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grand in-8 carré, 557 pages, abdt ill. in-t., cartes et plans, index, broché, couv. ill. Bel exemplaire (légères rousseurs). [NV-14]
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 268 pages. 6 1/2"w x 9 1/2"h. Full gray cloth boards.
48 Pages. Features: Cover photo of bombing crew mission debriefing session; Nice one-page color ad for Woodbury film-finish powder features Sonja Henie; Temple radio ad; We must not delay rebuilding the world; Photo of B-17s over the Reich; Photo of Allied infantry and armor fighting along the German Westwall; Dramatic photo of B-29s thundering over Mount Fuji on way to Tokyo; Photo of American troops in landing barges on way to a Pacific Island; Last Fortress of the Nazis - article and photos explain how in the Alps east of Switzerland Hitler's henchmen are expected to make a final stand - includes caricatures of Hitler, Himmler, Goebels and Goering; The Soviet Soldier Does Not Forget - he remembers the long ordeal of his people and says it must not happen again; The Censor Defends the Censorship - Director of Censorship Byron Price replies to those who complain that too much news is kept from the public; General Lewis A. Pick of 'Pick's Pike' - photo-illustrated article of the builder of Stilwell Road, the 620-mile land route to China from Burma; One-page color ad for the Parker '51' pen; Poem - "Lincoln's Last Birthday"; One-page color ad for Benson & Hedges Virginia Rounds cigarettes; The Horace Mann-Lincoln School of teachers College; Photo and article on Shirley Temple - who tells how she evolved from gurgling to glamor; ad for Philharmonic radio-phonographs; William Gallacher - the only Communist M.P. in Britain, and one of the most persistent Churchill-baiters in Parliament - article with photo; Nice color ad for Valliant Vineyards; Great letter about jobs for men and women by Ann Maulsby; Lieut. Gen. Kurt Dittmar is 'The Voice of the Wehrmacht" - article with photo; Color ad for Nestle's evaporated milk; Nice color photo ad for Thomas' Protein Bread; Meals with Little or No Meat; Color Crisco ad; The Bare Arm Look (fashion); Decorating Ingenuity; Kingergarten Enterprises; Cocomalt ad features boy on stilts; Lovely two-page fashion section features attractive photos of formal fashions; Nice half-page color ad for Marlboro cigarettes features lady in red polka-dot summerwear; Postman's Daily Rounds - article on letter carriers of the New York area distribute 80 tons of mail daily; Color one-page ad for Fabrics by Stafford, sold by Goodman & Theise; Fantastic color-photo back page ad for Rheingold Beer features Miss Rheingold 1945, Pat Boyd, bowling. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [Aircraft Profile 205].
40 pages. Features: Cover photo of large portraits of Truman, Stalin and Churchill displayed in Berlin; Dumont TV ad features photo of Jimmy Durante; William fulbright writes of how America's role is to lead the world to continuing peace; The Floating Fortress - article on battleships; The Trail Blazers - piece of writing by Duffus on soldiers; This is Berlin Without Hitler - article with photo; A Base Surpassing All Others - The epic story of how engineers and Seabees are transforming the Philippines; Article on clothing shortages; What Makes for Presidential Greatness?; The Nations beautiful War Monuments; Nice one-page color ad for Drene Shampoo features three photos of Dorian Leigh, New York fashion model; One-page color ad for Kellogg's All-Bran cerial features talking plum; Healing by Magic - Dr. Abraham Hurwitz; Two pages of photos of fur fashions for ladies; Back page color-photo ad for the GE Musaphonic radio-phonograph; and more. Moderate external soiling and wear. Unmarked. Moderate age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII issue. Book
96 pages. Features: Dramatic color ad inside front cover for Nash Kelvinator shows Allied bombers flying over flaming enemy factories; B.F. Goodrich ad shows New Guinea scene where ammunition is being transported by Jeep; Red Skelton divorce; Brief obituaries for Walter Kidde, Mrs. Bernice Houdini, Daniel M. Casey, John W. Considine, Marjorie, Countess of Warwick, and James T. Powers; Hotel Pennsylvania ad illustration shows businessmen being hauled in the backpacks of unhappy Indian women; Setting up Axis for knockout blow next year; Lots of war coverage; Hitler knows what's coming; U.S. Day Raids and RAF Night Bombings are best use of each force; Why Tunisia must be cleaned out; Stalingrad's Story; Photo of hundreds of German POWs at Stalingrad; Japs Island Network; US Politics; Nice one-page color ad for Good Year shows blimp as watchdog over convoy; Texaco one-page color ad features girl asking her mommy "Who was Hitler?"; Great color one-page ad for United States Steel features large image of soldier pointing rifle at reader; Plane maker Eero Koskinen; "Quit India" Fast by Mahatma Gandhi finds Britain's Foes at Odds - article with photo of Gandhi; Nice centerfold ad for Willys-Overland features great battle image of Jeep; Dr. Robert Ley - photo and brief article; Photo of Danes cheering King Christian X; Specter of Inflation Looms behind 48-hour Week Order; Amazing photos of Liberator bombers being built at Ford's mammoth Willow Run factory; Super one-page color-illustrated Studebaker ad shows Flying Fortress in flight and war truck being unloaded from ship; Women wearing sweaters are sent home from work at the Vought-Sikorsky Co. due to safety concerns - photo shows plastic safety 'bra' being modelled; Iron Fireman ad shows Marshall C. Stone of Pacolet Manufacturing in New Holland, GA; Photo and article on the Archbishop of Canterbury; Nice color ad for the Lockheed P-38 Lightning; Photos and article about Emily Post; Photo of Coast Guard basketball player Dorn; Release of film "The Outlaw" with photo of Jane Russell and Jack Beutel; Nice color ad inside back cover for Bell Aircraft's Airacobra. Covers pulling from staples. Somewhat above-average soiling and wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition with some foxing on the top page ends as the only flaw, otherwise pristine with price clipped front end paper. 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. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear, fading to spine, no tears now wrapped in clear protective cover. 206 pages with photo exploded diagrams of subject guns and cannons with numered parts, very detailed discription of parts, their function, disassembly, assembly.
199 pages. Bibliography. Endnotes. Glossary. Select Bibliography. Numerous appendices. Illustrated in black and white. "Discusses the history of the permanent fortress at Halifax, the background in which it took place, and the structure of the fortress and its individual components." - from Abstract. Printed upon glossy stock. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound reference copy. Book
Pages 113-150 plus eight pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Taming the Tides of Fundy - article with great photos; The Preposterous Fortress of the North - The Story of Fort Prince of Wales; Lebanon; Spanish Explorations in British Columbia; One-page two-color RCAF recruiting ad for their Air Transport Command; Back cover ad for Canadian Pacific passenger travel shows family chatting with engineer; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. 55 black and white quality photos and illustrations. Features: Photo of the ill-fated British troopship Lancastria, plus photo of hundreds of survivors loading onto a French trawler; Air ampulance purchased by the Girl Guides; Poland's government meets in England; Illustrated text of speech broadcast by Lord Beaverbrook entitled "Builders of Britain's Aircraft" with interesting relevant photos; Photo of Arabs and Jews preparing to battle together against their common enemy; Jersey militiamen train to settle their score with the Nazis; Pilots of the Fleet Air Arm stand at attention before the King; Interesting photo of naval smokescreen in the Mediterranean; Photo of dozens of British armoured cars and their crews; British pilots relax after success against the Nazis who attacked Dover on July 29th; S. Drigin centerfold illustration of the aerial battle over Dover Harbour on the morning of July 29th; Photos of downed German aircraft and damaged English homes; South Staffordshires in Egypt; Photo of the merchant ship Meknes and some of its survivors after it was sunk in the Channel on 24th July; Illustrated text of speech broadcast by Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) entitled "Master of the Dike"; Photos of regimentl badges of teh British Army; U.S. Planes on the way - photos of a B.17 Flying Fortress and three PBY patrol flying boats in flight; A commentary on the war for this week; Eire's President Mr. De Valera detonates an electrically controlled mine; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 82 p., b/w ills. and 2 folding color maps. Guide to Halicarnassus and Bodrum Castle. Halikarnassos ve Bodrum Kalesi rehberi.
416 p., 235 fig. n/b. (Archaeological Reports, Ghent University 1). Inv. 29894
New Era Publications, ottobre 1988. Rilegato con sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
In-folio, (2cc), 139 (più 1 carta di registro), numerosissime illustrazioni xilografiche, frontespizio figurato con fregio xilografico, marca editoriale xilografica sul frontespizio e in fine (Caduceo su cui si attorcigliano simmetricamente due serpenti coronati, sormontato da colomba e sostenuto da due mani uscenti da nubi). Legatura coeva in piena pergamena morbida, titolo manoscritto al dorso, bell’esemplare marginoso.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
PARIS, Sté des Antiquités Nationales - 1966 - N°2, juillet 1966 - In-8 - Broché - Couverture illustrée - 1 illustration NB HT - 27 pages - Très propre
Features: Eddie Rickenbacker; The Square J; From Africa to China - Via P-40; Warplanes in Detail; F-15 Eagle; Tinian's B-29s; Spitfire Pilot; Navy's Colorful Jets; Modeling Military Aircraft; Biplanes against the red bear; The deadly D VII; Terro in the Yellow Peril; Ground Attack; Flying the CF-104 Starfighter; The Last Mustangs; An RCAF Crewman Looks back - H.D. (Cherry) Cherrington; Col. Tinker and the Bird-o-prey XIII; Warplanes in detail - the Bf 109G; Flying the Vampire; P-5... Last of the Big Boats; McDonnell's Parasite; Military markings of the world; Counter Invader; Return to Cornino; B-17G Production Line; Czechoslovakian Mule; Warplanes in detail - Me 262; Military Markings, Part II; Black Lady of Espionage; Mosquito Pilot's Escape; YF-17 Rollout; Evolution of the Mitsubishi Zero - part I; The Noblest Knight of Acedom; Curtiss P-6 in the Netherlands and East Indies; Night Fighter from Junkers; Fighter Formations - history of fighter tactics; Not so black widow - P-61s in the Pacific; Messerschmitt Me 410 A/Cross; Fighter Night - dangerous WWII mission in a Hurricane; Bristol Beaufighter - rare example; Bat out'a Hell - history of the Douglas Skyray and Skynight; Deadly Long Nose - Famous Focke Wulf FW 190D and Ta 152 fighters; Farewell to the Ugly Duckling - the Fairyey Gannet has made its last flight; Post-war military Mitchells - they served in the USAF until the early 1960s; Norwegian Warriors - Norwegian Pilots during WWII; Curse of the Lady Be Good; The Return of Halifax W1048; Mission U5 - Abort!; Shoo-Shoo Baby; Holscher's Heinkel; Forgotten Warriors; Death over Flak City; Ghosts of '44; The Deadly Storm; Forgotten Warbird Graveyard; The Deadly Storm; The Atlantic Ferry; Harvesting the Zuyder Zee; The Souvenir; They Returned; The day it rained P-40s; Fortress Ferry - flying one of the last examples of aviation's most famous bomber; Lightning Strikes - we fly a rare P-38 Lightning; A lady named Jenny - America's famous WWI trainer; Missions in the Marauder - a navigator's diary of aerial combat over Europe; Flying the U-2 - a 9th strategic Reconnaissance Wing pilot describes a U-2 mission, from suiting up to shutdown; Attack! - we fly in the LTV A-7; Cat Shooting with the Phantom - a USAF pilot flies with the Phantoms of a Marine fighter squadron; The Beauty of the Beast - adventures with the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver; The forgotten promise - the first carrier landing is an unforgettable experience; Flying the White Rocket - this USAF trainer is one hot aircraft. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. Book
Features: Window on South America; TSR-2 and Concord; Russian Trapeze Artists; W.W.I German Aircraft; Midget Racer Designs; Fortress is in R.A.F.; Sopwith 'Atlantic'; No. 20 Squadron History; Future of the H.S. 681; Mexican Air Force; Avro Arrow (4 pages with many black and white photos, structural cutaway, specs, expoded view and diagrams; No. 1 Air Navigation School; Finnish War Relics; Economical Motorspatz; Veteran Stratoliners; The Two Enemies; R.A.F. will be the loser - re-equipment plans discussed; Valiant to the last - the scrapping of the Vickers Valiant; Sir Winston Churchill; Hawker Nimrod; W.W. I. Miscellany; Light Autogyros in U.K.; Campbell-Benson B-11-2; British Airlines; TSR-2 - cardinal points; No. 18 (N.E.I.) Squadron; 'Zero' returns home; Defence White Paper; Between the Wars; Air Forces Middle East; Fleet Air Arm on Tour; Skyframe Museum; Fairey G.4/31; Revolt in Congo; Meteors over Korea; Piaggio P 166C; U.S.A.F. postscript; On Being Shot Down; France's Aero Exports; British Airlines Postscript; Shuttleworth Collection; Polish Air Force, 1940-45; H.S. 125 and Dominie; No. 70 Squadron History; Scintex Super Emeraude; Sonic Bangs (booms); Sir Geoffrey de Havilland; Pilatus History; Japan Air Lines; Visit to H.M.S. Ark Royal; No. 1 Squadron, R.A.A.F.; Plane that bombed America - Yokosuka E14Y1; Navigation - Part I; Escort to Bomb Raid; Paris Report; Suez 1956; Ancestor Airlines; PZL-104 Wilga; Navigation - part 2; Gliding Championships; The Auster Line; Battle of Britain; Italian Raids on the U.K.; Chaumont Weapons Meet; Army Flying; Open Day at Middle Wallop; Gloster Grebe; Kosciuszko Squadron; Suez 1956 - a lesson in air power; Between the Wars; Navigation - 3; The Parnall Story; No. 43 Squadron, R.A.A.F.; Sopwith Grasshopper; The R.A.F. Today; Extending the Buccaneer; Two-Seater Fighting; Navigation - Part 4; Scheibe SF-26 Standard; Hermes aide-memoire; Kestrel Evaluation; "Karel Doorman"; Whitehead Aircraft; Navigation - part 5; Victa Airtourer 115; The Parnall Story; Rhodesia's Air Force; Naval Fighter School; Hughes OH-6A; Mini-COIN; No. 23 Squadron History; B.A.C. Drone; Loss of Flight 19; Training Engineers; and much more. Includes index . Gilt lettering to front board and backstrip. Moderate wear. Slight lean to spine. A quality copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Buhl Aircraft Company ad inside front cover; America's Fortress of the Sky - photo-illustrated article on construction of the U.S.S. Akron; Building and Flying the Amphibian Glider - article with detailed drawings; Great Britain's Flying Giants - photo-illustrated article; The Airplane of Tomorrow Now Being Perfected - photo-illustrated article on technical innovations by the N.A.C.A. at Langley Field; Flying Beyond the Twilight Zone - photo-illustrated article on lighting to permit night flight; How to Build the Rhon Ranger - photo illustrated article with detailed drawings; Meteorology and Navigation; New Radio Transmitter for Airway Application - The 8A and 9A; The Bleriot 110 - illustrated article on this new long-distance high-wing monoplane; Training Transport Pilots - photo-illustrated article on Parks Air College; Article on diesel engines with photo of Packard diesel aircraft engine; Solving the problem of Radio Shielding on Airplaine Engines; and more. Average wear. Openings at each end of covers along spine. Binding intact. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
Includes the following issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Wreck of the Empress of Ireland; Bonaire, Thailand's Exotic Waters; West Coast - a Garde of Eden; Kelp Beds of Lobster Bay; Are we destroying the reefs?; British Columbia - diving in a fisherman's paradise; Superb diving at Les Escoumins; Barkley Sound; Egypt; Fortress Louisbourg Shipwrecks; Tobago; Inflatables; Bahamas; Killarney, Ontario; St. Lawrence Seaway; Filming 'The Last Frontier'; Bruce Peninsula; Canada's Arctic; A Prehistoric Fishing Technique in British Columbia; Palau; Pacific Electric Ray; Monterey; Queen of Wrecks in Kingston, Ontario; The Caymans; Canada's Little Urchin; The sandstone cargo of the Zephyr; Treasure of the 'Governor'; Maui's Trio; Kona - star of the big island. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
Features: Through Clouded Eyes - Gas Masks and the Canadian Corps in the First World War; The Making of Public History - a comparative study of Skansen Open Air Museum, Sweden, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, Nova Scotia; La question de l'interculturalite en archeologie - l'exemple d'une region du Subarctique oriental; Making a House a Home - company housing in Cape Breton Island; Newfoundland outport furniture - identifying the Irish Regional Links. Exhibit Reviews: Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Painted Furniture of French Canada, 1700-1840; Clothing in Two Acts; Musee des Arts decoratifs de Montreal, Le plaisir de l'objet - nouveau regard sur les arts decoratifs du XXe siecle. Media Reviews: CBC and BBC - Dawn of the Eye; Our Secret Century - Archival Films from the Darker Side of the American Dream. Fifteen book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: Arctic Offshore Drilling - A Calculated Policy of Grave Risk (Editorial); Watching Great Horned Owl Nests in the Alberta Foothills; J. Fenwick Lansdowne; Machias Seal Island; The Hazardous Search for Oil and Gas in Arctic Waters; Digges Island - Fortress home of the Akpa. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Mountains of the Jinn; Volcano Magic - Photographing an Eruption at Night; Cuzco-Tuyo - The search for a lost Inca fortress; Culture and Spirituality in Majorca; Angkor Wat Conservation Debate Erupts; Stone Age Mysteries in Irian Jaya, Part II - the Yeineri Rock Quarries; The Sea's Last Refuge; Explorer Earns Honor from Nobel Institute; Celebrating a Tradition of Exploration - The Explorer's Club Space Dinner. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Stupendous prairie grain harvest - with photo of Alta Atcheson of Saskatchewan; Farmer Fred C. Langmaier of Zehner, Saskatchewan; Photo of Pierre Trudeau yachting in the Mediterranean; Peter Lebensold and his 'The Five Cent Review'; Fortress of Louisbourg; Nice color-photo as for the Mercedes-Benz 280s; Color Quantas ad features photo of Koala under blanket in first class seat; Racial Revolt - why the summer was quiet; Photo of burned-out Newark ghetto two years later; photo of fire and riot in Hartford; Ramson for kidnapped U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick in Rio; Mary Jo Kopechne inquest delayed; Feature article on the passing of Ho Chi Minh - with photos; Can the hijackers be halted? - already 46 aircraft hijacked this year; Coup in Libya - King Idris is overthrown; Albert Speer - Hitler's personal architect; Isle of Wight music concert - great two-page photo-illustrated article of hippies, Bob Dylan and Marsha Hunt; John O'Brien and Shintaro Okada study Tay-Sachs disease; Charles Templeton is featured in ad for Progress wool fashions for men; Harvey Matusow and the Guerrilla war against computers; James and Diane Pike become lost in the desert near Qumran; Wheat Price War; Restoration of Novgorod Kremlin - article with three pages of color photos of Soviet architecture; Passing of Rocky Marciano, David Karnofsky, Right Reverenc James A. Pike, Josh White, Erika Mann, Drew Pearson, Norman Washington Manley, Betty Gram Swing and Arthur Upham Pope; The Track of the Quarck; One-page illustrated Cominco ad; Toyota Crown ad; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
33 pages. Features: Photo of smiling Eisenhower and an animated Patton, plus smiling Bradley and Hodges; Photo of Japanese Shrine on Saipan plus journal notes from a Japanese soldier; Photos of Juan Trippe, Lewis Douglas, Army nurses drilling at Camp Capson Colorado, Forger Alexander Thiel; Article on Okinawa; Full-page military map entitled "The Floods Come" shows positions centered around Hitler's inner fortress of Berchtesgaden; photo of U.S. armour on one of Germany's fine roads; Photo of very long column of German prisoners; Article and photo on German youth; Photo of "German Looters"; Photo of Chiang Kai Shek with General Hurley; Photo of St. Louis Browns' one-armed baseball player Pete Gray; Photo of a Brooklyn Public School classroom trashed by three young boys; Great photo of a navy bank in a quonset hut on Guam. No ads in this edition. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy of this excellent Patton collectible. Book
