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Pages 449-512. Features: In Peril Among the Riffs - How Sir Malcolm Campbell and Flight-Lieut. Don nearly lost their lives in North Africa - article with photos; With the Seal Hunters - photo-illustrated article on the heroic and arduous labours of the gallant fishermen for seals amongst the ice-floes of the coast of Labrador; Famous Figures in Football - G. (Geoffrey) N. Foster and Dr. R. Cove-Smith - article with photo; Sixty Years of Soccer - article with photos of William McCracken, Fanny Walden, G.O. Smith, Victor Watson, and Clifford Bastin; The Secret of Druid's Cross (mystery story); Why Keep a Log Book?; Field Hockey Tactics - article with photos; Making Morris Motors - photo-illustrated article on the manufacture of Morris cars; The Poacher's Wirelss (fiction); The Reversed Watermark (fiction); The Hooghly River - the World's Worst (article); The Story of Stamp Collecting. No table of contents. Covers loose but present. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
96 pages. Illustrated front board. Undated. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper dated 1904. Above-average wear. Binding tender and open at title page. Still a worthy copy. Book
About The Book : The Booklover is distinguished from the reader as such by loving his books, and from the collector as such by reading them. He prizes not only the soul of the book, but also its body, which he would make a house beautiful, meet for the indwelling of the spirit given by its author. Love is not too strong a word to apply to his regard, which demands, in the language of Dorothy Wordsworth, “a beautiful book, a book to caress — peculiar, distinctive, individual: a book that hath first caught your eye and then pleased your fancy," The truth is that the book on its physical side is a highly organized art object. About The Author : Harry Lyman Koopman (1860-1937), librarian from 1893 to 1930, was born in Freeport, Maine, on July 1, 1860. He graduated from Colby College in 1880. In 1881, after a brief teaching experience, he went to work at the Astor Library. In 1883 he became a cataloger at Cornell University, a job he subsequently held at Columbia, Rutgers and the University of Vermont. In 1893 he received a master of arts degree from Harvard and was appointed Librarian of Brown University, a position from which he retired thirty-seven years later. During his tenure, the size of the library grew from 80,000 to 400,000, and the John Hay Library was built in 1910. He said that he had two of the greatest satisfactions that a librarian can enjoy, a new library and the opportunity to launch some of his “disciples,” or student assistants, on a library career. Well known in the library world, Koopman was elected president of the American Library Association in 1928. He was opposed to censorship, and, in 1929, delivered an outspoken commentary on the policy of the Customs Department in barring works by such authors as Rousseau, Balzac and Bocaccio: “Every college in the country will have to ‘shut up shop’ if this continues. ... If these books are going to be banned, they ought to go through with it and bar the Old Testament.” Koopman was also a poet. He wrote his first published poem in 1875, and later contributed prose and poetry to the college monthly at Columbia. His first book, an ode to Farragut entitled The Great Admiral, was published in 1883. His other books of poetry included Morrow Songs in 1898, At the Gates of the Century in 1905, The Librarian and the Desert in 1908, and Hesperia, an American National Poem in two volumes, 1919-1924. His service to Brown went far beyond the library. In 1895 he published the Historical Catalogue of Brown University. He was associate editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly from 1906 to 1917. He taught a course on “Books and Libraries.” He was named professor of bibliography in 1908. In October 1930 he began to write a regular column, “Planets and Stars,” for the Providence Journal. He died on December 28, 1937. His last “Planets and Stars” column was published posthumously on January 1, 1938. In his plans for the column in the new year, he had written, “During the present year, we shall devote our space to stars that we cannot see unless, in Horace’s phrase, we ‘change our skies.”
About The Book : The Booklover is distinguished from the reader as such by loving his books, and from the collector as such by reading them. He prizes not only the soul of the book, but also its body, which he would make a house beautiful, meet for the indwelling of the spirit given by its author. Love is not too strong a word to apply to his regard, which demands, in the language of Dorothy Wordsworth, “a beautiful book, a book to caress — peculiar, distinctive, individual: a book that hath first caught your eye and then pleased your fancy," The truth is that the book on its physical side is a highly organized art object. About The Author : Harry Lyman Koopman (1860-1937), librarian from 1893 to 1930, was born in Freeport, Maine, on July 1, 1860. He graduated from Colby College in 1880. In 1881, after a brief teaching experience, he went to work at the Astor Library. In 1883 he became a cataloger at Cornell University, a job he subsequently held at Columbia, Rutgers and the University of Vermont. In 1893 he received a master of arts degree from Harvard and was appointed Librarian of Brown University, a position from which he retired thirty-seven years later. During his tenure, the size of the library grew from 80,000 to 400,000, and the John Hay Library was built in 1910. He said that he had two of the greatest satisfactions that a librarian can enjoy, a new library and the opportunity to launch some of his “disciples,” or student assistants, on a library career. Well known in the library world, Koopman was elected president of the American Library Association in 1928. He was opposed to censorship, and, in 1929, delivered an outspoken commentary on the policy of the Customs Department in barring works by such authors as Rousseau, Balzac and Bocaccio: “Every college in the country will have to ‘shut up shop’ if this continues. ... If these books are going to be banned, they ought to go through with it and bar the Old Testament.” Koopman was also a poet. He wrote his first published poem in 1875, and later contributed prose and poetry to the college monthly at Columbia. His first book, an ode to Farragut entitled The Great Admiral, was published in 1883. His other books of poetry included Morrow Songs in 1898, At the Gates of the Century in 1905, The Librarian and the Desert in 1908, and Hesperia, an American National Poem in two volumes, 1919-1924. His service to Brown went far beyond the library. In 1895 he published the Historical Catalogue of Brown University. He was associate editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly from 1906 to 1917. He taught a course on “Books and Libraries.” He was named professor of bibliography in 1908. In October 1930 he began to write a regular column, “Planets and Stars,” for the Providence Journal. He died on December 28, 1937. His last “Planets and Stars” column was published posthumously on January 1, 1938. In his plans for the column in the new year, he had written, “During the present year, we shall devote our space to stars that we cannot see unless, in Horace’s phrase, we ‘change our skies.”
364 pages including index. Tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. Explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and cancer, all within the framework of Dr. Becker's colorful and controversial career. Unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
51p. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on Japan vellum. Bookplate of Albert David Hutzler and Gretchen Hochschild Hutzler, of the powerful Baltimore department store families. Small 24mo. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps with large red initial on front cover. Original floral pattern slip case, loss at top and bottom. Limited Edition of only 425 copies. Second Edition. Nice example. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. PRESS/W39. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
283 pages. Index. Dozens of wonderful black and white photos. "The UNITED STATES represents the fulfillment of a lifetime dream. Her design, her financing, her construction, her trials, her capturing the world's speed supremacy - all these were the crowning achievements of an amazingly successful life - the life of William Francis Gibbs... Tells the story of The Big Ship, as she was known at 21 West Street, the offices of Gibbs & Cox, where she was designed... She was drydocked in 1980 and passed with flying colours... So here's to the safest liner ever built, the fastest big ship ever and one of the world's masterpieces!" - from dust jacket. Prior owner's ink stamp inside front board else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear and some spine sunning to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
243 pages including index and black and white photos. Hockey fans who saw Frank Mahovlich play will never forget the combination of power and grace that defined the on-ice presence of a hockey superstar. He was a Toronto Maple Leaf by age nineteen. In his first year in the NHL he beat out Bobby Hull for the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year. And so began a Hall of Fame career, spanning twenty-one years in the NHL and WHA, that saw six Stanley Cups, the end of the six team era, and a Senate appointment. Relies upon 30 interviews with the Big M's peers. An insightful portrayal of a hockey legend, father and mentor. A very attractively illustrated and unmarked volume with very light wear. Book
190p. Numerous color drawings. Inked scribbling. Small 4to. Original color pictorial glossy binding. Display Copy. Arthur Stanley Maxwell (1896-1970), also known as Uncle Arthur, was a well-known author, editor, and church administrator. His books are still extremely popular. Hardbound. Very good. RELIGION BOX 5
264 pages including index. The first full account of a scientific discovery that may change the world, told by a skeptical secular reporter who became part of the story. Clean, bright and unmarked with virtually zero wear. Gift quality. Excellent copy. Book
20 page board book. Average soiling and wear to outer boards. No markings. Five inch crease to top right corner of front board. Contents clean and bright. A picture story book with no words providing discovery, surprise and fun for pre-reading children from 3-6 years. Book
40 pages. Circa 1967. A very rare copy of this songbook which contains many of Sonny and Cher's biggest hits. Includes music, chords and lyrics to: Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down); The Beat Goes On; A Beautiful Story; But You're Mine; Good Times; It's Gonna Rain; I Got You Babe; It's the Little Things; Just You; Laugh at Me; Little Man; Sing C'est La Vie; You'd Better Sit Down Kids. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Centenary of Diocese - the Anglican Diocese of Rupert's Land was created in 1849; Thelewey-Aza-Yeth - Guy H. Blanchet searches the headwaters of the Thelon River; Committee's Punch Bowl - the little lake at the top of Athabaska Pass, which Simpson named after the Company's London Board, 125 years ago; Frail American Elizabeth Taylor braves the rigours of wilderness travel 60 years ago, just to see how she can take it; Woodland table manners; New York to Nome and Back - in 1920, eight fliers of the United States Air Service flew from New York to Nome and return - photo-illustrated article; Mistassinia Calendar - a year in the life of a Mistassini Indian - photo-illustrated article; HBC and Vancouver's Island - behind the establishment of Vancouver Island as a Crown Colony lay a tense international drama, and a great story of loyalty; Letters Outward 1679-94 - a review of the 11th volume of the Hudson's Bay Record Society; Expeditions to the Arctic - 3rd of 3 instalments listing the various expeditions to the Canadian Arctic from the year 1004 A.D., this part covering the years 1860-1918; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Glamorous colour photo of woman wearing arctic fox evening cloak inside front cover; The Mad Giant and the Mountie - a huge Swede who worked on a section gang makes a sudden divorce from sanity; Frank Oliver - Spokesman for the West; Cold War on the Fraser River - the Yucultas near Fort Langley were dreaded by all the tribes along the river - until the day when the cold war became a hot war; The Simple Men; First Lady of the Rails - "The Countess of Dufferin"; On Board the M.V. Fort Hearne - great photo study; Robert (Bob) Chambers Edwards (Eye-Opener Bob); Trapping the Big Horn - there was lots of action when some California Bighorn sheep were corralled in the Chilcotin country for shipment to Oregon; The Formative Years - II - part 2 of an article on the early settlement of the area which, 50 years ago, became Saskatchewan and Alberta; The Story of The Sault - on the centenary of the first American locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Dr. Clever Bald sketches the history of the two towns - Canadian and American - beside the rapids; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: HBC and the Smithsonian; River of Deadmen's Valley - R.M. Patterson spent three years in the fabled Nahanni Valley; Prisoners of the Indians - continuing the story of the McLean family's adventures in 1885; By God's River to the Bay - God's River in Northern Manitoba; Pullen in Search of Franklin - part II; Tweedsmuir Park - article with photos and map; Voyageur's Artist - Frances Ann (Beechey) Hopkins; Boy Hero - Donald Ayalik; Founding Fort Yukon - the company's most westerly fort was established by Alexander Hunter Murray 100 years ago; Pageantry at York Fort - an eye-witness account of the trading ceremony which was staged at York Factory in the 1770's; ad for HBC prairie farmlands for sale on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Annals of the fur trade - the making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives; The story of the HBC Museum Collection; On the Cariboo Gold Rush Road; 1919 - the Winnipeg General Strike reconsidered; George Back's sketchbooks come to Canada. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
287 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon half-title page. Index. Black and white photographic plates. The story of short soldiers in Word War I. "Author tracked down 300 surviving Bantams and made good use of unpublished journals and letters. His experience documents again the widespread illogical prejudice against people who happen to be short." - from back cover. Small inkstamp to bottom of front flyleaf else clean and unmarked. Very light wear. Minor curl to front cover. Very nice copy. Book
256 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Documents the ongoing battle for control of Canada's richest business. "Based upon dozens of interviews with all the major players, including an exclusive one-on-one with Paul Martin, this is a rich story of outsized personalities and egos, brilliant and stupid strategies, and an epic power struggle pitting business against government and corporate Canada against ordinary Canadians." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket in archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
np. Orange wood cuts designed and printed by Kam Young Wong. Wide margins. Uncut. Square 8vo. Original cloth backed patterned paper boards. Original paper label. Hardbound. Printed in a very small edition by Kam Young Wong. Short story about a man of modest means who comes into a small inheritance that "impelled him towards some seemingly harmless extravagances. In particular it led him to patronize local art as represented by the tattoo-needles of Signor Andreas Pincini. Signor Pincini was, perhaps, the most brilliant master of tattoo craft that Italy had ever known, but his circumstances were decidedly impoverished, and for the sum of six hundred francs he gladly undertook to cover his client's back, from collar-bone down to waist-line, with a glowing representation of the Fall of Icarus." Nice copy. PRESS/W32 x 2c.
120p. Black mark on bottom edge. Sm. 8vo. Original full paper covered binding. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. First Edition. DOGS/CATS BOX 1
96 pages. Features: Reports from Washington, London and on Science and Industry; The Crisis in Teaching, by Oscar Handlin; Italian Communism, 1956 - by Paolo Pavolini; The Communist Approach to Burma, by David L. Cohn; Bella! Bella! - by Constance Tomkinson; The Word of Willow (poem), by Leah Bodine Drake; The Meanest Man in Washington County, by Dillon Anderson; How the Brain Works, by George R. Harrison; A Pair of Hands (poem) by May Sartun; The Dollmaker - story by Niccolo Tucci; The Musician - poem by R.P. Lister; The Illusion of Owning a Business, by Frederick W. Copeland; A Word for Farewell (poem), by Richard Church; Apley, Wickford Point, and Pulham - My Early Struggles, by John P. Marquand; Max Beerbohm, by Evelyn Waugh; Mitchell Goodman on Mexico (part II). Nice colour ad for the Tennessee Gass Transmission Company inside front cover. Attractive colour ad for Martell Cognac inside back cover features a Versailles theme. Nice colour ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whisky on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Reports on Germany, Africa and the Middle East; Inside Red China - Peking, by James Cameron; I Don't Wanna Be No Mate - story by Richard Bissell; The Control of Energy, by George R. Harrison; Campaigning with La Guardia, by Ernest Cuneo; Orpheus and his Little Lute - a poem by Louis Untermeyer; Michelangelo - The Titan and the Crisis, by Francis Henry Taylor; Appetite and Obesity, by Jean Mayer; The Old Soldiers' Home - a poem by Howard Nemerov; Labor's New Victory - Threat or Promise?, by Sumner H. Sclichter; The Sea in Literature, by Samuel Eliot Morison; Tuners, Aerials, and FM, by John M. Conly. Black and white photo ad inside front cover features pianist Rudolph Serkin; U.S. Savings Bond ad inside back cover features General Billy Mitchell. Back cover features nice colour ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whisky. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
192 pages. Features: Reports on Argentina, Suez, France and Australia; Box Office is Not Enough, by Agnes De Mille; I Shall Vote for Eisenhower, by Robert Cutler; Why the Democrats should win, by Gerald W. Johnson; The Burning of the Waters (story) by James Still; Children of Light (poem) by Robert Huff; A Growth of Moderation, by Sumner H. Slichter; Country Auction (poem) by George F. Dell; Too Much Man (story) by Wolf Mankowitz; The Pendulum of Taste, by John Carter; The Long Night, by Lowell D. Blanton; Person-to-Person, by Leland Hazard; Courtesy on Wheels, by Mary Ellen Chase; The Shakespeare Boom?, by Alfred Harbage; Wolf Mankowitz, by John Metcalf; The Arab World - A Culture in Tradition - essays, stories, and verse by writers in the Arab World - a 72 page feature. Nice colour ad for Dewar's "White Label" and Ancestor scotch whisky inside front cover; Colour ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon inside back cover. Colour photo ad for Grace Line Caribbean Cruises on back cover. Nice colour full-page ad by the European Travel Commission on page 20. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Reports on Washington, Cambodia, Norway and Hungary; Dylan Thomas in Wales, by John Malcolm Brinnin; Undergraduates on Apron Strings, by Howard Mumford Jones; Hadrian's Villa (poem) by Adrienne Cecile Rich; The Menace of Radiation, by N.J. Berrill; The Inventor and the Acress, a story by William Saroyan; Women in Red China, by James Cameron; Why Prisoners Riot, by H.W. Hollister; Brotherly Love - a story by George Johnston; The Land of Cockayne (poem), by Eric Barker; The Portrait Painter and His Subject, by Charles Hopkinson; Thomas Mann's Farewell, by Frederic Morton; The Writer in the University, by Alfred Kazin; Air Travel with Stopovers (part I), by Mitchell Goodman. Black and white photo ad by General Electric shows the evolution of the refrigerator from 1900 the cupboard-mounted models of 1955. Color ad for Convair aircraft inside front cover. Great black and white photo ad by Columbia Records on page 27 features Somerset Maugham. Nice colour ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon inside back cover. Colour back cover ad for Grace Line Caribbean vacations. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
114 pages. Features: Reports on Canada's Boom, Washington, and Jordan; Other Worlds Than Ours, by Donald H. Menzel; British Cultural Fatique, by Kenneth Tynan; Hunting Moon, by William Wister Haines; The Kidnaping of Kamlon, by Agnes Newton Keith; Horizon Thong (a poem), by George Abbe; Soviet Industry, by Edward Crankshaw; Cockles, Brambles, and Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas in Wales, by John Malcolm Brinnin; Saturday Night, a Story, by Marjorie Anais Housepian; Educational Television, by Leland Hazard; The Wreath - a story, by Frank O'Connor; T.E. Lawrenc- Man or Myth?, by B.H. Liddell Hart; Charles de Gaulle, by Curtis Cate; Air Travel with Stopovers, by Mitchell Goodman (part 2). Interesting colour ad by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover; Black and white photo ad by the Bell Telephone System shows damage of Hurricane Diane. Nice black and white photo ad by Columbia Records features pianist Robert Casadesus; Colour ad for the European Travel Commission inside back cover; Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
