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Sm. 4to., Fifth Impression, with 8 full-page coloured plates and numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a nesr fine copy. Men at Arms 114. First published in 1981.
Sm. 4to., Fourth Impression, with 8 full-page coloured plates and numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Men at Arms 119. First published in 1982.
8vo., Third Impression; orange cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Published two months after the first edition.
346p. 8vo. Bantam paperback. Nice copy. SPACE/6
273p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn. Coldwar/Economics 3/8
47p. Text illustrations by Walter Jack Duncan. Decorative endpapers. Tall thin 8vo. Original cloth backed paper binding. Original spine paper label, slight loss. Hardbound. Nice copy. PRESS/W32 x2
56 pages. Features: Bold and dramatic Canadian Red Cross ad inside front cover shows nurse with outstretched arms pleading for help in a war-torn world; Why German Surrender Must Be Unconditional; Editorial on tax inequities between private businesses and co-operatives, mutual insurance organizations and government-owned businesses; Generalship with Genius - photo-illustrated article on Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander; A River Fights the War - photo-illustrated article on the St. Maurice River and the major industries it supports; Sky Duel (short story); The Sheriff Says "No" (short story); East Wind (short story); The Fleet is the Town - great photo-illustrated article on H.M.C.S. "Cornwallis" in Nova Scotia; Cocooney Kelly (short story); The Canadian Red Cross in Scotland - article with photos including N/S Barbara Stanton of Port Stanton, Ontario, Gunner Robert Lattman of Prince George, B.C., and seven Canadian Nursing Sisters working at the Canadian Orthopaedic Unit at Hairmyers Hospital, East Kilbride, Scotland; One-page ad for Heinz soups features illustration of lady swooning over the taste; Great one-page black and white photo ad for Kodak features Tpr. K. Kosak of Mundare, Alberta with Dutch lady in traditional garb; Mend Your Manners; Woodbury soap ad features photos of newlyweds Elizabeth Strong of Montreal and Flying Officer Leonard Barrett, of the Royal Australian Air Force; Photo of Bonita Granville in Arrid ad; Photo of Lucille Ball in Jergens Lotion ad; Easter Fare on the Kitchen Front; Chase & Sanborn ad features colour Charlie McCarthy comic; Great one-page wartime Canada Post Office ad includes photo of troops overseas receiving mail and instructions how to address letters "to face the rigors of war'; Fashion article and illustrations; Colour ad for Singer sewing machines; World Sayings; Proud Ford ad inside back cover entitled "These 700" explains how they stopped making civilian vehicles on March 31, 1942 but are now resuming civilian production - and all 700 of their dealers remain!; Colour back cover ad for Marboleum floors; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Old School Lies, Classless Reunions, Required Readings, Pre-teen Confidential, and Post-Graduate Depression; and more. Light cigarette odor. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached but present. A worthy 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
6 pages. Lovely illustration of young lady on front cover. Additional lyrics added in pencil. Covers taped in place. Average wear. Faint music store stamp to front cover. Sheet music
Contents: interesting Borg-Warner ad features color military illustration promoting their desalination equipment; Full-page ad for movie 'To Have and Have Not' starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; Interesting ad with several photos of the Great Northern Railway; Norfolk and Western Railway color ad; Friction over policy for Europe disturbs relations of big three - idealism of U.S. clashes with realism of British and quiet toughness of Reds; Red Thrust on Hungarian front may be master key to victory - Vienna, aim of campaign, is strategically a greater prize than even capital of Reich; Inside V-2 - official British diagram of a German V-2 shows the workings of the rocket and its relative size as compared with a man; The Ormoc Trap; Disaster in China - struggling to save lifelines to the Occident; Kaywoodie Briar pipe - beautiful color ad; Photo of a Fifteenth Air Force Liberator aflame over a heavy flak barrage; Men over 26 to fill the ranks as casualty lists grow longer - 26 to 37's must work or fight in bitter war months ahead; Interesting ad for the Comptometer displays a Googol! - of interest to modern-day Google fans!; White Truck color ad - attractive; France sated with bloodletting - moderates move to halt purge - Germans threaten reprisals against French captives in Reich if executions are continued; Photo of Canadian General Crerar with Cpl. E. O'Connor of Toronto; De Gaulle with Molotov; Industry puts reconversion aside to answer hurry call for arms; The Japs failed purge of the Philippine educational system; Great Lakes Steel color ad featuring futuristic auto body styles. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. Book
Contents: Ford ad (color) inside front cover; Boeing B-29 ad; Plymouth car ad; Nice color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and family; International Trucks ad; War election proves to world America's faith in democracy - campaign hottest in years but politics stop at the borders of nation united in arms; Wehrmacht wages bitter fight to prolong war through winter - but British storm Walcheren, opening way to use of Antwerp as supply base for Allies; Photo of Red Army soldiers parading through Belgrade; One man's fight against corruption - the story behind the Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell Incident; Risque ad for Samson card tables features stripper (?) standing on table while soldiers look on with pleasure!; Heavy Going - Japs fight hard in Leyte Caves but defense lacks organization; De Gaulle's sway over France challenged by turbulent reds; Lucky Strike - nice color ad; Goodyear color centerfold ad shows the 'Rubber Railroad'; photo of soldiers outside an Italian showing of Charlie Chaplain's "The Dictator"; Photo of Greek money changer - inflation forces him to carry a literal armload of paper drachmae - with text; Mackenzie King names McNaughton to Cabinet - may avert showdown over Zombies; Jack Miner passes away - Canadian Goose man; Britain asks a helping hand to regain vital export trade - wants modified lend-lease and joint reconversion timing after victory in Europe; Kuppenheimer clothing ad - in color; Horse racing and betting popular; Homer P. Rainey booted out of the University of Texas; Brooks Atkinson's Chinese Drama; A.J. Cronin - doctor and craftsman; Great Northern Railway ad shows refrigerator cars for apples being pre-cooled with large blocks of ice; embarassing ad for Kreml Hair Tonic; Chesterfield cigarette color ad (nice) on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. 2" X 1" chip from lower corner of front cover. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Color Parker pen ad inside front cover; Nice ad for International Harvedster crawler tractors; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color Packar Car ad - a Patriotit Hoarder!; Color Texaco ad; Washington's higher wage plan fails to meet U.S. strike crisis - Administration behind pay boost of at least 15%; Dodge truck ad; Behind Anglo-US Peace Line-up lies horror of Atom Bomb War; Irma Grese - the lady butcher confesses; Swiss Stake - war paid off, peace pockets are empty; Photo of General Yamashita and friends dining on Army chow in a Manila prison; Marshall weighs war and peace - 'Keep our arms, Train our men!' - urges year of service for America's Citizen Army; Color ad for Oldsmobile, with Hydra-matic drive; General Patton - The Mouth; David Dubinsky - leader of the 360,000 member International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Now Chemical War Secrets of the war can be told - with photos and long article; red Rio truck ad; Photo of schoolboys throwing banned Nazi flags and textbooks on a bonfire in Cologne; 1945 World Series; Color TWA ad; Higgins boat ad; Nice color Diamond T truck ad; Nice color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
4 pages. Nice photo of Morton Downey on front cover. Above-average wear. Pages detached but all present. Name on front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Sheet music
Features: Brickwork Basics; Furniture by Davault; The Golden Age of Wicker - Mary Lee Marston-Robinson; Betty Cinnamon's Country Style; How to launch a dollhouse raffle; Lillian Russell; The Miniatures Photographer VI - Developing Control; Adding personal books and photos; Create a romantic reception with roses, candle rings, and cakes; Have a Seat - 5 easy pieces to sit in your honeymoon cottage; Kit Renderings - 2 chairs from 1 simple kit; Small figure sculpture III - creating arms and legs; Along the Mall VI - a Bridal Shop; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
In -8°, pp. 45, (1) ma manca un ritratto calcografico a piena pagina di Santa Elisabetta, appena dopo il frontespizio. Manca anche la carta B7 che è stata manoscritta e riinserita. Legatura in marocchino alle armi Savoia. A portrait of Saint Elisabeth is missing just after the title page. Also B7 leaf is missing: it has been hand copied and reinserted. Morocco binding at Savoia arms.
Features: Two Ugly Men - Glanton, the brutal scalp hunter, and Naked Horse, the vengeful Yuma chief, fought to the death for control of the mighty Colorado; Homesteaders' Saturday Night - in the sand hills west of North Platte, Nebraska; Meanest Town on the Coast - Madison, Texas; He Lived with the Barrens - John Hornby; Captain Jack - a stray in the family line - Orren Arms Curtis; Tensleep Raid - the raiding and burning of a sheep camp threw the Big Horn Basin country of Wyoming into a turmoil of accusations, hatred and murder!; Unleaded Horse Flesh - Did we shut the stable door to soon?; Trapped in a Snowbank - Grandfather Dickinson moves his young family to Lyon County, Minnesota in 1872; Rekindling Camp Fires - The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) (Wa-si-cu Tam-a-he-ca) - Part II; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label removal from front cover opened a hole 1" x 3" which has been taped over. Otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
In-4°; pp. (8), 148, 27, (1), 24, (2), 130, (6), (20), 58, (2 colophon e grande marca tipografica). Ai frontespizi legno tipografico; capilettera figurati incisi su legno. Le Lettere di Bessarione scritte a principi d’Italia intorno al collegarsi et imprender guerra contro al Turco, volgarizzate dal signor Pigafetta, hanno un proprio frontespizio, Firenze, Giunti, 1594. Prima edizione delle due opere insieme e edizione originale delle Orazioni. Legatura coeva in piena pergamena. Contiene: L’orazione a Sisto V sulla guerra contro i turchi, una alla nobiltà napoletana per spronarla ad ingaggiare la guerra contro i turchi in Ungheria, Filippiche al re cattolico Filippo di Spagna, Orazioni a Clemente VIII tra cui la cosiddetta Clementina terza, l’Orazione in morte di Francesco de Medici, Il Rota ovvero delle imprese (dialogo tra il vescovo di Otenza Nino de Nini, Bernardino Rota, Alfonso Cambi e Bartolomeo Maranta). Alcuni quaderni leggermente bruniti, alle ultime carte ingialliture a macchie.
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
128 pages. Magnificent cover art by Charles Dye depicts overheated truck hauling Christmas trees and several fresh kills. Two contributions by Jack O'Connor in this issue. Additional Features: Hunting wild goats and boars on Santa Catalina Island; Polar Bears were forgotten in this desperate fight to survive; Bucks with buckshot in Louisiana's low country; Quest of the Golden Trout - of 1,000 Wyoming mountain lakes it was Big Elbow or bust; In the California goose capital, where everything proved ducky; To Quebec's Kipawa for a princely bull moose; Jack O'Connor article on the World's Most Beautiful Deer - India's chital; Blood and Snow - it was tough to claim this buck after shooting him; Catskill Giant - Egbert H. Schultz' first bear was New York's biggest for 1954; Monkeyshines on Biscayne Bay, Fla. - photos of Bongo the chimp fishing!; Scioto Pinch - winter's squeeze up north brought duck limits in Ohio; Circuit Rider - following a killer cougar for seven days near Boulder Valley, Montana; Nice one-page color ad for Mercury outboard motors; I Followed Izaak Walton - from Sinnemahoning Creek, PA, to the River Dove; How to use a dog for bush-tails (squirrels); Jack O'Connor on accurate light sport rifles; Incredible photo of 85.75lb world record lake trout caught in Lake Athabaska, Saskatchewan. Nice ad for the 1956 Nash cars. Nice color Remington ad inside front cover features their new magnum shotgun shells; One-page black and white ad for the 1956 Chevrolet cars (Chevies). One-page color-photo ad for Scott-Atwater outboard motors; 2/3-page brown and black ad for the Savage Model 24 rifle. Illustrated Ruger handgun ad. Great color ad for the Golden State Arms Corporation inside back cover features Hitler Jugen dagger for $5.95 - with sheath, postpaid! Nice color-photo Evinrude outboard motor ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
205 pages with index. Plentiful black and white photos and diagrams. Price ink-stamped onto front endpaper. Reviews the story of modern weapons and reflects upon that which science hath wrought. Clearly written and very informative. Few ink notes and jottings early in text. Book
24 pages. Contents: Loafing Capital Better Get Busy - OR ELSE!; Dole may end by November; New Taxes Appear Certain; Motor Deaths Increase; TVA Power Sale Upheld; Foreign News - German decree against political statements from Catholic pulpits; Ethiopian Emperor Issues Call to Arms as Japan Enters Scene - with illustration of Selassie; Meteor explodes in the air above Krasnovishersk, Russia; Current Events; Photo-illustrated ad for Arm & Hammer Baking Soda being used to treat a wound; Congress; Some Women are That Silly - paying more at high class stores; A Nest of Lobbyists; Poor Kipling Still Poetizing; Marketing; Captital Chat; Judge William I. Grubb; Senator George William Norris; Science News; Aviation - Delay of dirigible service between Germany and US due to failure to complete the LZ-129; Congress turns light on 'Invisible Rulers' - Lobbyists; Chinese Continue Never-Ending Fight Against Many Floods; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
24 pages. Contents: Coal - an ailing industry hopes for a cure; Photo of William C. Bullitt, Ambassador to France; Photos of Attorney General Homer S. Cummings and his assistant Robert H. Jackson; Mine disaster at Logan, WV; LaGuardia offends Nazis, with photo of William E. Dodd, Ambassador to Germany; Marie, Dowager Queen of Rumania - article with photo; Prospects of the Treaty of Locarno; Duce and Allah; French Arms; Photo of Japanese Premier Senjuro Hayashi and story about his new official residence, honeycombed with underground passages, secret exits and disappearing floors; "Undeclared War" in Spain; Heloise Martin causes excitement at Drake - with photo of her; Additional madness at Oklahoma, Columbia and Pittsburgh involving university students; Photo of Gracie Fields; Anti-Religious feelings softening in Soviet Russia?; Editorial on name-callinng between LaGuardia and the Nazi press of Germany; Modernized Railroads - with photo of a new Southern Pacific Streamliner; Justice James Clark McReynolds - article with photo; The Movie World - with photo of Dorothy Lamour Rose; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
59 pages. Features: Black-Out By-Election in Central Southwark; Women's Army for Britain - many great photos with article; How to Photograph a Beauty - photo-illustrated tips by Angus McBean; The Happy Knitters - Keswick women knit for troops; I Was a Worker in a German Arms Factory - article with photos of German war production; Match Fishing; A Girl Goes Cycling - nice photo feature on how ladies can cycle fashionably given the petrol shortage; Sweden's Gold - article with photos of mining in the town of Boliden; Diary of the War - No. 23 - The Twenty-First Week; No. 4 in the Series "How I Would Run the War" - How I would Use the Navy; Cartoon "Hungry Mouths" shows Goring feeding the mouths of heavy artillery while families look on; Where Are Our Leaders?; Match Fishing - photos of competitive fishermen; The History of Weapons, No. 6 - The Machine Gun. Nice Shredded Wheat ad on back cover. Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
146 pages. Reproductions of archival black-and-white photos. Unmarked with average wear to green boards. Binding intact. Prior owner's generic and unmarked bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. A sound copy of this informative history. (Hale & Barman 447) Book