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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
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
71 pages. Features: Bob (Robert) Goulet - he finds there is room at the top for hard work; Sweat Equity helps pay for their house - Joe Hodgen and Jeannette MacDonald prepare their new home in Chippawa, Ontario; Fidel Castro - Liberator or Slave-Maker? - a Canadian journalist visits Havana; Tragedy strikes the young duchess - The Duchess of Kent Story, Part 3 of 3; Ventriloquist Carolyn Blythe of the Blue Sky Revue in Verdun, Quebec; Porpoise with a purpose - Even blindfolded, Kathy can find her goal; Tachibana Ballet Institute in Tokyo - bathing helps their ballet; Sober piety and sturdy self-reliance mark the old-world ways of Canada's Mennonites; The Man the Sharks would't eat - Captain Haliburton (Bertie) Himmelman explains what happened to the Giant King 38 years ago; Workshop for Equality - Core, the Congress of Racial Equality, uses non-violence/sit-in strikes; School at Concrete, Washington, has a road beneath it; Charles Mohr, Jr., a University of Wisconsin senior, dies as a result of his first and last boxing knockout; Sid Caesar says "I conquered Shyness"; A new generation of bookworms is invading our libraries - children; The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. 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
Contents: Nice color-photo ad for the 1967 Chevelle; Dumping milk in Kansas; Puerto Rico Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella to marry Jeannette Ramos Buonomo; Time Essay - Congressional Ethics; Photo of many dead Viet Cong at Suoi Tre; U.S. Advisors and Thau Trainees at Pak Chong - photo; The Shah of Iran and his family; Riots in Djibouti; Photo of Twiggy; Nice color-photo ad for the Pontiac Firebird; Sodium Pentathal - Jim Garrison; Nice color-photo ad for the Lincoln Continental; Great colour photo sequence illustrates the flight of TWA 740 from L.A. to New York; Fascinating two-page illustration of "The New York Bird Cage" - flight paths around the city; James Smith McDonnell - feature article; Photo of signing of the Treaty of Rome; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Features: Always look back - a portfolio of steam today - smoke over the prairies; 15,806 feet up... switchbacks to the sky! - Central Railway of Peru; Railroad news photos; Miss 2,000,000 miles - after over 800 trips between New York and Miami Seaboard's favorite blonde stille finds trains an adventure; The Power of Pickering - high in the Sierra Nevada hurried exhaust tells of a logging operation which has not exchanged the rubber tire for steam and gears; Steam rules the New York & Long Branch; Toledo, Peoria & Western adds a booster unit; and more. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: 30 years and still not out! The story of the Canberra; Hellcat Nightfighters - WWII's best; "Gee Bee's" Q.E.D. - the Sky Conqueror; Boeing's PW-9. Art: Martin B-57 Canberras' Combat Canberras in Vietnam; Sarabia's "Sky Conqueror"; 5-view "Gee Bee" Q.E.D. Book
66 pages. Features: Cover photos of Billy Red Cloud, Bill Watts, George Drake, Sputnik Monroe, Dale Lewis and Johnny Weaver; Great photo inside front cover shows Little Beaver throwing Sky Low Low; Sputnik Moore - "I hate crybabies" - article with many photos; Izzy Moidel - No one loves the referee; Johnny Weaver - article and photos (one with Haystack Calhoun); Mary Jane Mull - article with photos; Spiros Arion - article with photos, including a shot with Bruno Sammartino; The Riddle of Bill Watts - article with photos; Amateur Wrestlers - article with photos; Peter Fladever - article with photos; George Drake has made it big in England - article with photos; Lucille Dupree - article with photos; Billy Red Cloud - article with photos; Dale Lewis - All-American boy goes bad; Salt Lake City Mat Stars - photos; Hempstead action photos; Toronto action photos; Action photos from the Middle East; Action photos from Malta; Nation-wide results; Super photo of Man Mountain Dean inside back cover; Colour photo of Vern Gagne on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Four-inch opening to top of cover-fold. A quality copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
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
Features: Ghost riders in the sky - tornadoes; Devil wind of the prairies - early tornados; Bonanza in the Mogollons; A county, a courthouse, a hanging - convicted murderer James Cason in Weatherford, Texas; The case of the brass nuggets; Kit Joy's gang - train robbers; Finding a hideout cave; horseplay was often fatal - Lima, Montana and Colonel William Boule; The Choctaw who lived like a king - Robert M. Jones; A long talk with Chuckawalla Wilson - years on the track of the Lost Padre Mine; The Wandering Winnebago - forced to move for 32 years; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Magazine
Comment ?tablir une carte du ciel 1 22,5x15 cm. pagg.23 + 70 pagine con tabelle; legatura cartonata conservata pagine frontespizio originale, in lingua francese. Opera interessante per la consultazione delle tabelle che riportano le varie posizioni dei pianeti al momento della nascita dall'anno1872 al 1935.
In-4 (cm. 36.30), cartonato editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale illustrata, pp. 288, con numerosissime illustrazioni a colori nel testo, diverse a piena pagina. Fotografie di Torbjörn Andersson, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Max Dereda, etc. Traduzione di Giovanna Berardi. COPIA DA STUDIO. Abrasioni al taglio inferiore e macchie al piatto anteriore del cartonato. Macchie al verso della sovracoperta. Macchie alla prima carta; peraltro, testo in buono stato (text in good condition).
PARIS, Flammarion - 1934 - In-8 - Broché - Couverture illustrée - Illustrations NB dans le texte et HT - Couverture légèrement défraichie sinon très propre
n. 276 in 16°, bross. edit. ill.
Mm 230x300 Volume in copertina rigida con sovraccoperta, 320 pagine profusamente illustrate in nero e a colori lungo l'intero testo. Copia eccellente, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Moccia Federico Tre metri sopra il cielo.. , Feltrinelli 2007-04-16, Piatti e dorso lievemente segnati dal tempo. Tagli leggermente sporcati. Interno in buono stato. Buono (Good) . <br> <br> Copertina flessibile <br> 395<br> 88-07-81934-1
bross. edit. ill., lievi tracce d'uso
68 pages. Songs include: Be Mine Tonight; The Drifter; Fear of the Marketplace; Guitare Heaven; Love Burns; On the Way to the Sky; Only You; Rainy Day Song; Right By You; Save Me; Yesterday's Songs. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
in-8°, 177 pages, illustrations in-texte, broche, couverture illustree plastifiee. Bel exemplaire. [CA31-4] Les recherches du lien mystérieux entre la grande supernova de la constellation australe des Voiles (Vela X) et les origines de la civilisation.
trad. di Giovanna Agabio in 8° grande, tela edit. con sovrac. ill., cartine alle sguardie, piccola rottura in sovrac.
61 pages. " Whereas in her earlier book of poems (A SILENT GREEN SKY) the author was full of delight for the natural world , the West Coast surroundings of sea, sand, forest, now she uses these as artifacts in the background. Her concern is with the lostness of human beings in a technicolour world which fails to mask the grinning skull." Dorothy Livesay Book
65 pages. The famous beginning reader book. "I sat by a lake. I looked at the sky, and as I looked, a fly went by...." Bright glossy colour-illustrated boards. Last page had five inch tear along spine which has been repaired. Not a book club edition. Book
n. 10 bross. edit. ill. con bandelle, bruniture, piccole rotture e mancanze al dorso, lievi fioriture in cop., brunitura e mancanza all'occhietto, un fascicolo staccato, firme e timbri di appartenenza
n. 4 bross. edit. con illustrazione applicata e bandelle
