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114 pages. Articles: Wanted - A Miracle in Greece - staving off economic collapse and Communist inroads; Hollywood Headache - The movie moguls are atwitter these days - audiences down, censors upset, costs up, etc. - nice color photos; Tuned in on the Surgeon - doctors now witness operations via television; The Abundant Henry Wallace - study of a man who'd like to be a key in the 1948 political scene; Heartless Harvest (conclusion) - plight of the country's migrant field workers; Behind Your Stick of Gum - men brave death in tropic jungles to gather its basic ingredients - with photos; They Can't Fool the Revenue Man - few succeed in income-tax evasion; Young Man of Fashion - Mr. Charlie James and his super dress designs - article with great color photos. Fiction: Sweet Water (part 1 of 5); Charlie Squires and the Seven Marchettis; Banner Over First; The Split Hickory; A Wonderful Mixer; Wait and See. Includes ads for: Parker pens (featuring Lily Pons); RKO movies; De Beers - featuring Miss Jean Bullitt of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; Philco radio-phonographs; Plymouth cars; Firestone; Dodge cars; Mansfield Jogs shoes; Chevrolet cars; Cory all-glass coffee brewers - two pages!; Miller beer; DeSoto cars; Vintage cartoonPepsi ad involving large excavator; Fantastic two-page color ad for movie "Unconquered" starring Gary Cooper; American Airlines; Caterpillar - great color-photo ad with dozer and scraper; Westinghouse record players; Kodak film; Remington electric shaver ad features Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald in scene from movie "Welcome Stranger"; Are You Mitty?: Gillette razors; Budweiser; National Guard - with large photo of President Truman; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Somewhat above-average external wear. Covers holding by one staple. A worthy vintage copy. Book
pp. 469. "Discusses some of the problems of creation, particularly the existence of death and suffering and sin upon this earth prior to the creation of man, his fall and the consequences, the second coming of the Lord Jesus, and the heading up of error and false doctrines." - dust jacket. Undated reprint of this work first printed in 1876. Based on information on the back flap, our best guess is a printing date circa 1964. Book tight and square with moderate wear to publisher's teale boards. Address label upon front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket, now preserved in archival-grade Brodart, bears heavy wear and multiple tape repairs. A worthy vintage copy of this important and enduring treatise. 19.5 x 14cm. Book
100 pages. Features: Nice one-page photo-illustrated Boeing ad shows Flying Fortresses being assembled; Bill Robinson (Bojangles) marries Elaine Plaines - with photo; Thornton W. Burgess turns out his 10,000th syndicated nursery classic - with photo; Gene Tunney returns home from action; Jimmy Stewart promoted to Major; Brief obituaries for William Allen White, William T. Dewart, Sen. Frederick Van Nuys, Dr. Charles H. Townsend, Mrs. Cathleen Vancerbilt Arostegui and Dr. Daniel M. Molloy; Nice color-photo Union Pacific ad shows locomotive "The City of Los Angeles"; Nation replies in grim fury to Jap Brutality to Prisoners - "March of Death" in the Philippines - article with grim photo; From the Official Record of Jap Bestiality; Allies Shape Victory Pattern in Pacific; Major war coverage; Rome landing shows hurdles ahead when Allies invade Western Europe; Photo of "Jumbo Wilson"; Photo of Air Marshal Coningham; Third Reich admits bomb damage; Vichy regime hands over power to 'Chief with the iron fist'; Dramatic photos of occupied France; Argentina splits from Germany and Japan; Uncommon photo of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in pantomime costume; Finnish crisis - with photo of Premier Linkomies; Should Yugoslav King Peter alienate Serbs or risk losing British support?; Nice color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes; Nice color Pontiac ad features artillery illustration and devasted Pacific Island landscape; Photo of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem heiling Storm Troops in Berlin; Photo of Indian Subhas Chandra Bose sharing platform with Hideki Tojo; Soldier Ballot dispute; Dramatic photo of Lt. Tommy Harmon returning home - now a seasoned P-38 pilot; Nice wartime color ad for Kodak full-color snapshots; The Neutrals' Honeymoon is over; Fantastic Schlitz one-page color ad called "Memories of a Kiss"; Great wartime International Harvester ad illustrates their conversion to war production; Great military Motorola ad shows soldier with walkie-talkie; Partial fascimile reproduction of US bond issue entitled "City of Tokyo, Japan - Destruction and Extermination"; Photos of INS correspondent Richard Tregaskis who was struck in the head by a shell fragment; Photo and article about Casey Stengel; Photo of boxer Ike Williams knocked out; Photo of James Hulbert and Mitford Mathews and their Dictionary of American English; Article about looted paintings acquired by the Nazis; Color-photo ad for Columbia Records shows Bruno Walter, Robert Casadesus, Nathan Milstein, Lotte Lehmann and Dimitri Mitropoulos; The Clark Williams family of Warrenville, IL deals with infantile paralysis/polio; Color-photo ad for Canadian Club features the Castle of Kul-Kul-Kan; Great back cover wartime Chesterfield cigarette ad features happy soldier opening carton of cigarettes and letter from his girl; and more. Above-average wear. Covers pulling from staples. A worthy vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Color ad for Schenley Whiskies inside front cover features singing swallows (birds); Mimeograph ad claims 500 copies can be made while you smoke a cigarette; Ford ad announces production of their 28 millionth car; Photo of Princess Elizabeth on her 14th birthday; Mrs. Edith Graham Mayo named American Mother for 1940; Obituaries for Kid McCoy, John Henry Montagu Manners, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Sr., and writer Thomas Beer; Heublein's Cocktails ad; Great one-page photo ad for H.J. Heinz soups features happy lunch counter scene; Allies apply squeeze to German invaders of Norway - major war coverage; Photos of A.A. Mussert and Milan Stoyadinovich; Problems of the Allied Expeditionary Movement; The Race Against Time in Norway; Danes and Norwegians feeling pinch of involuntary economy; Fantastic one-page color ad for Firestone Tires features illustration of Ab Jenkins; Nice one-page color ad by the airlines of the US provides chart showing how flying costs 'less than you think'; Death of Kathi Schratt; Gandhi's Satyagraha No. 3; US Keeps Wary Eye on Japan Amid Mounting Pacific Tension; Photo of terrible accident of the Lake Shore Limited passenger train near Little Falls, NY; Photo of tornado destruction at Amite, LA; Baseball pitcher Bob Feller - article and photos; Doc Prothro; Nice one-page color ad for the 1940 Packard One-Ten Touring Sedan; WRUL - World Radio University; Fred Allen - three decades; One-page Plymouth car ad; One-page United Aircraft ad features illustration of a Flying Forty in flight near city skyport; Nice Chrysler ad says "Why Shift Gears? Fluid-Driving in a Chrysler is the Fun-Way to go!"; One-page ad by the New York World-Telegram highlights Larchmont, NY; Color ad for Lord Calvert Whiskey inside back cover features "singing bird" mirror given by Napoleon to the Countess Walewski; Back cover color ad for Grace Line South American Cruises features couple preparing for fancy dress party; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Safire on No-Name Nomenclature; Black & White Scotch ad features photos of championship backgammon players Paul Magriel, Herb Roman, Laurie Arnold, Joe Dwek, Jan Goldberg, Lord Rennell of Rodd, Ms. Demerdjian, W. McClintock, and more; The Lucky 1970's; The Threatening Economy - with comments by twenty economists, including Milton Friedman, John Kenneth Galbraith, Murray Rothbard, etc.; How to Snow the Voters in New Hampshire - Eugene McCarthy offers tips to the hopefuls; Jack Kerouac - The Beat Goes On - Ten years after his death, his myth is being recycled for a new generation - article with great photos; TV Director Bob Giraldi is featured in a Phoenix Mutual ad; Great photo-illustrated article "Decoding the Styles of the 70's"; All About Champagne; Souffle Recipes; Fleeting Fads of 70's Decor - color-photo illustrated article - Peter Andes, Ruben de Saavedra, Mimi London, Seymour Avigdor, Alan Buchsbaum; Real estate and Camp ads; and more. Small library stamp on front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
188 pages. Features: Nice Sue Brett Fashion ad; Beautiful Danskin ad features model lying atop white grand piano; Sony Portable Radio ad entitled "A Moveable Feast"; Safire on "Taking a Dare"; Lovely Alfred Dunner/Fortrel ad; The One-Necktie Man; Two-page color Farberware (cookware) ad; Interesting Harry Winston ad features large diamond on model's forehead; A Decade of Constitutional Revision (part 1 of 2) - The U.S. Supreme Court; Immortal Anna O. (Bertha Pappenheim) - from Freud to Feminism - the young Viennese patient who spurred Freud on to the development of psychoanalysis became a zealous champion of women's rights and pioneered new approaches to social work; The Kennedy Network - After JFK's death, his tough, tight entourage of political intellectuals offered their high-powered services to Bobby - Now it's Teddy's turn to mobilize the Kennedy Network; The "House" Charles De Gaulle Built - his personal home is now a museum and his country is undergoing subtle but significant renovations; Nice mink coat ad shows model on shoeshine stand; Lauren Bacall is featured in a Fortunoff ad; Britain's Notable Nonagenarians - the fond admiration accorded to England's senior citizens is unimaginable in the youth-oriented United States - with photos of Lord Brockway, Lord Shinwell, Catherine Bramwell-Booth; Prince Alice, and Ben Travers; Peugeot 504 car ad; Great one-page color-photo Izod ad features golfers Jerry Pate and Hubert (Hubie) Green; Nice two-page Carlsberg ad; Marlboro ad features fall leaf theme; Half-page ski ad for Park City, Utah; Nice one-page color Technics turntable ad; Nostalgic one-page ad for solar alarm watches by The Sharper Image; Look 37 ski binding ad; Black and White Scotch ad features photos of backgammon players including Harry Joe Brown, Jr., Kenneth Lubben, and many others; How Robert Kennedy's people blew the 1968 Oregon campaign; Humble Hampton's home designed by Tod Williams; Color fashion photos of sweaters for cool nights; Michael Norman describes a Vietnam wound that will not heal - the loss of his friend Jim Payne; Chivas Regal ad on back cover; and more. Above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Howard Baker - Contender for the 1980 Presidential nomination; Nazi-Hunting is Their Life - Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have dedicated themselves to preparing dossiers on and confronting unpunished Nazi war criminals, including three now on trial in Cologne; Pilgrimage to the Country of Light - Elie Wiesel revisits Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps; Beyond the Avant-Garde - The MOMA considers Modern's function in a postmodern era - wonderfully illustrated; The New MOMA - Mixing art with real estate; Dressing Up With Ease - color photos of women's fashions; Shopping Around for Shampoos - deciding between skim milk and nucleic acid, and everything in between; The Pioneers of Streamlining - Fifty years ago Raymond Loewy launched the industrial design movement that changed the look of American life - illustrated article; Shank recipes; Article on Air Pollution and its impact hundreds of miles from source; Magnificent two-page color ad for the 1980 Cadillac; and more. 136 pages. Excellent color and black and white photo reproductions including fabulous fashion ads, and more. Above-average wear to covers which are nearly loose. A worthy vintage copy. Book
85 pages. Author spent over three years as a WWII prisoner of the Japanese in Singapore, Malaya and Siam. "The vivid scenes of forced building of the Railroad of Death through 250 miles of virgin jungle, of bombings, rapes, and sordid POW living conditions, come to life with astonishing clarity in this true story." - dust jacket. Bookplate upon front free endpaper, otherwise clean and and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Enser p.43. Book
Contains Sol Stern's important article 'NSA and the CIA' in which he exposes CIA funding of the United States National Student Association (NSA). 60 pages. Other features include: The Death of a President - The firing of U.C. president Clark Kerr; The Passamaquoddy Indians - a native tribe of eastern Maine; Jean-Paul Sartre - The Marxist Phase; The Social History of Hippies - article with many excellent color photos and works of psychedelic art; Book Reviews; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Address label removal patch on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
140 pages. Features: Numerous gorgeous color-photo fashion ads, our favorite being the Stardust slip modelled on page 35; Castro Tries to Export 'Fidelismo' - article with great photos; Which is the Best Road to the White House?; As They See Things in the Holy Loch - article (with photo) on reaction in Holy Loch, Scotland, where it has been announced that a U.S. nuclear sub base will be located; Integration - The Third Critical Phase as it begins in the core states - article with dramatic photos; In Pakistan, "Maybe President Mohammed Ayub Khan Can Help Us" - article with photo of the President confering with Prime Minister Nehru of India; 'Welfare State' a Debate That Isn't - the real question is, to what extent should government intervene in the economy?; Tyrants of the Podium - Famous Musical conductors speak loudly and carry a small stick; Les Halles Must Move - Maybe - article and photos of the ancient Paris market which is to be modernized; Powerful two-page color ad for Accutron watches by Bulova; Top Denizens of the Myth Zoo - mythical animals; A Niagara of Power - construction photos and sketch of the new Niagara Power Project; The Vision of Spanish artist Velasquez - the 300th anniversary of his death; When Royalty Marries Commonality - photos of famous 'mixed' royal couples; Vintage full-page color ad for Parker Bros. game Kimbo; Nice color photo one-page ad for Medaglia D'Oro Espresso Coffee; Interior design photos with a medieval taste; Nice one-page color ad for nine of Milton Bradley's board games; The Child of 'Emotional Divorce' - the rift that can exist between parents who stay together 'for the sake of the kids'; Nice women's swimwear and hat fashion photos; Photos of raising a 60'x90' US flag on the George Washington Bridge; Wonderful one-page color ad for Cobbs Christmas gift baskets (yes, back then ads could mention Christmas). Unmarked. Average wear. Paper tender with peripheral age-toning. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Cover: The Late U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Whose Sudden Death on April 12, Came as a Shock to the Entire Civilized World. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Our Heritage of Widl Nature" by A.G. Tansley; and The Great World War: Nearing the End in Germany (inc map). Pictorial Journals include: Great President: Scenes From the Life of Mr. Roosevelt; Pictures From America, Germany and Italy; The Allied Advance in Western Germany; British Storm Arnhem - Avenging Men of the First Airborne Division; The Invasion of Germany: Incidents in the Allied Advance; The Sharp Point of a Spearhead: British Armour and Airborne Troops (2nd Army) Piercing the Defences of a Village near Hanover, Germany (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Some of the 2,000,000: A Small Fraction of the Total Haul of German Prisoners by the Allied Armies in the West; Lest We Forget: The Massacre of Welsh Prisoners (53rd Welsh Division) at Rethem on April 11 (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); Allied Air Power: German Targets Pulverised by Bombing; British Prisoners of War Regain Freedom - The Arrest of (Franz) Von Papen; Bits and Pieces of the V-2 Jigsaw Puzzle: Captured Transport and Launching Equipment; Lauching Sites, Apparatus, and Factories Overrun by the Advancing Allied Armies; Spectators at a London Exhibition Watching a Vivid Reconstruction of a Bomber-Command Raid on a German Target (Illus. by Terence T. Cuneo); and The Eagle's Nest: Hitler's Former H.Q., Now in American Hands. Pages 419/420, 441/442 and back page missing. Remainder of contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
100 pages. Features: Fulbright Becomes a National Issue - Internationalism; On and Off Stage at the 16th U.N. Assembly - Eight photos including JFK addressing the assembly; Close View of the 'Nonaligned' - an analysis of the deeds and omissions of the Belgrade group of nations; Russia - What We Don't Know, by Leon Goure; West Berlin Waits, uncertainly; On Patrol with the Seventh Fleet - roving the reaches of the Pacific under conditions of 'special readiness'; How to Lose an Election; Hurricane and Hunters; The Actor's 'Method' - His Life, by Lewis Funke and John E. Booth; Why Men Race with Death - Robert Daley explains the homage some pay to 'the voracious god of fast cars' - article with photo of the Von Tripps crash which killed 13 spectators at Monza; Diamonds are a Boy's Best Friend - Business Agent Frank Scott helps baseball players maximize their income from endorsements - article with photo of Frank Scott between Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris; Fashion Photos - Taking Cover from the Weather; The State Department's Operations/Crisis Center; Conductor Aaron Copland - five photos; Art out of Anything; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Gently yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Circle of Death - dangerous fall into the great drum of the winding-engine at a Pennsylvania coal mine; In Search of Adventure part II - the story of a chequered cruise aboard a six-ton yacht; "Kermis" Time in Belgium - an annual week-long celebration during which young and old alike compete in curious races and competitions - article with many interesting photos; Trapped in a Furnace - terrible experience for Ira MacDonell at a Lewis Run, Pennsylvania brick plant; The "Apache Kid's" Last Fight - F.S. McDonald describes his terrible death-duel in the desert with a notorious Indian outlaw; A Memorable Man-Hunt - tracking down murderers Jimmy and Joe Governor in New South Wales; "Dangerous Jobs" - bronco-busters, steeplejacks, bridge-builders, shrapnel-shell makers, underground miners, steel-makers, firemen, window cleaners, undersea divers, sewer workers - article with great photos of each of these occupations; Behind the Nailed Door - Englishman A.H. Hinde posed as an Arab traded with the Moors of the African coast while trying to locate a lost silver mine; An Ill-Starred Elopement - disaster strikes two unfortunate lovers; A Woman Alone in China - part IV - Mary Gaunt set forth in a Peking cart with an interpreter and her cart men, meeting many odd experiences; ; Petre's Island - a bit of New Zealand history, showing something of the lives of the earliest settlers among their Maori hosts. pp. 6 [ads], 387-480, 7-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
4 opere in 1 vol. in 8o, mz. pelle, pp. 166+28+50+48. LA TORRE DI NONZA - (Guerrazzi, prima edizione, con 1 inc. Vajani); DELLA PENA DI MORTE e UGO FOSCOLO E L' ITALIA (di Carlo Cattaneo) - LA SCHIAVITU' E LA GUERRA CIVILE NEGLI STATI UNITI D' AMERICA (di White 2 carte geogr. f.t), minime spellature al dorso e ai piatti, ottimo (7072/ GUERRAZZI - CATTANEO - CATTANEO - WHITE - LA TORRE DI NONZA - DELLA PENA DI MORTE - UGO FOSCOLO E L' ITALIA - LA SCHIAVITU' E LA GUERRA CIVILE NEGLI STATI UNITI D' AMERICA)
1 22x13.5 cm., [48] cc., incisione al frontespizio; capilettera di Hans Lutzelburger da Holbein; testo in cornici figurate dalle "Heures" di Simon Vostre incise da L?on Le Maire di Parigi, legatura cartonata, rossa; titoli in oro al dorso e, in motivo ornamentale, al piatto anteriore, intonso, macchie alle sguardie, in francese bella edizione, su v?lin, ben marginata; in ottime condizioni
Mm 120x200 Prima edizione. Volume nella sua brossura originale con copertina in due colori, 38 pagine con IX tavole in nero non comprese nel testo. Copia eccellente; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Peu courant recueil de planches de photogravures de "festons et groupes décoratifs, avec un alphabet décoratif de plantes et d'animaux" de Martin GERLACH, peintre, graveur et photographe allemand (1846-1918): 114 planches en 2 séries (93 sur 126 de la 1ère série et 21 sur 22 de la seconde: 34 planches manquantes), précédées de 2 textes introductifs, de l'historien de l'art allemand Richard GRAUL (1862-1944) et de Martin GERLACH. Allemand
3 vols., 8vo., Third Edition; strongly bound in mind-nineteenth century half morocco, straight-grain red cloth boards, backs with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, green floral endpapers, a very good, bright, firm set.
in -4 (mm 193 x 125), 4 pp. Carta vergellata. Foglio volante xilografato contenente la descrizione dei fatti compiuti ad opera di Fabiano Bartolomei detto Faina, nato ai Monti di Villa, di anni 40, mugnaio. [ghigliottinato]; Francesco Prosperi, padre del sotto nominato Demetrio, dei Monti di Villa, di anni 70. [assolto]; Natale Giusti di Lucca, di anni 43, imbianchino e doratore. [condannato alla pena di morte, commutata in lavori forzati per grazia di Carlo Ludovico, duca di Lucca]; Demetrio Prosperi, dei Monti di Villa, di anni 35, di ricca e buona famiglia. [ghigliottinato]; Giuseppe Alessandri detto Caromèo o Cabala [imbroglione], nato a Colognora di Valleriana, di anni 41. [ghigliottinato]; Pietro Giuliani detto Buèro, nato a Ponte S.Pietro, di anni 46, dimorante a Livorno. [ghigliottinato]; Giovanni Nardi detto l'Abataccio [cattivo abate, avendo fatto qualche anno di seminario], nato a Cocilia [Cocciglia ?], di anni 34, falegname. [ghigliottinato]. I suddetti malviventi erano i componenti della banda che aveva terrorizzato il territorio del Ducato di Lucca tra il 1837 e il 1842. Lo "spettacolo" fu seguito da migliaia di persone accorse in città, ma alla vista del sangue versato e delle teste mozzate molti di coloro rimasero disgustati. Il documento è interessante in quanto racconta dell'ultima esecuzione con la ghigliottina in Toscana. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione, con piega consunta nell'ultima pagina. Firma manoscritta nella parte inferiore della prima pagina. . .
Un trionfo di magnifiche pesche con qualche ramoscello verde in un piatto di vimini intrecciati, smaglianti nei vividi colori cui la raffinata tecnica oleografica conferisce ulteriore brillantezza a imitazione della pittura a olio. Il Sauvage, "specialista" in nature morte con frutta e ritratti, si fece conoscere ed apprezzare nella Parigi dell'Ottocento sin dal suo debutto al "Salon des Artistes" nel 1868. Cfr. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres et graveurs, XII/p. 327.
80 pages. Features:. Withdrawal from Europe "An Illustion" - we must have close co-operation with West Germany; Lest Us Reason Together - photo feature on LBJ; Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson (Lady Bird) - article with photo about the public servant without pay; The Muddled Problem of Presidential Succession - which was brought home by the death of JFK; After Five Years, de Gaulle Still Towers; The average height of Americans is increasing; A Master Builder at 75 - photo feature on the works of New York's Robert Moses; When a Negro is on Trial in the South - is the picture painted by novels and films correct?; Crosswords - the most popular game; Christmas Wraps - fashion photos; Photos of tapestries in the apartment of Allen Porter; and more.. Ads: Selchow & Righter Company board games in color; Pepperidge Farm Devil's Food Cake; Ella Fitzgerald albums by Verve; Thomas Date Nut Loaf; and more. Four-inch opening to back cover, otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Firestone ad inside front cover features mother and children; Why Half the People Do not Vote - An Explanation; Booth Tarkington Talks of Many Things; Farming Must Become a Chemical Industry - development of co-products will solve present agricultural problem; Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech; The Use of Great Names in 'Blue Sky' Swindles; Ye Knife - Ye Forke - Ye Spoone - a brief history of those noble tools; Henry Ford's Page - money, a national commodity, has been made a private concession; Editorial - news from Russia that the only Jew remaining in a position of importance is Litvinov as the Communist Party threatens to become anti-Semitic after the death of M. Djerjinski; The Harvard of Our Forefathers; The Ebb and Flow of Winged Waves - bird article; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 12) - When Pirates Ruled; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - M. Loewenstein Makes an Offer, That Monkey Opera in Budapest, Chess Comes from India; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: When Old Salem Hunted Witches - men and women were put to death on the accusation of little children; The Man Who Fights Alone - "The Cop is the World's Greatest Warrior" - article with statistics of policemen killed on the job; Why I Left New York (part 1) - a middle westerner moves there but is in conflict with its alien atmosphere; Who Pays for Our Radio Programs? - noted economics author explains how national advertisers foot the bill so we can listen-in without charge; Captain Kidd - Pirate-Catcher - the rover is commissioned to capture ships flying the black flag; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - no amount of pretense can improve upon the original; Editorials - the time of England's trouble, is the jury system a failure, police death roll, the family is the unit; Woodrow Wilson (part 9) - He refused to be rushed into hasty decisions; World War's Effect Upon the Negro - overseas the colored soldier acquired an entirely new estimate of his importance in the scheme of things; Dry-Farming - The Tragedy of the West - scores of deserted homes stand as mute monuments to the settler's struggle in a land where rain seldom comes; Moonlight Midnight on "Old Tim" - Climbing Mount Timpanogas; The Voyage of the Victoria - part 3 - further adventures of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers; A Dance a Week - Hull's Victory, Lady Walpole's Reel, and Speed the Plow (with piano music for each); amazing photos of strange worldwide professions - a daredevil juggling atop several chairs, rubber tappers in Ceylon demonstrating the herringbone system,Egyptian dervishes passing skewers through their cheeks, and a Korean peddler of earthen ware - carried upon his back! Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
90 pages. Fiction: The Balance of Nature; His Brother-In-Law's Keeper; Episode; Hold fast, My Love; Marriage '48 (part 3 of 5); Man-Eater from Snohomish. Articles: Death in the Classroom - schools are dangerous places (part 1 of 2); Billie Burke - Her Story (part 2 of 3); A Hunter's Map of the U.S.A. - Sportsman's Paradise; Godmother to Little Yanks - Mary Rizzoto and her World Children's Foundation; Hawkshaws in Skirts; The Campaign Trains Roll Again; Bedlam on Sunday; Smithson's House of Wonders - The Smithsonian Institution; Try Building Your Own Dream House - The Spelman family of Babylon, Long Island, Henry Wallace is the voice of Russia - opinion piece inside back cover. Ads include: The Frazer Manhattan automobile - inside front cover, B.V.D. sports shirts, Jeep Trucks - very nice, International Trucks, Schlitz Beer, Firestone Tires, Kodak film, MGM's The Three Musketeers, Harley Davidson - their 125 single cyllinder, Bicycle playing cards, Arrow ties, Jantzen sweaters, Smartair leisure wear, City Club shoes, Inco, Wilson Brothers men's wear, Botany brand shirts and slacks, Pendleton shirts, Gruen watches, and a lovely Coke ad on back cover which shows Coke dispenser inside a snowy window. Covers holding by one staple. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Valspar ad inside front cover; Taxes, Taxes, Taxes! - they are always with us but often we do not know it; Cashing in on the 'Blue Sky' - a study of the methods used by Wily 'Aviation' and real estate promoters in separating the sucker from his dollar; The Principles that guided George W. Hays in Exercising the Pardoning Power; The Genesis of the Constitution - reflections on what Washington and 38 of his countrymen did one summer; Bringing the Human Boat to Port Under Its Own Steam - advice on healthy living; What Would Izaak Walton Have Said? - the author of 'The Compleat Angler' in his wildest dreams could naver have visualized a 1,500-pound mackerel; Henry Ford's Page - struggle between industry and finance for control of business; Editorials - shaming the U.S. into canceling war debts, anti-prohibition propaganda, The County Fair, Dictators and the dictated; The Gold Hunters - being the story of a party of young men from Michigan in their search for fortune in California in 1850-1851; Bathing, Begging and Buring in Benares - strange scenes on the banks of the Ganges, India's sacred stream - article with photos; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 11)- Death of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - Japan turns from rice as sole diet; The Village Blacksmith. Moderate moisture exposure. Center pages holding by one staple. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
