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A Lyon, de l'imprimerie J B Kinderlem 1812. 3 volumes in-12 reliés pleine basane blonde, dos lisse orné de petits dfers dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison noire. XXIV + 396 + 378 + 440 pages. Ouvrage utile aux jeunes gens et autres personnes pour se bien conduire dans le monde. Bel exemplaire.
in-12, 229 p, broche, couv. illustree. ETAT NEUF. [NV-16]
grand in-8, 414 pp., broché. Bon état (couverture un peu défraichie). [SO-2] Un livre sur les yogis écrit par un yogi.
36 pages. Includes piano music, lyrics, chords and illustrations for the following songs: Ars Brevis; The Eternal Twins; Consolation Grook; T.T.T.; Simply Assisting God; Hint and Suggestion; Dream Interpretation; Prayer - to the sun above the clouds; Lilac Time; The Double-Door Effect; Losing Face; The Cure for Exhaustion; Making Sense; What Love is Like; The Central Point; Here It Is; The Road to Wisdom; Do Remember. Gift greetings inside front cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Fourth of July at Lodge Pole; Lost Frozen Blood - Garnets, like the beaver hat, eventually lost favour in the world of fashion, but for a while they were dear enough to pit man against man; Messenger to the Indians - William Averill Comstock; 'Yellow Kid' and the Wisdom Tooth - Josepth Weil; Neal Coldwell - Gallant Texas Ranger; There were all kinds of gunfighters - Bill Traynor; Our Country's Mysterious Monsters; The Old JJ Ranch - How it Began, How it was Run; Deadwood's Lady of Cards; Capture of the Horse Thieves; Experiences of a forty-niner during a third of a century in the gold fields - by Charles D. Ferguson (part 2) Average wear. Unmarked. Minor moisture exposure to upper portion of some pages. Sound copy. Magazine
in-8, 280 pp., broche, couv. ill. plast.- 9782894660195 RARE - Bon etat. [TX-21]
256 pages. Index. Selected bibliography. "In many ways this book is a native chronicle about being native, for first person accounts enliven every facet of life in times past: the complex social structure based on kinship, rank and the potlatch; ceremonials and religion; gathering food, hunting and fishing; wood-working and basketry; trade, travel and conflict; Prehistory and archaeological discoveries; the arrival of Whites and the fur trade, followed by settlement, and the consequences of change, including the loss of their lands." - from dust jacket. Includes 200 photographs, 40 of which are in colour. "A popular and up-to-date account of native life and traditions on the Northwest Coast." - from dust jacket. Partial lean to spine. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Sacred Sands - The Civil Religion of the Indiana Dunes; The Diffusion of Silos; A Short Discourse on Cattle in the Hothouse; Recapturing History - a Plan for Gritty Cities; Wisdom and Wilderness; Juxtapositions; The Imprint of the Enlightenment - Tuscan Hill Farming in the Eighteenth Century; The Boutiquing of Cannery Row. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Cover artist - Takashi Hara; Sogetsu School; Ichiyo School; Koryu Shohtohkai; Saga School; Traditional Art - a Storehouse of Accumulated Wisdom; I.I. Salutes Houn Ohara; Matsu - perennial favorite or heavenly heights; Ikenobo School; Ryusei-ha; Chiko School; Ohara School; Soami School; Shikoku Pilgrimage. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with fine portrait frontispiece, numerous plates, 3 full-page maps in the text, and endpaper maps on yellow stock; yellow pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and black, yellow top, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case
8vo., Seventh Edition, text in French; original printed wrappers mounted to style, uncut, now safely preserved in custom-made portfolio, case with printed paper label. Rear wrapper has loss at edges before mounting. SCARCE.
Unpaginated. A collection of articles written by the author for The Times of Wetaskiwin. Presents local topics of interest in a plain yet wise and humourous manner. A valuable compilation of prairie common-sense. Above-average wear. Scribble upon illustrated front cover else unmarked. Some illustrations. Binding intact. Still a worthy copy. Book
Unpaginated. A collection of articles written by the author for The Times of Wetaskiwin. Presents local topics of interest in a plain yet wise and humourous manner. A valuable compilation of prairie common-sense. Average wear. Unmarked. Frequent cartoons. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
36 pages. Features: Arthur H. "Red" Amick, Jr., 1893-1980; Some Fond Recollections on "Red"; My Memories of "Red"; The Wit and Wisdom of "Red" Amick; Excerpts from Letters of Appreciation to "Red"; 27th Trek - August 12-17, 1980; List of Trekkers attending 27th Annual Trek; List of Franklins at the 1980 Trek; Five pages of photos; "Westrek 80", Santa Cruz, CA; Mini-Franklin Meet, Bennington VT; Facsimile of Frankline share certificate on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
64 pages. Features: Doctors? And Art?; Doctors as Collectors; Calling Dr. Kildare; Medicos, Monsters, and Mountebanks; Music and Medicine; The New Curriculum for the Faculty of Medicine; I've Been Sex-Educated; Wisdom and Cleverness; Melissa (story); Some Ethical Dilemmas posed by Advances in Medical Genetics; Humanism and Tokenism; Medical Nemesis (Book Review); A Way of Life; Departure; (poem); The Good Medicine of Christianity; Should the Patient be Allowed to Die?; On Being Explicit - Sex Education for Professionals. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
184 pages. "You would not find a book like this in a library or a bookstore. Those few that are there and which were supposedly written to help you get the best deal in a dental office, have probably been written to the order of those whose practices those books supposedly expose, as they conveniently 'forget' to mention the more important things you need to know when dealing with this profession." - from back cover. Chapters include: A Case of a Chipped Wisdom Tooth; Generating Their Own Demand; All or Nothing; A Plan or a Pool?; Say Hello to a Cosmo Girl!; It Pays Not to Assume Anything; The Question of Money; Let's Wait with that Root Canal; Not by Science Alone; Who Else is Honest?; Are Your Teeth Worth a Million?; Turning Luxuries into Basics; Why Self-Regulation?; By Your Own Orthdontist! Clean and unmarked with light wear. Solid copy. A most unique and uncommon volume. Book
58 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of Maestro at work; To the Ladies; Editorial discusses how the world is being reborn - for the better; Nostalgic comic-style one-page ad for Ingram's Shaving Cream; Destroyer - part 1 of a novel of love deeper than the sea; Movie Reviews - "Racketeers, Redskins, Romance"; The Brain Trust - Eminent idol-smasher H.L. Mencken wonders if it will do better today than it has in the past; Lux Toilet Soap photo ad features RKO-Radio stare Irene Dunne; On One Wheel - a revolution, a girl, and a perilous landing; Vox Pop; Twelve Months in the White House - by Anna Roosevelt Dall; Did John Jacob Astor Find Capt. Kidd's Riches? - a true story of pirate gold and the birth of a famous fortune; The Case of the Howling Dog (part 8) - Perry Mason stages a phantom murder; 10,000 families going back to the land; Transient Lady (part 11) - dangerous days and a girl's devotion; An Elephant Never Forgets - hilarious tale of an exile from Georgia and 5 tons of pachyderm wisdom; Rookies That Bloom in the Spring - tales of some colorful baseball players; Snake Dance (short story). Nice color back cover Coke ad features men in suits and soda fountain. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. 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: Pitcher in the Ivy - satire by George Grey; Apres Moi, La Bombe - humor by Richard M. Gordon; The Lonely Crowd - fiction by John Wisdom; Photo feature of Miss Carol Bayne; Only Her Analyst Knows - humor by Myles Callum; Photo essay of film "Tender and Violent", part of the La Nouvelle Vague movement; A Winter's Tale - fiction by Glenn Canary; Madras Madness - Fashion fad for handwoven Indian fabric; Grim Fairy Tales - satire by Robert Bloch; The Unique Peter Ustinov - article; Photo essay on Miss Nadia Jais; Ruddybore! - satire by Guy Daniels; Photo essay of Dore Orlando; Equity - fiction by Jack Sharkey; Hi Fi - article by Walter Gardener; Fantastic color-photo ad for Wrangler jeans on back cover features lady in baby blue jeans and jacket lifting cowboy dressed in black and red; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Paris, Editions Sagesse, " Aux quatre chemins ", 1935. In-8, demi-chagrin terre de sienne, dos à 4 nerfs, couverture et dos conservés. Edition originale. Un des 500 exemplaires umérotés sur Hélio Navarre. Avec 30 portraits dessinés en pleine page et précédés d'un texte par Jean de Bosschère : ARTAUD, CASSOU, DENOËL, DULAC, FOLLAIN, JACOB, JOUHANDEAU, LALOU, MARTIN DU GARD, MICHAUX, MILOSZ, PAULHAN, SALMON, SUARES, SUPERVIELLE, etc.. BEL EXEMPLAIRE ENRICHI D'UN ENVOI AUTOGRAPHE DE L'AUTEUR.
32 pages. Features: If Christ Came to Constantinople - ; Intimate Glimpses of Elbert Hubbard - a unique genius without parallel in literature; Where Americans Go When In Europe; Why So Many of Us Behave Like Imbeciles - with photo and content related to Gertrude Ederle of New York who swam the English Channel; Housing an Army in Hovels - permanent shelter for troops may not be ready in this generation - article with photos of ramshackle barracks; Levacha - a Thief Hunt in Abyssinia; Henry Ford's Page - two essentials of wisdom are knowledge of fundamentals and awareness of development; Editorials - farm relief, the McFadden Branch Banking Bill, New York's Stage Reform; Courage and Endurance - matters of stomach, not of heart; Clearing the Name of a President (Andrew Johnson) - Part 3; This Country Needs More Able-Bodied Loafers of a Certain Sort; The American Black Bear - a much abused animal; Nice one page ad for the Venice Company of Venice, Florida; Chats with Office Callers; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - turning wind into electricity at the University of Nebraska, Retirement of Peach Davis of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, check signing scam in Manhattan; News Bits; Nice animal photos inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Openings along each end of coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Hardcover In this inspiring new book, Wisdom of the Ages, bestselling autho r Dr. Wayne W. Dyer poses the question:“What do our ancestral sch olars, whom we consider the wisest and most spiritually advanced, have to say to us today?”The answer lies in this powerful collec tion of writings, poems, and sayings by some of the greatest thin kers of the past twenty - five centuries. In succinct original essa ys, Dyer sets out to explain the meaning and context of each piec e of wisdom, and, most important, to explain how we can actively apply these teachings to our modern lives.
Ultra-rare signed book by the amazing Maurice Cotterell. Hand-written signature appears upon title page. "His work, best described as adventure fact, brings together modern science, spirituality and ancient wisdom to unlock the events of the past, the present and the future." - from front flyleaf. "This ancient knowledge is known and thrives today, concealed in sacred geometry, cherished by the Church and the higher orders of Freemasonry. For the first time ever, Maurice Cotterell reveals the reasons for the secrecy, reasons which affect the future of us all." - from back cover. 356 pages. Index. Bibliography. Many colour plates. Average wear. Reading creases to spine. Book
240 pages. Iconic Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup cover photo. Additional features include: Hello and Good-Bye to Nudity, Love Vibrations and Guerrilla Theater; How Anyone Can Steal Atomic Bombs; The First Shock of Being Black; The Wit and Wisdom of George Wallace; The Play They Banned at Yale; and much more. Original feature slip still affixed to front cover. Unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy of this highly-collectible issue. Magazine
Roy. 8vo., First US Trade Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 47 plates by Kennington, Rothenstein, Roberts and others, 6 illustrations in the text and 4 folding maps coloured in outline; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, pictorial gilt from original board preserved and mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The first publicly available US edition of this literary classic, following private publication in 1926 and the limited edition of 1935. Winston Churchill believed that it 'ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language'. The work forms the basis of David Lean's multiple Oscar-winning feature film 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. Enser, p.191; O'Brien A42.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 47 plates by Kennington, Rothenstein, Roberts and others, 6 illustrations in the text and 4 folding maps, endpapers faintly spotted; original decorative brown buckram gilt, gilt back, uncut, brown top, backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy. The first publicly available edition of this literary classic, following private publication in 1926 and the limited edition of 1935. Winston Churchill believed that it 'ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language'. The work also formed the basis of David Lean's multiple Oscar-winning feature film 'Lawrence of Arabia' starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. Enser, p.191; O'Brien A042.