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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
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
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
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
603-698 p. Magazine Good condition
519-598 p. Magazine Very good condition
163 pages. Copyright date 1988. Former owner's rubber stamp upon front flyleaf. Moderate wear. Light soiling. Combining twelve pieces developed since the mid-Seventies, this volume challenges feminist cultural experience and imagination. Brossard's reflections on writing and the emergence and survival of lesbian identity are hard-hitting and incisive. "...I too have read and loved these texts. Their extraordinary texture and the zany peregrinations of the words have brought me pleasure, insight and joy; they offered me warm complicity." - Louise H. Forsyth, Professor, University of Western Ontario. Book
New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Roy. 8vo. In Turkish. Many b/w ills. 159 p. Signatures, seals, tugras, business cards of famous Turkish and Ottoman peoples, Sultans, pashas, civils, soldiers etc. from a special collection. A perfect reference book. Tamga, pençe, tugra, imza.
301 pages including index. Author's long-awaited first book is all about the realities of flying into and out of an airport, the practical matters of landing and taking off safely and skillfully, every time. "A master aviator writes down all he knows about takeoffs and landings. The result is a goldmine." - from foreward. Very clean and unmarked but for discard stamp upon front endpaper (not a former library book). Very light wear. Dust jacket price-clipped else in nice shape with light to moderate wear and a few small tears under 0.5". Nice copy. Book
93 pages. Provides the K-3 teacher with practical strategies and lesson plans for introducing young students to the fun and rigors of skillful thinking. Answers key questions such as: How do I set the climate for a thinking classroom? what are the thinking skills embedded in my curriculum?; How do I teach the explicit skills as thinking?; How do I lead children to think about their thinking?. Includes 38 lesson plans. Prior owner's name, rubber stamp and sticker scar to top corner of title page else unmarked. Half-inch tear to top of front cover. Moderate wear. Book
282 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with detailed diagrams. Sections include: tool sets; ground flat stock; steel rules; transits and levelling instruments; combination squares and sets; vernier calipers and height gauges; micrometer calipers; indicators "last word"; indicators - dial and test; sets of automotove tools; gauges - screwpitch & thickness; calipers - dividers; gauges - drill and wire; levels; hacksaw frames and blades; reference tables. Faint ink stamp on front cover suggests this copy formerly belonged to The Western Iron Stores Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Above-average external wear and soiling, befitting a copy used extensively in a busy shop environment. Moderate soiling to unmarked contents. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent American tool reference. Book
20 pages. Features: How They Keep Horse Racing Honest - Science Invades the Sport - article with photos; Why Protestants Mourn Pope John; Zenith TV ad; The Fort Henry Guards - article with colour photos; Birth of a Stamp - Ernst Roch and Canada's new Five Cent Stamp featuring the Queen - article and great photos; Boy Scout Shadow Compass. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
New Turkish Paperback. 4to. (29 x 21 cm). In Turkish with English title. 52 p., fully color and b/w ills. Stamps of the world: Turkish, European and worldwide lots and collections. [Auction catalogue].
32 pages. Features: Behold South Africa's Natural Wonders; World Conference Against Racism - Commemorative; The Anglo-Boer/South Africa War - Remembering; Celebrate Christmas 2001; Enjoy Music in South Africa. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Chris van Rooyen Profile; Self-adhesive stamps - new era in SA philately; What makes a stamp collection valuable?; Royal Tours and the Post Office; and more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
40 pages. Features: ILSAPEX 98; Annamart Dednam's winning design; Whales Issue; Whales of the Southern Oceans; Chinese Mineworkers; The Romance of Postal Stationery; Artist Joan van Gogh; Royal Tour of Southern Africa - 1947; and more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
373 pages including index. An extraordinary collection of letters by the writer Gore Vidal once called "one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation continues to grow long after her death." Contents clean and unmarked. Discard stamp upon top edge of text. Slight lean to spine. Very light wear overall. Nice copy. Book
786p., illus. Hardcover Good condition, front cover creased
Features: photo of interesting "new ears" for anti-aircraft gunners; a 4000 year food experiment - nutritional equilibrium in over-populated China; Editorials - spend for prosperity - Daniel Guggenheim - International affairs; Instrument flying to combat fog; Elevated highway to speed traffic in New York; X-ray fingers feel out the atomic structure of matter; A fact-finding laboratory; Archeology enters the stamp world; What is a quantum?; Feeding the crew of a battleship; More about pluto - further observations confirm its right to rank as a planet; Oil from below the ocean floor - oil derrick and pier are constructed in perilous waters; Factory wastes turned to profits; Scattered light and the Raman effect; An atom of Lutecium - its atomic structure is plotted for the first time; A murder, and the story the pistols told; When crude oil crosses the seas; Traveling home for phone linemen - a railroad train refitted as living, eating ,recreation quarters; Aviation in 1930, a summary. Back cover features colour advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes. An attractive woman is reclined beneath the caption "20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating." Cord front wheel drive automobile advertisement inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Miro, Miro On the Wall; Making the Most of Magnets; Life in the Rubber Zone; Cards for Kids; Art and Editorializing; Transfer-stamping on fabric; Zany Zig-Zag Card; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Snowy, Starry Nights; Hand-Carved Holidays - the personal touch through eraser carving; A Cut Above the Rest - Jesse Cornwell turns cards into collages; Create colorful gift bags and tags; Phlox Icona; Putting Your Stamp on Recipes; How to host a mail art exhibit; Tri-fold Universe - a view from the window; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
174 pages. Features: The Pleasures of Paper - a new column; Surrealistic Stamping - the rubber path to inner reality; Shades of Gray - accenting your color work; Color My World - Impi Sawchuk's elegant scenery; Solar Flares; Rubber Magnolias - The Lily Gilders stamp club; Green Thumbs Galore - Marg Hjelmstad's pop-up card for Mother's Day; Sea of Rubber - Part II; Stamp Stores Around the World; Stamp on Glass for animated elegance; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
184 pages. Features: The Card Shoppe - Intermediate Stamping Fun; Mary Engelbreit, Since 1952 - the life and art of the Cherry Queen; Building a Foundation - from architecture to stamp design; Sea of Rubber - Anchors, away!; A Steelworker takes to Stamping; Miranda Bos finds inspiration in days gone by; The Mike Meador Story; The Blossoming of Cindy Sarver; Old MacDonald Had a Stamp - Part III; Stamping with Parchment Paper; and more. Average wear. Few bits of high-lighting. A sound copy. Magazine
