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1997A110210Bogota: Villegas 1997. 1st edition. Near Fine. quarto. hardback with dust jacket 223pp. col. pls. bibliog. index Superb production Villegas hardcover
Small spots on cover. Tears on worn dust jacket. Age-toned paper. 186 pages.
09211508Paperback. Good. Softcover. Front cover has a crease. Back cover has a 1.5 inch crease with a one inch tear at the bottom edge. No writing. paperback
76730Chillicothe Ohio: The Scioto Society Inc. Very Good. N.D. First Edition. Single Sheet Folded. This promotional prospectus for The Sugarloaf Amphitheatre is soft-bound a single sheet folded to created a booklet. There is some toning to the edges of the covers. The contents are bright and clean with black & white and color illustrations. Mentions Tecumseh! By Allan W. Eckert. . The Scioto Society, Inc. unknown books
138778658X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19382573Medicine Lake Mt. 1938. Very good. 90pp. containing 147 photographs as well as newspaper clippings ephemera and several manuscripts. Folio. Original green cloth stamped in black. Light soiling and wear to covers. Internally clean one or two items loose. A charming scrapbook kept by Antoinette Olsen Faaborg documenting her married life. Antoinette 1891-1969 married Simon Carl Faaborg 1885-1938 in North Dakota in 1919 settling afterward in Medicine Lake Montana. At the time Medicine Lake had a population of about 300 people. Clippings in the album indicate that Simon was a banker originally from Iowa who served for a year during the Great War before marrying Antoinette. The couple had a daughter Norma Lucia. Images here show their wedding photos their early life together and their daughter's childhood. There are images of their house the bank of Simon in his military uniform and numerous family events. There are also many Christmas cards newspaper clippings and other ephemeral memorial items included. Altogether an interesting portrait of one family's life together over twenty years in Montana. unknown
0331032805.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0331321777.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1856491161.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Fascinating photos and text present harsh life behind bars for Netherlands black market criminals; Beautiful large photo of Penny Edwards - discovered for movies because of her 'lovely legs'; Colour ad for Chase & Sanborn coffee; Armadillos on Texas Farm turned into lampshades by Mr. Apelt; King of Lumberjacks - Benoit Turcotte averages 3.5 cords a day - fantastic photos and text *Will be of considerable interest to anyone who has marvelled at William Kurelek's book "Lumberjack"; Icebreaker - opening of Stl Lawrence ship channel marks the first coming of spring - with photos of icebreaker the N.B. McLean at work in the St. Lawrence; Experiment in Socialism - A.J. Cummings reviews Labor's 20 months of office in London; Bulls and Banderilleros - Mexico ads new color to the traditional Spanish sport of bullfighting - photo and article; NHL Hockey Playoffs Are Here Again - Article and photos of (much smaller) Stanley Cup; Experts predict world mineral supplies will not last another war - major article by C. Fred Bodsworth; Big Business Comes to Ste. Marie - story by Eric Morris; Roy Thomson and Jack Kent Cooke - They Built a warehouse of radios into a gangling Canadian business empire - photo and article; Leave it to the Ladies - fiction by Gregory Clark; The Peer and the Pit-Lamp - fiction by Peter Carter-Page; A Lady to Dinner - fiction by Marsden Starkey; 20 page colour comics section; Prescription for Murder - fiction by Jane Layhew; Amazing photo of a "Snow Egg" on Plateau Mountain in northern B.C.; Pint-Size Pottery - Mrs. Trasey Bond lives near New Westminster, B.C. - photos and article; Isaac Kert creates crossword puzzles - photo and article; New Diamond Industry beginning in Montreal - Julius Gutwurcel and Hermann Good and their diamon cutting operation in the CNR's Bonaventure station - photos and article; Richard Pifer - leader of northwestern Ontario's Secession Movement - photo and article; Electronic Piano - Don L. Hings is in charge of the Vancouver Electronic Laboratories - great article and photos; Net Factory - The manufacture of fishing nets at Drummondville, Quebec - interesting article and photos; Photo of Canadian WREN Frances Conley - Canada's newest screen starlet; Randi Andersen - flew to northern Manitoba on a picture-taking assignment and stayed to become the region's most beautiful prospector - story with photo; Geophysics Expert Dr. John Tuzo Wilson; U.S. company General Analine and Film Corp. received secret patents from Hitler's scientific plotters; Fishwife Extraordinary - Margaret Chambers of Toronto manages four highly-successful fish shops; Streamline Your Bathroom - design article with illustrations; Dorothy Henzel Willis Paints Her Dreams - photo with article; Hope for the Blind - Canadian government seeks to help Canada's 14,000 blind persons; Sports News; Story and photo of "Knucker" Burns of Halifax - the Boston Bruins' number one long-distance fan; Roger Whynott of Mahone Bay, NS - Middleweight Champ - photo and article; First Canadian surgery to insert esophagus into baby at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children - illustration and story; Flying Fairies - Arthur Kirby Trains Aerial Ballets for England's Theatre Pantomimes - wonderful photos with brief write-up; Water Polo Revial in Montreal under the coaching of Jimmy Rose - write-up and photos; Barmen's School - Stan Owen and Pat Morell train 200 bartending students after 31 arid years in Toronto; Great colour ad for Horlicks Malted Milk on back page; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Unmarked. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
192271322Miles City MT: Students Association of Custer High School 1922-23. First edition of this student newspaper. Folio. 29 consecutive issues commencing in October of 1922 and ending in May of 1923. Each issue is 4 pages and all are filled with new of Custer High School. Numerous ads for local businesses. Bound together in quarter cloth over marbled boards. Very good.This file belonged to William W. Boorse the student business manager of the paper. Miles City named after general Nelson Miles was and is a smallish town in Montana. This effort is substantial given the population and the fact the it comes from the only high school in the area. More than likely it was the all year project of the Printing Department. There are many articles about the local football team. Vol. # No. 1 laid in. Students Association of Custer High School hardcover
Photos: The town of Stettin illuminated by R.A.F. flares; The Battle for Ortona; After the fall of Leros in the Aegean; General Montgomery in London; Pictures from Germany and the occupied countries; Action in the Bay of Biscay; Bomber onslaught on France; Street fighting in Ortona; Mountain warfare on the road to Rome; Scenes from the Southwest Pacific incl. Tarawe (Tarawa); and more. Nice Daimler advert. on back cover. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
0484023500.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
185061634New York, Meyer, um 1850. Bild ca. 17 x 12 cm, Blatt ca. 22 x 15 cm. 1 Blatt, verso weiß.
pp. xii, 515. Illustrated with maps. Sm. 4to. Original cloth spine over paper boards. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. As new. The last part of a Civil War trilogy. "The battles around Chattanooga in the late fall of 1863 were among the most decisive of the Civil War, opening the Deep South to the Union and setting the stage for the Atlanta campaign and the March to the Sea. After Chattanooga, the principal Confederate army in the West fought without spirit or hope of victory. Cozzen"s comprehensive account details movements of individual regiments, even as it reveals the larger impact of the campaign on the outcome of the war." SHELF W21
Features: The Marvelous Mayos - the absorbing story of the Mayo Clinic (part 1 of 3); Adventures of the Mind - How Life Began, by Earl A. Evans Jr.; page 27-28 missing (they appeared to contain an illustration and half a photo of turkeys); We Call the Penalties - a veteran football official (Jim Henry) reveals how he and his colleagues make sure the game is played on the up-and-up; Africa's Peaceable Oasis - why tiny Liberia thrives while the rest of the continent smolders in discontent; I Call on Perry Como (conclusion) - Perry tells how his fabulously successful TV show is put together; The Mountain that nearly Killed Me - John S. Day recounts a harrowing accident - and historic rescue - on North America's highest peak, Mt. MkKinley. Great 2-page colour ad for the (black) JFK-style Lincoln Continental - suicide door illustrated. 2-page colour illustrated ad for Bulova's Accutron watches. Eight center pages loose but present. Part of page 103 clipped away. Above-average wear. Book
Features: Mis-Applied Science, by Dr. Albert E. Burke - America is losing tomorrow's battles by insisting that scientists concentrate on producing better mousetraps; The Hot War in Vietnam - Can the U.S. win it?; Master of the Jab - Ho Chi Minh is waging the kind of war he knows best; Sunday's Gladiators - as the armed (pro football) combatants struggle before the crowds, there are reminders of ancient Rome; The Charmed Life of Gangster Tony Accardo - arrested 23 times but never convicted; That Bowl of Fire Called Chili - a peppery dish invented by the pioneers of the old Southwest is still savored by their descendants; My Awful Wedded Husband, by Mrs. Kirk Douglas; Inside the Frozen Mountain - colour photos from deep inside Wyoming's Fossil Mountain; Let'em Eat... Turkey - the crisis that erupted when the Veep missed Thanksgiving dinner in Korea, by Walter M. Turner; Boy's Home on the Range - at Boy's Ranch in the rugged cow country of Texas' Panhandle, Cal Farley uses work, love and discipline to turn bad boys into good ones. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Colour Corvair ad inside front cover. *Awesome* colour cadillac ad on page 9. Book
136 pages. Fiction: The Girl in the Tree; The Sharpshooter's Daughter; From Different Worlds; Wild Ride; Death Stands by (conclusion); Arson, Incorporated (part 4 of 8). Articles: The Hospitals Fight Their Toughest War - staph infections are antibiotic resistant; Man with Magic Fingers - Erroll Garner Can't Read a Note but makes $200k/year as a jazz pianist!; The Face of America - Outdoor Baptism photo in Lake Grandview at the foot of Sharptom Mountain; Will Our Yugoslav gamble pay off? - article with photo of John Foster Dulles seated with Josip Broz Tito; A visit with Jack Dempsey - includes dramatic boxing photos plus some of his wives; Why Can't I remember?; Adventures of the Mind - part 4 - art and human dignity; My Daughter's an Arab - great color photos of little Vicki Cheney; Future Unlimited - great photo-illustrated article with famed automotove inventor Charles Kettering; Why Hollywood Stopped Dieting - with gorgeous photo of Anita Ekberg. Ads: American Standard yellow bath fixtures; Wurlitzer organ ad features the home of Sue and Norm Smith in Joliet Illinois; Campbell's soup; Ad for the new Chrysler Windsor Dartline; Tareyton; 1958 Ford color photo ad; Very nice one-page photo ad for Motorola TVs shows a fixated doctor's waiting room; Republic Steel; Sweet color photo ad for the Dodge Power Giant pickup shows truck at drive-through bank window; Redwood lumber designer George Nakashima is featured in a color-phot ad for Simpson; Sano cigarettes; Evinrude outboard color photo ad; A&P coffee; Photo-journalist Ray Jacobs is featured in an Ansco film ad inside back cover; (soiled) Betty Crocker cupcake mix ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
110 pages. Short Stories: The Perfect Mate; Beauty is the Prize; One to Go; The Headlock. Articles: Hodding Carter says "I'll Never Leave My Town"; Housewife, You're My Boss - Leading Grocer Joseph B. Hall rings doorbells to learn the beefs housewives have against his company, Kroger; Uncle Sam's Orphan Airline - MATS; A Visit With violinist Jascha Heifetz - photo-illustrated article; The Trouble with American Tourists - who do so many of them become offensive boors abroad?; Michigan's Island Innkeeper - W. Stewart Woodfill, proprietor of the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island The Plight of the HIll People - seven million mountain dwellers in 16 states still live in abject poverty - they are our most miserable citizens - article with depressing family photo. Serials: The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (part 1 of 8); Journey into Danger (part 5 of 8). Ads: Schlitz beer (tree planting); Tareyton cigarettes; Color-photo Mercury car ad; Chevrolet 1960 Kingwood Station Wagon; 1960 Turbine Drive Buick; Keds shoes; Frigidaire centerfold shows 16 different models; Lifesavers; Budweiser "Pick a Pair"; Speed Queen appliances - featuring Virginia Habermann, Mrs. Home Laundry Queen for 1960; Norelco shavers; The Wausau Story - with photo of R.B. Wiltse, Frank Hausman and Eugene Dymek; Florida Tourism; Airstream trailers; Benjamin Moore paint. Above-average wear. Bit of masking tape on front cover. Back cover missing. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Judge Peter M. Horn of New York - We Don't Call Them Criminals; Colorado's Mountain Paradise - Rocky Mountain National Park; Seething Singapore - John Masters reports from the troubled melting pot that serves as seaport and warehouse for Southeast Asia; The Lessons of the Cuban Disaster, by Stewart Alsop; Untold Stories of the Civil War - The Miraculous Steamboat - The U.S.S. Chattanooga got through to the 40,000-man Union army trapped and starving in Chattanooga, Tennesee; Burt Lancaster Feature. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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
70 pages. Features: Priests Shouldn't Marry; Draft Resisters - "Hell no, we won't go!"; Deserters go Underground; Gertrude Crum's Recipes for Success; Death in a Far Place - four men climb an Alaskan mountain and one loses his life; The Tragedy of Thomas Dodd (part 2); A Comedian's Life - maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day - Jeremy Vernon; ""I Want to Smoke Pot"; The Great Auk; Trip Out on Red Lizzie; and more. Ads: Fantastic one-page color-photo ad for the 440 Dodge Coronet, featuring a blue two-door hardtop with white roof; Nice one-page color ad for the 1968 Wide Track Pontiacs - featuring a maroon 2-door 1968 Benneville; Great one-page color-photo Campbell's Soup ad features Campbell's kid, smiling butcher and a large assortment of meat; Nice one-page Oldsmobile ad features color photo of family with goldish-colored Vista-Cruiser station wagon; Nice one-page color-photo ad for the (baby blue with dark roof) 1968 Plymouth Fury III saying "Luxury isn't expensive anymore."; Cover held by two of the three staples. Four-inch opening to bottom of coverfold. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Danger on the Right, by Senator Stephen M. Young; Our Negro Aristocracy - a little-known world of wealth, culture and glamour; People on the Way Up - John Brademas, Dany Saval, Donna Deitch, Kenny McLean; Adventures of the Mind - How Human is Human Nature, by Eric Hoffer; "... To Help a Boy" - how Big Brothers help boys from fatherless and troubled homes; Backstage with Shirley Jones - she explains how she plays ingenues and prostitutes with equal conviction - nice color photos; Eighteen Angry Men - the hard-driving colonels who work against crucial deadlines to ready our missile-launching sites - photo of construction at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Waste in the world of diplomacy - Ellis O. Briggs says the game of musical chairs impairs our ambassadors' effectiveness; Cuban Prisoner Exchange - James Donovan explains the inside story of how freedom was won for the Bay of Pigs captives; Americans - at least 21 languish in Castro prisons - 2 photos of JFK addressing the Cuban issue; Hawaii - where progress is the big problem; The Beverly Hillbillies TV Show - proving that corn is evergreen; It Hurts to Run - Runner Jim Beatty - his greatest foes are fear, fatigue, agony; "Ask Americans to Pray for Us" - Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski tells of his newest conflicts with Poland's Communist rulers, his efforts to avert bloodshed, his struggle to uphold religious freedom; Innocent's Grim Ordeal - Airman Gerald Martin Anderson is accused of murder in Mountain Home, Idaho - a year later, it became obvious that Air Force investigators simply picked a victim. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
84 pages. Features: Mexico clamps down on Stalin - fascinating photo-illustrated article explains how Mexico was once Moscow's secret entrance to the U.S.A., until President Aleman proved that Mexico is no easy mark for Stalin; Helen Hayes tries Hollywood again - nice photo-illustrated article; California's weird overflowing Salton Sea - photo-illustrated article; Are all women crazy?; What has John L. Lewis done with his $400,000,000? - fascinating photo-illustrated article about the miners' welfare fund; The World's Worst Department Store - H.O. Kaufhous in Alexanderplatz, East Berlin is Soviet Germany's largest department store; I'm a Gyppo Logger's Wife - Margaret Elley Felt hauls dynamite, drives a truck, raises kids, keeps books, and lives in an all-male lumber camp in Washington State; May the better half win; Editorial - Britons Discover That China's Reds Are Communists!. Fiction: Mountain Massacre; The Doctor Wants a Wife; Welcome Back, Soldier; The Old Pro; Father Came Home (part 1 of 7); House of Fear (part 5 of 6). Ads: Color ad for Mercury cars; Boeing Stratocruiser ad features large photo of Pan Am plane over the Eiffel Tower; Prest-O-Lite battery ad features nice photo of footballer Otto Graham, quarterback of the Cleveland Browns; Nice two-page GMC truck ad shows a 470 pulling trailer. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine