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Num?ro complet. 28x38cm.
Broch?. 215 pages. Quelques soulignements.
143 pages including index. Two books in one. First, a cross-country instruction manual covering everything from your first time on skis to learning eight different kinds of turns. Second is a guided tour of all of the Methow Valley's ski-touring centers and trails - and several exciting backcountry routes - with maps and information on accommodations. Novice skier or backcountry veteran, you'll find what you need here. Author's signature upon front flyleaf. Only faint wear to book. Author is a fully certified member of the Professional ski Instructors of America. Front cover does not quite lie flat. Book
52 pages. Features: Classy color Nash car ad inside front cover features a ski scene; Nostalgic one-page Memeograph ad; Photo of recently married Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman; Obituaries of Blanche Douglass Leathers and Edward S. Harkness; 1/3-page Cuba tourism ad; Nice one-page H.J. Heinz ad shows happy family dinner; U.S. Has Japan Over Barrel With Lapse of 1911 Trade Treaty; Mr. and Mrs. Roi Osborne sue the Pullman Co. for being forced to sit in the Negro day coach of their train to Georgia - with photo; Allied Scheme to Bar Rumanian Oil to Hitler; Poland's Ignace Jan Paderewski and Poland's troubles; Finland - Stake in the War at Sea; Why the Russians are Taking a Licking from the Finns; The White Rajah of Sarawak - Sir Charles Vyner Brooke - writeup with photo of his family; Russian menace scouted in India; New German High Seas Fleet Taking Shape; Edmund Ironside; Birth Control Centers now in 42 States; Family life of Brigham Young; James B. Schafer heads prosperous cult The Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians - article with photo; Electronic Orchestra; Boxer Lee Savold; Photo of moose with locked antlers; Three Beauty Queens - Miss Janet Austin, Miss Leone Johnson and Miss Ruth Nunn; 2/3-page General Electric (GE) ad features photo of Karl McEachron who chases lightning; Interesting color ad inside back cover for the 16 major US airlines features silhouette of plane over cowboy and his herd on a snow-covered plain; Nice back cover color ad for Grace Line South American Cruises features evening gala party; and much more. Middle page loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
VG no dj. no inscriptions. crisp red boards with some rounding to edges/wear. 1958 calcuta bookshop stamp to ffep. all pages present and tightly bound.
G (no dj, lightly marked turquoise cloth with silver titles on spine, front free endpaper missing else contents no significant fault) octavo 166pp. A general survey of ski-ing, ski resorts, ski equipment, and other matters likely to intrest the average skier. Includes a chapter on Norway. 24 b/w illustrations.
Profusion de ilustraciones.
188 pages. Features: Cover photo of Mother Teresa; American Airlines ad features Margaret SanGemino; Gorgeous Monet ad features gold earring on model with black background; Safire on Machisma; Murder Most Foul; Great two-page color-photo ad for Ralph Lauren Western Wear; Blackglama ad appears to feature Angela Lansbury wearing mink; Very artistic ad for Pierre Cardin Man's Cologne; Lauren Bacall is featured in a Fortunoff ad; The World of Mother Teresa - photo-illustrated feature article; Warring over new missiles for NATO; Chivas Regal ad; One-page ad for the Look 37 ski binding; One-page Bermuda tourism ad; Britain's Establishment Spies - Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean; Hidden Splendors of Tibet - color-photo-illustrated article; One-page Cuisinart ad; Beautiful Alfred Dunner/Fortrel ad featuring model in red top; Twins Reared Apart - a living lab - with photos of Jim Lewis and Jim Springer - Thomas Bouchard's lab; Big Business on the Offensive - they are now the biggest lobby in Washington; Peter Pan and How He Grew - James M. Barrie's timeless play of youth was inspired by his unique friendships with children; The Party's Over for Political Parties; Gorgeously photo-illustrated Jewel fashion feature - with photos of designers Angela Cummings, Kai-Yin Lo, and Kristin Moore; Artistic ad for Crayons footwear; The Year of the Trichologist; Featured Home - a former industrial library is domesticated by Angus Bruce and others; Garlic article; Camp ads; and more. Above-average external wear. Faint library stamp and small check mark atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
188 pages. Features: Nice Sue Brett Fashion ad; Beautiful Danskin ad features model lying atop white grand piano; Sony Portable Radio ad entitled "A Moveable Feast"; Safire on "Taking a Dare"; Lovely Alfred Dunner/Fortrel ad; The One-Necktie Man; Two-page color Farberware (cookware) ad; Interesting Harry Winston ad features large diamond on model's forehead; A Decade of Constitutional Revision (part 1 of 2) - The U.S. Supreme Court; Immortal Anna O. (Bertha Pappenheim) - from Freud to Feminism - the young Viennese patient who spurred Freud on to the development of psychoanalysis became a zealous champion of women's rights and pioneered new approaches to social work; The Kennedy Network - After JFK's death, his tough, tight entourage of political intellectuals offered their high-powered services to Bobby - Now it's Teddy's turn to mobilize the Kennedy Network; The "House" Charles De Gaulle Built - his personal home is now a museum and his country is undergoing subtle but significant renovations; Nice mink coat ad shows model on shoeshine stand; Lauren Bacall is featured in a Fortunoff ad; Britain's Notable Nonagenarians - the fond admiration accorded to England's senior citizens is unimaginable in the youth-oriented United States - with photos of Lord Brockway, Lord Shinwell, Catherine Bramwell-Booth; Prince Alice, and Ben Travers; Peugeot 504 car ad; Great one-page color-photo Izod ad features golfers Jerry Pate and Hubert (Hubie) Green; Nice two-page Carlsberg ad; Marlboro ad features fall leaf theme; Half-page ski ad for Park City, Utah; Nice one-page color Technics turntable ad; Nostalgic one-page ad for solar alarm watches by The Sharper Image; Look 37 ski binding ad; Black and White Scotch ad features photos of backgammon players including Harry Joe Brown, Jr., Kenneth Lubben, and many others; How Robert Kennedy's people blew the 1968 Oregon campaign; Humble Hampton's home designed by Tod Williams; Color fashion photos of sweaters for cool nights; Michael Norman describes a Vietnam wound that will not heal - the loss of his friend Jim Payne; Chivas Regal ad on back cover; and more. Above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1st edition. VG pbk. TV Tie-In. ISBN 0563179929. 20766. eng
28 pages. Features: Cover photo of a Beechcraft 18 on Canadian-built Edo Floats; Pratt & Whitney ad inside front cover boasts of a 1208 mile flight from Canada to Mexico in under five hours by a Twin Wasp; Imperial Oil ad on back cover; and more. Laid-in is a 23.5" x 15.5" Imperial Oil map of Canada showing the airports, intermediate aerodromes, seaplane ports, and seaplane bases of Canada; A Heated Subject - a call for joint research into the protection of power plants operating in Canada's extreme temperatures; Nice illustrated full-page ad for Kollsman Instruments;Nice Gold Flake cigarettes full-page ad; The Toledo Cruise - article with photos; The Fairchild "Sekani" - article with photos; The Toronto Flying Club - 10th anniversary; Photo of the new Boeing XB-15 bomber in flilght; R.C.A.F. Appointments; The Sunshine Air Council; Fantastic centrefold cutaway illustration of the Fleet Freighter; McGill Receives New Glider; Northland Air Fleet Rests; Aviation Highlights from Winnipeg; News from the West Coast; The Students' Forum; Old Country Gossip - with amazing photo of Aviation's Boldest Experiment - the first Mayo Composite Aircraft - Mercury on top and Maia on the bottom; Nice ad for Cub Aircraft of Hamilton, Ontario; Condensed News from the Clubs; M.A.I.C. News; Imperial Oil ad on back cover shows how ski planes are speeding what used to be done by showshoe!; Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Canadians are the worst loudmouths; Nice colour ad for Matinee cigarettes; Fantastic colour ad for the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere 4-door Hardtop (black on red); Blair Fraser Reports from Moscow - article with photos; Nostalgic full-page colour ad for the General Electric Stratoliner Range (teal in colour); She sells glamour with a growl - Lillian Farrar; What happened when we threw out our TV set - The Kimber Family - Vivien, Carol, Ruth, Ann, June, Earl, and David gave up TV for a month - family photo with article; Is smog the real culprit in lung cancer?; The wonderland of Louis B. Mayer - this Canadian started as a junk dealer and wound up bossing M-G-M, Hollywood's biggest, richest, gaudiest studio - here's the never-before-told story of his incredible career and the tinsel world he ruled - article with many wonderful photos; "Lionel Could Do Anything" - Part 3 of The Story of the Conachers keys on Lionel Conacher - Canada's athlete of the half-century - article with manyy great photos of Conacher engaged in numerous sports; We can't fight without a merchant navy; Uncommon photo ad for Maxwell Limited of St. Mary's, Ontario - yard equipment, white goods, etc.; Awesome colour photo centrefold ad for Caterpillar features a Cat D9 ata work with other pieces working in the background; Very attractive colour ad for Oldsmobile shows at teal coupe on a ski hill; Marconi TV ad; Beautiiful colour 1957 DeSoto ad inside back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Minor moisture signs to lower edge of back pages. A sound vintage copy. Book
1 vol. in-12 reliure pleine toile souple orangé imprimée éditeur, Sonor SA, Genève, s.d. [ circa 1936 - 1944 ], 105 pp. et 3 ff., avec une brochure in-12, s.d., 23 pp. Bon exemplaire de cette charmante édition (cachet d'ex-libris, très bon état par ailleurs), auquel nous joignons une brochure : "Le Ski. Manuel rédigé par les Associations suisses pratiquant le ski" Français
52 pages. Contents: Threats of New Violence in Quebec - Why We Should Take the "Army of Liberation" seriously; Are Hospitals Save? - a calm look at two deaths after surgery; Editorial - Of Course Hate-Mongering Should Be Stamped Out, But Not By Passing Censorship Laws - pressure on Justice Minister Guy Favreau to bring in hate laws; Greatness - Dr. Hans Selye describes what leads to the quality of greatness in the mind of a man or the life of a nation; Your Guide to the new federal split-level cabinet; Let's Give the Police More Power; Washington Hostess Perle Mesta; Your Health May Depend On Where You Live; A Weekend with the Ski Fanatics - article with photos; Nostalgic black and white photo ad for Electrohome and "Canada's Largest Stereo Laboratory"; Art Fraud - some odd "Group of Sevens"; Whiz Jazz pianist Tony Collacott; Reflections on the Clay-Liston boxing match; Mordecai Richler looks at the new cliches of nonconformity; Colour-photo Canadian Club ad features rolling in a hoop; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features beauty holding her own black and white photo. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Articles: Your Ice-age ancestor - a geologist finds a new type of prehistoric American in Mexico; Under a Red Thumb - Finland's freedom is an illustion with a neighbor like Russia; Civil Rights Mean Good Business - so says Charles Luckman; Human Eagles - Analyzing the appeal of the F.O.E. (Fraternal Order of Eagles); The Coiffures are Not Comic - girls are getting ideas for hair-doos from the funnies; The Flying Bietilas - Six famous ski jumpers in one family! Fiction: The Third Money (part 1 of 4); Snow in the Canyon; The Kissing of Patricia; One More river to Cross; Cocktails at Blindman's Lake (conclusion); The Bedspread. Ads include: Pepsodent - featuring Nancy Ruhl; Western Electric; Sieberling tires; Freuhauf Trailers; Admiral phonographs (nice colour photo one-page ad); Milky Way chocolate bars (cute one-page color photo); Firestone "Super-Balloon" tires (two-pages); Frazer cars (attractive one-page in color); The New Hudson (color centerfold); Goebel beer; "I Remember Mama" movie; Squibb Dental Cream; "Cass Timberlane" movie; Blatz beer; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
203 pages. Glossy photo-illustrated boards. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Documents the history of skiing in Revelstoke from 1890 through 2012. Printed upon glossy stock. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Faint bit of peeling inside front board where small label removed. An excellent copy of this enjoyable and informative history. Book
272 pages. Index. Bibliography. Author's signature and nice inscription upon front flyleaf. Packed with line diagrams and photography in both colour and black and white. "The most comprehensive text on the subject written by an authority. If you are interested in learning or improving your skating technique and skate like a champion, this is the superb text-of-your-choice. It is up-to-date, thorough, instructive, informative and easy to understand and follow. Contains numerous technical sequential photos of recent World and Olympic Champion skiers, together with elaborate graphs and illustrations, physical and mechanical analysis, and scientific testing of ski skating." - from back cover. Light to moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding tight. Quality copy. Book
Very Good Turkish Original 53 gelatin silver albumen photographs in a cloth photograph album. Oblong: 14x23 cm. Photos' sizes: 7x8,5 cm. No description and script. [FIRST TURKISH SKIING EXPEDITIONS] [Album of photograph: One of early Turkish skiing expeditions in Uludag Mt., Bursa]. Too many skiers seen in photographs. They are early and most important names for Turkish skiing. "In the same year in the course of Erzurum Kerim Hitli Fort set under the leadership of Albert Bilstein who came from Austria, the army engaged in skiing and the first skiers such as Arif Hikmet Koyunoglu Cemal Dursunoglu, Kemal Hasip had been brought up. A ski battalion composed of four companies was founded in Erzincan in 1917. In the same period the first ski school was set up in Susehri (Buldur Village) by Hikmet Koyunoglu. A Teacher of Galatasaray High School skiing in Uludag in 1933 boosted activity to the sport and afterwards the ski activities organised by Bursa Community Centre in Uludag in 1933-1934, Ankara Community Centre in Elmadag and Erzurum Community Centre in Palandöken had been important movements...". (Source: Skiingturkey - History).
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Brochure. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 10 cm). In Turkish. 20, [4] p., b/w ills. Extremely rare. Uludagin tarihi, kayak sporlari, otel ve signaklar, nakliye vasitalari, belediye ve kayak sporlari, dagcilik klöpleri hakkinda malûmat, 1935.
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