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1923Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Twenty-Four Days Adrift - The appalling experiences that befell the crew of the U.S. steamer Dumaru, destroyed by fire and explosion in the Pacific in 1918 - from the logs of Radio-Operator T.W. Bean and Assistant Engineer F.J. Harmon; The Kidnapping of Father Heslin - this unassuming parish priest of Colma, California ultimately died - newspapers helped in catching the kidnapper; The Cross-Eyed Englishman - a rousing story of the Canadian North-West which occured 150 miles north and west of Winnipeg near Lake Winnipegosis; After Big Game With a Camera - Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore hunts big African game with a camera; A Wipe In the Eye - A British officer's amusing account of a lion-hunt which involves a spear; At Grips With a Leopard - Story from Jan Pienaar of the Beira Mashonaland Rhodesia Railway; The Man-Eating Crocodile - The Native Commissioner in charge at Balovale in Northern Rhodesia describes a crocodile surely responsible for many deaths; The Cannibal Islands - Part III - Clifford W. Collinson lived for several years in the Solomon Islands and here describes his visit to the mysterious island of Choiseul and its hidden stronghold - with nice photos; A Rescue By Aeroplane - Captain M.N. Albert's plane crashed on a trip over Northern Quebec and Ontario; Photo of bamboo organ in Catholic church in Los Pinas, Philippines; England's Oddest Treasure-Trove - A vast hoard of gold and silver coins is discovered at Seaton Carew, on the Durham Coast; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part I - A small expedition left England in 1921 to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study the wild Indian tribes - article with photos; Bandit-Hunting - Captain George Ash describes his 18 months serving under Francisco (Pancho) Villa, and a battle with outlaws in Santo Domingo; The Voyage of the "Sargon" - The disastrous voyage of this Grimsby trawler which arrived home weeks late - article with photos; The Bandit of Marseilles - A Bulgarian in France, upset for a sentence passed upon him,begins a vendetta against inoffensive citizens; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1929164 pages. Features: Editorial discusses the likely impact of the October 29 stock market crash on the building business; Optimistic Outlook for Sound Construction Projects - interview with Nicholas Roberts of S.W. Straus & Co.; President Hoover Enlists Builders to Stimulate Business - article with group photo; "Modernesque" - unique home built by McWilliams and Meloney outside Philadelphia; Mortgages Yielding Higher; How to Build the Colonial Entrance Pictured on Front cover; Waste not high wages makes building costly; The Story of the Development of Gladstone Manor, located in Lansdowne Borough, PA; Public Garages - a discussion of the layout of special buildings devoted to the handling and storing of motor cars - article with photo of the Glenn E. Holmes Garage, Chicago; A Sound Proof Studio Apartment - The Sherman Square Studios, West 73rd St., New York, are built to interest singers, artists and writers; Conveniently Equipped Kitchens Help Builders Sell; Six Model Homes in Cleveland; Home Plan Suggestions; All-Feature Home - complete workings plans to one-eighth inch scale for a model brick bungalow; Where Stores and Apartments are Combined - Rissman and Hirschfeld Architects designed a triangular structure at the diagonal intersection of Milwaukee Ave. and Diversey Blvd. in Chicagp; Framing the Gambrel Roof; Dozens of sensational illustrated ads, some in color, are sure to tickle any modern designer with a taste for the past; and more. Some writing on heavily-worn color-illustrated covers. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
191893 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1986réf. 25469New York: Appearances Press 1986. Touch of rubbing to the silkscreened white covers else near fine in sewn self-wrappers. A sharp copy. Limited edition. Oblong octavo. Number 1 of 100 copies SIGNED and numbered by Crash on the vellum title page. Featuring 12 pages of the graffiti artist's screenprints this volume was one of a series of five silkscreen artists' books produced in 1986 by Appearances Press publisher Joe Lewis in conjunction with the Lower East Side Print Shop the others being Daze Darrel Ellis Betty Tompkins and a collaboration by Marilyn Minter and Christof Kohlhöfer. New York: Appearances Press unknown books
1957réf. 233541957. De Havilland Vampire jet photographs documenting French Air Force training accident inspection and air base control at Meknès Morocco in the years immediately following Moroccan independence with direct evidence of how Base École 708 recorded aircraft damage runway incidents and jet operations within the shrinking French military presence in North Africa. French military personnel are identifiable not through portraiture but through the administrative system embedded in the material itself: repeated verso stamps reading Section Photo 21/708 Meknès dated from 1957 to 1959 and technical annotations that turn the group into an official working record rather than informal aviation imagery. The historical force of the archive lies in that function. Meknès served as a major French fighter training center the de Havilland Vampire formed part of its early jet instruction program and the base remained active until its dissolution in 1961 placing these photographs within the last phase of French air force operations in Morocco after France recognized Moroccan independence in 1956. Photo archive of approximately 27 silver gelatin photographs approximately 4.5 x 3.5 inches each Meknès Morocco 1957 to 1959. The images center on multiple de Havilland Vampire aircraft marked with large fuselage letters including TT UA RD RG RE and UM photographed from the nose wing cockpit tail and runway line in a methodical sequence. Several prints isolate impact evidence and structural damage: one close view marks "traces de frottement" on a crushed nose section another labels "cockpit avion abordeur / plan gauche avion abordé" and others identify "vue générale" "vue 3/4 arrière" and "axe de la bande" showing that the planes were being recorded for inspection orientation and incident analysis. Additional photographs show grounded jets in grass beside the field aircraft parked on the tarmac in rows hangar exteriors and broad runway views with service vehicles nearby. The versos carry dated Meknès section stamps penciled numbering and occasional reference notes from French military photographic and cinematographic services preserving the bureaucratic chain by which the images were produced filed and cross referenced. The archive belongs to the first generation of French jet aviation in North Africa. The Vampire was among the earliest jet fighters used by the French Air Force and Meknès was one of the key training sites where pilots moved into jet instruction before the school later shifted to newer aircraft and eventually left Morocco. In that setting aircraft photography was not decorative; it was part of the operational machinery of flight training maintenance and accident inquiry. These prints preserve that machinery at the moment when French colonial authority in Morocco had formally ended but French bases and training institutions still operated on Moroccan soil linking jet modernization to decolonization and military retrenchment. Written notes and official stamps throughout; light handling wear from use otherwise well preserved. Overall good condition. unknown
1988Signed, without inscription, by John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006] upon first blank leaf. xx, [5], 2-206 pages. Index. Includes a new introduction which comments on the crash of 1987. First published in 1955, this work is a "skilled chronicle and analysis of the causes of that most memorable year in our economic history, 1929. A trenchant and timely re-examination of the most spectatular boom-and-bust period in American history." - back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1984réf. 53609New York: Sidney Janis 1984. First edition. Very good plus. Scarce catalogue of this early joint exhibition by graffiti artists Crash and Daze at the Sidney Janis gallery in New York. Artists and frequent co-exhibitors Daze and Crash were both born in New York City in the early 1960s and both began building a style and a reputation in their teens in the late '70s first meeting in 1977. In October 1980 Crash curated the first major graffiti show Graffiti Art Success for America at Fashion Moda in the South Bronx; Daze was first featured in a gallery space in 1981 in the Beyond Words exhibition alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Crash's own portraits of Basquiat and Haring are among the nine pieces illustrated in this catalogue selected from the 18 and 19 works in each artist's exhibition checklist. 11'' x 8.5''. Original saddle-stapled black and white wrappers. 9 black and white plates. 8 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers. (Sidney Janis) unknown
1978réf. 233051978. Continental Airlines Flight 603 disaster photographs documenting the burned wreckage and structural damage of the DC 10 runway overrun at Los Angeles International Airport on March 1 1978 one of the most consequential American aviation accidents of the late 1970s and a major catalyst for changes in tire safety standards rejected takeoff procedures and aircraft evacuation systems. Flight 603 a Continental Airlines DC 10 10 scheduled from Los Angeles to Honolulu attempted to abort takeoff after multiple tire failures near decision speed on a wet runway; the aircraft overran runway 6R at LAX the left main landing gear collapsed beyond the pavement fuel tanks ruptured and a major fire engulfed the underside and left side of the aircraft during evacuation. The NTSB recorded 2 deaths and 28 serious injuries in its formal report while later accounts place the eventual death toll at 4 after additional passengers later died from injuries sustained in the crash. Photo archive of 14 color snapshot photographs each approximately 3.5" x 4.5" Los Angeles International Airport California March 1978. The photographs show Continental Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC 10 10 N68045 after the accident resting heavily fire damaged on the runway and adjacent overrun area. Multiple images focus closely on the burned underside of the fuselage where large sections of aluminum skin have been completely burned away exposing the aircraft's internal rib structure wiring insulation and lower cabin framework. Other views show extensive scorching along the left side of the aircraft blackened and partially melted fuselage panels around the wing root and landing gear area collapsed structural sections beneath the passenger cabin and debris scattered across the wet runway surface. Several photographs widen outward to show emergency and recovery operations surrounding the aircraft including personnel service vehicles cranes and towing equipment positioned around the destroyed DC 10. One image records the full profile of the aircraft from a distance emphasizing the scale of the burn damage extending across much of the fuselage exterior. Together the photographs document not merely the existence of the accident but the specific physical consequences of the runway overrun and post crash fire: ruptured lower fuselage sections exposed aircraft structure burned cabin undersides and the recovery environment at LAX immediately after the disaster. Flight 603 became an important case study in late twentieth century aviation safety because the accident linked tire failure runway conditions aircraft stopping performance and evacuation survivability within the emerging era of mass deregulated air travel. The NTSB investigation led to recommendations intended to "significantly reduce the incidence of tire failures during takeoffs and rejected takeoffs" while later FAA and industry reforms addressed tire testing standards takeoff performance calculations and the durability and fire resistance of emergency evacuation slides. These photographs preserve the material evidence behind those institutional and engineering changes documenting the burned airframe and structural destruction that transformed Flight 603 into a major reference point in modern commercial aviation safety history. Minor wear from handling. Overall very good condition. unknown
réf. 30433Milan: Gabriele Mazzotta 1984. Near fine in near fine dust jackets; matching slipcase with very light soiling to the gray cloth else near fine. Uncommon in the deluxe edition. Deluxe Edition. Quarto. Two hardcover volumes in matching slipcase. Published to accompany an influential group show of American graffiti artists that traveled through Italy this monograph features essays from curator Francesca Alinovi and gallerist Tony Shafrazi printed in both Italian and English a hip hop glossary and mostly-color reproductions of works from the likes of A One Jean-Michel Basquiat Crash Futura 2000 Richard Hambleton Keith Haring Jenny Holzer & Lady Pink and Lee Quiñones along with artist bios. This deluxe hardcover edition features a second volume—Quattordio Graffiti edited by Italian art critic Tommaso Trini—reproducing newspaper coverage from the exhibition's stops through Bologna Milan and Rome and documenting works produced by Delta 2 Ero Phase 2 and Rammellzee during their artist residencies at the sponsoring IVI paint factory in the Piedmontese village of Quattordio. Text in Italian for this second volume. Milan: Gabriele Mazzotta unknown
1927247 pages. Black and white photographic frontis portrait of author. "This is a book written by a German after a war which brought defeat to his country and a great civilized people to a condition of dependence and subordination... The German Inflation can only be understood as part of the general history of the time. May we all learn from the past and emerge from the destructive era of reciprocal hostility into a new constructive period of international well-being." - from Foreward. Chapters include: The Inflation of the War Period; From the Armistice to the Invasion of the Ruhr; From the Invasion of the Ruhr to the Stabilization of the Mark; The Stabilization of the Mark; From Rentenbank to Golddiskontbank; From Currency Crisis to Economic Crisis; The Dawes Plan; The Reconstruction of German Money and Capital Markets; Foreign Credits; International Co-operation. "(Schacht) became one of the directors of the Reichsbank in 1916 and in 1923 became currency commissioner for the Reich. After his economic policies helped reduce German inflation and stabilize the German mark, Schacht was appointed president of the Reichsbank. He collaborated with other prominent figures in economics to form the Young Plan to modify the way that war reparations were paid after Germany's economy was destabilizing under the Dawes Plan. Though on March 7, 1930, six months after the beginning of the Great Depression, he stepped down from the position of Reichsbank Chairman, but returned on March 17, 1933 after Hitler's rise to power." - from wikipedia dot org. Binding intact. Unmarked with average wear. Bright gilt lettering upon black cloth backstrip. Mild foxing to endpapers. A sound copy. Aldcroft & Rodger p.83, Peterson p.367. Book
1929Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover provides a truly classic and timeless example of a mis-timed advertisement. Consider that the great Wall St. stock market crash of 1929 occurred mere days before this issue hit the newsstands. Beneath the caption "An Ancient Prejudice has been removed" appears a clenched fist labeled as "American Intelligence" breaking a heavy chain. Top left a paranoid miser stacks his gold by candlelight. Top right a wealthy couple visits their palatial bank. Text beneath miser reads "Hoarding gold with the fanatical zeal of the miser has vanished. American Intelligence sponsors thousands of banking institutions to which the individual (i.e. the wealthy couple) safely entrusts his wealth." The message is clear. Readers should put their trust (and money) in the banks, and shun gold. This issue was likely printed just as the Great Crash occurred, causing countless financial institutions to go under - and destroying even more individual fortunes. (The ad goes on to claim that cigarettes have similarly overcome the prejudice against them.) A truly stunning work which deserves to be preserved and reflected upon in this age of limitless fiat currency printing. Average wear with three-inch crease to lower corner of back cover. Suitably framed and mounted, this ad will make a superlative office display for any precious metals executive. Magazine
