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A very rare and wonderful find! Take a trip down memory lane with this complete issue of the (Toronto) Star Weekly from March of 1947. Includes five separate components. Magazine Section Number One (16 pages) includes: Harvest in Springtime, by Mary Brinker Post; Tall Tales of the Rattler, by J. Frank Dobie; article entitled 'Arctic Becomes Frontier in New U.S. Strategy'; Trouble in the Desert, by Chester Chatfield; Article - Swing to Nationallization - in which Emil Lengyel describes how various European countries are nationalizing their industries; Article - England's Under Ground - in which Harold A. Albert writes of English Archaeology; Article by Benjamin Waife describes Einstein's contention that two-thirds of people might be killed in nuclear war; Go-Getting Granby, Quebec - nice article with photos; Article - Argentina's 'Little Eva' Bids for More Power; 'Mart, I Know Women!', by Sven Skaar; King of the Clarinet - Barry Ulanov writes of Benny Goodman - includes photos; Moshin Ali writes about 'Opening Up a Forbidden Land' in Nepal; 'Jap Children Learn a New Way', in which Richard Hughes writes about children in the 'bomb-blackened' suburbs of Tokyo; Boxing's 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs; Article on scientific study of the sun by Charles Greeley Abbot; Article - Bombay to Cut Booze by States; Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has invented a Global Alphabet - article by Mario A. Pei; Claws and Effect, by Clifford L. Walters; plus various black and white ads. Magazine Section Number Two (12 pages) contains: Superior Moustrap, by Travis Ingham; The Sobbing Wind, by Keith Edgar; Monkey-Shines in Zooland, by William M. Mann; News article with the headline "German Divorce a Bargain at $40 - Free if Poor; Britain's Land Revolution, in which Matthew Halton of the CBC describes progress with Britain's Town and Country Planning Bill; Plant Sleuth, by Leigh Henry; Lost Lode - Third Instalment; Your Easter Bonnet, with photos; Variety in the Lenten Menu; The 'Cheesecake' Industry - How Hollywood celebrities spend much of their time posing for publicity photos - includes colour photos of Patricia White and Frances Gifford; Colour half-page cartoon entitled 'Right Around Home' by Dudley Fisher on the theme of 'We Do Our Banking - Such as it is'. The third section is 'Rimrock Red' - a Star Weekly Complete Novel (15 pages) by Lytle Shannon. Page 16 of this section is a cartoon called Vignettes of Life on the theme "Spring is Near". Next we have a twenty-page colour cartoon section - "Canada's Best" - including offerings of: Jane Arden; Thimble Theatre - Starring Popeye; Winnie Winkle; The Lone Ranger; Steve Canyon; Ella Cinders; Invisible Scarlet O'Neil; Dick Tracy;Tarzan; Blondie; Little Orphan Annie; Superman; Napoleon; Flash Gordon; Moon Mullins; Pepsi and Pete (Pepsi cartoon/ad); Mandrake the Magician; Bringing Up Father; Li'l Abner; Terry and the Pirates; Little Lulu; Abbie and Slats. Please note there are fore-edge tears to some of these cartoon pages. Finally we have the 26-page Star Weekly magazine which features a colour cover illustration by Anderson of a boy preparing cough medicine for his sick pooch in front of the pot-bellied stove. The magazine contains dozens of black and white photos on themes including: The Far East's Colorful Highways and Byways (including a most primitive scene scene of stilt fishing huts in the Kalang River near Singapore's civil airport); The Transit Twins and Trolley Triplets - the children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Macatee of Philadelphiago through 420 diapers weekly!; Life with the world's largest fishing fleet of Norway; Nice full-page colour Campbell's Soup ad; British Folk Dances; Rebirth of Monte Cassino; Colour Bovril ad. Barbara Ann Scott; Lois Maxwell; Gale Robbins; Colour centerfold ad for Rogers Bros. Silverplate; Nice colour Kellogg's All-Bran ad (with beige stain in upper corner; Michele and Mikey Morgan; Stewart Granger with son James; Grandson of Rin Tin Tin; Colour ad for Lipt Book
32 pages. Where the Thrill Comes In - Charles J. Finger; Hiking in the Mountains - Dorothy E. Pilley; Old-Age Competency - C.P. Vary; The Voyage of the Victoria - Charles J. Finger; Henry Ford on 'Choosing One's Career'; Ourselves Across the Pacific; Wall Street's National Daily - The Wall Street Journal; Uncle Horace Mann As I Remember Him - Julian Hawthorne; For Bigger and Better County Fairs; The People of the Great Marsh; - John Sloan; English-Americans in Revolution - Lewis Worthington Smith; A Tragedy in the Tar Pits - Frances Holbrook Pfeiffer; The National Grange and the Awakening of the Farmer; Chats with Office Callers; Average soiling and wear. Address stamped atop back cover else unmarked. Some pages holding by only one of the two staples, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
Features: American Flintlock Pistols - Foreign Influences Played An Important Role in the Design; A Unique Smith & Wesson Conversion; Double Double Deringers; "Western Arms Co., N.Y." Revolver; Eulogy to Harry Mann. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 208 pages with a great many b&w photos, architectural drawings, elevations, floorplans, landscape plans, mechanical details.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 144 pages, with about 20 pages of b&w photos. Regards the outstanding figures in railway construction, one of the most prominent was John W. Stewart, dominating the railway construction field in Canada for years, in tis book we explore his work and career. Chapters include Earning his spurs, Into the big time, Planning for the Western extension, Buildng a Great Canadian Railway, The final achievement, Labour troubles, Into the upper echelons as railway owners, The fire-mile tunnel and other matters,
4to. First Edition with 16 coloured plates on 12 60 monochrome plates on 32 and very numerous maps and plans (many full-page) in the text; regimental cloth with badge blocked in gilt on upper board gilt back red endpapers a very good bright clean copy.
Features: Will College by Wasted on Your Child? - by Walter M. Lifton; An American Hero - the exclusive story of how Edgaar Buell, an American farmer, has devoted his life to a one-man crusade for freedom and democracy in war-torn, Communist-infiltrated Laos; People on the Way Up - Helen Mann, Ralph Bonham (inventor of the Tote Gote), poet W.D. Snodgrass; Queen of the Anglers - Dorothea Dean has already reeled in five world records - shark, marlin, tuna, etc.; An Everyday Tragedy - each year 38,000 Americans die on our highways - a survivor, Norman Sobel, tells of the terrible aftermath of one such disaster; Help Wanted in Washington - the Kennedy administration discovers that too few top minds want to work for their country; Sad and Lonely Clown - Red Skelton, a comedian for 33 years, has banked millions, but offstage he is tormented - Hollywood's loneliest man; Why Good Dogs go Wrong - befuddled pooches are now seeing their own psychiatrist!. Nice Coke ad on back cover shows three Coke floats. Average wear. Magazine
pp. 289; 306; 294. Paper browning but not brittle. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, corners worn with small loss. Spine some what faded and worn. Hardbound. Good. W7
Mm 175x255 Volume di pp. 727, cartonato rigido, con 34 figure in bianco e nero nel testo. Proceedings of the third conference of the international society for the study of time Alpach-Austria. Ex-libris al contropiatto anteriore, in buono stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Mm 175x255 Volume di pp. 286, cartonato rigido, con 26 figure in bianco e nero nel testo. Papers from the Fourth Conference of the international Society for the Study of time, Alpbach-Austria. Ex-libris al contropiatto anteriore, in buono stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
504p. + Plus engraved frontis and full page plates showing scenes and costumes of different races and nations. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Text age stained. Large 12mo. Original full leather binding, embossed and decorated in blind. Spine gold lettered with raised bands. Binding worn and stained. Front cover weak and almost detached. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/1
38p. Light penciled notations and ownership of J. Webb. Gutter dampstain between pages 14 and 15. 8vo. Original embossed full black cloth binding. Gilt stamped spine. Slight wear. "Madness, thou hast prevailed.". Coldwar/Economics 3
8vo., First Edition thus; green cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, backstrip moderately sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
Mm 160x215 Saggi einaudi 190 - Brossura editoriale con bella sovraccoperta figurata a colori, 356 pagine con ritratto in antiporta. Solo un'etichetta commerciale alla bandella in chiusura, peraltro opera in ottime condizioni, interno eccellente. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Mm 155x210 Prima edizione - Brossura editoriale con copertina figurata, 178 pagine. Traduzione di Anna Rosa Zweifel. Uno dei libri di riferimento sul grande scrittore tedesco. Opera in ottime condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
8°, pp.180 (3), t. tela ed., sovrac. Un numero è scritto a inch. a inch. al front.
In-8°, pp. 180, tela editoriale. Tracce di sporco alla tela.
Paris, Editions du Pavois, 1947. In-12, broché, bande annonce conservée, 169 pp. Envoi autographe de l'auteur à l'écrivain Richard Borel.
Paris, Editions du Pavois, 1947. In-12, broché,169 pp.
Luxembourg, Editions du Centre, 1966, in-8, cartoncino edit., pp. 71, (1). Invio manoscritto dell'autore su biglietto da visita.
Sehr gutes Ex. - Viele Fotografien und Zeichnungen. - Porträtzeichnungen und Karikaturen (von) : Hans Blix, Gunter Böhmer, Gerd Burtchen, Otto Christensen, B. F. Dolbin, Olaf Gulbransson, Kurt Halbritter, Th. Th. Heine, Wilh.-Peter Krellenberg, Alfred Kubin, Max Liebermann, Fritz Meinhard, Gisela Röhn, Alexander Sander, Ernst E. Schlatter, Wilhelm Schulz, Gustav Seitz, Eugen Spiro, Ottomar Starke, Niels Graf Stenbock, Mirko Szewczuk, Karl Walser, A. Paul Weber. // Paul Thomas Mann (* 6. Juni 1875 in Lübeck; † 12. August 1955 in Zürich, Schweiz) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und einer der bedeutendsten Erzähler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er wurde 1929 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Dem 1901 erschienenen ersten Roman Buddenbrooks folgten Novellen und Erzählungen wie Tonio Kröger, Tristan und Der Tod in Venedig. Der 1924 veröffentlichte Roman Der Zauberberg, mit dem er die Tradition des europäischen Bildungsromans fortführte, zeigt Manns Gestaltungskunst: Der Erzähler wahrt eine skeptisch-ironische Distanz zu den Figuren, typische Konstellationen kehren leitmotivisch wieder, und es herrscht ein syntaktisch komplexer, anspruchsvoller Stil. … (wiki) ISBN 9783925402456
Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1966, 8vo brossura editoriale, pp. 218 (Maestri e compagni, 30) .
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
