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66 pages. Features: 1997 D.A.G. Dollmaker's Festival; Dollmaker's Worksheet, All-Bisque Dolls - Belladonna - a beautiful all-bisque by Cynthia Guilette; Bunny Love, An All-Bisque Beauty; All-Bisque and French, Part II - Periwinkle; The Blue Scarf Lady - Queen Louise - Modeled after Queen Louise of Prussia; Farmer's Family, Part II - Helen, Little Ella and Little Ernst - meet the children of the Farmer's family; The New, Big, Beautiful Bru Jne. 14 - Bru Gaala. Average wear. Unmarked. One-inch taped repair to front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
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. 292 pages, b&w photos.
96 pages. Unmarked inside. Light signs of wear and soiling overall. Recounts the famous Disney tale of Beauty and the Beast. Book
24 pages. Ten delightful sound effects enhance the magic of Disney's classic love story of Beauty and the Beast. Prior owner's name inside front cover else unmarked. Light wear. All sound effects working loud and clear at time of listing. Very nice copy. Please note that we cannot guarantee the batteries will still have a charge when you order. Please check with us prior to ordering if you wish. Book
120 pages. Features: Ready to Wear - on the run; Fine Jewellery - these luxurious objects of desire; Portrait - Victoire de Castellane; Ready to Wear - alter ego; Accessories - Extravagance; Portrait - Olympia Scarry; Iconic; Shoes - Feninine Pluralilty; Savoir Faire- The Secrets of the Jewellers' Workshop; Men - Synopsis; Beauty - Colour Bath; Code - A Glittering Symbol; Art - Paper Cuts. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high quality copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition in light purple (!) cloth, gilt embossed print at cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes but very light shelf wear only, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is worn with chipping, numerous small closed tears, now wrapped in archival clear cover. Fairly scandalous quotes on Proust, Nijinsky and Picasso on back cover, contents include: On Raymond Radiquet, On my phisique, My escapes, On Diaghilev and Nijinsky, Dreams, Pain, Death, Frivolity, Rule of the soul, Guillaume Apollinaire, Youth, Beauty, Drama in mime, etc. Marked "First American Edition" on publisher's page.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 184 pages. Many color illustrations.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
(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-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.
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.
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."
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. 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.
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
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
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
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
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
