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184 pages. Features: Introducting "Gene" - the 'new' glamour girl; Dolls from the 50s - baby boomer favorites; Politically incorrect boudoir smokers; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in green full morocco, gilt back, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Collects five stories original published in Penguin's 'New Writing' magazine edited by John Lehmann.
102 pages. Features: A Decade of Action for Children; Opening Doors for Children; When Boy Meets Girl; White House Conference on Children in a Democracy; How to Deal with Jealousy; Conquering Pneumonia; How to Nurse Your Baby; Sunshine to the Rescue; Family Fun; Family Home; Family Fashions; Feeding the Family; School Directory; Interesting one-page ad for GE sunlamps claims they will provide strong bones for babies; Nice (but soiled) color ad on back cover for Nestle's EverReady Sweet Milk Cocoa; and much more. Two small clippings from family fashions on page 33-35; Reader letters clipped from page 90. Small coupon clipped from page 94. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Lots of delightful reading and recollecting here! Book
48 pages. Includes the following songs: Beware, Brother, Beware; Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?); Choo Choo Ch' Boogie; Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying; Early In the Mornin'; Five Guys Named Moe; Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby); Let the Good Times Rol; Push Ka Pee Shee Pie; Reet, Petite and Gone; Safe, Sane and Single; Saturday Night Fish Fry. Usual library markings. Average wear. A worthy copy. Book
20 pages. Features: Cover illustration (by McCall?) shows helicopters delivering diners to dinner at the 1964 World's Fair; Portrait of an Informer - Joe Valachi told all on Cosa Nostra and now lives a life of closely-guarded solitude - and fear; Much of a Woman (fiction); Tastes from Everywhere at the World's Fair - with lovely color-photo centerfold buffet display. Color ads include: Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Wide-Track Pontiac Le Mans; Fab laundry soap - with bridal theme; Scott 'soft-weve' toilet paper; Gerber baby foods; Dole pineapple; Wild one-page color-photo ad for Royal Key Lime flavor Pie Filling - with picture of green pie; Ken-L-Ration dog food; Salem cigarettes (back cover) - couple with dachshund in meadow. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Demonstrates actual child care techniques. Simply follow the program day by day as you and your baby develop. It's like having a team of experts in your home and on call 24 hours a day! Contents: Going Home; Sensory Responses; Mom's Postpartum Body; Exercise; Postpartum Blues; The New Dad; Bonding with Baby; Relationships; Sex after Baby; Newborn Nutrition; Crying; Comfort; Bathing; Sleeping; Diapers; Calling for Help; Preventing Burnout. Light wear. Nice solid copy in attractive case. Book
Discusses: physical skills, weight, height, your child's progress, playing and learning, sleeping, nutrition, teething timetable, pacifiers, your baby's teeth, selecting a doctor, childhood illnesses, immunization, calling for help, safety, infant emergency, first aid kit, repeating the past, relationships, sex, preserving memories, exercise, child care, career considerations. Light wear. Nice attractive copy. Book
Contents cover: Thinking about it, Personal considerations, Relationships, Careers and Lifestyles, Financial status, Support systems, the biological clock, Timelines, Preparation, Choosing a practitioner, Quitting smoking/drinking/drugs, specific pregnancy tests, exercise, nutrition, beginnings, conception, ovulation, sex, boy or girl, infertility, conception techniques, fertility drugs, are we there yet?, signs of pregnancy, proceed with caution, what to expect, first prenatal examination, ultrasound and other tests, weight gain, fears and fantasies. Bit of address label on front of book else a nice clean set with light wear. Book
116 pages. Features: Color cover photo of cute blonde twin girls; Great color-photo ad for Quaker Oats inside front cover; Is your child a weathervane?; They Never Know When to Come Home; Who Wants a Spoiled Baby?; This Way to Good Eating Habits; New Toys; Give Them the Advantages of Good Speech; The Forgotten Father; Family Fashions; Feeding the Family; Nice color ad for the Cream Top milk bottle; Color ad for Squibb cod-liver oil inside back cover. Great color back cover ad for Famous Funn Family Service with Uncle Same and Santa says "Give American Children American Toys"; Many additonal nostalgic ads; and much more. Openings at spine ends, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Lots of delightful reading and recollecting here! Book
96 pages. Contains sheet music for Tenor I & II, and Bass I & II for these songs: Annie Laurie; Bill of Fare; Blue Bells of Scotland (The); Bonnie Doon; Catastrophe (A); Cradle Song; Cruiskeen Lawn (The); Lead kindly Light; Minstrel Boy (The); Mother Goose Medley; My old Kentucky Home; My Pretty Maid; My Shepherd; Oft in the Stilly Night; O Happy Day; On the Sea; Owl and the Pussy Cat (The); Remember now Thy Creator; Robin Adair; Rock of Ages; Simple Simon at the Fair; Simple Simon; Sleep little Baby of Mine; Softly now the Light of Day; Tom, the Piper's Son. Above-average external wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage compilation. Book
76 pages. Fiction: The Lady Wasn't Bashful; The Cradle; Men are Naturally Dangerous; The Killer of Hourglass Lake; The Magic Afternoon; The Big Heat (part 1 of 7); The Secret of the Purple Reefs (part 4 of 8). Articles: Our Baby Was Born Blind; Manhattan's Haughtiest Eatery - "21"; The Mystery of the Private Chapel - at Bailey's Harbor, WI; Congress Vs. the Plunging Neckline - photo of Mrs. Winfield Smart and family of Falls Church, VA; I Fly the Night Skies Over Korea - Lt. Comdr. Franklin Metzner, USN flys blind night after night hunting the Reds, dodging unmapped mountains and sweating through flak traps; What I Learned from the Russians - photo-illustrated article by Marguerite Higgins who was arrested by the Reds; The Town Where it Rains Money - color photos of Rockdale, Texas Where Alcoa is building a new plant; The Best Player I Ever Coached - Paul (Bear) Bryant on Bob Gain. Ads: Boeing's Project X; Detroit Diesel - with color photo of Budd rail diesel car; Campbell's Soup; Fantastic two-page color photo Seven-Up (7-up) ad; 1st Lieutenant Lloyd L. Burke, U.S. Army Medal of Honour winner is featured in a U.S. Defense Bond ad; Coke ad on back cover features the four seasons. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original wrappers. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 146 p. Chipped on spine and extremities, uncut pages. Overall a good copy. First and only this "complete guide to photography" book in Ottoman Turkish, written by Süleyman Sirri Bükey who was the founder of Foto Süreya. Süleyman Süreya Bükey (1895-1974) was the official photographer of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk between 1936-1938. The photographs he took and the periodicals and books he published brought the propaganda perception of the early Turkish Republic to the fore. Among these works are Foto Süreya (monthly magazine 1931-1934), Foto Magazin [i.e. Photo magazine] (monthly magazine 1938-1941), Halivud Dünyasi [i.e. The world of Hollywood] (weekly cinema magazine 1941-1946), Ufuk [i.e. Horizon] (weekly political magazine 1943-1945).
54 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of cowboy on bike in cactus patch; Nice color Coke ad inside front cover features young lady playing cards; The Dole - A Great Calamity (depression-era editorial); The Private Life of Charlie Chaplin - major photo-illustrated article; Cash and Carry - how an American girl, a Chinese baby, and $70 worth of trouble proved that China's a grand place to shop!; Married for Glory - a racket is exposed - the surprising confessions of a "Publicity Wedding" promoter; Classy one-page two-color Chevrolet ad features orange convertible; Movie news, reviews and photos - Voltaire, Gambling Ship, Hold Your Man, Melody Cruise; The Fight on the Farm Front - how the back-to-the-land movement, in accord with the New Deal, is advancing Americans toward national rehabilitation; What is Good Form? - the rollicking story of a modern girl who got what she went after; Ma Potter Goes for Golf (part 1); Pretty Sadie McKee - new problems and a new loneliness enter the story of another 'bad girl'; The Perfect Job (short story); Happy Days; Still Alive - part 4 of the amazing true story of a pilgrimage of terror through Asia, by Georgei Beloff; To the Ladies; Vox Pop; Back cover color-illustrated Chesterfield cigarette ad features smoking damsel in swing. Above-average wear and external soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents include: Historical sociology of nuclear missle guidance, The beryllium baby and the technological trajectory, Transforming the fleet ballistic missle, Soviet union and strategic missile guidance, Uninventing the bomb; with appendices: Estimated accuracies of American and Soviet strategic ballistic missles and The conventional mathematics of attacks on point targets. 464 pages with b&w photos, mechanical drawings.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Our Wild Boar - Coolies were afraid to work on a tea plantation in Assam, India due to a huge wild boar; Two Mysteries - Two strange incidents that happened in a North Country hospital during WWI; Bred in the Bone - What happened to an Australian aborigine couple who offended their tribal elders; Photo of an excellent example of French topiary; Round the World in a "Baby" Car - Part II (of II) of Gladys de Havilland's world-tour in a midget car, with photo of her in Hollywood talking to Mr. Lupino Lane plus five other wonderful photos; The Forbidden Valley - The fascinating photo-illustrated account of how RCMP officers Horsfield, Berger, and Greenfield accompanied a surveyor sent to the Kitwancool Valley in Northern British Columbia where the local natives had previously evicted the few settlers, wanting nothing to do with the white man - with photos and illustrations; the "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part V - John Gibbons continues his amusing walking trip; Photo and explanation of "Sati" memorials in India, where wives were burnt in the same funeral pyre as their deceased husbands; The Haunting of the "Flamingo" - Bad luck strikes a vessel named Flamingo after her third engineer takes a shot at an albatross; Filming in the Wilds - Part II - Major C. Lestock Reid and his film crew experience major adventures as they attempt to film an adventure story in Siam - with photos; The Brand of the "Circle H" - A charming little story from the far west by Edith Ammons Kohl; Payment in Kind - A curious tale from Western India; The Mystery of the Post - Sergeant A.R. Cooper of the French Foreign Legion is sent to a lonely Moroccon outpost where N.C.O.s have been murdered - with photos; My Island Home - Henry G. Lamond describes his idyllic life on Homestead Bay on South Molle Island - article with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Garzanti, agosto 1969. Traduzione di Maria Attardo Magrini. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
32 pages. Heavily worn. Some markings. Frequent tears. Reading copy only. Book
62 pages. Features: Mr. Keynes Has a Plan - super photo-illustrated article on this influential economist; Josephine Baker - star of the music halls - steps down; Rescue In the Arctic - the two-year drift of the Soviet icebreaker "Sedov" and its dramatic rescue; The Lives of Cabaret Girls - featuring Eileen O'Mahony, Barbara Wood, Marie Rennie, Bette Farrar, Baby Bradshaw and Freda Fairchild; British Propaganda Bombs are Duds - reflections on Look magazine's suggested improvements for British propaganda; The Story of Actor-Playwright Emlyn Willians; Volunteers for Finland - with photos and brief write-ups on George Ford, Pat McGee, John Hurman, Col. Kermit Roosevelt, Peter Farragut, Harry Connolly, Peter Broad and Edward Graham; Goose on the Loose - nice photos of the Goose of Montmartre on a walk through Paris; Diary of the War, #27 - The Twenty-Fifth Week; Cartoon by Low mocks Britain's lack of economic leadership; Are Economics Really Everything?; Nice two-colour ad for Bird's Custard on back cover. Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
40 pages. Features: There's a New Paul Martin - Canada's compleat politician heads Canada's U.N. delegation - article with photos; Senta Baby - article with gorgeous colour photo of German actress Senta Berger; Colour photo fashion section - play clothes; Joe Flaherty won his freedom - and bride Fran McKearney when he was released from prison; Club de l'Etoile in Paris offers patrons headphones so they may each listen/dance to their own music - photos and bried write-up; Who is Better, Arnold Palmer or Sam Snead? - article with photo; Forgeries/Knock-offs of Group of Seven Paintings - article with colour photos; Photos of water ski machine at Saratoga Lake, NY; Jeannie Snowball's Happy Owl - Oopik; Nipper comic. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 750-796. Index. Includes prices. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Features: Steel Beds; Cable & Ribbon Type Bed Springs; Mattresses; Baby Cribs and other accessories; Juvenile Bedroom Furniture; Bedroom Suites; Dressers; Solid Rock Maple Living Room and Kitchen Furniture; Kroehler Chairs and Couches; Dining Room Suites; Card Tables; Cedar Chests; Tea Wagons; Occasional Pieces; Coffee and Cocktail Tables; Summer & Office Furniture; Lamps; and more. Nice ad for Quidoz Pianos on back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful mid-century reference to consumer furniture in British Columbia. Book
Book is in excellent condition with a little foxing to the endpapers only. Binding is solid and square, in bright blue cloth covers with silvers sparkles. Covers have sharp corners; exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Red dot at top page ends.
297pp. 24 cm. Hardcover
Undated. Copyright 1953. Heavily worn. Binding intact. Few markings. Book
134 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Maurice Maeterlinck's film "The Blue Bird" inside front cover; Being a Father is Fun; What About Social Hygiene?; Their First Jobs; What is Good Discipline?; Keep on the Safe Side; If a Baby Eats Too Fast; Children Need Happily Married Parents; Are the Programs They Like Bad for Them?; What to Do About Earache; Family Fashions; Feeding the Family; Nice one-page illustrated ad for film Young Tom Edison, starring Mickey Rooney; School Directory; Charming color Campbell's Soup ad shows young boy and girl with umbrellas coming in from the rain for lunch; Fantastic color-photo one-page ad for Pacific Mills and their "Pacific Thief of Bagdad fabrics" features young ladies in dresses; Vintage Clapp's Baby Foods ad features photo sequence of mothers with baby carriages on city sidewalk; One-page ad for Buster Brown shoes; Red Goose Shoes ad; Back cover color ad for Pillsbury's Best Flower features photos of Mrs. Joseph E. Witson of Cheviot, OH, Mrs. Charles F. Vogel of Milwaukee, Miss Edith Ellingsworth of Cambridge, MD, Mrs. Bert Morris of Seattle, and Mrs. Homer Garrigus of Rockville, IN; Many additional nice old ads; and more. Faint name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Lots of delightful reading and recollecting here! Book
in-8°, 232 pages, broche, couverture illustree. Bon etat (plis a la couv.). [MI-13]
