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32 pages. Features: Benjie's Tale - owned by Brian and Pamela Roy; St. Paull Minnesota Couple Tours Europe in Own Car (1929) - Mr. and Mrs. George Van Slyck; Victor Page Motors Revisited; Our Trans Continental Automobile Trip in 1920 - by Dr. A.D. Grant; 1928 Service Convention - attended by 144 men from across America; Cannon Ball Baker tells why Franklin is the Road Car Champion of the World; Advantages of Standardized Service - by Wm. M. Venner; Centerfold montage of photos of Franklin Convention; Classy Franklin Chugs Westward - Jerome Thornley and his 1927 11B Franklin Sedan; John Burns Column - maintenance and restoration; How the Franklin Airman how it got its name - reproduction of 9 page booklet. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
pp. iv, 92. Numerous drawings of artillery by the author. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Very nice copy of the original edition. Classic. GAMES BOX 1
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
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: One Hail of a Story, by John Moore; Westmoreland's Mustards - The Westmoreland Specialty Company of Grapeville, PA; Jack La Baume tours the oldest Dr. Pepper Bottling Company in the world in Dublin, TX - great article and photos; Two Hard-to-Find Warners - Richard A. Cannon collects bottles from Hulbert Harrington Warner of Rochester, New York; Jar Talk - Jack La Baume has moved to Texas and shares his experiences; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - Nailsea Glass; Auction Directory; The Label Space - O.C. stands for the Oneida Community - a Smalley, Kivlan & Onthank's Double Safety Jar - An Atlas E-Z Seal packed by Harbauer; ; Up-Dates; Bottle Colors - article by Ben and Miriam Glassman. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Dr. Grattan & Diptheria, Richard A. Cannon M.D.; American Whisky Jug 'Copy Cats', by Jack Sullivan; Arctic Obsession - "The Victorian Race for the North Pole", by Dave Cheadle; Auction Directory; Extra Special Deliveries; Jar Talk, by Jack La Baume; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - "Torquay Potteries", by Rob Goodacre; The Woman from Hell - A Bottle Digger's Nightmare, by Ross Johnson; The Label Space - The Dunkley Celery and Preserving Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan, by Tom Caniff; To Sleep, Perhaps to Dream, of Old Bottles, by John Cooper. Back cover repro. ad for Red Cross Kidney Plaster. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Schoenheit Medical Company, by Richard A. Cannon, M.D.; The Making of Uncle Sam (Part 2), by Dave Cheadle; Did John McCloskie Invent a better whisky Jug?; Bryan's Top Shelf, by Bryan Grapentine; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - the E.C. Flaccus Co., Huyler's bottles, Kaffee Hag, by Tom Caniff; Granspa's Escapades (fiction), by Randy Leonard; Up-Dates; Auction Action. Nice two-page photo ad for The Richards Collection of American Historical Flasks at Absentee Auction, by Norman C. Heckler & Company. Cup ring on front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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.
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
8vo., First Edition; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 6. VERY SCARCE.
172 pages. Features: Meat-Making "Wonder" Drugs; You ought to have a pond; "No-Hands" feed handling; Green and growing all year; If your power goes off; Get more alfalfa seed; The school that brought a town to life; Farm-welded work savers; High-yield, hot-weather pasture; Getting the best feed for your flock; 'Paving' with grass; For more seed use strong bee colonies; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
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!
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."
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.
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, 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.
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.
268 pages heavily illustrated with b&w photos, line drawings, cross-sections, woodcuts, etc. Medium format book with heavy, glossy paper. Book shows very light use only, with sharp corners to the covers, solid binding and no marking of any kind to text/interior. Contents include: Prehistoric development of metal, Far eastern foundry development, Casting development in the Mediterranean basin, Melting and molding methods of the renaissance, Casting of bells and guns, Sand castings of direct blast-furnace iron, The early iron foundry, Colonial foundries in the new world, Metals and melting in the nineteenth century, Development of foundry mechanization, Automation and aerospace -- new image of metal casting. With source material and index.
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
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full green cloth boards. Slight - wear to dust jacket. 288 pages. Many b&w photos and illustrations.
60 pages. Features: Illegal housing in Vancouver; Roy Thomson tries to sell 5-pin bowling in Britain; Bank of Montreal ad inside front cover; Dorris Dodd and her battle against religion in the classroom; McKenzie Porter writes an early column in favour of free-range poultry; Nice colour full-page ad for Moirs Pot of Gold chocolates; Colour ad for RCA Victor Stereos; Why the Things You Buy Don't Last; Colour full-page ad for Black Magic chocolates; Canada's Final Agonizing Choice on Nuclear Arms - Peter C. Newman article; Twelve Days of Christmas; Yoga Anyone; The Communists are Hard at Play - Marika Robert's astonishing account of the lighter side of life behind the Iron Curtain; The Weirdest Secret Weapon of the War - Geoffrey Pyke sold Winston Churchill a vision of unsinkable carriers made of unmeltable ice; How to Improve Your Ploy - or, How to interview Stephen Potter, who discovered Gamesmanship; Football Weekend - The songs, the parties, the fallings in and out of love - even the fake cannon blast that knocked an old grad down - on the weekend when McGill came to Toronto, ostensibly to play football - by Peter Gzowski; Cartoon by Ab Sens; Canada Packers full-page colour ad featuring Christmas turkey; Two-Page centerfold colour photo ad for Remington Roll-a-matic and Lektronic electric shavers; Colour ad for Kodak cameras; Seagram's V.O. colour ad; Full-page ad for Molson's Canadian; Nice 2-page ad for the Pontiac Tempest; Nice colour photo full-page ad for Black Label Beer; Colour photo ad for O'Keefe Ale inside back cover; Wonderful Coke Santa ad on back cover shows Santa in green armchair having a drink poured for him and his slippers being put on by a group of elves. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound, vintage copy. Magazine
pp. xxxvi, 715, (1) [Publisher's catalogue]. Illustrated with over three hundred and fifty text engravings and maps. All edges marbled. Small 4to. 245 mm. Disbound [leather boards detached, lacks spine]. Title continues: "Comprising Marvels Of Nature, Marvels Of Race, Marvels Of Enterprise, Marvels Of Mining, Marvels Of Stock-Raising, And Marvels Of Agriculture, Graphically And Truthfully Described". W4
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this rare scholarly monograph on the Pragmatiques-Sanctions, medieval agreements between the French State and the Catholic Church. viii, 192 pp. Includes the full Latin text and extensive documentation. Printed on very good wove paper. Some old notes in pencil. 8vo. Attractively bound in later 19th-century quarter cloth and marbled boards. Light wear to corners of binding. Internally fine and bright. Rare.
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.
64 pages. Features: Refugees - Allies or Enemies? - article with heart-rending photos of refugees in Spain, China, Austria and Poland, plus photos and brief write-ups of 32 influential people who are also refugees (i.e. Einstein); Two Mothers - and Two Sons - the mothers of Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff and Joseph Stalin; The Swiss Keep Guard - the job of these white troops is to make sure their country shall never become a second Finland; This Wasn't New in 1899 - interesting parachute history; The Life Story of Pope Pius XII; A Girl Prepares for Spring - spa treatments to freshen up ladies after winter; What it Means To-day to be a Merchant Seaman - one page photo of lifeboats pulling away from the sinking "Clan Stuart"; ; The Return of the Horse - Hitler's effect on British roads; Diary of the War, No. 30 - The Twenty-Eighth Week - with photo of Hitler visiting his wounded troops, and a large photo of British Cavalry on horseback in Nazareth; Cartoon by Low shows Hitler and Stalin pouring alcohol into the brains of their cannon fodder; Cargo for Delivery; France is Fighting; Full-page ad for Moussec champagne; Nice back cover ad for Sultanas (a useful wartime food); Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
132 pages. The following only touches upon the highlights of the considerable fascinating photos and text in this issue. Features: Cover illustration of mobile deep-sea floor device of J.E. Williamson; Fire at sea - a challenge to science; Lone fingerprints trap master criminals; Wins worldwife fame with microscope hobby; Earth's last drop of oil sought by new discoveries; Flying Battleships; How to Build a Sky Globe; Stalk Sea Monsters in Odd Craft; How Shotgun Champions battle for their crowns. Ads: Very nostalgic illustrated General Electric ad inside front cover features their home battery charger; RCA Victor ad illustrates the Table Model 123 "Magic Brain" radio; Midwest Radio Corp. ad inside back cover features inset photos of W.C. Geiser of Springfield, Illinois, Mrs. M.C. Mondy of Conneaut, Ohio, and R.T. Pursley of Hammond, Louisianna; Lovely color back cover ad for Chesterfield features their cigarettes in color superimposed over black and white photos from Asia and Europe. Average wear. Signature upon front covers. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine