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1792ref. PHO-991À Paris, Chez Buisson, 1792. In-8°, viii-562p ,cartonnage marbré (reliure début XIXe s.).
196356 pages. Features: The last chapter of the great E.P. Taylor Myth - the E.P. Taylor of modern Canadian folklore, reighning tycoon of a nation and master of all the hidden levers of power - he is not and never was, by Barbara Moon with many photos; Anatomy of a world-wide sensation - pilot Ralph Flores and his passenger Helen Klaben survived a 48-day ordeal in the winter wild; What the new drive for church unity means to Christians; How I was trapped by Jasper the Cartoon bear for Maclean's Magazine - the true confessions of the cartoonist who created Jasper the bear in 1948 and has been running hard to keep up with Canada's most famous bear ever since, by James Simpkins; The Tribal Customs of space-age children - an eyewitness account by Robert Thomas Allen; Our Alabama - a report by Peter Gzowski on the harsh realities setting whites against Indians near Glaslyn, Saskatchewan - article with many great black and white photos; The Montreal Stampede to Learn French; Colour photo Coke ad of a young lovely lifeguard and her many admirers. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
195664 pages. Features: Cover painting by Macpherson shows Aerobee rocket taking off from Fort Churchill, Manitoba, to study the Northern Lights; Colour-photo Caterpillar ad inside front cover shows the deepest causeway in the world, the Strait of Canso Causeway - 180' deep in the middle; One-page colour-photo ad for GE presents a pink and yellow fridge which is difficult to look at; Two-page colour ad for Shell is nondescript but for the large illustration of a girl high up the the bucket of a tractor as she rescues her cat from a roof; William Mercer says we're going haywire in our security (pension) plans; How Sir Roy Dobson Pushed Canada into the Jet Age - the Managing Director of A.V. Roe Limited in Manchester was the father of the CF-100, and also purchased a major interest in Algoma Steel; For Five Seasons Tanya Moiseiwitsch has dazzled audiences with the dazzling costumes she creates for the Shakespearean festival; How Elgin Armstrong Beats the (Harness) Races; The Garden That Grew From a Gravel Pit - Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens - article with nice colour photos; The Search for Strangler Sweeney (fiction); Prospector Viola MacMillan - super photo-illustrated article on "the most remarkable woman in Canada" who is worth $10 million; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features Jack Richardson and Luigi Tagliapietra engaged in 'water jousting' on their gondolas in Venice; One page ad for International (Harvester) Construction Equipment explains the new concept of 'Sanitary Landfill' and illustrates how their Drott Bullclam (hydraulicall bucket) product is specifically designed for this application; Cinci beer ad features nice colour photo of couple in nautical theme; Pilkington Glass ad features colour photo of the interior of the home of J.L. Silverman of Halifax, Nova Scotia; Nice colour-photo ad for Old Vienna beer features nicely dressed couple in kitchen with bowl of salad and box of bear; Photo ad for Studebaker-Packard features the Champion 4-door sedan; Colour ad for Kingsbeer by Dow, "Canada's Finest Lager"; Colour ad for the Sheraton-Brock Hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario; Syl Apps and Frank Buckland answer the questions "Should we import Russian Hockey Players?"; Brief bios with photos of writers who joined Maclean's in the last year - Christina McCall, Shirley Mair and Ken Lefolii; Polysar ad on back cover features colour painting of man replacing another inner tube in one of his car's tires - as he family waits by the side of the road; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Half of centrefold Kodak ad (page 31-32) not included. The other half, page 33, is secured with archival tape, otherwise a sound copy of this wonderful issue. 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
1925Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Jogi's Curse - An Indian government official is cursed by a wondering jogi (priest) and the prophecy is tragically fulfilled; An Underground Wonderland - Fantastic photo-illustrated article on the Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico; Adrift in the China Seas - Sent off to fetch help for their crippled steamer, H.W. Millard, G. Grant Simmons and their companions are blown off course and suffer an eight-day ordeal; "Watu Wa Miti" - R. St. Barbe Baker founded the "Men of the Trees" in Equatorial Africa to preserve trees which were continually being burned to secure land for cultivation - with photos; The Man Who Wanted a Change - A factory hand seeking escape travels to the South Seas, only to return sadder and wiser; Two Years in Borneo - Part I - Oscar Cook spent eight years there, the last two of which were quite strenuous - with photos; "The Man With the Buried Head" - photo of alms-seekers in India; The Promotion of Private Smith - The inside facts of an affair involving Private Smith, a young soldier in the American Army, stationed in the Philippines; The Last of the Bushrangers - Mrs. Mary J. Nichols reflects on the old pioneer days in Tasmania and the 'sticking-up' of an isolated station by the last gang of bushrangers that operated in the island - with photos; Forbidden Nepal - Hugh Walter had unusual opportunities to visit this closed state and provides interesting glimpses of the manners, customs, and principal religious festivals of the Nepalese - with photos; White Man's Magic - While exploring the interior of New Zealand the author and his companion fell afoul of a rascally Maori tohunga, or medicine man; Where Cannibals Roam - Part II - An eventful journey into the unknown interior of Papua, with photos; "Old Peter" - C.N.C. Hayter, formerly of the Royal North-West Mounted Police, describes instances of 'second sight' he witnessed among Eskimos, thus providing independent corroboration of a story about apparent Eskimo telepathy in this publication a few months ago; What Happened to Spott - A funny story about a miserly old South African storekeeper and a black mamba snake; The World's Largest Goldfish Farm - founded by Eugene Shireman of Martinsville, Indiana - with photo. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1958Features: Great cover photo of an East German customs checkpoint at Berlin; Berlin Beleaguered - Today the population lives far better than when blockaded a decade ago but it feels a great unease generated by new Communist pressures; West Berlin Moods - photos of Berlin scenes; Labor's House Three Years After - anniversary of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger finds the union movement with some notable gains and a closetful of troubles; The 'Overwhelming' Robert Frost - At 84, the new poetry consultant to the Library of Congress looks like the symbol of a poet; What Went Wrong in Pakistan - Its sick parliamentary system has died - photo-illustrated article; How Balanchine Changed Ballet - something special has been achieved by the New York City Ballet, aged ten; The Oval Room - Eisenhoweriana; Messages From the Invisible Universe, by Arthur C. Clarke - Radio waves, reaching the earth from vast distances, are clues to a greater cosmos - with photo of the giant radio-telescope at Jodrell Bank, Manchester; Teaching the Young to Look - and See; Students in Search of Faith - Today's seminarians; Nice two-page color-photo ad for the Dorado Beach Hotel in Puerto Rico; Japan Turns Against the 'Gyangu' - crackdown on teen-age toughs; What Should a Man Tell His Wife?; Hottest Fighter in Town - Jose Torres; Lovely one-page color-photo ad for Jamaica features Mary Martin Halliday; The Care of the Reluctant Schoolboy; Play is Child's Work; Cookie Recipes; The Season for Springerle; Photos of fashionable rainwear for ladies; Photo feature of home designed by Richard Gordon to be child-proof; and more. 96 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1902ref. RO80252934Cassard. 1902. In-4. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 119 pages. Trois photos disponibles. Couverture muette. Page 50 tâchée.. . . . Classification Dewey : 390-Coutumes, savoir-vivre, folklore
1904ref. RO80074651IMP. WELLHOFF & ROCHE. 1904. In-Folio. Relié demi-cuir. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 310 pages. 26 planches illustrées en couleurs. Nombreuses illustrations et nombreux dessins en noir et blanc, dans le texte. Couvertures couleurs, de chaque numéros, conservées. Titre, année, filets et tomaison dorés sur demi-basane rouge.. . . . Classification Dewey : 390-Coutumes, savoir-vivre, folklore
1997240 pages. Index. Glossary. Bibliograpy. Sumptuous colour photography throughout. "Richard Diran's task of recording the tribes, many of them suspicious and frightened of foreigners, was arduous and also dangerous, in the face of almost constant guerilla warfare, and it took many years. The resulting photographs are a testimony not only to his skill and determination but to the survival of the tribes themselves in the face of an alien and politically unstable world." - from dust jacket. Heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. Four inch opening at bottom of back hinge. Reading copy only. Book
1986112 pages. List of plates. "We enter through Ms. Fellman's large-format Polaroid colour prints into a strange and even frightening world where members of the Yakuza, the Japanese equivalent to the Mafia, spend hundreds of thousands of yen and hundreds of hours of pain and torment being tattooed." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Please note: Top edges of all pages undulate mildly due to moisture exposure which has resulted in occasional very light discolouration. Remains an enchanting copy of this wonderfully unique and visual work. Book
1995182 pages. Occasional black and white illustrations. "A precise description of Jewish life in Bessarabia, Roumania and Russia in the period between the years 1910-1940." - from Preface. Above-average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy reading copy. Book
1911Features: The House of Death; In Mysterious Senoussi Lana - a story from the heart of the Sahara; Pietro's Lost Mine - fortune knocks on a gold prospector's door, only to vanish in a strange way; The Turk at Play - interesting pastimes, including camel-fighting!; The Undoing of Ba Tin - a curious story of murder from Burma as told by a high police official; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Mrs. Maturin; An American Gretna Green - The Rev. A.H. Burroughs, the 'marrying person' of Tennessee; On the Shoals - a tale of desperate peril and splendid heroism on Lake Erie involving the steamer 'Clarion'; The Mountain of the Ark - a description of an ascent of Mount Ararat; Jim Christie and the Bear, by C.H. Gibbons of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria, B.C. - the story of an appalling adventure with a grizzly, the like of which does not exist in the annals of big-game hunting; My Wanderings in Crete; Professor C.H. Hawes studies head-forms and sets forth his experiences, incidentally describing some very curious customs which he encountered; Iveson's Trap - an extraordinary accident strikes a Yorkshire farmer while shepherding in Shunner Fell, Swaledale; Among Ryper and Reindeer in Norway - C.V. Pell hunts game and relates his experiences; Lighting a Bush Fire - an account of an experience in Victoria during the drought of 1898. Above-average wear. Covers holding but loosely. Bonus: Laid-in is a 2016 feature newspaper article on Jim Christie, who appears on the cover of this issue. The article includes an actual photo of the magazine we are offering. Magazine
1813ref. 10808Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Ballard, 1813. Affiche imprimée (30,5 x 38,5 cm).
ref. 13546, Besançon, Cl. Jos. Daclin 1756, in-4, rel. pl. veau blond moucheté, dos à nerfs orné, pc. de tit. en maroquin brun, tr. rouges, p. de tit. en rouge et noir, (éraflures sur les plats avec manque sur le 1er plat, épidermures au dos, coupes et coins frottés), intérieur très frais, 4 f.-708-XXp.
ref. 216207S.l. [Paris], s.d. (octobre 1817) in-folio, [3] pp. n. ch., en feuille.
ref. DZN-704Bordeaux chez les frères Labottière 1768-1769; 2 volumes in-8, (2)LXVI-480 pages-(5 feuillets de table)+VII-(1 ff.de table)482 pages(3). Basane époque, dos ornés, tranches marbrées; usure des coiffes et coins. Ces deux volumes ont été reappareillés, il y a différence de fers dorés au dos , mais cela n'est pas choquant.
1885ref. LRB1102IIIn-8° reliure pleine toile beige. 3 livres réunis en un volume. Le premier est dédicacé par l'auteur, couvertures conservées. Parfait état sans rouseur. Reliure à charnières. Ex-libris (non collé) d'Yves Cazaux 2 ff° -149 p. / 143p./153 p. - 2ff°
1903ref. 191583Carrère Rodez, Imprimerie Carrère, 1903. In-4 broché de 468 pages non coupées. Rousseurs sur la couverture et bord de la première page bruni. Corps de l'ouvrage en très bon état. Bon exemplaire pour cette édition originale rare.
1732ref. 90AeMetz Veuve Brice Antoine 1732 In12 Page de titre + 7 ff + 647 pages + table - plein veau d'époque - dos à nerfs orné - sans pièce de titre - mors frottés, leger manque de cuir aux coins - reliure solide - mouillure en bas pages qui s'atténue au fur et à mesure de l'ouvrage, sans entamer le texte, à peine visible à partir de la moitié du volume
1732ref. 90AeMetz Veuve Brice Antoine 1732 In12 Page de titre + 7 ff + 647 pages + table - plein veau d'époque - dos à nerfs orné - sans pièce de titre - mors frottés, leger manque de cuir aux coins - reliure solide - mouillure en bas pages qui s'atténue au fur et à mesure de l'ouvrage, sans entamer le texte, à peine visible à partir de la moitié du volume
ref. ORD-11761°série d'Héliogravures d'Art extraites de la Collection Bretonne de Raphaël Binet. Présentation de François Jaffrenou Taldir. Légendes et descriptions de Léon Le Berre Ab. Alor. St-Brieuc. Editions de l'Ouest Eclair. s.d. Gd in-8 cartonnage souple de l'éditeur orné bleu et or, à l'italienne (312x211mm), 4ff. (1 blanc, titre et présentation) et 36 superbes photos tirées en bistre accompagnées chacune d'une légende en vis à vis. Rousseurs sur les gardes sinon bel état.
ref. 31844Paris, Société Française d'Editions d'Art ; L.- Henri-May 30 novembre 1898. Un fort volume in-quarto, X-299 pp. plus 1 f table des matières. Reliure d'époque en demi-chagrin vert, dos à nerfs orné de frises et de filets dorés, une épée et deux couronnes végétales dorées, pièces de titre rouges ornées de filets dorés, une pièce de titre dorée sur le premier plat en maroquin rouge, tête dorée. Frottements sur les nerfs avec manque néanmoins bel exemplaire exempt de rousseur.
ref. 018270Bénédicte Bouteille dite Berthe Rasimi, madame Rasimi (1870-1954), créatrice de costumes, directrice de théâtre notamment du Bataclan. L.S., 8 septembre 1919, 1p in-8 oblong. A l'écrivain et librettiste Félix Celval (1869-1947), auteur de revues jouées notamment au Ba-Ta-Clan. « Mon Cher Celval, Je vous accuse réception de votre lettre du 2 septembre ; nous sommes complètement d'accord, je vous réserve votre tour pour la troisième revue de Ba-Ta-Clan, puisque vous ne pouvez pas vous engager pour seconde. Bien cordialement à vous. BRasimi ». Très rare signature. [423]
1699ref. PHO-1741Paris, veuve Claude Barbin, 2 mai 1699, 2 tomes en un volume in-12, demi veau postérieur, dos détaché, premiers feuillets détachés, dos cassé, manque le titre du tome 1 et les deux premières pages (début de l’épitre, ici en copie)
1687plein veau brun raciné, dos lisse orné de fleurons et filets encadrants dorés, un filet sur les coupes, (coiffes et pc. de tit. absentes, coins émoussés avec qq. mq., plats frottés avec des épidermures, des mouillures claires marginales sans atteintes au texte, mors fatigués ) Également commentateur de la coutume de Meaux (Seine et Marne), Champy est un des seuls, avec Christophe de Thou et Ch. Dumoulin, à appréhender cette coutume de manière autonome. C’est d’ailleurs cette édition qui sera principalement retenue dans le recueil de la Bibliothèque des coutumes de Cl. Berroyer, E. de Laurrière et Ch. du Moulin. Très rare, Dupin, réf. de 1249-3, Manque à Cujas.
