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Illustration Features: America Arrayed in Arms; Why I Have Faith in Russia - article by Hamilton Fyfe; "Vive La France!" in the face of instant death (torpedoes); General Maude's Great Advance in Mesopotamia; In the Tracks of the Turks in the Tigris Valley; How Bullecourt was Won - article be Max Pemberton; Behind the Lines in France; British Guns aid Italy on the Carso Front; Episodes in the Great Battle of Arras; Men of the Green Brassard - some famous correspondents and their work (article); Plowing and Sowing for harvests of life and death; Mosques and Minarets of old-world Bagdad; Canadian Kite Balloons and Captured Teuton Trophy; Willing Women workers; Italians push on towards Trieste; Regimental Record - The Kensingtons (article); Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. 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
Demobilisation - Cover illustration of a faithful charger being sold while its British officer looks on. Illustration of Woodrow Wilson, President Poincare, and Mr. Lloyd George at the opening of the Peace Conference. Photo: French Arms Beyond the Rhine. Illustrations of 'Prussia's Arrogance in 1871'. Air Trips to Paris and Back in Four Hours - 4 photos of 'Airco' machines. British keep guard on the Bridge at Cologne - 4 great photos. "To the Rhine!" - Retribution after Fifty Years, 3 photos. Storm and Fog Claim Ships that War had Spared - 6 photos. Photo of the salved French submarine Curie. Problems of the Peace Conference - by Sir Sidney Low. A United States of Germany? - by F.W. Wile. Imperial Guile - What the Camera Saw at Spa. Photo of Berlin protest march against Bolshevism. Photo of Rodin's sculpture of Eve being exhumed from her grave in a garden in Doai where she was hidden from the Germans. Welcoming home America's Navy - 3 photos. Airship and Aeroplane Raids over Great Britain, 1914-18 - chart and map. Channel Train-Ferry and its new 'Mystery' port - 4 photos including the 'Dazzle'. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated with age. Still a worthy copy. Book
112 pages. Songs include: Address Unknown, Ain't That Just Like a Man; A Sunday Kind of Love; Black Coffee; I Miss You So; I'll Remember April; Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall, Jim, Just for a Thrill, Lover Man, On the Street of Regret, That's My Affair, Trouble in Mind; You Can't Hold a Memory in Your Arms; Why Begin Again, and many more! Above-average wear, mainly at spine ends. Minimal markings. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage compilation. Book
74 pages. Features: 245 boxcars of confederate arms found!; Masada Part II; Found - pot of gold coins; the treasure chests of Gasparilla; Find Quejo's outlaw hoard; White's 6/DB Hipmount. Average wear. Book
Features: Founder of the Cowboy Camp Meeting - William B. Bloys at Fort Davis, Texas in 1888; Shoot-out on Christmas Day, 1883 at McDade, Texas in Bastrop County - Thomas Bishop and George Milton; Boom Days at Ash Meadows, Nevada; Strawmen and Marshals - Ellensburg, WA and locality circa 1906; Greatest living hunter - Clell Lee; Riding the Shale Rock Trail; Paul P. Lawson and Idaho adventures; Victim of the "White Night" - unfortunate Joseph Hahn, after whom Hahn's Peak was named; Whipping Tree - primitive form of Seminole justice rarely suffered repeat offenders; John J. Tomlinson - Sawmill man of Yellowstone City in the Crow River Reservation; Oro, Arizona - most remote of the Bradshaw's Ghost Towns; The Wound that never healed - Mary Christofferson Anderson's chin was shot away by a cannonball at age 14 during the Morrisite Massacre of 1862; Rawhide times in Dakota - when it was open range from the White River to the Niobrara; I Cast My Lot With a Soldier - dedicated Army wives who followed their husbands to the American frontier in the 19th century; Appointment on Red Mountain - Emma Crawford was buried atop 7,200 foot-high Red Mountain where she said she had communed with an Indian brave; New Mexico's Mysterious Markers - many styles of Christian Cross; Flames of Starvation and Death - Cattlemen and nesters were comrades in arms when the sky warned of fire; King-sized nugget - found at the Willard Claim Mine in California's Sierra Nevadas; Uncle Milty's Legs - Milt Clements stood tall even though he only had one leg - Frank Lockert's personal museum at Coats, Kansas. Average wear. Some yellowing to pages. Occasional markings to contents. A sound copy. Book
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.
32 page facsimile reprint of the 1828 first edition. "A series of figures showing all the motions in the manual and platoon exercises, and the different firings according to his Majesty's Regulations - 1828." - front cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
144 pages including index. A detailed and well-illustrated explanation of the technical terms and rules of blazon and of the science of Armory. Explains how individual coats of arms properly interpreted can be a valuable source of historical knowledge. Chapters include: heralds and heraldry; tinctures, partitions, ordinaries and sub-ordinaries; common charges; the rules of blazon; differencing and marshalling of arms; crests, crowns and coronets; the description of the achievement, and some famous arms; ecclesiastical heraldry; arms of heiresses, and hatchements; the seal; the badge; banners of arms, standards and flags. Average wear. Usual library markings else unmarked. Minor lean to spine. Book
Paris Ch. Bosse 1929, In-8 broché, couverture à rabats, 152 pages. Trés bon état.
This is a very good+ or better hardcover two volume set, bound in dark blue leather and blue and cream marbled paper boards, The spines have five raised bands and gilt titles still bright. Top page-edges gilt. Completely clean inside and out, no spotting or other marks. Short closed tear to lower margin of one text page. Illustrated with 113 plates with printed tissue guards and black & white small photos of the arms.11" high X 7" wide, 915 pages total. A beautiful dark blue leather gilt set. Large heavy books, foreign shipping will be extra. This set will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
pp. (6) + 20 Fine photogravure-like photographic plates of wonderful arms and armor from their collections. Real treasures. 12 mo. 190 mm. Handsome printed wraps. ART 1
pp. (8) 298 (32) + Engraved frontis and thirty two (32) engraved plates showing around 500 coats of arms; additional woodcuts in text. Marbled edges. 12 mo. 170 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. The Jesuit Claude Francois Menestrier (1631-1705) was a prolific researcher and author in the field of heraldry and emblemata. First published in 1661, versions of this concise handbook became very popular, and continued to be issued over almost two centuries. This 1718 Lyons edition is quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! FR-VOYAGE 3RD FL
1ère édition de cet ouvrage de Claude-François MENESTRIER, jésuite érudit, historien et héraldiste (1631-1705) Reliure défectueuse, mais exemplaire bien complet du texte et des 17 planches dont 15 présentant chacune de 12 à 30 vignettes de blasons, 1 illustrant les obsèques d'Anne de Bretagne et 1 frontispice. Français
Prima e unica edizione.
68 pages. Features: The Sixties - Our Unbelievable Decade - with many of the most dramatic images, especially JFK; The Tense Vigil of Mrs. O'Grady - her husband, Air Force Maj. John O'Grady went down over North Vietnam 32 months ago and his fate is still unknown; Our last chance to halt the arms race; Children of the World; Godfrey Cambridge Turns White; Mussels from Maine; Zorba the Viking - Photo-illustrated article on Minnesota Vikings quarterback Joe Kapp. Ads: Beautiful color-photo ad inside front cover for the 1970 Mercury Cyclone GT; Tareyton 100's; Calvert Extra Whiskey; AT&T ad features large blurry photo of New York Giants football player; Color photo ad for the 1970 Chevelle Malibu; Polaroid's Countdown Camera; Beautiful Bulova watch ad; Nice back cover L&M cigarette ad features good-looking couple. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
pp. viii, 71p. Designed, composed and printed by Clarke & Way at the Thistle Press, New York. Foxed. Sm. 4to. Original full black cloth binding, faded at extremities. Original dust jacket, a few small tears. Hardbound. POETRY2 BOX 2
315 pages including footnotes and index. "This explosive book lays bare the personalities and institutional relations behind the headlines. It goes beyond the recent events to discern the roots of contemporary U.S. covert activity within the past two decades. Delves into the details of CIA and extra-CIA operations, including drug-trafficking, gun-running, government-toppling, and assassination." - from back cover. "An informative and shocking book that takes us from the Bay of Pigs fiasco to the drug-fuelled secret war in Laos, from the urban hustle-and-bustle of Tehran to the steamy jungles of Central America. Profiteers pose as patriarchs, mercenaries claim to be humanitarians, and totalitarian thugs commit their atrocities in the name of political freedom - while back in Washington it's all just one more day at the office." - R.T. Naylor, author of Hot Money. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Good working copy. Book
120 pages. Features: Robert McNamara Cover Photo; Many gorgeous color-photo fashion ads; One-page ad for soundtrack to movie "I Do! I Do!", starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston; Great ad for Sony Superscope tape recorders in children's birthday party scene; The Myths That Divide India and Us; The Prevalence of Hobbits - thirty years after they were invented by a bored Oxford don, the hobbits - "a benevolent, furry-footed people" - have taken a new generation by storm - illustrated article with photo of Tolkien; Are We On the Brink of Another Arms Race? - photo-illustrated article; The Two Extremes of Avant-Garde Music - Milton Babbitt and John Cage; Sauvage of Seventh Avenue - Jacques Tiffeau Understands Today - photo-illustrated article; Judge Botein - a Judge with 'Disciplined Indignation'; Lovely color-photo centerfold of Springmaid's Miss January, Martha Branch; Great nostalgic one-page color-photo ad for General Motors features photos of eight of their station wagons; A High School Principal Reports "The young... are going for uglification and unlovableness faster and faster"; Uncommone one-page color-photo ad for Mott's Figure Control Meals which are a 'wicked way to lose weight'; and more. Above-average external wear. Faint library stamp on first page. Covers almost loose. A worthy vintage copy. Book
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 208 fine plates; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Vil. I: Armour; Vol. II: Arms.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
In -4°, pp. (8), 126, (2), 200, 254 (i.e. 256). Legatura in marocchino rosso con stemma inciso ai piatti di Jacques-Nicolas de Colbert, tagli spruzzati. Al frontespizio nota di possesso manoscritta (“Bibliotheca colbertina”); ex libris “Wican free public library”. Ex libris Biblioteca Colbertina. Red morocco binding witha arms of De Colbert, marbled edges.
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
84 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: An Elephant-Hunt in Canada - a six-week hunt results when seven valuable elephants escaped from a circus and took to the British Columbia woods - article with photos; A Fugitive in Thirstland - A former German officer who became a adventurer is South Africa is continually chased by the police; Trekking in Unknown Abyssinia - great photo-illustrated article; The Friendly Mosquito - how a mosquito saved the life of T.A. Shields; Our Salvage Job - a plucky attempt to salvage the crippled vessel Stiklestadt; The Decree of the Wild - a grim tale of the Canadian Far North, 1,200 miles north of Edmonton; "The White Man's Great War-Game" (part III) - amongst the savages of the Sura, Angas, and other primitive tribes of Northern Nigeria, Geoffrey Barkas produced a film founded upon the history of British Administration - article with great photos; Gulbaz Khan's Revenge - the story of a long-delayed vengeance for a trifling action that had far-reaching consequences; Where Everybody Plays "Cat's Cradle" - photo-illustrated article on the people of the Pelews (Pelew Islands); Fur-Getting in Australia - Australian men make a good living hunting rabbits and foxes for their furs; The Partnership That Went Wrong - four U.S. Army soldiers pool their savings to run a sawmill; What Happened to Wilson - struggle for life with an enraged tiger in the heart of a big city; Through France with "Sylvabelle" (part II) - Mr. Leslie Richardson's yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
160 pages. Features: Leo Heaps scores a coup for the Public Archives of Canada; Lorna and Walter McIntyre revive the lost art of overshot weaving; Tony Aspler surveys the nine Canadian member hotels of Relais et Chateaux; A week at Germany's legendary Baden-Baden; Salute to Stratford, Ontario; The heritage farmhouse of Clayton Shields; At home with Douglas Chamberlain, Pat Galloway, berthold Carrier and Iris MacGregor Bannerman; Forty centuries of emeralds; The Kleinburg cottage of Kayo O'Young and Diane Nasr; Kay Kritzwiser's portfolio of paintings of flowers by Canadian artists; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Book
