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218 pages including bibliography and index. 200 years after the migration, award-winning author Christopher Moore tells the very human story of the loyalists - the societies that shaped them, the various attitudes that motivated them, and the circumstances that determined their future and influenced the future of Canada. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Very light wear to book. Gift greetings upon half title page else contents bright and unmarked. Minor bit of prior owner's address label remains upon decorated front endpaper. Crack along back hinge which remains closed. Light wear to attractive dust jacket which bears several small tears to top edge. Lovely copy. Book
Pages 843- 890. Features: Front cover photo portrait of Mussolini with King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, proclaimed Emperor of Abyssinia; Nice photo of Mrs. Amy Mollison, who made a record flight from Gravesend to the Cape of Good Hope; Photos of King Faruk returning to Cairo from England;M. Drouillet is arrested after gallant escapade in the impounded airplane of the Emperor of Abyssinia; Photo of first funeral service in an RAF plane, for aircraftman William Watkin; Photo of the car in which King Alexander and M. Barthou were assassinated being presented to Yugoslavia by France; Photo-illustrated article entitled The Doom of the Mountain Zebra; Photo of Dr. Herms' insect killing lamp; Interesting one-page photo of an unusual French military ceremony - the presentation of the standard of the 505th Regiment of tanks, at the Vannes; One-page photo of the stratosphere, "dust sphere", and the Earth's curvature - from the highest point ever reached (72,395') - taken over South Dakota during a record-breaking balloon ascent; One page photo of the highest vertical photograph ever made - South Dakota from over 13 miles above it; Two pages of photos illustrate the ongoing discovery of unexploded World War I munitions (these shells are salvaged by a French Desobusage company); Photo illustrated article on a "Mystery" tomb found intact beside the second pyramid; Large photo of huge crowd assembled to hear Mussolini announce Italy's sovereignty over Abyssinia; Photo of Mussolini presiding over the fascist Grand Council; Two pages of photos show the defeated Emperor of Abyssinia in exile - Haile Selassie and his Empress take refuge in Palestine; Photos of personalities of the week include Prince Mohamed Aly, H. G. G. Payne, Miss Beatrice Harraden, Sir Firoz Khan Noon, Edward Laurillard, Miss Jean Batten, Mr. Charles Laughton, M. Serge Lifar, Sir Alfred Watson, S. J. Camp, Louis Silken, Dr. Oswald Spengler, and the Duke of York; Page of photos of prominent figures in the inquiry into the alleged leakage of budget information; Recommended site for statue to memorialize King George; Photo inside the Moose River disaster - where the entombed man spent most of their 242 hours below ground; Photo of funeral for Mr. Magill who died in the Moose River mine disaster; Photo of the Princess of Nagode after her marriage to the Maharajah of Sirmur; Two pages of photos of birds of Galapagos; one-page Guinness ad features Alice in Wonderland motif; One-page Harrods ad features bedroom suite; Photos of the wind tunnel at Chiswick which are used to test transit buses; One-page Austin Reed men's fashion ad; Halfpage photo ad for the Alvis limousine; Back cover ad for Douglas Stuart (Stuart House of London). Faint store stamp to advertising front cover. Please note: pages 867-868 not included. One page loose but present. Moderate wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 227-255. Features: Gen. Stephen H. Gale - article with full-page photo portrait and illustration of the Gale Bros. Inc. shoe factory at Exeter; A Meritorious Institution - The New Hampshire Orphans' Home - article with nice photos; New Hampshire Night at thte Exile Club; Vice-President George M. Dallas; A Natural Barometer; Obituaries for Prof. Christopher C. Langdell; Barron Shirley, Hon. Charles J. Smith; Eugene F. McQuesten, Dr. Sophronia Fletcher, Dr. Julia Wallace Russell, David M. Thompson; Poems; Nicely illustrated ad for Prescott pianos on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Turkish. 391 p. Sürgün edebiyati, edebiyat sürgünleri. TURKISH LITERATURE Literary history Exile.
Original Wraps. 8vo. 23 pages. 21 cm. First edition. Some Hebrew throughout. Torah va'avodah library; Festival series, no. 7. Frontispiece illustration by David Hillman, with illustrations throughout by Walter Herz. Contains various Talmudic and Midrashic discussions of Sukkah; with chapters on Rabbinic references and Gems from the Rabbis. Final section discusses the importance of the Sukkah and Eretz Israel. Bachad was a religious Zionist youth movement in pre-war Germany called Brit Chalutzim Datiim which shortened its name to its initial letters Bachad. Its members prepared themselves for Aliya. A group of them came over to England among the refugees who were permitted to enter this country in the years immediately before the war. They were accommodated in a castle in Wales [Gwrych Castle] and set up Hachshara centres in Bromsgrove and other places, as well as a Merkaz Limmud in Manchester to which members came from the Hachsharah centres for periods of three or six months for intensive Jewish studies. Later on a farm was bought at Thaxted in Essex which became not only a model Hachsharah centre but very quickly a successful agricultural venture which at one time won first prize for having the best milk yielding cow in Essex! (Bauk, 2013) . Subjects: Sukkot. OCLC lists 5 copies (Harvard, Univ Florida, Natl Libr Israel, British Libr, Ohio State) . Page edges wavy from previous damp. Internal damp stain in outer margins, otherwise fresh. Good condition. (SPEC-40-16)
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 125 p. B/w ills. Soçi'nin sürgündeki sahipleri: Çerkes - Vubihlar.
Fine Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 205 p. Sibirya sürgünü: Asurilerin anilari, (1949-1956).
New Turkish Paperback. In Turkish. 264 p. Rusya mültecileri: Uzak diasporaya savrulan Tatarlar. Tatar refugees from Russia.
circa 20 Abbildungen.
Fine English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic script) and Russian. 320 p. Rakamlar saatlik eteler. Kirimtatar halkinin öz-özüni cedvelge aluvi (1966, 1971, 1973-1974 ss). Tarihi vesikalar.= Slori svidetelstvuyut. Po materialam samoperepisi Krimskotatarskogo naroda (1966, 1971, 1973-1974 gg). Ismoruchni documenti. Details of the population census of the people after the Crimean exile, 1963-1974.
Mit Zeichnungen und Tafeln.
New English Paperback. Mint. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In French and Turkish. 204 p. Color and b/w ills. The Ottoman sultans and their Jewish subjects. Precis sur les Sultans Ottomans et leurs sujets Juifs.= Osmanli padisahlari ve Musevi tebaalarina iliskin kisa tarihçe. JUDAICA Ottoman history Turkish Jews Social history.
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Probably an initiative of Raczynski during his term (1940-1967) as Chairman of the PRC. A rare survival, especially in this condition.
Mit 31 Abbildungen.
Book is bumped at top and bottom of spines and has small tears on top and bottom of spine. Interior is clean and unmarked; tight binding. 8 3/4"w x 10 5/8"h. 364 pages. Many color illustrations.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
Text clean and unmarked; tight binding. Light wear and creases to cover. Black and white illustrations. 190 pages. Black and white photos and illustrations.
82 pages. Features: Embodying Cosmic Patterns - Foundations of an Art of Calligraphy in China; Silencing the Cry of Cold Insects - Meaning and Design in the Exile Calligraphy of Huang Tingjian and Su Shi; The Early Aesthetic Values of Writing and Calligraphy; Tradition and Authorial Identity in Chinese Calligraphy - Three Works from the Elliott Collection; Private Lives - Public Faces - Relics of Calligraphy by Zhao Mengfu, Guan Daosheng and Their Children; Severed Heads - Demarcating Conceptual Space in Mughal Painting; The Symbolism of Flowers and Birds in Chinese Painting; An Repositioning of a Medieval Painting Monument - the Ten Kings at the Seikado Library; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy of this beautiful issue. Book
2nd printing. VI,144 p. Original wrappers, very good condition. Groß Breesen war der Name eines nicht-zionistischen Ausbildungsgutes für junge deutsche Juden und Jüdinnen im schlesischen Dorf Groß Breesen (heute: Brzezno Trebnitz) bei Trebnitz (wikipedia).
76 pages. Features: Nice Sears two-page ad features one-page color photo of a Norman Rockwell-like family meal; "The Farm" of Summertown, TN; Ronald Reagan's Tax Triumph - article with color photo of Reagan and his lieutenants celebrating; Tip O'Neill and his fleeced flock; Behind the William (Bill) Casey Flap; Passing of Master Builder Robert Moses; Nice color photo ad for the Fiat X1/9; Gay Power in Macho Houston; Death of Sailor Paul Trerice aboard the U.S.S. Ranger; A Fresh Look at the Mideast - New Role for the Palestinians in the Peace Process?; Fall of a Disloyalists - Alexander Haig's problems with ambassador Robert Neumann; Another Exile for Abolhassan Bani Sadr of Iran; Death of a Strongman - Brig. Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera of Panama; Tough Economic Times in Poland; Lurching Toward Cancun - The Third World; Nice color-photo centerfold ad for Pioneer Hi-Fi products; Charles and Diana - Royal Wedding - article with color photos; The Curse of the Hmong; Surgery on the Unborn - Rosa Skinner - Hydronephrosis; Cadillac Cimarron ad; Showdown at Diablo Canyon - embattled nuclear plant; Beer Brewer H. Heileman Brewing Co.; America's first private-sector rocket launch from the Matagorda Space Port; Adoptee James Grant George and his need for a bone marrow transplant; Photos of Mike Schmidt and Valenzuela; Kathy Whitworth - The Million-Dollar Lady; Middle Class Junkies - heroin has become a dangerous new kick; Nice Chrysler Cordoba (Corinthian Edition) ad; Gene Splicing On the Farm; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book