Vivian, Herbert; Jones, John H.; Mackellar, R.H.; Magnussen, Ras De S.; Lilian Agnes Oliver; et alMareMagnum
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112 Pages. Features: Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part IX; Holy Week Procession in Seville (includes photos of Nazarene's in costumes similar to those of Klansmen); My Texan Elopement -John H. Jones impersonates Miss Sally Steddem; A Naturalist in Cannibal-Land - adventures of Captain H. Cayley-Webster in the cannibal islands of the South Seas (with photos of Cayley-Webster); Jinkers and Jinkering - photo-illustrated article shows how buildings are moved by horses and oxen in Western New South Wales; My Klondike Mission - Lilian Agnes Oliver of Chicago set out for the Klondike to raise money to support her invalid husband - a photo-illustrated account; Through Pygmy-Land - Part I - photo-illustrated article by Albert B. Lloyd; The Heroes of Niagara - a series of graphic narratives, each illustrated by a photo of the hero and his apparatus; "Dago" - eminent actor Kyrle Bellew relates a remarkable mining incident - with photos; The Martyrs of Ku-Cheng - photo-illustrated article on the slaughter of Christian missionaries in the interior of China and the decapitating retribution; My First Leopard - by Walter H. Bone; Round the World in a Home-Made Boat - Joshua Slocum and the 'Spray'; Wolves in a Blizzard - Mr. and Mrs. E. Howard in North-West Canada; My Cycle Ride to Khiva - part II - an account of a remarkable bicycle ride across the deserts of Kara-kum and Kizil-kum by Robert L. Jefferson, F.R.G.S.; Attacked by Leeches - W. Harcourt-Bath describes a horrible jungle; Incredible photos of dozens of prisoners on treadmill in the great prison of Rangoon; Photo of dead Armenian heroes in Samsoun; and more. Average wear. Complete and intact. Few pencil markings. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Sm. 4to., with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; This enjoyable and innovative book reconstructs the stages of the ancient Greek wedding ceremony using a long-neglected source of information: vase paintings from the sixth through fourth centuries B. C.; Wisconsin Studies in Classics; 11.25 x 0.5 x 8.75 Inches; 153 pages
1951606869Oslo, Dreyers forlag, 1951. 1951 In-8, rel. éd. plein-cuir vert, dos lisse orné de fleurons et roulettes dorés, titre doré, filet doré en encadrement sur les plats, tête dorée; 248 pp., portrait de M.M. King Haakon VII en coul. au front., nb. fig. et ill. photogr. en n/b. et en coul. in et h.-t., texte en anglais, index.
240 pages. Index. Glossary. Bibliograpy. Sumptuous colour photography throughout. "Richard Diran's task of recording the tribes, many of them suspicious and frightened of foreigners, was arduous and also dangerous, in the face of almost constant guerilla warfare, and it took many years. The resulting photographs are a testimony not only to his skill and determination but to the survival of the tribes themselves in the face of an alien and politically unstable world." - from dust jacket. Heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. Four inch opening at bottom of back hinge. Reading copy only. Book
214 pages. "Portrays the Vanderbilts in the witty engaging manner of his (author's) best fiction." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Solid copy. Book
142127aafLondon, Longnans, Green and Co., 1874, in-8vo, Frontispiece (View of: Kufstein) + XXIX + 1 blank (incl. Half-title + Title) + 453 p. + 3 maps. (light browning on maps), exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, Half-leather binding with a gilt library stamp on first cover ,New South Wales library of parlament’.
504p. + Plus engraved frontis and full page plates showing scenes and costumes of different races and nations. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Text age stained. Large 12mo. Original full leather binding, embossed and decorated in blind. Spine gold lettered with raised bands. Binding worn and stained. Front cover weak and almost detached. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/1
253 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
1937002608Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs 1937. China. The Maritime Customs I - Statistical Series: No. 1 A detailed tabulation of all exports of China to foreign trading partners in the years 1934 1935 and 1936. For each commodity trading partner quantity where appropriate and value of export is provided. Each commodity is identified in both Chinese and English and listed under its related tariff code. Some loss of wrapper to head and tail of spine binding otherwise strong; faint stamp handwritten date and remains of small sticker on front wrapper. Interior pages clean and unmarked - overall a very good copy of this rare item. vi 318 pp. index. First Edition. Softbound. Very Good. 28 x 22 cm. Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with pristine bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight sunning to rear. 346pp. This study looks at the 'dark ages' and gives us an intimate view of everyday life in medieval England, suggesting that the way that 14th and 15th century peasants coped with their problems was not as different as we would expect from our 20th century solutions.
250 pages. 10.75 x 8.5". Black boards with yellow lettering upon front. Printed upon glossy stock. Nine one-page colour illustrations. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white illustrations and photos of 1930's sample artwork. The twenty-nine chapters include: Poster Layout; Water Color Posters; Velour Posters; Transparent Posters; Pastel Posters; Air Brush Posters; Lithograph Posters; Linoleum Posters; Foreign Posters; Painting in Oil; "Aplakay" Posters; Lettering (fonts); Design; Figure Drawing; Backgrounds; Theatrical Fronts (featuring spectacular photos); Animated Displays; Theatre Decoration; Silk Screen Posters; Pen-and-Ink Work; Color; Animal Drawing; Costumes; Reference Material; Holiday Posters; Posters of the Future; Pencil Sketch Posters; Set-Pieces; and Elementary Poster Art. Author gained several years of sign display experience prior to WWI, following which his career as a poster artist began, ultimately leading him to New York where he organized the Publix Theatres Corporation's art department which provided poster art for approximately 1,600 theatres. In 1932 he opened his own Duke Wellington, Inc. studio and contracted to produce lobby displays for theatres in the metropolitan New York area. - from Introduction. Above-average but not excessive wear. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Front hinge starting. Back hinge half open. Faint remnants of calculations erased from title page. Theatre rubber stamp and bit of writing atop page 11. A worthy copy of this rare and treasured work. Book
1969101526Longmans , Industrial Archeology Series Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1969 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's purple printed dust-jacket, illustrated by a carding machine and slubbing frame, 1835 In-8 1 vol. - 256 pages
19842092902138201391Tairiku shobo 1984. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 229 pages Size: New book format Number of copies: 1 volume Tairiku shobo paperback
1969606998Leuven, Peeters, 1969. 1969 In-8 rel. éd. pleine-toile verte, dos lisse, titre doré au dos et plat sup., XIV-129 pp., front., 1 carte, texte en anglais, bibliographie, index. Annotations manuscrites au crayon. Envoi autographe de l'auteur au faux-titre.
870p. + Frontis. Numerous text engravings. Text ruled in black throughout. Double column. All edges marbled. Large 8vo. Original quarter leather binding. Gilt decorated raised bands. Extremities rubbed with slight loss. Front board detached. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND BOX 3
19172080502106500924Publisher: Nippon Shoin 1917. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Publisher: Nippon Shoin paperback
209 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Illuminates the underside of the Civil War." - James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
n.p. Title ruled in black and red and printed in four languages. Text printed in (Cyrillic) Russian. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Folio. Original full cloth binding. With a folio phamplet insert describing each of the 381 items detailed in this exhibit. A fascinating photographic study of 450 years of Russian military art and royal craftsmanship. Gene Box 2 **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
222 pages. "The entertaining life-history of a schooner, from her first appearance on the designing-board, through her gradual growth in the builder's yard and trials in the North Atlantic, to her cruel death indirectly at the hands of the U.S. Customs during the prohibition period." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy. Book
2 v. illus. Hardcover Very good ex lib.
Blue cloth boards show wear at edges and some small spots. 10 1/4"w x 12 1/2"h. Black and white tipped-in photographs throughout. A photographic record of Sadler's Wells Ballet's 1939 production of Tchaikovsky's ''Sleeping Princess'' based on ''The Sleeping Beauty'', under the direction of Nicolas Segueeff and starring Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann. "The book itself is really a collection of 'Action' pictures taken in mystudio of the chief characters from the story, in poses which are as near as possible characteristic ones, taken from the dances they illlustrate, and are placed in the order of their appearance in the ballet itself."
pp. xx, 374. Illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs. 8vo. Paperback. Very nice copy. Volume 72 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. LOC W17
46 pages. Black and white photos throughout. "Pierre Berton's television interviews with a former rumrunner and "Machine-Gun" Kelly of Canadian customs form the basis of this tale of prohibition days. Centering on the U.S. Coast Guard's illegal sinking of the Canadian ship 'I'm Alone', the succinct informative narrative combines with contemporary photos, archival material and more to provide the reader with a distinctive sense of period." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small tears on edge worn dust jacket. 201 pages. Many b&w photographs.
