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This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. The spine is not creased, binding firm and tight. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 21, 2009 to January 10, 2010. Essays by Morihiro Ogawa, Hiroshi Ikeda, and Kazutoshi Harada. Illustrated in color. 213 objects in the exhibition, most with extensive entries. Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 344 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
156 pages. Includes two contributions by Jack O'Connor: Gambling for Gambrels - a long chance on finding some Arizona quail; The .250/3000 Can Shoot!. Other features include: Great cover art by J.F. Kernan; Leave Some Game for the Future!; A penny proves its worth for a California deer hunter; Scrappy little panfish; The Oakland County Sportsmen's Club and the Detroit Sportsmen's Congress - two successful clubs and how they got that way; Wrong-way buck all but fools Massachusetts hunters; The Annual Alpena Wildcat (Bobcat) Hunt; Color illustration of wildfowl on the Mississippi flyway; Illinois sportsmen overcome ringneck pheasant shortage by raising them; Which rifle to use on Britihs Columbia Bighorn Sheep? - great photo-illustrated article; Choosing and Shooting Your Handgun; Hurricane-happy trout in New Jersey; Raccoon hunting near Grand Rapids, Michigan; Furry Son of Satan - savage king of the North Carolina wilderness - an 8-page, true-to-life biography; Hunting Seasons for 1946-47; Teach Your Pup Obedience; and more. Ads include: Color ad for Remington Express shells inside front cover; How to pick up a porcupine bare-handed!; Photo of T.J. Harman of York PA with his Alaska moose bearing antlers 64 inches wide. Interesting one-page color ad for Hallmark Christmas Cars for Men - with colored game bird designs; One-page Savage ad for the Model 99 and Model 745. One-page Christmas ad for Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. features beautiful lady offering gift guns; Classy one-page color ad for Ballantine Ale; Nice one-page color ad for Goebel Beer; Feather Foam coat ad; Nice two-color ad for Gaines dog food features photo of Elias C. Vail; Lovely color Santa-themed ad for Prince Albert tobacco and Camel cigarettes on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
48 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos. Contents: Advice for Officers; Security; Crossing of the Moro; Meaning of S Gradings; Hints on F.T.; Plenty More; Letter from France; The Sappers; Film Strips; Ortona; Every Man a Marksman; A Battle in Normandy; Passing it On; Correcting Artillery Fire From a Tank; Films; Precedence of Corps. Laid-in is a 4-page leaflet entitled Schedule of Courses, 4th Quarter, 1944 which lists dozens of courses across Canada at such locations as RMC, Camp Borden, Cdn Bomb Disposal School (Ottawa), Cdn Small Arms School (Nanaimo), etc. Moderate wear. Canadian militaray ink stamp (dated 15 September 1944) upon back cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Features: Armorial Bearings - Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Heraldry in the Netherlands; An Heraldic Monstrosity - the many 'quartered' arms of Capt. T.L. Jones-Parry; The Annual Meeting; A Recent Grant of Arms; Book Plate Collecting; Heraldic Book Plate; Une Quebecoise Duchesse de Bassano; Ottawa Honours Foot Guards; 'Cromwell' Good on Heraldry; Un Cardinal Italien Cure au Canada; Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (including one-page photo of him); A Very Special Grant; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Illustration Features: Miss D. Truscott, of St. Veep, Cornwall; The Marvel of Three Years - article by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; King George visits Vimy where Canada won glory; Fragments of fighting from four fronts; One the Marne Battlefield - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Italy sweeps Austria from the Adriatic Sea; Canadians enter Avion through fire and blood; Using bullet-proof shields; Ready for all emergencies afloat; The Long Arm of the Navy - it's wonderful to work in the seven seas (article by Percival Hislam); Miss Matilda of 'The Scrubbs' - article by Harold Ashton; Allied Artillery of Assault - 'Tanks' in action; Greece girds on her sword for war; Keeping Fit in the Navy - the Friendsly boxing bout; The Seaforth Highlanders - article with photo of officers. Above-average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
Four photos of Canadians at work in the snow in France. Arms and Apparatus for Night-Flying Airmen - 5 photos plus inset photo of Lieut. Dostier, one of Germany's crack airmen. Remarkable photo of the raid by Gothas on Paris in January 30th. Avengers of Arras Advance Their Artillery - Two Photos. Pitiful Plight of the Little Country Places - 3 photos. 'Butoire' - how in fighting one foe he conquered another, by Henry Barbusse. Trench cookhouses. Valuable war-time village vegetable industry - 6 photos. Activity of shipways and gunworks in America - 6 photos including 2 of Hog Island. Wartime wastage of the navy - a heartening contrast with the Napoleonic war, by Percival A. Hislam. French contrivances and fortitude - 5 photos. Critique of the book 'Englishman, Kamerad!'. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Still a worthy copy. Book
Features: Fears over the barricades/where will the violence end - Norther Ireland; UN attempts at arms limitation; Aims of young Israelis; Crime fascinates television audiences; Germany decides - general election; A Swedish naturalist (Sigvard Berggren) has a new plan to save wildlife; spotlight on the little theatres; The House of Augustus - Archaeology 2319; Scimitar 3-litre; Rembrandt in Amsterdam; What Rembrandt taught; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
210 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon front free endpaper. Colour plates throughout. "The author has devoted his study of heraldic emblems to the 'nations and tribes of Israel in the early days of the patriarchs and the wanderings of the tribes prior to their being formed into a Kingdom. He shows by prophecy that these tribes maintained their emblems after their captivities and dispersions, until their development into the Celto-Saxon nations of today - the modern counterparts, therefore, of ancient Israel." - from dust jacket. Author was president of the Canadian British Israel Association. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Minor warping to book. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in an archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice copy overall. Book
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured photographs throughout; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the printed list of estimates loosely inserted. First of two parts of the celebrated Visser collection, arguably the finest private assembly of arms to come to auction in the twentieth century. The catalogue lists 208 lots.
628 p. + Chromolithographed plates showing coats of arms and others with people in native costumes, engaged in local tasks + Colored map, steel engravings, etc. Wood engraved text illustrations. The artists for these include: Bellange, Gigoux, Raffet, Isabey, Morel Fatio, Saint Germain, and Daubigny. 4to. 270 mm. Original leather backed pebbled boards binding, Spine decorated in gold gilt. Extremities rubbed. An attractive copy of a wonderful book on Brittany. By the way - Brittany is a great place to visit in modern France. The author, Jules Gabriel Janin (1804-1874), was a French writer and important drama critic. FR4
8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 161.
pp.1-160 (= partie du volume 5), avec illustrations, 34cm., non relié (en fascicules orig.)
468pp.avec illustrations (des armoiries) dans le texte, tirage limité à 1000 exemplaires (en français) numérotés: ceci est le no.287/1000, 30cm., reliure toile d'éditeur, sous étui d'éditeur, très bon état, on y joint un article de Lieve Viaene-Awouters: "Fusions de communes et armoiries communales" (15pp., 1977, extrait du Bulletin trimestriel du crédit communal de Belgique), B83586
36 pages. Features: Shagotyohgwisaks - E.M. Chadwick and Canadian Heraldry; Frederic Gregory Forsyth, Vicomte de Fronsac - A Man in Search of a Kingdom; Book News; International Outlook; Lucien Godbout - un heraldiste Quebecois; L'Eglise et l'heraldique Lucien Godbout ptre; A. Scott Carter, R.C.A.; Types of Legitimate Arms Granted in Canada. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
59 pages. Songs include: Desiree; Free Man in Paris; God Only Knows; Let the Little Boy Sing; I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight; Lament in D Minor; Dance of the Sabres; You Don't Bring Me Flowers; Once in a While; Let Me Take You In My Arms Again; As If. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Two-page illustrated ad for the Lockheed C-130 Hercules shows its airlift capacity; Marine Corps Reserves; Sikorsky ad shows the HSS-1N at sea; Republic ad shows their Lark helicopter at work; Single Concept - Road to Disaster; Force Artillery - a quick look at the hardware of today and tomorrow; Force Motor Transport - article with truck photos; Seabeas 1961- what they do and how they do it; Force Troops, FMFLant - Mission, Organization, Readiness, Programs to Improve Readiness; Force Troops, FMFPac - Mission, Orgainzation, Readiness; Force Troops FMF Pac Report - Missiles; Aimed Fire - third of three articles on West European fire arms and tactics; Commando Course, RM - Capt Alfred J. Croft recounts his attendance at this rugged British school; Royal Marines, UK; FMF 1965 - proposed organization and major equipment; Nice photo Jeep ad illustrates the M-170 front line ambulance, M-274 mechanical mule and FC-170 12-passenger personnel carrier; Transfers and Promotions; Back cover photo ad for the Kaman Huskie search and rescue helicopter; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
24 pages. Map of Sollum, Western Egypt showing the various centres of defence along the Suez Canal; Photo of camels arriving by rail to support Major-General Peyton's force; photo of British and Australian officers consulting in the desert of Western Egypt; One-page illustration of Private G. Ingle, 4th Hussars, rescuing his troop leader, Lieut. Radclyffe, for which he received the D.C.M.; Photos round about the Allied base at Salonika - including General Mahon; Photos of personalities and pawns in the Verdun contest - German prisoners, an artillery horse, General Petain (in fur coat), and General Joffre; Two interesting photos above and below ground near the French Front; Two-page illustration of a busy scene along the Tigris on the way to Kut; Five photos of Portugal in arms; The Great Push against German East Africa - two photos; In the wake of General Smuts' offensive - four photos; Three photos of humane interludes amongst the strife; Six photos of British training in the art of bomb throwing; Will the German Navy Come Out?; Four photos of a large captive observation balloon arising from the H.M.S. Canning; Photos of 21 brave British sons decorated for Valour; One-page photo of a French '155' (6 inch) gun; Four photos of British submarine sailors in a Turkish prison. Lacking outer wraps. Centre and last pages loose but present. Appears to have been disbound from a hardcover volume. A rough but worthy reference copy. Book
92 pages. Features: Are we driving Japan into Red China's Arms?; We Run a Hospital for Birds; Amazong two-page photo of TBM Avengers being melted down in the Arizona desert; "Let's Legalize the Spitball!"; Helping Hands from Mexico - photo-illustrated article in the 435k Mexicans who legally work on US farms; Don't Let Medical Bills Bankrupt You; Secrets of the Unknown War (part 2 of 5) - photo-illustrated article of what happened in Greenland during WWII; The Case of the Dead Man's Daughter (part 1 of 8); California Passage (part 7 of 8); Miracle at Fort Morgan, Colorado - the town goes on an all-out weight-loss spree. Short Stories: One-Woman Man; Stroll into Danger; High-Pressure Girl; Bandit in the Sky. Ads: Pink GE washer and dryer inside front cover; Gorgeous color-photo Cadillac ad; Borden's Buttermilk; Nice Wheaties ad shows lady golfer; GM ad features Charles Fassinger and his family; Nice Oldsmobile color ad features golf illustrations; Color ad for the Winchester model 70 rifle; Motorola portable TV; Pepsi - one-page beach scene; Ford cars; Betty Crocker Li'l Angel Food Cake (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 77 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: In defence of the coasts of Britain - coastal defence batteries; On the high seas with the French Navy; Letters and parcels for the fighting forces; To combat the German submarine menace - depth charge testing; At the front with the French Army; Entertainments National Service Association, by Sir Seymour Hicks; H.M.S. Renown hunting the Deutschland; Russia invaded Finland on 30th November; The B.E.F. on the Western Front; 1914-18 Men join up again; French Curtiss fighter brings Nazi Heinkel bomber down in flames; British troops training with heavy guns; Centerfold illustration by Frank H. Mason of enemy warships bombed by the R.A.F. in daring raid on Heligoland; Warfare by Submarine and Mine; British women motor drivers for France; News from the home front; British submarine chaser hunting u-boats; Great photos of flying boats of the coastal command air patrol; The Red Cross lamp in war, by Sir John Kennedy; Photo of Army Council in session; Making small arms for the British Army - Bren guns; Testing huge balloons for the barrage; His Majesty the King of France; A Commentary on the War; Activity on the Siegfried Line; South African Air Force catch a Nazi Raider - the German liner Watussi is scuttled; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 68 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Ad for Mein Kampf, part 2, inside front cover; French Premier Daladier and Admiral Darlan aboard U-boat hunters; 5 photos of French women working in aircraft factories; four photos of Polish sailors fighting with the British Navy; Three photos of night on the British front in France - with gas masks in use; End of another German submarine, the U.39; How the colonial empire of France comes to the aid of France - illustrated article; Newfoundland answers call to arms; With the Finnish army at the front; full-page photo portrait of General Vuillemin, Supreme Commander of the French Air Force; Illustrated centerfold displays the range of Allied and German aerial gun-power; two photos of a downed ME 109; large photo of a downed Dornier 17 afire in a French field; Australian airmen join R.A.F. Coastal Command - working with the Short Sunderland flying boat; Article - U.S. and the War - President Roosevelt issues a warning to Americans; Photo of American bomber over the New York World's Fair; Photo of massive French railway artillery; Training men as stokers for the Royal Navy; New Zealand troops in training at home; A commentary on the war this week; Training men from the ranks as officers; Ad for "I Was Hitler's Maid" inside back cover; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. 75 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: The Ajax returns to Plymouth after its victory over the Graf Spee; Lord Gort inspecting trenches; British activity in the snow at the front; French visitors inspect British guns and planes; Article entitled War Finance at Home - how the intricate problem of revenue and expenditure is solved, with photo of John Maynard Keynes; Full-page photo portrait of Major-General Andrew G.L. McNaughton; On duty with the R.A.F. coastal command; On board a British submarine depot ship; The Australians are Ready; Centerfold illustrations depict how the navy is prepared to deal with concentrated air attacks by Nazi bombers; Arctic Conditions on the French Front; Royal visit; Inspecting Polish airmen in England; Ceylon helps the Empire's war effort; Supplies for the Army - an article on the enormous task of providing and maintaining arms and equipment for the British Expeditionary Force; Many photos of the fight for freedom on the Finnish front; German troops experience arctic weather; A Commentary on the war this week; Photos at the headquarters of the A.R.P., including a photo of Sir Edward Evans; Delivering the Mail by Sea - transfering bags from ship to ship while they maintain speed; Summary of the chief daily events in the war this week. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. 60 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Photo at St. Malo of the second B.E.F. evacuation; Last to leave France - "The Unbeaten Army" returns home; Scorched earth as the French leave Brest, their naval base in Brittany; Article - A summary of the armistice terms proposed to France by Germany and Italy; Photos of the R.A.F.'s war in the air; Great overhead photo of attack on the German-occupied Schipol Aerodrome which damaged 10 of 22 planes on the ground; Australians rally to the motherland; Centerfold illustration by C.E. Turner depicts the Scharnhorst suffering another damaging blow; Photos of Sir Clive G. Liddell; Sir A.M. Longmore and General W.G.S. Dobbie; Photo of French General Nogues, Commander of French forces in Morocco, conferring with staff officers; Aerial photo of bombs raining down on Italian bases in Libya; Several photos of British bomb damage caused by mass air raids on Britain; Photos of metal recycling in Britain, including removing the steel rails from St. James's Park; Photo-illustrated text of statement in Parliament by Herbert Morrison, Minister of Supply, entitled "Britain's Output of Arms"; Photo of engineers inspecting a 16" naval gun weighing 106 tons; Photo of North Tower of Crystal Palace which was doomed to come down so its iron framework could be used for war purposes; Great full-page illustration entitled "Sub-Machine Guns to Resist Parachute Invaders" illustrates an Astra Pistol Machine-gun, a Thompson sub-machine gun, a Star sub-machine gun, a Garand semi-automatic rifle, a Johnson semi-automatic rifle, and a Johnson light machine gun; Page of photos of regimental badges of teh British Army; Commentary on the war this week; Photos of crew at work inside the Lockheed Hudson aircraft, plus photos of the plane in flight; Summary of the chief daily events in the war this week. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Great photo of RAF pilot getting into his cockpit in the dark; Getting ready with their rifles and revolvers - preparing to defend the home front - 5 photos including a nice half-page photo of members and clerks of the London stock exchange learning how to fire Bren guns!; An RAF Sunderland spots 20 shipwrecked merchantmen 150 miles from shore; The Nazi Challenge - Text of broadcast by Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War; The RAF keep up their bombing attacks; Photos of a British cruiser in port for a refit; Russia demand Rumanian territory - Bessarabia and Bukovina; Four great photos of daylight bombing run over Abbevillle; Series of centerfold illustrations entitled 'Countering the threat of Nazi Aerial Invasion'; Photos of Canadian coastal defences; Aerial photo of an RAF attack on an Italian aerodrome in East Africa which resulted in damage to several Caproni tri-motor planes; Photos of the British Empire in arms; 4 illustrations which demonstrate how enemy bombers choose the right nights for their missions; Illustrated article entitled 'Italy's War Machine'; Nice full-page photo of young sailors of a Canadian destroyer coming ashore at a British port; Speedboats serve as lifeboats for downed aircrews; A Commentary on the War for this week; Two photos of scuttled Italian vessels; On duty in the Egyptian desert; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Excellent full-page aerial photo looking down on three Messerschmitt's raiding an English town; Great full-page night photo of a 4.5" anti-aircraft battery of the Western Command at work; Pill box vigil; Inside a watch post; photos of how shell-burst data is recorded; Problems of the Royal Navy - photo-illustrated text of broadcast by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield; Dramatic illustration by Montague B. Black shows a Hurricane pilot ramming a Dornier; Greece also answers the call to arms - five photos and full-page map indicating where Greece and Italy are at Grips; Article on the air war on Britain - Official report on Germany's losses over a period of twelve weeks; photos of famous London buildings bombed; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Blackshows night attack on Naples with Vesuvius smoking in the background; Four dramatic photos of an Italian submarine under attack, going down, and having its crew picked up by a British destroyer; Photos of H.M. the King with the Eastern Command; Progress of the War - Commons Statement by Winston Churchill; Empire troops in the desert war; A commentary on the war this week; Exellent photos of Naples' Maritime Railway Station, The Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia and Essen - Germany's City of Steel with its Krupp works; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. Cover holding loosely. Contents tight. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Photo of RAF rescue launch; A column of Italian POWs is marched into Cairo; Egypt's President Hassan Sabry Pasha dies; Reinforcement reach the western desert; Photo of Sayed Idris el Senussi, leader of free Libyans, meeting Libyans pressed into service by Italy; Illustrated text of broadcast by H.V. Hodson entitled "Our Position in the Middle East"; Illustration by Roland Davies shows the RAF bombing the Italian base at Durazzo; Five photos of major bomb damage in London; Photos of Italian vessels damaged by the RAF; Downed German planes in England; Super aerial photos of the destruction caused to Italy's navy in Taranto's inner harbour; Centerfold illustration by S. Drigin shows how Italy's battle fleet was mutilated at Taranto; Nice photos of a Fairey Fulmar and a Fairey Albacore; Full-page photo of a Fairey Swordfish flying over H.M.S. Aircraft-Carrier Eagle; Photos of the vigil along England's coast; Their majesties meet their countrymen; Illustrated article entitled "Canadian Arms and Men - an arsenal with a background of farms - Air training for the empire - with photo of Iceland's Canadian garrison in armoured Bren gun carriers; Photo at Camp Borden showing men of the RCAF marching past a line of Yale intermediate training planes; Reproduction of a German propaganda painting by Richard Hess showing a bomber over England; Indian troops in England; A commentary on the war this week; Photos of the Royal Navy maintaining its constant watch; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book