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Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary cloth bdg. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 156, [1] p. TBTK 12972.; Özege 7009 / 2.; OCLC 235162212 (Only one copy in Harvard Law School Library, HLS Library). Second Edition.
32 pages. Features: Amazing one-page photo of Fred Einarson working 100 feet above Fisherman's Cove as he repars a cable to Eagle Island; Nice Aerial photo of downtown Vancouver looking from the south-southwest; Six photos of Kamloops staff at work; Photos of installation of New Westminster automatic equipment; Photos of company services being used inside Vancouver's new Public Safety Building; Photos of Cranbrook Staff - at work and at their public ball!; Photos relating to the installation of new automatic equipment for Cloverdale; Photos of dancing and skating employees; Photo of Fred (Mickey) Sharp who helped police capture bank robbers; 1954 Annual Report Highlights; Record expansion this year; Short article on pay phones; Retirees; In Memoriam - Frank C. Paterson and Robert B. Smith; social news; and much more. Lower corner of covers and pages bumped/worn, otherwise average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
132 pages with index of names and index of photos. "A historical segment of British Columbia history died with the disestablishment of the British Columbia Provincial Police in 1950." - subtitle. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this interesting and informative work. Book
104 pages. Features: Nice two-page AT&T ad features photos of young Meg Rawls; Bombs over Hanoi and Tough Talk from LBJ; 'Black Power' and the politics of frustration; Medicare and our sick hospitals; The Three R's = $Billions; Nice one-page ad for the Volkswagen (VW) bug; Hard to imagine two-page Caterpillar ad features photo of Ohio's 'hot river', the Mahoning, which was literally heated by heavy industrial effluent; RFK - Democratic kingpin in New York; Rebirth of the 5th Marines; Guests of the Viet Cong (POWs) - Walter W. Eckes and James Dodson; Photo ad for the MGB/BT car; Kwame Kkrumah of Ghana; Boom times in Tahiti; Argentina - the last coup?; Photo of Hugh Hefner in London with many bunnies; Stanley Upson of the Stan-Up Diner in Milling, PA is featured in a Hammermill Bond ad; Runner Jim Ryun; Chicago police were arresting 150 homosexuals per month; Publisher Harry N. Abrams and his 'hamburger art'; Nice CBS Radio Network ad features photo of airborne Phil Rizzuto in baseball game; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
110 pages. "... For fifty years he was concerned with the work of evangelism in Japan... He worked for 33 years among the police in and around Tokyo, later moving to Kobe; during the war he visited many Japanese evacuation camps in the U.S.A." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Ink stamp upon front free endpaper. Binding sound. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Book
184 pages. Index. Thirty-one pages of black and white photographic plates. Signed and inscribed by Hinton upon front free endpaper. Presents the Yukon's lively history from the gold rush through to construction of the Alaska Highway. Average wear. Binding intact. Some sunning to back strip. A sound copy. Book
116 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "A treatise on the training of pointers, setters, foxhounds, beagles, airedales, spaniels, and police dogs." - subtitle. Unmarked. Front hinge opening, otherwise average wear. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 72 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Great ad for part I of Hitler's Mein Kampf inside front cover; Big guns of the coast of France; Australia prepares to fight for the Allied cause - nice full-page photo of troops of the Australian Scottish Regiment marching on a road near Victoria, Australia; Royal Navy Gunners in training at sea; Photo of the Fire Region Nerve Centre; Princess Royal inspecting the Royal Corps of Signals on December 12th; The Corps of the Military Police - illustrated article by Sir Malcolm Campbell; Refuelling a Nazi seaplane; Finland holds out against the Soviet Invaders - eight great photos; British Air Supremacy - illustrated article by Sir Kingsley Wood; Torpedoed survivors have second adventure - the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid beaches on the coast of Devonshire on December 7th after rescuing survivors of the Dutch motor-ship Tajandoen - two super photos; Wonderful centerfold illustrations show how the R.A.F. has obtained thousands of valuable photos of German territory on the Western front; French Army activity on the Front; Training sailors for the Fleet Air Arm; The War at Sea - statement by Winston Churchill with photos; Sweden strengthens her defences - ten great photos including a full-page photo of the Drottning Victoria with guns ablaze; Commentary on the war this week; Photos of bomb-making for the Royal Air Force; Nazi Heinkel reconnaissance aircraft crashes into sea off Sheringham on December 6th; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
74 pages. Features: Guns of the VoPos - East German police are being armed with the latest Russian guns, equal to the best; The Sharps and the Buffalo (part II); Coy is the Coyote - one of the world's toughest targets; Save One For the Teacher - a Deer Hunting adventure; Sit Down and Shoot better Big Game scores; Try This for Grouse - Nebraska's vas sandhill areas offer the nation's best Grouse Hunting; When Colt's Was in London - 109 years ago; One of Two? An 8mm Raphael; Shooters for Tomorrow - youth shooting clubs; and more. Slight musty scent otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
Features: Mountain Climbing - nice photos; Nova Scotia Feast - the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture's Annual mammoth chicken barbecue, the chicken a la grille; Drumbeats on the Prairie - Fort Battle, built by the Northwest Mounted Police in 1876; Ontario Roadside Parks Invite You; Trip Tips for Camera Fans; Summer Theatre - the Stratford Festival; Esso's Touring Service. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-4, 7-8, and 13-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents: Communists pelt police upon release of communist Sam Carr; Slayings by firing squad ended in Germany; San Francisco waterfront brawl between strikers and police; large illustrated ad for McLaughlin-Buick Straight Eights, available through H.A. Davie, Ltd.; Editorial page; Social pages; Sports page; Business page; Cartoon page; Classified ads page; B.C. Mining News feature; large ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
112 pages. Includes guitar sheet music and lyrics for these great Police songs: Born in the Fifties; Canary in a Coalmine; Can't Stand Losing You; De Do Do Do; Don't Stand So Close To Me; Every Breath You Take; Every Little Thing She Does is Magic; Invisible Sun; King of Pain; Main in a Suitcase; Message in a Bottle; Omegaman; Roxanne; Secret Journey; Spirits in the Material World; Synchronicity II; Walking on the Moon; When the World is Running Down You Make the Best of What's Still Around; Wrapped Around Your Finger. Moderate wear. Minimal markings to contents. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great compilation. Book
Signed and inscribed by author upon first blank leaf. 203 pages. Map. Black and white photographic plates. A biographical account in which author recounts his colourful memories as a career law enforcement officer. Above-average wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
182 pages. Footnotes. Index. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of photos, plus several in colour. Published to accompany the exhibition, On The Beat: 150 Years of Policing in London, Ontario, July 30, 2005 to January 15, 2006. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with very light wear - the only exceptions being several short openings along fore-edge of back board. A nice copy of this informative history. Book
Paris Jules Rouff 1881-1882, 6 volumes (sur 10) In-8 reliés demi chagrin marron, dos à nerfs et fleurons dorés. Chaque volume environ 350 pages. 6 premiers volumes seuls de ces intéressantes mémoires. Reliures un peu frottées, des rousseurs. Néanmoins exemplaire correct.
394 pages. Facsimile reprint. Originally published by the Queen's Printer 1888 to 1889. In these early reports are first hand accounts of many of the stirring incidents which shaped the history of the West, written by those who actually participated in them. The Indian Treaties, the influx of the American Sioux under Sitting Bull, the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the North-West Rebellion, and the coming of the settlers are just a few of the dramatic events in which the North-West Mounted Police played an important part. Light external wear. Unmarked. Tight and square. A quality copy. Book
40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Discovery - Gold Town in the Atlin District of B.C.; The Collector's Page; Edward Dossetter's Queen Charlottes - he was a photographer who travelled the northwest coast in the late 1870s; The 1913 Liberty Nickel; Billy Ballou - The Forgotten Expressman; Canadiana - spitoons/cuspidors; The Cliff Dweller; Letters from the North-West - Part II - A.R. Dyre was a young North West Mounted Police Constable from 1882 to 1885; Our Vanishing Heritage - false front buildings; Gagnon and His Flying Machine - was he the first to make a vertical free (helicopter) flight in 1907?. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
148 pages. Features: Color cover photo of QE II; Nice one-page color ad for Pfaff sewing machines; Wonderful two-color one-page ad for film "Funny Face" starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire; 4-page Rexall ad; Great color ad for Sealtest fudge ice cream with illustration of Hawaiian girl; Large color photo of gorgeous redhead in two-page ad for Revlon's 'Satin-Set' hair spray; Candy that makes you thin; Color ad for Aqua Velva's Blue Ice; Nice color-photo ad for Gleem toothpaste shows young baseball team eating hot dogs; Six Reasons why Israel will survive - photo-illustrated article by Jacob Javits; The Personal Crisis of Queen Elizabeth; Sam and Kathy Roberts raise their interracial family - photo-illustrated article; Color-photo one-page ad for Campbell's soup shows Mrs. Nellie Reagan hand-picking rice for use in soups; A Visit with Pablo Casals; Color-photo Cadillac ad shows yellow four-door picking up attendees of a formal evening Two-page color Greyhound bus ad; Vintage color ad for Motorola TV shows portable blue 'Americana' model; Eight Klans bring new Terror to the South - article with photo of The Rev. Alvin Horn in uniform, large burning cross on Gobbler's Knob in Cleveland, TN, hooded Klanswomen, plus photos of Klansmen The Rev. Perry E. Strickland, Elmo C. barnard, Eldon L. Edwards, M. Wesley Morgan, James H. Bickley, and Robert E. Hodges, plus photo of Asa Carter and Harold McBride wrestling with police; Nice color ad for Pep O Mint Life Savers; Wild two-page colour-photo ad for RCA Whirlpool features pink - yes pink - fridges; The Apostles - an initmate story of the 12 who sat with Jesus; Nice colour-photo ad for 1957 Chrysler cars; Two-page Pall Mall cigarette ad features cowboy scene with horse and cat; Ballet at First Base - color photos of Gil Hodges in action at first base; Two-page Wheaties ad; Appetizers article and nice photo; Why I Am Not a Communist, by Bertrand Russell; Two-page color-illustrated Schlitz beer ad shows pleasant backyard scene in "Schlitzerland, U.S.A."; Wilmington College encourages students to work in factory; Photos of fair weather raincoats; Great color photos of Elizabeth Taylor swimming in Paradise Lake with Montgomery Clift, plus honeymoon photo of her with Mike Todd; Color-photo Ford ad features a peach and white 1957 Fairlane 500 Town Victoria; How the Queen Anne area of Seattle stays bright, with photos of the Hinch Family; Vintage one-page color ad for Trix cerial; Photos of Dinah Shore and her family; Color Cheerios ad inside back cover; Color-photo Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover shows wild 'redneck' party scene with gang on shaded 'deck' atop a bizarre articulating orange and greay RV... with a diving board off the back!; Canada tourism ad; and more. Above-average external wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
38 pages. Features: Nice illustrated ad inside front cover for Western Fishing Line company shows gorgeous mermaid witting with fisherman underwater; Photo of Henry Christenson of Richmond holding poem; Save our Salmon - article with photos of Neville Mayer of North Vancouver studying fry in dried up creek beds; Unusual photo-ad for the Northern Seed Potato Company includes photo of Charlie Bradbury with two large Spring salmon he caught not far from Vancouver; 3/4 page map of Howe Sound; Knots for Nylon Lines; Illustrations show how to get results from your Herring Bait; Silver Salmon - illustrated page of information; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Gibbs tackle; Fantastic one-page photo ad for Edward Lipsett Ltd. features the story of Bob Gilmour who won the 1958 B.C. Centennial Derby with a 41-lb spring salmon and won $10,000; The Coho - "Ballerina of the Sea"; Photo of Ian Kennedy with Tom Brown and Joe Meraw; Photo of Jack Wiley of New West; Photo of Carl Aos of Bellingham; Photo of trophy winner Frank Turner; Photo of George Crossley, Ross Duncan, Mrs. Veronica Savage and Mrs. George Crossley; Photo of Jim Zavitz on winning the Major McNeill Trophy; Photo of members of the winning Seattle Police team, Ray Carroll, Warren Meece, John Steele, and Jack Orewiler; Photo of Ray Coll, Jim Zavitz and Tom Cocking at the Ottawa Shoot; Keep That Head Down - shooting advice; Fishing in Wells Gray; Boats; It's Fun to Water Ski; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
66 pages. Features: 6 Reasons why Women Become Prostitutes; Make Money Tanning Rattlesnake Leather; Torture Tests for Manhood; How Waitresses Tease for Tips; American Men Enslaved by Mexican Sex Drugs; How We Caught the Atom Spies - as told by Edward R. Thompson, Special Agent, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; The Sex Cult of Satanism; Exposing the Racketeers of Death - The Funeral Director Racket; Tuna Men are Tough Fighters; The Man Who Lived Two Lives - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright; Cover Girl - Shirley Roden; Will Rex Layne be another Jack Dempsey; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
Features: He makes cops come clean - Orlando W. Wilson, Chicago's new Chief of Police; France's enchanted corner - Brittany; Ballplayers vs. the Fans - challenges for Mickey Mantle; The PX - World's Biggest Discount House; I Call on Pete Martin, by Bing Crosby (Conclusion); Adventures of the Mind - The Time of Our Lives, by Norman John (N.J.) Berrill. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Two inch by two inch clipping from top of page 20. Book
Features: Millington's Lesson - Lawlessness in Burma prior to the British withdrawal; Glider Snatching - a story from Burma in World War II; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I of the adventure of an English walker in France; The Mayas of British Honduras; Unlucky Ship - the chief officer of a tramp steamer recalls the events which befell the ship; The Men-Lions Mystery - the shocking toll of human life levied by maneaters in Africa; Tow Boating Down the Mississippi - a voyage from Memphis to New Orleans, with photos; The Nukoni Ju-Ju - the abandoned Gold Coast Mines was avoided by natives; Death at Sundown - a curse which was fulfilled in startling fashion; Hurricane Journey - returning to his police job from war service, the author expected a quiet life; The Firebrand - a former Eritrean corporal in the Italian colonial police becomes a bandit; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features include: They Servant The Elephant - written by a man who spent half a lifetime in the forests of Southern India; The Rowboat Mystery - A decidedly awkward problem confronted the detective department of the Seattle (U.S.A.) police; The Smoke Jumpers - the latest development by the U.S. authorities against forest fires; Unlucky Launch - an amusing account involving a shipyard; The Money-Maker - An amusing confidence trick tale from the files of a Gold Coast District Officer; The "Lion-Men of Ussure (Part 1) - Tanganyikans are suspected of posing as murderous lion-men; The Accessory - rifles suddenly disappear from a battalion in India; Jim Darling's Last Shot - a store clerk catches 'gold fever'; Patrolling the Arctic - Adventures of the hardy members of the R.C.M.P. in the vast wastes of Canada's north; Forests Afloat - Benson Log Rafts; Wolf-Hunting in Finland. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear. Faint pencilled name atop back cover. Tears to spine. Magazine
Features: Land of Nightmare - grim events in the conflict between French Troops and the Viet Minh rebels in the jungles of Indo-China; Churinga - investigating a mysterious aboriginal 'grave'; Roles Reversed - a female climber aids her male guide to safety from a 9,000 foot peak; To the Forbidden City - Mecca, with photos; The "Devil-Leopard"; Jumbies - a tale from Trinidad; Japanese Inns - a westerner has his eyes opened; The Radio Record - one of the most fantastic cases involving the Boston police; Shore Gang - nerve-trying experiences for the author; A couple of Fools - demonstrates how easy it is to become bushed in Western Australia; What Happened at Makene - a very curious story from West Africa; and more. Above-average wear. Book
Features: Diamond Fever - an adventurous trip into little-known country on the Upper Mazeruni in British Guinana; The Coffin-Ship - reprint of a 1929 story from Malaya dealing with a murderous Chinese secret society, a steamer and more; Saharan Adventure - a memorable journey through little known areas; Buster Burton - the amazing career of a most remerkable character known to the police of 5 continents; The Perfidious Plumber - a tale from Southern Rhodesia; The Captain's Night Out - this captain was the first to get off his ship; Kabul Bazaar - life in Afghanistan - photos; Diamonds for the Picking! - on the inhospitable western coast of South Africa lies Tom Tiddler's Ground; Meat for the Pot - curare, the deadly dart-poison of the South American Indians; The Seymour "Fish Day" - Seymor, Texas locks up for a day and goes fishing!; and more. Average wear. Tears and chipping to fore-edge of front cover. Water stains to upper corner of opening pages. Overall, a decent copy. Book