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Pages 178-264 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Mystery of Ayers Valley - Miss Dorothy Belle Ayers receives an unexpected inheritance which leads to deadly peril; The Smuggled Diamonds - a perplexing mystery in Brazil; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-out Canoe - the experiences of a missionary-explorer during a trip down a little-known river in Brazil, visiting strange Indian tribes - with excellent photos; The Motor Thieves - a remarkable case of stolen vehicle recovery in southern California - with photos; A Woman in Albania - part 4 - Mrs. Lane's adventures among the remote northern mountains; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 7 of the continuing adventures of a husband and wife with their donkey; Our Trip to the Bird Islands - John Hogg's perilous journey - with many wonderful photos; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - Idelle Meng's 11 months on a deserted group of uninhabited atolls - with photo; Among New Guinea Cannibals - interesting experiences of H.C. Pratt - with photos; The Wonders of Cuba - article with nice vintage photos; Up in the Air - a ballooning story; The Ghost of Fort Severn - the story of an apparition that haunted a Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) post in the Canadian north. Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Faint pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 474-560 + 32 pages of ads. Features: The Six Skulls, Part II (sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings";The Reformation of Bill Allerday - an amusing Australian story; The Human 'Tank' - Mike Inik constructed a suit of armour out of solid steel and schemed revenge for twenty years; The Boat-Dwellers - wonderful photo-illustrated article on the thousands of British families who live on boats; "R.N.-W.M.P - The Riders of the Plains - authoritative stories of some of their exploits; Strange Stories of the War, including "Maroc", mascot of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; On the Borders of Tibet, Part VI - article with amazing photos; The Trouble at Punta Gorda - a planter's struggle with drink-crazed labourers in British Honduras; Circumstantial Evidence - the October 4th, 1900 tragedy at Rochester University, New York state; Historic Crimes and Mysteries; Railway Building in the Wilderness, Part II - fantastic photo-illustrated article on the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad through the Canadian Rockies; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear with openings to bottom of backstrip. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
63 pages. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Features: Silver City; Early Birds of British Columbia; The Battle of Foxtrap; The Murder of Barney The Maltese Trader; Klondike Lost - the Story of Grand Forks; Methods of Placer Mining; Collins' Overhead Telegraph; Muskets vs. Bows and Arrows; The Murder of Daniel Cutway; The Adamite Invasion. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
171 pages. Includes black and white photographic plates. The extraordinary story of a young couple determined to build a new life for themselves in a huge, implacable land where miracles and mayhem, tragedy, humour, and plain old-fashioned courage were an everyday occurence. Very light wear to unclipped dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Gift quality. Book
60 pages. Features: Ford ad inside front cover shows Canadian troop being welcomed home; On To Berlin - final days of the European war; Colour Canada Dry ad; Memorial photo of FDR; One-page GM ad features colour preproduction of rural fall leaf scene by Fred H. Brigden; They Stuck To Their Posts - article on Westerners who resisted the Japanese, including Emily Sprott of Ysabel Island and Archdeacon S.R. M. Gill of New Guinea; A Token for Tokyo (short story); Crime Behind the Front - photo-illustrated article on crime in Italy; Dog for Sale (short story); A Girl, A Bet and a Sailor (short story); Front Line Padre - wonderfully photo-illustrated article on Canada's men of the cloth who marched side-by-side with her troops - with photos of H/Major Cyril Stone of Vancouver, H/Capt. Rabbi Samuel Cass of Vancouver, H/Capt. E.C. Royle of Montreal, Captain George A. Harris (the only Canadian Jumping Padre) plus a group photo taken in Belgium of twenty-one Canadian Army Padres (too many names and ranks to list so please inquire for details); Adam Does a Job (short story); A Children's Charter - photo-illustrated article on Canada's new family allowance payments; Victory Bond ad; Victory Bond centrefold ad contrasts pastoral home scene with war-torn European scene; Health for Children - an ounce of prevention; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of newlyweds Mary Elizabeth Graham of "Greenacres", Aylmer and Gustave Eduardo Leguizamon, Chancellor of the Legation of Argentina; 1/3 Canadian Ice Foundation ad shows man carrying large block of ice; Colour Gold Seal Salmon ad features Walt Disney illustrations; Chase & Sanborn ad is colour Charlie McCarthy comic; Nice photo of Diana Barrymore in Arrid ad; Illustrations of Hollywood patterns; Should Women Return to the Home?; Nice colour illustration of Gloria De Haven in Woodbury Powder ad; Portrait of Mrs. Charles Boyer in Tangee ad; World Sayings; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy. Book
pp. xix, 42. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on Japan vellum. Tall 32mo. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps decorated in red and brown. Nice copy. PRESS/W39
46p. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on Japan vellum. Stamped ownership of Mrs. Frank T. Griswold. Small 24mo. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps with large red initial on front cover. Original floral pattern slip case, with small loss at top and bottom. Limited Edition of only 425 copies. Seventh Edition. Nice copy. PRESS/W39x2
Features: Automobiles of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1805-1962 - feature article including history and list of manufacturers, makes and years; The Story of the Pennsylvania Biddle; 1910 Bergdoll; Automobiles of York, Pennsylvania; 1909 Model 25 Peerless; I Drove Brussels-Madrid at 25 miles per hour - Paul de Man's adventure; Retopping the Enclosed Car; Tyres (Tires) for Antique and Classic Car; Ormond Beach Meet; First Italian Rally; Ford Company offers new film - Auto Race 1909 - the famous continental New York to Seattle race won by a Model T; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
314 pages including index. A story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily one-industry towns. Average quantity of markings to text. Light wear. Book
234 pages including bibliography and index. "Tells the colourful story of the Victoria Fire Department through a well-researched absorbing text and in hundreds of eloquent photographs. Included also are maps, appendices of the department's apparatus over the years, and sections of aural history dating back to 1912, as well as numerous anecdotes. Many original archival sources and the official records of the Victoria Fire Department were used in research." - from dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout, plus several in colour. Book clean, bright and unmarked but for date written atop decorated front endpaper. Average wear but no tears to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
Pages 85-132. Features: Colour cover photo of a VX 4/90 being loaded into the nose of a Carvair (Channel Air Bridge); The 100th course of the R.A.C. Junior Driver Scheme - article with photos; You Must Give Way - animals on the road take precedence over motor traffic; Pressure Group - the 800 ton Schuler press at the Luton factory; Fuel Consumption Test; Photos and story of a motor trip to Italy in a Velox; Page of photos of vintage accessories for your Vauxhall; The Mountains Move Nearer - A VX 4/90 helps make history on the inaugural flight of the new Channel Air Bridge car ferry services to Switzerland - article with photos; Brinton's View; Ladies' Maid - A New Zealand trip - article and photos; Photos of interesting parking signs; "Your Name and Address Please" - how to deal with the police when stopped. Many pages of great vintage ads. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Tre giornali completi il resto del carlino ( 1/8, 15/8 e 30/8/1915) con tre deliranti articoli di Papini in terza pagina ( due sul valore italiano e uno contro gli U.S.A. che considera una nazione inferiore e che non interverrà mai in guerra e che, anche se intervenisse non servirebbe a niente.
52 pages. Features: Very attractive full-page two-colour ad for International Harvester's TracTractors; Ad for RCA Victor audio products; Runaround in Reverse (short story); Jail Without Locks - British Columbia's new Borstal home near Vancouver - a prison with no guards nor locks - article with photos; Edward Johnson of Guelph - Part 1 - article with photos; A Train Journey (short story); Beverley Baxter's letter from London; Beauty Business - article about beauty products - with photos of their manufacture; Will Poland Be Next?, by Douglas Reed - article with photos; The Flying Yorkshireman (short story); Well I Declare! - tips on dealing with Customs officers - article with photos; Nice ad for Chevroet trucks; Hudson car ad; Tennis player Don Budge is featured in Bromo-Seltzer ad; Lux soap ad featuring photos of Claudette Colbert and Andrea Leeds; Canada's First Marathon Victory - W.J. (Billy) Sherring of Hamilton won the marathon at the Athens Olympics in 1906 - brief article with photos; Nice half-page colour ad for Sisman's Scampers (shoes). Above-average external wear. Coverfold halfway open. Covers almost loose. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
132 pages including index. "An authoritative natural history and a visual celebration of this playful creature. Together, text and photographs combine to capture the beauty and power of the coastal seas and to emphasize that we must take part to help ensure the continued prosperity of this fascinating creature." - from dust jacket. Negligible wear to clean, bright and unmarked book. Light wear to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
231 pages. Prior owner's signature upon title page. A heart-warming story of an ordinary family with an EXTRAordinary God. Also includes an abridged story of the author's first book: Through the Iron Lung. Raised in a home where alcohol brought chaos and tragedy, she longed for the freedom of adulthood, when she would be on her own. An encounter with Jesus Christ brought a new dimension to her life, and her fervent goal was to be a missionary. Describes her battle with poliomyelitis, the birth of a son, her husband's ministry, and much more. She now lives in South Surrey, B.C. with her husband. Book
OTTIMO, LIEVISSIMI SEGNI DEL TEMPO. PRIMA EDIZIONE. Un intricato gioco di teatro nel teatro, fitto di ombre e minacce del passato. Una morte annunciata, messa in scena con crudele precisione. E per Cordelia Gray ci sono solo due giorni di tempo per risolvere il caso. Informazioni bibliografiche Titolo: Un indizio per Cordelia Gray Titolo originale: The Skull Beneath the Skin Collana: Omnibus stranieri Autore: P. D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James) Tradotto da: Riccardo Mainardi Edizione: 1 Editore: Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1991 ISBN: 880433083X, 9788804330837 Lunghezza: 414 pagine; 23 cm Soggetti: Letteratura inglese, Narrativa anglosassone, Romanzi, Gialli, horror, noir, miss Gray, Clarissa Lisle, Detective story, Mistery, Gotico Parole e frasi comuni all'improvviso Ambrose Gorringe andato aprì arrivato aspetto assassino attesa bambina Bevis biglietti bisogno bocca braccio di marmo camera da letto capo carillon caso castello Clarissa Lisle Courcy Island credo delitto detto dire domandò donna Dorset Duchessa di Amalfi faccia finestra giardino delle rose Greensleeves Grogan lady Ralston lancia lasciato Lillie Langtry Londra macchina per scrivere mano mare messaggi moglie momento morte occhi Oldfield ospiti parlare parole passi pensò Cordelia personale piccola piedi polizia poliziotti porta pranzo prese Probabilmente prova ragazzo recita signor Gorringe Lisle signora Munter signorina Gray Maudsley silenzio Simon sir George sospetti spalle Speymouth stanza isola tazza teatro telefonare terrazza teschi Tolgarth Tolly occhiata vedere verso vittoriana voglio volto weekend Whittingham xilografia
184 pages. Features: Farmer Claude Pagles talks to General Marshall; How to choose a cow; We're inviting a foot-and-mouth disaster; A home for small flocks; Soil conservation needs a change; We're really saving soil today; Hunting our biggest cat; The Taylors of Walnut Hill - The Thomas R. Taylor family and their Walnut Hill Hereford Ranch of Barton County, KS; Greener grow their pastures; A bargain in cotton; Family story - J. Garrett Tolan Angus Cattle of Illinois; We need more meat; Plain talk; and more. Ads: Ipana ad features Frances Nalle and her kids Amanda and Bobo; Texaco ad features photo of invention at the Moore Brothers plantation near Navasota, TX; B.F. Goodrich ad features photo on the farm of Woody Doremus near Bakersfield, CA; ad for the Cessna 190 and 195; M-E rotary tillers; GE radio ad with illustration of Bea Wain; GMC trucks (color); Ford cars - with color photos in Italy, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa; International trucks; Jeep; Ford trucks; Case equipment; Futuramic Oldsmobile; New Dodge trucks; Minneapolis-Moline Universal "R" tractor - with color photos; Buick; Ford tractors (2 pages); Oliver 60 tractor; Sparton radio (color); True Temper tools; Stewart-Warner radios; Studebaker color ad inside back cover features W.K. Price Jr. of Orlando, FL; Camel cigarette color ad on back cover features Bronc rider Jerry Amber, fisher Mrs. Dorothy Allan Newstead, polo star Cecil Smith and table-tennis star Mary Reilly. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Interesting WWII commentary by publisher Joseph Lister Rutledge; Secret Power in the Far Pacific - Japan and Germany planned a 'perfect crime'... Here's why it failed, and why Japan cannot win (written in light of the Pearl Harbour attack); Never From Valiant Men - story by I.A.R. Wylie; Mickey Rooney - The Life and Loves of Box-Office Man No. 1 - article with photos; Photo feature of Alexis Smith; I Saw it Happen in Manilla - Annalee Whitmore describes Japanese bombing in the Philippines; Digest version of "Storm", a novel by George Stewart; The Goodwill Tour of Don Florencio De La Pampa; 40-question boxing quiz by Jack Dempsey; The Battle of Detroit - Frederick L. Collins gives a first-hand report of high-scale allied arms manufacturing; Mississippi Belle - story by Clements Ripley; Kellogg's All-Bran cereal ad; Stalin - Devil or Genius?, by Emil Ludwig with black and white photos; To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; Girl Meets Girl, by Bubbles Schinasi; Pictures You Ought to See, by Howard Barnes; Nice colour ad for Mercury Mills, Limited, Hamilton, on back cover. Cover photo of young girl nurse bandaging arm of her playmate's arm. Average wear. Address label with hand-written correction on front cover. Inked postal date stamp atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
Pages 265-330 plus 22 pages of ads. Features include: The River-Pilot - author piloted a coal barge in the Monongahela River in West Virginia; Seeking the "Ruined City" - Author's trip to a fantastic natural wonder in Australia's Arnhem Land; Old Ned - Story by a Merchan Navy "Sparks"; The Pay-Out - Author became an assistant barman at a little up-country hotel in South Africa; Canadian Police-Dogs - Close-up; Lingeros - South American hoboes; Bush Bandit - An Australian bushman's strange experience; Through Northern India on Horseback - Author needed to get six horses from Simla to Delhi; River Gold - Author's adventure while cruising down British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; Island of Dreams - Puerto Rico; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County (Part I of 4) - the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois. Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
62 pages. Features: Archie Bunker cover illustration by Robert Grossman; Spooking the Spooks - The Victor Marchetti Story; Women; The Good Fortune of the Franklin Mint (critical article); Poor Derek's Almanac; Bankamerilib - Can Lynda Bird by Liberated?; Marcos and the Philippines; Conversations with Steel Mill Rebels; Who Goes Begging in America; Racism in the Counterculture; Kissinger - the Swinging Sphinx; Alcatraz is not an Island; The Only Good Indian...; Gerald Hanley - An Irishman in Africa; Consciousness as a Commodity; Munich on $40 Million a day; back cover ad for Solzhenitsyn's "August 1914". Average wear. Unmarked. Covers beginning to pull from staples. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. Copyright 1941. Prior owner's details inside front cover, some of which are blacked out. Somewhat above-average wear. Lower two inches of cover fold open. Lovely colour illustrations throughout. Intended for beginning readers. Book
32 pages. Copyright 1941. Printing date unknown. Primary-level reader. Lovely colour illustrations. Delightful story of a little girl and a turkey farm. Coverfold open for two inches at bottom. Prior owner details stroked out and covered by tape inside front cover. Contents otherwise clean, unmarked and cheery. Book
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (19,5 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 62 p. Kopuklar. Mizahî hasbihâl. Osman Nihat Akin was a Turkish composer who composed about 40 famous songs in classic Turkish forms like "Bir ihtimal daha var", "Körfezdeki durgun suya bir bak", "Yine bu yil ada sensiz". He was grandson of famouspoet and writer Ahmed Rasim. This book has two important introductions and prefaces by Ercüment Ekrem Talu and Aka Gündüz. Signed and inscribed by Akin as 'Sevimli ve sevgili kardesim Necdete, 28.1.947, Ankara'. Not in OCLC. First and Only Edition.
602 pages. Thematic index, chronological list of authors and translators, chronological list of composers and arrangers, chronological list of sources, chronological list of sources for the tunes, bibliography, supplementary index. Signed by author upon title page. Prior owner's name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this painstakingly compiled and most scholarly work. Book
231 pages including bibliography and over 180 illustrations. "A complete history of what John Maynard Keynes has called "the underworld of economics." Beginning in England in 1917, it makes a bizarre, at times nearly unbelievable, story of monetary cranks, political parvenues, conspiracy theorists, end-of-the-world millennialists and political demagogues that sweeps through Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec before culminating in the '80s in British Columbia." - from back cover. Moderate wear and soiling. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
