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rif. BN92960Off Road Verlag. Das grosse Opel Frontera Buch: Ein Off Road Sachbuch. Baureihen FronteraFrontera Sport Gerst Theo; Kostall Ulrich and Leeb Luitpold Das grosse Opel Frontera Buch: Ein Off Road Sachbuch. Baureihen FronteraFrontera Sport Gerst Theo; Kostall Ulrich and Leeb Luitpold Das grosse Opel Frontera Buch: Ein Off Road Sachbuch. Baureihen FronteraFrontera Sport Gerst Theo; Kostall Ulrich and Leeb Luitpold Off Road Verlag unknown
2023rif. BN174916Kath Estrada 2023. 2023. Softcover. Dropshipping Dropshipping Kath Estrada Kath Estrada paperback
rif. BN314666Route 66: Auf der Traumstraße mit der Harley-Davidson Saladine Albert and Szymezak Pascal Route 66: Auf der Traumstraße mit der Harley-Davidson Saladine Albert and Szymezak Pascal Route 66: Auf der Traumstraße mit der Harley-Davidson Saladine Albert and Szymezak Pascal unknown
1964Pages 413-468 plus 4 pages of ads. Features: Cover Photo portrait Of The new King of the Hellenes, Constantine II, with Queen Frederika, at the funeral of his father; Photo of Princess Margaret with Kenneth Corney; Page of photos of celebrations upon the birth of Prince Edward; Two pages of dramatic photos and text from Cyprus - fighting in Ktima, threats of Turkish invasion, and first arrivals of the UN peace force; Photo-illustrated article on Paul, King of the Hellenes; Photo of riots in Phnom Penh; Photo of Geneva motor show; Photo of unveiling of statue of Pope Pius XII; Photo of 84-year-old Gen. Douglas MacArthur after surgery, escorted by Army Surgeon General Lieut. Gen. Leonard Heaton; Photo of the new president of Venezuela, Dr. Raul Leoni, receiving the sash of office from his predecessor, Pres. Betancourt; Page of photos of flooding in five states touching on the Ohio River basin include scenes near Williamsport, PA, the town of Sugar Grove, OH, Albany, IN, Shepherdsville, KY, an Ohio amusement Park, and Marietta; Photo of the first submarine ever built, the Fenian Ram, on display in Paterson New Jersey; Photo of Pope Paul receiving group of nuns recently expelled from the Sudan; Photo of jubilant George Lodge in Concord, New Hampshire where he defeated Sen. Goldwater and Gov. Rockefeller in the presidential primary; Photo of Independence Day children's party in Accra, Ghana, held by Mrs. Fathia Nkrumah, wife of the president of Ghana (also shown); Photo of the Royal Shakespeare Company applauding Yugoslavian president Tito at Belgrade; Book review of "King Edward VII" by Philip Magnus; Major coverage of Sardis excavations - part two; A survey of the 60 years of Anglo-French accord; One-page compilation of maps, text and photos describe's areas affected by the Anglo-French agreement, and the signatories to the document of April 8, 1904; Centrefold (free from staples) colour photos show the changing landscape of France; Entente Cordiale - page of historic photos illustrates France and Great Britain in peace and war; Entente Cordiale - page of photos of Anglo-French friendship since 1940; Page of photos illustrates how the English Channel is crossed by aircraft, ship, and train ferry, with artist's impression of future hovercraft car and passenger ferry; Impressive page of five aerial photos of huge French automotive manufacturing works - Renault, Simca, Peugeot, and Citroen; Two pages of photos illustrate developments in the aircraft and shipping industries of France today; One-page illustration of novelist, poet, broadcaster and one of the most vivid personalities living, Sir Compton McKenzie; Two pages of photos of the funeral of King Paul in Athens; Drawings of colonial America by John White; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Newman Flower, Sir Knox Helm, Mr. R. G. Routh, Sir Robert Clark-Hall, Gen. von Lettow-Vorbeck, Sir R. Robinson, J. Brian Neill, C. Robin Mayer, Col. Joan E. Henderson, Lord Newton C. Ron Jacobs, J. Michael Cowman, Gen. A. Jolly, Jack Ruby (sentended for death), Capt. David I. Holland, Lieut. Harold W. Welch, Capt. Melvin J. Kessler, and James (Jimmy) Hoffa (convicted of bribery); Photo of the teapot collection of Rev. C. J. Sharp; Photo of ticket barrier smashed by derailed car at Hammersmith underground station; Photo of funeral for 16-year-old cat named Peter, Whitehall's chief mice catcher; Photo of Cambridge University women's rowing crew after their victory over Oxford on March 14; One-page photo of polar bear cubs seeing the world for the first time at Whipsnade Zoo; Photo of Angus Ogilvy greeting the England women's hockey team before a match versus Scotland at Wembley; Photo of automatic ticket reading barrier introduced by London transport at Chiswick Park station; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1986108 pages. Many absolutely classic songs from the mid 1980s including: Air; And She Was; The Big Country; The Book I Read; Burning Down the House; Don't Worry About the Government; Give Me Back My Name; Heaven; Houses in Motion; Life During Wartime; The Listening Wind; Love Goes Building on Fire; Making Flippy Floppy; Once in a Lifetime; Psycho Killer; Pulled Up; Road to Nowhere; Slippery People; Stop Making Sense (AKA Girlfriend is Better); Take Me To the River; This Must Be The Place. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Be moved again by these unforgettable songs from the 80's. Book
1927Features: The Singing Tree - a story from the Bushveld of South Africa; The Road to Romanc - Part I of the amazing round-the-world travels of Cyril Holloway; Photo of ice-fishing in Vladivostock Harbour; Timber-Laden Round Cape Horn - a windjamming tale; An Aeroplane Adventure in Waziristan - the story of a British officer who was captured by the Wazirs; A Tenderfoot in Canada, Part II - a disastrous season on a prairie farm; Trapped in the Volcano of Kilauea, in the Hawaiian Islands; The Hundredth Chance - a story from the Union-Castle cargo-steamer Ripley Castle; What Happened to Ah Fong? - an unsolved Chinese mystery; Monasteries in Mid-Air - the remarkable monasteries of Meteora, in Greece - article with excellent photos; A Mystery of the "Bad Lands" - a cowboy story from Wyoming; The Rogue - a rogue elephant in central Africa; Bakhai, the Rebel of Babban Kurmi; The Mountain of Gold - conclusion of the author's journey to Canada; Nice vintage ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, the Muscle Builder. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1880Contains Acts relating to: Affidavits, Declarations, and Affirmations; Bills of Sale; Births Deaths and Marriages; Execution Creditors; Executive Council; Fences; Game; Graving Dock; Insolvency; Lands; Lieutenant-Governor and his Deputies; Members' Indemnity; Municipalities; New Westminster; Independence of Parliament; Partition; Police Constables; Quesnelle River Ditch Company; Sheriffs and Appointment of Registrars of the Supreme Court; Supply; Property Taxes; Telephone Company (Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Co.); Tolls (Cariboo Waggon Road); Victoria City; Waverly Hydraulic Mining Company. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
1883Contains Acts relating to: Act Interpretation, Regulation of Coal Mines, Prospecting for Coal Mines, Coroners, County Courts, Assize and Nisi Prius, Superior Courts, Creditor's Relief, Attachment of Debts, Sumas Dyking, Evidence, Ferries in Municipalities, Game, Island Railway - Graving Dock and Railway Lands, Jurors and Juries, Justices of the Peace, Crown Lands, Married Woman's Property, Minerals, Prospecting for Minerals, Municipalities, Salt Spring Island, Provincial Officers, Quesnelle Lake Dam, Columbia and Kootenay Railway, Fraser River Railway, New Westminster Railway, South Wellington Railway, Sleighs (on Cariboo Trunk Road), Stipendiary Magistrates, Supply, Victoria City Official Map, Victoria Transfer Company, Voters, Eagle Pass Wagon Road, Yale Fire Brigade, Extention of Yates Street in Victoria. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Ex-Library
1935Pages 85-168, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Queen Side of Things - The Shot That Failed; Derelicts of Misfortune; Short Stories - The Novice, My Friend the Sea; Clearing the Road; Through Borneo by 'Bus; Tshaka's Treasure; When Davy Jones Invaded Eden; Work-Hunting in New Zealand - part 1; A Run on Raincoats; Phases of Life - When the Tanker Took Fire, The Tribal Law, Streets Paved with Gold; Man and His Needs; Stamps of the World. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
1936pp. xii, 305. Map upon front endpaper. Numerous black and white photographic plates. " A masterly account of the first solo flight made from Great Britain to Canada via Greenland. Recounts author's mishaps, his crash at Iceland, his second attempt, his Greenland adventures, and his ultimate success. Also includes much that is extremely interesting about Mr. Grierson's record flight from India to Great Britain and his experiences of winter aviation in Europe. Tells of an intrepid piece of pioneering courageously carried out, but which history has, perhaps, been made." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name and date atop half-title page else unmarked. Average wear. Binding sound. Some spotting and soiling to edges. Small chips, tears and yellowing to dust jacket. Nice copy overall. Book
1979538 pages. Fifteen maps. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. "With very few exceptions, the only written sources for the past four hundred years have come not from the islanders themselves, but from the pens of the ship captains, traders, missionaries, administrators and roustabouts who visited the islands from afar. The history of Micronesia, then, is one that is written by foreigners." - from Preface. A sampling of the eighteen chapter titles includes: Conquest and Colonization; On the Road to China; A Nest of Rogues and Runaways; Copra Becomes King; The White Man's Law; The South Seas Mandate; Ruin and Reconstruction; and more. Light wear. Binding tight. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Minimal foxing to edges and front free endpaper. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this valuable reference. Book
1995376 pages. Numerous black and white illustrations. The history of Lumby, British Columbia and surrounding area within a five mile radius. Topics include: Pre-village, Town History, Mills and Logging, Churches, Clubs and Organizations, Schools, Armed Forces, Lumby Queens, Sports, Parades, Farming, Cemetery list, Family histories, Houses and Buildings, and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Lovely copy. Please note that this book represents Volume II (only) of the Lumby history. Volume I covers the years 1877-1927 and is listed separately. Book
195852 pages. Features: Cover photo of sulphur storage in B.C.'s Peace River Country; The Day the Yanks Flew Through Hell - treetop bombing of Romania's Ploesti oil refineries by 163 giant B-24 Liberators on August 1, 1943 - article with photos and illustration; Nice colour photo full-page ad for Ogilvie Macaroon Mixes; The 500 Children I Short-Changed - Fred Sloman taught school in Northern Ontario between Capreol and Foleyet for 40 years but feels there were many children he could have helped more than the many he did - article by him, with photos; Nice full-page ad for Lux soap featuring Mitzi Gaynor; Why Film Stars Get Into James - photos of Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney and Lana Turner; My MVD Man Can Lick Your MVD Man - Part 2, by Art Buchwald who recounts his recent three weeks behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; How Much Are You Worth To Your Widow? - Lloyd Lockhart examines Death Duties; Hollywood's Secret of Weight Control, by Jean Manning - with flattering photos of Alexis Smith, Ann Miller and Mrs. James Mason; Patterson's Just Too Good - Tex Coulter Writes of his former Montreal Alouettes star teammate Hal Patterson - with photo and illustration; Science Explodes Some Myths About Your Hair, by John E. Gibson; Nice colour full-page ad for Noxzema skin cream; Walter Murdoch - a man of many hassles; Noise Can Change Your Life - man is on the verge of becoming submerged in a sea of intolerable self-made sound; The Spanish Mick - fiction; The Wolf is Here to Stay! - a northern B.C. article with photos including a shot of Sylvia Woywitka with a huge wolf fur; Can We Justify Spending Millions in the Arctic? - photo illustrated article examines the development of infrastructure in the north; The High Places - Fiction; Debbie Reynolds in Lustre-Creme Shampoo ad; Let Teenagers Run Their Own Parties; Crossword; Rural Route Cartoon by Walter Ball; Food Article by Marjorie Elwood with colour photo of judges Denyse Pesant, Laura Pepper, Helen McKercher, and author; Colour photo full-page ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti and meat balls; Nice colour full-page ad for Red Rose tea. Small piece missing from back cover. Above-average soiling and wear. A worthy vintage copy with lots of interesting content and photos. Book
1961Feature articles include: The Pressures Against Air Safety; My Other Books, by James Michener; The Baffled Young Men of Japan, by Peter Drucker; Senator Dodd vs. Kenneth Tynan; New Start in Foreign Policy; The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King - James Baldwin; Can de Gaulle Avoid Civil War?; Hoodlum Priest and Respectable Convicts; Mr. Justice Black, the Supreme Court, and the Bill of Rights; Surgery for Strokes; The Tyranny of Multiple-Choice Tests; Writing the "Inside" Books; How to Talk to People, If Any, on Other Planets; California's $2 Billion Thirst; "Anti-Americanism" in Canada; Trial by Combat in American Courts; Adenaurer and McCloy; The Good Slum Schools; The Happiest Creatures on Earth?; John Gunther; Adam Yarmolinsky; Special Supplement - the mood of the Russian People; Secret Angola; Portrait of Bevin; Up-to-date Texas; Nobel Prizes; Apocalypse; A cure for bewitchment; The Pitchman; America's Wandering Scholars; The Coming Bust in the Real Estate Boom; The American Negro's New Comedy Act; William Carlos Williams; A Small Atomic Accident; Riesman and his Readers; and more. Light wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
1963Feature articles include: The Apish Origins of Human Tension; The Hard Kind of Patriotism; The Impregnable Boston Symphony; How America "Solved" the Servant Problem; Rockefeller's Triple-threat Brain Trust; The Case for Fast Drivers; Washington's Chance for Splendor; The Troubled Conscience of American Business; The Military's Limited War Against Segregation; A special duty for Republicans; Special Supplement - The Tangled Romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson; Whatever happened to the peaceful atom; Our Most American Animal; "Consider Me a Communist" - a Portrait of Evtushenko; Latin - the Church's Mother Tongue?; On the Road in Brazil; Governing Buckley by the Numbers; Danger in our Medical Labs; Louisiana's Wonderful Invention; The Multiversity; Be My Host; Balanchine's Return to Russia; How Not to Integrate the Schools; The Lost World of Cape Canaveral, 1911; Is Kindness Killing the Arts?; How Buinessmen Can Fight "Big Government" - and win; Days and Nights in Texas; Mrs. Roosevelt Does a TV Commercial; Restraints on American Catholic Freedom; My Anti-headache Diet; Africa's New Elites; California Wines - A Look at the Vineyards around the Golden Gate; How to Treat the Broadway Malady of 1963; The Slow, Quiet Murder of Tax Reform; Detroit's Surprising Mayor; The Debate Over Velikovsky - An Astronomer's Rejoinder; The Angry Young Women; and more. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
194984 pages. Features. Cover illustration of outport village, Port de Grave, Newfoundland; Nice colour ad for International heavy trucks inside front cover; The Fabulous Shoemaker - Tom Bata, probably Canada's richest man, controls a million-a-day shoe output - part 1; Whirlaway to Work - interesting photo-illustrated article on using helicopters for urban transportation; The Lovers - story by Mona Williams - illustrated by Allen Richardson; Labor Cleans House - Stalin's stooges boss some of our key unions - it's a tough, nasty fight to unseat them but labour is doing it - article with photos; The Man with the Mail from Minsk - Samuel Hoffman has been delivering the mail along route 103 in Toronto for 25 years - article with photos; They Pay as They Sway - Arthur Murray Dance Lessons - article with photos; Wrestler Whipper Billy Watson (nee Potts) - article with colour photo; So You're Buying a Used Car; 10,000 Men for Dinner - Crawley and McCracken are the continent's biggest bush-camp caterers -article with photos; A Place for Children - story by Alec Rackowe - illustrated by W. Book; Young Man of the World - Garry Davis has renounced his US citizenship and declared himself a citizen of the world - article with photos; Now They Get Medicine From Blood - Attractive centerfold ad for the new custom Dodge car; Attractive two-page colour ad for the great new Plymouth; Sweet two-page colour ad for the Elegant new Chrysler; Nice two-page colour ad for the new Dodge; Handsome two-page colour ad for the distinctive DeSoto car; Ad for Austin 3 and 5 ton trucks; Full-page colour ad for Stokely's tomato juice. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
194352 pages. Features: Colour Sunkist orange juice ad inside front cover; Fairchild Engine and Airplain Corporation ad - 'From Plans to Planes at Wartime Speed; End of Steel - Dawson Creek, B.C. is a hundred boom towns rolled into one, a stampede, a bedlam of activity... on the road to Tokyo - with photos; Movie Boom - war has brought Canadian movie theatres their greatest boom - 180 million customers a year; Story - Sockeye in the River, by Clive Grierson Cornish; Navy Type - Trent Frayne writes about life aboard a Canadian minesweeper - with photos; Lightning - article by William B. Crist; Inside Germany, by Alfred Kantorowicz - article with photos; Story - The Touch of a Vanished Hand, by Laurence Wilson; Sky Troops, by Ronald A. Keith - Canadians who will soon be dropping into Hitler's back yard - with photos; RCAF recruiting ad for women; Nice colour ads for Nabisco Shredded Wheat and Pepsi-Cola (in the old bottle style!); Colour ad for Orange Crush - showing the old brown glass bottle!; Colour GoodYear ad on back cover shows a downed air crew in a life raft being rescued by a plane. Address label atop front cover. Average wear. A sound wartime issue. Book
1965Features: nice colour photo ad for the 1965 Beaumont inside front cover; Can we succeed in NATO without really trying?; How to survive in the CBC jungle - and other TV Tribal secrets - Percy Saltzman interviews Patrick Watson and Douglas Leiterman; Madman on the Bridge, by Kenneth Walker, MD; Churchman Reverend A.C. Forrest talks back to critic Pierre Berton, author of "The Comfortable Pew"; Toronto - Canada's high-rising, high-living, heady new sophistocate, by Ian Sclanders; When little Tommy Burns outslugged the biggest brutes in boxing - a Maclean's flashback to the stridently Canadian boxer who barnstormed around the world in 1908 - with photos; How Canada Lives - the winter Samaritan of Ile-aux-grues - Albert Vezina wrestles a freight-laden boat over Canada's toughest delivery route to keep a St. Lawrence island alive; Now we know why C.D. Howe had Churchill screaming 'sellout' regarding uranium in the second world war. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
194698 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; What became of swimmer Trudy Ederle; Rare one-page photo ad for Sikorsky Aircraft featuresS-51; Classy color ad for Lincoln cars - "Nothing Could Be Finer"; Color ad for Borden's instant coffee features 'dumb' husband serving wife in twin bed; Neat Jeep ad shows Jeep on side with arrows indicating design features such as PTO (power take off) at front and back; Fifteen photos of Harry Truman accompany article on him; Tony Doto - a soldier trained to kill has trouble in civilian life; Mr. Truman's plan for the Middle East; What price Soviet-Iranian Accord? - with photo of Dr. Ali-Akbar Daftary and his daughter, Iran Ala; Middle East - Bevin, Pashas, and Peoples; Herbert Hoover pleads for food for children; Manchurian scramble in China; Photo of Hirohito; Nice color-photo Kodachrome ad; Nice color centerfold ad for Jones & Laughlin Steel features over the road freighting illustration - before steel; The New France watches the Rhine; Velasco Ibarra loses friends in Ecuador; Brief obituaries for C. Oscar Strand, Thomas Dixon, and composer Vincent Youmans; Photo of 13-year-old Jerry Mullen of Los Angeles having glass removed from his backside - the 15th trip to hospital for this accident-prone boy; Nice one-page ad for Western Air Lines - America's Pioneer Airline; National black market in lumber - 'peckerwood' sawmills; The town of Arlington, MO is sold by Fred Pillman for $10,000 - with photo; Nice Delta Airlines ad; Nice one-page color ad for the Gilbert Paper Company of Menasha, Wisconsin, provides aerial illustration of their snow-bound plant; Nice ad for Gaylord Boxes; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Clear tape along coverfold. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
193840 pages. Features: Nice two-color addressograph ad inside front cover; AT&T charged with waste and extravagance; Gargantua the gorilla leads a streamlined new Ringling circus to town - article with photos; George Jean Nathan; Franco's offensive rolls forward; Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn defies clergy and puts over sweepstakes bill; Francis William Rickett and Ben Smith - mystery men of Mexican oil; Photo of smiling FDR with Marvin McIntyre; Photo of Father Charles Coughlin of Detroit; Negro politician Nathaniel Brewer, of Cambridge, MA; Squaws riot in Northern Minnesota; Interesting article on Key West, Florida; Nazis put their Nordic paganism into print - rules for marriage ceremonies in the Temples of Blood; Photo of the Prince of Liechtenstein and his wife; The Soviet Union's NSRA (Northern Sea Route Administration) is one of the few government agencies to escape the Stalin purge; Tsung Tsai Chiang becomes Stalin of China; Egyptian feud between Farouk I and Nahas Pasha; Fantastic hockey photo shows American goalie Earl Robertson playing against the Chicago Black Hawks; Nice photo of Joan Blondell with police; Burial announcement of Col. Edward M. House - and picture of him with Woodrow Wilson; Nice one-page photo ad for the Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera; Interesting photo of black children at Milk Bar - Rev. Amos H. Carnegie; Interesting picket outside Boyles Furniture Store in Utah; Labor Racketeers Still Flourishing; Nice photo ad for Warner & Swasey turret lathes of Cleveland; C.I.O. seamen picket Maritime Commission offices in Washington; Leonor F. Loree leaves the D.& H. (with photo); Nice color ad inside back cover for San Francisco tourism features illustration of rotating street car; Back cover color photo ad for Four Roses whiskey features letter from John Chapman. Average wear. Unmarked. Small clipping from page 7. A worthy vintage copy Book
195136 pages. Features: B.C.'s Contribution to Northwest Defences - 21 Miles of Mud Road - the worst section in the 6,000 miles of roads connecting Florida to Fairbanks!; B.C. Truckers Are Losing $1,000,,000 Per Year - due to antiquated customs regulations; From Montana to the Klondyke (conclusion) - the experiences of Frank R. Miles - this part covers an expedition to the head of the White River in 1900 and the discovery of native copper - article with photos and map; Proposed Cost Highway to Alaska of Great International Importance; Should we make Canada and the US into One Country?; Modern Tugs Ply Upper Fraser - photos with captions of the Westply III and IV; Central B.C. Airways Inaugurates Daily East-West Service - photos with captions; Political article by O.R. Baxter who thinks one of our few remaining freedoms is to think; Beans for Busbies - an appeal has been made to prospectors to search for Manganese; Nice Finning Caterpillar ad on back cover with illustration of a cat pulling a loaded arch through the woods; Dozens of nostalgic ads for local businesses. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1991277 pages. Index. "The discovery of ancient road networks in the New World is a puzzle, since they predate the use of wheeled transport vehicles. But whatever their precise functions, they are among the only tangible indication of how extinct American societies were ordered in space." - back board. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Several blank stickers to contents. A sound reference copy. Book
191642 pages. A fascinating and important issue devoted to rousing American anger against Germany, particularly as a result of U.S. lives lost in the sinking of the Lusitania. Clearly, the people behind Life Magazine wanted the United States to become involved in WWI. Readers may draw parallels to recent history when 'fanatical Muslims' allegedly carried out the 9/11 attack, thus providing a pretext for George W. Bush to thrust his country into war in the Middle East. Covers detached from textblock. Last page almost loose. Unmarked. Above-average wear but still a quality copy of this significant piece of the historical record of America's road to entry into World War One. Magazine
194328 pages. Features: Cover illustration of "Silent Telephony on the Battlefront" - showing one of our troops in Tunisia using throat microphones and "silent speech" transmitters to report to base from under the noses of the enemy; Scenes during the Eighth Army's Advance into Tripolitania - includes photos of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines removed from the airfield at Marble Arch; Dramatic two-page illustration of the damaged Stirling bomber piloted by Flight Sergeant Rawdon Hume Middleton about to plunge into the Channel - how he won the Victoria Cross (V.C.) - Devotion "Unsurpassed in the annals of the Royal Air Force"; The Great World War - Lessons from Papua - article by Cyril Falls; Rabaul - Main Japanese Base in New Guinea Area Campaign - three illustrations and two photos; The German Retreat Across the Snow - Dramatic Views of Hitler's Sorry Army - Russians Close on Their Heels - 13 photos; How a "Liberty" Freighter was built in less than five days - Henry J. Kaiser's shipyards built the "Robert E. Peary" using pre-fabricated sections; Photos of personalities and events of the week - including Von Ribbentrop welcoming Laval to Berlin, Lloyd George at age 80, and a ceremony in London honouring American airman Sec. Lieut. Johnson; Pictures Behind the News - photo of the new Lockheed Constellation on its maiden voyage, aerial photo of now free Leningrad; A Japanese Bomber's Suicide Dive on the U.S. Aircraft-Carrier "Hornet" - dramatic photos; Centerfold illustration of Captain Robert Sherbrooke, V.C. in H.M.S. "Onslow," Challenging Superior Naval Forces of North Cape; Photos of enemy bombers down over London; Scenes in Malta's War Headquarters; Illustration of Flak over London; Three dramatic photos show Squadron Leader T.M. Bulloch settle the fate of a U-boat; Two-page illustrated map indicates the vast economic development of French Africa - roads and communications from Algeria to Congo; The Trans-African Air Route - a six-thousand miles daily flight over virgin forests and desert tracts - three great photos; The Rivals of Rubber - article by E.S. Grew; Nice colour-illustrated ad for Johnnie Walker on back cover; Unmarked. Average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Book
rif. 51860Leipzig Georg Joachim Göschen 1830. . Verlags-Bibliographie Göschen 1785-1838 Nr. 1027. Vgl. Studien zur Verlagsgeschichte u. zur Verlegertypologie der Goethezeit S. 190. - Einband stark beschabt Textteil gebräunt/stockfl.; erste Karte gebräunt sonst nur gelegentlich stockfleckig im weißen Kartenrand. - Allgemeine Übersicht. Topographie der vorzüglichsten Orte von A-Z. Grenzkolorierte Karten von Königreiche ENGLAND SCHOTTLAND u. IRLAND; Gibraltar Malta Helgoland Ionien; die Kolonien: Britisch-Ostindien Kap-Kolonie Westindien afrikanische Westküste Goldküste Guinea Mauritius St. Helena Nordamerika Hopparo Britisch-Guyana Australien. - Der königlich sächsische Kammerrat W. E. A. v. Schlieben 1781-1839 Statistiker u. Oberlandfeldmesser war Mitbegründer des Statischen Vereins in Sachsen 1831-1850 u. Leiter des Zentralkomitees des Vereins. Leipzig, Georg Joachim Göschen, 1830. unknown