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1987345 pages including index and notes. A case study of how absolute power corrupts. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
1984175 pages. Author relates his father's capture by the Japanese in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, the annihilation of his entire squad and how he, the lone survivor, was shipped to live with Australian and British POWs in a squalid, degrading camp in the Philippines that came to be known as The Hotel Tacloban. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Spine leaning. Decent reading copy. Book
1961702 pages. "Takes the history of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines from the arrival of the first Jesuits in 1581 to the expulsion of the Order from the islands in 1768." - from Preface. Somewhat above-average wear externally. Some light pencil markings erased from contents. Hinges secured internally with unobtrusive white tape. Worthy working copy. Book
1986190 pages. Black and white illustrations. Recounts the Marcos overthrow through the eyes of those who were there. Average wear. Book
1902Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
1984Features: Perpetual seafloor metal factory; Swallow-tailed gull of the Galapagos Islands; The cooperative whale and its rescuers; Frying Pan Shoals Light Station - an aid to seafarers and biologists; Sea Squirts; The short , unhappy saga of Steller's sea cow; Milkfish - Southeast Asia's protein machine; Unpalatable Goby. Sound copy. Book
1990Signed and inscribed by author to the son of Francisco B. Caingcoy who saw action on Bataan with the 14th Eng. 2nd Btn and was captured on 9 April 1942 by the Japanese, started the Death and escaped. 240 pages. Black and white illustrations. Winner of the Book of the Year award by the American Bookdealers Exchange. "A true narrative by Sergeant Waldron, who risked his life in keeping a day by day diary, for three and a half years as a Prisoner of War under the Japanese... A true saga of the first five months of World War Two in the Philippines, and life as a Prisoner of War." - from dust jacket. Average wear bo book. Above-average wear to dust jacket. Book
1926Pages 597 through 714 pages. Several additional pages of illustrated advertisements. Contents include: The 'Lost Battalion' of the 77th Division; The Enveloping Attack; Motor Transportation in Military Operations; The Philippines Maneuvers; The Company's Personnel; Trotski and the Conscription of Labor; German Infantry Training; The War Stock Uniform. Black and white illustrations. Average wear. Top inch of backstrip open but present. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1899Pages 69-130. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; Some Alaskan Experiences; Gilman Marston (poem); Our Winter Birds and their food relations; The Philippines (poem); Rt. Rev. Philander Chase, D.D., Bishop of Ohio and of Illinois; The Old Daguerreotype; "Finnigan's Chateau"; New Hampshire Industries (first paper) - Our Only Piano Factory - article with great photos and illustrations of the Prescott Piano Company factory; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1970Pages 145-183. Features: Patterns in Nature; Thompson, Manitoba - Suburbia in the Bush; Nova Scotia's Wildlife Park; Curiosities of Erosion; Southern Luzon - The Philippines; Great colour-photo ad for CBC TV's "The National" with photos of Lloyd Robertson and George Finstad. Soiling to upper corner of most pages. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1945Contents: color Parker pen ad inside front cover; interesting ad for the Curtiss Commando aircraft; Great International Harvester Truck/War Bonds ad; Pullman railcar ad with returning vets bearing swastika emblazoned souvenirs; Colour Cadillac ad; nice color ad for White Trucks - military theme; Does Truman lean left or right? - clues appear in the first 40 days; Are Japs Wanted? - article with interesting poster demanding fair play for America's Japanese; Congressional committee tours Concentration camps; Miami dogs killed after they kill Doretta Zinke; Blockade and bombs hit Japan as prelude to gathering storm - attrition is Allied policy while knockout forces transfer in strength to the Pacific; Great photo of the first Yank post V-E day ship bringing servicemen home; Great map indicating the 'Bomb Strategy Against Japan'; color Seiberling Tire ad; How to Starve out Japan - bomb the rice paddy dikes; Philippines - sobering losses; China - the Japs back up; Dramatic photo of the American Essex-class carrier Franklin (Big Ben) with its crew huddled on the flight deck after it was attacked by a single Japanese bomber with two 500lb bombs; Okinawa - sacrifice - 156 American marines and doughboys died there each day last week; photo of German prisoners with shovels in the massive American Henri Chappelle Cemetery in Belgium; Russia casts its shadow over Asia; Yugoslavs' willful grab at Trieste poses danger for Charter makers; Prince Faisal and other Arabs agree Palestine is an Arab state, despite a half-dozen vociferous Jewish organizations on the conference sidelines; Color Goodyear belt centerfold; Photo of Allied officers in front of Reichstag ruins; Pattern emerges for occupation - Allies command, Germans obey; "Life has no meaning" for Dr. Ley, once leader of the German labor front - article and photo; Nazi U-boat (with 'the Schnorkel') surrenders and is escorted to a Newfoundland port - photo; NBC airs dramatization of F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom; Max Schmeling released; Rosenberg's den of Royal Theives holds key to looted art of Europe; interesting ad for a Sperry gunsight "The gunsight that 'things' faster than humans... or Japs!"; Great color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
1944Contents: Nash-Kelvinator military ad in color inside front cover; Ad for the Chrysler Sea Mule; Dewey triumph poses question - will Willkie bolt from party?; Hull's speech attempts to divorce politics from our foreign policy; Gun Play in Wichita - Bargel K. Stanley holds police off for an hour; Prelude to Torture - Jap Propaganda in Pictures - 3 pages reprinted from a mysterious undated English-language publication called 'Freedom' put out in Shanghai - "... these pictures show the great score the American people still have to score with the little men across the Pacific."; Navy Raids on Palau and Yap uncover secrets of Jap bases - old Sea Dogs are excited by size of U.S. attack force and nearness of Philippines; Photo of landing strip construction in China - 300,000 Chinese workers and 100,000 hand-made wheelbarrows have been conscripted to this end; British Rocket Battery - photo and article; Elizabeth, the future Queen of world's soundest monarchy; De Gaulle Triumph - finally becoming No. 1 Frenchman, he takes in reds - on his terms; Great photo of Curtiss Helldivers under construction at a new Fort William, Ontario plant which will produce for the U.S. Navy; SWPA starts setting policy on sale of surplus war goods; Andrew F. Howe, owner of 100 patents, finally settles with General Steel Castings for over $1 million; Trappist monks set up in Conyers, Georgia. Above-average wear. All pages stained to varying degrees, presumably by water - all text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
2004191 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "Jim Soliski writes real travel. Fast-paced, punchy and often very funny, this is the man to read if you know what travel is." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Book
1967Contents: Photo of Caroline Kennedy launching carrier "J.F.K."; Romney and Licata campaigning; Fighter Pilot Robin Olds; Time Essay - The Golden Age of Sport; The Egypt/Israel military situation; State of the Vietnam War; Slain Lapiang Malaya Warriors in the Philippines; Teen-age Magazines; Selenology; Hovercraft technology - Inventor Cockerell; Bunker Hill Smelter; Casualty Insurance; Robert Lowell - cover article; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
197262 pages. Features: Archie Bunker cover illustration by Robert Grossman; Spooking the Spooks - The Victor Marchetti Story; Women; The Good Fortune of the Franklin Mint (critical article); Poor Derek's Almanac; Bankamerilib - Can Lynda Bird by Liberated?; Marcos and the Philippines; Conversations with Steel Mill Rebels; Who Goes Begging in America; Racism in the Counterculture; Kissinger - the Swinging Sphinx; Alcatraz is not an Island; The Only Good Indian...; Gerald Hanley - An Irishman in Africa; Consciousness as a Commodity; Munich on $40 Million a day; back cover ad for Solzhenitsyn's "August 1914". Average wear. Unmarked. Covers beginning to pull from staples. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
196172 pages. Features: Vertol 107 ad; FMC ad for the LVTP6 Amphibious Armored Personnel-Cargo Carrier; Our Government - muckrakers may be destroying the very system that allows them to criticize - article with photo of Corporal Edward Dickenson, the first turn-coat Communist POW to return to U.S. control; Why Marine Inflight Refueling? - how it's done and why; Single Engine TransPac - a tense description of the MAG-13 FJ-4B flight from Hawaii to San Francisco; Move by Air - airlift article; Major Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller of Samar (part 1 of 2) - article with photos; Merger Training for Air Reservists; Marine Corps Reserve; Force Recon - what they do and how they do it; Baseplate McGurk; SATS - a bright future; Transfers and Promotions; Back cover color ad for the McDonnell F4H Phantom II; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
198060 pages. Features: Volvo ad touts the 18.7 year life-expectancy of their cars; Another Chance for Joe Clark?; Sexy ad for Miami Beach; Profile Article on Rupert Murdoch; Dogsled racing in the Yukon - Paul Sheridan and Dick Eastmure; Yuri Luryi - 35 years on the trail of Raoul Wallenberg; There Could be Economic Civil War if Alberta Stops Sending Oil East; Discovery of 4,000-year-old civilization at the northern tip of Labrador; Celebrity photos of Nelson Skalbania, Stephen Yan (of Wok with Yan), the Frantic Follies, and composer-singer Carol Connors; Pope John Paul II visits the Philippines - article with photos; Indictment of the mullahs' rule in Iran; Rev. Ian Paisley in Ireland; Death threats to Teddy Kennedy aide Richard E. Burke; Canada may have been impacted by US nuclear bomb testing prior to Hiroshima; Government Loan Guarantee to Chrysler Canada; Bert and Irving Gerstein's Peoples Jewelers Ltd. purchases Zale Corp. of the U.S. - article with photo; Tony Tanti of the Oshawa Generals breaks Wayne Gretzky's OMJHL goal scoring record - article with photo; Feature article on actor Donald Sutherland; Gold medal for speed skater Gaetan Boucher; Archeological dig in Calgary's Nose Hill - excavations of the entrepreneurial kind; The Problems of Enforcing Seat Belt Legislation; Dance article on Lawrence Gradus and the Theatre Ballet of Canada; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1967112 pages. Features: Pitney-Bowes ad features Mike Lawlor; Kodak M18 Movie Camera ad; Map of Canadian Pacific's holdings; Artist Claude Goulet; X-15 Crashes in Mojave Desert, taking the life of Air Force Major Michael J. Adams; Vietnam war coverage; Ferdinand Marcos electoral victory in the Philippines; Fantastic two-page photo ad for Crown Zellerbach Canada Limited features large black and white archival photo of loggers with color inset photo of the lovely Mrs. Tom Radford of (our hometown) Ladysmith, BC; Dressing up the Masai in Tanzania; South Yemen - Yoke of Independence; Photo of Miss World, Madeleine Hartog-Bel who passed out when she was named the winner; Photo of Oregon State's Haggard kicking field goal vs. U.S.C.; Passing of racehorse Dark Star; German Publisher Axel Springer; Stella's Radial Rainbows; Nice color photo of John D. Garnet in Schaefer Pen ad; Passing of Major General Bruno A. Hochmuth, Bernard Kilgore, Joan Lowell, Serafino Romualdi, Clementine Paddleford, Ida Cox, Sir Archibald Nye and Dr. Elmer V. McCollum; Divorce of Ralph Schoenman and J.D. Salinger; San Antonio's fast-rising Hilton Palacio Del Rio Hotel; Jeep Wagoneer ad; Photo of band "The Doors" at the Fillmore; Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Dick Honey tree-chipping in New Zealand. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
2001231 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Generously illustrated with vivid color photography. "The most up-to-date and comprehensive work published on the indigenous orchids of the Philippine archipelago. Includes many rare and new species depicted for the first time. More than 300 species are described and illustrated in color photos." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Moderate wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy of this magnificent work. Book
1914Pages 401-498, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: "Hoodlum" - the plucky deed of fireman Roger Berry aboard the tug-boat "Elmer" on Lake Erie one stormy night - article with photos; Some New British Climbs - George Abraham describes a new route up the famous Pillar Rock and more, illustrated with remarkable photos; Like a Rat in a Trap - a nerve-trying adventure from 1888 near Southall, Middlesex finding leaks in a sewer pipe; Hurri Singh's Cobra - an adventure from the lake district of Kumaon; A Remarkable Open-Air Theatre at Interlaken, Switzerland; The Ship of Death - a strange story of the awful experience which befell a party of Royal Navy officers and men who boarded a mysterious barque on the high seas in 1908; East Africa As I Saw it (part IV) - photo-illustrated adventures illustrate life in Portuguese East Africa; The Swift Saskatchewan - what happened to a man who fell asleep in a canoe in the mighty Saskatchewan River in 1907; "Back to the Land" - a man in South Africa discovers he is not likely to become a successful farmer; The Poacher-Catchers - adventures of the five-man teams which guard the fur-bearing animals of Yellowstone Park; Pedro the Ladrone - an exciting story from the Philippines told by an officer of the U.S. Army who was in charge of a company of native scouts, with photo of the surrender of General Ramon Santos at Liago; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part I) - the first and only attempt ever made to cross canada from Ocean to Ocean - this marvelously photo-illustrated article deals with Thomas Wilby's experiences on the way to Winnipeg, where his worst troubles began; The Fight in the Moonlight - H. Randolph Spencer and his adventure with two bears in the Olympic Mountains in 1905; Photo of huge floating (?) Burmese pagoda in the form of a hen; Photo of large metallic anklets riveted to young women of Southern Nigeria; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1906128 pages. First published in 1905. Numerous interesting black and white photos and illustrations. "These little stories of ancient days in the Philippines are the result of more than two years' of study of early Philippine history and represent the first attempt to write the story of those days in verified detail." - from Preface. Binding intact. Above-average external wear. Faint red discoloration to upper corner of front board. Gift greetings atop front free endpaper. A sound copy of this charming and informative vintage work. Book
196976 pages. Features: Ohio's polluted Cuyahoga River - with photo of it on fire; Colour photos of President Nixon welcoming the Apollo 11 astronauts back to earth; The Mysteries of Chappaquiddick; Photo of Nixon with President Marcos of the Philippines; Stories on the aftermath of Apollo 11; Suez battles; The Chosen Prince of Spain; Kikuyu Suspect Njoroge; Color samples of pastel art by Robert Natkin and Richard Diebenkorn; Ruler of the Road - auto racer Jackie Stewart; Article on Japan's ascendancy; Photo of Laotian troops studying Mao; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1963104 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this informative and nostalgic snapshot of the Philippines in 1963. Book
1945288 pages. Features: One War to Go - The Coming Fight with Japan; U.S. Meat in This War - how boneless beaf solved the logistics of meat for the first time; Philips of Eindhoven - The big Dutch electrical company, in the U.S. to stay, shows no signs of changing its cartel tactics; The New Transport Planes - Consolidated Vultee's Clipper - the state of the art, how we got here, and what's in the future; The Bogey of Economic Maturity - Washington spenders claim capitallism is moribund; Commander Eugene F. McDonald of Zenith; The Medal - today's heroes are heirs to the great tradition of Pisanello; The Military Police - bully boys in the last war, this time they have won the G.I.'s respect; Battle for the Philippines - the U.S. settled the battle of the Pacific; and more. Many excellent vintage ads in color and black and white, perhaps being the one-page War Loan ad which features photo of Admiral Hirohito on horse, with inset photo of Admiral Halsey who has expressed his desire to ride the Emperor's horse, Shirayuki. Another great color ad by International Harvester shows U.S. troops storming Pacific beach with title "Till The Japs Say Uncle"; Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Spine lean. A worthy vintage copy of this sensational WWII-era issue. Book
1889Outside dimensions 10.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with light wear and soiling. An attractive vintage copy. Book