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1891195p. Inked ownership of Margaret J. Judball. Top edge gold. Marbled endpapers. 12mo. Three-quarters red leather over marble boards. Spine lettered in gold with raised bands. Front hinge beginning to crack but not fragile. Hardbound. Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902), a Philadelphia novelist, journalist, and short story writer. His first fame came from 'Rudder Grange' (1879). A whimsical story of a newlywed couple living aboard a canal boat with a young servant, Pomona. The humorous novel is replete with absurdities typical of Stockton's humor, and its success brought him literary fame and occasions two sequels: 'The Rudder Grangers Abroad' (1891) and 'Pomona's Travels' (1894). First Edition. Nice copy. TRAVEL/1
1832Two Volumes bound in one: pp. 464; 276. Early inked ownership of N. K. Randall on title page. Damp stained. Age stained. Top edge of first few signatures chewed, without text loss. 225mm. Original full leather binding, very worn. Howes F200; Thomson 423; AI / SS 12424. "The text of the second volume had not appeared previously." - Graff 1356. Includes much useful and early infomation on Texas and Oregon. AMER BX 10
1923190p. + Frontis. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Small 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Portrait photographs on front cover paper label. Hardbound. Very Good. PA 49
1832252 p. Dampstain. Foxed. XLib bookplate of Juniata College. Blind stamp on title page. 24mo. 135 mm. Rebound in library cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. NY State Library printed on tail of spine. Hardbound. Good. Pierre Viaud was the author of a book 'Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud, natif de Bordeaux, capitaine de navire' (Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud), first published in French in 1768 and in English in 1771. It tells the story of the shipwreck on 16 February 1766 of Le Tigre, a French merchant brigantine on which Viaud was a passenger. The ship was wrecked in a great storm, en route to New Orleans 300 yards east of Dog Island (on the Gulf Coast of Florida). This translation by Mrs. Griffith. Previously attributed to Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle, the editor of the French edition. The account was an international best-seller. This little Lewistown, PA edition is VERY SCARCE. S&S/AI 16907. PAIMP 21
in-8°, 277 pages, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [AZ-3]
1977Features: The Culture of Australian Terrestrial Orchids - II; The Reproductive Biology of the Epiphytic Orchids of Florida 6. Polystachya flavenscens (Lindley) J.J. Smith; Orchid Genera, Illustrated - 59 - Aerangis; On Growing species; Notes on Heat Conservation; Catasetum thylaciochilum - Collector's Item; Epidendrum endresii; The Reed-Stem Epidendrums; Orchid Paperweights of the Glass Artist Paul Stankard; Gordon Winston Dillon; Orchids of New England; Vanilla dilloniana Correll; Growing Temperate Cypripediums in a Conatiner; Gordon W. Dillon - The Art of Illustrating Orchids. Cover creases open for two inches else some rubbing and light wear overall. Book
1929Features: A motoris may be asleep even if his eyes are open; Editorials: save Old Ironsides, Humanizing science, Television's future, Submarine safety; Skilled workmanship on organs for church, theater and home; Architects as room designers; The strangest thing in physics; Firsts in aviation; Towers of Hudson River bridge are rising rapidly; The highest known velocity; Prospecting with artificial earthquakes; the month in medical science - punch drunk, u.v. rays, compressed air pranks, posture, yellow fever, rider's legs, tar poison, childhood teeth, food colors; The search for the first American; Education adopts the motion picture; Pointers from a pen maker; Death Valley; Egyptian vandalism 3400 years ago; Aerodynamic wind mills; Television advances; Protecting paintings for posterity; Roman engineering triumphs; Light airplaine design contest; Wasteful cotton baling methods; Early Indians in Florida.Major damage to front cover along spine. Half of spine missing. Back cover features colour Camel cigarette advertisement with the caption "Now it's unanimous. I'd walk a mile for a Camel... So would I" Two-colour "Dodge Brothers Trucks" advertisement inside front cover. Inside back cover is a very attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement with a few small spots of soiling. Ad shows a strapping young man fabricating auto parts. Well-worn. Magazine
1982Features: Ferns in southern Florida; Osmunda regalis L.; Out to see ferns; and more. Cup rings upon front cover. Book
1972212 pages. Two unique places - Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy and Sanibel on the west coast of Florida. Prior owner's name on front flyleaf. Average wear. Includes black and white photos. Book
1980224 pages including index and many lovely black and white archival photographs. A celebration of the contemporary abundance of American seafood in all its myriad forms. From the sail-finned Arctic char - once declared the most delicious fish in the world by France's prestigious Cordon Bleu society - to the snook and snappers of the Florida keys. Describes over 100 varieties of fin- and shellfish. Book in excellent condition with gift greetings upon half-title page, else unmarked. Very light wear. Dust jacket shows average wear with several tears. Book
198076 pages. Features include: The excitement of shaping a gem; Detector penetration; Treasure on Sioux Lookout; Is your find marketable?; The naked eye - your built-in coin detector; Gems and fossils in Florida sand beaches; Rubies in North Carolina; Youth camp treasure sites; Largo Canyon treasures; the Panamint Valley; Collecting Ships Bottles; Panning. Above-average wear. Book
198076 pages. Features include: Blewitt Pass; The ABC's of Coinshooting; Diamond Oddities; A Bottle Digger's Winter; Outlaws, Cattle Rustlers, or what?; How to Facet; Civil War sites along the North Carolina coast; Maine; San Saba County Indian relics; Venice, Florida - Graveyard for Sharks. Average wear. Book
199344 pages. Features include: 50 years in an icy tomb - P-38; Air Force buys Airbus; Last Launch - Tracker departs from the Bonaventure; A British Yank in the RCAF; You shouldn't have joined if you can't take a joke; Drug-net - cocaine bust; Air Force engineers and Florida; Flight plan snafu; Dieppe 50 years after. Light wear. Address label upon back cover. Nice clean copy. Book
1937Features include: The lumber industry in Canada; Life Insurance in Canada; The State of Florida. Nostalgic advertisements. Excellent black and white photography. Musty. Book
2000232 pages. "From Keenan's earliest coaching days in junior hockey to his disastrous time with the Vancouver Canucks to his recent attempts to return to the NHL, Keenan takes an honest inside look at the most controversial coach in hockey history." - from dust jacket. Dust jacket in Brodart cover. Clean, bright and unmarked. Negligible wear. Beautiful copy. Nice gift for your favorite hockey fan. Book
1986Includes the February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December issues. Topics include: Beginner's Snorkeling Guide - Part 1; Florida Wrecks; How to be a Commercial Diver; Buying a Buoyancy Compensator; Island Hopping in the Bahamas; Kingston's Brand New Shipwreck; Beginner's Guide to Snorkeling - Part 2; Fashion Wetsuits; Ghost Fleet - North Carolina; Monterey's Breakwater; Puget Sound Piling Dive; St. Lucia Retreat; Expo '86; China Rockfish; Exploring the Emerald Sea; King of the Mountain - the Cayman Islands; Inland Diving - Northwest Waters; Moray Eel; Diving Doctor; The Diamon Knot; Red Sea Mecca; Underwater Hockey; California Shipwrecks; the C-O Sole; Corsair; Florida Keys; Personality Profile - Peter Hughes; the Blue-Clawed Lithode Crab; Exploring West Coast Waters - Inside Passages of BC; Tobermory, Ontario. Light wear. Quality copies. Book
19919 issues from 1991 including the following months: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Topics featured include: Cayman Islands; Port Hardy, B.C. Dolphins; Wreck of the A.W. Perry - Nova Scotia; Kingston and Killarney Shipwrecks; The Elusive Wrymouth; Barkley Sound, God's Pocket, Campbell River; Caribbean ABCs; Blackfish Sound; Wreck of the Emperor; Tropical Fish - in the Maritimes?; Indonesia - Exotic Diving; Yap, Saba, Catalina Island; Sunshine Coast, B.C.; Wreck of the Cornwall; Gulf Stream - Bahamas and Florida; Gargantua Harbour Wreck- Lake Superior; East Coast Anemone; Kona, Palau, CoCo View; Sidney, B.C.; St. Lawrence; Moon Jelly; Six Gill Sharks; Diving naturalist - temperate vs. tropical; B.C's Race Rocks; Diving with the RCMP - Search and Rescue; The US Virgin Islands; Sinking the G.B Church - New Canadian Artificial Reef; The Sea Cucumber; Construction Diving; Emeral Bay - wreck dive in Alberta; Panama; Thunder Bay; The Solomon Islands - WWII remnants; Diamond Knot - West Coast Wreck; Indonesia; Beluga Encounter off Cape Breton; Nudibranchs. Moderate wear. Sound copies. Book
1993Includes the following 8 issues from 1993: February, March, April, May, June, August, November, December. Includes the following features: Hakai Passage; Giant Nudibranch; Roatan and Utila; Bay Islands 'Aggressor'; Wreck of the Bohemian; Cayman Brac; Joy of Snorkelling; St. Lawrence Belugas; Tahiti - the rangiroa Atoll; Hawaiian Humpbacks; Tobermory in the Summer; Grand Cayman Island; Nakwakto Rapids; Norway Wrecks; Deep Divers; Pacific Octopus; Barkley Sound's Ten Best; Artificial Reefs in Ontario; Belize Holiday; Cuba; Saba; Isleworth; Black Sea Visit; Sidney, B.C.; San Juan Islands; Photobiology; Battle of the 'Atlantic'; Costa Rica; Macrophotography - getting up close; Neah Bay, Washington; Discovery Passage, B.C.; Bonaire; Aruba and Curacao; 'Touch the Sea'; Cozumel; Pirate's Treasure in Cayman; Inflatables; Nudibranchs; New York Cops; Queen Charlotte Islands; Similan Islands, Thailand; Philippines - Balicasag; Hypothermia; Marine Parks; Halifax Harbour; Ceolacanth cycles; Jurassic Seas; Talking Underwater; Palau, Vanuatu, Best of the Great Barrier; Sambro Island, Nova Scotia; Palm Beach, Florida; Mystery Wreck in Georgian Bay; Sumbarines Ahoy!; Clayoquot Sound, Hotsprings Cove; 'Shoal Searcher'; Bahamas. Clean with moderate wear. Quality copies. Book
1995Includes the following 9 isues from 1995: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Tale of a converted warm-water diver; Florida Keys; Pioneering in Papua New Guinea; Shooting Large Fast-Moving Targets; Wolfeels at Hunt Rock; Cook Islands; Old B.C. Cannery Sites; Cozumel; How to Get Published; Vanuatu; Dolphins in Bahamas; Fearney Bluffs, B.C.; Liveaboards in Australia; Octopus Characteristics; Flowerpot Diving - Fathom 5 Marine Park; The Chaudiere; 20 years- a retrospective; Back in the 50s; Cayman-Canadian eh?; Aquashot II; Hannes Keller - early adventures; Crabby Critters; Mo Bay, Jamaica; Waome; Sulawesi; Manado; Wolf - eels or fish?; Martinique and Guadaloupe; Browning Wall; Nautilus VII; Tubeworms; Fiordland New Zealand; Cinematographer Howard Hall; Deadman's Island; Aruba; Bonaire; Howe Sound, B.C; Sidney, B.C.; Nouvelle-Caledonie; Canadian encounters 'Whitey'; Guanaja's Posada del Sol; Quadra Island, B.C.; 1st Time in Tobermory; Active Pass, B.C.; Sinking the Mackenzie; The Magdalen Islands, Maui and Lanai; Barkley Sound; Wreck of the Burlington; Cortes Island, B.C.; The Wrecks of Kingston, Ontario; The Beluga of Chedabucto Bay. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
1996Includes the following issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Bell Island, Newfoundland; Bahamas; Transpac Expedition; To House or not to House; Filming a Salmon's Struggle; Manola - half a shipwreck; Blissful Beqa Lagoon; St. Kitts; Shipwrecks of Bermuda; Batchawana - in Lake Superior; Octopus at Argonaut Warf; Arrow - Nova Scotia Shipwreck; Catalina; Emergency ascent Lines; Wilcox - Lake Erie Schooner; Adventure Diving in Newfoundland; Ice Diving and Asbestos; Joyland - the honeymoon wreck; Canadian Cayman Islands; Cozumel; A Tribute to Brooks Wetsuits; Reel Diving; Wrecked in Nova Scotia; Socorro; Ghost Fleet of the St. Clair River; Good Samaritan Laws; Sea Urchins of the Bay of Chaleur; Label Your Tanks; Quebec Overview; Barbados - shipwreck haven; Haida Gwai; Tobermory's shipwrecks; Hard water diving - Banff; Romancing the Providenciales; Island Namesake - Jane McLeod; Lumpfish; Thailand; State of the Oceans; The Coral Reef; Project Aware; Preserving the Marine Environment; They are Eating the Ocean; Race Rocks, B.C.; Record-Breaking Cave Dive; Dive in an Aquarium; Florida Reefs; Columbia Sinking; Great Lakes - Narrow Island's B.B. Buckhout; Mexico Cave Adventure; Nitrox to the Arctic; Photography 101. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
1902Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5". Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
1998Unpaginated. Includes auction results sheet. Excellent photography throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Book
1980Features: Tsunami!; Amphipods - Little-Known Crustaceans; The Valuable Alaskan Herring; Seafloor Signals; the Trumpetfish - the advantages of Being Thin; Enewetak Atoll - restoring the environment; Upstaging the Film Stars - tiger shark; The Florida Out-Islands and their unique animals; Ascension. Sound copy. Book
1985Features: Florida artificial reefs - alive and growing; Upside-down jellyfish; Mystery muds of Great Bahamas Bank; Pugnacious bicolor demoiselle; Out on a limb - white-tern style; Lights of the Port of New York - part II; Marine Hatcheries - a myth that survived and thrived; Crossroads of the ancient world - Israel's archaeological heritage. Sound copy. Book
1961Features: McCahill tests the 'hot' new Rolls-Royce V8 and the Mercury; Build a 23-foot cabin cruiser for only $800 (Hotei); World's toughest military training - Navy Frogmen; home movie-taking made easy; our army needs new weapons - now!; Grow muscles in your backyard; 1924 Hispano-Suiza Racer; Six-ton rubber boat - Amphitrite; America's first hydrofoil ferry - the Flying Fish connects Bellingham, WA with Victoria BC; Eugene Durrance and his Florida Sea Brine Laboratory sell sea water!; Sailing on sand; Fire Buff's unique collection - James Dodge; An early Black and Decker cordless drill; clockwork marvels; Infra-red Burglar Alarm; Aluminum Pistol; "Space Camera" Eyeglasses; Transtainer; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. (colour ad on back cover shows glamourous tennis players smoking Winston cigarettes) Book