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London, Sport and sportsmen vers 1930. Grand in-4 pleine reliure éditeur bordeaux, titre doré sur le plat et le dos. Tranches dorées. 538 pages illustrées. Edition limité à 1000 exemplaires celui ci n° 627. Bel exemplaire.
1st edition. VG hbk in blue cloth, gilt. Pages browning.15537. eng
8vo., First Edition, page-edges browning as usual; original series binding of red boards lettered in black, a good, clean copy.
334 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Author's signature and inscription upon half-title page. "... A story of democracy, of personal leadership, of co-operative education, of business success, and of the odd failure. Most of all, it is a story of people and of what they can achieve when they work together." - from dust jacket. Sunning to spine of dust jacket else clean and bright with light wear. Occasional interesting pencil marginalia by prior owner, who was very active in the Co-op movement and is mentioned at page 242. A nice copy. Book
MSHA, 1995. In-8 broché, 231 pp.
MSHA, 1985. In-8 broché, 203 pp.
Vol. XLIII , July - December 1916, Nos. 274 - 279, 816 pages, with a great many b&w photos throughout. Includes trade, travel, industrial, agricultural, export, census, building data, etc. for the Latin and South American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Guatemala Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, etc.
New Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 378 p., color and b/w ills. Bursa gezileri: Bursa'daki tarih, tarihteki Bursa.
New Turkish Original bdg. HC. 4to. (31 x 22 cm). In Turkish. 2 volumes set: (1580 p.), color and b/w ills. Bursa saglik tarihi. 2 volumes set. History of public and urban health, hospitals, medical care of Bursa city.
xxxii, 336 pages. Footnotes. Index. Twenty pages of black and white reproductions of photos. "In this far-ranging study, Ian Radforth charts the course of the transition of Ontario's twentieth-century logging industry and the response of its workers to the changes - from the rough-and-ready days of the primitive camp bunkhouse to the development of a highly mechanized and closely managed industry." - half-title page and back cover. Prior owner's name atop first leaf. Moderate quantity of markings to contents. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating history. Book
xxxiv + 125 + 8pp., 23cm., softcover, G, V72388
Málaga, Imprenta del Comercio, 1838, 22,5 x 16 cm., holandesa piel moderna, 3 hojas + 97 págs. (Ejemplar con una nota de errata manuscrita y firmada por el autor en hoja blanca anterior a la portada. Es una obra rarísima, no recogida por Palau, tampoco hay ningún ejemplar en bibliotecas españolas, incluso la Nacional y de la que no hemos encontrado referencia en internet).
143 pages. A fascinating look back at the Canada of the 1920s. Numerous wonderful black and white photographs from sea-to-sea. Includes a careful compilation of statistics 'necessary in order that the reader may secure a true impression of the rate of expansion.' - from preface. Chapters include: Climate and Agriculture; Dairy Production; Manufacturing; New Industries; Canada's Power Production; Foreign Trade; Forest Industries; Mining and Mineral Resources; Fisheries; The Banks and the Banking System; The Provinces of Canada; The Playground of America; Transportation and Ports; The British Empire Preference; Tariff Agreements with the British West Indies; Tariff Agreements with Foreign Countries; Canada as a Field for Investment; Government and Finance; Currency; Present Taxes; plus appendices. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding solid. Nice copy. Book
176 pages. Author commits to paper his befuddlement at the last bit of the century. This is his first book. Contains insight into those tiny conundrums, the sum of which make a life: the steadfast and comforting solidity of a Social Insurance Number; the sordid fate of night-school dropouts; the uncomfortable consequences of a boy's prematures exposure to condoms; the role of the sinus in free trade; and more. Also includes a number of author's poems, for which he hopes to be instantly acclaimed Canada's Poet Laureate. Unmarked. Five inch crease to top corner of front cover else very light wear. Book
32 pages. Features: Glass Flowers of the Plains - use of trade beads by the Plains Indiansduring the 19th century - article with photos; The Collector's Page; Writing - On - Stone in the borderland of south-eastern Alberta; The Big Horn Country; The Legend Makers (II); The Vanishing Ghost Towns - The Slocan area of B.C. where the remnants of the old mining era may still be seen; Back cover photo of Sandon, British Columbia in 1898. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
227 pages including index. Lengthy author's inscription and signature upon half-title page. This copy presented to author's good friend Harry M. Graham. "It is a curious fact that most Canadians know almost nothing about one-third of their country, and what little information they pick up is at least partly incorrect." - from Chapter 1. This book was an attempt to correct this situation. Chapters include: Geography; Exploration; Furt Trade; Missions; Administration; Transportation and Communication; Oil, Gold and Radium; Yellowknife; Farming and Stock Raising; Tourist Traffic; Civilization; Literature and the Arts. Above average wear. Moderate lean to spine. Light yellowing to contents. Includes a good number of interesting black and white photographic plates. Book
87 pages. Features: Historic houses; The Dialect called Bungi; Early Manitoba Furniture; Seven Oaks House; Legislative Buildings; The Magnificent Adventure - The first printing press and publications west of Toronto in 1940 - James Evans; Log Construction at Red River; The Crockery Trade; Lower Fort Garry; St. Andrews on the Red; Story of Transportation; Ukrainians in the Manitoba Mosaic; Upper Fort Garry; Sir Thomas Button; St. Boniface Museum; Manitoba Glass Works; Local Museums preserve history; Manitoba Art; Portageto Winnipeg; Indian Trade Silver; Museum of Man and Nature; The Metis and the Buffalo. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Prairie Country Estates - Cannington Manor; N.W.M.P. Come to Regina; Notable People of Saskatchewan; Printing; Architecture; Sitting Bull's Chair? - made with Buffalo Horns; Stanley Mission; Indian Crafts; The Fur Trade; Early Furniture; Ethnic Settlement; RCMP; Small Museums; Inglis Sheldon-Williams; Agriculture; Musket and Carbine; Ukranian Crafts; RCMP Chapel; RCMP Museum; The Sod House. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Toile de Jouy - textile pattern; Symposium '73; Loyalist Settlement of Upper Canada; British Sporting Prints; Chine Export Trade Porcelain; Chinese Chippendale. Average wear. Address label upon front cover. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
30 pages. Features: Canadian Cut Glass; The Proud Years of Farming - Ontario Rural Life during the 1850s, '60s and'70s; New Year's Greeting from Ancient Egypt; Josiah Spode and the Chinese Trade; Chippendale Chinese; Sotheby's Toronto Auction Reviewed; The Chinese Taste in Silver. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: Cover illustration of "Culchillum, son of the head chief of the Cowitchins", by Paul Kane; The Half-Buried Hatchet, by W.A. Kenyon; Haida Art in Argillite, by S.W.A. Gunn; Indian Trade Silver, by Donald B. Webster; Early Canadian Iron; Tshmishian and Tlingit - northwest coast native art; North Pacific Coast Indians; Early Canadian Kitchen Utensils; Coast Indians produced Matchless Native Art, by Mildred Valley Thornton. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: The Chinese Exhibition Comes to Canada; Jade - The Mineral; Glossary of Jade Names; Jade - The Art; Export Wares of the 17th Century; Collecting Snuff Bottles; Chinese Furniture; Dumpling Treasures - Over a Thousand years of Food History; Ivory; Trade Silk; Buying Oriental Antiques - a Review for the Canadian Collector; The Charm of Oriental Ceramics. Modest wear. Quality copy. Magazine
130 pages. Features; Canadian Pratt & Whitney photo ad inside front cover; General Electric Wire and Cable ad; Nice National Steel Car ad; Martin ad; Incredible full-page Beechcraft ad shows literally dozens and dozens of their aircraft under construction; Inner Motors ad; Interesting ad for Pyrene fire extinguishers; Great illustrated ad for the Douglas "Havoc" night fighter; Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific War - great article with photos; The Hoover Propeller - detailed article with illustrations; Editorial Comment; Annual Survey of Military Aircraft in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain - *Massive* section with photos and write-ups of 107 aircraft; Attractive colour full-page ad for Wright engines with futuristic theme shows people being loaded into a "Flying Daycoach" (which looks a lot like an Airbus A380); Nice ad for Sensenich Propellers; Fairchild ad shows two "Bolingbrokes"; Canadian Aircraft Production - The Priority System, Fairchild M-62 Manufacture, Good Posture boosts Production - correct seating aids plant workers; Nice Brewster ad; "So I Bailed Out" - report of a Canadian fighter pilot; Nice Rotal propeller ad; G.Q. Parasuit ad; New Equipment Section; Index to advertisers; Two-colour Lockheed ad inside back cover illustrates the "Convoy of Commerce" featuring a Hudson Reconnaissance Bomber in action over the sea; Intava ad on back cover; and more. Somewhat average wear. Unmarked. Chips from backstrip. Mailing label on front cover; A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
36 pages. Features: Cover photos of the Fleet Advanced Trainer; Eastern T.C.A. Air Express Inaugurated Completing Transcontinental Service - article with photos; Commercial Operators form Traffic Control Company; Measuring Propeller Stresses; One-page ad for Gold Flake cigarettes features photo of houseboating on the Jhelum River near Srinagar, capital of Kashmir; Unique Aerial Camera Being Tested by the R.C.A.F.- article with photo; Modified Blenheim's Performance a revelation; The 1939 Cessna Airmaster; Article and two photos of the very unusual Abrams "Explorer"; The Bellanca Aircruiser; The Curtiss-Wright "20" Transport; Full-page ad for the Barkley-Grow T8P-1; The Aviation Trade; The "Ensign" Makes Its Inaugural Passenger Flight - fantastic centerfold spread; Photo of the opening of a Sea Island runway at Vancouver; One-page ad for the 1939 Cub Coupe - "the finest light plane ever built"; The Sperry-RCA Automatic Direction Finder; The Lear ARC-6 Automatic Radio Direction Finder; Tale Spinning from Winnipeg; News from the West Coast; Nice photo ad for Intava lubricants on back cover features American Airlines' flagship "District of Columbia", the first plane to land at the new Malton Airport near Toronto; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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
