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Marco Tropea Editore, maggio 2001. Traduzione di Barbara Bertoni e Silvia Sichel. Titolo originale: Al Cielo Sometidos. Rilegato con sovraccoperta. Ordinarie tracce d'uso. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
pp. xii, 339 + Photographs. Edges spotted. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, soiled. Hardbound. SPACE/5
PARIS, Plon - 1982 - In-8 - Broché - Couverture illustrée en couleurs - Planches d'illustrations NB HT - 303 pages - Bon exemplaire
90 pages. Features: Star-lite; Martin Lowe's Travel Air B-4000; Weight and Balance; Sky Gypsy; Tony's Mooney 'Mite'; Leo Loudenslager, Archetype of Aerobatic Pilots. Moderate wear. Book
140 pages. Features: Gene Chase's Davis D-1-W; GlaStar;Sky Arrow; Minimoa; Climbing Everest; OX-1-1/4?; The Seasprite. Light wear. 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
Stawell, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, Author of " The story of the Heavens" - Illustrated - Thirteenth Thousand 1 18,5x12 cm., legatura in piena tela, titoli in oro al piatto e al dorso, pagg. XII, 376 (16), 92 figure nel testo, alcune a piena pagina, in antiporta tavola in nero "A Juvenile Lecture at the Royal Institution", protetta da velina, in lingua inglese, piccola scollatura all'interno del piatto anteriore, ma bell'esemplare, interessante e raro. Timbro di Libreria di Aberdeen. Firma di appartenenza
Edge wear to cover and spot on blue cloth spine. Foxing to inside of worn dust jacket with small tears. Previous owner's inscription inside. 8 1/2"w x 11"h. 58 pages.
in inglese tela edit. con sovrac. ill.
bross. edit. ill. con bandelle
al piede del front.: Marina Militare Italiana - tela edit. con titoli oro al dorso e sovrac. ill. - prima edizione - riccamente illustrato a colori nel testo
Light foxing to page edges and reps. No inscriptions or other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slightly faded to upper edge and with a minor indent and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not creased with a little rubbing to upper edge and faint mark/indent to front. 231pp. The author, now living in New York where her husband is Danish Consul-General, returns to Denmark on holiday, staying for a time with her parents in England on the way. The contrasts between the summer landscapes of New England, the English Midlands and Denmark is one of the themes of the book. Illustrated with black & white photographs by the author.
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.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Creases on spine. 432 pages.
168 pages. Superb compilation of classic southern rock songs as performed by The Allman Brothers. Six pages of colour photos of band members. Includes music, chords and lyrics to: Ain't Wastin' Time No More; Blackhearted Woman; Blue Sky; Come and Go Blues; Don't Keep Me Wonderin'; Don't Want You No More; Dreams; Every Hungry Woman; Hot'Lanta; I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man; In Memory of Elizabeth Reed; It's Not My Cross To Bear; Jelly Jelly Blues; Jessica; Leave My Blues at Home; Les Brers in A Minor; Little Martha; Melissa; Midnight Rider; Mountain Jam; One Way Out; Pony Boy; Ramblin' Man; Revival; Southbound; Stand Back; Statesboro Blues; Stormy Monday Blues; Trouble, No More; Wasted Words; Whippin' Post; You Don't Love Me. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Precious memento of this great band. Book
168 pages. Features: Cover art entitled "Coffee Carriers" by Candido Portinari; Reports on Red China, Turkey, and Washington, D.C.; Can Men Live Without War, by Vannevar Bush; Rhythm in My Blood, by Agnes De Mille; Asia's Needs and Western Policy, by Barbary Ward; Poetry by E.G. Burrows, Harold Witt, James L. Rosenberg, and Daniel Sullivan; Medal in the Sky, by Leo Rosten; Mozart and Nancy Storace, by Boris Goldovsky; The Fly Farm, by Grant Cannon; The Day Aunt Chaya was Buried, by Wolf Mankowitz; The Stature of Harry Truman, by Herbert Elliston; Brazil - The Good Neighbor - Essays, Stories and Verse by Brazillian Writers. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Front cover partially detached. Back cover not included. Book
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Founding Fort Edmonton; Policing the Far North - photo-illustrated article; One-page photo portrait of Sir George Simpson - the only known photo of him; "Nigger Dan" (Daniel Williams) - troublemaker at Fort St. John; Chevrons in the Sky - waterfowl article with photos; Arctic Airfield Survey - Craig Harbour, where the most northerly airport in the British Empire was surveyed in 1922; Summer at Temagami - photos with text; English River Hermit - An Indian named Mandayoh (stranger) lived 30 miles from the Trans-Canada Air Lines' field at Pagwa River; Through the Fjiords of British Columbia - photo-illustrated article with photo of the Union Steamship liner 'Cardena'; Northern Salvage - Claud K. Jones located sunken Canol machinery at the bottom of Great Slave Lake - fascinating photo-illustrated article describes how huge tracked vehicles were hauled up through the ice; Running the Alaska Boundary - great article with photo of Thomas Riggs and Jack Craig proudly displaying the flags of their countries and universities after setting the final point of the Alaska-Yukon boundary on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Photos of Eskimo tobacco substitute Atamaoya being harvested and smoked. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
60 pages. Five pages of color and black and white photos. Includes sheet music for piano with lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Broken Wings; Carry On; Don't Pay the Ferryman; The Getaway; In a Country Churchyard; Living on the Island; Lonely Sky; Patricia the Stripper; Ship to Shore; A Spaceman Came Travelling; Spanish Train. Undated but appears to be circa 1983. Store ink stamp on first page, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great Chris de Burgh memento. Book
in 4° oblungo, cartone edit. con titoli argento, comprese sei schede pieghevoli in calce al volume, minime tracce d'uso in cop. - riccamente illustrato a colori
214 pages including index, bibliography and black and white illustrations. Pays tribute to all those who served as flyers in the Royal Canadian Air Force (fighter, bomber, coastal, and transport commands). Tells the individual stories of the Canadian pilots, gunners, navigators and bomb aimers who flew in the greatest war the world has ever known." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Firestone ad inside front cover features mother and children; Why Half the People Do not Vote - An Explanation; Booth Tarkington Talks of Many Things; Farming Must Become a Chemical Industry - development of co-products will solve present agricultural problem; Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech; The Use of Great Names in 'Blue Sky' Swindles; Ye Knife - Ye Forke - Ye Spoone - a brief history of those noble tools; Henry Ford's Page - money, a national commodity, has been made a private concession; Editorial - news from Russia that the only Jew remaining in a position of importance is Litvinov as the Communist Party threatens to become anti-Semitic after the death of M. Djerjinski; The Harvard of Our Forefathers; The Ebb and Flow of Winged Waves - bird article; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 12) - When Pirates Ruled; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - M. Loewenstein Makes an Offer, That Monkey Opera in Budapest, Chess Comes from India; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Valspar ad inside front cover; Taxes, Taxes, Taxes! - they are always with us but often we do not know it; Cashing in on the 'Blue Sky' - a study of the methods used by Wily 'Aviation' and real estate promoters in separating the sucker from his dollar; The Principles that guided George W. Hays in Exercising the Pardoning Power; The Genesis of the Constitution - reflections on what Washington and 38 of his countrymen did one summer; Bringing the Human Boat to Port Under Its Own Steam - advice on healthy living; What Would Izaak Walton Have Said? - the author of 'The Compleat Angler' in his wildest dreams could naver have visualized a 1,500-pound mackerel; Henry Ford's Page - struggle between industry and finance for control of business; Editorials - shaming the U.S. into canceling war debts, anti-prohibition propaganda, The County Fair, Dictators and the dictated; The Gold Hunters - being the story of a party of young men from Michigan in their search for fortune in California in 1850-1851; Bathing, Begging and Buring in Benares - strange scenes on the banks of the Ganges, India's sacred stream - article with photos; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 11)- Death of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - Japan turns from rice as sole diet; The Village Blacksmith. Moderate moisture exposure. Center pages holding by one staple. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: A Wasted Sugar Supply - Honey from Honeybees; Wild Youth Proves a Myth - 'girls and boys' between 35 and 45 are rolling up the crime wave; Making the Government Efficient - reorganization would cut 100,000 unnecessary employees from federal payrolls; The White House - a Mecca for Cranks - Secret Service men must be ever alert to guard the President from the Unbalanced; Missionaries and Machine Guns - many preachers of the gospel do not want the protection of bullets; Tom Learns to Play the Game - an American boy who on mastering himself was able to direct others; Henry Ford's Page - Lower price no longer means lower equality; Editorials - making the movies dry, the value of vulgarity, Mussolini forbids earthquake prophet,exams proposed for ministers of religion, Washington's inability to think in other than political terms; Writing Verse for Composite Readers - some versifiers cultivate eccentricity, others are themselves, and therefore poets; Sad Men Who Look So Wistfully at the Sky - author, William F. Hopp has been chaplain of the Michigan State Prison for over seven years - article with photos; Duelists (Fighter Pilots) of the Sky - a tale of knights-errant and their deeds - of their light-heartedness, and their gallant, tragic fate; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 3) The Big Snake and the Little Dog - and how a darky made millions from circus side shows; Chats with Office Callers - Christmas cards began with Jewish Adolph Tuck, controversy in Canada over union with the U.S., sighting of monster near Prince Rupert, B.C.; The Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Fascinating illustrated ad for homes which can be built for under $1k in materials; I Read In the Papers - article by Nathaniel Zalowitz in the 'Jewish Daily Forward' declares "...For the overwhelming majority of Jews in American assimilation in any true sense of the term is absolutely out of the question."; The Barefoot Boy - poetry by J.G. Whittier inside back cover. Unmarked with 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
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.