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Un'opera di grande intrattenimento , un romanzo di denuncia, una impietosa rappresentazione della macchina dell'avidità.
In 8? (cm 22), Cart. edit., pagg. titoli al dorso, con sovracop. ll. a colori, pagg. 334-(2), traduzione di Claudia Fezzardi, segni del tempo alla sovracop., buon es. Saga familare in cui "culture, credenze e usanze diverse si mischiano sull'onda del sentimento universale dell'amore" attraverso un secolo di storia cubana.
322 p. Pictorial endpapers. Inked ownership. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Second edition.Hardbound. Very good. Walter Noble Burns (1872-1932) created entertaining and dramatic biographies of Western figures, like Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp, that forever installed them into the pantheon of heroes from the Old West. W7
68 pages. Colour cover photo of Canada's triumphant 100m Olympic world-record setting gold medal sprinter Ben Johnson.. prior to being stripped of his medal and record. Features: Ottawa offers compensation to Japanese-Canadians for their wartime humiliation; Ed Broadbent's Long Quest for Power; Marshal Inquiry testimony ends; Behind the boardroom doors of the Edper Group; Feature article on Ben Johnson - King of Seoul - with great colour photos; South Korea - Emerging Giant; Colour-photo one-page ad for Saga fox fur coats; Radon gas dangers; Vintage one-page ad for Zenith laptop computers; Special Report on Margaret Atwood's Triumph - article with colour photos; and more. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy of this memorable issue. Book
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
52 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Saga Rose; Modern NATO escorts; Elder Dempster post-war cargo Liners; Voyage Report - Finnish Contrasts; Ships Pictorial; Cruise Ship Review and New Cruise Ships for Old; The Southsea Story - the history of this Portsmouth-Ryde passenger ferry; A visit to the S.S. United States, described by Peter Knego; The World's Navies - Israel, Jordan and Kuwait; Ferry Focus - Quiberon; and much more. Average wear. Note: half of pages 27/28 clipped and removed (contained Ships pictorial content), otherwise, a sound copy. Book
VHS video tape in case. An exploration of director Juliann Blackmore's newly discovered Icelandic ancestry. Her great-great-grandfather, Sigursteinn Oddson left Iceland in 1883. His neighbour, Hans Peter Tergesen, left in 1887. The two men were part of a massive exodus from Iceland to Canada after a devastating volcano drove 1/3 of the population from their island home. The majority went to a settlement in Manitoba they named 'New Iceland'." - cover. Former library copy with usual markings. Book
Roy. 8vo., First UK Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition. Enser, pp. 30,277.
148 pages. Features: They take care of their own - Mormons supporting each other; Big litters are not accident; Crates will save your pigs; Fresh grass for your winter feed; Double check on the hens; Turkey every day; The Saga of Oak Orchard Creek - Four generations of the Brown family made Orchard Dale Fruit Farm one of New York's finest, near Waterport in Orleans County - article with great color photos (small clipping from one of the photos); Bringing back abandoned land; Better fire protection is up to you; The men behind your market news; Corncobs to to fatten beef; Photo of violin-making farmer Oscar Nash of Minnesota; Photo of Clarence Lustfeld of Buckley, IL and his remote controls for his tractor; and more. Ads: Ipana ad with radio team Tex and Jinx; Texaco ad with photo of Emil Johnson of Longmont, CO; Buick; Studebaker trucks; Arthur Godfrey in Chesterfield cigarette ad; 1949 Kaiser cars (color); Oliver tractors - 66, 77, 88; Dodge; Jergens ad with Mrs. Bertha Robb and her family of Brattleboro, Vermont; Chrysler (nice 2-pages in color); Gibson tractors; Cone denim; Life insurance ad features Vermont apple growers Brower and Helen Hall of Grand Isle; Plumb axes; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
44 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Gold! - Part 1 - Gold throughout the ages; Massacre at Seven Oaks - the battle became a massacre when a Metis shot the governor; The Black Donald Mines - John Moore slipped on a rock and made the largest and richest graphite discovery in Canadian history; On the Klondike Trail - some struck it rich but many more experienced only hardship; A Brief History of Matches; The Saga of the Steam Threshing Machine on the Canadian Prairies; Writing-On-Stone in the Milk River Valley - a replica of the NWMP fort recalls the border patrols of the past; British Columbia's First Visitors from Outer Space; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. 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
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>
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.
Mm 145x210 Atti del 12° Congresso internazionale di studi sull'alto medioevo, Spoleto 4-10 settembre 1988. Brossura editoriale di 348 pagine. Leggere fioriture ai tagli superiori, peraltro ottima copia. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.