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4to. 15 pages. Illustrated with tables and graphs. "Paper presented at the alcohol policy plenary session of the 29th International Institute on the Prevention and Treatment of Alcoholism, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, July 1st, 1983." SUBJECT (S) : Alcoholic beverage industry - government ownership -Finland; Alcoholism - government policy - Finland; Alcohol - law and legislation - Finland. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Library of Congress, Baker & Taylor, National Library of Finland) . SERIES: Reports from the Social Research Institute of Alcohol Studies, ; no. 166; Variation: Alkoholipoliittisen tutkimuslaitoksen tutkimusseloste; no. 166. ISBN: 9519192220. Very good condition. (FIN-13-41)
322 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. A detailed history of the district with a particularly detailed treatment of local family histories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Minor lean to spine. A quality copy of this precious genealogical reference. Book
Half cloth, 193 (2) pages, 8vo. In Finnish. Material Type: Pre-adolescent. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Nat. Library of Finland) . Small tear to spine and chip to cover. Very good condition. (FIN23-22)
8vo. 104 pages. Illustrated. SUBJECT (S) : Lutheran Church - clergy - correspondence; Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America - clergy - correspondence; Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America - history - sources. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide. Discolored around the edges, very good condition. (FIN-8-37)
XV, 339 pages, 2 taululiitetta: kuv, 8vo. In Finnish. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Nat Lib of Finland) . Hinge repair. Wear to binding. Few stained pages. Wear to cover edges and binding. Otherwise, very good condition. (fin24-5)
Softcover, 31 pages, 12mo. In Finnish. Light wear. Very good condition. (Fin24-29)
Hardcover, 345 pages, 12mo, 19 cm. In English. SUBJECT (S) : Sermons. Evangelistic work. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Columbia, Nat Lib of Finland) . Wear to binding. Hinge repair. Very good condition. (fin24-11)
Features: Window on South America; TSR-2 and Concord; Russian Trapeze Artists; W.W.I German Aircraft; Midget Racer Designs; Fortress is in R.A.F.; Sopwith 'Atlantic'; No. 20 Squadron History; Future of the H.S. 681; Mexican Air Force; Avro Arrow (4 pages with many black and white photos, structural cutaway, specs, expoded view and diagrams; No. 1 Air Navigation School; Finnish War Relics; Economical Motorspatz; Veteran Stratoliners; The Two Enemies; R.A.F. will be the loser - re-equipment plans discussed; Valiant to the last - the scrapping of the Vickers Valiant; Sir Winston Churchill; Hawker Nimrod; W.W. I. Miscellany; Light Autogyros in U.K.; Campbell-Benson B-11-2; British Airlines; TSR-2 - cardinal points; No. 18 (N.E.I.) Squadron; 'Zero' returns home; Defence White Paper; Between the Wars; Air Forces Middle East; Fleet Air Arm on Tour; Skyframe Museum; Fairey G.4/31; Revolt in Congo; Meteors over Korea; Piaggio P 166C; U.S.A.F. postscript; On Being Shot Down; France's Aero Exports; British Airlines Postscript; Shuttleworth Collection; Polish Air Force, 1940-45; H.S. 125 and Dominie; No. 70 Squadron History; Scintex Super Emeraude; Sonic Bangs (booms); Sir Geoffrey de Havilland; Pilatus History; Japan Air Lines; Visit to H.M.S. Ark Royal; No. 1 Squadron, R.A.A.F.; Plane that bombed America - Yokosuka E14Y1; Navigation - Part I; Escort to Bomb Raid; Paris Report; Suez 1956; Ancestor Airlines; PZL-104 Wilga; Navigation - part 2; Gliding Championships; The Auster Line; Battle of Britain; Italian Raids on the U.K.; Chaumont Weapons Meet; Army Flying; Open Day at Middle Wallop; Gloster Grebe; Kosciuszko Squadron; Suez 1956 - a lesson in air power; Between the Wars; Navigation - 3; The Parnall Story; No. 43 Squadron, R.A.A.F.; Sopwith Grasshopper; The R.A.F. Today; Extending the Buccaneer; Two-Seater Fighting; Navigation - Part 4; Scheibe SF-26 Standard; Hermes aide-memoire; Kestrel Evaluation; "Karel Doorman"; Whitehead Aircraft; Navigation - part 5; Victa Airtourer 115; The Parnall Story; Rhodesia's Air Force; Naval Fighter School; Hughes OH-6A; Mini-COIN; No. 23 Squadron History; B.A.C. Drone; Loss of Flight 19; Training Engineers; and much more. Includes index . Gilt lettering to front board and backstrip. Moderate wear. Slight lean to spine. A quality copy. Book
Pages 194-256. Features: The Passing of the Maine Wilderness - article with photos of destruction by John C. Phillips; An Anchor to Forestward - How America Tried to Grow Trees for Sail of the line on Santa Rosa Island; Naming the Sequoia - article by Cristel Hastings; Robins and Ruminations - article by Guy W. von Schriltz; How Dierks Lumber and Coal Company is Placing one of the largest bodies of controlled timber in the world uner forest management; Wilderness Classroom - article with great animal photos by R.W. Hiestand; Bankers Join Forest Converts - realization that florests are 'flood insurance' arouses financial interests; American Forest Week - proclamation by President Calvin Coolidge; The Paradise of the Cedars - The Park of the Cedars in Algeria - great photos; Fireproofing the Georgia Woods, by I.F. Eldridge; Centerfold contains 8 amazing photos of unique trees; Chief Forester Greeley's Retirement; The Chinese Elm - a Valuable Tree; The Raindrop Family - a story for children; Shirley W. Allen Takes Up New Work; Snapshots of European Forests by an American Forester - Part IV - Finnish Forestry Pays, by John D. Guthrie - with photos; Boy Foresters Serve Denver - by David W. Thomas; Nice illustrated ad for the American KampKook gas range for the outdoor chef; A nice assortment of vintage ads; Pacific Pumpers ad on back cover. Centerfold loose but present. Cover holding by one staple. Somewhat above-average wear. Pencil markings to back cover. Magazine
Features: Postcard Gems; Some Notes on the Finnish Railways in the 1950s; Some Early Diesel Locomotive Experiments; The Teresa Cristina Pacifics; The Railways of Jamaica - Epitaph, August 1994; Steam at Dresden, Germany, 29 April to 2 May 1994; New Light on the 'Lawleys'; The Last Big Steam Show down under; Back Track. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
24 pages. Inflation? - Rising Prices Give Rise to Official Concern - with photos of Mariner S. Eccles and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace; Sit-Down Strikes; School disaster in New London, Texas; Amelia Earhart crashes on Howland Island in the mid-Pacific; Great photo of 10 men carrying huge carpet to be used for King's coronation at Westminster Abbey; Rebel Rout in Spain; Article on fascinating alleged love triangle between Benito Mussolini, Madeleine la Ferriere and Count Charles de Chambrun - whom she shot; Reich Finances - brief article with photo of Hjalmar Shacht; China's Famine; "Horror Coma" experienced by Mrs. Helen Wills - photo of her with Dr. Damuel Marcus; Photo of Finnish first lady Mrs. Kaisa Kallio, wife of Kyosti Kallio; Editorials; Feature article on Judge Louis Dembitz Brandeis, with photo; The Movie World - with photo of Bette Davis; Dr. Hans Luther is relieved of his post as German Ambassador in Washington - with photo; Mui Tsai - Chinese girl babies are often human chattel sold for a price; Photo of Kakike Saito, Queen of the Cherry Blossoms; Back page photos of bull-fighting in Mexico. Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Articles: Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. - The Rise and Demise of Vancouver's Biggest Shipyard; The Multidisciplinary Rediscovery and tracking of 'The Great Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre et Miquelon Hurricane of September 1775; Avoidable Loss - The Saga of the Blucher; Seamen Ashore - Port Vistas of Late Nineteenth-Century Finnish Sailors; plus book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Backstrip almost entirely missing. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Decent copy. Book
Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Another excuse to think about buying yarn!; We're all warped - differently!; Round coasters to break away from the grid; Warping from to back for a striped rag rug; warping front to back; Turned M's and O's scarf inspired by Handwoven; Special warping tips; 4-shaft twill gamps in color-wheel colors; Back to front with two crosses; Aurora rug in Finnish Raanu; Back to front through lease sticks; Warping with a paddle using yarns from your stash for a scarf; Sectional beaming in ten easy steps for upholstery or pillow fabric; A shawl in fabric forecast's island sunset palette; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
4to. 49 issues. Most are about 4 pages. Title changes to Finnish American Cultural Activities, Inc. After May, 1984. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish American - Minnesota - Twin Cities Metropolitan Area - periodicals. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Minneapolis Public Library, Univ of Minnesota-Minneapolis, Minnesota Historical Society) . ISSN: 0734-5925. Good condition. (FIN-13-27)
4to. Illustrated. Thirteen issues: Jan & Mar 1978, Mar & June 1979, Spring-Summer & Winter 1980, Apr & Oct 1981, Fall 1982, Apr 1984, Sept & Dec 1986, Spring 1988. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish Americans - Minnesota - periodicals. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Minnesota Hist. Soc. , Univ of Minnesota-Minneapolis, Wisconsin Hist. Soc. ) . Good condition. (FIN-13-21)
4to. 8, 12 pages. Illustrated. Two issues: June 1979, April 1981. UBJECT (S) : Finnish Americans - Minnesota - periodicals. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Minnesota Hist. Soc. , Univ of Minnesota-Minneapolis, Wisconsin Hist. Soc. ) . Top corner torn on first two leaves of 1981 issue, good condition. (FIN-13-22)
384pp., 21cm., text printed in 2 columns, 3rd edition, cloth, [bilingual: Russian-Finnish], OCLC 250831561, T76164
48 pages. Features: Color cover photo of artist Edward Hopper; One and a Half Cheers for Progress - article by James Michener; How a Supersoldier Was Fired From His Command - Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Herbert tried to go by the book in Vietnam; A Report from the Majority of the World - article with many photos from Begadjah, Indonesia; The World of Edward Hopper - The drama of light, the artificiality of nature, the remorseless human comedy; Plaid fashion photos; Many gorgeous fashion ads; Finnish instant vacation home - designed by architect Matti Suuronen; and more. Small library stamp atop front cover. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Born August 28, 1922 in Finland her childhood was spent on a remote island.On June 24th 1940, she married the love of her life Eeli Nygård, a handsome baker from Helsinki. In 1952, together with their two young children, they emigrated to Canada Part of this book is the familiar story of a hardworking immigrant family in a new land. Later wealth and success came after their son Peter established a profitable fashion empire. 292p.+ additional coloured plates Book
8vo. 142 pages. In Finnish. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) , 1882-1945; Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953; Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (National Library of Finland, Hoover Institute, UC Berkeley, Northern Michigan Univ) . Good condition. (FIN-15-10)
8vo. 191 pages. Illustrated. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Labor unions - United States; Finnish Americans; Socialism - United States. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. English title: Forty Years... Very good condition. (FIN-15-20)
Hardcover, 125 pages, 16mo. In Finnish. Series: Heranneen kansan kirjasarja ; 1. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Nat Lib of Finland) . Wear to dust jacket. Otherwise, very good condition. (Fin24-22)
Hardcover, 188 pages, 16mo. In Finnish. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Nat Lib of Finland) . Wear to edges of cover. Hinge repair. Otherwise, very good condition. (Fin24-28)