Simmie and District History Book ClubMareMagnum
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790 pages. Glossary. Index. Hundreds of reproductions of archival black and white photos. Illustrated endpapers. "We have attempted to record the heroic achievements of our pioneers and those who came later. We have tried to bridge the gap until today, to set on paper all the information that was gathered and so preserve it... The land that they worked so hard to tame, has now become our own." - from Preface. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Partial lean to spine. A sound copy of this magnificent historical and genealogical reference. Book
Mm 140x225 Collana "Letture". Prima edizione. Brossura editoriale di 158 pagine. Leggere fioriture ai tagli superiori, peraltro copia molto buona. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Dizionario visuale dedicato ai protagonisti della nota saga, corredata di informazioni dettagliate e curiosità per appassionati, tutte le illustrazioni esterne ed interne a colori, copertina e sovraccoperta, con minime tracce da manipolazione e ombre di pulviscolo, conservazione interna prossima allo stato del nuovo. N. pag. 79. USATO
Limited edition neatly signed, without inscription, by Koch upon limitation page. ix, [5], 526 pages. Bibliography. Index. Profusely illustrated with marvelous glossy archival black and white photos. Decorated endpapers. "Recounts the fascinating and colorful history of a century and a half of logging railroads in the area stretching from the Kennebec River in Maine to Puget Sound and from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska and Canada." - from dust jacket. Average wear to book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A worthy copy of this magnificent tribute to a now-vanished era when men of mighty mettle fought and tamed the prodigious forests on their own terms. Author well-known for his earlier treatise on the Shay Locomotive. Book
Features: Savannah and the Vanderbilt - it took 10 races and 3 years to get this famous race south of the Mason-Dixon Line - major article with great photos; Joseph S. Coates - Perfectionist; No. 1 Dupont Owner - Stanley B. Smith of State College, PA; Twice Burned - Twice Restored - A Steam Saga of true devotion - Bob Bohaty has restored his Locomobile steamer twice; A Rare Six Cylinder Sixty Horsepower White; Automatic Transmission 1905 - Gas Au Lec - the Corwin Manufacturing Company of Peabody, Ma; Roving Reporter's Page; In Duster and Veil; National Winners; Prize-Winning 1924 Model T Station Wagon; Covered Bridge Tour; Tire conversion table for car and motorcycle tire and standard beaded edge car tires; Ford Facts - The Ruckstell Axel; Tips on Restorying; Reworking an EMF Rear End; Who was Victor Page?; Making Patent Leather Fenders; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: 1955 Glidden Tour; The Saga of the Sears High Wheelers - a long and wonderfully illustrated article; The Best Car This Country's Seen - Abner Devilbiss has been driving his Stanley Steamer for 34 years; The Late S.F. Edge ( of Gordon-Bennett Fame); Let's Do It Again; Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally; In Duster and Veil; Mr. Stanley Steamer - Jack Brause; Model T Topics - worn transmission linings; Minden, Nebraska's Pioneer Tribute; Steam Automobiles - Will They Stage a Comeback?; and more. Average wear and external soiling. A sound copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and illustrations and a full-page pedigree in the text; original plum cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Eighth novel in the Plantagenet Saga, with dustwrapper artwork by Philip Gough. Includes a bibliography. Uncommon in this condition.
Good hbk reprint in green cloth, gilt. 18134. eng
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 folding pedigrees and folding facsimile as frontispieces; handsomely bound in full crushed morocco (red/navy/dark green respectively), backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, a most attractive set ideal as a gift or for presentation. THE COMPLETE 'FORSYTE CHRONICLES' IN COLLECTED FORM. THE FIRST VOLUME IS THE FIRST ISSUE WITH THE CHART OPENING TO THE RIGHT, AND MISSING FULL STOP AT p.784. These three omnibus volumes together collect all the novels and interludes comprising the Forsyte Chronicles. The sequence comprises: The Man of Property, Indian Summer of a Forsyte, In Chancery, Awakening, To Let, The White Monkey, A Silent Wooing, The Silver Spoon, Passers By, Swan Song, Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness, Over the River. The texts are complete and unabridged. AN ELEGANT SET OF AN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY LANDMARK. See Marrot (1928) pp. 34-66 for first volume.
8vo., free endpapers very lightly browned; green ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., with folding pedigree; handsomely bound in full leaf-green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a splendid copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
12mo, 406 pages, folded family tree. Slight loss to the spine head and foot. (The works of John Galsworthy Grove Edition). Original Green Decorated Cloth eng
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
11 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with pedigrees in the text, one volume with large inscription on front free endpaper; original cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. The set comprises The Princess of Celle (1967); Queen in Waiting (1967); Caroline, The Queen (1967); The Prince and the Quakeress (1967); The Third George (1969); Perdita's Prince (1969); Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill (1970); Indiscretions of the Queen (1970); The Regent's Daughter (1971); Goddess of the Green Room (1971); Victoria in the Wings (1972). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE
8vo., First Edition, with a full-page pedigree in the text; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Nice copy of the third volume in the author's sought-after Plantagenet saga.
'An ancient tale of High Romance.' translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal. 379 pages. Dark green cloth covers with silver title on spine. Dust jacket very grubby and stained, with wear and small tears to edges and extremities.
557 pages including index, reference notes and black and white illustrations. "Recognized as the definitive work on the history of the Icelandic people in Manitoba" - from verso of copyright page. "...Will be welcomed not only by those who have special links with Iceland and her people, but by anyone with a broad interest in the settlement of Western Canada. The author's painstaking scrutiny of an enormous wealth of source material has resulted in a carefully documented historical study." - Professor Haraldur Bessason, University of Manitoba. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Glossy illustrated covers. A quality copy. Thibault 1,029. Book
162 pages. Features: Churchill Centenary; The Sargassum Saga; The Turner Mystery; Before Columbus; Treasures of the Medici; Jungle City Gone to Seed; New Building in Bath; The Victorian Seaside. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
Features: Europe will bring closer links to Africa; Man and the Heavens - 1; The Supermen; Southland Saga; In Search of the Sun God's Gold; Britain's rebel doctors; Earthquake devastates Peru; How Men turned Myths into facts; Cracking the cosmic code - signals from space; When life will be too rich for work; Southland (USA) Saga; Christian Roman Britain; Colin Chapman's super car - Elan Plus Two; Touchstone for T'ang; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Magazine
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
7 vols., 8vo., First Edition (save two volumes), with head-pieces and pedigrees in the text, signatures on front free endpapers; original cloth, gilt backs, a bright, clean set in dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly chafed and frayed as often. Dustwrapper artwork by Biro. In historical sequence, the set comprises: The Murder in the Tower (1964); The Wandering Prince (1956; third impression 1966); A Health Unto His Majesty (1956); Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord (1957; fourth impression 1968); The Three Crowns (1965); The Haunted Sisters (1966); The Queen's Favourites (1966). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.
Features: If Ho Chih Minh's Army Moves South in Force...; William F. Buckley seeks the Mayor's job in New York; The Wonder is There have been So Few Riots - American Racism; The Way it Was in the London Blitz - Londoners look back with nostalgia; Saga of Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (Garbot); TV Shows for the new season - Eagle in a Cage with Trevor Howard, The Steve Lawrence Show, I Spy with Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, Henry Moore - Man of Form, Trials of O'Brien - Peter Falk, and Jimmy Durante meets the Lively Arts; Feliciano Bejar's Special Niche in Mexico. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little rubbing to top of slightly sunned spine. 258pp. Translated from the Icelandic saga setting out the exploits of Grettir in the 9th century. Scarce with dust jacket in this edition.
Features: England's place in the sun - Selwyn Lloyd; Birmingham, Alabama - a City in fear as racial violence smolders in this Deep South inderbox - with black and white photos; The new pulse of Australia - Jolly swagmen, kangaroos and tough outback cowboys are waltzing, like Matilda, toward a new destiny; Buck$ Benny Rides Again - the world's best-paid comedian, Jack Benny, still 39, returns to Broadway after a 32-year absence; Why I Didn't Quit the Ministry - by Norman Vincent Peale; Funny Side of the Bunny Business - a new Playboy Club whirls in a tangle of corn, beefs and cabbage; Dishrags to Riches - The Saga of Heloise Cruse; The Convict Volunteers - when scientists need human guinea pigs to submit to cancer shots or to test drugs, thousands of prisoners step forward, for surprising reasons; Atomic Bombs for Everyone - the exclusive 'nuclear club' may become crowded with new members including Egypt, Indonesia, the Congo. Absolutely *fantastic* colour full-page ad for 12 huge Cadillac models of varying colours. Book
