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This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in Italian. Illustrated in color thoughout with 179 color plates of paper fans with advertising imagery on them, from the 19th century to the late 20th century. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide, 127 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
Mm 210x265 Brossura spillata di 15 pp. con copertina illustrata in nero. Catalogo asta - South kensington - 8 dicembre 1992. Buono stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
120pp VG/G First edition. Editorial full cream cloth with title and author on board and spine in illustrated dustwrapper, a few marks and bubbles on the film covering the dustwrapper otherwise in excellent conditions a VG+ copy. Book devoted to the fans, their history and collecting, fully illustrated by nice photos mainly in colour.
In-24 oblungo (cm. 11), brossura, plastica protettiva, pp. 527, (1), con illustrazioni, nel testo, a colori. Testo in olandese. Tekst in het Nederlands. Nel volume è presente in allegato una spilla metallica (cm. 5,5 diametro) ed un libretto “Pipì di gatto a Museolandia” pp. 120, con testo in italiano, che illustra il volume. In ottimo stato (nice copy).
Approx. 40 pages. Features: Sir Thomas F. Purves; Electric Motor Mainenance cards; Electric Motors for Turbo Compressors; Electro-Medical Apparatus; A New Portable Electric Pump-Sprayer set; The Theory and Practice of Automobile Electrical Engineering - Part 5; Some notes on Exhaust Fans; Rectifier Type Photo-cells; How Transmission Line Faults Affect the User of Electric Power; Large Moving-Coil Voltage Regulators; Coronation Lighting Equipment; Physical Society's Exhibition - 1937; Lighting a reconstructed public hall. Well worn but intact. Unmarked. Book
288 pages. After flipping from the Stanley Cup Playoffs to Martha Steward, author resolved to follow Canada's best export to the rest of the world, to find out whether the true game still existed elsewhere. Weaves hilarious stories of encounters with odd-sized rinks and players of wildly different talents and experiences with tales of his travels and bang-on observations about the game and players in North America. As he discovers, the tropic of hockey connects players and fans around the world. A wonderful gift for your special hockey fanatic. Book
142 pages including numerous excellent black and white photographic plates. Up to the time of his death, Keith Moon was a tragic enigma. To the gossip columns, he was "Moon the Loon", "The Wild Man of Rock." To fellow musicians he was a brilliant, original percussionist. To his fans, he was a unique part of a legend called The Who. Author knew Keigh Moon well and has spoken to his closest friends and colleagues of the exhilaration, wild humour and secret tragedy of a rock'n roll legend. Well-worn. Contents partially yellowed. Date and discard inkstamps upon top edge of text. Some lean to spine. Binding intact. Book
249 pages including index and numerous wonderful black and white photographic plates. A veritable treasure chest of hockey lore and legends, replete with stories, impressions, views and comments, anecdotes, much humour and excitement, together with an astonishing star-studded cast of hockey greats, including Rocket Richard, Toe Blake, Newsy Lalonde, Butch Bouchard, King Clancy, Charlie Conacher, Jean Beliveau, Guy Lafleur, Scotty Bowman, Bobby Orr, Jacques Plante, Doug Harvey, Foster Hewitt, Ken Dryden, Gordie Howe, Wayne Gretzky, and Bobby Hull. A book of hockey past and present, spanning two generations, that will be cherished and enjoyed by fans of all ages. Bit of writing stroked out upon front endpaper else book clean, unmarked and very lightly worn. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
210 pages. Goes on and off the court to reveal the thrilling career highlights and spiritual journeys of NBA superstars like David Robinson, Hersey Hawkins, and Charlie Ward. Full of spiritual encouragement for basketball fans who are eager to learn more about the joys and struggles of serving the Lord under the bright lights. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
300 pages. Signature and inscription of Burt Ward, the Robin character from the 'Batman' television show, atop half-title page. A revealing look behind the scenes at all the sizzling secrets you were never supposed to hear... the explosions, the injuries, the feuds, the vendettas and 'Superhero' sex with young fans. The true story of what really went on in and out of the BatCave... vividly unmasked for the first time in the Boy Wonder's own words. "I advise all who are planning to read it to invest in a pair of asbestos gloves for page-turning duties!" - Yvonne Craig, Batgirl. Clean and bright with very light wear. Excellent copy. A wonderful gift for your special Batfriend! Book
141 pages. Biography of the hero of the 1972 hockey summit series between Canada and the Soviet Union. "Tells Henderson's story from his childhood in southern Ontario when his father, Garnet, had trained him and encouraged him to make the NHL. On his way up, Paul Henderson suffered from the inequities of the feudal farm-team system, and saw his best friend in junior hockey black-balled because he wanted an education. He was one of the first to fight the system and improve players' conditions. Few players in the game have given as much as Paul Henderson. This book tells how and why he did it." - from dust jacket. Black and white photographic plates. Book clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice solid copy overall. (Hopefully Henderson will one day be named to the Hockey Hall of Fame for his exploits on behalf of Canada.) Book
Features: Arab Air Power IV; Fans for the HS.125; Martinsyde F 4 Buzzard - Part 3. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
Unpaginated. Book is over one inch thick. "The caricatures of my colleagues of the 35th Parliament (of Canada) are dedicated to their sense of humour. If I have captured a feeling, a mood, or a particular look, I thank my models for having inspired me." - Artist. *Hilarious* caricatures of many Canadian Members of Parliament who sat from 1993-1997 by one of their own. Book is clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. After viewing these wonderfully detailed and creative images it is hard not to wonder what the artist actually spent most of his time doing while in Ottawa! Will delight fans and families of the MPs represented herein! Our favourite image is that of North Vancouver Reform Party M.P. Ted White. Book
39 pages. Features: They gave me up for dead - Audrelyn Speight was driving from Dundas, Ontario to Hamilton when her back was broken in an accident - this pretty accident victim is undaunted ; Summer Stay-at-Homes - artist George Grammat provides colour illustrations of Montreal life; Miami's Problem Visitors - the city bulges with Cuban refugees who won't go elsewhere; Canada's Sunshine Island - Prince Edward Island - nice colour photos; An Unhappy Wife Gives the Gang Away - the Peugeot Kidnapping (part 2 of 2); Road Hogs - Photos of hogs pulling wagon of H.C. Hurley of Echo Bay, Ontario; Gift tip to Canada's Golf Fans - Dick Borthwick replaces 'twist' with 'slide'; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
47 pages. Features: The secret delights of the shunpiker - Bill and Vivian Heine have explored the quiet back roads of many parts of Canada; Millie Perkins is Glad She was Fired - the girl film fans knew as Anne Frank is free to fulfill her new ambition - to become an actress; De Gaulle is the Man for Me - Field Marshall Montgomery on leadership towards the resolution of the East-West strife; A spoonful of syrup may stamp out Polio - mobile medical teams test the oral vaccine Sabin in Wedgeport and Comeau Hill, N.S.; School that teaches the three Ps - Poise Posture and Presence - Phyllis Leeman's Pixie School of Modelling in New Westminster, B.C.; Humourous signs keep people off the grass; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
39 pages. Features: Adolph Eichmann - his life's work was death; "I'm really too young for mink" - Sandra Dee at 18 (colour photos); Magic Power that is Battling Hunger - MPF - Multi-purpose food is made of wastes which were once thought suitable only for fertilizer and animal feed; Noda, Japan - where everyone loves herons; Colour photos of flowers in the Rockies; Booing fans and the stars they heckle (Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Ab McDonald); The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
Features: In Defense of Gambling, by Jimmy Breslin; Quack Marriage Counselors - a growing nationwide scandal - long article; "King" of the U.S. Senate - Robert S. Kerr; Basketball's Bullies - reckless coaches, rowdy players and riotous fans disgrace our colleges, says Referee Al Lightner; Making the "Best-Dressed" List - some women have resorted to bribery; New Science that Copies Life - by mimicking the sensory organs of animals, scientists are inventing startling new machines; The Fateful Dive of the Atlantis - a bold experiment which took two divers to the ocean floor ends in mysterious death. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Let's Put Women in Their Place - George Sumner Albee; The Berlin Crisis - Khrushchev's Weakness; People on the Way Up - Marlo Thomas, Jane FondaAlana Ladd, Bronwyn FitzSimons, Christina Crawford, Nancy Sinatra, Portland Mason; PT-109, The Adventure that made a President (conclusion); Eggheads with a big beat - The Limeliters, a singing trio that wows night-club fans - Glenn Yarbrough, Alex Hassilev, Lou Gottlieb; Adventures of the Mind - The Birth of Words, by Raymond Arthur (R.A.) Lyttleton; His Millions for the Big Outdoors - Laurence Rockefeller is head of the ORRRC - Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission - which is projecting the nations requirements for outdoor recreational lands for 1962, 1976 and 2000; How I Handle the Boston Celtics - by Arnold (Red) Auerbach - things you don't know about the players on basketball's most-renowned team. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Four middle pages loose but present. A worthy copy. Book
Features: He makes cops come clean - Orlando W. Wilson, Chicago's new Chief of Police; France's enchanted corner - Brittany; Ballplayers vs. the Fans - challenges for Mickey Mantle; The PX - World's Biggest Discount House; I Call on Pete Martin, by Bing Crosby (Conclusion); Adventures of the Mind - The Time of Our Lives, by Norman John (N.J.) Berrill. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Two inch by two inch clipping from top of page 20. Book
Features: Cover photo of Peter Mellor (Burnley); Bobby Moore thinks the leage title looks like going north; black and white photo of Jimmy Husband (Everton); Big-Hitting Bombers! (Goal Scorers) - Bobby Charlton, Jon Sammels, Neil Young, Andy Penman, Peter Lorimer, Alan Hinton; John Toshack and Brian Clark- 'My kind of players'; Colour full-page photos of Brian Kinsey (Charlton) and Tony Coleman (Sheffield Wednesday); Denis Law of Manchester United says "I Hate Watching Football"; The Blues Make Chelsea Fans Happy!; Edinburgh clubs hit the jackpot... in Glasgow; Colour team centerfold photo of "Heart of Midlothian"; John Osborne - the 'Quiz King' 'Keeper; Brave little Exeter shook the giants of Man. United!; Colour photo of Eddi Loyden (Barnsley); Colour photo of Dave Mackay; Big stars who cost small fortunes; Focus on John Sydenham (Southhampton); Colour back cover photo of Mike Summerbee (Manchester City); and more. Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Cover Artist - Mayumi Oda; Pine - many lovely colour photos; Catching Up With the West - the story of the Meiji period; The Saga of Five Meiji Girls - they left Japan to see how foreign women were educated and raised their children - nice archival black and white photos; State of the Art - I.I.'s Ikebana Portfolio; Japanese Fans. Two small marks inside back cover else clean with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Short article on the Freedomites and the death of hunger striker Paul Podmorrow in B.C. - includes small sketch of Big Fanny Storgoff; Editorial - What English Canada - and Jean Lesage - can learn from Maclean's survey of separatism; Nice fulll-page colour ad for the 1964 Acadian; Major article on Separatism by Peter Gzowski - includes many results of related public opinion polls; How Gwethalyn Graham and Solange Chaput Rolland feel about separatism; Malcolm Muggeridge describes the cult of Lord Beaverbrook; Blair Fraser reports from Africa that "The Blacks' New Enemies Are Black"; The Football Game The Fans Don't See - 1962 all-star John McMurtry describes the sixty-minute war of attrition that is the professional football player's real work; Wabush, Labrador - Bustling Construction camp - article with photos; A Moliere Play About Canada - see it on TV - in French; Why Gean Gascon is our first man of the Theatre; Lovely colour centerfold ad for the 1964 Buicks; Nice colour photo ad for Peter Jackson cigarettes; Entertainment Reviews; Laid-in is a news clipping from 19 December 1963 which includes a very graphic photo of Sgt.-Maj. Walter Leja seconds after he was maimed while attempting to disarm an FLQ bomb in a Montreal mailbox. Considerable writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Colour photo of Bobby Orr in Yardley ad inside front cover; Bobby Orr article; It's Suicide to get in front of Bobby Orr's Shot; Bruins' 50th anniversary; Canucks Quiz; NHL History article - with Terry Sawchuk photo; Nice Dennis Ververgaert photo feature; Wayne Cashman featured in VanCity ad; Player of the Week - Don Tannahill; Canucks vs. Boston last year; Photos of Canuck players, staff and management; Photos of Boston Bruin players; Charisma - Bobby Orr Style; What fans should know about Phil Esposito; Great back page caricature/feature of Bobby Lalonde; plus many great vintage ads. Umarked with light wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
242 pages including index. A revealing look at the craft of songwriting in the words of the songwriters themselves: a compendium of anecdotes and quotations from well-known songwriters, from Irving Berlin and Stephen Foster to Mick Jagger and Kurt Cobain, on their influences, work habits, and how they came to write the songs now ingrained in the popular imagination - a book for songwriters and music fans alike. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Not pretty but a sound working copy of this popular work. Book
90 pages. Features: My Hop Around the World - Captain James Gallagher - article with great photos; 101 Answers to Cancer; Baseball's Winners of 1949; Young Man with a Sneer - Richard Widmark - article with great full-page headshot photo; Hot Fashions by Hattie Carnegie; Trouble is my Middle Name - part 2 of the 3 part Rocky Graziano article; Nice colour illustrations and article for men's spring fashion. Fiction: You Haven't Changed a Bit; Last Kiss; The Stolen Countess; The Spell of the Jade Goddess; Pride's Castle (part 8 of 8). Includes these ads: Hart Schaffner & Marx ad inside front cover; Bert Parks in an Ipana toothepaste ad, Borden's milk products, Jeep trucks, Chrysler's new car with fluid drive transmission, Lucky Strike (nice photo of girl on horse), Plymouth (with photo of Toby Couture, their main test driver), American Airlines - attractive 2-pages in color, PM Whiskey, Mallory hats, Van Heusen ties, Kaiser cars, Chevrolet, the Dodge Meadowbrook, Elgin watches, Glidden paint, Mercury cars, Burroughs business machines - 2 pages in color, Budweiser - full page in color shows fans at ball game, Canada Dry and a back cover color photo ad for Chesterfield cigarettes featuring Joan Crawford and L.E. Thomason of Paris, Kentucky. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
