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Features: Krugerrand advertisement; Belgium - a flourishing hub of illicit trade in endangered species; Q and A with Alvin Toffler; Arafat leaves Beirut for Greece, ending 12 years of PLO activity in Lebanon; Marc Lalonde's federal budget - big for business; Is Canada's Tax System Fair? - by Linda McQuaig; Questions about Bryce Mackasey's Finances; Peter Blaikie leaves the federal PC leadership contest; Politics and property rights in Canada; Central American dilemmas; Bombing at U.S. embassy in Beirut - with photo; Vintage colour ad for Radio Shack TRS-80 computer family; Poland - heading back to the brink?; Ontario's great Trust Affair - Leonard Rosenberg; Brazil's struggle with debt; Peter C. Newman on Walter Gordon; Carling Bassett scores a big breakthrough; Canada's field hockey future; The new bad nuclear news - with photo of a B-52 on the 'Trestle' - shielding electronic circuitry from the EMP threat; Acid Rain controversy; Allan King's controversial documentary on the effects of unemployment; Great vintage colour ad for the Apple personal computer; the University of Waterloo has quietly become one of North America's leading training grounds for computer scientists; Canal to connect the Danube with the Rhine; Fine tuning for Canadian pay TV. Average wear. Book
72 pages. Features: Two-colour black and white photo ad inside front cover for International Harvestor's Industrial Power Products; Out of the Indian Night, by William J. Makin - a tale of the Northwest frontier and teh courage that drives frail flesh to heroism; Britain's Unemployment Insurance , by Brian Meredith; Can War Cross the Pacific?, by Charles Lugrin Shaw who argues that adequate defenses are needed to protect Canada's west coast from attack; You Roll Your Own, by Kalman Phillips - she fell in love with a man who kep finding an octopus in a trout pool; The Bay Street Boys, by Frederick Edwards - life is just one up and down after another to the Dominion's 4,000 stock salesmen - with nice black and white photo of Bay Street, Toronto; The Exile, by Beryl Gray - it took them a long time to realize that love does not feed on selfishness; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - an address to the United States; Sable Island, by C.F. Blackadar - "While men sail in ships there will be wrecks on Sable's greedy sands" - with photos; The 7th (Seventh) Day, by Max Brand (part); Checks Please, by Lotta Dempsey - checks are very much in fashion; Mexico and Manana, by Madge Macbeth - Growing trade with Mexico opens new opportunities to Canadian business; Nice full-page black and white DeSoto ad on page 31; Two-colour Oldsmobile full-page ad on page 33; Black and white photo two-page centrefold ad for the Hudson 112 car; Black and white full-page 1938 Plymouth ad on page 45; Black and white photo full-page Dodge truck ad on page 49; William G. Gibson of Ladner, BC - world's champion wheat grower; Cougar Pets, by Francis Dickie - Marion, Pearl and Pansy Schnarr of Sonora, BC have brought up from babyhood two cougars - includes two photos; Page 65 missing; Small piece removed from page 67; Nice Kodak ad on back cover shows baby covering his mouth. Address label atop front cover. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy. Book
68 pages. A.J. Casson cover illustration of grass-cutting man mowing flowers while girl-watching. Contents: Great colour ad for Veedol motor oil inside front cover; Nice ad for International Trucks 2-ton trucks; Investors Syndicate ad features William H. Lotts, President of Overland Construction Company; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; Roosevelt Acts - M. Grattan O'Leary reports on the "Prophet of Recovery" - including photo of President Roosevelt with Premier Bennett; A Sporting Gesture, by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Article on Sir Arthur Currie; Forgotten Money in Bank Accounts, by Grant Dexter; Ins and Outs of Sport - how different sports go in and out of favour; Arctic Air Trail - Flight Lieut. J.D.M. Gray and his plan to fly the "Sourdough", a Fairchild monoplane, across the Atlantic; False Colors, by Captain Dingle; Sleepy, by Beverley Owen; My Hat!, by Dora Sanders; The (Great) Depression, by Honorable E.C. Drury - Part 2 - Causes; Match Point, by John Holden; We Shouldn't Own Ships - O.F. MacKenzie argues that now that WWI is over the Canadian government need not own ships; A very lovely full-page colour ad for Campbell's Tomato Soup featuring a waving girl in a tomato-coloured dress and blue hat and jacket; Salesman of Music - Milton Blackstone and the Hart House Quartet which also includes Adaskin, de Kresz and Hambourg; Full-page Canada Dry ad shows boy and girl running; Europe Fears Treaty Revision; Nice Dominions Tire ad; New Guinea is Rich Gold Field; There are now 230 weekly comic strips; Great Wall is Useless Now; Modern Alarms Catch Burglars - electrical devices installed in banks make robbery practically impossible; Baseball has been changed by the Curve Ball and other Developments; Jerusalem now has Y.M.C.A.; Super-Markets Cause Concern - Large-scale grocery selling in cheap warehouses worries regular trade; Nice two-colour full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Standard Six and Master Six; The Future of Medicine; Vintage Dentyne chewing gum ad includes photo of Eskimo lady with healthy teeth; Lovely colour Shredded Wheat ad; Nice Champion Spark Plug ad features Eddie Miller in an Auburn 12 Speedster; Trans-Canada Long-Distance ad with contemporary prices per minute; Outdoor Weddings, by Helen G. Campbell; Lending Companies have Good Depression Record, by W.A. Higgins; Nice 2-colour ad for Northern Electric Electric range inside back cover; Nice ad for Kodak Verichrome Film on back cover. Address label upon front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
78 pages. Features: One-page Toronto-Dominion Bank ad features large portrait of Mme. Marie Curie; One-page Craven "A" cigarette ad features photo of bare-shouldered sultry blonde; One-page colour photo ad for General Motors buses; Why Surgeons Operate - a doctor explains the subtle forces impelling his colleagues to reach for the scalpel - whether or not the patient needs it; Dr. Ronald Wintrob - photo-illustrated article of his medical adventure in the far east with Tom Dooley, MEDICO, jungle disease in Laos, and guerrilla war; Trade Secrets of a Professional Fund Raiser; Italian Gardens, in Toronto's northern suburbs - photo-illustrated article; Conscription - the bone in Canada's throat has choked off national unity twice in the 20th century; Photos of canoe racing in Mooney's Bay, near Ottawa; Clinic to Curb Sex Crimes Before They Happen; Glossy colour four-page centrefold insert advertises Algoma Steel's continued expansion; The Brave New Transistorized (Radio) World; Two-page colour ad for Remington Rand typewriters; Nice colour one-page Labatt's 50 ad features sailing scene; Pretty model in Pitney-Bowes postage meter colour-photo ad; Brief anecdote entitled "The army 'plot' that soaked Mackenzie King'; Colour-photo ad for IBM's Executary; What red scientist Dr. Mikhail Klotchko didn't know about our science; Eskimo Co-ops; The (federal) Tory Future Looks Bright; Nice Labatt's Pilsener beer colour-photo ad inside back cover features magician and his beautiful assistant; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad suggests a lemon garnish; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
92 pages. Features: Torado Iwasaki was cheated out of his 640 acres on Salt Spring Island; Ernest Manning's offer to merge the Alberta Social Credit Party with the federal Conservatives; Egyptian travel posters in West Germany include swastika; How We've Come to Love the Car - a 10-page exploration of this surprising cultural shift - Peterborough's Superblock and architect Gerald Robindon, Monteal's new Place Bonaventure-Canada Trade Centre (cutaway view) - with photos and brief write-ups of the following people and their vehicles - Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, Al Hamel, Dr. Morton Shulman, Harley Neilson (of the chocolate business), Dorothee Hebert and Kenneth Jarvis; Does Canada Need the Tories?; Wonderful photographic celebration of Orillia, Ontario's Centennial - with text by Jack Batten; Expose '67 - the unpredictable other half of Expo '67; Alan Eagleson and the formation of the NHL players' union (NHLPA) - article with great full-page photo of Eagleson with Carl Brewer - who later became an implacable opponent of Eagleson and his misdeeds - amazing NHL history, some of it from the dark side; Spiritualist James Wilkie of Vancouver - is his body taken over by timeless spirit Rama?; Lotta Hitschmanova helps the starving, sick and homeless in foreign lands - article with photo; Nice colour photo ad for Hollandia pipe tobacco; Colour photo centrefold ad for Eskilon winterwear; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Ski-doo; The Investigation Service of the Post Office Department - the secret watchers who guard your mail; Fantastic two-page colour photo ad for CBC-TV with photos of 17 of their shows/personalities; Photo ad for GM's short-lived Epic car; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Magnificent cover art from the Canadian Life Series by A.C. Valentine entitled "The Habitant". Contents: Nice colour Heinz Tomato Ketchup ad inside front cover. Hudson Motor Car Company ad for its Essex model; The Parts Pigs Play, by G.R. Stevens; Canada's Fighting Airmen - Part 3 - Billy Bishop Earns His Second Decoration, by Major George A. Drew; The Tides of Hymen, by Leslie Roberts; Letters of a Woman M.P. - humour by H.F. Gadsby; The St. Lawrence Question - Part 2 - The Dangers of Non-Co-operation - debating the deepening of the St. Lawrence, with photos; Gamblers, by Victor Lauriston; Canada in the Caribbean - our trade efforts in the West Indies, by Harwood Steele, with photos; Gurl's Garters, by Hubert Evans; Give the Girls A Hand - Canadian Women have crashed open the gate of sport, by H.H. Roxborough; Vimy V.C.'s - Another Chapter from the record of the Canadians who were awarded the Victoria Cross during the Great War, with photos of Major T.W. MacDowell, V.C., D.S.O., Lieutenant R.G. Combe, V.C.,k Private J.G. Pattison, V.C.; To Love and to Cherish - Part 4, by Constance Travers Sweatman; Nice Chrysler ad featuring the new '75' Royal Sedan; New Dodge Brothers Six car ad; Durant Motors of Canada ad for their "40" De Luxe Sedan; Strombert-Carlson Radio ad; Nice 2-colour ad for Swift's "Silverleaf" brand pure lard; Full-page Canada Dry ad with New Orleans theme; Nice Ford car photo ad promotes the concept of homes having two cars!; Nice Ovaltine ad; 10-minute Salads; Great vintage full-page ad by the Wallaceburg Brass & Iron Mfg. Co. for their Wallrich Shower and Waldorf Sink Faucet; Furniture finishing article; Business and Investments section; Great colour ad for Libby's Pork and Beans inside back cover; Very attractive colour ad for Parker Duofold DeLuxe pens. Address label upon front cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Middle page loose but present. Cup ring on back cover. A worthy copy of this marvelous piece of Canadiana. Book
42 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illusration in Saskatchewan's Museum of Natural History; Nice ad for yellow Pontiac Parisienne convertible; Article on Sherbrooke missing first page but article and nice colour photos present; Fantastic photo-llustrated article by Mordecai Richler on how he "became an unknown" with his first novel; If We Had Free Trade With Britain; Eskimos are treated at Hamilton's Mountain Sanitorium (part of this article missing); and more. Pages 3 and 5 secured with archival tape. Please note: missing pages 9-14 (affecting Callwood article about flying Iroquois), and pages 27-28, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
br., ENVOI DE L’AUTEUR, (couv. lég. fanée), intérieur très frais, [Cet ouvrage provient de la bibliothèque personnelle du professeur Jean Carbonnier (1908-2003)]
Book is in excellent condition with very light wear to covers only, faded spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 421 pages, sections include: Expansion of Greece, Phrygia and the west, The Bireme, Orientalising art in Greece, Cyprus, Rhodes, Crete, Carthage, Cumae, Metal trade, Chalkidians in Sicily, Conquest of Messenia, Taranto, Sybaris , Kroton, Klophon , Siris, Lokrians in the west, Lyric age of Lesbos, Power and poetry in Ionia, Peloponese in the seventh century, Greeks and the Black sea, Mystery religions, Herakleitos of Ephesos, Athens, Hippias, Lygdamis, of Naxos, etc. "In this well-documented view of the Greek world in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, the author, Reader in Ancient History in the University of Glasgow, is acclaimed by reviewers for "the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Greek Achsenzeit yet published in this country" and for "no better introduction to the history and literature of Archaic Greece."
Mm 240x280 Catalogo della mostra tenutasi a Milano presso la Fondazione Mudima fra marzo e aprile 1998 - Brossura editoriale di 47 pagine, numerose illustrazioni a colori anche a piena pagina. Testo in italiano e inglese. Una dedica a penna e un'abrasione orizzontale alla prima carta, peraltro ottimo esemplare. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
bross. edit. ill. - prima edizione - illustrazioni in b.n. fuori testo
224 p. + 3 plates, one plate loose. Text woodcuts of horses. Age stain. 16mo. 175 mm. Original full cloth binding, faded and worn. Hardbound. Good. In OCLC only the British Library is shown as holding this very scarce treatise. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! HORSE BX 1
8vo; 248 pages; Autobiography of Lester, a Black Civl Rights leader, whose Great Grandfather was an Arkansas Jew. Lester traces the family's hidden Jewish history and becomes a practicing Jew. Since his White Jewish relatives all converted to Christianity, he remains the only living Jew in his family tree. Very Good Condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. (AMR-41-15)
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In English. 21, [3] p., b/w ills. 1000 copies were printed. Love for 70 years. Izmir Fair.
trad. di Giuseppe Conato e Milva Severi in 16°, bross. edit. ill.
bross. edit. ill. con bandelle, firma di appartenenza, sottolineature a matita
n. 2 in 16°, bross. edit., piccole rotture in cop.
Barcelona, Montaner y Simón editores, 1886. Traducción de Enrique Leopoldo de Verneuil. Numerosos grabados en b/n. 554p. Folio. Encuadernada en holandesa. Leves puntos de óxido en algunas páginas. Buen ejemplar. 1ª edició. 1st edition.
Barcelona, Edit. Quiris, 1964. Numerosas fotografías en b/n fuera texto. 358p. 4º. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Bordes levemente rozados. Buen ejemplar. 1ª edición. 1st edition.
pp. x, 223, 24 [Publisher's catalogue] + folding map and two full page maps of London in various time periods. XLib stamp on title page. Engraved XLib bookplate. Text foxed. 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding. Faded gold lettered spine. Gilt decoration on front cover with embossed lettering in blind. Hardbound. Though XLib, this is still a nice copy. TRAVEL/1
Book is in excellent condition with a little shelf wear only, light sunning to spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for former owner's name inside cover and on title page. 251 pages, contents include: The foreshore, Midnight voyage, A shipping parish, The ship-runners, An Old Lloyd's register.
New English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). [3], 149 p. A bibliographical study of rare manuscripts and prints in the library of Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO). Lonca'dan Oda'ya nadir eserler katalogu, 1882-1982: ITO Yayinlari.
In-4, broché, 12 p. Loi du 6 juillet 1791 qui réorganise la circulation des marchandises entre la métropole et les colonies orientales. (Cf. Martin & Walter, IV:2, 9143). Signature autographe du l’administrateur du district, "Du Quesnoy". Exemplaire à l'état de neuf, non coupé, tel que paru.
bross. edit., firma di appartenenza
