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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 96 pages. 7 3/8"w x 10 1/2"h. Color illustrations by Tom Gill.
Hardback reprint in dustwrapper. VG/Incomplete. (Regent classics). Inscription on the front endpaper. 13256. eng
pp. 245, (14). Pictorial title page. Decorated chapter headings. Text illustrations. 12mo. Original full pictorial wraps. Tear on front cover. Loss at top and bottom of spine. Anna Sewell (1820-1878) was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty. Writen in the last years of her life, Sewell's famous and influential humanitarian work set into motion a new activism for more humane treatment of horses. It also became a beloved and best selling children's book. Scarce early American Edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! HORSE 1
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 5 coloured illustrations and 15 flipbook thumbnails in monochrome; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue and cream, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.
Exhibition catalog in excellent condition. Back cover has plastic patina peeling off in two places at edges. Front cover has light bump at upper corner. These are the only flaws. Binding is solid and square, covers have otherwise sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 217 pages with large full color prints throughout.
64 pages. Featuers: Woman's Weekly Whispers; New Ways to Beauty; Trevallion (opening chapters); The Little Girl of Two-To-Four; Knit it in an Evening - hat; Simple Wrap-Around Dress; With a High Collarless Neck; Every Minute of the Day; They are All So Becoming; The Young Gloucesters - photo article of the young sons of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester; Give Me One Friend (story); On a See-Saw; Children's Ailments; Cardigans in Three Sizes; Shoes for the Doll; Tempting Cheese Dishes; A Cotton Jersey in Two Sizes; The First Year (story); Touring Cornwall; An Added Yoke in Check; Mrs. Marryat Advises; Nice vintage ads. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pamphlet with "From Your Congressman Don Magnuson State of Washington" stamped on the cover. 7 3/4"w x 10 1/8"h. 22 pages. Black and white photos.
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An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 64 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: The Webs They Weave - story by Earle Schell; Tasteful photo feature of June Palmer from England; Weaker Sex - W.B. Bennett asks who is the master of the race?; The One That Said No - story by E.C. Mackey; All About Beds - Various bed designs adorned with young ladies; Alibis That Worked - a compilation by Paul Steiner; Anybody Can Cheat - how to mark cards, cheat at gin rummy, scrabble, and home roulette; Djia Djio The Magnificent - Story by William A. Austin; Beauty From Buffalo - photo feature of Marilyn look-alike Pat Taylor from Buffalo, NY; Gold Coast (for ex-show girls) - They are finding lots of money in Miami; Colour cartoons of couple unable to get intimate because their cars are too small; Free-For-All - photos of topless show girls, including Kai Fischer, fighting over a man; A Circling Hawk - story by Donald F. Ellingwood, Jr.; Nudie the Nude - article on famous Hollywood tailor 'Nudie'; Nice photo feature of Leona Claire of Hollywood - she's part Chinese and part Philippine and appeared as a dancer in two movies, South Pacific and The King and I; The Retraction - story by John Turner; Photos of a couple with their Nomad combinaton camping trailer/boat catch the lady while bathing; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Unpaginated. Author/Photographer's signature upon half-title page. "This is my Northwest - the pictorial interpretations I wish to share with you." - from introduction. Many large wonderful black and white photos plus several in colour. Moderate wear. Some soiling to black faux leather boards. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
Ex-library book with the usual markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked. 364 pages. Many black & white and color illustrations. Text in Italian. Creased spine and edge wear to cover. This is Volume V in the "Enciclopedia Dell'Abbigliamento / Serie Culturale" series. Title translates to "The Costume in the times from the Renaissance to the Modern Times."
96 page book with fold-out map at back, usually one large color photo per page depicting traditional dress and costume and dance from region throughout (the former) Yugoslavia. Regions include six ethnographic zones: the Alpine, Pannonian, Adriatic, Dinaric, Moravian and Vardarian and the book is divided into chapters on Slovenia, with the Kurenti from the Ptuj region) Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia. Text is in Croatian. Institutional library stamp and (unused) "due date" sheet on inside back cover.
Mm 240x280 Volume in copertina rigida con sovraccoperta, 223 pagine profusamente illustrate a colori. Testo in lingua inglese - english text. Copia in condizioni pari al nuovo.
In-4°, (6), pp. 79, (1c), legatura in pergamena. Si tratta di un'opera molto interessante in cui si mettono in evidenza le caratteristiche e le virtù delle donne. La prima parte è dedicata alle lodi delle donne e la seconda a lodare la loro bellezza fisica e spirituale (contiene una poesia di Giovanni Battista Giraldi dedicata a Maria d'Aragona). Questa seconda parte contiene anche un catalogo di circa 500 donne italiane contemporanee organizzate da città (da Venezia a Viterbo) notevoli per la loro bellezza e virtù. In-4°, (6), pp. 79, (1c), vellum binding. It is a very interesting work in which the characteristics and virtues of women are highlighted.The first part is dedicated to praising women and the second is to praising their physical and spiritual beauty (it contains a poem by Giovanni Battista Giraldi dedicated to Maria d'Aragona). This second part also contains a catalog of nearly 500 contemporary Italian women arranged by towns (from Venice to Viterbo) remarkable for their beauty and virtue.
Previous owner's name inside. 528 pages. 7 1/4"w x 10 1/4"h. Glossy pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations with orange accents. An in-depth textbook originally printed in the thirties that covers everything the practicing cosmetologist needs to know: Hygiene and Personality, Sanitation, Facial Treatments, Haircutting, Electrolysis, Beauty Salon Management, and much more. Glossary of words; index.
180 pages. Features: Look Great, Feel Fit, Have Fun; Good Looks - in and out of fashion; Great this Summer - crisscross sun-backs, covered heads, white-bright whites, the new mix of batiks, separates at night; Look Sharp - the swing of stripes and plaids on the golf course, layers of separates, shirtdressing, the blue-jeans suit; Gala wedding in Spain - The marriage of Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu y Franco and Don Alfonso de Bourbon y Dampierre; Balenciago 1895-1972; Veruschka - the most beautiful woman in the world, by Richard Avedon; Beach Report - the new sund-dressing; Ruffles of a summer night - worn by Michelle Gilliam; All Summer in Town - the best-looing clothes you can wear; Olympic Summer - what to wear for the fun and games in Munich; Swimming Shape-up; Fitness routine with a Chinese slant; Who Wears what perfume - the fragrantly famous tell about smell; Beach Report - beauty tips for the new sun-dressing - what to do about your hair; your makeup - how to save your skin; Munich - the fun of it during the Olympics '72; Olympic trainers tell how to get in shape and stay that way for life; Ten-day diet to high energy, by Melva Weber; People are Talking About - Marlon Brando; How Auguste Rodin liberated women in art; Chanel - what she knew that you should know; What to know about the Munich Olympics '72; Italian lessons in living; Gae Aulenti Designs for Emilio Pucci; Horoscope for Audrey Hepburn; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
82 pages. Articles: Low Man on the Wallace Poll - a study of third-party Vice-Presidential nominee Glen Taylor; Hate - With Russian Dressing - a report on the USSR and its reaction to the Marshall Plan; Cotton Gets a Beauty Treatment - it's now used for glamorous beach, streat and evening wear; Let's Stop Abuses in Veterans' Schools - how defects in the G.I. Bill of Rights can be remedied; Men, Mikes and Money - politicians and movie stars take to the air waves (conclusion); Fish-Pond Sailors - model-yacht racing. Fiction: Shadow of Fu Manchu (part 1 of 6); The Man Who Went Back; Who'll Sit with the Baby Sitter; My Friend Joseph (conclusion); Code of the West; Clear Havana Filler. Includes nice ads for: Studebaker; Pepsodent; Bell Telephone; Oldsmobile; Mennen Skin Bracer; Mallory hats (color photos); RCA Victor portable radios; Milky Way chocolate bars; Plymouth; Calvert Whiskey (featuring bears by lake); Rama Spin lighters; Dutch Boy paint; Solovox; Admiral radios, phonographs and tvs; General Electric Tastegard coffee makers; Roadmaster bikes; Winthrop shoes; Blatz beer; Botany slacks; Rummy beverage; Kaiser aluminum siding and roofing; MacMillan Oil (featuring service station owner W.F. (Bill) Brost of Los Angeles; Hamm's beer; Revere movie cameras and projectors; Drewry's Ale (featuring Mountie); Hamilton watches; Camel cigarettes (on back cover) featuring Clem Murdaugh, 1946-47 National Motorcycle Hill-Climbing champion. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
216 pages, illustrated, index, glossary of cosmetic terms. eng
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Tears on dust jacket. 8 1/2"w x 11 1/2"h. 208 pages. Many color illustrations.
8vo; Paris, Robert Laffont, 1972. Original boards with dust jacket. 4to (large) 142 pages. Color photos throughout. Text in French. Erotica. Very Good Condition in Good+ jacket. (spec-4-21)
142 pages. Features: Color ad for Standard plumbing fixtures inside front cover; one-page ad for the New Jersey Zinc Company; Nice two-color ad for P and G naptha soap, No. 15 in series of actual visits to P&G homes; Planting the lily pool; Homes of outstanding American women - Miss Belle Sherwin, President of the League of Women Voters; A Compact Six-Room House; An ugly cottage becomes a charming home; A garden of shade-loving plants; Asparagus and its allies; We grow big mums out-of-doors; Four important accessories - screens, clocks, fabric wall hangings and window shades; Landscaping the hillside lot; An engineer looks at a house - Elmer T. Peterson attacks open-window ventilation; The modernized piano - beauty of design has kept pace with beauty of time; Your plants must be fed; Gardening on the rim of the prairie; Wiseom in the wild; Simple remedies for sick plants; When its time for you to move; News notes from garden clubs; Seven dinners for seven days; Equalizinng food costs - wise spending requires thoughtul planning; Adventures in home beautification; Nice one-page color ad for Simmons mattresses features illustration of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter; One-page color ad for Columbia window shades and rollers; Nice True Temper garden tool ad; One-page two-color ad for the Laundryowners' National Association of the United States and Canada; For better housekeeping; One-page ad for dandruff-fighting Listerine; Recipes; Summerizing the porch; Nice one-page Chrysler ad featuring the '62' coupe; New books which stimulate mental housekeeping; Nice one-page ad for Sheet Steel features mother and daughter in kitchen; Unusual salad accessories; Color one-page ad for Armstrong Linoleum floors; Tasteful one-page color ad for Crane bathroom fixtures; Yale door hardware ad; Nice one-page two-color ad for Chevrolet cars; Nice one-page ad for the Essex super six car; A naturalistic rock garden; Reynolds Wire ad features wild beast threatening girl; Wurlitzer piano ad; A miniature rockery; One-page color ad for Johns-Manville asbestos shingles; Nice two-color centerfold ad for Sherwin-Williams SWP house paint; Nice one-page color ad for Kellogg's corn flakes; Certo ad features photos of Miss Alice Bradley, Principal of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery and Miss Sarah Field Splint of McCall's magazine; Fit the vase to the flower; Colonial flower boxes; The evolution of an old hall tree; Refinishing varnished woodwork and furniture; Attractive one-page color ad for Vigoro complete plant food; Nice one-page color ad for Roper gas ranges; We grow our vitamins; Summer care of tulips; One-page color ad for Mohawk rugs and carpets; We grow big mums; Nice 2/3-page ad for Universal stainless steel cutlery; Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
118 pages. Features: Nice color ad for the 1960 Chevrolet 9-passenger Kingswood Station Wagon; Two-page ad for the 1960 Chrysler cars - Fury, Matador, De Soto, Dart, Valiant and Imperial; Super two-page color ad for the full line of General Mills breakfast cereals - Cheerios, Hi Pro, Trix, Cocoa Puffs, Wheaties, Corn Kix, Jets, and Frosty O's; Nice ad for the 1960 Ford Comet (blue); Coke ad features bottle, glass and opener floating on mini ice-berg; The Big Change in Russia - nicely photo-illustrated article from behind the iron curtain; Gorgeous Cadillac ad features a bright blue 1960 four-door in park; Rep. Hale Boggs on taxes and what you can do about them; Mike Nichols and Elaine May - Mirrors to our Madness; The Coming Battle of Atlanta - the city is under orders to integrate schools this fall; Two-page color-photo ad for Gravy Train dog food; Japan's Teen-age Idol - photo-illustrated article on Junko Kano; Gorgeous beauty photos by Erwin Blumenfeld; Photo Quiz; Lovely color-photo ad for the (green) 1960 Dodge Dart beside a lake; What is a School Superintendent? - photo-illustrated article on Jack Hornback of Tillamook, Oregon; Educator or Businessman?; ad for creepy product Positan which appears to be like shoe polish for skin; Classy one-page color ad for the 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Coupe (purplish-brown); Harry Truman answers questions; Funny photos of Diane Henn (of Massapequa, NY) in mirror; Swedish Boxer Ingemar Johansson; Great photo-portrait of Salvadore Dali in Polaroid camera ad; Photo feature on "Freedomland", the Disneyland of the east coast, located in the Bronx; Nice 7up ad inside back cover with photo of blonde sweetie making ice cream float for the boys; Back cover photo-ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes shows men in small fishing boat; and more. Front cover rough with nibbling along fold and bottom edge. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
223 pages including index. Presents the four stages in the development of western art, each with its own particular characteristics. Despite these evolutionary differences, however, an underlying common quality is unmistakable - the overwhelming influence of the environment. Distance, isolation, clarity, beauty, harshness - again and again these are the forces that control interpretation. And foremost of all the determining factors stand the two elemental absolutes - the mountains and the sky. Book in excellent clean unmarked condition with very faint wear to maroon cloth boards. Numerous closed tears and sticker scar to price-clipped dust jacket. Works displayed in colour, and black and white. All works belong to the Glenbow-Alberta Institute of Calgary, Alberta. Book
355 pages including index and a profusion of colour photographs. Captures all the treasures and beauty of this unique island. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A superior travel guide. Book
Full maroon cloth boards with gilt title. Clean and unmarked; tight binding. 5 7/8"w x 8 1/8"h. 224 pages of text, plus 46 b&w illustrations/photos at rear. Previous owner's name neatly written inside front cover. Small spot on front cover.