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In 8°, br. edit. ill. con ali, pp. 348,(4) con num. ill. f.t. b/n, volume nr. 55 della "Biblioteca del mare" (sezione "Drammi, misteri e tesori. 4"); copia molto buona. (x044) (spedizione standard SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata-piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine)
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Sticker residue on rear cover. Staple-bound. 8 1/2"w x 5 1/2"h. 72 pages. Black and white illustrations. Facsimile edition of an Olympic/Titanic publicity booklet, 1911.
1 Vol. In-8 m. tela edit.,tit. al dorso, sovracpt. ill pag. 312 PROG 12935 CATT_ATT 22
AA.VV Cherbourg, Port du Titanic et des transatlantiques. , La Presse de La Manche 2012, Copertina flessibile illustrata, volume in ottime condizioni con fotografie Molto buono (Very Good) . <br> <br> Copertina flessibile <br> 247<br>
Features: New Pioneers of an old idea - the commercial windship; A return to sail in the Pacific; Manatees of the Amazon; Seaweed with Potential; Portfolio of Dangerous Sea Creatures; Ocean-Fired Power Plants; Titanic Memorial Lighthouse; Fish Aggregating Buoys. Sound copy. Book
Volume in 4°, legato in mezza tela, titolo al dorso (mende e mancanze), sguardie, doppio frontespizio, occhiello, 656 pp. comprensive di indice, 63 pp. di supplemento "Bilanci di marine estere", numerose tavole f.t. di cui molte fotografiche. Molti gli interessantissimi temi accuratamente trattati nel presente volume: Marina militare e mercantile, peschereccia, da diporto, Economia, Costruzioni navali, Industrie commercio e traffici marittimi, Elettricità, Geografia, Colonie, Viaggi, Politica, Areonautica, Notizie scientifiche e tecniche, Bibliografia. Dall'indice, su decine di titoli: "La conquista dell'Antartide", "Il disastro del Titanic (14 aprile 1912)", "Sommergibili: esperienze per il loro sollevamento" "Le corse di Monaco", "La climatologia delle coste della Libia", "La marina sarda a Tripoli", "Sul lancio di siluro a grandi distanze", "Un idrovolante italiano", "La bussola giroscopica di Sperry". Davvero una miriade di notizie ed informazioni, arricchita dalle belle illustrazioni. Salvo che per le mancanze citate alla tela del dorso ed una conseguente fragilità della cerniera posteriore, il volume si presenta in più che buono stato, quasi del tutto esente da mende sia il testo che le illustrazioni. Di buon interesse ed assolutamente poco comune.
Features: The Potsdam Conspiracy - Chapters from the Inner History of the War - 1, by Lovat Fraser; Photos of the varied work of General Currie's (Canadian) gallant troops; French Pontoniers - the master bridge builders; Working amid the waters on the Flanders front - chain ferry/dam building; Vanguard of a vast American host for France; Waves of attack from trench and breastwork; The Third Battle of Ypres - article by Max Pemberton on the dawn of a titanic conflict in the Flemish markets; In Battle or Barter Ever Cheerful Canadians; French Infantry advance in battle formation - firing-line and supports take a German trench; When Paris was Saved - how Bordeaux celebrated the Victory of the Marne; U-boat Pirates Captured by Belgian Cavalry; How the Gotha's Gun Tunnel Cures the "Blind Spot"; Huns glorify their air-murderers and macines; Gog and Magog on Rations - article by Harold Ashton; Impressions of the Inferno in Artois and Lens; Warm welcome waiting at journey's end; The Empire's Roll of Honour. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
320 pages. Black and white photos and illustrations. List of the dead. Front board illustrated with scene of lifeboats fleeing the crash scene. "A graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to water graves more than 1,500 souls. Giving exciting escapes from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors. Includes history of icebergs, the terror of the seas, wireless telegraphy and modern shipbuilding." - subtitle. Lacking front free endpaper. Wide opening in binding at title page. Despite its deficiences and very heavy wear, a worthy vintage copy of this dramatic history. Book
296 pages. Features: Dorothy Coleman Tribute; Wendy Lawton's Marcella and Raggedy Ann; Doll Design Concept of the Year - DOTY Nominees; Pantin; Dolls based on the Fiammingo Head; Francois Duquesnois (Francesco di Fiammingo); A View of Christmas 1875; The Titanic Connection; A Country rag Doll; The Sewing Machine - a miniature marvel; Norah Wellings' Charm Factory - part 1; The Many faces of Santa Claus; Norah Wellings Novelty Dolls; Collecting the small Composition Doll; Six Composition Character Dolls by the American Doll Company - a comparison study; "Little Lulu, I Love You, Lu"; Betsy McCall Revisited; The Revival of the 1800 Mid-America Handmade Doll with a pattern for Lucritia; Making a Doll-size Version of Little Jocelyn's Late 1930s Dress; Brushes with the Past - John Ben Vanderpool; My Quanah Parker Doll; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
52 pages. Features: Cover photo of HMS Iron Duke; New Warships for Old; The Port of Arklow; 'Titanic' on film; Vintage Liner Safari - Part 2 - In search of Cunarders; Voyage Report - Norway's Coastal Express - Gordon Turner describes a springtime voyage beyond the Arctic Circle aboard the hurtigruten ship Lofoten; Vintage Views - photofeature; A-Z of Liners - Inchanga; Delphine Rediscovered; and much more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: "Probably the most beautiful Rowboat afloat" - The Form and Meaning of the St. Lawrence Skiff; "The Featherweight and the Backwoods" and the evolution of the pack canoe; Reassembly of a Sixteenth-Century Basque Chalupa; Recent Advances in Ship History and Archeaeology, 1450-1650 - Hull Design, Regional Typologies and Wood Studies; The Amsler Integrator and the Burden of Calculation; Snagboats and "Dead-Heads" - Interpreting History Onboard the W.T. Preston; Le Marco Polo, un navire canadien de renommee mondiale au milieu du XIXe siecle; Boat Models, Buoys and Board Games - Reflecting and Reliving Watermen's Work; Culture Materielle et niveaux de richesse chez les pecheurs de Plaisance et de l'ile Royale, 1700-1758; Emotion as Document - Death and Dying in the Second World War Art of Jack Nichols; "You Paint Me a Ship as is Like a Ship" - The Verkin Ship Portraits; Mi-marins, mi-mages - caracteres de l'univers magico-religieux des pecheurs et des gens de mer du littoral tyrrhenien; Les objets du rite - le bapteme de la Ligne; Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven - the Phenomonon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond; Recent Media Treatment of the Titanic Tragedy; Edutainment and the Museum - a cautionary tale; plus 10 book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: Problems that must be solved (story); Hun Energy Expressed in High Explosives; Courtesy and Carefulness Diversely Displayed; Camouflage and contrasts from Flanders to Alsace; Democracy Tests Autocracy with Terms of Peace; Captain Sword and Captain Pen at Brest Litovsk; War in the Air from Home to the Holy Land; Some Sidelights on the Temperament of the Slav (story); Service merciful and military 'mid wintry snow; Tracking the Slinking Jackals of the Sea; Some Episodes in the story of the Seaplane Service (story); Monster Machines that Battle in the Blue; Persistent Pursuit of the Turk in Palestine; Men of the East Render Ready help to the west; How France Faced Hun Spies (story); Titanic feat of Italian Seamen at Trieste; R.G.A. Officer Cadets at a Training School; Pierrots and Pantomime Players from France. The Welsh Guards (story). Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
2 vols., Best Editions; with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt backs a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises A Titanic Myth. The 'Californian' Incident (Second and Best Edition, revised, 1992); A Titanic Myth. Part Two. Defending Captain Lord, (First Edition, 1996). Leslie Harrison devoted many years to an appraisal of Lord's handling of the 'SS Californian' during the Titanic sinking. After eight decades it remains an international controversy dividing Lord's supporters and critics. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 74 plates on 32; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Important and meticulously researched addition to the vast literature of the 'Titanic'. This work, begun by Reade in the early 1960's, was updated and revised for publication by De Groot following Reade's death in 1989. Includes numerous appendices and a select bibliography. Scarce.
8vo., with a frontispiece and illustrations, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth gilt, covers mildly rubbed and age-worn else a good, sound copy. Scarce.
96 pages. Features: Cover illustration by William Winter depicts nervous invitation at youth dance; Movie censorship by province (brief article); Young business man Stephen William Garber; Finance Minister Fleming making enemies with his tight pursestrings; Fort William's censorious mayor Catherine Seppala - Lady Chatterley's Lover; Editorial says "If we burn Lady Chatterley, why not the Bobbsey Twins?"; The Grey Cup - and football - "are for the birds" says Frank Fredrickson; One-page colour ad for Orient & Pacific ocean liners; My Part in the Stratford Adventure - Tyrone Guthrie is the great director who guided the beginnings of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival; A Plan to Protect Our Savings Against Inflation, by H. Scott Gordon of Carleton University; Monty vs. Ike - a new report on the war's most successful and turbulent military partnership - article with photos from the memoirs of Viscount Alanbrooke; The Fraser River - six hundred miles of savage force; How I Sell Pretty Nearly Everything - Clifford V. French manages a Steinberg's supermarket in Dorval; The Mystery of the "Mice From the Sky" - Sally Carrighar studied lemmings for an arctic winter; The 'Secret Society" that saves marriages - the one thousand unpaid counselors of Britain's National Marriage Guidance Council; How to Lie Your Way to the Grey Cup - article on how CFL coaches lie about the health of their teams; I Watched the Titanic Rescue - Sir James Bisset was second officer of the Carpathia and recalls the rescue dash through icebergs and the grief of the survivors - article with photos; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features treasure divers Art McKee and Jim Thorne; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Philips Sterio Hi-Fi (model F882); Colour-photo ad for Tooke shirts shows curling scene; Molson's Canadian one-page colour-photo ad features the tall clear bottles they used before converting to stubbies; One-page colour ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door sedan (red); One-page ad for "Canada's Own" Electrohome range of products; Zenith TV ad; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features couple in flower garden; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Cover photo of British airships on patrol as guardians of the fleet. Includes concluding portion of "Decisive Supremacy of the British Air Force", with great photos. Interesting centerfold aeroplane photos and a smashing full page photo of the R34, Britain's titanic airship. First portion of Chapter CCXCV - Voluntary Motor Transport in the War - Magnificent and Varied Works of British Motorists. Many great photos. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper plans, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Still the best general account of the 'Titanic' disaster, and the basis of Roy Ward Baker's memorable feature film (1958) starring starring Kenneth More in one of his finest roles. Dustwrapper artwork by Ley Kenyon. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition (of first work), First UK Edition (of second work) , with plates and endpaper plans, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top (first work); blue boards, black cloth back lettered in silver (second work), both very good, bright, clean copies in unclipped dustwrapper. The first work remains the best general account of the 'Titanic' disaster, and the basis of Roy Ward Baker's memorable feature film (1958) starring starring Kenneth More in one of his finest roles. The sequel collects new thoughts, theories and revelations on the disaster. Dustwrapper artwork by Ley Kenyon (first work) and Vittoria Semproni (second work).
32 pages. Features: Cover photo from deck of battleship "North Carolina" with guns firing; Two pages of photos from the Russian front include an armoured Russian train about to be blown up, a Soviet armoured car ablaze, German troops occupying the city of Dniepropetrovsk, a crippled panzer unit, terrified horses as shells explode nearby, large Soviet motorized gun, and bridge blown up by the Soviets on their retreat from Narva; photo of De Gaulle inspecting Free French troops in Surrey; Photo of Averill Harriman with Lord Beaverbrook, Mr. Eden and M. Maisky; Photo of rail crash wreckage in Cheshire where nine died; Photos of the Shah of Iran and the former Crown Prince of Iran, Shahpoor Mohammed Riza; Two pages of photos showing Russia's women at war - determined to take over men's jobs and hold key positions in U.S.S. R. workshops; Detailed illustrations explain the Acoustic Mine - a new terror of the under-sea war; Photo of HItler and Mussolini strolling through a devastated Russian village; Six photos of Russia's industrial might; Photos of Lieut.-Comdr. G.A. Thring and Squad.-Leader J.H. Thompson; Photo of Captain Margesson presenting award to Sandhurst cadet N.B. Erskine; Illustrated article explains the life of a sailor with a corvette on convoy escort duty; Centredold illustration of convoy at sea; Seven intimate photos of the Royal family at home; Wow! photos of thousands of tanks inspected by the King - the greatest concentration of armoured land forces that has ever been witnessed in Great Britain; Photos of the new Handley Page "Halifax" bomber; Photos of the latest cannon-firing "Spitfire"; Photos of scorched earth to infrastructure and coal in Spitzbergen before the residents are removed to Britain - including photo of Canadian officers Brigadier Potts of Saskatoon and Major Geoffrey Walsh of Oakville; Photos illustrated "Luftwaffe Life-Boats" - pneumatic craft carried as small packs; Two pages with nine *fascinating* photos of the primitive people of Tierra Del Fuego; and more. Staples removed. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy of this extraordinary WWII issue. Book
Features: Letters about Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum - marvel or monstrosity?; Seeds of Revolt in Red China? - Richard Hughes writes of the chances of Chiang returning to the mainland; Close-Up of the First Earth Satellite - The U.S. will soon re-attempt to place a satellite in orbit some 225,000 miles up to study the moon; Children in a Crucible - "An account of the impact of the process of desegregation upon both white and Negro children at the high school in Clinton, TN, which was bombed after twelve Negro children were integrated with the 700 white students two years ago, as described by teacher Margaret Anderson; In Defense of the Politician - by Senator Richard L. Neuberger; 'To Learn and Teach the Truth' - Evaluating the performance of UNESCO; How to Mix a Cocktail Party ; A Painting That Tells Modern Art's Story - A Cezanne masterpiece sold last month for $616,000, exemplifying its soaring prestige; Why Russian Women Work Like Men; End of the Boffolo Texensis; Marks of Office - Photos of interesting items in Washington offices; Visitors to the U.N. headquarters in New York; Great color-photo ad for Rheingold Extra Dry beer features photo of Madelyn Darrow, Miss Rheingold 1958 in motorboat; Classy one-page color-photo ad for Jamaica features Noel Coward sipping tea in pounding surf; Article on Boy Scouts; Photos of women's fashions for enchanted; Photos of various fashionable home heating stoves; Four photos from the making of "A Night to Remember" about the Titanic; Six photos of the Aga Khan IV at Harvard; The New York Horse Show; and more. 92 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Attractive black and white photos and illustrations in text. Includes Panama Canal construction. The highlight of this article is the eleven-page article on the Rescue of Titanic survivors by the Carpathia. This article includes twelve black and white photos and is a must for Titanic collectors. Almost two inches thick - a substantive volume in marbled boards with maroon trim. Somewhat above-average wear. Narrow opening in binding at first page, which is partially loose. Narrow opening along back hinge. Usual library markings. Liquid paper applied to upper corner of front free endpaper. A worthy copy. Book
Roy. 8vo., Second and Best Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, and 21 plates (one double-page); original buckram gilt, gilt back, bevelled edges, uncut, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, internally spotless copy. King's work, first published in 1879, immediately established itself as the standard popular reference on the ancient New Forest town; local interest generated the inevitable additions and corrections, but the planned second edition, incorporating the numerous addenda, was deferred by the author's death. This best edition, compiled and published by the author's son from his father's meticulous notes, benefits from much new material and many fresh illustrations. This copy was formerly in the library of Professor [Sir] J H Biles, the eminent naval architect [of 'Titanic' Enquiry fame], and bears his elegant blind-embossed art nouveau bookplate (with press-mark in manuscript) on front paste-down. John Harvard Biles (1854-1933) was apprenticed at Portsmouth Dockyard, studied at the Royal School of Naval Architecture and joined the Admiralty in 1877. His talents were quickly recognised and in 1880 (at the age of only 26) he was appointed chief designer to the major shipbuilder J&G Thomson on Clydebank where he created the revolutionary designs for the 'City of Paris' and 'City of New York'. In 1883 he left to join the foundling consultancy established by Sir Edward Reed, where he quickly became a driving force (the consultancy continues to the present day as Sir J H Biles & Co.). In 1891 he was awarded the Chair of Naval Architecture at Glasgow University (then perhaps the most prestigious such appointment in the world) where he devoted himself to teaching and consultancy on a world-wide scale. IN VIEW OF HIS EMINENCE IN THE FIELD OF SHIP DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, PROFESSOR BILES WAS AN ASSESSOR IN THE ENQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF RMS 'TITANIC' AND SUBSEQUENTLY HE SERVED ON THE BOARD OF TRADE ENQUIRY INTO LIFEBOATS AND LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES WHICH AROSE AS A RESULT OF THE TITANIC LOSS. For his services to the 'Titanic' Enquiry and naval architecture in general, Biles was knighted in 1913
Features: Reasons Why the Canadian Pacific is So Prosperous; Spokane Rate Decision Eagerly Awaited; Value of Steel Equipment Demonstrated in Wreck of the Crack Milwaukee Train, Columbian on May 30th east of Ralston, WA; Continued Smuggling of Opium into West Coast Ports Aboard Trans-Pacific Steamships; Professional Biography of Joseph H. Young, President of Alaska Steamship Co. - with photo; Contracts Let for Coaling Plants in Seattle and Tacoma - article with two photos; $1 Million Available for Improvements at Moran Shipyards; Record Run Between Puget Sound and Callao by Schooner Wilbert L. Smith; After 20 Years on the Seattle-Tacoma Run, Steamer Flyer is Sold - Feature article with photo; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Photo of Steamer Tampico Submerged in Seattle Harbor; Photo of New Boilers for Steamer Charmer built by Commercial Boiler Works of Seattle; Effects of the Panama Canal on Pacific Coast - Oriental Trade; News of Tacoma; Launching of the Titanic - 1/3 page article including photo of the Titanic in drydock with man standing below her massive 100-ton rudder; Charming one-page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West" which connected Seattle with San Francisco; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
