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1978vi, 508 pages. Map endpapers. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Local history of this Manitoba community located between Lake Winnipegosis and the Saskatchewan border. An invaluable genealogical reference. Unmarked with moderate wear to navy blue boards. Binding tight. A sound copy. Hackett [2e] 388. Book
1925Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Antonio the Counsellor - Antonio Conselheiro cast himself into the wilderness, only to become leader of a tribe of Indians which he then led in battle against the cream of the Brazilian army; Our Seaplane Fishing Trip - Summary of a novel seaplane trip recently carried out by a party of Pacific Coast anglers with the assistance of Ellard A. Bacon, manager of the Pacific Marine Airways, a passenger seaplane line operating between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island - article with excellent photos; Crops of Gold - An amusing story from the vicinity of Ten Mile House, British Columbia; The Mystery of the Pool; - Sequel to a story published here about three years ago about a South African prospector's account of a monstrous snake which is supposed to live in a pool in the Orange River; Three Incidents - J.R. Henderson led an uneventful life, aside from a three-month span; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part II - C.W. Domville-Fife and a couple of Indians ventured far into the interior of Amazonia, meeting with many strange and exciting adventures - with photos; "Number Twenty-Three" - A bobcat adventure of Harry E. Webb, a federal hunter employed by the U.S. Government Bureau of Biological Survey to trap and destroy predatory animals that infest the state of Nevada - with photos; The Ivory Raiders - Part IV - Continued adventures from Turkanaland, Africa, where unscrupulous Swahili elephant poachers and bloodthirsty Turkana warriors make things interesting for the white officers responsible for maintaining order - with photos; The Knock-Out - Judkins and Bunney, the bullies of the battalion, were manipulated into boxing each other; A South African Bushranger - A policeman named Mahon turns highwayman in Filabusi, Rhodesia; A Sailor Out Back - The amusing first day experiences of a sailor who tries farming in Willanga Township, Australia; When the Fire Came - A bush fire swept the Matawai district of New Zealand last year - with two photos; From the Great Craters to the Congo Game-Lands - Part II - Elephant hunting in the teeming game country of the Congo - with great photos; Diamond Cut Diamond - R. Granville Barrow and friends need to outwit rapacious South American officials to successfully salvage the passenger steamer Whitney in the Orinoco River; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Covers detached as one but present, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1926Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
197644 pages. Great one-page color photo of the band posing on a city street, followed by a nice two-page color-photo montage of head shots of the band members superimposed over a sunset shot of the San Francisco skyline. Songbook for the classic album of the same name and most notable for the smash hit Takin' It To The Streets. Includes sheet music for piano and voice with guitar chords. Other songs include: Carry Me Away, 8th Avenue Shuffle, For Someone Special, It Keeps You Runnin', Losin' End, Rio, Turn It Loose, and Wheels of Fortune. Store stamp inside front cover. Few markings to contents. Binding tender but intact. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage Doobie collectible from - back in the day when Michael McDonald still had black hair! :-) Book
1946Cover: Britain Takes "A Most Hazardous Step": Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "The River Jordan": by Nelson Glueck; Aftermath of War: And Some Battles Long Ago; The Martyrdom of St. Euphemia: A Seventh-Century Church Laid Bare in Constantinople; The World of Science: The Return of the Challenger; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: Black Light: The "Cat's Eye" Effect of the German Infra-Red Telescopes and Searchlights in Darkness (Illus. by G.H. Davis); General Mihailovitch Today and As Yugoslav War Minister in 1942; Pictorial Commentary on Air, Sea and Land Events; Budapest - Pre-War and Post-War: Famous Buildings in Ruins; Budapest - Pre-War and Post-War: Famous Bridges of the Hungarian Capital - Then and Now; Europe's Housing Problem: Reconstruction Starts in Greece; Royal Occasions: At Home and Abroad; The Royal Barge of Yesterday and Today; A Ship Which Carries Enough Deep-Sea Cable to Bridge the Atlantic: H.M. Telegraph Ship "Monarch" (Illus. by C.E. Turner); News from America: A Miscellany of Ancient and Modern Inventions; The U.S. Railway Strike: Scenes at Stations in New York; The World's Largest Telescope Takes Shape on Mt. Palomar; A Plague of Locusts; Japanese War Criminals; and Spain's Dictator; Eight Shillings' Worth of Stamps Valued at Thousands of Pounds; and The Passion of St. Euphemia Brought to Light in Byzantine Frescoes. Binding sound. Prior owners ink stamp with some writing on the advertising front cover. Ink smudges on advertising back cover. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
1973Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Gift greetings upon title page. Hairline opening in binding a page 3. Hale & Barman 951. Edwards & Lort 3820. Book
1950Features: Great cover photo of Miss Seattle speeding across Lake Washington at over 100 mph. Features: Cruising Mexican Waters - From the Sea of Cortes to Acapulco - Part II; Seattle Bids for Harmsworth Trophy race - Stanley S. Sayres' Miss Seattle is groomed as a possible 1950 defender of the international trophy - article with photos of Sayres and his boat; Coasting Home the Hard Way - Clarence E. Walter describes his solo voyage of 1188 miles, from San Pedro to Olympia, with two LCVPs (article with photos of Walter and his converted LCVP, Thomas Kestle); Duwamish - The World's Most Powerful Fireboat - article with photos; Remote Ocean Falls, B.C. Yacht Club - article with photo; New Sardine Research Vessels - the Crest, Horizon, and Yellowfin study the life cycle of the Sardine - article with photos; NCPCA Honors Cruiser Skippers; Julie - A Model Craft for Judge John J. Miller; "Perhaps You Might Fish a Man Out of the Drink" - A Story of Flotilla 21 - USCGA; Imperial Makes Her Last Mail Delivery to Communities on the Columbia River - article with photo; Mourning the Loss of the old "S.S.Tacoma"; Pleasure and Commercial Boat Plans; Two 28-Foot Chris-Craft Patrol Boats Equipped for S.E. Alaska Waters - article with photos; and more. 52 pages. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Numerous fantastic vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A well-preserved copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1989156 pages. Map endpapers. Abundant archival black and white photos. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Very nice copy. Book
1921Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1929Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
1981573 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. Light wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this wonderful local history. Book
1974191 pages. Loaded with great black and white photos of Neil, Buffalo Springfield, and others, plus a great two-page color photo of Neil and his band. Includes piano sheet music, guitar chords and lyrics for the following songs: Broken Arrow; Burned; Cinnamon Girl; Cowgirl in the Sand; Dance Dance Dance; Do I Have to Come Over and Say It?; Down By the River; Everybody Knows This is Nowhere; Expecting to Fly; Flying on the Ground is Wrong; Here We Are in the Years; I Am a Child; If I Could Have Her Tonight; I've Been Waiting For You; The Last Trip to Tulsa; The Loner; (When You're On) The Losing End; Mr. Soul; Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing; The Old Laughing Lady; On the Way Home; Out of My Mind; Round and Round and Round; Running Dry; Sugar Mountain; What Did You Do To My Life; Wonderin'. Contents clean and unmarked. Average external wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this classic compilation. Book
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2020ref. DBS-9781774072882Society Publishing 2020. 1 ST. Hardcover. New. Society Publishing hardcover
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ref. 6918All British: 1857 1858 1860 1861 two from 1871 and two undated one from the 1860s. All items with text clear and entire. Item One: offprint on one side of a piece of wove paper 25 x 18.5 cm. Good on lightly-aged paper with some wear to extremities. Headed 'AQUAECULTURE And the Artificial Propogation sic of the Danube Salmon in Bavaria BY DR. WIMMER. Re-printed from the Macclesfield Courier June 27 1857.' The letter dated 'Landshut 11th June 1857' is addressed to 'Thomas Ashworth Esq.' and covers two columns of small print. Item Two: four-page offprint on all sides of a grey-paper bifolium leaf dimensions 20 x 12 cm. Very good. Headed 'ON PISICULTURE. - BY MONS. COSTE. From THE FIELD June 5 1858. PRACTICAL INFORMATION AS TO THE BEST MEANS OF TRANSPORTING THE OVA.' In small print. Item Three: offprint on one side of a piece of laid paper 22.5 x 18 cm. Lightly creased and spotted. By Thomas Ashworth headed 'FRENCH PISCICULTURAL ESTABLISHMENT AT HUNINGUE NEAR BASLE. Extracted from The Field 25th August 1860. In two columns of small print. Item Four: notice in small print on piece of laid paper 23.5 x 12 cm. Lightly creased. Headed 'CULTIVATION OF FISH.' and beginning 'Professor Dr. Fraas of Munich has supplied the latest information on the art of propagating and protecting salmon and other fish in Europe .'. Item Five: offprint on one side of a piece of wove paper 25 x 18 cm. Good on lightly creased and aged paper. Headed 'STORMONTFIELD PONDS - THE EXODUS OF 1861. From the Perthshire Journal May 23 1861.' In two columns of small type. Item Six: offprint on one side of a piece of watermarked wove paper 33.5 x 20.5 cm. Good on lightly creased paper with small closed tear at head. Headed 'The Coquet as a Salmon River. From the "Newcastle Daily Journal" of Thursday May 25 1871. Mr. DICKSON Clerk of the Peace for the County has addressed the following letter on this subject to Mr. FRANCIS FRANCIS of The Firs Twickenham'. In two columns of small type. Item Seven: on one side of a piece of wove paper 25 x 15 cm. Somewhat grubby and stained. Twenty-four line 'Notice to Anglers Salmon Fishers and Others' by 'JAMES TAIT W.S. KELSO Clerk to the Tweed Commissioners' dated 'KELSO 4th March 1871.' Item Eight: on both sides of a piece of wove paper 13.5 x 16 cm. Ticket not filled in with recto headed 'Coquet Salmon Fisheries Conservancy' granting permission 'to fish with the rod' in a certain part of the Duke of Northumberland's portion of the river 'Dated at Alnwick Castle this day of 186 '. 'BYE-LAWS.' on reverse. All British: 1857, 1858, 1860, 1861, two from 1871, and two undated (one from the 1860s). unknown
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2026ref. x-0443444439Elsevier - Health Sciences Division 2026. Paperback. New. 350 pages. 7.87x10.24x1.97 inches. Elsevier - Health Sciences Division paperback
ref. BN383765Une principaute d'Empire face au Royaume Le duche de Lorraine sous le regne de Charles II 1390-1431 Une principaute d'Empire face au Royaume Le duche de Lorraine sous le regne de Charles II 1390-1431 C. Rivière unknown
1986ref. BN426044Brussel : De Lombard Uitgaven/Stripwinkel Alex/Uitgeverij Medusa 1986. 1986. Softcover. Victor Sackville spion van George V 23 albums complete reeks Victor Sackville spion van George V 23 albums complete reeks Carin & Riviere & Borile Brussel : De Lombard Uitgaven/Stripwinkel Alex/Uitgeverij Medusa paperback
192933" x 25" coloured map. "Showing Dominion Lands Vacant. For complete information and regulations governing homestead entry apply to agent at Peace River..." Coal mines, water developed, other minerals, undeveloped minerals, oil and gas wells, power transmission lines and main roads indicated. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent homesteading memento of the Peace River/Grande-Prairie District. Book
