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94 pages. Fiction: The Terrible Morning; Mountain Time; (part 4 of 5); The Pond; A Serious Study of Love; A Man Needs a Horse; The Importance of Being Kissed. Articles: All Out Against Cancer; Little Miss Innocent; American in Germany; Underwater Wealth; A.W.O.L. De Luxe - Private John Martin, and American in the Canadian army; Fashion on the Downgrade; Lindbergh in Battle (conclusion); The Little Doc - Doris Gnauck; Bad Neighbor Policy - our diplomatic bungling in Latin America. Ads include: Mary Brewer in Ipana ad; Perry Como and Martha Stewart in G.E. Radio ad; Great logging-theme ad for International Trucks; Mercury cars; Elsie the Cow; Piper Cub; American Airline System; REO trucks; Clark's Teaberry Gum; Perilous Holiday (Movie ad); The Lockheed Constellation aircraft; Great back cover Coke ad shows male and female troops on train. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
40 pages. Part 3 of a series "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - from Preface. Contains Chapters 5 and 6 - The French Army, and The Army and the Fortresses of Belgium. Dozens of excellent black and white photographs. Centerfold "Map of France Showing the Territorial Distributions of the French Army". Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Magazine
328 pages. Occasional illustrations from album covers. Includes songs from the following albums: May Aim is True; This Year's Model; Armed Forces; Get Happy!!; Taking Liberties. Songs include: Accidents will Happen; Alison; B Movie; The Beat; Beaten to the Punch; Big Boys; Big Tears; Black and White World; Blame it on Cain; Busy Bodies; (I Don't Want to Got To) Chelsea; Chemistry Class; Clean Money; Clowntime is Over; Crawling to the U.S.A.; Dr. Luther's Assistant; Five (Five) Gears in Reverse; Ghost Train; Girls Talk; Goon Squad; Green Shirt; Hand in Hand; High Fidelity; Hoover Factory; Human Touch; I'm Not Angry; The Imposter; Just a Memory; King Horse; Less Than Zero; Lip Service; Lipstick Vogue; Little Triggers; Living in Paradise; Love for Tender; Man Called Uncle; Miracle Man; Moods for Moderns; Motel Matches; Mystery Dance; New Amsterdam; Night Rally; No Action; No Dancing; Olliver's Army; Opportunity; Party Girl; Pay It Back; Possession; Pump it Up; Radio, Radio; Radio Sweetheart; (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes; Riot Act; Secondary Modern; Senior Service; Sneaky Feelings; Stranger in the House; Sunday's Best; Talking in the Dark; Temptation; That's What Friends are For; This Year's Girl; Tiny Steps; Two Little Hitlers; Waiting for the End of the World; Watching the Detectives; Wednesday Week; Welcome to the Working Week; You Belong to Me. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy of this huge compilation. Book
76 pages. Features: Jasper cartoon cover illustration; Great full-page colour ad for the 1956 Pontiac models; Nice colour-photo full-page ad for the 1956 Dodge, featuring the Mayfair V-8 4-door sedan; Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield - feature article with photos; How long will Clifford Williams stay in jail? - young Canadian from troubled background is jailed for 28-years for his first offense; A Gold Cup for Fair Lady - short story; Former Adjutant-General of the Canadian Army, Major-General W.H.S. Macklin, speaks out against the astronomical sums being spent on the DEW (distant early warning) Line - he argues it can never protect Canada; Political Quebec - part IV of Bruce Hutchison's "The Unknown Country"; Animals Can Talk; The Campus That Covers a Province - The University of Alberta and its many interesting programs; Nice colour full-page ad for the new 1956 Chrysler (featuring Windsor 4-door sedan with 215 HP engine); Nice 2-colour full-page ad for Philips televisions; Nostalgic 3/4 page colour ad for McBrine luggage; Colour full-page ad for Chevrolet featuring the Bel Air Convertible; Full-page black and white photo ad for milk in Pure-Pak containers, including photos of Etril and Melvin Snyder, owners of Ontario's famous Maple Lane Dairy Ltd.; Nice colour full-page ad for Oldsmobile featuring the 1956 Super 88 Holiday Seday; Colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows sweethearts drinking with straws. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
342 pages. "This story of Canadian victories in the great struggle, with an entertaining analysis of what lay behind them, makes up a book which will not only be immediately interesting, but will also be a strong feature in your library in years to come. Look, for instance, at the story of our boys' capture of Vimy Ridge, and think with what avidity your children will read this ten years from now." - from dust jacket. Book unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Dust jacket bears several peripheral tears and is missing several chips but is handsome in new archival-grade brodart cover. Rare in jacket. WALLACE P.64. Book
Contents: Oldsmobile Hydra-Matic drive color ad inside front cover. GM Electro-Motive Division color ad; V-E Day eases some controls but nation has no ready chart covering next few months; Great War Bond ad in color; Fisher Body color ad; the U-249 'sails against England' under British escort (photo and story); The Wehrmacht Plot - could keep General Staff alive as nucleus of next German Army; Photos of victory celebrations in Europe; Fat, Satisfied, Vulgar - photo and story of Goering's surrender; Kesselring - soft soap; Quaking Quisling; Photo of the firing squad execution of Mussolini's friend Lt. Gen. Achille Starace; Our Jap Enemy - he is fanatical and capable of long resistance; Delegates face some pitfalls despite wide area of agreement in writing world charter; V-E Day rioters smash the business district of Halifax; Emil Rieve in reverse; Photo of a Northrop XP-56; Amazing photo of Army Capt. Desmond E. Carrig dangling from power lines after his car hit a telegraph pole; An improving reporter in wartime radio must interpret coming peace; Horse racing ban lifted; Douglas aircraft color ad; Interesting color ad for McCall's, extolling the virtues of rationing paper; Interesting story and photos of large military hydroponics farming operation on Ascension Island; Laister-Kauffmann aircraft ad. Average wear. Address label at top of front cover. Unmarked. Covers attached by one staple else a sound copy. Book
Cover illustration of a distraught Kaiser. 'Cease-fire!' 11am, November 11th, 1918. 'Twilight of the German Gods' - article by Hamilton Fyfe. London's Delirious Joy at the Coming of Peace - photos. Star of Mons in the Ascendant - the closing battles of Britain's victorious armies - article. Sweeping the Sea of the Hun - photos. Canada Conqueror of Vimy takes Valenciennes - photos. Victory Leaders' 'Great Week' at Versailles - deciding the terms of Germany's Surrender - illustrations. Typical Hun Theft and Treachery - photos. Our adaptable army - photos. How the Army will be Demobilised - article by Basil Clarke. The Historic Armistice - article with illustration and map. The Empire's Roll of Honour. A Kaiserless Germany - article by Frederic William Wile. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
94 pages. Nice one-page Diebold ad promotes War Bond purchases and their Cardineer product; Nice one-page color GM ad shows tanks being offloaded from ship by soldiers; Interesting TWA ad shows illustration of native American looking up at plane; Draft dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll is released from prison (with photo); Photo of boxer Joe Louis with his wife, Marva; Timken Bearing ad features Admiral Nimitz portrait; Brief obituaries for Raymond Clapper, Yvette Guilbert, Dr. Arthur Eugene Bestor, Will B. Johnstone and Janet R. Aiken; One-page military-theme Chevrolet ad; Ferocity of Nazi Defense shows importance of Rome Beachheads - with aerial photo of military train in Italy; Major war coverage; Battle of Kwajalein; The Marshall Islands - another stop on the road to Tokyo; Donald Bennett's Elite Forces use fireworks to Light Targets; Push toward Finland; The Battle for Rome; Russia's 16 for 1 split shows drift to regional setups; Photo of Aga Khan taking sleigh ride with lady friend in Switzerland; Photos of 'deserter's passport' to be used by Croats to give themselves up to the Germans; Soldier vote problem; Nice one-page color Camel cigarette ad features soldier home on furlough; US Steel color ad shows steel car and steel helmet; Victory garden stats and seeds; Nice wartime Trailmobile ad; Nice one-page United Airlines ad; Fantastic one-page two-color ad for REO trucks features logging and loggers; Styrene centerfold ad loose but present; Milwaukee Road military-themed ad; Lighters, Irons and Bathtubs returning to American Scene; Reproductions of Japa atrocity posters which were posted in war production plants to boost production; Nice photo ad for Dodge Trucks features photos of troops in action and heavy snow removal at home; Reporter Raymond Clapper is killed - article with photos; Nice photo of Army show in New Guinea with Phyllis Brooks onstage; Photo of 'sex rejuvenator' Serge Voronoff with his younger wife; Nice promotional ad for the Metropolitan Oakland area has nice aerial photo; Classy one-page color-illustrated ad for McCall's Magazine features mother reading to son; Daniel Fosdick Parker; Color Studebaker ad inside back cover features military equipment; Back cover ad for Seagram's 7 Crown; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Copiously illustrated with incredible black and white photographs. The inside story of the disastrous British Columbia floods of 1948 which inundated thousands of acres of fertile farmland, left hundreds of persons homeless, and wrought ruin and devastation throughout the province. Compiled from the works of newspapermen who spent almost three weeks in the Fraser, Columbia, Kootenay and Okanagan Valleys to bring first-hand accounts of the disaster to the public. "Most of the pictures, the climax to a hundred dangers traversed by each photographer, are self-explanatory. They show NATURE'S FURY from every angle." - from Foreward. Sections are devoted to the following locales: Barnston Island; Agassiz; Nicomen Island; Chilliwack; Hatzic; The Haztic Break; Matsqui; The Lower Mainland; Queensborough; Pitt Meadows; Kootenays; The Mission Gauge; Mission; Fort Langley and Glen Valley; Trail; Sumas; and Hope. Above average wear. Bit of ink writing upon page 50 else unmarked. A rare and scarcely believable account. Book
203 pages. Map endpapers. "General Sosabowski was one of the bravest and most unconventional of the military leaders of the last war; his career was both fascinating and of an almost incredible variety. He was born in Poland of very humble parents and as a child was involved in Polish resistance to the Austrian occupation; then he was conscripted into the Austrian Army, but finally gained a commission in the Polish Army."- from dust jacket. Heavily worn first edition copy with usual library markings. Great record of a Polish hero. Reading copy only. *Please note* This copy is missing black and white photographic plates from page 64 and page 192. All others are present. Book
48 pages. Cover photo of convoy watcher. Features: Arctic Convoy - photo-illustrated article describing the adventure and danger of escorting munitions to North Russia in a destroyer north of the Arctic Circle; Listen, Soldier! - a sergeant provides some army humour; Can the Conservatives Come Back? - at Winnipeg Canada's Conservative Party can resume its historic mission or write its obituary; All Are for the State - Canadian Editors tour Britain's military production facilities and are impressed - article with photos; London Letter - Should We Hate the Germans?; "The Crucial Moment" - Douglas Reed reports that war hope centres on a major victory in North Africa; He Saved Fundy's Eider - Taxidermist Allan Moses saved the American eider ducks from extinction; No Lady of Leisure - Elissa Landi, actress, author, ballet dancer, singer and lecturer will have a Broadway play produced. Fiction; Wimmen is Humans (by W.O. Mitchell); A Kind of Magic. Nice one-page recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Air Force Air Crew ("Women Too"). Half-page "Del Maiz" brand corn appears to be a predecessor to the Green Giant brand(?). Nice half-page ad for Waterman's pens includes illustration of Billy Bishop, a WWII airman, and a small photo of the company's plant in St. Lambert, PQ. Back cover colour G.M. of Canada ad shows brown armoured vehicles in action. Unmarked with moderate wear. Two neat vertical creases to front cover. Ads on half of page 3/4 missing. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this vintage wartime issue. Book
Features: The liberation of Carentan; Distinguished visitors at the allied beach-head in Normandy; Photos of the King in France; Photos of Normandy fighting; Two-page illustrations of Britain's Horsa Glider - the mount which carried the airborne spearhead of invasion to Normandy on D-day; photos of 'German' prisoners at Normandy - Russians, Poles, Czechs, Croats, Spaniards, and even Turks were found; Diagrams of "The flying Bomb" - Germany's latest weapon used against England; Photos behind the battlefront in Italy; The Eighth Army stages an exhibition of captured German weapons - 12 photos; Photos regarding penicillin; and more. Prior owner's name and ink stamp upon front cover else clean and unmarked with average wear. sound copy. Book
Photos - The Liberation of Brussels by British Troops; Photos of Nazi 'Flying Bomb' equipment (launching ramp, etc.); More V-1 Flying bomb-related photos; Photos of London's balloon flying-bomb defences; Germans thrown out of Brussels; dummy airfield and guns; a smashed Tiger Tank; Scenes during the Liberation of France; photos of the great allied advance on the western front; Photos of the breaching of the Gothic Line on the Adriatic sector by the Eighth Army. Advertorial covers not included. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Signed and inscribed by author to the son of Francisco B. Caingcoy who saw action on Bataan with the 14th Eng. 2nd Btn and was captured on 9 April 1942 by the Japanese, started the Death and escaped. 240 pages. Black and white illustrations. Winner of the Book of the Year award by the American Bookdealers Exchange. "A true narrative by Sergeant Waldron, who risked his life in keeping a day by day diary, for three and a half years as a Prisoner of War under the Japanese... A true saga of the first five months of World War Two in the Philippines, and life as a Prisoner of War." - from dust jacket. Average wear bo book. Above-average wear to dust jacket. Book
ISBN : 2914661568. Bibliothèque de l'Image. 2002. In-4 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. Env. 450 pages. Illustré de nombreux schémas et fac-similés en noir et blanc hors texte. Grand In-4°. Fabrique des Ancres, par rené-Antoine de Ferchault de Réaumur (1723). Description de l'art de la mâture, par Nicolas-Charles Romme (1778). Traité de la construction des vaisseaux, par Fredrok Henrik Chapman (1779). L'Art de la voilure, par Nicolas-Charles Romme (1781).
3 corners are bumped. Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; The present book re-publishes Cichorius's plates (the complete series) and supplies in addition a full Commentary on specialised 'Notes' dealing with the design of the Column, the chronological, archaeological, and topographical problems affecting its interpretation and our understanding of those wars. ; 339 pages; 154 plates at end.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout, and pictorial endpapers; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The definitive history, extending and augmenting 'British Service Lee' with many detailed new features including recently discovered Pattern Room samples. VERY SCARCE.
2 volume set. Light dustsoiling to top of textblocks. A couple of corners very slightly rounded. ; V1: X, 262 pages 348 Abb. ; V2: IV pages, 292 Taf. , ; Monographien Des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut Für Vor- Und Frühgeschichte; Bd. 11,1 & 11,2
210 pages. Index. "Examines the events surrounding the coup d'etat supposedly planned against the Provisional Government by General Kornilov, the supreme commander of the Russian armed forces." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Front free endpaper removed. Sound working copy. Book
2 vols., 4to., First Edition, with 10 coloured plates of uniform, 69 plates in monochrome, illustrations of medals in the text and 15 maps (one double-page); original binding of black half morocco gilt, gilt backs, a very good, clean copy. Sutcliffe, p.58; White, p.17.
4to, (275 x 195mm), 18, 13-48, 52-91, 93-140, 133-148, 12, [2]pp., LARGE PAPER COPY, in addition there are two final leaves with manuscript additions for the 32 Regiment of Foot and the 36 Regiment of Foot, later half calf, rubbed, lacks spine, covers detached. Annual Army list to November, 1763. The pagination of this book is erratic to say the least: there are no pages 49, 50 or 51, page 52 follows p. 48, from thence onwards to p. 91 (38th Foot) inclusive, all the odd numbers are on the verso side, there is no page 91, page 93 (39th Foot) follows p. 91, and from thence to p. 140 the pagination is normal, a page numbered 133 (70 Companies of Marines) follows p. 140, and this continues to p. 148, thence follows 12 pages (succession of Colonels) and a final leaf (Additions since Printing). It seems the printer who set up this list, must have been a 'Dreamer'. Provenance: ex-ministry of Defence Library. ESTC (N62475) locates a single copy of this edition at the National Archives.
First edition, 4to, xii, 224pp., frontis., 42 plates, some light spotting throughout, orig. publishers white buckram-backed red boards.
90 hojas manuscritas con letra legible, la última de ellas blanca, 20,5 x 15 cm. (Carece de encuadernación).
Madrid, Imprenta de Repullés, 1821, 20 x 15 cm., holandesa tela moderna, 36 págs. (Antecede al título: Apéndice al Diario de Cortes núm. 6º del año 1821. Aunque Balanzat fue solo Ministro de la Guerra durante 4 escasos días, presentó a las Cortes esta extensa Memoria sobre el penoso estado en que se encontraba el ejército, escaso de fuerzas y mal pertrechado. señala las acciones urgente a acometer y las necesidad de reforzar los regimientos tanto de la Península como de Ultramar. Concluye con las operaciones y acciones militares en América septentrional y la difícil situación de Venezuela y del nuevo reino de Granada donde Bolívar había tomado Santa Fe y sitiado Cartagena de Indias).
Madrid, P. Abienzo, 1872, 20 x 13,5 cm., bella encuadernación en marroquín rojo, con filetes, hilos dorados y adornos gofrados, lomo cuajado, cortes, cantos y contracantos dorados y guardas en seda , dedicatoria manuscrita del autor al General, historiador y Ministro de la Guerra D. Fernando Fernández de Córdoba, 506 págs. + 1 hoja blanca + 3 láminas y un croquis plegado de la batalla de Sedan en colores.
