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195980 pages. Features: Cover sailing illustrations shows man turning green while his Marilyn-like lady friend enjoys the ride; Pepsi ad inside front cover shows poolside scene; Kent cigarette ad shows flower gardening couple; Allstate ad features photo of Ray Morton of Castro Valley, California; We Recovered the Space Monkeys - Navy Diver Lt. (j.g.) R. Edward Foy recalls what happened in this photo-illustrated article; The Gang in Black Jackets - short story; We Tell Our Children - noted Negro journalist Carl T. Rowan tells how he answers questions his children ask when they come face to face with race prejudice - photo-illustrated article; The U-19's Last Kill (part 1 of 6); The Secrets of Long Life - article with photos of Henrietta Dull, William Perry, Thomas Murphy, Lulu Williams, Redwing Beck, and Granny Mounger; The Don't-Touch Girl (short story); The Cowboy of Fifth Avenue - Eugene Holman is board chairman of Standard Oil - photo-illustrated article; They Hunt the Mysterious Menhaden - photo-illustrated article on the pursuit of this elusive east coast fish; Mr Lincoln's Mystery Cake (short story); Rebirth of a Cathedral - resurrecting the Coventry Cathedral which was destroyed by Hitler's bombers; Top-Secret Boondoggle (short story); Great two-page color photo of the one-day assembly of a pre-fab science hall at Saint Francis College in Fort Wayne, IN; Portland cement ad features color photo of Will Rogers Jr.; Mark of Treachery (part 7 of 8); Nice two-page color-photo ad for the 1959 Chevrolet Impala Sport Sedan shows fisherman returning with a big haul; Nice back cover color-photo Kodak ad features Ozzie and Harriet, and their boys David and Ricky; and more. Moderate wear. Bits of nibbling to edges of covers. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1944164 pages. Features: Three Main Ocean Routes Urged; $27 Million Ago - last month the Canadian government took over air bases established by the U.S. in the Hudson Bay area; Captain W.R. "Wop" May Goes North Again; de Havilland Assembly; The Magic Merlin; Report from Ottawa; London Report; Trends in Washington; Australia's Score; Air Board Claims Denied; "Gas Inn"; The Elusive Auster; Dinghy Drill; Children Save Pennies for Planes; Mark XIV Bombsight; Maintaining the Wasp Engine; Easily Made Wing Jig; New Equipment; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Front cover beginning to loosen. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
193150 pages. Features: Thompson Valve ad commemorates the round the world trip of Mears and Collyer in 1928; Design and Construction of Aluminum Alloy Floats - article with photo of Keystone Commuter; Air-Cooled Cylinder Head Design; The Privateer Amphibian - A Low Wing Pusher Monoplane; Wind Tunnel Testts on Airplane Wheel Cowlings; Improvement and Economy in Carburetor Control; Vortex Theory and the Tapered Wing (part II); Effectiveness and Balance of Horizontal Control Surface; The Month's best from the Foreign Press; Assembly Instructions of the Fairchild Cabin Monoplane 71; Method of Making the Navy Type Cable Splice; How to Design and Build and Aircraft Finishing Room; Airplane and Engine Repair Cost Accounting; Puti It Up to Parker; How Fast Do They Fly?; New Products; Nice ad inside back cover Detroit's Hotel Fort Shelby; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
197732 pages. Features: Jose Rafael and Portuguese reaction in Toronto to the murder of Emanuel Jaques; Pint Size - Canada's vanishing breed of independent beer companies; Detroit Feature - Life on the Assembly Line; Canada's Favorite Charities - a guide to Canada's major charitiable organizations, who they are, how they get your money, and what they do with it; Massive 6-page GM Preview of its 1978 Cars; The Unpopular Pope - Paul VI may not be the best-loved pope, but he has put his house in order; Facing Up to Psychotherapy - four patients reveal the reasons and methods of psychiatry; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1941Features: Photos of Russia's scorched earth policy; London's civil defence forces reviewed by Mr. Churchill - five photos; The Allied Capture of Damascus - Free French Troops March In - five photos; Photo of Frank Knox at the commissioning of the new super-battleship "Washington"; Four illustrations of Britain's latest shock troops in army tests - advance assault methods by a 'Recce" battalion; Photo of Russian pilots; Photo of Russian military officials in London; Photos of the Leading personalities of the week, including the first Indian V.C., Lieut. P.S. Bhagat who cleared landmines for four days and was blown up twice; Scenes of the Allied success in Syria - Twelve photos; Devastating R.A.F. daylight precision bombing in occupied France - four super aerial photos; Fascinating before and after air photos showing camouflage of Hamburg's rail station; Article - The Second Stage in Russia, by Cyril Falls; Air photos of bomb carnage in Munster; Eleven photos of Russian resistance to the "German Hordes"; Britain's Tank Drive - photos of tanks and their assembly - *includes photo of the first Canadian-built Valentine tank at the Angus works - admired by hundreds of workers after being handed over to Colonel Ralson, Canadian Minister of Defense; The Life of British POWs in a German Camp - ten sketches by Lieut. J.F. Watton at Oflag VII and Posen, Poland; Navy sporting events in a Mediterranean Harbour - the H.M.S. "Kelvin"; ME 109F of German flying ace Hauptmann Peter Pingel is recovered intact neara St. Margaret's Bay on the Kent coast; The "Alstertor" Nazi prison ship is scuttled - 3 photos of the sinking and survivors; Three photos of enemy vessls just hit by the R.A.F.; Navy pictures at the latest war exhibition; Article on Bees; Huntley & Palmers Biscuits full-page ad; Nice colour Johnnie Walker ad on back cover with manicured gardens in background. Average wear. Faint Ink stamps to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
196964 pages. Bennett's bold signature atop front cover. Delivered in the Legislative Assembly Friday, February 7, 1969. Lovely colour-illustrated fold out front and back covers. News clippings of the day laid in. Unmarked. Very light wear. A significant piece of British Columbiana. Book
réf. 8982Letters to Cross 1949 and 1950; letters to Cross's widow 1950 and 1951; five on the letterhead of the International Court of Justice The Hague. The collection in good condition on lightly-aged paper with each item carrying a punch-hole in top left-hand corner of first page. Letter One: in manuscript; to Cross; 3 September 1949; on 'Edvard Hambro' letterhead; 8vo 2 pp. Affectionate letter on Cross's retirement from the Registry of the International Court. '. I find the Peace Palace curiously empty without you. I am going to miss your visits to my room and mine to yours. I shall miss our political chats in the mornings and I shall look forward to having you with us again.' After three years working with Cross he thanks him for 'your co-operation for your skill for your industry and your patience and most of all the unflagging integrity of your character both in your work and in our personal relations'. Continues in the same vein before ending with a paragraph relating to Cross's wife. Letter Two: typed; to Cross; 7 January 1750; on letterhead of the International Court as are the rest of the letters; 4to 1 p. Short note on the 'Columbian document' with postscript in manuscript. The four letters each 4to 1 p to Mrs Cross née Alice Dufour are all in French and relate to her financial situation following her husband's death including the attempt to trace an American bank account held by her husband and to receive a pension from the Belgian Government. Also included are an Autograph Letter Signed 12mo 2pp; 28 December 1949; with damp-staining to the reverse by Hambro's wife Elizabeth daughter of the English artist Gwen Raverat thanking Cross for her children's Christmas presents; and the carbon of a Typed Letter to Hambro by Cross 12mo 1 p; dated 7 September 1949. Letters to Cross, 1949 and 1950; letters to Cross's widow, 1950 and 1951; five on the letterhead of the International Court of J unknown
1932réf. 205181932. African American Religion Silver gelatin photograph of twenty-two African American congregates at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. 1932. Approx. 4.5" x 6.5". Photograph shows twenty-two congregates of varying ages twenty-one adults and one child dressed in "Sunday best" sitting and standing in two rows in front of a church sanctuary. Caption written on photograph reads "Ward #1 Mt. Zion Baptist Church 1932". Baptist Protestantism has been the predominant religion among African Americans from the Civil War until today however the Great Depression marked a particularly difficult time period for Baptist churches across the United States. In 1932 Protestant church attendance was at an all time low in part due to the church's inability to dispense charity to the needy and due to a general loss of faith in the face of financial hardship. African American Baptist Mt. Zion congregations are also known for their roles in the Civil Rights Movement. The churchgoers pictured were among a select few who remained steadfast practitioners of Baptist Protestantism during a difficult time in U.S. history. Very good condition. unknown
1932réf. 205181932. African American Religion Silver gelatin photograph of twenty-two African American congregates at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. 1932. Approx. 4.5" x 6.5". Photograph shows twenty-two congregates of varying ages twenty-one adults and one child dressed in "Sunday best" sitting and standing in two rows in front of a church sanctuary. Caption written on photograph reads "Ward #1 Mt. Zion Baptist Church 1932". Baptist Protestantism has been the predominant religion among African Americans from the Civil War until today however the Great Depression marked a particularly difficult time period for Baptist churches across the United States. In 1932 Protestant church attendance was at an all time low in part due to the church's inability to dispense charity to the needy and due to a general loss of faith in the face of financial hardship. African American Baptist Mt. Zion congregations are also known for their roles in the Civil Rights Movement. The churchgoers pictured were among a select few who remained steadfast practitioners of Baptist Protestantism during a difficult time in U.S. history. Very good condition. unknown books
1893réf. 401924Romae : Ex Typographia Polyglotta 1893. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good gilt-blocked leather-backed cloth copy. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; xi 924 p. ; 30 cm. Subjects; Catholic Church Missions. Catholic Church. Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith. Rescripts Papal. Romae : Ex Typographia Polyglotta hardcover
1989248 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. "Rosemary writes about the people and events she has known and witnessed - from her childhood in Jamaica and the family life that helped to shape her early views of life, to her rise within Canada's social fabric, as a politician and a concerned citizen... Filled with provocative statements about racism in Canada, the rights of women, education, the political process, abortion and a host of other issues at the heart of Canada's development as a free and democratic country." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
réf. 33144Halifax. Printed at the Royal Gazette Office. 1832. Hardcover. folio 31cm pp.137-319; 6023pp. appendix in the original half sheepand marbled boards blind panel rules and borders on the boards uppercover label removed otherwise a fine copy. atl TPL 672. The Journalswere issued from 1794 to 1860. This volume contains the submissions of100 petitions and 98 bills. Included are proclamations and messages fromthe Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia Sir Peregrine Maitland. TheseJournals and Proceedings give great insight into the governing ofcolonial Nova Scotia. Halifax. Printed at the Royal Gazette Office. [1832] hardcover
1982réf. BN541213National Academies Press 1982. 1982. Ability Testing of Handicapped People Ability Testing of Handicapped People Assembly Of Behavioral and Social Sciences National Academies Press unknown
1684réf. 2108230405xbvkÀ Rotterdam, chez Reinier Leers, M.DC.LXXXIV. (1684). Singleside printed Titlesheet with smaller alllegoric woodblock illustration, 335 (5) pages, 1 blank sheet. - French full-leather binding of the period over 5 raised bands with richly gilt spine and gilt-titled original red-leather spinelabel; 8vo.(ca. 16 x 9 x 2 cm).
1702réf. 3761Paris Chez Jean de Nully 1702 Un volume in-12 plein veau d'époque, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. titre et vignette gravée, [4] ff., xxvi, 606 pages, [32] ff. de table et privilèges. Coiffes arasées, charnières fendues, coins émoussés, brunissures sur certains feuillets, une pâle mouillure en tête aux premiers feuillets et manque le dernier feuillet de privilège et le dernier feuillet blanc.
1874réf. 29444Tours Société archéologique De Touraine, Imprimerie Ladevèze 1874 Deux Volumes In-8 ces 2 volumes correspondent aux tomes XIV et XXV des mémoires de la société archéologique de Touraine ( voir notre référence N° 27403 ), publiés pour la première fois avec des Notes par l'abbé Chevalier , couvertures conservées, hors mis en tête, relié à toutes marges. Un plan dépliant de l'Abbaye, XII-591 + VIII - 771 pp - quelques frottements d'usage à la reliure sinon bon exemplaire
2017réf. BN436388Forgotten Books 2017. 2017. Softcover. Reports Made to the General Assembly of Illinois at Its Twenty-Seventh Session Convened January 4 1871 Vol. 3 Classic Reprint Reports Made to the General Assembly of Illinois at Its Twenty-Seventh Session Convened January 4 1871 Vol. 3 Classic Reprint Illinois General Assembly Forgotten Books paperback
réf. 19180Standing Council of the Baronetage London. 1909 or 1910. Henry Good & Son London E.C. 9pp 4to. In fair condition on lightly-aged paper; with central horizontal fold. A main topic of the meeting was as Sir Lambton Loraine explained the assertion by the Duke of Norfolk of his 'right to a jurisdiction over the Baronetage in every way' and his belief that he has 'a right to keep our record at his own house in St. James's Square whereas we have not yet got the King's answer to the Home Secretary's Committee's proposal that a person appointed by the Home Office should be the future Registrar of the Roll of the Baronetage'. Another matter discussed was 'whether the title "Baronet" should be on one's card'. From the papers of Sir Richard Harington 11th Baronet who has written at top-right of the title-page: 'Read 15 June 1910'. Scarce: no other copy found either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC. [ Standing Council of the Baronetage, London. 1909 or 1910. ] Henry Good & Son, London, E.C. unknown
1765réf. AQ21341A Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Guilleaume Desprez 1765. 92pp. Uncut stitched as issued. Edges a trifle dusty else clean and crisp. A printing of extracts from the minutes of the Assembly of the French clergy in 1765 a meeting most notable for reiterating the episcopacy's defence of it's exemption from taxation; a statement that from a Jansenist perspective amounted to a revocation of the Declaration of 1682 which had codified the principles of Gallicanism. The tensions bolstered by this corruption of Gallicanist fundamentals together with increased opposition to monarchical absolutism would pave the road to the Revolution - an ultimately the nationalisation of all ecclesiastical property. . 8vo. De l'Imprimerie de Guilleaume Desprez unknown
réf. 237681Hardcover. GOOD. NOEAN 0 9789900213482 BRIGHT AND CLEAN OVERSIZED HARDCOVER NO DUST JACKET - PICTORIAL COVER VERY GOOD VERY LITTLE WEAR TONS OF COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS 20-26 MARCH 2000 NOEAN hardcover
1878réf. 72267London: David Nutt 1878. 447p. Hardcover oversized. Rebound with newer cloth spine. Ex-seminary library copy. Old paper label on spine name stamped on title page. Pages yellowed from age otherwise a clean tight book in good condition. An important reference work. Includes an historical introduction by Thomas Francis Knox D.D. David Nutt unknown
1891réf. 286218Richmond VA: Everett Waddey Company 1891. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The Acts of Assembly Concerning the James River Company the James River and Kanawha Company and the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad and Richmond and Alleghany Railway Companies. Acts passed by the General Assembly of Virginia concerning some railway and river companies of the Richmond area. Very scattered marginalia in ink. Previous owner’s name stamped on the front pastedown and stamped on the front board in gilt. Fully rebacked by a conservator using black Japanese tissue. Section of the original spine laid in. Half black leather over dark cloth covered boards. Overall in Very Good condition. Very Good binding. Everett Waddey Company unknown
1891réf. 286218Richmond VA: Everett Waddey Company 1891. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The Acts of Assembly Concerning the James River Company the James River and Kanawha Company and the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad and Richmond and Alleghany Railway Companies. Acts passed by the General Assembly of Virginia concerning some railway and river companies of the Richmond area. Very scattered marginalia in ink. Previous owner’s name stamped on the front pastedown and stamped on the front board in gilt. Fully rebacked by a conservator using black Japanese tissue. Section of the original spine laid in. Half black leather over dark cloth covered boards. Overall in Very Good condition. Very Good binding. Everett Waddey Company unknown books
réf. elala53518vo. pp. xxvii 1errata 504. folding colour map. contemporary half roan joints & extremities rubbed. A valuable collection of historical material relating to the Canadian North-West the Hudson's Bay Company and the Hudson's Bay Territories Saskatchewan the Red River Manitoba the North-West Territories and the frontier lands above Lake Superior. Peel 1089. Toronto: Printed By C.Blackett Robinson, 1882. hardcover
1825réf. 298172Richmond: Thomas Ritchie 1825. Very Good binding. In two parts being “Acts of a public and general nature” and “Acts of a local and private nature”. An early and interesting edition of Virginia statutes dealing with everything from the Western Lunatic Asylum to the establishment of the town of Snickersville in Loudoun County. And of course slavery. 114 pages including index. Bound in later legal buckram with maroon and black spine labels. Pages uniformly toned. Scarce with only 4 copies located in OCLC. Very Good binding. Thomas Ritchie unknown
