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Features: Cordell Bank - an underwater island; Preserving a common heritage - Treatment of marine artifacts; Tiger of the sea whips; Queen conch at the crossroads; Bermuda mystery waves; Garadiavolo - the devil monster hoax; Save the babies - Strategies of marine animals; there was a Moby Dick; The fuzzy sea butterfly. Sound copy. Book
1853004103NY: Redfield 1853. Second revised and enlarged same year as the original published first edition. Hardcover. Fair/Good. Original brown cloth with still bright gilt stamping to spine but chipped. Visible edge-wear rear cover neatly reattached light foxing discoloration and some damp staining at the margins not extensive; some signatures pulled a bit but remains a sound binding and a very good reading copy. Former owners bookplate on the front paste-down page. 541 pages plus advertisements <br/><br/>Questions welcome. Images can be made upon request. Redfield hardcover
1942WRCLIT45569New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1942. Cloth and decorated boards t.e.g. Map endsheets. Fine in glassine dust jacket. First edition of one of the most substantial treatments of this elaborate auction hoax including bibliographical descriptions of the catalogue its subsequent printings and the literature on the affair. One of two hundred copies printed in Centaur types on rag paper with a title-page decoration by Fritz Kredel. LAWSON & PANKOW 109. Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover books
in-8°, 158 pages, broche, couv.— RARE ET RECHERCHE. Bel exemplaire. [MI-11]
Features: Vintage Colour Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 ad; One-page black and white Krugerrand ad; Watershed week in Federal Tory Leadership Campaign; Bill Bennett and his Social Credit Party defeat Dave Barrett and the NDP in BC - colour photos; Jean-Luc Pepn concedes on the Crow rate; Scrutinizing Air Canada's decision to move its HQ to Montreal; Andropov hints at compromise; The Hitler Diaries Hoax; Israel decides to withdraw from Lebanon; Clampdown on CIA covert action - the Boland amendment; The Edmonton Oilers go for the Stanley Cup - feature article with colour photos; High Tech job threat - will it eliminate many of our jobs?; Photo of Toyota Chairman with GM counterpart Roger Smith; Douglas Fraser of the UAW re-elected to Chrysler board; TD Bank bringing discount brokerage to Canada - clash of the Bay Street titans; Race horse Sunny Halo - brief article; War beneath the waves - submarine detection - Aurora, DDH-280 class destroyer, sonobuoys; Morgantaler and abortion move west to Winnipeg; Vintage Mattel Intellivision colour photo ad. Average wear. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; maroon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the separately printed errata slip mounted facing text. Bright, crisp copy of the original edition of the investigation into Piltdown Man - arguably the greatest archaeological hoax in Britain of the twentieth century. Working with the author, Le Gros Clark and Kenneth Oakley were the trio responsible for detecting and finally exposing the fraud in 1953. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
2003966302003 A Paris, chez Jean de Bonnot, tenant négoce de librairie à l'enseigne du canon - 2003 - Edition N° CDLV - 2 vol in-8, reliure pleine peau noire ornés de fers à dorer réalisé à la main et signéspar l'artiste graveur, décor estampé à froid sur les plats, dos lisse avec titre et auteur en doré, tranche supérieure dorée, signet noir, ornements (lettrines et culs-de-lampe) - 385 + 413 pages sur papier filigrané à la forme ronde - Nombreuses illustrations en N&B hors-texte - Compositions originales des Maîtres de la Matière Noire - TIRAGE A PART bibliophilie
Contents: Pittston battles for New Brunswick refinery in Eastport; Explosive student woes in France; Can we trust our spies?, by Barbara Amiel; Joe Clark searching for second ballot support; Robert Kaplan under attack for his new CSIS; Dave Barrett bows out leaving no heir; Militant Nova Scotia lobster fishermen; The trial of Gilles Gregoire; Inside Canada's Prisons - cover story with photos; Texas Instruments PC ad; British national election campaign; Scandal in Somalia; Congress approves the MX missile; Deadly new phase of warfare in South Africa; Canadian shipyards fighting to survive on government contracts; On the Nissan Assembly Line in Japan, by Peter C. Newman; NHL faces anti-trust challenge after refusing to allow the sale of the St. Louis Blues to a Saskatoon group - Bill Hunter; Commodore 64 computer ad; Into the tomb of HMS Breadalbane - interesting underwater photos; Bruce Allen - the most successful manager in the history of Canadian rock; Fotheringham on the Hitler diaries hoax. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
16516Paris, Imprimerie P. Didot l'aîné, An XII-1804. In-12, CI-257 pp., basane marbrée brune de l'époque, dos lisse orné de caissons et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre rouge, tranches mouchetées rouge (épidermures, petits manques, petites rousseurs).
Features: Are the Peralta Stone Maps a Hoax?; Old Betsy - queen of the Kansas Southern and Gulf Railroad; The West Wind Blows - stagecoach loot cached on the Conejos; The Man who put Nebraska in the shade - more than one million trees planted on 10 April, 1872 - the beginning of Arbor Day; Too much gold talk will get you killed - 40 wagons rolled through West Texas from the goldfields of California; The grave on the hill west of Laramie - Clement S. Bengough; Blue - a family's horse; Northern Minnesota's Gold Rush - a state geologist who falsely claimed that in 1865 he had found high-grade ore near Lake Vermillion unknowingly influenced the outcome of World War I!; Bare fist fighter James 'Yankee' Sullivan; Frontier foods and cookery; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Oregon's Legendary Sheriff - Jim Blakely; Saddle Mountain's Lost Mine; That joint down by the river; The Moline Dreadnaught - an early auto adventure over 5 states; Samuel MacDougall's Great Gold Hoax; The James Connell Murder Case - a beef contract turned out to be a death warrant; Horse Traders and Gypsies; Bloodshed on Lightning Creek, Wyoming - a border dispute; Deputized Sawmill Man - James William Anderson; Newt Israel's last trip to Tucson; A close call at Red Fork; Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Features: They called him Coyote - Scott Andrew Smith; Goodhearted and unlucky - Long George Francis; Stump-Jumper on the Fairbanks-Valdez Trail; Blue Riches Halfway to the Sky; Foster Child of the Kiowas - Millie Dergan; Why Badmen were Bad; Gay times in Gibbonsville, Idaho; Climb the Blackjack! - Longhorn Cattle; Climax Jim - Rustler Rufus Nephews, alias Jim Thomas; Noah H. Rose - frontier cameraman; Steamboat on Puget Sound - the Beaver; Oakes Rhymes with Hoax - D.C. Oakes and Pikes Peak gold; Last days of the great northern herd; 'an eye for an eye' was not enough - William Clark Quantrill and his band; Gunfighting tricks of the trade; complete reprint of scarce book - Rube Burrow, King of Outlaws and his Band of Train Robbers by G.W. Agee; and more. Clean and bright with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
7453Dated by Mitchell in manuscript 'Xmas 1930'. Printed by 'BLOWS HENLEY'. On a piece of brown card roughly 250 x 200 mm. Designed to be hung from two punch holes at head. Worn and aged but with text printed in red and black within a decorative border clear and entire. A clever and amusing spoof deliberately old-fashioned typographically in a parody of 'improving' texts. Reads '£50000 A Wireless Dealer aged 82 died - He left £50000; thanks to long hours close attention to business strict economy and - a bequest of £49650 from an Uncle in Australia T. N. MITCHELL Benson Oxford.' Inscribed on the reverse 'Xmas. 1930. With my Best Wishes and Thanks signed Mitchell'. Dated by Mitchell in manuscript 'Xmas 1930'. Printed by 'BLOWS, HENLEY'. unknown
1836V42295Hamburg (Johann Philipp Erie) 1836 ( Erste deutsche Ausgabe). 8°, schlichte Broschur der Zeit (Paperback) 116 S., [2 Warenabbildungen] 1
64 pages. Features: Prospecting in the Cherokee Hills; The Hoax of Prunes, the Burro - Fairplay, Colorado; Mama's gone to sit on a jury - Mrs. Eliza Boyd was the first woman to be summoned for jury duty; Santa Anna's Pay Chest; When House Calls were House Calls - wilderness doctor goes 85 miles by dog team!; Early-Day 'Town Houses' - early New Mexico architecture; The Ashes of Los Burros - mining district in California; Death dresed up like hired help - Minot, North Dakota; One More Mystery for the Superstition Mountains of Arizona; Old Friends from Perote, the infamous Mexican prison; Lost Breck Hofus Gold Mine; Man with the Diamond Willow Cane - South Dakota cowboy 'class of 1902' - Frank Glover; Wild Old Days!. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
1927899441927. Experimenter Publishng Company Inc. New York. April 1927. Illustrated. Cover bright. Spine slightly faded with small rips to prelims at the top and bottom and stain to the top inner corner of spine and rear cover. Pages browned but otherwise a clean and sound copy. unknown
116 pages. Features: Will Cuba Be Rescued?; In Two Years - From Revolution to Ruin (Castro's Dictatorship); If Kennedy Has His Way on Taxes; As American Soldiers Moved Up Front in Laos; Back of the Delay in U.S. Missile Bases; Mystery of Soviet Spaceman - Truth or Hoax?; A "Doomsday Machine" - Last Word in the Arms Race?; Who Elected Kennedy - Here's a New Analysis; How Kennedy Differs from Ike: Study of Presidents at Work; Red Menace..Lag in Space - the President's Size-Up; Kennedy: "We Do Not Intend to Abandon Cuba"; After 10 Months, Is U.N. Getting Anywhere in the Congo?; How Canada Handles Aid to Parochial Schools; What Khrushchev Told an American Writer; Tax Credit to Help Business - As Kennedy Spells it out. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1917145408Delphes, Librairie d'action Delphes, Librairie d'action d'art de la guilde des forgerons, 1917 - Au Trépied Pythien, l'an IV du délire de Lamachus. In-16 broché, couverture illustrée de 71 pages. Dédié à André Mary, Bourguignon par Fernand Fleuret, Cavalier français, avec les Remarques de Jacotus Brededin, Dr Ph.l ecteur à l'université d'Ampelople, et en quoi se rencontrent le portrait du géant, la description curieuse de ses souliers, de sa main, de son derrière, etc., ses périples et la fin horrible de ses sujets ; le tout entremêlé de réflexions et sentences morales. Deuxième édition, corrigée et considérablement diminuée. Couverture fragile avec déchirure sans manque, et manque angulaire. Envoi de l'auteur à Paul Léautaud.
Delphes, Librairie d'action d'art de la guilde des forgerons, 1917 - Au Trépied Pythien, l'an IV du délire de Lamachus. In-16 broché, couverture illustrée de 71 pages. Dédié à André Mary, Bourguignon par Fernand Fleuret, Cavalier français, avec les Remarques de Jacotus Brededin, Dr Ph.l ecteur à l'université d'Ampelople, et en quoi se rencontrent le portrait du géant, la description curieuse de ses souliers, de sa main, de son derrière, etc., ses périples et la fin horrible de ses sujets ; le tout entremêlé de réflexions et sentences morales. Deuxième édition, corrigée et considérablement diminuée. Couverture fragile avec déchirure sans manque, et manque angulaire. Envoi de l'auteur à Paul Léautaud.
178499917534Londres Londres, 1784. 2 volumes In-8 brochés, couverture bleue d'attente, 277 + 206 pages. Bords des pages un peu effrangés, couvertures d'attente un peu défraichies, corps de l'ouvrage en bon état. Cet excellent et rare ouvrage, ici en édition originale, mériterait d'étre relié. Dialogues imaginaires et caustiques sur l'état du Royaume de France entre plusieurs grands personnages décédés. Bon exemplaire.
84 pages. Features: Niagara Falls "Maid of the Mist" cover photo; Slum Clearance is a Hoax; Robert Kennedy and the Liberals; Out to Launch; See America First; The Killer That Stalks the Newborn - deadly respiratory disease kills 25,000 per year; My Twelve Years With Kennedy - The Presidential Years - by his personal Secretary, Evelyn Lincoln; Actress Jean Simmons - The Mouse Becomes a Cat - color photos with article; Will Snick Overcome? - photo-illustrated article on the wildest of civil-rights groups which teaches its poorest Negroes to challenge whites. Fiction: Peace; The Gaudiest Thing on Wheels. Ads: Lucky Strike ad inside front cover features photo of man with bite out of his hat; Bell Telephone ad features photos of Carol Ann Pagano of New York City; General Electric Appliances; Nice two-page Volkswagen ad shows race car trailing a Beetle; Dial Soap; Rexall Sweepstakes; Nice color ad for the 1965 Ford Pickups with Twin I Beam independent suspension; Masterpiece cigarettes; Phillies Cheroots Cigars; Color-photo centerfold ad for Firestone features Indianapolis 500 photo; Flying A Service; National LP-Gas; Interesting one-page ad encouraging motorists to use seatbelts (before shoulder straps came into use); Tab soda - very nice one-page color photo ad inside back cover shows mom on beach with young son; Viceroy cigarette ad on back cover is color photo of an evening weenie roast on the beach. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
310 pages. The shocking devastating truth about the Medical Monster and the cancer racket. Proof that radiation, surgery, and chemo-therapy is real quackery. Then read the real cancer cures being supressed by the Medical Monster. Originally published in 1956. Includes dozens of graphic black and white photos of cancer victims plus rare black and white photographs of the infamous George H. 'Doc' Simmons, founder of the American Medical Association (A.M.A.)., and his successor Morris Fishbein. Documents an important part of American medical history. Small piece of clear tape at foot of spine. Shows evidence of ample but respectful use. Rubbing to illustrated covers. Book
110 pages. Features: Prudential ad inside front cover features fantastic one-page illustration of Lionel Conacher being carried by his Toronto Argonaut teammates after they beat the Edmonton Eskimos to win the Grey Cup in 1921; Four Canadians plan a trip to mountain climb in the Himalayas - Sev Heiberg et al; Editorial discusses propaganda vis-a-vis the Berlin Crisis; Nuclear Researcher Louis Slotin - A Tiny Slip, A Terrible Death; Falconry in the Suburbs - Frank Beebe of Vancouver Island; It's Harder to Be Anybody - novella by Mordechai Richler; For ten days Eva Szulner was den mother to 24 child geniuses from Oak Park Junior High School in East York; Judson Lowther kills his wife Alice and the hired man, Brandon Isaacs, he found her with near Cremona, Alberta; Prime Minister R.B. Bennett was almost as an important event in Canadian history as the Great Depression itself; Japan's Tragic Solution to the Population Crisis - two milliion abortions per year; How Seven Families Really Got Away From it All - a handful of Americans, mostly Quakers, raise their families in Argenta in the Lardeau Valley of B.C.'s West Kootenays; The License to Defraud in Charity's Name - the 6,800 tax-exempt corporations in Canada are scantily investigated; Colour-photo B.O.A.C. one-page ad shows Bhikku (priest) near the Emerald Buddha Temple in Bangkok; Photos of the dust-blow 1930s; One-page black and white photo ad for Trans-Canada Airlines features cute young girl Karen; Howard Green - Vancouver Lawyer and parliamentary veteran; and more. Please note: missing pages 9-12 and 67-70, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
Londres, 1784. 2 volumes In-8 brochés, couverture bleue d'attente, 277 + 206 pages. Bords des pages un peu effrangés, couvertures d'attente un peu défraichies, corps de l'ouvrage en bon état. Cet excellent et rare ouvrage, ici en édition originale, mériterait d'étre relié. Dialogues imaginaires et caustiques sur l'état du Royaume de France entre plusieurs grands personnages décédés. Bon exemplaire.
96 pages. Features: Cover art by Fenwick Lansdowne; Nice colour ad for GWG inside front cover features casual fashions for ladies; Tim Buck's Future; The Bankruptcy of George H. Ridout's Ontario real estate empire; Will Maggie Muggins be Canada's next movie star?; Bruce Hutchison argues 'We're Being Corrupted By Our Boom'; One-page photo ad for Crown Zellerbach Canada features Forester Ken Mulholland; Diary of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke pictures Churchill as a happy genius without judgement; One-page Chevrolet ad features pink 1957 Chevy coupe with white roof; Is B.C.'s fanfare for Wenner-Gren another false alarm? - he has an Olympian plan to develop the B.C. Trench - photo-illustrated article; Siobhan McKenna and the Statford Festival - photo-illustrated article; Fenwick Lansdowne and his Unbelievable Bird Paintings; How the Russians are trained to hate the west - interesting photo-illustrated cold war-era article explains that the Russian people are not fooled by their state propaganda; The Wonderland of Louis B. Mayer (conclusion) - fantastic photo-illustrated article explains how the thirties were a bonanza for this Canadian star-maker who made Garbo talk, discovered Judy Garland and hit the jackpot with 'Gone With the Wind'; Was Our Biggest Historical Find Our Biggest Hoax? - awful suspicion that Viking relics 'found' in Northern Ontario and proudly displayed in our largest museum are probably fake - fascinating photo-illustrated article about relics 'found' by James Dodd and Fletcher Gill in 1930 on a Beardsmore, Ontario mining claim; Why the (Toronto Maple Leafs) Kid Line became a legend - sensational photo-illustrated article - part IV of the story of the Conachers; Will the nickel book make a new man of Manitoba? - Trapper Walter Johnson staked the Moak Lake area then sold his secret for a fortune - photo-illustrated article; Fantastic one-page colour Meteor car ad features yellow and black car with white roof, plus endorsement by Ed Sullivan, whose photo appears in lower left corner; Sensational colour two-page Meteor car ad includes illustrations of sixteen cars!; Black Label Beer ad features 'Mabel'; When Louis Mayer sang to Jeanneatte Macdonald; Nice one-page colour ad for 1957 Chrysler cars features a red Windsor 2-door hardtop (with white roof); How Pal became Lassie and how Elizabeth Taylor started on a fast climb to stardom; Colour ad for Jello-O orange instant pudding; Colour centrefold ad for Simmons mattresses; McCulloch chainsaw ad features the Model 39; Pilkington Glass ad features colour photo of the living room of the J.L. Silverman home in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Wonderful one-page colour ad for the 1957 Monarch Turnpike Cruiser car features their new dual-curve windshield; Nice colour ad for Dow ale; Max (Rawhide) Ferguson describes his most memorable meal; Baby photo of footballer Normie Kwong; Nice one-page colour-photo Oldsmobile ad features white car in front of fashionable city location; Colour ad for Molson Golden Ale; 1957 Dodge ad inside back cover features yellow car with white trim and roof; Coke ad on back cover features Hawaiian get-together; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
