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Near VG pbk reprint. Pages browned. Front cover and front endpaper price clipped. Bookshop stamp on the front cover. (Secrets story library). 20891. eng
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and maps and diagrams in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on title. New Naturalist, 36. First published in 1958. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.
108 pages. Features: Nice color Chrysler ad inside front cover shows prosperous family and emphasizes imagination and safety; Classic one-page Bell Telephone ad shows pretty switchboard operator holding wire; Kelly Springfield Tire ad shows fashionable sidewalk scene; Nice Hilton ad features The Stevens Hotel in Chicago; Classy one-page color ad for Florsheim two-tone shoes; Nice color Ford car ad presents the (red) 1946 convertible; Intriguing one-page ad by Warner & Swasey called "Did Hitler Win the War?" provides text explaining how a lack of co-operation between France's labor, management and government led to the fall of that nation, thus co-operation is required for victory; Nice one-page photo-illustrated Pan American World Airways ad promotes their worldwide cargo service; Food - scarcer and scarcer; Beautiful photos of the many daughters of Daniel O'Neil in Boston with Mgr. Francis A. Burke; Mr. Truman and the Navy; Great one-page color ad for General Tire features golf theme; How tomorrow's war will be fought; Photos of UN offices in Sperry building and New York World's Fair building; Japanese women vote for first time; China - Civil War; Photos of beatings in Italy; Russian General Vassily D. Sokolovsky; News of the world in Russian; Tractors of gold on the Canadian prairies; Genuinely unique one-page two-color ad entitled "Mad dog!" by the America Fore insurance company shows angry dog and photo of car, the interior of which has been torn to shreds by a dog which was locked in it; Brief obituaries for George Ernest May, Lyle Saxon and Viscount Southwood; Photo of German V-2 rocket on launch pad in White Sands, NM where it wll soon be launched to conduct upper atmosphere research; Nice one-page ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Creighton Bros. leghorn chicken breeders; Article and photo of Theodore (Ted) Samuel Williams; Photo of Boston Red Sox Manager Joe Cronin; Tasteful one-page ad for McCall's Magazine features painting by John Koch; Great photo of Arthur Callenstein of Chicago playing marbles; Milller High Life Beer ad shows black many in white jacket holding ttray of beer; Weird Kreml Hair Tonic illustrated ad; A New Socialist International?; and more. Average wear and soiling. Please note: centerfold ad missing, otherwise a worthy vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Contents: Roosevelt on Tour of West Fights Foes in His Own Party: Candidates Prepare to Grab His Coattails as He Warms Up for Risky Primary Fights; WPA (Work Projects Administration) and Votes: 'Keep Friends in Power', (Harry) Hopkins' Aide (Aubrey Williams) Tells Workers; 'Jimmy's Got It': Alva Johnston Tells Tales on the President's Son; Gettysburg Farewell: The Blue and the Gray Light an Eternal Flame; G-Men and Publicity: Spy-Story Dispute Provokes Agent to Attack (J. Edgar) Hoover; Republicans: Bruce Barton Sounds Keynote for Liberal Wing; Far East - One Year of War: Million Fall, Decision Far Off - Army Viewed as Making Last Bid in Yangtze Campaign to Isolate Hankow; British Rights: (Winston) Churchill and (Duncan) Sandys Stir Row over Secrets Act; Drive for Valencia: (Francisco) Franco Masses Troops; "Respite" for British Ships; Martyr in Palestine: Execution Aggravates Jews' Anger Over Partition; Devil's Island: France, Stung by Censure, Abolishes Penal Colony; Austrian Debts: 'Offer' Useless to U.S., Though Reich Pays British; Nation's Educators Endorse Federal Aid, Oppose Political Control of Schools; The Church and State: Issue Raised by Quezon Veto of Philippines Bill; Thirst Without Hunger: Heavy Drinking, Light Eating Called Cause of Cirrhosis; Tax Experts Hunt 20 Billions to Meet Recovery-Relief Debt: New Spending Portends a 3-Billion Deficit for '39 Against Low '38 Figure; Surge in Stocks: Billions of 'Easy Money' Helps U.S. Trade Revival; William McChesney Martin Jr.: Boss of the Street at 31, Tennis Star and Student; Recovery Drive: Sales Crusade Puts Consumers in Buying Mood; Picketing: Sweeping New York Ban Upsets Labor's Idea of Laws; C.I.O. (Congress of Industrial Organizations) in the South: Clashes at New Orleans Likely to Cause U.S. Inquiry; and Steel Trade Flux: Spread of Price Cuts Changes Marketing Systems. Binding intact. Small mailing label top left front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. Not recorded by Enser.
Hard cover Good in fair dust jacket. Light Wear on cover with some scruff ma rks. Pages all intact, clean, no tear and no writings. Sewn bindi ng. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade.
26 pages. Features: Mailbag; Photo and brief write-up of G. Ed. Meade; Nice one-page illustrated fishing tackle ad by Harkley & Haywood Sporting Goods Ltd.; Fishing for Cohoes by the Clock at Little River near Comox; Nice one-page illustrated ad for salmon fishing tackle by Gibbs Tool & Stamping Works Ltd.; Photo of Don Walde and Cliff Hultgren of the Penticton Fish and Game Club; New Transportation Tool - the Jeep!; Chilcotin's Land of Too Much - article with photo of Bob Stewart of Nimpo Lake Lodge and guide Vic Blewett; Columbia River Hydro Development; Clay Chips - article including photo of Harold Woolley, Jack Radford and Jack Wiley, Bill Mills, Ed Kohlman, Ron Hartin, Doug Keer, Wm. Turner, Danny McDonald, Bill Peterson, Les Roblin, Rufe Gibbs, Walter Scott, Herb Sabine, Rod McIndoe, F.W. Clendenning, Jim Couse, Jim Logan, Bud McIntyre, Tom Held, Yvonne Benham, Elton Benham, Ray Yasui and his daughter, Mrs. Bob Giuliana, George Williams, and Ian Kennedy; Quarter-page illustrated ad for the "Pack Mule" mini-bike offered by Fred Deeley Ltd.; Photo of Parksville sportsman Howard Pettigrew with 22-lb steelhead from the Englishman River; Nice illustrated Lucky Lager ad on back cover; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Sixty poems. 92 pages, signed by the author on the title page.
This is a very good or better softcover copy with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. The Wexner Center invited artists Albert Oehlen and Christopher Williams to assume a curatorial guise in which they selected, edited, and designed an installation of each others most recent works. This comprehensive catalogue of the resulting exhibition features both Oehlens semi-abstract and computer-generated paintings and Williamss conceptual photographs. Illustrated mostly in black & white, some color plates. Essays by Thomas Crow, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Timothy Martin, Stephen Melville and Friedrich Petzel. Biographical sketches. Bibliography. 10" high X 8" wide, 172 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket, not price-clipped, but with a little wear to edges. Almost completely clean inside, just one neat date on the inside front cover (April 1974), No previous owner names or other marks. Edited by Ronald Gross and George Quasha, with Emmett Williams, John Robert Colombo, and Walter Lowenfels. Stated first printing. 10" high X 7" wide, 614 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
New York, Harmony Books, 1984, 4to (cm. 30,5 x 23) legatura editoriale cartonato telato, pp. nn. (120 circa) completamente illustrato da tavole a colori, con una tavola ed un'illustrazione a colori applicate all'occhiello e al frontespizio (firma di possesso) .
109 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. "A narrative of the personal adventures of Claude R. "Paddy" Wilson, a seventy-seven year old veteran prospector and cook. For over thirty years he worked in the mines and diamond drilling camps on the Red Lake gold fields in Northern Ontario. This work is based on three pencilled manuscripts he wrote after abandoning his search for gold in 1948. Names have been changed to protect those unfortunates who, like Paddy Wilson, suffered and enjoyed the unusual consequences of gold fever." - Preface. Name clipped from top of front free endpaper, otherwise book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this engaging read. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text, page-edges lightly tanned; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. First published in 1985.
54 pages. Features: The Lyrical Side of McCoy Tyner; "Little Joe From Chicago" - A Mary Lou Williams solo; Ruth Laredo - Rachmaninoff meets Stravinsky; Alexander Brailowsky world premiere; Navigating the ivory landscape of Frederic Chiu; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
In-8 (cm. 22), brossura, sovracoperta editoriale incollata al dorso, con alette, pp. 249, (11), alcune illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo. In buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
266 p. +Plus 16 leaves of plates. 8vo. Slightly browned original publisher's full cloth pictorial binding in beige. Cover stamped in black, white, and green and gray. Spine in black and green. Corners bumped, lightly browned endpapers. Some loss of color on cover. Manuscript ownership on inside flyleaf of 'Pea Jazzaui.' 200mm. Hardbound. Good. NW66
46 pages. Features: Joan Hamilton; Anita Peraza; Mary Schultz-Brittain; Emilijane Williams; Alice Post; Cooper, Ruth; Judd, Rita; Jorgensen, Gunhild; Curtis, Eleanore; Paye, Kari-Unn Prestbakmo; Cusumano, Haydee; Mason, LaFon; Dina Fazio; Mary Jones; Kay Jacks; Irene Riggs; Narda Caton; Claire Brown; Opal Cantwell; Ruth Venable; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 170pp. Britain's biggest music magazine with main feature on Nirvana and Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Manson, The Darkness, Pharrell Williams, Joss Stone, The Vines, Razorlight, George Michael and reviews, chats and much more.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 162pp. Britain's biggest music magazine with main feature on Beyonce, plus AC/DC, The Darkness, Pharrell Williams, Queens of the Stone Age, Whitney Houston, Inside the Rolling Stones, Jade Jagger and reviews, chats and much more.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nick to upper rear edge and to top of spine and sunning to dust flap edges. 173pp. The story of Frank Williams' dedication to motor-racing succes with his Championship winning Formula 1 Team.
Features: Tacoma's Union Station Thrown Open to the Public - two-page article including grainy photo of the new station; Oregon-Washington Station To Formally Open May 20 - new passenger station in Seattle (article with photo inside the main waiting room); Professional biography of self-made man Carl R. Gray, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle (includes photo of Mr. Gray); First Marine Producer Gas Installation on Pacific Coast - on the Barkentine Archer; Ongoing construction by Johnson Brothers & Blanchard, Georgetown of deep-sea motor cruiser designed by Seattle naval architect L.E. Geary for O.O. Denny of Seattle - article with diagram of outboard profile of the vessel; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Speediest Steam Yacht is Launched - brief article and photo of the Sovereign; News of Tacoma; One page ad for the new steel trains "The Olympian" and the "Columbia" which represent "The New Steel Trail to the East Through the Golden West, commencing service 29 May, 1911; Nice illustrated one-page ad for "The Finest Train in the West, The Shasta Limited" which speedily connected Seattle with San Francisco; Excellent half-page photo ad for Willamette Iron & Steel Works features photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke while she pumps two heavy streams of water from her hoses; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: First Annual Report of American Express Companies; John F. Stevens Retires From Hill Lines; B.F. Bush Succeeds George Gould as president of the Missouri Pacific Railway (with photo of Mr. Bush); Causes for Trade Depression; Development of Alaska Fisheries; Hearing Regarding Pacific Coast Rate Cases; Larger Terminal Yards Planned for Tacoma; The Railroads and the Panama Canal; Sixty-Seven Steamships in Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet - article with nice illustration; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Three Sailors of the British Steamer Benedick convicted of mutiny by Edinburgh court; Captain David Baird to take charge of the Victoria and Vancouver Stevedore Co.'s Vancouver Branch - with photo of Mr. Baird; Suspension of Capt. Alfred Croskey Reduced; Tacoma News; Captain Fred Warner to command the famous steamer Corwin (brief article with photo); Nice illustrated one-page ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West", which connects Seattle to San Francisco; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Vulcan Iron Works of Seattle features an aerial view of their plant; Willamette Iron & Steel Works ad features nice photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and pumping water in the air; Canadian-Pacific Railway Steamships ad features schedule for their connections between Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: John F. Stevens, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, discusses what the Panama Canal means to Pacific commerce, with illustration of Mr. Stevens; Fine Passenger Engines in Service on W.-O.R. & N. Line - article with photo of new locomotive; Alaska Syndicate Concentrates Attention on Transportation - The Sale of the Northwestern Fisheries Co. will widen the scope of the Alaska Steamship Co. and the Copper River & Northwestern Railway; Outline of Navy Department's Attitude Towards the Pacific Coast - An Address by Engineer-in-Chief Hutch I. Cone, U.S.N.; Classy Stern-Wheeler Launched - the W.H. Bancroft; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law - article with photo of the four-masted Schooner Willis A. Holden, as she appeared after being disabled in a storm on 12 February; Alaska Oil Will Furnish New Traffic; Tacoma News; One page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West"; One-page ad for Seattle's Vulcan Iron Works features an aerial illustration of the plant; Half-page ad for the Willamette Iron & Steel Works features photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and spraying water; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. 6" x 1" piece missing from back cover - text unaffected. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: Two Fine Passenger Stations To Open in May - the Northern Pacific Station at Tacoma, and the Oregon-Washington station at Seattle; Professional biography of A.P. Chapman, Jr. who has just moved from Chicago to serve as general agent of the passenger department, Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound (with photo of Mr. Chapman); Passing of well-known railroad man Francis B. Clarke in Portland at age 73; Illustration of the World's Longest Locomotive - 121 Feet Long - a Mallet 2-10-10-2 rebuilt at the Topeka shops of the Santa Fe; Proposed Swiss Village to be built at Golden, British Columbia to house Swiss guides who are brought annually to assist mountain climbers - interesting illustrated article; Alaska Steamshop Co. to Erect Modern Water Terminals; Robert Dollar Discusses Shipping; Death of W.H.(Billy) Bush, prominent Northwest steamship man - informative article with photo of Mr. Bush; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; B.N. Baker Discusses Influence of the Panama Canal; Discussion of Panama Canal Tolls; New Plant for the Columbia Steel Company at Black Diamond, California - article with illustration; Tacoma News; Testimonial for A.B.C. Wood Life Preservers; Nice one-page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West", which connects Seattle with San Francisco; Nice half-page photo ad for the Willamette Iron & Steel Works features the fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching smoke and pumping water into the sky; Nice half-page illustrated ad for Speedway launches and engines; Canadian-Pacific Railway Steamships Schedule for the S.S. "Princess Victoria" and S.S. "Princess Adelaide" connecting Seattle with Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Book shows 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. Contents include: Hank Williams, Gothic and country music, Bluegrass industry and traditions, Gender, class and region in the star image of Dolly Parton, Jhonny Cash as lesbian icon, etc.