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1966A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. 284 pages. Includes the plays Jungle of Cities, Drums in the Night, and Roundheads and Peakheads. First Black Cat printing.
1980Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 229 pages with short b&w photo page at back. Sections on Bronze drums, tuning of , in sets, musical patterns, style, Gamelan Munggang and early descendants, development and degeneration, paired tuning, etc.
1959Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine, a little shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 320 pages, green page ends, The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. publisher's page has the words "First Dell Printing" (mo. yr.). Blurb reads: "South Arica: 1893 -- seething with diamond fever, ravaged by wars, as natives resist the tide of invasion in a desperate attempt to keep Africa for Africans." Luckily there's a white guy with a rifle.
1942Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Edge wear and fading to cover. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Full-page black and white photographs of musical instruments faced with descriptive text.
1892pp. 389, (26) [Publisher's catalogue listing books on Electricity and Electric Railroads]. Illustrated with numerous drawings of electric motors, generators and accessories. Stamped ownership of Foster & Freeman, Patents, Dec. 5, 1893 Washington, DC on front paste down and page 100. Inner hinges cracked. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full blue cloth binding, slightly worn. Title page continues: Being a Summary of Current Periodical Literature Relating to Electric Railway Construction, Operation, Systems, Machinery, Appliances, Etc.". First Edition. Very good condition. VERIA 3
1901pp. 754 + Plus Index and portrait photo frontis of contemporary humorists. Illustrated with full page drawings. Text beginning to brown. Tall 8vo. Original full yellow cloth binding, slightly soiled. HUMOR 7
1894776p. + Frontis and full page plates. Marbled edges. Inked ownership. Small 4to. Original full embossed cloth binding, slightly worn. Hinges weak. HUMOR 5/4
1949pp. xvi, 365, (26)[Musical Examples], (xvii)[Index] + Plus numerous photographs. Inked ownership of Harry Emmitt Seyler. Bookseller's label. Small 4to. Original full decorated yellow cloth binding. Original dust jacket (small dampstain at top corner; slight chipping). Second printing. **PRICE JUST REDUCED. JAZZ 1
1917pp. 129-168. Sixteen pages of advertisements. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Staples rusting but otherwise a nice copy. WWI 13
192331p. Illustrated. Tall thin 8vo. Original full printed wraps. A picture of the Philadelphia factory illustrates the rear wrap. Spine punched otherwise a crisp copy. AUTO/1
191092p. Numerous illustrations. Heavily damp stained. May lack order blank. 8vo. Original full pictorial color wraps. Worn and damp stained. Includes: all sorts of automobile accessories; gas headlights; electric lamps; tires; speedometers; tire patches; goggles; mirrors; ford parts; battery boxes; tool boxes; etc. AUTO/1
in-4° 52 pages, broche, couverture illustree en couleurs. Livre + 2 CD Voici une methode actuelle pour batterie, simple, vivante, efficace. Avec ses 2 CD, elle vous apprendra plus de 50 rythmes utilisable en rock, hard rock, grunge, blues, funk, etc. Jouez avec le groupe ! Guidé par les CD, vous jouerez les morceaux, Etat ne Etat NEUF.
199321 pages. Delight in the story told by beautiful lyrics and surrounded by enchanting illustrations. Then press the magic button and sing along with the music arrangement while the melody plays from start to finish. Please note: battery appears to be dead as sound feature not working. Very attractively illustrated in color. Small niche to fore-edge of back board else very light wear. Unmarked. A lovely copy. Book
193639 pages. Features: Power Supplies for Large Buildings; Parallel Working of Alternators Simply Explained; Applications of Photo Cells to Mechanical Handling; Modern Methods of Battery Charging; A.C. Carbon Arcs; Electric Heating in Industry; Current Limiting Reactors; The Strowger Photo Tlelmetering System; Control gear for A.C. Motors; Power Factor Correction Plant; Recent Patent Specifications; Engineer's Experiences. Cigarette smoke odour. Small quantity of "nibbling" to top corner of front cover and first few leaves. Well worn but intact. Blue and orange front cover features picture of the vessel Queen Mary in an advertisement for Callender Cable which supplied 650 miles of cable for its construction. Two-colour center-fold advertisement for Crabtree Automatic Control Gear manufactured by J.A. Crabtree & Co. Ltd. Unmarked. Book
1936Approx 40 pages. Features: Recent Developments in Control Gear for Small A.C. Motors; Street Lighting at Birmingham; Power Factor Improvement to a Guaranteed minimum Value; Testing A.C. Meters; Magnetisers and Magnetising; Installing and Operating Constant Potential Battery Chargers; Factory Electrical Installations; Automatic Control of D.C. Motors by Motor Generators; Survey of Electric Welding Methods; Sound Film Apparatus. Cigarette smoke odour. Well worn but intact. Unmarked. Book
199044 pages. Features include: Back to the basics - the ultralight; First kill in the six year air war; Battle of Britain - a woman's view; Leaping Squadron Leader; Not just the Arrow; Those were the Days; Escape from the SPs; Return to the Rock; The Arrow rises from the Wreckage; From AC2 to Lieutenant-Governor; Tac Hel not glamorous; McKnight Defends Budget Cuts; Canada's next space mission; Air Command Pipes and Drums - Over 40; Stranraer Down and Out. Light to moderate wear. Address label upon back cover else clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1968145 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "A particularly readable account, rich in anecdote, of how medicine came to the magnificently beautiful but isolated places of upcoast British Columbia." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper else book clean and unmarked. Dust jacket sunned at spine and now protected in archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound working copy. Book
1937Stories: Alaska's Lone Eagles; A Really Dangerous Job; Long Odds; Trouble at Los Cruces; The Rivals; My Pet Panther; Land of Drums; The Great Thirst; Fighting 'Dope' Out East; El Diablo; Brazilian Beachcombers; The Girl Opal Miner. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
1900Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos and illustrations include: Troops around the Water-Cart after Colenso, Seaforth Highlanders Bivouacking, "Joe Chamberlain", Transport Leaving Southampton, Camp on Look-out Hill, Pretoria Jail (laid in), Hospital Ship Lismore Castle, Lord Roberts arrives at Cape Town, Mr. Lynch's Captivity, The Brighton Artillery Position Battery, Hampshire Volunteers for the front, Ladysmith images, Lubbes Hoop Farm, 16 photos of men killed at Spion Kop, Ladysmith, and Modder River, "D" Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery, departs Ottawa, In the Trenches at Ladysmith (centerfold), Lord Iveagh's Field Hospital Staff prior to Departure, Two-page illustration of "Canadian Artillery Entraining at Ottawa for the Cape" (laid in). Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
1985514 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. List of abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. Four colour plates. Several black and white illustrations. "A thumb-nail sketch of Royal Canadian Artillery batteries mobilized for service during the 1939 to 1945 conflict." - from Preface. "D.W. (Wilf) Falconer, who served the Guns from Dieppe to The Dollart has, through his dedication and untiring efforts, produced a reference work ensuring the units and details of their histories will always be remembered. The degree of accuracy and attention to detail... are second to none. It is my pleasure to recommend this book as a reference source to all students of military history and to all collectors of memorabilia of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery." - J.P. Beer, MBE, CD, Colonel, R.C.A. (Ret'd). Clean and unmarked with light wear. Possibly unread. Tight and square. A quality copy. Book
1983Features: How Sears, Roebuck won the West (includes 1902 ad for a 'bust developer' gizmo); Wyatt Earp and the Civil War - he answered the call of distant drums; Repeating rifles on the frontier - more popular on the post war frontier than revolving rifles were lever-action repeaters - Spencers, Henrys and others; A Gunfighter Craze is Sweeping the Country; A History of Wine in California - from Mission Grapes to Premium Wines; Black Bart (C.E. Bolton) - Backpacking Robber-Poet; Wild West Shotguns - They were even used for 'salting' mines; The Lost Wagon Train; Big Russell-Remington Collection in Fort Worth - Texas Oilman's Art Displayed at Gallery; He was hanged for *planning* a murder - A.J. (Andy) Hudspeth; Natural Foods of the 'Digger' Indians; Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1917Features: Giant relief map of Messines Ridge; Photo of General Sir Henry Wilson; Photo of Signor Caproni - Italian Aeroplane inventor; On the western front in Flanders - a railway laid by the Canadian Royal Engineers; Super two-page photo of a Baghdad street crowd watching British gunners hauling a heavy gun; General Allenby's advance towards Jerusalem; Romances of the Regiments - the 10th and the 37th; The "Friedrich der Grosse" brings U.S. troops across the sea; Two-page photo of a British Battery under attack near Passchendaele; Bad weather road traps on the Flanders front; using x-rays on the Western front; Devastation on the Flanders front; Admiral Mayo visits Sir David Beatty; Picking the brain of a captured Zeppelin; Women operating tractors; With General Allenby's Army in Palestine; Average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
1917Features: French Lance-Grenade Battery; Along Russia's long line from Riga to Armenia (4 photos); Forces behind the Russian Revolution (1-page article); Means and modes of locomotion in Mesopotamia; Past and present in picturesque Bagdad; Deadly British Mortar that Balks the Hun; Deceptive Trench-Forestry on the Ancre; On the way to Bapaume - a wingless butterfly; Italians watch effects of new French grenade; The flight from Bukarest - 2-page article plus 4 photos; Indian Empire after the War - article by St. Nihal Singh; 4 photos of Prussian piracy - windjammer torpedoed by U-boat in the Channel; The Scottish borderers on the Somme - article. Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
1962Features: I fished the finest spot in North America - Tazin Lake; Primitive weapons guard our jets at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines; Owner's Reports - Ford Falcon and Pontiac; GM Lift-off Hardtop; Build this safe sidewalk classic - it runs on a battery (complete plans); Midget go-anywhere power plant; Helicopter Airliners - Vertol 107/Rotodyne/Sikorsky S-61; The chemical war on weeds; "Hot Dog" tailpipe; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1937312 pages. Index. Black and white plates. Covers 10 years of the author's life... "what happened to me in the Great War, and then afterwards in the equally great Peace" - from Introduction. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Some spine slant. A worthy reading copy. Book
