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2018Best.-Nr. 017586Liverpool: Bluecoat Press 2018. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. Hardback 27.5 × 29.5cm 156pp. Signed directly to the title page by Zak Waters. Pigeon racing is a unique sport with its roots deep within traditional working-class communities. it thrived among Britain's miners shipbuilders and iron and steel workers. Reaching its peak by the early 1970s with over 2000 societies and 130000 members as the decade progressed and heavy industries collapsed communities were torn apart and the number of Birdmen fell to under 60000. Zak Waters realised that the sport was changing and began documenting the fast-dwindling community with all its humour anxieties and passion. Birdmen is his record of the slow death of a culture that has changed almost beyond recognition. Rod Adams legendary writer on all things pigeon has contributed witty and insightful stories about the sport and the characters that made it so special. Condition: This copy is in very good condition. Bluecoat Press hardcover
2019Best.-Nr. x-110847523XCambridge Univ Pr 2019. Hardcover. New. 391 pages. 9.75x7.50x1.00 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
1926Best.-Nr. 148247Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1926. Vintage reference photograph of actress Arlette Marchal from the 1926 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Zane Grey not published until a year after the film's release. A fugitive is left in the desert to die by his outlaw partner but is rescued by a young rancher unaware that romantic entanglements with a neighboring rancher's daughter will complicate their friendship. Now considered to be a lost film. Shot on location in Hurricane Bluffs Utah. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with light toning and edgewear and a small chip to the right edge. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1894Best.-Nr. 99451894 demi-reliure havane (half binding) grand in-octavo, dos 5 nerfs (spine with raised bands) - entre-nerfs à fleuron (floweret) - titre frappé or (gilt title), légère épidermure sur le mors du deuxième plat (light scratch on the joint of the back cover), papier marbré aux plats (cover with marbled paper), tranches jaspées (marbled edges), envoi autographe manuscrit de l'Auteur sur la page de garde du premier contre-plat (author's autograph of front counter-cover), illustrations : 414 figures in-texte (pictures in text) et 2 planches (plates) en couleurs hors-texte in fine (full page engraving at rear), 380 pages, 1894 à Paris Octave Doin Editeur - à Bruxelles Bureaux du Moniteur du Praticien,
2000Best.-Nr. 500393804Masson 2000 2000.
