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1956réf. 95056Detroit: Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company but copyrighted by Charles C. Diggs Jr. 1956. Very Good. Black and white portrait and description on each month with some red printing. Wall calendar. 49 x 34 cm. Horizontal crease across center. Minor chipping around edges. OCLC locates 1 copy University of Kansas. We know nothing about Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company and wonder if it was a mutual burial operation rather than an insurance company selling life or other types of insurance home auto etc. since Diggs and his father were in the funeral home business in addition to their political activities. This calendar has a fact relating to African American history for every day of the year and also has some little known "fact" heading each monthly page. Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company (but copyrighted by Charles C. Diggs, Jr.) unknown
1956réf. 95056Detroit: Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company but copyrighted by Charles C. Diggs Jr. 1956. Very Good. Black and white portrait and description on each month with some red printing. Wall calendar. 49 x 34 cm. Horizontal crease across center. Minor chipping around edges. OCLC locates 1 copy University of Kansas. We know nothing about Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company and wonder if it was a mutual burial operation rather than an insurance company selling life or other types of insurance home auto etc. since Diggs and his father were in the funeral home business in addition to their political activities. This calendar has a fact relating to African American history for every day of the year and also has some little known "fact" heading each monthly page. Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company (but copyrighted by Charles C. Diggs, Jr.) unknown books
réf. 63-3603Detroit Michigan: Nash Motors Corporation 1947. 8vo. 93 pp. Soft Covers on Plastic Ring Binder Very Good with some staining to covers. Notes inked inside cover from previous owner. Scarce. Detroit, Michigan: Nash Motors Corporation, 1947. paperback
1874réf. 006828Lansing : W. S. George State Printers and Binders 1874 1874. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 526 pp. ; ill. ; 24 cm ; LCCN: sf 83-3063 ; LC: SB21; Dewey: 630.62774 ; OCLC: 8464264 ; Pages 1-83 have been used as a period scrapbook ! into which are pasted various poems from the 1870's-90's clipped from newspapers such as The Detroit Commercial The Detroit Post & Ledger and The Berrien County Journal April 10 1880 ; Included are A pasted illustration "St. Louis High School" poems include Eventide / Julia C. R. Dore -- Always mine -- Fatherly Advice -- If I Could Know -- In the Old Church Tower / T. B. Aldrich -- At Last / J G Whittier -- Woman Gossip -- Making the Best of It -- Bob of the Golden City / Will S. Hayes -- Beautiful Things / Ella P Allerton -- Growing Old -- The Kaiser and the Little Maid -- Reward of Endeavor / Julia Ward Howe -- We Must All Scratch / Frank S Bondy -- The Countersign / Margaret Eytinge -- Which one -- The Honest Farmer -- Our Frank / M. S. A. -- The Love of Long Ago / Ella Wheeler -- Fathers Growing Old John -- Somebody's Mother -- Comparison / Annie E Fisher -- To My Mother -- Falsely Accused -- Dear John -- Taking the End of the Seat -- It May Be Your Turn Next -- Pomp's Defense -- Cliff Roses / F. W. B. -- Little Mabel / Alice Van Orden -- The Printer's Toil / Scott -- A Pintin' To-day -- Heartless / Medora Clark -- The Dead Child and the Mocking-Bird / Paul H Hayne -- Mother's Way -- Buddha and the Hindoo Mother / Edwin Arnold -- I Have Drunk My Last Glass / Louisa S Upham -- Brevities and Oddities A Temperance Curiosity -- Of All -- Dr. Holland's Last Poem -- The Two Gates Only! -- The Country Schoolmaster -- Leap Year -- A Nibble -- A Swarm of Bees -- Do Your Best / M. Ella Cornell -- Annie and Willie's Prayer A Christmas Story / Sophia P. Snow -- How the Conductor Took the Fare -- Laugh and Grow Fat -- I am So Tired of Being Me -- A Laugh is Worth a Hundred Groans / Josephine Pollard -- A happy New Year / Spirit May -- Just Here -- Coming Home / M. T. Shelhamer -- He Loveth When He Chasteneth / Lizzie Fenner Baker -- They Shall Revive As the Corn / Annie Mills -- True Courage -- Better than Gold / Father Ryan -- Lift Up the Temperance Banner / Rev. Charles Garrett -- Little By Little / J. Albert Wilson -- No Time Like the Present / Phoebe Cary ; articles in the report include: Discussions of the Peninsula Farmers' Club--Fungus not the Cause of Disease the advantages of top grafting -- Insects injurious to strawberries / A J Cook -- Garden and Wild FLowers / Mrs. Jeremiah Brown -- New Varieties of Fruit Peaches: Hill's Chill The Barnard Honest John Keyport White Foster; Paw Paw Apple Romanite Apple / T T Lyon -- Fruit Growing at South Haven / J E Bidwell -- Fruit Culture at Grand Traverse / Stanford Howard -- Birds / L H Bailey -- The Necessity of a State Entomologist / H A Shaw -- Orchard Drainage / A T Linderman -- Of One Hundred How Many / T T Lyon James D Husted A J Cook Edward Bradfield R F Hathaway H E Bidwell -- Pear Blight / P J Berckman Josiah Hoopes -- The State Fair 1873 -- Orchards and Vineyards of Michigan / S Q Lent -- A Grand Traverse Fruit Farm / T T Lyon -- A Kent County Peach Orchard and Grapery / Albert Baxter -- Flowers at the Michigan State Fair / James Vick -- Old Mission Orchards / WHC Lyon -- Early History of Horticulture in Michigan / JC Holmes -- The Importance to the Fruit Culturist of Shelter or Protection / TT Lyon -- Western New York Horticultural Society / PC Reynolds -- Lecture on Entomology / CV Riley -- The Bird Question / Wm. LeBaron -- Agressive Parasitism of Fungi / TJ Burrill -- Peaches of the Michigan Peach Belt / AS Dyckman -- Horticulture for the People / JJ Thomas -- Insects Injurious to House Plants and Shubbery / AJ Cook -- The Apple Tree / WJ Beal -- Grape Culture / Artimus Sigler -- The Honey Locust as a Hedge Plant / JW Helme ; 14 black and white illustrations ; page 203/204 creased ; because of the scrapbooking condition is FAIR Lansing : W. S. George, State Printers and Binders, 1874 hardcover
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1951réf. ZB257113Alumni Association of the University of Michigan 1951-1954. volumes 57-60 all complete volumes original paper wrappers ex library good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Alumni Association of the University of Michigan unknown
1869réf. 021174Lansing MI: State of Michigan 1869. 1st . Unbound. Collectible Very Good. 28" x 22. Map. lovely map of a major Upper Peninsula. michigan copper mining area; lite shadow of damstain in ulower right corner.ready to frame State of Michigan unknown
2007réf. DADAX0739117866Lexington Books 2007-02-23. hardcover. New. 6.35x1.07x9.40. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lexington Books hardcover
2010réf. SKU1749612Morgan Kaufmann 2020-10-05. paperback. New. 7x0x9. New Book Ships with Tracking Morgan Kaufmann paperback
1940réf. 42638N. P.: Ford Motor Company 1940. 1940. TRADE CATALOGUE. First edition. 9 " x 12" pictorial stiff wrappers n. p. 20 pp. illustrated in color information specifications. Promotes the 1941 Mercury 8 for its important advances in comfort and roominess clean styling and commanding size ease of handling and is both a big car that is unusually economical to operate. Offered for sale are the sedan the sedan-coupe the coupe the club convertible the town sedan and the station wagon. Minor wear to the spine ends else a fine copy. Ford Motor Company, [1940]. unknown
1920réf. 000011237Madison Wis.: Joint War History Commissions of Michigan and Wisconsin 1920 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo. 4 7-315 5 pp. Quarter blue cloth over brown cloth boards with red and black lettering and decorations on the front board black lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several full-page and in-text photographs and a full-page plan. 32nd-division.org The 32D ‘Red Arrow’ Division in World War I: From the ‘Iron Jaw Division’ to ‘Les Terribles' accessed 3/3/22. A thorough history of the 32nd division or the "Red Arrow" division which was comprised of men from Wisconsin and Michigan. The training of the men in Texas is recorded as well as their journey to France with a record of the casualties incurred abroad descriptions of the Division's fighting in the Second Battle of the Marne with mention of Les Terribles honors and awards earned by distinguished division members etc. The descriptions of the skirmishes and battles are excellent in their detail and invoke vivid images of the First World War. The front hinge with a small split but binding is holding strong some foxing to the endpapers. Joint War History Commissions of Michigan and Wisconsin [1920] hardcover
196435 pages including 34 maps. Oblong 14" x 18". "This collection of county maps presents in detail basic geographical features of the northern lower peninsula. Also, it includes all types of roads, federal and state-owned lands, state and local parks, camp grounds, fishing sites, and other public recreational facilities." - from title page. Includes the following counties: Emmet, Cheboygan, Presque Isle, Charlevoix, Antrim, Otsego, Montmorency, Alpena, Leelanau, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Crawford, Oscoda, Alcona, Manistec, Wexford, Missaukee, Roscommon, Ogemaw, Iosco, Mason, Lake, Osceola, Clare, Gladwin, Arenac, Oceana, Newaygo, Muskegon, Mecosta, Isabella, Midland, Bay. Average wear. Unmarked. Maps clean and bright. A sound copy. Book
1928144 pages. Many nice black and white photos. Prior owner's details neatly upon front free endpaper else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. (Bonus: Two pieces of commencement ephemera laid inside front cover). Book
193952 pages. Features: One-page ad for Plymouth cars; Joan Crawford seeks divorce from Franchot Tone; Indy 500 winner William C. (Wild Bill) Cummints dies in auto accident; C.I.O. angle develops in insurance inquiry; The Spanish War - still a European problem; The meaning of Japan's Hainan Island Occupation; Oswaldo Aranha - solidarity salesman for the Americas; Will Roosevelt continue bucking Congress?; The Life of Pope Pius - and who will succeed him?; Great one-page ad for International Trucks light delivery trucks (vans); Judge Louis D. Brandeis retires; Redskin Revival - high birthrate gives Congress a new operproduction headache; Antarctic real estate claims; Amnesia victim William H. Lawrence gets his memory back - photo of him with his sister; France and Britain woo Franco as a Mediterranean safeguard - article with photo of Loyalist soldiers in French concentration camp after fleeing Catalonia; London Palestine Conference - Jew and Arab delegations refuse to sit together under same roof - with (separate) photos of Arabs and Chaim Weizmann; Classy two-color centerfold ad for Schlitz beer; Rise of plastic surgery; Undulant fever mystery at Michigan State College in east Lansing; The War on Syphilis; Lt. Ben S. Kelsey crashes while testing new Lockheed substratosphere pursuit plane - story with photos; Nice 2/3-page photo ad for Hotel Del Monte in California; Photo of 6'-9" Mike Novak, a basketball player for Loyola; The Billy Conn - Freddy Apostoli boxing match; Nice illustrated 2/3-page Dictaphone features boss-man and pretty secretary; Photo of Russell Birdwell; 2/3-page Canadian Pacific cruise ad features title "The Life of Riley on the Pacific"; Tea's Comeback; Britain's Slump; Bock Beer; Nice color ad inside back cover for the Packard Six & 120. Discrete clear tape repair to bottom of coverfold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
194392 pages. Features: Promo for Movie of the Month, "Du Barry Was a Lady" with photo of Red Skelton, Lucille Ball and Gene Kelly; Fantastic one-page photo ad for the Carbine Rifle made by the Underwood Elliott Fisher Company; Lana Turner's marriage annuled; Brief obituaries for Getulio Vargas, Jr., Frank Burke, Frank Calder, Gen. Senjuro Hayashi, and Woodbridge S. Van Dyke II; Nostalgic one-page photo ad for Bell Telephone shows Operator with clunky voicepiece hung around her neck; Axis armies take it in Europe; Japs punch back in Pacific - with photo of dead Japanese soldiers in New Guinea; Considerable war coverage, including Tunisia; Photo of Paulus surrendering to Rokossovsky and Voronoff; US manpower crisis looms; Outstanding one-page color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features Curtiss dive-bomber test pilot "Red" Hulse; War Dog Fund; Photos of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa and their five sons (the fighting Sullivans) who were all lost after the sinking of the cruiser Juneau at Guadalcanal; Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Union Pacific Railroad showssome of their workers preparing bandages for the Red Cross; Errol Flynn is found not guilty of raping Betty Hansen, 17 and Peggy Satterrlee, 16 - article with photos; Finland puts out feelers for Red Peace; Depressing Michigan Smelting ad shows horse-drawn wagon collecting scrap; Germany defeated at Stalingrad; Nice one-page color Ballantine's Ale ad shows young couple inspecting house plans; Photos of glass fishing floats made in Seattle; Interesting two-page ad for Pan American Clippers shows young boy and girl and talks of curing disease; The Fight Against Runaway Inflation; Article about working the the mammoth Pentagon; Nice one-page color ad for Kimberly-Clark shows Pacific soldiers waiting in line for a meaty meal; Mrs. Beatrice Houdini quits trying to contact her husband's (Harry) spirit (article with photo); Boxing photo of Jacob La Motta snapping Ray (Sugar) Robinson's victory string; Artist Maxim Kopf - article with photos; Elmer Davis back on the air; and much more. Middle six pages loose but present. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194974 pages. Articles: Troubles of College Deans; The Germans Wait Only For a Leader - argues we must make a fresh start toward stopping the rise of old-line Nazis - with color photo of John J. McCloy, High Commissioner for U.S. Occupied Germany; Lover with a Ball Bat - actor Paul (Dreamboat) Douglas - article with colour photos of Douglas and Linda Darnell; Saturday Afternoon Meat Grinders; The Christian Science Monitor - Gentleman of the Press (part 2 of 3); Always Heading for Salt Water - Bob Lane has been making boats since he was five; Fabulous Jacques Fath - article and color photo of fashion's most talked about designer;. Fiction: Any Friend of Sam's; Man in the House; Where Else in the World?; The Case of the Negligent Nymph (part 3 of 6); The Black Pearl; Cat's Cradle. Nice vintage ads include: Springmaid Fabrics; Ipana toothpaste; Botany Sportswear (very attractive ad); Chevrolet trucks; Span (color photos); Borden mild products - featuring Elsie the Cow; Nunn-Bush shoes; Willys "Jeep" Station Wagon; Lucky Strike cigarettes (featuring LG. Griffin); Ford cars; General Motors - nice centerfold color ad featuring the GM proving ground near Milford, Michigan; Fisher Body; 2-page Dodge car ad; Great Northern Railway; Winthrop shoes; Schlitz beer; Awesome back cover colour ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features Glenn Ford, with inset illustration of tobacco farmer Herbert L. Lupo of Tabor City, N.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Valspar ad inside front cover; Taxes, Taxes, Taxes! - they are always with us but often we do not know it; Cashing in on the 'Blue Sky' - a study of the methods used by Wily 'Aviation' and real estate promoters in separating the sucker from his dollar; The Principles that guided George W. Hays in Exercising the Pardoning Power; The Genesis of the Constitution - reflections on what Washington and 38 of his countrymen did one summer; Bringing the Human Boat to Port Under Its Own Steam - advice on healthy living; What Would Izaak Walton Have Said? - the author of 'The Compleat Angler' in his wildest dreams could naver have visualized a 1,500-pound mackerel; Henry Ford's Page - struggle between industry and finance for control of business; Editorials - shaming the U.S. into canceling war debts, anti-prohibition propaganda, The County Fair, Dictators and the dictated; The Gold Hunters - being the story of a party of young men from Michigan in their search for fortune in California in 1850-1851; Bathing, Begging and Buring in Benares - strange scenes on the banks of the Ganges, India's sacred stream - article with photos; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 11)- Death of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - Japan turns from rice as sole diet; The Village Blacksmith. Moderate moisture exposure. Center pages holding by one staple. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194886 pages. Articles: The Two Mr. Vandenbergs - a study of Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg's political personality; Calico Swing - what gals and gents are wearin' at square dances this summer; Homemade Boom in Dixie - two of its poorest states acquire the New Look of prosperity; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 4) - Stalin spoke of morals - the record of his visit to Stalin to discuss plans for defeating Hitler; Hunting of the Swede - screen writer Eddie Blum discovers Marta Toren for Hollywood; Designs for Touring (part 8) - Northern Michigan travel. Fiction: Along Came Mary; Marabou for Mama; The Bramble Bush; Even Up; The Makings; Hannigan. Ads include: True Temper golf club shafts; Zenith radios; Hickok belts; Monarch canned produce; American Optical; RCA Victor portable radios; 1949 Studebaker trucks; Pabst beer - with colour image of Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Peck; Good Year; Plymouth; American Airlines; Freeman Shoes; Mercury cars; Ballantine's Ale; Hiram Walker nice two-page color-photo ad; Skol; Esterbrook pens; Holeproof socks; Tawn toiletries; National Guard; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring rodeo champion Ken Roberts. Front cover nearly detached. Piece missing from top of back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: A Wasted Sugar Supply - Honey from Honeybees; Wild Youth Proves a Myth - 'girls and boys' between 35 and 45 are rolling up the crime wave; Making the Government Efficient - reorganization would cut 100,000 unnecessary employees from federal payrolls; The White House - a Mecca for Cranks - Secret Service men must be ever alert to guard the President from the Unbalanced; Missionaries and Machine Guns - many preachers of the gospel do not want the protection of bullets; Tom Learns to Play the Game - an American boy who on mastering himself was able to direct others; Henry Ford's Page - Lower price no longer means lower equality; Editorials - making the movies dry, the value of vulgarity, Mussolini forbids earthquake prophet,exams proposed for ministers of religion, Washington's inability to think in other than political terms; Writing Verse for Composite Readers - some versifiers cultivate eccentricity, others are themselves, and therefore poets; Sad Men Who Look So Wistfully at the Sky - author, William F. Hopp has been chaplain of the Michigan State Prison for over seven years - article with photos; Duelists (Fighter Pilots) of the Sky - a tale of knights-errant and their deeds - of their light-heartedness, and their gallant, tragic fate; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 3) The Big Snake and the Little Dog - and how a darky made millions from circus side shows; Chats with Office Callers - Christmas cards began with Jewish Adolph Tuck, controversy in Canada over union with the U.S., sighting of monster near Prince Rupert, B.C.; The Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Fascinating illustrated ad for homes which can be built for under $1k in materials; I Read In the Papers - article by Nathaniel Zalowitz in the 'Jewish Daily Forward' declares "...For the overwhelming majority of Jews in American assimilation in any true sense of the term is absolutely out of the question."; The Barefoot Boy - poetry by J.G. Whittier inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1974158 pages. Features: Why Sadat and Faisal Chose Arafat - an Arab watcher perceives a grand design keyed to a peace settlement with Israel; Jerome Robbins - Back, Again, to Ballet - photo-illustrated article; Is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) Accurate?; Forward Day By Day - First Lady Betty Ford; What's in the Water We Drink? - strange as it may seem, the best drinking water is in New York City; Funky Quasar and Croton LED watch ads; Eddie Bauer ad features Greenwood "Down-Proof Duo" jackets; Photo of Guy Lombardo in Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ad; Birth Without Violence - a French Pediatrician eases the Birth Trauma; Four illustrated pages of Christmas presents $15 and under; 2/3-page black and white Roots shoe ad; One-page ad for David Ben-Gurion Silver Commemorative Coin; Flagship Cruises, Inc. ad features photo of their President, Oivind Lorentzen, Jr.; Nice color Ronson and Colibri lighter ads; Many more wonderful ads. Bonus: Laid-in with its corresponding centerfold ad is an oval "Seagram's Greetings" five-panel (10 page) fold-out color-photo illustrated liquor ad. Average wear. Small faint library stamp on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: An Intimate Talk with John Galsworthy; A Mixture No Nation Can Stand - America's stomach revolts at concoction of outlawed liquor crooked politics; America Writes A Book - the most crowded field of endeavor in this country; The Price-Fixing Association - how it ingeniously evades those troublesome anti-trust laws; Birth-Control - A World Blight - in this second article on birth control, Father McClorey says if propaganda succeeds, earth will become a desolate planet, driving through space, as dead as the moon; Pere Gilbault, le Coureur des Bois - a man of northern Michigan, philosopher, and artist for art's sake; Mr. Ford's Page - "The Economic Value of Accuracy is impossible to exaggerate"; Editorials - the Eucharistic Congress, Wilhelm Hohenzollern retains his estates in Germany, the 'dry' hearings in Washington, the manipulation of money; An Intimate Story of a Best Seller - struggling author finds publisher and new novel reaches an appreciative public; What's the Matter with the Ministers? - do our American preachers lack conviction concering the substance and efficacy of their message?; Voyage of the Victoria - Patagonia (part 6); Chats with Office Callers; The Fighting Quaker Who Made Cannon - Rhode Island and South Carolina Signers Included Stephen Hopkins, Outlawed by his Co-Religionists; A Dance a Week - Dictionary of Dance Terms; A Dog Molded a Man's Career - Bernhardt Wall and "Man's Best Friend"; News snippets include 'Gallic Ire vs. Cockney Sarcasm', 'Hooks and Eyes, Buttons and Religion', Joseph Conrad was not a Jew, Japs Ardently Copy Our Mistakes, Two Extremes of the Law, and Shoe Leather Hits Orient; Charming photos of kids from around the world, including four-year-old Pearl Hay of London. Middle page loose but present. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Woodrow Wilson Was Best and Worst Copy - his passion for accuracy conflicted with newspapermen who ignored serious things to ask him 'what he ate for breakfast' - part 3; Housekeeping in Our Paris Flat - how two Americans fared in the French Capital and "Got to Love Passy"; ; Never Separated a Single Family - open-door immigration specialists slander the United States Government - Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, urges passage of the most liberal of all the liberalizing measures - the Perlman bill; Life and Death on the Screen - A.C. Pillsbury films bacteria and pollen in action - motion pictures of flower fertilization; What's the Matter With Jim? - the story of a boy who would only work when he thought it play; Mr. Ford's Page - interesting thoughts on the forces involved with prohibition; Editorials - major criticism of the World Court and claim that in Michigan a list of Americans targetted for assassination by communists has been found; Golf - Can You Pick the Champions? - Americans will attempt to capture leading British honors - article with photos of Glenna Collett, Francis Ouimet, Macdonald Smith, Walter Hagen, Watts Gunn, Long Jim Barnes, Bobby Jones and Robert Gardner; Lincoln's Murder - Amazing Man Hunt - John Surratt and Papal Zouave accused of the crime, who leaped for liberty over a hundred-foot precipice - article with photos of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Mary Surratt; What it Costs the Chinese to Worship Their Ancestors - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Is America a Nation of Coffee-Bibbers? - Its people drink upward of forty billions of cups of this seductive beverage each year, consuming more than half of World's Production; Union of Irish and Jews in recent 'propaganda' plays - Abie's Irish Rose, Kosher Kitty Kelly; Great Writers Who Have Failed as Novelists; Seeking to Know What the Earth is Made of - the work of Professor Stjepan Mohorovicic and others; When the Broker Breaks the Law; A Dance a Week - The Lancers, a graceful square dance - first two figures, with piano sheet music (to be continued); Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon offers course in the guardianship of a real baby; The Jolly Old Pedagogue; Back cover features illustration of and quotation by Henry Thoreau. Small chip from fore-edge of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: Wee, Timorous Beasties at Home - in the realms of fur and feather tiney creatures show their skill in nest building; Delaware Uses the Whipping Post - Are lashes on the bare back effective as crime prevention?; New Phases of Changing China - photo-illustrated article on how sedan chairs and moth-eaten donkeys are giving way to modern things; Have We an Educated Ministry? - only a minority of present-day incombents are from reputable colleges; Housecleaning in the Treasury - in 4 years there were 300 cases in which attorneys and agents practising before the Treasury Department were respondents in Suspension or Disbarment Proceedings; Parentage of Attic Strads - fake Stradivarius violins; Mr. Henry Ford's Page - 'of all parasites, the human species is the least tolerable'; Editorials - are we advising our students to be jellyfish?, Babies as Armament, Michigan judge thinks more speed with increase road safety, the American Psychiatric Association and paid vs. impartial opinion, Goodl Old Songs (and who profits from them), and American tourists need to learn flag etiquette; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - in this first instalment, veteran showman Gil Robinson takes you into a world where clowns, camels and wild beasts are the actors; He Takes Tin Tacks From Tiny Throats - Dr. Dhevalier Jackson of Philadelphia has saved thousands of children; Patting the Lion's Mane - American woman says English men of letters are more interesting than American; How U.S. Treats its Diplomats - present conditions prohibit any man from attaining the rank of United States Ambassador unless he can supply great wealth to maintain the social obligations of the post - article with embassies; Chats with Office Callers; Tragedy of the Franklin Expedition - the realized the old dream of a Northwest Passage; I Read in the Papers; Dying Africa Makes Her Appeal - our supply of Africa's rich products will be lost if we do not eradicate her deadly diseases; A Dance a Week - Some More Terms; San Francisco Says "Shoot to Kill" - Notable decrease in serious crime results; Nice circus photos. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
194690 pages. Features: Nice color Studebaker truck ad inside front cover; Photo of the NIM flying wing in flight; Nice Seabee airplane ad; There'll Come a Day (fiction); Atomic Age Navy - submarines may be the backbone of our future sea power; Escape at Noon (fiction); A Challenge to American Women - "American women are more cruel, more selfish and more material in outlook than American men"; Everything ShipShape (fiction); The Doctors Run the Show - the new Michigan plan offers veterans the best medical treatment in the world; You, Too, Can Drink Vodka (fiction); The Outraged Heart (fiction); Champagne Shower - Mitzi Green - article with many colour photos of ladies; Two of a Kind; Nice color one-page ad for the 1946 Ford Sedan Coupe; Running From Death - Charles Beaudry is America's greatest athlete; Nice one-page ad for the movid "Without Reservations" with photo of Claudette Colbert with John Wayne; Super color-photo centerfold ad for Schlitz beer shows hops being harvested; Nice one-page ad for movie "The Well Groomed Bride", starring Olivia De Havilland, Ray Milland and Sonny Tufts; The Happy Chance (fiction); Ad for movie "Her Kind of Man", starring Dane Clark, Zachary Scott and Janis Paige; Jungle Hoofer (fiction); Goodby, Berlin! - article with several color photos of war damage; Camel cigarette ad on back cover talks about how doctors enjoy their product; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
