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187616 pages. Contents: Spring Wrappings for Girls and Boys from 6 to 14 Years Old; The Old Clothes Men; Household Furniture - woman's share; New York Fashions - polonaises and mantles, mantles, gingham suits with Smyrna lace, pink and blue batistes, mor hints about dresses; Personal; embroidered foot-stool; Work-bag; Embroidered Work-bag; Monogram for lingerie, etc. - white embroidery; Section of cover for parasol - wrought guipure and lace stitch; How to Preserve the Hearing; Cravat End - silk braid, gold cord, and lace stitch; Ladies' House Dresses - illustraiton; As Long as She Lived! - continued; A.T. Stewart; Sayings and Doings; Spring bonnets; agrafes and buckle for bonnets; The Literary Lamtreatment of Music; Parasols; Head-dress of cream-colored serge ribbon; head-dress of pink serge ribbon; Ladies' and Children's Spring Wrappings and Dresses - illustration; Dill's Love Affair; Centennial Customs; Trellis-Work, etc.; A Right of Way; Great full-page illustration "" Right of Way" shows conflicting man-powered cabs and their fares; Lapland costuem; A Curious Sicilian Legend; Gold-Fish; humor. Average wear. Book
1964591 pages. Illustrated in text with line diagrams and grainy reproductions of black and white photos. Extremely informative. First page explains how some customs described in past issues of this work have died out in whole or in part. Covers most topics in one page so is easy to read easy-to-digest chunks. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Average wear to fabric-decorated storage box which is showing signs of wear but remains attractive. String-bound. A quality copy of this charming vintage Japanese tourism memento. Book
196466 pages. Loaded with great black and white photos of the band. Topics include: Arriving in New York; Clearing Customs at Kennedy Airport; At the Plaza Hotel; Appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show; Features on the individual band members; The Beatles at Home in England; The Beatles with their Show Business Friends; Their trip to Paris; The Way it Was with Marsha Mella; Hipster's Dictionary. Covers very heavily worn. Textblock detached from covers with above-average wear. A worthy memento of the amazing Beatle invasion of America. Magazine
1879Pages 159-192. Features: Politician Herbert F. Norris - article and full-page illustration of Mr. Norris; Early history of the Concord press; Decisions of Chief Justice Smith; Congressional Papers, No. 4 - Illusions Dispelled; Manners and Customs in Hopkinton - No. 1 - Domiestic, Social and Moral. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
1879Pages 193-224. Features: Col. John Hatch George - article with full-page illustration of Mr. George; Men of Old Nottingham at the Battle of Bunker Hill; The N.H. Seventh at Ft. Wagner; In Battle and in Prison - A Reminiscence of the War of the Rebellion, by William E. Stevens; Manners and Customs in Hopkinton - No. 2 - Religious, Commercial, Political; Malaga. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
1879Pages 225-256. Features: Article on Hon. Levi W. Barton with handsome one-page engraving of him; Congressional Papers, No. 5 - Forty-Fifth Congress; A Bit of Newspaper History - Henry G. Carleton and Matthew Harvey; An Old Sketch of Lancaster; Manners and Customs in Hopkinton - No. 3 - Funereal, Matromonial, Benevolent, Financial, Inter-Communicative, Mutual and Protective; One page ad for The Manchester Weekly Times inside back cover; Back cover ads for Evans, Sleeper & Evans Book and Job Printers of Concord, N.H., and Fred'k S. Crawford, Bookbinder and Blank Book Manufacturer of Concord, N.H. Average wear. Prior owner's name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
1996242 pages. Index. Bibliography. "This superb volume, the definitive volume on Haida art, presents the most treasured works in what is considered the world's best collection, at the Canadian Museum of Civilization... Richly illustrated with 90 full-color photos of artworks (such as masks, pipes, rattles and other ceremonial objects)... and 95 black and white photos of artworks and rare historical images... The descriptive text... provides an informed overview of Haida art in a historical, cultural and cosmological context." - from dust jacket. Printed upon glossy stock. Illustrated endpapers. Other than an attractive library bookplate upon verso of front free endpaper, a blindstamp to the title page and a card pocket inside back free endpaper, clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A high quality copy of this wonderful work. 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
198094 pages. Features: The NRA Show; Best Handgun - and the winner is...; .357 Mag = RAMS!; DuBiel Arms - The Midas Touch; Sweepstakes & Gun of the Month Winners; Cut-Rate African Safari; Customs by Spokhandguns; Gunshop Series - Paul Jaeger Co.; Guns That Held An Empire. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1936Pages 999- 1042. Features: Cover photo of destruction of the Crystal Palace by fire; Photo of the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, the armaments financier, with his wife; Page of photos of Italy's naval review for Adm. Horthy; Book review of "Walkabout", by Lord Moyne; Page of photos of New Guinea's strange customs and creatures; 10 photos of naval vessels controlled by Gen. Franco and by the Spanish government; One-page pictorial map of Barcelona, with its harbour and buildings, and an inset map showing the position of the safety zone for foreign and neutral ships; Three pages of photos of the highest peak ever climbed, 25,660 foot Nanda Devi, and climbers upon her; Photos of Dr. T. D. A. Cockerell with Grey Owl and his wife; Photos of Crystal Palace before and after the tragic fire; Lovely colour centrefold painting of the town of Paarl, South Africa, by Montague B. Black; Charming one page colour ad for McVitie & Price's Christmas specialties - biscuits and sweets; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Edwin Deller, Capt. E. C. Cobb, J. T. Christie, R. Gibson, Adm. Sir Reginald Tupper, H. L. French, Carl von Ossietzky, Maj. J. W. B. Tindall, Emil Stickling, the Duke of Kent, Adm. Horthy, and King Victor Emmanuel; Photo of Von Ribbentrop and Viscount Mushakoyi signing German- Japanese Pact in Berlin; Photo of Italian subs under construction; Photo of Stalin introducing new Soviet Constitution; Photo of the Tori Khel tribe handing over rifles to a British agent; Photo of the opening of Egypt's parliament under the new Anglo-Egyptian treaty; One page Harrods ad features practical clothing items; Four illustrated pages of suggested Christmas gifts; Full-page Egyptian travel ad; Half-page German travel ad; Half-page Bentley sports car ad; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound a vintage copy. Magazine
1980215 pages. Index. Footnotes. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. "This lively account of a dashing young man about town provides a firsthand description of society in early Victorian Toronto. Young Mr. Smith's diaries and letters, from 1839-1858, have been edited by his granddaughter and deftly interwoven with her own background comments." - from dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
198548 pages. Text in English. Features: The technique of exposure measurement - part three; J. Udrovskis - and the lure of photography; Helge Heinonen - a press photographer in Finland; Hotel Allerblick - Deiter Klein - photos behind prison walls; Customs in southern Tyrol - Horst Kunert; Fossils - millions of years documented in photos; Kodak Elite Fine Art versus Ilford Galerie - a comparison of two deluxe papers;Stefan Kruckenhauser - active at 80; Invisible subjects - a polarizer brings out the colour; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
2009154 pages. Illustrated with colour and black and white photos. Endnotes. Bibliography. List of published articles and books. "Undertakes an historical investigation of mourning sites and practices within the province of British Columbia." - from front flap. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Possibly unread. An excellent copy. Book
1951iv, 430 pages. "Being a catalog of books relating to the history, antiquities, languages, customs, religion, wars, literature, and origin of the American Indians in the library of Thomas W. Field, with bibliographical notes, and synopses of the contents of some of the works least known." - subtitle. Facsimile reprint of the 1873 first edition. "More than two thousand five hundred separate works, and twelve hundred essays, are catalogued." - iii. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful reference. Book
1951Pages xxiv, 257-320. Features: Cover illustration of Sugar-Loaf, Rio de Janeiro; The Haunted Mine - 1927 tale of a haunted goldmine in the Township of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; The Rest Cure - a sea captain's story of an unusual Atlantic voyage with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest (part 2 of 2) - for three years Texas cattleman Frank Norfleet pursued a gang of confidence tricksters; Death of British Columbia lighthouse keeper Lawrence Dupuis; The Living Death - as strange 1925 a story from Mexico; The Sky-Riders - photo illustrated article about adventures of RCMP airmen maintaining law and order in Canada's vast Northern Territory; The Lawra Lion - a lion visits the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - two British officers in the Himalayan foothills; "Grey" - a close-up of manners and customs prevailing in the Northwest Territories of Canada near Yellowknife; First-Trippers; A Matter of Witchcraft - the strange story of a distinguished visitor who contrived to offend one of the wild tribes in the Territory of New Guinea; many nostalgic ads; The Australian Stockman - life of the drovers of Australia's vast Outback - article with photos and map; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Covers beginning to loosen. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1957222 pages. "The entertaining life-history of a schooner, from her first appearance on the designing-board, through her gradual growth in the builder's yard and trials in the North Atlantic, to her cruel death indirectly at the hands of the U.S. Customs during the prohibition period." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy. Book
1990xi, 200 pages. Bibliography. "Takes us inside the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en peoples' campaign for justice and recognition. Glavin shows how their struggle, which is taking place within Canada's legal system as well on the land itself in a series of roadblocks, is rooted in their view that their relationship to the land is one of responsibility - for the land , and to the generations to come. A rich and fascinating blend of past and present, this timely book will forever change the way readers think of the 'land claims' issue." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherewise unmarked with moderate wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
1987This copy is a 1987 reprint of the 1975 first edition. A cultural history of the Evangelical-Lutheran colonies in the region of Odessa 1804-1945. XII, 431 pages. Selected Bibliography. Glossaries of Russian and German Terms. List of Russian measures and their equivalents. Black and white illustrations. "In this scholarly work Dr. Height has not only succeeded in recovering and preserving the epic story of those hardy, enterprising pioneers of the steppe. He has also been able to present a fascinating cultural 'soul-portrait' that provides the reader with a deeper insight into their character and way of life, their language and folklore, their customs and traditions. The descendants may justly be proud of this historical monument to their forefathers. Many will also be delighted with the excellent true-to-life documentary of their ethnic background and their cultural heritage. A precious heirloom for generations to come." - dust jacket. Light soiling to edges of textblock. Prior owner's ink stamp to top edge, title page, and dedication page, otherwise book clean and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this superlative reference. Book
191885 pages plus six pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part I - Robert Wilton and his adventures as a British War Correspondent on the Eastern Front, with photos. (Wilton's book entitled 'Russia's Agony' was first published in 1918); The Man-Eating Tigers of Rengarih; My Bear Hunt in the British Columbia Rockies - Part II, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; The Water-Wheels of Hama, Syria - with photo; Beyond the Law - part V - The Dalton Gang, the Condon Bank and the First National Bank at Coffeyville, Kansas; Fishing as a Vocation for War Heroes, by Ralph Stock; Photo of a fallen California Redwood - said to have been the largest tree in the world; In Unknown British Guiana - Part I - many nice photos; Tales of the Service - Part V - My Smuggle-Catching Adventures - by G.W. Hindmarch, a retired Customs and Excise officer in the Shetland Islands; Wonders of the Silver Spruce of British Columbia - in high demand for aircraft construction; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part V - by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with excellent photos; Our Seaplane Adventure - Captain Abbott Meade and his plane go down in the Indian Ocean; Photo of large pile of licorice root at Aleppo; The Revenge that went Wrong - James Bestow and his problem with a Yaqui Indian in Mexico; The Railway Conquest of the Australian Desert - construction of the thousand-mile transcontinental railway, from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta - with many excellent photos; The "War Wolf" - Serbia's war hero Colonel Voyin A. Popovich; Whale Flesh as Human Food - informative brief article on the growth of the whale processing industry in Canada, with photo; Doctoring War Horses - the personal experiences of Blue Cross worker Charles W. Forward in France and Italy. Nice ad for the Hudson Navigation Company's New York - Albany - Troy route. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1990x, 198 pages. Footnotes. Index. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. "Much of the unwritten history of Canada happened within the imposing walls of the familiar national landmark known as the Chateau Laurier Hotel. Since 1912, Ottawa's grande dame has always been an integral part of the power and the mystique that permeates the heady atmosphere on Parliament Hill. The legacy of this residence, international meeting place, social centre, and place for friends to meet has been warmly documented here by Joan Rankin." - back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound 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
1956Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. pp. viii, 46. "A selection of legends, folk stories and customs of the Haisla people, a branch of the Kwakiutl Indian language-group who live on the West Coast of British Columbia." - subtitle. Lovely line drawing illustrations. Sound and unmarked with light wear. A special first edition copy. Book
1980Folio 119p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good