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1964160 pages. Features: What was killed was not only the President but the Promise; How to Survive in the Kremlin; General Westmoreland - inheritor of a wretched war; The Road Back for teh G.O.P., by Jacob K. Javits; White Mercenaries on a 'rabbit hunt' in The Congo; Photos of the new Verrazano-Narrows bridge; Michelangelo Antonioni - 'Most Controversial Director'; Gallery of Presidential Also-Rans, including Goldwater-Miller; The dizzying pace of Luxembourger life - and why Common Market bureaucrats don't want to make it their headquarters; After the Yankees What? - a TV Drama - C.B.S, the Columbia Broadcasting System; New Musicals, New Songwriters; Petain - of Verdun, of Vichy, of history; When children don't achieve. Crossword completed in pencil. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
194548 Pages. Features: Portrait of General Douglas MacArthur on front cover; Charming one-page color ad for HArriet Hubbard Ayer's Pink Clover fragrance; One-page photo ad for General Electric demonstrates some of their war machines that save lives; The Japanese Common Man is our Problem in Japan - article with dramatic photo of Japanese POWs in Guam listening to surrender broadcast from Tokyo; Two-page photo montage of faces of the Japanese people; Let Us Remember What Our Dead Died For; The British Labour Party seeks socialism, not communism - Harold Laski explains the difference; Highballing Over the 'Big Hump' - viewing the continental divide by rail is very popular; France requires a new birth of freedom; Color ad for De Beers; Confessions of a Sunday Painter; Charming one-page color ad for Florida Grapefruit juice shows happy family in garden; Twelve photos of popular outdoor night dancing in New York; Leslie L. Biffle is the Sage of Capital Hill; Nice Temple Radio ad; American Export Lines one-page ad features nice woodcut by Rockwell Kent; Full-page Boeing ad shows photo of a C-97 transport being loaded with a truck; Charming full-page color ad for S and W apple juice; Mrs. Clement Atlee - Hostess of No. 10 Downing St.; Chinese Food and Flavor; Parent and Child - what to do when father comes home; Nice color ad for Ten-B-Low cream; Two pages of gorgeous formal ladies' fashion photos; Sexy/leggy ad for Mojud hosiery; Charming full-page color-photo ad for Revlon "Sheeer Dynamite" face powder; Central Park Skippers - sailing model boats; Nice full-page color ad for Virginia Rounds cigarettes; Controversies over the Star Spangled Banner (national anthem); Nice color ad for Hellmann's Mayonnaise on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue. Book
1729rif. 828641729. University Printer Oxford. 1729 to printed title page. Printed and Sold by Sam BirtSuccessor of Mr. Robt. Whitledge deceased at the Bible and Ball in Ave Mary Lane London. to extra illustrated title page. 12mo. 13 x 7.5cm. A2- T12. Engraved portrait frontis. of George I who had died two years before the title page date so we are presuming that both the frontis and the extra engraved title have come from an earlier edition of the prayer book. This volume also includes 49 engraved plates printed on only one side of paper - the reverse being blank. Bound in early 18th century full crimson morocco decorated in blind slightly worn along edges. All page edges gilt. Blank endpapers to front of volume contain 4 separate ownership inscriptions. One central gathering of pages and a few odd leaves are slightly proud of main contents. Inner hinges visible at front and centre but sound. Final blank leaf is loose. Apart from these faults a clean and sound copy of a pocket prayer book from the early 18th century. unknown
1988rif. 549163London: People's Publications 1988. Paperback in very good condition. George Orwell a close friend of Common called 'Freedom of the Streets' "the authentic voice of the ordinary man the man who might infuse a new decency into the control of affairs if only he could get there but who in practice never seems to get much further than the trenches the sweatshop and the jail". Light shelf wear to the covers and page block is lightly tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Paperback. Very Good. Used. People's Publications Paperback
1828rif. 960F53London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1828 . First edition. Unbound. Good Only. 13.5" by 8.5". Henry R. Palmer. Illustrated with a folding colour map this is a very scarce legal act aiming to consolidate existing legislation relating to the London Docks. A very scarce 1828 act being 9 Geo. IV. Sess. 1828The London Docks Consolidation Act of 1828 was an act of Parliament that consolidated and amended existing legislation regarding the construction and operation of the London Docks.It aimed to streamline the legal framework for the docks which were vital for trade and commerce. Specifically the act dealt with the London Dock Company's authority to make improvements and modifications to the docks affecting areas like Charles Street and Farthing Fields.Illustrated with a folding colour map by Civil Engineer Henry R. Palmer titled 'Plan of the London Docks Exhibiting the Proposed Entrance and Entrance Basin at Shadwell'. Unbound with title page bound to the rear. Loss to upper half of first text leaf page 1 with significant closed tear and neat repairs to following leaf. Internally binding significantly strained with title page tenderly held and with folding map detached but present and binding especially tender between pages 68 and 69. Pages lightly age toned with light handling marks and spots. Closed tears to folding map. Good Only George Eyre and Andrew Strahan unknown
rif. 25437BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH. Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill and others. 1773. 8vo. Red morocco with gild stamped design all edges gilt. Unpaginated. This prayer book is bound in straight grained morocco with a simple but elegant blindstamp design on the front and rear covers outlined in gold and a repeating design along the spine separated by gold bands. Early printed bookplate on front paste-down and two ownership signatures in ink on the verso of the first blank. Front hinge weak but still attached some foxing browning to spine and edges of boards a good copy. unknown
rif. 25437BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH. Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill and others. 1773. 8vo. Red morocco with gild stamped design all edges gilt. Unpaginated. This prayer book is bound in straight grained morocco with a simple but elegant blindstamp design on the front and rear covers outlined in gold and a repeating design along the spine separated by gold bands. Early printed bookplate on front paste-down and two ownership signatures in ink on the verso of the first blank. Front hinge weak but still attached some foxing browning to spine and edges of boards a good copy. unknown books
193456 pages. Features: Colour Imperial (Oil) ad inside front cover features old-style gas pumps and bottled oil; Editorial topics include Preserving Balance, The Limit of Freedom, The Limit of Socialism, The Impasse, Adult Education, and Strong Medicine; Nice one-page ad for Waterman's pens features photo of artist Howard Chandler Christy; Travel for the Average Man - article which touches on the tough economic times of the day; Rain Before Seven (short story); Echo of Erin (short story); Modernizing the Land of the Master - great photo-illustrated article on Palestine; The Man Who Lived in Twilight (short story); The Native Returns - photo-illustrated article on Robert Watson's return to the place of his rural Scotland boyhood; One-page Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Henry Field of Chicago; The Birth of a Novel (fiction); Nice one-page illustrated Ford car ad shows stylish coupe and traffic cop; Movie News includes photos of Margaret Sullavan, Douglas Montgomery, Rosemary Ames, W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Una Merkek, Harold Lloyd, Hugh Williams, Helen Twelvetrees, and more; Interesting one-page Lux ad features photo of gagged man; Palmolive ad includes photo of Gladys Swarthout; One-page ad features several Heinz food products; Two-page General Motors of canada ad says "Progress out of the Common Sense of Canadian Motorists"; Legal article; Investment news; Half-page Canadian National photo-ad features budget vacations in Eastern Canada; Cooking article; World Sayings; Chipso ad inside back cover includes colour photo of Mrs. R.L. Pine and her family, plus her black dishwasher Birdie (Bertha); and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Covers detached but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1941Pages 161-192. Features: Cover photo of German aircraft downed at Palmyra with Vichy markings painted over swastika - absolute proof of collaboration between Vichy and the Axis powers; Photos of personalities of the week include Wing Commander Whitney Straight, Sir Emsley Carr, Sgt. Pilot James Allen Ward, V.C. (the first New Zealand V.C. in the present war), British POWs from Syria detraining at Baalbek; New British 18-ton "Crusader" tank; Photos of the "Beaufighter"; R.A.F. Channel rescue craft; Six photos of fighting at see in the Mediterranean and in Heligoland Bight; Air-photo of submarine building yards at Le Trait bombed by "Blenheims" in daylight; Two-pages of illustrations demonstrating that tanks are not invincible; Fishermen at War (article); Photos of British units ousting snipers from the ruins of Zenobia's Palmyra; Seven great sepia-tone photos illustrate the end of the Syrian campaign as Beirut fetes the entry of Allied troops under Generals Wilson and Catroux; Two pages with ten fascinating photos from the Russian Front, showing U.S.S.R. army units fighting with magnificent elan against the common enemy; Soviet Russia At War (article); Photo of signing of Poland's Pact of Friendship with Russia - Prime Minister Sikorski and M. Maisky, with Eden and Churchill at head of table; Centerfold illustrations demonstrate the value of pigeon-post as an accessory to wireless in war; Four excellent photos of the "Fortress I" bomber as it arrives in England - on its way to Germany; Two pages of photos of night and day scenes at a Fleet Air Arm training station; Two pages of photos of construction of the "Trans-Saharan" rail line to Dakar - with map and two artist's renderings of the diesel electric locomotives planned to service the line; Romantic discovery of a vast and unknown cavern on Mendip - article with three photos and map; Three pages of photos inside the newly-discovered Stalactite Caves at Mendip; Half-page photo-illustrated ad for the British Power Boat Company; Nice half-page Burberry services equipment ad; more vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this informative wartime issue. Book
194552 pages. Features: Colour Studebaker ad inside front cover shows their Weasel tracked vehicle in action on a Pacific shore (it appears this vehicle or its engine was made in Windsor, ON); Not Enough To Eat - food shortages loom in the wake of WWII; My Author Husband - by Dorothy Duncan, wife of Hugh MacLennan; Hearts to Let (fiction); Test in Berlin - can Russian and Anglo-Saxons reach a common basis for the peace; What Canadians Don't Know (testing our general knowledge); Whopper! - New York Mayor La Guardia's 550 acre $42 million municipal airport; A Guest for Mary Ellen (fiction); The Liar Hunter, by W.O. Mitchell; Shoplifting in Canada; Snakes Alive!, by Gordon Sinclair on Ryerson Island in Lake Erie; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of Mary Elizabeth Graham of "Greenacres", Aylmer to Gustave Eduardo Leguizamon, Chancellor of the Legation of Argentina; Several lovely colour ads; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1962Features: Last Chance for Vietnam - international flare-ups may topple this strategically located country - many interesting black and white photos; People on the Way Up - Peter Beard, Craig Ellwood, Building Designer, The Van Dorn Sisters; Paris gives Women a break, by Oleg Cassini (pages 29-32 loose but present); You CAN afford college - Princeton's financial-aid officer tells how to swing the high cost of higher education; Nice pink Cadillac ad on page 33; 'Common Market' - what does it mean to us? - a report by Christian A. Herter; Hockey's Gashouse Gang - the story of the rambunctious Chicago Black Hawks, the team that scrapped its way to icedom's coveted Stanley Cup (they haven't won it since - very rare Black Hawk material!); City in the Shadow - the ghost of Boss Frank Hague lingers in Jersey City . Average wear. A sound copy. Book
rif. ORD-2465Première édition. Paris. Victor Bunel. 1871. Gd in-8 (204 x 311mm) dos lisse parchemin portant le titre et la date en caractères dorés, page de titre roussie sinon bel exemplaire auquel on a rajouté les fac-similé des numéros 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 22, 26 de Le Franc-Tireur Manceau et le numéro 27 intitulé Le Franc-Tireur de la Guerre.
rif. 226723Versailles, Imprimerie du Journal officiel, A. Wittersheim, s.d. (1871) placard grand in-folio (63 x 45 cm), texte sur 6 colonnes, en feuille.
1872rif. 44404Paris, Librairie gauloise, 1872. In-8 broché de 93-(3) pp., couverture jaune illustrée avec mention de « Première édition ».
1835rif. 52373Allardin | Paris 1835 | 13 x 21.50 cm | 2 volumes reliés
rif. 196007Paris, Hachette, 1878-1880 4 vol. in-8, fac-similé dépl., index, demi-chagrin parme, dos à nerfs (rel. de l'époque). Dos légt passé, rousseurs. Ex-libris héraldique.
1736rif. 95841736 reliure plein veau havane in-quarto carré (binding full calfskin in-quarto), dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands) - décoré or (gilt decoration) - entre-nerfs à fleuron fleurette (floweret) - pièce de titre manquante (missing label of title), coiffe supérieure manquante (head of the spine lightly faded), plats avec de légères épidermures (lights scratches on the covers), coins émoussés (corners blunt), toutes tranches rouges (red edges), 478 pages avec Approbation & Privilège, 1736 Paris Mesnier et Jean de Nully Libraires Editeurs,
1871rif. 1236321871 1 vol. en feuilles "L'Union démocratique : organe de la démocratie de l'Ouest" est un journal d'opinion républicaine patronné par Guépin, qui paraît à Nantes de novembre 1869 à juin 1871."Monsieur et cher concitoyen, j'ai reçu votre lettre qui m'annonce la rigoureuse condamnation dont vous avez été frappé comme rédacteur de L'Union démocratique et je vous envoie toutes mes fraternelles sympathies dans cette circonstance. Je fais aussi les voeux les plus sincères pour le succès du nouveau journal que vous venez de fonder et je regrette que mes occupations si nombreuses ne me permettent pas de figurer au milieu de nos amis qui collaboreront au numéro exceptionnel que vous préparez. J'ai d'ailleurs assez peu l'habitude d'exprimer ma pensée par la parole écrite, et franchement vous n'aurez pas grand chose à regretter en perdant le court article que je vais vous envoyer. Veuillez agréer, monsieur et cher concitoyen, l'expression de tous mes sentiments. Léon Gambetta".Petites rousseurs, sinon très bon document.
1871rif. 1236321871 1 vol. en feuilles "L'Union démocratique : organe de la démocratie de l'Ouest" est un journal d'opinion républicaine patronné par Guépin, qui paraît à Nantes de novembre 1869 à juin 1871."Monsieur et cher concitoyen, j'ai reçu votre lettre qui m'annonce la rigoureuse condamnation dont vous avez été frappé comme rédacteur de L'Union démocratique et je vous envoie toutes mes fraternelles sympathies dans cette circonstance. Je fais aussi les voeux les plus sincères pour le succès du nouveau journal que vous venez de fonder et je regrette que mes occupations si nombreuses ne me permettent pas de figurer au milieu de nos amis qui collaboreront au numéro exceptionnel que vous préparez. J'ai d'ailleurs assez peu l'habitude d'exprimer ma pensée par la parole écrite, et franchement vous n'aurez pas grand chose à regretter en perdant le court article que je vais vous envoyer. Veuillez agréer, monsieur et cher concitoyen, l'expression de tous mes sentiments. Léon Gambetta".Petites rousseurs, sinon très bon document.
1774rif. 600289Frankfurt, Garbe, 1774. 4to. 10 Bl., 962 S., 29 Bl. Halbleder d. Zeit mit reicher Rückenvergoldung u. 2 Rückenschildern (leicht berieben). [2 Warenabbildungen]
rif. 246536Bruxelles, Henri Kistemaeckers, 1877; in-8, 122 pp., frontispice demi-maroquin noir, dos à nerfs, couv. cons. (reliure de l'époque).
1886rif. 22739Paris, Charpentier, 1886. 376 pp. et portrait frontispice en noir et blanc. Bel exemplaire ; relié ensuite, du même auteur, à : "Les Enfants du Peuple", précédé de Trois lettres autographes de l'auteur. Histoire de ce livre et préface par Julien Lemer.Paris, La Lanterne, 1879 ; XXXIX, 246 pp. ; reliés demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs, titres dorés.
1870rif. 9502Paris, Chez Deforet ; imprimerie Grognet, 1870. 4 lithographies en couleur in-8 reliées en 1 vol., cartonnage moderne.
rif. 1196Librairie de la Bibliothèque Démocratique (Victor Poupin, directeur). 1874. In-16 broché. 191 pages. E.O. en volume. Quelques rousseurs sans gravité aux premières et dernières pages ; agréable exemplaire. Très rare.
rif. 8189in-4° circa 1870, non paginé. Suite d'eaux-fortes sur chine in-16 contrecollées, remontées sur Whatman in-4°. Percaline bleue à la Bradel ; titre doré au dos. Premières épreuves, avec signature au crayon et attestation de l'artiste. Frottis sur coupes et coiffes avec un faible manque de papier sur le 1er plat.