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Pages 477-504 plus advertorial covers. Features: Cover photo of Mosquito light bomber in flight; Two battle photos from Egypt; Eleven photos illustrating General Montgomery's powerful offensive to drive Rommel from Africa; Photos of personalities of the week include some members of bomber crews who bombed Milan in daylight recently, General Alexander, Polish dog mascot "Sandy" (KIA), F./O. L. Mancer, V.C., King Christian of Denmark, Vice-Admiral W. Halsey, Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario, M.C. Simopoulos, P.E.G. Sayer, Mrs. Bancroft Clark and family in London, Mrs. Bingham - president of Bundles for Britain in the U.S.; Two pages of action photos illustrate "Flyweight Terrors of the British Navy - Fighting Midgets which keep open Britain's gateway to the sea; Six photos of German tactics in and outside Stalingrad; Aerial photos of Stalingrad beneath a pall of smoke; Five photos of Stalingrad fighting and prisoners of each side; Two photos of Britain's major warships in Indian waters; Two pages of centerfold illustrations show "The Crack Highland Division being Piped Into Battle - the 51st, decimated in France, in vanguard of latest offensive; One-page photo of the royal family with Mrs. Roosevelt in Buckingham Palace; Photos of General Smuts addressing both houses of Parliament; Three aerial photos of R.A.F. bomb damage in Genoa, Milan and Mandalay; Six photos of the Americans on Guadalcanal Island; Eight photos of a London exhibition promoting fuel economy; nostalgic ads; and more. Spine taped. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 113-140. Features: Cover photo of smiling Churchill leaving Downing St. for Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation; Four photos of France's Marshall Petain in court, and two photos of the crowded courtroom; One page Karsh photo portrait of Mr. Attlee; Photos of Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Sir Stafford Cripps, and Hugh Dalton; Nice page of head-shot photos of 23 women members of the new Parliament; One-page descriptive map of the general election shows results at a glance; One-page illustration depicts the rise of the Labour Party in Parliament during 45 years; Photo of rear admiral E. J. B. Brind hoisted between ships by a breaches buoy; Six photos of new prime minister Attlee at the palace and in Potsdam; Mitchell bomber strikes Empire State Building - photo of smoke pouring from the building plus excellent photo of gaping hole in the 78th and 79th floors; Amazing aerial photo of many dozens of Flying Fortresses on airfield near Munich; Two-page monotone reproduction of long-lost painting,"A night at the old Vauxhall Gardens in 1784" by Thomas Rowlandson - found in village shop and sold for 2600 guineas; Photos of personalities of the week include Arthur Greenwood, Alfred Dobbs, Lady Oxford and Asquith, Mr. A. E. Hemming, Sir William Jowitt, and Yugoslavia's King Peter with his newborn son; Excellent two-page aerial photo entitled "The first permitted aerial view of the City of London's immense devastated areas - St. Paul's Cathedral largely isolated by huge ruined sectors on three sides"; Photo of Gen. DeGaulle addressing crowds at the French port of Brittany; Photo of E. J. S. Woolley, commanding officer of the lonely island of Tristan Da Kunha in the South Atlantic, commissioning a small craft; Photo of living room scene inside massive flying boat "Hawaii Mars"; Unusual photo of Japanese prisoners lined up for roll-call on Okinawa (unusual in that Japanese soldiers rarely surrendered); Photo of German POWs observing atrocities of German torture camps at film showing in a New York hospital; Too large photos of US battleships on their way to bombard Japanese installations; Three photos of Field Marshal Montgomery being honoured; Three photos of the Guards Armoured Division, the liberators of Brussels, being honoured by the city; Amazing one-page photo of the liner "Queen Elizabeth" stuffed with thousands of servicemen being repatriated to North America; Colour back cover add for Kia-Ora drink; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
52 pages. Features: Colour Studebaker ad inside front cover shows their Weasel tracked vehicle in action on a Pacific shore (it appears this vehicle or its engine was made in Windsor, ON); Not Enough To Eat - food shortages loom in the wake of WWII; My Author Husband - by Dorothy Duncan, wife of Hugh MacLennan; Hearts to Let (fiction); Test in Berlin - can Russian and Anglo-Saxons reach a common basis for the peace; What Canadians Don't Know (testing our general knowledge); Whopper! - New York Mayor La Guardia's 550 acre $42 million municipal airport; A Guest for Mary Ellen (fiction); The Liar Hunter, by W.O. Mitchell; Shoplifting in Canada; Snakes Alive!, by Gordon Sinclair on Ryerson Island in Lake Erie; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of Mary Elizabeth Graham of "Greenacres", Aylmer to Gustave Eduardo Leguizamon, Chancellor of the Legation of Argentina; Several lovely colour ads; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Includes three gorgeous one-page color photos of Joni. Includes sheet music for Piano, Voice and Organ, plus guitar chords, for these songs: Ladies of the Canyon; Big Yellow Taxi; Woodstock; The Arrangement; Rainy Night House; He Played Real Good for Free; Blue Boy; Willie; Morning Morgantown; The Circle Game; He Comes for Conversation; The Priest Song. Moisture marks to covers. Above-average wear. Minimal markings. Binding intact. Not pretty but a worthy copy of this uncommon and wonderful Joni Mitchell collectible. Book
56 pages. Contains piano music, lyrics and guitar chords for the following songs: Sunny Sunday; Sex Kills; How Do You Stop; Turbulent Indigo; Last Chance Lost; The Magdalene Laundries; Not to Blame; Borderline; Yvette in English; The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song). Includes four colour paintings by Joni Mitchell. Clean, bright and unmarked with neglible wear. Lovely copy. Book
48 pages. Features: The Bumper Crop that's changing life in the dust bowl; How Rene Levesque May Soon Make Jean Lesage His Puppet; M.P. Ralph Cowan Hates the CBC; Lester Pearson Proposes a New Kind of Peace Force; Native Canadian Kahn-Tineta Horn - Portrait of a Beautiful Segregationist; K.C. Irving - The Last of a Breed of Kings (Part 2) - article with photo; Handsome Young Playboy Peter Lerch - article with photos; The Public Nightmare of Professor Roland Haumont - accused of the murder of his wife and children; Writing by W.O. Mitchell; The French Fact You Can't Explore in English Canada; Canadian Taxes are Not Too High. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Schenley Whiskey inside front cover features pot-bellied stove being carried into nice home; Large illustrated ad for J&L Steel with military theme; Nice one-page photo ad for Boeing with photo taken beneath wing of huge plane; Brief obituaries for Horace D. Taft, Christopher G. Sinsabaugh, Joseph J. Sinnott and Henry A. Shute; Nice illustrated Bell and Howell ad shows soldier using their movie camera; Nice military-themed one-page photo-ad for Beech Aircraft shows their AT-11 bombing trainers; Nice military-themed ad for Chevrolet Trucks; Photo of FDR and Churchill at Casablanca; Photo of FDR inspecting US troops near Cacablanca; Lots of war coverage; MacArthur's plan to drive back the Japs; U-boat menace still tops agenda; Nazis lament manpower pinch - photo of Goring and Goebbels in full dress; Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl - photo and brief write-up of this former friend of Hitler; Interesting one-page two-color ad for Milwaukee Machine Tools features boy studying behind stacks of enemy books such as Mein Kampf; Fantastic one-page color ad for Seagram's V.O. Whiskey features illustration of a very early version of Skype as men in Chicago and London do business face-to-face; Wholesale horsemeat market in Newark, NJ; The Significance of 'Unconditional Surrender'; Photo of Marine Generals Holcomb, Mitchell and Vandegrift on Guadalcanal; Fantastic one-page color-illustrated Continental Can ad shows downed fliers adrift pouring SOS colored fluid into ocean; Fantastic one-page color-illustrated ad for Aircraft Accessories Corporation; Nice two-page color ad for Old Grand-Dad, Old Taylor, Old Crow, Mount Vernon and Old Overhold whiskeys; Classy Dowmetal Magnesium ad shows planes flying from aircraft carrier; Great photo from the Pullman-Standard plant in Hammond IN shows Merry Leone and Robert Patterson Jr. demonstrating the "Bomb Boogie" dance; Classy one-page ad for Scott Fine Radio Receivers; Nice one-page photo ad for Bethlehem Steel displays their safety practices; Photo of Coach Shaughnessy of Pitt; Nice one-page ad for movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy"; Jack Benny entertains troops; Nice Gem razor blad ad features illustration of clean-cut sailor; Color-photo ad for Canadian Club whiskey inside back cover features Jungle Zoo, winter hq of Clyde Beatty's Circus at Fort Lauderdale; Fantastic back cover color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features US Marine Raiders in jungle. Center two pages loose but present. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
190 pages. Includes 12 pages of colour photos by Mitchell, designed by Anthony Hudson. Contains music, lyrics and chords for the following songs: A Case of You; All I Want; Blue; California; Carey; Little Green; My Old Man; River; The Last Time I Saw Richard; This Flight Tonight; Banquet; Barangrill; Blonde in the Bleachers; Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire; Electricity; For the Roses; Judgement of the Moon and Stars; Lesson in Survival; Let the Wind Carry Me; See You Sometime; Woman of Heart and Mind; You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio; Car On A Hill; Court and Spark; Down to You; Free Man in Paris; Help Me; Just Like This Train; People's Party; Raised on Robbery; The Same Situation; Trouble Child. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this timeless compilation. Book
Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sledge Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson as described by Capt. Madigan - major article with fascinating photos; My Adventures in the World War, Part 3 of E. Ashmead-Bartlett's adventures as a war correspondent; In the Land of the Lapps - Part 3 - photo-illustrated description of the life and customs of these fascinating and little-known people; The Gum Lands of New Zealand - photo-illustrated article on the Kauri gum industry of New Zealand; How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France - important information about the Chinese Labour Corps which assisted British armies in non-combatant duties at the Front were recruited in China and transported from their distant homes in the Far East across the seas to France, travelling via Canada; Marooned in the Arctic - E.H.L. Mitchell went to Alaska on a mining venture but was shipwrecked and marooned on a barren island for eight weeks; The Water-Gardeners of Amiens, France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Lost in the Mine - the lamp of a boy working in a Welsh coillery went out and he lost his way - and nearly his life; Photo of the four-hundred and fifty Temples of the Law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
8vo., handsomely bound in full dark blue crushed morocco, boards with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of an early UK issue. Mitchell's Civil War classic is the basis of Victor Fleming's memorable film version (1939) starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
This is a fine hardcover copy without dust jacket as issued, with virtually no wear. Completely clean. This copy has been signed, dated and stamped in red ink on the title-page, under the artists' printed name (signature on a rectangular piece of white adhesive tape tipped onto the title-page). The red handstamp is on the facing page. Illustrated thoughout in color with Peter Mitchell's photographs of Leeds in Northern England. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Rare signed. 12" high X 11" wide, 65 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in navy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ORIGINAL DUSTWRAPPER PANELS (FRONT PANEL WITH LOSS) MOUNTED ON NEW AND SEPARATE LEAVES AT FRONT, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Mitchell's Civil War masterpiece was first published in the UK in September 1936 (three months after its US predecessor). This is the first UK edition published (with redesigned dustwrapper) to capitalise on the success of Victor Fleming's multi-Oscar-winning feature film of the same year starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland.
68 pages. Contains lyrics, piano sheet music and guitar chords for the following songs: Cotton Avenue; Talk to Me; Jericho; Paprika Plains; Otis and Marlena; Dreamland; (I'm) Don Juan's Reckless Daughter; Offnight Backstreet; The Silky Veils of Ardor. Includes several pages of artistic photos of Mitchell and others. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful Joni Mitchell collectible. Book
52 pages. Includes piano sheet music, guitar chords and lyrics for the following songs: Amelia; Black Crow; Blue Motel Room; Coyote; Furry Sings the Blues; Hejira; Refuge of the Roads; Song for Sharon; and A Strange Boy. Contains several great black and white illustrations which include photos of renowned figure skater Toller Cranston working his magic. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful Joni Mitchell collectible. Book
89 pages. Contains piano sheet music, chords and lyrics to the following songs, several of which are now classics: Court and Spark, Help Me, Free Man in Paris, People's Party, The Same Situation, Car on a Hill, Down to You, Just Like This Train, Raised on Robbery, Trouble Child, Twisted. Contains five full-page black and white images of Joni plus 11 full-page artistic colour illustrations. Please Note: Poster not included. Few small check marks on table of contents. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A precious vintage memento of Joni Mitchell, truly a beautiful and magically-gifted composer and performer. Book
Signed and inscribed by George M. Mitchell upon title page. viii, 304 pages. Four black and white maps. Eleven black and white illustrations. "A well written book on an unusual Klondike gold rush adventure. In an uncommon move, Mitchell and his partners approached the Yukon via the Slave and Mackenzie and up the Peel and Wind rivers. He was injured and remained with the Loucheaux (Kutchin) Indians for many months." - G.J. Kim Whale. "Includes descriptions of the country, hunting, the customs and life of the Indians, with notes on scurvy." - Arctic Bibliography. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's baby blue cloth. Minor lean to spine. Name inside front board. Whale 495. AB 6042, Smith 3715. Book
Contents: Nash car color ad inside front cover; Commercial Solvents Corp. ad with great Iwo Jima beach landing photo; Chrysler *Fluid Drive* color ad; Only Stalin of first trio is left but Attlee carries on where Churchill left off; Very graphic 6-photo sequence of a 'Jap' being burned to death by a flame-thrower; British Labor landslide stirs the world - the winning issue was not Churchill but new homes and jobs for Britons; Photo of a masked 'squeeler' identifying Gestapo agents hiding in the ranks of the Wehrmacht in Norway; Nice color ad for Martin aircraft; Photo of Dutch people tearing up trolly blocks for desperately needed fuel; Trial of Marshal Petain in France; Amazing coverage of B-25 Mitchell bomber striking the Empire State building - the diagram looks just like what the world witnessed September 11th, 2001; The Big Playhouse - Michigan's cushy prison at Jackson; Japan on the ropes - strikes at Kure naval base cover harbor with blazing ships - B-29s blast forewarned cities; Photo of American troops from Europe massing in Manila; *Super* color centerfold featuring a 1942 yellow Buick convertible; photo of leaflet dropped on Jap cities prior to bombing (with article); Photo of Canadian General Crerar who's army has been dissolved; Kaiser lines up Graham-Paige in march toward reconversion - with Frazer's selling genius added to Western Steel facilities, Combine's one need is capital; Photo of experimental helicopter, the PV-3, in flight; Nice color Imperial whiskey ad; Surplus problem - whether to scrap the Office of War Information's (OWI) profitable magazines abroad; Swiss family air force - survival training; Motorola radio ad; Great color Union Pacific Railroad ad with emphasis upon beautiful Washington state; Unmarked with average wear. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
