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130 pages. Features: No Arms or Legs, by the Reverend Graham Dowell; Renaissance Festivals; Pictures from the Past; A Pass from the King - laisser-passers were used long before passports - wonderful photos; Capital Letters - signs; Christmas Numbers; Shropshire's Political Ceramics; Louis Wain's Cat Portraits; Fen's Creator - Bruce Montgomery; Christmas in Norway; The Artists of Palekh - beautiful colour photos; Rich Men's Castles; The Christmas Story; Something Nasty in the Bedroom; Jubilee at Bekonscot; A Royal Governess - Lady Lyttelton; Ellen Terry and Sarah Bernhardt; Stamp of Ricard; Mary Celeste - The Truth; Jonathan Jeeves is Mean; The Felt Makers - making felt from wool in Turkey; Crafts of India; Christmas Quiz. 1" openings to fore-edge of back cover and back two pages. Average wear. Crossword completed, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Premiere issue. 30 pages. Features include: Second annual Victoria and Nanaimo Antique Bottle Show; Letters; We Dig Bottles, by "Bob & George"; Blowing Off Foam! - The Karbonated Korner, by Bob & Donna Skrill; What on Earth Is It?; George Coletti & Son of Nelson, B.C.; Jewels of Talking Wire - insulators; Cecil and Joan Harris of Vernon, B.C.; Books in Review; Relics, by Jim Heidt; License Plate Collecting by Allan Gadsen; Old Ads from Victoria Colonis, Christmas 1874; Photos of Free blown bottle; Pottery Jugs; Ads; Club News. Printed on glossy stock. Covers and first few pages wavy from moisture exposure, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A worthy collectible copy of this interesting British Columbia bottle collecting periodical. Book
22 pages. Features: How "The Godfather" transformed the careers of Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Rober De Niro, Robert Duvall and Talia Shire - article with photos; The Franzese Papers - What is the Mafia Really Like?; Loto Mania - What lies behind Canada's favourite obsession?; Nice colour-photo full-page ad for the all-new 1978 Ford Bronco; Christmas Vocation - Five department store Santas reveal what their job is like; The Legacy of War - Photos of Canadian Wounded War Veterans - with haunting brief write-ups - Leslie Miller, William Caswell, George Skilton, Jack Lyons, Neil Buchanan, William Dodd, Gertrude Beere, John Birse, George Burleigh, John Logan, Aubrey Winch; Michel Vaillancourt - one of Canada's few equestrians of international stature; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
33 pages. Includes authentic strums and chords as played by Peter and Paul. Includes piano music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: All Through the Night; Christmas Dinner; Day is Done; Going to the Zoo; I Have a Song to Sing, O!; It's Raining; Leatherwing Bat; Make-Believe Town; The Marvelous Toy; Mockingbird; Puff (The Magic Dragon). Two store stamps upon title page, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A pleasing vintage copy. Book
Paris, Gallimard, 1983. In-8, broché, non coupé, 148 pp. Edition originale. Un des 22 ex n° sur vélin d'Arches, n° 18 seul tirage en grand papier. Bel ex. René Forgeot, sous le pseudonyme Noël Devaulx, est un nouvelliste et romancier français, né le 9 décembre 1905 à Brest, mort en juin 1995.
Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, s. d. (vers 1850). Grand in-8, broché, couverture imprimée et illustrée, 208 pp plus IV de table. (léger manque de papier sur la coiffe inf.). Premier tirage. Ouvrage destiné à compléter les Chansons populaires de Garnier. Il est orné de 6 planches gravées sur acier d'après Traviès, Veyssat, etc. Exemplaire à toutes marges avec sa couverture dont le verso est orné d'une vignette gravée sur bois avec un encadrement rose de motif floral.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 28 plates on 14 and endpaper maps in blue, fore-edges lightly mottled; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (AND ANNE ROPER, EDITOR) ON TITLE. One of Stagg's acclaimed monographs on the history of Norway, this is first study in English of Central Norway from the earliest times to the German invasion of 1940. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER; SIGNED COPIES ARE PARTICULARLY RARE.
208 p. The initial W sewn onto page 127. Damp stain. Age stain. Early manuscript ownership of Miss Margaret T. Warde. In her hand an extensive manuscript letter on front paste down, probably practicing before sending. Rear fly leaves manuscript ownership of T. Van Tine, No. 1 Abbington Square, NY and others. 8vo. 235 mm. Original cloth binding, worn and stained. Sabin 43165. S&S/AI 44-4174. Hardbound. Good. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 8
Features: Henry Ford's Successor - Bob Syverson makes new bodies for Old Model T's - article with photos; Oakley Sumpter Makes the Fords Go By - T's That is - article with photos; A Brief History of Model T Racing; 90 MPH 1919 Model T Racer - article with photo of racer Slim Everett; New Notes on 1909 Model T's; The T That Won the 1909 Ocean to Ocean Race; Ford Motor Company restages New York - Seattle 1909 race to celebrate its 50 millionth product; The Model T Ford Club; Books, Articles, Literature, Stories on the fabulous Model T Ford, and other Fords; The Early Days of the Ford in England; Model T Tank!; Glidden Tour; Dave Garroway takes a spin in one of the world's oldest running automobiles - an 1892 Benz; Pierce Arrows Meet; 1859-1959 Colorado Centennial Tour; Nice color ad for Antique Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
100 pages. Features: LeBaron collection of Canadiana, folk art; Christmas at Dundurn; Ceremonial horse furniture among the Blackfoot; Coffee, Candles and Cognac - Filling the 1890s inventory at Fort St. James; Coopering at Fort Langley; Mission Churches in British Columbia; Spanish Nootka - prints and drawings record B.C.'s first permanent garrison; Hudson Bay Company country-made furniture on the Pacific Slope; Chilkat Dancing Blankets; Mowachaht - a manuscript reports on the people Cook mis-named Nootka; Craigflower Manor near Victoria; B.C. Woman Artists 1885-1985; U'Mista Cultural Centre; Rungius - Painter of Wildlife; Cots, cradles and sleeping benches in the Hutterite home; Master Cabinetmaker - Gregory Brown of Sidney, B.C. Moderate wear. Mended tears to fore-edge of front cover. Sound copy. Book
Features; Fisherman's Quiz; The Red Fox; The Wheeled Hunters (on motorcycles) Take to the Bush; Crossword Puzzle (completed); Christmas Cougar - article with photos - Edgewater, B.C.; Elk are where you find them - Havelock, Ontario; How I Got a Black Bear - or How it Got Me; The Story of Ontario Moose License; Coonhounds; Great colour photo ad for Polaris snowmobiles on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
71 pages. Features: Conception Bay Furniture Maker - Henry William Winter; China for Children - Christmas gifts of other days were often replicas of adult tableware; Silver by any other name - Sheffield Plate, Electroplate, Paktong, German Silver, Britannia or britannia?; Chinese Pictorial Tapestries - Fine examples of k'o-ssu, a silk-weaving technique, in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Collecting Glass Target Balls; Game Equipment - the games people play have a long and intriquing history; Restoration and Renovation IV - Reflections on Past Interior Decor; Appraising Your Heirlooms; Nutmeg Graters; The Macdonell House - Nor-Wester's Georgian House on the Ottawa contains elaborate decorative plaster. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
62 pages. Features: Made in America - Nineteenth century furniture makers Herter and Hunzinger; The Maxwell House - Montreal Architect's home is now a Baha'i shrine; The Peers Family China - Indiamen brought home Chinese export Porcelain; The Piano in Your Parlour; Canadian-American Postal Relations II - Bringing the Two Systems Together; Artist Albert H. Robinson - Rescued from Christmas Card Land; Nineteenth Century Pressed Glass; Wedgwood's Connections - great men and fine artists drew out Josiah Wedgwood's talents; Collecting Old Whisky Jugs. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Stories: Adventures in Bunk; The Daybreak Raid; Live Wires; A Man-Hunt in Jamaica; The Lizard-Master; The Last of the Seris; Prospecting in Peru; Down the Mine; A Call in the Night; A Grips with the Head Hunters; Death in the Air; That Christmas Dinner; Pay-Day at Anna Regina. Average wear. Covers present but separated from textblock. Book
Stories: The Ice Jam; The Manila Fireflies; Squaw Mike; Crashing into Burma; The Wheat Stealers; What Happened to the Bullion Box; One Christmas Day; The Railroad Boomer; There She Blows!; Rounded-up Wild Elephants; Tracking Down Hot Oil; Witchcraft; A Ride for 1000 Pounds; On Patrol with the B.P.P. Average wear. Book
REVUE - Imp. G. Lang - In-4 - Broché - Couverture illustrée couleurs - Environ 150 pages, y compris publicité, N° 53, 54, 55, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 66, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 82 & 85 - l'ensemble, soit 18 N° , 120 € - Au N° 20 €
In 8, pp. 300 circa non numerate. Legatura editoriale in piena tela con sovraccoperta. Rara edizione originale di questo libro che raccoglie gli scatti fotografici del fotografo slovacco Ladislav Noel.
8vo., single sheet folded once; a very good, clean, crisp letter. 'With a Happy Xmas & New Year wish to you, George dear..didn't put name in the book in case you'd got it. Yrs. Sybil. Lewis too gives his good wishes'. Dame Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976), renowned British actress and wife of Sir Lewis Casson.
100 pages. Features: An eye on the market; Feeders for 18 cents a pound; Should you wash eggs?; Here's low-cost dairying; Corn combines speed the harvest; Quick-change wagon; Save labor in the home; A Christmas Call (fiction); The King's Pear Tree (fiction). Ads: Allis-Chalmers (color inside front cover); Rexall (with Amos 'n' Andy); Champion spark plugs ad features Kenneth Cooke of Malabar Farm near Mansfield, OH; Natural Rubber Burea ad shows armed Malayan guard at rubber plantation; 1952 Pontiac; Case Tractors - showing the 'VAC' model; Nice two-page color-photo ad for New Holland forage equipment; De Laval milkers; International Harvester McCormick Farmall Super C tractor (nice color photos); Massey-Harris combines; New Idea manure spreaders and attachments (color photo); Prince Albert Tobacco ad features Alfred Cronk and George Williams; Nice color 7up ad shows formal party scene in living room; Homelite chainsaws; Ford tractors (2 pages); McCulloch chainsaws; Wisconsin motors; Bolens garden tractors; Studebaker Commander V-8 (color inside back cover); Stark Bros. Nurseries (back cover). Small ad clipped from page 43. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
92 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Illustrated primarily in black and white with some colour. Numerous contemporary ads. Features: Washington Views Contemporary Canadian Art; Will Ogilvie - Disciple of Fine Line; New Talent in Illustration - Doug Wright (Nipper), J. Le Flaguais, Duncan Macpherson, Ed McNally; Interview in Montparnasse - the works of Henri Matisse; Sculpture in Trees - a successful innovation by the Sculpturs Society of Canada; Grain Elevators and Wheat Sheaves - the works of Robert Hurley; Can Furniture Be Made of Cardboard?; Behind the Scaffolding - a critical preview of official architecture in Ottawa; An Art Experiment Among Indian Children - Anthony Walsh and his work with the Okanagan Indians of the Inkameep Valley in British Columbia; Coast to Coast in Art; New Books on the Arts; The Art Forum. Unmarked with average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
108 pages. Features: They're Wrecking Soil Conservation; Farrowing Ideas You Can Use; Springboard to Farm Ownership; New Insecticide Stops Rootworm; Golden Bough of Christmas; Carry Your Pasture to the Cows; Your Land Can Give More; Save $1 per Hog with Less Protein; Wonder Sorghums with Drug System; Step Saving in a Stanchion Barn. Ads include: Allis-Chalmers Roto-Baler - color photo (ahead of its time?) 1952 Buick; Texaco ad features Charles C. Hoover of Medford, OR, Walter Sylvester of Battle Creek, MI, and Bill Stephens of Sheldon, TX (tiny clipping from this ad); Champion spark plug ad features Copeland Greene of Genessee Depot, WI; Case tractors and equipment; Homelite chainsaws; Studebaker's 100th anniversary; Oliver OC-3 crawler tractor; International Minerals & Chemicals; 1953 Plymouth; Massey-Harris 90, 80 and 70 combines; John Deere 60 tractor (color); United States Steel ad includes photo of Mr. R.G. White of Mineral Point, WI; Lombard chainsaws; McCulloch chainsaws; The Ferguson 30 tractor; Dodge pickups; Lee jeans; Arvin radio; Camel cigarettes (with Santa!); Suggested Christmas toy gifts; Ball-brand boots; Hudson Hornet car (gorgeous color!); Tide detergent (back cover). Center page loose but present. Unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
136 pages. Features: Lovely Christmas package delivery cover illustration by Walter Dower; Game Laws 1948-49; The River Wise Man; November Steelheads - in the Whitney Drain near Lake Huron; Peanuts and Pictures; In the Presence of Mine Enemies; The Festive Board; The Happiest Huntsman - Henry Belden of California; The Undertaker and the Long-Tailed Bunnies; Variations of a Theme; Dress Rehearsal; McKillop's Geese; Aunt Maggie's Peach Orchard; Grouse of the Lugga; Adventures in the Night; Duck Hunters' Navy; As Advertised; A New Rifle Kills Clean; Gloves From Your Buck. Many great ads in color and black and white. Beautiful one-page color ad for Miller beer featureslovely lady sitting on the crescent moon in the night sky. Nice one-page black and red ad for Gaines Dog Meal (food). Nice color Santa ad on back cover for Camel cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
156 pages. Includes two contributions by Jack O'Connor: Gambling for Gambrels - a long chance on finding some Arizona quail; The .250/3000 Can Shoot!. Other features include: Great cover art by J.F. Kernan; Leave Some Game for the Future!; A penny proves its worth for a California deer hunter; Scrappy little panfish; The Oakland County Sportsmen's Club and the Detroit Sportsmen's Congress - two successful clubs and how they got that way; Wrong-way buck all but fools Massachusetts hunters; The Annual Alpena Wildcat (Bobcat) Hunt; Color illustration of wildfowl on the Mississippi flyway; Illinois sportsmen overcome ringneck pheasant shortage by raising them; Which rifle to use on Britihs Columbia Bighorn Sheep? - great photo-illustrated article; Choosing and Shooting Your Handgun; Hurricane-happy trout in New Jersey; Raccoon hunting near Grand Rapids, Michigan; Furry Son of Satan - savage king of the North Carolina wilderness - an 8-page, true-to-life biography; Hunting Seasons for 1946-47; Teach Your Pup Obedience; and more. Ads include: Color ad for Remington Express shells inside front cover; How to pick up a porcupine bare-handed!; Photo of T.J. Harman of York PA with his Alaska moose bearing antlers 64 inches wide. Interesting one-page color ad for Hallmark Christmas Cars for Men - with colored game bird designs; One-page Savage ad for the Model 99 and Model 745. One-page Christmas ad for Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. features beautiful lady offering gift guns; Classy one-page color ad for Ballantine Ale; Nice one-page color ad for Goebel Beer; Feather Foam coat ad; Nice two-color ad for Gaines dog food features photo of Elias C. Vail; Lovely color Santa-themed ad for Prince Albert tobacco and Camel cigarettes on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
72 pages. Many black and white reproductions of fascinating archival photos. Features: Robert Clay Allison (The Wild Wolf) - the cowboy gunfighter born near Waynesboro in Wayne County, Tennessee; The Early Cattle Trails - Three Mountain Road, Wilderness Road and Bay State Cowpath were forerunners of the Longhorn highways; Dakota Mail Riflers and Special Agent John B. Furay; A Hallway in Hades - Quicksilver/Mercury discovery on a section of land owned by Howard E. Perry east of Terlingua, a hamlet of jacals in the Big Bend in Brewster County, Texas; A Man the Earth Talked To - Senator John Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst; The Indians Named Him Shine - Shine Smith's work with and huge Christmas parties for the Navajo on an impoverished reservation; Murder at the Sawdust Pile - Martin Zidmair and murder near Livinston, Montana circa 1903; Prettiest Girl at Wimberley's Mill, Texas - Virgie L. Moritz (nee Mayes); Peyote Priest - James Kassanovoid, Comanche; Iron Horse vs. Dobbin - the Siskiyou Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad connected Eugene with Medford, Oregon; A Town of Gourds - Calabasas in the Santa Cruz Valley, Arizona; Fleet-footed Frontiersmen - William Price Cooper outran Indians, and their ponies, to save his skin; 101 memories, and then some! - Col. Frank S. Giles and the 101 Ranch; Leechtown Legends - small gold rush town 20 miles northwest of Victoria, British Columbia at the junction of the Leech and Sooke Rivers ; Twenty Years among our hostile Indians - their characteristics, customs, habits, religion, marriages, dances and battles; Mrs. Faye Shobert of Central City, Colorado discovers Lost Gold Mine on her property!. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
24 pages. Features: Canada at Work - These are the Workers - colour photos and brief writeups of the following workers; Beverly Frederickson of Winnipeg, Abner Napoleon of Montreal, Ed Weiterman of Edmonton, Shyanne Smith of Saint John, Wallace Wisen of Halifax, Elizabeth Wardle of Whitehorse, Eldon G. Owens of Moose Jaw, Frank McNeill of Alberton, PEI, Monika Wicha of Toronto, Peter Howard of Vancouver, Peter Cardinal of the NWT, and Theophilus Noel of Labrador. The Long, Lonely Road - article and photos of the life of long-distance truckers Bud Ferris and Marcel Clement; Labour Minister Bryce Mackasey - he's brought a new look to labor-management relations - article with photos; Tips for children's parties you will always remember; According to Doyle; Sportsman cigarette ad on back cover. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
