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1885320 p. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Unopened. Paper slightly browned. 200mm. From Morley's Universal Library, uniformly bound with others in the series. Gilt lettered faux vellum spine over blue gray linen boards. Spine very slightly darkened. Fine condition. Henry Morley (1822-1894) was a popular lecturer and prolific writer who did more to promote education and love of literature than any other person in the Victorian era. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LOC W48 BAG 1
1925pp. xxv, 512, (6) [Publisher's catalogue]. Penciled underlinings of E. Klopp, Hood College (a co-educational liberal arts college located in Frederick, Maryland). 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding, worn. First published 1903. RELIGION BOX 3
1933pp. xv, 192 + Portrait Frontis and full page plates. Slightly foxed. Sm. 4to. Original full purple cloth binding. Hardbound. Second impression. ENGLAND 2
1910pp. 323. 8vo. 190 mm. Original publisher's full cloth pictorial binding decorated in yellow, red, black and white. Binding with the monogram of the artist/designer George H. Wood on cover. Hardbound. Very good. The binding is extremely well-preserved and bright. NW65
fort vol. in-8°, 609 pages, broche, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Bel exemplaire [NV-25]
1983Former owner's name in ink on front endpaper. Spine leans slightly to the right. Minor bumping and edge wear. Robin Hood gets the King's gold... again! Book
1965Approx. 25 pages. Contents divided into the following sections: Repairs with Green Edge Materials and Vulc-Cement L5; Repairs with Sheet Material; Endless Joints; Conveyor Belt Cleats; Liquid Neoprene for Conveyor Belts; Tools; Infra Drying Hood; Double Acting Roller; Belt Tightening Clamps, Buffing Motors. Average wear. Unmarked. One inch tear to top edge of front cover. One inch opening at base of cover fold. Book
1968408 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon verso of front free endpaper. Written by an historian and journalist of wide experience; after many years of diligent research into Oshawa's colorful past, this book is a noteworthy contribution to Canadiana which was produced to give literary significance to the celebrations of Canada's Centennial Year. Includes many archival black and white photographic plates. Clean and unmarked. Very light wear to book which remains tight and square. Light wear and several nicks to dust jacket which features a colour photograph of Colonel R.S. McLaughlin at the wheel of a vintage automobile which most likely bears his name as manufacturer. Bonus: includes two historic Oshawa bookmarks dated 1974 and 1964 respectively. This lovely copy will make an excellent gift. Book
1950Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine
1976193 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page else clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Author is a Catholic priest, born in Port Hood, Nova Scotia, and wrote the "One View" column for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star. Published after 1975 - circa 1976?. Nice copy. Book
1994VHS video tape 28 minutes in length. "An epic ski mountaineering journey to the sleeping volcanic giants of the Pacific Northwest: Mounts Shasta, South Sister, Bachelor, Hood, Adams, St. Helens, and Garabaldi Park, British Columbia." - from cover. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
1915Cover portrait of M. Millerand, the French Minister of War. The French advance toward Lense and the battle of "the Labyrinth". Remarkable camera-picture of a brilliant charge by a regiment of French Zouaves. Full page portrait of General Sir Bruce M. Hamilton, K.C.B., commanding the Sixth Army. Many scenes of destruction in France. Average wear. Covers and centerfold seperated from contents but present. Binding otherwise intact. Unmarked. Sound copy. Please note: this copy does not include the photogravure plate of Lt. Warneford. In its place we include the plate of Rear Admiral The Hon. Horace L.A. Hood, who was lost with his flagship, the Invincible, in the battle of Jutland. This plate originally was issued with part 101 of this series). Book
1967Close-up of a Super-Hippie and why he matters to you - The CYC's David DePoe - a look at hippie life in Toronto; Fashionable coats; Robin Hood is Alive in Edmonton - Sherwood Park's Annual Tourney; How to do the Flambe bit, with colour photos; One Girl's Struggle with the Eternal Triangle, Canadian Style - Alexandra Stewart stars in our first attempt at an all-out box office film, with seven photos; The Father Who Beat his Baby, Ricky Lozecki, to Death; How the Japanese Pamper Drunks - "When a Nippon Playboy gets drunk the cop is his friend, and his worst punishment is listening to a tape of how he sounded when he was loaded; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
1978Features: Dave Walker - Long on Nerve - the Dave Walker Ranch in the east part of Poncha Park on Cottonwood Creek, Colorado; Roaming the Back Country with Hood River Blackie - Strange Animals - Bigfoot, Sasquatch; Clara Baasch lived next door to the infamous Vicente Silva; The Peculiarities of Sam Smith - An Old Man's Three Treasures - A. C. Lucas and his Chinatown discoveries; The 'Cutter' - his profession was devilment!; Addison P. Day - Rodeo Great; Cyclone Cave - Natural Bridge Park, Arkansas; J.K. Carper - Mountain Man; Towns Without Whistles in Oklahoma Territory; An Artist's Two Years Alone in the Desert - Frederick Melville DuMond lived in a cave to reproduce 'the West's insanity of color'; Cromwell Dixon's Fatal Ride - biplane pilot, Blossburg, Montana. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1960Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; C&IM Revisited (Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway) - since our last report in August 1955 Trains, just 11 hood units have replaced 26 steamers; Calling all Candidates - a preconvention memo to Adlai, Dick, Jack, Hubert, Lyndon, Pat, Soapy, Stu, Wayne, et al; Weekend with Steam - the magic numbers were 2613 and 2114; The SP&S Story - 1 - the Spokane, Portland & Seattle - fastest track in the Northwest; A photo glimpse of one of the world's great railways - British Railways; and more. Cover held by one staple. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
1964Features: How William Zeckendorf changed Canada's skyline and found trouble; The good woman and the convict - how Frances McKearney's devotion led a vicious criminal (Joe Flaherty) 'back to the human race'; The Peaceniks go to La Macaza, Quebec - the U.S. civil rights technique - non-violent civil disobedience - comes to Canada (many photos); How I became a solitary noisemaker - Sheila Burnford admits that her secret vice is talking with birds; The highway that's changing Ontario - portrait of 401, the monster that makes and breaks businesses, towns and drivers; How the Scotch out-talked the family compact - Scotch Grits vs. 'Rotten Tories' in Ontario's classic battle of wit and lung power (by John Kenneth Galbraith); Report on Two World's Fairs - New York is fun, but Expo 67 might just change the world; The Man who made it all the way back - excerpt from first novel of Hugh Hood; George Wallace - the educated bigot; a band called The Beavers - Canada's answer to the Beatles; United Appeal hurts our best charities - Dr. Gordon Bates. Average wear. Small piece missing from back cover. Unmarked. Book
199046 pages. Features: early day mail lines in Texas; Bits of Historical Information; a desperate hand-to-hand battle; John L. Goforth - a plow pioneer of Parker; six-shooters in the old southwest; a journey through Texas in 1856; taking the law to the Rio Grande; Baileys and Polleys among Earliest Texans; Noah Smithwick recorded Texas history; "I'll know what you're talking about"; Rangers' desperate battle with the Indians; John B. Hood - the man of courage; old Rockport Road - laid out by a preacher. Clean and unmarked. Undated - circa 1990? Book
1962Features: What happened to Common Sense? - Calvin D. Linton says not only do we live in the best-educated age in history, it may well also be the most gullible; Doomsday Merchant of the Far Right - Billy James Hargis leads a witch-hunt in pursuit of Communists; People on the Way Up - Comic Dick Shawn, Ross Pritchard, Charlene Curry, Janet Ades, Rochelle Hood; Czar of the Bunny Empire - Hugh Hefner, with color photos; The Bridge of Hope - Topeka's effort to help mental patients return to regular life; Me and my mixed up trees - Frank J. Taylor and 'the confessions of a compulsive grafter who tells backyard (Luther) Burbanks how to turn the tables on nature; Irrepressible Egoist - Dick Stuart, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocky slugger; Hot Weapon in the Cold War - at President Kennedy's urging, the Army is beefing up its Special Forces, who are trained to combat Red guerillas around the globe. Nice color Pepsi ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
195664 pages. Featuers: Trevallion (story); Country Skirts and Cardigans; A Dress From Her Old Suit; In Silk or in Cotton; With a Lace Insertion; Slim-Fitting and Feminine; Girl Behind the Counter (story); Ice Cream Sweets; Children's Ailments; Robin Hood sweater; Making a Gesture (story); V-Neck Cardigan (per cover photo); The First Year (story); Mrs. Marryat Advises; Nice vintage ads. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
197382 pages. Features: Stimulation - Don Siegel discusses his elevation to a cult figure - article with photos; Don Siegel's 'Drabble' - photos; Decay of an American Dream - illustrated article which takes the view that perhaps the Walt Disney dream machine should pause for a minute's silence to mourn the passing of its original spirit and creativity; Walt Disney's 'Robin Hood' - illustrations; Robert Fuest's 'The Final Programme' - photos; Images in a Chocolate Box - part 3 of the changin patterns in stardom on the British Screen; Photo review of Pier Paulo Pasolini's 'A Thousand and One Nights'; The Venice Film Festival - the 'Woodstock' of Italy's Leftists; Full-page pin-up photo of Zarah Leander; 'Day for NIght' - photos. Ads include: 'The Final Programme'; Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan'; 'The Adventures of Barry McKenzie'. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Center page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
191730 pages. Features full-page photos of natural and man-made scenes of wonder in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon. Undated but a date on the back page suggests a printing date circa 1917. Photos include: Downtown Portland with Mount Hood in background; Columbia Gorge; Vista House at Crown Point; Latourell Falls; Shepperd's Dell; Wahkeena Falls; Rotary Fountain; Eagle Creek Trail (carved into rock); Multnomah Falls; Oneonta Tunnel; Oneonta Gorge; Rock of Ages; Eagle's nest; Mitchell Point Tunnel; Mount Hood. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1920Unpaginated. Undated. Circa early 1900s? Nice colour illustration on front board. Many black and white illustrations in text. Cracks along each hinge. Two-inch piece missing from bottom corner of one page - text unaffected. Somewhat above-average wear. Still a pleasing copy of this lovely vintage title. Book
193516 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Three Myths about Lightning; Chi-peep, the Abandoned Titmouse; The Alpines of Mt. Hood; Black Scorpions; Crater Lake; Conservation - closed season demand is just; The soil and civilization - awful photos of erosion plus article; A Moratorium on Waterfowl Shooting; Reclamation vs. ConservationThe Great White Heron - Phantom of the Mangroves; The Chief Forester Voices his Creed - F.A. Silcox; Moon Eclipses in July. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
1986Features: Canoeing the Hood River in Northwestern Canada; The Bronze Yaks of Centrral Asia; Cyprus; Peruvian Grave Robber's Gold; Rafting Sumatra's Alas River; The Ships of Nansen and Peary; Stratigraphy. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1948240 pages. Special Features: "Get Out the Vote" - Reform in Richmond; What Price Painless Childbirth?; Who Should Go to College?; Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919 (inc. full page colour print of "A Girl With a Watering Can"); This Is the Way the World Washes; Your America (Mt. Hood, Mt. Shasta, Mt. Rainier, Crater Lake); How America Lives: Meet a TVA (Electric) Family - Ed and Amaline Hodges. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Chevrolet, Plymouth, General Motors Frigidaire, Seven-Up (7-Up), Canada Dry Ginger Ale, and Campbell Soup w/ Campbell Soup Kid. Full page black/white ad with Maureen O'Hara promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Full page colour print ad with movie star Alan Ladd promoting Chesterfield Cigarettes. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine