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in-8°, 238 pp., photographies en noir, broche, couverture illustree. Tres bel exemplaire, tres frais. [CA31-3]
in-8°, 301 pages, broche sous jaquette illustree plastifiee. Bel exemplaire. [CA-5]
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, fading to spine, no tears. 313 pages with b&w photos, many mechanical drawings/ illustrations. Sections include: Free the galley slave, Spars, Build your own bulwarks, Tools and spares, Cruising drag free, Sailor's emergency abandon ship kit, Rudders for cruising, Plumbing ideas, Reef, don't buy, Mechanical pumps for bilge or fire, Truth about windvanes, A near-fatal bit of carelessness, Guns, pirates, and theives, etc.
42 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: The Biggest Prize of All - A Memorable fishing trip to Eagle River; Interrupted Journey - a springtime trip to the interior; For Mukluk or Parka - the Eskimo housewife is proficient at skin sewing; Fur Trapping and Ranching - the 5th of 6th articles in a series of 'What to Expect in Alaska"; A Dogface's Dog Team - a gift of a husky pup involved a sailor in the intricacies of raising and training sled dogs; Photo of Mrs. E.W. Parker astride a large brown bear that charged her and her husband; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. Songs include: Sailor Hambo, Pilot Waltz, Submarine Waltz, Finland Woods, Saturday Waltz, Varmlandsnatt, Courting Waltz, North Cape Schottische, On the Highway, New Norwegian Waltz, Ball in Karlstadd, Northern Chimes, Skol Skol Skol, Frykdals-Jantan, Kalle Pe. Above-average wear. Covers taped on. Few markings. A worthy working copy of this vintage work. Book
Paris, Robert Marin "L'Envers du Miroir", 1950 ; in-12, broché, 235 pp. Édition originale sur papier ordinaire (il n'a été tiré que 25 exemplaires sur Alfama).
in-16 (poche), 277 pages, illustrations, broche, couverture illustrée. Bel exemplaire. [VA-3]
Hardcover large octavo, 579 pp. With numerous Illustrations and Examples.- HB no DW Very good. [BL-4]
Book is in excellent condition: oversize book (13 1/2" H x 10 1/2" W) in heavy weave light green cloth with large gilt print at cover and spine; quite handsome. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, edge wear, one 2" closed tear on back. Wrapped in protective cover. Very large full page and a few two page prints throughout, landsacapes, portraits, a few city scenes, a few of the photographer at work. About 90 prints in all. Bio of Ansel Adams, for the time between 1902-1938. including correspondence between Adams and some of the notable names of photography; with contributions from Alfred Stieglitz, Edward weston, John Marin, Albert Bender, Cedric Wright, Charles Hitchcock Adams, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francis Farquhar, Frances Kehrlein, Dorothea Lange, et al. Contents include Golden Gate, Sierra Nevada, Sangre de Criston Making a photograph, etc. Publisher's page shows no additional printings.
grand in-8°, 318 pages, abondamment ill. in-t., gloss., rel. cartonnage ed., jaq. ill. Bel exemplaire. [CA33-4]
pp. xxx, 402 + Color plates. Text illustrations. Decorated title page. Map endpapers. Large 8vo. Original cloth spine over paper boards. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. First Edition. Fine copy. The journal itself is a fascinating record of a common sailor's live in over 60 years at sea. Dr. Dann also gives us a remarkable about the research and periginations of the manuscript itself. TRAVEL/7
1987 - illustrations et cartes en texte - 453 pages. Broché - Etat neuf
32 pages. Index. Index of advertisers. Report of President, Captain Jas. W. Watt; Photos of five guild officials; Pen Picture of a typical American Sailor - an article by Meyer Berger from a New York paper; Port of Vancouver, B.C.; Steamboat Round the Bend, by H.L. Sacret - working on the Mackenzie River; Forty Years Ago on the B.C. Coast; Captain Oliver Williams - Coast Superintendant; Great photo of Union Bay coaling berths; Steam is Far From Finished; Jemmy Jones, Mariner Extraordinary. Union Steamships link the Coast Communities of British Columbia; Norwegian Honour for British Crew - the SS. Chelohsin; Captain Thomas Rippon - Respected Brother Passes; Vancouver Built - SS. Alaska, Hull No. 1 of the Coughlan Yards of False Creek; Whence Came the McMillans - a man goes overboard in October 1900; Captain Ernie Landheim Joins Pilots; Great photo of the large (Searle?) Grain Elevator on Fraser River, New Westminster; There Was Money in Privateering - The Harmsworth Cup; Shipmasters who became Shipowners; Yo Ho and a Bottle of Rum; Obituaries. Average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy. An informative and engaging read. Book
94 pages. Many wonderful photos in colour and black and white. Features: Two pages of wedding photos of a beautiful young couple; Lovely one-page colour photo of Chin Yin Ling - popular with men because of her nude movie appearances; Two pages of colour photos of Lin Fung Chew; Colour ad for Shantung Man in Hong Kong; Color ad for Little Sister-In-Law; Two-page colour-photo ad for The Red Boy; Lovely one-page colour photo of Shau Yun Yun; Beautiful fold-out colour photo of Li Ching; Prophecies in the Movie World; Shih Szu Gets a Lot and Loses a Lot; Separation of Josephine Siu and Charles Chin; The Love Life of Kiang Pin; Wang Ing's Words Worthy of Listening; Lee Hsing's "The Land of the Undaunted"; Chang's New Idea; Tien Nei, Li Ching and her mother visit Vietnam; Lydia Shum and Cheng Siu Chau; Director Chang Mei Chuen and his wife Sze Mei Lun enjoy their honeymoon; Ko Chin Hsung is the Crow-Catcher!; Director Yan Fung Pan; Chen Ho's new movie tentatively titled "The Ways to Avoid Baby"; Shantung Man in Hong Kong; The Forest of Forever; Don't Call Me Uncle; Chu Mu's new film; The Graduate From the Country; The Stupid Sailor Ah Fook; Chi Kung the Budhist; The April Melody; Lau Chi Wing; Nice colour ad for The Blue Lamp in Winter Night inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
110 pages. Features: Peter B. Kyne - Home is the Sailor - Stormy weather in the home office; George Creel - The Young Man Went West - William Orville Douglas, of the SEC; John T. Flynn - Men out of work - The unemployed, in a body, enter politics; Leland Jamieson - Favor for a Friend - Melodrama on High; George Agnew Chamberlain - Under Pressure, Part V - Standing Siege; Sidney Herschel Small - Gold Lacquer - History saves the hero - another adventure of young Richard Bartlett in Japan; Roard Bradford - The Gimme Woman - Two women too many for Bugaboo Jones; Jim Marshall - Some Like it Wild - They're Your Parks, have a look at them; Sax Rohmer - The Invisible President, Part XI - The Genius of Fu Manchu; T.R. Ybarra - The Oxford Manner - The accomplished and imperturbable Mr. Eden; Quentin Reynolds - She Took Up Golf - Patty Berg - she had to give up football; Margaret Case Harriman - Shock-proof lady - Beauty of the sea; Frank Condon - Before the Wedding - Compliments of a Friend; The Short Short Story - Love Story - by Henri Duvernois; Kyle Crichton - Horse-Opera Star - Buck Jones, riding high, wide and handsome; William MacHarg - The Vanishing Man - a very suspicious character; Freling Foster - keep up with the world - fugitive facts; Editorial - don't drink and drive. Super full-page colour ad for International Trucks on page 23. Nice 2-page black and white ad for Nash and LaFayette. Great two-page colour ad for Oldsmobile 6 & 8. Full-page colour Johnnie Walker ad. Colour Camel cigarette ad on back cover bears the title "For Digestion's Sake - Smoke Camels". Covers almost detached. Soiling to top edge. Somewhat average wear. Address label on front cover. Unmarked. Still a sound copy of this nostalgic issue. Book
16 pages. Features: Annuals for Autumn Sowing; Nice first-page illustration of five women in different riding-habits; Dissolving views; New York Fashions - riding-habits, children's clothing, boys' sailor suits; Personal; chemisette and cuffs for square waist; pique cap for child under 6 months old; pique round hat for boy under 2 years old; pique round hat for girl from 1 to 3 years old; pique jacket for girl from 5 to 7 years old; pique dress for girl from 1 to 3 years old; Childe's pique bag with point russe embroidery; The rationale of toys; Mr. Daniel Murray; For the Ugly Girls - No. III; centerfold illustration entitled Queen Victoria's Garden-Party at Windsor Castle; The Cryptogram - continued; The Hon. Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton; valenciennes and needle work collar and cuffs; enameled cloth towel rack; pique neglige pocket; embroidered silk watch-case; crochet purse; Fichu arranged from a three-cornered lace shawl; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
Features: When my Great Grandma was a little girl; Ned Franklin Darr's Boundless Enthusiasm; Betty Valentine; Miniature Kingdom, USA; Jane Spain's scaled figures; Paul D. Moore - Portrait of a happy man; Half-inch decorating - furnishing a 1/2" scale dollhouse; Travel accessories in miniature; Wedding cakes in miniature; Mary Eccher's Southern Vittles; Accessories for the well-groomed man; Men's and women's boxes; Wooden, rounded trunks for the salty sailor; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Green Bay Match Race - Victory for Canada; A New Star Sailor Shines - Dennis Conner; MORC - a look at the smaller deep water sailboat; Victory Chimes - last and largest of the original Atlantic Coast Three Masters; Sailing in Kansas?; Aboard QUEEN MAB; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
96 pages. Features: Reports on Indonesia, Washington and Rio, and Australia; The Decline of Western Democracy, by Walter Lippmann; The Portrait ( a story) by Wolf Mankowitz; Textbooks Under Fire, by Virgil M. Rogers; The Poet as Playwright, by Archibald MacLeish; By Slow Degrees, by Catherine Drinker Bowen; The Young Poets - Leah Bodine Drake, Irving Feldman, Claire McAllister, R.G. Everson, Erick Barker, H.F. Ellis, Oscar Handlin; Alberto Moravia, by Charles J. Rolo; German Hotel, by Jeseph Wechsberg; Interesting anti-communist ad by Radio Free Europe inside back cover seeks to raise 'Truth Dollars'. U.S. Savings Bonds ad inside front cover features American sailor Richmond Hobson Above-average wear. Unmarked. Some soiling. Book
Articles: The Fortunes of War - Commercial Warfare and Maritime Risk in the War of 1812; Safe Home in Port? - Shipping Safety within the Port of Liverpool; The Decline of British Whaling in Arctic Canada, 1820-1850 - a case study of Newcastle upon Tyne; Letters from Halifax - Reliving the Halifax Explosion Through the Eyes of My Grandfather, a Sailor in the Royal Canadian Navy; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
Articles: The Ports of Halifax and Saint John and the American Civil War; The Floating Factory - Dominant Designs and Technological Development of Twentieth-Century Whaling Factory Ships; A Lonely Ambassador - HMCS Uganda and the War in the Pacific; Sailor as Entrepreneurs in a Great Lakes Maritime Village; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
Illustration Features: At Grips with the Hun in Historic Artois; Among German Spies in North Sea Ports (article); The Ruins of Rheims; American sailors' cheers for the Sailor King; Scenes in the Wake of the Franco-British advance; The Terrible 'Tank' Pursues the Turk in Palestine; The Russian Soldier As I Know Him - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Graphic Scenes in the Gigantic Arras Struggle; Science After the War - article by J. Arthur Thomson; Belgian Slaves and British Emancipators; Royal Progress through the industrial north; Interesting Incidents in Loyal Lancashire; In the Canadian Lines on the Arras Front; Heads of Teutonic and Ottoman Offending; Forces combined against the U-Boat Corsairs; The Highland Light Infantry - article with photo. Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
Features: My Life in the French Foreign Legion, by Trevor S.H. Jones, late 1st Regiment Legion Etrangere Infanterie; The Snow Surveyors - men who keep track of the snowfall in the wild mountain ranges of Canada and the United States; My Pistol - a bride not experienced with firearms receives an automatic as a wedding present; A Sailor Adrift - a sailor ends up working at a Rocky Mountain lumber-camp where he has memorable experiences; Through the "Big Bend" of the Rio Grande by Canoe; The Ordeal of Juan Rosas - an Ecuadoran enters the wilds to cut balsa wood; Hair of the Dog - a story of African superstitions; The Will to Live - An Australian example of human endurance along the coast south of Cairns; A Fool Afoot in France - reprint of a 1929 story of an English Walker in France; One Day's Work - New Zealand Volcano; Military Mystery at Benghazi; and more. Two-inch opening at base of front cover fold. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
Features: Operation Sikh - An incident connected with the strange hide-and-seek war now being waged in the steamy jungles of Malaya; A Sailor on Horseback - Jack ashore takes to riding at his peril; Two Miracles - An Army officer's experience in the Western Desert during World War II; Phantom Fortune - the fascinating history of sundry vanished gold-mines in the wilds of British Columbia; Tasmania's Wild West; A Mystery of the "Bad Lands" - a cowboy's weird experience in the Badlands of Wyoming; The Figurehead - a story involving the windjammer L'Avenir; Gold Coast Ju-Ju; Box of Tricks - an isolated Army camp in Palestine is cursed with cunning Arab thieves; Personal-Column Crusoes - advice for prospective adventurers; Leturc's Island - Jacques Leturc took over an uninhabited South Sea Island and turned it into a profitable enterprise, only to encounter disaster; Desert Hitch-Hike - 1,200 miles across Northern Africa to catch a steamer; and more. Three inch opening at bottom of cover fold; Somewhat above-average wear. Small opening at top of backstrip. Sound copy. Book