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160 pages including index and glossary. A beautiful compendium of the world's most entertaining and universally popular games. Every board in this fascinating and unique collection of over eighty games can be played on the page as book is designed to open flat. Instructions are on adjoining pages while all the pieces and other equipment needed for play are supplied on a separate cut-out sheet laid-in back board. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Moderate wear to attractive dust jacket which bears a closed two inch tear to top edge of back panel. Nice copy. Book
215 Pages with index. Sticker patches on front and spine of dust jacket. Price sticker on back of dust jacket. One closed 1/2" tear to dust jacket. Replete with black and white historical plates, this book is the author's highly personal account of his adopted province. Book
Features: Baskets by John McQueen; How to buy a floor loom; Inside the Hangchow Silk Factory; Lynn Rothrock's Devil Dolls; and more. Sound copy. Prior owner's name on front cover. Magazine
112 pages. Many excellent black and white photos and diagrams. Articles include: Brunel and the Crystal Palace; Industrial Heritage of the Iron and Steel Industry in the Lower Rhineland; Excavation and Survey at Higher Woodhill Mill, Bury; The Glass Industry Revisited; 'The Name Liveth' - A remote sensing survey to decipher the illegible inscriptions on St. Mary's War Memorial, Nottingham; Coke ovens at Vobster Breach Colliery; Housing the Loom - a comment. Government stamp to title page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
382 pages including index. Relates marketing to society. The carefully edited readings view the most important influences of the marketing system in the United States and describe the problems, solutions, and future directions of marketing. Average wear. Unmarked. Half-inch tear to top of front cover at spine. Solid working copy. Book
136 pages. Includes brief bio of Travis, a list of his awards, and two black and white photos. Songs include: Anything; Diggin' Up Bones; Forever and Ever, Amen; Good Intentions; I Told You So; I Won't Need You Anymore; Messin' With My Mind; My Heart Cracked (Bit It Did Not Break); My House; 1982; No Place Like Home; On the Other Hand; Promises; Reasons I Cheat; Send My Body Home on a Freight Train; The Storms of Life; There'll Always Be a Honky Tonk Somewhere; Tonight I'm Walkin' Out on the Blues; Tonight We're Gonna Tear Down the Walls; Too Gone Too Long; The Truth is Lyin' Next to You; What'll You Do About Me. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this great compilation. Book
Features: The Carriage Watch; George Marsh - Ohio Clockmaker; Mystery of Breguet Watch No. 3224 - secret revealed?; Early Giants - Edwin B. Burt; The Clock Repair Primer - an introduction to the mechanics of pendulum clocks and basic clock repair for the novice - part 3; Serious Fun with Time; Carson City's Tower Clock; Union Loom Works Company; Correcting Crossman; British Horology 1650-1775; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Approx 40 pages. Features: Electrical Installation for a Modern Engraving Plant; The Static Transformer; Maintenance of Electrical Contacts; Problems of Hairdressing Equipment Installation; The Westinghouse Metal Rectifier; Enclosures for Industrial Motors; Electrical Recording Instruments; Time Delay Devices; Control Gear for A.C. Motors; Recent Patent Specifications. Average wear. Unmarked. 3 inch horizontal tear to fore-edge of front cover, half-way down. Book
230 pages including index plus black and white photographic plates. Subject (1873-1960) had two great careers, first as a missionary in China, and then as a collector and curator of one of the world's greatest museum collections of Chinese archeology. Recounts the history of a rich life that bridged two diverse cultures. Book unmarked, clean and square with minimal wear. Small tear and moderate edgewear to dust jacket. Book
298 pages. "Toronto is the home of a superb opera company, and the place where a number of the world's greatest singers have received their training: this much we more or less know. What we have forgotten is that lyric theartre has always been a central part of our culture, as the archivist of the Canadian Opera Company shows us in the hundreds of fascinating bits of evidence she has assembled in this album. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Fascinating decorated endpapers show a very detailed drawing of the city of Toronto when Queen's Park was near the outskirts of town! Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear to black boards. Moderate wear to dust jacket with one inch tear to bottom edge of back panel. Very good copy. Book
126 pages. Text in Dutch. Met 180 Afbeeldingen. 2E Herziene Druk. Small bookseller's sticker upon front endpaper else unmarked. Minor lean to spine. Above average wear to boards with small tear at base of spine. Front board remains attractive with gilt border, lettering and emblem. Book
188 pages. "Not all historians will agree with Dr. Mahathir's interpretation of events, historic and recent, in Malaysia and Singapore. This is certain to be a controversial book, and assuredly the author will be called upon to defend many of his statements and claims, indeed even perhaps the accuracy of his historical and biological data. This is not an objective work. Nevertheless, it is published because this is what an educated, modern progressive Malay thinks and believes. This is how a politicaly-inclined Malay understands the past, explains the behaviour of his own people and the behaviour of immigrants, and forsees the future." - from back cover. One inch tear to bottom of front cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
326 pages including index and black and white photos. The personal story of Theoren Fleury. Follows him through an entire hockey season while he was with the Calgary Flames. More than a sports biography, this is an engaging and insightful look at hockey as a child's game, an adult's profession, big business, mass entertainment, family pastime, and the greatest spectator sport yet invented. "...a fascinating glimpse of human nature on the rampage." - Peter C. Newman. Published before Fleury's problems in New York and Chicago. Includes 16 pages of black and white photos. Clean, bright and unmarked. Faint signs of handling. Excellent copy. Book
151 pages. Artist Robin Wood met Anne McCaffrey at the first totally Pern-oriented convention in the U.S. in 1984. However, prior to that, Robin had designed and executed portraits of Pern characters for the Mayfair Games board game, Dragonriders of Pern. In the ensuing conversation about what the characters from the Pern books really looked like, this book was conceived. Four years of work followed, with Robin and Anne comparing notes at conventions, discussing details of Pern and its people, passing letters and sketches across the Atlantic and arriving at mutually satisfactory conclusions. This represents the first, authentic look at the people of Pern, a collaboration of the finest kind between two of the finest artists available today. Very attractively illustrated glossy dust jacket in wonderful condition with minimal signs of rubbing at top and bottom edges and 3/4" tear to top of back panel. Book could pass as new. A superior copy of this enchanting work. Book
256p. Original full cloth binding. Limited edition. Extremely important and increasingly scarce study of loom woven coverlets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY
pp. 1-215. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Includes also a significant important Pennsylvania-Dutch dialect vocabulary: LINGUISTIC VARIANTS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN DIALECT, by Albert F. Buffington. Limited edition. Extremely important and increasingly scarce study of loom woven coverlets. Also issued as: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Volume XIII. BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY
222 pages including index and bibliography. A revision of the author's thesis, Princeton University, 1974. Using data from the 1897 Imperial Russian Census, the author examines two types of migration: that to an already settled, relatively modern area, such as the major cities; and that to a sparsely populated, relatively traditional area, such as the agricultural frontier. Concludes that migration within European Russia and from European Russia to Asiatic Russia supports the model. Book clean and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket bears closed half-inch tear to top of spine, else moderate wear. Very nice copy. Book
59 pages. A small but information-packed booklet prepared for the guidance of the Canadian public by the Office of the Director of Civil Air Raid Precautions during the second world war. "This is a valuable booklet and the supply is limited. Preserve it carefully, study it, and have all members of your household do likewise." - from back cover. Provides surprisingly comprehensive yet practical guidance on many topics including: Types of War Gases (tear, nose irritant, lung irritant, blister, blood destroying, Paralysing, and other); How gas is likely to be used (gas bombs, gas sprays, poison smokes); How weather conditions and surroundings affect gas. How to detect gas; How to protect yourself (13 pages); The civilian respirator (gas mask) - 10 pages; First aid for gas casualties; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Minor moisture exposure to back cover. Despite its age, this work is still full of very practical and valuable information. Quality copy. Book
Features: Cover illustration of Christopher Columbus landing; Rare American Pewter Tea Pot; Antiques in Florida; Living With Antiques - in St. Augustine, Florida; Quality in Pewter - An Editorial Note; The Style Antique in Furniture - II - Its American Manifestations and their Prototypes; Mrs. Mifflin's Fringe Loom; The Bowne House - A Seventeenth-Century Dwelling in Flushing, Long Island; The Last Black-Powder Rifles used in the United States Service; Nineteenth-Century Cane-Seat Chairs; Glassmaking in South Boston - Part II; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 177-244. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
Features include: Sunken Treasure - In 1799 the British frigate Lutine sand off the Dutch coast and in 1933 a new method of salvage was attempted; A Burmese Houdini; Tiger's Teeth - An English Adventure; The Major's Panther - Amateur big-game hunters get lucky; #20,000 - the eventful life of a banker; On the Trail in Wonderland - Travels through Navajo Indian country; Three Queer Mysteries from Malaya; Our Trip to the Buffalo Country - An Australian Journey; Looking Down the Devil's Throat - A trip to Iguassu Falls in Brazil; The Naga Head-Hunters of Assam; Where Water Burns - An Alberta Story; Passed with Honours - by Lieut.-Col. M.C.A. Henniker. Illustrated in black and white. Somewhat above average wear. Openings at each spine end. One inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Magazine
256p. Original full cloth binding. Limited edition. Extremely important and increasingly scarce study of loom woven coverlets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY
464 pages including notes, index, black and white photographic plates and illustrations. "In spite of recent well-publicized seizures of massive shipments of heroin from Southeast Asia, heroin continues to flood the country, spreading into every level of this society and shredding the fabric of everyday life. U.S. government estimates of the number of addicts has leaped from 315,000 in 1969 to over 560,000 in 1972. This book puts all the pieces of this ghastly puzzle together, and then maps the possible avenues out of the horror, suggesting that America may have to choose between our commitments in Southeast Asia and getting heroin out of our high schools." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Book clean and unmarked. Small closed tear to dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
386 pages including index. "Professor Johnson's well-documented synthesis covers the period from the trading Indians of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through the late 1800s when the County of Ontario began to assume its modern-day profile. With fluid chronological organization he presents the elements, circumstances and events which contributed to our history of that era." - John A. Howden, Warden, County of Ontario, 1973. Book clean, bright, minimally worn and unmarked with the following exceptions: Prior owner's name and telephone number upon front endpaper. Gift greetings upon half-title page. Two drops of green paint in very top left corner of maroon front board. Dust jacket Brodart-protected and in very nice condition but for some wear at top of spine, one inch tear to top edge of front panel at spine and some rubbing to edges of back panel. Very nice copy. Book
148 pages. Features: JFK - Alone With Himself and History; The White House - Office, Shrine, Palace and Home - photos; The Wave of the Future - an argument that America must recapture her pioneering spirit to capture the imaginations of the uncommitted nations of the world; Perilous Illusion - Secrecy is Security - Edward Teller argues that free discussion in the nuclear field could strengthen the free world militarily and morally; Two Instincts Tug at Europe - unity vs. nationalism - article with hotos; ; Williams, Osborne, or Beckett? - each is a leader of drama in his nation - article with photos; Remote Views of Us - views of the American way from the 'man in the street' in Asia and the Middle East; Again the Timeless Flow of Ritual - photo-illustrated article on England's pomp and circumstance; Dean of Our Composers at 60 - Aaron Copland - article with photo; Portraits - Self and Other - the current Whistler Exhibition at Knoedler's; LGCN OTUU Willwqh Wl Etfown - how military codes can influence the cold war; Uncivil Thoughts on the Civil War - difficulties which may loom as the 100th anniversary of you know what nears; Official photos of Beijing (Peiping) welcoming foreign dignitaries recently - U Nu, Sekou Toure, Abbas Ferhat and Panchen Erdeni; Color-photo one-page ad for the SS President Polk which will be sailing 'round the world May 27th; Space age art show; Ladies' resort fashion photos (striking photos by Hiro) and sketches; Photo of Port Authority Bus Terminal contrasted with renderings of how it will appear after expansion; Vacations from Parenthood? - should parents leave children behind while taking vacations?; Cranberry recipes; Nice one-page color Christmas ad for the Red Carpet Fruit Club - boxed fruit gifts from Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, Wenatchee, WA; Color ad for MIssion Pak orchard-fresh Christmas gifts from California; Full-page ad for the s.s. United States (3 business days to Europe) featuring photo of Mr. W.S. Morrison, President, U.S. Steel Export Company, with Commodore John W. Anderson on the deck of the ship; Cobbs color ad for Christmas gifts (in poor condition) on back cover; Numerous gorgeous color-photo fashion ads, our favorite being the one for Surprise lingerie.. Front cover - featuring JFK and Jackie - in very poor condition. Lower corner of most pages nibbled away - some text affected. Uncommon, thus worth preserving. If you are concerned about condition, please do not order this item. Book
40 pages. Features: Dovetail Anchor Slot Co. ad inside front cover features photo of the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company Building in Philadelphia; Nice full-page ad for the Indiana Limestone Company features photo of the Industrial Trust Co. Building in Providence, RI; Tidewater Red Cypress lumber ad features photo of 40-year-old water tank; Nice photo ad for the Bates-Truss Joists company; Tie-To Insert Company ad features photo of St. Mary's School of Nursing in Milwaukee; vintage Skilsaw ad; Largest Moving Job Successfully Completed - article and fantastic photos document moving the 9,000 ton Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church to a new Chicago location; Experiment with new credit structure in Denver, CO; Wear and tear on concrete floors -article with photos; Bookkeeping for the Contractor - part III; The contractor and the courts; Photo of construction of the Murray Wood Products plant at Memphis, TN; Photo of Andrew W. Mellon laying cornerstone of $10 million I.R.S. building in Washington, D.C.; Latest prices of materials; Construction activity this week; Sealed Proposal Announcements; Great illustrated ad for International Harvester inside back cover with image of one of their trucks at work in Chicago; Back cover ad for General Electric features photo of the new home of the Alabama Power Company in Birmingham; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. These nostalgic topics and images are certain to please modern-day contractors. Magazine
