Heller, Ursula; Gray, Barry; Satu, RepoMareMagnum
653 Ergebnisse
1982127 pages. "Photographer Ursula Heller travelled through North America for nine years, stopping off in small towns - sometimes for several months - to document photographically a way of life that is fast disappearing. This study of eight small Canadian communities, portrayed in her unique style, truly captures the diversity of people and lifestyles across the country... Captures a special sense of place and lets us find out what it's really like to live there." - from dust jacket. The communities documented include: Alma, New Brunswick; Huberdeau, Quebec; Toronto Island, Ontario; Feversham, Ontario; Big Trout Lake, Ontario; Hafford, Saskatchewan; Carcross, Yukon Territory; Vallican, British Columbia. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper in pencil. Book clean with light wear. Dust jacket partially sunned with half-inch opening to top edge of front panel. A sound copy. Book
1992Hilarious survey of the habits and behaviour of modern Greeks - 1001 things a visitor needs to know, or just to laugh. Book
1992Hilarious survey of the habits and behaviour of modern Greeks! A tongue-in-cheek approach to the culture shock. Politics; Driving & Transportation; Shopping; Buying postage stamps; The work ethic & the ego; The law; afterthoughts. Book
1973cm. 15,5 x 21, 128 pp. con 8 tavv. f.t. Biblioteca di ?Lares? 252 gr. 128 p.
1962cm. 15 x 21,5, xii-240 pp. Biblioteca di ?Lares? 420 gr. xii-240 p.
1973cm. 15,5 x 21, vi-356 pp. Biblioteca di ?Lares? 595 gr. vi-356 p.
1924Best.-Nr. 24009New York, Condé Nast Publications, 1924. XII, 591 S. Gr.-8°, OLwd. [3 Warenabbildungen]
1990Text is clean, clear and bright throughout. Cover is in good, clean condition. There is some minor creasing to the spine. Used
2001New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English. 206 p., color and b/w ills. Contents: Voyage to the Dawn-Place of the European Sun., Enis Batur; Dallam's travels, Master Thomas Dallam; Van.; Frederick Millingen.; Covel's diary., John Covel.; Raki diluted with water, James Dallaway.; Cities: Constantinople, Arthur Symons.; An organ for the Sultan, Stanley Mayes.; Voyage from Liverpool to Constantinople, Hermann Melville.; The vampires of Istanbul, Edourd Roditi.; The Palimpsest city, Juan Goytisolo.; Kitten with claws, Godfrey Goodwin.; Orient express, John Dos Passos.; The city of tomorrow, Le Corbusier.; Constantinople, Theophile Gautier.; Constantinople - Eight poems, Victoria Sackville-West.
1992Inscription and ex-libris sticker inside front cover. No other marks, no creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright covers and no bumping to corners. 151pp. Wakes Week was the annual holiday for generations of northern folk, when they made the annual trip to the seaside. Illustrated with eighty contemporary photographs and postcards, this book tells the story of wakes week from the earliest days of the railways to what remains of the tradition today, with a special emphasis on the golden years between the 1920s and the late 1950s.
1922Best.-Nr. 173387Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs 1922. A scarce customs service publication First edition first printing of this informative tribute to the 66 employees of the custom service who served during the First World War as well as the 23 men killed during the conflict. Copies are recorded in just four institutional libraries British Library Leeds Cornell and the University of Hong Kong. For each member of staff sections give their record of service ranks the countries and battles in which they fought honours and wounds received and "other particulars of interest". The majority served on the Western and Eastern Fronts and several were seconded to the Chinese Labour Corps on account of their linguistic skills. The final entry concerns G. R. G. Worcester 1890-1969 whose works on Chinese craft and navigation remain definitive. Octavo. Roll of honour plate decorative title page and initial text printed within red frames. Original purple pebble-grain cloth front cover lettered in gilt patterned endpapers. Spine sunned rear board a touch soiled contents clean: a very good copy. hardcover
2003"The reader will discover how to throw flowers at the "bouzoukia"without blinding the singers, how to not outstay his/her welcome when staying as a guest at somebody's house or yacht, how to flirt without receiving a dirty look or a slap from a hot-blooded Greek, how to use his/her hands when eating at a taverna and many other fun and enlightening tips which we believe will help a visitor to adjust." [WorldCat lists NO copies in the USA] Book
1988456pp. 32 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
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
1988Oversize. 144 p., illus. w/ 100 photographs. Hardcover Very good condition good
1984Very good condition, top and tail of spine are bumped, corners are slightly rubbed, d / j has a clear plastic wrapper, clear, bright and tight. ex - library with minimal stamps and labels. Ex - Library
1992A comprehensive history of the work and development of the Laboratory of the Government Chemist and of the use of science for the support of health, environmental and revenue protection in the UK. 372 pages. A few light indentation lines on back of dust jacket. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
19688vo., Second Edition, with 16 plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A detailed study and standard reference, first published in 1959.
Best.-Nr. 0656625376.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1966184p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1987Best.-Nr. 2083002116300303Not Available 1987. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1944268p. Hardcover Very good condition
1972Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In turkish with a short summary in English (2 pages). 68 p., 8 ills. and 16 numerous b/w photos. Yayla-settlement and yayla-grazing in North-East Anatolia.= Kuzeydogu Anadolu'da yaylacilik. (Cografî inceleme).
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
2004New Persian Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Text in Persian and Arabic with bilingual title in English and Persian on cover and colophon; preface in English. [11], 289 p. Zakhîrat al-âkhirah (Provision for the hereafter): Bihamrâh bâ kuhantarîn tarjumah az ad'iyah-yi Shî'ah. Preface in English by Hermann Landolt.
