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1898The second issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 114-224. Features: Canadian Curiosities - article with great illustrations; The Marvelous Feats of Juggler Ram Pershad; Earth Pyramids in the Rosengarten Mountains; "For the Company's Credit" - story of an ocean-liner race; The Queerest Monarch in the World - Mwanga, King of Uganda (illustrated article); The Wreck of the "Rising Sun" - fire at sea; Picnics in Perak - article with photo of many Malay sultans aboard elephants crossing a river; The Telegraphist of Neufchateau - true WWI story; The Romance of the Mission Field - part 1; Across the Atlantic in an Open Boat - article with photo of Harvo and Samuelson in their rowboat "Fox"; The Mysterious Tramp; Tree-Blazing - how explorers in Australia's interior mark trees to guide those who may come after them; Bagging a Man-Eater - Major A. St. H. Gibbons kills a lion to protect villagers - article with photo; "The Miracle of Moses" - the Platte High Line Canal in Colorado - article with photos; In Search of an Orchid; The Fiery Ordeal of Fiji - walking on coals (illustrated article; In the Ocean Depths - illustrated recollections of ocean diver John Pearce. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Last page is 224. It is uncertain if any pages were included after that. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
192336 pages. Features: Charming cover illustration by J.F. Kernan shows boy munching apple he has successfuly stolen from mean old man waving a stick in background; Nicely illustrated one-page ad for Keystone Standard Watches shows wealthy father and son with pocket watch; The Cradle of the President - photo-illustrated history of the Plymouth, Vermont ancestral farm of President Calvin Coolidge; The Best Way to Destroy the Corn ear Worm; A Big Market for Little Apples; Hank the Hired Man Cartoon; Four-Basket Farming - three more shots at Market if the wheat goes bad; Winter greens for hogs - pasture seems the real key to profitable pigs; Pharaoh's Daughter (fiction); Stairway of the Sun (fiction); The Agitator Horns In - his ballyhooed panaceas can work only to harm the farmer; Illustrated one-page Hupp Motor Car (Huppmobile) ad; Nice two-page ad (with red ball) for "Ball-Band" boots (shows beige moisture stains); Listening In on Livestock; One-page illustrated ad for McKay Shurout Tire Chains; Stevens rifle ad; Nice two-color illustrated ad for Atlantic galvanized metal-ware shows woman hand-washing clothes; Purina Hen Chow ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Moisture exposure to back cover and back pages has fortunately resulted in quite minor effect. Otherwise, a sound and complete copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
193324 pages. Features: Vintage illustrated ad for Peters shotgun shells on front cover; Publich Shooting Grounds; The American Jack Snipe Society; Advocating Game as a Replacement Crop; Canada Orders Buffalo Hunts; U.S. Sleuthing for Data to Aid "Duck Come-Back"; The Southwestern Club's Trials - article with photos of President Carl E. Duffield, Secretary Dr. Felix M. Adams and several dogs; Virginia Amateur Field Trials - article with photos of President Ernest C. Mead and Secretary J. Wiley King; Illustrated ad for Western Xpert shotgun shells; Field Dog Stud Book Registrations; Veterinary Q & A; Classy one-page ad for Radium Springs (near Albany in South Georgia) features hunters and dog at work; Nostalgic photo ad for Purina Dog Chow shows truckload of sacks of dog chow being manually loaded onto ship the Jacob Ruppert, Admiral Byrd's ship, before it set off for the Arctic in 1933 with 50 tons of food, enough for 153 huskies for two years; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
193492 pages. Text in French. Features: Le Chapitre Des Chapeaux; Ensemble a Cape Pour Le Printemps; Le Mouvement Projete En Avant; L'Ecole De Ski; Sous Le Soleil De Sestrieres; Les Nouvelles Collections; A La Decouvert; Le Massage Facial; Idees Nouvelles Dans Les Bikoux; Accessoires; Fraicheir Du taffetas Quadrille; S.A.R. La Princesse Marina De grece; Mue De L'Homme, par Jean-Richard Bloch; Matins de Printemps; Sur La Cote De Floride; A Burlington House; Sur La Scene; Many gorgeous vintage ads. Above-average wear. Soiling to front cover. Binding intact. Missing pages 71-72. A worthy reference copy of this marvelous vintage issue. Book
198532 pages. Features: Anecdotes about Early Franklin Autos; Franklins on Tour; Franklin with a Sole - photos and brief write-up about a Series 9 with shoe-shaped body built by Brunn & Company of Buffalo, NY; Reproductions of Franklin Sales Award documents; Custom Body Builder Locke & Co. - article and reproduction of ad; Photos of a barn find sold at auction; Mini Meet at Bennington; Who Said You Can't Find Them Anymore? - Milt Asher describes how he finally found what turned out to be a parts car - with photos; The Sun and Its Times - mini-sized air-cooled car made by a Toledo Company - article plus fabulous centerfold reproduction of ad; The Chedsey Family and their Franklins; The Pride of Johnsonville - the Franklin Type D touring car of J.I. Sewall; Restoration of a 1923 Demi-Sedan, by George A. Sloan; John Burns column on maintenance and restoration - Vehicle Fire Safety; Window Glass Bottom Channels; Reproduction of 1928 ad for the Ackerman Motor Car Co. featuring Franklin cars. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
1967Contains Sol Stern's important article 'NSA and the CIA' in which he exposes CIA funding of the United States National Student Association (NSA). 60 pages. Other features include: The Death of a President - The firing of U.C. president Clark Kerr; The Passamaquoddy Indians - a native tribe of eastern Maine; Jean-Paul Sartre - The Marxist Phase; The Social History of Hippies - article with many excellent color photos and works of psychedelic art; Book Reviews; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Address label removal patch on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
19216 pages. Nice cover photo of Al Jolson. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Coverfold mostly open. Additional sheet music affixed inside front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1946733 pages. Numerous pertinent and interesting news clippings laid-in. "It was Igor Gouzenko who revealed the existence in Canada of a wide-spread conspiracy to obtain secret official information. He has been a most informative witness and has revealed to us the existence of a conspiratorial organization operating in Canada and other countries. He has not only told us the names and cover names of the organizers, the names of many of the Canadians who were caught 'in the net' and who acted here as agents, but he has also exposed much of the set-up of the organization as well as its aims and methods here and abroad." - Introduction. Unmarked with average wear to blue card covers. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this fascinating and comprehensive Canadian cold war investigation report. Book
1973142 pages. Seven pages of sepia-tone photos of the band. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs, several of which have gone on to become classics: Busted Down Around O'Connelly Corners; The Captain and Me; China Grove; Clear as the Driven Snow; Cotton Mouth; Dark Eyed Cajun Woman; Disciple; Don't Start Me Talkin'; Evil Woman; Jesus Is Just Alright; Listen to the Music; Long Train Runnin'; Mamaloi; Natural Thing; Rockin' Down The Highway; Snake Man; South City Midnight Lady; Toulouse Street; Ukiah; White Sun; Without You. Small doodle inside front cover and store stamp upon title page, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Above-average but not excessive external wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful Doobie Brothers compilation, graced by one of the best album cover photos of all time - band in tophats aboard stagecoach beneath highway to nowhere. Book
199740 pages. Features: Deltaport and Duke Point prepare for opening; Wreck of the S.S. Cowichan discovered; Mystery of the Dog Watch; Nautical Inspector Alan Shard; The Oriental Express; The Sun Princess; Truckspotting at the Nordel Weigh Scales; and more. Few markings. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
199840 pages. Features: Shipping urchin roe from Aristazabal to the cities of Japan; Nini Ginivisian recalls her wonderful trip by freighter; The day the Sun Diamond struck the Erawan off West Point Grey; Go-ahead for new transportation authority in Greater Vancouver; Fraser Port's new berth decicated; CN and Illinois Central plan merger; Another record year for the Port of Vancouver; Kyle Washington appointed President of Seaspan; Cover photo of diver Rick Corless seaching red sea urchins; Average wear. A sound copy. Book
195344 pages. Features: Exploring the Oceans - article exploring the scope of oceanography up to the present - includes maps and photos, including photo of a Coelacanth caught on December 20, 1952; Strange Harbour; The "Cutty Sark" - Last of a Glorious Era; Revolt on the Clyde - Resistance to British Railways' plan to add four pleasure steamers to their Firth of Clyde passenger services - the Maids of Ashton, Argyll, Skelmorlie and Cumbrae; Line Squall; Boom in Morocco - sardines have become big business here since the war - article with interesting photos; Loss of the "Hannington Court" in 1941 - article with photo; A Naval Centenary; Excellent photo of the P. & O. passenger liner "Arcadia" under construction; and more. One-page ad for John Brown and Company presents the M.V. Ruahine, built for the New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. at Clydebank; Numerous additional excellent illustrated ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1923Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1945Features: Nice Ford ad inside front cover features colour illustration of an old-time barn raising; Man From Missouri - A vivid close-up of Harry S. Truman, the onetime plowboy who was pitchforked into the White House; Here's a Fine Stymie! - humorous article about golf and the impact upon it by WWII; To Chuck - With Love (short story); "They're Full of Love and Mozart" - Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro tours Eisenhower's Germany; Sissy Fish? No Sir! - Charley Hartman and his Ontario Government Trout Rearing Station (fish hatchery) at Cold Water Creek take care of almost 3 million trout (with photos); 25,000 Miles to Battle - Lieut. Stuart Keate, an officer of Canada's new cruiser, the H.M.C.S. Uganda, describes why war in the Pacific is different than War in the Atlantic; Well, Good Night (short story); Charles H. Scott, Director of the Vancouver School of Art, chastises Vancouver's art patrons of not supporting Canadian artists; Stage set for an election in England; Ottawa political report; On the Corner in the Sun (short story); What About Russia? - Will the men of the Kremlin enter the family of nations or erect a Russian Great Wall?; Music By Adaskins, Canada's most musical family - Murray, Naomi, Yanova, Frances Marr, John, Frances James and Harry; Three-Way X-Ray - LeRoy J. Leishman, a Los Angeles inventor, solves the problem of bringing depth perception to the fluoroscope with his stereofluoroscope; Nice colour half-page Orange Crush ad shows girl with dog; Additional ads for Canada Dry, Kotex, Palmolive soap, Castoria, Lysol, Absorbine Jr., Vaseline hair tonic, and many more; One-page ad for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board encourages readers to use sugar sparingly; Back cover Coke ad features colour painting of a happy scene in Brussels where Canadian troops imbibe with friendly locals. 50 pages. Unmarked with average wear. Faint discoloration to back cover. Please note: missing first page. Last page loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage issue from the tail end of WWII, printed mere days before Truman, featured in this issue, authorized atomic bombs to fall upon Japan. Book
197854 pages. Texte in French. Discographie. Two pages of black and white photos. Songs include: Berceuse; Combien j'aime la vie; Le grand repos; Toccatarock; La douce illusion; Un peu de pluie sur ma vitre; Flashback; Un piano au soleil (piano quatre mains); Transit; Chevauchee; Divine Denise; Pour endormir ma mere. Somewhat above-average wear. Store stamp on title page, otherwise unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy working copy of this popular compilation. Book
1871297p. illus. Library of Wonders" series Hardcover good condition in 3/4 blue calf, front cover detached
1936403p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition, minimal marginalia chipped d.j. fair Illus. by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
19306 p. l., 3-510, [1] p. incl. ports. front. 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition Signed by the author for a friend
LEGATURA IN BROSSURA EDITORIALE ILLUSTRATA, INTERNO CON VARIE IMMAGINI COLOR SEPPIA numero pagine: 240 formato: 22.5X14.6 stato conservazione: ABBASTANZA BUONO, PARZIALMENTE INTONSO
1990No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp tight copy with bright boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with traces of minor creasing to rear top edge. 317pp. From the experienced foreign correspondents who covered China throughout the 20th century. It covers the political and sometimes violent change which has taken place within the country, change which was so often led by students, up to the events of 1989 and the terrifying Beijing spring when the democracy movement was so savagely crushed by tanks in Tiananmen Square.
2007Book in 'as new' condition. 112pp. A concise study of our weather and climate change and the famous people who made the great discoveries about it.
1977Previous owner's name to title page. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 79pp. Taken from the author's book 'The Transition to a Post-Petroleum World'.
2002No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with small tear to upper rear spine corner and traces of storage. 272pp. Detailed descriptions of the moon and planets which make up our Solar System - and their exploration, navigation and proplusion systems. Very well illustrated.
1924In-8°, (4), 362pp, buono stato di conservazione, legatura in piena pelle alle armi in oro sui due piatti, angoli bordati di motivi in oro e bordatura in oro su entrambi i piatti, dorso con nervature con tasselli decorati e titolo in oro, completo di custodia, numerose illustrazioni, frontespizio in bianco e nero. In-8 °, (4), 362pp, in good condition, full calf binding with Louis XIV’s coat of arms in gold on the two plates, corners edged with gold motifs and gold edging on both plates, ribbed back with decorated ornaments and title in gold, complete with case, numerous illustrations, black and white ftitle page.
1976In 8 (22x13,5) Brossura editoriale, copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 470, ottimo
