine Man, by George Edward Allen - in which white man's magic dices with death and probes the secret of the Wild Wa's shrine; Nostalgic photos of a fall fair; They Knew Joy Boyle, by Flora Alexander Boyle; Fantastic two-page colour ad for the 1939 Dodge Custom; Great two-page colour centerfold ad for the new 1939 DeSoto (held by one staple), followed by another beautiful colour two-page ad for the 1939 Chrysler - this ad missing a 3" x 3" clipping from its right margin; Great colour ad for International trucks on back cover shows the range of their products from light delivery unit through dump trucks. Above-average wear. Pages 5-8 loose but present. Pages 49-52 missing. Address label atop front cover. Book
1966Features: Etobicoke almost banned bird houses!; The Tattoo that murder made famous; Age of the pari-mutuel supermarket; Growing restlessness with Rhodesia; Editorial - draft-dodgers are refugees, not criminals; Sensational 3-page colour photo Electrohome ad featuring their ultra-futuristic Circa '75 new home entertainment concept; "Governor General and Madame Vanier have made once-indifferent Canadians learn to care about an 'obsolete' institution - which somehow works - article and photos; The Intelligent addict's guide to color TV; Lady Auto Racers - article with colour photos - Inga Cordts, Diana Carter, Stephanie Ruys de Perez; "Let's Quit Worshipping the Kid with a B.A.", by Robert Thomas Allen; Two stories about the meaning of Death by Ian Adams and Malcolm Muggeridge; Night Street Boys/Shoe Shine Boys of Toronto - article with great photos; Dr. Robert McClure - God's Front-line Surgeon - article with photo; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; The artist, viewed as a young entrepreneur - Barry Burdeny sells paintings to corporations; "Unification will turn our army, navy and air force into a contingent of unemployed cops in green suits" - Admiral William Landymore, RCN (RTD.); and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1985Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: Beirut Hostages; American Protectionism; Sting; Closing the Levesque Era; Air India Flight 182 is blown up; Peter Loughheed's Legacy; Office Politics; Jenilee Harrison; Judy Chicago; Paul Desmarais (?) stalks Southam Inc.; Forty Years after Hiroshima; Nagasaki then and now; Fighting the fires of Summer; Boris Becker wins Wimbledon; Tina Turner; Reagan's surgery; Tears are not enough - starvation in Africa - Live Aid; Prairie Drought; Moves to buy Gulf Canada; South Africa Under Seige - the world debates sanctions; Bryan Adams - Superstar; Rock Hudson and AIDS; Toyota announces plans for Canadian plant; Debating Star Wars; Whale Watching; New Terror of AIDS; Paul Reichmann and his brothers buy Gulf Canada; Recovery in Tibet; The Race to Dominate the Arctic - the Polar Sea in Canada's north; Pierre Marc Johnson; Maple Leaf coins gain in popularity vs. the Krugerrand; Apartheid inferno in South Africa; Two-day Major League Baseball Strike; The Crisis of Canada's Water; Mulroney's first visit to B.C.; Year of the Dragon - Movie by Michael Cimino; The Takeover Frenzy; Botha's defiant stand; Cover photo of The Boss - Bruce Springsteen; Mulroney Cabinet Shuffle; War in Afghanistan; Pressure on Canada's wheat industry; Hard days for Canada's Navy; Special Report on Mulroney's Second Year; Pia Zadora; South Africa - a nation on the brink; Beer Battle; Quebec's garish crime press; Free Trade - climax to a historic debate; Swedes prepare to elect a new government; Canada's rapidly vanishing wilderness; Agnes of God - film; Joshua - Canada's costliest movie; Travels of Joseph Savimbi in Angola; Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank; Marcel Masse; Cover Photo - The Blue Jays race to the World Series; Mexico's week of death; The Tainted Tuna Scandal; TV Shows; Fishing Treasures of the Bow River. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with usual markings. Book
1964Features: The Life of Big Foot Wallace; The Haunted Corral; Pedro Loco; Ring-Tailed Roarer; Tales of the Branding Iron; The Honor of Old Thunder; Mad Killers of El Dorado Canyon; Blizzard Bull; When Cooper Wright Met the Mob; Medicine Woman; Last War Trail of Victorio; The Rifle That Opened the West; Lost Mine of the Klickitat; Spur Talk; Spirit Curse of the Lost Frenchman's Gold; Wild Horse Roundup; When Death Rode the Jarbidge Stage; Big Winnie; The Great Baptizing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
1926Features: An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Jack McLaren spent eight years alone among savages attempting to make a coconut plantation out of the primeval jungle; Beating the Black Death - Dog teams bring antitoxin serum to save the residents of Nome, Alaska, who were afflicted with diphtheria; The Fakir - sequel to "the Jogi's Curse"; The Secret of the Consulate - Italy responds during World War One to the destruction of its warships due to the activities of Austrian Secret Service agents operating in Switzerland; Among the White Arabs - The Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; My Day Off - an ex-inspector of the Federated Malay States Police; The Romance of Kilimanjaro - with photos by F. Ratcliffe Holmes; Perinco the Outlaw - cattle-rustling in Argentina; A woman's fight with a leopard; In Search of the Lost Oases - Part V (conclusion) - a trip from Sollum to El Obeid, in the Sudan (photos); The Red Lamp - a benighted traveller's terrifying adventure in a French town; The Poison Peddlers - an exciting tale of life in a railroad construction camp in Canada when illicit liquor is supplied to the workers; Interesting letters. Faint prior owner's pencilled name atop front cover else unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy. Book
1911Pages 314-416 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Mystery of Grenville Park - The Countess Mannati D'Induno Olphert; Hunting the Wild Bull in New Zealand - D. W.O. Fagan; The Black Band - D.H. Low; A Houseboat on the Euphrates - John Horne; A Fight with a Golden Eagle - Frederic Lees; The "Zincali" Knife - H.J. O'Brien; An Ocean Death Trap; James G. McCurdy; Two Years Among Strange Tribes - Part I - W. Hilton-Simpson; The Adventures of "Babi" - W. Dingwall Fordyce; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part 5 - Mrs. Fred Maturin; The Sacrifice - D.D. Kennedy; A Church Built in a Day - H.J. Shepstone; A Nightmare Voyage - Chandos St. John Brenon; Across Unkown Labrador - Part 4 - H. Hesketh Prichard. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1968135 pages. Index. "This is the story of the disaster, told by a survivor, of his search for wife and children, relatives and friends, of their flight from the fire, their escape down the cliffs to the shore, and their eventual escape by the ships in the harbour. It is a gripping narrative, simple but accurate and clearly authentic, having been written immediately after the earthquake." - from dust jacket. Numerous horrific black and white photographic plates. Usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Somewhat above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Ex-Library
194158 pages. Features: Two-color Ford ad inside front cover targets the young man looking for his first car; Nice two-page Budd railcar ad speaks of their safety; Nice one-page 1941 Chevrolet Truck ad; Eye-catching one-page, two-color ad for the January 18th issue of the Saturday Evening Post highlights its many interesting highlights; Stan Laurel marries Virginia Ruth Rogers Laurel; Obituaries/death notices for comedian Joe Penner, James Joyce, Dr. Emanuel Lasker and Lord Baden-Powell; Nice one-page two color ad for the New International Trucks features a red delivery van; US Politics; Photo of 'Nazi in a pen somewhere in the US; Hitler - Yugosloavia invasion hint on heels of Russian pact; Weak-winged Italy; Large photo of terrible bomb damage to London's old Paternoster Row after December 29th; Article on London's Volunteer Firefighters and how they foil the Nazis; Increasing French opposition to occupation forces; Wavell's Wave Sweeps over Libya; Peaceful Portugal - article with photo of Premier Salazar; Photos of Lt. Gen. Van Voorhis and Admiral Kimmel; Chrysler "Fluid Drive" one-page ad; Article and photo of the Martin B-26 Flying Torpedo; Nice Fruehauf Trailer ad "From Soup to Nuts"; Boxing article with large photo of Pat Comiskey in ring with Lou Nova; Fantastic color-photo ad for the 1941 Studebaker Land Cruiser features Mrs. Priscilla St. George Duke; Great back cover ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features color illustration of Marion Hutton; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1845in -4 (mm 193 x 125), 4 pp. Carta vergellata. Foglio volante xilografato contenente la descrizione dei fatti compiuti ad opera di Fabiano Bartolomei detto Faina, nato ai Monti di Villa, di anni 40, mugnaio. [ghigliottinato]; Francesco Prosperi, padre del sotto nominato Demetrio, dei Monti di Villa, di anni 70. [assolto]; Natale Giusti di Lucca, di anni 43, imbianchino e doratore. [condannato alla pena di morte, commutata in lavori forzati per grazia di Carlo Ludovico, duca di Lucca]; Demetrio Prosperi, dei Monti di Villa, di anni 35, di ricca e buona famiglia. [ghigliottinato]; Giuseppe Alessandri detto Caromèo o Cabala [imbroglione], nato a Colognora di Valleriana, di anni 41. [ghigliottinato]; Pietro Giuliani detto Buèro, nato a Ponte S.Pietro, di anni 46, dimorante a Livorno. [ghigliottinato]; Giovanni Nardi detto l'Abataccio [cattivo abate, avendo fatto qualche anno di seminario], nato a Cocilia [Cocciglia ?], di anni 34, falegname. [ghigliottinato]. I suddetti malviventi erano i componenti della banda che aveva terrorizzato il territorio del Ducato di Lucca tra il 1837 e il 1842. Lo "spettacolo" fu seguito da migliaia di persone accorse in città, ma alla vista del sangue versato e delle teste mozzate molti di coloro rimasero disgustati. Il documento è interessante in quanto racconta dell'ultima esecuzione con la ghigliottina in Toscana. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione, con piega consunta nell'ultima pagina. Firma manoscritta nella parte inferiore della prima pagina. . .
Un trionfo di magnifiche pesche con qualche ramoscello verde in un piatto di vimini intrecciati, smaglianti nei vividi colori cui la raffinata tecnica oleografica conferisce ulteriore brillantezza a imitazione della pittura a olio. Il Sauvage, "specialista" in nature morte con frutta e ritratti, si fece conoscere ed apprezzare nella Parigi dell'Ottocento sin dal suo debutto al "Salon des Artistes" nel 1868. Cfr. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres et graveurs, XII/p. 327.
réf. 202403521Paris, Stardom, 1995 ; in-4, cartonnage de l'éditeur. Ce surprenant coffret, en hommage aux indiens, comprends 18 images offset de couleur (6 de chaque auteur) + 2 planches de justificatif de tirage (dont une numérotée sur 500 exemplaires et signée par les différents auteurs, ici numéro 190/500) Le tout emballé dans un beau tissu + 6 CD (Barney Bush, Tony Hymas…) emballés également dans un beau tissu aux mêmes motifs.
196380 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
192632 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Firestone ad inside front cover features mother and children; Why Half the People Do not Vote - An Explanation; Booth Tarkington Talks of Many Things; Farming Must Become a Chemical Industry - development of co-products will solve present agricultural problem; Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech; The Use of Great Names in 'Blue Sky' Swindles; Ye Knife - Ye Forke - Ye Spoone - a brief history of those noble tools; Henry Ford's Page - money, a national commodity, has been made a private concession; Editorial - news from Russia that the only Jew remaining in a position of importance is Litvinov as the Communist Party threatens to become anti-Semitic after the death of M. Djerjinski; The Harvard of Our Forefathers; The Ebb and Flow of Winged Waves - bird article; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 12) - When Pirates Ruled; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - M. Loewenstein Makes an Offer, That Monkey Opera in Budapest, Chess Comes from India; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: When Old Salem Hunted Witches - men and women were put to death on the accusation of little children; The Man Who Fights Alone - "The Cop is the World's Greatest Warrior" - article with statistics of policemen killed on the job; Why I Left New York (part 1) - a middle westerner moves there but is in conflict with its alien atmosphere; Who Pays for Our Radio Programs? - noted economics author explains how national advertisers foot the bill so we can listen-in without charge; Captain Kidd - Pirate-Catcher - the rover is commissioned to capture ships flying the black flag; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - no amount of pretense can improve upon the original; Editorials - the time of England's trouble, is the jury system a failure, police death roll, the family is the unit; Woodrow Wilson (part 9) - He refused to be rushed into hasty decisions; World War's Effect Upon the Negro - overseas the colored soldier acquired an entirely new estimate of his importance in the scheme of things; Dry-Farming - The Tragedy of the West - scores of deserted homes stand as mute monuments to the settler's struggle in a land where rain seldom comes; Moonlight Midnight on "Old Tim" - Climbing Mount Timpanogas; The Voyage of the Victoria - part 3 - further adventures of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers; A Dance a Week - Hull's Victory, Lady Walpole's Reel, and Speed the Plow (with piano music for each); amazing photos of strange worldwide professions - a daredevil juggling atop several chairs, rubber tappers in Ceylon demonstrating the herringbone system,Egyptian dervishes passing skewers through their cheeks, and a Korean peddler of earthen ware - carried upon his back! Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
194990 pages. Fiction: The Balance of Nature; His Brother-In-Law's Keeper; Episode; Hold fast, My Love; Marriage '48 (part 3 of 5); Man-Eater from Snohomish. Articles: Death in the Classroom - schools are dangerous places (part 1 of 2); Billie Burke - Her Story (part 2 of 3); A Hunter's Map of the U.S.A. - Sportsman's Paradise; Godmother to Little Yanks - Mary Rizzoto and her World Children's Foundation; Hawkshaws in Skirts; The Campaign Trains Roll Again; Bedlam on Sunday; Smithson's House of Wonders - The Smithsonian Institution; Try Building Your Own Dream House - The Spelman family of Babylon, Long Island, Henry Wallace is the voice of Russia - opinion piece inside back cover. Ads include: The Frazer Manhattan automobile - inside front cover, B.V.D. sports shirts, Jeep Trucks - very nice, International Trucks, Schlitz Beer, Firestone Tires, Kodak film, MGM's The Three Musketeers, Harley Davidson - their 125 single cyllinder, Bicycle playing cards, Arrow ties, Jantzen sweaters, Smartair leisure wear, City Club shoes, Inco, Wilson Brothers men's wear, Botany brand shirts and slacks, Pendleton shirts, Gruen watches, and a lovely Coke ad on back cover which shows Coke dispenser inside a snowy window. Covers holding by one staple. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Valspar ad inside front cover; Taxes, Taxes, Taxes! - they are always with us but often we do not know it; Cashing in on the 'Blue Sky' - a study of the methods used by Wily 'Aviation' and real estate promoters in separating the sucker from his dollar; The Principles that guided George W. Hays in Exercising the Pardoning Power; The Genesis of the Constitution - reflections on what Washington and 38 of his countrymen did one summer; Bringing the Human Boat to Port Under Its Own Steam - advice on healthy living; What Would Izaak Walton Have Said? - the author of 'The Compleat Angler' in his wildest dreams could naver have visualized a 1,500-pound mackerel; Henry Ford's Page - struggle between industry and finance for control of business; Editorials - shaming the U.S. into canceling war debts, anti-prohibition propaganda, The County Fair, Dictators and the dictated; The Gold Hunters - being the story of a party of young men from Michigan in their search for fortune in California in 1850-1851; Bathing, Begging and Buring in Benares - strange scenes on the banks of the Ganges, India's sacred stream - article with photos; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 11)- Death of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - Japan turns from rice as sole diet; The Village Blacksmith. Moderate moisture exposure. Center pages holding by one staple. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
réf. 4135Grenoble . Gratier Ed. 1899 ." Ouvrage orné de 165 gravures imprimées en phototypie."in 4. reliure demi chagrin rouge à coins encadrée d'un double filet doré. tête dorée .dos à cinq nerfs . titre et fleuron dorés, V pp + 132 pp + table., superbe etat , interieur parfait , rare, photos sur demande
