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74 pages. Features: Sex and Love of God; I Had Polio; Princess Margaret O'Brien of Hollywood; The House That Dimes Built - How Frank Woolworth parlayed a gift of gab into an American institution; Animals are the Craziest People; They Call Him Mr. Baffle - Leslie L. (Biff) Biffle, Secretary of the Senate; Down in the Arctic - Jack Kastner, Sir Robert Stirling-Hamilton, Ben Custer, Charles Wilcox and Jerome Scalise crash their plane in the Arctic; French Boxer Marcel Cerdan; Interesting back page opinion piece considers China's move to communism. Short Stories: The Loves of Martin; The Man of the House; Three Little Girls Wore Blue; The River; Martha and Her Dream Man; Ringside Maiden (part 5 of 8). Nice ads for: Studebaker Trucks (inside front cover), Zenith Televisions, Good Year Tires, RCA Victor audio products, Hudson cars (nice full-page color), Papst Blue Ribbon - one -page color ad featuring Mr. and Mrs. F. Warren Pershing,Vitalis (featuring Buddy O'Connor, General Motors GM - two-page color, Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring color photo of Mrs. William E. Benjamin II, Spam (in color), Back cover color photo ad for Camel cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
198603845Biel, Institut Finanzanalyse, 1986. kt, 100S, gutes Exemplar,
247 pages. Black and white photographic frontis portrait of author. "This is a book written by a German after a war which brought defeat to his country and a great civilized people to a condition of dependence and subordination... The German Inflation can only be understood as part of the general history of the time. May we all learn from the past and emerge from the destructive era of reciprocal hostility into a new constructive period of international well-being." - from Foreward. Chapters include: The Inflation of the War Period; From the Armistice to the Invasion of the Ruhr; From the Invasion of the Ruhr to the Stabilization of the Mark; The Stabilization of the Mark; From Rentenbank to Golddiskontbank; From Currency Crisis to Economic Crisis; The Dawes Plan; The Reconstruction of German Money and Capital Markets; Foreign Credits; International Co-operation. "(Schacht) became one of the directors of the Reichsbank in 1916 and in 1923 became currency commissioner for the Reich. After his economic policies helped reduce German inflation and stabilize the German mark, Schacht was appointed president of the Reichsbank. He collaborated with other prominent figures in economics to form the Young Plan to modify the way that war reparations were paid after Germany's economy was destabilizing under the Dawes Plan. Though on March 7, 1930, six months after the beginning of the Great Depression, he stepped down from the position of Reichsbank Chairman, but returned on March 17, 1933 after Hitler's rise to power." - from wikipedia dot org. Binding intact. Unmarked with average wear. Bright gilt lettering upon black cloth backstrip. Mild foxing to endpapers. A sound copy. Aldcroft & Rodger p.83, Peterson p.367. Book
48 pages. Second issue of this marvelous publication. Features: Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation ad inside front cover; Nice photo-illustrated Fairchild ad on page 1 features the Vickers-Fairchild Cabin Monoplane; Photo-ad for Canadian Vickers Limited shows the Vicers Vedette; Goodyear airplane tire ad; Armstrong Siddleley ad for their Lynx radial engine; Wakefield Castrol Motor Oil ad; Editorial comments on why the achievements of Canadian aviators are not 'ballyhoo-ed' across the world, and why insurance companies must act to service the rapidly developing aviation industry in Canada; Great article explains how E.W.G. Moore (shown in photo inset) and other public-spirited citizens secured an airport for London, Ontario after the electorate refused to approve the expense; Photos of the Prince of Wales in flying kit, Sir Alan Cobham after his 22,000-mile flight, Amelia Earhart in group photo at Southampton after crossing the Atlantic for the first time, and Miss Earhart's seaplaine "Friendship" afloat at Southampton; Inauguration of the Winnipeg Flying Club - article with photos of Manitoba Premier John Bracken and his wife, Major Ray Miller, Lieut. Palmer, and W.A. Major, Attorney-General of Manitoba, plus a photo of Captain H.A. Oaks who was awared the McKee trophy for the most valuable contribution to aviation in Canada; Progress of Civil Aviation in Canada - article; Photo memorializing Captain Emilio Carranza, Mexico's "Lone Eagle" flying ambassador to the United States who died at age 22 in a crash; Photo of the Trans Canada trophy won by Capt. H.A. Oaks; Canadian Aviation and the University of Toronto - article with five photos which document the University's aerodynamic laboratory which was established ten years ago and is now being used for undergraduate instruction; First aircraft show opened at Montreal - article with photos of officials E.F. Peacock and Capt. W. S. Lighthall; Photo of Joaquim Pacheco and Fritz Bieler, the first aviators to make the flight from Canada to Mexico; Canada leads in Aerial Photography - article with photos; Is Your Life Insurance Policy Affected? - Part II - article deals with confusion over insurance coverage of aviation risk; Nice aerial photos of Gaspe and the Royal Military College; Detroit Air Olympics Draw Mammoth Crowds - article with nine photos; News from flying clubs; Nice ad for the De Havilland Moth; Pioneer Altimeter ad; Numerous press comments on the first issue of Canadian Aviation; Fantastic photo full-page ad for Canadian Pacific Express - World Wide Service - photos shows truck backed up to plane; Toronto Boys Compete at Detroit Model Aircraft Contest - article with photos of Edward Adams, H.H. McKinnon, Richard Hiscocks, Ford Grant, Aram Abgarian, Jack Loughner and Thomas Hill; Fantastic full-page photo ad for International Airways of Canada (Hamilton, Ontario) shows their Loening Amphibian plane; Model Aircraft flights are helpful - article; Air Services in Canada - Part II - information about the R.C.A.F. with three photos; Marvelube ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Three-inch opening to base of coverfold. A sound vintage copy of this early issue. Book
110 pages. Features: Nice photo ad for the de Havilland Sea Vixen; Photo ad for the Fairey Fireflash - the first British guided weapon; The Short S.C.I. - article and full-page colour photo of this unusual craft; Nice photo ad for the Beverley, made by Blackburn and General Aircraft; Ouragan - article and colour illustrations of this French jet fighter; Farnborough Preview; The P.1 - article with photos; Shot from a Flying Wing (AW 52) - article and photo of "Jo" Lancaster; I Tested Focke-Wulfs; Thwarted Fighters - the delayed success of James Marton; Crash Landing in France (part 2); The Hawker Hunter F.6 - British Jet Fighter; The Missile Age - a special directory of rockets and missiles; Air Intelligence; Russia's Flying Wagon - The YAK-24 - article with photos; Test Flight to Freedom!; I Got My Sausage!; The Luftwaffe's Workhorse - the Ju 52/3m; Captain Ray Salute to the Spitfire; Ad for the Reliant three-wheeled car; Milland Flies Again; Colour ad for Senior Service cigarettes on back cover features helicopter at sea; and more. Binding intact. Above-average wear. Pages age-toned. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
24444Auto safety pioneer long before Ralph Nader popularized the topic in "Unsafe at Any Speed" this University of Minnesota mechanical engineering professor 1931-63 patented the first retractable safety seat belt in 1963 and the "black box" flight recorder in 1960; he also improved hydraulic bumpers dashboards and collapsible steering columns. ANS 1p heavy stock 6¼" X 3¼" n.p. 1971 July 23. Near fine. Penned boldly in blue ballpoint. Nice note thanking an admirer and "enclosing the last publication before retirement." Closes off with a true crusader's salutation: "Please carry the program forward." A quite uncommon autograph. unknown
24359Auto safety pioneer long before Ralph Nader popularized the topic in "Unsafe at Any Speed" this University of Minnesota mechanical engineering professor 1931-63 patented the first retractable safety seat belt in 1963 and the "black box" flight recorder in 1960; he also improved hydraulic bumpers dashboards and collapsible steering columns. PDS 3pp 8½" X 11" Los Angeles California 1967 October 10. Near fine. Single staple hole at upper corner; original light mailing folds. Mimeographed "Abstract" for a talk given by Ryan at the 11th STAPP Car Crash Conference at UCLA titled "The Hydraulic Bumper -- Automatic Seat Belt Package on Ground Vehicles." In the upper left corner of the first page Ryan signs and inscribes it bold in blue ballpoint: "J.J. Ryan to / Paul Johnston / 7-23-71." With original envelope. Quite unusual and scarce. unknown
24360Auto safety pioneer long before Ralph Nader popularized the topic in "Unsafe at Any Speed" this University of Minnesota mechanical engineering professor 1931-63 patented the first retractable safety seat belt in 1963 and the "black box" flight recorder in 1960; he also improved hydraulic bumpers dashboards and collapsible steering columns. Signed First Day Cover 6½" X 3½" cancelled in Baltimore Maryland on 3 September 1965 and with "Firsy Day of Issue" boldly stamped. Single 5-cent "Stop Traffic Accidents" stamp at upper right. Fine. At lower left beneath the postal cancellation Ryan signs large and bold in blue ballpoint. Attractive and very scarce. unknown
1988100112567Viking 1988 560 pages 16 9926x23 5966x4 5974cm. 1988. Relié. première édition. 560 pages.
8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
in-8°, 316 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, broche, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Bel exemplaire. [HI-3]
Signed, without inscription, by James Wesley Rawles upon title page. "Rawles, a former Army Intelligence officer, uses the format of an exciting action novel to present a wealth of timely and invaluable survival information. An exceptional reference." - J. Stachow. 342 pages. Unread and as new. Clean, bright and unmarked. A great gift idea for a dedicated survivalist. Book
144 pages. Mysterious objects falling from the sky. Near death experiences. Time slips. Ghosts captured on video. Monsters from the deep. UFOs crash landing on Earth. Alien abductions, spontaneous human combustion, and much much more. With many black and white illustrations. Glossy colour covers. Book
19802090502113702442Not Available 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First English version of the original German edition of 1978. Enser, p.7.
VG/VG (no significant faults with book or dj) Octavo 201pp plus map. On the morning of May 5 1979 a small single-engined plane with four people on board flew out of Estevan, Saskatchewan. Later that afternoon the plane crashed in a remote canyon. There were two survivors; 17-year old Donna and her brother-in-law, Brent Dyer. In sub-zero temperatures they refused to die...
2007912442007 Editions Grasset - 2007 - In-8 broché couverture illustrée - 347p
1941235251941. Northwest Airlines Flight 5 crash archive documenting one of the most deadly commercial aviation disasters in the carrier's early history pairing operational views of Northwest's Douglas airliners with contemporary evidence from the fatal October 30 1941 crash near Moorhead Minnesota. Flight 5 was a scheduled transcontinental Northwest Airlines route traveling from Chicago toward Seattle through Minneapolis Fargo Billings Butte and Spokane when its Douglas DC-3A-269 registration NC21712 encountered severe icing and poor visibility during approach. The aircraft plunged to the ground in fog and freezing conditions killing twelve passengers and two crew members. Captain Clarence F. Bates emerged as the sole survivor. The subsequent Civil Aeronautics Board investigation concluded that dangerous ice accumulation on the wings played a critical role in the disaster making the crash an important chapter in the evolution of commercial aviation safety during the final weeks before America entered the Second World War.<br /> <br /> Archive of four silver gelatin photographs and a contemporary newspaper clipping photographs approx 3.5" x 5" to 5" x 7" circa 1941. The photographs capture Northwest Airlines aircraft in active service during the same period as the disaster. One image shows a Northwest airliner standing on a frozen airfield with registration number NC21711 visible on the tail and prominent "Northwest" and "U.S. Mail Air Express" markings along the fuselage. Another view depicts a woman posing beside the company's large winged emblem with mail and express service markings visible near the tail section. A third photograph records ground operations beneath a Northwest aircraft as personnel stand near a baggage cart marked "Shell" illustrating the everyday routines of America's growing commercial airline network. A final image looks outward from above an aircraft wing toward the horizon placing the viewer inside the world of prewar air travel. The accompanying newspaper clipping dramatically contrasts these routine scenes with aerial views of the burned wreckage of NC21712 near Moorhead identifying the disaster the fourteen fatalities the role of fog and icing and Captain Bates' remarkable survival.<br /> <br /> The archive place the optimism and expansion of early commercial aviation beside the harsh realities of flying in an era when weather forecasting radio navigation aircraft de-icing technology and long-distance passenger service were still developing. Created less than six weeks before the United States entered World War II the archive captures Northwest Airlines at a pivotal moment when passenger travel air mail contracts and express cargo routes were rapidly connecting the Midwest Northern Plains Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest. The juxtaposition of aircraft operating normally in service with contemporary documentation of Flight 5's destruction transforms the group into more than a simple airline archive-it becomes a visual record of the risks ambitions and technological challenges of American aviation on the eve of wartime expansion.<br /> <br /> Light handling wear mild curling toning and creasing to the newspaper clipping; photographs remain very good. A tightly related aviation archive combining identifiable Northwest Airlines aircraft visible registration numbers airline operations and one of the carrier's most significant prewar disasters. unknown
46 pages. Features: Lovely cover photo of Carmen McRae; Small photo ad for Selmer saxophones features John Coltrane; Pacific Jazz ad features Carmell Jones; Sinatra sues Capital; AFM sues Republic Pictures; Confusion reigns in wake of MCA breakup; Ellington sues and is sued in return; Elegy for Eddie Costa who died in car crash July 28; Something Rockin' in Denmark; Carmell Jones - Trumpet in a Hurry; The agonies of exploration - Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake; On the Threshold - feature article on the singer's singer, Carmen McRae; Sketches of the Rollins quartet by George Roth; Focus on Vi Redd - alto saxophonist, soprano saxophonist, and vocalist; Centrefold ad for Gretsch drums features Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, and Art Blakey; Record reviews; Large ad for Jimmy Smith and his Fats Waller album; Ad for Dodo Greene and her album 'My Hour of Need'; Art Blakey - Blindfold Test; Caught in the Act - Woody Herman and Leandro Barbieri; Fender Accordio-Organ ad features photo of Buddy De Franco and Tommy Gumina; Slingerland drum company ad features photo of Rufus Jones of the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra; Small ad for Martin Trumpets features Al Hirt; Zildjian cymbal ad on back cover features photos of Mr. Zildjian and dozens of prominent drummers. Unmarked with somewhat average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover provides a truly classic and timeless example of a mis-timed advertisement. Consider that the great Wall St. stock market crash of 1929 occurred mere days before this issue hit the newsstands. Beneath the caption "An Ancient Prejudice has been removed" appears a clenched fist labeled as "American Intelligence" breaking a heavy chain. Top left a paranoid miser stacks his gold by candlelight. Top right a wealthy couple visits their palatial bank. Text beneath miser reads "Hoarding gold with the fanatical zeal of the miser has vanished. American Intelligence sponsors thousands of banking institutions to which the individual (i.e. the wealthy couple) safely entrusts his wealth." The message is clear. Readers should put their trust (and money) in the banks, and shun gold. This issue was likely printed just as the Great Crash occurred, causing countless financial institutions to go under - and destroying even more individual fortunes. (The ad goes on to claim that cigarettes have similarly overcome the prejudice against them.) A truly stunning work which deserves to be preserved and reflected upon in this age of limitless fiat currency printing. Average wear with three-inch crease to lower corner of back cover. Suitably framed and mounted, this ad will make a superlative office display for any precious metals executive. Magazine
96 pages. Features: Long Complete Air-War Adventure - to Sergeant Ryan there was One Square Mile of Enemy Territory that Must Remain Inviolate - yet Fate made it the Objective of the Most Daring Raid of that Crazy Band of Bombers, the Coffin Crew; Air Mystery Story - An R.A.F. Flying-Boat Vanishes on its Trial Flight and a Retired Fishmonger in Finland finds his Greenhouse Roof Broken by an English Schoolboy's Satchel; Air Mystory Story - The All-Seeing Eye of a Silent Witness supplied the Clue to a sinister secret that gave the German Raiders Supremacy of the Air by night; Thrilling Air War History - The full and authentic story of the rise and fall of the imperial German Air Service during the Great War; Real Life Story - I Flew for Bolivia - The Amazing story of the only Englishman who Fought and Flew for Bolivia in the Recent War of the Gran Chaco; Great Modern Air Story - The Peaslake Crash - the Dramatic story of a first and last flight; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
58 pages. Cover illustration depicts one of 9,300 Japanese balloons launched against North America in WWII being shot down by P/O E.E. Maxwell of 133 (F) Sqn in his Kittyhawk IV. Features include: Sea King ground crew a cut above; Dangerous year flying to Sarajevo; When Japan attacked Canada; Stringbag (Mark III Fairey Swordfish) restoration nears completion; Readiness Challenge; OP Boreal II Delivers; Low level with the Lynxes; Arctic Vigilance - CC-144 Challengers of 434 Sqn; Clements takes command; A Canadian owned and operated by the RAF; CF Aircraft aid in drug bust; Return of the Dambusters; Winning the Schneider Cup; Tragic Liberator Crash remembered; RCAF Stn McDonald Man. Revisited; Memories of Murph the Serf; The Cold War - a Soviet View; 42 Radar - a new beginning; A Yank in the RCAF; Somme - view from the air; 6 group takes it on the chin. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Centerfold held by one staple only. Solid copy. Book
60 pages. Features include: Canada's Aerobatic Teams; Russians honor Commonwealth Airmen; Two Million Hours for the Hornet; The Grinch who stole Christmas - author was an air gunner on B-25 Mitchells during WWII; 4 wing farewell; Sucan Recce; A Rescue Remembered - Hurricane TF X; Behind the scenes at Abbotsford; The Flying Granleys'; Spitfire Wreckage Sparks Old Memories; '93 Annual Convention; Fighter Group Shows Flag in Europe; The Crash of Rescue 311; Alley Cats Prowl the Adriatic; Turning Point in Bomber Offensive - Fighters Rev Up (50 years ago); Radar - Canada's Hidden History; The Mess Dinner. Address label upon back cover. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
44 pages. Features include: Canada Third in Space; Flying the Open Skies; Flights of Fashion; More Aerial Buffoonery; High Arctic Heroism - Hercules Crash; 6 Bomber GP Video; Centralia - the war years; AWACS - High Altitude Wizardry; The Vampire and I; Black Brant Success Story - Sounding Rocket. Average wear. Some moisture induced waviness. Address label upon front cover. Solid copy. Book
