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12 charming color-illustrated pages for young readers present the fanciful tale of how Hires R-J Root Beer Extract came to be enjoyed by children of the day. Features nine (unused) 'Magic Rubs' where rubbing a coin will reveal a hidden image. Light wear and minor external soiling. A quality copy of this lovely vintage Hires collectible. Book
180 pages. Fold-out drawing. "Attempts to unravel some of the mysteries about the Arrow and expose the reader to some of its lesser known facts." - from dust jacket. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photography. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Bordart. A quality copy. Book
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Oblong Roy. 8vo. (17 x 23 cm). In French. Color and b/w ills. 23, [1] p. Poulet des bois. Les albums du Pere Castor. Images de Gerda Muller.
xxiv, 256-320 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. Lucia, Windward Islands; The Death-Patrol - strange R.C.M.P. manhunt in Canada's far north after a murder on Moskeet Island; The Tobacco Farmers - three youngsters put their combined savings into an abandoned farm in North Queensland - article with photos; The Jewelled Cross - a strange story of buried treasure; Photo of New Zealand's "Bottle House"; The Stowaway; The Tale of a Shirt - what happened when an African 'bush-boy' acquired a taste for European clothing; The Miracle of the Sacred Eagles - photo-illustrated article on a daily phenomenon at a hilltop temple in Tirrukalikundram in Southern India; The Landlord's Tale - a rousing sea story told by the host of a village inn on the south coast; The Wai Wai Indians of the interior of British Guiana - article with eight photos; The Delectable Island - the isle of Re lies in the Bay of Biscay; Jungle Magic - an inexplicable performance witnessed in Malaya; Australian Treasure Trove - the wealth awaiting lucky finders in the Australian wilds; and more, plus many vintage ads. Small name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
Pages 129-192 plus 16 pages of advertisements. Features: The Grey Car Mystery - a Winnipeg murder case is solved - with photos of Sheriff Delos Blanchard, Harry Heipel, J.A. Kaesar (the victim), Inspector M.F. Anthony, and Chief George Smith; Premonition - an odd recollection by ship's engineer R.A. Jordan, R.N.R.; Photo of mystery stone coffin in the village of Turville; The Foundling - the tale of a temporarily adopted baboon in Nigeria; The Gold-Seekers - reprint of a Honduran adventure published in 1915 involving Charles Row, Dr. John F. Howard, Bert Dare, Edward J. Hoyt and W.W. Palmer; White Man's Magic - a Scots tugboat skipper uses his intelligence to restore order to a colony of Negroes in Columbia who were whipped to a frenzy by a self-appointed medicine-man; Photos of aftermath of cyclone which struck Townsville, Queensland, Australia in March, 1946; On the Razmak Road - a curious happening on the northwest frontier of India; Two Cot Cases - a Royal Navy rescue story involving the H.M.S. Keppel; Patrolling the Gulf of Carpentaria; Indian Pole-Trick; Vast Pools of Silver Salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska - article with photos; Hide and Seek - a tale from the coast of Dalmatia in the Adriatic where motor-gunboats of the Royal Navy harried German supply schooners; Nice Mars chocolate bar ad inside back cover. Colour ad for Wavy Navy tobacco on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Modest sticker removal blemish to front cover. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Book
128 pages. Features: Blueprint for World Government - "Metro", a deadly parallel to the forms of totalitarianism we are supposed to be fighting; The Trilogy for Victory - Will President Kennedy Use It?; The Moral Cost of the Welfare State; Is Censorship on the Way? - a department of government seeks to bar patriotic slogan from metered mail; Tranquilizers Can Kill You; Does Your Nose Always Know?; "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, Here Is..." - a humorous guide to guide-conducted foreign tours; Buy or Rent?; What Do You Know About Kissing?; Successfully Yours; Peace Corps - A Pied Piper Scheme; Deluge of Filth - foreign pornography pours into the USA on a daily basis by mail; Harry Lauder and his Long Underwear - "a story of great generosity of a man whose people are supposed to be notorious 'tightwads'"; You Can't Afford to Die - a move is on to eliminate costly funerals; Discrimination - Vice or Virtue?; A Lounsberry Scoop - one of the most thrilling episodes of the Old West; A Russian Fort in California - established by sea otter hunter and tanner Ivan Alexander Kuskov at Fort Ross; Seven Years of Horror - Margaret Buber-Neumann provides a firsthand account of life in the slave camps of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany - a commentary on the Eichmann trial; The Connally Reservation - the dangers of treaty law; Index to Volume XCII, January - June 1961. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 80 p. B/w ills. Kasabanin sesi. Ills. by Faruk Kutlu; Cover by Gözde Bitir Sindirgi.
26p. Mosaic styled color drawings by Marian Ebert. Decorated title page. Designed by Donald E. Cooke. 8vo. Original full paper binding, slightly worn at extremities. Limited Edition. No limitation statement of number of copies. Nice example. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! CHRISTMAS/W67 x 3
42 pages. Features: Nice colour DeSoto car ad inside front cover; Canada Dry ad; Good Enough (fiction); Hockey's Greatest? - the story of Syl Apps; Leslie Hore-Belisha discusses his resignation as British War Secretary; Feet with Wings (fiction); Canada's Fighting Forces - Part 3 - Royal Military College (R.M.C.) - article with photos; Day in Heaven (fiction); Junk - It's Big Business, and plays a big part in winning a war - photos and article about scrap steel, rags and paper; Wings of Hazard (fiction, part 3 of 5); Great two-colour full-page ad for Ford V-8 Trucks shows six models at work; Nice two-colour Chevrolet ad; Syl Apps, Turk Broda and Pep Kelly are featured in an Alka-Seltzer ad; Article on cakes, with recipes; Nice colour Chrysler ad inside back cover; Attractive colour ad for International Trucks on back cover features the 1.5 ton model D-30. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Pages 90-176 plus 18 pages of ads. Features: Where Cannibals Roam - Part I - Merlin Moore Taylor's adventures into the unknown interior of Papua (article with great photos); "Twisted" Harmon - an RCMP officer spends five years and travels thousands of miles to catch an escaped murderer hiding in the protection of the German Secret Service; Life in a Logging Camp - sensational photo-illustrated article on the Abernethy Lougheed Logging Company's operation in Maple Ridge, British Columbia; "Trawler Tidd" - a cat that went to sea; An Artist on a Tropic Isle - the adventures of Ellis Silas as he painted in the Trobriands group of islands north of New Guinea; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part 3 of 3 - the author's adventures as he penetrated deep into Amazonia, with photos (including shrunken head); Feedback on a recent article on the K.K.K.; Chasing the Pulajans - religious fanatics who gave the US authorities in the Philippines untold trouble; To the "End of the World" and Beyond - Captain Gault Macgowan, F.R.G.S. and his wife set out on an eventful journey in the Western Himalayas; Photo of large hawser (3" dia. rope) made of human hair at Kyoto's Higashi-Honganji Temple; The Fatal Slip; One Up on "Homie"; The Taming of the Sheriff - a ranch story from Death Valley, California; Down the Shaft - a West Australian miner's story of a terrible experience at the bottom of a six-hundred foot shaft; Five Hundred Miles in Open Boats - an arduous and eventful arctic journey recounted by retired Mountie, Sergeant-Major C.N.C.Hayter; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
112 pages. Index. Bibliography. Trademark list. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and diagrams. "A collector's guidebook for the USA." - from front cover. Chapters include: Introduction; Your Milkbottle Collection; How to Build a Milkbottle Collection; Especially Desirable Milkbottles; The Thatcher Story; Go-Withs for the Milk Bottle Collector; How to Display; Milk Bottle Mysteries; Studying the Milk Bottle Collection; "Bottoms Up"; How to Categorize a Collection of Milk Bottles; Amethyst Milk Bottles; Thatcher & Barnhart's Milkbottle Closure of 1886; Tin Tops; The Borden Company; Thatcher Company Catalog 1887. 1974 bottle-pricing guide laid in. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this precious reference. Book
144 pages. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "A book about some of the outstanding figures in railway construction; the Foley Brothers, Peter Larson, Patrick Welch and John W. Stewart (whose) contributions to the development of railways in Canada was significant." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A high-quality copy. Book
222 pages. Author's signature upon title page else clean and unmarked. The fascinating story of the Rev. Ben Taylor, who served in the ministry of the Methodist Church in Ireland, and later in the United Church of Canada. Includes black and white photographic plates. Moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous coloured and monochrome plates and photographs throughout; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter creased and frayed with minor loss at edges, and lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. Ottley 116
PP. 190, CM.18X11, BROSS.
162 pages. Features: Vogue's-Eye View - Girl Power; Mainbocher - the soft and pretty evening looks worn by Lauren Hutton; The new bathing suits; Bare Legs in Town - with shorts, short skirts, long slits, the coolest little dresses, tiny tops and the leotard idea, the perfect coat, black day and night, romantic evenings; Vogue Patterns - Berber blue for summer; You've Come a Long Way Baby Oil; Perfume is for Wearing; Diary of a Glad Houseguest - or, The Inside Story of Beauty and the Beach; Tension - that everyday threat to American women - and what to do about it; The New Freedom of Domestic Bliss - Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Dillman, Mrs. David Hemmings, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Peake, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sakowitz; Family-Power - Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy; The Ties Women Cannot Shake - and Have; Elaine - her restaurant, her famous friends; Gloria Steinhem - Coming of Age in America; Top Woman in the State Department - The Honorable Barbara M. Watson; Fighting Hard; Fighting Soft; Freed Spirits - Eleanor Holmes Norton, Bricktop, Barbara Roquemore; On Target - Judith Peabody; On Target - Shirley Verrett; Most Wanted 1971 - Sexy Ann-Margaret; Most Wanted 1971 - Funny Lily Tomlin; Two Faces of Suzy; Couple-Speak - Happy Marriage; Couple-Speak - rape true and false; Wife-Power - Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson; The Go Decor; Candice Bergen and her California House; and more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Clear tape along spine. A worthy reference copy. Book
G (no dj, dark green cloth with blind stamped decoration and dull gilt titles, one or two tiny faded speckles front board, light foxing prelims and back endpaper, prize plate front fixed endpaper dated 1925, back free endpaper missing, front hinge cracked but textblock binding firm, occasional faint smudges in margins and scattered spotting outside edges) 12mo 316pp. Colour illustration to title page with red/blue lettering. Colour frontispiece and 2 colour plates. No date of publication but inscribed 1925.
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 80 p. B/w ills. Köyüm. Roman.
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 79 p. B/w ills. An illustrated horror fiction for children. Ugursuz kösk. Öykü-masal.
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 79 p. B/w ills. A story for children in Eastern tradition. Zümrüd-ü Anka. Öykü-masal.
176 pages. Index. Glossary. Bibliography. Dozens of archival black and white photos. "The author has interviewed hundreds of the early settlers and their descendants and presents an exciting collection of photographs, many from family albums... Author was one of 22,000 exiled from the Pacific Coast, spent two years in detention centres of the British Columbia Interior." - from dust jacket. Text is divided into the following sections: Early History, Settlements and Pioneers; Evacuation; Resettlement. Clean with light wear. Underlining on several pages. A quality copy of this important work. Book
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 184 p. Keloglan masallari.
Unpaginated. The story of Ma Lien, a poor orphan boy, a woodgatherer clothed in rags, who feeds largely on his dream to become a painter of pictures. Book unmarked with above average wear. Dust jacket very rough. Book
62 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of dog pulling curtain from lady; Editorial on 'The Lost Art of Living'; Nice one-page photo ad for the New Plymouth Six; Every Other Inch a Gentleman - part one of an anonymous Hollywood saga; Ad for Fleischmann's Yeast includes photos of Dr. Jules Monges and Dahlia Upchurch of Richmond, VA; Palmolive Shave Cream ad features photo of George Earl, trainer of "Torchy" Peden, bicycle racing champion; Will Japan Seize Alaska? - an arresting warning by Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana; Excitement at Kamp Kumfort - a nice girl seeking adventure finds it; Nice two-color (red and black) ad for Libby's Catchup; Rendezvous (part 2) - Amazing true adventures of American fighter Edgar Bouligny (with photos); No More Belindas - a wistful tale of elfin memories; Movie News and Photos - Catherine the Great, The Big Shakedown, Palooka, and Search for Beauty; Tamer of Lions - true story of La Goulue, a cancan dancer of the Moulin Rouge in Paris; Destroyer - a novel of a love deeper than the sea (part 4); The Eye of Fate (short story); Vox Pop; To the Ladies; Color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes on back cover features scene at tobacco auction. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Covers loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
New Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 157 p., color and b/w ills. Hypaipa: Artemis yolu üstünde Ilkçag kenti. Study on the history, inscriptions and coins of the ancient city of Hypaipa, an ancient settlement in the province of Küçük Menderes -Little Meander- Valley, near Ödemis, district of Izmir (Smyrna) city.
