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80 pages. Includes 4-pages of colour photos from the movie plus sheet music for the following great songs: Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground; Bloody Mary Morning; Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain; Comin' Back to Texas; Fiddlin' Around; Heaven and Hell; I Don't Do Windows; I Guess I've Come to Live Here in Your Eyes; If You Can Touch Her at All; If You Want Me To Love You, I Will; It's Not Supposed to Be That Way; Jumpin' Cotton-Eyed Joe; Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again); Make the World Go Away; On the Road Again; Pick Up the Tempo; So You Think You're a Cowboy; A Song for You; Two Sides to Every Story; Uncloudy Day; Whiskey River; Workin' Man Blues; You Show Me Yours (And I'll Show You Mine). Heavily-used with usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 53 p. B/w ills. Horoz sekeri ile badem sekeri. Ills. by Füsun Iyicil.
167 pages. "A vivid picture of life in the west in the years just after Confederation." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings and prior owner's details upon front endpaper. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice copy. Book
144 pages. Index. Dozens of black and white photos and diagrams. Features: How Fast Should it Go? - 110 road test results for Detroit cars, 1950 through 1955; Making it Go Faster - latest info. on what you can buy to hot rod your family car; Stealing the V8's Thunder - the complete story on OHV V8 engines; Overhead V8 Prices and Sizes; Engine Swaps - What Fits and Why; Adapter Plates - Where to Use 'em; Proper Transmission Alignment; Choosing the Right Transmission; Hot Rodding Detroit Mills. Above-average wear. Moisture stains along fore-edge of all pages. Binding intact. Unmarked. An entertaining look back to the early days of hot rodding. Book
128 pages. Will be of great appeal to those who have read "The Creature From Jekyll Island", and similar works. Chapters include: Money - its origins; Banks - the beginnings; The new world; The First Bank of the United States; "Wild-Cat" Banking; The Second Bank of the United States; A Period of Confusion; The National Bank Act; The Federal Reserve Act; Experience Under the Reserve Act; Labor Banking; The Bank Act of 1933; Credit Unions; Savings and Loan Associations; The Gold Standard. Moderate wear to navy blue boards. Contents very clean, bright and unmarked . The exception is 3 tiny faint markings in text which appear to be inkstamps of the initials "D.W." Excellent copy. Book
241 pages. Index. "Reveals the formulas and step-by-step case histories of packages, trademarks and ads of national and regional brands and how they were pre-tested to assure success. Learn how the amazing science of Motivation Research can help you in your business to write your own success story." - from dust jacket. Author was director of the Color Research Institute. Former owner's ink stamps upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Average wear. Sound working copy. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Book
pp. xii, 350p. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, very worn and torn. HUMOR 3
285 pages including notes, references and index. Tells the full statistical story of trends in Russian fertility since the first census in 1897 by examining the conditions - social, economic, cultural, and demographic - that existed at the beginning of and during the decline in human fertility. Among the characteristics considered are level of mortality, ethnic composition, literacy and educational attainment, proportion urban, and occupational composition. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. Average wear to dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
256 pages including selected bibliography. Inscribed and signed by author. Includes laid in copy of newsclipping re: this book and hand-written humourous comment by author. The fascinating story of a people alienated by unique historical experience from the main stream of North American development; the story of a people dispersed by harsh geography and economic necessity to hundreds of isolated communities along thousands of miles of inhospitiable coasts; the story of the horrendous problems associated with the planning and development of even minimal social services in the face of such harsh demographic realities; the story of hardship and suffering, of deprivation and of exploitation, of endurance and of survivial; but , withal, the story of steady advance towards the shimmering goal of social justice that so often seemed, except to the hardiest optimist, to be a will-o'-the-wisp that could never be grasped. Unmarked. Light wear. A special copy. 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
88 pages. Features: Cover photo features Ontario's Deputy Minister of Game and Fish, D.J. Taylor beside a bear he shot; A Wild Goose Chase - Photo-illustrated story of Frank Piscatelli' trip to Knight Inlet for Canada Geese; Old Mission in the Rain - fishing on the 'Dog-Watch', J.(Jack) W.N. Bell's inland schooner, on Lake Temiskaming; Illustrations of 1940 Handguns; The Canadian Grizzly - photo-illustrated article on 'the most dangerous of all Canadian big game' by T.C. Young; Panapitei Watches - photo-illustrated article in Waldie County in Northern Ontario includes photos of Ontario government officials Hon. Gordon C. Conant, Hon. H.C. Nixon and D.J. Taylor; Two pages of Conservation Charts for 1939; Ted Stikeman's day of fishing speckled trout in northern Quebec; Passing of Col. J. Bruce Payne; The Setter (dog) and his food; and much more. Fantastic back cover colour-illustrated ad for O'Keefe's beer and ale features relaxing airmen in wood-panelled room. Above-average wear. Small clipping from page 21. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Wonderful full-page photo of shell leaving the muzzle of a 12" rail-mounted Howitzer 'somewhere in England'; Enemy activities in pictures - crashed German bomber in Portugal, Field-Marshal von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-Chief of the German armed forces inspects a massive rail-mounted gun, German troops prepare for a British invasion by attempting to haul a small gun up a steep bank; Photo-illustrated text of a broadcast by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. entitled "The Position in the Balkans"; Map of Bulgariaentitled "Nazi Threat to Greek and Turkish Frontiers; Photos of Bulgaria; New U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant is welcomed by the King; Belgian troops training in England; Illustration by S. Drigin recounts the amazing story of how a wing-damaged Sunderland was taxied home for five hours after a bombing run to Norway - crewmembers took turns holding onto the end of the opposite wing to compensate for the damage in the intense cold; Interesting scenes in the Western Desert; Great photo of British artillery pounding the Italians out of Derna, another one of their Libyan strongholds, plus the infantry moving into Derna; Photos of the occupation of Bengazi; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black shows a successful engagement near Keren in Eritrea; Italian POWs in their camp; British POWs of the Italians in Addis Adaba; Aerial photo taken during R.A.F. attack on Massawa; Aerial photo of Italian S.79s burning near Kismayu; Aerial photo lf S.79 Italian bombers burning in Gobwen aerodrome, near Kismayu; Arctic War in Albania - photo of Greek troops using light tanks abandoned by the Italians; Photo of Italian colonel and his A.D.C. captured in Albania; Various winter photos of Greek troops in Albania; Photo-illustrated text of broadcast by Middle East Air Commodore R.B. Goddard entitled "Strategy of the Air"; Photo of Wellington bomber gunners putting on their 'hot suits' - electrically heated clothing, boots and gloves; Photo of dozens of Australian radio mechanics arriving in England; Photos of men of the Suffolk Regiment preparing for the second round; Photos of coastal watch in Northern Ireland; Commentary on the war this week; Photos aboard the Polish destroyer Piorun, including a fantasting full-page shot of a torpedo in mid air as it is shot from the deck of the vessel; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality 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.
227 pages including bibliography. A firsthand account of rare eloquence and immediacy, a remarkable story of raw human courage and - ultimately - indominable hope. "Birger Sellin has broken through a wall between unbearable worlds, and what he has written is nothing other than the poetry of the human soul." - Carolyn Forche, author of The Angel of History. Remainder mark upon bottom edge. Unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
198 pages. Author's nice inscription, rubber stamp and signature upon front flyleaf. Rather than a travelogue, this is an attempt to see events in China through author's own eyes and to interpret some of its history through personal experience... "The story of someone who has had a love affair with China." - from back cover. A very personal account of author's involvement with the three modern eras of Chinese history: the last days of the Ching dynasty, the republican years, and the years since the Communist Revolution. Author was born in Hong Kong in 1909. Includes black and white illustrations plus a special slip laid in which depicts the actual size of a shoe worn by women with bound feet. Minimal wear. No markings. Attractive glossy illustrated covers. Book
32 p. Illustrated with a map. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers very slightly soiled. Volume Two, Number Eighteen. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. W8RtRear
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
Features: Cover Artist - Mayumi Oda; Pine - many lovely colour photos; Catching Up With the West - the story of the Meiji period; The Saga of Five Meiji Girls - they left Japan to see how foreign women were educated and raised their children - nice archival black and white photos; State of the Art - I.I.'s Ikebana Portfolio; Japanese Fans. Two small marks inside back cover else clean with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Floral Focus - Rose - the noble rose; The Way of the Brush - a guide to appreciation; The Man from Toga - a theatrical story in three acts; New Zealand Flax; Ikebana Portfolio; Hana Kagami - balancing color and volume. Unmarked with light wear. Beautifully illustrated cover. A nice copy. Book
Features: Floral focus - weeping willow - a graceful sob story, with beautiful color photos; A Dyeing Art - Keiji Kawakami and Tenugui - attractively color illustrated article; Master Banana Plant (Matsuo Basho) - How Japan's Most Famous Writer Got His Name; Seeking the Heart of a Flower - Master Ikebana artist Toshiro Kawase explains his work; On Exhibition - Modern Women's Ikebana - Daimaru Department Store, Tokyo, September 13-18, 1990; Ikebana Portfolio; Hana Kagami - Color Harmony and Restrictions (Part 5). A nice copy. Book
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.
<p>18 cm, brossura editoriale illustrata a colori con titolo al piatto e dorso, p. 222. Tracce del tempo ai tagli delle pagine con piccole mancanze senza perdita di testo. Complessivamente in buone condizioni.</p>
PP. 190, CM.18X11, BROSS.
Firenze, Adriano Salani, 1909, in-16, br. editoriale con copertina anteriore fittizia, pp. 350, (2). Minime mancanze al dorso, ma ottime condizioni interne. 2° titolo del ciclo investigativo in 8 volumi (Le Avventure Straordinarie di Giuseppe Rouletabille, Reporter) che hanno come protagonista il giornalista detective Joseph Josephin, detto Rouletabille; l'edizione originale francese è dell'anno precedente.
257 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "J.S. Guard has painstakingly researched published sources and original PRO records to produce an absorbing, definitive story of military opportunism and indiscretion; of extreme endurance punctuated by sudden, sharp action; and of clandestine, courageous enterprise and ingenuity in the idyllic setting of the Greek islands. An intriguing account of one of the least publicised campaigns of the war, this work examines all aspects of the campaign, makes impartial assessments... and dispels some of the myths and misstatements associated with it." Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket now in archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
