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307p. 8vo. Original printed wraps. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Nice Copy. BLKAM 2.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 122 p. Trabzon gelenek ve görenekleri. No date. Customs and traditions in Trabzon City.
pp. x, 336. Inked ownership. 8vo. Original printed wraps, slightly worn. Ann Arbor paperback. BLKAM 2.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Re-bound by the library into strong, heavy hardback covers in blue buckram. Book shows general light wear. 164 pages with a great many large color prints of painted tomb walls depicting such things as a funerary boat, negro tributaries, animals, horses, chariots, youths carrying arrows, serving maids, sailors, etc.
Very Good Very Good English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Romanian. 2 volumes set: (422, [1], [2] p.]. Memorii, I-II. Editie îngrijitâ, note si indice de Valeriu Dinu. Mihail Manoilescu was a Romanian journalist, engineer, economist, politician and memoirist, who served as Foreign Minister of Romania during the summer of 1940. An active promoter of and contributor to fascist ideology and anti-Semitic sentiment, he was a financial backer of the Iron Guard in the late 1930s. His corporatist ideas influenced economic policy in Brazil in the 1930s.
363 p. + Engraved frontis portrait from an ambrotype by Brady. Foxed. 12mo. 19 cm. Original full cloth binding. Milburn was famous as 'the blind preacher' who had been six times Champlain of the Unite d States House of Representatives. His first book, 'Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-Bags' was an account of the trials of a minister's life in the unsettled wilderness. It was hugely popular. He was also the a uthor of 'Pioneers and People of the Mississippi Valley.' He claimed that he was first urged to write this auto-biography in 1854 by the historian Prescott, and curiously on the next day Longfellow ma de the same request. It is most interesting where Milburn gives his accounts of the Mississippi Valley, the Southerner, and the Negro. Sabin 48919. W148
321p. + Plus frontis and full page photographs. Penciled ownership. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn and torn. AFRICA/1
287p. + Plus frontis full page photographs. XLib. Inner hinges old repair. 8vo. Original full brown buckram binding, worn. AFRICA/3
270p. Cartoon illustrations. 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding, silver stamped. First edition. Coldwar/Economics 9
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Romanian. 501, [2] p. Ca o imensa scena, Transilvania.
pp. 644 + Plus color frontis. 8vo. Original full pictorial green cloth binding, worn. A novel about Alabama textile workers. Dwelling on the horrors of child labor, it was written with a social consciousness in advance of its time. It is perhaps the first important Southern novel to treat the new industrial forces that were changing the South forever. BLKAM 1
385p. + Plus photographs. Chapter heading drawings. Decorative endpapers. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, very slight tear. Book Club edition. AFRICA/3
385p. + Plus photographs. Chapter heading drawings. Inked ownership of Emilie Latimer. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slight tear without loss. AFRICA/3 + AFRICA/2 Lacks DJ
In 8, pp. 309 + (1b) + (4) di pubbl. con molte foto in b/n, cartine e ill. n.t. anche a piena pagina. Mancanze al d. Br. ed. dec. Fa parte della Collezione di Monografie Illustrate. Serie viaggi. Dall'Indice: In rotta per le Canarie, Sull'Orenoco, Gli Indiani dell'Orenoco, del Rio Negro e di altre regioni del Venezuela, Una fermata a Barbados, Un giorno a Puerto Rico, A Cuba libera, Al Paese degli Aztecas, Messico a traverso l'istantanea, Tra i ruderi della Roma Azteca, Italia e Messico, Ai deserti dei Maya, Il carnevale di Merida, etc...
in-16 (poche), broché, couverture illustrée. Bel exemplaire. [LP-6]
in-16 (poche), broché, couverture illustrée. Bel exemplaire. [LP-6]
Articles include: Reducing the Hazards of Being Born; Fort Hood - Sparta Goes Suburban; An African Student in China; My Poetic Career in Vermont Politics; Columbia's Unorthodox Seminars; What is a Jew?; J.F.K. - Portrait of a President; What Psychiatry can and cannot do; Second Thoughts on the Religious Revival; Small Rebellion in Miami; Why Nobody Can't Write no good; Los Angeles' Cultural Curcus; A Draftee's Diary from the Mississippi Front; Harold Wilson's Britain; Arms and the Big Money Men; Attack on Poverty; The Uncompleted Man; The Strange Twilight of Harry Bridges; Every Artist needs a hard-boiled patron; Italy's Forgotten City; Crime and Punishment - special supplement; Oswald in Moscow; JFK's voyage of discovery; If I were a company President; New Jersey's search for identity; Give slum children a chance; The Jews in Germany Today; Aldous Huxley in California; A New Kind of National Election; The Quickening War against Viruses; The Scotch in Canada; Miami Notebook - Cassius Clay and Malcolm X; The Psychiatrist in the Looking Glass; A Negro Governor for Massachusetts; What's to Become of Architecture; Why Labor Lost the Intellectuals. Light wear. Binding tight. Few library markings. Book
92 pages. Lovely A.J. Casson painting of a bustling winter street on front cover Features: Great vintage photo ad for the New International "Special Delivery" Truck; Cream of Wheat ad claims it keeps pupils more alert; When Men Kill for Whisky - Millionaire Carling Breweries Executive Sam Low of Walkerville, Ontario was kidnapped by Gangsters for a $35k ransom - great photo-illustrated article about rum-running between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit; Brummagen Love, by Thelma Rudge; What I Learned from Europe, by Ontario Premier G. Howard Ferguson; Ottawa-Vancouver in 32 Hours - The Stirring Story of Canada's First Transcontinental Air Mail Flight - with photos; The Mystery of Number Nine, by Leslie McFarlane - Part 1; Louis Letourneau, Leo Dandurand and Joe Cattarinich - a colorful description of the adventures and achievements of The Three Musketeers of Modern Sport; Canada's Pictorial War Records - Adequate Housing Required, by W.W. Murray; Lights in the Windows, by Lillian Beynon Thomas; Full-colour colour reproduction of painting "Canada's Answer" by Norman Wilkinson, R.I.; The Work Cure - Vetcraft has brought health, happiness and economic being to hundreds of veterans; By Especial Corespondent, by Geoffrey Hewelcke; The Devil Guards His Own, by Victor Lauriston; Amazing photo of Malahat Drive on Vancouver Island - not much more than a couple of ruts through the forest; Nice ad for the De Soto Six, by Chrysler; "New York Now Huge Negro City - Black Invasion of Harlem"; Art Deco-style ad for the New Frigidaire refrigerator; Science Teaching Weather Control - Man has made enormous progress in combat with nature; Fantastic colour full-page ad for Packard cars; Great colour full-page ad for Wahl-Eversharp Pens, Pencils, Desk Sets; Wonderful full-page ad for Erector Set toys; Color ad for Chipso Laundry Soap; *Magnificent* Colour Centerfold ad for Parker Duofold Pens, Pencils and Duettes; Great full-page colour ad for Westclox Clocks; Ad for Mueller Faucets of Sarnia, Ontario; "Let the Laundry Do It" - a two-colour ad encouraging readers to let laundries clean their clothes; Nice Hupmobile Ad for their Century Six and Eight; Colour photo ad for Kodak cameras; Lovely colour full-page ad for Moirs Chocolates; Article about collector Walter McRaye; Buses Hurt British Railways - with photo of their first auto Pullman which allows passengers to sleep on the bus; The Road to Perth - short history article by Donald McNicol; Ad for the T-N Toilet which promises to 'banish embarrassment' because it is quiet; Colour ad for Swift's Premium Hams and Bacon; Two-Colour full-page Christmas-themed ad for Eveready flashlights and batteries; Home-Made Christmas Gifts; Short write-up and photo of Elizabeth Styring Nutt; Rug Magic, by Mary Agnes Pease; Stewart Warner radio ad; Business Article - "Adventuring in Speculation is Highly Specialized Business"; Colour ad fo Sun-Maid Puffed seeded Muscat Raisins inside back cover. Average wear to textblock. Crossword completed on page 83 otherwise unmarked. Chips and openings along cover fold. Covers loose as one but present. Back cover in rough shape. Particularly wonderful content to go with the excellent front cover artwork. Book
Features: Peter Stollery - Nomad in the Sahara, Part I; The French Revolution, Quebec 1961 - Jean Lesage et al are breaking up the two-century-old cartel of church and state; Bernard Glaum and the Native Sons of Canada; Samuel Laycock - busy at age 70; The Last Bohemia in Montreal - with photos; The unsinkable Charlotte Whitton; My First Negro, Peter Gzowski; What Television Does to Children - first scientific study; The Lady with a Mission - Ethel Grace has taken the gospel and medical care to the boat people of Hong Kong for 22 years; I worked for Adolph Eichmann - Valerie White, a Czech now living in Toronto, helped process thousands of Jews for Eichmann's Central Office - photos; A Doctor's Case for Private Medicine - Harold Challis, M.D.; Fantastic colour centerfold ad for the new International Travelall Station Wagon. Please note: something, most likely an ad, has been clipped from page 87/88. Middle two pages loose but present. Four inch openings to top edge of back cover and last two pages. Minor calculation on back cover else unmarked. Average wear. A decent copy. Book
Features: Will the NDP shake up Parliament?; Canadian Peter Jennings moves to ABC News in New York; Halifax's Negro slum of Africville is afraid of integration; The Gaspe - holiday trails; Backwater War - the US sends 30,000 troops to the Dominican Republic; Live like a millionaire - on a boat; Canada's Instant Language - James Evans brought Inuktitut to the native peoples of Canada; Dig those crazy Skurfers/Skateboarders; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of mixed marriage partners, Roslyn Hees and Durward Taylor; Editorial - remarkable record of 'do-nothing' Prime Minister Lester Pearson; Interview with Farley Mowat; Edmonton - lengthy article with many photos in colour and black and white - brief text and photos of provincial chief censor John Day, Don Getty, Tommy Banks, Jim Martin, Joe Shoctor; Bev Brooker; Can George Hees's beautiful daughter Roslyn find happiness with a handsom Washington Lawyer who happens to be a Negro? - with photos; Robert Stanfield - austere, Calvinist patrician; *AMAZING* colour two-page psychadelic Tory (Progressive-Conservative) poster which reads "Turn on with the Tories"; Why Pierre Berton Works so Damned Hard, by Jon Ruddy; How I Learned to Hate Hard Work, by Pierre Berton; Colour fashion photos for Rainwear; A Matter of Image - Liberal leadership contenders are rated on image, sex appeal, youth appeal, their face, their clothes; Colour centerfold featuring three Chevrolets - Chevy II Nova, Chevelle, and Impala; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; and more. Address label on front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The unfolding tragedy of drug-deformed babies - side effects of a new drug called thalidomide are causing tragic deformities in newborn Canadian babies; The Slapstick Saga of the S.S. Tropic Sea - she'd been a virtuous lady on the Great Lakes, but she was a notorious tramp in the Caribbean and sailed into piracy, gunplay and mutiny, or so the rumours went; How the NAACP Plots the Negro Revolution; The only Canadian the Chinese ever heard of - Dr. Norman Bethune is one of China's five national heroes; How John Bassett, businessman, became a celebrity; Ask the name of the lion - part 2 of Ralph Allen's novel of the new Congo; The Bankruptcy Racket - many of Canada's 1,500 bankruptcies a year are deliberate, planned frauds in which everybody is bilked but the bankrupt and his friends; The New Wave in Canadian Music - Ronald Turini, Marek Jablonski, Richard Gresko, Zubin Mehta and Boris Brott. Additional story: Japanese join Canadian whalers off B.C.'s coast. Nice colour Pepsi ad on page 49. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features include: Deep Thoughts; True Section; Nick Palomar, D.D.S., in The Case of the Star's Choppers; Bestsellers Illustrated - In Search of Excellence; The New Order; The Mystery of the Ghostwriter; Sunbelt Gags Fall 1984 Catalog; A Story of New York, or Where Does David Letterman get his Guests?; A Semester at Barker Prep.; TF - The Bean Report; Miss Poland; NatLamp Contest #36. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Nice photo ad for Warner & Swasey Turret Lathes features the McDonald Observatory at Mt. Locke, Texas; American Recognition of Franco Fits into "Stop Hitler" Drive; GoodYear Tire ad features photo of Richard M. Teall of Toledo, Ohio; Swallowing goldfish at Harvard; "Tough Johnny" Torrio faces jail for income tax evasion; Photo of FDR shaking hands with George Washington Carver; Experts forecast Negro return to the Republican fold in 1940; Beautiful one-page color ad for the new Cadillac Sixty Special features a dark blue car in front of hotel; Nice one-page photo ad for Vitamins Plus; Great Britain awakens to Reich Threat of Supremacy - major article with photos of Polish leaders, Danzig Nazi leader Foerster, and more; Nuisance Islands - Japan's Seizure of Spratlys gives her a bargaining point; Spain - Rebuilding - with photo of Julian Besteiro; How U.S. Leads World in Synthetic Chemistry; New malarial problem carried to Brazil by stowaway insect; Large and lovely photo of Katharine Hepburn; Frank Andrea and the television set he has placed on the market - photo with article; Six photos of screwballer Carl Hubbell in action; Hudson car ad; Cy Young turns 72; Marriage of Clark Gable to Carole Lombard; Hitler's half-brother, William Patrick Hitler, arrives in New York; Nice ad for the RCA Victrola; Obituary for Gen. Gerardo Machado, exiled ex-President of Cuba; Making safer safety glass; Intereseting ad for Elliott Addressing Machines; Ford V8 car ad inside back cover; Color-photo ad for Four Roses Whiskey on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
40 pages. Features: Nice two-color addressograph ad inside front cover; AT&T charged with waste and extravagance; Gargantua the gorilla leads a streamlined new Ringling circus to town - article with photos; George Jean Nathan; Franco's offensive rolls forward; Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn defies clergy and puts over sweepstakes bill; Francis William Rickett and Ben Smith - mystery men of Mexican oil; Photo of smiling FDR with Marvin McIntyre; Photo of Father Charles Coughlin of Detroit; Negro politician Nathaniel Brewer, of Cambridge, MA; Squaws riot in Northern Minnesota; Interesting article on Key West, Florida; Nazis put their Nordic paganism into print - rules for marriage ceremonies in the Temples of Blood; Photo of the Prince of Liechtenstein and his wife; The Soviet Union's NSRA (Northern Sea Route Administration) is one of the few government agencies to escape the Stalin purge; Tsung Tsai Chiang becomes Stalin of China; Egyptian feud between Farouk I and Nahas Pasha; Fantastic hockey photo shows American goalie Earl Robertson playing against the Chicago Black Hawks; Nice photo of Joan Blondell with police; Burial announcement of Col. Edward M. House - and picture of him with Woodrow Wilson; Nice one-page photo ad for the Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera; Interesting photo of black children at Milk Bar - Rev. Amos H. Carnegie; Interesting picket outside Boyles Furniture Store in Utah; Labor Racketeers Still Flourishing; Nice photo ad for Warner & Swasey turret lathes of Cleveland; C.I.O. seamen picket Maritime Commission offices in Washington; Leonor F. Loree leaves the D.& H. (with photo); Nice color ad inside back cover for San Francisco tourism features illustration of rotating street car; Back cover color photo ad for Four Roses whiskey features letter from John Chapman. Average wear. Unmarked. Small clipping from page 7. A worthy vintage copy Book