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In-8, 158p. Edition originale. Un des 20 exemplaires de tete numéroté en chiffres romains sur Hollande (avant 80 exemplaires sur vélin). Troisième volume de la collection des Cahiers du Rhone. Nom de possesseur en page de faux-titre. En excellente condition.
Hardcover Like New. Ships directly from publishers. Pls. allow a minimum of 25 business days delivery time being a new book from publisher.
208 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Guerrilla fighter, undercover agent, diplomat, Director of Chatham House, chief editor of of Penguin Books, MP for Oxford, industrialist and author, Mr. Woodhouse ventured much.... he spent the war years with the Greek Resistance and describes the hazards of working with rival guerilla groups as well as the rigours of partisan warfare in the mountains... A witty, stylish and above all thought-provoking account of a colorful and distinguished career." - dust jacket. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Prior owner's blindstamp upon front free endpaper. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A nice bright copy. Book
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, red ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Complementing 'Specially Employed' (1952), this is an elegant copy of the second and final account by the wartime head of SOE's French Section. As in the case of its counterpart, content was subject to the rigorous restrictions of the period. VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.410 (recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition, with 23 plates on 16; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The story of Jan Baalsrud, one of a team of Norwegian saboteurs attacking a German aircraft base in Arctic Norway. Intercepted by the enemy, Baalsrud was the sole survivor of the party, left alone on an arctic island with the Germans alerted to his presence. Howarth's account of Baalsrud's multi-faceted escape is the basis of Arne Skouen's feature film 'Nine Lives' (1957). THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.299; Law 0892.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 17 plates on 14, and 2 illustrations (one full-page) and full-page map in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, gilt back, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. One of the earliest separate publications on the activities of Special Operations Executive by the Head of French Section. 'I do not claim that the incidents described in these pages are completely factually accurate' (Preface). 'Quite so' responds Foot, although he is also the first to recognise the restrictions placed upon the author at the time. Enser, p.410; Foot, p.455.
32 pages. Features: Cover photos of Churchill and Viscount Halifax approaching battleship 'King George V'; Excellent two-page illustration of sappers throwing a box-girder bridge with nose union across an enemy tank trap; Photo of Carl J. Hambro with M. Carton De Wiart; Photo of King Haakon with Polish President M. Raczkiewicz; One-page photo of General Wavell with Maj.-Gen. O'Connor outside doomed Bardia; Eight pages of fantastic photos of the fall of Bardia - first views; Magnificant centrefold photo of Britain's latest and greatest battleship, H.M.S. 'King George V'; Eight photos of patriot Abyssinians training for battle against Italian tyrants; Six photos of Greek heroism in arctic cold - latest pictures from Albania; Two pages of photos of Wendell Willkie, supporter of the aid for Britain policy, at work; Photos of personalities of the week include General De Gaulle, Count Ciano, Marshal Griziani, Count Csaky, Commander Roger Bureau, P.D. Willeringhaus, John Oxenham, Daniel Hopkin, L.F. Sinclair, and David Lloyd George at his wife's funeral; Five photos of the Chinese military which stands undaunted after four years' heroic resistance; Four photos of Chiang Kai-Shek and his wife, plus a photo of her Pekinese dog; Photo of amazing Italian 'Land Yacht' (captured from Commander Gatti) presented to Britain as a symbol of the resistance by the Belgian Congo; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this important wartime issue. Book
60 pages. Features: *Beautiful* colour ad for International Harvester's Diesel TracTractors inside front cover; The Dionne Quints are featured in an ad for Remington noiseless portable typewriters; Bush Job (fiction); The Wartime Prices Board - photo and article; Beverley Baxter comments on Finland's resistance against Bolshevism and the Imperial Russian forces; "Miz Perkins" (fiction); Canada's Fighting Forces - Part 4 - Soldiers of French Canada - article with photos; Blizzard Honeymoon (fiction); Solver of Air Riddles - The story of Wallace Rupert Turnbull, a Canadian who invented the controllable pitch propeller - article with photos; Wings of Hazard (fiction, part 4 of 5); Dodge car ad; An argument to scrap the Alaska Highway project; Ford V-8 colour ad; Dodge Truck ad; Plymouth ad; Fargo Truck ad; Nice colour photo ad for Oldsmobile; Hockey player Gordie Drillon is featured in an Alka-Seltzer ad along with Syl Apps, Red Horner and Billy Taylor; Humorous Lifebuoy soap ad used the B.O. (body odour) scare to promote sales; Hinds hand cream ad featuring "Honey" the beauty advisor; Nice photo ad for Heinz spaghetti follows the product from farm to plate; Colour photo ad for the 1940 Studebaker Champion inside back cover; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows man in suit checking his pocket watch while eating lunch. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Slightly cocked text block. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. Black and white photos, illustrations, tables. 172 pages. "Hassan Fathy draws on his extensive research on climate control, particularly in the Middle East, to demonstrate the advantages of many locally available building materials and traditional building methods."
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 except for pages 8 and 9 with marginalia and underlining. 586 pages, chapters include Of terrorism and the arts, Posh art and post-historic art, The anti-aesthetics of an art of chaos, Furniture as frame, Vital structures: the constructive nexus in South America, The ruptura group and concrete art, Gego and the analytic context, Julio Le Parc, promoter of technological art, On the subject of Waldemar Cordeiro's popcretos, Critical painting of Jose Balmes, Leon Ferrari: Dogma and resistance, Play and grief, etc. Full color prints and photos throughout, often full page.
193 pages plus xx pages of interesting illustrated advertisements at back. Index. Undated. Circa early 1900s? Great black and white illustrations and line drawings throughout. Chapters include: Advantages of Diesel Traction; Development of Diesel Traction; Railway Requirements; The Engine; Engine Auxiliaries; Transmission Systems; Mechanical Transmissions; Hydraulic Transmissions; Electric Transmissions; plus Appendix entitle Resistance of Diesel Vehicles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Moderate fading to red cloth-covered boards. Quality copy. Book
Features: Australia's first air V.C. - Wing Commander H.I. Edwards; Photos of Italian and German POWs in Africa; Presentation of the Polish air force flag in England - six photos; Russia bombs Rumanian oil-fields; Diagram of German gliders used at the battle of Crete - landing air troops; Four fantastic low-level daylight photos of the R.A.F. attack on Rotterdam - 100,000 tons of enemy shipping crippled; Russia's resistance - article by Cyril Falls; Photos from Russia - where Soviet troops are at death-grips with the German enemy; Centerfold illustration of 'Winnie", a huge camouflaged English gun which hurls vast shells across the channel into German-occupied territories; Two full-page illustrations of giant English guns mounted on rail cars; Photos of England's 'Front-Line" Town - Dover; Photos of leading personalities of the week; Two-page map of the western Pacific illustrates America's strategic air and naval position in relations to Japan and Singapore; Photos of the "Robin Moor" being blown up by the Germans - the first U.S. ship torpedoed by Germany; Three photos of the Robin Moor's survivors at sea; Full page family photo of the Duke and Duchess of Kent with their two children, aged five and four; Article on the Plover; Full-page Dunlot ad shows how they serve agriculture; Full-page ad for The Nuffield Organization shows air crews with their planes in background. Average wear. Faint ink stamps to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and 16 pages of plates; pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. SCARCE.
X-147-[1] pp., 1pl. dépliante demi-maroquin vert à coin postérieur 1862, 1862, in-8, X-147-[1] pp, 1pl. dépliante, demi-maroquin vert à coin postérieur, Rédaction "succincte" des cours de mécanique appliquée donnés par l'auteur à l'École centrale des Arts et Manufactures. Mention de "seconde édition, augmentée". Jean Baptiste Bélanger (1790-1874) étudia à l'École polytechnique (X 1808). Il est associé à d'importantes recherches sur l'hydraulique et à l'équation qui porte son nom. Il fait partie des 72 savants dont le nom est inscrit sur le premier étage de la tour Eiffel. Étiquette ex-libris de Henri Vieillard. Cachet annulé de l'institut catholique de Paris
24 page stapled booklet promoting the construction of schools from concrete, primarily for their fire resistance. Approximately half text and half black and white photos of splendid examples of concrete school design including: Durant School, Oakland, CA; Jefferson School, Salt Lake City; Washington High School, Milwaukee; Culver City Grammar School; Morgan Park Public School, Duluth; Public School, Mineville, NY; Lockwood School, Oakland, CA; Emerson School, Oakland, CA; Oklahoma City High School; Central School Building, Lake Charles, LA; East Side High School, Salt Lake City; Technical High School, Oakland, CA; Watsonville, CA High School; Lincoln Public School, Summit, NJ; and more. Architects of these schools include: John J. Donovan; Van Ryn & DeGelleke; Oliver P. Dennis; Kelly & WILLIAMS: Layton, Smith & Forsyyth; W.J. Jennings; and more. Back cover suggests a printing date of 1921. Our research suggests this may be a reprint. Attractive cover photo of the precast concrete stone entrance of the Healdsburg, CA High School, William H. Weeks, Architect. Average wear. Center page loose but present. Tiny tick mark on front cover otherwise unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
3 volumes cartonn?s. 24x34 cm. Couverture tach?es.
In-8, VIII-183p. Deuxième édition. Préface de Jean Cassou. Une page importante de la Résistance dans la région de Castres et de Carcassonne. Illustré de quelques photographies dans le texte et de 2 carte, dont une dépliante. Très bel exemplaire, partiellement non coupé.
Jeanne Saintier, 1946. In-12 broché, 215 pages. Bords de couverture abimés, corps de l'ouvrage en très bon état. Ouvrage très rare et recherché sur la Résistance et le Maquis en Aveyron (Rouergue), mériterait la reliure.
Livre Club Diderot 1972/ 1976 , 5 volumes forts In-4 reliure éditeur plein skyvertex noir à impressions rouges + un coffret de fac-similés et documents divers reproduits. Préfaces de Louis SAILLANT, Jacques DEBU-BRIDEL, Marie Madeleine FOURCADE, Jacques BOUNIN et Henri ROL-TANGUY, avant propos de l'auteur, postface de Robert VOLLET. 414 + 414 + 382 + 381 + 434 pages. Trés importante iconographie. Bien complet du coffret de cartes et fac similes. Très bon état.
Livre Club Diderot 1972/ 1976 , 5 volumes forts In-4 reliure éditeur plein skyvertex noir à impressions rouges + un coffret de fac-similés et documents divers reproduits. Préfaces de Louis SAILLANT, Jacques DEBU-BRIDEL, Marie Madeleine FOURCADE, Jacques BOUNIN et Henri ROL-TANGUY, avant propos de l'auteur, postface de Robert VOLLET. 414 + 414 + 382 + 381 + 434 pages. Trés importante iconographie. Bien complet du coffret de cartes et fac similes. Bon état.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 170 pages with very detailed mechanicals drawings, b&w photos, graphs, charts, tables, etc., Contents include: Preliminary Considerations, Architectural Considerations, Lateral Force Resistance, Roof Framing, Columns, Wall Panels, Pick Up Analysis, Concrete Floor Slabs, Footings & Foundations, Joinery, Sandwich Panels, Concrete Fundamentals, Design For Nuclear Weapons, Prestressed Single T Sections.
1st edition. Later brown boards. 8vo. 84 pages; 20 cm. Photo cover. With military abbreviations and glossary of Hebrew terms. The author was the senior Jewish chaplain to the Eighth Army. SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1939-1945 participation, Jewish; World War, 1939-1945 Palestine; World War, 1939-1945 Middle East. Ex library markings. Minimal pencil markings that minimally affect text. Slight browning to pages. Very good condition. (MX-2-15A)
8vo., First Edition thus, page-edges lightly browned as often; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small hole at centre of backstrip. Complementing 'Specially Employed' (1952), this is the second and final account by the wartime head of SOE's French Section. As in the case of its counterpart, content was subject to the rigorous restrictions of the period. This issue was published a year after Odhams' first edition; the inevitable page-tanning aside, this is a remarkable copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.410 (recording the first edition).
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, text in French, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 2000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 620).
82 pages. "Being a Text-book of Data collected from Investigations in the Research Laboratories and in the Works of Thos. Firth & Sons, LTD., Sheffield." - from title page. Chapters include: The Requisitioning of Stainless Steel; Stainless Steel and its Manufacture; The Working and Treatment of Stainless Steel; The Strength of Stainless Steel as Shewn by Mechanical Tests; The Mechanical Strength of Stainless Steel at High Temperatures; General Physical Properites; Resistance to Rust - Corrosion Resisting Properties; The Effect of Various Reagents upon Stainless Steel; Contact with Other Metals; Stainless Iron. Illustrated. Undated. Circa 1950s? Unmarked. Moderate wear. Bright gilt lettering to front board and spine. Spine leaning. Binding intact. Nice clean copy. Book