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1985488 pages. Index. "One of the very rare accounts of Korea in the latter part of the nineteenth century. At that time Korea was virtually a forbidden land and had only been open to foreigners for abbout ten years. It was and had been under Chinese influence for centuries. The trip was very difficult but so fascinating that, true to character, Isabella adored it. She undertook many arduous journeys by land and river, observed the breathtakingly beautiful countryside, visited the Buddhist monasteries and had many audiences with the Korean king and his soon to be assassinated queen. While Isabella was on her journey the Japanese invaded Korea and she had to leave hastily, ending up in China, penniless.... Bird won fame in her own time as surely the most remarkable woman traveller of the nineteenth century." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding tight and square. Book
1983219 pages. Footnotes, Bibliography, Index. Black and white photographic plates. Includes Honour Roll plus Canadian Navy, Air Force, and Army Honours and Awards, Korea. Map endpapers. "Contains first-hand accounts of men who endured torture in Chinese POW camps, of doctors whose experiences in battlefield medicine have the pathos and hilarity of a M*A*S*H episode, and of prominent Canadian journalists such as Blair Fraser, Larry Henderson, and Pierre Berton, who reported on the war from the front lines, as did Rene Levesque." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Moderate wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Edwards 433, McFarland 1377. Book
2004170 pages. Black and white photos. "Author was assigned to the Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit during the Korean war. It was his responsibility to move huge vans and personnel to locations near the Front where there was some form of running water, so he could provide weary troops with the luxury of a shower and clean clothing. The process of locating these sites was in itself an adventure." - from back cover. Bookmark custom-made for this book and bearing author's hand-printed name is laid inside front cover. In his retirement, Mr. Ringma served as a highly popular Reform Party MP and Opposition Whip in the Canadian House of Commons. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
1977Features: Farewell Pegasus; First AWACS delivered for operational use; Sagittario Launched; Kormorans on the Baltic - anti-ship missile; USA industry at the end of the 70's - 'No' to the B-1 signals the end of an era - long article; Greenwich '77; The Niteroi Class - Super fold-out colour illustration and much more; Surveillance Radar for air transport control and warning systems; Sabres in Korea (Part II); Kaiten Guided Torpedoes (Part IV); Many additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
1962Features: Mis-Applied Science, by Dr. Albert E. Burke - America is losing tomorrow's battles by insisting that scientists concentrate on producing better mousetraps; The Hot War in Vietnam - Can the U.S. win it?; Master of the Jab - Ho Chi Minh is waging the kind of war he knows best; Sunday's Gladiators - as the armed (pro football) combatants struggle before the crowds, there are reminders of ancient Rome; The Charmed Life of Gangster Tony Accardo - arrested 23 times but never convicted; That Bowl of Fire Called Chili - a peppery dish invented by the pioneers of the old Southwest is still savored by their descendants; My Awful Wedded Husband, by Mrs. Kirk Douglas; Inside the Frozen Mountain - colour photos from deep inside Wyoming's Fossil Mountain; Let'em Eat... Turkey - the crisis that erupted when the Veep missed Thanksgiving dinner in Korea, by Walter M. Turner; Boy's Home on the Range - at Boy's Ranch in the rugged cow country of Texas' Panhandle, Cal Farley uses work, love and discipline to turn bad boys into good ones. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Colour Corvair ad inside front cover. *Awesome* colour cadillac ad on page 9. Book
1996245 pages. Signed and warmly inscribed by Editor to his mentor upon title page. Copy number 254 of 550 printed in this first edition. Black and white illustrations from photos. Colour photographic plates. "Fly a daylight low level mission in the early days of the war with a pilot and navigator in a B-26 Invader, fastest USAF prop-driven light bomber of the day, as they roar down the railroad tracks toward Sinanju... Attack a locomotive at night in northwest Korea's Mig Alley... Read the short biographies of some of the men who lived and died in that long forgotten war... Read about those dedicated professionals who worked 16 to 18 hours a day to keep the airplanes flying... Be a guest of the mayor of Hiroshima six short years after the United States destroyed that city... And, most importantly, find out what it was like to be a member of an elite night intruder squadron who maintained the lonely vigil of overflying North Korea's lines of communication leading to the battle line." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A superb copy. Book
195270 pages. Features: Nice color-photo portrait of distinguished builder Mr. Henry Doelger in Lord Calvert ad inside front cover; Bell Telephone one-page ad features photo and write-up of Denis Hartnett who was "Mr. Telephone" to the people of Homer, NY; Color photos of a Lion Luncheon in Kenya; Nostalgic 1-page 2-color ad for USS (US Steel) shows where their products were used; Vintage Goodyear 1-page color photo ad promotes their new Lifeguard Safety Tubes; The Koje Snafu - major article with color photos explains how U.S. Brigadier General Francis Townsend Dodd was seized by his captives and another was lured into signing Red propaganda - the astonishing inside story from the Korean War; What You Don't Know About Your Eyes; Article on Salt - 14,000 uses and $0.02/pound; Gabbing with the Gabors - article with great bedroom photos of Zsa Zsa, Magda, Mama and Eva; The Windfall (fiction); Pigs Have Wings (fiction); Baseball's Biggest Bargain - article on the Brooklyn Dodgers with fantastic color photos of many team members including Jackie Robinson; Blood Money (fiction); Ninety Saddles for Kengtu (fiction); Brief article and two color photos of native artist Frank White Eagle; First or Nothing (fiction); History Hinges on These Two Rivers - excelllent color photos of US troops near the Yalu River and US naval vessels in the Rhine - with brief article; Ike is My Boy - West Point's salty Old Sarge, Sergeant Marty Maher, reveals Ike's sports loves - article with four photos of Ike; Inch and a Half to Go - humor about women and maps; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features opera star Patrice Munsel. Couple of chips from top of back cover. Average wear. Library stamp on front cover and back page. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1975Features: NA-73X - first of a famous breed; RAF's Mustang 1; A-36 - Dive-Bombing Mustang; P-51 & P-51A - Early Development; P-51B & P-51C - The Razorbacks; ACQR Mustang Color Portfolio; P-51D - a sword in the heart of Germany; TP-51D - Mustang built for two; P-51H - last of the Mustangs; XP-51F/G/J - the Lightweights; Mustangs for the Air National Guard; Mustang People; The Early Days - developments that led to the birth of the mightiest sea-going weapon; The first carrier - the USS Langley; The New Breed - the Lexington and Saratoga and aircraft like the F4B and Helldiver controlled the seas in the 1930s; Carriers in Combat; The Post-War Carriers - they were kept busy with Korea, Vietnam and more; New Wings for the Fleet - upgrading carriers and their planes toward the year 2000; Listing of USN Carriers - a complete list of all USN carriers; The Stirrings of War; WWII - the Island War against the Japanese; ACQR Color Portfolio - 16 color pages; Leathernecks over Korea - MSMC vets meet again over Korea; Into the Jet Age - the Marines equip with jet aircraft; Master of Vertical Envelopment - USMC refines the methods of helicopter warfare; USMC in the 1970s - new aircraft boost its strength. Special issue devoted to the US Air Force Museum features articles on: how it was moved from Patterson Field to Wright Field; Color Portfolios; How the USAF made a Sopwith Camel; Saga of 33-324, a rare Douglas biplane; Restoring the last B-10; The last P-35; WWII; Royal Frey remembers; Shoo-Shoo Baby - the history of a B-17; Aircraft of the jet age; inventory listing; and more. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
1982Features: The rise and fall of the VNAF - the rise and fall of the South Vietnamese Air Force, from 1951 to 1975; America's Spitfires - the USAAF was second only to the RAF as a major operator of the Supermarine Spitfire - a review of their operational history in American service; The RAF in Greece - 1940/41 - the fulfillment of Britain's treaty obligations; CW-21 - the St. Louis Lightweight - the story of the relatively unknown Curtiss-Wright CW-21 fighter in WWII; Sixes and Sevens - completing the story of the 4-engined Douglas transport family, begun in AE/15 - the DC-6 and DC-7; The Blenheim in Yugoslavia - two successful years of Blenheim operations in Yugoslavia were followed by eight days of disaster in 1941; F13 - the Pioneer from Dessau - first flown in 1919, the Junkers F 13 was still serving after WWII; Armstrong Whitworth's Flying Wings - Laminar flow research and boundary layer control, as applied to the A.W.52 flying wings; Walrus - amphibious angel of mercy - designed by Reginald Mitchell; PR Flying and the Spitfire - an account of war-time photographic reconnaissance operations in the Middle and Far East; "Britain Captures Schneider Trophy" - this 1931 headline summed up the culmination of an 18-year endeavour; The MiG Killers of Korea - the North American F-86 Sabre achieved the greatest success in air-to-air combat; Fokker's D VIII - the reluctant Razor - the world's first operational cantilever-winged fighter; Caught by the wing-tip - C.E. 'Bud' Anderson's experiences as a test pilot in the wing-tip coupling experiments; Bombay - Pegasus Draught, Bristol Dray - the flying characteristics and operational career of the Bristol Bomber-transport; Quest for Altitude - The First Generation MiGs - a comprehensive account of the first fighters to bear the MiG appellation; Return of the Razorbacks - the restoration and flight demonstrations of the only Allison-engined Mustangs now extant; A seversky in the Spanish War - the SEV-3; Stratocruiser - ending an airline era - the role of the Boeing Stratocruiser in post-war air transport evolution; Destination - Disaster - how 8 new Saab B 18Bs of the Swedish Air Force met their doom, and how they came back; Estonian Air Power, 1918-1945. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
198334 pages. Features: B-52 Heavyweights in SAC; The Malvinas War - an Argentinian Viewpoint; Team Spirit 1983 - the annual exercise of US and Korea; Company C - Destroying the Marines; Elite Forces of the United Kingdom. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy loaded with great photos in colour and black and white. Magazine
1951182 pages. Cover: Al Parker Illustration. Special Features: The Women's Revolution in the Arab World; My Son Died in Korea; Why Not Draft Women?; Baby's 12th Month: A New Year, A New Horizon; How America Lives: A Home of Their Own - John and Laura Patrello; and Don't Overstress "Regularity". Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix, Zenith Television, and Seven-Up. Full page colour Max Factor Hollywood ad with Lana Turner. Full page colour movie poster for "September Affair" starring Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten. Full page black/white ad for Lux Flakes promoted by Diana Lynn. American Illustrators include: Al Parker, Jon Whitcomb, and Robert G. Harris. Above-average wear. Few small openings front/back cover fore-edge. A 2 inch opening front cover at top spine. A sound copy. Magazine
199582-minute colour VHS Hi-Fi tape. "...quite simply the finest program on Asian art that I have ever seen." - M.K. Hearn, Curator, The Metropolitain Museum of Art. Filmed on location, four beloved stories of India, Indonesia, Korea and Japan are told through the masterpieces of misual art and the stirring performances these tales have inspired for centuries." - from cover. Stories include: The Ramayana; Korean Masked Dance Drama; Gita Govinda; The Tale of the Genji. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1979Features: Divinely Deco - Jewellery in the 1930s; The Forgotten Charm of Victorian Watercolours; The Renegade Pre-Raphaelite - John Everett Millais; Furniture from the East, Part II, China, Korea and Japan; Crested China Souvenirs of the First World War; Transfer printing on Worcester Porcelain, Robert Hancock; and more. Average wear. Three-inch opening to front cover at top of spine. Magazine
2003Features: Contra-rotating Azipods for fast Japanese ferries; Optimising the design of new-generation Russian icebreakers; Membrane waste-water treatment for cruise liners; Paints for new-generation ships; Korea; Tanker technology. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1980248 pages. Footnotes. Black and white illustrations. "Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho was pastor of the world's largest church with over 100,000 members." - from front cover. Above-average but not excessive wear. Church library markings and pocket inside front cover otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1989Unpaginated. Printed on glossy stock. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. Covers basic drawing, anatomical study, design and expressive technique. Also presents many of the author's own illustrations. Address written inside front cover. Moderate wear to book. Average wear to dust jacket. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1898261 pages. Colour fold-out sketch map of central Korea. Tissue-protected frontisplate. Wonderful black and white photographic plates plus numerous black and white illustrations in text, complete per list on page A. Her conclusions are the result of "... a long and intimate study of a people whose isolation during many centuries renders a description of their character, institutions, and peculiarities especially interesting at the present stage of their history." - from Preface. Binding sound. Label of Rosa Fitz-George atop front free endpaper - See Wikipedia for details of this storied woman. Gilt lettering upon backstrip. Red and black decoration with gilt lettering upon front board. Fore-edge rough-cut. Above-average external soiling to boards and edges. Please note: Volume 2 not included. Book
1967Contents: Westinghouse ad features photo of the new Connecticut Yankee plant; Nice Cadillac color photo ad; Adam Clayton Powell; Photo of RFK preparing speech; Autocide; Group photo of Reagan, Nixon, Romney and Percy; Jim Garrison; Wharlest Jackson; Henry R. Luce; Vietnam War; Riots in Aden; South Korea - hope in the Hermit Kingdom; Nice ad for Chrysler 300; Photo of Beatles in moustaches; Helicopter traffic reporters Ross & Lange; Iraq Petroleum Co.; Photo of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) and family; Nice Ford Mustang ad on back cover; and much more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
2002238 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. "Tells the story of Canada's 'forgotten war' in which soldiers in Korea suffered needless casualties and endured conditions that bordered on criminal neglect." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Minimal library markings. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
1984125 pages. Presents the rich history of this historic Seoul hotel. Printed upon glossy stock. Illustrated with reproductions of black and white and colour photos. Slight lean to spine. Gift greetings upon title page otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A high-quality copy. Book
198868 pages. Colour cover photo of Canada's triumphant 100m Olympic world-record setting gold medal sprinter Ben Johnson.. prior to being stripped of his medal and record. Features: Ottawa offers compensation to Japanese-Canadians for their wartime humiliation; Ed Broadbent's Long Quest for Power; Marshal Inquiry testimony ends; Behind the boardroom doors of the Edper Group; Feature article on Ben Johnson - King of Seoul - with great colour photos; South Korea - Emerging Giant; Colour-photo one-page ad for Saga fox fur coats; Radon gas dangers; Vintage one-page ad for Zenith laptop computers; Special Report on Margaret Atwood's Triumph - article with colour photos; and more. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy of this memorable issue. Book
1955160 pages. Many black and white illustrations. Features: A Hundred Years of Regimental Organization; Exercise Bulldog III; Canada's Army in Korea (II); The Saiwan Bay Memorialk, Hong Kong; New Anti-Tank Weapon is Developed for Canadian Army; Guns and Guided Missiles; Army Battle Honours committee Formed; The Journal of the Royal United Service Institution; Hydrofoil Boat is developed; Flashback, No. 10 - On the Evening of Victory; The Battle of Borodino; Gunner Centennial; British Artillery Unit Allied with Canadian Army; A Brief History of the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers; A Canadian General Transport Company in Japan. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound reference copy. Book
1916Pages 482-576 + 30 pages of ads. Features: The "Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - article with photos; The Wreck of the 'County of Anglesea' - fight for the life of a capsized ship; Wanderings in Northern Persia - II - article with first-ever published photos of Kelat-i-Nadiri, the Gibraltar of Persia, and many other photos; A Fiery Ordeal - surviving a 1904 volcano on Mount Kloet on the island of Java; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth, part VII; From Job to Job Around the World, Part II - fantastic travelogue of two young Americans in Japan and Korea with wonderful photos; The Saving Shadow - Rev. Wm. F. Rigge of the Creighton University Observatory uses shadows to help acquit a man facing serious charges; A Motor-Boat in Mexico - the villagers had never seen anything like it;; The Marchwood Ghost Mystery - A Highland Regiment soldier committed suicide in 1885 and his ghost was supposed to haunt the sentry's beat;;"The Heathen Chinee" - principally concerned with the Chinaman's attitude towards railways - also tells some quaint stories about the 'spirits of wind and water' which rule his actions during and after his life - article with great photos, especially all the Chinese aboard a Shanghai-Nanking Railway engine they had fled only a week before; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
195380 pages. Features: Many sensational color ladies' fashion ads; Cover photo of Dwight Eisenhower with Robert A. Taft; Interesting one-page RCA ad featuring the transistor; What Course for the Powerful Mr. Robert A. Taft?; The Iron Barrier - photos from seven frontiers where the Communists face the rest of the world - Korea, Turkey, Austira, Indo-China, Yugoslavia, Germany and Iran; Anatomy of the Russian Communisty Party - from a small band of hunted revolutionaries it has developed into a sanctuary for the privileged; U.S. and U.N. - The Choices Before Us - criticisms from the American public; We can live longer - but for What?; Danger in What We Don't Know - high school seniors show appalling ignorance of the world they live in; Class of '53 - The men leaving college this year are perhaps the most popular in years - with business, industry and the military competing; Bill Mauldin's cartoon art from three wars; Then and Now - Celebrated German Aeronaut Hugo Eckener; One page photo-illustrated ad for State of Israel Bonds entitled "Out of the Desert... A Great Chemical Industry" with photos of the new fertilzier and chemical plant at Haifa; Nice one-page ad for the 1953 Nash Rambler; Fantastic one-page color ad for colorful Crosley plastic (bakelite?) radios; Nice color ad for Cheer laundry detergent; Photos of home interior designed by architect Oskar Stonorov; Samuel Plotkin - New York City's expert on food contamination, detects it largely by tasting; Rare one-page color ad for F.W. Woolworth Co. Easter treats; and more. Above-average external wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1967132 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Three generations of the Mitchell family are featured in Sohmer piano ad; Chinese Nuclear Research - article with photos; The World of the Unborn - the new medical specialty of Fetology; Holy Men of India - In Search of Seekers of the Truth; Don't Tell it to the Computer - the threat it represents to privacy; Toscanini - the Greatest Single Influence on Today's Conductors; George Plimpton - story with photos of his varied activities; El San Juan Hotel (Puerto Rico) ad features Lou Puro, Chairman of the Board; Sweater fashion photos; "Because I Say So" - raising children; Sensuous Cone Towel ad; 1966 Was a Happening for Home Furnishings; Save the Children Federation ad features the family of Nancy and John Seletti - and young Chang Sook of Korea; and more. Above-average wear to front cover which is almost loose. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
