2006112 pages. Features: Perspective is Everything; Imagining a Near-Life Experience; Aim of the Centaur; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
2009112 pages. Features: Gateway to the Future; Communicating with your Sould through Symbols; The Staircase that Channels Chi; Raise Awareness with MBOs; Lily and the Angels; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
1946xvi, 498 pages. Index. Forty-nine black and white photos and illustrations. Map of India. Frontis portrait of author. "The subtle but definite laws by which yogis perform miracles and attain complete self-mastery are explained with a scientific clarity." - Dust jacket. "His unusual life document is certainly one of the most revealing of the depths of the Hindu mind and heart, and of the spiritual wealth of India, ever to be published in the West." - Preface. Selected as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century" by a committee led by Philip Zaleski on behalf of HarperSanFrancisco. Included in the book "50 Spiritual Classics" by Tom Butler-Bowdon. Unmarked with moderate wear to beige publisher's cloth. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Steve Jobs thought so highly of this work that departing attendees of his memorial service were each given a copy. Book
1950192 pages. Features: Big government is in your county, too; They struck it rich with soil tests; Let's wipe out hog cholera; New life for old barns Ditching at $0.10 a foot; They took a holiday in the Rockies - the Harold Davises of Oklahoma; Range lambs with less risk; Headache and heartache for your heirs?; Beef with Brahman blood; More milk at less cost; New chemicals control old enemies of livestock; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features color photo of Rita Tennant; and more. Several closed openings and some soiling to back cover. Pencil writing on several pages, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1949180 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Richard L. Stevensen farm in Hunterdon County, NJ; Undulant Fever - a menace to farm families; Don't lose dollars with dirty milk; Legumes are in trouble; Azalea Man; They Tamed the Desert - The Thain family farm of Cache Valley, Utah; What is a good hereford?; How do you market your livestock?; Making the most of the farm shop; Lumps in the stomach of the Russian bear - interesting photo-illustrated article reports "a hard core of farmer resistance blocks communist moves toward a collectivized agriculture in satellite Poland and Czechoslovakia; Pioneer for rural health - Doctor George F. Bond helps bring a modern health center to Hickory Nut Valley, NC; When insects go berserk; Hybrid onions come of age; and more. Ads: Texaco ad features novel plow invented by Mr. Selden G. Washburn of Goodwin, SD; B.F. Goodrich ad features Lew Wildin of Winterset, IA; GE radios; Oldsmobile; GMC trucks (color); Farmall Cub (color photos); Chesterfield cigaratte ad with prominent photo of Joan Fontaine plus tobacco grower Van W. Daniel of Ruffin, NC; 1949 Ford cars (color); Oliver crawler tractors; Studebaker trucks (color); Buick; Lee work wear; Jeep; Case equipment; Ford Trucks ad features trout farmer Horace Frantz of Colorado Springs and Salida, CO; Ferguson tractors; Nice one-page Massey Harris tractor ad; New Holland hay rake - 2 pages; Oshkosh B'gosh; Gibson tractors; Minneapolis-Moline "Z" tractor; Harley-Davidson with Hydra-Glide Fork; Greyhound bus (color). Tape repairs to covers which are pulling from staples, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1942228 pages. Features: Unified Command - examing the war cabinets of America, Britain, and Germany; Andre Cheradame's Plan for the UN to arm the enslaved people of Europe; The Hard Facts of Air Cargo - it can deliver a quick punch but is limited by raw materials and fuel; Making the best use of our limited steel; Housing for War - Billeting and Requisitioning are necessary for war workers - with emphasis upon Mobile, Alabama; War on the Western Ocean - a personal account of two Atlantic crossings by Stoyan Pribichevich; Machine-Tool Maker's Dilemma - Warner & Swasey has boosted turret-lathe production 700% and will be faced with no demand after the war; Lend-Lease To Date - how and how well it works; Hero - Edwim M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War; The New Age of Wood - describing its many untapped possible uses; Washington Fiscal Policy; The Edge of the Abyss - by Alfed Noyes; and more. Dozens of great vintage ads in color and black and white, including a very attractive military-themed color ad for Harrisburg Steel. Great color ad for Gruen watches on back cover offers Melbourne Brindle-illustrated cockpit view of bombers over Tokyo and caption "How To Get Home From Tokyo!" Unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
196170 pages. Features: Fourteen young, successful, but not necessarily complacent people - Father Louis Laurendeau, Elaine Bedard, David Owen, Gordon Whitmore, Adrian Vilandre, Martin Lavut, Zubin Mehta, Lynn Seymour, David Ferguson, David Gauthier, Michel Gelinas; What six young politicians think and do about politics - Brian Mulroney, David Greenspan, John Brewin, Ted Rogers (later of Rogers media fame), Jean David, Jean-Pierre Fournier; Short Story by Adrienne Poy (Clarkson) - Ring Around October; A look at the Middle-Aged Young by a reporter their age who finds they are bored by easy success; Tony Gregson's getaway with two gold bricks - he vanished from Yellowknife in 1954 with $54,000; The Sea Diary of a Gay Dog - Colin Acton was entertainment officer of the Queen Elizabeth, the world's biggest ocean liner; Bouncing on a trampoline can teach a child to read - findings of Montreal psychologist Dr. M.S. Rabinovitch; The most powerful village in the world - Georgetown, D.C.; The hotheaded master of Moresby Island - Captain Horatio Robertson built a 1,600-acre Chinese empire in B.C. and ruled as stormily as an Eastern despot; Peter Martin; Dimitri Dimakopoulos; Stewart Fisher. How ironic that the story featuring prominent up-and-coming politicians includes a photo with Brian Mulroney seated at a table with Peter C. Newman, the man who would later write a book entitled "The Mulroney Secret Tapes", which feature the author's controversial taped conversations with Mr. Mulroney. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding sound. Please note: missing pages 65-66 which contained end of the Young Canadians article. Book
193258 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Major "Jimmy" Doolittle's record transcontinental flight from Burbank to Newark in 1931; Positioning of Link Rod Wrist Pins in Articulated Connecting Rods; Propeller Design; The Sperry Automatic Pilot for Airplanes; Fire Extinguishers; Methods of Laying Out Flat Patterns; Fuel and Lubricants in Relation to Engine Design; The Triangle Parachute; Vortex Theory and the Tapered Wing; The Herrick Vertoplane; German Experiments with Chemical Cooling of Aircraft Engines; New Planes - The C-J Bird and the Cabin Giro; Cold Prevention of Dural Age-Hardening; Overhaul of the Menasco B-4; New Products; News; Sperry Gyroscope ad features photo of George Cushing of Eastern Air Transport, Inc., in his Mailwing; Nice photo ad for Autogiro inside back cover; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
193250 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Navy flyer Lieut. Soucek and his 1930 altitude record at 43,166 feet; Good Year ad features photos of American Airways planes; Data on the strength of Aircraft Materials; Improving the Control System; Weight Reduction Versus Drag Reduction in Design; The Stark System of Instrument Flying; A New Army Fighting Grade Anti-Knock Aviation Gasoline - article by Major James H. Doolittle; Engineering Deductions of a Flight Around the World - Charles Healy Day and his Errant (Martin); The New Continental R-670; Care and Construction of Metal Propellers; 1931 Aircraft Production; Century Airlines Hangar-Terminal Building; Brief personality profile - with photo - of Charles N. Monteith, Boeing's chief engineer; Obituary of C.T. Porter; Autogiro photo ad inside back cover shows Juan De La Cierva taking off from Pier 34, New York, December 23, 1931; Nice illustrated back cover ad for the new Stinson Model "R"; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1940110 pages. Features: Cover photo of boy and girl saluting flag; Nice ad for Pollyanna Health Shoes inside front cover; One Hour at a Time; When Teens and Middle Age Meet; Your Child From One to Six; Better Parenthood Week; A Baby Needs Skincare; Why Not Nursery School at Home?; They Can Skip The Awkward Age; They Take to the Air; If It's Chickenpox; Hobby for the Whole Family; Family Fashions; Feeding the Family; Child Conservation and National Defense; Nice illustrated ad for Poll-Parrot Shoes; Castoria laxative ad features story and photo sequence of mother feeling guilty after "unmercifully" spanking her boy with hair brush; Back cover color ad for Kix cereal contest; Many additonal nostalgic ads; and much more. Small coupon clipped from corset ad on page 85, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Lots of delightful reading and recollecting here! Book
197138 pages. Features: Theft reports; World wakes to the value of prints; Reputations crash as the bold Gerald sums up the sixties; Gordon Savage writes of automata he has handled over the years; The trend toward large and solid furniture; The age of gold for children - and their 19th century toys; 2200 GBP bid for continental commode at Welsh sale; 'Song of Songs' selss for 900 GBP; Fifty years of ephemera brings solid cash surprises - sale of the Ernest J. Tyrell collection; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. (Laid-in is article on toys of antiquity, also by David Moss) Book
200164 pages. Features: Chair Design 1700-1770 (part 1 of 2); Golden Age of Meissen - 18th century Meissen figures modelled by Johann Kandler; Heroic Staffordshire - on the trail of Victorian Staffordshire figures commenorating the Italian folk hero Garibaldi; Alfred Nizzey Newton, RWS, - Landscape with Whisky; Tapestries in two German palaces depict the Italian Comedy; Market Report - Golfing Antiques; many attractive ads; and much more. Lavishly produced upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Creases to last few pages. A quality copy. Book
193972 pages. Nice cover illustration of the H.M.S. Repulse by Eric Aldwinckle. Articles: Civilization in Danger - Liddell Hart explains how France and Britain have been forced into a defensive position; This Way, Please - wonderfully nostalgic photo-illustrated article on the Motion-Picture Theatre Usher; Oil is Where You Take It - article on the 112,000 miles of pipeline in North America; Co-ops Sell Fish and Homes - informative article on the history of the North Island Trollers' Co-operative Association (Queen Charlotte Islands) and the the Tompkinsville co-operative housing project at Reserve Mines on Cape Breton Island; To Be Blind Like This - James McDonald of Alberta explains how blindness since age 6 has not kept him from a full and happy life; Streamlined Groceries - great vintage article on food merchandising circa 1939 and how it eases the burden on housekeepers. Fiction: Graven Image of a Boy; South Sea Saga; So Nicely Put; Deep Waters (serial). Great one-page photo ad for International industrial crawlers and tractors. Excellent two-colour (orange) one-page photo ad for Chevrolet trucks. Lovely one-page colour ad for the 1939 Dodge car (orange). Colour Studebaker centrefold ad. 1939 Dodge truck ad. Bromo-Seltzer ad includes photo of Bridge expert Ely Culbertson. Photo of 97-year-old twins Hettie Brenton and Rhoda Dartt, born in Brookfield, Nova Scotia. Vintage one-page ad for Chrysler vans and pickup trucks. Willys Overland photo ad. Nostalgic colour-photo ad for Canadian Pacific's Banff and Lake Louise tourism features poolside ladies in bathing caps. Nice colour back cover 1939 Plymouth ad features a red Custom four-door Streamline Sedan. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue from the ominous months preceeding WWII. Book
192746 pages. Features: Nice one-page illustrated ad for International Trucks; One-page Memeograph ad includes exquisitely detailed illustration of their machine; Follow the Swallow - fiction by Lucian Cary; It's Safe to Fly - photo illustrated article by Commander Richard E. Byrd, U.S.N.; The Private Life of novelist John Erskine; Big Business (fiction by Lawrence Perry); When They're Not Working - two pages of wonderful photos of notables recreating, including Bruce Barton, E. Phillips Oppenheim, H.C. Witwer, Charles M. Schwab, Sir Harry Lauder, Ty Cobb, H.I. Phillips, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Emil Jannings, Tony Sarg, and John Philip Sousa; The Jack Dempsey - Jack Sharkey boxing match; Homer Gets Busy (fiction by Frank Condon); My Best Girl (fiction by Kathleen Norris); Every Germ In Its Place - suggestions to reduce doctor's bills; The Hope Chest (fiction by George S. Brooks); In by the Back Door - Tenor Edward Johnson; This Immoral Age (fiction by George Weston); Robin Hood - Infamous New York businessman Jim Fisk; Wonderful one-page ad for Chambers Fireless Gas Ranges features nostalgic photo of young lady in dress in flight after a backswing playing tennis; Nicely illustrated Timken Bearing ad looks into electric furnace. Back cover General Tire and Rubber Company ad features a Paul Gerding painting of "The Flight of Lindbergh" by W.A. Byrnes. Average wear. Bit of writing on front cover. Covers held by one staple. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1953228 pages. Index. Twenty-four halftone illustrations. Reprint of the 1946 first edition. Author was an English clergyman and prolific author of scholarly works on these and related topics. Prior owner's name atop half-title page, otherwise unmarked with average wear to brown cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1952188 pages. Cover illustration by Lawrence Smith Beall of outdoor ballet at the St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre. Features: Nice colour Lincoln ad inside front cover features a cream-colored two-door with black roof and red interior; Many pages of gorgeous fashion ads with color and black and white photos; The Story of St. Louis - article with photo of the Joseph Pulitzer IV family, Mrs. Warren Shapleigh and daughters, guests at the home of Joseph L. Werner, and more; Years of the Prophet (The Veiled Prophet Ball) - article with photos of Susie Slayback, Mrs. Oscar H. Vieths, Alice Busch, Mary Virginia Collins, Rosalie McRee and Mary Kennard Wallace; Fair Saint Louisans - fashion photos of Mrs. Henry Rand, Mrs. H. Hanford Smith, Jr., Carol Moon GardnerMrs. Rumsey Ewing, Mr. and Mrs. John Peil, Mrs. Eugene F. Williams, Jr.(the former Evelyn Niedringhaus), Jane Genry Shelton, Sally Shepley, Mrs. J.H. Howe III, Marty Marion of the St. Louis Browns with Mrs. Edward Bakewell Jr., Mrs. Theodore P. Desloge, Mrs. Thomas Pettus with sons Peter and Teddy, Mrs. Russell Lortz, Mrs. John Brodhead, Jr., Mrs. David Calhoun, Mrs. James Hudson Jones (formerly Mary Elizabeth Robertson), Mrs. Jackson Johnson III, and Mrs. Elzey M. Roberts, Jr.; Music in the Missouri Air; Citadel of Art; 23 Westmoreland Place - photos of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Mathews, Jr., built by architect G.E. Henderson; Selma Hall (photos); Age of Fable; Fashion photos of the Baronessa De Reutern Aloisi and Contessa Simonetta Visconti, Principessa Lola Giovannelli, and Comtesse Nicolas Cziraky; Paris fashion photos; Photos from the third annual Belmont Ball and a party for Richard Rodgers; St. Louis Fare; September fashion photos; Photos of the Cleveland ball for Beth Wagley, daughter of Mrs. John S. Lucas; several pages of high-end real estate listings, and more. Page 57 nearly loose, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this stunning snapshot of high society in 1952 St. Louis. Book
198547 pages. Footnotes. Black and white illustrations. Undated but appears to be circa 1985. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1941413 pages. Index. Written to transmit the thoughts of Hindu Vedanta and Buddhism to the West. Chapters include: The Ultimate Path; The Religious and Mystic Grades; The Hidden Philosophy of India; The Philosophical Discipline; The Worship of Words; The Arbitrament of Thinking Power; The Revelation of Relativity; From Thing to Thought; The Secret of Space and Time; The Magic of the Mind; The Downfall of Materialism. Dust jacket not included. Above-average wear to maroon cloth-covered boards. Binding open at half-title page. Few pencil markings to contents. A worthy reading copy. Book
2007Signed and inscribed, possibly by author, upon half-title page. xxxviii, 214 pages. Index and footnotes. "Describes the origins and dynamics of America's founding myths. Attempts to explain how the postmodern liberal elites justify their system and their intellectual repression against heretics." - back cover. Clean and bright with very light wear. Tight and square. A nice copy. Book
198232 pages. Features: Amelia Earhart, Auto Mechanic - article and 1918 photo explain how she studied auto mechanics while studying to be an ambulance driver; Air Cooled Camper - Bill Tuthill's early Series 11 Touring; Touring car equipped as a sleeper; Westrek Preview; List of 1982 Westrekkers; Franklin Mystery Cars from the files of Red Amick; Dr. A.D. Grant - Senior Member at age 104; California Here We Are, by Dr. A.D. Grant; A 1932 16 A Touring - Major article on Frank H. Gardner's metamorphisis of a car rescued from a junkyard in 1968; Westrek 1981 photos; John Burns article on restoration and maintenance; Reprint of a 1930 statement of sale and delivery of a 1930 Franklin Deluxe Sedan to a Mr. Cooper of Coopersburg, PA. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
193358 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of lady at wheel of sailboat; The Strange Life and Death of Stalin's Wife (part 1); Hearts and Swords - a stirring novel of bold deeds and lovely women in the glamorous Venice of yesterday; Movie News, Reviews and Photos - F.P.1, Morning Glory, This Day and Age, Blind Adventure; One Man in Ten Thousand - the story of a woman who knew her own heart; Happy Days - by Anna Roosevelt Dall; The Private Life of New York Mayor, Jimmy Walker (part 4); Portrait of Southpaw Baseball Player Jake Ehrich; Pa's Rhapsody in Silver and Black; Familiar Face (short story); Pretty Sadie McKee (part 12); Vox Pop; Fascinating one-page ad for Physical Culture magazine asks "Where Can the Unhappy Woman Find Happiness?"; To the Ladies; Back cover color-illustrated Chesterfield cigarettes ad features young couple in amazing '30s fashions! Above-average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
198846 pages. Features: The Madonna of Perpetual Help - beatriz de Ramirez; Merry Christmas!; Christmas Plate; Holly on a Paul Revere Bowl; Round Box; Oval Box; Jewelry Box; Bird & Bamboo; Celtic dragon; Design Stamping; Fairies on Free Form Porcelain; Assortment of Boxes; Winter in the Forest; Meet Georgina Gould; Meet BobbyLee Curlee; Man with a Turban; "Bucky" the Irish Setter; Master Series - artist lesson #1; Porcelain Christmas Cards; Inspired Designs; Brief Intro. to Art from the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire; Pinecones; Deer on Vase; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
198090 pages. Loaded with wonderful color and black and white photos. Features: Tien Nei; Nine pages of colour movie ads; Lung Chun Erh; Hsu Feng; Colour photo series of martial arts-related photos, featuring a muscular fellow with movie camera; Chin Han's estranged wife won't let him go; Age and Appearance no barriers for Kwai Ah Lui; Tsui Fong smiles again; Wang Tao; Sexy-eyed Yin Choi Ling; New Wave Co.; Yuen Qui gets his reward; Lau Ka Wing seeks to revitalize Kung Fu films; Movie Diplomacy and the 1979 Golden Horse Awards; The Big Knife; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1979102 pages. Wonderful colour and black and white photography. Features: The Young Master - two pages of colour photos; Beautiful one-page colour photos of Sylvia Chang, Lily Li, Hsu Chieh; Candy Wen, Hu Yin Mong, and Rebecca Fong; Colour photos of ladies fashions; Colour photo of Jackie Chan; Last Hurrah For Chivalry - foldout colour photos; Jackie Chan foldout colour photo; Photo of Dinah Shore with Raymond Chow; Article and photos on Dinah Shore and her TV show visiting the set of a Kung Fu movie; Michael Hui - 'Made in China'; Article and photos entitled "Jackie Chan, Motioning with Ease and Grace; Cheng Shao Chiu, Portraying a Hero in the Sword - article with black and white photos; Hsu Chieh - Gym Enthusiast - article with black and white photos; Wei Bai Aspired To Love; Yuen Biao, Making a Hit - article with black and white photos; K.H. Chan could eat no fat - article with black and white photos; Sheh Kin - Uncrabbed by Age - article with photos; Richard Ng as a moviegoer; Rebecca Fong starring in Carry on Orderly; Love at First Bite - George Hamilton Photos; Horror Inn - colour ad inside back cover; Nice colour photo ad for Girard-Perregaux watches on back cover; and much more. Clean and unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1957Pages 641-704. "The official organ of The Supreme Council 33 degree Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction, United States of America." - front cover. Contents: Interesting editorial on current immigration debate; Honoring the 'Eggheads'; Foreign-Language Lodges; The Path We Tread; Masonry's Quest; Joseph and His Brethren; Whan a Man is Educated; Akhenation, The First Heretic; Great Virtues are Eternal; Road to Peace; Mouth to Ear; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
