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32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Merry Richmond, Virginia - Rich in Romance/The Rare Old Traditions are still Undimmed; Letting in the Alien (Immigration) Flood - Why? - Relatives have relatives and the Perlman Bill would admit them all; Two Dozen Ways to Keep Sane - ways of thinking and living cause mental breakdowns; Woodrow Wilson - Taker of Chances (part 4); The Drama of Our Youth - village theatricals when father and mother were characters in the play; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - he talks about the mirage of the 'saturation point' of a service; Editorials - foreigners involved in crime, prohibition, controversial reporting about Russia, the Mexican/US border, Mr. Trotsky (Braunstein) takes another fling at the U.S., Winston Churchill and the cancellation of war debt; Literary Fakers and Their Fakes - Wherein the delightful 'Spectra' Hoax is told and the Eulogists of Modern and Ultra-Modern Verse are engulfed in sorrow; A Dinosaur Breaks into History - if man drew a pictograph from life, it upsets many theories; What to do to make life worthwhile - many people consider that a college education and 'success' are synonymous, but here are some people who are of the opposite opinion; Paul Revere tells his own story - family archives furnish new light on Patriot's Famous Ride into Lexington; Chats with Office Callers;There is nothing new under the sea - how Robert Fulton Demonstrated Submarines Over a Hundred Years Ago; When Cliff House Went Really Dry - the once famous San Francisco Resort Sees Changed Days; How to Steal Apples - loopholes of law which enable fruit marauders to defy mantraps, spring guns and the farmer's bulldog; Co-operation Saves Workers From Death - employees of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company at Los Angeles fight Tuberculosis, the Great White Plague, at the Lone Wolf Colony; How the Indians Made Sugar; Beating the Grain of Mustard Seed - nurseryman George Klehm can grow a 35' elm tree in six years; A Dance a Week - The Lancers ("Oriental) with first violin sheet music (continued); Back cover quote from Benjamin Harrison about national expansion. Average wear. Unmarked. Middle page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1989500116986Penguin Classics 1989 480 pages 12 8x19 3x2 4cm. 1989. Broché. 480 pages.
An examination of " how the divine has been perceived in the feminine form" though goddeses from different cultures " Each goddess is treated seperately in considerable chapters to provide for clear understanding and meaning within her cultural context." Chapters on Athena (pp.139-164 ) and Aphrodite .(185-214) 320p. illus bibliography.index Book
1865373230Richard Keene Derby Undated c.1865. 6th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Eyam is best known for its remarkable decision to isolate itself in order to stop the spread of the bubonic plague after it was detected in the village. This tragic chapter in Eyam's history started in 1665 when a bundle of cloth infested with fleas was delivered from London to Alexander Hadfield the village tailor. The plague lasted for a duration of 14 months during which one report indicates that it claimed the lives of at least 260 villagers leaving only 83 survivors from an original population of 350. However this number has been disputed with some sources suggesting that there were 430 survivors from a total population of approximately 800. Additionally the church in Eyam maintains a record of 273 individuals who fell victim to the plague. Bound in blue contemporary cloth gilt lettered spine and gilt lettered & decorated upper board. A little wear at head of spine and a tiny piece missing from near foot. Colour photograph of Eyam Hall & Village Stocks to the reverse of the frontis engraving. Contents clean throughout and an attractive volume in the hand. Size: 12 x 18.5 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Hardback Books; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Richard Keene hardcover
1919DL-EU6O-XPRU1919. Hardcover. Good. The Stratford Co. title page states 1919 copyright page states 1920. Near VG. Bottom corners worn through a couple of edge chips otherwise moderate wear. Pages yellowed with an occasional bit of foxing or minor blemish binding intact. hardcover
Pages 237-276 Features: Photo of Dr. Ali Amini, Persian Finance Minister, reading statement at the conclusiont of the three-year-old dispute between the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and Persia; Two large aerial photos of Abadan, the greatest oil refinery in the world; Various Royal sightings in England; The Duke of Edinburgh tours Canada; 15 photos of the Empire Games in Vancouver, at which England became 'unofficial champion'; Review of book "The Ribbentrop Memoirs" with photos; Page of photos of the opening of the Empire Games in Vanocuver; Photos of Haile Selassie in Athens; Photo of K-2 which has recently been climbed by the Italian team led by Professor Ardito Desio; Wonderful centerfold cross-section illustration of the S.S. Southern Cross; Photos of new discoveries in the city of Mari - the worship and worshippers of the mid-Euphrates 4,500 years ago; Antoni Klimowicz escapes from Poland aboard the ship 'Jaroslaw Dabrowski'; One-page map showing incidence of ghastly rabbit plague Myxomatosis; Photos of the fist free vertical take-off of the Convair XFY-1, and her pilot, J.F. ColemanNews photos from London to Indo-China; Photos of 20 personalities of the week, including Miss Emily Dionne, one of the Dionne quints, Sir Henry Clay, and the famous French novelist Colette; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Great Flagstaff of Kew Gardens Carved from a Single Douglas Fir from British Columbia; Lovely colour Humber Super Snipe Ad.; Florida's 'Red Tide' Plague kills fish by the Multi-Million; The Threat of the Aswan Dam to the 4200-year-old Abu Simbel Temples; Auto Feature - The Rolls Royce Phantom V; The 1959 Auto Show (multi-page); Manchester Grammar School; Around the world in 80 hours; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
The history of medicine in its relationship with the laboratory by several contributors. Index. xi, 347 pages. Some stains on page edges. Inscription on front free endpaper.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards with embossed death figure. Purple top stain to top page ends. 278 pages. Fourth printing.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards with embossed death figure. Purple top stain to top page ends. Fraying at top of spine. Rubbing/white spots on cover. Top corner of front endpaper has been cut off. Stated First American Edition.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 278 pages. 4 7/8"w x 7 1/8"h. Full green cloth boards. Light wear and spots to cover and a bit of fraying at top of spine and edges. Rockwell Kent torchbearer design on endpapers and in on cover. Stated Modern Library First Edition.
2009CNJL1180Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press 2009. Limited Edition. No binding. Fine. Lemaire Angela. No. 3 of 25 copies for sale folio size 52 pp. The story begins: "I was present during the Great Plague of 1665 It took away my life" he said. Per the artist this work originally produced by her in 1967 is "about a man who is killed by the plague in London in 1665; I have brought him to life again so that he can tell his story." The story unfolds as a series of nine eerily wonderful etchings by Angela Lemaire which were inspired by the sufferings of the plague victims. Each enclosed in a separate leaf and introduced with a quotation from scripture also dealing with suffering with each plate numbered and signed by her. Ms. Lemaire's Afterword tells the story of her inspiration for the work and the essay by Anthony Dyson discusses the making and proofing of the plates which is a story worthy on its own merits. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Unbound folio sheets each with letterpress printing on the first and last pages inserted between the plates the images from zinc plates with each plate signed and numbered by the artist in pencil. The eight intaglio plates images 2 through 9 are each tissue-guarded; Image 1 and the original Title page are both woodcuts. Folio size the signatures being just under 15" tall the work is unpaginated containing 52 pages excluding cuts and images; type Baskerville paper Somerset soft white satin; limited edition of 25 copies for sale plus 3 NFS this no. 3 signed by the artist on the colophon page. The unsewn sections are held loosely in a folded portfolio of smokey blue Roma paper handmade by Fabriano in Italy which is then laid into a clamshell box covered with blue cloth paper label on the front with olive green lettering lined with aubergine velvet. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Signatures are fine; clean straight with no folds or edgewear. All tissue guards over the zinc etchings present. The portfolio is fine as is the clamshell box. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that due to the size of this work additional postage may apply please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions we are here to help. The Old Stile Press unknown books
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Age-toned pages. 186 pages.
535 pages. A scathing indictment of the American legal system. Chapters include: Legal Anarchy; The Origin of Law; A Plague of Lawyers; Judge Not; The Supreme Court; The Court as Arena; The Department of Justice; Durance Vile; The Case of the Strange Director; The Case of the Schizophrenic Driver; The Strange Case of the Senile Millionaire; Freedom of Speech, Anyone?; Taxation Without Hope; The Taxing Power; Mullins on Equity; Our Legal Future. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
535 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. A scathing indictment of the American legal system. Chapters include: Legal Anarchy; The Origin of Law; A Plague of Lawyers; Judge Not; The Supreme Court; The Court as Arena; The Department of Justice; Durance Vile; The Case of the Strange Director; The Case of the Schizophrenic Driver; The Strange Case of the Senile Millionaire; Freedom of Speech, Anyone?; Taxation Without Hope; The Taxing Power; Mullins on Equity; Our Legal Future. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. An excellent copy. Book
88 pages. Short Stories: Rigged Race; Not Her Kind; The Tailor's Secret; Challenge in the Sky. Novelette: The Hands of Cormac Joyce. Articles: The Difference Between Black and White; Bowling is Booming; The Face of America - Great color photo of digging out from deep snow in Oswego New York; Tales of the Laundry Sleuths - these investigators discover the causes of mystery rips and stains which occasionally plague laundries and irritate customers; Castro, Trujillo and Turmoil - a report from the uneasy, strategic Caribbean, where the Communists are exploiting political unrest to turn Latin Americans against the US - with many photos, including Che Guevara; Our Urban Revolution - Can We Halt the Chaos? (conclusion); Big, Happy Family - The Soldi clan of Italy has 31,000 members; Riddle of the Frozen Giants - what may have killed the prehistoric mammoths. Ads: Calvert Reserve - with sexy lady eating from her partner's toothpick; Dodge Trucks - with push-button transmission; Seven-Up (7up) - one-man-band entertains his lady; Campbell's Soup; Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight (98); Tareyton cigarettes; Colgate toothpaste; U.S. Savings Bonds; Great one-page Budweiser color-photo ad features lady looking over her shoulder; International Trucks; Nice color-photo Coke ad on back cover features debutante being offered Cokes by four young men. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Surprising island of the Northern Sea - Iceland; The Flowers Known as Birds - the Bird of Paradise from South Africa; What Maestros Look like to me - Sol Nemkov tells his adventures in the concert world while playing for such temperamental geniuses as Toscanini and Stokowski; You can't live in New York - untold miseries plague those who set up housekeeping in Manhattan, says long-time resident Horace Sutton; My Next 60 Movies - James Stewart (conclusion); Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - Satchel Paige, the American League's first Negro pitcher; The Coyote - World's Champion People Taunter - some claim he is one of man's best friends. Above-average wear. Covers almost detached. Small clipping from ad on page 55 - text unaffected. 1/6 page photo of coyote clipped from page 42. Top 2/3 of page 81 clipped out - this seems to have removed part of a novel. Nice color Coke ad on back cover. Book
Topics: Tropical medicine before the war; the new efforts; insects and public health; Flies and Mosquitoes; Malaria; Its prevention secured; Bubonic Plague and Rats; The Rat Flea; Prevention of the Plague; The Tsetse Fly; Trench Fever; The Disease and its Cause; The Battle Against Lice; New Discoveries; Infection of Volunteers; Trench Fever and Soldiers' Heart; Treatment; Other Parasites; The Stimulus of War and Public Health. Quite a detailed treatment of the topic with dozens of black and white photos and diagrams. Very informative. Average wear. Bit of liquid paper on front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
384 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. "The battle against TB influenced the way in which health services were established while also encouraging demands for medicare." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Book
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboaord a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Buring Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Faint signature atop front cover. Quality copy. Book
Stories: The Baffin-Land Mystery; My Adventures in the Pyrenees; Dead Man's Treasure; Big-Bang; Unknown New Guinea; Ma Barker Gangster; Nine Lives; The Saving of Montague Smith; The Wishing Pipe; The Sinister Crocodile; Costa Rica Fights Voodoo; The Man with the Harp Once More; A Plague of Mice. Average wear. Prior owner's name upon front cover. Book
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboard a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Burning Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
pp. 666, xxv [Index]. Marbled endpapers. Mildly XLib. 8vo. Original half leather over marbled boards. Gilt lettered spine, raised bands. Small loss at head of spine. Hardbound. Covers travel in China; agriculture; commerce; banks; zoology; vaccination; treaty ports; theater; Taoism; Buddhism; bamboo; architecture; suicide; culture; religion; railways; pottery; gambling; plague; opium; missionaries; Chinese literature; etiquette; etc. Very Good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ORIENT BOX 2
1701260430053CUNEIFORM 2017-01-16. audioCD. Very Good. 5x4x0. rune 180; a couple of tiny dings to booklet booklet includes the lyrics!; otherwise jewel case and rear cover art are in excellent condition; disc is mint; because we care that your order arrives in the condition stated we have additionally sealed the case in bubblewrap for added protection during shipment CUNEIFORM unknown
In folio grande, pp. XIII + (3) + 438 con 1 ritratto all'antip. inc. all'acq. raff. l'A. e 1 tav. f.t. inc. piu' volte rip. Front. stampato in nero e rosso. Gora alle cc. Legatura in mz. pg. coeva. Edizione veneziana dell'opera di questo importante medico inglese (1624-1689), considerato il maggior esponente della medicina inglese del suo secolo per aver dato vita a una nuova scuola clinica basata sullo studio accurato della sintomatologia. Egli, in un'epoca in cui iatrofisici e iatrochimici disputavano fra loro sempre piu' allontanandosi dall'osservazione diretta del malato, riaffermo' la necessita' di riportare la medicina sulla strada dell'osservazione e dell'esperienza, in omaggio ai principi ippocratici. In questa edizione, compaiono inoltre: la Mechanica morborum et medicamentorum di Giovan Battista Mazino, l'Epistola physicomedica di Antonio Celestino, la Dissertatio de salivatione mercuriali di Bartolomeo Boschetti e un'interessante appendice di Sydenham con descrizione della peste torinese del 1722 e la storia epidemica dell'Ungheria.
