CROMBIE, Charles (1885-1967):Livre Rare Book
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100869aafLondon, Richard Wyman, ca. 1910, 29 x 20.5 cm, print n. 1087, mounted and framed (39.5 x 29.5 cm).
190207156THE ONE BEFORE Scribners 1902 first edition a bright vg copy in pictorial cloth. A fantasy with golf being a strong component. Profusely illustrated. Scribners / Scribner's hardcover
205 pages. Originally published by Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, Ltd., London. Multi-panel fold-out map. 9 Black and white illustrations. "A century ago, when every known route was beset with its own dangers, the risks in the "Country Trade" were especially numerous, and it is difficult now to even believe, much more to realise, the vicissitudes to which a ship was liable in the 17th and 18th centuries from the time she left her anchorage under the friendly protection of the guns of old Bombay Castle... Pirates, cosmopolitan, Indian, Arab, even English, cruised the Arabian seas. The Straits of Malacca teemed with fierce cut-throats; the Gulf was a standing menace. These dangers were real." - From Preface. Contents clean, bright and unmarked, possibly unread. Tight and square. Light wear to white and blue cloth-covered boards. Bright silver lettering upon spine. Book
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 26 plates in monochrome; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Observer 58. Print code 223.575. Marren & Carter, p.172.
8vo. (16), 216 pp. With a folding map in the lower cover. Original printed cloth. First edition of this study of the traditional historical region of Al-Hasa near Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia, created a World Heritage site in 2018. The anthropologist and surveyor Federico S. Vidal, an Aramco employee, would develop his work into a 3-volume Harvard Ph.D. thesis in 1964. - Handwritten ownership of Hazel D. Blair to front free endpaper. An excellent copy of this scarce work.
194727787New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill 1947. First edition. Cloth. Very Good . Small clothbound 8vo. 189 pp. First edition with no additional printings noted. A classic in the field with numerous illustrations on how to avoid some common pitfalls in your swing. A very handsome copy in illustrated green cloth binding. Lacks the uncommon dustwrapper. Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill unknown books
Folio (230 x 368 mm). Title, (6) pp., single column, lithographed throughout, with large Persian coat of arms on the title page (by Abu’l-Hasan Gaffari). Early issue of Persia's official government newspaper. Traces of folds; some edge chipping and tears to folds. Removed from the City Library Association, Springfield, MA, with their stamp to the title an handwritten note "The 'Persian Gazette", one of the only two in Persia - printed at Teheran - The Persian Coat of Arms".
124 pages. Features: Two-page ad for the Cadillac Seville Elegante; Dodge Challenger ad; Carte Blanche credit card ad features photos of Raymond J. Mulligan President of Liggett Group, Inc.), John C. Emery, Jr. (President of Emery Air Frieght, Corp.), Robert F. Weltzien (President of Timex Corp.), and Ken Dunsire, President of Carte Blanche Corp.; Two-page ad for the 1978 Buick Electra; Nice one-page color-photo ad for CIE fragrance features Candace Bergen; Fantastic two-page color spread of the line of 1978 Pontiac cars - Grand Prix, LeMans, Phoenix, Sunbird, Firebird and Bonneville; The Troubled World of Madison Square Garden President Mike Burke - beset by unhappy fans, languishing teams and the big threat in the Meadowlands; The War That Won't Go Away - after 19 months of devastation, Lebanon is still embattled - torn by alliances that extend far beyond its borders - with photo of Beirut street scene with destroyed buildings in background; Wonders of Irish Art - lustrous show opens this week at the Metropolitan Museum; The Imperial Court - has the Supreme Court usurped legislative powers reserved for the states?; Dave Ness is featured in a Vantage cigarette ad; Conversation with "Fingers" - Concert Pianist Eugene Istomin and his baseball theme for four hands; The Many Faces of a Brownstone - west side home is restored to its former grandeur; Sexy color-photo ad for "The Elancyl Method"; Tennis player Marty Riessen appears in tennis ad; Warm and Wild - color photos of fur coats; Beauty Photos - Irene Ramp, Merle Ann Taylor, Pat Hammond, Francine Dreir, Deborah Carroll, Lyn Christopher; English pie recipe; Whatever Happened to Xavier Rynne?; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Cover photo of LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) in adoring crowd; Lovely color fashion ads; Bankers Trust features Ian Mackay; What Good Can Be Said of Political Conventions?; Barry Goldwater Seeks a New Coalition; The Day Paris Was Liberated - Twenty Years Ago - article with photos; Plea for 'Realism' in Southeast Asia after the Gulf of Tonkin incident; Analysis of the 'White Backlash' - New Haven's reaction to the demands of Negroes for full citizenship takes some unexpected forms; Moscow Debates Its Manners; Two Peoples Under One Flag - a restive Quebec fires up old Anglo-French rivalries and shakes Canadian unity; Portrait of Channel No. 1- 'Coco' Channel has created a half-century of chic - photo-illustrated article; The Race to build the first Mach 2-plus passenger planes; It's Easier to Adopt a Baby, but the number of babies available does not meet demand; Campus fashion photos; Speaking frankly on homosexuality - something which was taboo until recently; Photos of hair styles and jewels; Photos of a Ranch House designed by Aspen Architect Eleanor Brickham; Chesterfield cigarette ad features horse breeder Guy Stillman, fashion consultant Virginia Van Brunt and architect Larry Craig Dean; Eight photos of prominent TV shows; and more. Light wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A high-quality vintage copy. Book
136 pages. Features: Nice color photo Lord & Taylor ad; Cuba - Profile of a Revolution - the old order has been swept away forever - many photos; Lament for the Rocking Chair; The Bantu Listens to a Louder Drum - the South African Negro call to freedom frightens the ruling whites; America's 500,000 Migrant Farm Workers; 'Marxist Mandarin' on Another Sales Trip - China's Premier Chou En-lai Revisits his South Asian Neighbors; Long-Run Plays - The Top Ten; photos of ice-breaking in the Great Lakes; Photos of interesting Senatorial Doors; Nice color photo ad for B. Altman & Co.; Photos of excavation in New York City; Peter M. Dawkins compares the attitudes toward collegiate sports in the United States and Great Britain - he was captain of the West Point Football Team and a unanimous All-America choice at halfback; 'April in Paris' for New York - Joseph Wechsberg is excited at the prospect of bringing Gallic imports to NYC; First Night Party for "Bye Bye Birdie" sponsored by L. Slade Brown; Let the Native Indian Be the Hero, by Stanley Walker; Rudolph Valentino was born 65 years ago - 5 nice photos; Restless Ports for the City's Food - Washington and Fulton Markets are colorful, obsolete, and about to be moved - article with photos; Golf Fever in Japan; Cut Out for Leisure - sexy photos by Gleb Derujinsky; Color photo ad for Knickerbocker Beer; Nice color Pepsi ad "The Sociables Prefer Pepsi"; About Polygamy - a fading practice in Africa; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Some yellowing with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo. (4), 168 pp. Contemporary blue wrappers with original printed cover label. Second edition; rare: not in Copac or OCLC. The first edition appeared in 1817. Also includes the coasts of Syria, Egypt, and North Africa (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers). John William Norie (1772-1843) was one of the most important hydrographic publishers of his time. - Some dog-earing, but still a good copy. OCLC 851876144.
50 pages. Features: Should Husbands and Wives Take Separate Holidays?; New Hope for High Blood Pressure - the Rice Diet; Dr. Harold Taylor - photo-illustrated article on the young President of Sarah Lawrence College; Little Audrey - great photo-illustrated article on actress Audrey Totter; Do You Want to Run a Resort?; Rides That Thrill - and Sometimes Kill - a look at amusement park rides; Movie reviews - including 11 photos; Dinah Shore's favourite laugh; Why a Golf Ball has Dimples. Stories: Forty Words; Animal Crackers for Breakfast. Condensed Book: The Border Lord (part 2 of 2). Ads: Colour Carling's ad insdie front cover urges forest fire prevention; Nice photo ad for movie 'Dear Ruth'; Lysol - for feminine hygeine(?); Colgate dental cream; Vaseline Hair Tonic; Johnson Sea-Horse Outboard Motors; O'Keefe's colour ad on back cover features map of Alberta. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound and pleasing vintage copy. Book
4to. (4 [instead of 10]), 464 [instead of 466] ff. (wants the first 6 ff. of prelims, final 2 ff. of text and the 6 ff. of "special advices" and index, all supplied in facsimile). With historiated woodcut initials. Splendid modern red morocco, both covers richly gilt, gilt fillets to raised bands. Stored in custom-made cloth clamshell box with gilt spine title. The first English edition of Ludovico di Varthema's famous travels to Arabia, Persia, and India: the highly important and adventurous narrative containing the first printed eyewitness account of any place in today's United Arab Emirates. On his return journey from Mecca (which he was the first Westerner to describe), Varthema visited Ras al-Khaimah ("Giulfar") and portrayed the city as "most excellent and abounding in everything", with "a good seaport", and whose inhabitants are "all Muslims". While Montalboddo's famous anthology of discoveries, printed in 1507, contained the first printed reference to the Arabian Gulf region, it was Varthema's work, published only three years later, that offered the first actual report from the region by a Western traveller who had visited the coast. All early editions of Varthema’s "Itinerario" are exceedingly rare (even the 2013 Hajj exhibition at the MIA, Doha, only featured the 1654 reprint; cf. below). - Varthema, a gentleman adventurer and soldier from Bologna, left Venice at the end of 1502. In 1503 he reached Alexandria and ascended the Nile to Cairo, continuing to Beirut, Tripoli, Aleppo and Damascus, where, adopting Islam and taking the name of Yunas, he joined a Mameluke escort of a Hajj caravan and began the pilgrimage to Mecca. Varthema was amazed by what he observed: "Truly I never saw so many people collected in one spot as during the twenty days I remained there", he begins, and arriving at the Great Mosque, continues, "it would not be possible to describe the sweetness and the fragrances which are smelt within this temple." Thanks to his knowledge of Arabic and Islam, Varthema was able to appreciate the local culture of the places he visited. Impressed and fascinated, he describes not only rites and rituals, but also social, geographical, and day-to-day details. "I determined, personally, and with my own eyes", he declares in the prefatory dedication, "to ascertain the situation of places, the qualities of peoples [...] of Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Felix, Persia, India, and Ethiopia, remembering well that the testimony of one eye-witness is worth more than ten hear-says." His good fortune did not continue unabated, however: after embarking at Jeddah and sailing to Aden, he was denounced as a Christian spy and imprisoned. He secured his release and proceeded on an extensive tour of southwest Arabia. Stopping in Sanaa and Zebid as well as a number of smaller cities, he describes the people, the markets and trade, the kind of fruits and animals that are plentiful in the vicinity, and any historical or cultural information deemed noteworthy. Returning to Aden, and after a brief stop in Ethiopia, he set sail for India. In addition to visiting Persia, Varthema explored the coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, including a stay at Calicut at the beginning of 1505. He also purports to have made extensive travels around the Malay peninsula and the Moluccas. Returning to Calicut in August 1505, he took employment with the Portuguese at Cochin and, in 1508, made his way back to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope. - First published in 1510, Varthema's account became an immediate bestseller. In addition to his fascinating account of Egypt, Syria, the Arabian Peninsula, and the holy Muslim cities, "Varthema brought into European literature an appreciation of the areas east of India [...] which it had previously not received from the sea-travelers and which confirmed by firsthand observations many of the statements made earlier by Marco Polo and the writers of antiquity" (Lach, I. i. 166). "Varthema was a real traveller. His reports on the social and political conditions of the various lands he visited are reliable as being gathered from personal contact with places and peoples. His account of the overland trade is of great value in that we are made to see it before it had begun to give way to the all-seas route. He even heard of a southern continent and of a region of intense cold and very short days, being the first European probably after Marco Polo to bring back the rumor of Terra Australis" (Cox I, 260). - Published as an extensive part of "The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies" - one of the first English versions of the significant collection edited by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (Peter Martyr, 1457-1526). The first independently published English translation would not appear until 1863: Varthema's travelogue was included for the first time in the present translated edition of Martyr's "History". The translation, with some omissions, is that of Decades I-III of "De Orbe Novo" by Martyr, with additions from other sources, edited by Richard Eden and Richard Willes. Willes was a member of the Jesuits from 1565 to 1572 and was familiar with Maffei, the Jesuit chronicler whose account he drew on for this work. Under the benefaction of the Earl of Bedford, Willes expanded Eden's translation to include, apart from Varthema's travels, four Decades and an abridgement of Decades V-VIII; Frobisher's voyage for a Northwest Passage, Sebastian Cabot's voyages to the Arctic for the Moscovy Company, Cortez's conquest of Mexico, Pereira's description of China, 1565, Acosta and Maffei's notices of Japan, 1573, and the first two English voyages to West Africa. Also, this is the first account in English of Magellan's circumnavigation, as well as the first printed work to advocate a British colony in North America. - First 6 and final 8 ff. supplied in facsimile. Occasional faint contemp. marginalia. 19th c. calligraphic note, quoted from Brunet, on flyleaf. From the library of Sir Arthur Helps (1813-75), English writer, dean of the Privy Council, and Cambridge Apostle, with his armorial bookplate and autograph ownership. Howgego M65. Brunet I, 294. OCLC 5296745. LCCN 02-7743. European Americana 577/2. Church 119. Streeter Sale 24. Arents 23. Borba de Moraes, p. 33. Hill 533. BM-STC 649. Sabin 1562. Cordier, Japonica 71. Field 485. Cf. exhibition cat. “Hajj - The Journey Through Art” (Doha, 2013), p. 90 (1655 Dutch ed. only). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2239f. (other editions only). Not in the Atabey or Blackmer collections.
4to. (10), 466, (6) ff. With historiated woodcut initials. Splendid modern full navy blue morocco, bands on spine with title showing faded gilt, covers double-ruled gilt. The first English edition of Ludovico di Varthema's famous travels to Arabia, Persia, and India: the highly important and adventurous narrative containing the first printed eyewitness account of any place in today's United Arab Emirates. On his return journey from Mecca (which he was the first Westerner to describe), Varthema visited Ras al-Khaimah ("Giulfar") and portrayed the city as "most excellent and abounding in everything", with "a good seaport", and whose inhabitants are "all Muslims". While Montalboddo's famous anthology of discoveries, printed in 1507, contained the first printed reference to the Arabian Gulf region, it was Varthema's work, published only three years later, that offered the first actual report from the region by a Western traveller who had visited the coast. All early editions of Varthema’s "Itinerario" are exceedingly rare (even the 2013 Hajj exhibition at the MIA, Doha, only featured the 1654 reprint; cf. below). - Varthema, a gentleman adventurer and soldier from Bologna, left Venice at the end of 1502. In 1503 he reached Alexandria and ascended the Nile to Cairo, continuing to Beirut, Tripoli, Aleppo and Damascus, where, adopting Islam and taking the name of Yunas, he joined a Mameluke escort of a Hajj caravan and began the pilgrimage to Mecca. Varthema was amazed by what he observed: "Truly I never saw so many people collected in one spot as during the twenty days I remained there", he begins, and arriving at the Great Mosque, continues, "it would not be possible to describe the sweetness and the fragrances which are smelt within this temple." Thanks to his knowledge of Arabic and Islam, Varthema was able to appreciate the local culture of the places he visited. Impressed and fascinated, he describes not only rites and rituals, but also social, geographical, and day-to-day details. "I determined, personally, and with my own eyes", he declares in the prefatory dedication, "to ascertain the situation of places, the qualities of peoples [...] of Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Felix, Persia, India, and Ethiopia, remembering well that the testimony of one eye-witness is worth more than ten hear-says." His good fortune did not continue unabated, however: after embarking at Jeddah and sailing to Aden, he was denounced as a Christian spy and imprisoned. He secured his release and proceeded on an extensive tour of southwest Arabia. Stopping in Sanaa and Zebid as well as a number of smaller cities, he describes the people, the markets and trade, the kind of fruits and animals that are plentiful in the vicinity, and any historical or cultural information deemed noteworthy. Returning to Aden, and after a brief stop in Ethiopia, he set sail for India. In addition to visiting Persia, Varthema explored the coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, including a stay at Calicut at the beginning of 1505. He also purports to have made extensive travels around the Malay peninsula and the Moluccas. Returning to Calicut in August 1505, he took employment with the Portuguese at Cochin and, in 1508, made his way back to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope. - First published in 1510, Varthema's account became an immediate bestseller. In addition to his fascinating account of Egypt, Syria, the Arabian Peninsula, and the holy Muslim cities, "Varthema brought into European literature an appreciation of the areas east of India [...] which it had previously not received from the sea-travelers and which confirmed by firsthand observations many of the statements made earlier by Marco Polo and the writers of antiquity" (Lach, I. i. 166). "Varthema was a real traveller. His reports on the social and political conditions of the various lands he visited are reliable as being gathered from personal contact with places and peoples. His account of the overland trade is of great value in that we are made to see it before it had begun to give way to the all-seas route. He even heard of a southern continent and of a region of intense cold and very short days, being the first European probably after Marco Polo to bring back the rumor of Terra Australis" (Cox I, 260). - Published as an extensive part of "The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies" - one of the first English versions of the significant collection edited by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (Peter Martyr, 1457-1526). The first independently published English translation would not appear until 1863: Varthema's travelogue was included for the first time in the present translated edition of Martyr's "History". The translation, with some omissions, is that of Decades I-III of "De Orbe Novo" by Martyr, with additions from other sources, edited by Richard Eden and Richard Willes. Willes was a member of the Jesuits from 1565 to 1572 and was familiar with Maffei, the Jesuit chronicler whose account he drew on for this work. Under the benefaction of the Earl of Bedford, Willes expanded Eden's translation to include, apart from Varthema's travels, four Decades and an abridgement of Decades V-VIII; Frobisher's voyage for a Northwest Passage, Sebastian Cabot's voyages to the Arctic for the Moscovy Company, Cortez's conquest of Mexico, Pereira's description of China, 1565, Acosta and Maffei's notices of Japan, 1573, and the first two English voyages to West Africa. Also, this is the first account in English of Magellan's circumnavigation, as well as the first printed work to advocate a British colony in North America. - Sympathetically washed but not pressed; some minor repairs to title not affecting printed surface. Some remaining toning and staining in small areas of a few leaves. Generally a wide-margined and appealing copy. - Provenance: acquired from Quaritch in 1975 by Gregory S. Javitch (1898-1980), a Russian-born, Canadian leader in the land reclamation sector in Ontario. Javitch formed an important collection of 2,500 items entitled "Peoples of the New World", encompassing both North and South America, which was acquired by the Bruce Peel Special Collections at the University of Alberta. It was considered the finest such private collection in Canada at the time and formed the cornerstone of the library’s Special collections. The present volume remained in Javitch's private collection was acquired directly from his heirs. Howgego M65. Brunet I, 294. OCLC 5296745. LCCN 02-7743. Alden, European Americana 577/2. Church 119. Streeter Sale 24. Arents 23. Borba de Moraes, p. 33. Hill 533. BM-STC 649. Sabin 1562. Cordier, Japonica 71. Field 485. Cf. exhibition cat. “Hajj - The Journey Through Art” (Doha, 2013), p. 90 (1655 Dutch ed. only). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2239f. (other editions only). Not in the Atabey or Blackmer collections.
Large 8vo (165 x 240 mm). 40 volumes, prettily gilt to covers and spines. With more than 400 engraved and aquatint plates, maps, charts and portraits (many by Nicholas Pocock). Marbled endpapers. The complete 40-volume run of the "Naval Chronicle", the most influential maritime publication of its time and today a key source for British maritime and military history. Founded by the Royal Navy chaplain James Stanier Clarke and the naval officer James Stanier Clarke, the monthly periodical ran for two full decades from January, 1799 to December, 1818. It contains a wealth of information about the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, including biographies, histories, anecdotes and news, essays on nautical subjects, as well as poems and ballads on a variety of related topics. - Several volumes include material on events in the Arabian Gulf and Sea, often recounting episodes of "piracy" against British vessels, such as the capture of the East India Company's ships "Shannon" and "Trimmer" on 1 Dec. 1804 (an account is found in vol. XV, pp. 24f.) or the Arab raid on the "Minerva" on 29 May 1809, during which the crew were massacred and the vessel converted into the Al-Qasimi flagship (reported in vol. XXIII, p. 281f.; vol. XXIV, p. 30f.). Such events provoked the British "Persian Gulf" campaign of 1809, in which a large British force was deployed to destroy Al-Qasimi bases and ships. The Battle of Ras al-Khaimah, fought on 11-13 Nov. 1809, is reflected in reports printed in vol. XXIV (pp. 73 and 363), and renewed interest in the region and its history, customs and religion prompted a lengthy article on "The Wahebite Arabs" (vol. XXIV, pp. 293ff.; 371ff.), or "the Wahebbi, whose name is much connected with the Iowassimi pirates". A decade later, the British Navy would return in another massive operation against Ras Al Khaimah, which would lead to the signing of the General Maritime Treaty of 1820 between the British and the Sheikhs of the coast which today comprises the United Arab Emirates. - Bindings variously rubbed and bumped, some quite severely with hinges split and extremeties chipped; some spines rebacked, some labels lost. Occasional brownstaining throughout, but largely confined to tissue guards and opposite pages. In all a worn but still appealingly bound set, often encountered in separate volumes only. Sabin 52076. ZDB-ID 1053834-3.
Features: Norrona - a new flagship next year for Smyril-Line; Finnmarken - a new ship for popular Hurtigrute service; Maximum wave bending moment - back to basics?; Momantika - stylish new ferry for Gulf of Finland; Carnival Legend joins the Panamx-Max cruiser line class; Russia; Germany; Fast Ferries. Table of Contents partially loose, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Book
4to. 2 vols. XXIV, 446, XXIII, (3) pp. VII, (1), 430, XXXIV, (26) pp. With engraved frontispiece and 20 numbered engraved plates (5 of which folded) on 19 sheets. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped spine labels. All edges red. Second edition of this authoritative account of Aleppo and Ottoman life and manners, based on Russell's experience as physician to the British factory in Aleppo from 1740 to 1753. Enlarged with 3 additional plates compared to the 1756 first edition. Includes an engraved frontispiece with a view of the city, a plan by Carsten Niebuhr (vol. I, plate I), and an additional plate showing fish (vol. II, plate VI). Apart from the Syrian flora and fauna as well as the local climate, Russell's monograph discusses the everyday life of the local population, including that of European merchants living in Aleppo, the organisation of their trade activity, and their social life. Also includes a section on the plague and other epidemic diseases in the 1740s. The descriptions of the education system, of the production of manuscripts, and of the commercial activity in Syria are unusually detailed and can be considered unique in contemporary travel literature on the Ottoman Empire (cf. Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister). The botanical plates were produced by G. D. Ehret, and one plate of fish bears the name of W. Skelton, while the remainder of plates, including the ones depicting birds and domestic life, are unsigned, but were probably produced by Russell himself. - Binding lightly scuffed; interior fresh and extremely well preserved. A charmingly bound set documenting an era of scientific and economic prosperity in Syria. Blackmer 1458. Nissen BBI 3534. Navari 1458. Cox I, 227. Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister 893. ESTC T149605. Cf. Atabey 1064 (1762 Dutch edition).
72 pages. Features: Nice ballerina cover art by R. York Wilson; Colour ad for the Parker "51" pen inside front cover; One-page colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Army entitled V.I.P. shows young man in uniform walking on sidewalk; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1949 Monarch car shows a red two-door; Photos of the Sandler's Wells Ballet; One-page colour Waterman's Pen ad presents the Crusader, Stalwart and Dauntless; Excellent photo-illustrated article on the Women's Penitentiary in Kingston; The River (short story); Toronto the Terrible - photo-illustrated article by Hugh Garner; Daniel Boone and his trusty Five-Iron (golf short story); Can Les Lear and the Calgary Stampeders (football club) Make It? - photo-illustrated article; Ram's Way (short story about a cop); Simis - photo-illustrated article on the Service d'Information Montreal Information Service which answers questions about anything (permitted by law) by phone - with photos of Roger Nadeau - a fascinating predecessor to modern-day search engines; One-page Seagram ad features grain threshing scene with horse-drawn wagon; Morley Callaghan explains how to talk to high-brows; Massey-Harris one-page colour ad features tractor in rural European town; Elegant half-page colour-photo ad for Sovereign Potters presents their Montcalm Pattern, Number 718; Nice half-page Canadian Admiral Corp. ad presents their model 5V12 radio-phonograph; Article on Teen-agers in Hollywood includes photos of Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Evans, Terry Moore, Shirley Temple, Barbara Lawrence and Claudia Barrett; Article on the wonderful freedom in Canada, compared to post-war Europe; Uncommon half-page ad for Black Horse Brewery explains why rice is thrown at weddings; Colour one-page Calvert Distillers ad says "The Canadian Family Owes Much to... Ireland"; One-page photo ad for Northern Electric's Gainaday 200 washing machine; Half-page colour-photo ad for Canada Dry; One-page colour-photo Marboleum ad shows nostalgic 1949 kitchen design; One-page colour-photo ad for Singer Sewing Centers; One-page colour-photo ad for Northumbria Sterling Silver cutlery; Back to school fashion photos; Nice half-page colour ad for Aylmer canned peaches; Half-page colour ad for Heinz Vinegars; Article on table manners for children; Half-page colour-photo Baker's Coconut ad; One-page colour-photo ad for Burns Corned Beef Hash, Wieners and Beans, and Chili Con Carne; Recipes for preserves; World Sayings; Colour ad inside back cover for Wabasso Cottons shows lady making bed; Back cover colour ad for O'Keefe's features lovely illustration by Rex Woods of penny bazaar scene with boy buying muffin; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A nice copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Royal folio. 2 vols. XXVI, 290 pp. XXIV, 300 pp. With 251 plates and numerous text illustrations. Publisher's original green cloth. First edition, printed in 550 copies only. Principal work of the great architectural historian of Muslim Egypt. Beginning where his "Early Muslim Architecture" left off, this monumental two-volume set traces the history of Egyptian Islamic architecture from the dynasty of the Ikhshids and Fatimids (A.D. 939-1171) to that of the Ayyubids and early Bahrite Mamluks (A.D. 1171-1326). Creswell had begun his work in 1920 with a generous grant of King Fuad I; the present publication is dedicated to Fuad's son, Farouk I. - The publisher's voucher copies: numbers 4 and 2 of 550 copies printed, removed from Printer's Library of Oxford's famous Clarendon Press. In perfect condition. - Rare, the last complete copy sold in 1999 (Sotheby's, Oct 14, lot 185). OCLC 1105072.
199129384Worcestershire: Grant Books 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Wide hardbound volume in dustwrapper. 233 pp. With some illustrations. Bibliography of the golf book library of Joseph Mursoch. A near fine example in dustwrapper. Published in an edition of 950 copies and signed by Shirly Grant the publisher. Grant Books hardcover books
200022625Old Saybrook CT: Borough of Fenwick 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. A fine copy in decorated green cloth in fine unclipped dustwrapper. Scarce book on the history of the Morgan Cup. 144 pp. Illustrated. <br/><br/> Borough of Fenwick hardcover books
4to. XL, 657, (1) pp. 3 blank ff. With several illustrations and maps in the text. Publisher's cloth. Dustjacket. A compilation of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include official and private archives, the periodical press, memoirs, Western journalists and travellers' accounts, literature, and official reports (including statistical data). Each document has been prefaced, translated and annotated by a specialist in the history and culture from which it was drawn. Enough information is provided so that every student can appreciate the value of a document and begin further exploration either of its historical context or its relationship to broader themes in modern Middle Eastern history. Themes include expansion of state power, changing gender roles, religious revival, nationalist mobilization, increasing participation in a wider global culture and economy, and the redefinition of traditions and identities. - With publisher's dustjacket. In excellent condition.
1924k3297London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Covers lightly rubbed and sunned. Sm. chip to head of spine. Previous owner's inscription to fep. Occasional light foxing. 1924. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 180mm x 130mm 7" x 5". viii 292pp. ads. B/w plates and b/w illustrations within the text. . W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd hardcover
1929205593New York: Horace Liveright 1929. First edition. Bookplate; tips slightly rubbed else fine in an edgeworn dust jacket with a scratch on the spine and evidence of general dampness book unaffected. 8vo 167pp; cloth-backed plush green boards mimicking the manicured texture of a putting green. A psychological study of the game. Gene Sarazen was a dominant golfer of his generation winner of seven major tournaments and a career grand slam. Bookplate of H.E. McFaddin apparently a Maryland businessman. Horace Liveright unknown
200227101No Place: Memorial Tournament 2002. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Special limited edition. One of 250 special hardbound copies published on the occasion of the 2002 Memorial Tournament to honor golfing great Bobby Locke. This book replicates "Bobby Locke On Golf" his 1954 Simon & Schuster book on golf. Fine copy in green boards lettered in gilt. Memorial Tournament hardcover books
