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8vo., with 15 plates on 8; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. From 'Black Prince' (1859) to 'Hood' (1918), this is a systematic analysis of the warship yards and their role in Britain's supremacy at sea prior to WWII. First published in 1987.
8vo., First Edition, black cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. From 'Black Prince' (1859) to 'Hood' (1918), this is a systematic analysis of the warship yards and their role in Britain's supremacy at sea prior to WWII
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. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. B&W photos and detailed mechanical drawings throughout, contents include: curing weather helm, changing the cabin plan, extra bunks, nets for safety and stowage, cave lockers, building a wardrobe or oilskin locker, making and fitting a table, low cost deck fittings, anchor handling gear, clockpit hood, on deck ventilators, burglar beating, stowing liferafts, drop rudders, reducing corrosion, ladders and staging, templates, employing a naval architect, etc.
64 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and Mount Hood, by Ethel Romig Fuller; Wasting Fortunes fo Make Fortunes - Guy Elliott Mitchell explains how vast quantities of Natural Gas are wasted in the search for oil - great photos including an an amazing shot of a forest of derricks in California; A Tale of a Bunny the Woodchuck - by C.H. McDonald; Nice two-color ad for the Pacific Pumper manufactured by Pacific Marine Supply Company of Seattle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Canoeing the Hood River in Northwestern Canada; The Bronze Yaks of Centrral Asia; Cyprus; Peruvian Grave Robber's Gold; Rafting Sumatra's Alas River; The Ships of Nansen and Peary; Stratigraphy. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Summer Hood with Cape - front and back views; Manners Upon the Road; A "New Departure"; New York Fashions - summer mantles, fans, gloves, summer shoes; Personal; knitted and crochet insertion for linterie; medallions for album covers, port-folions, etc.; curtain bands; alphabet for marking lingerie; coffee-warmer; netted cover for circular stand; An African Harem; Gold-Fish; Sayings and Doings; Cambric Garden Hat; Swiss muslin fichu-collar with frills; Swiss muslin fichu-collar with ribbon trimming; Rest; Fischer's Method of Bleaching Straw; Dutch Marriages; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Ladies' straw hats; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' breakfast and dress caps - with ten illustrations; Unnatural Protectors; New York Fashions - travelers' articles, stationery; Personal; bag for washing clothes; crochet bathing slipper; squares for setting together covers; crochet bib; mignardise and crochet blouse; Oriental Thrift; Dutch Funerals; Hannay - continued; crochet shawl worn as a summer hood; Precious Stones; My First Dinner-Party; Hoops, hoop-sticks, balls, bats, skipping ropes, etc.; The Giants' Wedding - with illustration; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Cover for can; square shawl worn as a hood; Small-talk about pastry; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - spring bonnets, faille ribbons, flame-tinted roses, style of trimming, colored English crape, new veils, round hats, spring suits from Paris; Personal; shade for night lamp; work-bag with chenille embroidery; work-bag with chenille embroidery; evening and bridal slippers with bows; Mrs. Grey's Two Dreams, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Sayings and Doings; Nice full-page illustration "Low and High Necked Waists"; Bridal and Evening Dresses; Paris Fashions; An Ocean Picnic; Buckwheat Cakes and Buckwheat; Evening Toilette; Useful recipes; London's Heart, by B.L. Farjeon - continued; Furniture and Dress; humor. Average wear. Book
14 pages. Contents: Dresses for Young Girls - front page illustration;Behavior in Public; Manners upon the Road - of sail and ballast; New York Fashions - upholstery, curtains, furniture; Personal; Embroidered Foot-Muff; Crochet Insertions; Cravat Bow of Point Lace, Velvet, and Satin Ribbon; Black gros grain dress with Algerine hood; Life in Rome; Blance Treguier; Sayings and Doings; LAce Barbes worn as head-dresses; bow for the hair of velvet and gros grain ribbon; black figured lace blouse waist; poplin walking dress; Swiss muslin dress with tunic; Swiss muslin dress with ruffles; walking dress for elderly lady; Swiss muslin dress with tunic; The Cryptogram - continued; humor. Average wear. Missing pages 301-302. Book
16 pages. Contents: Skin diseases caused by bad soaps; Cloaks and overcoats for girls and boys from 3 to 14 years old; The Wondering Heir; Manners Upon the Road - of the seasons; New York Fashions - double vests, new drapery, plain redingotes, black camel's-hair polonaises, polish jackets, mantelets, basques, embroidery, waistcoats, pompadour brocades, garlands, fanciful stockings; Personal; Cord and crochet passementerie border; tatted and crochet collars; knitted and crochet white worsted fanchon Tatted and crochet edging; knitted knee protectors; embroidered work-table; braid, cord, and soutache borders; knitted hood; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Knitted and crochet white worsted cape with hood; Swiss muslin and lace frill with Jabot; crape and lace frill with Jabot; Swiss muslin fichu; Paris Fashions; Better Late Than Never; English Gossip; Useful Recipes; Tatted edging for linterie; embroidered work-bag; toilette box with silk and cane cover; tapestry design for slippers; gros grain cravat bow; An Algerian Wedding; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: frame-work worsted square shawl worn as a hood; All-Souls Day; Gossip; New York Fashions - crocheted and knitted garments; embroidery, guipure and point lace work; personal; Knitted Fanchon; knitted and crochet cap to wear under the bonnet; knitted lace for trimming mantelets, etc.; crochet stitches; Hannah - continued; Flowering Sunday; Sayings and doings; hood for girl from 8 to 10 years old; hood for girl from 10 to 12 years old; cashmere hood; tricot beaver hood; cashmere hood; cloth hood; flannel hood; ladies' winter wrappings; Nice large illustation of ladies' mantles and paletots; Octavia Hadleigh's Story; Paris Modes; The Value of Fiction; knitted loop stitch; crochet stitches; knitted foundation for shawls, scarfs, etc.; crochet border; crochet stitch; crochet border for goods, capes, jackets, etc.; crochet stitch for jacket with short sleeves; Spray-Work; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Lady's Evening Dress; Manners Upon the Road - of stoves and fires; New York Fashions - double-breasted jacket and worth over-skirt, crinoline, silk suits and over-skirts, elegant black costumes, reception dresses, the Josephine coiffure, evening bonnets, opera cloaks, colored jabots, lingerie, fancy jewelry; Personal; crochet guipure edging for lingerie; Russia-leather chatelaine belts; tortoise-shell comb and hair-pins; knitted shawl worn as a hood; Been-Porridge Hot; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' Fall and Winter Suits; Paris Gossip; To the Bitter End - continued; English Gossip; Full-page illustration for the month of October; The Three Emperors at Berlin; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 705. Book
16 pages. Contents: general directions for knitting and crocheting, etc.; knitted and crochet white zephyr worsted jacket; A New Use for skeleton leaves; The Kitchen; Manners Upon the Road - of putting the best foot forward; New York Fashions - bronze and blue costumes, the princess polonaise, dinner dresses, black silk suits, the dolman polonaise, evening dresses, wedding dresses, bound hats; knitted Alsacian bow; lady's knitted under-vest; crochet petticoat; knitted under-shirt for girl from 4 to 6 years old; Paris Fashions; That Switch; English Gossip; Sayings and Doings; crochet cap for boy from 2 to 4 years old; knitted hood, also warn as a fichu; directions for cutting and making night-shirt for boy from 6 to 8 years old; Blue; London's Heart - continued; Illustration "Steaming and punting on the Thames, England; knitted and netted fanchon; trimming and fringe for hoods, jackets, sontags, etc.; crochet stitches for jackets, capes, sontags, etc.; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 653. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ball and Evening Coiffures - cover illustrations; Shabby Gentility; Blot-Ting Papers - No. VIII; New York Fashions - style of making, ball dress materials, trimmings; coiffures; Personal; Infant's bib with crochet edging; trimmings for ball and evening dresses; Pelerine with hood; Britta's Christmas Gift; Sayings and Doings; Centerfold illustrations of Ball and Evening Dresses as well as seven gorgeous opera wrappings; Debenham's Vow - continued; Paris Fashions; Lovely full-page image of birds eating grain from "The Christmas Sheaf"; Two coiffures of ribbon and flowers; Low Blouse waist with peplum; blouse waist with sqauare neck; Management of plants in rooms; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Cover illustrations of five girls in fine dresses; Crochet Purse; Mannnrs Upon the Road; Youthful Despondency; Paris Modes; New York Fashions - spring bonnets, straw and china crape, flower, ribbons, etc., round hats, the square veil, model bonnets; Personal; Mouchoir Case in Point Lace Embroidery; Squares in Netted Guipure; Crochet Necessaire for tatting; Match safe in the form of a stopper; Suit for Girl from 6 to 8 years old; Fichu hood for girl from 8 to 10 years old; silk and velvet walking dress; Evening dress with Court Train - front and back; Silk and velvet walking dress - front and back; Vae Victis; The crown princesses of Europe; Sayings and doings; Huge centerfold illustration "Shopping in Broadway" from a sketch by William L. Myers/W.S. L. Jewett; My Sister Caroline - continued; large clipping from page 187; Full-page set of illustrations of "The Crown Princesses of Europe" - from original German photographs; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Mantelet with Hood; Black Lace Mantelet; How to Make True French Dolls; Ceasing to Grow; Sympathy with Sickness; Manners upon the road; New York Fashions - fall bonnets, materials, feathers, flowers, ribbons, the scarf veil, manner of trimming, round hats, fall wrapping; different trimmings for under clothing; Embroidered Chemise Yoke; Two Buttons for under clothing; Basket with Netted Guipure Cover; Crochet Rosettes; Rosettes for Covers; Braid and Crochet Insertions adn Edgings; The Line of Distinction; Paris Fashions; The Woman of the Future; Sayings and Doings; Amazing centerfold compilation of illustrations of dozens of clothing items including lady's drawers with shirr, lady's ttucked night-gown, peignoir with full sleeves, gentleman's under-drawers, Lady's chemise fastening on the shoulder, Pique dressing sack, and many more; Miss Maquand; Foreign proper names; Debenham's Vow - continued; Lovely large illustration of Lady Jane Grey; Woman's political rights in England; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
240 pages. Special Features: "Get Out the Vote" - Reform in Richmond; What Price Painless Childbirth?; Who Should Go to College?; Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919 (inc. full page colour print of "A Girl With a Watering Can"); This Is the Way the World Washes; Your America (Mt. Hood, Mt. Shasta, Mt. Rainier, Crater Lake); How America Lives: Meet a TVA (Electric) Family - Ed and Amaline Hodges. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Chevrolet, Plymouth, General Motors Frigidaire, Seven-Up (7-Up), Canada Dry Ginger Ale, and Campbell Soup w/ Campbell Soup Kid. Full page black/white ad with Maureen O'Hara promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Full page colour print ad with movie star Alan Ladd promoting Chesterfield Cigarettes. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: How William Zeckendorf changed Canada's skyline and found trouble; The good woman and the convict - how Frances McKearney's devotion led a vicious criminal (Joe Flaherty) 'back to the human race'; The Peaceniks go to La Macaza, Quebec - the U.S. civil rights technique - non-violent civil disobedience - comes to Canada (many photos); How I became a solitary noisemaker - Sheila Burnford admits that her secret vice is talking with birds; The highway that's changing Ontario - portrait of 401, the monster that makes and breaks businesses, towns and drivers; How the Scotch out-talked the family compact - Scotch Grits vs. 'Rotten Tories' in Ontario's classic battle of wit and lung power (by John Kenneth Galbraith); Report on Two World's Fairs - New York is fun, but Expo 67 might just change the world; The Man who made it all the way back - excerpt from first novel of Hugh Hood; George Wallace - the educated bigot; a band called The Beavers - Canada's answer to the Beatles; United Appeal hurts our best charities - Dr. Gordon Bates. Average wear. Small piece missing from back cover. Unmarked. Book
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Three Myths about Lightning; Chi-peep, the Abandoned Titmouse; The Alpines of Mt. Hood; Black Scorpions; Crater Lake; Conservation - closed season demand is just; The soil and civilization - awful photos of erosion plus article; A Moratorium on Waterfowl Shooting; Reclamation vs. ConservationThe Great White Heron - Phantom of the Mangroves; The Chief Forester Voices his Creed - F.A. Silcox; Moon Eclipses in July. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
66 pages. Colour cover photos of "LePerle" - undefeated in show competition. Features: Soupability - GM's Aluminum V8's; Unbeaten at Show - "LePerle" - 1957 Thunderbird owned by Bob Turgeon of Topeka, Kansas; Soup for the Street Withoug Risking Reliability; Add to your Dash; Adapt a Corvette Floorshift to any Manual Transmission; Anglo-American Sportster - 1953 XK 120 Jaguar; Interiors - The Inside Story; Hide a Latham Blower Under Your Hood; Bubble-Topped Beast - Jack Schleich and his 1932 Ford Coupe; Micrometers; Lion-Hearted Thunderbird - Ira Meyer put a Chrysler engine in his T-Bird; Power-Laden Pulchritude - Dragsters (great photos); Mallory's new Mini-Mag; Sporty School Bus - George Maisch has a nice street rod; Rework your 352-390 Ford oil pump for Reliability; Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
Close-up of a Super-Hippie and why he matters to you - The CYC's David DePoe - a look at hippie life in Toronto; Fashionable coats; Robin Hood is Alive in Edmonton - Sherwood Park's Annual Tourney; How to do the Flambe bit, with colour photos; One Girl's Struggle with the Eternal Triangle, Canadian Style - Alexandra Stewart stars in our first attempt at an all-out box office film, with seven photos; The Father Who Beat his Baby, Ricky Lozecki, to Death; How the Japanese Pamper Drunks - "When a Nippon Playboy gets drunk the cop is his friend, and his worst punishment is listening to a tape of how he sounded when he was loaded; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: What happened to Common Sense? - Calvin D. Linton says not only do we live in the best-educated age in history, it may well also be the most gullible; Doomsday Merchant of the Far Right - Billy James Hargis leads a witch-hunt in pursuit of Communists; People on the Way Up - Comic Dick Shawn, Ross Pritchard, Charlene Curry, Janet Ades, Rochelle Hood; Czar of the Bunny Empire - Hugh Hefner, with color photos; The Bridge of Hope - Topeka's effort to help mental patients return to regular life; Me and my mixed up trees - Frank J. Taylor and 'the confessions of a compulsive grafter who tells backyard (Luther) Burbanks how to turn the tables on nature; Irrepressible Egoist - Dick Stuart, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocky slugger; Hot Weapon in the Cold War - at President Kennedy's urging, the Army is beefing up its Special Forces, who are trained to combat Red guerillas around the globe. Nice color Pepsi ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Unpaginated. Undated. Circa early 1900s? Nice colour illustration on front board. Many black and white illustrations in text. Cracks along each hinge. Two-inch piece missing from bottom corner of one page - text unaffected. Somewhat above-average wear. Still a pleasing copy of this lovely vintage title. Book
66 pages. Features: Rosalynn Carter campaigns for husband, Jimmy; Carter's pollster, Patrick Caddell; Portland Mayor Goldschmidt and his transportation system; New Orleans ex-mayor Landrieu - boisterous builder for HUD; Paul Volcker to the Rescue; SALT's price; Theodore (Ted) Robert Bundy found guilty; America looks for citizens who can construct a new consensus - a cry for leadership - with 50 brief profiles of the faces of America's future; Handsome color-photo centerfold Volvo ad features smiling man's face reflected in hood of his car; Nicaragua - Undoing the Dynasty; Evicting the Bedouins of the Negev; Israeli inflation; photo of murdered P.L.O. leader Zuheir Mohsen; Ibrahim Yazdi says "Captitalism Kills"; Jesse Jackson in Soweto Township; India's new Prime Minister Charan Singh; Neopagans; Male Strippers - article with action photos of Guy Garrett and Larry Slade; Warming up for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow - article with color photos; Newspaper editor Martin Yant and his challenges with the Mansfield News-Journal; Prices are still flying high (inflation); Alcohol-fueled vehicles; Roller skating's wheels of fortune; Passing of Tony "Two Ton" Galento, Sir Charles Clore, Joseph Kessel and Rexford Guy Tugwell; George Burns - article with color photos; Is cholesterol the culprit?; Photo of auto dealer Norma Proud; Review of book "The Neoconservatives"; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; C&IM Revisited (Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway) - since our last report in August 1955 Trains, just 11 hood units have replaced 26 steamers; Calling all Candidates - a preconvention memo to Adlai, Dick, Jack, Hubert, Lyndon, Pat, Soapy, Stu, Wayne, et al; Weekend with Steam - the magic numbers were 2613 and 2114; The SP&S Story - 1 - the Spokane, Portland & Seattle - fastest track in the Northwest; A photo glimpse of one of the world's great railways - British Railways; and more. Cover held by one staple. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine