Owens, HarryMareMagnum
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1962First published in 1934. 4 pages. Bits of writing and Hawaiian store stamp on front cover. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1980[12], 411 pages. Selected bibliography. Glossaries of family names and common russian terms. Many black and white maps and reproductions of archival photos. "The purpose of this work is to provide the general reader and particularly the interested descendants of the German colonists in South Russia with a cultural history of three major enclaves in the Odessa area, namely the Catholic mother-colonies of the Liebental, Kutschurgan, and Beresan districts. The product of almost two decades of research and study." - Foreword. This copy from the fourth printing of the 1973 second edition. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper otherwise book unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Very heavy wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A worthy copy of this treasured genealogical reference. Book
195518 pages. Features: Poly-Choke full-page illustrated ad; Editorial on the controversy between conservationists and power interests over the use of park lands; Goat Galore! - article including photo of Keith C. Smith, big game artist, with a nice Chilcotin nanny; Vernon's Second Annual Retriever Trials - article with photos of George Douglas, John Ricketts, Bob Carswell, Jim Harvey, Roy Lambert, Fred Hoffman, Jeff Balcombe, and Mr. Laidlaw, photo of Mrs. Bill Edgerton, Mrs. Ella Furrie, Bill Sinser, Mrs. Betty O'Keefe, and Jim Holt, photo of Jim Holt congratulating Charlie Bunker, photo of Oliver Krog with Austin C. Taylor, Photo of Roy Lambert, Photo of Fred Hoffman, and photo of Jim Holt with Cyril Gilbert; Brief article on power decoys; Interior Trap Championship - brief article with photos of Cece Wills, Ken Glagbourne and Gordon Finch, photos of A.S. Baillie, Jr., J. Genier, Johnny Goffinet, and Jim Treadgold; Fantastic centerfold features letter from Alfred H. Schmidt of Portland, Oregon, which describes his month spent with son Gregg in the Kamloops country in June 1955, and around the letter appear five photos taken during their trip, including one of Gregg holding a fish; Pistol Corner - shooting results; Cruise of the Good Ship "Putzy Too" - Henry Furniss and his new 22-foot outboard cruiser; B.C. Game Commission ad inside back cover entitled "Going Afield" offers tips for hunters; Back cover ad by the B.C. Natural Resources Conservation League entitled "URGENT - A Sportsman's Paradise is Being Destroyed" and goes into detail about a government proposal to clear timber on the shores of Buttle Lake before raising the lake by 19'; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1875[7], 8-104 pages. Forest green publisher's cloth handsomely adorned in black and gilt with beautiful colour illustration affixed to front. No indication of any prior editions. 6" x 4.5". Apparently written for younger readers. Discusses where to find birds of paradise, preparing birds for sale, and sections on the Parrot, Malacca Parrakeet, Ringed Parrakeet, Cockatoo, Trogon, Bell-Bird, and more. What appears to be the color frontispiece illustration is loose but present. Three addiional colour plates are loose but included. We do not know if others are missing so offer this copy as is. Prior owner's name, dated 1884, atop table of contents. Front hinge open. Despite its deficiencies, an attractive and charming vintage ornithological item. Book
1926Nice cover illustration by Starmer. 6 pages. Includes lyrics, piano sheet music and Ukulele chords. Very faint name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1923Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Kidnapped by the "Gavilleros"- the British administrator of a large sugar estate on the West Indian island of Santo Domingo is kidnapped; An Island Paradise - photo-illustrated article on the 'progress, civilized, and thoroughly lovable people' of Fiji; Looking Backwards - 25th Birthday of this publication; An Adventure With a Mad Buffalo; Jimmy's Reformation - Jimmy Boncelek used to be the terror of Stigler, Oklahoma; Seeking the Copper Mountain - photo-illustrated account of an eventful journey through the little-known province of Veraguas, part of the Republic of Panama; A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part II - Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains, a picturesque country where the tribal blood-feud still flourishes - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part V - a tramp with a donkey cart, avoiding all modern luxuries; The Tobacco Smugglers of the Belgian Border - photo-illustrated report; A Soldier of Fortune - Part II - remarkable personal narrative smuggled from a man presently incarcerated in a French prison; Splitting the Herd - A cowboy adventure from the Texas plains; Photos of Chinese cave temple at Gunong Rapat in the federated Malay States; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1920Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Book
2016Barbara Drake Boehm, Melanie Holcomb Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven. , Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2016, Lingua inglese. Copertina rigida originale in ottimo stato, con sovraccoperta. Taglio laterale con piccolissime gore. Interno in perfetto stato. Ottimo (Fine) . 352
1982No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 253pp. Critical analysis of Milton's Paradise Lost by a range of prominent literary critics.
2006cm. 21,5 x 32, xxiv-330 pp. con 15 tavv. f.t. a colori e 106 figg. n.t. in b.n. Rilegato (Hardcover). Arte e archeologia - Studi e documenti Viene studiata la prima e pi? importante collezione d?arte in epoca moderna, per opera dei Medici di Firenze durante il Quattrocento. Basandosi su documenti originali e un?ampia scelta di letteratura secondaria, il libro svela perch? i Medici scelsero di dedicarsi all?arte, come si mossero per accumulare tanti oggetti preziosi e cosa significasse l?arte per loro e per i loro contemporanei. Un catalogo ragionato documenta inoltre le numerose, straordinarie opere raccolte dalla famiglia. This study illuminates the first and most important art collection of the modern era, which was formed in the fifteenth century by the Medici of Florence. By drawing on primary documents and a wide range of scholarly literature, the book explains why the Medici chose to devote themselves to art, how they managed to accumulate their many precious things, and what their art meant for them and their contemporaries. 1791 gr. xxiv-330 p.
1985Mondadori, febbraio 1985. Traduzione di Roberta Rambelli. Titolo originale: Almost Paradise. Collana: Omnibus. Rilegato con sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Ordinarie tracce d'uso. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
1989Collana: La Scala, gennaio 1989. Traduzione di Marisa Castino Bado. Rilegato con sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
1934In 8 (21x14,5) Brossura illustrata; pp. 351; Buono
2007Trade paperback Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light Wear on cover. Pages a ll intact, clean, no tear and no writings. Stock Photo different from actual book cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 533 p. Audience: General/trade.
2008Hardcover Like new. Ships from publishers directly. Pls. allow a minimum of 25 business days delivery time from publishers. Will be backorde red if not available.
1972rif. 3864Balland 1972 340 pages in8. 1972. Broché couverture rempliée. 340 pages. Le 'Guide de l'au-delà' d'Ornella Volta est un essai satirique et érudit qui propose une description humoristique et critique des conceptions de l'Enfer et du Paradis à travers l'histoire et les cultures. L'ouvrage initialement publié en 1977 et réédité mêle érudition historique et ton caustique pour explorer les représentations de l'au-delà
1979rif. 3981Grasset 1979 247 pages in8. 1979. broché. 247 pages. Ouvrage documentaire de Victor Franco qui analyse les mécanismes de la fuite des capitaux vers les paradis fiscaux en détaillant les méthodes de fraude et les conventions bancaires franco-suisses. Le livre est présenté comme une enquête solidement documentée sur une fraude devenue institutionnalisée à l'échelle mondiale
1993rif. 6093La seine / Succes du livre 1993 438 pages in8. 1993. broché. 438 pages. En 1837 pendant la conquête française de l'Algérie la jeune et belle Casilda arrive à Alger où elle séduit la société coloniale par sa grâce et sa soif de vivre. Le roman dépeint les tensions entre le monde des salons où l'on tente de maintenir une apparence de normalité et la réalité violente de la conquête avec les menaces constantes des tribus locales comme les Hadjoutes
2018rif. 7940PALETTE 2018 48 pages 25 4x36 58x1 52cm. 2018. Reliure editeur cartonnée. 48 pages. Cet album illustré revisite le mythe de la Tour de Babel en suivant un scientifique excentrique qui contrairement aux autres habitants occupés à construire la tour fabrique des ailes pour réaliser son rêve de voler. Les planches sont présentées comme des œuvres d'art détaillées et fouillées mêlant aventure humour et poésie
1951rif. 10620Athéna 1951 200 pages in8. 1951. Broché couverture rempliée. première édition. 200 pages. Le narrateur un Parisien se souvient de ses amours de jeunesse en découvrant qu'une actrice lui rappelle Adrienne une femme aimée autrefois. Il part à Loisy dans le Valois pour retrouver Sylvie une autre figure de son passé et tenter de ressusciter ces sentiments idéalisés. Le récit explore la frontière floue entre le rêve la mémoire et la réalité
2000rif. 11188Editions Allia 2000 375 pages 13 8x2 2x21 8cm. 2000. Broché. 375 pages. L'ouvrage retrace l'origine et l'évolution d'une tradition de pensée plongeant deux mille ans en arrière dans les cultures de l'Égypte ancienne de la Mésopotamie et de l'Inde avant d'analyser les prophètes iraniens et juifs ainsi que les premières représentations chrétiennes du paradis sur terre. Il explore le passage du mythe du combat à l'eschatologie et souligne la persistance de cette tradition dans les fantasmes religieux ou séculiers contemporains
2019rif. 11325PAPILLON ROUGE 2019 264 pages 15 6x23 5x1 8cm. 2019. Broché. 264 pages. Ce livre présente pour la première fois les parcours de femmes au destin éblouissant ayant marqué la Savoie aujourd'hui souvent oubliées ou méconnues. Il raconte des histoires captivantes de courage et de ténacité comme celle d'Hortense de Beauharnais engagée dans des actions caritatives de Marie Paradis première femme à atteindre le sommet du Mont Blanc ou d'Adèle de Bellegarde aristocrate révolutionnaire dans le monde de la peinture
1991rif. 11598Grand livre du Mois 1991 312 pages in8. 1991. cartonné. 312 pages. Jean Markale explore les mystères de l'après-vie à travers le prisme de la sagesse traditionnelle mettant en lumière les concepts de Bien et de Mal. L'ouvrage s'inscrit dans sa passion pour les cultures et légendes notamment bretonnes initiée dans son enfance
2010rif. 15007FAYARD 2010 350 pages 15 4x3x23 4cm. 2010. Broché. 350 pages. Dans cet ouvrage l'historien Jean Delumeau retrace l'évolution des croyances relatives au paradis du 'jardin des délices' au 'bonheur éternel' en passant par l'attente de 'mille ans de paix sur terre'. Il propose une synthèse accessible et sans notes de son Histoire du Paradis en trois volumes répondant à une demande de paradis suscitée par le pessimisme contemporain
rif. 26042Format moyen, couverture souple. 303 pages.illustrations n/b et couleurs. Très bon état. Une expédition par Mondial Relay vous sera proposée 2007 Eyrolles
