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Features: Indians and Treasures don't mix! - Jacob Snively's search for fortune; Monument to Bitterness - in the cemetery of Hiawatha in northeast Kansas; The Lost Butte Gold; New Show in Town - the troupes who played the communities of the West; Gold in the Bottom of the well; Cass County Poor Farm - to be on charity in pioneer times held a special dread; El Dorado - from 'Oregon and California in 1848"; Drop in, cut loose, and dance in earnest - ranch life's bright side; Kang's Gold - a young Chinaman in Arizona; A rope for Mary Rose - townspeople avenge her death; Ghosts of the Star Range - along the Nevada border; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Features: Sheep Camp Murders - Brushy Basin 1903; The Puzzle of Baptiste Charbonneau; Motion picture vignettes; Cook's Peak and the Bones of Sing Lee; The Border Jumpers - American settlers cross the Canadian border into British Columbia to lynch accused murderer Louie Sam; Lost Rhoades Mine - Brigham Young's Klondike; Trained for Trouble - Collies protected sheep; A Gambler who never quit - Dutch Jake Goetz; Tunnel of Death - tunnel to the bank vault of the First National Bank of Las Vegas; End of the Trail for Red Buck - George Waightman; The Barker Spread in the Sangre de Christos; Jessie Benton Fremon appraises Kit Carson; The Butterfield Trail in Texas; and more. Two-inch tear to front cover near spine else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Oregon's Legendary Sheriff - Jim Blakely; Saddle Mountain's Lost Mine; That joint down by the river; The Moline Dreadnaught - an early auto adventure over 5 states; Samuel MacDougall's Great Gold Hoax; The James Connell Murder Case - a beef contract turned out to be a death warrant; Horse Traders and Gypsies; Bloodshed on Lightning Creek, Wyoming - a border dispute; Deputized Sawmill Man - James William Anderson; Newt Israel's last trip to Tucson; A close call at Red Fork; Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features include: Cord of Death; Bloody Bill Anderson; A Young Man's Country - William Greening in Northern Alberta; Saint with a Silver Eye - San Antonio, Nevada; Bob Meldrum; - Wyoming's Mysterious Badman; !2:00 Noon Meridian Time; The Gunnison Massacre - Natives take their revenge upon surveyors in Utah; Requiem for the Wild West Shows - Glenn Kischko; Revival at Seven Rivers; Charlie Bemis' Highest Prize; How Well do you know these Western Badmen?; Wagontrain Bride; The New World - steamboat queen of the Gold Rush; More on the Mystery of the Lost Ozarks Silver; Lady from Leadville; Death Rode with the Freighters. Unmarked. Average wear. One inch opening to base of coverfold. Book
128 pages. Features: Shield Against Death, by J.T. McIntosh; The Muted Horn, by Dorothy Salisbury Davis; The Nut, by Ted Levine; Queen of Clothes, by F.L.Wallace; No Bems Allowed, by Walt Erickson; Next WEek, East Venus, by Robert K. Ottum, Shapes in the Sky, by Civilian Saucer Intelligence; Pawns of Tomorrow, by Nelson Bond; The Signals to Mars, by M. Bower; In Hoc Signum Vincit, by K.W. Bennett; Fillmore Y. Brightforks, by Howard Schoenfeld. Above-average wear. Spine slant. Binding intact. Unmarked. Reading copy only. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Sea-side Suits; Indelible Drawings; Home Life; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - postilion-basque polonaise with apron front, summer shopping, inexpensive summer dresses, camisoles, belted dresses, jewelry, under-sleeves, ties, etc.; Personal; borders, insertions and edgings for lingerie and chldren's garments; medallions for cigar-cases; wire and bead basket for worsted; case with Boston tablet; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Illustration "Linked Names"; small clipping from page 449; Paris Gossip; My Parasol; English Gossip; George Eliot's Sayings; Illustration "The Death of Cleopatra"; Illustration "David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy"; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 445. Book
16 pages. Contents: Walking dress with guipure lace trimming - front and back illustrations; How the Age Affects Us; New York Fashions - woolen goods; cashmere twills; serge; repped goods; alpacas, mohairs, ladies' cloth, new water-proof clothes, cloakings, fleece-lined piques, corsets and bustles, kid gloves; Personal; Crochet corsets for girl from 8 to 10 years old; Red and white cloth lamp mat; Embroidered foot-stool; crochet purse; section of cravat; Japanese girls; Quality Hill; Pickles; The Honey-Moon; Sayings and Doings; Doing Nothing; Black tulle cravat bow trimmed with lace; Ecru organdy garden hat; Dress with high waist and ruche trimming - front and back; The roman Girl of the Period; Embroidered cashmere tunic and sack - front and back; The Cryptogram - continued; 6"x7" clipping from page 619; full page illustration "The Last Day of the Condemned" shows may about to be taken to death; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
Contents: Nice Jetta ad on page 3; Photo of Gretzky and Pocklington; Saudi Arabia to open its first Saudi-designed amusement park - "Islamized" amusements; Burnout agony in Uranium City, Saskatchewan; Fred Bruning on the new business of "Dialling for Titillation" (a.k.a. phone sex); Feature article - The Royal Superstars - lovely photos; Mulroney begins reuniting the Conservative Party; Pope John Paul II's Polish Odyssey - article with great photos; Power plays in the Kremlin - Andropov ailing; Push for Israeli pullback from Lebanon; Paul Volcker reappointed as chairman of the Federal Reserve; Craxi's quest for victory in Italy; Leslie Nielsen marries Shelley Coxford; Jan Kerouac - daughter of Jack; China's new economic revolution; Second wave debt crisis in Mexico; Investigation concludes into Conrad Black and Norcen's takeover of Hanna Mining; Peter C. Newman on Japan - Their carmakers will soon be off-shoring; Sally Ride breaks the sex barrier - Space shuttle astronaut; Vancouver's new B.C. Place - Canada's first covered stadium; Opening of Queen's Quay Terminal in Toronto; Morgantaler's crusade moves east; The Race for the America's Cup begins - Canada 1 and helmsman Terry McLaughlin; Epidemic striking Rocky Mountain Bighorn in B.C.'s East Kootenay region; Canada's C Channel goes under - death of an underdog; Fotheringham provides 29 things you never knew about Brian Mulroney. Unmarked. Average wear but covers taped on. Book
82 pages. Features: Scotty's Fantastic Trip - record run from Los Angeles to Chicago on the Santa Fe, chartered by Death Valley Scotty in 1905; Memories of Frisco Steam - some of the most beautiful locomotives in the country; Farewell, GM&O (Gulf, Mobile & Ohio) - merger spells the end; Rio Grande on the Run - Utah's Wasatch Range offers quite a barrier to the D&RGW's run to the west; Steam at Christchurch; Commuting in British Columbia - great article with map and colour photos; Guide to Night Photography; Through Illinois on the Locals; Little Dumpy Steams Again - restoration of a locomotive for the Monticello and Sangamon Valley Railway. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
172 pages. Features: Smart weapons in naval warfare; vibrations of the atomic nucleus; microbodies in the living cell; modern pork production; new inorganic materials; computer-intensive methods in statistics; the social influence of the Motte-and-Bailey Castle; sudden cardiac death - a problem in topology; and more. Small initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Preservation and Maintenance of the Antique Gun Collectoin; How Many? - Serial Numbers, Statistics and Survivability; F. Smith Combination Rifle and Smoothbore; Andrew Pettit (-1854); Death of a Gambler. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Article by Lovat Fraser - War Problems of the New Year; Gallant charge of the Fort Garry Horse (photos) - Lieutenant H. Strachan; Chinese men view war's ruin in west; Photos of Australians in France; French Premier with the heroes of Mort Homme; 'Thunderers' (gunes) that defy the foe before Verdun; Glimpses of East Africa from a German Camera; How I was arrested as a spy - an experience undergone three times by Hamilton Fyfe during Russia's spy-fever; Cambrai illustrations; Spotting for the Guns - adventures of John S. Margerison, Observation Officer of the Kite Balloons; From the Yser and Somme to Brenta and Piave; The Kaiser as Patron of the 'Prince of Hell' (illustrations); Airship that searches the sea for submarines; War-time wages and prices - causes and effects of their simultaneous increase (article); Forcing the entrance to Palestine at Gaza (illustrations); Photos of American Engineers who aid the British guards; Photos of English women engaged in agriculture on the home front; Photos of Victoria Cross (V.C.) recipients Pte. M.J. O'Rourke, Sergt. J. Ockenden; Pte. W.H. Butler; Cpl. E.A. Egerton (brief text included); The South Lancashires - 1 page (with photo) information about this regiment. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
Illustration Features: America Arrayed in Arms; Why I Have Faith in Russia - article by Hamilton Fyfe; "Vive La France!" in the face of instant death (torpedoes); General Maude's Great Advance in Mesopotamia; In the Tracks of the Turks in the Tigris Valley; How Bullecourt was Won - article be Max Pemberton; Behind the Lines in France; British Guns aid Italy on the Carso Front; Episodes in the Great Battle of Arras; Men of the Green Brassard - some famous correspondents and their work (article); Plowing and Sowing for harvests of life and death; Mosques and Minarets of old-world Bagdad; Canadian Kite Balloons and Captured Teuton Trophy; Willing Women workers; Italians push on towards Trieste; Regimental Record - The Kensingtons (article); Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
100 pages. Written for family members and friends grieving a suicide death and for the helping professionals who work with them. Explores the unique bereavement process associated with survivors of suicide, from initial shock to the healing stages, and the emotions that accompany it. Also examines the social pressures that intensify painful personal feelings. Initial chapters set the stage of a suicide death and examine the stigma, guilt, anger, and related feelings surrounding the event. Then focuses upon the different problems a survivor must face after the loss of a child, spouse, parent, or sibling. The final chapter discusses specific helping processes for the survivors of suicide. Minimal yellow high-lighting and markings to book which is otherwise As New. Very light wear to dust jacket which bears cup ring on front panel. Excellent copy. Book
182 pages including bibliography and index. "This authoritative study explores both the public and private lives of this remarkable family and examines particularly the children's relationship witih Queen Victoria herself and with one another after her death." - from back cover. Prior owner's name atop front flyleaf else unmarked with average wear. Solid working copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Death in the Highwood Mountains; Glimpses Through the Mists of Time; Las Vegas and the Dodge City Gang; The Bayhorse Treasure; Last Chief of the Cherokees; When a Man Goes Berserk; The Doomed City; Texan Tamer; Landline Bloodhounds; A Man Who Knew Guns; Double Trouble; A Rumanian Queen in the west; McCaleb's Last Fight; "Shoe and Stocking Men" - The Squatters; Chinese Friend of the Red Man. One inch opening at top of cover fold. Soiling to top half of front cover. Magazine
Very Good French Paperback. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 18 cm). In French and English. 85, [1] p., unnumbered color and b/w plates. Minor wear on spine. A very good copy. A catalogue of exhibition held on between 28 November - 8 January 1973-1974. This is the 4th Edition. Mahmal et Attatichs: Peintres et voyageurs en Turquie, en Egypte et en Afrique du Nord.
Large book: 11 1/2"h x 10"w in excellent condition, as new in heavy black cloth HB covers, gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 285 pages with a great many b&w and color large, often full page, photos throughout, including sculpture, masks, furniture, pottery, helmets, cookery, plaques, jewelry, doors, etc. from Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Cameroun, Sierra Leone, etc. Contents include: The African and his environment: Bushmen, Negritos or Pygmies, Negroes, Bantu, Hamitic peoples, Nilo-Hamites and nilotes; Material aspect of art, Social life : Birth and youth, Maturity, Death, Age groups, Secret societies, legal power, rank and state procedures, Economics, Relion and the supernatural, Play, etc. copyright 2011 Pistil Books
Cm. 18,5, br. edit., pag. (4) 495 più catalogo edit. di 20 pagine aggiornato al febbraio 1865 cucito in origine. Edizione originale. Importanti riflessioni etiche e filosofiche contro la pena di morte. Esemplare perfetto a fogli chiusi.
64 pages. In small communities throughout the western world, from the 1880s until the development of the hand-held camera in the twentieth century, the town portrait photographer was the chronicler of his time. Duncan Donovan (1857-1933) of Alexandria, Glengarry County, Ontario, was typical. He portrayed the ceremonial events of life from birth to death, and the stages in between. Author has chosen the most appealing of Donovan's photographs from the plates that have survived. Presents life in a small Ontario town and its environs in the early 20th century. Unmarked. Light wear to edges of dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
8°(cm.26), pp.25-3 bb., bella arma Lorena al front., medaglia con ritratto di Pio VII, alla c. della dedicatoria al pontefice + 1 tav. allegorica f.t. con sarcofago del re, inc. in rame da G.B.Leonetti. Senza cop., dorso rinf. in c. marm. Fioriture. [Moreni I 232 questa ediz.: "Con 3 rami di finissimo intaglio, inventati e disegnati da Luigi Agricola e incisi da Gio. Battista Leonetti"].
[viii] 327 [i] pp., reliure plein cuir ('tree calf', titre et décorations dorés au dos), feuilles de garde marbrées, 17cm., cachet, 'Nouvelle édition', bon état, [cfr. De Backer-Sommervogel, II-1632-13], R51877
Mm 125x195 RARO. Edizione originale / RARE. Original edition - Volume cartonato, legatura editoriale in tela marrone, titoli e fregi in oro al dorso e al piatto anteriore, VIII-412 pagine. Ordinari segni del tempo alla tela, occhietto mancante, peraltro buona copia. Testo in inglese - english text. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
in-8, pp. XLIV, 680, 42 tavole f.t., bella leg. coeva in m. pelle blu, titolo e fregi in oro su dorso a nervi, taglio sup. dorato. Prima edizione illustrata, con incisioni originali di Nicola Sanesi, ciscuna entro diversa bordura, del celebre romanzo del Guerrazzi dedicato al parricidio Cenci e alla tragedia di Beatrice, tanto amata in epoca romantica da ispirare, oltre al Guerrazzi, Shelley, Dumas e Stendhal. Buon esemplare.. .
xi, 200 pages. Bibliography. "Takes us inside the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en peoples' campaign for justice and recognition. Glavin shows how their struggle, which is taking place within Canada's legal system as well on the land itself in a series of roadblocks, is rooted in their view that their relationship to the land is one of responsibility - for the land , and to the generations to come. A rich and fascinating blend of past and present, this timely book will forever change the way readers think of the 'land claims' issue." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherewise unmarked with moderate wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
