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np. + Plus frontis. Title page bordered in green and printed in red and black. Text elaborately ruled in green. Bookseller's label. Decorated endpapers. 12mo. Original full paper binding, lettered in gold and decorated in green. Binding slightly soiled. Nice copy. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W70
80 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. "Tells the intriguing life story of Gunter Kuhnert as told to Kirbey Lockhart. Raised in a Christian home in Nazi Germany, Gunter went through every stage of Nazi indoctrination for youth and ended up as a soldier on the Russian front. Follow Gunter as he experiences miracle after miracle. You too may learn that God is a refuge to those who trust Him. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 280 pages. 4 1/2"w x 7 3/8"h. In Japanese and English.
139 pages. "When John Brunswick, a Swiss immigrant woodworker, built his first billiard table in 1845, he started a 140-year series of events that has resulted in the transformation of his small Cincinnati firm into today's diversified Brunswick Corporation. Archival photography throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now in archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
178 pages including bibliography and colour plates. A series of picaresque adventures set against the backdrop of a Japan still closed off from the rest of the world. "...Opens a wonderful window into the real-life conditions of a down-at-the-heels lower-middle level samurai." - Susan Matisoff. Average wear. Moderate lean to spine. Decent copy with usual library markings. Book
186 pages including index. Illustrated by Robin Jacques. The exciting story of Marco Polo's thirteenth-century odyssey across the world's most mysterious continent - based on his own journals. Unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket with moisture marking to back panel and average wear. A sound copy. Book
140 pages. Features: Cover photo of Brian Williams' daughter, Allison; Ivy League Sirens Take Hollywood! - 19 brainy beauties study their way to stardom; Beatles Farm Girl - a MacCartney memoir of recipes and rock 'n' roll; Jackie O's Tower of Power - the strange story of a very expensive apartment building; Travel the T&C way; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Pages 449-536, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Mystery of Dominic Pietro - how an innocent man was saved from the gallows; The Trials of A Naturalist's Wife - part 4; A Woman's Ordeal - Mrs. C.T. Sturgis was a prisoner of Mexican bandits; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - Part 2 of the great photo-illustrated story of the author's travels among the Wahhabi Arabs; Hunting the Addo Elephants - they were marked for extinction at the hand of famous hunter Major Pretorius - article with many photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 5 - Adventures in Peru, with great photos, including carrying a piano up a mountain!; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season - terrible flooding makes travel very difficult; Photo of 30,000 coconuts being sprouted in Tobago; In Old Madrid - two Americans are left behind in Madrid with an elephant and soon the animal is matched up for battle with a fine Spanish bull!; Photo of London "Dog Market"; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron - Part 2; Photo of the only inhabited "Cloghaun" in Ireland; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 4 - The Adventures and Daring Escape of Airman Capt. T.W. White; A Land of Gods - photo-illustrated article about the people and places of the Kulu Valley of India; The Hunting of Lot Shumway - the pursuit and ultimate capture of this Northern Arizona badman; How Nixon Made Good - a western railroad tale; Photo of Harry Rich of Kansas City - the Human Gun Carriage!; Photo of large tree growing up through millstone at Sheldon's Mill at South Dover, New York. Somewhat above-average wear with openings along backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
All sound effects working loud and clear. The only exception is the top "Yakko" button which works most times but occasionally not. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. A lovely copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Undersea Killer - Photo-illustrated article on Germany's Grand Admiral and U-boat commander Karl Doenitz,; So This is Ottawa - Mary Lowrey Ross visits Ottawa for the first time; Science in a Red Coat - photo-illustrated article on how the R.C.M.P. are harnessing science to get their man; Music While You Work - brief article explains how it reduces worker fatigue and absenteeism; Lord Louis Mountbatten - Man of Mystery; Propaganda Maestro - photo-illustrated article on John Grierson, Commissioner of Canada's National Film Board (N.F.B.); Commandos Attack - the inside story of the parachute raid on Italy and the attack on Rommel's house in Africa; Corps Commander E.W. Sansom Moves Fast - A brief biography of this important WWII figure by Scott Young; Housing Headache - photo-illustrated article explaining housing hardship created by the war effort; Page of 'compact' recipes intended for wives confined to living on one-room Fiction: There Lies Magic, by Minta Meier; The Raiders (conclusion), by Norman Collins. Nice illustrated Canadian Pacific Air Lines ad inside front cover includes map indicating their domestic routes. One-page CN/CP ad shows wealthy lady mailing letter to her serviceman son - to be delivered by train. One-page Caterpillar shows huge dozer working in war zone above the caption "Coming At You, Schicklgruber!" (Hitler). Half-page photo-illustrated ad for the fine pianos of Heintzman & Co. of Toronto. Excellent half-page colour Pepsi ad inside back cover shows bearded sailor imbibing beneath cartoon of skinny-dipping boys. Back cover Good Year ad features excellent evening illustration of bombs being loaded into the bomb bays of a Lancaster(?) for a night bombing run somewhere over Europe. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this particularly excellent vintage wartime issue. Book
229 pages. Includes black and white illustrations. The story of a young person who returned from serving overseas for four years in the Canadian Army. Like many others, he floundered in the attempt to get himself oriented into civilian life. Deals with author's training to become a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada; with a man who loved living, and found real life, love, laughter and lament, in the service of God and humanity. Negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
Fine English Paperback., Fine., 20 x 13 cm., 63 p., "Öyküler.", Krikor Zohrab, Iletisim Yayinlari, Ist.
All sounds and songs working loud and clear. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this entertaining book. Book
G (no dj, blue cloth with edwardian ladies of a cruise ship - rather grubby in parts. rubbed and rounded to both ends of spine which is sunned, but the gilt is shining in part. ffep missing. other ffeps are foxed. to textblock itself only the pages edges are browned. binding firm.
161 pages plus appendix, references and index. Black and white illustrations. A story of young men adventuring in the American west when the law came as a hanging party, and in British Columbia of Fraser gold rush days, of the first breaking of the black loam of the Delta at Ladners Landing and of the pioneering growth of a cannery there. Date and small address label inside front board else book clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Few short tears to still respectable dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
28p. + Plus frontis. Full page black line drawings printed on lime green blocks. Title page with border printed in black on a lime green block. Light pink endpapers. Strathmore Paper Company label detailing stock used. 8vo. Original full red paper binding with covers silver flaked. Front cover decorated with a white rose and a blue edging. Limited number of this Christmas edition was printed for the friends of Aldus Printers. Nice copy. Very scarce. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W67. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
32 pages. Features: Fun photos of children inside front cover; Debt - Our Biggest National Industry/Money - Our Most Costly Commodity - Can the Price of Money Be Decreased?; The Backstage Story of the Marion Talley Drama - article with photo; Morality That Was First Military - army commanders long ago discovered principles now claimed by pacifists; Where the People of the British Isles Came From; Books That Started the Bells Ringing; Henry Ford's Page - Businessmen are leaders of social movements; Editorials - the McNary-Haugen Bill is vetoed, Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver advocates trial marriage, Madame Schumann-Heink denies endorsing a cigarette (being aimed at women); Skiing in the Bavarian Alps; Paid - A Billion Dollars for Beauty - Sleuths of Science Still on the Trail of Elixir of Youth; Benjamin Franklin as an Abolitionist - fascinating article; Intimate Glimpses of Elbert Hubbard - photo-illustrated article; Chats with Office Callers; I Read in the Papers; News Bits; Nice dog/puppy photos inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Middle page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Bonus: Blank 8.5" x 5.5" subscription renewal form laid-in. Book
96 pages. Features: What's Hot in Fashion; Many hands make a difference; What's hot in fibers; Flirting with eyelashes - an exotic silk shawl; A sheer room divider; Plain weave with a twist - or two!; Handwoven Devore - more than plain weave; A new look at M's and O's - the full story; Red Hot Polka Dots for a Winter Scarf; Transformation - a study in fibers and finishing; The Magic of Amalgamation - a new look at twill; Gold Doubloons and silver pieces of eight; Weaver's Network - weavers in action; Essay on ethics; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
114 pages. Features: Richie Kotzen; Japanese Black and Gray wunderkind Krazy Kay; The Enigma and Serana Rose Story; Fanny Maurer aka Lady Diamond; Big Sleeps; Ryan 'Sullen' Smith and Jeremy Hanna; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this colorful issue. Magazine
354 pages including glossary. Children's stories which describe the coming of the White Man to the Pacific Northwest to trade in furs, and how these fur-trading explorers established and upheld Great Britain's claim to that part of the Northwest which is now British Columbia. Illustrated in black and white. Some cigarette smoke odour. Green illustrated boards are soiled with average wear. Library writing upon spine. Book
pp. xxvi, 75. Title page printed in red and black. Deckle edges. Tall 32mo. Original printed wraps decorated in red and black. Home made dust jacket. Inked ownership of Clarie Vallette, March 1904 on inside flap. Nice copy. PRESS/W39
Mm 150x210 Collana "I grandi". Volume nella sua brossura originale con alette, xvii + 259 pagine. Opera in ottime condizioni, presenta una firma al frontespizio. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Features: Was it Coincidence? - a Zulu witch doctor and his magic; The Man Who Hesitated - a dramatic story from West Africa; Comacchio on the Adriatic - the Venice of the Eels - article with photos; The Brophy Will Case - an unusual American detective case; The Wily Coyote - interesting stories of these hated coyotes and their ways in the Western States; McNeill's Lapse - a good man falls victim to temptation; Climbing the White Elephant near the Tom Reed Mine at Oatman, Arizona - article with nice photos; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone (part II) - tales from two young naval officers who set off to see the world with five dollars between them; Lion Hunting in Somaliland - article with many photos; The Cruise of the Dream Ship - part IV of Ralph Stock's sailing through the enchanted South Sea Islands - article with nice photos; Trapped by a Flash-flood in a canyon; Down the River - two youngsters seek fortune and adventure running a little launch on a New Zealand river; Robert Tipp's terrible ordeal at the top of a lofty flagstaff; My Visit to Mexico - why the author didn't want to go and now likes Mexico less than ever; Our Adventures Among the Berbers - the author's experiences with the Shawia Berbers of Algeria - article with great photos; That Donkey! - the pathetic story of a journalist and the donkey he bought; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
48 pages including black and white photographic plates. Also includes addenda by author dated 1980. A witness of God's great faithfulness, as revealed in the Pentecostal Richmond family. Rolla Richmond was born in 1895. Prior owner's name clipped from top corner of title page. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear to blue card covers. Half-inch scratch upon front cover. Some rubbing upon back cover. Text block appears to have released from spine as several pieces of clear tape now secure front cover to title page. Book
294 pages including index. The story of how the chemical industry has managed to keep so many of its toxic products on the market, eve in the face of mounting evidence of their danger and emerging - and safer - alternatives. Usual library markings and wear. Binding sound but leans moderately to right. Book