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Features: Stranraers (Strannies) on the West Coast; Axel Duch's Air Bridge to Biafra; V.I.A.'s Seawind Flies; Unusual landing at Shearwater; Canada's Best Helicopter Long Line Pilot. Sound copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, some minimal offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities and a little browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. Dustwrapper artwork by R.F. Micklewright. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Book is in excellent condition with very light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 416 pages full of full page color photos, floor plans, elevations, landscape drawings, etc. Features include:Wild Turkey distillery complex, Inout house, the Smile, Wrap house, Linear cabin, Michigan lake house, Newberg residence, North main, Point house, Immanuel church and paris centre, Cologne, Mont-Blanc base camp, Nanjing Wanjing garden chapel, Grandview Heights aquatic centre, T3, Samuel Beckett civic campus, et al.
28 pages. Loaded with black and white photos. Contents include: Photo of Vedder Miller and Harold Dodsworth working on cables in the Cedar telephone building in Vancouver; Mrs. Operater Laura Mann at work; Susan Allison and Mary Gallo; Photos of the Princeton telephone office; Clarence Boulier at Princeton; Many photos of employees happily engaged in social activities; Miss Barbara Lovatt with her accordion; Photos of portions of Vancouver's long distance office; Article and photos of flood affecting Mission and Agassiz, including washed-out bridge; Miss Peggy Love; 15 Years ago in company history; Company sports activities; Marriage-related activities of employees. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
445 pages. Footnotes. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Thomas Dufferin Pattullo was premier of British Columbia from 1938 to 1941. Governing through the tumultuous years of the 1930s, his Liberal administration offered what was arguable the most vigorous response to the Depression in Canada... Duff Pattullo's life is as much a history of the province as it is an account of an individual." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which bears discolourations to lower section. A quality copy. Book
316 pages. The third book in the four-book series that forms the basis of the ACBL teaching program. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Terror in a Penthouse; The Man They All Hated; Racing Eights; The Sniper; Glergyman in Khaki; Too Much Talent; Tigers in Paradise; Hocus Focus; Styling a Car; Power Training for Rugby Clubs; Brother Goose; Bloodier Bridge; Olympic Athletes Show You How; Hollywood Horse Race; David Langdon's Sketch Book - Starnewstanard; The Gorilla Hit Low; plus photos of Adele Collins, Julie Newmar (the girl in the moon), and Janice Van Ayre; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
Features: "The Military Profession - Lt. Gen. W.A.B. Anderson, Commander of Mobile Command; Biathalon Training; From North Star to Southern Cross - The Travels of a Yukon and its crew; Destroying a beached Second World War British Mine, lodged in driftwood on a Vancouver Island beach; Sea survival for Starfighter pilots; They were given a real bridge to blow up - 2 Field Squadron, Royal Canadian Engineers brings down the old Hawkshaw Bridge, mid-way between Fredericton and Woodstock, N.B.; Shades of Alley Oop - a CH-113A Voyageur removes dinosaur bones from their ancient resting place; Classroom for the sea - Fleet School (Pacific) at Esquimalt (5 pages); The Buffalo Aircraft - Our newest tactical transport; Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile systems. Sound copy. Magazine
90 pages. Features: Build an A-frame Bridge; The Del Mar Fair; Calvary Southern's 4-6-0; The SP in 1:32 Scale; Garden Railway Objectives; Modifying LGB Coaches; Toucan; The Table Saw - Part 1; Prairie City Feed and Grain; A Sentimental Journey. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
100 pages. Features: The former chief of French Intelligence in the U.S. reveals the fantastic story of Soviet espionage that penetrated De Gaulle's official family - 'Martel', the key Russian agent, repercussions that caught Kim Philby, J.F.K.'s secret letter to De Gaulle; German students storm the cities in the name of Red Rudi (Dutschke); End of the 'Wahine' in Wellington Harbor; The Emergence of James Earl Ray alias Eric Starvo Galt; Refugees on a bridge to nowhere - Vietnam; Gardiners Island - its haunted legacy - America's offshore fiefdom with piracy in its past; Super Shots from Big T - golfer Tom Weiskopf; Under the gaze of the charmer - Warren Beatty, footloose at the top; "Fog that foils an old disease - TB" - Dr. Sol R. Rosenthal; and more. Colour Ford Torino ad inside front cover; Nice 2-page colour ad for four Chevrolet models - Chevy II, Chevrolet, Camaro, Chevelle; nice 2-page GM colour car ad. Moderate wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A quality copy. Book
106 pages. Features: Refired Supreme Court judge John Major in Conversation re. bungled Air India bombing investigation; Link between residential schools and native suicide; Husky roams wild in Cobalt, Ontario; Canada Day Survey; The Jordan River is Polluted; Pakistan - land of the generals; Is Frank Stronach Canada's greediest man?; Portrait of the Queen's marriage to Prince Philip; Brothers in Arms - William and Harry; New Hoover Dam Bridge; Floyd Nicholson 1938-2010; and more. Average wear. Address label clipped from front cover. Book
154 pages. Features: Remembering the North Shore Line after 21 years; Pacific Coast Logging - Steam Locomotives; Harford Associates for Railroad Modeling; Plans for 5 small, but interesting, layouts; Easy Bridge Mounting - a simple way to avoid track allighment problems when installing bridges; The Milwaukee Road's latest paint scheme; Coal cars for the Colorado Midland; Signs and Philosophy; Beginning from Scratch; RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award - CPR Kootenay Divsion short van; Cathels & Sorenson's Prairie in the Mountains; The water tank at Chemainus, B.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Swindon Reminiscences; Steam in the Twilight Years; It's Not Just the Engines - The Search for the Less Obvious Railway Features is Often Worth While; Mystery Tour in Sardinia; Sails on Rails; Worcester Winners; Some Other A3s; Gresley Engines at Work; Adams Radial Back on the Bluebell; Lillie Bridge Loco Memories; Crewe Basford Hall Disappears - 1; Return to Steam in Canada; Conversion Rail - permanent way for locomotives and tramway vehicles in the 1830s; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
Articles: Gerald E. Panting and the Development of Maritime History in Canada; Showing the Flag - Hugh Palliser in Western Newfoundland; Newfoundland Spring Sealing Disasters to 1914; A Bridge Across the Water - Liverpool Shipbrokers and the Transfer of Eastern Canadian Sailing Vessels, 1855-1880; The Shipping Industry in British Columbia from 1867 to 1914; plus numerous book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
46 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC replaces Busy Switches - new slip switches at Harmon, N.Y.; The Rio Grande - General Palmer's little narrow gauge road of the Colorado mountains grew into one of America's most important 'bridge' systems; Driving Gear for Turbine Locomotives - Pennsylvania Railroad's experimental unit has uniform torque, fully balanced drive wheels, high efficiency at speed; new locomotive; Built in Roanoke - Norfolk & Western has been building most of its locomotives at its Roanoke Shops; Railroad Ticket Man - What does the passenger look like to the man on the other side of the ticket window?; Tall Stacked Old Timers - Three gems from a leading locomotive photo collection; Chicago Station Gets New Shed - Illinois Central Rebuilds - Illinois Central tears down old high arch and builds slotted roof. Average wear. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Magazine
120 pages plus 6 pages of ads. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Faint doodle upon front cover. A worthy copy of this charming vintage auction bridge booklet. Book
119 pages nearly entirely of large, sometimes full page, color photos of Chinese residential architecture and architectural detail from seven areas in China and Tibet in an oversize, oblong format. Captions both in Chinese and English. Lots of unusual examples: "two storey round earth-built tower,""log cabin of Tibetan residents." "carved beams in Langshelin Villa". Upper corner of front cover is damaged and lower corner of same is missing piece of dust jacket, general wear and scuffing otherwise to dust jacket. Interior/text is clean and unmarked in any way. Very unusual volume.
Very large oblong format, Light scuffing and general wear to covers. Text/interior clean and unmarked. Short history of timber and glulam bridge construction, typical design math for glulam deck and girders, 10 pages of engineering drawings showing elevations, sections, statistic and detail pages by Hurlbut, Kersich & McCullough followed by 5 outlines, with photos, of completed pedestrian bridges.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Very large oblong format, Light scuffing and general wear to covers. Text/interior clean and unmarked. Short history of timber and glulam bridge construction, typical design math for glulam deck and girders, 10 pages of engineering drawings showing elevations, sections, statistic and detail pages by Hurlbut, Kersich & McCullough followed by 5 outlines, with photos, of completed pedestrian bridges.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (33 x 24 cm). In Turkish. 245 p., color ills. and photos. Konya'daki Selçuklu - Osmanli mimari eserleri ve bezemeleri. Ord. Prof. Dr. A. Süheyl Ünver Nakishanesi yorumuyla. Nusret Çolpan'in anisina. Seldjoukites and Ottoman architectural works and decorations in Konya City based on the Ord. Prof. Dr. A. Süheyl Ünver Nakishanesi and festschrift Nusret Çolpan.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. Dustwrapper artwork by Peter Dunbar. Prebble's vivid retelling of the Tay Bridge disaster. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, title and plates in red and black, title mildly browned; brown pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, promrose endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. With trade advertisements at rear. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Book is in excellent condition with very light scuffing only to heavy weave brown HB covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Illustrated with b&w photos throughout. Contents include: Making of a free-soil journalist, Life in the literary republic, Architect in chief of central park, Sanitary commission and Mariposa, A philosophy of urban landscape design, Defending the vision, etc.
Milano, Ulrico Hoepli Editore, 1934-XII. Prima edizione italiana. Riduzione italiana a cura di Marco Antonio Brunialti. Prefazione dell’Autore. Introduzione di Marco Antonio Brunialti. Dall’indice: Valutazione della dichiarazione; Il linguaggio tra compagni; Distribuzione ed alta strategia; La psicologia del Bridge. In 16mo (cm. 19,5); brossura originale illustrata, con titoli al piatto e al dorso; pp. XL, 422, (2). Buono stato di conservazione. PAxs
Firenze, Stabilimento Grafico A. Salani, 1953. PRIMA EDIZIONE. Con questo libro la Federazione Italiana Bridge ha divulgato le norme ufficiali che disciplinano il giuoco del Bridge e le sue gare. Prima della sua pubblicazione vigeva in Italia la più brillante anarchia legislativa in fatto di Bridge. Dall’indice: Statuto Nazionale della Federazione Italiana Bridge; Il codice italiano per il Bridge Contratto Duplicato; La licitazione; Il giuoco; Il punteggio; Comitato Organizzatore - Giuria; Il direttore di torneo; Vademecum del direttore di torneo. In 16mo (cm. 19); legatura originale in mezza tela, piatti cartonati rigidi, titoli al piatto e al dorso; pp. 130, (2). In allegato in una tasca al retro del piatto posteriore: lo Statuto Nazionale della Federazione Italiana Bridge, approvato dall’Assemblea Straordinaria del 4 ottobre 1953. Ottima copia. PAxs
