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56 pages. Features and Articles: Dean Acheson - the Man from Middletown; Gerard Graham Dennis - Canadian criminal; Charlie Monak of Detroit becomes a top man in a Pyramid Friendship Club - the fad that is infecting the nation; Anna Louise Strong; Exposing 14 million people in Russian slave labour camps; Shortage of women in Germany; "Imported Anti-Semetism - Furor over Dickens' Oliver Twist movie keeps it from U.S. screens; Israel chooses Jerusalem for the opening ceremony of its newly elected Constituent Assembly - Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Zionism's elder statesman, is President; Canada's Baby Bonus; George Drew - new leader of the Progressive Conservatives in Canada; McGill students vote a black girl, Beryl Dickinson-Dash, as their Winter Carnival Queen; Using airplanes to evacuate suffering Eskimos from stormy Somerset Island; Latin American Development; Boxer dog Zazarac Brandy wins dog shows; Leon Birkhead claims 'The Churchman' and its editor Rev. Guy Emery Shipler are involved with at least 25 'Communist front or Communist organizations; Military desire for guided missiles - uninhabited aircraft; Great black and white photo ad for Labatt's; Harvey O. Brooks - writer of the song A Little Bird Told Me; English pianist 'Solomon' comes to Carnegie Hall; Conductor Willem Mengelberg; A.Y.D. - American Youth for Democracy - a renamed version of the Y.C.L. (Young Communist League); 3,610 Chinese university students in the U.S. struggle to pay their bills after the war in their homeland; the FCC takes over a 160-metre amateur band for the use of loran - U.S. Ham Radio operators will end up with more elbow room; Tabloid newspapers; New Hampshire's Senator Charles R. Tobey has guns for Textron President Royal Little after the company wives out 3,500 jobs in Nashua, N.H.; Photo of Duo's 'Flagship' trailer which features a 'flying bridge' at the back; Colour photo ad for John McHale shoes inside back cover. This Canadian edition contains editorial content identical with the U.S. edition except for added Canadian news. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
in-16 (pocket), broché, couv. Bel exemplaire. [LP-6] Un livre accessible à tous, même aux enfants.
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Engineers I Have Known , by Thomas O. Acree; Famous Locomotives - 25 - Two incredible photos of the Beyer-Garratt 6000 - locomotive hallmark of the British Empire; American Locomitive Company (Alco) - We're not a foundry any more! - impressive article with photos; Photo Section; When Steam Ruled the Monon; A Mikado & Friends - super photo of loco and crew atop bridge near Clear Creek, In; The Piedmont & Northern Story - 2; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; In Search of Steam - 3 - The Dominion Atlantic Railway; Valhalla of the Iron Horse - Baltimore & Ohio's Transportation Museum - article with photos; Great Photo Section - Santa Margarita Hill; When Steam Ruled the Clinchfield Railroad - photo section; Catenary over the Carolinas - The Piedmont & Northern Story - 1; Short Line Scrapbook - amazing photos and article of the old Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railroad - incredible photo of loco atop the Cowlitz River Bridge -200' above the river!; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Clyde Carley tells about The Train Master - 'Dip' Dipprey - nice illustrated article; Steam in Mississippi - The Mississippian Railway - substantial article with photos; Pacific Great Eastern's (PGE's) RDC's - includes photo of 5 cars near Squamish, BC and map of RDC's on mainland British Columbia; Fantastic centerfold photo of the black smoke belching Louisville & Nashville M-1 2-8-4 1962 crossing the Red River Bridge at Stearns, Kentucky; Nice photo section; Railroad News Photos; New England in February - a Tripmaster feature; and more. Faint date stamp to front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad news photos; Steam news photos; The Rathole Division is no more - super two-page photo of a train at mid-span of the New River Bridge plus photos of the Keno Road Cut, the Grassy Gap Cut, and more; Our GM Scrapbook - 2 - 9900 to 9908 the Custom Years - nicely illustrated article; Super 2-page photo of a 0-8-8-0 in the shops at Colonie, N.Y. in 1927; Switchbacks and Shays - passengers are scaling 10 percent grades iup West Virginia's Bald Knob - great article and photos; American Railway Progress Exposition Track Exhibit in Chicago - article and photos; Photos of diesels bucking snow in New England; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: John W. Barriger III, 1899-1976; Derailment and accident photos; Steam's last chance - Pennsylvania Railroad gambles - and loses - on the steam-powered T1-class for passenger power after World War II; "Fireboy, know something? We don't fit through that bridge"; How to build a DL109 - great photos; Rio Grande's Monarch Branch Revisited - an exercise in the use of the 26-C automatic brake valve, F-3 retainers, and COBRA brake shoes; Colur centerfold of the Katy Pacific 401 (Lima 1920) in 1945; The Iris G, et al - much of Canadian Pacific's history has been written upon the water, perhaps most poignantly by this tug, its train-on-a-barge, and their ancestors; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: All about Budd's new coast; Middleman of the Alphabet Route - Pittsburgh & West Virginia (P&WV) bankrupted its builder, turned to coal for a living, finally came into its own as a speed-conscious bridge road - latter day solvency stems in part from the travels of a very famous business car; A Virginia & Truckee Sampler; New York Central's Oldest Steam Engine - an Alco 1000-type diesel electric locomotive; nice photo section; Colour centerfold painting of Starrucca Viaduct; The Pioneer III - an 85 foot long car! - article with many photos/diagrams; Steam in Indian Summer - Concerning Henry Ford, a 4-6-0 built in 1900, small boys and bliss and ignorance; Railroad news photos; Nice black and white ad for Elector-Motive Division's (EMD's) Aerotrain; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Camelback bows out; The David and Goliath story of Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Hell Gate Bridge - across the East River in New York City; Photo Section; When Steam ruled the Delaware & Hudson; My 34 years on a short line - George Baggett; Lady with a Past - a Colorado 10 wheeler has out-lived the Mallets and 4-8-4s of our time; Why Carnivals are moving by rail; and more. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Super 16 illustrated article on Maine's biggest two-footer - The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes; The strangest piece of coal-carrying equipment on the U.S. rails today - Southern Railway No. 100; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photos of Washout in the West - Colorado's South Platte River rampaged in June; That All-American Look - an ALCO DH-643 diesel hydraulic; Strange Train for a GG1; The Accident that Couldn't Happen - on September 25, 1964 the Rock Island's lift bridge across the Des Plaines River at Joliet Ill was rendered inoperative by a broken pinion gear while the bridge was in a raised position - this led to a collission at 52 mph; Article - America's unremarked and reluctant but quite splendid innkeepers - the railroads; Nice colour photo EMD centerfold; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. Bottom five inches of cover fold open. A sound copy. Magazine
60 pages. Features: Illinois Central's Floating Bridge - great photos; Jersey Meadows - Railroad Workshop of the East - photos, map and good article; In the Land of Evangeline - a look at Nova Scotia's transportation system; Photo section; The last passenger run for the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railroad; Twilight of the Trolley - Columbus, Ohio's interurban network was dying - photos and article - the Columbus, Urbana & Western; The Presidents - B&O's Super Pacifics - great photos with article; Every Day is Wash Day - how streamliners are cleaned daily; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Why boys leave home; Cincinnati Union Terminal; The South Shore Line; Louisville and Nashville bought no larger engines than these 2 - 8 - 4s; New Haven's great Poughkeepsie Bridge; The two foot gauge Monson; 5th annual motive power survey; and more. Two small date stamps upon front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Locomotives - Data on Cotton Belt L-1, Southern Pacific P-13; The Man in the Tower; Baltimore Belt Line - tunnel route replaced time-consuming ferry transfer across Baltimore Harbor - is electrified in tunnels; Yosemite Valley Railroad - Gateway to Yosemite National Park; Pennsylvania Special - 3 miles in 85 seconds! - a speed record that stands today, 38 years after it was made; Helper Engines - used where mountains must be crossed; By Rail to Guatemala - U.S. and Mexican freight cars roll into Central America with the completion of the Suchiate Bridge; The Bear and the Semaphore - bear forces young signalman up a signal pole; Locomotives of the Wisconsin Central, including No. 96. Average wear and soiling. Small date stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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
<p>17 cm, in 8° piccolo, rilegatura coeva in mezza pelle, piatti marmorizzati, p. (6), xxvi, 176. Antiporta incisa su rame (giocatori di Wisth seduti al tavolo). Opera preceduta da un interessante trattato sulle origini del gioco e del suo nome. Qualche brunitura che non disturba il testo. Opera assai rara. ben conservato</p>
Features: The Cow Business and Joe Kirley; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Old Joe Bennett; The First Colorado Mountain Man - Jim Pursley; The Baking Soda Book - Luisa and Henry Benedict; Rice, Dice and Lichee Nuts - America was not the promised land for those who crossed the wrong ocean to get here - Chinese immigrants; Graveyard of Violence - the W.S. Ranch, just north of Alma, New Mexico; Idaho Volunteers and the Nez Perce - an uncovered report reveals how professional some local militia units could be; Licensed Murder - Captain William Byrnes; Deputy Marshal Joe Morgan of New Mexico; A Girl and Her Horse - Chief Plenty Coups invited young women to race, but they weren't supposed to win!; Battle of the Deschutes - sabotage prevailed in the railroaders' war for the key route to San Francisco - with fantastic photo of workers 'walking the plank' to get to work building a bridge 348 feet above the Crooked River Gorge!; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear as staples have almost torn free from covers, else a sound copy. Book
Features: Dave Walker - Long on Nerve - the Dave Walker Ranch in the east part of Poncha Park on Cottonwood Creek, Colorado; Roaming the Back Country with Hood River Blackie - Strange Animals - Bigfoot, Sasquatch; Clara Baasch lived next door to the infamous Vicente Silva; The Peculiarities of Sam Smith - An Old Man's Three Treasures - A. C. Lucas and his Chinatown discoveries; The 'Cutter' - his profession was devilment!; Addison P. Day - Rodeo Great; Cyclone Cave - Natural Bridge Park, Arkansas; J.K. Carper - Mountain Man; Towns Without Whistles in Oklahoma Territory; An Artist's Two Years Alone in the Desert - Frederick Melville DuMond lived in a cave to reproduce 'the West's insanity of color'; Cromwell Dixon's Fatal Ride - biplane pilot, Blossburg, Montana. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Mm 115x195 Collana "I Giochi" - Brossura editoriale, 242 pagine. Opera in condizioni di ottimo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE
In 16°, br. edit. ill., pp. 241,(3); coll. "I Giochi"; PRIMA ED., copia molto buona. (x053/d) (spedizione standard SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata-piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine)
Mm 115x195 Brossura editoriale di pp. 295, seconda edizione. Opera in buone condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY.
IN 8°, pp.724. COPERTINA EDITORIALE IN PIENA TELA RIGIDA CON TITOLO SU FONDO CELESTE. NEL LIBRO, SI PARLA DI COME VALUTARE LA MANO, LE REGOLE DELLA DICHIARAZIONE, IL GIOCO DELLA CARTA, ESPEDIENTI E COLPI SEGRETI DEI CAMPIONI.<BR>VOLUME RICCAMENTE ILLUSTRATO DA VARI ESEMPI DI DICHIARAZIONI, COMBINAZIONI, ECC.<BR>TRADUZIONE A CURA DI VERA PALMER, CONSULENZA TECNICA DI PAOLO RIJOFF.<BR>OTTIMA CONSERVAZIONE.. ID, 4635
8° tela edit. pp. 724. "Un manuale famoso che dice proprio tutto sul bridge". Lieve ingiall. della carta ma buon esempl.
1 Vol. In-8 t. editoriale pag. 724 PROG 18208 CATT_ATT 29
Stampa antica ed originale con testo al retro
In 8° gr., br. edit. ill., pp. 284,(4), con num. fot. b.n. n.t.; coll. "I Giochi"; ottimo es..