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Titel Weber, David: Honor Harrington Teil: Bd. 3., Ein schneller Sieg : Roman / ins Dt. übertr. von Dietmar Schmidt Ausgabe 1. Aufl. Verlag Köln : Bastei Lübbe Taschenbuch Zeitliche Einordnung Erscheinungsdatum: 1998 Umfang/Format 476 S. ISBN/Einband/Preis 978-3-404-23205-5 kart. : DM 12.90, S 94.00 3-404-23205-4 kart. : DM 12.90, S 94.00 Sprache(n) Deutsch (ger), Originalsprache(n): Englisch (eng) Beziehungen Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch ; Bd. 23205 : Science fiction
80 pages. Profusely illustrated with archival black and white photos of breweries, bottles, labels, etc. Provides an impressive alphabetical list of breweries and whatever additional details the authors were able to glean about them. Also included are bottle details and contemporary pricing information. Pages mildly age-toned at periphery. Large hand-written gift greetings upon front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Moderate wear to book. Binding sound. Average wear and two short closed openings to handsomely illustrated dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
164 pages. Features: Let's Build the Right Farm Program; What's Ahead for Beef?; Golden Weapon against Mastitis; The Axeman's Woman; A River Plan That Works - Ohio's Muskingum District; What is Good Hay?; Small and Useful; The Flying Dutchman of Lancaster County - Dutch Bucher, at 62, just purchased his 37th motorcycle; Movable Haymows and Cattle Sheds; Family of Showmen - the Ben Dische family of Evansville, WI; Keeping out Livestock Plaugues; Making a market for trees - Woodland Products, Incorporated, of West Chester, PA; Photo of Burney Willis, track star now world's champion rodeo rider; Ford truck ad features Roy Halvorson of Duluth, MN, Christmas tree king of the world; Nice two-page Ford tractor ad; 1950 Harley-Davidson Hydro-Glide small illustrated ad; Photo-illustrated one-page Jeep ad; Color Studebaker car ad inside back cover features Ohio's N.W. Bechtel with his son Kenneth R. and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. "A unique folio containing the original versions, plus Fats Waller's modern conceptions. Songdom's foremost popular classics, interpreted in the modern manner by the famed piano stylist, radio and recording star." - from front cover. Includes piano sheet music for Star Dust; Margie; Nobody's Sweetheart; Ain't Misbehavin'; Girl of My Dreams; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; My Honey's Lovin' Arms; Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula; Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight; How Come You Do me Like You Do. "Thomas 'Fats' Waller is one of the more important of the modern pianist-composers. Born in New York on May 21, 1904, the son of a minister, 'Fats' played the organ and sang in the choir of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, where his father preached until he was fifteen years old. Shortly after, the lure of the stage beckoned him to the interesting field of the Harlem cabaret, and he remained in that gay section of the city until 1924, occasionally doubling as a theatre organist and as a piano-roll artist for the Q-R-S Company." - page 1. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage compilation. Book
32 pages. "Happy-go-lucky, carefree and genial, 'Fats' Waller is a natural born swingster. The most complicated rhythms and constructions flow from his flashing fingers." - page 1. Includes piano music for these songs: Jealous; Truckin'; Star Dust; Shoe Shine Boy; I Surrender Dear; Happy as the Day is Long; When It's Sleep Time Down South; How Come You Do Me Like You Do; Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula; Down Home in Tennessee. Contents clean and unmarked. Writing on front cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
in-8°, 143 pages, photos n&b, broche, couverture illustree à rabats. Bel exemplaire [NV-18] First french edition.
in-8°, 407 pp., photos n&b, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire [NV-17] First french edition.
1st edition. Good pbk. Spine foot frayed. 48 pages. 23546. eng
VG pbk. Light creasing to the covers. ISBN 0590702858. Film tie-in. 14482. eng
94 pages. Articles: New Menace in Missouri - Charles (Boss) Binaggio and criminality - article with photos; Can the C.I.O. Get Rid of the Commies?; The Town the G.I.s called "Smith" - Natchitoches, Louisiana - article with nice photos; Pilotless Fighter Plane of Tomorrow - a convincing argument that machines are about to outdistance us mortals, with nice color illustrations by Birney Lettick - a very prescient article; What Gives in Rasslin'? - article with fantastic photos of wrestlers including Gorgeous George, Jim Londos, Bronko Nagurski, Maurice Tillet (the angel), Lee Henning, Sandor Szabo, Man Mountain Dean, Ernie Dusek, Strangler Lewis; Nicest Guy in Washington - General Omar Bradley; Strangest Garden in the World - At the Argonne National Laboratory Dr. Norbert J. Scully produces radioactive drugs and other plant products which cannot be manufactured - article with photo. Fiction: One Came Back; A Dinner For Lily; Bootleger's Treasure (part 2 of 4); Decorator's Helper; Where They Make the Wine; No Need to Hustle. Includes these nice vintage ads; Borden - featuring Elsie the Cow; Willys Station Wagon (Jeep); International Trucks; Oldsmobile cars; Arro Shirts; Firestone; Plymouth; Hickok men's accessories; Haband Company Ties (nice two-page color ad); Fisher body; Canada Dry; Dodge cars; Mallory hats; Del Monte Catsup; New Hudson cars; United Aircraft; Silver Star razor blades - featuring several notable men; Monarch canned fruit and veggies (nice colour full-page); Nice Sheaffer's pen ad on back cover. Three-inch opening to bottom of cover fold. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features/Photos: Andean volcano in Chile - multiple horrific photos; Hawaiian effects of the Chilean earthquakes and the resultant tital waves - multiple photos; Soviet bug displayed; Turkish military coup d'etat; How to escape from a submerged car; Korean Queen; the Queen Mother in Rhodesia; Trinity College School, Port Hope, Canada; the U.S.S. Saratoga collides with a West German merchantship off North Carolina; Field Marshall Montgomery in China; 420 mph tidal wave damage in Japan; Draining of the Grand Surrey Canal at Camberwell reveals a rubbish dump; The Simca Aronde Etoile; and more. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Five Basic Problems of Education, by Fred M. Hechinger; Where Airmen Become Missle Men - Vandenberg Air Force Base - with many photos; Somerset Maugham - "Free Man" at 85 - article with photos; Organization Man, Russian-Style - the 21st Communist Party Congress; First Line of Defence For Israel - pioneers of the kibbutzim guard the nation - article with photos; They Still Acclaim Puccini and Melody - on his centenary, audiences are still moved by the intensely human operas of Giacomo Puccini; Medico (Medical International Co-operation) at work with Palestinian refugees; From Adam to T.R. - Currier & Ives Exhibition; Sidney Poitier - a "Defiant One" Becomes a Star; Angels of Anzio - Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Army nurses proved their volor on the Italian beachhead; Nice color centerfold ad for Lord & Taylor; Nice full-page color-photo ad for Macy's; One Equals Two - flipping clothing inside out to create a second costume; Striking the Right Note - home fashion; Nostalgic color-photo ad for Libby's tomato juice is definitely from the 1950s!; Israel Government Tourist Office full-page color photo ad features Gen. Yigael Yadin, Director of the James A. de Rothschild Archaeological Expedition; Gwen Verdon; Domingo's Hideaway - Trujillo's Dominical Republic draws a large share of the ex-dictator trade - Juan Peron, Gen. Fulgencio Batista, etc.; Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Six-inch opening atop front cover. Some yellowing with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
Moon's Bride Came C.O.D. - After a courtship by mail between Edmonton and Hong Kong, Moon Chai Lim Noey and Chui Man Chan are married - article with photos; The Third Face of Eve - the completely authenticated account of the three entirely separate lives of a young U.S. housewife hailed by psychiatrists as perhaps the most dramatic study ever conducted of the baffling problem of multiple personality - portrayed in film by Joanne Woodward; TV show 'Gunsmoke' - a grown-up western - article with photos of Matt Dillon/Jim Arness; Fantastic full-page colour ad for Coffee Crisp and Aero Chocolate Bars - "Canada's Favourites"; Sandra Dee - brief article with three photos; Feast for Art Lovers - Art Fair arranged by the Women's Committee of the Winnipeg Art Gallery - brief article with many photos; Colour photos of the Royal visit to Ottawa including huge colour-photo centerfold image of the Queen speaking in the Senate Chamber with Prime Minister Diefenbaker to her side; To Win an NHL Title You've Got to Have a Take-Charge Guy - article with photos of Flaman, Jean Beliveau, Doug Harvey, Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Dick Duff and Andy Bathgate, by Andy O'Brien; Family Up a Tree - Amazing photos of the tree house in which the Dorton family lives in Lexington, Kentucky; Fantastic colour photo and write-up for Edmonton Eskimo star Jackie Parker; The Identical Leavy Twins of Vancouver - Jack and Leo are six feet, 10 inches tall and weigh 340 pounds! - article with photos; Photo of Alfons Arndt lifting a polar bear on his shoulders; Nipper cartoon strip by Doug Wright; Gregory Clark tells about the Puff-Ball. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A nice copy. Book
Please note: Front cover missing. Features include: The Raft - a group of Australians are set adrift in a vast inland sea during a disastrous inundation; The Haunted Tanker - as told by David Kellar, an officer of the Merchant Navy; The Black Pearls of Fatu-Hiva - A weird story from the South Seas as told by Sir Graeme Sinclair-Lockhart; Bill Miner-Bandit - The amazing life-history of one of the most notorious outlaws who ever troubled Canada and the Western States; Act of God - An incident in Karachi, Pakistan; Shooting Star - Am amusing tale from the Sudan; River of the Dead - a gripping story from the little-known interior of Brazil involving the fierce Chavantes people; The Village of Ladders - the Swiss hamlet of Albinen is accessible only by a series of rough ladders; They Live in Trees - The Tree-Dwellers of Travancore State in India; "Living Native" in the South Seas. Illustrated in black and white. Back cover detached. Contents in good condition. Pencil name atop back cover. Magazine
6 pages. As sung by Bing Crosby in the Paramount picture "Going My Way". Great cover photo of Bing Crosby and many cast members. Average wear. Faint music store stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked. Sheet music
Very Good Turkish First and only edition of this very rare 20th century Turkish-Americana, and the first book written to introduce the world of Hollywood to the Turkish audience, by the first Turkish society reporter. Turan Aziz Beler was a modern pioneer of magazine journalism in Turkey. Beler was born in Istanbul in 1912. He started his literary career as a journalist. His first novel "Sevda" [i.e. Love] also stands out but "Türedi Ailesi" [i.e. Türedi Family] brought him fame. According to Beler's foreword in the book, the purpose of his travel is to clarify all things known incorrectly about Hollywood in Turkey. He spent three and a half years in Hollywood with many celebrities and interviewed American stars. He examined the conditions under which American popular cinema was formed. According to his own statement, he expressed the witty language that he was grateful to Hollywood for not having gotten married or gotten beaten He has very interesting and funny wording in this 1930s Hollywood travel memoirs. This book caused him to be sentenced to two years in prison in Turkey according to contemporary sources. Paperback. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 18,5 cm). In Turkish. 213, [3] p., many b/w plates.
72 pages. Features: Girl Who Married a Family - Joan Beaulieu was wed at 21 - to a husband and six lively boys! - article with nice photos; Full-page colour photo ad for an apparently short-lived product from the Campbell's soup people - Red Kettle Chicken Noodle Soup; We Waste Too Much Time Sleeping - So says Dr. Mangalore Narasimha Pai - who sleeps only three hours each night - article with photos; Using Television in Education at Queen Elizabeth High School in Nova Scotia - article with photos; Photos of amazing oversized typwriter and people; Welsh girl Valerie Gearon stars in film about Gandhi - article with colour photos; Mouth-watering colour photo ad for Lowney's Bridge Mixture candies; Photos of Polar bear and her cub; How to Make Kids' Sports Safer - article with colour photos of (now antiquated) hockey equipment; Nice two-page colour ad for Arrow shirts; Why Soviet Aid Failed to Stave Off Chaos - Understanding Cuba - part 2 of 2 - article with photos; Colour centerfold ad for Parker pens; Edie Adams goes it alone - article with photo about Ernie Kovacs' widow who is now back on the stage; Fantastic colour photo and write-up of Toronto Maple Leaf star Frank Mahovlich; Ottawa's Tudor Singers - article and cover photo; Handicapped Artists Who Help Themselves; Harold Lloyd Rediscovered - his zany comedy stil draw laughs - article with photos; Flying Santa from the Lakehead - Orville Wieben flies north from Fort William each Christmas to distribute clothing, toys, etc. to needy native kids - article with nice colour photo of native babies strapped onto colourful boards; Fashion photos of "Frivolous Nothings"; Nipper comic.Westclox colour ad on back cover. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Paperback Like New. Pls. allow within 20 - 25 business days delivery time as this is a new relase book from publishers. This gargantuan omnibu s completes the epic Tales of the Jedi saga with "The freedom Nad d Uprising," "Dark Lords of the Sith," "The Sith War," and "Redem ption."
Book shows light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents include: Hank Williams, Gothic and country music, Bluegrass industry and traditions, Gender, class and region in the star image of Dolly Parton, Jhonny Cash as lesbian icon, etc.
Softcover in-8°, 309 pp, photographies hors texte, broche, couv. illustree a rabats. Bon etat. [CA32-3]
76 pages. Lovely colour photography throughout. Text primarily in English. Features: A Queen For Everyone - In celebration of Her Majesty Queen Kirikit's birthday on August 12th we look back at a half century of change in the Kingdom; Bashing the Bibb - 1,000 km walking trail in Australia; Spotlight on Thai athletes as they head to Olympics in Athens; First Class lounge re-opens in Bangkok; Star Alliance welcomes Air Portugal; Staying healthy while in flight; Royal Orchid Plus; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
58 pages. Featuers: Nice color cover illustration of well-dressed football fans; Kick-Off - the private life of Ernie Nevers, all-time All-American football star (part 1) - article with great photos; The Vision of father Brown - detective story by G.K. Chesterton; The Potters See a Movie - Almost; The Power of Babel - Confessions of an Auctioneer - what you are up against when trying to get something for nothing; Curious one-page ad (with photo) for Physical Culture asks "Is My Daughter Really Wild..."; She Was An Awful Nuisance - a story most women will understand; Nostalgic 2/3-page photo ad for Stanfields long underwear for men; Movie News, Photos and Reviews - I Loved a Woman, Beauty for Sale, and Shanghai Madness; Hunting Big Shots With a Camera - intimate revelations of veteran news photographer Martin J. McEvilly, including seven of his photos; Happy Days; The Locked Room - an amazing real-life tale of a modern Bluebeard and the trap of his innocent wife; To The Ladies; Hearts and Swords - part 7 of this old Venetian tale by Rafael Sabatini; Nice 2/3-page photo ad for Champion Spark Plugs features motorcycle copy on Harley-Davidson; The Policy - short story; Nice back cover two-color comic-style ads for Lifebuoy health soap and shaving cream. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Valuable compilation of vernacular accounts, and the standard reference of its type
374p. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Folding map front endpapers. Photograph rear endpapers. XLib. Small folio. Original full cloth backed glossy paper binding, worn at extremities. Comprehensive photographic study of business, labor, economics, etc. in the World War Two, and post-War era. WWII 2
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked navy faux leather/gilt boards and no bumping to corners. 526pp. Four stories White Star ; Coming Home ; in the Shadow of a Rainbow ; Enigma in Readers Digest Condensed Books format.