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72 pages. Features: Editorial touches on Communism, Unemployment and Social Credit; One-page Parker Vacumatic pen ad; Canada New Heart of Empire; The Timid Soul - Harold Tucker Webster; The Enchanted Chorus Girl (short story); Story Lady (short story); Hot Money (short story); The Electrical Industry - an interesting survey of new electrical technology with we now take for granted; Lonely Lady (short story); The Murder on the Linds (part II); Hockey article with photos of Bill Cook, Murray Armstrong, "Mickey" Blake, Jack Church and Jack Howard; Pond's Extract one-page ad features photos of Mrs. C. Henry Mellon, Jr.; Hollywood news with photos of Charles Boyer, Marie Walewska, Marcia Mae Jones, and many others; Centrefold Christmas gift ad for Packard Lektro Shavers, etc.; One-page Chevrolet features a green car; Business News; Half-page ad for Stanfields Unshrinkable Underwear; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Old Scottie comic; Beauty article; Christmas cooking article; World Sayings; Nice colour Waterman's pen ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Writing to bottom of front cover. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
VG near Fine (no dj, pictorial card covers, a bright clean copy octavo 182pp. Investigation into the murder of the popular rapper.
478p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
343p. Hardcover Very good condition, book club mark on rear cover
343p. Hardcover Very good condition worn d.j.
343p. Hardcover Very good condition
12mo, 448 pages, not illustrated. Covers worn, pages edges browned. eng
66 pages. Features: Saga of the Deadly Cook Gang; When the United States Had Mad Emperor; Black Man's West - The Story of Negro Pioneers; Belle Starr - Queen Bandit; The Man Who Ate Indian Livers; Gov. Charles Bent's Murder and Scalping; Abigail Scott - Fighting Northwest Suffragette; The Unluckiest Scout in the West; Friendship - the Price of Death; Loot the Village - Kill the Males. Magazine
574p. illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
574p. illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
185 pages. Intrigue, blackmail and murder - a dark satire from the great Italian humorist. Blind stamp and date upon half-title page else clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy. Book
228 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Pages 161-200. Features: The Deposition of the King of Jordan - King Talal is replaced by the former Crown Prince Hussein; Royal holiday in Wales and Scotland; The Brutal murder of the Drummond family in France; Cowes Week - yachting photos; Theory behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition; Ivories of unsurpassed magnificence - the finest and largest from the ancient near east - discovered at Nimrud - article and photos; Centerfold colour photos of Chartwell, Westerham, Kent - residence of the Prime Minister; One-page colour-illustrated portrait of W. Somerset Maugham; Marshal Tukachevsky of the Soviet Union - article with photos; Photos of Personalities of the Week - including King Feisal of Iraq, and the late Sir Hesketh Bell; King Haakon's 80th birthday celebrations in Oslo; Photos of Ex-King Farouk and his family on Capri; Photo of Britain's largest aircraft about to make her maiden flight - the 140-ton Saunder-Roe "Princess" flying boat at Cowes; Photo of lakeside mini-railway which overturned in Alexandra Park killing a baby and injuring 13; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 337-364. Features: Cover photo portrait of the victim of a shameful and dastardly crime, Count Bernadotte, the representative of the United Nations, seen with his wife, when beginning the mission of peace which ended in his murder at Jerusalem; Colour ad for the Dunlop Rubber Company inside front cover features the city of Lincoln; Conference discusses the future of the Italian colonies; Two photos of the UN Security Council as it discusses Hyderabad and Count Bernadotte's murder; Two pages of photos of huge crowds in Berlin illustrate a Communist demonstration and the funeral of a youthful victim of Communist police action, Wolfgang Scheunemann; Photos of personalities of the week include Lord Noel-Buxton, Maj. Gen. S. F. Irwin, Emile Ludwig, the right Hon. J. S. C. Reid, Adm. Sir Henry Bruce, Sir Sothern Holland, Lieut. Gen. Rajendrasinghji G, Sylvain Mayer, Sir Charles Eric Palmer, Dame Lillan Braithwaite, Field Marshall Lord Montgomery, Khwaja Nazimuddin, U Tin Tut of Burma, Sao Shwe Thaik, and Col. Serot of France; Photo of the funeral procession of Mr. Jinnah, first Gov. Gen. of Pakistan; Photo of French aircraft workers fighting police in Paris; Photo of Gen. DeGaulle speaking to huge crowd in Nice; Photo of Pakistan's new Gov. Gen., Khwaja Nazimuddin; Article with map discusses the invasion of Hyderabad; Two large photos illustrate Hyderabad's surrender to the Indian Union after a five-day war; Two pages of informative photos about the India Hyderabad war illustrate the auxiliary forces which opposed the entry of Indian troops - the Razakars; Photos of buildings in Britain today - ancient, modern, and for export; Photo of the royal arrival for a special session of Parliament; Book review of "The Journal Of Eugene Delacroix", translated from the French by Walter Pach; Four pages of beautiful colour illustrations/photos of flowers; Photos of ingenious British animal toys which earned dollars for this country; Four photos illustrate Britain's production of famous turbojets; One-page illustration of air screw turbines in production - the buld-line for Armstrong Siddeley "Mamba" turboprops at Coventry; Two pages of text and photos of the revival of tapestry weaving in Scotland at the Dovecote Studios; Five fascinating photos present scenes aboard the capsized battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso, as she is being broken up by her new owner, Mr. Heovding; Photo of police investigating Mosquito crash scene at Manston on September 18 where 12 people were killed during an air display; Photo of Mr. James Wilson, seven times champion sheepdog handler, with his dog Glen, twice champion sheepdog, at Worcester; Five photos of Australian cricketers being welcomed by the king and queen at Balmoral Castle; Six photos in the Waitomo glow-worm Cave, New Zealand, where "Boletophila Luminosa" creates a wonder of the world; Fascinating colour-illustrated back cover de Havilland ad illustrates aircraft decompression chamber research. Unmarked with average wear. Archival tape repairs to coverfold. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 181-220. Features: Cover photos of the loss of the car-ferry 'Princess Victoria' which went down on 31 January with a loss of 128 lives, plus two more pages of dramatic photos of the disaster; Simulating an atomic blast over Clapham Junction; 10 photos related to the murder of the Ruck family by Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya, a shocking crime redeemed only by the heroism of an African houseboy; Full-page photo of massive flooding on Canvey Island, Essex - the Thames estuary pleasure resort; Two more pages of photos of the Canvey Island flooding which killed 100; Photos of flood-related scenes in Norfolk, Sheerness Naval Dockyard, Southend; the East Coast, Lincolnshire, Essex, Kent, Felixstowe, Jaywick, Yarmouth and Salthouse; Photos of the worst Netherlands flooding in 400 years; Centerfold illustration of the last moments of the Princess Victoria; Nice colour-illustrated ad inside front cover for Number Seven cigarettes features a Hawaiian party scene; Photos of personalities of the week, including recently deceased James H. Scullin, Sir Reginald Wingate and Samuel A. Courtauld; The lesson of the coelacanth; Photos of the Monte Carlo Rally - great successes for British Cars; Photo of India's celebration of her 3rd anniversary of independence with President Dr. Rajendra Prasad taking the salute of a detachment of Indian camel troops; Tasteful colour back cover ad for Sanderson wallpapers and fabrics; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 105-140. Features: Nice cover photo-portrait of Dwight Eisenhower; Photos of America's new first lady - Mrs. Eisenhower, and Mrs. Richard Nixon, wife of the new Vice-President, both wearing their inaugural ball gowns; Photo of six German's tried with murder and other atrocities at the Schirmeck concentration camp during the occupation of France; Photos of the Red Hat Ceremony in Rome where new Catholic Cardinals receive their hats; Photo of the Dutch liner' Klipfontein just before she went under; Photo of horrible accident at Washington's Union station where train lost braking and crashed into buffers; Photos from Egypt and Sudan - Abdel Rahman Hakki, Sheikh Ahmed Al Bakury, Major Saley Salim and General Neguib; Photos of M. Rene Mayer, France's new Prime Minister; Two pages of photos and information about Oradour-Sur-Glane - a case which revives a terrible war memory - the trial of 21 S.S. soldiers charged with the murder of a French community; Photo and article on the tree-climbing goats of Morocco; Photos of the end of the Second Swiss attempt on Everest; Two pages of photos and information on the war in Indo-China - French Union troops in the Red River Delta, plus an amphibious operation against the Viet Minh - a phase of 'Operation Bretagne'; Two-page photo of the summit and southern wall of Everest, taken from the Ramparts of Pumori; Two pages of photos and information about the British-trained Sudan Defense Force; Photos from the first performance of Vaughan Williams' "Sinfonia Antartica"; Photos of the personalities of the week, including recently deceased Sir Edward Marsh and artist Douglas Chandor, as well as squash champion A. Fairbairn and a group photo of Sherpas who helped with the recent Swiss Everest attempt; Photo of the marriage of Sir William Slim's daughter to Peter Nigel Stewart Frazer; Nice colour-illustrated ad for King George IV old Scotch whisky on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 128 pages with a great many b&w and color photos.
Black and white illustrations throughout. Features: Northland Patrol - RCMP Constable DeLisle's three-thousand-mile mid-winter sled-trip through the Canadian Arctic to investigate a murder; The Hoodoo Liner - A strange yarn from a bad-luck mail steamer; Jungle Racket - A curious story from the wilds of Malaya; The Lurking Terror - Australian launch skipper Peter Brooks catches a giant groper which menaced pearl divers - article with photo; The Maharajah's Elephant - what happened when a royal elephant died in India; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County, Illinois (part 2) - Bad Charlie Birger is finally put out of commission; The "Tom Thumb Circus" Affair - murder mystery against the bizarre background of a collection of performing animals and birds; Titus George's Trouble - a poltergeist story from a Ceylon tea estate; Jungle Pets (with photos - including lady riding a giraffe; They Prowl By Night - an encounter with a lion-man; Mrs. Brown's Good Cause - everything goes wrong at an Indian grand concert fundraiser; The Mountain of Fate - an attempt to scale Mount Kungwe in East Africa. 66 pages plus 22 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
288p. Hardcover Good condition, spine ends worn
pp. xix, 135 + Photographs. Bookplate of India Newton on front paste down. Slightly damp stained. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, extremities rubbed with loss. Original priced dust jacket; worn, taped and chipped with loss. W3
grand in-8, 429 pp., illustrations, broché, couv. Illustré Bon état [BAT-6]
70 pages. Articles: The Blooming of Margaret Rose - Princess Elizabeth's sister; Traveling Companion - foolproof trips for America's postwar innocents abroad courtesy of American Express Company: The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 8) - grim days of defeat in 1942 and plans for ultimate victory; Unwanted - a plea for justice for Europe's hordes of Displaced Persons (DPs); Designs for Touring (part 9) - Glacier, Yellowstone and Grand Teton country; Night Life of the St. Louis Cardinals. Fiction: One Day, One Life; More Beautiful than Murder; Are You Sure?; On the Bakeoven Grade; Laughter Must be Shared. Ads include: Zenith radios; Hudson cars; RCA Victor radios; Pabst beer featuring colour photo of Mr. & Mrs. Bob Hope; Plymouth; Ballantine's Ale; "Dream Girl" movie starring Betty Hutton; Rutland Concrete Patcher; Camel cigarettes - featuring sand sailor Peg Neeley. Good Year centerfold holding by one staple. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
98 pages. Short Stories: Playboy's Choice; Men Should Be Married; Neighbors; The Fugitive Grandmothers. Articles: The Secrets of Long Life (1st of 3 articles) - results of a poll; His Business is in Ruins - William Levant Alcorn restores haciendas; Trainer of Winners - Horse Trainer Jimmy Jones; ; How I Stumbled Into the Movies - Robert Evans; Clams Can Be Wonderful - the secret of real New England chowder; Adventures of the Mind, #33 - World in Revolution. Serials: Set Up for Murder (conclusion); Mark of Treachery (part 6 of 8). Ads: International Trucks (inside front cover); Schlitz Beer; Newport cigarettes; Douglas DC-8; Stauffer Home Reducing Plan; Chesterfield cigarettes - missile engineer photos; Band-Aid; Instant Simoniz car wax; Dictaphone; AMF Pinspotters Inc.; Snider's Hotter Catsup; Dutch Boy House Paint; Lucky Strike ad on back cover features race horse. Above-average wear. Bit of writing on page 46. Some moisture-induced discoloration. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Presses Universitaires de France, Psychanalyses, 2000, 113 pp., broché, très bon état.
380 pages. Many black and white photographic plates of the key players. "An outstanding and hair-raising account of mass murder and deception that pieces together the cowardly plot and the conspirators' successful twenty-year evasion of justice." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with modest wear. Bit of soiling to edges of textblock. A quality copy. Book
