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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 252 pages.
105 p. Woodcut illustrated title page stained and slightly chipped at fore edge. Text woodcuts in Bewick style. Second leaf and page 9 torn without loss. Age stain. 12mo. 175 mm. Original full leather binding, rubbed at extremities. Original leather spine label. S&S/AI 5978. Hardbound. Very good. AI BX 6
New English Paperback. Large 8vo. In English. 410 p. In this study, the public libraries in Turkey and Bulgaria, which have experienced the transition process to information society, have been comparatively discussed under the focus of information society. The main purpose of the study is to find out the current situation of the public libraries in Turkey and Bulgaria- based on information society- and the opinions of librarians and library managers in these libraries and to present the guiding suggestions to the public libraries in Turkey and Bulgaria in the light of the obtained data. In this context, the change and evolution of the main elements and services in the passing process of the public libraries in both countries will be comparatively discussed.
80 pages. Features: Young Narwhal; Mississauga COPS; They Got Their... Ghost?; A Crude Mace in Surrey, B.C.; "Ursus Horribilis"; Rogue Sheep Killer: A Story of K Troop 1959; Poetic Justice; Derek Thomas Ivany; The "Pierce" Touch; Barrage of Bullets in Nanaimo; Barbados Drug Seminars; A Page From the Old West; "Thank-You" Christmas Card - Jasper National Park; Ingenuity Pays Off; and much more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's details blacked out upon title page else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
96 pages. Features: The 19th Olympiad - Sgt. A.G. Rae; The Quality of Mercy - Norman G. B. McLetchie M.D.; Wilfred H. Heffernan; Airlift to Bermuda; Near Tragedy on the St. Lawrence River; Friday the 13th in Saskachewan; Huge Expo-bound logs from Duncan/Chemainus Vancouver Island; Indian Justice; The Changing Division; Hall of Famer - Cst. Raymond Powell, Halifax Sports Hall of Fame; Bonnie and Clyde - Newfoundland Version; New Sydney Sub-Division Building; Kim Mi Sook - a year later; Royal Bank Hold-up - Turner Valley, Alberta; Burnaby's Home; and much more. Prior owner's details stroked out upon page one else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Big Push in Soviet Propaganda - a report by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer, authors of The Ugly American; Suicide - why do people kill themselves? do they really want to die? - a new study turns up some surprising answers; "My Island" - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas loves an isolated wilderness of lakes and woods on our northern border; The Clubwoman's Best Friend; The Flattering Camera - inside the Bachrach photographic-portrait studios; What Europe Thinks of us Now; The Base that Never Was - the huge Bong Air Force Base in Wisconsin. Somewhat above-average external wear. Upper corner clipped from front cover. A sound copy. Book
rel. sous jaquette, très bon état
74 pages. Features: "Old Gabe" in Armor; Bullwhacking for Uncle Sam - William Matthew (Matt) Snook; (Captain) Nathan Boone - Distinguished Scout; Night Justice on Clear Fork; The King of Cripple Creek - Winfield Scott Stratton; The 'Surprise' Train Robber - Jarvis Hayward; The War of the Murdered Porker - Charles Griffin, Lyman A. Cutler; "Brownies" That Founded the Railroad - Arthur E, Stilwell; Coin Harvey's Silver Bell - William Hope Harvey; California Joe - Moses Embree Milner; Butterfield's Truce with Cochise - John Butterfield, American Express Company; The Czar of Charleston - James Burnett. Average wear. Two-inch opening to bottom of front cover. Magazine
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Ju-Ju" Justice - a startling West African Ju-Ju incident and its sequel, involving the Elder Dempster branch boat "Lagoon"; Tales of the Service - The Smuggler's Cave (part III) - stirring stories of the Service contributed by a customs-house officer on the West Coast of Scotland and also in Ireland; The Wooing of Abia - a charming yet thrilling love story involving natives of Papua, with great photos; Beyond the Law (part III) - The Dalton Gang terrorized the Western States of America for years while committing train robberies and holding up banks; The Empire's Only Eskimo Soldier - John Shiwak, of Labrador, the only Eskimo soldier to lay down his life for the empire (article with photo); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram (part III) - the Himalayan exploits of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (with photos); A Nightmare Voyage - in 1905, the American barque Challenger left Port Townsend for Japan in the command of Captain Pedersen; Photo of a Papuan chief's daughter wearing a necklace of hundreds of dog teeth; Lion-Hunting as a Business - Frank Allen of Rhodesia is the only known lion-hunter - article with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa (part IV) - a 4,000 mile honeymoon trip east to west across the Dark Continent - with photos; The Baboon and the Baby - a baboon steals a baby from a home; My Experiences in German East Africa - James Henry Butcher relates his thrilling experiences as a private in the South African Infantry, with photos; The Shining Town - a fascinating photo-illustrated sketch of life and scenes in Granada; The "White" Chief of Penrhyn Island - the shipwrecked author was adopted by a chief in the South Sea Islands and went on to become the ruler of an island and its people; Only a Half-Breed - in South-West Colorado in 1869 a white man's squaw prevented a war; Fantastic ad "Swear Off Tobacco" by the Newell harmacal Company of St. Louis inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 102-196 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mutiny of the "Ziba" (part I) - a brutal captain and mates are murdered by their crew; Among Head-Hunters and Cannibals - great photo-illustrated article on some of the experiences of Captain W. Sinker who for years cruised the South Sea Islands in command of the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross"; The Rivals - two men were in love with the same lady; The Bluffing of Din Mahomed - a rascally Indian postal worker is brought to justice; The Runaway Train - story from a branch line of the C. and N.W.R.R. in Nebraska; My Adventures in Sarawak (part III) - adventures of the Rajah's bride amongst 'the lovable little people'; Hona's "Tapu" - what happened to to men who attempted to brave the curse of a Maori chief upon a rich gold-reef; An Unlucky Ride - in New Zealand a man sets of on a perilous 120 mile journey to see his lady, only to arrive late and offend her; Our Travels in Safari-land (part I) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) travels through British East Africa; The Night-Watchman's Story - an 1885 tale from the steamer 'Bengal Tiger' shipping from Paducah, Kentucky, as told by Ernest Prentis; Penelope Visits Finland - holiday jaunts to the 'Land of a Thousand Lakes"; Parker's Lesson - a 1913 story of a young man from Cambridge who went to Nigeria with ideas of how the natives should be handled; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa - part 2 - tales from the log book of an R.A.F. officer during the campaign in German East Africa - article with interesting photos; Torn by Starving Jackals in Macedonia - Private James McDade of the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers recounts his experience - with photo of McDade; Death-Struggle with An Alligator - what happened to Van Campen Heilner when he was photographing an alligator in a Florida swamp - photo-illustrated article; The Thrills of Parachuting - early and marvelously photo-illustrated article on this topic; Photo of tourist party in Solomon's Quarry, the world's most ancient quarry; My South African Adventures - part 1 of Jack West's incredible recollections, including photo of him aged 17; Ship Built By One Man - Liberian missionary, the Rev. James E. Lewis - photo-illustrated article of him, his wife and "The Coloured Missionary Yacht"; John A. Jordan and his African Leopard-Hunting Adventures; Our Trip to Catch Murderers - the rough and ready methods of achieving justice in Bolivia; An Exciting Night Drive - 35 miles in a South African Cape Cart; Relief Workers' Adventures - part 2 of this superb photo-illustrated article on thrilling experiences among the War Victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia; With a Caravan in Corsica - photo illustrated article which relates the primitive life of the people; A Mountain of Gold - photo-illustrated article about the discovery made by the Fisk Expedition - Captain James L. Fisk and Dr. William Denton Dibb; In the Wilds of Siberia - part 2 - fascinating article with great photos document the explorations of Harry Somerset-Lister; The Adventures of a Newspaper-Man - part 4 - Exploring New York - article with nice photos and fascinating observations of the people; A Butterfly Farm in France - French Entomologist M. Andre's farm near Macon - article with photos; Fascinating photo of flume in British Columbia, by which logs are carried to the sawmills; Photo of amber mine on the coast of Samland in the eastern Prussian peninsula. Somewhat above-average external wear. Openings and loss at each end of backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this marvelous issue. Book
Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
47 pages. Features: Judy Garland - a star is reborn (with picture of baby Liza and her parents); Sisterly love that saved a life - Johanna Nightingale of Steinbach Man. receives kidney from her sister Lana; Earl Cox - gardener to a million homes; Justice Minister Davie Fulton visits the Arctic; Ipso Facto's a Lhasa Apso - Virginia Langton's dog; Ginger Coffey is brought to the TV screen - Montreal novelist Brian Moore's book comes to life for a CBC television show; He flips his lid to go fishing - trailer cover doubles as dinghy; Reaction to claims that little league ball is harmful for youngsters - includes photo of Montreal's entry in the 1952 Little League World Series; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full gray cloth boards are a bit worn at edges. Rockwell Kent torchbearer design on endpapers and cover.
Features: A Thousand Dollars; Hazen of the Up-Country; The Boxer Uprising (Rebellion); A True Story of Heroic Courage; The Story of Peggy Harrison - IX; The Adventures of William Tucker; The Court of International Justice; How to choose Snowshoes; The Y.C. Lab - How to Make a Toy Theatre; An Amateur Transmitter of Low Power. Nice Willys Overland Six ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
20 pages. Features: Where the Beauties Are - They Migrate to the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. - with photos of Barbara Ahl; Battle Rankin, Barbara Jean Gup, Fran Eddy, Wing Eng Lee, Jayne Lahey and George Ann Miller; Impressions of Former First Lady Abigail Adams; Men Are Out and Women Are In - hiring in favor of ladies in Washington - with small photos of Rose McKee, Mary I. Bunting, Jane Fiquet Hanna, Liz Carpenter, India Edwards and Lee Walsh; Protocol Rules for Wives New to Washington, D.C.; White House Fare - LBJ's Presidential table has ranged from home style to elegant (with photo of LBJ and his wife at home in Texas. Nice color ads for: Dole Pineapple, Pillsbury Mocha Fudge cake mixes, Dole frozen fruit drink mix, Helene Curtis Tender Touch Bath Oil. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Judge Clement Haynsworth; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird; Photo of 9th Infantry Division leaving Vietnam; SALT; The anguish of Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick; Killer Camille - the greatest storm - article with photos; A tighter (Soviet) vise on Czechoslovakia; The Burning of the Al Aqsa mosque - article with photo; Two flags over Ulster; Biafra situation worsens - article with color photos; India - Indira Gandhi v. the Syndicate; Woodstock and the message from history's biggest happening - article with color photos; Why Louis Blaiberg died (after heart transplant); Who owns the (Miami) beaches?; Sherman Skolnick's Guerilla war against the Illinois justice system - article with photos; Article and photos in memory of architect Mies van der Rohe, creator of the glass and steel high-rise; Evangelist Billy James Hargis in Jerusalem; Merv Griffin; The Smothers Brothers; Interesting article on the rock music scene with photo of Blind Faith seated around large tree; The influence of the LP record; Controlling inflation; The Hilton Hotel family - Conrad and son Barron; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Bally shoe ad; Justice for the poor in Canada; Margaret Trudeau shops in Montreal; Pierre Vallieres - Roots of Violence; Paul Kane - Wandering the Frontier; SST - A Slowdown in the Technology of Haste; How the SST Died; Joe Columbo; Sanford Darling Paints His House; Pornography Revisited - Where to Draw the Line?; Pakistan - Toppling Over the Brink; Invasion of Laos Ends; Incident on Route 9; The Northern Ireland Powder Keg - article with color photos; The Knights in the Shebeen; Italy's Prince Junio Valerio Borghese; Clement Meadmore; Ad for Hitachi's floating train of the future; William and Carol Berger and Italy's justice system; New Cure for Cholera; Help Against Hepatitis; The Wankel engine challenge; Ecology at the Supermarket - the Alexanders chain in Los Angeles; Passing of Michael Field, Arne Jacobsen, Nathan Cohen and Josiah Red Wolf; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: 10 questions for Rudy Giuliani; Hamas' French Funds?; Chief Justice Rehnquist; How U.S. forces grabbed Saddam's right-hand man and launched a dragnet for the dictator and his loyalists; Iyman Faris and the triple-life of an al Qaeda man; China lectures Cuba on human rights; Whale conservationalists win big round in Japan; Tony Blair - downhill from here; Christian missionaries undercover in Muslim lands; Canada's acceptance of gay marriage; The globalization of the David Beckham brand; Architect Zaha Hadid - Busting the Box. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
in-8°, 167 pp, broche, couverture en couleurs. Tres bel exemplaire. [TX-7]
pp. xiv, 418. Damp stain. Foxed. Some signatures loose. 8vo. Original worn black publisher's cloth. Small tears on spine. Worn at extremities. These legal guides provide unusual insights into the culture of the era just before the Civil War. PA 36 x2
Percaline grise estampillée au 4° plat . Quelques défauts d'usages . - 502 p. , 1 kg 100 gr.
A Paris, chez Delalain, 1772. In-4 relié plein veau brun, dos à nerfs très orné, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches rouges, gardes de papier marbré; xl + 866 pages. Contenant le commentaire latin et français de M. Jean Boiceau, Sieur de la Borderie, Avocat au Présidial de Poitiers, sur l'article LIV de l'ordonnance de Moulins avec plusieurs nouvelles questions tirées des plus célèbres jurisconsultes et décidées par les arréts des Cours souveraines et des observations sur l'article LV de l'ordonnance de Moulins sur le titre XX de l'ordonnance de 1667. Le tout conféré vec l'édit pérpétuel des Archiducs, les ordonnances, statuts et coutumes de Milan, de Bologne la Grasse, de Naples, de Portugal et des autres pays qui ont rapport à l'usage du droit français sur cette matière; avec le traité de la Preuve par comparaison d'écritures, de M. le Vayer. Mention de 6e édition considérablement augmentée. Bel exemplaire