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Features: The McNamara Monarchy - Hanson W. Baldwin argues that one-man rule in the Pentagon weakens our armed forces; The Revolt of Europe - Charles de Gaulle and others are challenging U.S. leadership over issues such as who will control atomic power; (Peter) O'Toole of Arabia - An unknown actor dons the cloak of a legendary hero and an epic is born - colour photos; "Lawrence" Inspires the Arab Look; Den Mother to the Clubwomen - Margaret Arnold is an angry feminist in hot pursuit of her cause; The Unsound and the Fury - pigeons, corn-rippers and orchids have one thing in commonk - all can provoke cold anger; The Return of Branch Rickey - the return of the Mahatma; Crime Town USA - Youngstown, Ohio has had 75 bombings, 11 killings in a decade, and no one seems to care. Address label clipped from front cover else unmarked with average wear. Colour Corvair Monza ad inside back cover. Please note: missing pages 39-40 and 49-50. Book
Features: Smoke Jumpers of Silver City - forest firefighters of the United States Forest Service; Buffalo Bull - a gripping story set in the wild Acholiland province of Uganda; Contraband Cruise - sten gun pirates terrorize Tangier's 'free-traders' on the Mediterranean; Search for the Sahara Stallion - a quest for a fabulous strain of horses; The Gold-Rush Murders - the most shocking crime the Yukon had ever seen; The Fang Men of Malaya - The Hairy Giants/Ape Men of the Malayan Jungles; I Had a Man Friday - I Know an Island, Part IX - Antigua; Struggle for Survival - a continuation of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' - adventure in the jungle of French Guiana; and more. Average wear. Quality copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Sports and Showbiz news; Playtex ad features sepia-toned photo of snow-shoeing women; Gordon Sinclair describes backstage antics at TV's "Front Page Challenge"; Behind the Scenes of Canada's Zesty TV Season; Is Wife-Stealing Really a Crime? - over $250k has been paid for wooing other men's wives over the past 10 years in Canada; Liberty's Annual All-Canada TV Talen Awards; Boom-Boom Geoffrion - Hockey's Gay-Blade TV Troubador - photo-illustrated article; Joyce Davidson describes her splash into U.S. Television on CBS's 'PM East'; Showmanship stunts of Canada's Local TV Stations; What Makes TV's Tommy Ambrose Bounce?; Are Canada's Church Missionaries Obsolete Soul-Hunters?; Photos of Canada's 10 Best Dressed Women - Joan McCormick, Mrs. George Ibsen, Mrs. H.J. Spooner, Marie Hohtanz, Mrs. L.G. DesBrisay, Mrs. Mona Cozart, Geraldine Nelson, Mrs. Joy McGillawee, Helene Winston and Mrs. Lisa Taylor; Nice color one-page ad for the 1962 Chevrolet Impala 6-passenger station wagon (blue), pictured at a winter scuba-diving scene; Rare one-page colour-photo Molson's Canadian ad features large photo of new B.C. ferry, the 'City of Victoria'; Coke ad on back cover features young couple in Valentine's Day motif. Moderate wear. Some soiling to back cover. Small date stamp on front cover. One-inch opening to lower corner of front cover and first three pages. A quality vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Enter the European - II - Into Brazil - Half of South America; Photo study of an air flight between Fort McMurray and Fort Good Hope; North Shore Naturalist - Comte Henri de Puyjalon; The Tsimshian; The Radford and Street Murders - famous crime at York Factory over forty years ago; Little P.G.E. (Railway) Goes Somewhere - travel article by Florence and Francis Jaques; The Fur Trade Party - conflict between 'wintering partners' eighty years ago; Northern Wildflowers; The Bells of the Turrets Twain - the bells of St. Boniface were heard across Canada on the occasion of the present Queen's coronation; Calling the 'Columbia' - article on the floating hospital-chapel-theatre serving the people of B.C.'s rugged coast; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
372 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Black and white photographs. "A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945... Chronicles the half-century rise and fall of the fortunes of Nick Zappetti and his comrades." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
in-8, 275 pp., illustrations, broche, couv. ill.- RARE. Très bel exemplaire. [BU-10]
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and 14 plates; pictorial cloth, black cloth backstrip lettered in white, black endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. VERY SCARCE.
3 works in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 3 frontispieces and 26 illustrations in the text; cloth (green/red/brown respectively), upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in silver and blind, a near fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
Fine Turkish Original bdg. HC. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Crimean Turkish. 502, [2] p., many b/w ills. Fasizm mahbusleri. Vesikalar, resimler, hatirlavlar. First and Only Edition. Extremely rare. Memories and biographies of the Karaites and Crimean Turks who were killed in Nazi concentration camps in World War II.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic script). 222, [2] p., color ills. ISBN: 582501247. Akilli kirpinen ayneci tilki. Krimtatar halk masallari. Toplagan, islegen ve tertib etgen: Ablüziz Veliev. A rare fairytale book compiled and printed by Crimean intellectuals during their exile in Uzbekistan.
DJ with light edgewear. Endpapers a bit darkened ; Clarence Darrow was one of history's most eminent attorneys, arguing such notable cases as the Leopold-Loeb murder case, and the Scopes 'monkey' trial. Learn what shaped his beliefs and his feelings about these and other celebrated cases. This edition has a chapter on Darrow's views on the infamous Massie case; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 495 pages
Previous owner's name and notes on front free endpaper. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; Clarence Darrow was one of history's most eminent attorneys, arguing such notable cases as the Leopold-Loeb murder case, and the Scopes 'monkey' trial. Learn what shaped his beliefs and his feelings about these and other celebrated cases. The "A" on copyright page indicates the 1st edition ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 465 pages
Fine Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 383 p. 50 yillik anilarim. Memoirs and poems of an intellectual exiled Crimean-Karaite Jew. A diaspora book. Extremely rare. Not in Bali.
Rubbing to extremities. Hinges broken. Ageing and foxing throughout, befitting the book's age. Evidence of cloth tape reinforcement attempt ; Author Warren is best known for this novel of the legal profession. If nothing else, Tittlebat Titmouse should be in the Hall of Fame of character names ; 8vo; 547 pages
First edition, folio, [2], 81, [1]pp., text lightly browned, disbound. Wing, T2265.
4-IX-521 pp cartonnage éditeur vert, dos lisse et doré 1894, 1894, in-8, 4-IX-521 pp, cartonnage éditeur vert, dos lisse et doré, Première édition de cet ouvrage d'Armand Marie Corre (1841-1908), il constitue le XIXe volume de la série "Bibliothèque des actualités médicales et scientifiques". Médecin de marine et sociologue français, Armand Corre a rédigé de très nombreux livres et articles de médecine et d'histoire en rapport souvent avec l'anthropologie et la criminologie. Collaborateur des Archives d'anthropologie criminelle, Corre étudie spécifiquement le lien entre race et criminalité dans les diverses colonies françaises dans le présent ouvrage. Il procède par régions : Afrique occidentale, Inde, l'Indochine, Tahiti... Il finit par conclure que la colonisation ne constitue pas une amélioration morale ni sociale des peuples colonisés. Ex-libris Michel Collée. Petites rousseurs aux premiers feuillets, cartonnage un peu frotté, quelques taches
42 pages. "Presents new information not available in any other book about Katyn. Information is presented in three parts, the facts as known today, the photo evidence and the brazen lies made by the Soviet prosecutors against the Germans. Many grainy black and white reproductions of archival documents and morbid photos taken when the mass grave was exhumed. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Appears unread. Book
271 pages. Index. Glossary. Black and white photographic plates. "Mike Frost, a communications officer at CSE for 19 years, has decided that in the post-"Cold War" era it is time for the Canadian public to be told what its government has been doing and for a public debate to ensue... As he tells the story of his career, he paints a remarkable picture of the Security Establishments of Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.... Frost and his boss were at the centre of the 'embassy-collection' scheme which was code-named 'Project Pilgrim'". - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Very nice copy. Book
Pages 441-480. Features: Science - Super Detective - why not use universities to detect crime? - article with photo of Sir Bernard Spilsbury and Commissioner Enright, late of the New York Police; Lost & Found - short story; My Trip to a Whaler off the Shetlands, where 200 whales are killed every season - with six photos; The Looker On - a love story; Bizarre photo of golfing from the head of someone doing a handstand atop a 27-storey building; The Truth About Nerves - some simple causes of a mysterious malady by a Harley Street Doctor; Nursing Big Clocks - First Aid for the timepieces which "Tell the World"; - article with Big Ben photos; How Our Weather Forecasts are Obtained; Hidden Fires - a love story; More Zoo Secrets - article with animal photos; Angel Esquire (fiction); A Railwaymen's Triumph - photo-illustrated article on the splendid orphanage of the Railway Benevolent Institution at Derby; and more. Openings along coverfold. Staples disintegrated. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Drinking Tips and Other War Stories; Zen Bastard; The Yellow Journal; True Facts; Late Night with Mr. Vengeance!; Shoeshine for the Apocalypse; Crime!; The Do-Goodies Social Action Team in Cartoon Madness; Everyone's a Criminal; Foto Funnies; P-Men; War is Hell; Trots and Bonnie and Clyde; The FBI Uniform Crime Report; Brooklyn; Berserk!; Life on Death Row; Con Crafts; The Chain of Command; The Effective Manager; Funny pages. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. This copy has been partially three-hole punched along the left margin. Book
Features: Drinking Tips and Other War Stories; Zen Bastard; The Yellow Journal; True Facts; Late Night with Mr. Vengeance!; Shoeshine for the Apocalypse; Crime!; The Do-Goodies Social Action Team in Cartoon Madness; Everyone's a Criminal; Foto Funnies; P-Men; War is Hell; Trots and Bonnie and Clyde; The FBI Uniform Crime Report; Brooklyn; Berserk!; Life on Death Row; Con Crafts; The Chain of Command; The Effective Manager; Funny pages. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. This copy has been partially three-hole punched along the left margin. Book
78 pages. Features: Homage to the Apollo 11 astronauts; Green Berets Under Trial - 8 members of Special Forces Unit B-57 (Black Beard) charged after alleged Vietnamese double agent is killed; Ted Kennedy - living with the whispers after the death of Mary Jo Kopechne; Gory details of the murder of Sharon Tate; The Conglomerate of Crime - article with photos of Carlo Gambino, Sam Giancana and Meyer Lansky; Ulster engulfed in sectarian strife; Battle on thhe Sino-Soviet Border - Sinkiang; Israel - commanding the skies; Indonesia annexes West Irian; Billy Martin punches out Dave Boxwell; Mae West to join Raquel Welch in new movie; Jets vs. the everglades; Mormon records in Little Cottonwood Canyon; LA Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
114 pages. Features: Badly Botched Headlines; Behemoth Blunders; Ridiculous Road Signs; Spectacular Stories about Stupid People; Crazy Crime Clips; Low-IQ Bimbos and Macho Mental Midgets; plus a smorgasbord of Columns, Cartoons, Funny Pages and Fiction. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
56 Pages. Features: John Gamble Kirkwood - a personality in science; Breeding machine brains; The Road to Empire - II - an archeological discovery of unusual interest was made during the excavation of a sacred well in Minturnae; Science at the scene of the crime - J. Edgar Hoover with the inside story of how his special agents operate; New high-efficiency fluorescent mercury lamps; Are We Inside a Dark Nebula?; High-Speed Paving for California Aqueduct - fantastic photos; The operation of the human brain; Tracking down your trade mark title; Polar Molecules; Cutting metal underwater using pressurized oxygen; The senses of sight and taste vary greatly between individuals; The amateur telescope maker; World-wide radio; and more. Three-inch opening along top of front cover at spine. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
