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1943374748Illustrated London News London 1943. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 728 pages. Half year volume bound in ochre buckram gilt lettered. In attractive bright condition internally with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 25 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News hardcover
1958374741Illustrated London News London 1958. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 1156 pages. Half year volume bound in dark blue buckram gilt lettered. In attractive bright condition internally with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 25 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News hardcover
1959374743Illustrated London News London 1959. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 964 pages. Half year volume bound in dark blue buckram gilt lettered. In attractive bright condition internally with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 25 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News hardcover
1960374733Illustrated London News London 1960. Publisher's Binder. Very Good Condition. 756 pages. Original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrappers all containted in the publisher's heavy duty Easibind binder. Each weekly issue can be removed from the binder if needed. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1960374734Illustrated London News London 1960. Publisher's Binder. Very Good Condition. 756 pages. Original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrappers all containted in the publisher's heavy duty Easibind binder. Each weekly issue can be removed from the binder if needed. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1960374739Illustrated London News London 1960. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 1204 pages. Half year volume bound in dark blue buckram gilt lettered. In attractive bright condition internally with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 25 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News hardcover
1961374735Illustrated London News London 1961. Publisher's Binder. Very Good Condition. 820 pages. Original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrappers all containted in the publisher's heavy duty Easibind binder. Each weekly issue can be removed from the binder if needed. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1962374732Illustrated London News London 1962. Publisher's Binder. Very Good Condition. 624 pages. Original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrappers all containted in the publisher's heavy duty Easibind binder. Each weekly issue can be removed from the binder if needed. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1962374731Illustrated London News London 1962. Publisher's Binder. Very Good Condition. 784 pages. Original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrappers all containted in the publisher's heavy duty Easibind binder. Each weekly issue can be removed from the binder if needed. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1964374738Illustrated London News London 1964. Magazine. Very Good Condition. 695 pages. 16 original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrapper. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Priced as a group. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1964374737Illustrated London News London 1964. Magazine. Very Good Condition. 668 pages. 17 original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrapper. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Priced as a group. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
19872090502113717589Not Available 1987. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1952List2814Homestead Pennsylvania 1952. 7 x 9 inch photograph. International News Photos and Tribune 4th Edition stamps verso with newspaper clipping. Marked “623†in pencil recto. Fine. Olive Moorefield b.1932 is an American opera singer and theater and film actress from Homestead Pennsylvania. As the newspaper clipping on the back of this photograph—from very early in Moorefield’s career—explains “She had earned $22 by baby sitting and decided to go to New York in hopes of auditioning for a play. She was given a try at a part in ‘My Darlin’ Aida’ . She made the gradeâ€. Following Aida she was brought to Vienna by the US Information Service to sing for servicemen and would go on to sing for the Vienna Volksoper Oper Frankfurt Schauspielhaus Zürich and others. She would also star in a number of German and Viennese films. Offered here is a photograph of Moorefield’s mother sitting on the porch of Moorefield’s childhood home. The clipping states that her mother “urged her to try for the part†of Lolly in Aida. unknown
191222142San Francisco: Published by L. A. Larsen 1912. 4to. 48 pp. 18 illustrated plates presenting various designs. Business advertisements. Two black & white photographs of the existing city hall laid in. Yellow staplebound wrapers. A scarce edition of the "Building and Industrial News weekly publication devoted to the building and industrial activities of the Pacifc Coast; only 1 copy located at Stanford University Library. This issue contains complete drawings of the accepted design for the San Francisco City Hall the winning Architects Bakewell & Brown together with twenty other half tones of the elevations submitted by the architect awarded prizes of one thousand dollars each. The competition was the most noteworhy architectural one ever held on the Pacific Coast. One hundred and odd applications were received and seventy-three sets of finished plans were submitted. Published by L. A. Larsen unknown
1990215702No Place of Publication.: No publication details in English. Circa1990. Collection of 36 colour and black and white photographs printed on glossy paper. Each is captioned with explanation of the significant event pictured and most have dates. The first photogaph has two light diagonal creases but all are in very good condition. 19 x 26cm. Text in simplified Chinese characters. These photographs were taken between 1921 and 1990 and depict a careful selection of significant news events of the time; conferences meetings between Chinese statesmen and world leaders military and political campaigns and markers of technological and economic progress. Included are a mix of popular and less well-known images from the Communist Party's history concluding with the 7th Plenary Session of the Party's 13th Central Committee in December 1990 at which the 8th Five-Year Plan was adopted. <br> <br>A common theme throughout the set is the recurring presence of Deng Xiaoping through the years ostensibly to highlight his dedication to the Party. His presence starts with his activities as a guerrilla in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938 his leading role at the Party's 8th Congress in 1956 and the Seven Thousand Cadres Conference in 1962 his launching of the Reform and Opening Up policy in 1978 and meeting with Margaret Thatcher in 1984 to discuss the handover of Hong Kong. . No publication details in English. unknown
1979223329Kyoto.: 京都民芸協会. Kyoto mingei kyokai. 1979 1982 1986. Three issues no. 12 21 37. Maps black and white photographic illustrations 31 to 39pp each. Text in Japanese. 18.5 x 13cm. Stapled wrappers very lightly browned at margins a very good set. . 京都民芸協会. [Kyoto mingei kyokai]. unknown
193069495Various places 1930-1936. Generally very nice. Various sizes; about 8 x 6.". Lindbergh in Copenhagen; Lindbergh with Nazi Dr. Wurster; veteran French aviator welcoming Lindberg; with Anne in aircraft; and four pertaining to the kidnapping proceedings. unknown
1936102433Hobart: Davies Brothers Limited 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Hobart Davies Brothers Limited 1936 to 1938. Quarto each number comprising 8 pages with illustrations mainly from photographs. Plain binder's cloth a little marked flecked and rubbed at the extremities with the rear cover heavily mottled; endpapers foxed; light tidemark to the bottom corner of three numbers the first two and the last one; trifling signs of use; a very good run. Published during the editorship of Frederick Usher 1931-1943 'The Mercury House News' was 'published monthly by and in the interests of the employees of Davies Brothers'. In the first number the Managing Director C.B. Davies writes that 'There is no reason why this little sheet should not be a means of improving the mutual understanding between employer and employee thereby creating a feeling of confidence and attaining the good fellowship and co-operation between the departments of the whole organisation of Davies Brothers Limited'. The end result is the desired 'blend of humour in general items' with departmental reports that are 'a serious record of the events of the month - improved plant promotions social items sporting news and the like'. However Number 14 is the 'Last Issue. Owing to the regrettable decision of the piece-workers of the Linotype Chapel "that they will not set the matter for HOUSE NEWS unless payment is made for same" and as the publication is entirely a voluntary effort on the part of all employees in which considerable interest has been taken and pleasure derived it is regretted that the publication will cease with this issue'. We thought complete runs of this in-house journal would be scarce but we were very surprised to find no record of any issues at all in Trove. Davies Brothers Limited hardcover
1967R68112Moscow: Moscow News 1967. 1st edition. Nice copy. oblong octavo. pictorial wrappers 80pp. illusts. music 12 popular songs. Dual text ENGLISH / RUSSIAN. Inc. Yevtushenko. Scarce Moscow News unknown
1938List2978San Quentin California 1938. Single 6 ½ x 8 ½ inch photograph caption affixed verso and marked verso “CALIF - STATE - PRISON SAN QUENTIN CALIFâ€. Folded at middle marginal wrinkling and small tears; fine contrast very good to excellent. A press photograph looking into the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison taken following the execution of Albert Kessel 1909–1938 and Robert Lee Cannon 1908–1938. The pair were the first to be executed at San Quentin using that method; they were two of five men executed for their role in an attempted escape from Folsom Prison that caused the death of warden Clarence Larkin and a guard. The photo’s caption reads in part:<br /> <br /> “Into these two black chairs Albert Kessel and Robert Lee Cannon were strapped today in the state’s first execution with use of lethal gas. A few seconds later the door was shut and made airtight; witnesses lined around the window and then the deadly cyanide eggs released.â€<br /> <br /> In 1994 the use of cyanide gas was ruled cruel and unusual and banned in California to be replaced by lethal injection; in 2006 a court order halted capital punishment in the state altogether though it is still legal. unknown
19054903Tacoma: Central News Co 1905. First edition. Oblong 12mo 11.6x16.5cm 14pp. Photographic illustrations. Original illustrated wraps serving as a mailing envelope closing with a red seal still attached. Very good with toning and chipping to edges of wrappers. Uncommon souvenir/viewbook of Tacoma consisting of 10 photographic views of the city with captions. There is a header on the first page "Tacoma Wash.____________190_" with blank space below for a written message. Views of the Carnegie Library Tacoma Hotel and Totem Pole Wright Park and other historic sites. Worldcat locates a single copy at Yale. Central News Co unknown
1992163625北京. Beijing.: 奥运快报社.Ao yun kuai bao she. 1992. Combined edition of Chinese language newspaper reporting 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games 25 July to 9 August 1992 organised by Xinhua News Agency and published by Olympic Express Agency. It covers the period from July 4th to August 12th 1992 issued daily. This collection has a total of 39 issues bound together but lacks the first issue July 4th and the upper wrapper paper spine is damaged with loss pictorial lower wrapper present. Each issue runs for 8 pages printed on double sided. Binding very poor but the issues themselves are in good condition. Text in Chinese. 38 x 26.1cm. Working copy only. The 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona were the third Olympic Games the People's Republic of China participated in after a long absence 1956 - 1980. <br> <br>China won 16 gold 22 silver and 22 bronze medals in total and ranked 4th at that game. Many historical records were achieved for the Chinese team including a big breakthrough for the swimming team winning a combined 4 golds and 5 silvers. World famous table-tennis player Deng Yaping went home with both single and double gold medals and was honourably presented the medals by IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch. . 奥运快报社.[Ao yun kuai bao she]. unknown
1979169137江西.Jiangxi.: 中共江西省委办公厅. Zhong gong Jiangxi sheng wei ban gong ting. 1979. A broken run of special propaganda periodicals written by the journalists from Xinhua News agency between 21 February 1979 and 11 March 1979 compiled by the General Office of Jiangxi Provincial Government. Pages in each vary between 4pp -12pp. Evenly browned with occasional foxing small tears on edges issue no. 15 small pin-holes left edge suggesting the issues were bound together at one stage generally good in wrappers. Text in Chinese. 26.1 x 18.7cm. The Self-defence War against Vietnam also known as the Sino-Vietnamese War took place on the borders between the two nations from 17 February to 16 March 1979. Editorials in this collection mainly exoll Chinese military victories in Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. Most issues also include news from the war front as well as the statements from international communities. . 中共江西省委办公厅. [Zhong gong Jiangxi sheng wei ban gong ting]. unknown
19882082402113501774International Resource Association 1988. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 International Resource Association paperback
19782090602128805430Gyoseitsushinsha 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Gyoseitsushinsha paperback