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[The Roman Mysteries series # 2] Ancient Rome, four children and a mystery - set in Pompeii. Book
Period Boards. 8vo. 52 pages ; 20 cm. Unknown to Singerman. Joseph Krauskopf (1858 - 1923) was a prominent American rabbi, author, leader of Reform Judaism, founder of the National Farm School (now Delaware Valley University) , and long-time (1887-1923) rabbi at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI) , the oldest reform synagogue in Philadelphia which under Krauskopf, became the largest reform congregation in the nation. (Wikipeida, 2016) OCLC lists 4 copies of an earlier 1894 copy. (NYPL, JTS, UC Berkeley, HUC) , none of this 1900 edition. Wear throughout. Copy belonged to a child named Sadie Mendel and still has her name and book plate. Rare, perhaps unique surviving copy, from the evolving Reform approach to children's liturgy. Good condition. (AMR-48-19)
Features: A vote against motherhood - Gael Greene; Danger from Within - Dwight D. Eisenhower writes that Indolence and lack of moral principle present a greater threat to America than the armed might of Communism; Perils of Pauline - America's highest-paid femail TV commentator, Pauline Frederick, fights skeptical bosses, prettier rivals and video's glamour code; "We Sailed the Columbus Ship" - Robert Marx relates how nine men in a forty-two foot boat braved wind and wave to recreate the first conquest of the Atlantic - many colour photos; Golf-Ball Goof - retrieving lost golf balls; Last Stop Alcatraz - Mickey Cohen and the inside story of how Federal agents put him behind iron bars at long last; Ice Hockey's Geriatric Marvel - 38 year of age, going on 45, goalie Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs seems to have found the secret of perennial youth; Nuclear-age School - New Mexico students pursue knowledge under a 21 inch concrete slab in Artesia, New Mexico - Abo Public Elementary School is the only one in the nation underground - it doubles as a fully equipped fallout shelter; Black Merchants of Hate - fanatic and well-disciplined, Negro 'Muslims' threaten to turn resentment against racial discrimination into open rebellion - photo of Malcolm X. Nice colour Pepsi ad on back cover. Great two-page colour ad for Chevrolet trucks. Nice full-page ad for a blue 1963 Dodge Wagon; Colour Ford Auto centerfold features the Fairlane. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Why are they Spoiling Florida? - Philip Wylie; Can Christians Unite? - by John A. O'Brien; The Berlin Crisis - Khrushchev's Strength - a report on life in the Soviet Union; People on the Way Up - Margaret Post, Knerr and Melin (founders of Wham-O), Janet Margolin, Pedro Sanjuan; Reprieve for Heart Victims - the mechanical resuscitator and other developments; Blackout on News - Burton W. Marvin describes lack of press freedom in Iran during his stay, 1960-61; The Wonderful Merry-Go-Round; Youth - The Cool Generation (long article with many great colour photos); Big Ego, Big Talent - Robert Horton, 'Wagon Train's' Flint McCullough. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Four middle pages loose but present. A worthy copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Nice 1/2 page color Fatima cigarette ad; 1-page color Hudson car ad - circus scene; 1-page color Maxwell House coffee ad features illustration of band practicing in the living room; Nice 1-page color ad for Zenith radios; 1-page color ad for Kelly Springfield tires features lady swimmer; RPM Delo ad features nice color photo of excavation scene in rugged territory; Renegade Canyon (fiction); The Man Who Hunts Old Bones - photo-illustrated article about Dr. Edwin Harris Colbert, curator of the American Museum of Natural History; Schoolgirl in Pursuit (fiction); G.I. Jim's In Love with Paris - color-photo illustrated article about the 1,300 American veterans studying and living under the G.I. Bill of Rights in Paris; Night of Trial (fiction); Senator Paul Douglas - Hard-boiled idealist - article with photo; We Bucked the Ice Pack - aboard the U.S.S. Edisto icebreaker as it ventured to previously unexplored waters - article witih photos; New help for that headache - combining medicine with psychiatry; Get That Rig Through (fiction); Tales of the Talking Taxis - photo-illustrated article explains how two-way radios are improving life for taxi drivers; Botts and the Brink of Disaster (fiction); Is Japanese Youth Going Communist? - photo-illustrated article; 1-page color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features tobacco man Dan Currin of Oxford, NC; Nightmare in Manhattan (fiction); 1-page color ad for Oldsmobile cars featuring the new 'Holiday' coupe; 1-page color ad for De Soto cars features the new 'Carry-All' sedan; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features blind-folded woman smoker; 1-page color-photo ad for Ford Trucks features photos Howard Johnson of hotel chain fame; Nice color-photo Kodak ad with rugged scenery in background; 1-page Chevrolet ad features the Styeline De Luxe 4-Door Sedan; Nice centerfold color ad for Mobilgas; 1-page color ad for RCA Victor televisions features Photographer Margaret Bourke-White; 2-page color ad for General Motors (GM) shows their range of products; Nice half-page color-photo ad for Florida orange juice; 1-page ad for Northwestern Mutual features photo portrait of Walter Geist, President, Allis-Chalmers; Nice 1-page color ad for TWA shows happy children in flight; 1/2 page color ad for Meadow gold ice cream; 1-page color Gulfpride motor oil ad shows new car by lighthouse; Nostalgic half-page 2-color ad for Elmer's of New Orleans features their Mint Bublets and Chee-Wees; Nice 1/2 page color ad for Beech-Nut gum; Sunkist oranges ad on back cover. One-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
4th Revised Edition (expanded), Modern Boards, 8vo. 218 pages; 20 cm. Singerman 4736. The 1st & 2nd editions have only 194 pages. Isaac S. Moses was the rabbi at Ahawath Chesed-Shaar Hashomayim, what is now Central Synagogue in New York. He spent much of his earlier career in several congregations throughout the Midwest. Contents include: Songs of praise -- Morning and evening -- Festivals and seasons -- patriotic songs -- Songs of duty -- Songs for the primary classes -- Six services -- The flower service -- The harvest service -- The national service -- Hanukkah and Purim service -- Responsive readings -- Hebrew responses and hymns. OCLC: 11995880. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide of this expanded edition (Weslean, Moody Bible, Harvard, Gratz, College of Charleston, Princeton Theological). Institutional markings to modern blank pastedowns and copyright page, very good condition thus. (AMR-48-18A)
Very rare book. Dust jacket has some small blemishes and sunning to the outer edges. Pages are clean, bright and tight with glossy colour illustrations. Used
14x21.5 cm. 331 pages. Paperback. Cover slightly chafed. Stamp on first page. Else in good condition.
The valley of myth and pwer ....where magic made a woman out of flowers, where a doomed warrior won vengeance from beyond the grave, where the power of sorcery built and built and sought release. Then Alison found plates with owl patterns that vanished; Roger felt screams near an ancient stone, and Gwyn touched the force of a tragic Celtic legend -- unknowing, they broke the seals that bound the sorcery. Mythic forces, of love and damnation, lived again. The magic was loose... Book
A collection of famous stories from Homer's Odyssey, retold for children by Barbara Leonie Picard .272p.Paper age-toned, esle as new Book
Seventeen-year-old Lee doesn't know much about newspapers - he's only ever read the sports and the funnies. So when Lee lands a job as a copy boy at the Toronto Telegram he enters a whole new world, where panic and energy and controlled mayhem rule the day. The year is 1954, a time when newspapers revelled in sensational stories and the shady means of getting them. Lee, taken on by veteran reporter Jack Murphy, witness Toronto's great news stories of the year, including Marilyn Bell's historic swim across Lake Ontario and the catastrophic Hurricane Hazel, the biggest natural disaster in Toronto's history. Book
48 pages. This glamorous publication brought New York women important information including: news of the choicest fashion, entertainment, current happenings, where to go, what to see, and how much to pay. Features: Color cover photo features lady applying lipstick amongst a throng of well-dressed football fans; Nice Franklin Simon's one-page ad featuring Persian (wool) Prestige; Super half-page photo ad for Best & Co. features 'Sequins for Glamour'; Nice Macy's full-page ad features photo of four fashionable kids disembarking the 'Normandie'; Full-page ad for Macy's Little Shop features elegant lady in evening gown; The tragic case of Elizabeth Smith, convicted of second degree manslaughter in the death of her newborn; Great one-page Singer sewing machine ad encourages readers to make the $4 dress illustrated; Several photos commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty; Photos and brief article on new diaper service (which some readers thought was a fiction!); Flaming Youth - Sixteen Years Older - "The Younger Generation" that made the 1920's such hectic years grows old and conservative, and its bearded prophets tell how they grew up - article with before and after photos of H.L. Mencken and F. Scott Fitzgerald; "Dear Martha Deane" - brief article with nine photos of radio broadcaster Mary Margaret McBride; 'Mama Martinelli and her Soup of Vengeance'; Photo-illustrated three-page article on Gloria Vanderbilt; Article on John Perona's 'fashionable hellhole' El Morocco - including photo of Jack Dempsey and Perona; The Fashion Ediitor's Diary; Two nice full-page color fashion photos; Review of some New York hair salons; Color-illustrated centerfold features Football Fashions; So Much To Buy - So Much to Spend; Evening accessories; Skin products; There's a difference in light bulbs - photo-illustrated article compares American with foreign bulbs; Color photos of fine china and sparkling crystal tableware; We Shop the Town; Hearty Dinners for Cold Days; Photos and article on the movie "Libeled Lady" which starred Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy; Schaefer beer one-page ad mentions Empire City horse racing, Oct. 19-31; Maisonette Russe is opend with the blessing of Archimandrite Inna - brief article with photos; Manhattan Date Book; Nice color-illustrated Kotex ad inside back cover features fashionable ladies; and more. Unmarked with modest wear. A quality copy of this great vintage depression-era item. Magazine
48 pages. Features: What's the Mainstream? - Who is in It?; Why the French Mistrust Us?; Not Enough Food for Too Many People in India; The Farmer - Key Man of India - photos; Two-Year-Olds are Very Smart; Fantastic color-photo ad for Collins & Aikman features model in field with pipers in background; Chesterfield cigarette ad features photos of William C. Bettendorf, Jr, Ann Foreman and M. Fillmore Harty, Jr.; Shaggy Englishman Story - British long-hairs are proud of setting a new tonsorial style - but the barbers are crying - with photos of Brian Jones, John Lennon, and others; Photos of Eight Riddles of Mankind; Of Youth and Health; Photos of fashions by Norman Norell and James Galanos; Sexy Marilynesque ad for the Downingtown Inn of Downington, PA; and more. Average wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Great cover photo of an East German customs checkpoint at Berlin; Berlin Beleaguered - Today the population lives far better than when blockaded a decade ago but it feels a great unease generated by new Communist pressures; West Berlin Moods - photos of Berlin scenes; Labor's House Three Years After - anniversary of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger finds the union movement with some notable gains and a closetful of troubles; The 'Overwhelming' Robert Frost - At 84, the new poetry consultant to the Library of Congress looks like the symbol of a poet; What Went Wrong in Pakistan - Its sick parliamentary system has died - photo-illustrated article; How Balanchine Changed Ballet - something special has been achieved by the New York City Ballet, aged ten; The Oval Room - Eisenhoweriana; Messages From the Invisible Universe, by Arthur C. Clarke - Radio waves, reaching the earth from vast distances, are clues to a greater cosmos - with photo of the giant radio-telescope at Jodrell Bank, Manchester; Teaching the Young to Look - and See; Students in Search of Faith - Today's seminarians; Nice two-page color-photo ad for the Dorado Beach Hotel in Puerto Rico; Japan Turns Against the 'Gyangu' - crackdown on teen-age toughs; What Should a Man Tell His Wife?; Hottest Fighter in Town - Jose Torres; Lovely one-page color-photo ad for Jamaica features Mary Martin Halliday; The Care of the Reluctant Schoolboy; Play is Child's Work; Cookie Recipes; The Season for Springerle; Photos of fashionable rainwear for ladies; Photo feature of home designed by Richard Gordon to be child-proof; and more. 96 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
136 pages. Features: Nice color Jade East ad; Omega watch ad inside front cover; Gorgeous color fashion ads; Bankers Trust ad with photo of John Leahey; Chairman Mao - Nationalist First, Communist Second - article with photo; Eight fascinating photos of scenes in India; A professor argues in favor of a guaranteed income; Cold War Article declares that Western security depends on our showing superior nerve and skill; Behind the Smile on 'Krokodil', the Russian magazine founded in 1922; 'Herr Bundeskanzler', Ludwig Erhard, visits Washington - article with photo; How Much Academic Freedom is There?; Where are the New Playwrights?; The Official Case for Apartheid - South Africa's Foreign Minister outlines the history and philosophy behind his country's policy of 'separate development' for whites and nonwhites; Explanation of the 'Black Psyche' - article with photo of "Uncle Jack" statue in Natchitoches, LA; Chesterfield cigarette ad features Howard G. Heaton, Joan Kakow and Felix de Cossio; Nice Columbia Records ad features photo of Ray Conniff; Photo of Bert Lahr on stage in "Milliken Breakfast Show"; Color Caravelle watch ad; The status of wives in France has been elevated to the level of pals rather than pets, but is it all for hte better?; Coat fashion ad features 'senior' models Ida Shlansky, Marion Smith, Celestine Doctor and Rose Millstein, Louis Shlansky, Sandy Smith, Arthur Doctor and Dan Millstein; Great color centerfold photo ad for Creslan fabric features fourteen men standing along bar; Seven wonderful photos of youth fashion around the world; Nostalgic color-photo ad for Pleetway His'n Her pajamas (look like martial arts gear) at Gimbels; Rev. William Glenesk stirs up Brooklyn Heights; Nice one-page color photo ad for Guiness Extra Stout; Beach fashion photos by James Moore; The Case for 'Intelligent Neglect' of children; Ad for Mott's 'Figure Control Meal'; Attractive color Carlsberg Beer ad; Photos of living room decorated by Albert Hadley of Mrs. Henry Parish 2d Inc.; One-page ad for Degna Home Fluoridation Service promotes their service available on Long Island, in New Jersey or Connecticut - with photo of the John Snyder Family of Hicksville, NY; Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
104 pages. Features: Great color-photo Jordache ad featuring topless lady with two men; Toyota Celica ad (blue); William Safire on Census Vocabulary; That Electric Feeling; The Selling of the President - Robert Strauss is Chairman of the campaign to re-elect Jimmy Carter; Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen's Collaborator, Strikes a blow for brainy humor in 'Simon', a film all his own - article with color photos; Great color photo ad for Maidenform shows model in undergarments passing by a Queen's Foot Guard; The Wide World of ABC's Roone Arledge - article with photos; The Divided Youth of Israel - differences on the direction Israel should take; Nice two-page color ad for Carlsberg beer; Two-page color-photo centerfold ad for Stanley Blacker for Women, Inc.; A Case Against Slamming the Schoolhouse Door; Photo of Walter Cronkite with Dan Rather; Fashion - The Provocative Peekaboos - bits of bare skin are being exposed in many new designs; Leek recipes; The Pueblo-style home of painter Forrest Moses in New Mexico; Makeup beyond the Hairline; Camp ads. Small library stamps on each cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
188 pages. Features: Cover photo of Mother Teresa; American Airlines ad features Margaret SanGemino; Gorgeous Monet ad features gold earring on model with black background; Safire on Machisma; Murder Most Foul; Great two-page color-photo ad for Ralph Lauren Western Wear; Blackglama ad appears to feature Angela Lansbury wearing mink; Very artistic ad for Pierre Cardin Man's Cologne; Lauren Bacall is featured in a Fortunoff ad; The World of Mother Teresa - photo-illustrated feature article; Warring over new missiles for NATO; Chivas Regal ad; One-page ad for the Look 37 ski binding; One-page Bermuda tourism ad; Britain's Establishment Spies - Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean; Hidden Splendors of Tibet - color-photo-illustrated article; One-page Cuisinart ad; Beautiful Alfred Dunner/Fortrel ad featuring model in red top; Twins Reared Apart - a living lab - with photos of Jim Lewis and Jim Springer - Thomas Bouchard's lab; Big Business on the Offensive - they are now the biggest lobby in Washington; Peter Pan and How He Grew - James M. Barrie's timeless play of youth was inspired by his unique friendships with children; The Party's Over for Political Parties; Gorgeously photo-illustrated Jewel fashion feature - with photos of designers Angela Cummings, Kai-Yin Lo, and Kristin Moore; Artistic ad for Crayons footwear; The Year of the Trichologist; Featured Home - a former industrial library is domesticated by Angus Bruce and others; Garlic article; Camp ads; and more. Above-average external wear. Faint library stamp and small check mark atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of moose towering over hunter and his dog; Colour ad for Masonite Presdwood inside front cover; Vintage one-page ad for the Gainaday 200 washing machine made by Northern Electric; One-page Waterman's pen ad features fall maple leaves; Wonderful one-page two-colour (black and blue) recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) entitled "Advance with the Navy" shows sailors climbing onto deck; Very nice colour ad for Monarch-Knit sweaters features pipe-smoking man in yellow sweater raking leaves; One-page Weston's / George Weston Limited ad features the Canadian farmer; Canada Under C.C.F. - Socialism? - article with photos of Pat Conroy, C.H. Millard, Percy Benough, Professor George Grube, Professor Frank Scott and Premier Tommy Douglas; The Torch (short story); Leader of the C.C. F., M.J. Coldwell - photo-illustrated article; Whoa, Pete! (short story); Forum on religious faiths; What it Takes (short story); Nice one-page Chevrolet ad features green 1948 Fleetline; One-page text ad by The House of Seagram entitled "What Price Democracy"; Dot and I Meet Flaming Youth - two adolescent femmes fatales meet the life of the party; D.P. (Displaced Persons) Success Story - article explains how Poles Joe Korol and Leo Polenz have fled their homeland for Canada and are succeeding as independent farmers near Ottawa - with eighteen great photos, including some of their friends Annajean and Rose; Women's section includes photos of Mrs. N.C. Stephens, Mrs. Egmont Frankel, Miss Margaret Hyndman, Mrs. F.C. Brunke and Miss Orian Warwick; One-page colour ad for Heinz soup; Marboleum one-page colour ad shows nostalgic home colour scheme; Half-page colour ad for McClary ranges; Half-page colour ad for Westinghouse fridges; Fashion article with photos; Carling's ad inside back cover features colour reproduction of Rocky Mountain Sheep painting by Beverley Herbert; Wonderful colour Coke ad on back cover features young couple proudly holding six-pack while grocer looks over their shoulders; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
420 pages. Index. "A Moslem world undergoing such varied, such extensive, such profound and such momentous changes is of supreme interest and concern to all Christendom. As a matter of fact, the attention of Christians is to-day riveted on Islam as at no time since the Moslem invasion of Europe." - from Foreword. Surely an interesting contrast to the Moslem world of today. Light wear. Modest age-toning to contents. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
After her mother is killed a young Greek-American girl is sent to stay with relatives in Greece. It is the time of the Junta, and she learn a lot about the village and the kindness of the people and the stresses of living under a dictatorship. Book
More adventures near Alderley Edge - a sequel to "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen".The sequel to "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen". It is the Eve of Gomrath - the night of the year when the Old Magic is aroused. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would never have Enthralling sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen It is the Eve of Gomrath -- the night of the year when the Old Magic is aroused. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would never have lighted a fire on the Beacon, thereby releasing the uncontrollable ferocity of the Wild Hunt. Soon they are inextricably caught up in the struggle between their friend, the Wizard Cadellin, and the evil Morrigan. The strength of their courage will determine whether or not they survive the awaiting ordeal. 142p, map. 171p. Book
Enthralling sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen It is the Eve of Gomrath -- the night of the year when the Old Magic is aroused. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would never have lighted a fire on the Beacon, thereby releasing the uncontrollable ferocity of the Wild Hunt. Soon they are inextricably caught up in the struggle between their friend, the Wizard Cadellin, and the evil Morrigan. The strength of their courage will determine whether or not they survive the awaiting ordeal. 142p, map. (This copy marked twice with stamps from a Pbk exchange bookstore) Book
22x16 cm. 266 pages. Hardcover. In good condition.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 23 full-page illustrations and 35 head- and tail-pieces (all by Tunnicliffe) in the text, free endpapers browned, neat signature on front free endpaper; decorative green cloth gilt, gilt back, joints and backstrip lightly rubbed else a good, firm copy. Williamson's second book, containing a collection of essays never subsequently republished, first appeared in 1922. This edition contains 27 titles from the first edition (all revised and some retitled) together with 16 items from other sources. See Gretton, 2; Matthews A2/1933.
139 pages. Circa 1967. "This is a story of my experience during six years of war, and of miraculous deliverance and protection. Knowing not which way to turn myself, I put my trust in a Higher Power, and an unseen hand took me out from place to place. I lived under five different governments. Poland, my country, was occupied by Russia and later by the Nazis. I was moved to Germany which was later under American occupation, and finally emigrated to Canada, now my beloved home." - Author. Frontis illustration of author in her youth. Photo of author, her husband and daughter inside back cover. A challenging true story of mystery and adventure. Prior owner's name inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book