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Features: Article by Lovat Fraser - War Problems of the New Year; Gallant charge of the Fort Garry Horse (photos) - Lieutenant H. Strachan; Chinese men view war's ruin in west; Photos of Australians in France; French Premier with the heroes of Mort Homme; 'Thunderers' (gunes) that defy the foe before Verdun; Glimpses of East Africa from a German Camera; How I was arrested as a spy - an experience undergone three times by Hamilton Fyfe during Russia's spy-fever; Cambrai illustrations; Spotting for the Guns - adventures of John S. Margerison, Observation Officer of the Kite Balloons; From the Yser and Somme to Brenta and Piave; The Kaiser as Patron of the 'Prince of Hell' (illustrations); Airship that searches the sea for submarines; War-time wages and prices - causes and effects of their simultaneous increase (article); Forcing the entrance to Palestine at Gaza (illustrations); Photos of American Engineers who aid the British guards; Photos of English women engaged in agriculture on the home front; Photos of Victoria Cross (V.C.) recipients Pte. M.J. O'Rourke, Sergt. J. Ockenden; Pte. W.H. Butler; Cpl. E.A. Egerton (brief text included); The South Lancashires - 1 page (with photo) information about this regiment. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
71 pages. Features: Bob (Robert) Goulet - he finds there is room at the top for hard work; Sweat Equity helps pay for their house - Joe Hodgen and Jeannette MacDonald prepare their new home in Chippawa, Ontario; Fidel Castro - Liberator or Slave-Maker? - a Canadian journalist visits Havana; Tragedy strikes the young duchess - The Duchess of Kent Story, Part 3 of 3; Ventriloquist Carolyn Blythe of the Blue Sky Revue in Verdun, Quebec; Porpoise with a purpose - Even blindfolded, Kathy can find her goal; Tachibana Ballet Institute in Tokyo - bathing helps their ballet; Sober piety and sturdy self-reliance mark the old-world ways of Canada's Mennonites; The Man the Sharks would't eat - Captain Haliburton (Bertie) Himmelman explains what happened to the Giant King 38 years ago; Workshop for Equality - Core, the Congress of Racial Equality, uses non-violence/sit-in strikes; School at Concrete, Washington, has a road beneath it; Charles Mohr, Jr., a University of Wisconsin senior, dies as a result of his first and last boxing knockout; Sid Caesar says "I conquered Shyness"; A new generation of bookworms is invading our libraries - children; The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
VERDUN, Ed. Lorraine Frémond - Vers 1930 - Petit In-4 - cartonnage éditeur souple avec jacquette illustrée (bicolore) avec léger manque au dos - 160 pages - Nombreuses cartes + Carte sur double page HT de Verdun - Importante iconographie. Très bel exemplaire.
in-12, 266 pages, frontispice, reliure pleine toile decor de l"editeur. Tres bel exemplaire [LA-1]
Mm 140x220 Collana "Le Porpore" - Brossura originale con sovraccoperta figurata a colori, 93 pagine. Condizioni del libro: nuovo. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Pages 385-480 plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: In the grip of the "Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; The fatal wood - a graphic account of a dramatic episode in the great Battle of Verdun; Minnie Florea's ordeal - a hurricane swept her to sea where she, the only member of her father's party of 13 to survive, battled the storm for 24 hours; The heart of Sweden - an interesting description of rural Sweden with wonderful photos; Three men in a tree - how they survived a flood in Australia; Comedies of the war - WWI anecdotes; Sandy McLain's Log-Jam - how a young Scotsman broke up one of the biggest log-jams in the history of Minnesota; Our adventures at the Chincha Islands - a lively time picking up a load of guano; From Job to Job around the World - part VII - Alfred Fletcher describes his adventures in Constantinople, his trip through Italy and across Europe to Paris - where he was shut in Voltaire's tomb for a night!; Where Grass is King - a woman's account of her live on a homestead in a region of America where grass is used for everything - with nice photos; My Romance - how Miss L.V. Smith saved a crowded train from destruction; Photo of a six-foot shark caught in the Tigris at Baghdad Great full-page ad for the Red Cross Line. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backsrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Editions Payot, 1929. In-8 broché de 156 pages. 8 cartes, 18 gravures 1 annexe. Collection de mémoires, études et documents pour servir à l'historie de la guerre mondiale. Bon état
2 parti in 2 volumi in-8; pp. 109-230; pp. 312-339. Broch edit. Buon esemplare.. .
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on The Mill on the Meuse - Verdun 1916, Frederick William and Frederick the Great of prussia, Soviet Political Posters, The Legacy of Attalus - Rome 3rd century BC, Spanish Sickness - 17th century Spain and Whirling Dervishes - their religious beliefs and ecstatic dances plus book reviews and letters.
Mm 140x220 Collana "Le Porpore" - Brossura originale con sovraccoperta figurata a colori, 111 pagine. Condizioni del libro: nuovo. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Mm 125x190 Collana "Il Cammeo" - Volume in copertina rigida, sovraccoperta policroma, 451 pagine con 17 illustrazioni fuori testo e 6 cartine. Traduzione di Luciano Savoia. Molto buono. Spedizione entro 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
97-192, 126 [ads] pages. Profusely illustrated with detailed drawings and black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Includes dozens of magnificently illustrated ads. Features: The Residence of Charles D. Blaney, Esq., Saratoga, California - Willis Polk & Co, Architects; The Art of the Middle Ages - Part I; The Destruction of Historic Buildings as Revealed by the Official French War Photographs - Part III - Parish Churches; The Memorial Quadrangle of Yale College - James Gamble Rogers, Architect; English Architectural Decoration - Part IV - text and measured drawings; The Small Country School House; Community Courts for Factory Workers; The Architect's Library - War Books of the Cathedrals - Part II - Verdun; Notes and Comments. Above-average wear. Lacking covers. Two small binding holes near spine. Last page of advertising loose but present. Not pretty but a worthy vintage copy. Book
Zweite erweiterte Auflage. 208 S. (Fraktur). Original Leinwand mit Original Umschlag, jeweils mit Deckeltitel. umschlag stärker berieben und lädiert (Risse, Fehlstellen). Einband berieben und etwas fleckig. Klammerbindung angerostet, roststellen auch an den Seiten sichtbar, Bindung gelockert, 1 Lage lose. Stellenweise etwas stockfleckig. Insgesamt passabel. Mit einem Frontispiz-Porträt des Verfassers und weiteren sw Abbildungen auf 18 Tafeln.
in-12, 321 p., ill. h.t. n., broche, couverture illustree. Bon etat (couverture effrangee avec petits manques). [LA-2]
48 pages. Features: Lovely full-page ad for Benger's Food; Front page photo of the King - Chief Mourner of the Unknown British Warrior; Article by G.K. Chesterton; Photos of notable world events in the news; Sport and Earnest - photos of notable events at home and abroad; Photos of personalities of the week; Illustrations and photos of the famous pall-bearers for the unknown warrior; Full-page photo of the H.M.S. Verdun; Gassing the Gassed - photos of Paris Doctor Arnold's apparatus for curing victims of Germany's poison gas weapons; Colour centerfold (loose but present) illustrates the burial place of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey; Excellent colour full-page ad for Treloar Carpets; Rare photo of doubl-column of fume and incandescent gas 40,000 feet high rising from the Hawaiian volcano, Mauna Loa; The Greatest Poison Trial of Modern Times - The Greenwood Case at Carmarthen - with illustrations of the dramatis personae and a view of the court in session; Full page ads for Johnny Walker Scotch Whisky, Cadillac automobiles, Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and smaller ads for other auto manufacturers. Full-page Michelin ad inside back cover missing chips, as is two-colour ad for McClinton's Colleen Toilet Cream on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Faint ink stamps on front cover. External advertorial coverfold mostly open. A worthy copy. Book
Pages 65-80 (16 pages in this issue). Features: Leaves from a Lost Portfolio - papers purporting to be the report of an English Secret Service Agent designated by the cipher L.P. 33, to Sir Edward Grey - the document suggests an uncanny familiarity with the aims and methods of the British Intelligence Service in the United States; The Armed Merchantman "Baralong", by Herbert B. Mayer (formerly Editor of the New Orleans American); The Dual Monarchy in War-Time - By Dr. Adolph von Schierbrand; Behind the Scenes at the Capital; Germans to Honor Shakespeare's Memory; Great Britain Bars Christianity - Lutheran Missionaries Vilely Persecuted by Latest English Ruling; Thoughts of a "Gently Hazed" American; The Triumph of Representative Government; Verdun; American Rights Under the Wilson Regime; Is Rudyard Kipling Insane?; Hall Caine's Indictment of England; Honor the Irish; The Financial Forum; War Bond Ads; Back cover ad shows home and lot donated by Deutsches Journal; and more. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy copy. Magazine
pp. xii, 447. Top edge yellow. Uncut. Map endpapers. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, slightly spotted. First English edition? WWI 4
