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Wonderfully illustrated front cover by Rex Woods depicts two medieval musicians performing a Christmas tune. 96 pages. Features: Charming colour ad for Green Giant canned tomatoes inside front cover includes map of Essex County, Ontario, where "the swankiest tomatoes in Canada' are grown; Nice one-page ad for the 1937 Chevrolet; Christmas 1936-2000 - a thoughtful article on the the future of the church and those born in 1936; Gorgeous one-page colour ad for the new 1937 V-8 Ford cars, featuring a maroon sedan; Lucky Keyes - short story by A.D. Divine; Silver Legs - short story by Margaret Nyren Hoffman; Christmas poems; I Was A Stranger - a true Canadian story as told to Janet Erskine Scott; Santa Claus for a Quarter - short story by Emma-Lindsay Squier; The Transit of Venus - short story by Gertrude Macaulay Sutton; Fog Over Fundy - short story by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Marvelous one-page colour-illustrated Campbell's Soup ad features grocer talking to well-heeled lady; Teens and Twenties; Fulfill Wishes - by Eva Nagel Wolf; Nice one-page ad for Jane Seymour Beauty Preparations; Movie reviews of "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "The Gorgeous Hussy", "Craig's Wife", and "Seven Sinners"; A Peek at the Books - Margaret Lawrence reports on the Toronto Book Fair; One-page Carnation Milk ad features photos of the Dionne Quints; Lovely one-page colour ad for Five Roses flour features Christmas baking; Eight delicious-looking recipes by Mona Parr for Christmas puddings and sauces - Rich Plum, Plum, Simple Dark Fruit, Carrot, Fluffy Mocha, Chilled Moulded Plum, Hard Sauce, Brown Sugar Sauce; One-page Libby's baby food ad features photos of the Dionne Quints; Fashion ideas - 'Dresses for Dates'; Delightful page of illustrations to be cut out entitled "Mary Lou and Bobby's Christmas" by Lydia Fraser; and more. A quality copy of this heartwarming depression-era piece of Christmas Canadiana Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean bright boards with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket not price clipped, torn or creased. 160pp.
Appears to be a 1970s or 1980s replica of the pre-WWII original. Features sexy young beauty holding parasol in canoe. She is wearing only short shorts and a skimpy red top which is pulled down to reveal her right breast. Periphery features illustrations of the many products offered by the Great Eastern Dispensary Ltd. Approximately 30" x 20". Crimped metal strips protect top and bottom edges. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A charming memento of 1930s Shanghai and a classy addition to the wall of any Asian man cave. Will be shipped in a sturdy mailing tube. Poster
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured titles, 4 coloured illustrations (2 tipped-in), numerous black-and-white illustrations in silhouette and printed endpapers; ivory boards blocked and lettered in gilt, ivory cloth backs lettered in gilt, a near fine set in publisher's blocked board slip-case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES. High-quality facsimiles of the de luxe versions of the first editions (Cinderella, 1919; The Sleeping Beauty 1920).
90 pages. Many wonderful photos in colour and black and white. Features: Colour photo ad for Divorce Hong Kong Style inside front cover; Ad for Luxor TVs features colour photo of lovely Frances Leong; One-page colour photos of Shau Yun Yun, Lin Fung Chew, Shu Feng, and Alen Teng; Two-page color-photo ad for The Chasing Game; Two pages of colour photos from Ching Lao's The Waves; Colour photo ad for New Fist of Fury and The Simple Minded Fellow; Lovely one-page colour photo of Shau Yau; Nice colour fold-out photo of Lin Ching Hsia and Charlie Chinon the beach; King Yu writes about love; Wan Yu and the Han Hwa Kwok Restaurant fight in Taiwan; The faded love of Wang Yu and Lin Ching; Produce Good Film Locally; A visit with King Hu; Trouble between Charlie Chin and Fang Fang; Trip to a Philippine beauty contest; Tsung Hua accompanies Lin Ching Hsia in Hong Kong; Can Yin Nan See's expectations be met?; Producer Lin Hsu; Interview with Chelsia Chan and Kenny B; Love is Like a Game; The Typical Admirable Doctor; Twenty Tomorrow; Low Society; Chiu Chen; The Midnight Song; Two Omniscient Men; The Saviour Monk; Kung Fu film by Chang Cheh; Interview with Hsu Feng, Chia Ling and Tang mei Fang; Colour photos of Shick Kung Chun inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Price written on cover. 27 page staple-bound pamphlet. Black and white photographs.
66 pages. Features: An Introduction to Beer Stein Collecting; Winnie Watson - First Lady of Plate Collecting; Belleek - a seven-letter world for beauty; Masseria; The Plate Fairs - an overview; Appraising and protecting your collectibles; Art Deco - 1930 and 1982; Miniatures - life under the magnifying glass; Bossons - an elusive collectible discovered; Making the most of your collectibles; A Partnership in art and life - Jack Hines and Jessica Zemsky; Looking back at the Vancouver Plate Fair; Happenings; Expert Opinion; China - 7,000 Years; Great events live on in porcelain; Showcase; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
74 pages. Features: Nice 1-page photo ad features 'teen-age' fashion model Kitty Higgins and her two children; Nice 1-page color ad for Lyon Whitewall Tires; The Sweetest Town on Earth - the modest community of Grasse, in southern France has the perfume industry by the nose - article with color photos; The Bosom of My Family (fiction); The Railroads Fight Back; The Flappers Chilidren - a veteran of WWII compares the doughboys who returned from WWI with today's ex-G.I.s - article with photos; Who's Kilroy? Cocktails for One (fiction); Sleeping Beauty (fiction); Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley (fiction); Nice 1-page color ad for International Trucks features a K-7 parked outside a diner; 1-page color ad for Seagram's V.O.; Great color one-page ad for Borden's Hemo vitamin drink; 1-page color-photo ad for Ansco film; Grand Slam Gags - a bridge tournament champ passes along some funny stories; Two-page color ad for Old Mr. Boston Liquor; Very colorful 1-page Christmas ad for Carling Red Cap Ale; The Host (fiction); Nice 1-page color ad for movie 'The Jolson Story'; 1-page color ad for Harwood's blended Canadian Whisky; Nice 1-page color ad for Gordon's Gin; The Songs Roll By (fiction); 1-page ad for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) features great photo of the first national auto show in 1900; The Bell of San Anselmo (fiction); Nice 1-page color ad for Goebel Beer; Christmas in the Desert - color photos of Christmas lights on cactii; Christmas Coke ad on back cover shows family gift-wrapping. Somewhat above-average wear. Small chips from cover fold. A worthy vintage 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
Features: You've got to be human - a girl who improved herself, too much (Frederick Hazlitt Brennan); Camera Shy - Madeleine Carroll in pretty confusion (Kyle Crichton); The Heart has Wings, Part II - Dangerous Ground (Faith Baldwin); There's Magic in the air - heroism alow and aloft at Langley Field, the new 500 mph NACA wind tunnel is the largest high-speed tunnel in the world (W.B. Courtney); The Baron's Lady - She had a flair for success (Gouverneur Morris); Million Dollar Contract - They asked for it (Lucian Cary); Head First - Win or lose before the whistle (C.E. "Tiny" Thornhill with Frank J. Taylor; Dark Tropic Sea, Part IV - a sharp instrument (Alan LeMay); Nocturne - a busy evening at home (Dorothy Bennett); Beauty Treatment, by Dana Burnet; Duck Bills - the mallards take heart (Ray Benson); You Need a Change - Habits to get rid of (Dr. Victor G. Heiser); Keep up with the world - Odd ones (Freling Foster). Fantastic colour centerfold (loose but present) features Bendix auto parts. Nice colour Glenmore Whiskey ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
110 pages. Features: Peter B. Kyne - Home is the Sailor - Stormy weather in the home office; George Creel - The Young Man Went West - William Orville Douglas, of the SEC; John T. Flynn - Men out of work - The unemployed, in a body, enter politics; Leland Jamieson - Favor for a Friend - Melodrama on High; George Agnew Chamberlain - Under Pressure, Part V - Standing Siege; Sidney Herschel Small - Gold Lacquer - History saves the hero - another adventure of young Richard Bartlett in Japan; Roard Bradford - The Gimme Woman - Two women too many for Bugaboo Jones; Jim Marshall - Some Like it Wild - They're Your Parks, have a look at them; Sax Rohmer - The Invisible President, Part XI - The Genius of Fu Manchu; T.R. Ybarra - The Oxford Manner - The accomplished and imperturbable Mr. Eden; Quentin Reynolds - She Took Up Golf - Patty Berg - she had to give up football; Margaret Case Harriman - Shock-proof lady - Beauty of the sea; Frank Condon - Before the Wedding - Compliments of a Friend; The Short Short Story - Love Story - by Henri Duvernois; Kyle Crichton - Horse-Opera Star - Buck Jones, riding high, wide and handsome; William MacHarg - The Vanishing Man - a very suspicious character; Freling Foster - keep up with the world - fugitive facts; Editorial - don't drink and drive. Super full-page colour ad for International Trucks on page 23. Nice 2-page black and white ad for Nash and LaFayette. Great two-page colour ad for Oldsmobile 6 & 8. Full-page colour Johnnie Walker ad. Colour Camel cigarette ad on back cover bears the title "For Digestion's Sake - Smoke Camels". Covers almost detached. Soiling to top edge. Somewhat average wear. Address label on front cover. Unmarked. Still a sound copy of this nostalgic issue. Book
124 pages plus index. Line diagrams. "The coulee areas of southern Alberta provide one of the most distinctive natural habitats in the province and, indeed, in Canada. Long ignored by many as sterile and barren waste-lands, undisturbed coulees are places of great and subtle beauty. Yet it has remained very difficult for the naturalist to identify the many colorful and unusual kinds of plants which grace the coulee slopes. This book was written for such people." - from introduction. Bibliography. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding sound. Good working copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 240 pages. Edge wear to dust jacket. Many color photos. Chronicles the work of the author making sometimes outlandish window displays along with a list of practical tips of what to do and what not in working with fashion designers, models, dummies, etc.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 144 pages. 6 3/4"w x 9 1/4"h. "Here is a descriptive and pictorial survey of American and British costume from the middle ages to the 20th century, which documents costume changes, not with the usual line drawings, but with over 150 reproductions of contemporary paintings, drawings, carvings, prints, and photographs, ranging from the 12th century illuminated manuscripts to fashion photographs of the 1930's."
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior has occasional check marks in pencil beside the illustrations, otherwise clean. 96 pages, line drawings, some in color, accompany the text. Covers Early & Late Georgian, French revolution, French directoire & First empire, Scottish costume. Stage settings: furniture, musical instruments, military weapons, kitchen utensils, architectural forms.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior has occasional check marks in pencil beside the illustrations, otherwise clean. 96 pages, line drawings, some in color, accompany the text. Covers Elizabethan (Spanish fashion 1558 - 1603, James I, 1603 - 1625, Charles I 1625 - 1649, The commonwealth 1649 - 1660. Stage properties: furnitue, kitchen utensils, musical instruments, costume jewellery, armour, weapons, architectural forms.
(12) Loose leaf pages 10 x 12 1/2" with tipped-in color plates depicting traditional costume, clothing, of the Alsace region in France with one page intro and a Table des Planches describing each plate being a reproduction of an illustration created between 1680 and 1863, with most being in the early 1800's. Ex-library material, the intro pages (2) have library markings on them, the pages and the plates themselves are unmarked. Unbound in a hardcover string-tied folder made by the library. Pages are age-toned at edges a few of the pages have a torn corner or a dog-ear, the plates are all in excellent condition and unmarred in any way. No publication date, circa 1930. Text is in French
Ex-institutional library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way. Text block and boards both have sharp corners, no edge or corner wear, binding is very tight. Dust jacket is worn with multiple small tears and chipping at edges, heavy scuffing, no large or open tears. 160 pages on heavy paper with color plates on glossy paper. Profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Contents include costume of Balkans, Caucasus, Ukraine, Near East, Iran, (Persia) Afghanistan, Central Asia, India and Pakistan, High Borderlands, Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, tibet, Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, Southeast Siberia, Manchuria, Hokkaido, Bonins & Siberia with b&w illustrations of typical clothing and then several full-page museum quality color photos of examples of actual clothing for MOST of the above regions.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book has been re-bound by the library into heavy, strong white hardback covers. Pages/contents are very clean, with no tears and sharp corners. Many full color plates. 160 pages on heavy paper. Contents include Balkans, Caucasus, Ukraine; Near east, Iran, Central Asia, India and Pakistan; Kishmir, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Tibet, China, Siberia, Manchuria, Hokkaido, Bonins. Book is from referance section & not allowed to be checked out.
46 page booklet with 24 full page plates with drawings in color, depicting costume and traditional dress from regions in Switzerland.. Covers show light wear only with light edge wear only, text/interior is unmarked and binding is solid. Text is in French.
140 pages. Features: The farmer's side of it; Roughage self-feeders cut chores; Poultry dogs; Milk pails for sharecroppers; The plow outbids the sword in Asia; Better ways to handle grain; He hitched his tractor to a star - Forrest Davis of Florida; Legumes that won't 'run out'; Two ounces per acre stops the 'Hoppers' cold; Cane pole or fly rod?; The Conestoga Bells (fiction); The Raiders (part 3 of 4). Ads: Texaco ad with photo of Joe Acosta of Mission, TX and Merle Noble and James Howschultz who farm near Blencoe, IA; Oldsmobile super '88'; Hudson car (beautiful one page in color); Nice one-page color Greyhound ad; Minneapolis-Moline's Uni-Harvestor; USS Steel ad with Rayford Hill of Dodge City, KS; Firestone ad with photos of Richard Pappe of Union City, OK and Earl Thompson of Richland, MI; GM (showing parts making); Bolens (nice half-page in color); International Harvester McCormick Farmall Super C; Kaiser-Frazer's Henry J. car (one page with 4 photos); Buick; Lee work clothing; 1951 Dodge car; Pontiac; Blue Bell work clothing - with photo of George Claunch; Harley-Davidson Hydra-Glide (illustration of rider at farm); Nice one-page color U.S. Army recruiting ad shows artillery crew in action; Nostalgic Motorola portable radio ad with large photo of bathing beauty Jeanne Crain; Titan Bluestreak Chain Saws; AC Fuel Pump ad with illustration of Babe Ruth; GMC truck; Tide detergent; Gadget-minded Grandma Grace E. Miller; Toni ad with lovely photos of Eloise Sahlen, Susie Parker and Ann and Roxie Shumaker; Back cover color Camel cigarette ad features Broadway singing star Lisa Kirk. Unmarked with average wear. Closed four-inch opening to bottom edge of back cover. Coverfold ends mended with archival tape. Some soiling to back cover. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: 8 Best Ways to Lower Your Car; Mike Wargo's '55 Chevrolet 210 sport coupe; You can do professional pin-striping; Two Steps to Souping - add 50HP to your Oldsmobile Rocket V8; Rocketing Red Roadster owned by Richard Mangus; New Axial flow Latham Superchargers; National Autorama - the east's biggest show; Secrets of the winning dragsters; Easy Route to Bull-Nose Beauty; Fifteen Free Horses; Four Doors for Distinctioin - Bob Grant's 1950 Ford; Cross-Country '32 Ford Roadster of Frederic L. Steele; Portland's Imperial Pickup - unique Chrysler owned by Sid MacDonald; and more. Above-average wear. Writing on covers and title page. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 303pp. The volume which is distributed to peers and baronets, chairmen, managing directors, Members of Parliament, and Members of the European Parliament and others selected from Debretts (of Debrett's Peerage Ltd fame) - primarily those living within a 150 mile radius of London. A limited number is circulated among London's top hotels. A heavy book.
