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Features: The War Department's Tragic Failure - the looting of taxpayers by some of World War One's dollar a year men - great photo; Sales article by Arthur H. Little; and more. Colour Grape-Nuts advertisement upon back cover. Above-average wear but still intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
Features: Krugerrand advertisement; Belgium - a flourishing hub of illicit trade in endangered species; Q and A with Alvin Toffler; Arafat leaves Beirut for Greece, ending 12 years of PLO activity in Lebanon; Marc Lalonde's federal budget - big for business; Is Canada's Tax System Fair? - by Linda McQuaig; Questions about Bryce Mackasey's Finances; Peter Blaikie leaves the federal PC leadership contest; Politics and property rights in Canada; Central American dilemmas; Bombing at U.S. embassy in Beirut - with photo; Vintage colour ad for Radio Shack TRS-80 computer family; Poland - heading back to the brink?; Ontario's great Trust Affair - Leonard Rosenberg; Brazil's struggle with debt; Peter C. Newman on Walter Gordon; Carling Bassett scores a big breakthrough; Canada's field hockey future; The new bad nuclear news - with photo of a B-52 on the 'Trestle' - shielding electronic circuitry from the EMP threat; Acid Rain controversy; Allan King's controversial documentary on the effects of unemployment; Great vintage colour ad for the Apple personal computer; the University of Waterloo has quietly become one of North America's leading training grounds for computer scientists; Canal to connect the Danube with the Rhine; Fine tuning for Canadian pay TV. Average wear. Book
Features: Cover illustration of the Beachhead Flying Boat; Deep Sea Mystery Story; The Hospital Comes to the Patient; Korean radiant floor heating; Panorama on a giant screen - Vitarama; Dust bowl laboratory; First of the 1950 cars; High Voltage Magic; Hospital for sick cars - John P. 'Jack' Snyder and Snyder-Lynch Motors in Burbank, California; The Contour Saw; Full-page Harley Davidson Hydra-Glide advertisement; Intersting Camel cigarette ad on back cover urges readers to take a 30-day test 'in your T-zone' - includes endorsements from Cole Porter and others. Average wear. Unmarked. Chips from spine. Binding intact. Please note: First leaf appears to be missing. This was part of an ad regarding television static caused by spark plugs. Magazine
28 pages. Articles: Savings and Government Loans, by Morris W. Wilson; B.C. Telephone Employees Rally to War Savings Appeal; Teleophone Operator Writes of War-Time Britain; Pioneer Mission, B.C. Telephone Man Passes Away - John A Catherwood; Eddie Esson is Braving the "Blitz" Somewhere in England; Employees for Credit Unions; Samples of Canada's first telephone advertising, used in 1877 to promote Bell Telephone usage. War savings certificate advertisement on back cover features quote by and silhouette of Winston Churchill. Average wear. Considerable pencil annotations, particularly to back cover and last page. Middle page loose but present. A worthy copy. Book
Features: The Mob - Part 4 of a Series - Gambler Sammy Klein was killed by loansharks for being late with his payments; If you can't speak Canadian, don't worry - Nobody Can; Maggie Grant; Centerfold advertisement for Esso Power Players NHL card promotion; What makes Jack Chambers Canada's top-priced painter? - four page article with nice colour illustrations; Canada has a great chance in the North American tiddlywinks championships!; Prominent Canadian Ladies suggest what a man should smell like; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
Approx. 40 pages. Features: The Metadyne system of electric motor control; Engineers' Experiences; Electrical Pyrometers; Marine Control Gear; Power Factor Meters; 25-line Private Automatic Telephone Exchange; Electrical Equipment in a Modern Store; Making Agreements for Power Supply; Reading Switchboard Instruments from a distance; Development of X-rays in Dental Practice; Selection of Factory Substation Switchgear; Mercury switches and their applications; Ballast Resistances; Electrical Progress Overseas; Opportunities in the Cinema Industry. Well-worn. Bottom staple has torn through cover else no major defects. Unmarked. Blue and Orange front cover features advertisement for Callender Cables showing the vessel "Stirling Castle" equipped with 112 miles of their cable. Book
39 pages. Features: Power Supplies for Large Buildings; Parallel Working of Alternators Simply Explained; Applications of Photo Cells to Mechanical Handling; Modern Methods of Battery Charging; A.C. Carbon Arcs; Electric Heating in Industry; Current Limiting Reactors; The Strowger Photo Tlelmetering System; Control gear for A.C. Motors; Power Factor Correction Plant; Recent Patent Specifications; Engineer's Experiences. Cigarette smoke odour. Small quantity of "nibbling" to top corner of front cover and first few leaves. Well worn but intact. Blue and orange front cover features picture of the vessel Queen Mary in an advertisement for Callender Cable which supplied 650 miles of cable for its construction. Two-colour center-fold advertisement for Crabtree Automatic Control Gear manufactured by J.A. Crabtree & Co. Ltd. Unmarked. Book
Approx. 40 pages. Features: James Clerk Maxwell; Electric Ship Propulsion - Part I; German Standars for Electric Traction; The British Standard Specifications - Mining Electrical Equipment; Electrolytic Condensers; Wilson Electric Tower Wagon; Domestic and Industrial Electric Heating Installations; Portable Instruments in the Factory; Useful Data Relating to Three-Phase Motors (7.5-25 h.p.); Electrical Testing Instruments; Electron Tube Devices; Electrical Progress Overseas; Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Demonstration. Very well-worn with 1x2 inch chip from top corner of front cover. Front cover advertisement for the Midland Electric Manufacturing Co. Ltd. reads "Britannia rules the waves but M.E.M. controls the current." Unmarked. Magazine
Approx 40 pages. Features: Magnetic and Motorised Valves; Measuring Voltages in Excess of Meter Range; Inductive Interference; Construction of Steel Tank Rectifiers; Electrically Propelled Transfer Cars; Regenerative Braking Systems; Diary of an Electrical Contractor; The Design of Lighting Fittings for Particular Applications; Insulation Testing Instruments; Electrical Drying Equipment; Conversion Efficiency in Cinemas; Power Factor for the Plant Engineer. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Please Note: Large chunk has been torn from upper corner of front cover, which features an advertisement for Mazda Lamps. Book
Portrait of Lieutenant-General Travers E. Clarke on front cover. Features: The Advance on Zonnebeke (conclusion); Photos of excavating with horse and shovel; The Smashing Victory of Broodseinde; Centerfold is a lovely montage of photos of decorated women; The Conquest of Peolcappelle and the Reverse of Passchendaele; National War Bonds advertisement on back cover. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
Portrait of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Herbert Lawrence on front cover (there is also an excellent full-page photographic portrait of him at the centerfold). Features: The Conquest of Poelcappelle (conclusion); The Closing Victories on the Passchendaele Ridge - great tank photos; War Bond advertisement inside back cover. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
Portrait of Colonel T.H.J.C. Goodwin on front cover. Features: The Closing Victories on the Passchendaele Ridge (conclusion); The Man Who Willed the War - Words and Wanderings of the Kaiser William - with numerous photos; Centerfold portrait of Lieut.-General Travers Clarke; Centerfold portrait entitled Representatives of the Allied Powers attending the first meeting of the Allied Naval Council, London, January 22nd, 1918; Back cover advertisement for National War Bonds. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
Features: Unfair Tax Laws - you are probably paying more than your share, says Ross M. Robertson; Albania - where Stalin still rules - can this tiny, backward Communist nation continue to oppose Khrushchev's power?; People on the Way Up - Giancarlo Baghetti, Jane Powell Rosenthal, Mark Wilson (TV's top magician); The Grass Craze - lawn lovers by the millions have taken the greensward to heart - here's how to work wonders with your private pasture; The New Frontier Women - wives of White House insiders battle to keep up with the sophisticated, hectic life in the Capital, by Flora Lewis; We Waste a Million Kids a Year - can our schools bridge the gap? - part 2 of 3; Timeless Idaho - how this wildly beautiful state preserves a slow-paced, independent way of life; The Last Days of Sugar Ray - the rise and fall of America's flashiest titleholder, the boxer they said would never have money trouble. Uncommon full-page advertisement for Tea ('The Hot Refresher') features the Detroit Red Wings NHL Hockey Team with black and white images of Sid Abel, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, and others. Average wear. Tears to to some interior pages at fold, otherwise a sound copy. Book
Features: The House in the Woods - the author made a 1908 car journey along a large portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway; Through the Wilds of Persia - by Major P.M. Sykes; A Game of Chess - a remarkable story from South Dakota about how a young chess enthusiast was compelled to play a game, with his own life for the stakes; Among the Gaddis - Nomad shepherds of the Central Himalayans; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part II of a story by Mrs. Fred Maturin; A Holiday in Japan - by Mrs. Ellen Beadnell (lovely photos); Across Unknown Labrador, The Land Where Hubbard Died - H. Hesketh Prichard relates how he attempted to do what no white man had ever done before, to cross this desolate wilderness from the Atlantic to the George River - great photos (part I); The Bandits of the Argentine - the 'Nort Americanos'; The Mysterious Senoussiland - part II of a Saharan adventure; The King of the Sticks - how Connie Chambers of Boston, a solitary white prospector, constituted himself as monarch of a tribe of Alaskan Indians, cleverly turning the tables on a policeman who was sent to arrest him; Lost in an underground lake - the appalling adventure which befell three prominent citizens of Joplin, Missouri at the Hero zinc mine in the spring of 1908; "Baching"; A Mexican Elopement; and more. Fascinating two-page illustrated stock offering by the American Automobile Manufacturing Company of Louisville, Kentucky. Nice Vose Piano advertisement on back cover. Great vintage Budweiser advertisement inside back cover. Lower two inches of front cover open at spine. Average wear. Magazine
19,5x14. 186p. Marca anterior poseedor.
25x16,5 cm; 176 pp. e una c. di tav. fuori testo con ritratto dell'autore. Brossura editoriale rossa con titolo e immagini di chiavi con il motto “Les Clefs du Succes” impresse in nero al piatto anteriore, alone d'umidità che scolorisce circa metà del piatto anteriore e per il resto in ottime condizioni di conservazione, a fogli ancora chiusi. Rarissima prima edizione di questa celeberrima opera di uno dei pionieri della pubblicità. Numerosissime immagini pubblicitarie nel testo. Opera tirata in soli 2000 esemplari numerati, il nostro è il numero 1711. Original Brochure. FIRST EDITION. RARE, UNCAT. NON ROGNE.
Encadrée à Londres , cette aquarelle fait partie d'un ensemble de quatre peintures sur le même sujet , représentant le village de pêcheurs de Sant Angelo avec les filets séchant sur la jetée . Une seule est signée de Sydney L. MOSS , mais les quatre sont du même artiste . Il s'agit probablement du fondateur de la célèbre galerie d'art chinois et japonais de Londres . Le prix indiqué comprend les quatre tableaux , qui ne peuvent être vendus séparément . Toutes encadrées . ( cf. description et photos des trois autres )
Encadrée à Londres , cette aquarelle fait partie d'un ensemble de quatre peintures sur le même sujet , représentant : L'île volcanique d'Ischia , vue de la mer avec un voilier qui passe devant le fort . Une seule est signée de Sydney L. MOSS , mais les quatre sont du même artiste . Il s'agit probablement du fondateur de la célèbre galerie d'art chinois et japonais de Londres . Le prix indiqué comprend les quatre tableaux , qui ne peuvent être vendus séparément . Toutes encadrées . ( cf. description et photos des trois autres )
Encadrée à Londres , cette aquarelle fait partie d'un ensemble de quatre peintures sur le même sujet , représentant : Deux pêcheurs à la ligne sur des roches avançant dans la mer , en contre bas du fort Castello sur l'île d'Ischia . Une seule est signée de Sydney L. MOSS , mais les quatre sont du même artiste . Il s'agit probablement du fondateur de la célèbre galerie d'art chinois et japonais de Londres . Le prix indiqué comprend les quatre tableaux , qui ne peuvent être vendus séparément . Toutes encadrées . ( cf. description et photos des trois autres )
Encadrée à Londres , cette aquarelle fait partie d'un ensemble de quatre peintures sur le même sujet , représentant : Les ruines d'un temple grec , sur l'île d'Ischia . Une seule est signée de Sydney L. MOSS , mais les quatre sont du même artiste . Il s'agit probablement du fondateur de la célèbre galerie d'art chinois et japonais de Londres . Le prix indiqué comprend les quatre tableaux , qui ne peuvent être vendus séparément . Toutes encadrées . ( cf. description et photos des trois autres )
Licet 1988, In-4 broché, 183 pages. Cachet de bibliothéque. Bon état.
