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192553516London: William Heinemann 1925. Royal quarto reprint of Medici Society edition of 1924. With 113 plates some folding after photographs by the author. 1 vols. Lg. 4to. Original dark blue cloth spine sunned and slightly frayed at head and foot else fine. From the library of Esmond Bradley Martin. Royal quarto reprint of Medici Society edition of 1924. With 113 plates some folding after photographs by the author. 1 vols. Lg. 4to. William Heinemann unknown books
017115The original and unusual chessmen for Chess '72 were designed and sculpted by Alexander Silveri of Graz Austria. Silveri a retired professor of art has since winning his first state prize in Vienna in 1933 won many European art prizes and exhibited his works throughout most of Europe and Brazil. Each piece is molded from ridged plastic. The set includes George McGovern Richard Nixon Henry Kissinger Eugene McCarthy J. Edgar Hoover Edward Kennedy and more. All housed in original black box with board. unknown books
017115The original and unusual chessmen for Chess '72 were designed and sculpted by Alexander Silveri of Graz Austria. Silveri a retired professor of art has since winning his first state prize in Vienna in 1933 won many European art prizes and exhibited his works throughout most of Europe and Brazil. Each piece is molded from ridged plastic. The set includes George McGovern Richard Nixon Henry Kissinger Eugene McCarthy J. Edgar Hoover Edward Kennedy and more. All housed in original black box with board. unknown
59859EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Commissioners of Fisheries Game and Forest of the State of New York Albany NY. 1896. 375 pgs. Illustrated with Color lithograph plates and Black and White Plates. Previously owned by one H H Lyman. Bound in decorated binding with gilt titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities spine is rubbed and worn. Previous owner's name stamped to the title page. Foxing present throughout. Lower right corner of the text block is dampstained however all pages do turn freely pages do sound crinkly however. Text is free of any textual marks. Binding tight and solid. The color fish plates are: Brook Trout Atlantic Salmon White Fish Small Mouthed Black Bass Large Mouthed Black Bass Pike Perch or Wall-Eyed Pike Mascalonge Pike Pickerel from upper Hudson River Pickerel from a pond in Massachusetts Shad Rainbow Trout Brown Trout and Smelt. There are also color plates by Denton of the Virginia Deer and the Mongolian or Ring-Necked Pheasant. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
41729486like new. unknown
21283On letterhead of Heatherside Worpledon Surrey. 11 June 1902. 2pp 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition lightly aged. Folded once. He begins by informing the unnamed recipient that the reason for the delay in answering his letter is that Selous has 'just returned to this country from a trip to Hungary'. For his part Selous will be 'very pleased if you will quote anything you like from my book “Travel and Adventure in S. E. Africaâ€. He presumes that 'the publishers to whom the book I suppose really belongs will have no objection either as to quote any passage from a book is to call attention to the book itself which may result in the sale of a copy'. On letterhead of Heatherside, Worpledon, Surrey. 11 June 1902. unknown
31x23. 210p.+28 fotogr.+LXXVI+XL+LXI. Láms. Textos de J. Cavestany, Conde de Yebes, E. Llosent Marañón. Enc. Plena piel ed. Estampada. Cantos dorados y decorados. Estuche. Ed. De lujo.
80 pages. Features:. Withdrawal from Europe "An Illustion" - we must have close co-operation with West Germany; Lest Us Reason Together - photo feature on LBJ; Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson (Lady Bird) - article with photo about the public servant without pay; The Muddled Problem of Presidential Succession - which was brought home by the death of JFK; After Five Years, de Gaulle Still Towers; The average height of Americans is increasing; A Master Builder at 75 - photo feature on the works of New York's Robert Moses; When a Negro is on Trial in the South - is the picture painted by novels and films correct?; Crosswords - the most popular game; Christmas Wraps - fashion photos; Photos of tapestries in the apartment of Allen Porter; and more.. Ads: Selchow & Righter Company board games in color; Pepperidge Farm Devil's Food Cake; Ella Fitzgerald albums by Verve; Thomas Date Nut Loaf; and more. Four-inch opening to back cover, otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
74 pages. Articles: Tradition Can't Win Wars - General H.H. (Hap) Arnold proposes a method of tightening civilian control of national defense - article with color photo; Confessions of a Congressman's Son - author anonymous; Lincoln's Lost Speech - an American Psalm; It's Ed Wynn Again - in Video - one of the greatest clowns in entertainment history; The Marvelous Mounties - As They Really Are (part 2 of 2); Doctor "Doc" J.S. Dorton - He Makes Our Hearts Gay at the Country Fair - Shelby, North Carolina; Blood and Thunder - Raymond L. Caldwell has assembled the world's best collection of "Penny Dreadfuls" (vintage magazines and dime novels) - article with photo; Muggsy's Legacy - Disgruntled New York Giants Manager John McGraw demanded that the Yankees be evicted from the Polo Grounds - and then look what happened. Fiction: Battle of Calabash; Man's Game; The Chimney of Holy John; Last Days of Poncho Pete; The case of the Negligent Nymph (part 5 of 6); The Picture and the Frame. Includeds these nice vintage ads: Puerto Rican Rum; Movie "They Live By Night"; Honeywell thermistats - featuring Kirk Douglas as he appeared in boxing movie "Champion"; Mercury cars; Toastmaster products; Buick cars; "Ichabod" Disney movie; Goebel beer; Chevrolet - super color centerfold ad; Budweiser; Lucky Strike (on back cover) featuring L. Murray Magnum, tobacco buyer. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
F52un des 50 ex. numérotés sur Japon (n° 65) annoncés avec deux états dont nous n’avons qu’un seul en noir, compositions de GIACOMELLI gravées sur bois par HUYOT, l’une très belle en couleurs.
32 pages. Features: The Queen of Kipling's Mandalay - article on Burma with photo of Supayalat and King Thibaw; The New 'Real Estate Bond' Industry (2nd article of 2) - First Mortgages on the Unknown Future Amount to Many Millions; A Good Look at Our Young People - analysis discloses that the newer generation is not deteriorating; Why Not Keep Faith with the Moro Race? - Justice is due to these people as well as to the other natives of Philippines - photo illustrated article on these people of Mindanao; What Has Become of Ben? - a boy whose restless gypsy blood made him an aimless wanderer; Mr. Henry Ford's Page - "Low wages shows poor management, poor finance, poor production"; Editorials - Senator Borah to the Lead, The Unitarian Women of the U.S., How important is news?, Which way is Coolidge going?, Anesthetic discovery at the University of Wisconsin; African Lions Roamed in Hollywood - discoveries indicate prehistoric game trail once extended from Old World to New; Why the Great Strike Failed - American gives vivid pictures of English lovel-headedness when millions of workers downed tools - article with photos; The Voyage of the Victoria - Westward Ho! (part 5 of a series); When General U.S. Grant Gathered Hides at Galena - for a time he forsook army life to engage in humble ways of earning a living in commerce; Ad for The Canal Band and Trust Co. of New Orleans; interesting piece about Jewish historian Josephus and his original text, in Aramaic, describing Jesus and his life; Mark Twain as Traveler (short article); New Oriental Limited ad features Glacier National Park; A Dance a Week - Positions of Feet in Dancing; Wild Flower Gardens - The Pansy King of Wisconsin, William Toole, Sr.; Fascinating illustrations of Pioneer tests in Aerostats (balloons). Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: We Should Encourage the Doves in the Kremlin; Epitaph for an Age - Does Modern Man Have a Death Wish?; The Nielsen Rating For a Box of Spaghetti - A.C. Nielsen is all about consumers; Jerusalem - Experiment in Coexistance - article with color photos; Baseball is the Waiting Game - ideas how to speed up the game; Awesome 8-page centerfold color-photo advertising section for the 1967 line of Pontiac cars, including Firebird centerfold; Little Groovy Annie - fashion comic; Photos of Montreal's Habitat designed for Expo '67 by Moshe Safdie; Nice Pendleton wool coat ad; and more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Spine taped. A worthy reference copy. Book
50 pages. Cover photo of Alice Wallace. Fiction: Fishbowl. Articles: Menace of the Abortion Racket - article with photo of Chicago Dr. Nathaniel Schaffner who was charged after the death of his patient, Mrs. Emma Laisure; The Velvet Fog - Photo-illustrated article on crooner Mel Torme; A Veteran Buys a Farm - Great photo-illustrated article on George Stieber, who gave up the controls of a B-29 for a Pennsylvania dairy farm; The Misunderstood Coroner - A.L. Brodie of Chicago; Broadway's Conscience - writer Jimmie Cannon; Can We Win an Atomic War?; Legion Conventions - Times Square revs up for the fun makers coming to town; Peace for Your Aching Head; The Man Who Married the Andrews Sisters - photo-illustrated ad on Lou Levy, who married Maxene but guided the three gals to millions; Their Number's Up - New York numbers game operators can no longer escape jail through tricky bookkeeping; River Pilot - Captain Jesse Hughes and his drawings of the Ohio and Mississippi. Special Features: Seafaring Funny Man; City Room Refugees - Richard Basehart and Don McGuire were newspapermen before becoming hearthrobs; Saturday Afternoon; Stealing the Pennant - great photo-illustrated article on base-stealing in baseball, with photos of Stan Musial, Walker Cooper, Johnny Hopp, Skeeter Newsome, Stan Hack,Lou Boudreau, Phil Rizzuto, Bob Elliot, Ray Lamanno, Don Johnson and Jackie Robinson; Movie of the Month - Variety Girl - with photos of Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, and newcomver DeForest Kelley of later Star Trek fame; Sultry photo of Hazel Brooks; Photos of Billy De Wolfe; Mister Jazz - One-page article with large photo of Louis Armstrong; Gorgeous photo of beauty contest entrant Yvonne De Carlo; Editorial inside back cover features large photos of New York Vets protesting lack of proper housing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
19500009431950 Paris, Nouvelles Éditions de la Toison d'or, 1950. In-12 (143 X 200 mm) broché ; 348 pages.
1959065376Zaragoza: Base Aérea de Zaragoza 1959. No consta edición. Tapa dura. Good. 85 pp. 13 x 205 cm. Cuaderno anillado hojas de cartón fino. Perfecto estado. Buen estado. Base Aérea de Zaragoza hardcover
75174Paris, éd. Albin Michel, S.d. (circa 1915), in-12, br. couv. ill. en coul. sur fond bleu éd., 122 pp., table des matières, Une Rareté sur la préparation du lapin, domestique et sauvage. Très belle couverture de Robert Salles. Très bon état, remplacement de la 4e de couverture; le papier est uniformément jauni
132 pages. Features: Many great color-photo fashion ads; The Mad Diary of a Manhattan Ecologist - Anne Richardson Roiphe; Nice color ad for Omega watches; Photo of John T. Morgan in Bogen Boutiques ad; Interesting Dreyfuss Fund ad features large photo of lion's head; Great photo ad for Ben Khan features Knick' basketball player Walt (Clyde) Frazier; Living Through the Allende Revolution - A Chilean Familiy Chronicle - major photo-illustrated article; Jean-Paul Sartre Accuses the Intellectuals of Bad Faith; It's Not How You Play The Game, But What Pill You Take - the genie of the pill bottle threatens both athletes and athletics; The Natives May Win One - The Great Alaskan Real-Estate Deal - land claims of the Kotzebue people; Rene Dubos views mankind's future with confidence; Pearl S. Buck ad features photos of darling children who are prisoners of war - Amerasian children left in Asian countries by American GI's; Great funky color ad for Supergraphics highlights their 70's adhesive plastics interior finishings; Great "Polish Screwdriver" ad for Wodka Wyborowa - The Polish Vodka; Nice one-page Dewar's Whisky ad features photo of playwright Terrence McNally; and more. Please Note: Pages 43-46 loose but present. Centerfold and pages 95-98 missing. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: A Wasted Sugar Supply - Honey from Honeybees; Wild Youth Proves a Myth - 'girls and boys' between 35 and 45 are rolling up the crime wave; Making the Government Efficient - reorganization would cut 100,000 unnecessary employees from federal payrolls; The White House - a Mecca for Cranks - Secret Service men must be ever alert to guard the President from the Unbalanced; Missionaries and Machine Guns - many preachers of the gospel do not want the protection of bullets; Tom Learns to Play the Game - an American boy who on mastering himself was able to direct others; Henry Ford's Page - Lower price no longer means lower equality; Editorials - making the movies dry, the value of vulgarity, Mussolini forbids earthquake prophet,exams proposed for ministers of religion, Washington's inability to think in other than political terms; Writing Verse for Composite Readers - some versifiers cultivate eccentricity, others are themselves, and therefore poets; Sad Men Who Look So Wistfully at the Sky - author, William F. Hopp has been chaplain of the Michigan State Prison for over seven years - article with photos; Duelists (Fighter Pilots) of the Sky - a tale of knights-errant and their deeds - of their light-heartedness, and their gallant, tragic fate; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 3) The Big Snake and the Little Dog - and how a darky made millions from circus side shows; Chats with Office Callers - Christmas cards began with Jewish Adolph Tuck, controversy in Canada over union with the U.S., sighting of monster near Prince Rupert, B.C.; The Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Fascinating illustrated ad for homes which can be built for under $1k in materials; I Read In the Papers - article by Nathaniel Zalowitz in the 'Jewish Daily Forward' declares "...For the overwhelming majority of Jews in American assimilation in any true sense of the term is absolutely out of the question."; The Barefoot Boy - poetry by J.G. Whittier inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Illustrated Wall St./Money Game front cover';; What Code of Values Can We Teach our Children Now? - American children today are suffering from widespread parent failure; The Great Money Game - investing challenge winners include Lawrence Zicklin of Neuberger & Berman, and Frank Bliss Lane of Spencer Trask & Co.; An M.D. Reviews Dr. Welby of TV; After Tito - Who Can Keep Together The Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Bosnian Moslems, Albanians, Hungarians and Montenegrins?; Pave the Wetlands or Let Them Be? - The fight to develop the great salt meadow in Stratford, Connecticutt; Fantastic color-photo centerfold ad for trissi features fashion model reclining on pillows; Uncommon one-page color ad for Kellogg's new 'Danish Go-Rounds" pastry product; 'Simple by Sleek' fashion photos; Park Avenue duplex apartment is designed by Gabriel Sedlis; Lovely color-photo fashion ads; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Articles: The Facts About Business - an encouraging message from John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury; Governor Going Places - GovernorAlfred Eastlack Driscoll of New Jersey - article with nice photos; Terror in the Streets - Let's put police back on the beat; The Stars are Dave's Dish - Dave Chasen provides Hollywood feasts to the rich and famous - article with nice colour photo including Peter Lawford and Don Ameche; Animals Own Me; Dartmouth's Streamlined Mr. Chips - Professor Harry Wellman of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration; Our Kids with Crippled Mouths - a pathetic host of American children need major orthodontic work; It's No Love Game. Fiction: The Girls of Laurel Court; Use no Hooks; The Iron Butterfly (part 3 of 4); Mr. Dilsey's Magic Lure; The Combination; Eyewitnes. Nice vintage ads include: Ansco film, Zenith televisions, Ford cars; Pabst Blue Ribbon beer - featuring colour photo of actor Charles Laughton; Good Year tires (centerfold); Nesbitt's soda; Chevrolet - great two-page color ad; Budweiser; Douglas Super DC-3; Goebel beer; Camel cigarettes - great back cover ad featuring photo of Cole Porter plus Gene Bearden, Gladys Swarthout, Jeanne Wilson, Gene Sarazen, Sylvia MacNeill and "Dusty" Campbell. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Articles: The Secret Boss of Californa - Artie Samish (part 1 of 2); "Hurry" Cain Out of the West - Senatory Harry Cain of Washington state; Bringing Up a Movie Moppet; Yankee Yogi Berra - "I'm Human, Ain't I?" - article with great one-page color photo; The Biggest Blast of Them All (part 2 of 2) - Untold secrets of the Hiroshima bombing - article with photos; I Was Run Over by a Carrier - Emil Skocpol's plane crashed in front of the 45,000 ton carrier Midway; Farewell to Benzedrine Benders - disturbed by thrill-seekers who misused Benzedrine inhalers, the laboratory producing them has found a substitute with the bounce taken out; Belles of the Ball Game - women's baseball - article with nice colour photo of Twila Shively of the Peoria Redwings. Fiction: The Two Loves of Victor Fenlon; How to Swap Horses; Design for Vengeance; The Merry Assassin; The Legal Bride (part 3 of 6); Spelling Bee. Nice vintage ads for: Studebaker; Bell telephone (big things to come in service); Zenith radios (nice color one-page ad); Good Year; Plymouth cars; Pabst Blue Ribbon beer ad featuring color photo of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Chevrolet; Hunter Whiskey - nice centerfold; The Douglas Super DC-3; Puerto Rican Rum; U.S. Army & Air Force Recruiting; Gordon's gin; Camel cigarettes - back cover ad with photos of celebrities including Lew Worsham, Mrs. Orson Munn, Jr., Johnny vander Meer, Pete Desjardins and singer Michael Douglas. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1920143Deutsche Jagd Dresde, Hans Koeler-1920. Format : sous chemise-portefeuille en vélin ivoire de 31 x 38 cm, à décor de cerf (reliure éditeur) Edition originale comportant un feuillet de présentation et 12 planches (de format 30,5 x 35 cm)par Otto Edouard VOIGT, peintre sur porcelaine de Meissen, signées à la mine de plomb. Les planches représentent : cerfs, élans, chevreuils, sangliers,lièvres, lapins, renards, blaireaux, fouines, coqs de bruyère, bécasses, perdrix, écureuils, faisans, hérons et canards. Tiré à 285 exemplaires celui-ci est un des 38 exemplaires de tête (n° 13) dont les planches ont été colorées par l’artiste ex-libris du général de la Ferté Senectere très bon état
82 pages. Articles: Terror/Crime in Our Cities - No. 1 - Detroit; University of North Carolina Football Coach Carl Grey Snavely - article with nice color photos; The Schary Script - M-G-M's Dore Schary is one of the busiest men in Hollywood; Clowns after Hours - The Minneapolis Aquatennial festival and its Aqua Jesters; My 4-Year War with the Reds; (part 3 of 5); So You Had a Virus?; Down with the Little Things; I Hate a Dumpy Woman; A Good Clean-Cut American Boy; Owl, He Crow For Midnight; Champion of Sonora; Valley of the Tyrant (part 2 fo 4); A Game of Skill. Includes these nice vintage ads: General Electric tvs; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring colour image of Mrs. Herbert Bayard Swope, Jr.; B.V.D. shirts; Admiral tvs; Lord Calvert Whiskey ad features full-page color photo portrait of author James Michener; Dodge Trucks; Pabst beer ad features photo of Sid Luckman; Plymouth cars; Puerto Rican Rum; General Motors; Bicycle playing cards; Nice full-page color Schenley Whiskey ad features Ed Sullivan; Camel cigarette ad on back cover includes Vic Scott, Albany to New York out-board racing champ. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Contains Acts relating to: Affidavits, Declarations, and Affirmations; Bills of Sale; Births Deaths and Marriages; Execution Creditors; Executive Council; Fences; Game; Graving Dock; Insolvency; Lands; Lieutenant-Governor and his Deputies; Members' Indemnity; Municipalities; New Westminster; Independence of Parliament; Partition; Police Constables; Quesnelle River Ditch Company; Sheriffs and Appointment of Registrars of the Supreme Court; Supply; Property Taxes; Telephone Company (Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Co.); Tolls (Cariboo Waggon Road); Victoria City; Waverly Hydraulic Mining Company. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
Contains public acts relating to: Absconding Debtors, Assignees, etc. for benefit of Creditors, Bush Fires, Cattle Ranges, Incorporation of Companies, Coroner's inquests within municipalities, Courts of Appeal from Summary Convictions of Magistrates, Courts of Assize, County Courts, Supreme Courts, Drunkards, Sumas Dyking, Estates, Evidence, Game, Jurors, Crown Lands (timber lands), Land Registry, Loan, Married Woman's Poverty, Medicine and Surgery, Minerals (Gold, etc.), Municipalities, Quartz Mines, Kootenay and Athabasca Railways, Shuswap and Okanagan Railway, Public Schools, Statutes, , Statutes Consolidation, Supply, Swine, Property Taxes, Vancouver City. Private Acts relating to: Delta Railway, Kootenay and Athabasca Railway, New Westminster Southern Railway, Vancouver City Incorporation, Victoria Fire Department Charitable Association. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book