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50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Saga of the "400" - it was just an ordinary Pacific which started the high-speed Chicago-Twin Cities service; Dulith, Missabe & Iron Range - in the land of short, stubby cars and long, heavy trains; Empire State Express - Seventeen million miles are credited to New York Central crack train - centerfold photo of this train at the height of her glory; The Traveling Salesman - Railroad glimpses from a thumbworn diary recording 12 years of covering the West by train, by Victor H. White; C&O 4-4-2; Capital Cities Route - Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac is funnel for north and south Atlantic Seaboard traffic; A Vermont Short Line - Montepelier & Wells River Railroad transports heavy granite loads from the Barre & Chelsea to the Boston & Maine; Trains' Map of Vermont Railroads. Average soiling and wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Saga of the UP Streamliners - many years of experimentation led to 17-car coast streamliners of today; Utah Interurbans; The Lady Said No - Lady Baltimore balked at pulling trains for which she was not designed - awaits dismantlers; By Rail Across Lake Michigan - car ferries run every day, winter or summer, cutting mileage and avoiding the congested Chicago area; Railfans on Parade - the New Yorker's reporter-at-large takes a look at an institution which has vanished for the duration; Diesel in the Rockies - internal combustion and steam work together on the climb to the Moffat Tunnel; Your Guess is Good - Railroad picture quiz; White Pass & Yukon - Bill Moore's Trip, Part II - a trek on a three-foot gauge grapevine stepped in mining lore; Locomotives of the White Pass & Yukon; New Tunnel - larger locomotives force replacement of tunnel 85 years old - the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) between Afton and Waynesboro, Va; Average wear and soiling. Centerfold lookse but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
355 p. Translated and published by Clement Burbank Shaw. Numerous b/w text decorations, including those of A. Malmstrom and Knut Ekwall. Large 8vo. 23 cm. Original publisher's blue cloth binding; lettered and decorated in gold gilt. The front board pictures a Viking ship in brilliant gilt. Manuscript presentation on front end-paper: Annie L. Churchill from Mr. Ebbessen at Mr. Shaw's request. March - 1909." First Edition. VOYAGES Box 1
60 pages. Features include: The Griffon - All encompassing versatility; The Prairie Lancaster; The Call of the Arctic - CP-140; The African Twilight - Rwanda; Flying the PM (Pearson) - the saga continues; William Barker, VC and the Formation of the RCAF - Part II; Their Finest Hour - S/L Wally McLeod; The Very First AWACS; Against all odds - Team Canada. Light wear. Address label upon back cover. Nice copy. Book
Features: The New Nature - welcome to the world of digital media; Polar Energy - the annual gathering of Polar Bears near Churchill, Manitoba has brought tourism to the tundra; Swampbillies no longer - Canada's Cajun cousins are reborn on the bayou, leading a French revival in the Deep South; Spirit of the Land - a pilgrim's tribute to soul power in native North America; The Sorry Saga of Superjuice - Premarin is a popular menopause drug... Few users know the side effects of its creation - horses as urine machines and a fouled prairie river. Light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: The Headmasters' Exhibition; Ichiyo School - Meikof Kasuya; Ikenobo - Sen-ei Ikenobo; Morimono of the Chiko School; Soami School - Soshoen Yokochi; Koryu Shohtoh-kai - Riei Ikeda; Kasumi Teshigahara, in Memory - many lovely photos, some in colour; Ryusei-Ha - Kasen Yoshimura; Ohara School - Houn Ohara; Shimpa Seizan School - Kogetsu Kamijo; Saga; Sogetsu School - Hiroshi Teshigahara. Some writing on front cover. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Cover artist - Daniel Kelly; Ikenobo School; Sangetsu School; Sogetsu School - Hiroshi Teshigahara; Chiko School - Kobai Naruse; Saomi School - Soshoen Yokochi; Ryusei-Ha - Kasen Yoshimura; A Reflection of Japan's Elegant Culture; Shodo - the way of writing; Saga Goryu; Koryu Shohtoh-kai - Riei Ikeda; Ichiyo School - Akihiro Kasuya; Ohara School - Houn Ohara; Ikebana for the Gourmet - lovely colour photos. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
70 pages. Contents: Introduction to Scott F. Foppiano; From Concept to Cabaret - Dayton, Ohio's Huffman District gains a theatre organ in Dennis Werkmeister's Carriage House Organ Loft; Betty Grey - Theatre Organist Undaunted (includes early black and white photo of the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago; The Shoestring Saga of Opus 1059; Member news; Two-page photo-illustrated article on Chicago's Uptown Theatre. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
218 pages. Black and white illustrations. "...Picks out the highlights of all their operations - thrilling, tragic, comic - and sets them against the bombed-to-blazes background of Malta, where, by the end of 1941, it was just as dangerous for submarines to be in harbour as at sea." - from dust jacket. Average overall wear. Unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound copy. Book
8vo., Second Impression thus, with a chromolithograph frontispiece, 10 fine chromolithograph plates, 27 line illustrations in the text, numerous head- and tail-pieces, and pictorial endpapers, neat inscription on frontispiece recto; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Anthony Gross was selected as the artist for the first illustrated edition of Galsworthy's dynastic classic, first published in the previous year. The colour plates, drawn by Gross in six colours, are printed by Cowell of Ipswich using their proprietary 'Plastocowell' technique. The elegant typography is by John Lewis. Very scarce, especially in this condition
82 pages. Features: Legend of the Lariat; The Curse of Amador; The White Squaw; Old Man Sublett's Lost Gold; The Man Who Killed The Man Who Killed Jesse James; Henry Brown, Fake Lawman; Molly Walsh, Queen of the Yukon; The Saga of Blind Charley; Miniature Museum for Big Wagons; Tendoy, The Indian Chief Who Fought for Peace; Wild Horse Roundup. Some page corners folded. Faint date stamp atop back cover. Magazine
Features: The Saga of "Iron Annie" - Junkers Ju 52; Ghost Bases of the 8th Air Force; XB-38 - the Allison-powered B-17. Art: Junkers Ju 52m. Light moisture rippling at top edge. Book
68 pages. Features: Classic Choice - Trimph TR2/3/4; 375 MM Ferrari and a Jaguar C-Type; On the Road with : a Corvette 427, Triumph Spitfire 1500, Morris 12/4 Van; The Boy From Smethwick - Ken Wharton; The Vincent Three-Wheeler - article with photos; The Classic Car in Rallying - Part 4 - The Early 1950s - Britain Triumphant; John Bolster and 30 years with the same 40/50 Rolls - gorgeous colour photo; Morris 8 - Mike Finnigan's tourer; Sixty Minutes Flat Out - of all the records to be broken, The Hour has long been one of the hardest - B. Williams starts his two-part saga in the early days of Brooklands; The Panel Game - preventing that minor bit of bodywork damage from getting any worse; I. Markovits Ltd. - Badge Maker; Classic car of the month - Swallow Doretti; and more. Moisture exposure to top edge. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Mm 180x255 Atti del 12° Congresso internazionale di studi sull'alto medioevo, Spoleto 4-10 settembre 1988. Brossura editoriale di 631 pagine. sovraccoperta originale. Strappo di 5 cm alla prima carta, leggere fioriture ai tagli e alla sovraccoperta, peraltro buona copia, per metà intonsa. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
62 pages. Features: Zero Returns Home - the Air Museum's Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero returns to Chino; Kalamazoo Air Zoo's rare Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat; Pacific Aircraft Ltd. - The Curtiss P-40 people; Yankee Lady - B-17 Flying Fortress - includes super colour photo centerfold; Kingsman Revisited by a rare Boeing Flying Fortress; Out of the Deep - the oldest known WWII Wildcat still to exist - an F4F-3; Saga of Harvard NZ1099; WWII warbirds from from the deck of the USS Carl Vinson. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
210 pages. Describes "... a harsh land and memorable people... Tells the Canadian experience of pioneering common to most regions of this country; of close-knit groups and their struggle to get ahead on a cold and lonely frontier." - back cover. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
334 pages including index. A doctor tells why today's physicians are so useless. "Dr. Malleson writes with some of the acerbic wit and toughmindedness of Dr. Szasz and Eric Hoffer... he takes on doctors, patients, and the whole saga of medical superstition right up to the modern medical scene... Dr. Malleson manages a persuasive impressionistic picture of doctors, drug merchandisers, and patients wallowing in a welfare-state morass - the doctors wastefully trying to 'cure' patients who too frequently would do better on their own." - Publisher's Weekly. Illustrated in black and white. Average wear. Book
178 pages. Index. "A microanalysis of those social, economic and cultural developments that led to the gradual breakup of an ancient way of life in the Swedish countryside and the migration of growing numbers of Swedish peasants across the Atlantic to America... Contains a Wealth of practical genealogical information and is a good case history of a typical immigrant family." - from dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket light worn with small chip from back panel. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
303 pages including index. Reveals the in-depth, behind-the-scenes saga of the making and breaking of the Meech Lake Accord. "You're not the problem, David. I know who the problem is. It's that bastard Trudeau." - Premier Robert Bourassa to Premier David Peterson at the Langevin meeting, 1987. Discard stamp upon front endpaper. Book
287 pages. References, bibliography, index. "Episodic and fast-paced, the narrative runs free as a wild stallion through the pages, pausing for scholarly introspection only in notes at the end of the book." - from dust jacket. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Nice solid copy. Book
211 pages. Documents a 50 day Father and son flying and sightseeing saga of a lifetime. The richly detailed account of a "Round the World" adventure. Records with dramatic realism such anecdotes as the lonesome 15 hour trans-Pacific flights, and the tense moments when intercepting an Iranian pilot's transmissions after he had been hit by gunfire over the Persian Gulf. Takes you behind the scenes to such tantalizing and remote places of the world as Bali, Burma and Bangladesh. Includes fascinating pictures. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
Features: Tender Buttons - a shop dedicated to buttons; Fine Machine Sewing - Hemstitching - Part II; Smocking - Lesson One by Mollie Jane Taylor; Mother's Day - gifts to stitch; French Handsewn Pincushion - pullout pattern and instructions; Canada - Western Style - Calgary's Stampede Fashions; Smock Plate; Linen Handkerchief Case; Summer's Juicy Fruits - an orchard of picks; Elizabeth Garrett's Sampler - a SAGA chapter's project; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Perpetual seafloor metal factory; Swallow-tailed gull of the Galapagos Islands; The cooperative whale and its rescuers; Frying Pan Shoals Light Station - an aid to seafarers and biologists; Sea Squirts; The short , unhappy saga of Steller's sea cow; Milkfish - Southeast Asia's protein machine; Unpalatable Goby. Sound copy. Book
8vo., free endpapers very lightly browned; green ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy.
AA.VV Conan Saga Vol 1-2-4. , nd, Libri in perfetete condizioni, non presentano alcun segno di usura Buono (Good) . <br> <br> <br> 384<br>
