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in-8, 239 p.,abdt ill. h.t. coul., 22 cartes et de Couv. lég. us. [GE-2]
in-12, 127 pp., broche, couv. a rabats. Tres bel exemplaire [AZ-9] Sous-titré : Autres menus souvenirs, faits divers et récits, dans la note, la tradition et la fantaisie de ceux qui les ont précédés.
in-16, broché. Bon état. [LP-6]
in-12, 138 pp. + biographie illustrée, broché, couv. Excellent état. [FEN]
in-8, broché, cartonnage souple illustré.- Très bel exemplaire. [BL-10]
1945Gennuso, Giuseppe La questione siciliana. Roma, O.E.T. edizioni del secolo 1945, 93 p. ; 20 cm. Buono (Good) fioriture , pagine brunite ma perfettamente leggibili.
in 8° (27 c 21 cm); 28 pagine (non numerate); brossura (punto metallico); 13 illustrazioni e tavole in nero e 3 tavole a colori; un abrasione a una delle tavole in nero, per il resto ottimo; (C4L); edito in occasione della nuova illuminazione interna
1984Lima, Antonietta Iolanda (Guidoni, Enrico: Introduzione di - D'Acquisto, Lorenzo: viaggi sul campo - Barraco, Mariella: ricerche bibliografiche archivistiche e lettura delle cartografie I.G.M. - Orlando, Silvia e Mele, Manlio: rilievi del calvario di Altofonte e alcune verifiche bibliografiche su santuari e calvari - Barraco, Mariella e D'Acquisto, Lorenzo: disegni) La dimensione sacrale del paesaggio: ambiente e architettura popolare di Sicilia. Palermo, S. F. Flaccovio, Editore - Graphicadue s.r.l. (Fotocomposizione, fotolitografie e stampa) 1984 italian, in quarto pp. VIII+390+(2)=400 I ed. del volume strenna Omaggio del Banco di Sicilia: ottobre 1984. IV/VIII+390+(2)=400/cart./sovraccoperta in carta ruvida avorio con titoli in nero e illustrazione a colori ai piatti (primo piatto: Pianta della Strada e Piano ove si celebra la Fiera di S. Gregorio Patrono di Vizzini. Marzo 1832)/sovraccoperta in acetato trasparente. Fogli di guardia illustrati in bianco e toni del marrone. Con carte in nero e in nero e più colori f.t., anche ripiegate e illustrazioni in b/n e a colori nel testo e f.t.. Rilievi del calvario di Altofonte: Silvia Orlando e manlio Mele. Disegni: Mariella Barraco e Lorenzo D'Acquist. Art Director: Ermanno Gagliardo. Allegata scheda editoriale. Stato buono (sovraccoperta in acetato leggermente brunita e polverosa - dedica a penna blu in antiporta, pagina nn stampata - scheda editoriale leggermente abrasa sulla faccia posteriore, stampata).
19572 vol. in.8, pp. 204; 187, 16; broch. edit., titolo in rosso al piatto ant. Perfetto esemplare, come nuovo, a fogli chiusi.. .
1977299 pages including index and black and white photo section. Front endpapers missing. Binding open at last page of index. An amazing account that leads from the New York waterfront to the invasion of Sicily. Cuts through decades of half-truth, rumor, gossip, and innuendo to reveal for the first time an authoritative account of what actually happened. Based on powerful documentation - the actual transcripts of secret official investigations. Top of dust jacket at back cover is wrinkled and soiled. Book
1968Features include: Orchid collecting in Vietnam; Growing Cool Odontoglossums in the Sacramento Valley; Effect of Growth-regulating substances on the size of flower and bloom date of cymbidium sicily 'grandee'; Orchid genera, illustrated - VI; What's an extinguisher? - a new term for your glossary; Lips tell an interesting story in cymbidiums - a Gripp on growing; Dendrobium musciferum? - collector's item; a new species of maxillaria; life with seedlings - growing orchids indoors; aspasia hybrid genera - man-made genera; orchid collecting in the souther Shan states, Burma; Thunia marshalliana in Hawaii; A flasking tool for orchid seeds. Magazine
1977Features: Was Vought's F8U-3 Crusader III Crucified by an Unworkable Fighter/Bomber Concept?; Climbing the Alps to Germany - the Lockheed P-38 over Africa, Sicily and Italy; Frances WW I Breguet Bomber Brigade. Art: Vought F8U-3 Crusader III; Crusader IIIs in flight; Lockheed P-38J-5 with F-5B Magazine
1950Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine
199456 pages. Features: Assoro - Canadians battle in Sicily, 1943; A new look at the Conscription Crisis; Kurt Meyer - from Normandy to Dorchester Prison; Motor Torpedo Boats to the rescue, 1942; D-Day plus 50 years - the lost poetry of war rediscovered; 'Professor' Pyke's Secret Weapon - putting the sea war 'on ice'. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
1979"Though primarily dedicated to potters, this book will be of great interest to students and teachers in all craft areas and especially to other admirers of Indians." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Binding sound. A worthy working copy. Book
195392 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for the 1953 Ford Customline Fordor Sedan; Magnificent full-page photo ad for Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division features Montreal's Miron & Freres Ltd. using an HD-20G, the world's largest tractor shovel with a 4-yard bucket; Very colourful full-page ad for BA service stations; Great colour photo full-page ad for the General Electric Twin-System refrigerator; The fight over Vitamin E - a bonus length feature on how Dr. Evan Shute and Dr. Wilfred Shute claim to be using Vitamin E to improve major health problems of their patients - with photos; Response to the Vitamin E article by the Canadian Medical Association; The corpse that hoaxed the Axis - Part One of the amazing story of how "Major Bill Martin" was part of a British Secret Service plot to mislead the Nazis into thinking the Allies would invade Sardinia, not Sicily; Anna had to be a clown - Claudia Anna Russell-Brown is a funny lady! - with large photo; The Duke of Edinburgh - the man behind the Queen - part 7 and final instalment of series "The Family in the Palace"; Can the West Stand Peace? - will Malenkov's peace offensive increase the danger of a slump and turn it into a propaganda victory for the Communists?; Louis Hemon - Vagabond Genius - article with photos; The Strange Death of Daddy Daniels (fiction); Henry Morgan and Company Limited, of Montreal, are the holdest and most courtly department store keepersin Canada - article with great photos; Never tell a woman anything (humour); The fastest man on four legs - Horse Jockey Johnny Longden - article with photos; Colour ad for the Chevrolet Bel Air 4-Door Sedan; Nice vintage colur ad for Cycla-matic Frigidaire refrigerators; Nice full-page two-colour ad for 1953 GMC trucks; Electrohome television and radio ad; Excellent colour photo Caterpillar ad inside back cover shows 1953 scraper in action plus a rare 1923 photo of a tractor pulling a scraper which is loading a horse-drawn wagon with earth; Great Coke ad on back cover shows smiling woman at gas station; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
197750 pages. Features: Nice ad for Smokey Robinson's 'Big Time' album inside front cover; Great one-page ad for 'Valentino'; Full-page ad for 'Equus'; Part one of a two part examination of the film industry's involvement and responsibilities in the events which paved the way for Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-communist pursuits; 'MacArthur' - photos; Photo-illustrated Interview with Robert Wise; Interview with author Frank De Felitta; 'Julia' - photos; 'Taboo' - photos; !977 Film Festival in Taormina, Sicily; Festival '77 - Locarno; Reviews - 'Valentino', 'Silver Bears', 'Annie Hall', 'Bim', 'The Brute', 'Demon Seed', 'Crime Busters'; 'Demon Seed' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
2005182 pages. Features: Honor Roll of visionary architects and interior designers; The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland update England's storied Alnwick Castle; A 1960s hillside home in Bel-Air is reconfigured - foot for 007; Splendor in Manhattan - a dramatic setting for antiques and art high above New York's Ritz-Carleton; An informal family retreat in the Hamptons; View home in San Francisco; Carving a modern home from old on an island near Sicily; New York penthouse by Mojo; Couple's new home in Washington by Robert S. Brown and Todd Davis; Special Motoring Section - automobiles are changing with the times, ahead of the curve at Renault, celebrating 40 years of the Porsche 911, Daryl Hannah's El Camino runs on biodiesel - an ethanol-thinned vegetable oil. Light wear. Unmarked. A nice copy. Magazine
1986333 pages. Black and white illustrations. Signed and inscribed by author atop title page. "Takes the reader on the journey from the author's childhood in China and British Columbia through his military education, his brilliant and long career in the Army and on into civilian life... Provides many entertaining anecdotes and insights to the men and women around him, and finally he reflects on Canada's military state, its past, and its future." - from dust jacket. Map endpapers. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Spine leaning to right. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Book
1918Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sledge Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson as described by Capt. Madigan - major article with fascinating photos; My Adventures in the World War, Part 3 of E. Ashmead-Bartlett's adventures as a war correspondent; In the Land of the Lapps - Part 3 - photo-illustrated description of the life and customs of these fascinating and little-known people; The Gum Lands of New Zealand - photo-illustrated article on the Kauri gum industry of New Zealand; How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France - important information about the Chinese Labour Corps which assisted British armies in non-combatant duties at the Front were recruited in China and transported from their distant homes in the Far East across the seas to France, travelling via Canada; Marooned in the Arctic - E.H.L. Mitchell went to Alaska on a mining venture but was shipwrecked and marooned on a barren island for eight weeks; The Water-Gardeners of Amiens, France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Lost in the Mine - the lamp of a boy working in a Welsh coillery went out and he lost his way - and nearly his life; Photo of the four-hundred and fifty Temples of the Law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
2013104 pages. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Features: Canada's Unexpected 1943 Victory in Sicily; Allied Military Government in Sicily, 1943; Sicily in Photos and Art - from the Collection of the Canadian War Museum; A Retrospective from Sicily's Battlefields - the 2012 Canadian-American Battlefield Study Tour; Husky's Price - A Window on 21 Lives Lost in Sicily; "The Historical Triumph in Sicily" - The Artistic Legacy of William Ogilvie; Historical Traces of Operation Husky; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop page 1. A sound copy. Magazine
194312 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada September, 1943. Contents: Sicily Battle Diary - article with map; Hoping This Finds You - The Soldier and his Mail; Index to issue Nos. 27-52 of this publication. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1969xxiv, 559, [65] pages. Eight fold-out maps. Black and white photographic plates. "Almost sixty years have passed since the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada was authorized as a regiment in the Canadian Militia. This volume covers the story of the regiment from the time it returned home in 1919 up to the present day." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A superb copy. Edwards & Lort 3060. Hale 2487. Cuddy & Scott page 77, Cooke (2nd Edn) page 185. Book
1994Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. 331 pages. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. Author presents WWII stories of Hong Kong, Sicily, Italy and Northwest Europe related by her father, two uncles, and cousins. "The resulting manuscript tells a story which began on the plains of the Canadian West and went out to the battlefields of WWII." - from dust jacket. Spine leaning. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
199272 pages. Several pages of black and white reproductions of photos, archival and recent. Features: 'The Victoria Cross', by Edgar L. Boyd; Dave Barbour's WWI War Diary; The Battle of 'Captain Ridge', by Ernie White; 'The Great Moustache Caper' by W.D. Smith; 'A Ramble Through Sicily' by Charlie Swan; Part of War Diary by Captain Les Herman; 'My Father's Speech' by Peggy McEwen; 'Recollections of Portslade' by Ralph C.B. Paulsen; 'Eastburne - 1942' by Shierlaw Burry; Several pages of Association news; Nine-page list of members, complete with their mailing addresses; Three-page list of members who have passed since the last issue. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this informative item. Book
