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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: 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
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
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>
114 pages. Fiction: The Vultures; That Time, That Sorrow; The Wooing of Cruller McCabe; Off the Reservation; Storm Before Daybreak; The Star Lake Murder; Divide & Conquer. Articles: Motherhood without Misery - painless childbirth technique from England; Old Man River's Children - the poor who live along the Mississippi near Memphis; The Handwriting on the Ice - blitzkrieg by air from the arctic; Racket on Wheels - black market used cars; Ringtail on the Run - coon-hunting by moonlight; Preacher in Song - Joshua (Josh) White; Quarterback Glenn Dobbs of the Dodgers; Blondie's Gold Mine - the saga of the cartoon Bumstead family. Ads include: Studebaker (color photo ad inside front cover); Clicquot Club; Philco radio-phonographs - featuring photo of Bing Crosby; Lucky Strike cigarettes; Nice color two-page Firestone ad features dozens of gifts; Camel cigarettes (More doctors smoke Camels...); Hudson cars; Gillette ad features caricature of footballer Dewitt "Tex" Coulter; Hudson cars (beautiful color ad); Movie ad for "The Best Years of Our Lives"; Good Year (centerfold); Samson card tables; Garod Radios; Champ Hats; Mercury cars; Budweiser beer; Fortune shoes; Waterman's pens; Waltham watches; Mallory Hats; Parker pens; Timely clothes; Old Spice; Manhattan sport shirts; Three Feathers Whiskey (inside back cover); Chesterfield cigarettes (back cover). Unmarked. Moderate wear. Cover holding by one staple. A nice vintage 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: Prehistoric Plainsmen; Fort Chipewyan; Saint Albert; Writing on Stone - Milk River Valley; The Ranching Saga of Southern Alberta; Home, House and Temple Among the Plains Indians; Oil City, Alberta; Some Early Travellers' Accounts of Alberta; The Mountains in Maps; The Frontier Art of R.B. Nevitt; Gerald Tailfeathers; Carl Rungius - An Artist's View of Nature; Architectural Heritage; Heritage Park; Ukrainian Vernacular Architecture; Medalta Pottery; Saddles; Hutterites - The Peaceful People; Cattle Brands; From an Alberta Kitchen; Beadwork by Alberta Native Peoples; The Doukhobors; Museums in Alberta; and more. Average wear. Date hand-written atop front cover. Sound 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
1st Penguin edition. VG pbk. Cover art by Jeff Easley, interior illustrations by Tom Baxa. (Dragonlance Saga Preludes ; 3). ISBN 0140126333. 22225. eng
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
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: NA-73X - first of a famous breed; RAF's Mustang 1; A-36 - Dive-Bombing Mustang; P-51 & P-51A - Early Development; P-51B & P-51C - The Razorbacks; ACQR Mustang Color Portfolio; P-51D - a sword in the heart of Germany; TP-51D - Mustang built for two; P-51H - last of the Mustangs; XP-51F/G/J - the Lightweights; Mustangs for the Air National Guard; Mustang People; The Early Days - developments that led to the birth of the mightiest sea-going weapon; The first carrier - the USS Langley; The New Breed - the Lexington and Saratoga and aircraft like the F4B and Helldiver controlled the seas in the 1930s; Carriers in Combat; The Post-War Carriers - they were kept busy with Korea, Vietnam and more; New Wings for the Fleet - upgrading carriers and their planes toward the year 2000; Listing of USN Carriers - a complete list of all USN carriers; The Stirrings of War; WWII - the Island War against the Japanese; ACQR Color Portfolio - 16 color pages; Leathernecks over Korea - MSMC vets meet again over Korea; Into the Jet Age - the Marines equip with jet aircraft; Master of Vertical Envelopment - USMC refines the methods of helicopter warfare; USMC in the 1970s - new aircraft boost its strength. Special issue devoted to the US Air Force Museum features articles on: how it was moved from Patterson Field to Wright Field; Color Portfolios; How the USAF made a Sopwith Camel; Saga of 33-324, a rare Douglas biplane; Restoring the last B-10; The last P-35; WWII; Royal Frey remembers; Shoo-Shoo Baby - the history of a B-17; Aircraft of the jet age; inventory listing; and more. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality 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
14 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with pedigrees in the text; cloth, gilt backs, a few wrappers price-clipped, two or three fore-edges lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped). THE FINAL VOLUME IS A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The set comprises The Plantagenet Prelude (first impression, 1976), The Revolt of the Eaglets (1977; second impression, 1979), The Heart of the Lion (first impression, 1977), The Prince of Darkness, (first impression, 1978), The Battle of the Queens (1978; second impression, 1979), The Queen from Provence (1979; second impression, 1979), Edward Longshanks (first impression, 1979), The Follies of the King (first impression, 1980), The Vow on the Heron (first impression, 1980), Passage to Pontefract (first impression, 1981), The Star of Lancaster (first impression, 1981), Epitaph for Three Women (first impression, 1981), Red Rose of Anjou (first impression, 1982), The Sun in Splendour (first impression, 1982). Dustwrapper artwork by Philip Gough. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF PLAIDY'S LONGEST HISTORICAL SEQUENCE. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.
