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1978ref. 69462Obliques, Èditions Borderie, 1978. Origi.Leinenband, 8°, 109 Seiten davon 98 Seiten illustriert.
1967ref. 142041Nendeln/Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint 1967. 141, (1) Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Fadengeheftete Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
1860ref. 29019London, James S.Virtue (um 1860). 200 (8) Seiten, vorne mit 10 Original-Stahlstichen auf Tafeln sowie 8 Seiten Werbung im Anhang. 4° (26 x 17,5 cm), Hardcover (cloth with gilt design), goldgeprägter Orig.-Leineneinband.
ref. 017-Do.J. Pinsel in Braun, braun laviert, über Bleistift, mit schwarzer Feder umrandet, auf Bütten mit Wasserzeichen: J Whatman. 18,2:26,1 cm. Darstellung oben rundbogig geschlossen. - Verso Bleistiftskizze einer mythologischen Szene.
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured portrait frontispiece, and coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; red cloth blocked in gilt, black cloth back blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's card slip-case.
8vo., First Edition thus; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip. An Elizabethan verse miscellany of which only four copies (none perfect) have survived.
In-12°; 1- “Thologi societatis(..)” cc.(3), 93, (6 di cui ultime tre bianche) note manoscritte e timbri ,ad inchiostro, di possesso al frontespizio. Capilettera incise su legno. 2- “De vanitate Mundi” cc. (18), pp. 500. Capilettera incisi su legno. Legatura in piena pelle di scrofa; incisioni al dorso, al piatto superiore e infriore in nero, dorso lacunoso
Hatier 1987, In-12 broché 80 p. Bon état.
pp. xi, 177. Illustrated. 235mm. Original full color pictorial glossy binding. Second edition. Crisp condition. PAG010A
144 p. A Signet Paperback. Fifth printing. Very Good. PHILO BX 4
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1846 - 94 ème Livraison - In-4 - 2 pages de texte - 3gravures - Très Propre
Features: L'ecole de demain - L'enfant "Maitre Chez Lui" (school architecture); Jean Marchand - est-il Perdu pour les ouvriers?; Nos Ambassadeurs? Des Prix de Vertu!; Favori ou "Long Shot"?, par Gerald Godin; Tartuffe a Quebec? Jamais! - fait l'eveque... et il offre cent pistoles au gouverneur Frontenac pour empecher que la piece de Moliere ne soit montee! Nous sommes en 1964; Pourquoi Mars?, par James Bamber. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
126 pages. Features:Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue in conversation; Russell Williams - where it all began; Randy Quaid - Asylum in Canada?; How Rob Ford became Mayor of Toronto; Saskatchewan opposes Potash takeover; Europe loses its cool - rollbacks in the pampered continent - feature article; Refugees from Iran; Bears in Japanese towns; Canada's best employers; Siamese Twins Tatiana and Krista - joined at the head at age 4; Anne-Marie Losique and Quebec's all-porn TV channel; Benjamin Theodore Pearson in memoriam; and much more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for Jonathan Logan/Lord & Taylor; Not the Goal, Only the Means - a warning to not let the virtue of private enterprise to become a vice; The Words of Freedom - photos from the National Archives Building; A Politician Must Watch His Wit; First Visit to a Muffled Colossus - Moscow is almost the last of the unknown cities; When Lewis Walked Down Main Street - the novel "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis; Nice color-photo ad "Carol Craig goes to Mission Valley"; The Chants of Childhood; Our Vital Non-Summit Conferences; Nice color-photo ad for Ballantine Beer; Nice fashion photos "Meanwhile - Back at the Ranch" by Hiro; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Gently yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 401-444. Features: Home Notes Between Friends; Cute Ovaltine ad inside front cover features babies in conversation, "Teething Topics No. 9"; Easy Virtue; Third Party Risk; Photo-illustrated article on Nova Pilbeam; Why Worry?; Asks Claude F. Luke; Tea Shop for Two - how to run a tea-room and home-made cake shop and make it pay! - photo-illustrated article by Nina James; Runaway from Romance; One-page ad for John West's Middle-cut Salmon; Nice colour centrefold fashion (dress) illustrations; Vintage half-page ad for Aylmer Tomato Catsup from Canada; Article on the difficulties of teething little ones; Jolly Jumbo's Fun Page; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Covers present but free of staples. A worthy vintage copy of this charming publication. Magazine
100 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. Joseph's Convent on Toronto's Bay Street, with nuns raking fall leaves; The dream of Rt. Hon. L.S. Amery - his son Julian became an M.P. but son John was hanged for wartime pro-Nazi broadcasts; Nice two-page colour-photo ad for General Motors trucks presents a blue pickup and a red 2-ton stake truck; Vintage one-page photo ad for the Toro "Power Handle which allowed one motor to power numerous yard care attachments; What Virtue Has Done to Montreal - excellent photo-illustrated article discusses how the girls are being chased out of town and the bars being forced to close on time - with photos of Frank Pretula, Louis Greco, Pierre DesMarais, Jean Drapeau, Pax Plante, Armand Courval, and members of the morality squad; The Miracle that began in a Stable - Dr. J.G. Fitzgerald and the history of his Connaught Laboratories which makes vaccines - photo-illustrated article; How to Handle Women; Photo-illustrated article on the unlikeliest couple in show business - George Murray and Shirley Harmer; Will a Machine Ever Take Your Job? - Article on what automation will mean to Canada; The Great Chinese Food Hoax - colour-photo-illustrated article on how Canada's Cantonese cooks are now being recognized for their delicious Chinese dishes, rather than the Canadian food they had been preparing in their cafes; The Great Carlak's Bitter Magic (short story); Life on the Gulf Islands - great photo-illustrated article on the 4,000 Canadians enjoying the dream of living on an island in the Pacific - with photos of Margaret Robinson, George Copeland, Bob Holloman, Derril Georgeson, Winnie Lautmann, Norm Preston, and Mr. and Mrs. A. King; Who Was the Mad Trapper of Rat River? - Illustrated article on Albert Johnson who shot others before being killed by a posse; How I Made my Killing in the Market - all you need is a few bucks and some 'inside dope'; One-page National Cash Register (NCR) colour ad features lovely redhead; Color ad features the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C.; Haig & Haig whisky ad features nice colour photo of Eilean Donan Castle; Sisman Tredders shoe ad features photo and endorsement by Lloyd Percival; Nice one-page colour Sylvania TV ad; Half-page Homelite ad shows large tree being brought down; Unusual one-page colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSB) illustrates how to read a tea cup; Quarter-page Moosehead Pale Ale ad features illustration of moose looking at portaging canoeist; Great one-page illustrated Dunlop Tires ad features photo of hero Mr. Martin Binkle of Kitchener, a driver for the Cope Transport Company who rescued children from a blazing farmhouse on highway 6 near Rockton; Labatt's IPA ale ad features photo of Wexford, Ontario labourer Frederick Gilbert; Nice one-page two-colour ad for 1955 GMC trucks hilights their all-new V8 engines; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
326 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for Kelvinator ranges inside front cover; Listerine ad shows two young men eyeing young lovely floating alone on water mattress; Town of the Month - Plymouth, Massachusetts; Nice color Camay sopa ad features beautiful Mrs. Cornelius Lorenzen, Jr., the former Barbara Jean Shaw of New Jersey; Assignment in Hollywood; Nice photo ad for Warner's 3-way-sized bras and foundations; Color Lux ad features Joan Caulfield; Two-page color-photo ad for Indian Head Cotton; Lustre-Creme ad features color photo of beautiful Ann Blyth; photo ad for Playtex baby pants; Excellent two-page color ad for Prell shampoo; Article on Eczema; Nice vintage one-page ad for Johnson & Johnson Cotton Tips (before they were rebranded as Q-Tips); Drene shampoo ad features photos of Jeanne Bal; The Woman and Her Car; Monthly Career Girl - Barbara Atkins of the Bank of Virginia in Richmond; Color Ivory Soap ad with image of Jean Christman; Why I Quit Working; The Jukebox and the Kallikaks - story by B.J. Chute; The Years Between (part 1 of 2); The Greener Grass; My Last Duchess; Woman and the New War; Lovely color-photo fashion photos; Lovely color-photo bedroom design ideas; 8 of America's foremost artists paint bedrooms they woud like; Home design photos; Orchestras in Peril; Zozo (Curious George?) page of comics; Kleenex ad features Little Lulu and Tubby; Jergens ad features photos of Evelyn Keyes, who co-stars with Jeff Chandler in movie "Smuggler's Island"; SOS pad ad features photo of Mrs. Velma Ide, Stillwater Ave., Bangor, Maine; Classy color-photo ad for Frigidaire electric ranges; Cut-Rite waxed paper ad features photo of Dione Lucas; Lovely color Avon ad features Gertrude Lawrence with her sales rep, Mrs. Mary Moran; Lovely vintage color ad for Virtue Bros. Chrome Dinette furnture; Excellent vintage color photo for Hotpoint dishwashers shows 'fairy lady' in yellow dress holding silver coffee set; 5 new miracle fibers - Dynel, Dacron, Orlon, Vicara and Chemstrand; Great color ad for Peter Pan peanut butter shows smiling girl; Photo of Virginia Mayo in Royal Crown cola ad; Daystrom Furniture color ad; Color ad for F.W. Woolworth Co.; Springmaid Fabrics ad; Fashion ideas; Charming color ad for Bambury clothing for girls; Red Goose shoe ad; Nice color-photo ad for Kate Greenaway's glamourous gingham frocks; and much, much more. Above-average external wear and soiling with openings to backstrip. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Magazine
128 pages. Features: Blueprint for World Government - "Metro", a deadly parallel to the forms of totalitarianism we are supposed to be fighting; The Trilogy for Victory - Will President Kennedy Use It?; The Moral Cost of the Welfare State; Is Censorship on the Way? - a department of government seeks to bar patriotic slogan from metered mail; Tranquilizers Can Kill You; Does Your Nose Always Know?; "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, Here Is..." - a humorous guide to guide-conducted foreign tours; Buy or Rent?; What Do You Know About Kissing?; Successfully Yours; Peace Corps - A Pied Piper Scheme; Deluge of Filth - foreign pornography pours into the USA on a daily basis by mail; Harry Lauder and his Long Underwear - "a story of great generosity of a man whose people are supposed to be notorious 'tightwads'"; You Can't Afford to Die - a move is on to eliminate costly funerals; Discrimination - Vice or Virtue?; A Lounsberry Scoop - one of the most thrilling episodes of the Old West; A Russian Fort in California - established by sea otter hunter and tanner Ivan Alexander Kuskov at Fort Ross; Seven Years of Horror - Margaret Buber-Neumann provides a firsthand account of life in the slave camps of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany - a commentary on the Eichmann trial; The Connally Reservation - the dangers of treaty law; Index to Volume XCII, January - June 1961. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: On the Town - Spark's Pub South; Show Business - the "New" American cinema; Let's Broaden Your Education - Photos of gorgeous Maya Martinez; A Girl Called Boom Boom - fiction; A Fresh Look at the Boss-Secretary Relationship - office affairs can be beautiful; Problems of the Unwed Father - sociology; Limericks for the High-Living Hobbyist - humor; Ocean Liner Gigolo - Interesting Occupations No. 76; Wine, Women and Wenzel - cartoons; Star Gazer - Photos of buxom Liz Miles, including color centerfold; The Business of Bareness - "Nude figure photography" in San Francisco and Los Angeles; You Are Invited to an Orgy - the good old days; The 'New' Sex Revolution in Scandinavia - travel guide; Ah, The Cruelty of Virtue - ribald classic tale of an Italian who was duped by the young maid he had hoped to ravish; Let's Play Statues - Photo feature of Jill Adams; With Additional Dialogue by Manny Silverhorn- film fun; Interesting ad inside back cover for Erotica and Erotica 2, LP records which provide "the actual, almost unbelievable sounds of erotic love"; Vintage color-photo ad for Mr. H.Esq on back cover features young man in Danish-inspired ski-wear. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Book shows light wear to covers only with faded spine, scuffing, a few marks. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners though with a little wear, text/interior is marked with underlining in pencil on about 10 pages, also prev. owner's name at inside cover. Contents include Moral virtue, Vices, Continence and Incontinence, Pleasure, Friendship: between unequals, breaking off, self-love, inferior kinds, limit of number, living together, in food or bad fortune, Happiness
Book is in excellent condition with a little wear at corners, not much. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 337 pages. Contents include: Definition and structure of the state, Household economy, the slave, property, children and wives, Ideal commonwealths: Plato, Phaleas, Hippodamus, The citizen, civic virtue, Democracy and oligarchy, kingship, Variations fo the main types of constitutions, How to proceed in framing a constitutions, Of revolutions, A picture of the ideal state, Education in, etc.
Published to coincide with the exhibition "Treasures of Catherine the Great", which marked the opening of the Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House 21 November 2000. With quality illustrations. 255 pages. Includes a number of related pieces of ephemera.
Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst on front pastedown and bookplate of Charles, 4th Earl of Orrery by George Vertue on verso of title page, [2],v-xiii,[3],364,[4] pages. Water stained. Full leather, calf, spine ends with some chips, front joint of spine with slight split to top half. A few ink numbers on verso of title page below bookplate.
Large number of illustrations. 213 pages. Grey buckram covers with black drawing of Sotheby's building on front cover, black title on spine. Dust jacket worn and creased to edges, with rubbing to surfaces.
1990ref. UVIRCHO00EFBantam 1990. Very Good. Virtue Doreen L. The Chocoholics Dream Diet. New York: Bantam 1990. 178pp. Bibliography. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Bantam paperback books
