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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
Fine Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 240 p. Türk demokrasisi içinde Süleyman Demirel.
64 pages. Features: The Secret of the Grosches - Virginia City; Wanted Posters - from a lawman's private collection; Three Seconds in Ekalaka - Marmarth, North Dakota; Hellish Years at Ashurst Run; This was Tahlequah; Razorbacks in Texas; Beholden to a Sheepholder - a cowboy gets help in Wyoming; Never by Chance - the saga of Signal Hill, California; Carl Collins could take it from Scratch; Wild Oats Days!. Average wear. Contents partially yellowed with age. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Saga of John Moss; Outwitting the Daltons - Jerome S. Workman; The Earps in Jonopah; Legendary Tom Threepersons; Yosemite Turnpike's Crack Reinsman - George Monroe; 137 Years Old - Francisco Sais; When a Cowboy Falls in Love - a bit of romance involving a lady's watch and an automatic pistol; Getting Acquainted with Mules; Mollie Thumm - an honest gold digger in the Yukon; A Mix of Shrewdness and Nerve - Bill Hay; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Gold Canyon - the true saga of a lost mine; The Tragic Ward Family - Lay Creek, Colorado; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Come Hard, Go Easy Country - Lost Horse Mine and Billy Keys; Jack Morrow - Road Rancher, Benton, Wyoming; Buck Jones - Hero; The Boom Days of Staging - California Express Companies; Oregon's Buried Tresure; The Courier's Ordeal - Brigadier-General O.O. Howard; Ruby - 8th in a series of 'Ghosts along the Yukon'; A Bank for the 'Little Guys" - A.P. Giannini and the Bank of Italy; The Mystery of Little Wing's Medicine Sack - did she has ESP?; Wild Old Days; Identify these objects!; Mexican Bullion on the Flying H Bar Ranch; Cowboys in Town - Thad Sowder at the 1902 Mountain and Plain Festival; Messages in Beeswax from a Missing Galleon - does this spot at the mouth of the Nehalem River mark the final destination of the San Francisco Xavier?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice 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
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
102 pages. Features: Revenge of the average man under Mario Angelo Procaccino in NYC; Ella Jean Scott murdered by a Saikin; Election in West Germany; Classy color-photo ad for the 1970 Ford Marquis; China's two decades of communism; Golda Meir visits Nixon; Nice color ad for the 1970 Nova; Coupe; India's Riot-ravaged Ahmedabad; Fantastic two-page color-photo ad for the 1970 Oldsmobile (Olds) Cutlas S; Photo of ecstatic fans flooding on to the Shea Stadium field after Mets win the NL East; IBM ad features color photo of Marsden Emig, inventor of the Braille typewriter; Beatles release their Abbey Road album; Black paintings; CAS (Collision Avoidance System) for aircraft The Forsyte Saga comes to TV; The Boeing SST; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. 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
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
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition; the novels bound in original dark green cloth, upper boards ad backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt, the Interludes in original wrappers, a very good, bright, clean set. THE SECOND FORSYTE SEQUENCE COMPLETE. Marrot pp. 38, 42-43, 53-54 (the novels respectively). A BRIGHT SET.
100 pages. Includes sheet music for the following songs: Cantina Band (Piano Solo); Cantina Band (Sketch Score); Finale (Sketch Score); Hans Solo and the Princess (Piano Solo); (The) Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme - Piano Solo); Main Theme (Piano Solo); Main Theme (Sketch Score); May the Force Be With You (Piano Solo); Princess Leia's Theme (Piano Solo); Yoda's Theme (Piano Solo). Undated. Circa 1980. Also includes many pages of photos from the movies. Heavily-worn former library copy with usual markings. Book
8vo., First Edition, with 3pp of pedigrees in the text; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Nice copy of the eleventh volume in the author's sought-after Plantagenet saga.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
'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.
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.
