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16 pages. Features: Revolution in Religion - interview with Billy Graham; I Didn't Want That for Christmas - fashion experts seem to be trying to hide the American Woman; The Return of Uncle Dave (fiction); One-page retro ad for "The Student's Guide to Military Service" features photo of pondering young clean-cut gent holding slide rule; Candle in the Dark - fictional story about little Kim Chi of Vietnam who once met Santa face-to-face; Zipcode USA - teen Q&A with photo of Frank Sinatra with Mia Farrow; Great retro 2/3-page ad for a pocket alarm features photo of young dame in defensive position; Did You Get a Puppy? - how does your dog rate in dogdom?; Visions of Sugarplums - a child's-eye view of Christmas. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). Signed and dedicated by the author. 112 p. In Turkish. Tasraya dogru. Yeni hayat, istasyonda, yazik, Maçahel'deki tavuk, Maradit köprüsü, Lâmazitualli ve dönüs
389 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Over 200 black and white photos reproduced throughout. "The first book ever written about Canada's women pilots... Based on hundreds of personal interviews with men and women in civil and military aviation, the book reveals the women's determined characters and the often single-minded quest of Canada's female aviators from 1928 to the present." - from dust jacket. Bit of writing atop front free endpaper. Light overall 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, slightly sunned spine and no bumping to corners. Pop-ups in excellent condition. pp. Elaborate pop-up edition of the story of Cinderella.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and illustrations and facsimiles in the text; handsomely bound in red full crushed morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The first of Reid's two famous accounts culminates with the author's 'home run' in 1942. Includes a detailed list of escapees. Reid's classic of POW life and escape began a virtual sub-industry (of astonishingly variable quality) including dozens of later books, several feature films, countless magazine pieces and a long-running TV series. There is, however, no mistaking the calibre of the original. Now that Colditz is to become (in part at least) a youth hostel, interest in its wartime role will only grow. Enser, p. 151.
98 pages. Features; Interesting Canadian Pratt & Whitney photo ad inside front cover shows dozens of damaged propeller blades which will be repaired in Longueuil; Nice ad for the Bell Airacobra; Nice Dowty ad shows man standing beside huge tire/levered suspension; Snap-On Tools ad mentions Trans-Canada Airlines; Lockheed ad shows their Lightning shooting a Nazi plane; Great Canadian General Electric Aircraft Instruments ad for Canadian Bombers has great photos; Sweet two-page photo ad for "Avro-Ansons" by De Havilland; Nice Jacobs Engines ad; This is the Red Air Fleet - a verbal and pictorial blueprint of Russia's air power; Builders of Air Power - a brief sketch of the Air Council which is the Air Training Plan's Board of Directors; Aircraft Carriers in the Atlantic; Glider Training for Canada - the story of De Havilland's glider club, the glider they are building, and the training technique they will employ; Aircraft controls - an interesting description of engine and flight controls in general and of the Anson and Bolingbroke control boxes in particular; Astral Aircraft Navigation - the first article in a series; Canadian Aircraft Production; Nice colour ad for Wright engines with air transport theme; Great full-page colour-illustrated ad for Player's cigarettes shows a deptch charge exploding behind a Canadian destroyer; Interesting article on the replacement of low alloy steel and plywood for aluminum in advanced trainers; Manufacturing Propeller Hubs; Photo ad for Black & Decker portable electric tools; Brewster ad; Plane Builder William A. McGuire passes - article with photo; Interesting photo ad for Gleeson & Leahey of Ottawa who recycle oil; Canadian Car & Foundry photo ad for their propellers; Nice ad for Eclipse Aviation shows their North American advanced trainer; Photos of Pilot officer N.D.R. Dick of Cenora, Sask., Sgt. Pilot G.D. Robertson, Toronto, and Sgt. Pilot O.F. Pickell; Intava ad on back cover mentions T.C.A.; Index of advertisers; and much more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Chips from backstrip. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, light corner wear, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 189 pages with b&w photos and illustrations, maps. Contents include: Pelops and Hippodamia, The Heraean festival, Story of Chloris, Kallipatira, Pythian games, Namean games, Isthmian games, Status of women in ancient Greece, The Heraea, etc.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 103 plates on 83, a 4pp facsimile, 10 illustrations (one full-page) in the text and 3 2pp tables coloured in outline, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down and verso of frontispiece, title spotted, endpapers a little age-marked; pictorial cloth gilt extra, gilt back, upper hinge weak but quite sound, covers a little age-marked else generally a sound, clean copy
Very Good English In modern aesthetic cloth bdg. with Ottoman lettered gilt. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Ottoman script. 85 p. Hegira: 1301 = Gregorian: 1884. Özege: 19306. First Edition.
Pages 91-176 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part 1) - Sister Janina vanished from Isadore, Michigan and it was 12 years before the mystery was solved; Post-Hole Pete - an amusing bear story from the Alaska wilds; The Maddest Exploit of the War - Trooper Gerald Fitzgerald No. 1313 1st King Edward's Horse was unaware of the Armistice so single-handedly pursued the retiring German Army; The Ship That Came Back - the liner "Sesostris" was wrecked off the coast of Guatemala, lifted into a jungle by a volcano, then salvaged to resume her career! - article with photos; Short Stories; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - and After (part 1) - Sergeant H. Wright, D.S.M., of the Royal Marine Light Infantry provides striking narrative; Ants and Other Pests - Mining Engineer E.T. McCarthy's thrilling experiences; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 4 - Mr. Philby describes his travels in central Arabia among the Wahhabi (Wahabi) Arabs - article with photos; The Hunting of Felizardo, a notorious brigand in the Philippines - photo-illustrated article; On Foot Through South America - part 7 of 7 - travels in the "Great Wilderness" of Bolivia, and a meeting with "Jack Thompson" - photo-illustrated article; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron on the Western Front - part 4 (illustrated); Down at Iceland - sights and events on a trip to Iceland in a typical Grimsby trawler ; A Battle with Bears - an exciting story from the wilds of Wyoming, by Frank M. McMaines; Nice illustrated B.V.D. underwear ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
128 pages. Features: Cover illustration of puppies for sale; Color-photo ad for a Pink Rambler 1960 station waton inside front cover; Two-page photo ad for Chrysler shows the Dart and Plymouth; Ad for large GMC trucks; Photo-illustrated article on "The Middle East - Explosive, Enigmatic"; Life Among the Pioneers - humorous article on suburbia; The Drummer Boy of Shiloh - short story by Ray Bradbury; Strictly Untouchable (sthort story); I Serve on the "Sin Committee" - George H. Young is chairman of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Committee on Infractions; St. Leonard's House in Chicago - a chance to go straight; Nice photo of "Merry Milliners"; Perle Mesta (part 3); Make Up Your Mind (short story); Cause, Chance and Creation, by Philip Morrison; Raid on the Railroad (short story); Montana's Tourist Wilderness - color photos with text; If Hitler Had Invaded England; Beautiful ad for the Turbine Drive 1960 Buick shows red convertible on windy mountain road; The Tewksbury Feud (short story, part 4); Hires Root Beer half-page color ad; 3/4-page color ad for Maine tourism; Toro ad for mower with bagger; Back cover Kodak color-photo ad features Peter Lawford and Family; and more. Moderate moisture exposure to top quarter resulting in mild undulations and some discoloration. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. . Magazine
69 pages. Author's signature upon title page. "World War II finished in 1945; a book about it in 1991 might seem unnecessary, but friends who have read the diary I kept in Germany, and know that I was taken prisoner four times, have encouraged me to put this book together." - from Foreward. Nine black and white illustrations. Chapters include: Early Days; Egypt and "The Blue"; P.O.W. Number 2 and 3; Bricks and Soap Powder - P.O.W. Number 4; Peace at Last!; Italy Re-visited; Poems written in Captivity. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
350 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "A history of independent, courageous people who dared to be first, who dared to meet the challenges of a wilderness, who dared to leave their comfortable surrounds in "civilized" Britain and Europe and who dared to be leaders in a new land and in a new mountain and marine-oriented Municipality. This is the story of those people." - Don Lanskail, Mayor. Gift greetings upon dedication page and small erasure atop front endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy in attractive glossy boards. Book
xxiv, 64 pages. Features: The Hunting of Harry Tracy - the 1902 account of one of the most remarkable manhunts to ever take place in America; Pete the Pelican; Between Ourselves; Sahara Safari - photo-illustrated account; Remote Control - a strange story from the Northwest frontier of India; Awachomo Natural Bridge, Utah, USA (cover illustration); Land of Blood-Feuds - photo illustrated article about the mountain people of Crete; The Death-Divers - a former Swedish deep-sea diver recounts how in 1937 he and Chief Diver Matsson were detailed to assist in the raising of a wreck off Italian Somaliland; The Throw-Back - strange story from a South American gold mine; The Night Alarm - ; Wealth on the "Skeleton Coast"; Bush Interlude; The Vanished Waggons - a remarkable story from the Northern Territory of Australia where three laden vans mysteriously disappeared from a train running south from Darwin; many nostalgic ads; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
120 pages. Features: Cover illustration of International Farmall tractor harvesting grain; Lovely colour ad for Nash cars inside front cover; Color photo of golfer Sam Snead in one-page B.F. Goodrich tire ad; Half-page color ad for Titleist "Acushnet" golf balls; Nice two-page color ad for Mobilgas features large winged horse; Lovely half-page color ad for Hydrox cookies; Great two-page color ad for Chevrolet cars, featuring their PowerGlide transmissions; The Ordeal of Judge Harold Raymond Medina - he is hard on Reds; The Wrath of Tugboat Annie (story); Edmonton, Alberta - feature article with many photos, including youthful premier Ernest Manning; Ditchdigger's Daughter (story); Getting ripped off by phoney weigh scales; Photo-illustrated article on simultaneous translators at the U.N.; James (Big Jim) Morton - "I Was the King of the Thieves" - part 2; Appointment with Treachery (story); Super color-photo illustrated article on circus highwire performer the Great Alanza; The Magnificent Faker (story); Funny Way to Got To School - Calvert School in Baltimore; Bonus Rookie (story); Nice one-page color-photo ad for Campbell's Chicken Gumbo soup includes an Aunt Jemima-like lady cooking at fire; Lovely one-page color ad for the (yellow) Oldsmobile "88" Holiday Coupe; Murder is the Pay-Off (story); Nice one-page color-photo ad for G.E. fridges with the new Alnico Magnetic Door; Nice one-page color ad for De Soto cars; One-page color cartoon-style ad for Post cereals features baseball scene; Pall Mall cigarette ad; Nice one-page color ad for Ford cars; Sultry one-page ad for movie "Born to Be Bad" starring Joan Fontaine; Nostalgic two-page color ad for Kraft mayo and salad dressings; Nice one-page color ad for Frigidaire electric ranges; One-page color ad for the Studebaker Champion; One-page color ad for Hudson cars; One-page ad for RCA Victor televisions; One-page photo ad for Prest-O-Lite batteries features lady golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias; Wonderful color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes inside back cover features Gene Tierney and tobacco farmer Charlie P. Murphy of Mebane, N.C.; Attractive back cover Coke ad features large pop machine surrounded by a crowd of happy Coke drinkers. Somewhat above-average but not excessive wear. Light pink discoloration to part of top and bottom edge of most pages - text unaffected. Small piece missing from front cover at top of coverfold. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Milano, Garzanti, 1968, 16mo legatura editoriale cartonato telato con sovraccopertina illustrata a colori pp. 205 (timbro di disciolta biblioteca al frontespizio) .
58 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of lady at wheel of sailboat; The Strange Life and Death of Stalin's Wife (part 1); Hearts and Swords - a stirring novel of bold deeds and lovely women in the glamorous Venice of yesterday; Movie News, Reviews and Photos - F.P.1, Morning Glory, This Day and Age, Blind Adventure; One Man in Ten Thousand - the story of a woman who knew her own heart; Happy Days - by Anna Roosevelt Dall; The Private Life of New York Mayor, Jimmy Walker (part 4); Portrait of Southpaw Baseball Player Jake Ehrich; Pa's Rhapsody in Silver and Black; Familiar Face (short story); Pretty Sadie McKee (part 12); Vox Pop; Fascinating one-page ad for Physical Culture magazine asks "Where Can the Unhappy Woman Find Happiness?"; To the Ladies; Back cover color-illustrated Chesterfield cigarettes ad features young couple in amazing '30s fashions! Above-average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover features a pop (beverage) truck at work; Supita (fiction); Design for a new Dominion - The Rowell-Sirois Report is charged with significance for every individual Canadina living today and for his children and his grandchildren after him - with photo of the Dominion-Provincial Relations Committee; Sam Small's Better Half (fiction); Gerard Cote - Canadian Marathon Champ - article with photo; Twilight for Neville Chamberlain; Check Rein (fiction); Treasure in Iron - article and photos of the Steep Rock Mine near Atikokan, Ontario; Murder Off Stage (fiction); A Century in Steam - the story of the first transatlantic steamship to dock at a Canadian port on June 1st, 1840; Nice full-page ad for RCA Victor audio products; Gifts for the Bride; Full-page Dodge truck ad. Front cover nearly loose. Back cover badly chipped and loose. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Russell Sambrook cover illustration of boy in pajamas sneaking his dog upstairs; Dominion Linoleum colour ad inside front cover features yellow and maroon interior design of a 'very lucky' young person's bedroom; AC spark plug ad features horse talking to man cleaning his shotgun; Premier Aberhart of Alberta ponders 'licensing' newspapers; Fantastic one-page photo-illustrated ad for Marconi radios includes photos of newscaster Christopher Ellis and Frances James, plus photos of the model 79 A.C., 81 A.C. and 85 A.C. radios; One-page ad for the Parker Vacumatic pen features marathon theme; The Red Boar (short story from Rajputana); Revolt in Quebec - The English-Canadian View - article with photos of C.E. Gault, Maurice Duplessis and Camillien Houde; A Matter of Business (short story); Forward-Pass Time - article explaining how the aerial attack has made a new game of Canadian football - with photo of Rosso of the Argos in 1935; Beverley Baxter shares interesting new from London, plus he explains how Hitler saw propaganda used against Germany in WWI and vowed to use that same weapon to avenge his nation; Finished Picture (short story about the marriage trap); J. Bull, Customer - article on Canadian exports to Britain; The Thin Woman (short story); Photo-illustrated article on the settlers of King Ridges, 25 miles north of Toronto, where 41 families formerly on relief are plowing, sowing and reaping to earn their own living from the land; The General Died at Dawn (short story); Vintage one-page colour-photo ad for Green Giant Fine Foods of Canada features their canned vegetables; Very nice one-page colour-photo Westinghouse Air-pilot radio ad; Charming one-page colour Kraft ad features their cheese products; Prestone anti-freeze one-page ad features illustrations of (now) classy vintage cars; Half-page Palmolive Soap ad features two photos of the Dionne Quints, plus Dr. Dafoe who helped birth them; Stanfield's ad features illustration of man proudly strutting in his long underwear; Ponds Cold Cream ad features photo of Mrs. William Jay Iselin; One-page ad for the Singer "Make-It-Yourself" Wardrobe Plan; Fantastic colour photo/colour comic ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy and Rinso soaps feature "True B.O. Experience No. 127"; Back cover colour ad by the federal Department of Fisheries encourages readers to eat fish often; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this marvelous depression-era issue. Book
Pages 193-224. Features: The first church in Dover, and its Pastor - with illustration of Rev. George B. Spalding; Ancient institutions in Concord - The New Hampshire Patriot, The New Hampshire Statesman, The New Hampshire Historical Society; Did John Lovewell of Old Dunstable live to be 120 years old?; Hydrophobia, or Rabies; The Old Farm - a story in three chapters; New Hampshire men at Bunker Hill and Bennington; Chohass - the name of the great invervals on the Connecticut River at Haverhill, New Hampshire, and vicinity - with journal entries of Deacon robert Walker's and Matthew Patten's journey from Bedford to up Peezumsuch River in October and November 1764; The rationale of free government; History of Education in Nashua; Ad inside back cover for the patented Standard Broiler for beefsteak, made by D.Arthur Brown & Co. in Fisherville, NH. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this early issue. Magazine
191 pages. Index. Bibliography. Many nice archival black and white plates. "This volume records first explorations of the path of light, ever widening from primitive dawn to the rainbow flood which now illuminates the world screen of the motion picture... Primarily this is a pre-history of the motion picture." - from Foreward. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Still of value as a reference copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty rear and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on British Empire to Commonwealth 1930, Saint James in Spanish History, St John de Crevecoeur - Quebec 1759, Women and Literature - 18th Century, Felix Nadar, the Story of Parchment as a Writing Material and Gerard Ter Borch at Munster in 1648 plus book reviews and letters.
Berne/Paris, Phoenix Publishing Co./Scherz & Hallwag, (1947), in-16, privo di copertina, pp. 240, (8).
292 pages. The true story of the all-Canadian dream - to represent Canada in international hockey. But, in the hands of novelist turned sports reporter Paul Quarrington, the dream turns into a rambunctious romp over two continents, with the most original cast of stickhandlers and puck stoppers ever to lace up skates - our national hockey team! Mixes stories from such places as Grindelwald, Switzerland and Sudbury, Ontario, Quarrington carves out a hockey beat that few would imagine ever existed. Includes characters such as Sean Burke, Bobby Joyce and Dave King. Small remainder mark upon top edge of text else clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
New English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Kurdish. 237 p. Seven stories on jail in Kurdish language. Perdeyê res.
