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vii, [3], 393 pages. "In choosing his subjects, the author has suffered from an embarrassment of riches, and he has fancied that he was about to imitate the child who tried to clear away the ocean with a spoon." - vi. The twenty-one topics addressed includie such fascinating topics as: The Divorce of Napoleon and Josephine; Columbus and His Alleged Crimes; The Last Word on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day; Galileo; and many more. Attractive embossed periphery of purplish-brown cloth-covered front board. Narrow opening along back hinge. Small address label atop front cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy vintage copy of this intriguing work. Book
1913883621913 Paris, Rivière, 1913, in 12 broché, XVI-241 pages.
118913In Villafranca [Amsterdam], [Daniel ELZEVIR], 1666, 1 volume in-12 de 70x130 mm environ, (12) ff., 70 pages, (1) f., 588 pages. Plein cuir granité, dos à nerfs portant titres dorés et caissons ornés, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées, gardes de papier marbré. Reliure restaurée (coiffes, nerfs, mors et coins), ex libris tamponné sur la page de titre, traces de mouillures sur les 70 premières pages, bon état général.
94707aafNeuchâtel, Paul Attinger, 1977, in-8vo, 93 p., timbre sur faux-titre, brochure originale.
19294886Partitions sur l'adultère et le divorce Salabert 1929
2005100124632University of Notre Dame Press 2005 314 pages 15 24x2 29x22 61cm. 2005. Broché. 314 pages.
1941R120627Luanda [Angola], Edicoes de O Apostolado 1941 82pp., 17cm., original softcover (backcover is missing), text in Portuguese, rare publication printed in Luanda (capital of Angola) and no copy mentioned in WOrldcat, [English translation of the title: "An unfortunate article on divorce and the nature of Catolic marriage"], R120627
Features: Presidential Party - Great colour photos of JFK's visit to Canada; James Coyne and the great debate - is Canada possible - the embattled governor of the Bank of Canada; What the music monopoly does to - and sometimes for - young Canadians - two New York management agencies have most of the say about which Canadian musicians are going to make it on the concert circuit, and what kind of music Canadian concertgoers are going to hear - a report on how Americans won a near monopoly of our concert platforms; The man who got everytthing by sending away for it - an article by Mordecai Richler; Why both sides will lose the white/black struggle for Africa; How Intelligence tests score today - the strengths and weaknesses of IQ tests; Ten hours alone with a time bomb - when Canadian George Cook volunteered for wartime special duty, he became a one-man suicide squad - good photos accompany article; Women are cowards about clothes - a fashion expert, Jane Harris, speaks out; Joan Allen and a Gentile Girl's life in Israel - she learned that Jews and Israelis are not the same people. Rev. Ray Goodall says - Let's disqualify adultery as grounds for divorce; Nice colour Pepsi ad on page 5. Colourful Labatt's 50 Ale ad on page 39. Colour Coke ad on back cover. Four inch by one inch chip from bottom corner of front cover else average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1881pl2028Libraire des Bibliophiles Les petits chefs-d'oeuvre Broché 1881 In-12 (11x17.5 cm), broché, 112 pages, un des 60 exemplaires numérotés, notice par M. de Lescure, vignettes, lettrines et culs-de-lampe ; légères pliures au dos jauni, coiffes frottées, intérieur frais, bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
1896ZB434765NP: ca. 1896. 19 pp ex library margin chipped and disbound in self wrappers complete text but working copy only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. NP: unknown
1906011784Harrisburg Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Co. State Printer 1906. Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 228pp.incl.index; HB; blk.w/gilt no title on spine; rubbed w/some biopredation; some bow; some foxing&dampstain on endpapers&edges otherwise cleantight pgs. Discussions of securing uniform legislation respecting divorce. <br/> <br/> Harrisburg Publishing Co., State Printer hardcover
1907011785Harrisburg Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Co. State Printer 1907. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2160pp.incl.index; HB; blk.w/gilt no title on spine; rubbed w/some bow; some foxing&dampstain on endpapers&edges otherwise cleantight pgs. Discussions of Committee report to the Congress. <br/> <br/> Harrisburg Publishing Co., State Printer hardcover
0260140619.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
130p. Hardcover Very good condition good
500305110Robert Laffont Sans date. Dans cette autobiographie Nabilla Benattia icône de la téléréalité revient à 23 ans sur son parcours personnel. Elle évoque le divorce de ses parents une adolescence difficile sa révélation dans l'émission "Les Anges" les aspects négatifs de la célébrité et sa relation amoureuse mouvementée avec Thomas
90 pages. Many wonderful photos in colour and black and white. Features: Colour photo ad for Divorce Hong Kong Style inside front cover; Ad for Luxor TVs features colour photo of lovely Frances Leong; One-page colour photos of Shau Yun Yun, Lin Fung Chew, Shu Feng, and Alen Teng; Two-page color-photo ad for The Chasing Game; Two pages of colour photos from Ching Lao's The Waves; Colour photo ad for New Fist of Fury and The Simple Minded Fellow; Lovely one-page colour photo of Shau Yau; Nice colour fold-out photo of Lin Ching Hsia and Charlie Chinon the beach; King Yu writes about love; Wan Yu and the Han Hwa Kwok Restaurant fight in Taiwan; The faded love of Wang Yu and Lin Ching; Produce Good Film Locally; A visit with King Hu; Trouble between Charlie Chin and Fang Fang; Trip to a Philippine beauty contest; Tsung Hua accompanies Lin Ching Hsia in Hong Kong; Can Yin Nan See's expectations be met?; Producer Lin Hsu; Interview with Chelsia Chan and Kenny B; Love is Like a Game; The Typical Admirable Doctor; Twenty Tomorrow; Low Society; Chiu Chen; The Midnight Song; Two Omniscient Men; The Saviour Monk; Kung Fu film by Chang Cheh; Interview with Hsu Feng, Chia Ling and Tang mei Fang; Colour photos of Shick Kung Chun inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
198 pages. Special Features: The Barbarism of Divorce Laws; Fun For Defense Forces - New Jersey Plan; This Is How the World Gets Around; We Can Make Childbirth Safer; How America Lives: Meet a Steelworker's Family - Arthur and Anne Crouse; Let's End Dental Crippling and What Makes a Child Unsociable? Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including 'Jeep" Station Wagon, Nescafe, Campbell's Soup w/ Campbell Soup Kid (Patriotic Theme), Pennsylvania Railroad. Full page black/white ad with Elizabeth Taylor promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Full page colour print ad with Oscar-Winning movie starlet Joan Fontaine promoting Chesterfield Cigarettes. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
292 pages. Special Features: Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman; Let's Be Realistic About Divorce; Aftermath; Bucks County, Pennsylvania; There is a Way Out; The Volunteer Worker, 1947 Style; How America Lives: Meet a Soft-Coal Miner's Family of Harlan County, Kentucky - Jim and Alice Perkins; The Hard Price of Soft Coal; Romance in Teen Time and There's Magic in a Goal. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page movie commentary of "The Yearling" which starred Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Ford, Camay, and Seven-Up. Full page colour ad with Susan Hayward promoting Max Factor Hollywood. Full page black/white ad with June Allyson promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Half page colour Li'l Abner by Al Capp Cartoon Cream of Wheat Ad. Full page colour movie advertisement for "The Farmer's Daughter" starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten. Average wear. Front/back hinge starting. A clean copy. Magazine
Features: Article - is JFK our best hedge against depression?; The Life of Alexander Graham Bell - part I - "I Came to Canada to Die" - great photos; How I captured the Red Hood Gang - Det. Insp. Joseph Bedard as told to Ken Johnstone; The Harsh wonderland that was St. Lawrence Main, by Mordecai Richler; Canadian football beats the American Game; John Vickers - what makes a Tenor boom; A doctor's case for state medicine - Harry Paikin, M.D.; Holiday weekend in Paris; The Prudhommes' drive-in daydream - Prudhomme's Garden Centre Motor Hotel; Let's bring back child labour - Eileen Morris; The battle in Britain to ban the bomb; Holiday weekend in Paris; A Canadian nurse's jungle vigil with leprosy - Helen Mackenzie in Portuguese Guinea. Nice colour Black Label beer inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Please note: the top quarer of page 5 has been clipped ane removed - apparently this was an ad form - contents unaffected. Cartoon clipped from page 40 - text unaffected. Small ad clipped from page 42 - text unaffected. Large clipping from page 44 seems to have removed a small part of the A.G. Bell article. Nice colour Molson Canadian ad on page 45. Great colour Coke ad on back cover shows man being sprayed in the head by a garden hose. Lower half of page 49 is clipped and not included - this has removed part of the football article and part of the Prudhomme article. Average wear. Book
Features: The anguish of the West Bank - repression increases; Yes to Chemical Punishment, by Fred Bruning; Trudeau's Asian travels, with photos; Vowing to get their Mounties in Quebec; N.B. doctors defy antiabortion tides; Halting steps to Israelli withdrawal from Lebanon; Generals for Peace and Disarmament; Singapore - unsettled island elite; Walt McKechnie article - NHL player; Canada's national ski team; Expectation for oil off Nova Scotia; The Catholic Church searches for its soul; Liberation theology's fertile ground; Baroness Catherine de Hueck Doherty and Madonna House in Combermere, Ontario; The Reactionary face of Catholicism; The murky world of Chinese defectors; Founders of Harrowsmith magazine divorce; New underground railway for fleeing Guatemalans. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Cover photo of Dr. Henry Morgantaler. Contents: Nostalgic Commodore 64 computer ad inside front cover; Sidney Jaffe abducted from a Toronto Street; The trials of Leonard Jones of Moncton, New Brunswick - ardent opponent of official bilingualism; Bill Bennett girds for a grinding battle in B.C.; Brian Mulroney steps forward; Bad chemical spill at E.B. Eddy mill in Espanola kills 100,00 fish in Lake Huron; Philipps/Micom word-processor ad; Ronald Reagan and the black vote; Poland suggests it may lift martial law prior to visit of Pope John Paul II; Defiance in Chile - protests; Bomb in Orly Airport; Thatcher and Deng Xiaoping discuss future of Hong Kong after 1997; Rough road to rearmament in Japan; Joyce Davidson and David Susskind to divorce; Margaret Trudeau and Fred Kemper to wed; News re: Sylvia Ostry; Maislin's bid for survival (trucking company); Ramifications of the Morrison Report in Ontario - investigated the activities of Leonard Rosenberg, William Markle and William Player; Peter C. Newman writes on why Halifax will benefit more than St. John's from the development of offshore oil; The Nation's New Agony Over Abortion; Video games become more realistic - Dragon's Lair; Mystery at Sick Children's Hospital - multiple infant deaths; Blacks bleaching their skin; Diver Sergei Chalibachvili dies in Edmonton; Antismokers flex their muscles; The Arrival of music on CD; Gabrielle Roy - Obituary; Joe Schlesingere comments on Debategate. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The 20 men who really run Canada, by Peter C. Newman; Ontario in the 1960s - a major article in which Peter C. Newman forecasts the progress of Ontario for next decade; Gentle Julie and her hard-bitten Romeo (Julie Harris and Bruno Gerussi at Stratford); The wonderful things we built in our basements; The trouble with middle-aged men - they're pasing through a change-of-life similar to menopause in women; The Olympic's most dangerous game - the 3-day equestrian competition; The mystery of the Merrifield - part 2 of 3; For the sake of argument - what Jews can teach us about divorce; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - her modest reappraisal of South Africa's whites. Why Winnipeg's little theatre keeps getting bigger; The lucky town with the rich uncle - Lord Beaverbrook's gifts to Fredericton. Front cover illustration of the Great Whale River airstrip on Hudson Bay. Great colour ad for a 1960 Chevrolet Kingswood Station Wagon. Colour Cinci Lager beer ad inside back cover. Colour Coke ad on back cover shows Great Dane in car with lady. Average wear. Unmarked. One-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Chip from bottom edge of back cover. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: One-page ad for Plymouth cars; Joan Crawford seeks divorce from Franchot Tone; Indy 500 winner William C. (Wild Bill) Cummints dies in auto accident; C.I.O. angle develops in insurance inquiry; The Spanish War - still a European problem; The meaning of Japan's Hainan Island Occupation; Oswaldo Aranha - solidarity salesman for the Americas; Will Roosevelt continue bucking Congress?; The Life of Pope Pius - and who will succeed him?; Great one-page ad for International Trucks light delivery trucks (vans); Judge Louis D. Brandeis retires; Redskin Revival - high birthrate gives Congress a new operproduction headache; Antarctic real estate claims; Amnesia victim William H. Lawrence gets his memory back - photo of him with his sister; France and Britain woo Franco as a Mediterranean safeguard - article with photo of Loyalist soldiers in French concentration camp after fleeing Catalonia; London Palestine Conference - Jew and Arab delegations refuse to sit together under same roof - with (separate) photos of Arabs and Chaim Weizmann; Classy two-color centerfold ad for Schlitz beer; Rise of plastic surgery; Undulant fever mystery at Michigan State College in east Lansing; The War on Syphilis; Lt. Ben S. Kelsey crashes while testing new Lockheed substratosphere pursuit plane - story with photos; Nice 2/3-page photo ad for Hotel Del Monte in California; Photo of 6'-9" Mike Novak, a basketball player for Loyola; The Billy Conn - Freddy Apostoli boxing match; Nice illustrated 2/3-page Dictaphone features boss-man and pretty secretary; Photo of Russell Birdwell; 2/3-page Canadian Pacific cruise ad features title "The Life of Riley on the Pacific"; Tea's Comeback; Britain's Slump; Bock Beer; Nice color ad inside back cover for the Packard Six & 120. Discrete clear tape repair to bottom of coverfold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
Contents: Nash-Kelvinator military ad in color inside front cover; Ad for the Chrysler Sea Mule; Dewey triumph poses question - will Willkie bolt from party?; Hull's speech attempts to divorce politics from our foreign policy; Gun Play in Wichita - Bargel K. Stanley holds police off for an hour; Prelude to Torture - Jap Propaganda in Pictures - 3 pages reprinted from a mysterious undated English-language publication called 'Freedom' put out in Shanghai - "... these pictures show the great score the American people still have to score with the little men across the Pacific."; Navy Raids on Palau and Yap uncover secrets of Jap bases - old Sea Dogs are excited by size of U.S. attack force and nearness of Philippines; Photo of landing strip construction in China - 300,000 Chinese workers and 100,000 hand-made wheelbarrows have been conscripted to this end; British Rocket Battery - photo and article; Elizabeth, the future Queen of world's soundest monarchy; De Gaulle Triumph - finally becoming No. 1 Frenchman, he takes in reds - on his terms; Great photo of Curtiss Helldivers under construction at a new Fort William, Ontario plant which will produce for the U.S. Navy; SWPA starts setting policy on sale of surplus war goods; Andrew F. Howe, owner of 100 patents, finally settles with General Steel Castings for over $1 million; Trappist monks set up in Conyers, Georgia. Above-average wear. All pages stained to varying degrees, presumably by water - all text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
A very rare and wonderful find! Take a trip down memory lane with this complete issue of the (Toronto) Star Weekly from March of 1947. Includes five separate components. Magazine Section Number One (16 pages) includes: Harvest in Springtime, by Mary Brinker Post; Tall Tales of the Rattler, by J. Frank Dobie; article entitled 'Arctic Becomes Frontier in New U.S. Strategy'; Trouble in the Desert, by Chester Chatfield; Article - Swing to Nationallization - in which Emil Lengyel describes how various European countries are nationalizing their industries; Article - England's Under Ground - in which Harold A. Albert writes of English Archaeology; Article by Benjamin Waife describes Einstein's contention that two-thirds of people might be killed in nuclear war; Go-Getting Granby, Quebec - nice article with photos; Article - Argentina's 'Little Eva' Bids for More Power; 'Mart, I Know Women!', by Sven Skaar; King of the Clarinet - Barry Ulanov writes of Benny Goodman - includes photos; Moshin Ali writes about 'Opening Up a Forbidden Land' in Nepal; 'Jap Children Learn a New Way', in which Richard Hughes writes about children in the 'bomb-blackened' suburbs of Tokyo; Boxing's 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs; Article on scientific study of the sun by Charles Greeley Abbot; Article - Bombay to Cut Booze by States; Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has invented a Global Alphabet - article by Mario A. Pei; Claws and Effect, by Clifford L. Walters; plus various black and white ads. Magazine Section Number Two (12 pages) contains: Superior Moustrap, by Travis Ingham; The Sobbing Wind, by Keith Edgar; Monkey-Shines in Zooland, by William M. Mann; News article with the headline "German Divorce a Bargain at $40 - Free if Poor; Britain's Land Revolution, in which Matthew Halton of the CBC describes progress with Britain's Town and Country Planning Bill; Plant Sleuth, by Leigh Henry; Lost Lode - Third Instalment; Your Easter Bonnet, with photos; Variety in the Lenten Menu; The 'Cheesecake' Industry - How Hollywood celebrities spend much of their time posing for publicity photos - includes colour photos of Patricia White and Frances Gifford; Colour half-page cartoon entitled 'Right Around Home' by Dudley Fisher on the theme of 'We Do Our Banking - Such as it is'. The third section is 'Rimrock Red' - a Star Weekly Complete Novel (15 pages) by Lytle Shannon. Page 16 of this section is a cartoon called Vignettes of Life on the theme "Spring is Near". Next we have a twenty-page colour cartoon section - "Canada's Best" - including offerings of: Jane Arden; Thimble Theatre - Starring Popeye; Winnie Winkle; The Lone Ranger; Steve Canyon; Ella Cinders; Invisible Scarlet O'Neil; Dick Tracy;Tarzan; Blondie; Little Orphan Annie; Superman; Napoleon; Flash Gordon; Moon Mullins; Pepsi and Pete (Pepsi cartoon/ad); Mandrake the Magician; Bringing Up Father; Li'l Abner; Terry and the Pirates; Little Lulu; Abbie and Slats. Please note there are fore-edge tears to some of these cartoon pages. Finally we have the 26-page Star Weekly magazine which features a colour cover illustration by Anderson of a boy preparing cough medicine for his sick pooch in front of the pot-bellied stove. The magazine contains dozens of black and white photos on themes including: The Far East's Colorful Highways and Byways (including a most primitive scene scene of stilt fishing huts in the Kalang River near Singapore's civil airport); The Transit Twins and Trolley Triplets - the children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Macatee of Philadelphiago through 420 diapers weekly!; Life with the world's largest fishing fleet of Norway; Nice full-page colour Campbell's Soup ad; British Folk Dances; Rebirth of Monte Cassino; Colour Bovril ad. Barbara Ann Scott; Lois Maxwell; Gale Robbins; Colour centerfold ad for Rogers Bros. Silverplate; Nice colour Kellogg's All-Bran ad (with beige stain in upper corner; Michele and Mikey Morgan; Stewart Granger with son James; Grandson of Rin Tin Tin; Colour ad for Lipt Book