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197187 pages. Features: Historic houses; The Dialect called Bungi; Early Manitoba Furniture; Seven Oaks House; Legislative Buildings; The Magnificent Adventure - The first printing press and publications west of Toronto in 1940 - James Evans; Log Construction at Red River; The Crockery Trade; Lower Fort Garry; St. Andrews on the Red; Story of Transportation; Ukrainians in the Manitoba Mosaic; Upper Fort Garry; Sir Thomas Button; St. Boniface Museum; Manitoba Glass Works; Local Museums preserve history; Manitoba Art; Portageto Winnipeg; Indian Trade Silver; Museum of Man and Nature; The Metis and the Buffalo. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1986256 pages. Index. Selected bibliography. "In many ways this book is a native chronicle about being native, for first person accounts enliven every facet of life in times past: the complex social structure based on kinship, rank and the potlatch; ceremonials and religion; gathering food, hunting and fishing; wood-working and basketry; trade, travel and conflict; Prehistory and archaeological discoveries; the arrival of Whites and the fur trade, followed by settlement, and the consequences of change, including the loss of their lands." - from dust jacket. Includes 200 photographs, 40 of which are in colour. "A popular and up-to-date account of native life and traditions on the Northwest Coast." - from dust jacket. Partial lean to spine. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
191624 pages. Cover photo of the Allies' permanent war council at the French headquarters; Article by Lady Jellicoe on the future of Britain's blinded heroes and how it is being assured; Photo of Grand Duke Nicholas about to inspect Russian troops in Teheran; Photo of Grand Duke Michaelovitch in a rickshaw at Nikko, Japan; Photo of the King's African Rifles; Five photos involving Turkey and Africa; Two photos of British transport in France by bicycle and horse-drawn cart; Photo of mealtime with the Canadian Red Cross contingent in Flanders; Photo of horses being nursed back to health; Three photos regarding Bedouin surrender to British forces in Egypt, including Giaffar Pasha, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief; Four photos of British armoured cars at work in Central Asia; Four photos of Moroccan Spahis training to fight; Three photos with our dauntless ally (France) on the Meuse Heights; Two-page illustration of a scene on the French line after a futile German onslaught; Four photos of children impacted by the war; Checking the Commerce Raiders - article about disguised German ships; Photos of sixteen brave British sons decorated for valour; The Air Raid on Schleswig-Holstein - article with map and photo; Photos of downed Austrian and German aeroplanes; Lacking outer wraps. Some pages loose but present. Appears to have been disbound from a hardcover volume. A rough but worthy reference copy. Book
1978144 pages. An analysis of the theory and practice of concurrent currencies. "The advantages that Professor Hayek claims for competitive currencies are not only that they would remove the power of government to inflate the money supply but also that they would go a long way to prevent the destabilising fluctuations that government monopoly of money has precipitated over the last century of 'trade cycles'" - from Preface. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Various stickers and sticker removal damage upon back cover. Sound working copy. Book
193940 pages. Circa 1940s. 81 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Defenders of the Maginot Line increase Defences; Royal Inspections of the Home Front; British Hospital Ship with Casualties from France; French Contraband Precautions; Decorations for Valour and Gallantry in the Field, by J.F.C. Fuller; How Britain's Postal Censors Work - great photos; Testing 15 inch Shells at an Experimental Station; Hitler Escapes Death in Munich Bomb Explosion; Centerfold naval illustration of minesweepers by Frank H. Mason; Safeguarding America's Neutrality; Happenings Behind Germany's Western Wall; Dominions Representatives Visit the B.E.F. in France; The British Commander in Chief in his working quarters - Lord Gort; Peace Appeal by Holland Belgium - full text of the Allied Replies; Royal Engineers in Training; Nazi Mines Washed up on Danish coast; Keel of new ship in British shipyard; Allied Air Supremacy on the Western Front; A commentary on the War for this week;Defenders of the Home Front stage mock air raids. Protecting the trade routes of France; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
193940 pages. Circa 1940s. 72 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Excellent illustrated article on Mine Warfare by Professor A.M. Low; Nazi reconnaissance photo of British Contraband Control Station; French Contraband Control at Work; French catapult-launch flying boats join in the U-Boat hunt; In the French lines at the front; The Ark Royal calls at Cape Town - a warship the Nazis claimed to have sunk; Tommies spend Christmas at the front; Text of The King's 1939 Christmas Day message; How the R.A.F. forecasts the weather; Newfoundland fishermen train for the navy; Britain gets ready her big guns - 9.2 howitzers in southern England; Centerfold illustration/map of mine-layer bases which the R.A.F. continually patrol; The Finns continue to resist Soviet agression - counter-attack in the Karelian Isthmus plus 8 other photos; Patrolling the Empire's trade routes - full-page photo; South African forces in training; Illustrated article entitled "How Australia Plans to Help" - the second A.I.F. in training; Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) prepares for war effort - eight great photos; Mortar gun crew in training; A commentary on the war this week; General von Brauchitsch on the Siegfried Line - six related photos; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
192742 pages. "An educational periodical published weekly for the dissemination of technical information, with a commentary and review of the news and conditions of the Textile Industry in Canada." - from masthead. Contains many finely illustrated advertisements which clearly present the contemporary state of the art. Features: Customs Commissioner's Report; News of the Industry; The Stockinette Tariff; The Edinburgh Textile Exhibition; Some Typical Hosiery Trade Problems - calculations every knitter should know; Glossary of knit underwear terms; Silk doubling and spinning machine; Cotton Mill Efficiency; The Dyeing of Acetate Silk; British Wool Letter; British Rayon News; The Markets; British Wool and Top Quotations; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present, but for top third of back cover. Book
195532 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1955. Wonderful black and white photos throughout. Features: British Columbia's Centennial Celebrations; Canada's Boy's Town in Malaya; Colombo Plan Steel Technicians in Britain; Ghana's Goodwill and Trade Mission; Designs of the Year - annual U.K. awards; Ceylon's Buddhists in London; H.M. the Queen Mother's World Tour; Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition; Child Welfare in Pakistan; Modern New Airport in Nairobi, Kenya; New Zealand's expanding forests; The Craft of the Nigerian Potter; Spare-Time Studies in Britain; Uganda's New Agrucultural School. Bonus: includes 8-page Canadian supplement which bears a lovely colour portrait of H.R.H. the Princess Margaret. Second Bonus: 13" x 9" photographic portrait of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, suitable for framing. Covers detached from textblock but present. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
1939112 pages (336-448). Many wonderful vintage ads. Features: Making Friends with Latin America; Foreign Trade Begins at Home; "From Usually Reliable Sources" - How we get our Foreign News; What we think about Foreign Affairs - what the polls say/what the home folks say; What England and France think about us; Number One Swing Man - John Henry Hammond Jr.; Mr. Hata Pulls the Strings; and more. Colour ad for Hawaii inside back cover. Nice colour photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover shows tobacco buyer Connor Aycock with farmer. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
193724 pages. Contents: Battle over control of the nation's electrical power - with photo of TVA Director David E. Lilienthal; Photo of Walter Runciman, President of the British Board of Trade; Photo of Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina; Conflict between General Motors and the United Automotive Workers of America - with photo of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; Terrible Ohio River Flood; Rise of Militarism in Japan - with photo of Osami Nagano; Photo of Trotzky (Trotsky) who, from Mexico, claims the Moscow trial against him is "A giant frame-up"; Terror in Lisbon; Spanish Havoc - with photo of rebels praying; "Mirror Writing" - reversed writing; Old Turk exhibits his third set of natural teeth while Edmonton youth develops his fourth set!; Photo of Wendell Wilkie; Women in the News - Miss Mary Anderson; "Jane Bull"; Movie World - with photo of Martha Raye; Photo of Mrs. Molly TicklePitcher of Turnit Top Ridge, TN; Two-page article on Benito Mussolini - with photos; Photo of 'Little Corporal' J. Toussaint Bernard; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Most of back page missing. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
190376 pages. Features: Full-page photo of the national congress of Chambers of Commerce in Montreal, August 1903 - with article by Ernest H. Cooper; The Threshing of the Grain - article by W.H. Belford with wonderful photos; Canadian Celebrity - Hon. Clifford Sifton; Two Lost British Columbia Towns - Douglas and Seymour; Roman, Greek, English and American Conceptions of Liberty; The British Embassy at Washington - article with photo; The War of 1812 - tenth instalment; The Pensionnaires, by Albert R. Carman - continued; Beneath the Dog's Fang - a Story of the Jacobites; Kingdom's "Break-in-Two", by J.W. Fuller; Current Events Abroad, by John A. Ewan; Woman's Sphere - edited by M. MacLean Helliwell; People and Affairs; Wonderful reproduction of a curling photo taken in 1872 on the Don River; List of contents of Volume XXI of this publication, May through October 1903. Many pages of amazing nostalgic Canadian ads, including photos ads for several private schools. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover and backstrip missing. Back hinge taped in place. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
197568 pages. Features: Canadian budget battle over defense expenses; Robert Fulford and his 'Saturday Night' magazine; Photo of Janis Joplin performing; The Canadian Canvas - A Broad Sweep (of Canadian art); President Ford's risky plan against slumpflation; CIA director William Colby defends himself; Clouds over Playboy's Bunnyland - suicide of Bobbie Arnstein - article with photo of pall-bearer Hugh Hefner; In Defense of Politicians - Do We Ask Too Much?; Eight-page colour-photo illustrated centerfold ad feature by Macmillan Bloedel explains how forests grow; Barefoot Rudolf Nureyev; Moscow's repudiation of trade agreements a serious blow to detente; Saga of the (Henry) Jackson Amendment; Triumph for the moderates in China; Bloody peace in Indochina; The P.L.O. Strategy - Fight and Talk; Truce fails in Northern Ireland; Fragile independence in Angola; Trouble in Cyprus; Ujamaa's bitter harvest in Tanzania; Passing of Baron Jean-Louis de Portal, Gustavo Rohas Pinilla, Li Fu-chun and Alberta oil baron Eric Lafferty Harvie; Goalie Rogatien (Rogie) Vachon and the success of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings - photo-illustrated article; Basketball star Jimmy Wilkins; Jailed Baptist Georgi Vins; Troubled Trident submarine program - article with photo of construction at Bremerton, WA; Scandal in Education - Barbara and Harry Lowther; Artist Robert Rauschenberg; The General Dynamics YF-16 fighter wins a dogfight; Color photo ad for Panasonic TV features gent with monocle; Retailer W.T. Grant Co. cuts back; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
195066 pages. Features: 12 Hours with 6009 - watch this NYC engine as it is readied for the run, then ride the cab for the 403 fleeting miles - great photos and write-up; Burlington Route relocates 13.4 miles of line as Federal Government constructs new dam on the Big Horn River in Wyoming - article and photos; To Alaska Someday - The Great Pacific Eastern - a structly rural steam and diesel road in British Columbia - excellent photos, maps and article; Photo Section includes wonderful shot of sunbeams inside the concourse of Grand Central Station, New York, centerfold photo of a Union Pacific freight climbing Sherman Hill, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming - a 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy'; Millions for Signals - "Either slow down your streamliners or intall more signals", says Interstate Commerce Commission - long article with photos; The Morristown & Erie Railroad - article and photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
193324 pages. Contents: Openings for Return of Industrial Prosperity Reduced to Simple ABC Proposition; Muscle Shoals Bill Signed, with photo of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska; Trade Contro-Public Works Bill to Put Millions to Work; Illustration of James A. and Amy Johnson Mollison - The Lindberghs of England; Japanese troops occupy Peiping (Beijing); Hitler Accepts Roosevelt Peace Plan; Photo of Rep. Louis T. McFadden who is out gunning for tax evaders, and wants to impeach nearly everybody, including Secretary Woodin and 24 past and present Federal Reserve officials; Photo of President Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Circuses and Carnivals Still have attractions - article with illustration of Jimmy Campana, Los Angeles strongman, actually being catapulted through the air from a modern crossbow; Aviation - with illustration of Commodore Alger H. Dresel with regard to the Akron disaster; Capital Chat; Before and after photos of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetary; Broadcasting; St. Lawrence Project Favored and Opposed; Illustrations of Viscount Kikujiro Ishii and Mrs. Woodin, wife of the Treasury Secretary; "Sunken Dollars" - a real old-time thriller story of th esea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); Alcohol in Gasoline - pros and cons; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1997486 pages. "One of the most valuable books on my bookshelves devoted to business, business ethics, and economics." - Robert C. Solomon, University of Texas. Few markings, average wear, and some soiling to exterior. Contents clean, tight and unmarked. Solid working copy. Book
1960368 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Many detailed diagrams. Several black and white photos. Chapters include: guns, gun mountings, fire control, the 4-inch gun & mounting, the 3-inch 50 gun and mounting, the 40 mm gun, the 3-inch 70 gun and mounting, ammunition, maintenance, tools and gauges, and answers to quizzes. Somewhat above-average external wear. Minor moisture exposure to top edge of back pages. Partial spine lean. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this informative naval text. Book
1937Pages 117-259. Features: Indiana Counties and Townships; Ohio Valley Commerce, 1787-1936; The Panama Libel Cases; Daniel E. Bruce - Civil War Teamster; Indiana Historical Society; History Teachers' Forum; The Ordinance of 1787; Six Long Years Go By; Indiana Genealogy; and more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's stamp atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
1982301 pages. Bibliography. Gorgeous illustrations throughout, many in colour. "The exhibition which was produced in conjunction with this publication was presented jointly by the Oregon Historical Society and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. All ethnographic artifacts are drawn from the holdings of the Peabody. Although many of these artifacts are among the finest of their kind in the world and well known to scholars and visitors to Harvard, few of them have been seen by the public at large... Other non-ethnographic objects shown in this volume and in the exhibition are drawn from the holdings of the Oregon Historical Society and significant collections throughout North America and around the world." - from copyright page. Book clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Rubbing to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Small bookseller's label inside front board. Very nice copy overall. Book
193488 pages. A rare surviving copy of this vintage Canadian gardening periodical. Contents include: The Pansy; Roses for the Garden; The Scree - What is it?; Some Further Notes on the Iris; The Lily Pool - a new idea in pool construction; Youth in the Garden - building cold frames for pocket money; Glass substitutes in gardening; Some of our garden pests; and more. Many interesting contemporary ads plus a major Annual Directory of the Trade in Canada for 1934, including retailers, wholesalers, nurserymen, seedsmen, allied trades and buyers' guide. Back cover features ads by Empire Garden Nurseries, Sidney Roofing and Paper Col, Layritz Nurseries Ltd., and H.M. Eddie & Sons Ltd of Sardis, BC. Minimal pencil markings. Somewhat above-average external soiling and wear. Book
In-8, broché, couverture papier moderne, tranches rouges, 35 p., rousseurs. Edition originale. Goudard expose son projet de nouveau tarif conçu autour de la réduction des droits d'entrée sur les matières premières, afin de réduire le prix de produits manufacturés, de favoriser la consommation intérieure et les exportations. Suivi du "Projet de décret" qui fut adopté en l'état. (Goldsmiths, 'Online catalogue', n° 14941.21. Stourm, p. 169).
19888vo; 248 pages; Autobiography of Lester, a Black Civl Rights leader, whose Great Grandfather was an Arkansas Jew. Lester traces the family's hidden Jewish history and becomes a practicing Jew. Since his White Jewish relatives all converted to Christianity, he remains the only living Jew in his family tree. Very Good Condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. (AMR-41-15)
Very Good Condition Lacks Slipcase; Large 8vo; xxxv, 1034 pages; Jacob R. Schiff library of Jewish contributions to American democracy, no. 17-19. Includes bibliographical references. (AMR-42-17)
Berlin, C. Boas Nachf. , No Date (ca 1915? ) . Paper Wrappers, 8vo, [4] pages. "Buchhandlung für jüdische und hebräische Literatur. " Folded in half, otherwise Very Good+ Condition. An Excellent Copy. (CT-14-23)
1924Large 8vo; 514 pages; In the original German This Volume stands on its own and contains 2 parts: Die soziale Stellung und wirtschaftliche Taetigkeit der Juden vom Ausgang des Altertums bis zum Kreuzzuege; and Die soziale Stellung und Wirtschaftliche Taetigkeit der Juden im Zeitalter der Kreuzzuege. Some wear to wrappers, pencil underlining on a few pages, Very Good Condition, (ger-15-63)
1913[… blanchiment, de la teinturerie, bonneterie, de l'impression, des apprêts, de leurs dérivés et de la construction du matériel: coton, lin, chanvre, jutte, ramie, laine, soie, schappe, textiles artificielles etc.], [ … traitant des intérêts du commerce des filés et tissus en général, de la bonneterie, lingerie, rubannerie, passementerie en coton, lin, chanvre, jute, ramie, schappe, soie artificielle, laine, soie et autres textiles et de la confection dames et hommes], 2 parties en 1 vol.: 550pp.avec ills. & 37 + 36 + 40 + 39 + 41 + 41 + 43 + 40 + 40 + 42 + 40 + 44pp.avec ills. + ills.hors-texte, 28cm., reliure toile (dos en cuir), coins peu passés
