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1920réf. 179353N: N 1920. dated 6th November 1920 headed 'Fishponds Netley Abbey Hants' concerning the service for the unveiling of the Cenotaph in Whitehall London. 'Dear G.F. Would you kindly send me a line to say 1 if swords will be worn 2 if great coats may be worn . . .' signed 'Milford Haven'. Single sheet 18 cm. x 22.8 cm. folded to form four pages written on one and a half sides horizontal fold at centre filing holes and mounting strip at left-hand fold lightly browned. Louis Alexander Mountbatten 1st Marquess of Milford Haven 1854endash 1921 formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg British naval officer and German prince related by marriage to the British royal family. Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett GCVO CMG 1863endash 1945 British naval officer and courtier. He was a friend of King George V and served as his aide-de-camp. N unknown
réf. 0267502389.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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réf. 0332028992.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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193696 pages. Features: War-Air Adventure - One after another the British Batteries were Blown out of existence - until a pilot returned from the dead to reveal the secret of the Phantom gun ranger; Modern Air Thriller - The R.A.F.'s most Secret Bomber carried its Murdered Pilot to a Watery Grave when England's enemies staged a daring plot on Empire Air Day; Real-Life Story - The Amazing story of Germany's Greatest Living Air Ace; Real-Life Story - A Stirring Record of the Pioneers of Aerial Warfare; The Ace of Rabbits - Augustus Barton was the Rabbit of all Rabbits and Herman Kranz the Sector's Ace of Aces; Thrilling Story - The Night-raiding Baron von Ekkehardt was the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Western Front; Well-Engineered - The Call of the Mad Mullah Turned a Quiet Desert Oasis into a seething hive of Arab Fanatics; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
1982112 pages. Features: An Exciting New Era - Renovation and expansion highlight the Royal Ontario Museum's (ROM) seventieth anniversary; Royal Splendour - A Czarina's toilet service designed by Huguenot silversmiths; ROM's Canadiana Department houses treasures of our heritage; All done by committee - dedicated volunteers ply their needles in aid of the Textile Endowment Fund; Japanese Art in the Royal Ontario Museum; The Mohawks arrive at the Royal Ontario Museum; Roman Frescoes circa 325 A.D. discovered at an Egyptian oasis; 18th Century Porcelain in the ROM; Renovation and Construction of the ROM; Conservation of Chinese wall paintings reveals old techniques and employs modern methods; Wall relief fragment from an Egyptian tomb of the 15th century B.C.; Illicit trade in antiquities; Ancient Greek and Roman jewellery in the ROM; The Far Eastern Library - a treasure-house of books from the 1600s to the present; Chinese Lacquer; Fabric, Fashion, Folk Costume; Curator's choice of objects from the Islamic world; Artifacts from the Americas - 12,000 years of pre-history, high civilization and European exploration. Light wear. Quality copy. Book
2000176 pages. Features: Year's top design trends and hot new paint colours; Ian Hylton turns his Toronto apartment into a haven; Retailer Stephen Sutch adds bold colours to his Vancouver apartment; Art and books in Calgary designer's home; Ideas to brighten your home during long winter nights; Sharon Mimran uses retro glamour in her own second-floor lounge; Modular coffee table; Cookbook passion and signature recipes; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
2009186 pages. Features: Angus Young goes off the rails; 50 rock licks you need to know; David Gilmour - new album & new guitars; Oasis; Six songs with bass lines; and more. Unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
198146 pages. Colour photos. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Marj Franklin's little people; Home is where you find it; Pert clown for under the tree - project; White Plains - haven of the renowned; Paris - a Day in the Country; Observer's View; Cover Story; Chenille Christmas Tree - Project; Dolls of All Ages; M.E.T.'s Children of the World; A Child's Toy Piano - Project; 'Meet Me At The Fair'; Creating in Canada; Trade Talk; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
201090 pages. Features: The Toyota acceleration problem; Bernice Packford - why she wants to kill herself; Harper's hard right turn; Why the Tories love Canada Post; What Naema Ahmed's expulsion from a French class really shows; Safe haven for an alleged killer - Bill Horace; Why Republicans are so often caught in gay sex scandals; At risk of insolvency, Greece takes on its underground economy; Canada's love of submarine sandwiches; How Canada has recovered so quickly from the recession (?); Save the planet - stop eating meat; An eminent historian argues for Christ's divinity; Raymond Anthony Vint - in Memoriam; and much more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1957Cover art by Franklin Arbuckle shows firemen preparing toys for Christmas. Features: Nice colour photo ad for Parker Pens featuring Bob Hope inside front cover; Black and white photo ad for the Polaroid Land Camera; Colour ad for the Custom Royal auto by Dodge; June Callwood's story of the Queen's Visit - with many photos; The Silly Splendid World of Stephen Bosustow - this Canadian-born film maker is winning Oscars and revolutionizing TV commercials - includes 6 pages of colour Mister Magoo cartoons; Lois Smith and David Adams and their Life Sentence with the Ballet - story with photos; The Hottest Treasure Hunter in History - Hans Torkel Frederik Lundberg found ore worth five billion dollars - story by Peter C. Newman with photos; Florencia Bay (Conclusion), by James McNamee; Why Red Ryan's Shadow still hangs over every prison yard - with 19 convictions this prison lifer turned altar boy, so they set him free - and he went on a gory binge... story with photos; How we nursed a farm back to health - Herbert and Viola Watson of Red Haven Farm in the Caledon Hills of Peel County - story includes lovely photo portrait of the farmers; Super colour photo 2-page ad for the 1958 Oldsmobile; 1-page colour photo ad for the 1958 Chrysler; William Stevenson recalls a champagne breakfast with doomed Indo-Chinese warlord Ba Cut; Colour centerfold ad for Sheaffer's Pens; Two-page colour illustrated ad for Carling's Red Cap Ale - "Snappa Cappa Red Cap"; Nice colour ad for 1958 DeSoto cars; Colour 2/3 page ad for Thistle (Lines Brosthers) steel toys - now highly sought collectibles; Black and white 1958 Studebaker-Packard auto ad; Colour photo back cover ad by the Watchmakers of Switzerland. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
1986Features: An Arctic Oasis - Canada's North Water is a little known island of open water in a sea of ice; Standing his Ground - How the muskox survives the rigours of an Arctic winter; Fire and Ice - A photo essay on frosted glass; Predators under the Gun - In wildlife management, some animals are more equal than others; Environmental Cop - The CNF talks with Environment Minister Tom McMillan about the challenges of his new portfolio. Usual library markings. Average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
1944Contents: Caterpillar Diesel ad - They pushed back the sea at Port Moresby; drawing of a very primitive snowmobile as part of an electric power company ad; Photo of JFK - he returned to Los Angeles for a leave after 11 months of fighting in the Pacific; Greatest battle of air weighs U.S. Bombers vs. Nazi industry - but Germans still produce - meanwhile Eisenhower begins speeding D Day preparations; Mustang, aviation's ugly duckling, becomes a top long-range fighter; The outlook in the Battle of Russia - by Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone; Bid for Burma; Nazis seem to plan Ukraine stand despite red encirclement tactics; Why our Italian campaign is so tough; Enveloping Rabaul; Reds keep Curzon Line the issue in rejecting Polish conference - Pravda story of British offer of separate German peace injects new note in Allied relations; Lucky Strike cigarettes - attractive color ad; chart showing FDR's 12 budgets - reflect massive spending increases of WW II; Riddles of contract termination hold key to postwar prosperity; Nice military Oldsmobile/GM ad; Hereford T.Royal Rupert sells for record $38,000; A harbinger of things to come - photo of 5 Mexicans, wearing native hats and panchos (!), brought to New Haven to shovel snow due to manpower shortage; Photos and article on Bronko Nagurski; Kinsey Whiskey - nice color ad; Leadership in Merchant Shipping presents U.S. with big problem - is subsidy war inevitable or can world powers co-operate to ease trade competition. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
1993Features: Like candles on the cake; Renee Wilson; Patricia Paul; Darryl Audette's Vignettes; Marie Antoinette - Royal Portrait; Architect Peter Westcott; An English Garden - Part I; Wood Folk Art Figures; The 1930s Bride; Gothic Romance; Summer Oasis - A Screen House; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
193324 pages. Contents: Venom of Snakes Lends Encouragement to Cure for Disease; How Socialism has Spread Over the Earth in One Century; Too Many Train Wrecks; Blight Hits Elms; Detroit Bank Probe; Admiral Byrd Going South again (with small photo); Split in the German Protestant Church; Lost Canadian Balloon crews found; Death of King Feisal el Husein of Iraq; Cuban Junta Quits with Grau San Martin Provisilnal President; Current Events - with photo of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; Marion Bergeron of West Haven, CT. crowned Miss America 1933; Photo of Norman Thomas, who has been Socialist candidate for President multiple times; Photo of Senator Bob LaFollette of Wisconsin; Capital Chat - with photo of Senators aboard capital monorail subway train; Photo of King Boris III of Bulgaria; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1977Features: San Andreas - An Oceanic Fault that came ashore; The Whale and the Wild JoJoba; The Marlins; Training against Ship Disaster; Antarctica - Rich around the edges; Porcelaneous Sculptors; The Hawaiian Spinner; Concrete Fish Haven. Sound copy. Book
1980Features: The Horseshoe Crab - Fisherman's Bane to Medicine's Benefactor; Beaked Whales; New buoys on the Horizon; The Ocean-Climate Connection; The Ospreys of Boca Grande; The Coral Atoll - An Oasis in the Desert; Menhaden - Fish on the run; Creatures of the Deep III. Sound copy. Book
1982Features: Heard Island - Seal's Haven, Sealer's Nightmare; Ships that Flew; Schooling Hammerheads; Argonaut - Octopus in a Parchment Shell; The Sea Butterfly; Where does the Gulf of Mexico end and the Atlantic Ocean Begin; Angels of the Reef. Sound copy. Book
1982Features: Carmel Bay - Marine oasis in the cold Pacific; Leatherjackets - savory stingers; nations unite to fight pollution; Protecting the Caribbean; Oama summer; Cocos Island - Verdant treasure; Miniature marine foulers; Man-made Island - solution to economic and environmental woes. Sound copy. Book
199398 pages. Features: ATF tries to hide Waco investigation files; Why we lost in 'nam - by David Hackworth; Angola hiring Mercs; Prophet cult; U.S. Military to Draft Women?; H&K's Universal Self-loading pistol; Afghanistan now terrorist haven. Average wear. Solid unmarked copy. Book
193396 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Fold out map inside back cover entitled "South Haven Peninsula - Studland Heath, To Illustrate the Paper by C. Driver". Features: The Blosseville Coast of East Greenland, by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen; The Physiography of South Haven Peninsula, Studland Heath, Dorset; Observations on Certain Antarctic Icebergs, by J.M. Wordie and Stanley Kemp - photo plates of icebergs with different colours; Frederik Hendrik Island; The New Road Map of Great Britain; The Mount Everest Expedition; Photographic Surveys - Review. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1952Features: The Chief's Daughter - dark deeds in Africa; The Mystery Man - an unusual man who served in the Merchant Navy on the Western Ocean; Three Christmas Days - reprint of a 1905 story dealing with a series of coincidences in Australia; Big Game Farming on the border of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Trouble - a man gets in trouble because of his (dead) double; Australia's 'Prison Trees'; My Crocodile; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the Canadian Arctic; Desert El Dorado - Tennant's Creek, Australia and its early history; Our Trip to Robber's Roost - a roadless wilderness in Nebraska which provided haven for many outlaws in earlier years; The Wailing Waterhole - a tale from Australia's Outback; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. Covers attached. Book
1945Stories: Murder on the Border; The Laplanders of Norway; Hummingbird Haven; Murmansk Convoy; Hunting the Cattle Rustlers; Happy; Entombed Beneath the Sea; The Skull Tobacco Box; Sharks on the War Front; Koch of the Corio; Lobengula's Treasure; Jurisprudence; Crocodiles Kill in Africa; Goanna Hunting. Average wear. Book
1947Stories: Valley of Headless Men; Typhoon Warning; How Pond Creek Fought the Railroad; A Memorable Lion Hunt; Find the Woman!; The House at Luzolo; S-A-L-T!; The Python; Arab Dhows; The Lost Oasis; Hunter's Luck; Australian Diviners. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
