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281 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
144p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
21 p. 4°. Some pen-annotations title page and verso.
296 pages. Twenty-nine festive favourites, selected and introduced by Canada's best-loved storyteller. Bright colourful dust jacket pictures Santa (or is it Al?) in front of a warm Christmas fire. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
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
118 pages. Features: The Great Bear Hunt; Bighorn Mountain Trout; Hawk Call - Reconverted; Moose on the Loose; The Dove; Midwinter Rainbows; Darby Creek Honkers; Confessions of a Goat Hunter; The Springer's Surprise; Duck Shooting; Big Bomber; Repairing Bamboo Rods; Deer Hunter's Cabin; The Passing of "Take 'Em" Sue; Christmas at North Crossing; Man-Eaters of Kumaon - part 3 - the Chowgarh man-eating tiger killed 64 humans before Jim Corbett caught up with her;; Magnum Loadings. Nice one-page hunting cabin photo ad for Zenith Radios; Photo of Frank M. Gale holding his winning largemouth; Photo of Mrs. Julian T. Crandall with her 121 pound tarpon; funky 2/3 page red and black ad for Prince Albert pipe tobacco explains that the man in the ad gets ladies because of his P.A. (Pipe Appeal!); Cute color ad for Calvert Whisky inside front cover features bear cub on ski hill; Nice color one-page illustration of Duck Shooting by Lassell; Nice red and black 2/3-page ad for the new Higgins Camp Trailer; Nice photo ad for Feather Foam coats by the Arctic Feather & Down Co. of Seattle; Trav-Ler Radio ad; Selecting and Using an Outdoorman's Ax; Nice photo ad for Gephart salt water fishing rods; Nice one-page red and black hunting-theme photo-ad for Gaines dog food; Front cover beginning to separate. Back cover missing. Most of pages 67/68, and 85/86 missing. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Barcelona, Filograf, 1951. Díptiico ilustradao con leves puntos de óxido. 8º menor. Buen ejemplar. R. Giralt Miracle desde Filograf le envía su felicitación cordial y le desea un venturoso año mil novecientos cincuenta y dos. Navidad de 1951.
Limited edition handmade poetry book. 7 1/4"w x 7 1/4"h. 87 pages. Number 162/200, signed by Jennifer Foster. Poetry by Jennifer Foster, G.C. Waldrep, Joshua Beckman, Ariana Kelly, John Olson, Linden Ontjes, Christine Deavel, Rebecca Hoogs, Monica Fambrough, Christine Hume, Susan Parr, Melanie Noel, Tyler Gaston, Isabel Ducharme. Art work by Elizabeth Bisegna Gaston, Elsa Thiemann, Jennifer Zwick, Elizabeth Jameson. Unpaginated. Tipped-in artworks in color and black and white. Date of publication not shown; circa 2006.
31p. Color pictorial title page. 12mo. Original full black pattern paper binding. Privately printed First Edition for Friends of the Author and his Publishers. Chapter from the First American Edition of THE HUSSAR translated by Catherine Hutter which is to be published next year, March, 1960. Very crisp copy. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W70
Features: Flower arranger's greenhouse; Christmas at the manor; Proteas; design with Proteas; Singapore Orchids; The Big Day; The flora Calendar 1976; Chrysanthemum glory; Wintergreen; Gardening and flower arranging in Jamaica; Why I collect flower stamps; pink frost for Christmas; Coconuts for food and flowers; Flowers at Beaulieu; Men who arrange flowers; pot et fleur; winter in the garden; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Making a Christmas scene; New Year's Eve; Ideas for Christmas; What would you like for Christmas; In Your Garden; Why not try a Residential Course; Christmas fantasies; Christmas Show; Sterling Value; Colour it silver; flowers through the ages; spring flower holidays; sensible shrub planting; flowers in the far east; collecting books; abstract arrangement; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Beginner's please!; winter garden; gardening indoors; growing unusual plants indoors; making a Christmas cone; the romance of Christmas greenery; Candle light; flowers through the ages; berried Treasure; Beech nut flowers; new flower seeds for 1978; colour it red; a flower arranger visits Japan; A Desert Beauty; Shell Magic; Flower Arranging and Gardening in Peru; Flowers for a Royal occasion; Personal colours of flowers of the Zodiac; Chinese Brush Painting; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Autumn work in the Garden; create a modern arrangement; join a flower arrangement class; Skeleton leaves; Daffodils and Narcissi for autumn planting; Using cane; Cyclamen; Citrus Fruits - for food and flowers; Shrubs for Autumn colour; Fruit and Vegetable Decorations; Dried flowers in churches; Consider the lilies; Wilton; Flowers in metal; Flower arranging in Natal; the pleasure of teaching flower arranging; The Red Rose of Cares and the Opium Lady; Choose your new greenhouse now!; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Floraclubs; amongst the flowers; adventures with annuals; floralore; photographing flower arrangements; Victorian Posy Holders; The Christmas Holidays; Presenting presents; Housewife's choice; a flower arranger's garden; florafood; a standing mobile; ideas for Christmas; Arranging from a small garden; Dominica - land of mountains and rivers; flowers of history; relationships; Mechanical aids to reduce time and effort; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Christmas gifts for flower lovers; Christmas at home; Flower holidays for 1980; In Your Garden; Forgotten Flowers; Making an unusual Christmas Tree; Make Your own exotic flowers; flowers at Fishmonger's Hall; Christmas at Colonial Williamsburg; Bulb Flowers with Candles; The Edwardian Era; Flowers on Greeting Cards; Holly; Florabooks; Dickensian Flowers; To Heat or not to Heat; How a floral arranger in New Zealand responds to challenges of titles; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
136 p. Illustrations. with sketches by F. Wade Lane. 8vo. Yellow paper boards. Christmas Keepsake issued by the Kynett family.
382 pages. Features: Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed may be the wealthest investor outside the U.S.; The Fortune e-50 index; Dell's big new act; Excite@Home merges content and cable; DoubleClick - The Heart of Internet Advertising; USWeb/CKS grows up; The Clubby world of venture capitalists has become more aggressive and cutthroat; Japans R&D - get ready for robot dogs, video cell phones, electronic wall paper, and more; How to most effectively buy influence in Washington; The NRA is Under the Gun; What Would Machiavelli Do?; Dot Com time bomb on Madison Avenue - net brand promotion will stop after Christmas; Fast Ferries - radical new shapes are breaking speed records - it's a whole new breed of catamaran; Challengers Move in on ERP. Light wear. A nice clean copy. Magazine
VG (no dj, green cloth with gilt title panel on spine, both boards with stamped patterned design, gilt decorative title panel centre of front board, corners lightly rubbed, clean green endpapers, very small split to paper only at front hinge, a very sound clean copy for its age, no inscriptions, no foxing, small ?tea stain in two margins and occasional faint isolated speckles margins) 16mo 128pp. Not illustrated. Containing: The Three Wishes; A Christmas Stocking with a Hole In It: The Little Castaways: A Fairy Surprise Party; The Old Brown Coat.
pp. 282 (4). Illustrated. Printed on two different paper stocks by the Stinehour Press. Designed by Karen M. (Bloom) Elder 8vo. Original full cloth binding, in the original slip case. Red ribbon page marker. Issued by Westvaco Paper in a limited edition as a Christmas keepsake. The text is taken from the 1856 edition, with an introduction by H. Lea Lawrence. Includes: The Art of the Gun; The Art of the Dog; The Field; Fishing; and The Art of Cooking (Recipes for Game and Fish). A fine copy of a wonderful book in a handsome format. This would make a great gift. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GAMES BOX 5.
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
Features: Founder of the Cowboy Camp Meeting - William B. Bloys at Fort Davis, Texas in 1888; Shoot-out on Christmas Day, 1883 at McDade, Texas in Bastrop County - Thomas Bishop and George Milton; Boom Days at Ash Meadows, Nevada; Strawmen and Marshals - Ellensburg, WA and locality circa 1906; Greatest living hunter - Clell Lee; Riding the Shale Rock Trail; Paul P. Lawson and Idaho adventures; Victim of the "White Night" - unfortunate Joseph Hahn, after whom Hahn's Peak was named; Whipping Tree - primitive form of Seminole justice rarely suffered repeat offenders; John J. Tomlinson - Sawmill man of Yellowstone City in the Crow River Reservation; Oro, Arizona - most remote of the Bradshaw's Ghost Towns; The Wound that never healed - Mary Christofferson Anderson's chin was shot away by a cannonball at age 14 during the Morrisite Massacre of 1862; Rawhide times in Dakota - when it was open range from the White River to the Niobrara; I Cast My Lot With a Soldier - dedicated Army wives who followed their husbands to the American frontier in the 19th century; Appointment on Red Mountain - Emma Crawford was buried atop 7,200 foot-high Red Mountain where she said she had communed with an Indian brave; New Mexico's Mysterious Markers - many styles of Christian Cross; Flames of Starvation and Death - Cattlemen and nesters were comrades in arms when the sky warned of fire; King-sized nugget - found at the Willard Claim Mine in California's Sierra Nevadas; Uncle Milty's Legs - Milt Clements stood tall even though he only had one leg - Frank Lockert's personal museum at Coats, Kansas. Average wear. Some yellowing to pages. Occasional markings to contents. A sound copy. Book
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
