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Sm. 4to., Second Impression, with numerous photographs and maps; pictorial boards, a near fine copy. Published a year after the the first edition.
Unpaginated. Although intended for children, this work will thrill fans of Joni Mitchell. "An illustrated version of the Joni Mitchell song, in which clouds, love, and life itself appear differently when viewed from different perspectives." - from copyright page. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Gift greetings atop front free endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked. Lovely copy of this inspiring work. Book
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes Arthur Conan Doyle and the paranormal, Aubrey Beardsley and 'The Savoy', Humbert Wolfe, Gladys Mitchell crime writer, Pony books, Thomas Love Peacock, R Chetwynd-Hayes and the macabre, index and letters and classified..
Book shows wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 265 pages. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Contents by the above authors include: Souls of black folk, investigate lynchings, In love with Harlem, Revolt of the evil fairies, A choice of weapons, the white4 problem in America, Not poor, just broke, Why I eulogized Malcolm X, The potential of a minority revolution, etc.
Book shows light wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for two pages with marking, previous owners name inside front cover. 265 pages.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down and title; blue cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, backstrip mildly sunned (but all lettering entirely legible), backstrip chafed (without material loss) at head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy of a very scarce work. A classic of game fishing literature. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
This is a very good softcover copy in the original black & white illustrated covers, with light wear. Very clean inside and out. There is a previous owner name on the title-page: Robert Thayer, the well known Connecticut antiques dealer has signed it. Otherwise clean. This issue of the magazine has Lucy B. Mitchell's article on the American miniature painter James Sanford Ellsworth. Illustrated in black & white with many reproductions of Ellsworth's miniatures. Also Mitchell's 10 page list of Miniatures Signed by or Attributed to Ellsworth. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
64 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and Mount Hood, by Ethel Romig Fuller; Wasting Fortunes fo Make Fortunes - Guy Elliott Mitchell explains how vast quantities of Natural Gas are wasted in the search for oil - great photos including an an amazing shot of a forest of derricks in California; A Tale of a Bunny the Woodchuck - by C.H. McDonald; Nice two-color ad for the Pacific Pumper manufactured by Pacific Marine Supply Company of Seattle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
81 pages. Wonderfully nostalgic poetry centered in the great pacific northwest. Pebbled chocolate brown exterior features faded embossed gilt decoration on front board. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper. Binding intact. Some soiling to endpapers. Book
100 pages. Features: Flying the Winged Missile - the Starfighter; The B-25 Mitchell medium bomber; Burt Rutan's Quickie; BD-5 - Another View; Christen's Elegant Eagle; Confessions of a PBM Pilot; Dog Sabre - North America's all-weather version of their famous Sabre jet was a real handful for its pilot; Gordon Plaskett's TF-51D; Mustang Versus Bearcat - can a P-51 outfight an F8F?; The Beech Staggerwing; The McDonnell-Douglas DC-10; Flying the Twin MustangThe XR-12; The Northrop F5-E; The CG-4 combat glider. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The rise and fall of the VNAF - the rise and fall of the South Vietnamese Air Force, from 1951 to 1975; America's Spitfires - the USAAF was second only to the RAF as a major operator of the Supermarine Spitfire - a review of their operational history in American service; The RAF in Greece - 1940/41 - the fulfillment of Britain's treaty obligations; CW-21 - the St. Louis Lightweight - the story of the relatively unknown Curtiss-Wright CW-21 fighter in WWII; Sixes and Sevens - completing the story of the 4-engined Douglas transport family, begun in AE/15 - the DC-6 and DC-7; The Blenheim in Yugoslavia - two successful years of Blenheim operations in Yugoslavia were followed by eight days of disaster in 1941; F13 - the Pioneer from Dessau - first flown in 1919, the Junkers F 13 was still serving after WWII; Armstrong Whitworth's Flying Wings - Laminar flow research and boundary layer control, as applied to the A.W.52 flying wings; Walrus - amphibious angel of mercy - designed by Reginald Mitchell; PR Flying and the Spitfire - an account of war-time photographic reconnaissance operations in the Middle and Far East; "Britain Captures Schneider Trophy" - this 1931 headline summed up the culmination of an 18-year endeavour; The MiG Killers of Korea - the North American F-86 Sabre achieved the greatest success in air-to-air combat; Fokker's D VIII - the reluctant Razor - the world's first operational cantilever-winged fighter; Caught by the wing-tip - C.E. 'Bud' Anderson's experiences as a test pilot in the wing-tip coupling experiments; Bombay - Pegasus Draught, Bristol Dray - the flying characteristics and operational career of the Bristol Bomber-transport; Quest for Altitude - The First Generation MiGs - a comprehensive account of the first fighters to bear the MiG appellation; Return of the Razorbacks - the restoration and flight demonstrations of the only Allison-engined Mustangs now extant; A seversky in the Spanish War - the SEV-3; Stratocruiser - ending an airline era - the role of the Boeing Stratocruiser in post-war air transport evolution; Destination - Disaster - how 8 new Saab B 18Bs of the Swedish Air Force met their doom, and how they came back; Estonian Air Power, 1918-1945. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
32 pages. Features: W. Chapin Condit Receives Award from Syracuse University; 1981 Apple Blossom Meet; Reunion of Former H.H. Franklin Employees; Letter from Bennett M. Derby, M.D.; 1904-5 Mitchell Air Cooled Runabout; Ralph Hamlin - A Man of His Time; Franklin Automobile Co. Owner's Bulletin No. 656, April 1922; Franklin Engines - 1902 through 1909 or John Wilkinson's Exhaust(ing) Heat Problems, Part I; 1915 Franklin Series 8; Franklin Automobile Co. Owner's Bulletin No. 639, 1917; Back cover reproduction of 1904 Franklin ad in Harper's Magazine. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, uncut page edges, browning to pages, very clear gilt lettering/embossing to front and spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with chips and small tears to upper edge and fading to spine. 183pp. Originally published as The Anointed, the book is well illustrated with photographs from the MGM film starring Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell and Thomas Mitchell.
VG pbk reprint. ISBN 0710029616. Previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper.14930. eng
