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1954116 pages. Features: Great Rockwell cover illustration of excavator attempting to dig up kid's baseball field in a vacant lot; Our daughter had polio - Kay Reiten had to be treated in an iron lung; Don't sneer at the catfish - great article on the popular catfish with photo of Leon Bishop and Carl Yarbrough holding huge catfish they hauled out of the Tallahatchie River, near Abbeville, MS, with their bare hands; They Hit Red China Where it Hurt - over 4,000 Chinese Communists surrendered in Korea, allowing them a chance to explain why they swallowed Communism, and how Mao's tyranny can be defeated; The Republicans Muffed the Ball in Dixie - where are the Eisenhower voters now?; TV's Shoestring Surprise - The Johns Hopkins Science Review has rung up one of TV's longest hit runs; Colony of the Outcast Kings - color-photo feature of Estoril, Portugal, now a swanky resort; Never Marry an Actress - they may be delightful on stage, but around the house they're vain, insincere, and obsessed with themselves. Fiction: Shackles for the Groom; The Sitting Duck; The Seeds of Hate; The Hard-Luck Type; The Mask of Alexander (part 2 of 6); Invitation to Murder (part 6 of 8). Ads: Elegant one-page color-photo ad for Packard cars; Nice color-photo ad for a cream-colored Cadillac convertible; Two-page ad for Du Pont's nylon for truck tires features photos of Leonard Bisgrove of Red Star Express in Auburn, NY, and Edward Benkert of Fairmount Foundry in Philadelphia; Gorgeous color-photo ad for the 1954 Chrysler New Yorker De Luxe Newport (blue); Champion Spark Plug ad features photo and endorsement by racer Jim Kimberly; Nice two-page color ad for the Scenicruiser by Greyhound bus lines; Nice color Chevrolet ad features an off-white Bel Air Convertible plus an inset color photo of a Corvette convertible, "First of the Dream Cars to Come True!"; Fascinating one-page photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau of a trucker enjoying a 'Coffee-break', suggesting this campaign may have introduced this term now used throughout North America; Prest-O-Lite battery ad features photo of footballer Doak Walker of the Detroit Lions; Sweet half-page vintage color ad for Dairy Queen Malts and Shakes; Color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway's Vista Dome/North Coast Limited service; Back page Camel cigarette ad features photos of John W. Fincher of Cairo, GA, A.R. Schneidewind of Upper Montclair, NJ, Mrs. B. Collins Edgar of Lookout Mountain, TN, W.C. Fowler of Dallas, TX, J. Russell Fraser of Detroit, Mrs. Katharine B. Coelsch of The Dalles, OR, and Evelyn Terjesen of New York City. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
194650 pages. Features: Back of Russia's Poker Face; Opera on the Upbeat; Actor on the Diplomatic Stage - Douglas Fairbanks; Profile of Arthur MacNamara. Fiction: Retreaded Wolf; The Old Stand; The Professor Plans a Haul; Watt Holly and teh City Lady. Part 2 of condensed book "The Birthday Murder". Two-page Thropp Family comic by Lawrence Lariar. Ads: Colour ad for Carling's Breweries features pheasant conservation; Vintage one-page ad for the MGM movie "Adventure" with illustration of Clark Gable and Greer Garson; Hinds for Hands; Elizabeth Arden; YWCA (inside back cover); Colour Coke ad on back cover features illustration of four young well-dressed people preparing snacks and music in someone's home. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194150 pages. Articles: Why Hitler Declared War on Russia - how Rudolph Hess and his flight figured into it; Why I Publish the Fritz Thyssen Manuscript - the dramatic story behind a remarkable Liberty series; My Life in the Army - by Jimmy Stewart; Problem Horse - the surprising story of Whirlaway; Tournament Golf - It's Tough!; Short Stories: A Very Blind Date; Johnny Allenby and the Beautiful Rebel; Diagnosis; The Indian Sign. Serials: Murder with Southern Hospitality - Part 5; Footsteps Behind Her - Part 9. Ads: Great photo ad inside the front cover features's Toronto's Park Plaza Hotel; Fantastic colour centerfold by GM advocates "A Good Life Work for Any Man"; Castoria children's laxative; Post's Bran Flakes; Palmolive Soap; Sal Hepatica; Cameo Menthal Cigarettes; Dettol; The 1941 CNE; Kotex; Lux Soap - featuring Madeleine Carroll; Tampax; Great WWII ad on back cover photo-illustrates the marine lifeline to Britain and promotes lending to support the war effort. Crossword completed. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
196376 pages. Features: Photo of illustrator Herb Tauss; A Shoulder To Cry On (short story); Colour photos illustrate before and after colour fashion photos of Jennifer Palmer and Barbara Macnee for work; Romance on the Safari - colour-photo-illustrated article on the life of Pat and Glen Cottar in Kenya; Design for Murder (part 1 of this serial); How Lucky You Are to be a Stay-At Home Wife!; Headache; Backache; Feetache; Illustratef Fashion Article - "Go For Glamour With A Plus"; The Boy Across the Street (short story); Photo of Aristotle Onassis dining with Maria Callas; Song With a Heart (serial); Photos of The Duchess of Bedford in Vitapointe ad; One-page colour ad for John West's salmon; Unusual one-page milk ad entitled "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" shows couple embracing in train station; Classy colour-photo ad for Goya's Entice Cologne on back cover features couple on formal dance floor; Many other nice ads; and more. Page 45/46 missing. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
194758 pages. Features: When Were You Born? - Astrologer Frederick A. Jackson; Anna Swan - the Nova Scotia Giantess; The Delorme Murder Case in Montreal - Famous Canadian Crimes #7; King of the Waxworks - Charles Pearson MacGregor - known in Hollywood as High Fidelity Mac - article with photos of the man with a gold-plated toilet; Burbank of the Double Razzbery - photo-illustrated article on radio star Arthur Godfrey; ; Friend of King Salmon - how Herb Allan of Dennyville, Maine gave the almost extinct North Atlantic Salmon a new lease on life; New Cure for Mental Illness; The Tragedy of the Unwanted Child - how Children's Aid Society finds new parents perfectly suited to offspring of unmarried mother - major photo-illustrated article show the actual step as a youngster is transfered from her mother to new parents with the aid of Mary Speers; Bilingual Singer Gisele La Fleche - article with photo. Woman of the Week - Mrs. Syl Apps; News bits on Count Bassie and Louis Armstrong; Stories: The Standard of Living; The Lure. Condensed Book - Between Us and the Dark (part 2 of 2). Ads: Erven Lucas Bols; Old Dutch Cleanser; WintOGreen Lifesavers; Carling's ad inside back cover features the Muskrat; Super bold colour ad for Wrigley's spearment gum on back cover. Book
197732 pages. Features: Jose Rafael and Portuguese reaction in Toronto to the murder of Emanuel Jaques; Pint Size - Canada's vanishing breed of independent beer companies; Detroit Feature - Life on the Assembly Line; Canada's Favorite Charities - a guide to Canada's major charitiable organizations, who they are, how they get your money, and what they do with it; Massive 6-page GM Preview of its 1978 Cars; The Unpopular Pope - Paul VI may not be the best-loved pope, but he has put his house in order; Facing Up to Psychotherapy - four patients reveal the reasons and methods of psychiatry; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1947Pages 129-192 plus 16 pages of advertisements. Features: The Grey Car Mystery - a Winnipeg murder case is solved - with photos of Sheriff Delos Blanchard, Harry Heipel, J.A. Kaesar (the victim), Inspector M.F. Anthony, and Chief George Smith; Premonition - an odd recollection by ship's engineer R.A. Jordan, R.N.R.; Photo of mystery stone coffin in the village of Turville; The Foundling - the tale of a temporarily adopted baboon in Nigeria; The Gold-Seekers - reprint of a Honduran adventure published in 1915 involving Charles Row, Dr. John F. Howard, Bert Dare, Edward J. Hoyt and W.W. Palmer; White Man's Magic - a Scots tugboat skipper uses his intelligence to restore order to a colony of Negroes in Columbia who were whipped to a frenzy by a self-appointed medicine-man; Photos of aftermath of cyclone which struck Townsville, Queensland, Australia in March, 1946; On the Razmak Road - a curious happening on the northwest frontier of India; Two Cot Cases - a Royal Navy rescue story involving the H.M.S. Keppel; Patrolling the Gulf of Carpentaria; Indian Pole-Trick; Vast Pools of Silver Salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska - article with photos; Hide and Seek - a tale from the coast of Dalmatia in the Adriatic where motor-gunboats of the Royal Navy harried German supply schooners; Nice Mars chocolate bar ad inside back cover. Colour ad for Wavy Navy tobacco on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Modest sticker removal blemish to front cover. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Book
1951xxiv, 256-320 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. Lucia, Windward Islands; The Death-Patrol - strange R.C.M.P. manhunt in Canada's far north after a murder on Moskeet Island; The Tobacco Farmers - three youngsters put their combined savings into an abandoned farm in North Queensland - article with photos; The Jewelled Cross - a strange story of buried treasure; Photo of New Zealand's "Bottle House"; The Stowaway; The Tale of a Shirt - what happened when an African 'bush-boy' acquired a taste for European clothing; The Miracle of the Sacred Eagles - photo-illustrated article on a daily phenomenon at a hilltop temple in Tirrukalikundram in Southern India; The Landlord's Tale - a rousing sea story told by the host of a village inn on the south coast; The Wai Wai Indians of the interior of British Guiana - article with eight photos; The Delectable Island - the isle of Re lies in the Bay of Biscay; Jungle Magic - an inexplicable performance witnessed in Malaya; Australian Treasure Trove - the wealth awaiting lucky finders in the Australian wilds; and more, plus many vintage ads. Small name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
1952220 pages. Fiction: Botts Runs For His Life; Weddings are For Women; Slum Kid; Murder Island; Anything for a Pal; Broken Promise; The Disappearance of Dolan (conclusion); Nothing to Lose (part 5 of 8). Articles: A New Trap for Runaway Husbands - the Fugitive-Husbands Law; Loveliest Wilderness in the World - Kew Gardens - color photos; The Amazing Mr. Churchill - Wonderful Winston, the Prisoner of War, part 3 of 8; So That's What You Dream About!; The Man Who Sets Off Atom Bombs - Dr. Alvin Graves; Sardi's - New York's Glamorous Hash House; The Pilots Who Lost Their Wings - Japanese Pilots; The Curious Ways of Manhattan Cliff Dwellers; Will Blood Flow Next in Morocco?; Our Most Arrogant Bureaucrat - Michael Straus, Commissioner of Reclamation. Ads: Studebaker Trucks; New York Life; Allis-Chalmers electric motors; Nescafe; American Gas Association ad features Mrs. Leslie Bonney of Cambridge, MA, Mrs. R.B. Butler of Tulsa OK, and Mrs. Geraldine Work of Santa Cruz, CA; Motorola radios; General Motors; Westinghouse Appliances; Ford cars; Inland Ice Cube Trays; Packard Cars - nice 2-page color-photo ad; General Electric Appliances; Eaton Truck Axles; Crosley Fridges - with Faith Baldwin; Handsome color United Air Lines ad; Great two-page color TWA ad; Nice two-page color Nash auto ad features the Ambassador Custom; Pall Mall cigarettes; Two-page color Chevrolet ad; Nice one-page color ad for Jarman shoes; Nice one-page Squibb ad shows faithful dog holding child's dress to prevent her from running into street; Nice one-page color ad for movie 'Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick' starring Dinah Shore; Two-page GMC truck ad; Color photo of Randolph Scott in ad for Stereo Realist 3D cameras; Olympic televisions; Permutit water softeners; Clorets; Johnston Lawn Mowers; Telechron clocks; Majestic Rotomatic lawnmowers; Homko mowers; Nice one-page two-color ad for Jacobsen power lawn mowers; Johnson outboard mowers; Nice one-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes features noted sportsman-engineer Paul Henry; Coke ad on back cover shows empty bottles and caps on counter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194750 pages. Cover photo of blonde Adele Jergens. Fiction: Got the Suits Straight? Articles: Beautiful Tyrant - Evita Duarte of Argentina - great photo-illustrated feature article; San Quentin - fascinating photo-illustrated article on this famous prison; For Beer Drinkers Only - the joys and dangers of downing America's favorite drink; The Black Seven - the dark seventh son of a seventh son was China's most ruthless bandit; Thirty-Year Girls - today's servicewomen enjoy their jobs, but they have a hard time getting dates; Murder on the Waterfront; - twenty odd unsolved murders have made the International Longshoremen's Union famous as an organization that breeds sudden death - photo illustrated article; Back Door to Broadway - summer shows are on in the Catskills, and new stars are being made - article with photos of Danny Kaye, Jimmy Durante, Al Jolson, Garrett, Paul Draper, Jerry Lester, Robert Alda, Jules Munshin and Judy Holliday; Special Features: Kids are Their Business - artist Howard Sparber and gag writer Raymond Abrashkin produce winning kid cartoons; Freud Goes to the Dogs - Hollywood pet psychiatrist Dr. Eugene Jones; The War's Greatest Book - "Yank - The GI Story of the War"; Swimming - with lovely photos of America's favorite summer sport; "Living in a Big Way" - photos from Salute's movie of the month, starring Marie McDonald and Gene Kelly ; Movies of the Month; Me, I Just Sing - Al Jolson's comeback launches a new trend; Blackburn Hits Pay Dirt - Lena Blackburn sells mud to major league ball teams!; Great one-page ad for book "Bachelor's Quarters"; Editoria inside back cover features large photo of crowd welcoming new city administration to Hoboken, NJ and title "A City Comes Back"; and more. Center page holding by one staple. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
194750 pages. Photos of lovely Wanda Ridgeway inside front cover. Short Stories: "For Five Grand"; The Pie Card. Articles: I Was a Georgia Nazi - Lanier Waller tells his story; The Return of Chaplain Smith - Reverend Meredith Patrick Smith adapts to life as a New England village pastor; Hope for the Childless; George Raft's Gangster Friend - Bugsy Siegel; Stone Cold Dead in the Stork Club - article with photos of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Clark H. Minor, Henry Cushing IV, Georgette Windsor; Lady Iris Mountbatten, Gordon Michler, Lana Turner, Greg Bautzer, Tilak Raj, Marguerite Skoda and Bruce Cabot; Most Veterans are Suckers - 10 million vets have deprived themselves of an insurance deal no commercial outfit can match; Hirohito Beats the Rap - photo-illustrated article on how Hirohito is being rebranded to the Japanese people; Eisenhower for President? - photo-illustrated article; First in War; Are Umpires Human? - article with photos including Frankie Frisch, Lee Ballanfant, and George Magerkurth; Congress Should See Me. Special Features: Speaking of Girls; Life with Ingrid Bergman - photo-illustrated article about Sam Wanamaker; Heavenly Body - Several photos of lovely Rita Hayworth who stars in this film; ; report from Hollywood; College Life - 1947; Inside the Glamour Business - article with great photos of how photographers such as Murray Korman, James Kriegsman and Bruno of Hollywood snap glamourous photos of gorgeous women; Generals are Lousy Historians - their books emphasize the role of the brass, and each general's outfit individually won the war; Photo salute to Bishop Bernard Sheil, the Most Reverend Auxilliary Bishop of Chicago; "It Depends on the Breaks" - photo-illustrated article on Congressional Medal winner Russell Dunham, his wife Mary, and their baby, who have found postwar life to be no snap; and more. Salute's Pin-up is a beautiful one-page photo of Lena Horne. Light wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
1830ref. z011783Nottingham England: J. Plant 1830. other. Very Good. Clipped article from a Nottingham periodical recounting the lurid murder suicide of a Mrs. Allen and her infant son Edward whose bodies were dredged from the Canal at Leicester in a terrible state of decomposition in October of 1830- a minor local sensation as Mrs. Allen "never indicated the slightest symptoms of insanity". Clipping measures 5 by 14 inches printed on verso only. Very good. Creasing edge wear one inch perforation along crease else complete and unmarked. Digital images available upon request. RARE no copies available on OCLC. J. Plant unknown
1832ref. 8608London Printed for the Proprietors and sold by W. Nute 1832. 1832 366 2 p. 5 plates one damaged. List of books recently published by Thomas Kelly. Contemporary half calf spine gilt and marbled boards. The front endpaper has been removed and p.171/172 partly in facsimile. A little rubbed on the edges and corners but still an attractive copy. London Printed for the Proprietors, and sold by W. Nute, hardcover
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1847ref. 714041847. Philadelphia: S.n. 1847. McDade 711. Philadelphia: S.n. 1847. McDade 711. A Murder in Richmond: McDade 711 Murder. Myers William R. Defendant. The Letters and Correspondence of Mrs. Virginia Myers Which Have Never Before Been Published or Even Read in Court to Dudley Marvin Hoyt Who was Murdered at Richmond Sept. 28th 1846 by Wm. R. Myers and Two Others. Together with a Denial of the Truth of Mrs. Myers' Letter of Explanation of November Last From Alta Vista. Likewise Added a Short Biography of D.M. Hoyt By a Relative of the Deceased. Philadelphia: S.n. 1847. 63 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Front wrapper edgeworn chipped and partially detached rear wrapper lacking. Light browning to text light foxing to a few leaves final leaf lightly edgeworn and partially detached. $250. Only edition. "Dudley Hoyt had been intimate with Mrs. Myers in a hotel in Richmond Virginia. Her husband with his brother and a friend called on Hoyt and presented him with a paper to sign promising to leave the city never to return. He refused and Myers shot him. All were acquitted" McDade. OCLC locates 7 copies in law libraries Harvard Library of Congress Northwestern University of Cincinnati University of Richmond US Supreme Court Worcester County Law Library. McDade The Annals of Murder 711. unknown
1847ref. 714041847. Philadelphia: S.n. 1847. McDade 711. Philadelphia: S.n. 1847. McDade 711. A Murder in Richmond: McDade 711 Murder. Myers William R. Defendant. The Letters and Correspondence of Mrs. Virginia Myers Which Have Never Before Been Published or Even Read in Court to Dudley Marvin Hoyt Who was Murdered at Richmond Sept. 28th 1846 by Wm. R. Myers and Two Others. Together with a Denial of the Truth of Mrs. Myers' Letter of Explanation of November Last From Alta Vista. Likewise Added a Short Biography of D.M. Hoyt By a Relative of the Deceased. Philadelphia: S.n. 1847. 63 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Front wrapper edgeworn chipped and partially detached rear wrapper lacking. Light browning to text light foxing to a few leaves final leaf lightly edgeworn and partially detached. $250. Only edition. "Dudley Hoyt had been intimate with Mrs. Myers in a hotel in Richmond Virginia. Her husband with his brother and a friend called on Hoyt and presented him with a paper to sign promising to leave the city never to return. He refused and Myers shot him. All were acquitted" McDade. OCLC locates 7 copies in law libraries Harvard Library of Congress Northwestern University of Cincinnati University of Richmond US Supreme Court Worcester County Law Library. McDade The Annals of Murder 711. unknown books
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194056 pages. Features: Nice color ad inside front cover for Nash cars features a picnic scene; One-page Plymouth car ad; Igor Stravinsky marries Vera Sudeikina; Gracie Fields marries Monty Banks; Obituaries for Blanca Errazuriz de Santacruz, Col. Frank White, Sir Patrick Playfair Laidlaw and Sir John Harry Lee Fagge; Charming one-page photo ad for H.J. Heinz features Rene Black of the Waldorf-Astoria, and Crosby Gaige, Chairman of the Wine and Food Society; Murder for sale in Brooklyn; Article and photos on France's new war Premier, Paul Reynaud; War by Moonlight; Gandhi's Victory; Great color one-page Firestone "Champions" ad features color illustration of five racers who won on Firestone Tires - Louis Unser, Mauri Rose, Ab Jenkins, Wilbur Shaw, and Roscoe Turner; Nice one-page color ad promotes the new Golden Gate International Exposition; Finns withdraw before Reds - Swede concern grows; Search for Dr. Hjalmar Schacht aboard Italian liner Conte di Savoia at Gibraltar; The military significance of crisscrossing the North Sea with Air Raids; The Effect of Air Raids on future sea strategy; James R. Young convicted in Tokyo civil court; Vast British evacuation is altering class barriers; Photo of Maj. Armstrong - FM inventor; Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn arrives in New York to a hearty welcome; Classy one-page color ad for the major US airlines features Mr. & Mrs. Lang Wharton, Mr. & Mrs. Lowell Thomas and Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Howard; Nice one-page two-color ad for Texaco gas dealers features fire trucks; Billiard player Willie Hoppe; All-American rookie Lou Mandel of the St. Louis Cardinals; Centenary of dentistry; Student Joan Lawrence sues to avoid using shower room at Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra; Frank Davenport Duncan Jr. paints his way in college; Photos of Frank W. Andrew of Palmyra, Ill who watches his tractor work in circles by itself; Chairman of the SEC - Jerome N. Frank; Lord Calvert Whiskey color ad inside back cover features $75k Hawthorn Vase; Back cover color ad for Grace Line South American Cruises features couple preparing for fancy dress party; And much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1981295 pages. "An account (of Croatian atrocities in World War II) based on German, Italian and other sources." - from title page. Horrific black and white archival illustrations. Dedicated to the one million Serbians, Jewish and other innocent victims massacred by the Croatian Ustashi during World War II. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Front free endpaper neatly removed. A sound working copy of this sobering work. Book
