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Best.-Nr. 143688Port Washington NY: Associated Faculty Press Inc. / Kennikat Press. First edition. Hardcover. 122 pages. Edited and with an introduction by Stanley Austin Ransom Jr. Biographical sketch by Oscar Wegelin. Critical analysis of the works of Hammon by Vernon Loggins. A clean very near fine copy in white boards. No dust jacket. Associated Faculty Press, Inc. / Kennikat Press unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 190761San Diego: William F. Northrop 1978. Pamphlet. iv 20p. signatures in stringbound wraps unopened with untrimmed edges or false deckle facsimile reprint of the 1787 original by the first Black author published in the US. Very good copy. Advice to slaves and servants in particular to become literate and to read scripture then "to think very little of your bondage in this life William F. Northrop unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 27646Port Washington: Associated Faculty Press 1983. Hardcover. Fine. frontis facsimiles 122p. 22cm. White hardcover binding. No Jacket as published. Edited by Stanley Austin Ransom Jr. This is a reprint of the 1970 edition with the addition of a new three-page Preface by Ransom. Associated Faculty Press hardcover books
1978Best.-Nr. 207038n.p.: William F. Northrop 1978. Single 8x10 inch sheet broadside with facsimile printing of the original 1760 poem/prayer on recto and a small Publisher's Notes and limitation number on rear tan paperstock with faux deckle to all edges. Hammon was a Black poet and a slave who became the first African American to be published in America and is considered to be a founder of African American literature. There is only one copy of the original 1760 broadside known to exist and it is held by the NY Historical Society per the Publisher's note on rear. William F. Northrop unknown books
Folio, 12pp (one blank) with large folding plan; wire-stitched as issued, one or two small rust marks as often, lower edge light dust-soiled else a near fine copy. 'Supplements to the London Gazette' are of great value to the naval and military historian. In many cases they represent the first publicly published accounts of the engagements concerned, and normally contain excellent maps and plans together with direct transcripts from official despatches not easily available elsewhere. This supplement includes the following transcripts: Commodore J. A. Collins RN (Commanding China Force) to C-in-C Eastern Fleet 17 March 1942; Report by Captain H. M. L. Waller RAN (HMAS PERTH) 27 February 1942; Report by T. J. Cain RN (Senior Surviving Officer, HMS ELECTRA) 27 February 1942; Despatch by Captain O. L. Gordon RN (HMS EXETER) to Admiralty 1 October 1945.
Publications D'Histoire De L'Art Et D'Archeologie De L'Universite Catholique to Louvain XCVII / Archaeolgia Transatlantica XV; 10.8 X 8.4 X 0.1 inches; 114 pages
Bella cromolitografia del 1843 tratta dalla celebre opera di botanica "Flora der Schweiz" di Heinrich Romer sulla flora della Svizzera. In buone condizioni, qualche fioritura. Segni di colla al verso. Salvia glutinosa TECNICA: Cromolitografia DIMENSIONI FOGLIO: cm 17,5x11 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 15,5x9,5 EPOCA: 1843 CONDIZIONI: Buone condizioni, qualche fioritura. Piccoli strappi al margine inferiore. Resto di colla al verso.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge. 200pp. An account of some forgotten/bizarre/curious/unusual observations about the planets of the solar system plus one stellar event.
Features: In the Belly of the Dragon - a Vancouver team leads the pack in an ancient Chinese challenge; Ellesmere Epiphanies - welcome to the park on the top of the world; Creature Cures - Can a chimpanzee play doctor to fix its own ills?; The Global Village Schoolhouse - a yearbook tribute to the kids who'll make this country work in the multicultural millennium; King of the Comet Hunters - this summer's cosmic smash-up on Jupiter makes amateur comet hunter David Levy a sky-watching star. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Topics: "Break-Through" and how to cure it; An All-Power A.C. Eliminator; Radio Wrinkles from Readers; Choosing a Modern Valve; Tuning and Adjusting the Sonotone; A Simple Coil Winder; Noises - Their Cause and Cure (part 2); Making a Mains Transformer; Simple Chassis Construction - how to make up the all-metal type of chassis; The Heart of Your Set - part 3, output valves; Little Mistakes We All Make; Receivers and Their Records - The Portadyne "Atlantic" Portable S.G.4; Cossor Melody Maker kit model 337; Simple Tests Without Instruments; Below 100 metres; Telsen Jupiter S.G.3 - two-page ad; and more. Heavily worn. Bit of writing on front cover. Corner clipped from lower back cover. Covers seperated and loose but present. Book
56 pages. Features: Dr. John D. Strong; The Appalachian Trail; Detailed drawing of a newly designed lightship which will replace the ill-fated Nantucket; Surprising discoveries in the near east show that iron, glass, the arch, and bathrooms were in use far earlier than formerly supposed; Telepathy and Clairvoyance in a Trance Medium - an intensive series of tests conducted with a medium (Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett) and her spirit control showed the spirit to be no better as a telepathist than the medium; How bright is a lightning bug?; Various types of photographic exposure meters; Planets much larger than Jupiter are impossible; Copper and copper alloys are resisting corrosion; Back on the Land - The Subsistence Homestead movement is slowly reversing the urbanization trend - an experiment at Reedsville, West Virginia - article with photos; All-Wave Reception; Power from the Boulder Dam - two-pages of exceptional photos; Disordered glands can produce giants and dwarfs, fanatics and loafers; Rotating Wing Aircraft (helicopters) - intriguing possibilities; The Amateur Astronomer; photo of salvage bathysphere; Progress in Science - by Kermit Roosevelt; and more. Above-average external wear. Front cover nearly detached. Tape along backstrip. Not pretty but an informative vintage issue. Magazine
16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Piccadilly Circus, London; Durham Castle, England; Hall of Knights in the Royal Palace, Berlin; Bridge of Sighs, Venice; Interiors of the Pompeiian Museum; The Sea of Ice, Switzerland; The Statue of Peter the Great, St. Petersburg; Natives of Australia Fishing; Native Street and Houses in Ceylon; Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia; In the Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River; The Mission of San Antonio, California; The Cathedral of Lima, Peru; The Tomb of Canova; Niagara Falls, Winter of 1892-3; Jupiter Terrace, Yellowstone Park. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Two-page illustration shows the German "Lutzow" being torpedoed by Beaufort aircraft off Norway; The capture of Maleme airfield - with two great aerial photos of dozens of wrecked JU-52s; Photo of a meeting of the Vichy government after the Darlan-Hitler talks; Twopage overhead illustration of Alexandria, Egypt - "the focus of fascist ambition and Nazi air savagery"; Three photos of Polish troops en route to Norway; Coverage of the Allied Advance in Syria - Damascus, Tyre and Sidon; The Drama of the "Bismark's" last moments - five illustrations by J. Brooks, Midshipman on H.M.S. "Dorsetshire"; Article on "Planning for Victory" by Cyril Falls; Excellent photo of Churchill addressing allied statesmen at St. James's Palace on June 12th; Four illustrations of Home Guard realistic training for enemy invasion; Two-page centerfold illustation of activity at the mobile H.Q. of an army - air force intelligence liaison officer; Eight super photos of German paratroops landing in Crete; Nineteen photos of the leading personalities of the week; Photos of several warships who met their fate; Interesting photos of a "Bristol" Boeing Flying Boat used by the British for Air Communications; Photos of the British Garrison in Iceland - scenes of everyday life; Interesting naval photos include running a line between ships to pass a bag of important documents; Illustrations of bombed Wren City churches; Photos of ancient temples, including the temple of Jupiter; Colour Johnnie Walker ad on back cover in a library setting. Average wear. Faint Ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
104 pages. Features: Two-page Honda Prelude ad; Two-page Purolator Courier ad; Karpov vs. Korchnoi at chess; Gasohol; Major coverage of Jimmy Carter's Middle East peace initiative with color photos of Carter, Sadat and Begin; Nice color-photo ad for the Triumph Spitfire; Two-page color-photo ad for Ford's station wagons and van; US moves military assets to Yemen; U.S. Rep. Philip Miller Craine of Illinois; William H. Orr wins Equalimony case at the Supreme Court; Charlie Allen - this freelance executioner gunned down east coast mobsters; Rafer Johnson is featured in a color photo ad for AMF products; Retaking Stateville Prison in Joliet, IL; Iran - Who's In Charge? - with photo of four rapists facing firing squad; Nice color Monte Carlo car ad; Massacre in Chad; Chinese military activity in Vietnam; Communist Spy Ursel Lorenzen; Military forces close in on Idi Amin's capital of Kampala; Colorful centerfold ad for the Polaroid SX-70 Sonar OneStep camera; Color-photo ad for Le Car by Renault features Roy Larson & Family of Spokane, WA; Vantage cigarette ad features Peter Accetta of New York City; Jimmy Connors marries Patti McGuire; Advertising Grows Up; Nice color photo ad for the Volkswagen Rabbit (in snow); Long Beach Naval Regional Medical Center's successful alcohol-abuse programs; Zany Harold Ballard of the Toronto Maple Leafs; Caleb (Cale) Yarborough - article with photo of him fighting Bobby Allison; Homage to Nijinsky; Subaru ad features photo of The Cadillacs; Wonderful color photos of Jupiter; Iran - The Oil Flows; Ray Dolby and the Sound of Dolby; Mavis Lindgren is featured in a Blue Cross / Blue Shield ad; Nice Virginia Slims ad with Niagara Falls sepia photos at top; Network executive Fred Silverman; The Young Romantics - art article; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Carter and Begin meet for one last try to save peace talks; Jerry Brown's Budget Balancing Act; Jane Byrne knocks out Mayor of Chicago; American foreign policy in the middle east; Khomeini's Kingdom Qum; China's Putative War Against Vietnam; China's War with India; Saudi fears of subversion from Yemen; Queen receives valuable gifts from Dubai; Idi Amin's Big Trouble; The Oil Squeeze of 1979; Oil Authority Walter Levy; China Faces Reality - still much promise, but also worry about money and lower goals; Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal meets Hua Kuo-feng; Henry Bloch of H&R Block Co.; Concerns over fallout from nuclear testing; Chaos in Television as the networks claw for audiences; Manic of Mork - Robin Williams - article with color photo; Features with the heads of ABC, CBS and NBC, Fred Pierce, William Paley, Fred Silverman; John McPhee writes of his favorite restaurant, "The Bullhead" in Shohala, PA; Color-photo ad for the Peugeot 604 SL; Voyager 1's rendezvous with Jupiter; Passing of Dewey Bartlett, Mustafa Barzani, W.A.C. Bennett, Henrich Focke; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of white ensigns flying from the frigates Jupiter, Naiad and Brighton; Nice photo of HMS Brecon (M29); Full-page photo of P & O passenger liner Stratheden in 1956; On the Waterfront; 'Trad' Tankers Pictorial; European Commentary; New Ship News; Keeping the Peace - part 2 - Jack Philip-Nichols continues the story of his experiences in his first ship, the cruiser HMS 'Curacoa'; 'Director' Class Naval Paddle Tugs - M.J. Gaston reviews the history of a dying breed; Callers at the Cape - a pen and camera review of some of the stately ships which have called at Cape Town; Two of a Kind - the Graigfelen and the Glynafon were recently scrapped; Coals from Newcastle - remarkable upsurge in the coal trade between the North-east Coast ports and power stations in the south of England - a review of the background of the present-day collier fleet; Battleships at Bremerton - report on a recent visit to the USS 'Missouri' and 'New Jersey' on Seattle's Puget Sound; Letters; Ship Sales; Nice photo of the HMS Duke of York in 1947. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
In-4, [12] ll. (incl. frontispiece), 689 pp., [9] ll., engraved title-page, full-page coat of arms of the dedicatee on the verso of the title, 12 copper-engraved plates; contemporary vellum, ms. title stamp, one clasp remaining, blue edges (tiny stain touching some margins, very rare sporadic browning, small cover defects). Genuine beautiful copy.
1929Best.-Nr. 86081Berlin-Haiensee, Zenith-Vergaser G.m.b.H. ohne Jahr., ca. 1929. Mit Abbildungen., 16 Seiten., 8°. illustrierter OKarton.,
1805Best.-Nr. 11086Auf Kosten des Verfassers, und zu haben bei C. Friedrich Barth / Breslau, 1805. XCII, 231 Seiten. 8vo. Pappe.
1918Best.-Nr. 299369Leipzig : Theosophisches Verlagshaus Dr. Hugo Vollrath, 1918. 105 S. ; 8 Originalhalbleinen. 23 cm
1903Best.-Nr. 2017BLeipzig, Spamer, (1903). 28 photographische Luftbildaufnahmen, 4 Bl. 136 S., 2 Bl., illustrierter Original-Leinenband. ZUSTAND -1.
1910Best.-Nr. 3111382Bamberg: Remeis-Sternwarte 1910. 21 Seiten. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
1947Best.-Nr. 3111350Bruges: Editions "De Tempel" 1947. 29, (2) Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Broschur mit Klammerheftung. [Softcover / Paperback].
1900Best.-Nr. 3111662Helsingfors: J. Simelii Erben 1900. (2), 55 Seiten. 4° (25-35 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
1996Best.-Nr. 175395Birkhäuser Verlag, 1996. Gebundene Ausgabe
