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654489978National Academy Press pp. 532 . Other. New. National Academy Press unknown
Pages 225-256. Features: Hon. Alvah W. Sulloway - article with illustration of subject; New Hampshire at Saratoga; Favors, Faults and Future of the American System; New Hampshire Men at Bunker Hill and Bennington; The Use, Misuse and Abuse of Text-Books; Physical Degeneracy - a less-than-positive report on the health of local people from the Nashua School Report for 1876 by John Goodale, Superintendant; Ads inside back cover for D.Arthur Brown & Co., Salem Lead Company and the Phenix Hotel of Concord, NH. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this early issue. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 7 1/4"w x 10 3/4"h. 96 pages. Text in English and French.
197116866Montpellier, Fata Morgana, 1971. In-8 de [20] pages en feuilles, sous couverture à rabat.
1777WOC-1749Suivis de trois Dissertations intitulés: La première, Recherches Médico-Chymiques sur différens moyens de dissoudre le Mercure, &c. La seconde, exposition de différens moyens d'unir le Mercure au Fer, &c. La troisième, Nouvelles Observations sur l'Ether, &c. Tome 2 seul. Paris, Chez, La Veuve Méquignon & fils, Libraire et Didot le jeune, Libraire de la Faculté de Médecine, 1777. In-12 (17x11cm) relié plein plein veau marbré, dos orné de fleurons dorés, titre et tomaison sur maroquin rouge, tranches rouges, et petit manque sur la queue du livre. XXIpp., (1)p. D'errata, 389pp.
0309030218.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0309028620.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1980160104026Natl Academy Pr 1980-12-01. Paperback. Like New. Natl Academy Pr paperback
1915003384New York 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. . Very Good. 4to. 28 by 21 cm. 48 pp. With many color illustrations of home exteriors and interiors. National Lead Co. produced Dutch Boy paint still a popular brand. The book depicts a variety of home styles -- Colonial Revival bungalow Queen Anne etc. -- then in favor and for both then and now the renderings capture a suburban ideal. The advice extends well beyond the subject of paint colors to include such topics as exterior landscaping. Above all else though the booklet is a well-written "primer" on paint its purposes its make-up its costs etc. Small corner bump to front and back cover with matching crease to corner of leaves within. Bright and clean pages. <br/><br/> hardcover books
015187New York: United Lead Company 1924 Trade catalog for the Hoyt Hardlead product including spandrels steeples conductor heads gutters fittings statuary roofing etc. With photographs of the product as used in completed buildings a catalog of decorative and ornamental fittings and a partial list of installations with architects. With decorative lead plate set in front cover. 28 cm; pp. 4 31 plates 4 8 plates; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in screw-bound hard covers. New York: United Lead Company, (1924) hardcover
008105New York: National Lead Company 1930 1930 edition. 4to; 78 pp.; illustrated from drawings and photographs. Closed tear to front endpaper; else a very good copy in original string-bound embossed wrappers. Trade catalog for the Hoyt Hardlead product including spandrels steeples pipe heads gutters fittings etc. With photographs of the product as used in completed buildings and a catalog of decorative and ornamental fittings. New York: National Lead Company, (1930) unknown
6650New York: National Lead Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. Softcover. Paint samples bound with rivet at upper left and fan out. Stiff green covers front cover features stylized Dutch Boy image three sheets of text Simplified Color Mixing Exterior Painting Formulas Dutch Boy System for Painting Interior Plaster and 30 paint samples. Back side of paint samples offer formulas for mixing paint to get the indicated colors. About 2-1/4" x 4" 6 cm x 10 cm when closed. Not dated.; Lead paint is toxic to humans and animals and now banned for use. The National Lead Company was one of the 12 original stocks in the DJIA. In 1971 they changed their name to NL Industries. They sold the Dutch Boy brand in 1980 to Sherwin-Williams and it continues to sell reformulated paint. See Wikipedia on NL Industries for more. At time of cataloguing-- One example in the trade in the 14 cm size with fewer samples and the 1915 date. OCLC shows seven holdings for this item in three entries. Most offer a definitive date of 1915. Additional entries estimate dates between 1907 and 1920. All institutional holdings are listed as being 14 cm rather than 10 cm as seen here. ; Mildly rubbed generally well preserved. . National Lead Company paperback
191320240312014National Lead Company 1913. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. National Lead Company Published Date: 1913. Hardcover 48 pp. No other printings listed. In acceptable condition. Brown paper over boards with title plate pasted on front cover. Nicking and chipping to paper over the spine and along edges with underlying boards exposed in several spaces. Moderate overall scuffing aging and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Previous owner's name in ink on front paste-down. Otherwise pages are aged but unmarked. Not Ex-library. No remainder marks. Includes 12 color plates and color frontis-piece of iconic Dutch-Boy Painter. National Lead Company was originally capitalized in 1887 as the National Lead Trust. It became the National Lead Company in 1891 and until 1972 it dominated the manufacture and sale of lead products in the United States. It was an aggressive promoter of lead-based paints for home use. This promotional book emphasizes the importance of using "pure white lead". Contents include: I. What Paint is: Only One Vehicle A tough Film Why Lead should be Pure; What White Lead Is; Mixed Pigments; Appearances are Deceitful; A test for Adulteration; II. What Paint Does: Penetrates the Pores; Scraping and Burning; Priming Coat Most Important; III. What Paint Costs: Expensive in Reality; Difference in Price; IV. How to Paint: Brush it in; Choose Warm Tints; Employ a Good Painter V. Choosing the Exterior Color Scheme: General Suggestions of Color; More Important than Color; Where the Danger Lies; How to Protect Yourself; VI. Planning the Grounds: What kinds of Flowers and Shrubs; VII. Decorating the Interior of the Home: VIII. Stenciling; Tints of Paint gives formulas for tints mentioned in the books. Includes some lovely color plates of both interior and exteriors of early 20th century homes with landscaping. Overall a fascinating piece of history both from a design perspective and from a public health perspective. Notably one year after the book was published in 1914 the United States had its first confirmed childhood death from lead poisoning after a child had repeatedly bitten the railings of his crib that was painted with lead paint. It would be over 55 years before Congress passed the Lead-Based Poisoning Prevention Act in 1971 restricting residential use of lead paint. National Lead Company hardcover
1915003384New York 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. Very Good. 4to. 28 by 21 cm. 48 pp. With many color illustrations of home exteriors and interiors. National Lead Co. produced Dutch Boy paint still a popular brand. The book depicts a variety of home styles -- Colonial Revival bungalow Queen Anne etc. -- then in favor and for both then and now the renderings capture a suburban ideal. The advice extends well beyond the subject of paint colors to include such topics as exterior landscaping. Above all else though the booklet is a well-written "primer" on paint its purposes its make-up its costs etc. Small corner bump to front and back cover with matching crease to corner of leaves within. Bright and clean pages. hardcover
64554E-023. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. National Lead Company New York. 1918. 114 pgs. Illustrated throughout. Covers present. Bound in 3/4 leather and maroon cloth covered boards. Boards have heavy shelf-wear present to the extremities spine ends are chipped and heavily worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Dutch Boy is famous internationally as the logo for Dutch Boy Paint manufactured by the National Lead Comapny. It was rare to find any popular magazine in the first half of the twentieth century that did not have at least one ad for Dutch Boy Paint. Many people do not know that the Dutch Boy had his own magazine but he did indeed . And an interesting little periodical it was. Starting around 1908 The Dutch Boy Painter continued to be published until 1949 EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
Former owner's name faintly in pencil atop front cover, else unmarked. Stapled contents separated from cover. Covers well-worn but contents good or better. Back cover graced with black and white advertisement from the Committee on Mobilization of Relief Resources featuring image of a man tightening his belt. Features: Seeing with invisible light - use of ultr-violet light makes possible the 9000 power microscope; A new dam-reconditioning method - concrete facing is of novel construction; Editorials - synthetic rubber - studies in sex - we build ships; Is space expanding? - evidence points to the fact that the universe is exploding; Mechanical stevedores aboard ship - ship is converted into a "self-unloader"; Gorilla - greatest of all apes - thrills of a scientific expedition's hunt for gorillas; Safety rules for the airways - Department of Commerce regulations are all-inclusive; Eugenics for cows but not for humans - much of so-called eugenics is based upon fallacies; Marking the nations's boundaries - Questions of state's boundaries are complex and interesting; New York's newest subway cars - cars for new line are greatly improved; What science really is - why had the Greeks or the Chinese no Industrial Revolution?; Erosion Dares the west - a menace and the measures that must be taken to defeat it; From the archeologist's note book; Curious lead tablet, Luristan bronzes, a benevolent hippopotamus, a road of the ages; Analyzing "Archies" shots - Theodolite records shell-bursts in movies for close study; New and exotic delights for our table - many delicious fruit and vegetable immigrants in American markets. Book
Features: We shall never surrender - a look at the vintage planes flown by the RAF and FAA; The RAF's first jet fighter - a close look at the Gloster Meteor - in service for nearly thirty years!; De Havilland's Vampire - was England's first single engine jet fighter; Sea Hawk - the FAA's first modern jet fighter; The Hunter - Hawker's Classic Jet Fighter; The Delta Javelin; Blackburn's Battling Buccaneer; Two for the Sea - the venom and the vixen, protectors of the fleet; Twin-Engine Lightning - one of the first interceptors ever built; Phantom - the F-4K and F-4M help modernize the FAA and RAF; Harrier - the world's only operational VTOL aircraft; the early machines flown by the American military; the idea of a small easily stored fighter fascinated early designers; the Fledglings - the early Boeing fighters led the way to more modern warplanes; The elegant Curtiss Hawks - Curtiss kept its Hawk series of fighters in action for 20 years; Boeing's Battling Biplanes - a close look at the famous F4B/P-12 series of bi-winged fighters; XF7B-1 - Boeing's Model 273 boasted many new features; The fighters of Berliner Joyce - a company that is now almost unknown produced a number of reliable fighters; Grumman's Flying Barrels - Grumman's early biplanes firmly established their lead with naval fighters; P-26 Peashooter, first of the modern fighters; Some little-known fighters; Rumblings of Mars - surviving examples of the P-35, P-36, and P-64 are rare; P-38 Lightning; The Cobras - the unusual Bell P-39 and P-63 are virtually extinct types; Warbird Color Portfolio, Part One; P-40 Hawks; P-47 Thunderbolt; P-51 Mustang; Wildcat; Corsair; Warbird Color Portfolio, Part Two; Hellcat; Tigercat; Bearcat; Joe McConnell - Top Korea Ace; Thunderjet over Korea; The Last Thunderstreak; Lost at Sea - dramatic naval aircraft accident photos on the high seas; Skyraider - the best all-around airplane of the bloody Korean War; Korean Invaders; Leatherneck Corsairs over Korea - a pictorial essay; 'Mayday, I've been hit!" - a young naval pilot's experiences during the Korean War; Sea Fury MiG Tangler - the Hawker Sea Fury distinguished itself vs. the MiG; Flying the F-82 in Combat; Project Firefly - the Gooney Bird; The Mustang's Last Stand - the (P)F-51 Mustang reached the twilight of its combat career above Korea; The Sabre Saga; The Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star's Short-Lived Glory - it was no match for the MiG-15 over Korea; Flying the F-82 in Combat; and more. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
82 pages. Features: Ground Control Approach Radar for the RCAF; Pilot Error; Navigating from the Cockpit; Wings of Britain; Turbine Era is the Target; Gloom, Excitement in Jet Program; British Seek Transport Lead; Supersonic Fighters for British Arsenal; Aim to Reduce Lightplane Costs; Flight Simulator Trains Crews; Ottawa Report; Canadian Accident Analysis; Maintenance Section; Curved Maps for Navigation; and more. Many pages of great ads including the de Havilland Beaver. Small ink stamp atop front cover. Front cover partially loose. Average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
194 pages. Features: Sting Ray - even in its final form the 1963 Sting Ray maintained an uncanny similarity to Bill Mitchell's original racer; Dodge Brothers - two-year court battle against Henry Ford; Alice Huyler Ramsey - first of the 'weaker sex' to show driving superiority - from Hell Gate to Golden Gate in 1909!; The Chevrolet Story - the 1932 Queen started a Chevrolet styling lead; The Trials of Early Motoring - a 1913 journey from Iowa to California in a 1913 Studebaker EMF; The art of leading; The Bud Cohn auction set a new single-car-sale world's record; Cover Car - 1963 Corvette Sting Ray Sport Coupe; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
296 pages. Special Features: Justice and Common Cause; Educating Children for Failure; Do Men or Women Lead the Harder Life?; Someone to Talk To; Which is the Weaker Sex?; Cancer - I've Had It; Your Money Or Your Life!; Accentuate the Positive; If I Only Had More Confidence; How America Lives: "Peace, It's a Problem" - William and Mary Conrad; "Combat Fatigue" In Marriage; and Your Baby's Best Food - Mothers Milk. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Ilustrators include: Al Parker, Roy Spreter, Harry Anderson and Douglass Crockwell. Full page colour vintage print advertising including 1947 Ford Sedan, Welch's Grape Juice, Camay and Seven-Up. Full page colour ad with Claudette Colbert promoting Max Factor Hollywood. Full page black/white ad with Esther Williams promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Average wear. Few small openings front/back cover at spine and fore-edge. A clean copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: More for Mike Weir after his Masters victory?; The theft of Baghdad; Charest to lead Quebec; Clive Beddoe argues against Air Canada bailout; Oryx and Crake; The Frank Slide; Tribute to Ken McKenzie of the Hockey News; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Where will Daniel Johnson lead Quebec? - article with photos; A Little Girl in a Big Big Town - girls like Barbara Fulton come to Toronto by the thousands for a career, a pad and a man - many photos with article; Sam Olan wanted to put on a good show (Opera) - so look where it got him - photos with article; Where's the Walking Woman Waling? - for the past five years Canadian artist Michael Snow has only painted walking women; Calgary Yanks - oil brought 30,000 Americans to Calgary; The Secret Life of Eddie Shack, Gourmet! - article and photo; One Man, One Wreck, One Cause - BC businessman Robert Malkin took action against lax drinking and driving laws after his son, Kit was killed, by Barry Broadfoot; Great vintage colour photo ad for Honda automobiles, the convertible and the G.T. Fastback Coupe; Postcript to death in the Arctic - L.A. Learmonth replies to Farley Mowat's indictment re: Aiyoot and Shooyook, two Eskimos charged with murder; When the Ghost Walked at Barrett's Landing, by Helen Wilson; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Bob Trimbee argues for athletic scholarships to keep our whiz kids north of the line; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Fox News Coming to Canada?; Calm before the storm for the federal Liberal Party; The Fourth Major Storm was the worst yet; Canadian mall kings have Megamall plan for Las Vegas; Politicians are failing special-needs children; Canadian paralympians head for the podium; How an attack on a black American footballer made a CFL legend - Johnny Bright; Wayson Choy and Richard Wright lead the fiction list; New tales by Alice Munro; Janina Fialkowska is back onstage. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Ken Dryden on National Daycare Program; Saudi Arabia - under pressure to change post 9/11; Who will replace Arafat?; Peter C. Newman on life, politics - and the saga of Barbara Amiel; Boomers expecting to inherit big are in for a shock; Today's stylish and high-tech factory-made homes; The Great War - modern history's fault lines lead back to it; Children of Purgatory - Film. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
56 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration of young couple and their noisy puppy by John Newton Taylor; Nice colour Palmolive ad inside front cover; Chevrolet Six ad; Nice ad for Magic Baking Powder; Men Don't Do Such Things - story by Addison Simmons; No Sense of Humor - story by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Senator Arthur Meighen - article by R.T.L.; The *Real* War-Debt Hoax, by Lieut.-Colonel George A. Drew who reflects on how the world watches anxiously while the Government of the United States remains in a state of suspended animation imposed by a constitution that it has long outgrown; The Ishmaelite - story by Leslie Roberts; Yes! I'm a Wrestling Fan, by Edgar March; What I Hope to Do with Radio, by Hector Charlesworth, Chairman of the Canadian Radio Commission; Water Under The Bridge - story by Martha Banning Thomas; Shacked! - Nationality laws lead to hardship and heartache as some people are refused permission to cross borders and join their families; Death at the Bath - story by Benge Atlee; Avalanche - story by Robert E. Pinkerton; The Waning Herds - Norbert Welsh on the decline of the buffalo; Lovely colour Campbell's Soup ad with illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith; Photo ad for Ponds creams featuring Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt; Vintage full-page black and white Maxwell House Coffee featuring Dixie; Full-page colour ad for Chiipso laundry soap; Full-age black and white photo ad for Walter P. Chrysler's new Plymouth Six; Uncommon black and white partial-page ad for Spud cigarettes; Fireside Accessories, by F.L. deN. Scott; Very stylish two-colour illustrated ad for 1933 Oldsmobile cars inside back cover; Wow! - Lovely colour photo ad on back cover for Kodak's new $39.50 Cine-Kodak movie camera!; Address label atop front cover. Faint erasure to front cover. Moderate wear. Small chip from bottom of back cover. A sound copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book