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70 pages. Special Features: Peace of Mind: 16 Prominant Americans give personal keys to finding peace. Other features include: A Cop Named Joe - Joseph Michael Monteparo; Why Don't We Tear Down Our Prisons?; Twinkle, Twinkle, Superstar, Do We Know Who You Are? - Elton John; Becoming Susan Dey and What Makes Ryun Run Again? - Jim Ryun. Average wear. Binding sound. Magazine
Features: Cunard's bid for ocean supremacy; Editorials - Michelson - by submarine to the north pole - wages and prosperity - fighting the crooks - human engineering - television broadcasts; Riding with the signal in the cab - right-of-way signals are repeated within the engine cab; Quick-freezing solves food problems; Efficient medical department for brokers and employees at the stock exchange; Airplains land blind - guided by radio; A a splintered planet? - tiny elongated Eros may be a fragment of an older, larger asteroid; National Aircraft Show; The biblical deluge a fact - Archeological finds are stratified as though by a flood; Amateur astronomy in Pittsburgh - an observatory is built by and for amateurs; Television now on schedule - first broadcasts of television on a regular program; Science in search of oil - The last of three articles on salt, sulfur, and petroleum; A familiar truck becomes a locomotive - gasoline powered yard locomotive has commendable features; Professionnal methods in amateur archeology; American olives by the ton - large industry in California is over 150 years old; Preserved for 10,000 yeares to come - unique methods of preserving records of Tokyo earthquake; Mechanizing a giant foundry - Allis Chalmers. One inch opening at top of spine-fold. Half-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Quarter inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Covers remain 50% attached to contents. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
A very interesting issue. Features: Triangulation - why and how this precise surveying job is done; Editorials - The Nicaragua Canal - The "R-101" disaster - Spiritism exposed - Why a navy is needed - Sick railroads - Lessons learned; Our changing transportation - competitors to the railroads; Zone television and the television arc - television transmission via three channels; Tudying up the constellations - archaic method of outlining roups is being simplified; Problems of calendar improvement - the importance of the movment ot change our calendar; Tons of human hair in industry - woven into press-clth, hair serves a most useful purpose; This new big business of gardening - food raising becomes a gigantic mechanized industry; From the archeologist's Notebook - bronze bowl - home of a notorious Roman - Lid of Canopic jar - a Roman portrait - Chinese head-dress ornament; Man's insect allies - an insect that feeds on cacti and destroys them; Change - the great competitor; Sulfur - the second of three related articles on salt, sulfur and petroleum; Clemenceau and Foch - the United States enters the war - the Armistice and peace conference; Diesel versus gasoline-engined plane - the diesel-engined plane has a higher "ceiling"; A flexible amusement building in New Orleans - a municipal auditorium with a movable stage platform; A two-mile industrial water tunnel - tunnel for the ford plant carries enough water for several cities. Chip loose at top of spine. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Tear to page 402. Book
In-8°; antiporta incisa all’acquaforte da R. Scott da un dipinto di A.W.Davis che rappresenta una bella scena tratta dal vero di indiani che lavorano al telaio; pp. XIV, 518 e 14 tavole ripiegate; le tavole illustrano costruzione del telaio in diversi modelli, motivi di disegni, principi di tessitura incrociata e di altro tipo, ecc. Fondamentale manuale sulla costruzione dei telai e sulla tessitura, che ebbe gran successo e varie edizioni. Nella prefazione una interessante storia della manifattura della seta e della lana in Europa e Gran Bretagna. Senza legatura; tracce di spotting. loom manufactures weaving tweeling silk wool tessitura telaio stoffe manifattura india manual tecnica seta lana
132 pages. Features: Adam and Eve cover; Great color fashion ads; Blackglama; Quana ties; Swank cuff links of the world; How to Merchandise an Actor on TV - article with photo of Dick Linke and his star client Andy Griffith.Miracord 770H ad features photo of Doc Severinsen; Alaska fur seal coat by The Fouke Company; Photo of Gomer Pyle (another Dick Linke client) being yelled at by his sergeant (Frank Sutton); Swakara black lamb coat from South Africa; Is Male Dominance a Sexist Plot?; The Militants Who Play with Dynamite - with mush shots of Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson, Bernardine Rae Dohrn, Dwight Alan Armstrong and Karleton Lewis Armstrong; Quiet Democratic Senatorial Candidate Richard Lawrence Ottinger; Ronald Reagan is Giving 'Em Heck - photo-illustrated article of Reagan's attempt for a second term as California Governor; Race Relations is Their Business - article with photo of black headhunter (executive search consultant) Richard Harris; Supp-hose socks ad; La Mode ad features four ladies wearing the same purple dress; Excellent Fruit of the Loom two-page color-photo ad features hunky guy in striped tank top lying in grass; Fashion photos of Haute Boutique; Photos of famous home Andalusia on the Delaware; Amazing one-page ad for the Village Voice shows riot cop with baton on top of their reporter while lady restrains cop from rear; Save the Children Federation ad features photo of John and Abby Seymour; Great photo of Bob Hope, John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra - all in formal attire - at Reagan fundraiser; Photos of cosmonaut and first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova - in training and with her husband and baby daughter; Dewar's Whisky ad features Jackie Rivett. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
98 pages. Articles: Out of This World - the great telescope on Palomar; Fashion High Command - how experts choose clothes to suit most American women; Can We Guarantee a Free Europe?; Two-Party Gal - Mrs. Perle Mesta; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 3) - The Common-law Marriage - his visit to Churchill in 1941; Saint-Lo Fights another Battle - much of the town still in rubble after Normandy invasion; Block that Toothache! - good news for those who don't like the dentist's drill. Fiction: The Bramble Bush (part 1 of 5); Dear Miss Phillips; Once to Every Woman; Shadow of Fu Manchu (conclusion); Important to a Man; It All Came Out. Ads include: Nash cars; Vitalis (with photo of Bobby Riggs); Borden's products - featuring Elsie the Cow; 'Jeep' Station Wagon; International School buses - rare ad!; Fisher Body; Douglas Shoes; Mercury cars (lovely 2-pages); DeSoto cars; Columbia bikes; Cory coffee-maker; Kodak; Santa Fe Railroad; Schlitz; Chrysler centerfold (puppy theme); Hamiliton watches; Jayson shirts; GM Electro-motive division; Kaiser Frazer; Fruit of the Loom; Chesterfield cigarettes (back cover) - featuring Alan Ladd. Unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
132 pages. Features: Cover photo of Palestinian Refugees in Gaza; Gorgeous color fashion ads; Colorful two-page color-photo 'crotch' photo featuring Jack Winter fashions; Nice Cricketeer ad; James Michener article "What to Do About the Palestinian Refugees?; In the Flaming Streets of Amman (Jordan) - article with photos, including King Hussein shooting pistol and group photo of Kamal Nasser, Yassir Arafat, Nayef Hawatmeh and Yassir Amrou; The Unknowns Who Lead 'The Walter P. Reuther Memorial Strike'; Now it's Welfare Lib - article with photo of welfare mothers storming relief headquarters in Washington, and photo of Mrs. Beulah Sanders of New York; Nice Enkasheer pantyhose two-page color ad; How School Busing Works in Berkeley, CA; Attractive S.T.J. fashion ad features Marshall Klugman design; Chips ad features young boy Alexander Hall; Beautifl Bleeker Street ad features model in red dress with fur coat over her shoulder; Sensual two-page color-photo ad for Fruit of the Loom features lady lying in yellow floral bedding; New York - a city going to the dogs? - photo-illustrated article on the city's dogs; Fashion photos of black dresses; Fantastic before and after photos of Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen when they are approached by a pack of Ford goons for a dust-up; Photo inside buss of hostages taken from jets later blown up in Amman; Dewar's Whisky ad features artist Leroy Neiman; Pierre Cardin jewellery ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
156 pages. Features: Cover photo of clinic for street people; Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Hubert Humphrey article; The Rediscovery of Elvis - photo-illustrated article; Free medical clinic for street people in Cambridge MA; Now Pistol Pete Maravich is up Against the Pros; Photo-illustrated article on Bombay, India - "Wealth, Shantytowns, Speakeasies, Movie Aristocrats, Intellectual Admen and Death on the Trains; Mr. Chips ad features photo of 16-year-old Jonathan Ashby holding hockey stick; Qiana tie ad; Swank ad for 'Credit Card Ejector' card holder and 'Key-jector' key holder; Unusual Pellon textile ad features color photo of meat inspector at workTalon zipper ad features laughing faces of people telling someone their zipper is open; Mississippi 'Black Home' - a black poet from the North journeys to Mississippi and discovers the quiet, daily striving of the black community a 'gathering of triumph' - with photo of civil-rights lawyer Mel Leventhal and his wife Alice, with daughter Rebecca - also included is a photo of Fannie Lou Hamer giving an outdoor speech; Sexy Fruit of the loom ad features lady with very skimpy yellow dress - or is it a long shirt?; Great Supp-hose Obstacle Course centerfold ad features photo of ladies in playground; Nice PBM fashion ad; Two-page Dymo labelmaker photo ad; Of Time and the Child; Photos of Glittery Fashions;Photos of the interior of designer David Laurance Roth's renovated townhouse; Steinway piano ad; Dewar's Whisy ad features photo and bio info. of Steve Trachtenberg; NAACP ad features large photo of old man with caption 'Call it Backbone'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: the powers that be decide Canadians can handle high mortgage rates; Haig and Gromyko agree to arms talks; Carole Laure; Applied Research is threatening free discovery; Fiction's Triumph; Bora Laskin story and cover illustration; Trudeau pushes Candus in South Korea; Solidarity re-elects Lech Welesa in Poland; Shannon Tweed; Glorious Crete; David Steinberg; Murder of Anwar Sadat; Appalachia struggles through coal's booms and busts; Gouzenko's case revisited; Jeff Conaway; The Montreal Expos were one game from the World Series; Birth of a new social order in Spain; Europe's New Left; New Leader in Poland; Jean Wadds; Peter Hodgson; Joanne Curran; Cancun Summit falls short of success; Via Rail; Poland's ruler tightens his grip; St. Jean Baptiste Day parade is back; Canada's national soccer team; Scott Hylands; Cutbacks loom for Canada's universities; Federal agreement - less Quebec; Evelyn Hart; the threatened caribou; Saudi peace plan makes headway; Dome Petroleum; Conchata Ferrell; Budget '81 - the gathering storm; Space Shuttle Columbia's safe return; Rene Levesque talks tough, but so does Trudeau; Martha and the Muffins; Sylvia Tyson; Robert Bateman; Howard Pawley's upset victory in Manitoba; Ulster's days of rage; Angie Dickinson; Canada's soccer team falls short to Cuba; Women and native groups fight for inclusion in the charter of rights; Edith Butler; Victoria Snow; Arab Summit Fez fell apart; Allan Gotlieb becomes ambassador to U.S.; Levesque plays for time; Special report on the Constitution; Barbara Amiel; Urban problem in Connecticut; Peter Munk; Poland's hour of agony; Deborah Harry; Trevor Berbick; Images of 1981; Grab for the Golan; Last stand at Szczecin; MacEachen gives in to screams about the budget; and many more. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with few associated markings. Book
Features: A River Dies - and is Reborn again - New Jersey's Raritan River; We are deluding ourselves in Vietnam - Hans J. Morgenthau; Even if they can't read, They should have the right to vote - Andrew Hacker; After Fifty Years the cry of Ypres still Echoes - 'Gas!' - the beginning of chemical warfare in 1915 - chlorine and tear gas; Secret of the Nureyev Spell; The New York World's Fair - Act II; Crossword completed, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan with Chief Justice Earl Warren; Where does the liberal go now? - A challenge to focus on spiritual and cultural, rather than economic issues; Legal pilgrimage to London for American Bar Association's 80th annual meeting; A defence of bigness in business - an argument that it promotes research and competition; What the aged need in homes - they require special safety features and should be where their occupants can join fully into community life; Europe, too, runs into a traffic jam; The passing parade at Lindy's - for 36 years it mirrored Broadway; Haircuts in review; Festival of the Parks; Curriculum for tomorrow's world; Jersey fashion photos; The Pajama Game. Ads include: Lord & Taylor, Cranston, Ban-Lon; Cone; nice colour photo centrefold ad for Judy Bond; Springmaid Fabrics; B. Altman & Co.; Leotard Scandale; Wamsutta Mills; and Fruit of the Loom. Pages somewhat brittle with age and moderately yellowed at periphery. Covers loose but present. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Colour Studebaker ad inside front cover shows their Weasel tracked vehicle in action on a Pacific shore (it appears this vehicle or its engine was made in Windsor, ON); Not Enough To Eat - food shortages loom in the wake of WWII; My Author Husband - by Dorothy Duncan, wife of Hugh MacLennan; Hearts to Let (fiction); Test in Berlin - can Russian and Anglo-Saxons reach a common basis for the peace; What Canadians Don't Know (testing our general knowledge); Whopper! - New York Mayor La Guardia's 550 acre $42 million municipal airport; A Guest for Mary Ellen (fiction); The Liar Hunter, by W.O. Mitchell; Shoplifting in Canada; Snakes Alive!, by Gordon Sinclair on Ryerson Island in Lake Erie; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of Mary Elizabeth Graham of "Greenacres", Aylmer to Gustave Eduardo Leguizamon, Chancellor of the Legation of Argentina; Several lovely colour ads; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
133 pages. "There has always existed a basic body of Truth for those who had some desire to know more than what the herd knew. But this Truth was never shown in the Churches or religions, Christian or otherwise. It was always way off by itself somewhere and had to be "found" by digging persons. We Occult students do, however, apparently owe a debt to a religion - the religion of Islam - which did collect and protect some bacis Occult concepts which we now have in the form of the Qabalah system, and which system I have tried to give some Knowledge of in this book..." - from Introduction. Above-average wear to black boards. Partial lean to spine. Two inch brown stain to each endpaper at top of spine. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper else minimal markings. Back hinge partially open. Two inch tear to bottom edge of page 1. Well-travelled copy of this uncommon work. Book
Mr. Pakenham passes away under allegedly outrages circumstances at Tamatave. Suez Canal difficulty - cutting a second canal parallel to the first. Echoes of the week. The Playhouses; Weather; National Sports; The Cholera in Egypt - Quarantine, with full-page engraving entitled 'Quarantine Examination at Brinsisi'. Crab-Catching in Cornwall - 9 sketches on one page (plus text on next page); News from the Court and Church plus Benevolence and Self-Help. New Townhall, Dover - with sketch; The Westminster Townhall - with sketch; The Swanley Homes for Little Boys - with sketch; Sketches in Egypt - Thebes. The Advantages of Wet Weather. Supplement includes: Chapter V of The Canon's Ward, by James Payn; The Savage Club at the Royal Albert Hall (which is featured on front cover illustration and pages 52 and 53); The Jesmond Dene Park, Newcastle; A dramatic two-page engraving entitled "Departure of Irish Emigrants at Clifden, County Galway (please note that this engraving bears a large tear); Obituaries; Chess; Wills and Bequests; Departure of Irish Emigrants; Classified Ads. The Jesmond Dene Public Park, Newcastel-on-Tyne - 8 lovely sketches. The Suez Canal - 3 pages of text and sketches, including map of the proposed Canal and sketch of M. Ferdinand De Lesseps, President of the Suez Canal Company. New Books. Musical Publications. Chipping at edges. Some pages loose but all appear to be present. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Magazine
35 pages. Photo and bio details of Bond inside front cover. Four pages of wonderful photos of Bond with the Andrews Sisters, Max Terhune, Jimmy Wakley, Dick Reinhart, The Red River Valley Boys, Joan Davis, Ray Corrigan, and Dennis Moore. "Gene Autry invited Johnny and Jimmy Wakely to sing with him on his CBS Melody Ranch program and soon the whole of America began to join the others in the demand for more. Songs include: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight; Down in the Dumps; One More Range; You Never Can Tell; I've Had the Blues Before; Keep Rollin' On; It's a Long Old Road; Prairie Campfire; Out Here The Wind Blows Free; One More Tear; Here's The End of the Trail (Ole Timer); Old Wagon Train; One a Blue Ridge Mountain Trail; The Road is Way Too Long; I'm Pounding the Rails Again; The Unopened Letter; I Won't Stand in Your Way; Hillbilly Town; My Red River Rose; Don't You Weep Anymore, Darlin'; Oh, My Darling Clementine. Average wear. Some light pencil markings to contents. A sound copy of this marvelously nostalgic item. Book
546 pages. Black and white frontis of George Vancouver plus twenty black and white photographic reproductions. Author was well-equiped for this work. By disposition a student, he became greatly engrossed in his researches, and secured copies of all the old records of voyages to the coast of British Columbia and knew their contents intimately. His duties in command of the Quadra took him to every portion of the British Columbia coast, including a great many waters that were practically unsurveyed, and so he acquired a thorough knowledge not only of the charts in existence, but also of the unwritten lore of Indians and traders experienced in the intricacies of that most magnificent coast. Major damage and closed tears to pages 527-530 with two chunks missing from page 529. Fortunately all text remains and is legible. Once inch tear to interior of page 546. Map at page 547 removed. Back hinge open. Front hinge going. Prior owner's small initial rubber stamp upon front endpaper and bottom edge else unmarked. Average soiling. Moderate yellowing. Gilt lettering upon spine remains clearly legible. Above average wear to dark green cloth spine and boards. A good first edition reading copy of this comprehensive reference. Book
