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1949Features include: The Donkey - A humble donkey co-operates to bring about the discomfiture of sundry Arab thieves; It Pays to Advertise - The Amazing result of the nefarious activities of a rascally 'wild-cat' company promoter and an unscrupulous newspaper reporter in Canada; Mr. Zaru - story from a ship; Into the Unknown - exploratino work in Tanganyika; Farm Life in South Africa - intended for aspiring British immigrants to South Africa; Through the Iron Curtain - an ambitious motor-cycle voyage through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey; Beyond the Barrier - Extraordinary incidents related by a famous stage magician, Jasper Maskelyne; A Matter of Boundaries - an amusing tale of a tribal land-dispute in Nigeria; The Little Gold Disc - A veteran seafarer's account of a remarkable experience on the China Coast; The Tiger That Thought; The Red Lacquer Pagoda; The Ship That Became a House; Guarding New Zealand's Forests - Illustrated in black and white. Chips from and tears to base of spine else average wear. Two inch opening at top of back cover. Magazine
1981108 pages. Features: Color-photo Volvo car ad; Nice color-photo ad for the Bang & Olufsen Beocenter 7000; Brooklyn Ghetto Child Baby Love; Ronald Reagan decides to build the MX missile and the B-1 Bomber - article with great color photos; Selling AWACS to the Saudis; Two-page Itt Canada ad features their numerous Canadian industrial applications; Is John Hinckley crazy about Jodie Foster?; South Florida swamped by refugee needs and violence; Graft in Oklahoma; How to cut benefits without hurting the truly needy - school lunches; Nissan Stanza ad; Nice one-page color photo ad for CP Air's Empress Class service; Ad for the Olivetti S6000 computer; Nice color-photo ad for the 1982 Mazda RX-7; Unemployment Plague in Western Europe; Solidarity sticks with Lech Welesa, but his policies are attacked; West Germany sends superspy Gunter Guillaume East; Bloodshed in the streets of Iran; Buick ad for the 1982 Riviera, Electra and Estate Wagon; First Person Account of Life in a Khomeini Prison; Wiser's Whisky ad features photo of master blender Keith Baldwin and many co-workers at the Thurlow Township distillery; Taipei rejects Beijing; 8-page color ad feature for Sheraton Hotels; Soviet Rockers - Woodstock, Yerevan style; Whiff of Panic on Wall St. - article with inset photo of Joe Granville; Sonny Cough and a once-only tax-free deal; Color-photo Luxman stereo ad features inset color photo of Boris Brott, conductor of the Hamilton Philharmonic; The Bath Iron Works in Maine; Color-photo ad for the 1982 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue; Coping with the high cost of moving employees; Art Feature, "Paris 1937-1957 - An Elegy"; Celebrity color photos of Chester Gould, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner and Alfred Kahn; U.S. Cities look to Europe for more livable streets (trying to tame the automobile); Nice color-photo ad for the Toshiba Beta V-8500 VCR; Two-page ad for the Peugeot 505SR car; Photo-illustrated article on singer Pat Benatar; Pulp industry ad includes color photo of waterbomber in action; Color photo ad for the Chevy Cavalier; Large protest for black colleges in Atlanta; Karpov and Korchnoi meet in chess; The Hinckley Case and the Insanity Plea; Passing of Romulo Betancourt, Robert Montgomery and Harry Golden; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194968 pages. Features and Articles: Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside front cover; Journalist Robert Low returns from reporting the news for three years on each side of the Balkans' lowering iron curtain; The North Atlantic Treaty is announced; Shostakovich applies to visit the U.S.; Allen Ellender's filibuster record in Louisiana; Federal Judge Medina and his trial of eleven communists charged with conspiring to overthrow the government; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. announces for the seat of the 20th district on Manhattan's West Side; Dave Beck of the A.F.L. Teamsters; Boston's Anna Sullivan and the illegitimate child she sought to hide; William L. Cox and his truck wreck; Red Rioters in Rome; The Kremlin's white paper on the North Atlantic pact; Gotfred Hoelvold crosses teh border between Norway and Russia; "about 500,000 Arabs are now refugees from areas of Palestine controlled by the Israeli army. Jews - most of them refugees from Europe - have taken over the Arabs' communities. John Luter reports from the former Arab community of Akir"; Anti-communism and Luigi Gedda in Italy; Moscow's Literary Gazette declare's Tolstoy's Pocket Books version of Anna Karenina a 'monstrous crime against world culture'; The Amir of Bahawalpur; Colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Army Active or Reserve Forces; Caterpillar ad says 'Stop Murder at Crossroads!' and implores readers to invest in overpasses and underpasses; Johnny Groth - a choice of scholarships; Professor Chauncey Tinker of Yale; Fargo Truck ad; Peter Mennin; Herbert Zipper; Cover story - Aviation - Juan Trippe and Pan American Airways; Colour South African wine ad inside back cover. "Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news". Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose from one staple, otherwise a sound copy. Book
197158 pages. Features: Many great photos; Mr. Young's X - the dream that died; All Railroads are living in glass houses; Over high trestles, into ocean mists - the last steam train leaves the Nanaimo River Camp of MacMillan Bloedel Limited on Vancouver Island; Voyaging Coast to Coast on an iron ocean. Small date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine
195666 pages. Features: News Photos; A Salute to Southern Pacific's Overland and Shasta Route - poetry with photos; Tide 470 - Two Chesapeake & Ohio hopper cars star in a drama (cover story); The Elegant Virginia City Private Rail Car; The Architecture of the Locomotive - photos and article; Samuel Unsull's - exit the Electric Interurbans (3); Britain invaded by Diesels; To Chama, Colorado and back on two pieces of D&RGW narrow iron; Southern Pacific's new Englewood Yard at Houston; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
195558 pages. Features: News Photos; Engraving - The Promise of the 1890s for Baldwin Locomotive Works; The Shawmut Line; The Problems of Grade Crossings; Destroyed by Fire - The Waterlook, Cedar Falls & Northern lost more than statistics can tell; Photo Section; When Steam Ruled the Keeler Branch; Ore-carrying Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range's husky power - second of the series; New York Central's curious compound 4-8-4; What you think about subsidies for railroads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
195466 pages. Features: News Photos; In Search of Steam - 3 - The Dominion Atlantic Railway; Valhalla of the Iron Horse - Baltimore & Ohio's Transportation Museum - article with photos; Great Photo Section - Santa Margarita Hill; When Steam Ruled the Clinchfield Railroad - photo section; Catenary over the Carolinas - The Piedmont & Northern Story - 1; Short Line Scrapbook - amazing photos and article of the old Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railroad - incredible photo of loco atop the Cowlitz River Bridge -200' above the river!; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
195766 pages. Features: Perlman's piggyback; Photo ad/portrait of Howard E. Simpson of GM Electro-motive division; News Photos; Formula for a Chant - photos of the 'chanting' V-16 2-stroke diesel engine; Be (Berea)Tower in Ohio - more than 50 trains converge on this 111-lever plant daily - excellent article and photos; Where Diesels Fear to tread - a steam loco replaces a deisel in 38" floodwaters in Louisiana - near the Red River; Would You Believe it? - news bits with photos; Flat Faces - a wonderful photo study of multiple cab-forward locomotives; "2-in-1" Engines - Austrian railroaders move iron ore up 7% grades using a rack and adhesion line; North of Lake Erie - many wonderful pages of photos of interurbans, etc. in southern Ontario; The True Story of Kate Shelley - the girl they stopped the trains for - an 1881 Iowa wreck and a 15-year-old girl - wonderful story and photos; Question of Survival - how can railroads survive?; Where Are We? - fun photo test; Trona Totes Trona - three Baldwins haul Trona on the Mojave Desert - article and photos; ; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Short opening along cover fold which is loosening from bottom staple. Book
1964Features: "Our Third All-Diesel Issue"; Born at Beloit - The Fairbanks-Morse Story - super long article with many photos; Dixie Line digs midtrain 'slave' units; Iron Horse Days on the B&O; Diesel News Photos; Uninvited Guest - In 1953 GE did an end run around its competitors and entered the diesel ocomotive party; Diesels within yard limits - enter the advance scouts of total dieselization - many photos with text; Up front on America's fastest CB&Q No. 21 implies a throttle in the 8th notch; Nice color centerfold by EMD; B-B, C-C, A1A-A1A, etc. - what do they mean? - a primer on diesel wheel arrangements; Great two-page photo of Alco's Century 628; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
194444 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Belfast & Moosehead Lake - a short line; The Man in the Tower; The Caboose - the traveling office of the freight train is teh most individualistic of railroad vehicles - many super photos with article; Caboose Anatomy; South American Electric Locos - the Estradade Ferro Sorocabana of Brazil; Canadian-Built Locomotives for India - 145 Mikados; Swiss Tourist Railway - 60-mile-long Furka-Oberalp route electrified as war diminishes coal supply; The Signal in the cab; Southland Carrier - the 8,000-mile Southern Railway. Average wear and soiling. Small date stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194448 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC West Side Freight Line - a photo story on the only all-rail freight route into Manhattan; Haunted Roundhouse - Hudson River roundhouse is a memory of the past; Recent 4-8-4's - specifications; Water Holes for Iron Horses - from L&N Magazine; The Man in the Tower; D&RGW in Eagle River Canyon - super centerfold photo; Uruapan Express; Two Early Trains - old-time photos; Great Britain's Garratt Locomotives; Women Railroaders. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
194150 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Saga of the "400" - it was just an ordinary Pacific which started the high-speed Chicago-Twin Cities service; Dulith, Missabe & Iron Range - in the land of short, stubby cars and long, heavy trains; Empire State Express - Seventeen million miles are credited to New York Central crack train - centerfold photo of this train at the height of her glory; The Traveling Salesman - Railroad glimpses from a thumbworn diary recording 12 years of covering the West by train, by Victor H. White; C&O 4-4-2; Capital Cities Route - Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac is funnel for north and south Atlantic Seaboard traffic; A Vermont Short Line - Montepelier & Wells River Railroad transports heavy granite loads from the Barre & Chelsea to the Boston & Maine; Trains' Map of Vermont Railroads. Average soiling and wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
194342 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: The Lackawana - the New York-Buffalo short line climbs over the beautiful Pocono Mountains; The Old South Park Line - super article with photos; A Parade of the Iron Horse - great photos in colour and black and white; Union Pacific 4-6-6-4; From the Southland - C&EI pictorial; Fast-Stepping Ten-Wheeler - Atlantic Coast Line; Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 - photos and specifications; Broad Street's 1923 Fire - train shed destroyed; New Montreal Terminal - modern, completely electrified 17-track structure replaces Canadian National's historic Bonaventure Station; Troop Sleeper - Pullman 7000 is the first of 1240 special sleeping cars; The Man in the Tower. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194150 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Super illustration of Baldwin-built freight locomotive circa 1950; The Way Freight - up and down the division the little local train delivers the goods; The IC 2500; British Portfolio - England pioneered in pubilc rail transportation, has vast trackage net; Record Railroad Building - 20 miles of iron in less than six months - an achievement of defense program; Of Peter Helck - a commercial artist who in his spare time paints the things he loves and his paintings show it; Busiest Railroad - Pennsylvania electrification where trains run as often as street cars; Guardian of the Rails - The Sperry Rail Service fleet is constantly moving over America's iron; Cajon Pass - where trains descend from cactus to the groves of the Orange Empire. Average soiling and wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Centerfold holding by one staple otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
197766 pages. Features: How the Centenary Exhibition and Pageant of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the Fair of the Iron Horse - extensive article with many great photos; The Great Crash at Crush - rail wreck staged by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway (MK&T, or Katy); Colour photos of a great gaterhing of iron horses in Irondale, Alabama; Mr. Hungerford's Iron Horse Opera - 1939 World's Fair; In 1948 all the 4-4-0's weren't at the Fair - the engine that built America, on and off the stage; Southern Pacific at the Panama Pacific; moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1974Features: Dead Men's Gold - the Argonauts declared Jim Carson dead and began dividing his estate, when suddenly he returned!; Astride the Iron Horse and Riding West! - a harrowing adventure; Governor Charles Bent's Murder and Scalping; Wild Rose O'Neal - South's Astonishing Spy; The Greatest Apache Warrior - Jolsanny; The Wagon Train of 1843; The Legendary Jack Slade; Monterey's Chinatown - met its end in needless flames; The year of the turnip - actual recipes used by the pioneers; Men with the strength of mountains - mountain men didn't know when they were licked; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
1964Features: In defense of Ingalls, Oklahoma; Guns of the Old West - the Shotgun; Battle at the Cascades - Kamiakin; Homesteading in the Rockies; Frontier Relics; Big Bend Melee; Spraddley of the 101 - Bill Pickett; Early Day Coolers/Jails; Gold Town of the Coeur d'Alenes - Murray, Idaho; Blazing the Trail to El Paso - Rip Ford and Bob Neighbors; Wild Old Days - Agnes Moses; Jim Parker's Revenge - Peach Springs, Arizona; Barbershop Ballad; The Tradegy of Ramona - Sam Temple kills Juan Diego; Iron Door Mine of Blue Canyon - Colonel J.S. Hutchason of Socorro, New Mexico; My Brother - the Herman Family; Dodge City's Boot Hill. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1971Features: The Treasure of Toussaint Kensler; Saved by a Hyer Boot!; Blood Brothers - Walt and Jesse Iron Horn seal their eternal friendship; How Paddy Martinez found Uranium; The West's Most Puzzling Lost Mines; The Gum Shoe Kid - R.W. (Bob) Thaler; Was Belle Starr Killed by Mistake?; My God, Ain't That Beautiful! - The Carlsbad Caverns; The Marshall and the Indian - Murray, Idaho; Indian Wolf's Secret Gold Reserves - the Palouse Indians; The Nerve of Doc Adair; Lost Gold of the Guadalupes; Wild Old Days!; Daddy Dun's a Dandy - big cattle men; Farewell to Grayhorse. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1972Features: Honor among horse thieves; Mystery tablet of the Big Bend - Hot Springs, Texas; The Troubled Life of a Bicyclienne - Annie Sylvester; Mason's Cattle Drives; Story of an Emigrant Boy - Fort Mason, Texas; Idaho's Last Indian Scare; Hard Luck Iron Mule - used for pulling wagons across the plains; The Girl Who Waited at Seaman's Rest - Tacoma, Washington, 1905; Dead Man's Well - Was Susan Hail its Victim?; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
197324 pages. Features: A Letter From India - Allan Hodgson and Patricia Welbourn learn to live with Calcutta; Sevearl pages of beautiful photos of Canada's northlands; How Mexican Police Unearthed the Truth About Two Canadian Archaeologists - Elizabeth F. Snow describes the experience she shared with her husband while on a dig in Mexico; The Girl with the Iron Gut - Karen Magnussen has earned a world championship and a contract of $100,000 a year as a professional figure skater - article with colour photos; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1952rif. yam0048in-8 format à l'italienne agrafé de 30 pages + photos en noir et blanc en bon état
1931Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book
1913rif. 5801Mit zahlr. Abb. (Marburg, Druck von Köster & Schell, o. J., wohl 1913). 8vo. 22,0 x 14,5 cm). 1 Bl. Preisliste, 16 Bl. Blauer Orig-Umschlag.
1985rif. 7019Musée français du chemin de fer 1985 in8. 1985. Broché. Traduit de Sénès Florence - Illustrations de Jankovics györgy
1985rif. 300004889Musée français du chemin de fer 1985 1985. Traduit de Sénès Florence - Illustrations de Jankovics györgy
