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66 pages. Features: How the Centenary Exhibition and Pageant of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the Fair of the Iron Horse - extensive article with many great photos; The Great Crash at Crush - rail wreck staged by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway (MK&T, or Katy); Colour photos of a great gaterhing of iron horses in Irondale, Alabama; Mr. Hungerford's Iron Horse Opera - 1939 World's Fair; In 1948 all the 4-4-0's weren't at the Fair - the engine that built America, on and off the stage; Southern Pacific at the Panama Pacific; moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: 10,000 shall die; Bull team logger; McGarry's Lost Gold; Summer of the Blue Snow; My Brother - Fred Gipson; A Hunch about that Yellow Stuff; Some Personal Papers of Wilbur Coe; How the Picher District Really Came to Be; The Chennault Plane Crash; Epson Salts Railraod; Lute and Granny Jackson; Reymert Ruins; Big Bend Roundup; When Yankee Robinson Came to Town; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
38 pages. Features: Foreign buyers dominate bidding for Dodge furniture; Records crash as old masters are sold; 10,000 GBP clock stolen - 8 day English Fusee bracket clock, signed 'Thomas Hughes, London'; Fine porcelain pieces stolen from home in Regents Park, London; Police seek information about miniatures - in possession of Scotland Yard; 'Finders keepers' - a saying that could lead to jail; Reappraising Satsuma; Theophile Alexandre Steinlen - the artist who loved cats, Paris - and life; Roman Glass - take a clear look at the past for future profit; Regency Furniture; Book review of "Refurbishing Antiques" by Rosemary Ratcliffe; Antique market opens at Bromley; Auction news; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
174 pages including black and white photographic plates. In Spence Bay, in the far north of Canada, Judy Hill, a young nurse from Kingsbridge, Devon, decided to devote her life to caring for a community of Eskimos. In reading her story we learn of a hard cruel world where even 'survival' was still a luxury and of the courage necessary for the nurses to look after these still relatively primitive people in very isolated places. Here tragic death in a plane crash in 1972 drew attention to the vitally needed improvements in communications and facilities for these dedicated nurses. The facts of her death, and the controversy that surrounded Hartwell's action when he decided to use her body for nourishment, drew the world's attention to the risks these nurses took everyday in the wastes of the Arctic. Light wear to book which is clean and unmarked but for prior owner's name atop front endpaper. Dust jacket shows average wear, is price-clipped and missing one inch chunk at bottom edge of back panel. Solid copy. Book
in-12 broché de 189 pages. Avec 24 photographies hors texte. Bel exemplaire, non coupé du TIRAGE UNIQUE de 1933. [FEN]
36 pages. Features: Cover photo of Bishop G. Breynat's Waco inspection plane being refuled on the beach at Chesterfield, Hudson Bay; Repercussions of an Old Case - the 1933 crash and death of Archie McDougall at Sanford, Manitoba; Nice full-page ad for Gold Flake cigarettes; The Percival Q6 - article and photo, plus photos, in flight and on the ground, of the first Pou-du-Ciel, constructed by Oscar Demine of Montreal, to receive a license in Canada; Full-page photo collage of many of the best-known flying people at the Miami Air Manoeuvres in early December - including Rudy Kling and Frank Haines who were killed in the first minute of the first race; New De Havilland Tiger Moth ready for delivery; Nice full-page cutaway illustrated ad for the De Havilland Dragon Rapide; Siam Soars - Reginald Jackson operates Aerial Transport Company of Bangkok, Siam; Full-page Stinson ad with photo of a Model SR-9FM; Saskatchewan Good-will Tour; New Test House for Aircraft Engines - Pratt & Whitney facility at East Hartford, CT - article with photos; Nice illustrated full-page ad for the BG Corporation and its spark plugs; Arctic Sky Pilots - Bishop G. Breynat, Vicar Apostolic of the Mackenzie; Nice two-colour full-page ad for the new 1938 Canadian Custom Waco by Fleet Aircraft; Regina Flying Club Highlights; Junkers Introduces the Ju 90 - interesting article with photos; Nice McLaughlin Buick ad shows the Series 46-19 5-passenger sedan with trunk; Great full-page photo ad for Canadian Marconi Company with photo of Pilot G.R. Spradbrow who rescued missing Quebec surveyors; How the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce Reports on Accident Investigations; New 50-h.p. Continental Engines; Full-page ad for Cub Aircraft features photo of Glenn White of Hamilton, aged 14, who soloed in a Cub after 7 hours and 20 minutes dual; New Marconi appointments - with photos; Sensational photo ad for Imperial Airways inside back cover features a great shot of the Canopus, and an endorsement by Mrs. Martin Johnson, the famous American explorer and air traveller; Who Wants a Transport License?; News from the West Coast; M.A.L.C. news; Pratt & Whitney ad inside front cover boasts of their 3 December 1937 flight from New York to Havana in just over 5 hours - pilot Major Alexander P. deSeverskey, while on the same date Jacqueline Cochran flew from New York to Miami in just over four hours; Super full-page illustrated ad for the Junkers JU 90; Three-colour Imperial Oil Asphalt ad on back cover shows the new hangar apron at Rockliffe Airport; and more. Average wear. Lower corner missing from page 21 - no material affect to contents. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features:Nice one-page colour ad for the '58 Plymouth with "Torsion-Aire; We must come to terms with Russia - or perish; Britain is rocked by air crash of Manchester United; Nostalgic full-page colour-photo ad for Aquascutum short wool coats; The Private Side of Politics - a panel speaks informally with John Diefenbaker adn Mike Pearson; Margaret - sister of the Queen - great article with many photos; Bruce Hutchison explains "What Went Wrong with the Boom" - economic analysis; Colour photos by John de Visser; How Henri "The Pocket Rocket" Richard Beat His Kid-Brother Jinx - article with great photos; Nostalgic centrefold ad for Inglis appliances for 1958; Uncommon colour photo ad for Scott-Atwater outboard motors; Huge two-page ad for the Conservative Party of Canada features full-page black and white photo of John Diefenbaker; Snappa Cappa Red Cap Ale - colour one-page photo ad shows fisherman opening bottle; Nice B/A ad on back cover. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
325 pages. Bibliography. Index. "After making millions of dollars in Canadian real estate over the last seventeen years, I have suddenly and totally switched my investment thrust from cities to certain small towns because of Dr. Lessinger's brilliant insights." Author is professor emeritus of real estate and urban development, University of Washington. Prior owner's name atop front flyleaf else unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Curl to front cover. Sound working copy. Book
Pages 59-116 plus 16 pages of advertisements. Features: Four Lives for One - a tale from Algeria; Too Much Rope - Canadian Criminal Norman "Red" Ryan - article with photo; Why They Named it Mount Podolsky - how Canadian George Podolsky saved the lives of three men there after a plane crash - article with photos and illustrations; Death in Sixty-Five Minutes - a snake bite in India; The Greatest Golden Hoard - Incas, El Sangay and Dr. Kurt von Ritter - illustrated article with photo of Dr. von Ritter; Half-Pint Savage - a tale of a wolverine on the Alaska Peninsula; Abo in the Iron Lung - the curing of an Australian Aborigine; Thracian Pays a Dividend - a tale of marine salvage; Girl Pear Divers (Amas) of Japan - brief article with lovely photos; Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality vintage copy. Book
164 pages. Features: Editorial discusses the likely impact of the October 29 stock market crash on the building business; Optimistic Outlook for Sound Construction Projects - interview with Nicholas Roberts of S.W. Straus & Co.; President Hoover Enlists Builders to Stimulate Business - article with group photo; "Modernesque" - unique home built by McWilliams and Meloney outside Philadelphia; Mortgages Yielding Higher; How to Build the Colonial Entrance Pictured on Front cover; Waste not high wages makes building costly; The Story of the Development of Gladstone Manor, located in Lansdowne Borough, PA; Public Garages - a discussion of the layout of special buildings devoted to the handling and storing of motor cars - article with photo of the Glenn E. Holmes Garage, Chicago; A Sound Proof Studio Apartment - The Sherman Square Studios, West 73rd St., New York, are built to interest singers, artists and writers; Conveniently Equipped Kitchens Help Builders Sell; Six Model Homes in Cleveland; Home Plan Suggestions; All-Feature Home - complete workings plans to one-eighth inch scale for a model brick bungalow; Where Stores and Apartments are Combined - Rissman and Hirschfeld Architects designed a triangular structure at the diagonal intersection of Milwaukee Ave. and Diversey Blvd. in Chicagp; Framing the Gambrel Roof; Dozens of sensational illustrated ads, some in color, are sure to tickle any modern designer with a taste for the past; and more. Some writing on heavily-worn color-illustrated covers. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Signed, without inscription, by John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006] upon first blank leaf. xx, [5], 2-206 pages. Index. Includes a new introduction which comments on the crash of 1987. First published in 1955, this work is a "skilled chronicle and analysis of the causes of that most memorable year in our economic history, 1929. A trenchant and timely re-examination of the most spectatular boom-and-bust period in American history." - back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Nice copy of this magazine. Numbered pages run from 113 to 152. Lots of photographs and nice advertisements, Covering wraps in colour. Staple bound. The number 102 is written at the top of the front cover.
Author's signature, and inscription to Western Canadian talk-show host Terry Moore upon front free endpaper. 208 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "Two days after the Soviet spy satellite Cosmos 954 splattered its debris across northern Canada, I decided to try to find the truth behind this disturbing incident." - from Preface. Light wear. Clean and tight. Nice solid copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Giving credit to Ed Uhl, AUS, for his help in the development of the bazooka; Nice International Harvesteer ad presents their crawlers, tractors and trucks; Nostalgic ad for the Highway Trailers Company; Sugar still rationed; Photo and article on W.C. Fields; Soviet Army pulls out of central Europe; Nice color Nash car ad; Indo-Chinese Puzzle; 22nd World Zionist Congress wraps up answering No to the question "Should the Congress authorize the Jewish Agency to participate in the London conference on Palestine in January?"; Irgun captures British troops and flogs them; Memories of the Soviet Censor III; Color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features farmer holding tobacco leaf; Photo of Ambassador George S. Messersmith; Brief obituaries for W.C. Fields, Baron Robert Philip De Rothschild, John Barton, Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond and Hugh R. Wilson; Photos of Tiny Tim rocket test; Nice color-photo portrait of Mr. Hiroam U. Helm, distinguished rancher, in Calvert Whiskey ad; Nice color ad for Frazer and Kaiser cars; Student of children, Arnold Gesell; "Star of Cairo" plane crash; Henry Hazlitt writes on the "Purchasing Power" theory; World Series article; Photo of tennis players Ted Schroeder and Jack Kramer; Hermon H. Scott and his Dynamic Noise Suppressor in broadcasting studio; The Irrepressible Taft-Dewey Conflict; Canadian Club color photo ad features diving off the Dodecanese Islands; Great back cover color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features Jo Stafford and Perry Como; and more. Covers heavily-worn and loose but present. Above-average wear and soiling. Clear tape along spine. A worthy vintage copy. Book
pp. xii, 305. Map upon front endpaper. Numerous black and white photographic plates. " A masterly account of the first solo flight made from Great Britain to Canada via Greenland. Recounts author's mishaps, his crash at Iceland, his second attempt, his Greenland adventures, and his ultimate success. Also includes much that is extremely interesting about Mr. Grierson's record flight from India to Great Britain and his experiences of winter aviation in Europe. Tells of an intrepid piece of pioneering courageously carried out, but which history has, perhaps, been made." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name and date atop half-title page else unmarked. Average wear. Binding sound. Some spotting and soiling to edges. Small chips, tears and yellowing to dust jacket. Nice copy overall. Book
198 pages. Features: Fifteen world-class artists and designers take on a turn-of-the-century town house in a massive fund-raising effort for the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS (DIFFA); Frederick Kiesler - Modernism's Neglected Man; The Instant-Gratification Garden; The Real Truth Behind the (Predicted) Real Estate Crash of 1989; Perfect Houses, Perfect Lives. Ummarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
220 pages plus index. The essential companion for every chiropractic patient who wants to successfully manage their physical recovery and obtain maximum insurance settlement. Author, an Attorney, reveals his step-by-step strategies for negotiating with insurance companies. Now anyone can successfully handle their own auto accident claim and obtain a successful settlement. Rubber stamp inside front cover else unmarked. Light wear. Solid copy. Book
in-8, 238 pp., broche, couv.- 9782855652863 Bon etat. [PH-1]
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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