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In 16, pp. 96. Br. edit. decorata. Fascicolo della raccolta 'Scelta di opuscoli interessanti...', vol. V. Fra gli articoli: Lettera sulla circolazione del fluido scoperto in varie piante...; Lettera del sig. Berniard sulla volatilizzazione del diamante (p. 53-55); Metodo semplicissimo per far morire le talpe; Metodo sicurissimo di cacciar le lepri...; Dell'associazione delle parole dipendente dal lor meccanismo. Osservazioni del sig. ab. Luigi Betti; ecc...
50 pages. Features and Articles: Donald Gordon Succeeds R.C. Vaughan - becomes Chairman and President Jan. 1 when Mr. Vaughan retires after 51 years of railway service; Governor-General's first visit to Newfoundland - seven black and white photos; Photos of the Lakehead, Churchill and Vancouver grain terminals; Emerson College Thesbians use C.N.S.S. flagship in preparing for "The Parlor Story"; Canada Builds to Endure - on inspection trip, President finds west busy and confident; Ticket Agents See What They Sell - Annual Sales Meeting in Seattle; This Switchman has to Think Fast - Cliff McCamon works for the C.N.R. in Saskatoon; Photo of the "Train of Tomorrow"; Moncton's Diamond Jubilee; System News - staff changes; and more. Five-inch opening at top end of cover fold, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Most Awful Abduction of Elegant Elaine; He Fought the Blizzard of 1880 and won!; Incident at Las Cruces; The Diamond E and Diamond X Ranches; First Movie House West of the Mississippi; Ruthless Relative; Wild Game Country; Adventures of an Army Post Photographer; Cow-boy life in Texas or 27 years a mavrick; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
156 pages. Features: Breast Feeding; Molecular Clouds, Star Formation and Galactic Structure; The Diamond-Anvil, High-Pressure Cell; The Tornado; Vision by Man and Machine; Cell-Adhesion Molecules - a molecular basis for animal form; The nesting behavior of dinosaurs; Prehistoric rice cultivation in southeast Asia; and more. Nostalgic ads including several from the early days of the PC industry. Bit of writing on front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
160 pages. Wonderful nostalgic photos of some of the bands in colour and black and white. Includes hits from such performers as: the Beatles; Blood Sweat and Tears; Chicago; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Neil Diamond; The Fifth Edition; George Harrison; Kris Kristofferson; The Mamas and the Papas; The New Seekers; Nilsson; Helen Reddy; Lou Reed; Santana; Carly Simon; Three Dog Night; Donny Osmond; Marie Osmond; The Osmond, plus the movie theme Duelin' Banjoes, 47 songs in all. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this fun book! Undated but appears to be from the early to mid-seventies. Book
In 8, cm 17,5 x 24, pp. (52) con 6 disegni a piena pagina nel testo. Tutta tela editoriale. Diario di bordo tenuto dall'armatore dello yacht Leo Lips che narra le vicende avvenute nel viaggio da Anversa a Genova facendo tappe in suggestivi luoghi balneari quali Schelda, Flessinga, Dover, Golfo di Guascogna, Lisbona, Gibilterra.
In-4, 287p. Importante iconographie en noir et en couleurs. Bibliographie et index des noms cités en fin de volume. A l'état de neuf.
pp. xvi, 615, (2)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus two portrait frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page woodcuts. Very slight age stained. 8vo. Original full black embossed cloth binding, gold lettered. Nice copy. AFRICA/2
226 pages. A masterpiece. The complete photographic record of the World's finest hockey player with comments, captions and an introduction by Wayne Gretzky. Includes a comprehensive statistical package from youth hockey to international play. Gorgeous color glossy dust jacket. Unmarked. Faintest wear. Super Copy. Book
160 pages. Index. Reference notes. Many black and white archival illustrations. "Describes the colorful lives and times of such men as Tom Wilson, Bill Peyto, Jim Simpson, the Brewster brothers, Fred Stephens and the Otto Brothers - the true mountain men of the Canadian west." - from back cover. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Large fold-out map. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
68 pages. Songs include: Be Mine Tonight; The Drifter; Fear of the Marketplace; Guitare Heaven; Love Burns; On the Way to the Sky; Only You; Rainy Day Song; Right By You; Save Me; Yesterday's Songs. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: The man in the White House cares; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Our managing editor (Rosemary Entringer) pulls the throttle on a T-1; Badges of Distinction - or, the diamond wasn't exclusive to Lima; How Truckers, Firemen, and Lawyers are Designing Diesels - some not so subtle influences upon the builders; Railroad art by our readers; Central Keeps the Cake - the only complete and authoritative analysis of world-wide train speed; A very special 2-10-0 Bozkurt; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Injuns called him Medicine Man - Charles M. Russell, Painter; How Great Falls, Montana Began; Belle Starr's Killer Revealed; Roll Up and Roll Out - a logging story by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; John Jennings' Diamond; Long Remember - Thomas H. Graham, murdered husband of Anne Melton Graham; The Adventure of a Buffalo Hunter - Seth Hathaway; The Mighty McClure - Jake McClure revolutionized calf roping; Elusive loot of Shell Canyon; Wild Old Days; Jail Break - farmer style; The Trap Didn't Spring on Butch Cassidy?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
321 pages. Black and white illustrations. Author's signature upon front free endpaper. Prior owner's name neatly printed at bottom of front free endpaper. Clean with light wear. A nice copy. Book
88 pages. Includes photos and interviews. Songs include: Wish You Were Here; Shine On You Crazy Diamond; Have a Cigar; Welcome to the Machine. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Very nice copy. Book
Pages 221-286 plus 14 pages of ads. Features: Man-Eaters - Indian tigers; The Lost Secret - a lost mine near Visalia, California; The Merepur Mystery - Indian official is an amateur Sherlock Holmes; On the Mexican Border; A Winter Jaunt in Finland - with photos, including woman washing clothes in hole cut in ice; The "Stroaper's" Vengeance - while prospecting for gold in Dutch Guiana; The Tale of "Old Bill" - a famous elephant of Ceylon; The Hunting of "Wild Johnny" - a renegade Australian aborigine; The Diamond Smuggler; Crossed Trails - a tale of fate from the Santa Cruz mountains; The Prize-Fight; The Great Green Eel - three-day ordeal landing a 13.5 foot specimen!; "Fisherman's Luck" - angler's disaster off New Zealand when the launch Manaia is wrecked. Heavily worn. Covers detached but present. A worthy reading copy. Book
200 pages. Traces the storied history of this major Canadian organization. Contains considerable historic text plus dozens of archival illustrations. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Pages 185-220 plus ten pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Presentation of Massey Medal, 1962 - Dr. Diamond Jenness; Captain Cook in Canada; Rudolph Martin Anderson; Inuvik - Canada's new Arctic Town; Old Skills Build a New Bounty - building a new version of the vessel which visited Pitcairn Island in 1789; Otavalo Fair in Peru; One-page two-colour recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
144 pages. Features: Seeing Africa as Hemingway Saw It: Enchanted Aerie for Expatriate Canadians - Toller Cranston and Mexico's Canadian Community; Yumi Eto; Hot Designers from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver; The Allure of Aromas; Regeneration of the Cocktail; Businessman Jack Diamond; Suggestions for the next Sue Grafton novel; CDNX - Canadian Venture Exchange gets off to a fast start; Never to old to groove to Rap; The joy of weightless sex; Bernie Gest Busted; Tillson Lever Harrison - soldier of fortune, confidence man, medical hero; Spring's new purses; Remembering Robertson Davies; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this lavishly produced publication. Book
Well preserved in the original publisher's cloth. Virtually uncut. Curiously, this copy was apparently issued without the engraved title an d frontis. Pickering was the first in England to use cloth in publisher's bindings. SMALL BOX 2
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 18pp of coloured plates, 32pp of plates in monochrome and 26 maps and diagrams in the text; pale green boards, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in green and black, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
354 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "The true-life story of the man behind the great Canadian diamond discovery." - subtitle. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy. Book
xliii, 859 pages. Footnotes, references, index. Black and white diagrams and reproductions of photos. "Provides insight at a ground level of Jenness' long, tough voyage of discovery, so that anyone interested in Arctic America or Canadian studies will find this journal a rare and enriching experience. Further, for Arctic scholars, this journal presents the detailed context for those pioneer monographs that launched the career of young Jenness and led to his becoming Canada's pre-eminent anthropologist." - dust jacket. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Modest bow to front board. Possible light cigarette scent. A sound reading copy of this fascinating early Arctic diary. Book
Nice Wurlitzer theatre organ ad inside front cover. Contents: Lovely photo of the interior of the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles. Theatre Organ on Campus - Indiana University. Miss Rose Diamond at the Console - as told to Peg Nielsen - nice 2-page article with photos. Syracuse Keith's Theatre Organ Finds a New Home with the Empire State Theatre and Musical Instruments Museum - interesting 3-page illustrated article. A report on theatre organ activity in the Utica-Rome, New York area. Music of the Silents - Furioso No. 1 - the third in a series on silent film cue music arranged by Col. Harry J. Jenkins (composed by Harry Norton in 1919) - with sheet music. Nuggets from Golden Days. Pipe Dreams, Chicago, USA - the last of two instalments on Chicago's Radio Pipe Organs - great illustrated 4-page article. Coverage of the Chicago conference and artists who performed there. Accidents will Happen - wonderfully nostalgic recollections of accidents in the heyday theatre days of the 1920s by John Muri. Technical article - Repairing and Rewinding Wurlitzer Magnets. Classified ads. Chapter news. Hollywood Cavalcade. Record Reviews. Reader submissions. Very impressive Rodgers Theatre Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
492 pages. Moderate external soiling and wear. Binding tight and square. Bit of writing to top edge of text. A sound copy. Book