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Illustration Features: M. Kerensky, Russian Minister of War; Why Germany's Colonies are Forfeit - better the untutored savage than the Kultured Hun (article); Making Firm Hold on Vimy's Famous Ridge; Gloating Pirates give proof of their guilt; From captive Ostend to Recaptured Messines; Small screens that guard great guns; The retreat on Paris - article by Hamilton Fyfe; First of America's fighters arrive on the Aisne; Brothers in arms from East and West in Bagdad; Bad Business Methods and High Prices - Britons who profit by U-boat Piracy (III) article; Varied work for women volunteers; The Rumanian Soldier as I know hime - article by Basil Clarke; From Kultur to Agriculture in Hainault Forest; With Albion's Oldest Ally on the Western Front; Courage and Courtesy in France; The 3rd South African Infantry - article with photo. Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
Ed. E.P.A. - 1988 - In-4 à l'italienne - Reliure toile éditeur sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs - Gardes illustrées - Avant-propos de Roy Selwyn-Smith - Texte de Kenry Kurtz - Photographies de Serge Nivelle - Traduction de l'anglais par Anne Zorn - Très nombreuses illustrations en couleurs dans le texte et HT, certaines PP - Bel exemplaire
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original autograph letter signed Fuat Ziya Çiyiltepe. Dated 1928. 1 p. In Ottoman script. 22x18 cm. Addressed to Commander in Kizan Hani. Includes an assignment report. A military subject about Erzincan, Kizan Hani. "Kizan Hani ve civari bir kol noktasidir. Siz de Kizan Hani'na 9 numero kol noktasi kumandanisiniz..."
PARIS, A. Lemerre, Sans date (1890) - In-4, 8 X 27 cm - Reliure 1/2 basane à coins - Dos à nerfs - Plats & gardes marbrés - Tranche supérieure dorée - Nombreuses illustrations in-texte & HT, N/B, certaines PP d'Henri PILLE & Eugène CHAPERON - Très bel exemplaire, sans rousseurs, très frais
6 pages. Average wear. Faint bit of writing on front cover. Large photo portrait of Harry James on front cover. Sheet music
Pages 187-318. Features: James Whitcomb Riley; John W. Foster - Soldier and Politician; Octave Chanute - Pioneer Glider and Father of the Science of Aviation; James Woodburn - Hoosier Schoolmaster; Judge Horace P. Biddle; A Search After Truth; A Visit to Easton; First Steps Towards a Public Law Library; Indiana Genealogy; and more. Prior owner's stamp atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
122 pages. Features: Regimental Notes; The 1960 Rifle Team; An Unforgettable Soldier; Honours and Awards; First Battalion Report; Home Station Report - Second Battalion, Mess Activities, The Depot, Regimental Band, Regimental Museum, PPCLI Cadet Corps; The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (3 PPCLI); PPCLI Regiment; The Rifle Brigade; Letter From England; Two Years with the Rifle Brigade; Canadians in Indo-China; Congo Papers; The 8th of May 1915; Kapyong; Customs of the Service. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Brilliant gilt lettering and emblem upon forest green cloth covered flexible boards. Excellent copy. Book
56 pages. Includes guitart tab and lyrics for these songs: Calypso; Cracking; Freeze Tag; Gypsy; Ironbound/Fancy Poultry; Knight Moves; Language; Luka; Night Vision; Small Blue Thing; The Queen and the Soldier; Undertow. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Two photo views of Metz, the capital of Lorraine; Photo in a French trench; Donington Hall and Nelson's Last Prayer; Photo of the last victim of the intrepid Garros - photo shows a downed Taube; Photo of General Galopin reviewing the Garrison of Paris; Photo of men of the Royal Naval Division training in the Crystal Palace; The Great Landing Battles of the Dardanelles; Our Allies at Alexandria set out to meet the Turk - five photos; Turkey's Death Struggle with Forces of Progress - five photos; Planting the Union Jack in German Africa - 4 photos; Charge of the Uhlans - Martyrdom of Rheims - two photos; Britain's Pioneer Regiment in the Line of Fire - four photos; Work for Blinded Soldiers - War's Saddest Victims - five photos; Four photos of war prisoners at work for their captors; Photo of dozens of British bluejackets hauling a heavy gun ashore; Photos of women filling in the gaps while men fill the trenches; The war in the Air - article by C.G. Grey; Britain's Roll of Honoured dead - twenty-one photos; Chronology of events May 1st to May 7th; Photo portrait of Lt.-Gen. Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, C.B. inside back cover. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Missing page 297 and 298. Center page loose but present. An informative issue. Book
58 pages. Features: Railroad news and editorial comment; Railroad news photos; The Saddest Train of All - The death of Oneida & Western and the life of L&N and Morehead & North Fork; The Antique Dealers; When Railroading Went to (the Civil) War - to the stripling railroads the Civil War was more than a "War Between the States"; Iowa - land of the steam road trolleys - super photos and article; Pilots (Cow-Catchers) - the Symbolism of the Art - article with photos of various designs ; Black Diamonds and White Diesels - Over Soldier Summit by moonlight move the paradoxes that keep Utah running; Steam rules B&O's Lake branch; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Small, faint date stamp atop back cover, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Hogan's Orphan Mine - Dan Hogan - Arizona's Grand Canyon Region; Outlaw Money - National Bank Notes; The Hawken - A Rifle to Swear By; Lost Nail-Keg of Gold; John Swisher - Boy Soldier - fighting at the side of Sam Houston; A Badman's Long Exile - Sam Goodson, Alpine Texas; The Encircled Thirteen - Jasper Johnson; Legendary Treasure of Pavell's Island; Town of the Swinging Doors - the Tomboy Trail and some of its early types; First Non-Indian Woman in the Black Hills - Sarah Campbell; Copper Camp Ghost. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
299 pages. Black and white photographic plates plus a selection of colour art plates. Author's signature, inscription and handwritten book number 911/5000 upon verso of front free endpaper. Map endpapers. The biography of a Slovenian who survived the horrors of the second world war and later moved to Canada and served a s a Roman Catholic Priest. "These lines are being written more than 50 years after the beginning of the Second World War... My life has been profoundly influenced by it... Much of this book is on one way or another related to that war... With my limited ability I tried to point out the enormity of war and godliness of genuine peace." - from Author's Dedication. Light wear. Clean and unmarked but for minor blemish atop front board. Binding tight. Nice copy. Book
48 pages. Circa 1965. Includes Canadian Discography plus lyrics and music for the following songs: The Lads of Bonnie Scotland; Songs of Scotland; By the Lochside; A Scottish Soldier; The Bonnie Lassie o' Dundee; Heather Bells; D'ye Mind Lang Syne; Donald Dhu; Cowboy Jack from Skye; Take Me Back; The Barren Rocks of Aden; The Battles's Over. Also includes these Monologues: The Loch Ness Monster; Tobermory Treasure; A Daunner Through the Toon. The many black and white photo reproductions include photos of Andy in: Hampden Park; Majorca; on two B.B.C. spectaculars; With his family; The Five Faces of Andy Stewart; Visiting the less fortunate; at a field day of the Cameronians in Lanark; Visiting the far east. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Scattered bits of writing to contents. A worthy copy of this warm and nostalgic compilation. Book
Cover illustration of H.M. Field Pigeon Post. Illustration of a runner. "How Japan May Rescue Russia" by Lovat Fraser. Photos of Allenby's Anzacs reaching Jericho and the Jordan. Photos of Maple Leaf Heroes Who Hold the Line at Lens. Photos of Men of the Navy Active Mid Arctic Snow & Ice. Photos of Getting Ready for the Roaring of the Guns, including photo of a great dump/shell park along the French Western Front. Photos of Great Naval Ordnance that Awaits the Onset. "The Assembly Trench" by 'Sapper'. Photos along the Allied Line; Peaceful pursuits over classic battlefields. Illustration of Canadian narrow-gauge armoured engine supplying ammunition to the front. "F.O.O. in a Daylight Raid" - 20 minutes in an enemy trench. Wounded borne in barges by quiet waterways. Women's war work. Illustration of German observer post concealed behind an image of Christ on the cross. Safeguarding the Soldier - how Australia has taken thought for the future. Photos of Americans in France. Mascots and Pets share their masters' peril - photos. And more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
Agen, imprimerie moderne, 1934. In-8 broché, 429 pages, iluelques épidermures sur la couverture, très bon état pour le reste.lustré par des documents photographiques et des cartes. q Liste des morts par canton et par commune - Historique des régiments lot-et garonnais - Souvenirs et récits
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 20 plates and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by A. S. Hartwick, preliminaries very lightly spotted, frontispiece guard moderately spotted and offset to title, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial blue cloth gilt, fife and drummer boys from plate facing p.58 elaborately blocked in gilt on upper board, pictorial back gilt, all edges gilt, a very bright, crisp, clean copy. Collects seven stories first published between 1888 and 1890. Livingston, 133; Martindale 67; Stewart 157.
Includes music and lyrics for the following songs: The Band Played Waltzing Matilda; No Man's Land; Leaving Nancy; Since Nancy Died; Now I'm Easy; The Song of the Whale; Leaving in the Morning; Glasgow Lullaby; Shining River; Sandy is a Soldier; Life-Boat Men of Hoy; Belle of Broughton; No Use for Him; Mary and Me; Front Row Cowboy; The Wee China Pig; Big Mansion House on the Hill; The Aussie Bar-B-Que Song; She'll Be Right; The War Correspondent; Love Song of a Simple Man; My Youngest Song Came Home Today; Song Notes. Interesting black and white illustrations. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: La revolte gronde chez les etudiants americains - et les Noirs humilies, et le Vietnam, et Saint-Domingue, c'en est trop!; Le Rimouskois a la Cobra - Jean Ouellet - many photos; Quand le Cardinal Roy etait soldat - trois temoins racontent les annees de guerre du nouveau prince de lEglise; L Guerre a la Pacotille - Yves Sylvestre; A Chacun sa Gaspesie, par Louis Martin; Un Remede contre la mort - le froid!, par Jacques Keable. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Cover illustration of British soldier on skis in North Russia. Illustration of the French deliverers in Saverne (Zabert). War Reputations Lost and Won - article by Hamilton Fyfe. British Ships Against Bolshevism in the Baltic - 3 photos including the H.M.S. Calypso and Caradoc plus H.M.S. Angora and Wakeful. U Boat U44 Salvaged - 4 photos. Under the White Ensign in Kiel's Black Waters - 3 photos including the H.M.S. Hercules. Some of the Naval Inventions Employed in the War - article. Photos of the famous German Battle Cruiser Goeben. Two photos of Allenby and his men in Cairo. The Price in Blood and Treasure - article. Photo of earth removal at the base of the Vendome Monument in Paris. Several interesting photos of British mines and the mine-layer 'H.M.S. Wahine.' Four sensational photos of the Handley Page 'Giant'. How Paris & Dunkirk suffered by Bomb and Shell - two maps. Three photos of Holzminden, the worst camp of all. Hun Inhumanity to Helpless Men - some facts about German Prison Camps. Photos of Winners of the V.C. in the last weeks of the war. Demobilising the V.A.D.'s. Some soiling to covers. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
144 pages. Features: Seeing Africa as Hemingway Saw It: Enchanted Aerie for Expatriate Canadians - Toller Cranston and Mexico's Canadian Community; Yumi Eto; Hot Designers from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver; The Allure of Aromas; Regeneration of the Cocktail; Businessman Jack Diamond; Suggestions for the next Sue Grafton novel; CDNX - Canadian Venture Exchange gets off to a fast start; Never to old to groove to Rap; The joy of weightless sex; Bernie Gest Busted; Tillson Lever Harrison - soldier of fortune, confidence man, medical hero; Spring's new purses; Remembering Robertson Davies; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this lavishly produced publication. Book
Features: Gurkha Soldier - the author served with the Gurkha's throughout the late war; Canada's Cat-Swings - Cat trains are used to transport supplies over huge distances in Canada's north; Shark Bait - Elephant Graveyards; The Interventor Gets Busy - reprint of the 1934 story of the author who was sent to Peru to secure possession of some mines which had been illegally seized; V.G.I. - the author, C.A. Chard, had an undersea career of 30 years; The Bungalow - story from a little Indian rest house; Salmon-Fishing in Bering Sea - Interesting glimpses of the salmon-packing industry in Alaska, with photos; British Courage - fire aboard the British Courage which was carrying nine thousand tons of oil; The Smoke-Signal - a story from and Australian mounted constable; and more. Small openings along back strip. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
347 pages. "Surely one of the most dramatic human adventures of our time is this amazing escape story of a German prisoner of war, sentenced to twenty-five years of forced labor in a Siberian mine. Rebelling against the brutal life of a Soviet prison camp, Clemens Forell undertook three years of lonely, fear-haunted flight across the endless wastes of Siberia - in pursuit of freedom." - from dust jacket. Average wear to unmarked book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy mylar cover. A sound copy. Book
43 pages. Includes lyrics, guitar chords and music for the following songs and more: The Aussie Bar-B-Que Song; The Ballad of Henry Holloway; And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda; Birds of a Feather; Bushfire; Goodbye Lucky Country; The Great Aussie Takeaway; Hard Hard Times; He's Nobody's Moggy Now; If Wishes Were Fishes; Just Not Coping; Little Gomez; No Man's Land - The Green Fields of France; Now I'm Easy; Old Friends; A Reason for it All; Safe in the Harbour; Scraps of Paper; Shining River; Soldier, Soldier; When the Wind Blows; Notes on the Songs. Undated. Appears to be circa 1980s. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
58 pages. A wonderful vintage copy of this popular and long-running Canadian farming publication. Great cover illustration of cowby at work. Super back cover colour photo ad for the Minneapolis-Moline Power Equipment company includes 8 photos of their products at work. Features of contents include: Nice tribute to the Royal Canadian Navy by Crucible Steel Company of America; Activities of co-operatives in British Columbia; War News Updates, including cartoon of Stalin and Allied Soldier cracking swastika in nutcracker; Photo-illustrated article on the Coyote "The Yapping Yodler" - the crafty animal which thrives with settlement and is increasing in number; Peace River Co-operative Seed Growers are outgrowing their facilities and are ripe for Expansion; Research boosts Bacon Quality; Square All Round - a trapper story by Paul Annixter; Dairy Farmers of Canad Meet at Regina to Discuss the Postwar Situation - result is increased subsidies; The Farm Goes to the University - farm week at the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon; Overnight Guest, a story by Ben Ames Williams; A Dutchman in the Red River Valley - A. A. Verheul - with photos; Great full-page ad by International Harvester with image of farmer and tractor in the background; John Deere tractor photo ad; Monthly Commentary by United Grain Growers Limited; The Countrywoman - the U.F.W.A. Meeting; Royal Bank of Canada Annual Meeting; Planning the farm house - article; plus much more. Address label on front cover, otherwise unmarked. Modest external wear. Binding tight. Book
64 pages. Contains piano music, lyrics and guitar chords for the following songs: For America; Soldier of Plenty; In the Shape of a Heart; Candy; Lawless Avenues; Till I Go Down; and Black and White. Most importantly, also includes Browne's landmark song Lives in the Balance, which has returned to prominence with the ongoing American loss of life in Iraq. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
