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PARIS, Catalogue N° 37 - 1928/1929 - Grand In-4 - Débroché (manque 4 è plat) - Non paginé, Environ 400 pages
Features: The World's First Production Car - The historic "Velo, a product of Benz's first series production run - a fascinating article with informative illustrations; The Edwardian Peerless - a discussion of the famous racing "Green Dragons" which used the fine Peerless chassis and T head engine from 1906 through 1915 - article with great photos, specs and pre-1915 owners list; E. Stanley P. Cope's 1909 Peerless - major photo feature; A 1909 Petrel "4" Roadster - article with photos; The Story of a Mysterious 1929 Model 626 Packard Eight Special Roadster; AACA Movies; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
This listing consists of pages 1-12 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Howe Sound made area of wreckage by Squamish gale; B.C.-made lumber used in making ladder used in Lindbergh kidnapping; "Polly" Parrott of Victoria second in six-day bicycle race in Vancouver; Evidence mounts against Bruno Richard Hauptmann re: Lindbergh kidnap-killing; E.W. McMullen to retire from Bank of Montreal; Draft regulations for B.C. Marketing of local products; Editorial page; Social pages; Large Hudson's Bay Company ad; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
Features: Banditos do Brazil, by Albert Bailey; The Shrimp in the Shell; The Scratches on the Glass - V, by Gladys Blake; It's All Fun, by Q. Howe; PLEASE NOTE: PAGE 329/330 MISSING; Page 331/332 loose but present; Bicycle Polo, the newest and fastest outdoor game for boys, with photos and rules; Graphology; How to make Polo Mallets; The Boys Who Made Radio - I - Marconi, by Earle Reeves; Here and there among the colleges; and more. Nice Dodge Brothers Motor Car ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Hunted Man, by Harford Powell, Jr.; Over His Right Shoulder, by Barklie Henry; Jack Farrington's Beanstalk - IV, by David Loraine and Arthur Floyd Henderson; As Seen by Bunt, by Winnifred Kirkland; The Wonder Story of Steinmetz - III - with photo of huge transformer, by John Winthrop Hammond; It's All Fun - Chapter VII, by Q. Howe; Canoe Sailing, by Elon Jessup; The Face That From the Mirror, by Marguerite Curtis. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: So's Your Old Man, by Samuel A. Derieux; Runners of the Woods - III, by Samuel Merwin; Golf for Young Players - III, by Glenna Collett; It's All Fun - VI, by Q. Howe; Bicycle Polo - Famous Polo Players advocate this new game; Photo of Marshal Pilsudski; How to Photograph Models; Canoe Camping, by Elon Jessup; Parties and Party Manners, by Eleanor Boykin; The Well-Fed Dog, by Parkhurst Whitney. Average wear. Magazine
Edizione: Nuova edizione corretta ed ampliata . Pagine: 118 . Illustrazioni: 66 figure nel testo in bianco e nero . Formato: 16° . Rilegatura: Brossura originale . Stato: Discreto . Caratteristiche: Copertina con dorso guasto. Bruniture.Tracce di umidità .
52 pages. Features: How Canada helped Communist China gain a foothold in Africa; Why New Brunswick's bid for one big maritime province never got off the ground; The Warren Report - new boost for the Kennedy memorabilia industry; Merv McKenzie and the Toronto-based campaign to unseat Cassius Clay; Roy Peterson cartoon of Bob Thompson/Real Caouette (Social Credit); Let's stop kidding ourselves about civil defense; Can Canada win the U.S. Election? - should Canada hope for a win by Goldwater or Johnson?; The Cranky conclusions of un-American Canadian Ian Sclanders; The Egg and Donald Shaver - this iron-willed Canadian peddles millions of chickens in 44 countries - fascinating photo-illustrated article; The Happiest Canadians - Newfoundlanders; Norman Philipps and his life and hard times as a Royal Baby-Sitter; Dr. Benge Atlee - the two things wrong with our schools is what they teach and how they teach it;Comeback of the Six-Day Grind - the six-day bicycle race is making a comeback in Canada (in Montreal) - great article with photos; The vanishing Sons of Freedom (Doukhobors) and the tough reporter, Simma Holt, who's finally told their story; Canadian Club ad features photos of Simon Khoury flying on kite behind boat; and more. Above-average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Pages 287-352, 14 ads. Features: My Adventures in "German South-West" (I) - a bicycle trip through south-west Africa; The Blue Powder - a story of bewitching from Nigeria; Among the Yahgans - a sailor's story from the waters of Tierra del Fuego; The Queen Side of Things - My Chinese Crystal - the events which came with a curio believed to have been stolen from a Chinese temple; The Devil-Panther - two British sportsmen seek to kill this beast; An Errand of Mercy - the difficulties of travel in rural Paraguay; "Hoodlum" - Roger Berry was a fireman aboard a Lake Erie tug; The Talking Crow - a tale from autumn 1922; Outlaws at Bay - a tale from North-west India; Rescuing the Doctor - a tale from the Peruvian jungle; Malayan Gang-Robbers; The Yacca-Gummers; Anstruther Gets a Job; Man and His Needs. Heavily worn. Covers nearly detached. Bit of writing atop first page of advertising and page 339. A worthy reading copy. Book
Features: North Sea Gale - coast sailors face perils just as great as those that menace the deap-sea men; The Mystery of the Dutch ship "Gilt Dragon" - a quest for long-lost wealth; Tasmanian Experiment - searching for valuable minerals; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story from Western Australia; Gun-Tied - an odd little story from Ceylon; High Adventure in Yugoslavia - adventure in the Julian Alps by Tom Weir; Big Game Means Easy Money - It's tough to keep poachers in check with high prices offered for ivory and horn; With a Bicycle in Babylonia - great photos; Samandar Khan - an amusing account of a personal servant in India; Australia's "Pedal Radio" - operating a radio with bicycle pedals in Australia; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: North Sea Gale - coast sailors face perils just as great as those that menace the deap-sea men; The Mystery of the Dutch ship "Gilt Dragon" - a quest for long-lost wealth; Tasmanian Experiment - searching for valuable minerals; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story from Western Australia; Gun-Tied - an odd little story from Ceylon; High Adventure in Yugoslavia - adventure in the Julian Alps by Tom Weir; Big Game Means Easy Money - It's tough to keep poachers in check with high prices offered for ivory and horn; With a Bicycle in Babylonia - great photos; Samandar Khan - an amusing account of a personal servant in India; Australia's "Pedal Radio" - operating a radio with bicycle pedals in Australia; and more. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Quality copy. Book
62 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of dog pulling curtain from lady; Editorial on 'The Lost Art of Living'; Nice one-page photo ad for the New Plymouth Six; Every Other Inch a Gentleman - part one of an anonymous Hollywood saga; Ad for Fleischmann's Yeast includes photos of Dr. Jules Monges and Dahlia Upchurch of Richmond, VA; Palmolive Shave Cream ad features photo of George Earl, trainer of "Torchy" Peden, bicycle racing champion; Will Japan Seize Alaska? - an arresting warning by Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana; Excitement at Kamp Kumfort - a nice girl seeking adventure finds it; Nice two-color (red and black) ad for Libby's Catchup; Rendezvous (part 2) - Amazing true adventures of American fighter Edgar Bouligny (with photos); No More Belindas - a wistful tale of elfin memories; Movie News and Photos - Catherine the Great, The Big Shakedown, Palooka, and Search for Beauty; Tamer of Lions - true story of La Goulue, a cancan dancer of the Moulin Rouge in Paris; Destroyer - a novel of a love deeper than the sea (part 4); The Eye of Fate (short story); Vox Pop; To the Ladies; Color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes on back cover features scene at tobacco auction. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Covers loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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
Editions Louise, 1950. Plaquette In-8 agrafée, couverture illustrée de 38 pages. Illustré par Fernand Léger (1 frontispice à pleine page et 4 vignettes). Tirage limité à 354 exemplaires, celui-ci un des 300 sur papier de couleur fantaisie rose bonbon. Très bon état. Peu courant.
Mm 275x312 Volume rilegato di pp. 450, piena tela avana, sovraccoperta editoriale illustrata a colori, astuccio cartoncino muto. In ottimo stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
64 pages. Features: How should we bring up our next child?; What you don't know about C.D. Howe; The double life of Injun Joe; The bear cub is everybody's baby; When the world went bicycle crazy. Excellent colour full-page ad for White Rose gas stations. Wonderful full-page colour ad for Leonard appliances. Interesting colour ad inside back cover is sponsored by Massey-Harris-Ferguson and shows a farmer hooking up a rooftop TV antenna - text explains how the lives of farmers will be improved. Above-average wear. Centrefold loose but present. Cover detached but present. Magazine
120 pages. Features: Nice 1-page color ad for Cutler-Hammer motor controls; 1-page color ad for Old Gold cigarettes; color ad for Pitney-Bowes Postage Meters; Zippo Lighter color ad; My Wonderful Uncle, Levi Coombs Gould - article with photos; Challenge the Tempest (fiction); My Three Years in Moscow, Part 3 - Why the Russian People Don't Rebel - with photos; The Camouflaged Crime (fiction); Robert Jones of Ohio Refused to be Smeared by Drew Pearson - article with photos; The Rape of Albania - how this former paradise between Tito and the men in the Kremlin is being slowly bled to death - article with photos; One Divorce is Enough (fiction); Charley Callahan is the shrewd press agent for Notre Dame football - article with photos; The Odds on Murder (fiction); Training New Kinds of Methodist Pastors in Denver at the Iliff School of Theology - article with photos; The Doctor of Unkown Island (fiction - conclustion); Colour photos of the Arseneau family's home and birds on Great Bird Rock; Nice 1-page color Lucky Strike ad features Raymond W. Crutchfield of Reidsville, NC; The Innocent Buccaneer (fiction); RCA Victor TV ad; Nice half-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes features Mrs. Ralph Ellis of Chicago, Mrs. Mary C. Wurdeman of Los Angeles, Mr. James S. Winterhalter of Detroit, and Miss Pamel Hendricks Bookman of New York; Nice two-color Shelby bicycle ad features Donald Duck; Nice color centerfold ad features General Electric (GE) Christmas lights; Color ad for Winchester's glowing flashlight; Honeywell thermistat ad features black and white photos of Linda Darnell; La Choy Chinese Food color ad features interesting drawing of Chinese man in pigtail; Nice 1-page 2-color ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Frank Benitz of Dugan Brothers Baked Goods; Nice color ad for Sunkist oranges on back cover. Average external wear. Moderate external soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
62 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of young lady on bicycle; Editorial - What Price Modern Education?; The World Goes Smash - novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams; Why the Russians Want the North Pole - by famous explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Call Me Jim - the private life of James A. Farley - new, surprising facts concerning the jovial wheel-horse of the New Deal (part 1); The Talking Horse (humour); Casanova's Women - Henriette, and things the great lover left out of his memoirs; What it Takes to Make World Champs - article by Joe McCarthy, Manager of the World Champion New York Yankees (with small photo of author); Blackrock Landing (short story); Bright Danger (fiction); A New York Doctor Changes His Life - the anonymous but true story of a famous physician's who learned that money was not so important after all; Design for Dying (short story); 2/3-page illustrated Williams Luxury Shaving Cream ad shows tennis player "Big" Bill Tilden in action; Crossword completed in pencil on page 50; Horror Outside the Wall - a Chinese Mystery; Ventriloquist Peggy Hudson; The Glass Bracelet (short story); Nice illustrated ad for Iver Johnson Shotguns, manufactured at Cobourg, Ontario; Bits of nibbling to periphery of front cover and upper corner of textblock. Average soiling and wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Appears to be a 1970s or 1980s replica of the iconic pre-WWII original. Features comely young lady on bicycle wearing shorts, heels, and an open top revealing a tantalizing glimpse of her right breast. Approximately 30" x 20". Crimped metal strips protect top and bottom edges. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A charming memento of 1930s Shanghai. Will be shipped in a sturdy mailing tube. Poster
90 pages. Fiction: The Balance of Nature; His Brother-In-Law's Keeper; Episode; Hold fast, My Love; Marriage '48 (part 3 of 5); Man-Eater from Snohomish. Articles: Death in the Classroom - schools are dangerous places (part 1 of 2); Billie Burke - Her Story (part 2 of 3); A Hunter's Map of the U.S.A. - Sportsman's Paradise; Godmother to Little Yanks - Mary Rizzoto and her World Children's Foundation; Hawkshaws in Skirts; The Campaign Trains Roll Again; Bedlam on Sunday; Smithson's House of Wonders - The Smithsonian Institution; Try Building Your Own Dream House - The Spelman family of Babylon, Long Island, Henry Wallace is the voice of Russia - opinion piece inside back cover. Ads include: The Frazer Manhattan automobile - inside front cover, B.V.D. sports shirts, Jeep Trucks - very nice, International Trucks, Schlitz Beer, Firestone Tires, Kodak film, MGM's The Three Musketeers, Harley Davidson - their 125 single cyllinder, Bicycle playing cards, Arrow ties, Jantzen sweaters, Smartair leisure wear, City Club shoes, Inco, Wilson Brothers men's wear, Botany brand shirts and slacks, Pendleton shirts, Gruen watches, and a lovely Coke ad on back cover which shows Coke dispenser inside a snowy window. Covers holding by one staple. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
86 pages. Articles: How Much Government can Free Enterprise Stand?; The Senseless Killing of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind" - article with photos; Report on the Far West - The News is Good from the Nation's "New Empire" - with focus on industrial development; Lincoln Collector, Oliver R. Barrett; Bashful Ben of the Bang-Bangs - Cowboy Ben Johnson - article with color photos; Donora, Pennsylvania - The case of the Poisoned Air - 19 died; Suppose He Had Two Eyes - Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Tommy Thompson has one eye - article with photo. Fiction: Bootlegger's Treasure (part 1 of 4); Floodwater; O'Brien; The case of the Negligent Nymph (conclusion); Dumb Bunny. Also includes great vintage ads for: Lord Calvert Whiskey - with great full-page colour photo of illustrator Mr. Bradshaw Crandell; Western Electric (showing switchboard operator; General Electric tvs; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring colour photo of Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton; Pontiac cars; Rexall - Druggists of America; Texaco; DeSoto cars; Nash cars; Mercury cars; American Airlines (centerfold); Botany 500 men's fashions; Great two-page color photo ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer features Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Lawrence Tibbett, Charles Laughton, Sid Luckman, Douglas Fairbanks, "Hap" Arnold, Mr. & Mrs. Jascha Heifetz, Mr. and Mrs. F. Warren Pershing and Mr. and Mrs. Jean Hersholt; GM Electro-Motive Division; Dodge Trucks; Trailways bus lines; Bicycle playing cards; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring bowler Joe Wilman and waterskiing stars Martha Mitchell and Margie Fletcher. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
78 pages. Articles: Between the bear and the dragon - Chiang Kai-shek's power in China has faded - article with great photos; Collier's Sports - the low-down on baseball salaries; Hollywood Goes to Rome - shooting the Cagliostro movie in Rome; Toward Peace in Labor - how the Labor-Management relations Act has worked so far; John N. Garner's Story (part 3) - reveals the former Vice-Presidents's attitude toward the Roosevelt lend-spend policy and the third term; Whether Man - New York's Blizzard of '47 put the forecasters on a spot; Hard Times Come To Wall Street - why the nation's money center is in the red in this boom era. Fiction: Jeff Coongate and the Stolen Crony; The Day Before Sunday; The Mysterious Way (part 5 of 6); Blessed are the Merciful; Dark Red for Love; Meet My Family. Nice ads include: The 1948 Studebaker (inside front cover); RKO movies of the month; nice diamond ad featuring portrait of Mrs. Lewis McCracken, the former Miss Francine Whitten, of Washington, D.C.; Philco radio-phonographs; Ford Cars (nice color photo one-page ad in Europe; Lucky Strike cigarettes; Rummy soft drink; Ballantine Ale - nice color one-page ad with cowboy theme; Great two-page color-phot ad for Heinz soups (they offered turtle soup back then!); Hamm's Beer; Stewart-Warner radio-phonographs; Brewer's Best beer; Bicycle playing cards; Emerson radios; National Guard recruiting ad; Miller High Life beer; Trav-ler radios; Clark's Tendermint chewing gun; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features Charles Coburn, Ann Todd, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, VAlli and Gregory Peck. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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
70 pages. Features: Color Texaco ad inside front cover; Oakland 8 and Pontiac 6 ad on page 1; Classy color full-page ad for Maxwell House coffee; Mr. Peters makes his Train (short story); Where do we go from here? - an article about veterans and the nation's finances; Beginner's Luck - a short story about golf; What a Pal! (short story); A Way with the Women (short story); Yuan Hee See Laughs - continuation of short story by Sax Rohmer; Ridin' on Rubber - article and great photos of various types of transportation by bus and jitney - very nostalgic!; Gunsight Trail (short story); Through Russia Without a Guide - Lindsay Hoben recounts his 14,00 mile trip through the U.S.S.R. without a guide or supervision; Gorgeous full-page color ad for Life Savers candy; nice color full-page ad for the new Chevrolet six; Babies are Conservative (!) - practical advice for babycare by a lady doctor; April Prowess - predicting who will win the World Series; Nice Oldsmobile ad; The Sleeptalker (short story); Classy full-page ad for Hammond electric clocks; Smooching photo in Pepsodent antiseptic mouth wash ad; Spur Bow bowtie ad; Clicquot Club ginger ale full-page ad; B&O (Baltimore and Ohio) Railroad full-page ad; Bostonians shoe ad; Elgin watch ad; Nice 2-color Pebeco toothpaste ad; nice full-page color Arrow Shirts ad; Iver Johnson bicycle ad; Nice full-page color ad for Waterman's pens; Dixies drinking glass ad inside back cover; Nice Camel cigarette ad on back cover show's man lighting up with a candleabra. Above-average but not excessive external wear and soiling. Covers detached but present. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Babies for Export - Province of Alberta trafficking in illegitimate babies(!); Billy Butlin - great photo-illustrated article on this Canadian who went to Britain with $25 and made a fortune out of holiday camps; Brutal Vancouver Murder - Who Killed Woo Dack? - Famous Canadian Crimes #18; What's New in Toys? - Four pages of great photos, including a super-streamlined aluminum bicycle; Bach to Boogie - Quebec's 18th Century Orchestra of Chamber Music - article with photos; Drunken Elephants battle in India! - article with photos; Adele Inge - The World's top ice-acrobat - article with photos of her forward and backward somersaults on skates!; Tail Spin; Holiday Stills - Christmas glamour shots featuring Patricia Roc, Jane Hylton and Diana Dors; Jo-Anne Chong of Toronto; Harry Mathers; Thor Hansen; Spotlight on Oscar Peterson - article with photo; FDR film review with many photos; Birth of a Monkey - Ruby at Philadelphia's Zoo; Alice Bradshaw; Ruth Warwick's Wardrobe. Stories: The Gift of the Magi; Miracle of the Bells (condensed book). Average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book