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42 pages. Features: Interesting Packard-Diesel photo ad inside front cover explains how their engine gains revs when going over mountain tops; Thompson Valve ad commemorates the "Southern Cross", piloted by Wing Commander Charles Kingford-Smith, which completed the first successful east-west Atlantic crossing in a heavier-than-air craft in 1930; New Features of Engines Exhibited at the National Aircraft Show; Wind Tunnel Tests and Performance Calculations on the Medvedeff Monobiplane; The Month's Best from the Foreign Press - The Development of Deck Flying (to/from aircraft carriers) with photo of Squadron Commander Dunning's first successful landing on the H.M.S. Furious, and three photos of the fatal second attempt; Airplane Motor Radio Shielding; Aircraft Servicing Solutions; Compensating the Compass - Periodic Inspection and Servicing; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
xxx, 370 pages, with pages 321-370 bound inside back board. "A volume of drawings showing all kinds of structures in a shaft and at both ends of it - ideas that any good engineer can fit into a design to solve his problems. A book of real practical value to the men who are equipping and operating mines." - Foreword. Two handwritten names inside front board and two smallish holes to backstrip, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear to attractive maroon cloth-covered boards. A quality copy of this sensational vintage mining reference. Book
Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine
28 pages. Features: Photos of the grim terrain in Tunisia - craggy heights and perilous ridges; Photos of lighter moments in Tunisia; Mules solve Mountain Problems in Tunisia; Unconventional Pictures of Three Famous Generals in Tunisia - General Montgomery, General Alexander, and Lieut.-General George Patton seated on a hillside watching his men advancing to attack; The House of Lords Roll of Honour - photos of thirteen legislators lost in action; The Commons Roll of Honour - photos of nine legislators lost in action; Photo of the first launching of land bombers at sea from the deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier "Hornet"; Photos related to Doolittle's famous raid on Tokyo; R.A.F. Bombers lay waste to 100 acres of factory buildings in Stettin - five aerial photos; The Great Struggle in Tunisia - article by Cyril Falls; The British Assault on Longstop Hill and Bou Arada Bastions - six photos; Centerfold illustration of a British 3 inch mortar in action in Tunisia giving close support to infantry; Photos of George Edward Kruger-Gray, Commander J.W. Linton, Rear-Admiral Philip John Mack and Viktor Lutze; Nice large illustration of Britain's All-Wooden Mosquito Bomber - includes partial cutaway view; Photos of construction of oil pipeline from Texas to New York via Norris City, Illinois; Photo of Roosevelt with Mexican President Camacho; Photos of General Sikorski, Acting Wing Commander Hugh Malcolm and Sir Basil Brooke; Four *Amazing* large aerial photos show the fate of Italy's last two heavy cruisers, "Trieste" and Gorizia"; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
24 pages. Features: 1 of of 3 Francophontes has never visited another province; The Sterling Qualities of Henry Birks - Founded in Montreal 100 years ago Birks caters to everyone but its product is still prestige - history of the famous Jewellery business with archival photos; New uses for Canada's depreciating money; Massive fold-out centerfold mountain lake scene sponsored by Player's cigarettes; A Day in the Life of Craig Russell - Outrageous!; Citizen Jan Fonda - article with colour photos; Darkness at Noon - total eclipse of the sun; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
112 pages. Fiction: Love Wasn't Enough; Rage on the Mountain; First Proposal; Young and Scared; The Girl He Remembered (conclusion); The Artless Heiress (part 4 of 8). Articles: Beware Those Phony Stock Salesmen! - Boiler room operators; The Actor in Me - Kirk Douglas (part 1 of 2) - with many photos; The High Price of Haste - Photo of hideous crash scene on highway 25-70 near Marshall, North Carolina in which an asphalt truck collided with an oncoming car cilling several people including the Reverend and Mrs. T.H. Shackelford, their missionary daughter, the Reverend and Mrs. Robert N. Barefoot and their seven-year-old niece; They Rescue the Mail - how dogged postal sleuths find and deliver letters that have been lost, stolen, burned drowned or macerated by catastrophe or crime; Bargain Bonanza - Hoss Monday in Canton, Texas is the day for swapping lies, knives, horses, dogs and any kind of livestock you can name; Let's Be Sensible About Foreign Aid; The Deep South Says "Never!" (part 2 of 5) - a report from Summerton, South Carolina on how the people have reacted to the Federal integration order; Cruising the Cool Coast - great color photos of the unspoiled Maine coast; . Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover shows several of their models and features; Nice GE color-photo ad for their pink kitchen appliances; Nice two-page ad for United Aircraft Corporation shows their C-133, Convair F-102As, plus a great color air cargo illustration; Nice color Oldsmobile ad for their Golden Rocket 88 Holiday Coupe; Chevrolet ad in mountain setting; Nice color Imperial car ad shows a light blue model; Winston cigarettes; Pream coffee; International trucks; Douglas DC-7; Spud cigarettes; Buick Roadmaster 75; Great one-page black and white photo ad for Jeep; Louisa May Alcott is features in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Short Stories: Dream of Love; The High Cost of Babies; Major Arrowtoss. Articles: Heroes - or Bums? - campaign to smear unemployed vets; Citadel of Jump - Great photo-illustrated article on Robert M. Weitman's Paramount Theatre in New York; "I'll Take Zale in Two" - photo-illustrated boxing article by Rocky Graziano; The Decline of Bing Crosby - photo-illustrated article on his voice problems; Billion Dollar Haul - fascinating article on war booty at the end of WWII, with photo of Hjalmar Schacht; War Against West Point; About that Sinus Trouble. Special Features; Sexiest Gal in Town? - photo-illustrated article about Ruth Gilbert; Wackies - article with great one-page photo of Barbara Bates and Julie Gibson; Lion Hunt - photo-illustrated article of Metropolitan Opera tenor Lauritz Melchior hunting mountain lion; Hockey's Hardest Hoodlum - John "Choo-Choo" Mariucci of the Chicago Blackhawks; On the Bowery; The Name is Sheridan - lovely photos of Ann Sheridan; Smokechasers - photos of parachuting forest fire fighters; Photos of Marvin S. Kite marrying Doris Press by phone; Salute of the Month - photo of Lloyd F. Oleson, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans; Before and after photos of 1st Lt. William D. Robertson, the first GI to contact the Russian Army at Torgau, Germany; and more. Nice ad for movie "The Man I Love" features photo of Ida Lupino; Light wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
1929977Y26London: John Lane the Bodley Head; Methuen; Francis Aldor 1929-1945. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A fascinating selection of historical volumes on London including the ghosts of its past and enlightening later discoveries. First editions except for 'Ghosts of London' which is a fourth edition. All complete with the publisher's unclipped dust wrappers.Comprising the following historical works: London Rediscoveries and Some Others by Walter George Bell 1929 Deals with a number of interesting matters concerning London's history such as the recovery of the Great Seal of William the Conqueror's Charter to London and some new facts about the famous Mayor Dick Whittington. With nineteen monochrome plates. Four pages of publisher's advertisements. Life in London"s Great Prisons by T. Whyte Mountain 1930 A vivid account of life in a men's prison for the time with descriptions of the cell services holidays and sports amenities escaping and more. With a frontispiece and one additional plate. Ghosts of London by H. V. Morton 1941 Descriptions of the bell ringers since the reign of Charles II the night watchmen the ancient Lambeth Dole the Bank Guard and many other ghosts of London's past. With a frontispiece nine plates and two dual-spreads. Eight pages of publisher's advertisements. 10 Downing Street: The Romance of a House by Egon Jameson 1945 A compelling historical narrative of this important political building with accounts of its residents. With four plates. Collated complete. In the original cloth bindings. With the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally very smart indeed with only mild rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Dust wrappers are generally smart. With most notable wear to 'Prisons' which is also sunned to the spine. A few chips and edge wear to '10 Downing Street' and handling marks to the rear. Remaining wraps only have light shelf wear with sunning to the spine of 'Rediscoveries'. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with a few scattered spots to 'Rediscoveries' and 'Prisons'. Very Good Indeed John Lane the Bodley Head; Methuen; Francis Aldor hardcover
1960025072Boston MA U.S.A.: AMC 1960. 16th 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Assorted Maps. 16th Edition 1960. Red cloth flex HC. About Fine Very nice and bright with nearly no evidence of ownership or use. 1 of 7500 total printed. Complete with both large folding pocket maps; this is the first time any edition was published with a large folding map of the Franconia Region Map #5 Located in the Front pocket - up till then it was bound-in And the #6 Map 'Mount Washington Range' in the rear pocket. Both pocket maps are in Fine condition and have the 1960 matching dates. A beautiful example worthy of the most impeccable collection. <br/> <br/> AMC hardcover
Black and white illustrations throughout. Features: Northland Patrol - RCMP Constable DeLisle's three-thousand-mile mid-winter sled-trip through the Canadian Arctic to investigate a murder; The Hoodoo Liner - A strange yarn from a bad-luck mail steamer; Jungle Racket - A curious story from the wilds of Malaya; The Lurking Terror - Australian launch skipper Peter Brooks catches a giant groper which menaced pearl divers - article with photo; The Maharajah's Elephant - what happened when a royal elephant died in India; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County, Illinois (part 2) - Bad Charlie Birger is finally put out of commission; The "Tom Thumb Circus" Affair - murder mystery against the bizarre background of a collection of performing animals and birds; Titus George's Trouble - a poltergeist story from a Ceylon tea estate; Jungle Pets (with photos - including lady riding a giraffe; They Prowl By Night - an encounter with a lion-man; Mrs. Brown's Good Cause - everything goes wrong at an Indian grand concert fundraiser; The Mountain of Fate - an attempt to scale Mount Kungwe in East Africa. 66 pages plus 22 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
33 pages. Includes sheet music for violin, piano, guitar & accordion for these songs: It's So Hard To Start Over Again, My Old Canadian Home, Dreaming of My Blue Eyes, Weary of Ramblin' Around, My Blue Skies, Don't Be Mean I Wasn't Mean To You, Farewell Sweetheart Farewell, Smiling Through Tears, Longing For My Mississippi Home, Sundown Blues, The Life and Death of John Dillinger, Longing For You, and Yodelin' My Babies To Sleep. Prior owner's details inside front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this marvelous Wilf Carter compilation. Book
1923573141 brochure in-8 sous couverture rempliée, Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1923, 56 pp. et 2 ff.
1 brochure in-8 sous couverture rempliée, Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1923, 56 pp. et 2 ff. Bel exemplaire de cette très belle brochure imprimée sur hollande Van Gelder, de belle provenance (cachet Docteur Sarramon en couv. et ex-libris Christian Galau). Editée sur "papier de luxe", cette brochure "reproduit in extenso les discours prononcés à la Sorbonne" par Ferdinand Buisson, A. Lacroix, Georges Hervé, F. Regaud, A. Nozal, ainsi que les remerciements de Franz Schrader. Français
Outer dimensions: 21.75" x 14.5". Counties individually colored. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A handsome vintage copy. Book
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Photo feature of Lynne Vandmar, originally from Philadelphia; Snug as a Bug - humor by John Novotny; America's Brand of Sick Humor is Catching Europe With Its Quarantines Down - article by Bob Abel; The Female of the Species - fiction by Mike McGrady; Wasteland Watchwords - TV expressions applied to bawdy photos; Go Sell it on the Mountain - satirical article by Ralph Schoenstein; Note to the Shape Shapers - Robert G. Elliott's humorous response to couteriers attempting to flatten women fore and aft; Love in the Shrouds - fiction by Jerry Bumpus; Richard Brooks - the director of Elmer Gantry and Lord Jim has unusual thoughts about movie censors, movie sexpots and movie critics - photo-illustrated article by Dave Jampel; Men's sportcoat fashion photos; Peter, Paul and Mary - brief article and photo of this rising group; My Name is The Wind - fiction by Evan Hunter; Pictorial essay of a New York car rally; Gypsy - tasteful black and white photo feature of Rosa Sylvia Teiros, a U.N. translator of gypsy extraction. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and Mount Hood, by Ethel Romig Fuller; Wasting Fortunes fo Make Fortunes - Guy Elliott Mitchell explains how vast quantities of Natural Gas are wasted in the search for oil - great photos including an an amazing shot of a forest of derricks in California; A Tale of a Bunny the Woodchuck - by C.H. McDonald; Nice two-color ad for the Pacific Pumper manufactured by Pacific Marine Supply Company of Seattle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Includes the February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December issues. Topics include: Beginner's Snorkeling Guide - Part 1; Florida Wrecks; How to be a Commercial Diver; Buying a Buoyancy Compensator; Island Hopping in the Bahamas; Kingston's Brand New Shipwreck; Beginner's Guide to Snorkeling - Part 2; Fashion Wetsuits; Ghost Fleet - North Carolina; Monterey's Breakwater; Puget Sound Piling Dive; St. Lucia Retreat; Expo '86; China Rockfish; Exploring the Emerald Sea; King of the Mountain - the Cayman Islands; Inland Diving - Northwest Waters; Moray Eel; Diving Doctor; The Diamon Knot; Red Sea Mecca; Underwater Hockey; California Shipwrecks; the C-O Sole; Corsair; Florida Keys; Personality Profile - Peter Hughes; the Blue-Clawed Lithode Crab; Exploring West Coast Waters - Inside Passages of BC; Tobermory, Ontario. Light wear. Quality copies. Book
Features: The Midland Payroll Robbery - Robbers in Western Australia; The Mountain of Gold - Originally published in 1926, an Englishman accepts an invitation to British Columbia, Canada to see a 'mountain of gold'; Unprovoked Aggression - An East African tale; African Houdini - A West African Tale; The Sahara by Bus - a great travel story with several photos; They Harry the Head-Hunters - the Jivaro head-hunters and the Aucas of Upper Amazonas; Home from the Sea - a fine old windjammer, the Af Chapman; Abdul - a story from British Army days in India; Capturing an Ant-Bear in British Guiana; and more. Couple of chips from back strip. Average wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Features: The Midland Payroll Robbery - Robbers in Western Australia; The Mountain of Gold - Originally published in 1926, an Englishman accepts an invitation to British Columbia, Canada to see a 'mountain of gold'; Unprovoked Aggression - An East African tale; African Houdini - A West African Tale; The Sahara by Bus - a great travel story with several photos; They Harry the Head-Hunters - the Jivaro head-hunters and the Aucas of Upper Amazonas; Home from the Sea - a fine old windjammer, the Af Chapman; Abdul - a story from British Army days in India; Capturing an Ant-Bear in British Guiana; and more. Respectful wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
28 pages. Features: The Violent Society - do all the assassinations mean the American dream is dead?; The Siroccos - Francine Jarry, Franki Hart and Helene Vanier - photos and article; Nancy Mathews is featured in a colour photo full-page GM ad; Three Canadians return from racing driver training in Italy - Francois Favreau, Bud Tucker and Wayne Spears - article with photos (including cover); It looks like the Calgary Stampeders will win the Grey Cup now that they have Granville (Granny) Liggins - article with photos; Saskatchewan's West Wind Brings back Dust and Bad Memories of the Dirty Thirties - article with colour photos; Montreal Wood Sculptor (carver) Charles Butler - article with nice photos in colour and black and white; Picnic with a Cougar - article and colour photos of Lun Hancock cavorting with Tom the 150lb mountain lion!; Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
101109aafParis, M.V., Bias, Vers 1950, 17.5 x 17.5 x 4 cm (boîte). Boîte et jouet en bon état, boîte avec illustration en couleur du train devant le Cervin enneigé (le jouet nécessite une révision afin de fonctionner normalement).
92692aafParis, (Simon Raçon pour) Paul Ducrocq, s.d. (ca. 1865), in-4°, IV + 604 p., illustré de 40 compositions sur bois partiel. à pleine page + 16 planches lithographiques tirées en couleurs, exemplaire de grande fraîcheur, pratiquement sans rousseurs, faux-titre avec timbre ‘L. Borzeix greffier de Paix Buceat Corrèze’, haut du faux-titre avec un pt. manque de la marge blanche, reliure en demi-cuir vert à nerfs, dos orné en or, tranches dorées. pt. frottement au dos et sur les plats, sinon bel exemplaire
