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1878Présentation de l'école dont la création fut votée par le Conseil Municipal en 1875, suivie de son règlement, du programme de son enseignement, et des énoncés des problèmes (géométrie, physique) donnés aux élèves en 1876-1877 (avec 13 planches de figures); modèles d'imprimés pour le service de l'école in fine. Luxueux exemplaire de présent avec dédicace manuscrite du Dr Villars à Eugène Schnerb, Préfet du Vaucluse, dans une reliure signée Assaleix, relieur avignonnais. Français
194374 pages. Features: Cover illustration of smiling sailor on phone holding wedding ring; What the Nazis Leave Behind - Maurice Hindus reports on the peasant Russian village of Pohoreloye, and the condition it was left in after German occupation (with color illustration of looting Nazi by Arthur Szyk); "Dear Mrs. Klepper" - fiction by Isabella Holt; Gabriel in Jive - photo-illustrated article on trumpet player and band leader Harry James; Fire and Blood in the Jungle - Herman Bottcher's Jap-killing feats earned him a captain's commission in one 17-day battle- article with photo; Shutter Bug (fiction by Robert S. Mansfield); New Warps and Strange Woofs - coal, wood, iron, and glass will be the ingredients of milady's clothing in the future; There Was an Old Woman (fiction); Our Army Gets Ready to Take Over Axis Territory - article with photos including Brig. General C.W. Wickersham, commandant of the Army's School of Military Government; Black Plague (fiction by Hugh Pentecost); Stalk the Hunter (fiction by Mitchell Wilson); Movie reviews; Interesting back page article by Paul Hunter pays tribute to Russia on the second anniversary of its invasion by Germany, with excellent photo of massive military parade through Moscow; Nice color-photo back cover ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features dashing young U.S.N. flyboy leaning on his plane while his mate paints another Japanese kill onto it; and more. Middle page loose but present, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
197497 pages. Above-average wear. Many autographs. Binding intact. Book
1996136 pages. Loaded with photos in colour and black and white. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
1984124 pages. Bright, clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
1954144 pages. Features: Best-Mannered Children in the World - Eskimo children - nice color-photo-illustrated article; The Army's Tower of Babel - the new language-intelligence school at the Presidio in Monterey, California; They Came to See Him Clobbered - Boxer Art Aragon was the boxer fans loved to hate; The Truth About the "Sonic Boom" - photo-illustrated article how it's 'less dangerous than you might think"; I would Not Murder for the Soviets (part 3 of 4) - Ex-Captain Nikolai E. Khokhlov discloses the exact circumstances surrounding the downfall of his boss, Lavrenti Beria, after Stalin's death; The Wilderness Cure for Delinquents - Twin Pines Ranch in California; Cold Can Save Your Life - fascinating medical article describes how ordinary ice water can be used in a process called hypothermia for better patient outcomes; Daintiest Beaneries in Town - great photo-illustrated article on Schrafft's restaurants; He'll Eat Anything That Swims - Food Scientist Edward Harvey manages Oregon's Seafoods Laboratory at Astoria. Fiction: Haunted Hotel; Salesman's Homecoming; Inexperienced Male; The Lady's Bodyguard; Hollywood Calling! (part 2 of 8); The Avenging Texans (conclusion). Ads: Sensational two-page color 1955 Mercury car ad; Nice one-page color ad for Chevrolet Trucks shows tanker in refinery; Fantastic two-page color-photo ad for Rambler cars; Nice two-page color ad for 1955 Ford cars; Dennis the Menace cartoon is featured in a Cream of Wheat ad; Great two-page color-photo ad for 1955 Plymouth cars; Back cover color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features St. Bernard dog. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. A worthy reference copy of this great issue. Magazine
1969246 pages. Provides a selection of important material relative to the frame harp, its development in Europe during a period of several hundred years, its importation to America, and its subsequent flourishing in both parts of the world. "A full list of recordings of solo and ensemble music, and a carefully chosen list of compositions, graded for school use, are included in the appendices. There is alos a comprehensive bibliography and an index. Will be of wide interest to the professional musician, the music educator and the composer. Students of the harp will find it a vital source of information." - from dust jacket. Black and white plates. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
1960Features/Photos: Facelift to Downing St.; Unique gold torque found after 3200 years; Floods in Devon, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and Hereford; The deposed Prime minister of Congo, Mr. Patrice Lumumba; Japanese royalty in India; The first crossing of Lake Michigan by a wheeled Amphibian - the U.S. Army LARC-15 (2 photos); Colour centrefold loose but present; Cranford House School; Caravan Exhibition at Olympia; the U.S. Tiros II experimental 'weather-eye' satellite - multiple photos; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Book
1958Features: In colour - A Cezanne and a Picasso; and Tibetan Butter Sculptures; Anti-nuclear warfare protest at North Pickenham; Britain's first high-speed motorway - opened by Mr. Macmillan; How Jordan and Lebanon stand today; Kariba Dam; Cranleigh School; New Automatic Blind Landing Equipment; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1961Features/Photos: The Queen in Pakistan and India; Belgian village engulfed by slag heap; JFK delivers state of the Union speech; Mars; The King's School, Ely; Statuettes from Hacilar; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine
1960Features/Photos: Andean volcano in Chile - multiple horrific photos; Hawaiian effects of the Chilean earthquakes and the resultant tital waves - multiple photos; Soviet bug displayed; Turkish military coup d'etat; How to escape from a submerged car; Korean Queen; the Queen Mother in Rhodesia; Trinity College School, Port Hope, Canada; the U.S.S. Saratoga collides with a West German merchantship off North Carolina; Field Marshall Montgomery in China; 420 mph tidal wave damage in Japan; Draining of the Grand Surrey Canal at Camberwell reveals a rubbish dump; The Simca Aronde Etoile; and more. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1961Features/Photos: The Queen in Nepal and Iran; our first grievous slip in Rhodesia; Excavations at Lothal; Various kinds of automobile safety/seat belts; Canford School; Evolution; Proteus, the first U.S. nuclear submarine tender takes up position in Holy Loch, Scotland; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1960Features/Photos: In colour - Canadian flowers, Istanbul, 'The Sleeping Beauty'; BMC truck advertisement in colour; Prince Andrew arrives; Dozens killed by police at Sharpeville, South Africa; Moby Dick - a projected nuclear-powered submarine for Britain (2-page cutaway drawing); A great new British liner - Canberra; Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1965Topics/Photos: America's Gemini 3 blasts into space; Man's first steps into space as Leonov swims from Voskhod 2; American steps to reduce Russian lead; Selma Civil Rights March; The future of the public school; Battle of Waterloo refought upon the Chelsea table-top; Rowing Battles; Hancock's Heroic Dash saves day for England; Oldest Sardis begins to emerge in American diggings; Rocking-Horse School; 3 Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1960Features/Photos: The Kariba Hydro-electric project opened by the Queen Mother; Brazillian Indians in the heart of the forest - the dying tribes; The man who threw the spanner - multiple photos of Khrushchev; a Bristol Siddeley flying lorry/truck which would travel from London to Birmingham in about 25 minutes; Nonsuch revealed in recent excavations; The Leys School; Colour Decca Stereo advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Book
1959Features: Death of John Foster Dulles; British Royal Visitors in Nigeria; Photo of one of the world's largest floating docks; Remains Lydian, Roman, Christian - from Sardis; 2-page illustration of the Westminster Clock Mechanism; Hovercraft Diagrams; New Black and White Cameras; St. Felix School, Southwold; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1958Features: Swiss Merchant Navy vessel Nyon hits the rocks; The Bloodhound Missile; Monastic Life in Nepal - Buddhist Monks and Nuns of Khumbu; Cutaway drawings of the first two turbojet airliners to go into service across the North Atlantic - B.O.A.C.'s De Havilland Comet 4 and Pan American Airways' Boeing 707; Queenswood School; The Cyprus Scene; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1958Features: The Coronation of Pope John XXIII; Diefenbaker's Visit to London; Charterhouse School; Memories of the Roman Republic and Echoes of the Battle of Lake Regillus - a Tusculan family cemetery discovered by accident; Grave Goods of the Gens Rabiria - and new light on ancient Tusculum; Great Britain's First Surface-to-Air Guided Weapon Station; Springhill, Nova Scotia Mine Disaster; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1958Features: The first transatlantic jet airliner service; Princess Margaret's informal visit to Belgium; Regimental Fire; H.M.S. Leopard Commissioned at Portsmouth; Rugby School; Labour Party Conference at Scarborough; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1959Features: 2-page colour ad. for Mercedes-Benz; Informal scenes from Mr. Khrushchev's 'ebullient' tour of the U.S.A.; St. Thomas's Chasuble - a wonderful relic of Islamic Needlework; Felsted School; Liberal Party Posters; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1960Features/Photos: The Royal Familiy proudly displays baby Andrew at Balmoral; 1960 Olympic Heroes and Heroines; Confusion in the Congo; Mickey Thompson reaches 404.6 mph driving Challenger I; Skyliner crash lands in Egypt; British aircraft constructors; Farnborough; Three stages of a 'scramble' by Vulcan bombers at Farmborough; Missile display; Hurricane Donna; Taunton's School, Southampton; Photo of a huge oak bored through to make way for telephone wires; and more. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1960Features/Photos: Centrefold - Four Flemish masterpieces in colour (centrefold loose but present); King Baudouin of the Belgians with his fiancee, Dona Fabiola De Mora Y Aragon; 20 years after the Battle of Britain; Three governments claim they rule the Congo Republic; B-47 jet bomber lands in Shannon, Eire after mid-air collision 300 miles away; devastation in the trail of hurricane Donna on the eastern seaboard of America; what the architect and engineer are doing to the face of London, Plymouth and Dorset; Royal School, Bath; Triaga, a nuclear reactor designed for teaching purposes; New airline pilot training college at Hamble; The Bluebird crash; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Book
1959Features: Khrushchev at the U.N.; Princess Alexandra's tour; Khrushchev's American Tour; Labour Party Election Posters; The Sacred Bull of Tchoga Zanbil - destroyed in 640 B.C. and now repaired; Cutaway diagram of H.M. Cruiser Tiger; Nylon rifle needs no lubrication; The Royal Grammar School, Guildford; Attractive Spode China colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1926278 pages plus index. Includes multiple iterations of the British North America Act and other important law. "Explains existing Canadian institutions and their workings. These institutions are complicated and our triple citizenship in Province, Dominion, and Empire is not easy to understand." - from Preface. The twenty chapters include such topics as: Nation, Government and Law; Our Civil Law - Common Law and Statute Law; Trading Corporations; Courts of Law; Criminal Law; Nationality, External Affairs, Defence; The Aims of Government; etc. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Contents yellowed with age. Read this book and weep for what has become of our society. As witnessed by this text, schools used to be places of learning. Read it and discover how much you never knew about the workings and history of your own society. An exquisite and cherished reminder of more civilized times. Book
1970This wonderful collection includes: The 1970 Alumni Directory for the Class of 1935 - 12 pages; Program for the 40th Reunion of the Class of 1935 - includes over a dozen autographs; A 1956 reunion letter to the Class of 1935 from D.G. (Gord) Auld; Illustrated Fourth Annual Reunion Dinner Program for the Class of 1935 - bearing more than 25 autographs; Illustrated Second Annual Reunion Dinner Program for the Class of 1925 - attractively presented in blueprint format with customary young engineers depiced 'whooping it up' on front cover. All items in sound condition. Book
