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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
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
1816ref. A63885Strasbourg Occasionally Paris: Douanes Royales / Douanes Services Actifs / Douanes Colonies Et Entrepots. 1816. Hardback Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Bound volume of a 100 consecutive circulars put out by the Customs Office at Strasbourg 1 to 100. 1816-24. Many signed in ink by the directors with official contemporary handwritten annotations. The main signatory is one Le Tuc D'Omont Directeur des Douanes Royales About 400 pages covering every aspect of customs one section in Gothic German one folding section and several pages of relevant handwritten transcribed letters. One circular loosely inserted ie not bound in. Bound in sound quarter vellum with blue boards a little scuffed and marked with title inked on spine ' Circulaires Imprimes' de la Direction 1.' The circulars appear to deal with administration of employees douaniers customs offices fines and punishments border control contraband tariifs on goods such tobacco coffeesugar etc. Bought by the writer F.R. Cowell on Quai Malaquais Paris in 1936 with his ownership signature on fep. Light wear otherwise very good. Douanes Royales / Douanes Services Actifs / Douanes Colonies Et Entrepots... hardcover
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
1818ref. 35985Rouen Imprimerie de P. Periaux 1818 in-4 dérelié
1736ref. 95841736 reliure plein veau havane in-quarto carré (binding full calfskin in-quarto), dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands) - décoré or (gilt decoration) - entre-nerfs à fleuron fleurette (floweret) - pièce de titre manquante (missing label of title), coiffe supérieure manquante (head of the spine lightly faded), plats avec de légères épidermures (lights scratches on the covers), coins émoussés (corners blunt), toutes tranches rouges (red edges), 478 pages avec Approbation & Privilège, 1736 Paris Mesnier et Jean de Nully Libraires Editeurs,
18958vo., with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), illustrated title, printed title in red and black, and 92 engravings (26 full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, chocolate endpapers, uncut, original gilt from backstrip preserved and mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on printed title and small stamp on half-title and last leaf of index. A lovely copy.
1916ref. 2110502151000692Yoshikawakobunkan 1916. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Yoshikawakobunkan paperback
1902ref. 887431902. CUSTOMS HIRADE Kojiro author. TOKYO FUZOKU-SHI 3 vols. Tokyo Meiji 35 1902. Tassel-bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. 22.9 x 15.0 cm. Original printed patterned covers and printed title labels. Illustrated throughout with bw wood engravings and what appears to be the occasional copper engraving along with a very few color woodblock prints. A very interesting and exhaustive look at the customs of a Tokyo deep into the process of transition from the traditional to the "modern" amalgam of cultural elements that was 20th century Japan. Written on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War which would hasten that transition. Well known as an important piece of early scholarship on the subject this original edition is by no means common. Near fine complete. unknown
1902ref. 887431902. CUSTOMS HIRADE Kojiro author. TOKYO FUZOKU-SHI 3 vols. Tokyo Meiji 35 1902. Tassel-bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. 22.9 x 15.0 cm. Original printed patterned covers and printed title labels. Illustrated throughout with bw wood engravings and what appears to be the occasional copper engraving along with a very few color woodblock prints. A very interesting and exhaustive look at the customs of a Tokyo deep into the process of transition from the traditional to the "modern" amalgam of cultural elements that was 20th century Japan. Written on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War which would hasten that transition. Well known as an important piece of early scholarship on the subject this original edition is by no means common. Near fine complete. unknown books
1671pp. [8], 328. Engraved title page. Foxed. 24mo. 13 cm. Worn contemporary full leather binding. This is a page-for-page reprint of the 1650 Elzevier editions; and the second of two impressions of 1671 (without the preliminary headpiece). Willems 1462n. Valerius Maximus was a widely read Roman author, but little is known of his life. This work, [Nine Books of Memorable Deeds and Sayings] was written around A.D. 30 and is a miscellany of anecdotes about a variety of subjects. It was especially important as a source for writers and orators. The Dutch family of Elzevier (Elzevir; Elsevier) were the foremost printers of their time. They produced a vast variety of well printed scholarly and popular books; many in a very small handy format. Louis Elzevier, the founder of the firm, produced his first book in Leiden in 1583. The 'golden age' of Elzevier printing was between 1620 and 1680. The Elzevier dynasty probably produced their last publication in 1770. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 6
ref. 68598Folio printed recto only on the first leaf of a bi-folium the integral leaf blank. Tax stamp "Republique D'haiti / 100" upper left corner. The cargo listed consists of various amounts of five products: 193 bags of coffee 10 demijohns of palm oil 59 baskets of gin 23 crates of merchandise and 60 crates of cigars all to be shipped to the United States on the "Bateau americain Good hope." The Republic of Haiti for the entire island of Santo Domingo was formed in 1820 under Jean-Pierre Boyer who ruled as President through 1843. Folded but very good. unknown
ref. 68598Folio printed recto only on the first leaf of a bi-folium the integral leaf blank. Tax stamp "Republique D'haiti / 100" upper left corner. The cargo listed consists of various amounts of five products: 193 bags of coffee 10 demijohns of palm oil 59 baskets of gin 23 crates of merchandise and 60 crates of cigars all to be shipped to the United States on the "Bateau americain Good hope." The Republic of Haiti for the entire island of Santo Domingo was formed in 1820 under Jean-Pierre Boyer who ruled as President through 1843. Folded but very good. unknown books
1937ref. 002608Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs 1937. China. The Maritime Customs I - Statistical Series: No. 1 A detailed tabulation of all exports of China to foreign trading partners in the years 1934 1935 and 1936. For each commodity trading partner quantity where appropriate and value of export is provided. Each commodity is identified in both Chinese and English and listed under its related tariff code. Some loss of wrapper to head and tail of spine binding otherwise strong; faint stamp handwritten date and remains of small sticker on front wrapper. Interior pages clean and unmarked - overall a very good copy of this rare item. vi 318 pp. index. First Edition. Softbound. Very Good. 28 x 22 cm. Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs
1897133pp VG/none Modern full blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, original editorial printed wrappers kept inside, red stain on the lower parrt of the front wrapper, mild foxing on frontespice, paper slightly age-yellowed otherwise in very good conditions. Rare work on Egyptian proverbs, made and translated by Joseph Hanki, with an Introduction by Major R H Brown.
1964239p. illus plates bibliography. index Crisp tight copy, tiny mark and slight scuffing at spine, else fine Book
1917Pages 194-284 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Romance of the French Foreign Legion; Adrift in a Mine-Field - two men drift through a mine-field in a crippled seaplane, fending off mines with their bare hands!; That Night - a rice-planter's cyclone ordeal on Bordelieu Island off the Florida coast; An Englishwoman in South America - Mrs. Mayer-Nixson describes the ways of Chilean (Chilian) policemen, the curious manners and customs of the people, and the odd habits of Chilean servants; The End of the Rainbow - an adventure of Etienne, a half-breed trapper in Northern Canada who had not heard of WWI; Rua the Prophet - the curious history of a Maori fanatic, Rua Kenana, who established a native "New Jerusalem" in the heart of the wild and inaccessible Urewera Mountains of New Zealand - article with great photos; Canada's Last Frontier - part II of a photo-illustrated narrative of a trip to Canada's Eskimo country - including a photo of Fort McMurray which was but a tiny clearing in the woods, plus a photo of an early oil well, and the Pelican gas 'gusher' which had been buring for 18 years!; Our Zambezi Lion-Hunt - adventure involving a black-faced lion; The Tale of the "Tara" - the adventures of the crew of the auxilliary cruiser "Tara," torpedoed off the North African coast - photo-illustrated article; Exploring the Black Canyon - A.L. Fellows and W.W. Torrence help tap a river by a tunnel which irrigates a previously barren valley in Colorado. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1918Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sledge Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson as described by Capt. Madigan - major article with fascinating photos; My Adventures in the World War, Part 3 of E. Ashmead-Bartlett's adventures as a war correspondent; In the Land of the Lapps - Part 3 - photo-illustrated description of the life and customs of these fascinating and little-known people; The Gum Lands of New Zealand - photo-illustrated article on the Kauri gum industry of New Zealand; How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France - important information about the Chinese Labour Corps which assisted British armies in non-combatant duties at the Front were recruited in China and transported from their distant homes in the Far East across the seas to France, travelling via Canada; Marooned in the Arctic - E.H.L. Mitchell went to Alaska on a mining venture but was shipwrecked and marooned on a barren island for eight weeks; The Water-Gardeners of Amiens, France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Lost in the Mine - the lamp of a boy working in a Welsh coillery went out and he lost his way - and nearly his life; Photo of the four-hundred and fifty Temples of the Law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
ref. 240434Strasbourg, Imprimerie administrative de veuve Berger-Levrault, 1863 in-folio, [3] ff. n. ch., 303 pp., texte sur deux colonnes, chagrin brun, dos à nerfs orné de doubles caissons dorés, encadrement de triple filet doré, quadruple filet à froid et simple filet doré sur les plats, chiffre W couronné poussé au centre des plats, pointillé doré sur les coupes, tranches dorées, encadrement de quadruple filet doré sur les contreplats (reliure de l'époque). Petit manque aux coiffes, petites usures sur les mors et les nerfs.
1770ref. 174711770 un fort volume, reliure plein veau havane raciné in-quarto (binding full calfskin in-quarto) (20,5 x 25,6 cm), dos 5 nerfs (spine with 5 raised bands) - entre-nerfs à encadrements à double filets or avec fleuron au fer plein or et rinceaux aux angles avec des petits fers en remplissage (between the raised bands double gilt lines - floweret with hollowed out blocking stamp - with foliages executed in the curved lines in angles - with small blocking stamp in filling) - pièce de titre comportant le titre abrégé de l'ouvrage sur fond beige avec double filets or (garnet label of the title with the title abbreviated by the work with gilt line), rinceaux en tête et en pied (top and at the foot of spine with foliages carried out with the curved line), double filets sur les coupes (double gilt line on the cuts), toutes tranches jaspées bleues (all blue marbled edges), sans illustrations excepté des fronts de chapitre gravés sur bois en noir, des lettrines et culs-de-lampes gravées sur bois en noir et une vignette aux armes royales gravée sur bois en noir au bas de la page de titre, légers trous de ver sur 1/4 de cm dans la marge sans conséquence pour la compréhension du texte des trois dernières pages de table, XXII (2 ff) 403 et 268 pp et( 1 ff.) avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi, 1770 A Toulouse, chez Dupleix et Laporte, libraires Editeurs,
1969Book is in excellent condition in heavy weave tan HB covers, gilt over red at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners with a very light bump to lower front, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, price clipped, now wrapped in clear protective cover. 322 pages on high quality heavy white paper, reprinted form 1903. Rare by this publisher. Full page Author illustration opposite title page, Illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings, in which are represented most of the popular diversions; selected from ancient paintings. "This book is a key source for information on leisure time activities in 'Olde England,' including sports, hunting, games, dancing, gymnastics, music, festivals including Christmas and May Day and customs such as Mumming, The Boy Bishop, and The Lord of Misrule, Horse Racing, Slinging of Stones, Hand Ball, Archery, Dancing, Tumbling, Balancing, Jugglers, Juggling, Bowling, Tennis, Bat and ball, Jousts, Tricks Taught to Horeses, Animals Imitated, Quintain, Tilting, Kayles, Cards, Chess,. It answers questions such as "How do you score a joust?," "When did feral wolves become extinct in Britain?," and "How much do you pay the piper?" And what is Shakespeare talking about when he mentions Shove-Groat or Nine Men's Morris? (The modern equivalents are shuffleboard and tic-tac-toe). Included are numerous quotes from original documents and dozens of plates based on period illustrations. Strutt also documents the constant conflict between popular culture and the religious and secular powers."
