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Features: A vote against motherhood - Gael Greene; Danger from Within - Dwight D. Eisenhower writes that Indolence and lack of moral principle present a greater threat to America than the armed might of Communism; Perils of Pauline - America's highest-paid femail TV commentator, Pauline Frederick, fights skeptical bosses, prettier rivals and video's glamour code; "We Sailed the Columbus Ship" - Robert Marx relates how nine men in a forty-two foot boat braved wind and wave to recreate the first conquest of the Atlantic - many colour photos; Golf-Ball Goof - retrieving lost golf balls; Last Stop Alcatraz - Mickey Cohen and the inside story of how Federal agents put him behind iron bars at long last; Ice Hockey's Geriatric Marvel - 38 year of age, going on 45, goalie Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs seems to have found the secret of perennial youth; Nuclear-age School - New Mexico students pursue knowledge under a 21 inch concrete slab in Artesia, New Mexico - Abo Public Elementary School is the only one in the nation underground - it doubles as a fully equipped fallout shelter; Black Merchants of Hate - fanatic and well-disciplined, Negro 'Muslims' threaten to turn resentment against racial discrimination into open rebellion - photo of Malcolm X. Nice colour Pepsi ad on back cover. Great two-page colour ad for Chevrolet trucks. Nice full-page ad for a blue 1963 Dodge Wagon; Colour Ford Auto centerfold features the Fairlane. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
120 pages. Features: Cover illustration of International Farmall tractor harvesting grain; Lovely colour ad for Nash cars inside front cover; Color photo of golfer Sam Snead in one-page B.F. Goodrich tire ad; Half-page color ad for Titleist "Acushnet" golf balls; Nice two-page color ad for Mobilgas features large winged horse; Lovely half-page color ad for Hydrox cookies; Great two-page color ad for Chevrolet cars, featuring their PowerGlide transmissions; The Ordeal of Judge Harold Raymond Medina - he is hard on Reds; The Wrath of Tugboat Annie (story); Edmonton, Alberta - feature article with many photos, including youthful premier Ernest Manning; Ditchdigger's Daughter (story); Getting ripped off by phoney weigh scales; Photo-illustrated article on simultaneous translators at the U.N.; James (Big Jim) Morton - "I Was the King of the Thieves" - part 2; Appointment with Treachery (story); Super color-photo illustrated article on circus highwire performer the Great Alanza; The Magnificent Faker (story); Funny Way to Got To School - Calvert School in Baltimore; Bonus Rookie (story); Nice one-page color-photo ad for Campbell's Chicken Gumbo soup includes an Aunt Jemima-like lady cooking at fire; Lovely one-page color ad for the (yellow) Oldsmobile "88" Holiday Coupe; Murder is the Pay-Off (story); Nice one-page color-photo ad for G.E. fridges with the new Alnico Magnetic Door; Nice one-page color ad for De Soto cars; One-page color cartoon-style ad for Post cereals features baseball scene; Pall Mall cigarette ad; Nice one-page color ad for Ford cars; Sultry one-page ad for movie "Born to Be Bad" starring Joan Fontaine; Nostalgic two-page color ad for Kraft mayo and salad dressings; Nice one-page color ad for Frigidaire electric ranges; One-page color ad for the Studebaker Champion; One-page color ad for Hudson cars; One-page ad for RCA Victor televisions; One-page photo ad for Prest-O-Lite batteries features lady golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias; Wonderful color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes inside back cover features Gene Tierney and tobacco farmer Charlie P. Murphy of Mebane, N.C.; Attractive back cover Coke ad features large pop machine surrounded by a crowd of happy Coke drinkers. Somewhat above-average but not excessive wear. Light pink discoloration to part of top and bottom edge of most pages - text unaffected. Small piece missing from front cover at top of coverfold. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
92 pages. Features: Are we driving Japan into Red China's Arms?; We Run a Hospital for Birds; Amazong two-page photo of TBM Avengers being melted down in the Arizona desert; "Let's Legalize the Spitball!"; Helping Hands from Mexico - photo-illustrated article in the 435k Mexicans who legally work on US farms; Don't Let Medical Bills Bankrupt You; Secrets of the Unknown War (part 2 of 5) - photo-illustrated article of what happened in Greenland during WWII; The Case of the Dead Man's Daughter (part 1 of 8); California Passage (part 7 of 8); Miracle at Fort Morgan, Colorado - the town goes on an all-out weight-loss spree. Short Stories: One-Woman Man; Stroll into Danger; High-Pressure Girl; Bandit in the Sky. Ads: Pink GE washer and dryer inside front cover; Gorgeous color-photo Cadillac ad; Borden's Buttermilk; Nice Wheaties ad shows lady golfer; GM ad features Charles Fassinger and his family; Nice Oldsmobile color ad features golf illustrations; Color ad for the Winchester model 70 rifle; Motorola portable TV; Pepsi - one-page beach scene; Ford cars; Betty Crocker Li'l Angel Food Cake (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
140 pages. Short Stories: Hard-Luck Girl; The Words of Love; Dangerous Bluff; His Sister's Keeper. Articles: Why do they Hate us in Panama? - photo-illustrated article about anti-American riots; The Birds' Last Stand - 6,000 exotic birds may be evicted from their Stone Harbor, New Jersey haven; Pilots Aren't Obsolete Yet - the recently-cancelled B-70 Valkyrie bomber may be necessary for our survival; Los Angeles' Cure for Drunks - California desert rehabilitation farm; The Movies' Modern Marco Polo - Stanley Goldsmith is Twentieth Century Fox's chief trouble shooter for pictures filmed overseas; They Call Me Madam (part 2 of 4) - Washington's legendary hostess Perle Mesta; Fabulous Mine in the Sea - The Grand Isle Sulphur Mine in the Gulf of Mexico; Touring Russia Made Easy. Serials: If Hitler Had Invaded England (part 2 of 3); The Tewksbury Feud. Ads: Dogde Trucks (inside front cover); Employers Mutuals of Wausau - with photos of John M. Fox of the Minute Maid Corporation and company driver Eddie Mew plus Ed Waters; GE Appliances; Spring cigarettes; Fantastic two-page color-photo (red) Corvair ad features gents in black suits and hats checking out the car; Old Crow Whisky, with one-page color illustration of James Crow with his neighbors; Two-pages of the Ford Galaxie; Lowry organs; Quaker State Oil; The BMC 850 (Mini) (2 pages in color); Canadian Pacific Dome Cars (1 color page); Nice color photo ad for the (red) Chrysler Imperial in a horse-racing setting; Hotpoint fridges; Cadillac Guide-Matic; Scott Paper; ScottTowel multi-color towels; Schlitz beer - flying a kite; Kem-Tone and Kem-Glo Paint; Johnson V-75 outboard motor; Toro lawn and garden products; Admiral TVs; Cracker Barrel Cheese; Caterpillar; Smith-Corona typewriters; Hertz rental cars; Boeing 720; Samsonite luggge with Queen's guards in background; The Denver Hilton Hotel; Karpen furniture (very funky); Nabisco Veri-Thin Pretzels; American Seating Company; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
112 pages. Features: Nice color 7up ad with Fiesta theme; Great color full-page ad for the 1958 Chevrolet; Color photo ad for Johnson outboard motors - the new "V" Sea Horse; Actual case histories from the files of the Marriage Council in Philadelphia; Hornblower's Hurricane - Part 1 of 3 by C.S. Forester; Those Amazing Island Medics - article and color photos of native physicians of the Pacific Islands, by Milton and Margaret Silverman; Shock Treatment - story by Allan Seager; The Greek Americans - two-page color photo of their January 6 gala version of Epiphany at Tarpon Springs, Florida; Maverick Boy - story by Prentiss Combs; Why Russia Has Poland Problems - for generations the Poles have hated the Russians, and they still do - photos; Private Life of Marshall Matt Dillon aka James Arness - great article and photos; House of Illusion - National Historical Waxworks Museum; Frank Malzone of the Boston Red Sox; The Man Who Wouldn't Fall - story by Richard Stern; The Flaming River - story by Dion Henderson; Beautiful colour Cadillac ad shows high class couple stepping out of the Del Monte Lodge to their blue coupe; Death Stalks the Bride - story by Nancy Rutledge; Two-page Pall Mall cigarette ad; Color photo ad for 1958 Ford cars; Sweet color photo ad for Gulf service stations; Sensational color photo Oldsmobile Super 88 ad features Patti Page outside CBS TV Studio 50; Great Caterpillar ad illustrates and describes massive interstate development and tax generation spinoffs in Needham, Mass.; Nice color photo ad for Delco radios - auto and portable; Great Viceroy cigarette ad features large photo of Cary Middlecoff; Harrison Air Conditioning color ad; Front cover essentially detached and heavily worn. Back cover missing. Occasional underlining and notes. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
180 pages. Features: 1-page color ad for Timken tapered roller bearings; 1-page color ad for Lumite auto seat covers; 1/2-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes; 2-page color ad for General brand Winter-Cleat tires; Fantastic 1-page color ad for White Trucks features log-hauling scene; Nice color 2-page ad for General Electric radios and tvs; Nice color 1-page ad for Whitman's Samplers; What Kind of Man is Stalin? - Part 1 of 'My Three Years in Moscow - article with photos - the author met Stalin personally; The Innocent Buccaneer (fiction); How to Get Rich After Dark - photo-illustrated article on the men who fish the Gulf Stream off Florida; The Rebellious Age (fiction); Moutain Rescue Man - color-photo illustrated article on Ranger William Butler of Washington's Mount Rainier; The Woman Hater (fiction); John Pastore - Rhode Island's Little Firecracker - article with photo; Hilarious Memories of Albert J. Rothe "The Red Barber" who trimmed famous men such as Truman, Bradley, Byrnes, Leahy and Patton - article with photos; Anxious Night (fiction); Tuss McLaughry of Dartmouth's football program - article with photo; Collision Course (fiction); Feature article on Miinot, North Dakota, with photos; New York City's Food Trades Vocational High School - article with great color photos; The Doctor of Unkown Island (fiction); Photo-illustrated article on Jimmy Dunn of America's foreign service; *SENSATIONAL* full-page color-photo ad for the New Chrysler Town & Country in a bird hunting locale; That Ain't The Way I Saw It - former newspaperman Robert M. Yoder on the glamorous adventures thata befall a reporter in the radio serials; Fantastic two-page Borg-Warner ad highlights their products in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! format; U.S. Army photo-illustrated recruiting ad; Nice 1-page color ad for Old Gold cigarettes; 2-page color-photo ad for Sun-Maid Raisins; Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Nice 1-page color-illustrated ad for American Airlines; Magnavox TV ad; Nice photo-illustrated ad for Pullman cars; 1-page color ad for Rice Krispies; Two-page ad for Listerine and dandruff; Gorgeous 2-page color illustrated Chevrolet ad featuring a red Styleline De Luxe 4-Door Sedan; Auto-Lite Spark Plug ad features photos of Jane Wyman; Nice 2-page color-illustrated General Motors ad highlights the safety of their vehicles; Nice 1-page 2-color photo-illustrated ad for Eaton 2-speed axles features tank truck driver Mr. J.T. Ebling; Eveready battery ad features photos of Mr. Axel Lober, Mr. Everett Smith, Janice Winters and Mr. Sam C. Kuster; Nice 1-page photo illustrated ad for the Underwood All Electric Typewriter; Color ad for Crosley fridges; Nice color ad for Kraft Cocao Mix; Wonderful full-page color 7up (Seven-Up) ad features photo of a square dance scene; Color ad for Del Monte Catsup; Hydrox cookie ad; Color ad for Hamilton watches; 1-page 2-color ad for Red Heart dog food features photos of Lassie; Nice 1-page color ad for United Aircraft; Cream of Wheat ad features Li'l Abner cartoon; Full-page tire chain ad for American Chain & Cable Company; 1-page 2-color ad for Cavalier Cedar Chests; Statler Hotels ad features cartoon. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. This issue noteworthy for its many exceptional ads. Magazine
132 pages. Features: Amos Sewell cover illustration; Editorial - The Dixon-Yates row was a TVA diversion; Great 2-page color ad for Motorola TV; Colour Pontiac ad featuring the 1955 station wagon with the 180 HP Strato-Streak V8; A Farewell to my Newborn Son - A.E. Hotchner lost his infant son through a medical blunder; Frankie Laine - Screaming Troubadour - with photos; Carnival of Fear, by Kay Boyle; The Restaurants that Nickels Built (Part 1 of 2) - Horn and Hardart restaurants - the 'Automat' - article with photos; The Lady and the Lash, by Hal G. Evart; Women Talk Too Much, by Sophie Kerr Let's not waste our Fighting Man Power, by Lt. Gen. Robert W. Harper USAF; Leave my Daughter Alone, by Wyatt Blassingame; I Would Not Murder for the Soviets, by Nikolai E. Khokhlov (conclusion); The Passionate Policeman, by William Fay; Kyoto - article with colour photos; Never Get Another Dog, by Jean Heavey; They May Be Rich - or Widows - The wives of shrimpers (shrimp fishermen) in the Gulf of Mexico; Hollywood colling, by Clarence Budington Kelland; Nice colour Campbell's soup ad; Colour photo ad for the 1955 Plymoth with wrap-around windshield; Great two-page colour Chevrolet ad featuring a red Bel Air Sport Coupe; Nice colour Old Gold cigarette ad; 1955 Chrysler colour photo ad - with lots of gleaming chrome!; Two-page colour ad for Admiral TVs - they sure mad'em ugly back then!; Ann Sothern is featured in a lovely Christmas color photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes; Color ad for the Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight; Crazylegs Hirsch featured in Employers Mutuals of Wausau ad; Glamorous color photo ad for Philip Morris' new 'snap-open' cigarette pack; Page and Shaw Chocolates - color ad; Color ad for Parker Pens; Magnavox TV ad; Zippo lighter color ad; Color ad for Rolf's billfolds; Color Christmas ad for Chesterfield cigarettes on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
2012100120289University of Chicago Press 2012 184 pages 10 16x1 524x17 526cm. 2012. Broché. 184 pages.
1972341j0814Toronto Ontario: The Royal Canadian Golf Association / R.C.G.A. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1972. Club-House Edition. Hardcover. 117 pages. Index. Eight page fold-out "Rules of Amateur Status" revised February 11 1972 affixed inside back board. Gift greetings atop first leaf otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear to original red cloth. A quality vintage copy.; Sm 4to . The Royal Canadian Golf Association / R.C.G.A. hardcover
60-02955United States Golf Association. Pamphlet. Good. Good condition with wear. United States Golf Association unknown
197331617Montreal Privately Printed 1973
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and trade advertisements throughout; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Includes a diagrammatic guide to playing the Royal Eastbourne.
4to. 204, (4) pp. With numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations and a folding rear-pocket world map labelling the company's spheres of operation. Contemporary full cloth with giltstamped title to cover and spine. Only edition. Anniversary publication of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company celebrating sixty years in the business. It discusses the company's history and activities illustrated with high-quality images of refineries in Texas, California and the Netherlands, as well as of oil tanks, gas stations, working personnel, and corporate office buildings. - Cancelled stamp of the Geological Paleontological Institute of the University of Basel to flyleaf and title-page. OCLC 186670326.
Folio. 32 full-page wood-engraved plates including pictorial title. Original decorative blueboards gilt, rebacked preserving spine, new endpapers. Views include Jeddah, Mocha, Cairo, etc. This work is published without text. The plates are set on a stone coloured background. A couple of the plates are signed by William Measom. The suggested publication date is taken from an inscription on the original front pastedown (bound in), and is consistent with the dates of other works illustrated by Measom. - Occasional mostly light foxing and soiling. OCLC 23070449.
Very Good English Paperback. Small 4to. (25 x 18 cm). In English. [2], 43 p. The role of arms control in the Middle East (Adelphi Papers Number One Hundred and Thirty-Eight).
8vo (144 x 202 mm). Ottoman manuscript on paper. 122 pp., 13 lines, single column. Black ink with occasional red and blue. With a double-page illustration. Contemporary full brown calf with fore-edge flap and blindstamped ornaments to both covers. An Ottoman Turkish manuscript on the Hajj, describing the rituals of the pilgrimage and the traditional travel route from Turkey through the Levant to Medina and Mekkah. The book includes a rough, annotated drawing of the Prophet’s Mosque and a drawing of the Grand Mosque. - Some edge flaws and tears; occasional waterstains, mainly confined to the wide margins. Early 19th century waqf stamp to the flyleaf. A well-preserved survival.
8vo. 3 vols. Contemporary giltstamped calf with double giltstamped black spine labels; spines gilt; giltstamped borders to covers. First edition of this encompassing study by the Rev. Robert Adam (1770-1825), long a standard work on the world's religions. - A prettily bound set from the library of the British philosopher of religion, David Arthur Pailin (b. 1936), with his bookplate. OCLC 1615651. Cf. Chauvin XII, 53 (later edition 1823).
Ms. map (black and brown ink on paper). 735 x 412 mm. Hand-drawn map showing the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian subcontinent and the coast of Burma with the vast expanses of sea they border, reaching from the Suez Canal and Kenya in the West to the Maldives and on to Sumatra in the East. Signed and dated "Dr. L C Hofmann 1942" at bottom right (probably not the Dutch professor of Civil Law, Ludwig Christoph Hofmann [b. 1902]).
Standard issue, 710 x 864 mm. Various scales. Nautical chart of the northern Red Sea, showing the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba, prepared by the British Admiralty. With 4 inset maps displaying the Tiran Island anchorage, Sherm Yahar, Sherm Jubba, and El Tor harbour. - The chart details major cities including Sharm-el-Sheikh, Hurghada, Aqaba, Magna, and Suez, as well as historic landmarks like Mowila fort. In addition, the chart warns the mariner of dangerous currents in the Red Sea as well as tidal streams in the Gulf of Suez. The inset map of El Tor harbour shows hospital buildings, a well of fresh water, pilgrims' baracks, mosques, ruins, and the camel track to Wadi Sillah. - With a small illustration of the Ashrafi lighthouse. - The British Admiralty has produced nautical charts since 1795 under the auspices of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (HO). Its main task was to provide the Royal Navy with navigational products and service, but since 1821 it has also sold charts to the public. The present chart was composed after Admiralty surveys of 1830-34 and 1911; it was first published in 1873 and saw several corrections up to 1931. - Small tear in lower margin, not touching image. Top margin slightly creased. A single fold; a few manuscript notes. With a stamp "Increase 50%" near lower right corner. Captioned in print and in a former collector's hand on verso.
Vg/VG internally no fault. octavo First edition.. not price-clipped. the dj has a short tear to the top rear corner - easily repairable. an investigation on what really happened on the mission that made mcnab wealthy from a best-selling account. The Bravo Two Zero SAS operation in the first Gulf War by patrol commander "Andy McNab" did not seem to tally with the events as described by other participants. some things just did not happen in real life. Michael Asher, who also served in the parachute regiment and the SAS, went to investigate on the ground, to see what really happened. Includes eight pages of black & white photographs
Vg/VG internally no fault. octavo First edition.. not price-clipped. the dj has a short tear to the top rear corner - easily repairable. an investigation on what really happened on the mission that made mcnab wealthy from a best-selling account. The Bravo Two Zero SAS operation in the first Gulf War by patrol commander "Andy McNab" did not seem to tally with the events as described by other participants. some things just did not happen in real life. Michael Asher, who also served in the parachute regiment and the SAS, went to investigate on the ground, to see what really happened. Includes eight pages of black & white photographs
7 vols. Original illustrated cloth/gilt embossed percaline. First editions, very rare. - Complete set of this famous reference work. No more than 380 copies were printed (and many destroyed by a flood); vols. III and V were limited to a press run of 250 and 284 copies, respectively. Raswan became an expert on the Arabian breed through his lengthy trips to the desert, where he lived with the Bedouins and learned their language and customs. - Some hinges split. All volumes save for VI and the posthumous VII numbered and signed by Raswan, mostly in the year of publication. In very good condition.
4to. 141 pp., final blank page. With 8 coloured plates and numerous photographs (some in colour) in the text. Contemporary full cloth with giltstamped spine-title and illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Lavishly illustrated posthumous edition of an unpublished manuscript "by the great Arabian traveller, scholar and writer, H. St John Philby [...] charting his explorations into the bewildering thickets of the story [of the Queen of Sheba]" (publisher's blurb). With an introduction by the British military officer, Arabist, explorer, historian and diplomat Gerald de Gaury (1897-1984). - Dutch newspaper clipping about the analysis of an Ethiopian DNA sample supposedly going back to the legendary Queen of Sheba is loosely inserted. - In mint condition. OCLC 640352386.
Articles and cartoons on the game described by Mark Twain as the silliest way of going for a walk that was ever invented. 112 pages. Rubbing and shelfwear to dust jacket.
196154957Pinehurst North Carolina: Richard S. Tufts. Very Good; Dj in Good Condition. 1961. Hardback. 122 pages . Richard S. Tufts hardcover
