Velikovsky, ImmanuelMareMagnum
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350 pages. Index. Map endpapers. Circa 1978. "If Dr. Velikovsky is right, this volume is the greatest contribution to the investigation of ancient times ever written." - Dr. Robert H. Pfeiffer, Harvard University. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy archival-grade Brodart cover. Binding sound. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
128 pages. Features: Is the U.S. Losing Out in the Caribbean?; The Fourth of July - 1908; "Fair Play for America" Committee; The Fair Trae Racket; The Lost Colony of the Confederacy - A bizarre tale of a Colony of defeated Confederates who tried to start over again in South America; A Barber Speaks His Mind - things a customer should know in view of the rising price of haircuts; What Are You Reading These Days? - A critique that throws light on brainwashing techniques of the book and magazine publishers in America; Debatability of Fluoridation; Smith Street, U.S.A. - reprint of a 1939 article on the battle for democracy in the U.S.; Straight Talk; Nostalgia; Stage Fright - a common fear is explained; The Challenge of Underdevelloped Countries; Red Spies Plague America - an army of 300,000 spies steal military and atomic secrets; Underground "Noah's Ark" - man-made salt caverns in Kansas offer protection in the event of enemy attack; A "New" Task for the Church - the American home has become a real mission field; Old Warhorse Still in Harness - how Charlie Younts dealt with retirement; Exit the Aircraft Carrier; How to Prevent a Cold; Vi Murphy Keeps Her Word - courageous reporter goes to jail rather than betray news source; A Discovery That Changed the World - Paper; The Dalton Trumbo Trumpet - he was jailed in 1950 for contempt of Congress, has since written scripts for Exodus and Spartacus, and now receives adulation. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
in-8°, 330 pp., index, broche, couv. plast. Bel exemplaire. [CA-1]
Book shows light wear to covers only, with some edge wear, a crease on the back, no tears. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Four essays by the above authors, main text by Heyman with heavily illustrated chapters: Looking at Langue today, Reflections of her family, Lange and Taylor, The thirties, Migrant mother as an icon, Lange and the FSA, Stryker, Grapes of Wrath, american Exodus, Public Defender etc.
fort vol. in-8°, 687 pages, 3 cartes, broche, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire bien complet de sa bande pub. [JU-4][NAN-4-]
pp. xxii, 686, (xliii)[Index], (16)[Publisher's catalogue]. Illustrated. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. 8vo. Original printed wraps, worn. Vintage Giant Paperback. BLKAM 2
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Text in English and Hebrew. A bit musty smelling. Catalog from a major exhibit at the Israel Museum.
352 p. + Frontis. Illustrated with more than 200 drawings. Very damp stained. Penciled ownership of L. J. Woodard. All edges gold. Quarto. Original full leather binding. Front board decorated with a design of an Egyptian ship in gold. Spine lettered in gold with raised bands. Binding worn and front board detached. Hardbound. First Edition. HOLY LAND BOX 2
in-8, 255 pp., illustrations, broche, couv. ill. Très bel exemplaire. [NV-28]
Rizzoli maggio 1998. Traduzione di Sergio Mancini. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
303pp., 23cm., br.orig., partiellement non coupé
in-8°, 332 pages, broche, couverture illustree Tres bon etat. [NV-27]
Features: In light of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, Barbara Amiel argues that the rabbis are wrong to suggest that debating certain questions is wrong; Turning off the tap of Soviet emigration; Alberta's separatist WCC party; Tough times for unions; Hospital lineups in BC; Troubles with Haitian taxi drivers in Montreal - Serge Veilleux shot; The Iraq Iran war; Geoffrey Prime - tip of an espionage iceberg; Unemployed Irishman finds his way into Queen's bedroom; Namibia - a faltering breakthrough; Trouble on Nicaragua's border; Geoge Schultz - new Secretary of State; Pulitzer Prize winner Fred Sparks bequeathes $30k to the PLO - Jewish lobby opposes; Cover Story - The Future of the PLO; Jamil Hilal of the DFLP - Q&A; Power play splits OPEC; Operation Exodus makes a haul - illegal computer shipments from US to Soviet Union; Bow Valley Industries increases its East Coast oil position; Dome Petroleum and its plan to build a $1.7 billion liquefied Natural Gass (LNG) plant and pipeline in Northern B.C. with terminal at Prince Rupert; Victoria - Maui Yacht race; Sweep Six proves very popular at Vancouver's Exhibition Park - horse racing/betting; Canadian team leaves for second Everest attempt; Another voice stilled - Today Magazine to cease publication - Paul Zimmerman; Homeschool article by Judy Shapiro - parents are battling for the right to educate at home; Rapes getting more violent - countermeasures being taken - Jennifer Isford; Branding cattle for a vacation; 1982 Toyota SR5 Corolla hardtop ad inside back cover. Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Singapore - a paradise haunted by dark fears; Haitians dying in exodus; Giovanni Vigliotto claims to have married 105 women; The Gillespie-Lalonde Affair; Herb Gray and the federal government's blue books; Trudeau the the Belize case; Sick Kids baby deaths - who did it?; German election campaign; Brutal tragedy in Assam, India - Hindu/Moslem violence; The world according to Saudi Arabian oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani; Jack Gallagher's farewell to Dome Petroleum - with additional coverage by Peter C. Newman; Controversial National Film Board films on Acid Rain; Troubled Central America hosts the Pope; Bargain-hunting by Canadian tourists; Herschel Walker and the USFL; Cover story - John le Carre's trail of terror - with colour photos. Average wear. Soiling to front cover. Book
xix, 571 pages. Footnotes and bibliography. Index. Maps. Black and white reproductions of photos. Tables. Map endpapers. "Tells the 45-year story of the disastrous conflict between the Communist Party and the 110,000 Mennonites in Russia and the successful transplant of over 30,000 of their number to Canada and to several other countries of the western hemisphere. Designed to interpret the clash of the Mennonite people with the Sovit state, to inform later-generation Mennonites of the experiences of their fathers, and to share with the general reader the inspiration which springs from the dramatic and dangerous, yet providential history of a people." - dust jacket. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this important history. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 408 pages.
104 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for Hilton Hotels features the Palmer House of Chicagp; Superb one-page color ad for Ford Trucks features green pickup in pleasant farm scene; Dow Chemical ad features illustration of kettle and steam inventor James Watt; (Labor) Strike Wave Threatens Essential U.S. Needs; Sam Rayburn - Texan; Joan Bennett's "Scarlet Street" is censored for 'tending to corrupt morals'; Photo of Jane Russell in low-cut blouse posing for painting; Fantastic color one-page Coke ad features crowded soda shop scene with boy singing into napkin holder microphone; Classic one-page color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes titled "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette"; World Watches First Assembly of UNO; Photo of Mickey Rooney shaking hands with De Gaulle; Classic color ad for White Trucks features soda factory and happy end-user; Trial of Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma in Manila; Religious Emancipation is the Jap's by MacArthur's Grace; Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan, chief of UNRRA's activities in Germany, states that the movement of Jews from Poland into Germany looked like a "second Exodus... a well-organized, positive plan to get out of Europe" to Palestine, and that he had seen Jews arriving in Berlin "well-dressed, well-fed, rosy-cheeked and (with) plenty of money..They certainly do not look like persecuted people."; U.S. Need to keep peace pledges slows homeward trek of troops; A Safe American Must be founded on Strength; Nice Firestone Tire color centerfold features race car; Nice Old Thompson whiskey ad features piano keyboard; Photo of ex-POW Pvt. Cleo Brown and his bride in Milwaukee hotel; Photos of changing Navy fashions; Doukhobor article with stripping photo; Oil strike in Chile; Color photo ad for Chrysler features Andre Kostelanetz leading orchestra; Classy one-page color ad for the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation; Brief obituaries for William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw); Hector Charlesworth; William T. Dewart Jr., Slim Summerville; Germ Warfare Article with photo of Major Merck inspecting Camp (Fort) Dietrich laboratories - US was set for biological war more terrible than enemy knew; Rare Great Northern Railway ad features the opening of modern China (very prescient); SN 7618 for Malaria; photo of Lt. Col. Margaret Craighill; Great photo ad by the Cuban National Tobacco Commission features Edward G. Robinson lighting up; Article on Branch Rickey; Jockey Woolf, 1909-1946; Sensational one-page color ad for Grace Line features illustrations of their new fleet of twenty "Santa" ships; Rare one-page ad for Cuba Mail Line entitled "Ice Cubes for Cuba" shows happy family table; Curious ad for National Company's Radios features small illustration of 'slant-eyed' Chinaman above text "Gung Ho"; The Press, the Radio, and Mr. La Guardia; Color-photo ad for Canadian Club features mountain climbing on Mexico's Popocatepetl; and more. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Contents: Color ad for 'Ask for Ethyl'; Bankers Trust ad - Buy Victory Bonds; Babcock & Wilcox ad - bombs and beauty aids need steam; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color ad for 1946 Packard cars; Auto strike raises new issue for Industrial Wars in America - the nation's biggest union asks stake in affairs of management by cry of 'Let's see the books'; Mrs. Damato of Shenandoah, Pa. christens the U.S.S. Damato - she lost two sons in the war; Photo of James Hendrix, Army hero; Matt Kimes - cop killer; Why the Fleet could not retreat to the West Coast - Admiral William V. Pratt; Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack; Where the War Cause Lies - Japan; Nice color ad for General Tire; Color ad for the Aeroprop division of GM; Ezra Pound returns to the US to face charges of treason - with photo; The Federation of Atomic Scientists; Native world from Zion to Java stirred by nationalist little wars; 4 photos of Japan's Hirohito visiting the shrines of Ise to report Japan's defeat to his predecessors; Thorez, red architect of France; the Nuremberg Tribunal - with labelled photo of 20 defendants in their courtroom positions; two photos of Eva Braun; War-Winning Old Guard Begins Exodus from Top Service Jobs - retirements of Staff Chief and Fleet Commander are first of many peacetime moves; Super color centerfold for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Seabees dig in darkly for spell with Eskimos - Navy installations in the far north; Photo of the real Kilroy; C.D. Howe has his fingers in many pies; Canada's Baby Bonus; Heavy heavy over stock boom hangs wage-price policy delay; Inventor Gilbert Brereton and ramie; S. DeWitt Cough, President of Abbott Laboratories, calls for national health care; Robert Benchley 1889-1945; Color ad for teh Douglas DC-6; The reality of Salvador Dali; Unusual color Monsanto ad on back cover features young lovely speaking into a huge contemporary walkie-talkie. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
100 pages. Features: Fantastic Chrysler/Plymouth color-photo 4-panel ad inside front cover features the Scamp, Valiant Brougham and Gold Duster; State of the President (Richard Nixon); Electronic Vision - research aims for artificial sight; Film "The Exorcist" leads to frenzy of interest in exorcisms; Pending coalminer strike in Britain; America's oil companies seen as villains in the energy squeeze; Dr. Thomas E. Deiker argues for gun control; Nice color-photo ad for the Ford Maverick; Watergate scandal - John Dean, H.R. Haldeman; Photo of President Nixon and family with Billy Graham; Illinois Democratic candidate Jimmy H. Martin; Murder of John Bambic in San Francisco; John Margulies steals art from his parents, Irwin and Paula; What Makes Syria Tick?; Communist Dissidents Ludvik Vaculik, Paul Goma, Wolf Biermann and Wladyslaw Bienkowski; Terror in Phnom Penh - Frenc Exodus; Eric Gairy of Grenada; Nice color ad for the Zenith Chromacolor II TV; Horrible photos of Sao Paulo highrise fire - with falling bodies; The Cooling of Fidel Castro; John F. Kennedy Jr. with Muhammad Ali; Color-photo GM centerfold ad features the memorable front grills of the 1974 Buick LeSabre, Pontiac grand Am, Oldsmobile Delta 88, Chevelle Laguna Type S-3 and Cadillac Coupe deVille Cabriolet; Bart Bradish has cerebral palsy; Chess article on Boris Spassky; Boxer Joe Frazier - The End of the Road; American Folk Art; Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Increasing demand for kosher meals on Western Airlines; The Devil - a durable personifcation of evil; Cover photo of priest holding crucifix in exorcism-mode; Robert Goulet is featured in a Lauder's Scotch ad; Milton Friedman writes about volunteer armed force; Sam Goldwyn, 1881-1974; Colorful photo ad for Inteerwoven socks features a smiling Al Hirt; The development of flywheel power - most likely to come with the Advanced Concept Train; Color photo at for Twist lemon menthol cigarettes on back cover; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Volume I only of four. xx, 472 pages. Bookplate of Josiah Rowles Buckland, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and headmaster of Uppingham Scholl, on front pastedown. Pastedown browned around bookplate and following free endpaper. Occasional foxing marks throughout.
Very uncommon edition by Farrar, Straus and Young with light wear to covers, some fading, former private library stamp inside front and back covers, phone number on front end paper, three pages are printed over as printer's error, illustrations are wood engravings by Ilya Schor. 118 pages. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
"In the second millennium BC the Aegean island of Thera exploded in one of the most massive volcanic eruptions in human history. Could that catastrophe have been linked to the Biblical story of the exodus - the plagues of Egypt and the flight of the Israelites?" 208p. illus. bibliography, index. Neat, clean sold copy except for one library stamp and spine label, missing ffep. Ex-Library
47 pages. Revisits a painful chapter in Canadian history. Abundant black and white illustrations plus a factual, forthright commentary. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Cover portrait of General Sir Henry S. Rawlinson - commanding the Fourth Army on the Somme. Feature: The Great British Battles of the Somme III - Battle of the Woods and the Bazentin Ridges. Photo of New Zealanders in trench. Centerfold photos of British Tank/Land Cruiser. Three photos of the German exodus from Guillemont and La Boisselle. Interesting photos of British shelters and some shattered German dug-outs. Photos of multitudes of prisoners from the Somme on their way to internment in Great Britain. Front cover secured by tape. Back cover missing. Above-average wear. Book
60 pages. Features: Nice color ad for the SS President Hoover; The 8,708,000 Members of the Communist Party of Russia - article with photos; What Makes a Good Spy?; What is the Proper Role of the U.S. Supreme Court?; Franco-German 'Twins' - The cities of Mainz and Dijon are twinned; Plea for Fairer Ladies; Another Summit - pictures of the trek up Everest; Senate Subcommitte on policy planning is spotlighted by the summit collapse and the U-2 affair; Fantastic color-photo ad for the General Dynamics USAF B-58 "Hustler"; Exodus - photos of the making of the movie; Nice fashion photos - Summer in Stripes; Opening the Door for a Deaf Child; and more; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Gently yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
