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Vg/Vg some tarnish marks to rear cream panel. slight rubbing to ends of dj over spine. clipped dj no inscriptions. clean and crisp internally. 1st edition
32 pages. Features: Noise the Destroyer - ; Lincoln's Friend at Court - the girl across the river; Are We Scrapping the Whole Navy? - article with statistics and photo of the U.S.S.'West Virginia' and photo of the U.S.S. 'Detroit' in drydock; Lincoln in Marble and Bronze - article with illustrations of the Brenner Medal, J.E. Roine Medal, and more; A Letter and a Reply - The Opening of the Civil War; Henry Ford's Page - the 'crush my rival' kind of competition is bound to come to grief; Editorials - Judge Landis protected from facing Ban Johnson, Civil War is On in China, the bonded indebtedness of the U.S.A., Chief Justice Taft suggests Grand Juries by abolished; Julia Taft Bayne Recalls Good Times in the White House; The Great Anneke Jans Delusion - most remarkable lawsuit in American History, as described by noted economic author Charles Albert Collman; Little Lost Speeches and Anecdotes of Lincoln; The New Salem of Abraham Lincoln -how he clerked in a store and whipped a bully; Chats with Office Callers; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - Aaron Sapiro and money losing Tri-State Tobacco Growers' Association prove there is no magic in agricultrual co-operatives, Auto Thief displaces Horse Thief in Middletown, NY; News Bits; Wonderful photos of the perils and problems of bridge building. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
278 pages. Index. Bibliography. "Between 1880 and 1887 three of Britain's major cities came under attack from teams of bombers whose leadership, finance and most of whose personnel came from two Irish-American Fenian organisations... The aim of the dynamiters was to force the British government to withdraw from Ireland and to allow a free and separate nation to develop... also discusses the police response to the campaign, which led to the creation of both the Secret Service and the Scotland Yard Special Branch - draws upon Home Office documents hitherto unavailable under the Official Secrets Act." - from dust jacket. Appears unread. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear to dust jacket with the exception of some minor peeling at top of spine. Nice copy. Book
8vo., First Edition; olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the armorial bookplate of Fanshawe of Richmond on front paste-down.
Features: On Wildlife - messages for a New Millennium; Death of a Comet - The discovery and Demise of Shoemaker-Levy 9; A Bridge to the Stars - Tethered Satellites in Space; Strange New Worlds - The Quest for Extra-Solar Planets; A View from Space - NASA's new generation of Satellites. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Fotografia originale color seppia, mm. 105x155, applicata su cartoncino. Al retro applicata etichetta editoriale del fotografo con le caratteristiche tecniche del ponte (lunghezza, larghezza ecc.). Il Forth Bridge è un ponte ferroviario a sbalzo sul Firth of Forth sulla costa orientale della Scozia 14 km a ovest di Edimburgo.
186p. Paper beginning to brown. Permabook paperback. 21st printing. Nice copy. GAMES BOX 1
95 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Oxford University Expedition to Sarawak, 1932; The Japanese South Polar Expedition of 1911-1912; The Administration of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; A Roman Bridge in the Fens; Geodesy and Geophysics at Lisbon; The Empty Quarter of Arabia; Air Survey by Multiple Lens Cameras. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements, otherwise unmarked with average wear. One-inch chip hanging from backstrip. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
8vo., Ninth Impression; green cloth, gilt back, rose top, covers moderately faded (but all gilt bright and legible), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1934. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, page edges tanning slightly; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 782.
Book shows fading to spine with a small tear at top. Creaseless 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. 49 pages with many b&w photos. Chapters include: Lechlade to Oxford, Oxford to Wallingford, Wallingford to Reading, Reading to Maindenhead, Maidenhead to Kinston; with subchapters of all places in between.
Pages 1-58. Black and white photos. Features: National convention of American Legion; Immigration; Stage Coach and Tavern Days; Our Winter Carnivals; An Answer to Our Critics; An anthology of one poem poets; Senator Moses' Three favorite stories; New Hampshire state Grange; Should the Governor's Council be abolished?; New Hampshire Private Schools - with photos of their principals; The Phillips Exeter Academy; Tilton School; New Hampton Literary Institution; Holderness School; Five Foremost Leaders in N.H.; Alcoholic Bi-Focalism; First Candidates for Governor's Council - with photos of Samuel A. Lovejoy and Jesse M. Barton; The Old Toll Bridge (poem); New Hampshire Necrology; and more. Above-average wear to front cover which bears a bit of pencil writing to top edge, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. 180 pages. 9"w x 12"h. Exhibition catalog for show at The Brooklyn Museum. Many photographs. Fold-out illustrations.
Includes final portion of the chapter "The Triumph of the Army of Mesopotamia", which includes many interesting photos. Centerfold displays four photos of the British on the Tigris, at Kirkuk, and near Narin Kupri Bridge. Also contains first portion of chapter CCXCIX - The Rumanian Blunder - First Full Account of the Worst Error of the War, with photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
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.
256 pages including index. Black and white photographic plates. A compelling story of Germany, told through the lives of the people who lived in a once-elegant, now dilapidated villa near Berlin. Spot of soiling to fore-edge. Bit of wrinkling to top of front panel of dust jacket. Book
Pages: 205-244. Features: Cadets from the ketch 'Moyana' parade through the streets; Wonderful one-page aerial photo of troops and equipment of the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade on board the aircraft carrier 'Theseus' leaving Portsmouth for the Mediterranean to deal with the seizure of the Suez Canal; The Suez Canal - scenes of the nationalisation decree being put into force; Mr Dulles in London to deal with the Suez crisis; Beautiful colour ad for Passing Clouds cigarettes features gloves and grey top hat; P & O photo ad features M.J. Murphy, Chief Radio Officer aboard the P & O ship 'Strathnaver'; Rebuilding the bridge Ponte Della Pietra, in Verona, Italy; Important Rubens sketch discovered in English country house of Mrs. Humphrey Brand; J.C. Laker's triumphant ten wickets; The Canadian Oilfields - a possible alternative to those of the Middle East in the future; Two page illustration of the distribution of the world's oil wells and refineries shown on a map; The Lebanon-Iraq Petroleum Co. Dispute - piping oil from Iraq to the Mediterranean - photos and text; Centerfold illustration of the rescue of the crew of the 'Moyana' by the steamer 'Clan MacLean'; Two-page graphic illustrates ever-growing transatlantic air traffic; Eleven photos of Eskimo soapstone carving; Photos of thirteen newsmaking personalities of the week including the Danish Royal Family, Mr. T. Bourdillon, Mr. R. Viney; Princess Christina of Hesse; General Valluy; Maiden flight of the Bristol Brittania 301 airliner; Photos of the Tower of London's Ravens; Earthquake damage in Burma; Protest in Seoul; Wedding of the Sultan of Kedah's son and the Sultan of Selangor's daughter; The R.S.P.C.A. hostel at London Airport; Nice colour ad for Senior Service cigarettes on back cover features sailors crossing the Equator for the first time; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages: 37-76. Features: Nice one-page Daimler Regency ad; Cover photo of the 'World Peace' which struck the El Ferdan swing bridge and blocked the Suez Canal; Professor Edgar Douglas Adrian; Mau Mau Terrorism in Kenya - home of Mrs. Anne Carnelley is burned; Fastest Man on Earth - photo of J.P. Stapp being strapped into rocket sled at Alamorgordo; Danish freighter 'Lexa Maersk' burns in Singapore; France approves German rearmament; Photos of 17 personalities of the week include Viscount Hambleden and his fiancee Donna Maria Carmela Attolico de Adelfia, Colonel Jose Antonio Remon of Panama, Roger G. Bannister, Captain Sir Robert Irving, and record glider Philip Wills; Nice one-page photo portrait of Admiral William Morrow Fechteler, U.S.N.; Two pages of interesting photos of life in Baghdad/Iraq; Two-pages of illustrations present the decline and fall of the Battleship - silhouettes of the world's capital ships, which have decreased in numbers and importance ever since the Battle of Jutland in 1916; Christmas Day Crash at Prestwick - wrecked B.O.A.C. Stratocruiser; Demolishing the London Zoo's Monkey Hill; Wonderful centerfold illustration of the view looking north over Central Park in Manhattan from the Observation Tower of the R.C.A. Building; Two pages of photos from Britain's first national Boat Show; Photos of 16 people who received awards, including Sir Arnold Gridley who was created a Baron; Sultan of Zanzibar opens new power station; King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia visits King Phumiphol Aduldej of Siam; Two wonderful photos of London bidding a gay welcome to 1955 - scenes at the Chelsea Arts Ball, and in Piccadilly Circus; Photo of mink farm in Cary, Illinois where 50,000 mink are being raised; Photo of large wind generator at St. Albans which may supply up to 100 kW; Article on the Mangrove. Average wear. Unmarked. Short openings along coverfold. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 197-224 plus advertorial covers. Features: Cover portrait of General The Hon. Sir Harold Alexander; Eight photos of Churchill's North African commanders - Sir Henry Harwood, Sir H. Maitland Wilson, Air Vice-Marshal Coningham, Leiut.-General K. Anderson, Dwight Eisenhower, Sir A. Cunningham, Sir Harold Alexander, and Sir A.W. Tedder; Two pages of photos of the final attack on Tripoli and Churchill's visit after the fall; One-page map illustrates twelve weeks of Russian reconquest of enemy-occupied territory; Photos of personalities of the week inlcude Major-General H. Willans, General Leclerc with General Montgomery, W.G. Holmes, Lord Nuffield, crew members of Flight Sergeant R.H. Middleton, V.C., American women war correspondents in London, Bruce Kingsbury, V.C., Captain H. Mulzac - first negro commander of a U.S. ship, on the bridge of liberty ship "Booker T. Washington", Col.-Gen. Rokossovsky, and M. Kalinin; Five photos of Soviet airmen preparing for raid on Berlin; Photo-illustrated book review of "They Were Expendable", by W.L. White; Photos of Rostov recaptured and Kharkov enveloped by fighting; Photo of Goering taking salute at Air Ministry on January 30; Searching the bombed remains of a British restaurant; Photos of Churchill and troops he inspected in Tripoli; Sensational centrefold photo of General Montgomery explaining his plans to staff and senior commanders at an open-air conference; Amazing two-page eleven-photo spread of warships Hitler has lost; Nine photos of scenes on Guadalcanal, including captured Japanese booty; Nine photos of Malta's submarine base; The Apparel of a Sumerian woman of about 2800 B.C.; Four photos of young King Feisal of Iraq with his personal model General Grant tank; One-page cutaway illustration of the Messerschmitt Me. 210 A1; Back page colour ad by Dunlop illustrates how to recognize rank in the United States Army; nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this excellent WWII issue. Book
Pages 129-168. Features: Cover photo of the Queen (and Margaret) at Royal Ascot with her trainer, Noel Murless after Jardiniere had won the King George V. stakes for Her Majesty; More Royal photos at the Royal Ascot; Excellent two-page photo of opening of the Four-Power conference at the Palais Des Nations, Geneva; Photos from Morocco in the wake of terrorism and rioting; Photos of tank which erects its own bridge, the M-48; Six photos of the site of the Geneva conference; Four fascinating pages of photos of shopping/luxury/theatre scenes in Soviet Russia; Photo of carnage after lightning strike at the Royal Ascot horse race; Photo of crowd outside the execution place of Mrs. Ruth Ellis, Holloway Prison; Photo of huge Brussels crowd protesting proposed school reforms; Centrefold photo of rescue workers at work at Royal Ascot after lightning strike; Page of photos of clearing London's underground sewers; Photos of personalities of the week include J.E. Coulson, Gerald Nabarro, Sister Ella Jorden, Mrs. Phyllis Sispera, Peter Wilkinson, the winning South African cricket team, Sir Robert Black in Singapore, Sir Linton Andrews, Lord Cooper, Sir Gordon Radley, Sir John Woodall, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, L.R. Fenwick, and Prince Bernhard with his three eldest daughters; Photos of Stirling Moss winning auto race at Aintree; Photo of Donald Campbell's speedboat 'Bluebird' streaking across Lake Ullswater; Photo of Colonel Nasser surrounded by Egyptian crowd; Two photos of Helicopter which smashed into side of New York Port Authority building; nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 725-756. Features: Cover photo-portrait of FDR; Photo of Admiral Sir John Cronyn Tovey being piped on board H.M.S. "Prince of Wales"; One-page photo of coastal command station armourers getting ready to bomb up; Eight photos of the vigils of the coastal command - bomb preparation, photo-processing, anti-aircraft stations, operations room and telegraphy section; Two pages of explanatory illustrations show how aircraft carriers, fighter and reconnaissance planes have revolutionised naval warfare and influenced naval architecture; Photos of recen Nazi vandalism - damage to Gray's Inn, the wrecked Canterbury Music Hall, Serjeants Inn, Queen Victoria St., and Dublin; Two pages with fifteen photos of bomb damage to the destroyed Church of the Knights Templar; The Fleet and its Air Arm (article); Air photo of Mannheim-on-the-Rhine shows destroyed western span of Autobahn bridge; Dramatic two-page illustration of "Catalina" under heavy fire as it spots the Bismarck in a heavy sea; Two-page illustration of the last of the "Bismarck", shelled, bombed and on fire as the Nazi mammoth is torpedoed by H.M.S. "Dorsetshire"; Thre photos of the last of the "Bismarck", including dozens of heads of bobbing survivors floating in the sea; Scene in "Petticoat Lane" where, on June 1st, rationing of clothing, cloth and footwear came into force; Photo of Averill Harriman welcoming the first of four million eggs to Britain from the U.S.; Photo of some of the few "Bismarck" survivors being landed at a British port; Photo of H.M.S. "York" which was lost; Photos of personalities of the week include the pilot of the "Catalina" which discovered the fleeing "Bismarck", Lieut. B. Stubbs, Dr. Kurt Heinrich Reith, Max Schmeling, King Victor Emanuel of Italy, Sir Hugh Walpole, Prajadhipok - Prince of Sukhodaya, Lord Cadman, and Admiral Boehm; Photos of Ilkley, which won War Weapons Week; Photos of Haile Selassie's Return to Addis Adaba; Illustratins of bombed Wren Churches - Christ's, St. Mildred's, St. Andrew's, St. James's, Piccadilly, and St. Anne; Interesting one-page Guiness ad entitled "Guiness at Waterloo - and Guinness today". Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 281-308. Features: Great cover photo of Patton, Eisenhower, Hodges and Bradley standing side-by-side in uniform; Nice full-page colour Guiness ad illustrated by H.M. Bateman inside advertising front cover shows men unloading boat; Captured Cologne - photos of devastation near the Cathedral; Twelve photos of scenes in Cologne after its fall to the American First Army, under General Hodges; Photo of General Crerar assisting Churchill into captured German caravan now used for guests at First Canadian Army Tactical H.Q.; Three photos of the latest German Tiger Tank which fires a 14.5" shell; Photos inside and outside the Cologne Cathedral show it largely unharmed; Two pages of photos of Remagen and its now-famous bridge - the first Rhine crossing - with U.S. First Army troops advancing across it; Article 'Double Offensive Against Germany' includes map and photo of Leonard T. Gerow; One-page map of the Western Front indicates the terrain and the various commands under Eisenhower; Photos of destruction in Germany, including Bonn University, a street in Xanten, the (formerly) beautiful old gate of Xanten, and the south bridge over the Moselle at Trier; Six photos of new Rocket Barrage and its ammunition - a devastating British infantry and tank weapon; Centrefold illustration of General Crerar's surprise night assault which smashed the important fortress town of Goch; Photos with the Red Army as it drives toward Berlin; Great page of eight photos of Heroines of the U.S.S.R. - combatant members of the Red Air Force, including Major Yevdokia Bershanskaya, Leiut. Natalia Meklina, Major Yevdokia Mikulina,Irina Sebrova, Lieut. Rufina Gasheva and Flight Commander Yevgenia Zhigulenko; Photos of personalities of the week include Carl Timmerman, W.D. Morgan, Lance-Corporal Henry Harden, V.C., Field-Marshal Alexander with Marshal Tito in Belgrade, F.A.B. Fasson, Dr. Janet Vaughan, Peter Lawless, Viscount Dawson of Penn, and Lieut.-General Mario Roatta in the Rome High Court of Justice (his subsequent escape caused rioting); Naval photos including H.M.S. "Implacable," Admiral Somerville boarding the battleship H.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth," German U-Boat crewmembers floating after their vessel was sunk by the Canadian corvette "St. Thomas," and a gaping hole in a British submarine which, remarkably, survived; Photos and illustrations of Mandalay and its relief; Six interesting photos of camouflaged pill-boxes in Britain; Nice colour Johnnie Walker ad on back cover shows shipbuilders at work; nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Coverfold taped. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 505-532. Features: Cover photo portrait of Anthony Eden; Three pages of illustrations of life aboard H.M.S. "Indomitable"; Book review of "Head-Hunting in the Solomon Islands" by Caroline Mytinger; Photos of the Fifth and Eighth Armies advancing in Italy; Two pages of photos illustrate Allied crossings of the Volturno by bridge and water in Italy; Two pages of photos of troops in action in the Volturno River battle and a service for three war correspondents killed in action on September 28; Article on our far eastern theatre of the war; Photos of war in the far east - bombing Marcus Island, wrecked landscape at Lae, New Guinea, the destroyed Japanese base at Salamaua, Hansa Bay shipping being attacked, and parachute bombs being dropped on a Japanese anti-aircraft unit in the Wewak area of New Guinea; Two-page illustration of E-Boats attacking a North Sea convoy being routed; One-page map shows Russia's mighty victories against Germany; Eight photos illustrate the great summer Soviet offensive continuing apace; Aerial photo of night attack on Hanover, plus daylight photo of the resulting destruction; Early photo of the Avro York; Photos and details of U.S. and Canadian awards and medals; Six photos of the Fifth Army rehearsing how to cross the Volturno; Three impressive photos of Britain's anti-aircraft guns on parade; Page of illustrations explain the new British all-steel fireproof lifeboat designed for oil tankers; Photos of personalities of the week include Sayid Daourd Al Haidari, L.V.L. Whateley, The Marquis and Marchioness of Linlithgow, Louis Mountbatten in China, General Konev, General Feodor Tolbukhin, Sir Henry Strakosch, Professor Max Reinhardt, Dr. F.J. Poynton, Sir Aurel Stein, Lt. Mark Bonham-Carter, Major T.P. Butler, Leiut. J.M. Marshall, and Lt.-Com. J. Cortland-Simpson; Page of photos of the funeral of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound; Photos of artifacts discovered at Point Hope, Alaska; Seven photos of joyous repatriated POWs arriving in Leith aboard three ships; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Spine taped. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 807-856. Features: Cover illustration of Admiral Lord Nelson drawn by Schmidt at Dresden in 1800; Photos of Queen at Remembrance Day ceremonies; Two photos of South Vietnam declaring itself a republic, and proclaiming M. Ngo Dinh Diem Prime Minister; Five photos in the wake of the Sabha Battle in which Israeli troops killed 50 Egyptians; Photo of Silver Jubilee celebrations in Ethiopia; The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visit the Midlands; Airplane recovered from Lake Atter fails to contain Hitler's "Hoard"; Two pages of illustrations of manned rockets and space-stations - ways and means of space exploration following the launching of earth's first artificial satellite; Photos of impressive new Florida bridges linking Pinellas and Manatee counties, and the Sunshine Skyway; Photos of the Neath River Bridge - the largest bridge built in Britain since the war; Photos of personalities of the week include W. Whiteley, Maurice Utrillo, Dr. Bertram Schofield, A.J. Collins, Eric Turner, Mr. Ben-Gurion, Mr. Sharett, Mr. Nutting, Mme. Jacqueline Auriol, Sir R. Mansergh, Sir Ronald Storrs, J. Murray Watson, I.E.S. Edwards, R.D. Barnett, Sir Basil Henriques, and table tennis champs Mrs. R. Cornett and Miss D. Rowe; Photo of Italian solar energy equipment on display in Arizona; Lovely colour-photo ad for Crawford Tartan Shortbread inside back cover; Nice colour ad for Martell brandy on back cover features "Mr. Brandyman". First page of ads missing; and more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features/Photos: in colour - the new Forth Road bridge, and other subjects; Queen Mary seamen and crew strike; The first U.N. troops in Katanga - a peaceful entry; The Royal visit to Orkney and Shetland Islands - a British monarch's first visit to the Shetlands for 700 years; teaching the Australian aboriginals to live in a modern world; American military inventions - up-to-date equipment in the United States Army; Karabel in Lycia; An American space triumph - the 13th Discoverer satellite; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book