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"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery. Facing financial ruin, Sara Stanley's father sends her with her Nanny away from his Montreal mansion to Prince Edward Island to live in the home of a family she has never met. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured and monochrome plates and 2 maps; blocked brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Published in the FS 'Great Battles' series.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first major study of command in the Western Desert, this important work was recognised as at once authoritative and controversial. Montgomery, in particular, is called to account on several occasions, with Second Alamein criticised not only for its handling but as a needless engagement. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.293.
L.M. Montgomery's literary career was firmly established before Anne of Green Gables brought her international acclaim. Her letters to her friends Penzie Macneill and Ephraim Weber, add a rich dimension to her character, while her short stories, serials and poems illustrate the gradual unfolding of a remarkable talent.227p. illus bibliography Book
76 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of dogs looking at spring robin in tree; News items include - The land where they know it all (Russia), A 'Tough-Minded Arguer, The Will as a Life-Force, The Spiirit of Fair Play, Too Much Commercialism, German's 'Readjustment', In Fascist Italy, Russia's New Revolution, and Northern Ireland; One-page photo ad for the Frigidaire fridge with new silent 'meter-miser'; Nice one-page colour-illustrated Simmons mattress ad shows young lady having sweet dreams; The Glamour of "New" Egypt - photo-illustrated article of this nation, including photo of His Majesty King Farouk and his new Queen, plus a photo of Queen-Mother Nazli and three of the King's sisters with his Queen, Farida, at St. Moritz; All That Goes Up (short story); The Orphan (short story); The Spiked Gunn (short story); The Broke the Power of the Medicine Men - fascinating photo-illustrated true-crime article involving the native peoples of Northern Manitoba; Fruits of Defeat (short story); The 3 Daughters of De Monaye (part II); Looking Two Ways in Sport - vintage sports article talks about hockey and includes photos of figure skaters Montgomery Wilson and Miss Eleanor O'Meara, plus boxer 'Baby' Yack, Canadian Bantamweight champion; Lovely one-page 1938 Chevrolet ad shows green car; Nostalgic one-page Heinz soup ad shows 1930's gent about to take a slurp; Italian tourism half-page ad; Nice half-page Canadian National ad features photos of their Jasper destination; Hollywood news includes photos of Marlene Dietrich, Merle Oberon, Bobbie Breen, and many more; Parker Vacumatic ad features photo of advice-giver Dorothy Dix; Vintage half-page ad for Sun Life features photo of mom with kids; Sweet Caporal ad features photo of dog Volhynia Kyra ("Silver") owned by Mrs. H. Randolph Casgrain of Westmount, Quebec; Nice photo-illustrated fashion article; Easter cooking article; Article about how every woman 'shall keep romance alive'; Colour half-page ad by the Government of Canada includes illustration of the Canada Building at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Scotland; World Sayings; Maxwell House coffee ad inside back cover; Congoleum flooring ad on back cover; and more. Centre page loose but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
A short popular biography of L.M.Montgomery. "Maud explores the passionate nature and irrepressible imagination of Lucy Maud Montgomery that she tried to conceal from those she lived with. Drawn from her own journals, this colorful biography vivIdly portrays a woman ahead of her time, a remarkable author who gave the world a unique character named Anne of Green Gables.166p. plates,map.index. Book
A short popular biography of L.M.Montgomery. "Maud explores the passionate nature and irrepressible imagination of Lucy Maud Montgomery that she tried to conceal from those she lived with. Drawn from her own journals, this colorful biography vivIdly portrays a woman ahead of her time, a remarkable author who gave the world a unique character named Anne of Green Gables.166p. plates,map.index. Book
90 pages. Articles: The Red Plan for S-Day (Soviet Day) when American Communists will perform disrupting tactics in America - with photo of Communist leaders arrested for advocating violent overthrow of the government; I'm a Sucker for Screwballs; Chain Store in the Wilderness - The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) - article with great photos from northern Canada; I Catch Bank Embezzlers; Through Hell and High Brass (part 2 of 5) - The Story of Jimmy Doolittle; Magdealena - California's gift to Broadway - with great color dance photos; Steve Canyon and Me - Milton Caniff writes about his popular comic strip; Beatrice Pearson - color photo with write-up. Fiction: Security; Cry Deep, Cry Stilll; Riviera Renegade; Jack Pot; Passage to Panama (par 1 of 7); The Impudent Rifle (conclusion). Ad include: Bell Telephone; Elgin Watches (with Robert Montgomery); Monarch packaged foods; "Every Girl Should Be Married" movie with Cary Grant; Admiral entertainment units; Gruen Curvex watches; RCA Victor radios; 1949 Ford cars; Chesterfield cigarettes - two-page two-color ad featuring Perry Como, Jo Stafford, Arthur Godfrey and Peggy Lee; Plymouth; Nash Airflyte centerfold ad - very attractive; Bostonians shoe ad; Westinghouse electric sheet/blanket ad - color photo; GM - two-page color ad; Very colorful two-page ad for Calvert Reserve whiskey; Hedy Lamarr is featured in an Auto-Lite ad; Hamm's beer; Pepsodent ad features Jacqueline Crouse; Pennsylvania Railroad; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features bridge walker Adam Tomey. Average wear. Cover holding by one staple. Unmarked. A nice vintage copy. Book
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery. When Sara and Felicity's gossip column accidentally appears on page one of the Avonlea Chronicle, the editor, Aunt Olivia, must figure out how to make amends. Book
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery.Young Felix starts a delivery business so that he may continue to afford Blackie, the beloved family stallion, but the business succeeds so well that Felix's judgement is clouded by greed. Book
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery. Marilla Cuthbert's story of a long-ago suitor named Duncan McTavish sparks Sara's interest, but when a real Duncan McTavish happens to arrive in Avonlea, Sara catches Marilla in a lie. Book
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery. Afraid that her Aunt Abigail might change her mind about marrying Malcolm MacEwan, the old beau who has recently reappeared in Avonlea, Sara, with the help of Felicity, plays Cupid to ensure a speedy exchange of vows. Book
20 pages. Features: Cover Freature - 1935 Buick 4 dr Convertible owned by James Clarke of Vancouver; Buick Begins to Celebrate 100 Years; Parts Department; 1965 Buick Skylark V8 Convertible owned by Eugene Rathka; 1965 Buick 2dr Hardtop owned by Hugh and Diane Schedlich; 1965 Buick 2dr Hardtop owned by Keith and Wendy Horsfall; 1965 Buick 2dr convertible owned by R.S. Montgomery; Membership Report. Bit of writing on front cover otherwise clean and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes Terry Pratchett and Discworld, Beryl Bainbridge novels, Lord Montgomery of Alamein, Rudyard Kipling's children's books, RB Cunninghame Graham, Clarence E Mulford and Hopalong Cassidy, British political cartoons, index and letters and classified..
122 pages. Features: Purina Chick Chow color ad inside front cover; Poppies for your garden; Screening casement windows; My Wild Flower Corner; Gardening on a steep hillside; Arbor Lodge - Home of J. Sterling Morton, Founder of Arbor Day; Plant a tree for the baby this year; Prairie Wild Flowers; The heart of the house - the kitchen; Year-round beauty from evergreens; Make the architect a partner when you build; Where our readers live - photos of homes of Ralph Garrison of Kalamazoo, E.L. Venning of Glen Ellyn, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Beat of Portland and Mrs. H.E. Roth of Sheboygan; What to do with the walls and floors; Unit House No 20 is designed for comfort - house plan; Nature lore for youthful readers; Nice one-page ad for Holland Furnaces; Good books for girls; Nice one-page photo-llustrated ad for Simmons mattresses features photo of Mrs. J. Borden Harriman; Have you a room with an inferiority complex?; Is your porch comfortable?; Ponderosa pine ad; The Soup and Salad Garden; Lovely one-page color ad for Sun-Maid raisins; Nice one-page color ad for Dutch Boy White-Lead paint; Tips from Garden Notebooks; A talk on hearts - fourth in a series of articles on present-day health problems; How to cook the tender cuts of meat; For dinner on your afternoon out; Aids to better housekeeping; One-page ad for Hoosier kitchen working centers; Simple bird baths and how to make them; We grow vegetables, by Professor J.A. Huffman of Marion, Indiana; Montgomery Ward catalog ad; Standard plumbing fixture ad; Spray calendar for the home garden; Nice 2/3-page ad for the Maytag aluminum clothes wasther; Clifford Bloom - Musical Missionary - with piano and voice sheet music for his 'A Slight Mistake'; Screening casement windows; The story of the piano - concerning the choice, location and care of this instrument; ad for Yale door hardware; ad for American Face Brick; Vintage 2/3-page ad for Stanley Tools shows man and boy with wooden bench; Great one-page color ad for Johns-Manville asbestos shingles; Recipes; Illustrated needlework article; Nice color Valspar varnish ad inside back cover; Color Congoleum ad on back cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo de "La Domenica del Corriere" del 17/06/1945
Collana "Classici della gioventù". collana dedicata alle letture per i più giovani, volume XVIII. Sir Everard è un aristocratico inglese vedovo con due figli, Humphrey, di sette anni, e Miles, di quattro. Il figlio minore, di costituzione gracile, è oggetto di cure e premure, mentre il maggiore, che nasconde dietro un comportamento ribelle il dolore per la morte della madre, viene trattato con indifferenza ed è oggetto di continui rimproveri da parte sua e della governante. Accade un incidente: i due bambini cadono nel lago. Miles si salva, mentre Humphrey riporta una terribile lesione alla colonna vertebrale, che lo porta alla morte. Il padre, che è accorso al suo capezzale, si accorge solo in quel momento dell'infelicità del figlio. In buone condizioni, fioriture all'interno. Scollato sulla brossura.
Collana "Classici della gioventù". collana dedicata alle letture per i più giovani, volume XVIII. Sir Everard è un aristocratico inglese vedovo con due figli, Humphrey, di sette anni, e Miles, di quattro. Il figlio minore, di costituzione gracile, è oggetto di cure e premure, mentre il maggiore, che nasconde dietro un comportamento ribelle il dolore per la morte della madre, viene trattato con indifferenza ed è oggetto di continui rimproveri da parte sua e della governante. Accade un incidente: i due bambini cadono nel lago. Miles si salva, mentre Humphrey riporta una terribile lesione alla colonna vertebrale, che lo porta alla morte. Il padre, che è accorso al suo capezzale, si accorge solo in quel momento dell'infelicità del figlio. In buone condizioni, fioriture all'interno. Scollato sulla brossura. Dedica all'interno.
Collana "Classici della gioventù". collana dedicata alle letture per i più giovani, volume XVIII. Sir Everard è un aristocratico inglese vedovo con due figli, Humphrey, di sette anni, e Miles, di quattro. Il figlio minore, di costituzione gracile, è oggetto di cure e premure, mentre il maggiore, che nasconde dietro un comportamento ribelle il dolore per la morte della madre, viene trattato con indifferenza ed è oggetto di continui rimproveri da parte sua e della governante. Accade un incidente: i due bambini cadono nel lago. Miles si salva, mentre Humphrey riporta una terribile lesione alla colonna vertebrale, che lo porta alla morte. Il padre, che è accorso al suo capezzale, si accorge solo in quel momento dell'infelicità del figlio. In buone condizioni, fioriture all'interno. Scollato sulla brossura. Dedica all'interno.
Collana "Classici della gioventù". collana dedicata alle letture per i più giovani, volume XVIII. Sir Everard è un aristocratico inglese vedovo con due figli, Humphrey, di sette anni, e Miles, di quattro. Il figlio minore, di costituzione gracile, è oggetto di cure e premure, mentre il maggiore, che nasconde dietro un comportamento ribelle il dolore per la morte della madre, viene trattato con indifferenza ed è oggetto di continui rimproveri da parte sua e della governante. Accade un incidente: i due bambini cadono nel lago. Miles si salva, mentre Humphrey riporta una terribile lesione alla colonna vertebrale, che lo porta alla morte. Il padre, che è accorso al suo capezzale, si accorge solo in quel momento dell'infelicità del figlio. In buone condizioni, fioriture all'interno. Scollato sulla brossura.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
108 pages. Cover photo of Italy's Isola dei Pescatori. Features: Many beautiful photo fashion ads in black and white and color; Five photos of the Moonlight Mist Ball include Vivian Goodman, Prince and Princess Artchil Gourielli, Nina Foch, Mrs. John Leib, Martha Crawford, Mary Elliman, Mrs. John Hilson, Minnie CassattMrs. Edward F. Hutton, Maurice Moore, Prince Serge Belosselsky-Belozersky, Mrs. Alfred L. Loomis, Jr., and W.E. Hutton; Herbert Tareyton cigarette ad features color illustration of Mrs. James "Monty" Waterbury fishing; Wedding photos include Hugh Montgomery Adams with the former Leta Margaret Nichols, Francis Arthur Carmody and the former Stalla Marie Carvin, Mr. and Mrs. William Barker Pattison (she the former Charlotte Preble Cabrera), Ensign Robert Woodhull Hopkins, the former Joan Elizabeth Dreher, Martin Hopkins Potter, Jean Drake Dreher, Robert C. Hopkins, and James Bovaird; Article on travel between Paris and Venice; Fur fashion photos with Rosalind Russell; Fashion photos of Mrs. Amory S. Carhart, Jr., Mrs. Dmitri Negroponte, Mrs. Winston Frost, Elinor Patricia Jones, Mrs. R. Thornton Wilson, Jr., Mrs. Joseph A. Meehan, Mrs. Charles H. Hornburg, Jr. (formerly Gwenn Welter), Mrs. Robert Hare (formerly Martha Michalis), Mrs. Bertrand Taylor III outside the Hotel Pierre, Mrs. James Averell Clark, Jr., Cornelia Lyman, Mrs. James F. Donovan, Mrs. Daniel G. Tenney, Jr., Mrs. Francis C. Lawrance, Catherine Campbell, Mrs. John S. Radway, Elaine Reed, Mrs. Robert P. Gibb, Mrs. William G. McKnight (formerly Le Brun Rhinelander), Mrs. Fletcher Godfrey (formerly Paulette Bragg), Mrs. Herman Harjes (formerly Tauni de Lesseps), Marguerite Higgins, Geraldine Page, Mrs. Thomas W. Phipps (exiting car at the Waldorf-Astoria), Susan Sexton (at the Drake Hotel), and Mrs. John R. McDonnell (formerly Dorothy Root), at the Lombardy Hotel; Jet vs. Prop - the new concept of jet air transportation, by Henri J. Lesieur, General Manager of Air France for North America; Misia Sert and the Muses (part II) - article with photos of Marcel Proust, Bone de Castellane, Princess "Dolly" Radziwill, Mrs. Eugene Kelly, Jr., Sergei Diaghilev, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Caruso; Photo feature on the farmlands home of Mr. and Mrs. Webster Tilton in Cooperstown; Photos of the Watch Hill residence of Ambassador to Cuba and Mrs. Arthur Gardner; Happy Birthday Oscar (Hammerstein) - a wonderful one-page photo-illustrated note from Richard Rodgers; United States Lines ad includes photos of Mr. and Mrs. Kingman Douglass, Hildegarde (famous chanteuse), Helen Hayes, and Messrs. Burnet, Grant and Vaughan; Half-page phot ad for the Waldorf-Astoria features Los Chavales who will be performing on the Starlight Roof; Color Nash car ad includes black and white photo of Miss Margaret Sullavan; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this charming issue. Book
"Blending biography with cultural history, penetrating and uncensored, 'Looking for Anne' captures both the spirit of Marilla's critical probing for "bald facts" and Anne's belief on the infinite power of the imagination. It is a must-read for anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of Anne with an 'e'. " Book
Short illustrated biography of L.M. Montgomery. Translated into Japanese by Taeko Nakamura; 207p. illus.some col [Only 2 copies found in WorldCat] Book
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps throughout; cloth (red/green/blue respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol I:: The Making of A General 1887-1942 (1981); Vol II: Master of the Battlefield 1942-1944 (1983); Vol. III: The Field-Marshal 1944-1976 (1986). THIS SET WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF LT.-COL. S.P. FEARON: LOOSELY INSERTED IS A T.L. FROM FEARON TO THE AUTHOR, TOGETHER WITH A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR IN REPLY AND FURTHER T.L.s. FROM FEARON. The correspondence refers to clarifications in the text of the first volume (in particular to the timing of the Japanese invasion of Malaya and the Fall of Singapore). Lt.-Col. Sheppard Percy Fearon (1911-1984) served with 2 Bn Border Regiment and subsequently with 5 Bn 14 Punjab Regiment, Indian Army. {Baxter 174A, 175A, 174B respectively; Enser, p.157.