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1970Features: Newspaper crisis; A summer of tension for Pakistan?; Taxation - the penalty for living, the punishment for death; The Ghurkas - bravest of the brave; After the moon - what next?; Apollo's heatshield helps the housewife; Original sin - and that man on the moon; May God preserve us from good taste!; What price pageantry?; Divine antics in Arcadia; Will man become a mole?; Aiglon - the school in the Alps; Healey and the great defence 'delusion'; Gainsborough at the Queen's Gallery; Tabarka; The Rolls Royce story; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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
1963Features/Photos: Crash of test One-Eleven jet; sinking of the Juan Ferrer in Mount's Bay; The Palimpsest of Caesarea Maritima - the Roman Adqueduct; Dame Alice Owen's Girls' School, Finsbury; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
1961Features/Photos: A column of US troop reinforcements approaches Berlin; Berlin - Build up of tempers and armour as the west prepares to stand firm; German against German - Berlin cut in two as American troops arrive; A military amphibious load carrier - the new alvis Stalwart; Centrefold - 200,000 West Berliners assembled before the Schoneberg Town Hall in sympathy with Herr Willy Brandt; Huge sites discovered in Baluchistan - possible light on the Indus Valley civilization; Contemporary with Harappa - a huge new kulli culture site; the model engineering exhibition; Diet of an astronaut; The funeral of the Croydon schoolboys from Lanfranc Secondary Modern School killed in the Viking airliner crash in Norway; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1961Features/Photos: Colour full-page Rover automobile advert.; The Queen consecrates Guildford Cathedral; Terraced wadis, cisterns and a dam - ancient Negev cultivation; Photo of scrapped vehicles which failed to pass the 10-year test; The Cruiser H.M.S. Dido in the breakers yard - 6 photos; Oakham School; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality 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
1961Features/Photos: The Queen at Chittagong and Dacca; Photos of Nepal; U.S. figure skating team crashes aboard a Boeing 707 of Sabena Airlines; the children of President Kennedy; Lotlal excavations; What is life?; Colston's School at Bristol; Demonstrating against Polaris; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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: 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
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
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: 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
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
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
194288 pages. Bibliography. Numerous excellent diagrams. "Contains an elementary treatment of woodcraft suitable for school craft-clubs, parks, summer camps, and the home workshop... The most elementary projects are suitable for the middle grades and the most difficult for the upper grades... Does not require the use of power tools." - from Foreward. Average wear. Binding intact. Nice illustrated endpapers. Gift greetings upon verso of front free endpaper. Book
194859 pages. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
1999140 pages. Clean, bright and unmarked with slightest wear. Lovely copy. Book
1968136 pages. Although the subject matter is now dated, the concepts presented herein remain most valuable for educating readers, young and old, on how to see through the disinformation which constitutes much of today's big media. School stamp inside front cover else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
192043 pages. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Good working copy. Circa 1920? Book
199086 pages. "Parents and childcare institutions will find these creative do-it-yourself projects to be valuable aids in entertaining and teaching young preschool-aged children." - from back cover. Heavily worn but still a useful reference copy. Usual library markings. Ex-Library
189541 pages. Undated. Circa late 1800s? Above-average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. Few place names discretely underlined in ink. Water staining to illustrated boards and periphery of some maps. Book
199790 pages plus index. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very nice copy in glossy boards. Book
1989241 pages. "A sequel to The Aware Baby, this revolutionary book marks a major breakthrough in our understanding of children's emotional needs between 2 and 8 years of age." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound working copy. Book
191580 pages. Undated. Circa early 1900s? Colour illustration upon front board shows two young girls and a boy making daisy chains. Colour plate frontis (by D.C.S.?) shows girl on park bench reading to three youngsters and a dog seated around her, with the caption "There sits fair-haired Effie." Stories include: Playing Horses; The Concert at the Zoo; The Holiday Coach; The Bravest Deed; Going to See the Queen; A Visit to the Country; Elsie's Team; Eric's Holiday; Mrs. Lion's Infant School; A visit to the West Indies; Five Peas in a Pod; Proud Mr. Drake; The Whistling Pig; The Stray Lamb; The Boy and the Monkey; A Merry Game; How do you Do?; Mrs. Otter and Her Young Ones; Morning Song; The Wonderful Doll's House; Tired of Waiting; Poor Mrs. Duck!; The Grand Duchess; The Clever Cat; Eddy's Accident; My Portrait; Father's Birthday Present; Will's Wondrous Story; Katie's Present; and Topsy and the Gypsies. Contemporary pencil gift greetings atop front free endpaper. Erased pencil writing inside front board nearly invisible. Hinges intact. Binding sound. Original maroon cloth backstrip intact. Average wear and soiling to boards. Moderate yellowing to contents. A sound copy of this charming work. Book
1952128 pages. Signature and date stamp inside front cover else unmarked. Age-yellowing to pages. Water staining to upper corner does not affect legibility. Sound working copy Book