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PARIS, Ed. Albin Michel - MCMXLII, 1942 - In-4 Carré - Reliure éditeur à la Bradel imitation velin - Frontispice - Illustrations NB PP HT - 626 pages - Signet - Bon exemplaire
np. A mostly chromolithographed alphabet precedes the text. Text illustrations printed in red and blue throughout. Paper beginning to brown. Margaret Sarah Lewis, famous York, PA water color artist - her copy with her earliest juvenile drawings. 8vo. Original cloth backed paper boards. Chromolithograph front cover illustrating two children with their Christmas gifts. Binding worn. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W69
370 pages. Features: Shirley Temple and Cher Dolls; Make a "Bru"; Paul Crees' Wax Dolls; Monte Carlo Automata; Make Victorian Christmas Ornaments; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
338 pages. Features: Gone With the Wind Collectibles; 51 Project Pages to Make; Christmas Dolls/Santas; Create a French Doll; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
4 pages. Wonderful photo of Karen and Richard Carpenter on front cover. Carpenters reprint edition of the 1946 first edition. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this gorgeous tune. Sheet music
212 pages. Index. "This book should be required reading for the new or prospective Christmas tree grower." - Journal of Forestry. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: Ginger Goodwin - Hero or Martyr?; Historic Newcastle Island; The Christmas Day Murders - in the Klondike; The Lost Lemon Mine; Captain Ainsworth. Clean, bright and unmarked. Book
35 pages. Black and white photos in text. Features: Our business premises; Autobiography of a Great Anthropologist - Noel Robinson; The Pleistocene Age of British Columbia; The Tuatara; The Flora of Fairmont Hot Springs; The Passenger Pigeon; Reverend Jonathan Green; The Burnaby Lodestone. Average wear. Unmarked. Moisture marks to lower portion of all pages and covers. A sound copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Crippled Seals for Children; Fun and Games in the White House Basement; I'm Dreaming of a White Trash Christmas; The ABC's of Reaganomics; and many more. Light cigarette odor. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Reprint of "Recollections of Old Milestown" by S. Gordon; Sky of Brass, Earth of Iron - reprinted from the book 'Western Vision' by David Lavender; World's Greatest Slaughter! - the appalling slaughter of the American buffalo; Buffalo Comeback - the Canadian Government preserves a portion of Canada's once mighty buffalo population; Circuses and Contests; Before the days of Libel - when a newspaperman could say anything he durned please; Renegade Battalion - they deserted Fort Brown to join the Mexican Army only to be killed when the Americans stormed Monterrey in 1846; Travesty Town - the story of old Millerton; When Panic Took Over! - smallpox epidemic at New Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1881; Apache Gold - Buck Adams; Conquering the Rockies with a camera - William H. Jackson; Pioneer Mother - escaping the Indians; Old Cornucopia, Oregon and its gold mine; 'Bet-a-million' Gates - Magician - he turned barbed wire into a lead pipe cinch!; Death at Christmas - Frank Rochas; Lost Camp - from 'Homestead Years' by Lloyd I. Sudlow; Pawnee Bill - "Little Giant of Oklahoma'; Some men need it lonely - Archer B. Gilfillan, sheepherder; His eccentric highness - Joshua Norton, 'Emperor of the United States'; friend to no man - Ben Cravens used partners to commit crime... but didn't need their help to spend the proceeds; the courthouse went by train - moving a Nebraska courthouse by rail; Hellgate to Tonopah - early Nevada memories; Luckiest Cuss in the Klondike - Clarence J. Berry. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Bloodiest Miles on the Union Pacific - The Indians Nearly Stopped Construction of the Railroadi; Barney Riggs - Man of Violence - he was sent to prison for killing one man and turned loose for killing two!; Butch Cassidy Didn't Do It - The Winnemucca Bank Robbery; Black Widow of Kansas - Nellie Benthusen-Bailey-Reece; Frontier Heartbreak - the story of Darius Athorp and his wife, Harriet - separated forever; Muscatel and a Mule; Mustangs (wild horses) on the Gila River; Last of the Lednhi; Terror in the Night - Bald Knobbers; Sourdough from the Old West - with recipes; Masterton's Militia - a short career for Bat's Brother; Jim White - Boss Hunter; The Christmas Kiss. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Collecting myths and misnomers; First Exhibition of Irish Portraits; Dyrham Park - the Gloucestershire Home of the Blathwayt Family; Some Early Furniture of the 16th and 17th centuries - previously unrecorded examples; Picture Collecting in 1969; A Galaxy of Teapots - the Shand Kydd Collection, Part 1; The Golden Age of Claude Lorrain - first exhibition of his art comes to London from Newcastle; The London Sale-room in December; the Crowned Ladies of Innsbruck - 16th century masterpieces in Bronze that guard an Emperor's Memorial; Capodimonte Porcelain in demand; and more. Moderate external wear. Minimal markings. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Insuring the Uninsurable; The Oriental Club, Stratford House, Stratford Place; The Shrine of the Magi by Nicholas de Verdun in Cologne Cathedral; The Trial of the Pyx - The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths of the City of London - checking gold and silver content since 1238; Ancient Furniture in Modern Homes; Some Basic Notes on Ancient Glass; The London Sale-Room in December; That is 'T Clock'? - a notable Timekeeping Exhibition at Garrards; and more. Moderate external wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
255 pages. Separate lyric book in pocket inside front board. Light external wear. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. A nice copy of this beloved Christmas compilation. Book
16 pages. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "The days of sealing along the coast of British Columbia. Includes references to Jack London's book 'The Sea-Wolf.' Describes in detail various aspects of the sealing industry. Interviewees - Jimmy Newman, Max Lohbrunner, and Noel Robinson". - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice copy. Book
4 pages. Average wear. Few pencil markings to contents. A sound copy. Sheet music
Signed and inscribed by author inside front cover. 73 pages. Contains 35 of Alberta Slim's favourite songs including A True Story of my Pony and Me, Baby's First Christmas, My Nova Scotian Home, The Laura Secord Story, Vancouver by the Sea, and dozens more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
Delightful Christmas sound effect book for beginning readers aged 3 and up. Unmarked. Average wear. Minor warp to front board. Book
Copyright 1951. Unpaginaged pop-up book. All pop-ups function very well and have not needed repair. Chip missing from fore-edge of front cover. Average soiling and wear to covers. Contents moderately worn and gently yellowed. Christmas pin missing. Small hole in center of first page where, presumably, pin was mounted. Faint pencil marks visible in this vicinity. A very lovely vintage Christmas pop-up volume. Book
in-8 (14,5x23cm), 30 pp, frontispice, broche, couverture illustree.— Edition originale sur papier courant, il n"a ete tire que 6 grands papiers. Exemplaire TTB (Qq. rousseurs aux plats, interieur bien propre). [CA26/0] Tres rare ouvrage dedie a Huysmans.
337p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition in red cloth, top of spine chipped, gift inscription on half-title
This is a very good softcover copy in the publisher's original grey printed wrappers. Repaired tear to rear panel of cover. Binding firm. Completely clean. Text in French. Illustrated in black & white with hundreds of small photographs of the chateaux of L' Aveyron, France arranged alphabetically from Aiguillon to Zenieres. Bibliography. 10" high X 6" wide, 146 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
116 pages. Features: Reports on Tropical Africa, Australia, Science and Industry; Bugles and a Tiger - Adventure on India's Frontier, by John Masters; The Way the New India Thinks, by Aubrey Menen; Christmas Eve at Chartres (a poem), by Winifred Hare; Billingsley's Bird Dog, by Dillon Anderson; The Bounds of Space and Time - How Long Will the World Last?, by Crary Moore; Hark, Hark, the Lark (a poem) by Marie De L. Welch; Creating a School, by Agnes and Ernest Hocking; The Army Invades the Wichita Mountains, by Clark C. Van Fleet; Dr. Flesch's Cure-all, by Virgil M. Rogers; The Spoiled Honeymoon, by Robert Graves; Renewals if Needed - They Shall Have Music, by John M. Conly. Color ad by the European Travel Commission inside front cover. Fantastic colour photo ad for RCA Victor Colour Televisions on page 19 features family and home in white; Color full-page ad for Old Smuggler Scotch on page 20. Columbia Records ad on page 32 features large black and white photo portrait of Winston Churchill. Very attractive colour ad for Drambuie inside back cover features Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Vanished Spas in the Wilderness - 3 locations on Washington's Olympic Peninsula; Palomino Spirit Horse - had to be killed; Christmas was slim in Bullfrog (Rhyolite, Nevada); "If I live to be a hundred - true stories shared by old cowboys and their horses"; Ghost Town of the Indians - Doaksville, capital of the old Choctaw Nation; Terrible Jim McLaughlin - a story from Yale, British Columbia; Trementinans Hoed Their Own Row - Nevada history; King of the Yukon - Jack McQuesten; If I were young again - living in hard times; Burro Schmidt's Tunnel -perhaps an unequaled one-man mining venture; One Green Acre of the Dreary Earth - Glen, South Dakota; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy Magazine
60 pages. Features: CBC Recreates Avro Arrow Dream; A Peaceful Aerodrome in WWII; On Wings of Fire - The Pathfinder Force (PFF) of 8 Group Bomber Command; New Lease on Life - Updated T-33; Fingal 1943 - a Christmas Tale; The Key Man on D-Day - Jack Ladly; Pierre le Canadien - The Airman who Died for France; Backyard Clunk - CF-101 flight simulator; Canadian Top Guns - Tyndall AFB. Covers depict a wonderful painting of an Avro Arrow swooping over Niagara Falls. Moderate wear. Address label upon back cover. Solid copy. Book
