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160 pages. Features: Castro's War on Capitalism in Cuba; Counting Heads - the first U.S. census was no easy job; Juvenile Integrity Starts in the Home; The Korean Myth - Misconceptions Americans have about Korea; 1960 Version of "The Little Red Hen"; Cold War in International Athletics - opposing Communist athletes intent on propaganda; The Tenth Man - baseball's most important player can be the groundskeeper; Facts Russia Does Not Tell; School Teaching Beats Working for a Living; The Truly Satisfying Life; The China Clipper; Who are the Metrocrats?; Listen to This; Honey - Nutritious Nostrum; Who Wants to Abolish the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?; They Tamed the Wild Missouri River; Is There Free Speech?; The greatest Train Robbery; Walter, The Adaptable Weasel; A Kentucky Political Education; Don't Let your Shoulder Freeze; This Is Christianity - Young Korean Joon Gon Kim's Ministry to Communists; You Can Do Something; Those Modern Eskimos; A Return to Common Sense in Education - Pennsylvania teacher shuns methods that produce illiterate blockheads; The Organization Mother; January-June 1960 Index. Back cover Flag Day coverage features lovely photo of youngsters Kay and Tony of the Dario Politella family of Lindenhurst, Long Island. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
90 pages. Features: Christmas Fact and Fantasy; London's Christmas Choirs; Christmas on Duty; Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World; Two Words (short story); The Electric Pen - a hundred years ago a primitive version of the mimeograph provided an unlikely link between Thomas Edison and Lewis Carroll; ; The Tyranny of Things; Seasonal Greetings - tracing the history of Victorian era Christmas Cards - article with lovely colour illustrations; The Model World (fashion model article); Nice colour-photo one-page ad for the Triumph TR7; Camels in America (USA); A True Christmas Story; The Constancy of Coade stone; The Boy Who Stole the Sun (children's story); Toys for Adults; The Carthusian Liqueur; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this charming issue. Book
32 pages. Features: Dr. A.D. Hurt writes about "The True Israel"; Condensed version of speech given by Indiana Senator William E. Jenner regarding censure charges against Senator Joseph McCarthy; Time to Begin Again - Sermon of the Month; Photo of Dr. Harry M. Hoxsey with Mr. and Mrs. Leon Seago of Rockdale Texas and their baby boy , John Wayne Seago, whom Dr. Hoxsey cured of cancer; Joe Parelli's Case; Interview with Dr. C.A. Newcomb; Cedars of Lebanon; Archaeology and the Old Testament - a review of Dr. M.F. Unger's new book; Editorials mention Senator Fulbright, John Paton Davies, George Sylvester Viereck, the American Bible Society and Brotherhood Week; Foreign Missions - the printed page in other tongues; Book Reviews; Sunday School. Interesting ads. Three-inch tape repair to top of photo of Dr. Harry M. Hoxsey on page 9, otherwise unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this fascinating publication. Magazine
Old and New Testaments bound in one: pp. viii, 3-587; 190 + Engraved frontis and title. Irregular pagination. Text beginning to brown but not brittle. Double column. Early manuscript ownership of Julia A. Lumbard on first fly leaf. Front fly leaves loose. 16mo. 145 mm. Original leather binding. Original leather spine label, lettered in Gothic type. Spine worn with small loss at rear joint. Title continues: 'With The Marginal Readings: Together With A Copious And Original Selection Of References To Parallel And Illustrative Passages. Exhibited In A Manner Hitherto Unattemped'. Hardbound. Good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. This is the English text from Samuel Baxter's eight language Polyglot printed in London in 1822. The little book became an immediate success and later editions are not uncommon, but this first edition is quite SCARCE. Hills 753; D/M 1785. PAIMP 21
98 pages. Features: Canadian Aerospace - A Tightened Belt and a Clear Eye; FB-111 - Second Look at the Third Version; Air War in Vietnam; Thomas Dresser White, 1901-1965; Needed - an annual Presidential Report to Congress on Science and Technology; The Aerospace Education Foundation - Target - Scientific Literacy; Speaking of Space; The Nuclear War of Mao Tse-tung; Vietnam Day in Forth North; Many great ads by the large military contractors; Photo of huge Project HARP 16" gun. Average wear. Date stamp and short openings to front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
82 pages. Features: Surprise Poster #666 - Babby in a Blender; Sixty Seconds; True Facts; Foto Funnies; Cosmo! Live!; The Star Wars Secret Plans; Whatever Gets You Through the Day - The Reality of My Fantasy Life; At the Movies - The Splatter Version; Thirty-three Uses for a Dead Yuppie; Invasion of the Junk Food Killers; Veepshow - the haunting of George Bush; Where Do I Get My Horrible Ideas?; Mother; Tragedyland; and more. Average wear with some creases. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
Illustration of horses pulling British soldiers in boats across the River Scarps. What a Bolshevist 'Peace' Means, by Lovat Fraser. 5 photos of Canadians homeward bound, their duty done. Quaint Quarters of the Fighting Men in France - 4 photos. 2 Photos of Shell-Smother Caught by the Camera. Trifles picked up on the blazed trail of war - 5 photos. Waiting for the opening offensive on the West. The True Story of Henry - by 'Vedette'. Illustration of an early version of the caterpillar tractor at work in Palestine. British mouth organ band in Palestine. Canine helpers in battle. A Serbian Supper-Party - some lively memories from the Lower Danube, by Hamilton Fyfe. Builders of the fleet that flies - 5 photos. Six great photos of Britannia, the Tank that rules the trenches. Photos of concrete vessels - can be built in a third of the time. Australia's Great Achievement - Heroic doings on land and sea, article with 6 photos. The Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, article by John S. Margerison. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, tiny signature on half-title, small neat contemporary signature on title; original dark green cloth, bevelled boards, upper board framed in black, gilt back, grey endpapers, uncut, short crease at backstrip else an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy. With the nineteenth-century trade ticket of Whiteley of Westbourne Grove on front paste-down, and publisher's advertisement leaf at end. This book forms the symbolic basis of Terence Rattigan's celebrated play 'The Browning Version' (1948), itself the source of Anthony Asquith's eponymous feature film (1951) starring Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent and Nigel Patrick. At Cannes the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or, winning Best Actor (Redgrave) and Best Screenplay.
296 pages. Features: Dorothy Coleman Tribute; Wendy Lawton's Marcella and Raggedy Ann; Doll Design Concept of the Year - DOTY Nominees; Pantin; Dolls based on the Fiammingo Head; Francois Duquesnois (Francesco di Fiammingo); A View of Christmas 1875; The Titanic Connection; A Country rag Doll; The Sewing Machine - a miniature marvel; Norah Wellings' Charm Factory - part 1; The Many faces of Santa Claus; Norah Wellings Novelty Dolls; Collecting the small Composition Doll; Six Composition Character Dolls by the American Doll Company - a comparison study; "Little Lulu, I Love You, Lu"; Betsy McCall Revisited; The Revival of the 1800 Mid-America Handmade Doll with a pattern for Lucritia; Making a Doll-size Version of Little Jocelyn's Late 1930s Dress; Brushes with the Past - John Ben Vanderpool; My Quanah Parker Doll; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
21 pages. Children's poetry delightful adorned by watercolour illustrations. Rural/agrarian theme. English version of the Chinese original. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
Features: Dead Man's Double - the strange story of a landsman who, anxious to get home to Australia, shipped aboard a foreign tramp to work his passage; Baptism of Fire - the story of a young Forest Ranger employed by the British Columbia Forest Service in 1927, and how a fire trapped over 100 people in a logging camp; A Case of Contraband - An amusing story of how, between revolutions, men had ways of their own of getting around difficulties; The Golden Ingot - the diverting story of an ingenious Gold Coast version of the time-honoured "confidence trick"; Down Mexico Way - The exciting adventure of two young seafarers who light-heartedly set out to explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker; Pioneer Pilot - Mr. Peter Strong flew over the Drakensberg Mountains between Basutoland and Natal; One Thing After Another - Recalls the narator's fall and subsequent rise in the depression days of Australia; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-Servicemen; South Sea Burial Customs - Visiting the outlying islands of the remote Cook Group, in the South-East Pacific, the authoress came upon many curious death-customs; Olsen's Secret - A grim story from the American coalfields; Front cover was attached with tape but is now detached. Back cover missing. Contents unmarked and in decent condition. Magazine
68 pages. Features: George Washington - A Water-color Drawing (cover); Carved Wooden Figure of Washington - Frontispiece; John Holden Greene - Architect; The Attitude of the Eagle - as portrayed on an outstanding group of "Liberty" Quilts; Lowestoft China; Cabinets and Chests - from the Middle Atlantic States; Pounce Boxes and Sand Shakers; Living with Antiques - Bohemian Version; Bohemian Glass - a study for inexperienced collectors; I Don't Like Antique Collectors; John G. Chandler; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Above-average wear. Moisture exposure. Writing on front cover and ad on page 49. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy. Magazine
62 pages. Features: Rosalee - this adorable figurine is sure to make you smile; Ribbon and Lace Dress - fun dress for any all-bisque cutie; Clowns for Chanelle - a stunning version of Chanelle enhanced by two wonderful Steiner clowns; Corset & Hoop Skirt - undergarments are the foundation of any Fashion doll's trousseau; For Every Doll Maker's Library - some great new doll publications; Simon & Halbig Lillie - how to make this lovely Rosette winning doll. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
100 pages. Features: Flying the Winged Missile - the Starfighter; The B-25 Mitchell medium bomber; Burt Rutan's Quickie; BD-5 - Another View; Christen's Elegant Eagle; Confessions of a PBM Pilot; Dog Sabre - North America's all-weather version of their famous Sabre jet was a real handful for its pilot; Gordon Plaskett's TF-51D; Mustang Versus Bearcat - can a P-51 outfight an F8F?; The Beech Staggerwing; The McDonnell-Douglas DC-10; Flying the Twin MustangThe XR-12; The Northrop F5-E; The CG-4 combat glider. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Book shows light wear to covers only, bent corners to very strong textbook binding. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, printed on heavy stock glossy paper throughout. Heavy book. 837 pages filled with graphs, charts, tables, line drawings, b&w photos. Contents include: Analysis of the environment: heat, light, gravity, pressure, sound, currents of air and water, substratum, water, atmospheric gases, relations of soil, Populations: Animal aggregations, organization of insect societies, Biome and biome-type in world distribution, metabolism in community organization, ecology and genetic variation, and isolation, adaptation, natural selection, etc.
193 pages. Examines the adaptation of agricultural species to climate through flowering responses. Intended primarily for agronomists and the advanced student of agricultural science but will enlighten the interested general reader as well. Book clean, bright and unmarked but for small signature atop title page. Minor lean to spine. Bright green boards. Brilliant gilt lettering upon spine. Several closed tears to dust jacket with several chips missing. Nice copy overall. Book
143 pages. Index. List of literature cited. Black and white diagrams. Contents include: Starting with Bales; Three Basic Approaches; Developing a Plan; The Loadbearing Option; The Non-Loadbearing Option. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
Features: Exchanging prisoners in East Germany for West German money; Dian Cohen implores the Prime Minister to 'lead us or leave us' - two million Canadians are unemployed; Coverage of Trudeau's Asian junket; Cat and mouse - the RCMP and Soviet spies in Ottawa; Dollard Menard takes on the Generals; Cover Story - Donald MacDonald's royal commission on the economy; The 1930s nightmare revisited, by Anthony Sampson; Reagan fights for control; Leonard Rosenberg - Trust quagmire deepens; US-Canada lumber showdown looms; Checking in at Lloyd's of London; Big Oil extends its reach - Suny's gas stations secret connection with Imperial Oil; David Leighton leaves Calgary's Olympic planning team - replaced by Frank King; Ski industry in downhill slide; Russian satellite roulette - Canada threatened by Soviet satellite Cosmos 1402; Stress in the Recession - Behavior; Legal aid squeeze; Side effects of Depo-Provera; This year's version of the flu - the A Bangkok strain; Two-page colour photo ad for CP Air's Royal Canadian (First) Class. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
134 pages. Count Marcel and his sister, Lady Cerise, have been tricked out of their titles and their fortune. Contains music for piano and voice plus lines. Above-average wear. Spine taped. Some markings. A worthy vintage working copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 150 pages Chapters include Reduction theorms, Purity, basic subgroups and finitely generated groups, Projectives, injectives, pure projectives and pure injectives, Structure of te tensor product and the group of extensions, Direct sums of countable p-groups and Hill's version of Ulm's theorem, etc.
Books shows light shelf wear only with slightly curled corners; text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way. No creasing to covers or spine. 537 pages with occasional illustrations. Inside back cover and back of last page has news article pasted down. Inscribed by Peter Hochachka to Peter Stewart on free front endpaper.
637 pages plus index. "The integration of SPSS for Windows is an important part of our book's personality. With this new edition we have moved to SPSS Version 7.5 The improvements in SPSS have worked to make our package stronger as now the output and graphing aspects of SPSS are much better." - from Preface. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Includes CD. Book
230 pages. An abridged version of The Omnipotent Child II. Focussed solely on remedial parenting of the child already in adaptive growth difficulties. "An absolute blockbuster of a book... makes more sense of child rearing than anything printed in the last fifty years." - The Vancouver Sun. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. Book
118 pages. Features: Sculpting Concrete Structures; Curves - Part 3; Our Version of Chama; Small Cars for Small Railroads - Part 7; A Visit to Franz Grund's Garden Railway; The Fourth National Ga. 1 Steampu; Spring on the Matadero Valley; The Orange Blossom Special; Pagosa Prairie Dogs - Part 3; Tips on Installing R/C. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
310 pages. Some highlighting/underlining. Designed for professionals-in-training, practicing professionals, and parents or families of disabled persons. Deals with 1. The social misconceptions that impede the physical, psychological, and social adjustment of disabled persons; 2. The effects these misconceptions have on the attitudes and effectiveness of those who work with disabled persons; and 3. existing services, laws, environmental changes, and technological advances that affect both the efforts of professionals and the lives of disabled persons. Authors are Professors of Special Education and Rehabilitation at Memphis State University. Book
