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Two volumes in-4to, 1) XII + 798 p., including frontispice and env. 15 planches n./b., 2) 782 pp., including frontispice and 15 planches n./b.; binding in red-morocco with corners, gilt spine with Art Nouveau motifs, some rubbing to the head and tails of spines. Pages are bright with occasional spotting.
A couple of corners and 1 edge are bumped. Minor shelfwear otherwise. ; Text in Greek or English with one paper in German. Festschrift in honor of G. M. Sifakis. ; 699 pages
A couple of corners very lightly bumped. Light staining to spine. Sunning to part of front board. ; Text in Greek or English with one paper in German. Festschrift in honor of G. M. Sifakis. ; 699 pages
In-8°; pp. (8), 165 Brossura editoriale originale e legatura in tela con ex libris Landau. Edizione originale. Un unico marginale foro di tarlo passante.
x + 274pp., 2e édition, 22cm., br.muette d'époque (quelques manques de papier au dos), texte frais et sans rousseurs, bon état, T81396
viii + 200 + [ii] pp., 2e édition, 20cm., reliure cart. (dos en cuir, plats décorés, charnière supérieure peu cassée et fragile au bout supérieure), texte frais et sans rousseurs, bon état, T94050
16 pages. Features: White House Wit - from many Presidents; New Haven's Shubert Theater hosts three deer to spruce up musical comedy "The Yearling"; World's Most Expensive Doll House! - it has been insured for $2.5 million and is now owned by Queen Elizabeth - full-page color photo plus five black and white photos; Zipcode USA - teen Q&A - with photo of the Lovin' Spoonful and Dame Margot Fonteyn; The Girl in the Yellow Suit (fiction); Home From School - recipes. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
16 pages. Features: Holiday Boy - tropical Christmas fiction; Six celebrities describe their unforgettable Christmas presents - William Menninger, Helen Keller, Kyle Rote, Edward Steichen, The Rt. Rev. James Pike, and musical comedy star Lisa Kirk; Artists and the Madonna; Food for Christmas Stockings; Knockouut Knickers - fashion story for the ski slopes with color photo; Color ads include: Del Monte Golden Sweet Corn, Kent cigarettes, Quaker Oats - colour photo ad features Mr. Benjamin Thomas and son David of Levittown, NY; Salem cigarettes (back cover) features young couple standing on rail fence in meadow. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
20 pages. Features: Getting Wound Up for Christmas; New Evidence in the Case of the Crown vs. Gun-an-noot - article with photos; Not the Average Our Gang Comedy - interesting children from across Canada; Sweeping Them Off Their Feet - Lou Sendel is the best ballroom dancer in Canada; Doug Wright's Family cartoon; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Cover photo of lady curler; Carling Black Label ad inside front cover claims it is Canada's best-selling (international) beer and shows ship exporting it to the world; Stephen Lewis - boy socialist of the NDP who's giving the old-line parties lessons in winning elections - article with caricature; How Computers May Catch Bad Drivers Before They Smash Up; Since When Did the Truth Become More Dangerous Than Danger Itself? (Editorial); Will Wawa's gun-totin' Christians fight for peace in Tanganyika? - Leigh Coop and Canadian Lay Missioners; Vintage one-page colour ad for the 1965 Ford Mustang Convertible (blue) entitled "Economy Car of GT Racer?"; One-page colour ad for the 1965 Ford Falcon Futura Convertible (light blue); Kodak camera colour ad; Glorious one-page colour-photo ad for the 1965 Ford Lincoln Continental shows lady with grey car picking up her mail at end of her private road; Nice one-page colour-photo ad for Sheaffer pens; Today's Religion - article with photos of Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg, Father Frank Stone and Dr. Ernest Marshall Howse; The Guns of Christmas - a story of two thousand Canadian soldiers and the most gory and gaudy Christmas week of their lives as they fought, hand-to-hand, it Ortona, Italy during WWII; Two Solitudes Revisited; Would Canada Be Better Off Without Quebec?; Walter Homburger - the modest merchant of music - article with nice one-page photo; Push a Button, Housework's Done!; Curling article with input from Lyall Dagg; Report from Utopia - Alan Phillips sizes up havens to escape to; One-page ad by the "Ontario Government Trade Crusade" encourages readers to buy Canadian-made toys; Publisher Gray Campbell of Sidney, B.C. - article with photo; Toronto entertainer Randy Martin's latest gimmick - a two-man standup comedy team in living black and white; "We're Wasting Our Money Trying to 'Help' Canada's Delinquent Teenagers"; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad features basket of beagle puppies; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
136 pages. Short Stories: Swamp Girl; Hour of Panic; Return From Nowhere; Hard of Heart. Articles: My Friend, Trotsky's Assassin - Jacques Mornard - with numerous photos; Rockety-Happy Kids at Camp A.P. Hill artillery range in Virginia; I Call on Actor Laurence Harvey - with photos; Adventures of the Mind, 54 - The U.S. Presidencyy; Germany's Enchanted Black Forest - with color photos; The Face of America - The Grandeur That Was - great color photo of the Old Tyson place at Lowndesboro, Alabama; The Mystery of the Palatine Light - this photo-illustrated article investigates an enduring legend of murder and mayhem on Block Island 120 miles from Manhattan; Is Baseball Comedy Dead? - great comedic photos of baseball stars - with article discussing the contention that modern major-leaguers have become too serious. Serials: The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (part 2 of 8); Journey into Danger (part 6 of 8). Ads: Westinghouse Center Drawer Refrigerator; Chevrolet Power Steering; Glidden House Paint (2 pages); Chrysler Certified Car Care; Northern Tissue (two pages); Studebaker Lark - nice color photo with fire truck); Campbell's Soup; Corvair; Chryslter - fantastic one-page color photo of a white New Yorker convertible on beach; Brownie 8 Movie Camera; Fantastic 2-page colour photo 7up ad shows young blond making ice cream float for five young men; Ford Galaxie; International Trucks; Morris 1000 car; Nice two-page color Chevrolet ad featuring a 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Sustom Safari catching the ferry to Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior; Newport cigarettes; Great one-page color-photo Smirnoff ad featuring Joan Fontaine and her husband, Collier Young; Orange Crush; Admiral portable TVs - 19" portable; Renault Dauphine; Borden's Peach Blossom Ice Cream; De Beers Diamonds; Papst Beer - with color photo of piano player and stage entertainers; Amity Wallets; Dodge Dart Car (inside back cover). Above-average wear. Unmarked. Not pretty but a worthy vintage copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: Girl Who Married a Family - Joan Beaulieu was wed at 21 - to a husband and six lively boys! - article with nice photos; Full-page colour photo ad for an apparently short-lived product from the Campbell's soup people - Red Kettle Chicken Noodle Soup; We Waste Too Much Time Sleeping - So says Dr. Mangalore Narasimha Pai - who sleeps only three hours each night - article with photos; Using Television in Education at Queen Elizabeth High School in Nova Scotia - article with photos; Photos of amazing oversized typwriter and people; Welsh girl Valerie Gearon stars in film about Gandhi - article with colour photos; Mouth-watering colour photo ad for Lowney's Bridge Mixture candies; Photos of Polar bear and her cub; How to Make Kids' Sports Safer - article with colour photos of (now antiquated) hockey equipment; Nice two-page colour ad for Arrow shirts; Why Soviet Aid Failed to Stave Off Chaos - Understanding Cuba - part 2 of 2 - article with photos; Colour centerfold ad for Parker pens; Edie Adams goes it alone - article with photo about Ernie Kovacs' widow who is now back on the stage; Fantastic colour photo and write-up of Toronto Maple Leaf star Frank Mahovlich; Ottawa's Tudor Singers - article and cover photo; Handicapped Artists Who Help Themselves; Harold Lloyd Rediscovered - his zany comedy stil draw laughs - article with photos; Flying Santa from the Lakehead - Orville Wieben flies north from Fort William each Christmas to distribute clothing, toys, etc. to needy native kids - article with nice colour photo of native babies strapped onto colourful boards; Fashion photos of "Frivolous Nothings"; Nipper comic.Westclox colour ad on back cover. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Some light foxing on title page and prelims. Wear to cover corners, spine and surfaces. Binding firm.
Some light foxing on title page and prelims. Wear to cover corners, spine and surfaces. Binding firm.
LXXII, 330 paginated pages. Some light foxing on title page and prelims. Wear to cover corners, spine and surfaces. Bookplate of John T. Betts on front pastedown. Hinge of pastedowns cracked. End free endpaper and last page loose. Tear to top joint of spine, with loss to top of spine.
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Simon Sez 'Sex" - advice; Some Guys Got It - fiction; Fifty Miles a Day for J.F.K. - satire; The First Daze of Vacation - humor; Mirror, Mirror... - photos of Lupe Lopez; "Dear John's" First Date - fiction; The Car of Kings - "La Royale" built by Ettore Bugatti; Beyond Words - humor; He Plays With Dolls - photo essay on French cartoonist Peynet who had a love affair with a doll named Damour (of which he sold two million copies!); The Most Passionate Professions - Survey; Pooling Her Resources - photo essay of Paula Angelo; The Man Who Felt Persecuted - fiction; Festival Girls - The Movie That Out-Dolces "Vita" - pictorial essay; George Q. Lewis's Comedy Workshop in New York, a College for Comics - article with photos; Going Up - pictorial essay on Angela Jones; In Training For What? - fiction; Ah! La France! - pictorial essay on Lena France of Boston; Hue and Cry - correspondence; Sound On - records; Checkmate - shopping; Back cover color-photo ad for Mr H. Esq. features young man in black sweater with red and grey trim. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Photo feature of Lynne Vandmar, originally from Philadelphia; Snug as a Bug - humor by John Novotny; America's Brand of Sick Humor is Catching Europe With Its Quarantines Down - article by Bob Abel; The Female of the Species - fiction by Mike McGrady; Wasteland Watchwords - TV expressions applied to bawdy photos; Go Sell it on the Mountain - satirical article by Ralph Schoenstein; Note to the Shape Shapers - Robert G. Elliott's humorous response to couteriers attempting to flatten women fore and aft; Love in the Shrouds - fiction by Jerry Bumpus; Richard Brooks - the director of Elmer Gantry and Lord Jim has unusual thoughts about movie censors, movie sexpots and movie critics - photo-illustrated article by Dave Jampel; Men's sportcoat fashion photos; Peter, Paul and Mary - brief article and photo of this rising group; My Name is The Wind - fiction by Evan Hunter; Pictorial essay of a New York car rally; Gypsy - tasteful black and white photo feature of Rosa Sylvia Teiros, a U.N. translator of gypsy extraction. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
ix + 436 [i] pp. avec 41 portraits hors-texte gravés à l'eau-forte par Frédéric Hillemacher et 1 vignette, 21cm., imprimé sur papier de luxe, reliure plein cuir (premier plat peu décolorié), bon état, texte et intérieur en très bon état et sans rousseurs, T89970
Gift inscription from Segal to G. P. Goold and Philippa Goold on ffep in pen. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Very minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Oxford Readings Classical Studies; 360 pages; Aristophanes is the only author of Greek Attic comedy whose work survives in any form beyond fragments. His eleven surviving comedies reflect the spirit of Athens in the golden age and its unique freedom of speech. This anthology brings together all the most important contributions to the study of Aristophanes; it addresses a range of subjects from the classic question of Aristophanes' relationship to contemporary politics to more modern issues such as performance context, the interaction between fifth century comedy and tragedy, and gender
Light browning to endpapers. Some fraying to spine ends. Corners somewhat edgeworn. Some shelfwear. ; 490 pages
Former owners' names on ffep (Richard Whorman-1848; William Dale-1898 [classics scholar]). Appears to be vellum binding with slightly darkened spine-slight scuffing to boards. Black spine label with gilt lettering. Attractive marbling to endpapers. Light foxing. Marginalia /annotation and underlining in red and black ink by William Dale (classicist) to a few of the plays otherwise VG. ; 772 pages
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Light bumping to corners. Minor shelfwear. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 356 pages; The contributions to this volume by a team of international experts illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. The language of Greek comedy: introduction and bibliographic sketch / Andreas Willi -- Ionian Iambos and Attic Komoidia: father and daughter, or just cousins? / Ewen Bowie -- The language of Doric comedy / Albio C. Cassio -- Some evaluative terms in Aristophanes / Kenneth Dover -- Figures of speech in Aristophanes / Simon R. Slings -- Languages on stage: Aristophanic language, cultural history, and Athenian identity / Andreas Willi -- Comic elements in tragic language: the case of Aeschylus' Oresteia / Alan H. Sommerstein -- Mageiros Poietes: language and character in Antiphanes / Gregory W. Dobrov -- Some orthographical variants in the papyri of later Greek comedy / W. Geoffrey Arnott -- Speech within speech in Menander / René Nünlist.
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 14 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Jewish Wit and Humor. Rabbi Avida (18871962) was a prominent communal worker, rabbi, and writer. During World War I he was held hostage by the local Russian commander against possible spy activities by members of his community. He was a founder (1917) and general secretary of Mizrachi in Poland until 1920. Ordained in 1910, he was appointed rabbi of the city of Gabin (Gombin) , Poland (191119) . In 1920 he went to Canada and successively held positions as Jewish National Fund director for Canada, director of Montreal Hebrew schools, and rabbi in Vancouver (EJ, 2007) . OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide (OCLC: 19304252) SUBJECTS: Jewish humor. (YID-40-78)
223 pages. Index. Illustrated in color and black and white. "Never short of anecdotes about Walt Disney and the other early artists (or the jokes they played on each other), the authors present a funny, charming, and authoritative story of just how Disney elevated animation from jumpy stick figures acting out gags to genuine works of art that move - and, furthermore, move their audiences. In this unique volume, the authors not only fully explain Disney humor as no one else could but they lavishly illustrate - with original drawings preserved in the Archives! - the various kinds of sight gags that were used in creating the greatest body of work in world animation. This is the book that finally reveals the true key to Disney humor." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average wear and soiling. Hinges taped. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy. Book
325 pages. Index. Bibliography. "An in depth examination of such fondly remembered comic character actors as George 'Gabby' Hayes, Smiley Burnette, Andy Devine, Al 'Fuzzy' St. John, Slim Pickens, Max Terhune, Fuzzy Knikght, Pat Brady, and many other sidekicks of the B Westerns - thirty-nine in all!" - from dust jacket. Many wonderful black and white photos. Sure to entertain! Average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
