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Book shows light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 36 pages with b&w photos. Previous owner's name inside front cover. "The Royal Mile, stretching from Edinburgh Castle to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, is one of Scotland's best known thoroughfares."
IL MULINO 1998 FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: LIEVI SEGNI DEL TEMPO, VOLUME INTONSO PARI AL NUOVO. Alla domanda del titolo sono state fornite risposte variabili da 1 a 1000 miliardi di abitanti. Oltre la metà delle stime, tuttavia, ricade tra i 4 e i 16 miliardi di abitanti, segno che un'ipotesi sufficientemente attendibile non è proibitiva. In ogni caso, con la popolazione del pianeta giunta a 5,7 miliardi e una crescita, al tasso di incremento attuale, di circa 1 miliardo ogni decennio, siamo ormai entrati nella zona critica della capacità demografica terrestre. Oggi è ancora possibile frenare la crescita della popolazione mondiale in maniera non traumatica, volontaria e graduale, senza ricorrere a mezzi di coercizione fisica, chimica o biologica, come rischiamo di dover fare in futuro.
202 pages. Features: Allan Houser - Songs from the Earth; W. Langdon Kihn, 1898-1957; Bert Seabourn - Common Ties; Dennis Belindo; T.C. Cannon, 1946-1978; Richard Lutrell - excited by design, form & color; Robert H. Annesley - About People; Ed Singer - satisfaction without surrender; Dan Namingha - a vision from two worlds; The Northwest Rendezvous Group Portraying the American Indian; and more. Average wear. 1/3 of ad on page 27 removed. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations and drawings in the text, and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Well-illustrated survey of naval gunnery from broadside to Bofors.
50 pages. Cover photo of Alice Wallace. Fiction: Fishbowl. Articles: Menace of the Abortion Racket - article with photo of Chicago Dr. Nathaniel Schaffner who was charged after the death of his patient, Mrs. Emma Laisure; The Velvet Fog - Photo-illustrated article on crooner Mel Torme; A Veteran Buys a Farm - Great photo-illustrated article on George Stieber, who gave up the controls of a B-29 for a Pennsylvania dairy farm; The Misunderstood Coroner - A.L. Brodie of Chicago; Broadway's Conscience - writer Jimmie Cannon; Can We Win an Atomic War?; Legion Conventions - Times Square revs up for the fun makers coming to town; Peace for Your Aching Head; The Man Who Married the Andrews Sisters - photo-illustrated ad on Lou Levy, who married Maxene but guided the three gals to millions; Their Number's Up - New York numbers game operators can no longer escape jail through tricky bookkeeping; River Pilot - Captain Jesse Hughes and his drawings of the Ohio and Mississippi. Special Features: Seafaring Funny Man; City Room Refugees - Richard Basehart and Don McGuire were newspapermen before becoming hearthrobs; Saturday Afternoon; Stealing the Pennant - great photo-illustrated article on base-stealing in baseball, with photos of Stan Musial, Walker Cooper, Johnny Hopp, Skeeter Newsome, Stan Hack,Lou Boudreau, Phil Rizzuto, Bob Elliot, Ray Lamanno, Don Johnson and Jackie Robinson; Movie of the Month - Variety Girl - with photos of Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, and newcomver DeForest Kelley of later Star Trek fame; Sultry photo of Hazel Brooks; Photos of Billy De Wolfe; Mister Jazz - One-page article with large photo of Louis Armstrong; Gorgeous photo of beauty contest entrant Yvonne De Carlo; Editorial inside back cover features large photos of New York Vets protesting lack of proper housing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
106 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Capital Boilers inside front cover; One-page De Soto Six ad featuring the Cupe De Luzo; Nice one-page Nash 400 car ad; Poem - 'Pansies are for thoughts, but lilacs are for memories'; One-page ad for ATT features art deco illustration of woman with phone; Diary of a Plain Dirt Gardener; Nice one-page color ad for Armstrong's Linoleum Floors; One-page color ad for Chipso dish soap; The nature trail and its makers; Making cutflowers last longer; The magic of summer bouquets; Organization of the Junior Garden Clubs of America; We furnish the 'January' house; Cartoonist J.N. (Ding) Darling in his garden - article with photos; a house adapted to varying conditions; Summer bloom from bulbs; Five methods of house financing; Avoiding vacancies in rose beds; Comfortable closets displace old ones; smart summer things of oilcloth; Nice 2/3-page ad for the Maytag aluminum washer; Brides and budgets; Very nice one-page two-color ad for General Electric refrigerators; Delcious muffins and popovers; Jelly for your bread; Nice color one-page ad for Johns-Manville asbestos shingles; Two-page color ad for Sherwin-Williams house paint (with small clipping removed); The aroma from the trailside frying pan; One-page Simmons bed products ad features photos of Miss Anne Morgan and Mrs. W.K. Vanderbilt; aids to better housekeeping; Nice one-page two-color ad for Weyerhauser's 4 Square Lumber; interesting one-page ad for The Iron Fireman - automatic coal burner; Music takes off its high hat; Nice one-page two-color ad for Lowe Brothers paints and varnishes; The lure of other countries; The Lure of Other Countries - now the writing of travel books has become a fine art; nice one-page color ad for Cannon towels; Nice one-page color ad for Weatherbest stained shingles; The true value of tillage; Swings for children's play hours; The children's pleasure chest; The Hummingbird; Nice color ad for Mohawk rugs and carpets inside back cover; color ad for Old Dutch cleanser on back cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Book is in excellent condition with some foxing on the top page ends as the only flaw, otherwise pristine with price clipped front end paper. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear, fading to spine, no tears now wrapped in clear protective cover. 206 pages with photo exploded diagrams of subject guns and cannons with numered parts, very detailed discription of parts, their function, disassembly, assembly.
Pages 235-361. Features: The Commemoration of Antietam and Gettysburg; City Directories Tell the Story of South Bend; Joseph Cannon and John Sharp Williams; The Bethel Church of Daviess County; A Hoosier General Store in 1847; Nemspaper Work at the Turn of the Century; Indiana Historical Society; History Teachers' Forum - The Length of the Tether; Documents - Seeking A Federal Judgeship Under Jackson (Holman Correspondence); A Circuit of the South in the Summer of 1924; Indiana Genealogy; and more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's stamp atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
Book has moisture damage causing fading to covers at upper L. front and upper portion at back cover, fading at lower and upper edges to light blue cloth HB covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is scuffed, wrinkled with water damage, edge wear, small tears. 48 page children's book with large b&w photos and short paragraph text, depicts the fun and exciting things they do in weapons testing and the tough weapons themselves: such as bombs, tanks, large guns and the Atomic Cannon in action!
8vo., First Edition, with a double-page plan; original cloth, gilt back, slightly chipped at headband else a very good, tight copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. Sold from a religious institution with its bookplates on front paste-down and half-title. Edited from the eighth book of "Liber memorandorum ecclesie de Bernewelle", a MS volume in the British Museum (Ms. Harl. 3601) usually referred to as "The Barnwell Cartulary" or "The Barnwell Register", the original of which was composed in 1295-96. The "Observances" are preceded by the "Rule of St. Augustine" edited from Ms. Harl. 2939, and by the "Second Rule" (Augustini Opera omnia, Paris, 1836 I) The plan is by W.H. St. John Hope. Bartholomew, p.19.
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's Amsterdam on March 16, 1983. Sale code: "HOLLANDIA". The sale consisted of gold, silver, jewellery and artifacts recovered from the wrecks of Dutch, Spanish and English 17th, 18th and 19th Century Ships. Ships include: the "Hollandia", the Utrecht", the "Slot ter Hooge", the "Nuestra Senora de Esperanza", "The Standing Cannon wreck" and the "H.M.S. Athenienne". 557 lots in the sale. Many illustrated in black & white + 3 color plates. No prices realized sheets, just lot estimates for each piece (Dutch florins). 9" high X 7" wide, 45 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
Features: Sensational ad for Chas. Baker & Co's inside front cover for Correct College and School Outfits features young lad in top hat and older youth in bowler hat with walking stick; Title page illustration of British troops defending a home on the railway near Marcelcave; General Fochs - The Allied Leader (article); Ludi Humaniores - A Please for Cricket (article); Great Guns - Monster Cannon of Days Gone By (article); Page of photos of personalities of the hour includes Brig.-General Guy Livinston, Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard, Lieut.-General Sir David Henderson, The Earl of Derby, M. Clemenceau, Viscount Milner, Austen Chamberlain, Baron Burian and Lord Bertie; G.K. Chesterton discusses 'My Mission to London' by Prince Lichnowsky; Half-page photo of British sailors on the deck of a Monitor behind her 6-inch gun; Excellent half-page photo from a Spanish mail-steamer off Cadiz which has been stopped by a U-boat which appears surfaced in the background with many crew members visible; Photos of scenes in Greece, France, Flanders, and London; Photos of curiosities of the war - a steel German sniper's mask, Canadian troops fixing detonators of Mills bombs in their trench, etc.; The Effects of Wind in Air Fighting (article); One-page illustration entitled "The New Battle of the Somme - British Troops Stemming the German Flood"; Article about Typhoid Fever; One-page illustration entitled "Our Fighting Retreat From Armentieres - The Five Days Defence of Erquinghem; Two pages of photos of troops where some of the fiercest fighting has taken place, and elsewhere in the front line; Centrefold image of a British field artillery battery in close action, with gas-masked gunners; Aided by "Reds" and "Whites" - Our Petrograd Embassy (8 photos); Where Germany Profits by Civil War - five photos from Finland and the Aalands; Roll of Honour - photos of 21 officers including Leiut.-Col. N.B. Elliott-Cooper who died of wounds; Photo of "The Women of Pervyse" - The Baroness T'Serclaes and Miss Mairi Chisholm have maintained a concealed dressing-station since the early days of the war; Photo of the automatic mono-wheel stretcher-carrier (like an extended wheelbarrow) which allows a single troop to move an immobile commrade; Nice two-colour Greys Cigarette ad on back cover features the woman trooper, Mrs. Christian Davis who fought in three battles and died in 1739; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
8vo., Later Issue, with series and volume titles, frontispiece and 4 plates, ALL PLATES COLOURED BY HAND; original series binding of red cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind enclosing volume title in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, primrose endpapers, an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy. REMARKABLY BRIGHT COPY OF THE FIRST DEDICATED HISTORY OF THE REGIMENT, published in Cannon's well-known 'Historical Records' series. This later issue is illustrated with woodcuts replacing the original lithographs, but with the extra coloured plate of Colours as frontispiece, together with the usual regimental badge and three plates of uniforms. Ogilby 51/31; Sutcliffe p.47; White p.54.
316 pages including index. Provides a much-needed introduction to contemporary China and a much-needed survey of the last decade of administrative, demographic, economic and geopolitical development. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Minor warp to book due to improper storage. Binding intact. Good working copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with engraved and printed titles, and 3 fine coloured woodcut plates, some very light offsetting on free endpapers only; original decorative cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned else an astonishingly bright, crisp, clean copy. With the very neat decorative signature (dated 1928) of W.N. Radcliffe of The Devonshire Regiment. The first separately published account of the regiment, issued in Cannon's well-known 'Historical Records' series noted for its fine plates. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Ogilby 157/37; Sutcliffe, p.81; White, p.63.
pp. viii, 360; 40 [Publisher's catalogue]. XLib. Donated by Rev. Jeremiah Zimmerman. Light pencil underlinings. Inner hinges cracked. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding. Remnants of library call letters on spine. Hardbound. Very good. RELIGION BOX 9
The author's purpose was to acquaint the reader with some of the forces that have caused change in the past, looking in particular at eight innovations: the atomic bomb, the telephone, the computer, the production-line system of manufacture, the aircraft, plastics, the guided rocket and television. Black cloth covers. Gilt title on spine. Small, point impact dent on front cover; lower back cover corner a little bumped. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
Pages 617-644. Features: Cover photos of the Mosquito Mark XVIII and its U-Boat strafing gun and six-pounder cannon; One-page Karsh photo-portrait of Sam Rayburn; Twelve excellent photos from Geilenkirchen, recently captured by British and French forces; Four photos at the Koenigsmacher Fort, which apparently made marine fittings; The Liberatioin of Metz - six photos in the city; Photos in the recently liberated cities of Belfort and Strasbourg; Photos of the advance on Venlo; Variety of photos of mine-clearing, destroyed German rolling stock, and humorous signs; Article entitled "Allied Advance to the Rhine" with maps; Photos of Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, General Sir Henry Maitland-Wilson, and Lieut.-General Mark Clark; Two pages of illustrations of the launching of V-2 rocket bombs with explanation; Six photos of V-2 rocket parts found wrecked in Belgium; One page of illustrations explaining a simple system for castaways to make sea water drinkable; Photo of the U.S.S. "Missouri"; Interesting photos shows long contrail of V-2 rocket, four short contrails of fighters and flying fortress in foreground; Two photos of the burning U.S. light aircraft carrier "Princeton" which sunk in the battle of the Philippines; Aerial photos of the obliterated towns of Duren and Julich; Before and after aerial photos of V-2 factory at Weimar which was hammered by U.S. heavy bombers; Photos of personalities of the week include General Philippe Leclerc, Sir George Clausen, Daniel Sultan, Naik Yeshwant Chadge, V.C., John D. Baskeyfield, V.C., Col. C. Meyer, Maj.-Gen. Dunckern, Duncan Sandys, M. Mikolajczyk, David Vivian Currie, V.C., Sir Edward Grigg, M. Joseph Caillaux, C.W. Alfrey, Sir A.S. Eddington, Count Carandini, and Tulbahadur Pun, V.C.; Photos of damage to Florence - medieval sites destroyed by hun vandalism; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Coverfold taped. A sound vintage copy. Book
338 pages. Features: Town of the Month - Clayton, New Mexico (NM); Woodbury ad features photos of Nina Spencer of New York and James Locke; Lovely Ivory Soap ad features photo of Maggi McNamara; Shingles; Assignment in Hollywood; Classy photo-ad for Warner's bras; Nice two-page color-photo Kelvinator ad; Asthma in Children; Willett furniture ad; Fantastic color ad for American Airlines shows Van Johnson and Jane Wyman of the film "Three Guys Named Mike"; Keep up with Medicine; What you should know about the AAA; Color Lux ad features Evelyn Keyes; Color Camay ad features beautiful Mrs. Charles A. Morrow, Jr., the former Barbara Sommers of Califon, NJ; Things to Forget; A Kind of Glory - story by Lois Montross; Career Girl Carolyn Workman of Cincinnati; Locksmith article; The Name - story by Eleanor Duvall; Paco's Donkey - story by Martha Gellhorn; The last six weeks of pregnancy; A Woman to be Envied - story by Evelyn Apitz; Women and the New War; Special Feature - Magic Make-up and Personal Color Chart with beautiful color photos; Lovely bridal fashion photos; Color Ivory Snow ad; Why Children quit taking lessons; Zozo ad features Curious George comic; Pond's ad features photo of The Viscountess Boyle; Raytheon TV (television) ad; Jergens ad features photos of Jane Russell; Firestone Foamex ad features color photo of Edward J. Crowley; Color Avon ad features Claudette Colbert with her rep. Mrs. Nelle Ginthner; Claudette Colbert in Woodbury ad; Toni ad features photos of Jane Cartwright, Nellie Jane Cannon and twins Ann and Roxie Shumaker; Nice Jell-O pudding ad; Tea Talk; Maytag washing machine ad; Lovely color Coke ad shows young lady in green jacket with six-pack; Chromcraft furniture color ad; Yvonne DeCarlo in La Cross ad; Colr ad for Glidden paints; and much, much more. Average wear. Please note: Large chunk 5 x 4" missing from upper corner of pages 333-338 and back cover, otherwise a worthy vintage copy of this charming issue. Magazine
8vo., First Edition; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 6. VERY SCARCE.
