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The American Philatelist, vol. 60, no. 7, April 1947

519-598 p. Magazine Very good condition

The American Philatelist, vol. 60, no. 8, May 1947

603-698 p. Magazine Good condition

The Arab Radicals

171 pages including notes and index. Paints an arresting portrait of the radical Arab states and movements - including their institutions, motives, ideologies, activities, and policies. Explains more than just the phenomenon of radicalism in the Arab world; also illuminates the complex nature of Arab politics in general. Confronts the underlying question of what constitutes radicalism, and offers insight into the causes of terrorism and the motives behind states or groups that resort to terrorist tactics. Unmarked but for small ink stamp atop half-title page. Light wear. Solid copy. Book

The Archivist Magazine, March (Mar.) - April (Apr.) 1989, Vol. 16, No. 2 - Newfoundland and Labrador

44 pages. Bilingual English/ French. Many black and white photos. Features: The path to confederation; The Glover album; Naomi Jackson Grove papers; Establishing the Newfoundland Experimental Station, 1946-1950; New Province, New Park; "Earl Grey, the Governor, and Confederation"; Canada's Newfoundland commenorative postage stamp of 1949; New Canadian postal archives; How the war altered Newfoundland's relations with Canada, the US and Britain; Newfoundland as recorded by women; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book

The Book of Highs : 250 Ways to Alter Consciousness Without Drugs

250 pages plus bibliography and index. A whole consciousness catalog - 250 ways to alter your consciousness without drugs. Methods, techniques, and ways involve yourself, help from others, devices and machines. Decorative rubber stamp and faint erasure upon title page else unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Book

The Boy's Own Paper, March, 1934, Vol. LVI

Pages 449-512. Features: In Peril Among the Riffs - How Sir Malcolm Campbell and Flight-Lieut. Don nearly lost their lives in North Africa - article with photos; With the Seal Hunters - photo-illustrated article on the heroic and arduous labours of the gallant fishermen for seals amongst the ice-floes of the coast of Labrador; Famous Figures in Football - G. (Geoffrey) N. Foster and Dr. R. Cove-Smith - article with photo; Sixty Years of Soccer - article with photos of William McCracken, Fanny Walden, G.O. Smith, Victor Watson, and Clifford Bastin; The Secret of Druid's Cross (mystery story); Why Keep a Log Book?; Field Hockey Tactics - article with photos; Making Morris Motors - photo-illustrated article on the manufacture of Morris cars; The Poacher's Wirelss (fiction); The Reversed Watermark (fiction); The Hooghly River - the World's Worst (article); The Story of Stamp Collecting. No table of contents. Covers loose but present. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine

THE BRAND COLLECTION, PART 10 - THE FINAL PORTION. CLASSICAL AND MODERN COINS AND MEDALS. 24/10/1985. (384 grams)

The Canadian Home Hobby-Craft (HobbyCraft) Magazine, August 1949, Vol. 4, No. 1 - National Hobby Exhibition Issue

66 pages. Features: Design for leather; Junior craftsman project; Woodcarving caricaturist - Alfred Perry of Cedar Grove, Ontario - article with photos; Painting in oils is easy; Felt Spectacle case; Food casting; The Sculptured Shillalagh; Stamp collecting; Hobby cures a soldier - Private Jerome Biegel of the U.S. Army carves matches; How to Make Crepe-Paper Flowers (part 2); Home Weaving Service; Message from the Hon. Paul Martin; 1949 National Hobby Exhibition; List of hobby exhibitors; Feature exhibits, Phil. S. Quelch's operating miniature sawmill; Profitable little animals; Mosaic pictures from human hair; Neville C. Seymour and his silk strand etchings; The Narcissus; Garden Glimpses; Fine Wood Inlay; Model Railroads; Shell Craft; Spiral Coil Applique; Camera Kinks; Your Photography; Weaving with Reeds; A Hall Lantern; Birch Bark Art; Hobby-Craft Patterns; Model Plane Contest; What's New; and more. Interesting full-page ad for Canadian government annuities shows regretful elder woman holding broom outside boarding house. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this very uncommon vintage Canadian hobby publication. Book

The Canadian Philatelist - Volume 28, No. 5, Whole No. 162, Sept. - Oct., 1977

72 pages. Features: The De Pinedo Inheritance - Fortune or Fraud? - a reply; Canadian Painters in Philately - Part 2 of 2; "Corrected" airmail special delivery stamp - first day of use; Unique from the Yukon - publicity cover for the Yukon Exposition of 1912; Postmarked Ottawa; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy. Book

The Canadian Philatelist - Volume 41, No. 4, Whole No. 239, July-August, 1990: Henry Kelsey and Anthony Henday

87 pages. Features: Orapex '90 - Ottawa's Second National Stamp Show and Bourse; Netherlands - Indies - In Quest of Correct Franking; Prairie Pathfinders - Henry Kelsey and Anthony Henday; Postmarked Ottawa; George Mackinley Geldert, M.C. 1886-1967; Decoys, Spears and Skates; The R.P.S.C. Junior Stamp Collector; Vignettes of early British North American Postal History - Part XIII - The Wilderness Route from Quebec to Halifax; Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book

The Canadian Philatelist - Volume 41, No. 6, Whole No. 241, November-December, 1990

Features: Editorial Consultant's Notes; The R.P.S.C. Junior Stamp Collector; A Look into Naturopathy - the Complimentary Way; The 1815 Battle of Waterloo; Vignettes of Early British North American Postal History; Postmarked Ottawa; Varia - Batavius; Fellow of the Royal Society - Henry D. Hicks, C.C., Q.C.; Precancelled Admirals Die 1 and Die 2 on the 1 cent Yellow and 3 cent Carmine. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book

The Cat Stretches... We Should Too! - Second Edition

234 pages including index. Brings together the author's over 30 years of experience in all aspects of accident prevention to help the reader better recognize and understand unacceptable risks thereby permitting the development of improved hazard recognition, its evaluation and control including avoidance where appropriate. "Such understanding should help us to better appreciate all things to which we are exposed in our lifetime, thereby improving its quality and hopefully a longer time to enjoy it." - from Foreward. Author is a specialist in Human Factors with qualifications in both Civil and Industrial Engineering. Chapters include: the nature of man; the mechanical man; the emotional man; the composite man; problems of communication; inanimate material; structures; animal failure; learning from history; Dynacopics; manual activities; tools and electricity; vehicles manually propelled; vehicles machine powered; chemicals; conclusion. Book store rubber stamp at foot of title page else unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Nice copy. Book

The Cihangir Collection (Part III): Postal cancellations and seals of the Ottoman Empire. Stamp Auction 124. 25-26 October, 2000.

Near Fine English Original wrappers. 4to. (26,5 x 20,5 cm). In English. [10], xxi, [1], 125, [1], 74 p., color and b/w plates. This auction catalogue consisting of 1646 lots (between 5000-6646) of the whole Cihangir Collection's third and the last part including the postal cancellations and rare seals of the Imperial Ottoman; fine philatelic material like stamps, envelopes, seals. This is one of the best references of the subject. "The Cihangir Collection part III is the most comprehensive collection of its kind, ever formed and offered at a public auction. Represented are all the areas of the lost territories - Europe, Asia and Africa as well as Turkey - mostly on covers and cards, and including many unrecorded seals and cancels. The selection also includes an extensive showing of Quarantine Station selas which are of particular interest to specialists of disinfected mail."

The Complete Guide to Stamp Collecting

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards with gilt magnifying glass, stamp tongs, and stamp decoration. 208 pages. Black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on heavy paperstock.

The CTR Anthology: Fifteen Plays from Canadian Theatre Review

683 pages. Brings together fifteen of the most significant plays published in Canadian Theatre Review between 1974 and 1991. Most have been out of print since their appearance in the journal. Includes lost classics such as Ten Lost Years and This is For You, Anna. Moderate wear. Average quantity of markings to contents. Rubber stamp upon half-title page. Solid copy in bright red covers. Book

The Curse of an Aching Heart; or Trapped in The Spider's Web!

116 pages. Here's a modern treatment of an old "ten-twen-thirt" meller drayma that will have the folds out front hissing, booing and applauding like mad and loving every minute of it. Bookseller's rubber stamp inside front cover else unmarked. Average wear. Book

The Economic Review: Complete in Twenty-Four (24) Volumes, 1891-1914

The complete works of this early British learned economic journal which was published quarterly between 1881 and 1914 for the Oxford University Branch of The Christian Social Union. Includes writings by many names familiar to the modern historian of economic thought including: W.J. Ashley; W.H. Beveridge; J. Bonar; A.L. Bowley; Edwin Cannan; S.J. Chapman; A.W. Flux; L.L. Price; J.C. Stamp; R.H. Tawney; Sidney Webb; Beatrice Webb. Usual library markings. Most volumes bound in three-quarter leather with raised bands. Many later volumes bound in black buckram. Buckram volumes in good condition although all volumes bear varying degrees of external dustiness due to the partial disintegration of the leather on the leather-bound volumes which has produced considerable residue. Some leather backstrips partially loose. Gilt lettering upon all backstrips bears varying degrees of wear. Bindings generally sound. Leather volumes bear heavy external wear. Aside from the external soiling/dust, a worthy working compilation of this rare and interesting journal. Total weight approximately 90 pounds. Book

The Explorer's Journal, March 1989

Features: First across the Kra; The Explorers Club in space; Tassili - the Sahara's secret; Exploring Spanish Galleons on the Pedro Shoals; My Career and Zaire - by Philip R. Dormitzer; Coronado's Chickens; The Explorers in London; The Antarctic Explorers Stamp Series; Anatomy of an Explorer, by John D. Bruno. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book

The Explorer's Journal, September 1988

Features: Which is the Highest Mountain in the World; The National Geographic Society Looks to the Future; Lowell Thomas and the Youth Activities Fund; What is Adventure?; In Search of Pharaoh's Ship; Long Vistas and Stone Arches; Our Arctic Heritage; Matthew henson, Polar Explorer; Quest for the Coelacanth; The Ethics of Exploration; The Polar Explorers Stamp Series. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book

The First Philatelist?

32 pages. Limited Edition. Author's signature inside front cover of this, number 4203 of the first printing. The story of the first stamp album and perhaps the only one now remaining, assembled by Samuel Lord Jr., first at the age of 15. He was born in 1823, entered the ministry in 1848, retired in 1889, and at the age of 70 went to California in 1893 where he passed away in 1912. Book

The foundations of philately; with an introduction by Cornelius W. Wickersham. Published in collaboration with the Philatelic Foundation

196 p. illus. 23 cm Hardcover Very good condition good

The Guinness Book of Stamps Facts & Feats

8vo, 225 pages, illustrated, jacket is price clipped. eng

The History and Development of Advertising

ix, [3], 642 pages. Index. Over three-hundred illustrations, including many wonderful black and white plates at back. "The culmination of many years of work in the gathering of material and weaving the story of one of the world's most potent instruments for the development of manufacture, trade and industry." - Foreword. Former library copy rebound in gray buckram with usual markings. No dust jacket. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this fascinating history. Book

THE HOFFER-BRANDENBURG SALE. FEATURING THE COINS OF HADRIAN AND COINS OF GERMANY. ALSO INCLUDING SHOOTING TALERS AND MEDALS AND A SPECIAL OFFERING OF GOLD JEWERLY AND OBJETS D'ART. ETC.. 12/12/1986-13/12/1986. (364 grams)