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254 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. 'The London', one of the greatest hospitals of all, was founded in 1740 by six men who met at the Feathers Tavern, Cheapside and put up 100 pounds between them. From then on the story is one of constant dedication. In writing of the hospital he knows best, Dr. Clark-Kennedy speaks for teh whole Voluntary system, providing a fascinating comparison with the modern National Health Service. Light to moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Illustrated glossy covers. Nice copy. Book
Features: Narrow Gauge Railways in the Ukraine- Part 1; The Brotan Boiler; 'ZAFRA' - Cuban Steam Harvest '97; Unsuccessful Paraguayan imports from Argentina; Bosnian Railways at work in 1997; Semi-rigid tenders; A Chinese SY Class Light Oil Burner; Broader than Broad - Hitler's Great Dream of 3m Gauge rails Across Europe - Conclusion. Small date stamp atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Postcard Gems; Some Notes on the Finnish Railways in the 1950s; Some Early Diesel Locomotive Experiments; The Teresa Cristina Pacifics; The Railways of Jamaica - Epitaph, August 1994; Steam at Dresden, Germany, 29 April to 2 May 1994; New Light on the 'Lawleys'; The Last Big Steam Show down under; Back Track. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
40 lessons on two 90 minute cassettes with Conversation manual plus Japanese-English Dictionary. For beginners or those who want a thorough review. Light wear. Nice set in illustrated slipcase. Book
Book shows some wear to covers, binding is possibly solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile.
80 pages. Features: End of the Graf Spee; The Priest and the Pirates; The Toughest Digestion in the World; The Hired Woman; The Klagenfurt Tote; Blue Lamp and Red Lights; Ten Shots That Beat the Week-end Golfer; Fast Driving Can be Safe Driving; Never Go Screwing with an upper Crust Teddy Bear; Low Down on Hi-Fi; 15 Million Mummys Can't be Wrong; Law at the Local; Photos of Jacqueline Sassard, Jackie Lane and Adele Collins; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Interesting WWII commentary by publisher Joseph Lister Rutledge; Secret Power in the Far Pacific - Japan and Germany planned a 'perfect crime'... Here's why it failed, and why Japan cannot win (written in light of the Pearl Harbour attack); Never From Valiant Men - story by I.A.R. Wylie; Mickey Rooney - The Life and Loves of Box-Office Man No. 1 - article with photos; Photo feature of Alexis Smith; I Saw it Happen in Manilla - Annalee Whitmore describes Japanese bombing in the Philippines; Digest version of "Storm", a novel by George Stewart; The Goodwill Tour of Don Florencio De La Pampa; 40-question boxing quiz by Jack Dempsey; The Battle of Detroit - Frederick L. Collins gives a first-hand report of high-scale allied arms manufacturing; Mississippi Belle - story by Clements Ripley; Kellogg's All-Bran cereal ad; Stalin - Devil or Genius?, by Emil Ludwig with black and white photos; To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; Girl Meets Girl, by Bubbles Schinasi; Pictures You Ought to See, by Howard Barnes; Nice colour ad for Mercury Mills, Limited, Hamilton, on back cover. Cover photo of young girl nurse bandaging arm of her playmate's arm. Average wear. Address label with hand-written correction on front cover. Inked postal date stamp atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
79 pages. Black and white illustrations. "Intended to acquaint the general reader with lighthouses, for those lofty towers, like many other noble parts of our society, are quickly disappearing with the ever-encroaching effects of modern technology." - from page 3. Chapters include: Lighthouses; Some Light Stories; Keepers of the Light; Servicing Lighthouses; Humane Service; Lightships; Selected List of Lighthouses; Selected Bibliography. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
174 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "An essential book which offers practical advice on minimizing environmental health hazards and maximizing the potential benefits of light and electromagnetic energy." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear to book. Moderate warp to back board. Dust jacket missing large chunk from top of front panel and front flap but is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Binding sound. Quality reference copy. Book
294pp + cat. G/none First edition. Original editorial blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Boards lightly worn, spine darkened and frayed at head and tail (see photo), private ex-libris on pastedown and owners’ inscriptions on endpaper, paper slightly age-yellowed, overall a good copy. Based on a series of lectures given by the famous physicist and educator Silvanus Phillips Thompson on light and X-rays (Röntgen light), lectures delivered shortly after the amazing discovery of the X-rays in Germany by Wilhelm Röntgen. Scarce in first edition, full title Light Visible and Invisible A Series of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, at Christmas, 1896.
8vo., First Edition, half-title and title very faintly spotted; ; original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Collects the majority of Herbert's wartime verse.
12 unnumbered pages. Four pages of colour illustrations. In Jack Buquet's photos "we see his continuing interest in using the framing function of the camera to transform a three-dimensional assemblage carefully structured in his studio into a two-dimensional image having its own distinct properties and posing its own questions." - page 6. "Those familiar with Tousignant's past will find many objects and images from older works reappearing in these new ones, often altered and given new emphasis, consistent with his intention to accomplish a kind of synopsis of earlier explorations." - page 10. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
160 pages. Index. Bibliography. "Presents a choice collection of over 120 captivating black-and-white historic photographs of boats, ships and people along the coast of British Columbia from the late 1850s to the 1940s." - from dust jacket. Printed upon glossy stock. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy of this wonderful compilation. Book
Hardcover Light wear on cover with fold/scruff/blot/dog ear marks. Pages cl ean and ok with no writings, no highlights and no tear.
8vo., First US Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
A program for women: How to keep a man hopelessly and passionately in love with you! Circa 1995 Tapes and book clean and bright with virtually zero wear. Light wear to attractive case. Lovely set. Book
"Be the man your lover has always dreamed of! Don't leave your personal life to luck or chance. Take the most valuable part of your life, your personal relationship, and make it more than you ever dreamed it could be. Start listening and start kindling that flame today!" - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Lovely set. Book
320 pages. Index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. List of illustrations. Tissue-protected frontispiece. Attractive gilt-decorated chocolate brown front board. Neat gift bookplate, dated 1900, inside front board, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Minor lean to spine. A well-preserved copy of this fascinating work. Book
199 pages. Footnotes. Index. Oblong 11.5" x 8.8". Generously illustrated in colour and black and white. "The first art-historical study of Lawren Harris that attempts to explore his life and all aspects of his career. Based on extensive work in archives, libraries, public art galleries and private collections in Canada, as well as research in Germany and interviews with members of Harris's family and many of his friends, acquaintances, colleagues and critics." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this wonderful work. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs in the text; rose cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in Germany in 1971.
8vo., First Edition, with 2pp of plates of utensils; original yellow cloth, upper board with pictorial paper label, yapped edges, a near fine copy. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
iv, 105 pages. Diagrams and reproductions of black and white photos. "Let the sun do the cooking in the fields while we use the stove sparingly." - from Preface. Average wear and soiling for a used cookbook. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and 22 maps; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Mallinson gives a concise account of the formation of the regiment from the amalgamation of 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars. Already elusive in this condition. Sutcliffe, p.82
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and 22 maps; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Mallinson gives a concise account of the formation of the regiment from the amalgamation of 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars. Already elusive in this condition. Sutcliffe, p.82
Hardcover in-4°, 272 pp. illustrated in color and black and white. NO DW - VG+++ - Excellent état. [P-59] Text in Italian + English