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60 pages. Features: Arthur Erickson and Canada's mirror-sheathed pavilion at Expo '70; Clarence Eckert and his Rolls-Royce; Angela Davis; Black Panther Lonnie McLucas and the New Haven Eight; Who's Come a Long Way, Baby? - Feature article on women's rights; The Liberation of Kate Millett; What it Would Be Like if Women Win; Middle East - Toward the Start of Talks; Watch on the Suez - Intelligence Gaps - air photos purport to show Egypt installing SAM-2 missiles in cease-fire zone; Maps of possible Israel/Egypt border; Lovely one-page color photo of Senegalese Dancer Issa Teuw Niang with friends in Dakar; Three additional pages of nice color photos of prominent black women in Africa; The Spetsopoula Incident; Urban Trend in Vietnam - with photo of horrific canal-side squatter structures; Joseph Rhodes Jr. and the Kent State investigation; Musical group "The Band" - photo and article; Cholera epidemic in Lebanon; Film producers Christopher Dewey and Dennis Friedland; Reuben Maury; Aquaculture - article with photo of streetcar being lowered into the Sea of Japan to provide 'apartments' for fish; Golfer Dave Stockton; Sculptor Alberto Sanchez; Passing of Leo Ciceri, Beniamino Fubano, Eugene Barnett, General Archimede Mischi and William Hamm Jr.; The Energy Shortage Worsens; Blighted corn in the U.S. South; Financial challenges for U.S. airlines as the upgrade to the 747; Interesting one-page color Hitachi ad illustrates "Floating Train of the Future"; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: 'The St. Paul Road' - there is no train in service on any railway in the world that equals in equipment the pioneer limited trains in daily service between Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Minneapolis; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Pioneer Limited - the train they called the "Rolls-Royce of American Railroading!" - many great photos and article; The Schizophrenic Nevada Northern - Kennecott Copper's offspring; Black Smoke over Nebraska - amazing 2-page photo; Trains Goes Around the World - 6 - "The Best Travel Experience in the Whole of India" - 0-4-OT's to Shangri-la; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Mm 175x250 Volume rilegato di pp. 199 con sovracoperta di velina, con 93 illustrazioni in bianco e nero, a cura di Irving Lavin, ritratto biografico di William S. Heckscher, in ottimo stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous monochrome photographs and drawings in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Standard reference. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
118 pages. Many great black and white photos. Features: Navigating the Weather Map; Douglas DC-6; Glider Training; The Aerial Photograph; Atomic Cyclone - the Cycloptron - article with photos, including full-page color photo of the M.I.T. cyclotron; Helicopter Forum; Fulll-page photo of the Convair XB-36 in flight; Biological Warfare - "There is No Defense"; This Field is Small - Use it All - an informal history of McCook Field, Ohio; The Diesel Engine in Aviation; Racing with Rolls-Royce Engines; Evolution of the Model Plane; Firefly 1; A.M.A. Records; Many pages of great ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some age-toning to pages. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
3 vols., 4to., First Edition, profusely illustrated throughout; black cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's blocked board slip-case. The set comprises: Part One: The First Forty Years (2000); Part Two: The Power behind the Jets 1945-1987 (2001); Part Three: A Family of Engines 1987-2002 (2002). With promotional flyer loosely inserted in third volume.
84 pages. Features: Studebaker Runs Again!; Gettysburg National Spring Meet; 1913 Lozier Type 72 Briarcliff Toy Tonneau; The Lozier at Savannah - great article with many photos; Rolls-Royce 60th Anniversary Pageant; Gallery of the American Automobile; On covering your trunk; 1909 Hudson "Twenty" Roadster; What is an AWKSCHT FESCHT?; Swigart Museum Meet; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Sm. 4to., with title-vignette, and coloured and monochrome photographs in the text, underlining in red on title and Contents; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Published in the series Osprey AutoHistory ; first issued in 1980. Scarce in this condition.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs throughout; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Scarce in this condition.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text, text in cream and green; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon.
Features: Nice color-photo ad for Rolls-Royce cars inside front cover; Fortunoff one-page photo ad features wine merchant Sam Aaron; Buddhism in America; Should American Business Pull Out of South Africa?; The Importance of Being Rosalynn Carter - article with very nice two-page color-photo montage; Unemployed Monarchs - Iran's Shah is but the latest to join the ranks of unemployed monarchs; Fantastic one-page color-photo Hathaway shirt ad features Jack Nicklaus and his sons; Illustrated Lacoste "Le Gator" jeans ad; Starting Off Fresh - Interior decorating for newlyweds; Wedding cake recipes; Bridal fashion photos; Ad for the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, Inc. lists the names of 56 men and women who have changed from homosexuality; Nice color-photo ad for clog shoes by Olof Daughters of Sweden, available at Coward Shoe; Anesthesiologists - New guardians in the operating room; and more. 128 pages. Excellent color and black and white photo reproductions including fabulous fashion ads, and more. Faint school stamp on back cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 257 - 352. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. Features: World's Highest Frequency Oscillator Tube; Remote Control in Custom-Built Radio; Fingerprinting 'Noise'; Audio System Design Charts; A Set Tester Deluxe; What Goes On in Your Vacuum Tubes; Radio News Prize 'Ham' Transmitter; Our Future Broadcast Fare; Explorers of the Ether; The Latest All-Wave Receiver Design; Mathematics in Radio; Plug-In Coils Banned; Tuning in Television Programs; S.W. Reception with Broadcast Superhets; A Universal Receiver; Ten Meters for Ten Dollars; Selenium Awakes!; A "Rolls-Royce of Converters; The Crystal Detector Again; An All-Purpose Oscillator. Heavy external wear. Bit of writing atop front cover which is loose but present. A rough copy but worth preserving due to its wonderful vintage content. Magazine
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for a Sotheby's auction held at Castle Ashby, Northhamptonshire, England on June 13, 1992. Sale code: "GRIFFON". Lots of handbooks, and automobilia: headlamps, badges, tool kits,etc. The heart of the sale was the last 33 lots: very fine collector's examples of Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars. 433 lots in the complete sale. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. Almost all lots illustrated, most of the cars in color. 11" high X 8" wide, 65 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous colour and monochrome photographs in the text, a few items underlined in red on Contents; original black cloth, gilt back, joints lightly rubbed else a very good, clean copy. This original edition of the standard reference is already extremely scarce.
Features/Photos: Syria's break with Egypt/Colonel Nasser; 200 km/hr bicycle!; A primitive jungle race of Thailand exists mainly on bamboo; Commercial flying among the Swiss mountain peaks; Great London Livery Companies - The Vintner's Hall; Aden Colony through an ultra-wide angle camera; using pumps to save fish in frozen over lakes; The state funeral of Dag Hammarskjoeld in Uppsala; Car of the Month - the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: Two-pages of Soviet cities now facing the gigantic Nazi battering-ram; Illustrations of two missing aces - Flight Lieut. J.C. Mungo-Park and Wing-Commander J.R. Kayll; Clearn photo of the Soviet emergency "Council of Defense", including Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Malenkov and Berya; Wonderful photo of three large drums built for Haile Selassie and his new Abyssinian state; How the Nazis took Crete - five enemy views of paratroop operations; Thirteen photos of personalities of the day, including good photo of the funeral cortege of German ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; Nine great photos of the besieged garrison of Tobruk; Article - Hitler's assault on Russia, by Cyril Falls; Air photos of French Aerodromes at Boulogne and St. Omer smashed by the R.A.F.; Super before and during photos of R.A.F. attack on the rail marshalling yard at Hazebrouck; Centerfold illustration of large-scale English mimic night attempt to land barge-borne troops and tanks (early D-Day training); Photos of Home Guard excercises - street fighting on London; Four photos of camouflaged snipers; Iraqi armistice - six photos, including one of Imir Abdul Illah, the Regent; After the Battle of Amba Alagi - The Italians Surrender - Two good photos; Photo of Nazi glider in Crete; Amazing photos of the "Imperial Transport", cut in half by a U-boat but still salvaged!; Article - the nutritive value of plankton; Syria's historic invasion route - inscriptions at the Dog River - seven photos; Nice half-page ad for Rolls-Royce cars. Average wear. Faint Ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Great full-page photo of the King, Queen and two Princesses in coronation dress; Larger Royal Family photo in Coronation Dress; The Surprise Royal Drive in North London - Great Popular Enthusiasm; Three incredible photos of the Hindenburg disaster in progress; Monte Carlo Casino - photo-illustrated article by General Pierre Polovtsoff; The Royal Visit to the City - Their Majesties Passing Temple Bar - full-page photo; Huge almost two-page photo of the King and Queen at Luncheon with the Lord Mayor in Guildhall; Mr. Baldwin's CAll to Youth in a Farewell Speech as Premier; Coronation Naval Review - photos of the "Revenge" and the "Hood"; Photos of numerous foreign warships at Spithead to pay respects - including the swastika flying over the Graf Spee; Incredible huge 4-panel centerfold measuring 38"x14" presents a cutaway drawing of the recently commissioned "Southampton" - a vessel of novel features including 6-in guns in tripple turrets, athwartship catapult and multiple A.A. guns; Large photos of Coronation Lights O' London - Panoramas taken from the summit of the Duke of York's Column; The King of Denmark's Silver Jubilee - photos; Nice full-page ad for the Austin Eighteen car; Wonderful half-page black and white photo ad for Rolls-Royce Automobiles; Unmarked with average wear. Centerfold and next page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Lovely full-page ad for Benger's Food; Front page photo of the King - Chief Mourner of the Unknown British Warrior; Article by G.K. Chesterton; Photos of notable world events in the news; Sport and Earnest - photos of notable events at home and abroad; Photos of personalities of the week; Illustrations and photos of the famous pall-bearers for the unknown warrior; Full-page photo of the H.M.S. Verdun; Gassing the Gassed - photos of Paris Doctor Arnold's apparatus for curing victims of Germany's poison gas weapons; Colour centerfold (loose but present) illustrates the burial place of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey; Excellent colour full-page ad for Treloar Carpets; Rare photo of doubl-column of fume and incandescent gas 40,000 feet high rising from the Hawaiian volcano, Mauna Loa; The Greatest Poison Trial of Modern Times - The Greenwood Case at Carmarthen - with illustrations of the dramatis personae and a view of the court in session; Full page ads for Johnny Walker Scotch Whisky, Cadillac automobiles, Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and smaller ads for other auto manufacturers. Full-page Michelin ad inside back cover missing chips, as is two-colour ad for McClinton's Colleen Toilet Cream on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Faint ink stamps on front cover. External advertorial coverfold mostly open. A worthy copy. Book
28 pages. Features: Cover photo of hundreds of British troops marching over Westminster Bridge; First drawings of British forces at work in France; Two-page photo feature on the making of A.R.P. 'tin-hats' - mass production from steel blanks to painted and lined helmets; Photos of Stalin; Photos of Europe's busy diplomats; Two-pages of the Turkish sailors of tomorrow, including scenes at "Deniz Harp Okulu; Photo of the "Thetis" being raised to the surface; Photos of current events in England; Photos of the King with his troops; Photos of Royal occasions in wartime London; Royalty and the Red Cross - Sewing Party at the Queen's Palace; Centerfold illustration of British tanks advancing in France; The First Nazi Raid on Britain - the Firth of Forth Attack; Fruitless German "Glide-bombing attack on the Forth Bridge; Photos illustrate Germany's war, at home and at sea - makeshifts, losses and lies; Photos in the wake of German Air Attacks which ended Ingloriously; Great full-page photo of three cruisers of the "Southampton" class proceeding in line with guns at the ready; The War with Nazi Germany - The Echo in the Balkans - article by Cyril Falls; Four photos aboard the "Bremen" on her flight to German Sanctuary; Rolls-Royce half-page announcement that they have ceased to manufacture motor car chassis in order to perform Government work; and more. Bit of writing on front outer cover. Some pages loose. Missing pages 657-58 and 661-662. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
