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0615835201.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
198625469New York: Appearances Press 1986. Touch of rubbing to the silkscreened white covers else near fine in sewn self-wrappers. A sharp copy. Limited edition. Oblong octavo. Number 1 of 100 copies SIGNED and numbered by Crash on the vellum title page. Featuring 12 pages of the graffiti artist's screenprints this volume was one of a series of five silkscreen artists' books produced in 1986 by Appearances Press publisher Joe Lewis in conjunction with the Lower East Side Print Shop the others being Daze Darrel Ellis Betty Tompkins and a collaboration by Marilyn Minter and Christof Kohlhöfer. New York: Appearances Press unknown books
74 pages. Articles:Rescue Below Zero ( part 1 of the story of Bernt Balchen's Arctic Airmen); A Protest Against the Bowls - President of the University of Delaware, William S. Carlson, thinks educators must act to curb exaggerated emphais on postseason football games; That Wonderful Guy - Ezio Pinza - article with great photos; Happy Land of Teen-Agers - George Junior Republic; Look Here, My Good Man; The Unification Row - Famous Plane Designer Ray Holland Jr. Speaks His Piece; Beefsteak Party - great color photos with brief article; The Collier Trophy - For Notable Contribution to Safety in The Air; Mad Hatter - Victor Hoeflich is a pioneer in making party favors - article with color photos; Intrusion into the Past - ace cameraman Leon Shamroy at work on film "Prince of Foxes"; Hell-Bent (part 1 of 3); The Moulmein Star; Woods Full of Parsons; A Little Like Shirley Temple; First Date; Cinderella Rides Again (conclusion); Liberty Hound. Includes these nostalgic ads: Good Year; Puritan Sportswear; Schlitz beer; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features nice color photo of Mrs. Thomas W. Phipps Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
198453609New York: Sidney Janis 1984. First edition. Very good plus. Scarce catalogue of this early joint exhibition by graffiti artists Crash and Daze at the Sidney Janis gallery in New York. Artists and frequent co-exhibitors Daze and Crash were both born in New York City in the early 1960s and both began building a style and a reputation in their teens in the late '70s first meeting in 1977. In October 1980 Crash curated the first major graffiti show Graffiti Art Success for America at Fashion Moda in the South Bronx; Daze was first featured in a gallery space in 1981 in the Beyond Words exhibition alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Crash's own portraits of Basquiat and Haring are among the nine pieces illustrated in this catalogue selected from the 18 and 19 works in each artist's exhibition checklist. 11'' x 8.5''. Original saddle-stapled black and white wrappers. 9 black and white plates. 8 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers. (Sidney Janis) unknown
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked black cloth boards and minor bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little indenting to front and small nick to upper front corner. 207pp. Very well illustrated in black & white.
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116 pages. Short Stories: Enchantment; Don't Leave Me; Drowning Victim; The Gorgeous Smuggler. Articles: Bernard Baruch's Own Story - The 1929 Crash (part 1 of 3); Our Mom, Kate Crosby - Bing's kid brother Bob explains how their mom raised a houseful of rambunctious youngsters; Football Player Dynamite Joe Bellino of Navy; Our New Generation of Rockets - the new solid-fuel Polaris and Minuteman missiles help us close the missile gap; How to Become a Politician; ; Adventures of the Mind - The Future of Man - our new psychosocial form of evolution; Nuns' Day Off (color photo of nuns fishing); The "Attic Children" Go to School - photo-illustrated article on the Nassau Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children in Levittown, Long Island. Serial: Alibi for Murder (conclusion). Ads: Huge 3-panel color Avis ad inside front cover features a red 1961 Ford convertible; Philco TVs; 1961 Valiant (pale blue 2-door Hardtop); Westinghouse washers and dryers; Campbell's vegetable soup; Pall Mall cigarettes; American Can - featuring kids and St. Bernard dog; Fantastic two-page color ad for the 1961 Ford Galaxie Club Victoria (blue) in Rome; Douglas DC-8; Dial soap; Salem cigarettes - couple under pondside tree; *Sensational* color photo centerfold for the 1961 Chrysler Imperial Crown four-door Southampton in Coronado Cream; Unusual one-page ad for G.E. Soft-White light bulbs features Mr. Magoo; Two-page Sunbeam Shavemaster ad; Nice Employers Mutuals of Wausau ad features the Del E. Webb Construction Co. building the rocket test stand at Edwards Air Force Base, with photo of Del E. Webb with Neil Drinkward and Jack Mealey; Zonolite insulation ad features the "Heat Thief"; Lowry Organs; Back cover ad for General Mills cereals on billboard. Average wear. Unmarked. Bit of masking tape on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Twenty-Four Days Adrift - The appalling experiences that befell the crew of the U.S. steamer Dumaru, destroyed by fire and explosion in the Pacific in 1918 - from the logs of Radio-Operator T.W. Bean and Assistant Engineer F.J. Harmon; The Kidnapping of Father Heslin - this unassuming parish priest of Colma, California ultimately died - newspapers helped in catching the kidnapper; The Cross-Eyed Englishman - a rousing story of the Canadian North-West which occured 150 miles north and west of Winnipeg near Lake Winnipegosis; After Big Game With a Camera - Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore hunts big African game with a camera; A Wipe In the Eye - A British officer's amusing account of a lion-hunt which involves a spear; At Grips With a Leopard - Story from Jan Pienaar of the Beira Mashonaland Rhodesia Railway; The Man-Eating Crocodile - The Native Commissioner in charge at Balovale in Northern Rhodesia describes a crocodile surely responsible for many deaths; The Cannibal Islands - Part III - Clifford W. Collinson lived for several years in the Solomon Islands and here describes his visit to the mysterious island of Choiseul and its hidden stronghold - with nice photos; A Rescue By Aeroplane - Captain M.N. Albert's plane crashed on a trip over Northern Quebec and Ontario; Photo of bamboo organ in Catholic church in Los Pinas, Philippines; England's Oddest Treasure-Trove - A vast hoard of gold and silver coins is discovered at Seaton Carew, on the Durham Coast; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part I - A small expedition left England in 1921 to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study the wild Indian tribes - article with photos; Bandit-Hunting - Captain George Ash describes his 18 months serving under Francisco (Pancho) Villa, and a battle with outlaws in Santo Domingo; The Voyage of the "Sargon" - The disastrous voyage of this Grimsby trawler which arrived home weeks late - article with photos; The Bandit of Marseilles - A Bulgarian in France, upset for a sentence passed upon him,begins a vendetta against inoffensive citizens; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
193124565NY USA: Cupples & Leon Company 1931 HARDBACK NODustJacket1931 Early Edition Book Condition: GOOD- AS-IS. NOJACKET. 12mo . Red Illustrated Cloth hard cover of Boy on front with scuffs and stains Wear. Chap Book. Interior slight rub wear some lite stains Mild FOX 210 pgs ADS IN back ends with Motor boys on Wing Book spine FADED. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. NY, USA: Cupples & Leon Company hardcover
191 pages including index. A pictorial celebration of what began as a tentative enterprise in 1882 under the name Dominion Bridge and has since grown into a strong company today called AMCA International. Reveals that founder Job Abbott was a man of vision. Chapters include: Birth of a Country and a Company; The First Two Decades; Turn of hte Century to the Great War; Plowshares into Swords; The Postwar Crescendo and the Great Crash; Civilian Skills Make Military History; Modern Cityscapes; Rebirth for a Second Century. Attractively illustrated, primarily with glossy colour photography. Includes introductory letter above faux signature of Kenneth S. Barclay, Chairman and CEO. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1978233051978. Continental Airlines Flight 603 disaster photographs documenting the burned wreckage and structural damage of the DC 10 runway overrun at Los Angeles International Airport on March 1 1978 one of the most consequential American aviation accidents of the late 1970s and a major catalyst for changes in tire safety standards rejected takeoff procedures and aircraft evacuation systems. Flight 603 a Continental Airlines DC 10 10 scheduled from Los Angeles to Honolulu attempted to abort takeoff after multiple tire failures near decision speed on a wet runway; the aircraft overran runway 6R at LAX the left main landing gear collapsed beyond the pavement fuel tanks ruptured and a major fire engulfed the underside and left side of the aircraft during evacuation. The NTSB recorded 2 deaths and 28 serious injuries in its formal report while later accounts place the eventual death toll at 4 after additional passengers later died from injuries sustained in the crash.<br /> Photo archive of 14 color snapshot photographs each approximately 3.5" x 4.5" Los Angeles International Airport California March 1978. The photographs show Continental Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC 10 10 N68045 after the accident resting heavily fire damaged on the runway and adjacent overrun area. Multiple images focus closely on the burned underside of the fuselage where large sections of aluminum skin have been completely burned away exposing the aircraft's internal rib structure wiring insulation and lower cabin framework. Other views show extensive scorching along the left side of the aircraft blackened and partially melted fuselage panels around the wing root and landing gear area collapsed structural sections beneath the passenger cabin and debris scattered across the wet runway surface. Several photographs widen outward to show emergency and recovery operations surrounding the aircraft including personnel service vehicles cranes and towing equipment positioned around the destroyed DC 10. One image records the full profile of the aircraft from a distance emphasizing the scale of the burn damage extending across much of the fuselage exterior. Together the photographs document not merely the existence of the accident but the specific physical consequences of the runway overrun and post crash fire: ruptured lower fuselage sections exposed aircraft structure burned cabin undersides and the recovery environment at LAX immediately after the disaster. <br /> Flight 603 became an important case study in late twentieth century aviation safety because the accident linked tire failure runway conditions aircraft stopping performance and evacuation survivability within the emerging era of mass deregulated air travel. The NTSB investigation led to recommendations intended to "significantly reduce the incidence of tire failures during takeoffs and rejected takeoffs" while later FAA and industry reforms addressed tire testing standards takeoff performance calculations and the durability and fire resistance of emergency evacuation slides. These photographs preserve the material evidence behind those institutional and engineering changes documenting the burned airframe and structural destruction that transformed Flight 603 into a major reference point in modern commercial aviation safety history. Minor wear from handling. Overall very good condition. unknown
56 pages. Features: Passing of Scott Brayton and John Burgess; National Unity Debate; Guy Bertrand and Quebec's right to self-determination; Unity Debate - furor over fraud and illegal spending by both sides; The Quebec Gridlock; Photo of Brian Mulroney with psychic JoJo Savard; In British Columbia, Gordon Campbell's Liberals vs. Glen Clark and the NDP; Shaky Grip on Power in India; Liberia descends into brutal anarchy - article with very graphic photo; Robert Dole quits Senate to pursue U.S. Presidency; The Tragedy of Admiral Jeremy Michael (Mike) Boorda of the U.S. Navy; Eight climbers die on Mount Everest; Mark Blumes and battle for control of Mark's Work Wearhouse; CRTC Confronts U.S. Satellite TV Challenge; Eugene Lishak and SLM Software Inc. of Toronto provide cash machines for Russian banks - brief news item with photo; The airborne exploits of Father Goose, Bill Lishman; Marc Garneau in astronaut training; Photo of Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo in Uganda; Damon Stoudamire is rookie of the year; Philantropist Joan Chalmers; Auto Eroticism - David Cronenberg's sex-driven movie 'Crash' shakes up the Cannes festival; Ad for the Nissan Quest on back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Edizioni Crash, Rignano Sull'Arno 1986. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Soft cover in fine conditions, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
1304102742.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1300520191.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
130432463X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1329115120.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
92 pages. Features: Nice Mimeograph ad shows their duplicator in use in many military offices; Great Fairbanks, Morse & Co. ad shows sub sinking Japanese carrier with caption "The Speak a Language the Japs Understand"; One-page Boeing photo ad for the B-17 shows an Axis plane about to crash land; Marjorie Gestring marries - with photo of her; Brief obituaries for Mrs. Emma G.M. Fall, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sir Edward Beatty, and Ben B. Lindsey; Dramatic Beech Aircraft one-page photo ad shows an AT-11 dropping bombs; Uncommon Cadillac ad shows their new M-5 tank (who knew Cadillac made tanks?); Fall of Gabes - Montgomery won on his biggest gamble; Major war coverage; Photo of US bombers attacking Japanese ship in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea; Aerial photo of Krupp Works bombed by RAF; Interesting photo of Japanese soldiers in Burma dancing with Geisha girls; Series of domestic rebukes to FDR; Photo of Fiorello H. La Guardia in uniform during WWI; Before and after photos of a Seattle meat market illustrate meat shortage; Buick ad shows large shells being manufactured; Great one-page color ad for the Vega Ventura aircraft; Photo in massive Douglas Aircraft factory at Oklahoma City which builds Skytrains; Photo of Greg Rice and his two-mile world's record run; Photo of sheep grazing in the Pasadena Rose Bowl(!); Photo of "Hit Parade" dance star Chinita; Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota; Canadian Club ad features color photos of Tarpon Springs, Florida Sponge-fishermen; Nice back cover color-photo ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features night photo of Merchant Mariners at sea; and much more. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
3407Club Mondial du Livre, 1958 17 x 20, 491 pp., nombreuses illustrations (photo. et dessins), cartonnage éditeur illustré, bon état
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, paste-downs lightly browned; original red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, small fade mark at head of backstrip else a very good, bright, fresh copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter wanting upper outer quarter of front panel, first half-inch of backstrip and with small marginal loss at upper edge of rear panel. The first edition of Galbraith's classic account is scarce.
147 pages including index. Prehistoric dates and more dates have been computed to provide admissibility for the mythic history of Homo sapiens in a framework of recorded mythological events, as well as the arrival of a planetoid which triggered the last Ice Age and the Flood, its hypothetical crash in northeastern Canada that brought forth Halley's comet. Atlantis and Mu are refurbished, and the existence of ancient 'atomic piles' in some pyramids of Egypt proclaimed by the author. In all, a think-piece that challenges the imagination of every reader of this controversial thesis! Includes occasional black and white illustrations. Minor rubbing to top corner of front cover. Rubber stamp upon front cover and top edge. Several rubber stamps upon title page. Moderate wear. Book
in-8, 238 pp., broche, couv.- 9782855652863 Bon etat. [PH-1]