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Pages 677-704. Features: Colour Dunlop ad inside front cover features The Mumming Plays; Cover photo of wartime munitions being scrapped for production drive; Five photos illustrate the United Nations new simultaneous interpretation system; Two pages of illustrations explain the Swedish Albatross marine expedition as it investigates seabed deposits; An account of the aims of the Albatross expedition and of the equipment used to obtain material for scientific investigation from great depths; Six-photo sequence shows an F8F Bearcat's failed attempt to land on the USS Tarawa - it ultimately crashes into the sea; Photo of road scouts delivering 800,000 signatures to the House of Commons with the aim of restoring the basic petrol ration; Photos of personalities of the week include Lord Croft, Mr. Strachey, Malcolm McCorquodale, Lord Hemmingford, H. R. Macbeth-Raeburn, M. Tristan Bernard, Sir Reginald Stubbs, Marshall Tito, Mr. Dinnyes, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Mr. Dimitrov of Bulgaria, Col. N. A. Filatov, Winston Churchill at Manchester Town Hall, and Arab leaders attending the Arab League Conference on Palestine at Almaza Airport; Article discusses the Marshall Plan and Mr. Molotov; Photos of Jewish Settlement Police trainees and map of the United Nations plan, dividing Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, with Jerusalem and International city; Two pages of photos and text describe troops of the Arab League states, including photo of Glubb Pasha, commander of the Arab Legion of Transjordan; Two-page centrefold illustration inside the Structures Department at the Royal Aircraft Establishment where students are taught how to test aircraft components; Six illustrations show young engineers training in model making and wind tunnel testing; Five photos document the state funeral of France's great tank General Leclerc, who perished in a North African air crash; Eritrea's commission of investigation - six photos with text; Photos of the first ramjet helicopter, on ground and in flight; Photo of 12 foot diameter pipeline carrying water to generate power from the Campbell River dam in British Columbia; Photo of Sir Alan Cunningham and G. Heddingham inspecting scene of rioting and looting in the commercial centre of Jerusalem; Photo of directors and officials of Krupps, Hitler's main armament maker, on trial at Nuremberg; Two pages of photos and text describe bronzes newly found in North Honan; Review of the film "Mine Own Executioner"; Back cover colour ad for Wright's coal tar soap shows dancing Arctic seals. Above average external wear with clumsy tape repair to coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: Brunei released from rebel hands - and aspects of the hunt for the leaders of the rebellion; Mr. Chester Bowles; Stalactites as a tool material for the Australopithecines; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
248 pages plus index. "Provides an abundance of know-how and expertise, culled over the last hundred years from the experiences of family farmers, smallholders and rural advisors in different parts of the English-speaking world. The scope of the material is vast - from solutions to minor everyday problems such as how to keep a shovel handle dry when digging in wet soil, to the planning and tending of a small forest... A valuable classic for smallholders and do-it-yourselfers who are committed to conserving their natural environment and are working with limited financial resources." - from back cover. Densely packed with exceptionally practical information and helpful illustrations. Book
Mm 145x205 Volume in copertina rigida originale, sovraccoperta editoriale, 493 pagine con testo in lingua inglese, spagnolo, portoghese ed italiano. Copia eccellente, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
1905288351New York: United States History Company 1905. Leather Bound. Leather backstrips and leather corners a "half leather" item in bookseller parlance good condition allowing for outer-joint abrasion an aesthetic matter having fully operational undamaged hinges & endsheets bright spine-titling and top-edge gilding. A touch of watercolor and a couple of coats of leather dressing would make this set stand out with the single uncorrectable flaw being raggedness to top rims of all three parts. Pagination runs 503 515 544 all volumes illustrated with fullpage tissue-guarded steel-engraved portraits of ugly public servants. Clean and unmarked throughout. As said casings are physically quite sound pace the scraping to all joints which are of either morocco or pressed calf in either case of poorly-prepared animal hide and to top rims where losses average one-eighth of an inch. The set of three together. United States History Company unknown
1967490279Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1967. 256 Seiten. 21,5cm. Zustand: Gut bis Sehr Gut min. bis gering gebräunt (Innen); Einband (Außen) hat geringe bis leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Buchrücken etwas lesespurig; Broschiert
This listing consists of pages 1-4, and 17-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: spectacular destruction of three of the Bedaux Canadian Expedition's caterpillar cars; photo of rock formation in the Whiteshell Forest Reserve where Indians practice pagan rituals - Canada's Stonehenge?; Evidence shows Germany storing up war material; Request for survey of sanitary conditions in Saanich district; Ad for Oak Bay home - $2,625!; Editorial page; Cartoon page (missing two-inch strip along edge with partial loss to 3 cartoon strips; two pages of classified ads; large fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
pp. xii, 408. Color pictorial PA German bookplate of Henry Kauffman. Sm. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Very good copy. SCIENCE BOX 2
2001010375Pergamon 2001. Laminated boards. 568 pp. ".an impressionistic map pf the present state of the subject in both academe and industry." Bright clean copy. . Very Good. 8vo. Pergamon hardcover
135 pages. "We are in an era when material possessions are abundant, when science has made great strides in the fight against disease, and when the age-old problems of communication and transportation are being rapidly overcome. Yet it is a time of vanishing freedom, catastrophic wars, and terror. The author, a Washington D.C. attorney, explains, for the first time, the necessary and disastrous consequences of industrialism, and proposes an entirely new political philosophy - Proprietory Individualism." - from back cover. Remnants of price sticker adhesive upon each cover. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Revised version of the 1924 first edition. 112 pages. Index. Diagrams. Black and white photos. "The natural successor to the 'Simonds Guide for Filers and Sawyers'... In preparing a new edition it seemed wise to remodel the work and add much new material." - from Introduction. Topics include: History of the Circular Saw; Steel; Making a Circular Saw; The Circular Saw Mill; Solid Tooth Circular Saws; Special Types of Circular Saws; Simonds Inserted Point Saw; Safety First; Specifications of various Simonds saws; Photos and details of various Simonds knives. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding tender but holding. A worthy reading copy of this informative vintage reference. Book
1990CHI2084Hong Kong etc., Oxford University Press, 1990. (Images of Asia), 87 Seiten, zahlreiche Abbildungen, 20 x 13,5 cm, illustr. OPappband. - Guter Zustand. fest gebunden/ hardcover
0195926250New. Brand new and still unused unknown
1390459586.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
200065603New York: Broadway Play Publishing Inc 2000. Reprint. Second printing 2003. Trade paperback. Very good. 10 79 7 p. Signed by Austin Tichenor and Matt Rippy The Reduced Shakespeare Company is a three-man comedy troupe that takes long serious subjects and reduces them to short sharp comedies. The Bad Boys of Abridgement have created seven stage shows two television specials several failed TV pilots and numerous radio pieces all of which have been performed seen and heard the world over. Since its 1981 origins as a pass-the-hat act in California the Reduced Shakespeare Company has created seven stage shows two television specials several failed TV pilots and numerous radio pieces all of which have been performed seen and heard the world over. The company s itinerary has included stops at the White House the Kennedy Center Lincoln Center London s West End Seattle Repertory Theatre American Repertory Theatre and Montreal s Just For Laughs Festival as well as performances in Israel Australia New Zealand Hong Kong Japan Malta Belgium The Netherlands Singapore and Bermuda plus countless civic and university venues throughout the USA Great Britain and Ireland. The company s first three shows The Complete Works of William Shakespeare abridged The Complete History of America abridged and The Bible: The Complete Word of God abridged ran for nine years at the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus. They were London s longest-running comedies and the RSC had more shows running in the West End than Andrew Lloyd Webber. They were also funnier. The Bad Boys of Abridgment unveiled a brand-new show in 2010: The Complete World of Sports abridged which reduces every sport ever played on every continent in the entire history of the world. It s got balls. They also condensed literature into a 90-minute roller-coaster ride in All The Great Books abridged which has played to great acclaim at the Kennedy Center Pittsburgh Public Theatre San Diego Repertory Theatre Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Seattle s ACT Theatre and Alabama Shakespeare Festival as well as Great Britain Holland Ireland and Sweden in Swedish! . They also applied their fast funny and physical approach to World History in Western Civilization: The Complete Musical abridged original title: The Complete Millennium Musical abridged which toured simultaneously in the US UK and Australia and the Movies in Completely Hollywood abridged which skewers the 197 greatest films of all time and has received critical acclaim across the US UK Belgium Holland Hong Kong and Barbados. For television the RSC compressed the first five seasons of Lost into a ten-minute film called Lost Reduced and was a Jeopardy! category in the 2005 and 2006 Tournaments of Champions. They wrote and starred in The Ring Reduced a half-hour version of Wagner s Ring Cycle for Channel 4 UK and reduced the Edinburgh Festival for BBC and the soap opera Glenroe for RTE Ireland. Shakespeare abridged aired on PBS and is available on DVD as is America abridged. Numerous other TV appearances include NBC s Today Show CBS Sunday Morning Entertainment Tonight CNN s Showbiz This Week and New Zealand s Celebrity Wheel of Fortune they lost. For National Public Radio the RSC has been heard on All Things Considered Weekend Edition Talk of the Nation Day to Day West Coast Live and To The Best of Our Knowledge. The BBC World Service commissioned the six-part Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show. The Reduced Shakespeare Company Christmas was heard on Public Radio International. RSC scripts are published in the US and UK and translated into over a dozen languages. The Radio Show RSC Christmas and Millennium Musical abridged are all available on CD and from iTunes. The RSC won the prestigious Shorty Award and has been nominated for an Olivier Award in London two Helen Hayes Awards in Washington DC the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award and several podcast awards. RSC scripts are published in the US and UK and translated into over a dozen languages. The RSC Radio Show RSC Christmas and. Broadway Play Publishing Inc paperback
112 pages. Includes guitar sheet music and lyrics for these great Police songs: Born in the Fifties; Canary in a Coalmine; Can't Stand Losing You; De Do Do Do; Don't Stand So Close To Me; Every Breath You Take; Every Little Thing She Does is Magic; Invisible Sun; King of Pain; Main in a Suitcase; Message in a Bottle; Omegaman; Roxanne; Secret Journey; Spirits in the Material World; Synchronicity II; Walking on the Moon; When the World is Running Down You Make the Best of What's Still Around; Wrapped Around Your Finger. Moderate wear. Minimal markings to contents. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great compilation. Book
1925300034New York: Dial Press 1925. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Edge wear at corners. Mild toning to the pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Dial Press hardcover
xiv, 24 pages. Features: The Contemplation of the Mediocre; Some Notes on Portrait Painting; Reader's Picture of the Month; Colours; From East to West; Points of Interest for the Amateur; Perspective for the Painter; Let Us Paint in Water Colours; Of Material Interest; The Creative Outlook; Four colour plates by - Carel Weight, D. Wu Ject-Key, Ethelbert White, and David Cox. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
19663124779New York: Burt Franklin 1966. (2), IX, 335 Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 112 pages. Many b&w illustrations.
96, 158 [ads], pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: The Residence of Heatly C. Dulles, Esq., Villa Nova, Pa - Mellor, Meigs & Howe, Architects; The Villa Frullino, near Florence, Italy; The Early Architecture of Pennsylvania - Part II; The San Antonio Country Club, San Antonio, Texas - George Willis, Architect; Training for the Practice of Architecture; A Louis XVI Shopfront; Building Material Prices in 1921; The New Plans for Paris; Portfolio of Current Architecture; Notes and Comments. Above-average external wear. Covers and backstrip missing. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. 708 pages. Many b&w photos and illustrations.
196398992London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1963. XXV, 777, CXXIV Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit Goldprägung. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
36 pages. Features: Nice cover photo of J.C. Penney warehouse, St. Louis; Great vintage photo full-page ad for the Koehring Dandie cement mixer; Great photo ad for Gypsteel shows construction of the Convention Hall at Atlantic City - the world's largest single span roof; Skilsaw ad; Interesting illustrated ad for Kernerator incineration systems; The New Paxton Hotel in Omaha is featured in an ad for Meyer Steelforms; A residence is constructed beneath a temporary winter shell - the Henry C. Ulen residence in Indiana - article with photo; Bookkeeping for the contractor - II; Improving bidding standards; The contractor and the courts; New Koehring weighing cement mixer; Latest material prices; construction activity this week; sealed proposal announcements; back cover photo ad for high-early-strength universal concrete used to make 50 foot long piles used beneath a highway bridge at Florence, Illinois; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. These nostalgic topics and images are certain to intrigue modern-day contractors. Magazine
36 pages. Features: Labor trouble in New York; Definite basis for wage settlement; Opportunity in airport construction; Cuts cost of handling stone - article with nice photos of Youngstown, Ohio Hospital construction; Steel core reinforcing in construction of Denver bus station - article with photos; Concrete volume formula; Bookkeeping for contractors - part I; Why grade-marked lumber?; The contractor and the courts; Mack offer new dump warp-resistant truck body; Oxweld generator; Oldest skyscraper coming down - the Tacoma Building in Chicago comes down - article with photo; Lockout in New York; Nice ad for Bates-Truss Joists; Wonderful full-page photo ad with photos for Gold Metal patent tubular scaffolding; vintage Skilsaw ad; Great full-page ad with photo for Transit System Concrete Mixers; Latest material prices; Building trades wage scales nationwide; Mahon steel roof deck ad on back cover; and much more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. These nostalgic topics and images are certain to intrigue modern-day contractors. Magazine
