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68 pages. Features: Ad for the Grumman turboprop Gulfstream; Hughes Helicoper two-page ad; Small Unit Operations - Counterguerrilla War (part 2 of a series); One-page illustrated ad for the FMC 'winged' amphibious landing craft, LVHX2; Soviet Military Problems - An Informed Assessment; Night Close Air Support (CAS) - what to do when the sun goes down?; Moonlighting - Night CAS work; Tanks Light the Way - tank-mounted searchlights; Tanks at Night - the crushing shock action of armor will shake up the enemy even more if delivered at night - article with photo of flame tanks of the 2dTkBn at Guantanamo Bay lighting the night sky; Night Juncture - how to avoid danger to the other friendly force; Vo Nguyen Giap on Guerrilla War - part 4 - The Fall of Dien Bien Phu; Marines at Work (Thailand Branch); Promotions and Transfers; Back cover color ad for the Phantom II fighter; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
68 pages. Features: Toronto's Yonge St. Mall; Judge Sandra Ellen Oxner of Nova Scotia; Windor, Ontario - A Few Years of Grace (in wake of Detroit riots); Tricia Nixon to Marry Edward Finch Cox - major article with nice color photos; Brigadier General John W. Donaldson; Jimmy Hoffa Steps Down - For Now; Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) ad shows sky crane (helicopter) working from one of their boats, the Fort St. Louis, at Pond Inlet; Murder suspect Juan Corona in California; Audie Murphy; Coming to Terms with Vietnam; South Vietnam Presidential election; Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Marie Antoine Hubert Luns; The disputed Aksai Chin; Celebrity photos of Liberace (in crazy outfit) and Raquel Welch playing tennis; Austerity on the U.S. Campus; The Jackson Five at Home - article with great photo; Improving on Methadone; Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Calgary Inn shows chef carving beef in dining room; Race horse Canonero; Passing of Reinhold Niebuhr; and more. Small tick marks to index. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Status is a Very Prolix Thing - sature by Charles H. King; The Cash Syndrome - humor by Charles Miron; "A Death in the Family" - fiction by Miriam Allen deFord; Ebon - Photo essay of raven-haired Lorna Lane; Stegopholy Anyone? - article on Masonry Mountaineers/Roof Climbers by Paul Brock; The Cure - fiction by Paul Jacobs; Photo essay on the Tri-State (Sky) Divers; The Vamp - or what happened to the bad old days in Babylon-on-the-Pacific - satire by Stan Cornyn; Chaste, Chasing, Chastened - satire by Robert G. Elliott - a modern discussion of a medieval custom; Ulysses in Beat Town - humor by Earle Schell; Profile of comedian Jackie Kannon; Fashion photos of men's rainwear; Baby Doll! - photo feature of Marie Barry; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book
Features: Killer Whale in the Net - Alaskan Diver Virgil Burford tells his tale; Take off to Trouble - Blizzard forces a crash landing in Greenland for Gerald Abrahams; Night Duel with a Bear - Young men out for fun on the Queen Charlotte Islands have a near-tragic experience; How I became a White Fulani Warrior; Toopua - I Know An Island - Part I; Soldiers of the Sky - Paratrooper John Seymour Townsend; Hekla - Gateway to Hell (the worst volcano in the world); The Night it Rained - a Northern Quebec Adventure by Ronald H. More; The Belles of Mbowe; Ask the Man Who Owns One - a story about dogs by Lt.-Col. T.A. Lowe; Little Sir Echo - Bats; Ham-Handed Hero - Harry Higgs; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter just a trifle sunned at backstrip. ELUSIVE IN THIS CONDITION.
grand in-8 broché. Bel exemplaire [FRA-1]
44 pages. Features: Cover art by William Perehudoff (untitled); The Visual Arts in Edmonton - An International Focus; Holman Prints and Sculpture - Eloquence through art; Jack Davis - Synthesizing Many Disciplines; Jack Wilkinson; O'Hanlon Salutes Blackfoot; Winnipeg Now - Renewal in the Art Scene; Insuring Artwork - Proceed with Caution; Artistically Speaking - Art from a New Angle; and more. Colour ads include works by Joanna Zjawinska, Bev Juno, Josephine Parrott, Greg Swain, Karl E. Wood, Dorothy Knowles, Rick Beaver, Robert Kost, and Douglas Elliott. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Address label peeled from front cover. A sound reference 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
Authorized Guitar Tab Edition. 96 pages. Includes fantastic full color fold-out. Songs include: Full Circle; I Think I Love You Too Much; I Can't Get My Hands On You; How Long Can a Man Be Strong; Let It All Go; Hell to Pay; While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Something to Hold On To; How Much; Highway of Dreams; Life Beyond the Sky. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A high quality copy. Book
Features: Founder of the Cowboy Camp Meeting - William B. Bloys at Fort Davis, Texas in 1888; Shoot-out on Christmas Day, 1883 at McDade, Texas in Bastrop County - Thomas Bishop and George Milton; Boom Days at Ash Meadows, Nevada; Strawmen and Marshals - Ellensburg, WA and locality circa 1906; Greatest living hunter - Clell Lee; Riding the Shale Rock Trail; Paul P. Lawson and Idaho adventures; Victim of the "White Night" - unfortunate Joseph Hahn, after whom Hahn's Peak was named; Whipping Tree - primitive form of Seminole justice rarely suffered repeat offenders; John J. Tomlinson - Sawmill man of Yellowstone City in the Crow River Reservation; Oro, Arizona - most remote of the Bradshaw's Ghost Towns; The Wound that never healed - Mary Christofferson Anderson's chin was shot away by a cannonball at age 14 during the Morrisite Massacre of 1862; Rawhide times in Dakota - when it was open range from the White River to the Niobrara; I Cast My Lot With a Soldier - dedicated Army wives who followed their husbands to the American frontier in the 19th century; Appointment on Red Mountain - Emma Crawford was buried atop 7,200 foot-high Red Mountain where she said she had communed with an Indian brave; New Mexico's Mysterious Markers - many styles of Christian Cross; Flames of Starvation and Death - Cattlemen and nesters were comrades in arms when the sky warned of fire; King-sized nugget - found at the Willard Claim Mine in California's Sierra Nevadas; Uncle Milty's Legs - Milt Clements stood tall even though he only had one leg - Frank Lockert's personal museum at Coats, Kansas. Average wear. Some yellowing to pages. Occasional markings to contents. A sound copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Official Wrestling Ratings; Bobby Shane loses his hair - photo with writeup; Great photo of Muhammad Ali with the Mighty Zulu, plus writeup; Bobby Heenan's Terrible Plot to Destroy Bruno Sammartino! - article with photos, including henchman Baron Fritz Von Raschke; The Jamaica Kid - photos and article; Nick Bockwinkle and Ray Stevens Tag Team - photos and article; Tony Marino article with photos; Ole Anderson says he has found Jack Brisco's weakness - article with photos; Great article and photos of Andre the Giant; Article and photos of Midge Wrestlers, including Little Beaver and Sky Low Low; Susan and Barbara wrestle - photos and article; A Look into Chief Wahoo McDaniel's personal photo album; Analyzing wrestler handwriting!; Photos of Mighty Igor and his plans for the Sheik; John Tolos article with photos; Great full-page ad for "Love Doll" blow-up doll; Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
48 Pages. Features: Dominion ammunition ad inside front cover; Full-page Sun Life Assurance ad; List of open seasons for game, 1931-1932; Sky Trails Above the Rockies - Hal Roach followed route of pioneer fur traders (along with Kenneth Allen - guide, Clair B. Brunson, and Harvey Crate - guide; The Perils of Woods Travel - by Grey Owl; Above the Timber Line - unusual animal, bird and tree life; Mowitch to the Minute - a true story of the hunt - why the big ones always get away, by Hamilton M. Laing; ; The Practice of Tree Surgery - article with great photos; The Plant as Artist and Architect; From Dwelling Place to Home - Herman Larsen, a prairie farmer and tree lover, shows how trees make home prosperous and beautiful; New Forests that Follow Fires; Forest Fires in 1930; Logging on the Pacific Coast - How B.C. Giant Timbers are Harvested - article with photos, by James Kay; Fenders Best Quality Spruce - a new use for spruce left following pulpwood operations; Little Puzzlements in Conservation, by Ozark Ripley; Half-page ad for the Waterous Twin Engine Feed for portable and small sawmills; Davey Tree Surgeons ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Please note: missing pages 19-22. Book
Features: Please note: standup figure of Bobby Moore not included; Cover colour photos of Eusebio and Bobby Moore; Bobby Moore writes - 'Top clubs beware - the giant-killers can cut you big boys down to size'; b/w photo of Les Latcham (Burnley) vs. Bobby Tambling (Chelsea); Francis Lee - Finished with Football! - he almost gave up the game - now he's England's most exciting player; No one wanted to win the F.A. Cup in 1960; Colour photos of Bruce and Neil Rioch (Aston Villa); Colour photo of Jack Charlton (Leeds United and England); Kidology! - the secret of being a successful manager; Aladin's Lamp saved Huddersfield!; Nice colour centerfold team photo of the Sky Blues - Coventry City; b/w photo of Willie Whigham (Middlesbrough); b/w photo of Alan Stephenson (West Ham) vs. Wyn Davies (Newcastle United); You Can't be on top without a Scot!; My Most important Goal! - by Jeff Astle (Albion); Colour photo of Barrie Jones; Focus on John Holsgrove (Wolves); Great goalmouth photos; Have the Welsh Dragons lost their fire?; New boy Eusebio joins the Champions Benfica and... The Eagles Swoop to Conquire Again!; Colour photo of John O'Rourke (Ipswitch) on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
118 pages. Many great black and white photos. Features: Tons on Wings - large planes pushing the limits of runways; The Story of the GCA - part 1; Douglas Skystreak; The Martin 2 - 0 - 2; Plane Fishing; Bendix Helicopters in Full Color; Operation Helios; V-173 - The Flying Pancake; Air Progress; Honeymoon Isle in Florida - great photos; The Solution; Modelers - Get a Sponsor; The Pinnacle; Pity the Poor C-D; Twinster; White Comet, Jr.; Bullet 100; Piper Super Cruiser; 1947 Mirror Model Flying Fair; Many pages of great ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some age-toning to pages. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 210 pages. Bibliography. Black and white reproductions of archival photos throughout. "Like others of my generation, I lived through the bleak years of the Great Depression. During the Second World War, I played a part as air navigator with Six Group (heavy bombers) of the Royal Canadian Air Force... My teaching career of 30 years took me into three levels of the Ontario school system. I taught high school in Dundalk, Burlington, Tweed, and Collingwood... Includes dozens of incidents that occured to siblings, friends and playmates, relatives and acquaintances. I have also tried to show how global events like WWI and II, the Great Depression, changes in transportation and communication and the wide use of computers, credit cards and robots have influenced relationships between individuals." - from introduction. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating and adventurous ife story. Book
Features: De Gaulle's final rejection; Foot-and-mouth - is there an answer?; Scientist's new home; Threat to German democracy; National theatre's new plan; A colourful eye in the sky; Victoria line nearing completion; John Moore's ten years service to art; Tombs of warrior kings - Cyprus; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. In publisher's special slip-case. Folio. (37 x 30 cm). In English and Turkish. (437, [3] p.; 80 p.). color ills. With a 22 DVD. A very heavy set. The result of a five-year airborne odyssey across five continents and sixty countries, The Earth from the Air is the bestselling and most popular book of aerial photography ever published. This updated edition of the internationally acclaimed original features an updated text and over 100 breathtaking new photographs. New editorials by such renowned authors as Jane Goodall, Matthieu Ricard and Olivier Blond consider such perpetual issues as agriculture, climate and biodiversity, as well as the latest concerns - refugees, new technologies and environmental movements. A classic of its kind, this book will heighten everyone's awareness of today's urgent ecological issues. Now more than ever, The Earth from the Air stands as a call to action.The result of a five-year airborne odyssey across five continents and sixty countries, The Earth from the Air is the bestselling and most popular book of aerial photography ever published. This updated edition of the internationally acclaimed original features an updated text and over 100 breathtaking new photographs. New editorials by such renowned authors as Jane Goodall, Matthieu Ricard and Olivier Blond consider such perpetual issues as agriculture, climate and biodiversity, as well as the latest concerns - refugees, new technologies and environmental movements. A classic of its kind, this book will heighten everyone's awareness of today's urgent ecological issues. Now more than ever, The Earth from the Air stands as a call to action.
136 pages. Features: Lovely Christmas package delivery cover illustration by Walter Dower; Game Laws 1948-49; The River Wise Man; November Steelheads - in the Whitney Drain near Lake Huron; Peanuts and Pictures; In the Presence of Mine Enemies; The Festive Board; The Happiest Huntsman - Henry Belden of California; The Undertaker and the Long-Tailed Bunnies; Variations of a Theme; Dress Rehearsal; McKillop's Geese; Aunt Maggie's Peach Orchard; Grouse of the Lugga; Adventures in the Night; Duck Hunters' Navy; As Advertised; A New Rifle Kills Clean; Gloves From Your Buck. Many great ads in color and black and white. Beautiful one-page color ad for Miller beer featureslovely lady sitting on the crescent moon in the night sky. Nice one-page black and red ad for Gaines Dog Meal (food). Nice color Santa ad on back cover for Camel cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Terror tactics of a strike - Pilkington's; The Stock and Loan Scandal; Recipe for a fake antique; Healey fights a phantom ware - east of Suez; Miss Grundy - Postmistress of Footle-on-the-Crouch; City in the sky; Perfection in the city of slaves - ancient Athens; Edinburgh - an idea expressed in stone; Japan - a country with no illusions; The Roast Beef of Old France; The man who gave kingdoms away - Charles V; Was this the birthplace of the Greeks?; The signs that spelled protection; Britain's national wardrobe; and more. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Un fort volume relié demi basane noire, plats marbrés. (20.3 X 27.9 cm, 836 pp). Plats et coiffes frottés et us. par endroit, traces de mouill., leg. rouss. [P-26]
bross. edit., paginazione che segue quella dei fascicoli, macchie, pieghe e rottura in copertina, piccole mancanze all'angolo inf. delle pagine iniziali
92 pages. Features: Are we driving Japan into Red China's Arms?; We Run a Hospital for Birds; Amazong two-page photo of TBM Avengers being melted down in the Arizona desert; "Let's Legalize the Spitball!"; Helping Hands from Mexico - photo-illustrated article in the 435k Mexicans who legally work on US farms; Don't Let Medical Bills Bankrupt You; Secrets of the Unknown War (part 2 of 5) - photo-illustrated article of what happened in Greenland during WWII; The Case of the Dead Man's Daughter (part 1 of 8); California Passage (part 7 of 8); Miracle at Fort Morgan, Colorado - the town goes on an all-out weight-loss spree. Short Stories: One-Woman Man; Stroll into Danger; High-Pressure Girl; Bandit in the Sky. Ads: Pink GE washer and dryer inside front cover; Gorgeous color-photo Cadillac ad; Borden's Buttermilk; Nice Wheaties ad shows lady golfer; GM ad features Charles Fassinger and his family; Nice Oldsmobile color ad features golf illustrations; Color ad for the Winchester model 70 rifle; Motorola portable TV; Pepsi - one-page beach scene; Ford cars; Betty Crocker Li'l Angel Food Cake (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: 1960 Slates; Fort Lejeune fold-out cover illustration; and more. High Standard Manufacturing Corporation ad features photos of shooting prize winners Santiago Machuca, John C. Forman, David Cartes, Aubrey E. Smith, Roy Ratliff, and Richard Stineman; The Jet Age Wall - Are SAC and the ICBM offensive or defensive?; Embarkation Planning; The Marine Reserve; Peacetime Heroes; Report from the Ready Forces, The 2d Marine Division - Part I - Combat Readiness, and Part II - Programs to Improve Readienss; Write it Right; Your Ideas Wanted; The Salty Skipper; Brainstorming; Better Reserve Training; Sky Crane - the Sikorsky S-60; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine