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1.25" thick. Provides abundant coverage of the first world war plus stories about the Russian Revolution. Includes many wonderful black and white photos. Occasional library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
Features: What happened to Common Sense? - Calvin D. Linton says not only do we live in the best-educated age in history, it may well also be the most gullible; Doomsday Merchant of the Far Right - Billy James Hargis leads a witch-hunt in pursuit of Communists; People on the Way Up - Comic Dick Shawn, Ross Pritchard, Charlene Curry, Janet Ades, Rochelle Hood; Czar of the Bunny Empire - Hugh Hefner, with color photos; The Bridge of Hope - Topeka's effort to help mental patients return to regular life; Me and my mixed up trees - Frank J. Taylor and 'the confessions of a compulsive grafter who tells backyard (Luther) Burbanks how to turn the tables on nature; Irrepressible Egoist - Dick Stuart, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocky slugger; Hot Weapon in the Cold War - at President Kennedy's urging, the Army is beefing up its Special Forces, who are trained to combat Red guerillas around the globe. Nice color Pepsi ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Photo-illustrated story of Royal Tour (King, Queen and Princesses) of South Africa; Fantastic full-page colour ad for Heinz Baby Foods; Great swimsuit photo of Gerry Pattison; Pond's Angel Face ad; Photo-illustrated article on British Columbia's Cancer Institute; Gemology - photo-illustrated article; 20-page colour comic section; The Madman of Bergerac, by Georges Simenon; Bootleg coal in Cape Breton - article and photos; Ernest Cormier - U.N. Architect - photo and story; Shallow oil gusher on farm of D.F. McFadyen in Calgary; Ivan Petelka - Sault Ste. Marie Linguist has invented a new number language; Abandoned BAnk Accounts; Talking Books for Blind Students; Democratization of Japan Designed on American Lines; Pictou Women's Craft Guild; Winnifred Pickering - successful Toronto underwriter; Master Swindler Joseph George Gouin; Sports News; Mike Spack - captain of the University of Manitoba Bisons; Quebec's Liquor Racket - pay the politicians or go out of business, by Ken Johnstone; Today's Athletes are Beating Yesterday's Records - great photos and article; A Big Country - short story by Edmund E. Pugsley; Kenneth Ford writes of being tall - 6'-6""; Robert LaPalme writes of being short - 5'-0"; Noteworthy Canadians - brief write-ups and photos of skiers Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, novelist Edwarde Meade, violinist Donna Grescoe, harpist Winifred Bambrick, ecologist Pierre Dansereau, and poet Patrick Anderson; Picking Germany's Brains - 300 of Hitler's top scientists now in the US working for the Allies - article with photos; Peace - Perfect Peace, story by Gregory Clark; Emperor Bing Crosby and his business interests, by Jack Hirshberg; Which Came First? - A Short Story by June McFeely; Lovely full-page colour ad for Yardley cosmetics; Russian Producer Eisenstein Screens Part I of the Notorious Czar Ivan's Career; Full-page colour ad for Jell-o puddings; Ontario Society of Artists Celebrates its 75th Anniversary - photos and story; Fight Training - Super photo and article on boxer Joe Baksi; Interesting Pepsi ad; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original wrappers. Tear on the upper left side of front cover, chippings on extremities. A good copy. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Bulgarian. 107 p. First and only edition of this scarce early book in Bulgarian, printed in Constantinople (Macedonian Printing House) on the history of the Archbishopric of Ohrid, also known as the Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid, which was an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church established following the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria in 1018 by lowering the rank of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate due to its subjugation to the Byzantines. In 1767, the Archbishopric's autocephaly was abolished, and the Archbishopric was placed under the tutelage of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. 13 copies in OCLC: 793578483, 48911077.
Very Good German Original three silver gelatin and sepia-toned photographs. (23x17,5 cm & 18x12,5 cm). Mounted small papers on the front side of photos have trilingual descriptions in German, Ottoman Turkish, and Arabic. These photographs show the rare scenes from the Ukrainian front during World War I. 1-) Die Ukrainer beim Siegeln des Friedens Protokolls [i.e. The Ukrainians sealing the peace protocol]. 2-) Oberst Höfer, Kommandant der 17. Infanterie-Brigade, hat als Bataillon Kommandeur bein einem Sturm gegen die Russen, als er seinem Batallion Selbat vorausstürmte, den rechten Arm verloren [i.e. Colonel Höfer, commander of the 17th Infantry Brigade, lost his right arm as battalion commander in a rush against the Russians while charging ahead of his battalion in Selbat]. 3-) Deutsch-russischer Krakowiak an der ukrainischen Front (?) [i.e. German-Russian soldiers are dancing together on the Ukrainian front].
Mm 150x225 Traduzione dal tedesco di Luigi Bandini, con 38 illustrazioni in bianco e nero fuori testo. Brossura editoriale di 257 pagine. Timbri e firma d'appartenenza, segni d'uso e del tempo alla copertina, interno in buono stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
in-16, 189 pp., broche, couv. illustree (photo d"Ingrid Bergman). Bon etat. [MB-2]
2 vol. in-12, 281-264 pages, illustrations, reliure demi-maroquin à coins, dos à 5 nerfs à cissons dores, pieces de titre, tetes dorees.— Couverture et dos conserves. Tres bel ensemble. [NV-35]
in-12°, 254 pp., reliure a la Bradel, demi-toile a coins, plats marbrés. Bel exemplaire. [TX-16]
in-12, 429 pages, broche, couverture.— 1 des 350 exemplaires s./pur fil Lafuma à grandes marges numEr. Tres bel exemplaire non coupe. [CA33-2]
2 voll. in 16°, tutta tela editoriale, pp. 462; 459, (5), illustrato, vol. I con difetti alla cerniera, lievi fioriture ma buoni esemplari.
in-12°, 254 pages, frontispice, broché. Bon etat. [MA-4]
1 Vol. In-16 pag. 355 12 ill. f.t Con sovracopt PROG 3447 CATT_ATT 56
Mm 135x210 Collana Nuova Biblioteca Storica. Brossura editoriale di 445 pagine, copertina policroma, alcune illustrazioni in nero nel testo, etichetta di biblioteca privata dismessa al primo foglio bianco. Ottimo stato. Spedizione entro 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
REGIME RUSSO SPERSO NELLA SIBERIA DURANRE LA RIVOLUZIONR , IN CERCA DELLO ZAR PRIGIONIERO
In-8°, pp. 169, tela editoriale con sovracc. figurata. L'esemplare contiene ripiegato al suo interno a mo' di segnalibro un ritaglio del quotidiano La Stampa: trattasi di una recensione sul romanzo scritta da Lorenzo Mondo.
Mm 145x225 Le Scie. Volume cartonato di pp. 272, sovraccoperta figurata. Opera in ottime condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE
In-8°, legatura in brossura editoriale, pp. 253, con illustrazioni fuori testo. Intonso.
Mm 110x180 Couverture souple. 548 Pages In-8 Broché. Très bon état. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
20 pages. Text in English. Very attractive colour illustrations. Undated reprint of the 1905 first edition. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
In 8°, brossura editoriale illustrata, pp. XVI, 240, collana "Biblioteca Universale Laterza 292", nota di possesso al frontesp., per il resto ottimo esemplare. (spedizione standard SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata-piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine)
In 4° ( 300x210 mm ); broché. L'un des 250 exemplaires de luxe numérotés. Faux-titre,titre,28, (8) pages,4 illustrations en couleurs sous serpentes de Dupray et Lanos gravées sur bois par Romagnol. Brochure. 28, (8) pp. e 4 c. di tav. fuori testo. Brossura editoriale con al piatto anteriore stemma in oro in rilievo dello Zar Nicola II. Tiratura in 250 esemplari numerati, questa è la copia 149. Qualche segno del tempo e leggera traccia di sporco alla brossura. Mancanza di parte della carta nell'angolo basso del frontespizio. A parte i lievi difetti alla brossura e la mancanza al margine bianco basso del frontespizio, l'opera si presenta in buone condizioni di conservazione. Molto belle le tavole a colori. Prima edizione numerata di questo inno agli ZAR.
Mm 115x185 Troisième édition. Volume in copertina rigida rilegato in mezza pergamena, titoli e fregi in oro al dorso, 774 pagine con alcune cartine geografiche a colori più volte ripiegate non comprese nel testo redatto in lingua francese - French text. Copia in eccellente condizione con legature ben salde. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Mm 140x200 Brossura editoriale con bandelle, pp. 110. All'interno un saggio in lingua inglese. Come nuovo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
