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1993de65Headline 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. The jacket is worn and a bit marked - the laminate is lifting here and there. Almost no paper loss. One ownership plate a rubber stamp and a non-authorial inscription. Mild tanning. Soundly bound - a little cocked. A small scar and stain to the dedication page. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Headline hardcover
1993dk76Headline 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The jacket is a bit rubbed and edgeworn. Internally clean and soundly bound. A little cocked. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Headline hardcover
1996biblio8619<p>First edition first printing of the third novel in the D.I. Charlie Priest series. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Light tanning to the pages. In near fine / fine condition.</p> Headline hardcover
1977006099N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company 1977. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Lightly soiled at page edges else fine in fine dust jacket price clipped in protective mylar cover. Square and tight. de Gier & Grijpstra; Amsterdam & Japan locales. The Commissaris and de Grier go to Japan under cover at the request of the Dutch Ambassador to Janan -- to help investigate a Yakusa crime operation. The story starts out in Amsterdam with a missing person case. A young Japanese man has disappeared and his fiancée fears hes been murdered. He worked for the Yakusa and tried to quit. n Japan the Commissaris falls in love with the Japanese bath and becomes best buddies with a Yakusa boss for a few memorable hours. De Grier proves himself to be a most efficient Dutch samurai -- and also finds himself freed of all earthly attachments. The adventure as a whole is replete with philosophical musings. Meanwhile Grijpstra stays in Amsterdam to solve the murder. While de Grier is enjoying the company of a shapely Yakusa hostess -- Grijpstra suffers from the company of his ferocious flabby wife. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Houghton Mifflin Company
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos and illustrations include: Bivouac of the 3rd King's Rifles, De Beers Diamond Mines at Kimberley during the seige, Lord Roberts's reception at the Modder River Camp (laid in), the remains of the suffolk regiment after Moedder Farm, Chieveley Camp (laid in), Major-General T. Kelly-Kenny, Photos with General French's Command near Colesberg, Canadian Mounted Police Leaving Halifax for South Africa, The Attack on Spion Kop (Centerfold), Photos with the South African Railway Pioneer Regiment, Photo of H.M.S. Viper running at record speed of 35.5 knots. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
Pages 677-704. Features: Colour Dunlop ad inside front cover features The Mumming Plays; Cover photo of wartime munitions being scrapped for production drive; Five photos illustrate the United Nations new simultaneous interpretation system; Two pages of illustrations explain the Swedish Albatross marine expedition as it investigates seabed deposits; An account of the aims of the Albatross expedition and of the equipment used to obtain material for scientific investigation from great depths; Six-photo sequence shows an F8F Bearcat's failed attempt to land on the USS Tarawa - it ultimately crashes into the sea; Photo of road scouts delivering 800,000 signatures to the House of Commons with the aim of restoring the basic petrol ration; Photos of personalities of the week include Lord Croft, Mr. Strachey, Malcolm McCorquodale, Lord Hemmingford, H. R. Macbeth-Raeburn, M. Tristan Bernard, Sir Reginald Stubbs, Marshall Tito, Mr. Dinnyes, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Mr. Dimitrov of Bulgaria, Col. N. A. Filatov, Winston Churchill at Manchester Town Hall, and Arab leaders attending the Arab League Conference on Palestine at Almaza Airport; Article discusses the Marshall Plan and Mr. Molotov; Photos of Jewish Settlement Police trainees and map of the United Nations plan, dividing Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, with Jerusalem and International city; Two pages of photos and text describe troops of the Arab League states, including photo of Glubb Pasha, commander of the Arab Legion of Transjordan; Two-page centrefold illustration inside the Structures Department at the Royal Aircraft Establishment where students are taught how to test aircraft components; Six illustrations show young engineers training in model making and wind tunnel testing; Five photos document the state funeral of France's great tank General Leclerc, who perished in a North African air crash; Eritrea's commission of investigation - six photos with text; Photos of the first ramjet helicopter, on ground and in flight; Photo of 12 foot diameter pipeline carrying water to generate power from the Campbell River dam in British Columbia; Photo of Sir Alan Cunningham and G. Heddingham inspecting scene of rioting and looting in the commercial centre of Jerusalem; Photo of directors and officials of Krupps, Hitler's main armament maker, on trial at Nuremberg; Two pages of photos and text describe bronzes newly found in North Honan; Review of the film "Mine Own Executioner"; Back cover colour ad for Wright's coal tar soap shows dancing Arctic seals. Above average external wear with clumsy tape repair to coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Pages 993-1036. Features: cover photo of Dr. Wilhelm Furtwangler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, forced into retirement by Nazi influences; Photo of the League of Nations meeting in Geneva to discuss an international military force to police the Saar; Page of illustrations of the "Emperor" of conductors, Toscanini; Page of photos describe the plight of Hungarian refugees expelled from Yugoslavia; One page photo shows the "Orion" being launched at Barrow electronically by the Duke of Gloucester in Brisbane, 12,000 miles away; Fascinating photo-illustrated article by disillusioned young Oxford Socialist John Brown, author of "I Was a Tramp", describes his trip to Soviet Russia; Two large photos commemorate the first regular airmail from England to Australia via Imperial Airways; Photo illustrated article on blind fish in the Caverns of Brazil - first photos of live specimens; Two pages of illustrations of the Mayo composite aircraft, under construction for Imperial Airways, which launches heavily loaded mail planes upon its back; Page of photos and text present prehistoric pottery found in Persia - "entirely unexpected" types from Syalck; Two pages of fabulous photos illustrate how a Japanese hotel combines domestic tradition with incongruous borrowings from the West; Majestic colour one-page ad for Dunlop boasts of their 90th anniversary; Amazing photo of Canadian "Monster" - sea cow, basking shark, or "cadborosaurus" - recently discovered on the shores of Henry Island, British Columbia; Centrefold photos of the Duke of Gloucester at functions in Australia; Photo of Sir Wilfred Grenfell giving medical attention in Newfoundland and Labrador; Photos of the Prince of Wales in distressed Durham; Photos of attempts to save Charles O'Leary who died after three days trapped in an Irish well; Photos of the Soviet funeral for murdered Sergei Kiroff; Photo of new airplane for the Viceroy of India, the "Star of India"; Photo of famous archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans sitting for his portrait bust by David Evans; Photo of the Salvation Army welcoming its new general, Miss Evangeline Booth; Photos of personalities of the week include General Temperley, G. G. Knox, M. Titulescu; Anthony Eden, M. Laval; Baron Aloisi, Ruchdi Bey, Julian Wylie, Sir Horace Lamb, King Prajadhipok, Sir James O'Grady, Sir Edwin Lutyens, C. H. Bressey, Col. Lindbergh's second son, little John, being taken to school by his mother, the late Lord Riddell, C. T. P. Ulm, George Littlejohn, J. L. Skilling, and the late Viscount Buckmaster; Nice colour one page Dewar's ad features Santa hefting cases of whisky; Colour photos of Christmas eve celebrations in Hungary; Article and photos of 6 million year old insect fossils; Page of photos of the filming of "Lorna Doone";One-page South Africa tourism ad One-page Schweppes ad; and more. Outer advertising pages not included. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: Front cover features colour photo of H.R.H. the Duke of Kent and Miss Worsley; The wedding of the Duke of Kent in Magnificent York Minster; Photo of the bullet-ridden Chevrolet which carried General Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic, when he was assassinated; Portable rocket successfully demonstrated - uses a twin-jet hydrogen peroxide propulsion system; methods of differentiating between an earthquake and an underground nuclear explosion; Police restrain photographers during Kennedy visit; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Pages: 281-320. Features: Cover photos of Adlai Stevenson's triumph in Chicago; Photo ad for Grants Stand Fast Whisky inside front cover features Alan Melville; One-page Ford car ad; Esso Petrol one-page ad features tigers; South African Airlines ad; Large photo portrait of Adlai Stevenson; Turning Point in Cyprus? - The Eoka Cease-fire Declaration - six photos including Archbishop Makarios and Dighenis; Two pages of photos of the delegations which attended the London Conference on Suez; Prince Charles and Princess Anne help sailors pull a rope; Photo portraits of Princess Margaret; Photos of the Queen in Oban, Mull, Skye, Barra and South Uist; Photo of nine heads of the Arab League; Story and eight photos of newly oil-rich Saudi Arabia; Great centerfold photo of delegates at the opening session of the Suez Conference in London (holding by one staple); 14 photos of personalities of the week, including Lake Ontario swimmer Brenda Fisher, Sir Otto Lund, Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, Baron Von Neurath and Admiral Lynde D. McCormick; Miss Pat Smythe at the Brighton horse show; Thousand-year-old trees a few inches high - the astonishing welwitschia, from the deserts of Angola; One-page aerial photo of raft L'Egare which had just finished an 87-day voyage on the Atlantic; Police raid Communist H.Q. in West Germany; Nice colour-photo ad inside back cover for the Illustrated London News encourages subscriptions for those flying to Australia; Nice colour Johnnie Walker ad on back cover features cricket theme; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
012827Houston Texas: Houston Police Department Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Clean no marks or writing. Stapled booklet 8.5 X 11 inches. No date but a separate document is laid in that references the upcoming year of 1983. Possibly this booklet was published about the same time. The history here covers 1836 to 1948 and is organized into two parts: Part One: 1836 to 1865: The New Frontier-Rugged Dangerous and a Buck to be Made and PART TWO erroneously titled Chapter II: 20th Century 1900-1948 - Rapid Change Faster Pace Political Patronage. Each part is followed by several pages of Notes. Highlights for most years are documented in varying amounts of detail making for interesting reading. Laid in at the back of the book is a stapled copy of a six-page document titled "History of the Houston Police Academy L.D. Morrison Sr. Memorial Center. Morrison was the "founding father" of the Houston Police Academy. Scarce history. OCLC locates no copies. Houston Police Department Paperback
335 pages. List of sources. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white and colour photos. "Until the rise of the modern Canadian Navy and the Coast Guard services, the RCMP provided the primary maritime federal representation on the Canadian coast and inland waters of Canada. Many of these vessels were impressive ocean-going ships that featured modern (for that era) armaments, dedicated RCMP Marine Division crew and a complex mandate to serve the interests of Canada. These vessels served in the high Arctic, on the great Lakes, on all three oceans and on virtually all the navigable inland waterss of Canada. The total number of vessels employed within the RCMP from the establishment of the Force until modern times exceeded two hundred. This work chronicles the complete history of the RCMP Marine services." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A high quality copy. Oblong 30 x 23cm. 1.7kg. Book
197631173London, Friedmann, 1976. gebundene Ausgabe
188400283728New York: Frank Tousey 1884 Scarce copy in card covers yellowed some minor edgewear engraved illustrations ad rear showing list of title names already published with authors and other publisher's ads. 29 pgs. OCLC lists 0 copies. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition. Decorative Paper. Very Good. Frank Tousey paperback
1974Jean Pierre Faur Éditeur. 1994. Maquette de Mathieu Ming sur Power Macintosh 7100. Couverture cartonnée, impression des illustrations en bleu et blanc. Dim: 37,8 x 28,2 cm. Non paginé.
1974Jean Pierre Faur Éditeur. 1994. Maquette de Mathieu Ming sur Power Macintosh 7100. Couverture cartonnée, impression des illustrations en bleu et blanc. Dim: 37,8 x 28,2 cm. Non paginé.
1951041272North York: North York Police Association 1951. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback Police Association Magazine Soft Cover 1965. In Very Good Condition.- Specializing in academic collectible and historically significant providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. North York Police Association paperback
VG/VG First edition. Unprice-clipped. Side upper edge creasing to dj. A detailed account of the specialist SO19 unit, the specialist metropolitan firearms wing. written by a sargeant insider, covering yardie incidents, IRA actions and numerous hostage and armed robberies - this is crime at the deadly end. Richly detailed with contemporary documents and photographs, some very grisly. Written by an insider who is a national firearms instructor and tactical adviser. Octavo pp 210
1956biblio12563<p>First edition first printing of the third novel by this author and third novel in the Inspector Pitt series. The head of the spine has two 1/4 inch deep by 1/2 inch wide chips to it. A 1/2 inch tear an inch down on the spine. Someone earlier tried to tape reinforce the chips tears and corners so light staining to the back side of the dustjacket. On the outside edges of the pages there is a spot of soiling does not effect the page blocks. Price clipped otherwise in very good / good condition.</p> Harrap hardcover
1954biblio14458<p>First English Translation edition first printing of the second novel in the Inspector Frederic Belot series. There is a 1/2 inch deep by inch wide V chip to the bottom edge of the dustjacket's front panel. There are several small 1/8 inch chips to the head of the spine and other edges. Heavy rubbing to the dustjacket's rear white advertisement panel. Price clipped otherwise in very good / good condition.</p> Dobson hardcover
VG/ VG 1st Edition 1993. No significant faults with book or dj. no inscriptions. A broad factual account of the difficulties of modern police work, using research based on the Streatham Division of South London.
Book shows minor edge wear to covers, text/interior is clean and neat, with no marking of any kind. straight spine, solid binding. Page edges age toned.
1998012828Houston Texas: Houston Police Department 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Clean no marks or writing. Stapled booklet 8.5 X 11 inches. Inscribed by the author Johnson to the previous owner of the book. xiii 152 pages with Appendix References and Tables. This is the author's Dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Graduate School of Texas Southern University. "Specifically the investigator sought to determine the level of achievement by police cadets who possessed no military service and 60 or more semester hours of college military service and no semester hours of college or military service and between 1 and 59 semester hours of college. A statistical design was employed based on one-way analysis of variance and the investigation used a 5-year stratified random sample of 273 police cadets. Scores of police cadets were analyzed with respect to a reading comprehension test State licensing test civil service test academic average driving skill average and firearms skill average. Police cadets with no military service and 60 or more semester hours of college had statistically significantly higher scores than police cadets with prior military service and no semester hours of college on the reading comprehension test the State licensing test the civil service test and academic average. No statistically significant differences between any groups were observed in relation to driving skill averages. Finally police cadets who had prior military service and between 1 and 59 semester hours of college had statistically significantly higher scores on firearms skill averages than nonmilitary cadets. An appendix contains permission letters and law enforcement statistical data. 77 references and 24 tables." OCLC locates no copies. . Houston Police Department Paperback
1949021014London: UK: Hodder & Stoughton 1949. First edition so stated April 1949. Cover illustration by Bip Pares. Publisher's original blue cloth with black titles to spine and front slight spean lean else near fine. Dust jacket shows light rubbing to folds two small pieces out at spine foot and one at head of spine with shallow loss at head. Rear panel moderately soiled with one tiny piece out. Not price-clipped 8/6 net to the front flap. A very scarce title. The crime writer's third novel an Inspector Hazelrigg mystery. Generally regarded as 'one of the elder statesmen of the British crime writing fraternity' he was a founder-member of the British Crime Writers' Association and in 1988 he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and in 1994 he received The Diamond Dagger Award which is awarded for Lifetime Achievement . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Illus. by Pares Bip. Book. Hodder & Stoughton
89p. + Plus color frontis and eleven lovely full page color plates of dogs. Folio. 9.25 x 12.25" Original full cloth backed color pictorial binding, extremities slightly worn. These plates are often broken out of this book and sold individually - a practice which we deplore. PETS/2
