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1937ref. 6ralmThe Master Key Publishing Company 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Followed by The Gateway to Prosperity. A practical training for Western people by Victor Dane. Dated 1937 date found at the end of Introduction. Probably a first edition. British Empire edition. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 473 pages. There is gilt on the spine and on the top edge of the book. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed marked and the edges are slightly frayed. There are old tape residue marks on the endpapers. There is little foxing within the body of the book. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. The Master Key Publishing Company hardcover
ref. 0267495692.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1963ref. EEZZ6911bColombo, Gunasena n.d. [1963]. X, 194 S. Text (inkl. Register), 49 Abb. auf 21 ungez. Tafeln, 4 mehrfach gef. Plantafeln, OHLn., gut erhalten
1985ref. VOEK0354Sri Lanka 1985. 116 S., ill. OKart., geringe Gebrauchsspuren. In Englisch
1970ref. 45530Colombo, Ranjana Printers 1970. 1970. small-8vo, 160 pp. softcover.
2002ref. 21990Ratmalana / Sri Lanka : Vishva Lekha, 2002. X, 226 S. ; 8°, grüner Org.-Broschur / green paperback
192632 pages. Features: When Old Salem Hunted Witches - men and women were put to death on the accusation of little children; The Man Who Fights Alone - "The Cop is the World's Greatest Warrior" - article with statistics of policemen killed on the job; Why I Left New York (part 1) - a middle westerner moves there but is in conflict with its alien atmosphere; Who Pays for Our Radio Programs? - noted economics author explains how national advertisers foot the bill so we can listen-in without charge; Captain Kidd - Pirate-Catcher - the rover is commissioned to capture ships flying the black flag; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - no amount of pretense can improve upon the original; Editorials - the time of England's trouble, is the jury system a failure, police death roll, the family is the unit; Woodrow Wilson (part 9) - He refused to be rushed into hasty decisions; World War's Effect Upon the Negro - overseas the colored soldier acquired an entirely new estimate of his importance in the scheme of things; Dry-Farming - The Tragedy of the West - scores of deserted homes stand as mute monuments to the settler's struggle in a land where rain seldom comes; Moonlight Midnight on "Old Tim" - Climbing Mount Timpanogas; The Voyage of the Victoria - part 3 - further adventures of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers; A Dance a Week - Hull's Victory, Lady Walpole's Reel, and Speed the Plow (with piano music for each); amazing photos of strange worldwide professions - a daredevil juggling atop several chairs, rubber tappers in Ceylon demonstrating the herringbone system,Egyptian dervishes passing skewers through their cheeks, and a Korean peddler of earthen ware - carried upon his back! Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
195283 plus 448 pages. Twenty-four maps. Many dozens of tables, charts and graphs. Prepared by request of the Government of Ceylon to survey the development potentialities of the country with special consideration given to: Agriculture (particularly rice cultivation, mixed farming, dairying, colonization and resettlement), Irrigation, Fisheries, Forestry, Minerals, Power, Industrial development, Inland transport and shipping, vocational training, Health (including housing and water schemes), General Economics (including public finance, money and banking, savings and investment, balance of payment). Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Bindings intact. A sound copy of this comprehensive snapshot of Ceylon's state of economic development in 1952. Book
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1920ref. 222925Columbo.: Plate. No date. Circa1920. Full page black and white photographic plates throughout unpaginated 84pp unpaginated 23 x 29cm very good copy in original wrappers with cord tie. Small light brown mark affecting 3 plates light wear wrappers otherwise very good indeed. Street scenes with cars and rickshaws rural and seashore views natives customs including images of elephant corralling kraaling. . Plate. unknown
1905ref. CEYLON014028Plat� Ltd Colombo Kandy & Nuwara Eliya. c 1905. First edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Sewn card wrappers. Not dated but one and only one of the photographs shows a couple of cars; the first car arrived in Ceylon in 1902.Some creasing to covers. Very good. Plat� Ltd, Colombo, Kandy & Nuwara Eliya. unknown
1925ref. 66217ABColombo, Plate & Co. / Kandy & Nuwara Eliya., (um 1925). Gr.8°. [29,2 : 23 cm = B/H]. Unpaginiert. (ca. 85 Seiten). Blauer Originalleinenband mit goldgeprägtem Deckeltitel und Ganzgoldschnitt. (Hinterdeckel minimal fleckig. Vor-/Hintersatz etwas leimschattig. Titel mit 7,5cm-Randeinriss - sauber unterlegt). - Ansonsten ein sehr gut erhaltenes, sauberes Exemplar in fester Bindung und ohne Eintragungen. 1. Auflage.
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2019ref. Gyan-9789353668204Facsimile Publisher 2019. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 2.49 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2019ref. Gyan-9789353668204Facsimile Publisher 2019. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 2.49 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
1943Vg/Vg (front of dj undamaged and unmarked, large tear across back of dj but no loss, neat signature title page else contents very clean in very good condition, near fine) 16mo 57pp. Little booklet published in aid of War Funds. Second printing August 1943. Sold in aid of the War Purposes Fund. Red lettering stamped across front cover reads "A gift to the Forces from Ceylon Theatres Limited." Foreword by the Governor of Ceylon. Quote from G. Layton, Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon on front dj flap and on back dj as follows: "our war effort now demands the production of every pound of rubber possible, and the more interest taken in this subject the better." Short passages include the history of the rubber industry in Ceylon, early attempts at manufacture, Charles Goodyear, vulcanization, Sir Henry Wickham, the birth of companies, Dunlop, comparison of share prices, the world's production and consumption of rubber, and more. Also chapter on the production of rubber and the treatment of the raw product on the plantation illustrated with b/w photographs. Very interesting and unusual little item.
