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Features: Killer Whale in the Net - Alaskan Diver Virgil Burford tells his tale; Take off to Trouble - Blizzard forces a crash landing in Greenland for Gerald Abrahams; Night Duel with a Bear - Young men out for fun on the Queen Charlotte Islands have a near-tragic experience; How I became a White Fulani Warrior; Toopua - I Know An Island - Part I; Soldiers of the Sky - Paratrooper John Seymour Townsend; Hekla - Gateway to Hell (the worst volcano in the world); The Night it Rained - a Northern Quebec Adventure by Ronald H. More; The Belles of Mbowe; Ask the Man Who Owns One - a story about dogs by Lt.-Col. T.A. Lowe; Little Sir Echo - Bats; Ham-Handed Hero - Harry Higgs; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
cm. 17 x 24, 104 pp. con 37 figg. Olschki, Leo S. - Cataloghi della libreria antiquaria 146 gr. 104 p.
In 8, pp. 35 + (1). Br. rifatta con carta d'epoca. Ed. orig. di questo pamphlet contro il duello: 'En 1836, le colonel baron de Perron fait publier dans une brochure le texte d?une Pe'tition contre le duel adresse'e a' la chambre des de'pute's. Voulant expliquer la persistance d?une coutume qu?il juge anachronique, il y affirme que c?est l?imitation des usages de l?ancienne noblesse qui a ramene' peu a' peu le duel dans les classes qui ont remplace' celle-ci et qui ont surgi de l?arme'e, du barreau, des arts et du commerce. Cette opinion sera souvent reprise...'. Francois Guillet, La tyrannie de l'honneur. Les usage du duel sans la France du oremier XIXe siecle' in 'Revue historique', 4, 2006.
56 pages. Features: Nice color Bermuda tourism ad inside front cover features golf scene with young black caddy; Nice one-page photo ad for Plymouth cars; 1/3-page ad for United Air Lines with photos; Mercury 8 one-page illustrated car ad; Lawrence Olivier and Jill Esmond divorce; Orson Welles and Virginia Nicolson divorce; Novelist Adela Rogers St. Johns is jailed; Brief obituary for Dr. George De Bothezat, builder of the first successful helicopter; Nice one-page photo ad for Dodge cars; The work of Martin Dies; Rev. Charles Coughlin under attack by the Jewish People's Committee; Census Revolt; Photo of tent city build for Californai Okies; Punxsutawney, PA groundhog predicts weather; The Convoy System - Britain depends on it; A look at the Finnish situation; Poultney Bigelow reveals ex-Kaiser Wilhelm wants the Nazis to turn on the Bolsheviks; Swedish volunteers help Finns resist Russia; Bombers supplanting U-Boats and Mines in Blockade Duel; Eddie Arcaro Rides Winners; Photo of basketball being played on skaes!; "Grapes of Wrath" hits movie screen as powerful social drama - with photo of Henry Fonda and his movie parents; Nice one-page color ad for the Good Year Double Eagle Air Wheel (tire); James Jefferson Davis Hall is the Bishop of Wall St.; Photo and write-up on the Air Corps' new 400 mph Airacobra; Nice 2/3-page two-color ad for Beech-Nut Gum features young lady reading mystery book; Neutrality Dodge - photo of big Lockheed bomber, destined for Allied war service, crossing the North Dakota/Canada border behind a team of horses; Big Pepsi-Cola skywriting contract; Nice color-photo ad for Four Roses Whiskey on back cover; and much more. Middle page holding by one staple. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
français Grand in-8 de 231 pp.; broché illustré de l'éditeur. Avec une notice sur Robert Ainé par Ernest Legouvé et une lettre de Hébrard de Villeneuve. Figures et dessins par Christophe. Avec portrait et tableaux synoptiques. Cernes claires dans la partie supérieure de certains feuillets, couverture usagée (particulièrement le dos).
Présentation des escrimeurs parisiens, classés par salles, et de professeurs de petites salles, par Albert de SAINT-ALBIN, vaudevilliste, rédacteur en chef du "Jockey", rédacteur au Figaro et chroniqueur sportif sous le pseudonyme de Robert Milton (1843-1901); avec 20 portraits d'escrimeurs hors texte gravés sur cuivre par Charles COURTRY; index. Tirage à 550 exemplaires: 1 des 500 sur Van Gelder Zonen, justifié n°408 (après 20 sur chine et 30 sur Whatman), relié. Français
505pp., 21cm., softcover, text in German, Doctoral Dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophischen Fakultät der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster Westfalen), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright (looks unread), good condition, G110696
88 pages. Features: Fantastic fold-out two-panel colour cover photo of the four Richardsons of Regina who are world curling champions; Brief article on how Nanaimo Realty paid its realtors to lose weight - and sales increased!; Nice one-page black and white Volkswagen photo ad entitled "Who backs up the Volkswagen?"; Nice one-page colour photo ad for Florida orange juice shows smiling girl wearing white ear muffs; What Winter Does to Canada - and vice versa; What to wear to a Fashion Opening - photo-illustrated article; Duel in the Kitchen (fiction); The Return of the Winter Carnivals; The Simple Joys of Camping in a Snowdrift; Hockey Isn't As Rough as it Used to Be - Part 1 of Jack Adams' "My 43 Years in Hockey" - photo-illustrated article (with large photo of Howie Meeker pounding a limp Canadien); The Second Splendid Discovery of Spices; How to Gain Entree to the Social Pages; Canada's world champions of Curling - Ernie Richardson and the Richardsons of Regina; Population Explosion on the Ski Slopes; Skier's Dream - two-page colour-photo-illustrated brief article with two maps describe how Franz Wilhelmsen and the Garibaldi Olympic Committee seek to have the massive potential of Whistler Mountain developed for the Winter Olympics of 1968; Best and Worst Movies of 1960; Escape to the Sun - Robert Thomas Allen's road trip from California to Florida; Seagrams ad features colour painting of winter carnival by Henry Simpkins; Large colour ad for Apollo Beach waterfront real estate development near Tampa; Canadian Club colour-photo one-page ad features Walter Gonnason falling into an ice crevasse on Mount Victoria Glacier in Alberta; Why color TV isn't here yet - and when it may be; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features skating couple; and more. Discrete six-inch clear archival tape repair to bottom left corner of front cover, otherwise unmmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
français In-8 de XXI-180 pp.; broché, couverture rempliée illustrée en couleurs par Le Natur et Berne-Bellecour. Préface par Aurélien Scholl. Frontispice par Berne-Bellecour, en-têtes, lettres ornées et culs-de-lampe, dessinés et composés spécialement par Mesplés, et 24 dessins et portraits inédits par C. Delort, Jeanniot, E. de Liphart, G. Saint-Pierre, G. Rochegrosse, F. Regamey, Mesplés, Du Paty, Paul Mervaert. Tirage à 650 exemplaires, un des 600 sur papier vergé. Celui-ci n. 339 avec des cernes claires dans les premiers et derniers feuillets, un tampon d'ancien Ex-Maître d'escrime en marge du faux-titre.
français Imprimé le 15 nov. 1881. In-8 de XXXII-167-(2) pp.; broché, couverture rempliée illustrée en couleurs par Le Natur et A. Ferdinandus. Préface par Aurélien Scholl. Frontispice et 2 planches à l'eau-forte gravés par J. Jacquemart et par F. Oudart, 15 en-têtes, lettres ornées et culs-de-lampe, dessinés et composés spécialement par Mesplés, et 24 portraits inédits de MM. Arcos, Berne-Bellecour, Feyen-Perrin, Jeanniot, T. Lepic, E. de Liphart, G. Merlet, Poilpot, Princeteau, P. Robert, Rosset-Granger, Sargent, A. Stevens. Tirage à 650 exemplaires, un des 600 sur papier vergé. Celui-ci n. 289. Tampon d'ancien Ex-Maître d'escrime en marge du faux-titre.