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grand in-8°, 171 pages, broche, couv. Bel exemplaire. [VU-1]
in-8°, 226 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, cartes, broche, couverture illustree Bel exemplaire. [OM-1]
in-8°, 284 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, 1 carte, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire. [OM-1] En 1898, au milieu d’une orgie de massacres et de destructions, deux officiers de l’armée française en marche vers le Tchad se prennent soudain pour des rois…
in-8, 206 pp., broche, couv., jaquette illustree en couleurs.- E.O. Excellent etat (non coupe). [NV-38]
in-12, 331 pp., 20 planches en noir, 28 planches en couleurs, index, cartonnage editeur avec jaquette illustree plastifiee. Tres bel exemplaire. [CA-13] Plus de 500 espèces illustrées et décrites, avec tous les renseignements sur leur identification, caractère, dimensions, habitations, nids et oeufs.
in-12°, 183 pages, illustrations, broché. Bel exemplaire. [FP-1] Préface de A. DE PREMOREL.
in-12, 331 pp., 20 planches en noir, 28 planches en couleurs, index, cartonnage editeur avec jaquette illustree plastifiee. Tres bel exemplaire. [CA-13] Plus de 500 espèces illustrées et décrites, avec tous les renseignements sur leur identification, caractère, dimensions, habitations, nids et oeufs.
in-12, 331 pp., 20 planches en noir, 28 planches en couleurs, index, cartonnage editeur avec jaquette illustree plastifiee. Bon etat [SC-2] Plus de 500 espèces illustrées et décrites, avec tous les renseignements sur leur identification, caractère, dimensions, habitations, nids et oeufs.
in-8°, 230 pages, illustrations couleurs, broché. Bon état. [MA-2] Des hauts plateaux Moïs aux savanes du Tchad.
1986Features: Special issue - felt and paper; Michele Tuegel's paper works; Chad Alice Hagen's Felt Works; Felt & Paper - a portfolio; Fiber revolution. Light wear. Book
1983Contents: Commodore 64 computer ad inside front cover; Legacy of massacre at Sabra and Shatila camps; Can we Afford Public Enterprise, by Dian Cohen; Trudeau delivers ultimatum - greedy wage and salary demands not to be tolerated; Rene Levesque in Paris with Mitterand; Ottawa and Alberta sign energy pact; Western Canada Concept (WCC) in tatters - leader Gordon Kesler sent packing; Italy's search for stability; Poland - dealing with the Vatican; Debategate; Arafat wins a respite; War in Chad; Expos and Blue Jays in first place - feature article; Minor league baseball in Canada; Leo Rautins goes to the NBA; TD Bank ventures toward discount brokerage; Belzberg's First City Trust takes over Pocklington's Fidelity Trust Co.; Simpson's Sears fined $1 million over diamond promotion; Japan in the 21st century, by Peter C. Newman; Growing Canadian AIDS alarm; Legal Heroin in Holland?; Pain of the Triathalon; Women inch toward equality in the workplace; Phil Edmonston and the squeeze on lemon cars; Proposals for dealing with illegals in Canada; Newfoundland's Wonderful Grand Band offers a raunchy combination of satire, slapstick and rock; The annual Stampede Art Auction in Calgary; Alden Nowlan - obituary. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1987Features: Pat and Noel Thomas; Gay Brown's Never Ending Collection; Chad Smith - All Things Nautical; Ann Barrett collects Seasheels (among other things!); The Atlanta Museum Auction; Don McGinnis - Sign Maker; Claire Young's American Main Street of Yesterday; Raffle Preview; Joann's Miniature Stamp; Lighting made Easy; Building with Bob - Clifton House, Part III; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
196666 pages. Loaded with reproductions of great black and white photos. This issue features: The Beatles; Denis Payton; The Dave Clark 5; Hayley Mills; The Lovin' Spoonful; Bob Lind; Burt Ward; "Robin"; Paul McCartney; Sally Field; Chad & Jeremy; Ringo & John (2-page colour illustration); Paul & Barry Ryan; David McCallum; Keith Allison (color pin-up); Rolling Stones; George Harrison; Dino, Desi & Billy; Chris Jones; Lou Christie; Herman; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Faint date stamp on front cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
1923Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in ports of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman, Matthew Armstrong, Nanaimo, British Columbia The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exporting in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in parts of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman Matthew Armstrong's terrible ordeal in the woods near Nanaimo, British Columbia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1974No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slightly dusty rear, tiny nick to upper rear edge and rubbing to front. 220pp. The author tells the amazing story of the search for the River Niger. Its source was well known, so did it simply evaporate in the Sahara ? He explains how the mystery was solved and the river shown to flow first north-east, then east and finally south-east to the Bight of Biafra.
1958ref. 7587New York: Pocket Books Inc 1958. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned and rubbed. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean toned pages clean otherwise. One of Oliver's anthropological science fiction novels this about a man's discovery of a 15000-year-dormant species of men. Pocket Books, Inc paperback books
1957ref. 7604Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1957. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket rubbed and chipped at the edges. Red boards rubbed at the head and foot of the spine black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound clean internally. One of Oliver's anthropological science fiction novels this about a man's discovery of a 15000-year-dormant species of men. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
ref. 7605London: Hutchinson & Co. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket unclipped 7/6 net generally rubbed and with multiple chips closed tears creases and scuffs. Grey boards a dent matching the one on the jacket with black ink lettering on the spine. Bound with a slight forward lean and some reading wear foxed at the edges. Oliver's time-travelling novel that sees a man back in 50000 BC fighting for survival on the plains of the Ice Age. Hutchinson & Co hardcover books
1979ref. 45247Boston: Gregg Press 1979. Near fine in near fine jacket. Scarce Gregg Press reprint edition of Symmes Chadwick Oliver's first novel. MISTS OF DAWN was originally published in 1952 as part of the Winston Juvenile Series of science fiction novels for young adults brought back into print by editors David G. Hartwell and L.W. Currey. All books in the series featured an authorial introduction discussing the scientific foundations of the story to follow; in MISTS OF DAWN a time-travel adventure Oliver provides a brief essay on "The Science of Man" with such subheadings as "How to travel in time" and "What is Anthropology" He regrets to inform the reader that there are no dinosaurs in this book. A beautiful copy of this uncommon edition. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with silver-lettered spine. In original pictorial dust jacket by Mike Symes. 208 pages. Light foxing and wear to top edge of text block and upper edge of jacket flaps. Gregg Press unknown books
ref. WELLER9780316455695New. New book. unknown books
2005ref. UORTJOS00acmfDeseret Book 2005. Fine. Orton Chad M. Joseph Smith's America. Slaughter William W. SLC: Deseret Book 2005. 234pp. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with bumped chipped and rubbed edges. Signed by both Orton and Slaughter on title page. Deseret Book hardcover books
2000ref. 163306N.p.: N.p. 2000. Fifth Revised Shooting Draft script and two xerographically duplicated production documents for Season 1 Episode 7 of the 2000 television series here under the working title "The Bees". Originally aired in the summer of 2000 on USA Network. A police procedural in which a cop moves from Los Angeles to an eccentric town in Arizona after the mysterious death of his wife. In this episode a mysterious swarm of bees seem to be linked to nearby Area 61. Set in Manhattan Arizona. Goldenrod titled self-wrappers noted as SHOOTING DRAFT on the front wrapper dated July 12 2000 with credits for screenwriters Michael Lisbe and Nate Reger. Title page integral with front self wrapper. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Xerographic duplication rectos only with green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/5/00 and 7/12/00. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Production documents Near Fine. One with manuscript ink annotations. N.p. unknown books
2000ref. 163289N.p.: N.p. 2000. Final Draft script for Season 1 Episode 5 of the 2000 television series. Originally aired August 20 2000 on USA Network. In this one season procedural a cop moves from Los Angeles to an eccentric town in Arizona after the mysterious death of his wife. In this episode cows are shot during a cattle drive and the sheriff investigates leading to him discovering drug smugglers. Set in Manhattan Arizona. White titled self-wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated June 3 2000 with credits for screenwriters Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. Title page integral with front wrapper. 30 leaves with last page of text numbered 30. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2000ref. 163294N.p.: N.p. 2000. Writer's First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 2000 television series. In this one season procedural a cop moves from Los Angeles to an eccentric town in Arizona after the mysterious death of his wife. In this episode a man's wife goes missing and he suspects she has been having an affair. Set in Manhattan Arizona. White titled self-wrappers noted as Writer's First Draft on the front wrapper dated June 26 2000 with credits for screenwriter Lorraine Vos. Title page integral with front wrapper. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with damp staining to the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2000ref. 163304N.p.: N.p. 2000. Seventh Revised Shooting Draft script for Season 1 Episode 10 of the 2000 television series. Originally aired in the summer of 2000 on USA Network. In this one season procedural a cop moves from Los Angeles to an eccentric town in Arizona after the mysterious death of his wife. In this episode the Mayor sells the local zoo to a woman who wants to turn it into a hunting range. Set in Manhattan Arizona. Pink titled self-wrappers noted as SHOOTING DRAFT on the front wrapper dated July 25 2000 with credits for screenwriters Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. Title page integral with front wrapper. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 31. Xerographic duplication rectos only with cherry and buff colored revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/14/00 and 7/25/00. Pages Near wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
