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142 pages including numerous excellent black and white photographic plates. Up to the time of his death, Keith Moon was a tragic enigma. To the gossip columns, he was "Moon the Loon", "The Wild Man of Rock." To fellow musicians he was a brilliant, original percussionist. To his fans, he was a unique part of a legend called The Who. Author knew Keigh Moon well and has spoken to his closest friends and colleagues of the exhilaration, wild humour and secret tragedy of a rock'n roll legend. Well-worn. Contents partially yellowed. Date and discard inkstamps upon top edge of text. Some lean to spine. Binding intact. Book
94 pages. Includes 16-page pullout pattern section. Features: Cat's Meow; Golden Sea Fans; Swellican; A Step in the Right Direction; Water Lily Fan Fair; Feathered Friends; Glass Paneled Doorways; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
300 pages. Signature and inscription of Burt Ward, the Robin character from the 'Batman' television show, atop half-title page. A revealing look behind the scenes at all the sizzling secrets you were never supposed to hear... the explosions, the injuries, the feuds, the vendettas and 'Superhero' sex with young fans. The true story of what really went on in and out of the BatCave... vividly unmasked for the first time in the Boy Wonder's own words. "I advise all who are planning to read it to invest in a pair of asbestos gloves for page-turning duties!" - Yvonne Craig, Batgirl. Clean and bright with very light wear. Excellent copy. A wonderful gift for your special Batfriend! Book
16 pages. Features: Why I Believe - Wernher von Braun talks about science and God; A Funny Thing Happened in North Conway, New Hampshire - for 45 hours the town decided to live without time - includes photos of Ray Walker, Mrs. Peter Pinkham, Carol Gaudette and Mrs. Lawrence Sherman; Nine-Year-Old Timmy Walsh recovers from terrible burns suffered in Neptune, New Jersey; Dutch Treat - Charlie Rice writes of his time in Amsterdam, with photo of woman police officer "Greet" Berenschot; Gourmet Bachelor - Chicago's Ed Johnson swaps his summer special recipes; 3/4 page ad for the LBJ Barbecue (BBQ) Cook Book features nice photo of Walter Jetton, caterer to the LBJ ranch; Zipcode USA - Teen Q&A includes photo of Bobby Vinton being mobbed by fans; Nice Mother Goose cartoons by Oldden. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Judith Jedlicka collects baskets; Boehm keeps spreading its wings; The collectible Creche; Christmas ornaments to collect; A new look at Peter Max; Arlene Francis - her TV fans have been showering her with symbols of love for years; The Western Art of New Yorker Gregory Perillo; What's all this flap about flappers? - desired objects of the jazz age; A Horatio Alger Anniversary; Ellis Nassour's elephant collection; Unknown Hummel Madonna with wings found. Ask the experts. Average wear. Name upon front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Nice Dumont TV ad inside front cover features photo of Fred Allen; Nostalgic one-page color ad for Revlon's new ''Sheer Dynamite" face powder; A Formula for Avoiding a Tailspin - converting to the post-war economy; Eight great military photos of Ike, our favorite being the 2/3-page shot of him addressing members of the 29th Division, poised for the final drive into Germany; Is Tomorrow's World Going Left?; Fires That Flame Behind the Arab Crisis - lands of danger and trouble; Above and Beyond the Call of Duty - Staff Sergeant Henry Eugene Erwin of Alabama is the first B-29 crewman to win the Medal of Honor; One-page aerial photo of Osaka ablaze after devastating B-29 attack; How to Make Germans Men of Peace? - a psychiatrist prescribes a possible cure; Shortage of men means some women must learn to live alone and like it; Dean Dixon discusses his mission to bring classical music to the millions; Pro Baseball Article - "Not even the war could put a damper on baseball or on the enthusiasm of fans, with photo of the Red Sox' Cronin sliding into home plate; Lovely one-page color ad for Woodbury powder includes photo of Laraine Day; Two pages of nice dress fashion photos for women; The Bell of Okinawa - located in a pagoda beside Annapolis' Lover's Lane; Nice one-page color ad for Chen Yu nail lacquer and lipstick; and more. Average external soiling and wear. Unmarked. Moderate age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII issue. Book
141 pages. Light wear to cover edges. Previous owners address label on inside front cover. Text in Italian and English
242 pages including index. A revealing look at the craft of songwriting in the words of the songwriters themselves: a compendium of anecdotes and quotations from well-known songwriters, from Irving Berlin and Stephen Foster to Mick Jagger and Kurt Cobain, on their influences, work habits, and how they came to write the songs now ingrained in the popular imagination - a book for songwriters and music fans alike. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Not pretty but a sound working copy of this popular work. Book
Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Book
144 pages. Features: Best-Mannered Children in the World - Eskimo children - nice color-photo-illustrated article; The Army's Tower of Babel - the new language-intelligence school at the Presidio in Monterey, California; They Came to See Him Clobbered - Boxer Art Aragon was the boxer fans loved to hate; The Truth About the "Sonic Boom" - photo-illustrated article how it's 'less dangerous than you might think"; I would Not Murder for the Soviets (part 3 of 4) - Ex-Captain Nikolai E. Khokhlov discloses the exact circumstances surrounding the downfall of his boss, Lavrenti Beria, after Stalin's death; The Wilderness Cure for Delinquents - Twin Pines Ranch in California; Cold Can Save Your Life - fascinating medical article describes how ordinary ice water can be used in a process called hypothermia for better patient outcomes; Daintiest Beaneries in Town - great photo-illustrated article on Schrafft's restaurants; He'll Eat Anything That Swims - Food Scientist Edward Harvey manages Oregon's Seafoods Laboratory at Astoria. Fiction: Haunted Hotel; Salesman's Homecoming; Inexperienced Male; The Lady's Bodyguard; Hollywood Calling! (part 2 of 8); The Avenging Texans (conclusion). Ads: Sensational two-page color 1955 Mercury car ad; Nice one-page color ad for Chevrolet Trucks shows tanker in refinery; Fantastic two-page color-photo ad for Rambler cars; Nice two-page color ad for 1955 Ford cars; Dennis the Menace cartoon is featured in a Cream of Wheat ad; Great two-page color-photo ad for 1955 Plymouth cars; Back cover color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features St. Bernard dog. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. A worthy reference copy of this great issue. Magazine
Features: Arab Air Power IV; Fans for the HS.125; Martinsyde F 4 Buzzard - Part 3. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
20 pages. Features: Fans; Stitching Trivia; Summer Happenings; Armchair Shopping; Embroidered Silk Postcards of the Great War; The Museum for Textiles - A New Look - by Dorothy Hoover; Ivalu - Traditions of Inuit Clothing, April 20, 1988 - January 10, 1989; The McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal; Profiled - Our Banner Makers; "Shades of Alberta" - Calgary Guild of Needle and Fibre Arts Olympic Project - submitted by Barbara Spence; The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Centre; and more. Clean with light wear. Magazine
Features: Mountain Climbing - nice photos; Nova Scotia Feast - the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture's Annual mammoth chicken barbecue, the chicken a la grille; Drumbeats on the Prairie - Fort Battle, built by the Northwest Mounted Police in 1876; Ontario Roadside Parks Invite You; Trip Tips for Camera Fans; Summer Theatre - the Stratford Festival; Esso's Touring Service. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Summer Hood with Cape - front and back views; Manners Upon the Road; A "New Departure"; New York Fashions - summer mantles, fans, gloves, summer shoes; Personal; knitted and crochet insertion for linterie; medallions for album covers, port-folions, etc.; curtain bands; alphabet for marking lingerie; coffee-warmer; netted cover for circular stand; An African Harem; Gold-Fish; Sayings and Doings; Cambric Garden Hat; Swiss muslin fichu-collar with frills; Swiss muslin fichu-collar with ribbon trimming; Rest; Fischer's Method of Bleaching Straw; Dutch Marriages; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Ladies' straw hats; humor. Average wear. Book
20 pages. Contents: Winter Toilettes; Princesses at a Watering-Place; The Household Herald; Women and Men - every one that thirsteth; New York Fashions; Tapestry band for reclining chairs, etc.; background stitches for tapestry cushions ; fans and flowers for evening dress; Mrs. Burkes Pudding; The Woodlanders - continued; Family Living on $500 a Year - par XLVII; Some Christmas Suggestions; Sketches in Constantinople - text with illustrations; The Cocaine Habit - The Worst Slavery Known - New Revelations of Power; Nice centerfold illustration "Going to the Market in the Tropics" whows black man and woman on horseback; full-page illustration of "The Young Scion of the House of Alvarado on a Fiery Half-Broken Mustang; A Millionaire of Rough and Ready - continued; Knitted Chenille cape; Seal-skin wrap with beaver trimming; fur-trimmed mantle; Plain and plaid wool dress; India cashmere dress; A New Phase of Darwinism; humor. Above-average wear. Pattern included. Book
16 pages. Contents: Full-dress toilette; Cleaning kid gloves; Family cooking, by Pierre Blot - part III; Manners upon the Road - of the bachelor family; New York Fashions - full-dress toilette, black silks, the chatelaine bodick; coiffures and combs, cloth boots, fans; Personal; Black silk cord and bead fringes and border; embroidered calendar frame; tapestry design for border; Burial Vagaries; The Mystery of Viscount Bowldout, by George Augustus Sala; To the Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Winter Hats and Bonnets; Old Matches; Saving books from the Escurial library - text will dramatic illustration showing children carrying stacks of books from a burning library; London's Heart - continued; The Count and Countess de Chambord; North London Synagogue - the Feast of Tabernacles - with illustration; humor. Average wear. Yellowing to first page. Book
16 pages. Contents: Dinner and Evening Toilettes; Reproduction in Fac-Simile of the bayeux Tapestry; The Family Purse; Women and Men - on visiting the sick; Masquerade Dresses; New York Fashions - plain dresses; Personal; furniture brush; border for canvas embroidery; embroidered tablets; cross stitch designs for cushions, bags, etc.; embroidered leather wallet; morning caps; beaded border for hats and bonnets; tortoise-shell and jet bonnet ornaments; tortoise-shell combs; Paris Fashioins; Corsage for dinner toilette; tricotine jacket; jersey cloth blouse; Beetrus, by M.H. Catherwood; Washington Gossip; The Woodlanders - continued; Centerfold illustration "The Sultan Going to Prayers"; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready; Family Living on $500 a Year - XLIX; Evening Fans and gloves; humor. Above-average wear and soiling Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's suits; Friendship versus love; Manners Upon the Road - of porches; New York Fashions - plain-basque suit, spring suits, capes, corsages, the watteau postilion, upper skirts, polonaises with capes, lower skirts and kilting; Personal; Fans and Jet Jewelry; Ball and Evening Coiffures; Lady's knitted girdle; embroidered crepe de Chine scarf; gentleman's knitted chest protector; lady's knitted and crochet house shoe; knitted and crochet overshoe; flannel sole for house shoes; lilac velvet and satin cravat bow; black gros grain cravat bow with fringed ends; tapestry border for rugs, cairs, etc.; Cross Purposes - a Valentine Story; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Useful Recipes; Nice full-page illustration "The First Installment - half past eight on Valentine morning; Wonderful full-page series of illustrations depicting "Cupid's Adventures", by Frank Bellew; London's Heart - continued; Nice illustration "Going to the Matinee" shows happy family in carriage; Some Old Dresses; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' Riding Habits and Walking Suit; The Nursery; Manners Upon the Road - of pinching the feet; New York Fashions - evening dresses, riding habits, fans and chatelaines, neck-ties and scarfs, gentlemen's hats, summer suits for gentlemen; Personal; Gray Linen and Cane Basket for Dust-cloths; Clothes-pin Apron; collars in Genoese embroidery; clothes-lilne for fine washing; knitted dish screen; tapestry design for chairs, door hangings, etc.; design for round cushion - satin and half-polka stitch embroidery; London's Heart - continued; Paris Gossip; Ecru Foulard Dress; Eryphina's Child, by Mrs. Mulock-Craik; Lottie's Summer Trip; English Gossip; Sayings and Doings; Useful Recipes; Lady's Visiting Toilette; Picnics; White Pique Walking Suit with Batiste Flounces; Bag for clothes-pins and fine clothes-line; Shakespeare's Handwriting; humor. Average wear. Clipping from cover page. Book
Features: Cover Artist - Mayumi Oda; Pine - many lovely colour photos; Catching Up With the West - the story of the Meiji period; The Saga of Five Meiji Girls - they left Japan to see how foreign women were educated and raised their children - nice archival black and white photos; State of the Art - I.I.'s Ikebana Portfolio; Japanese Fans. Two small marks inside back cover else clean with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Short article on the Freedomites and the death of hunger striker Paul Podmorrow in B.C. - includes small sketch of Big Fanny Storgoff; Editorial - What English Canada - and Jean Lesage - can learn from Maclean's survey of separatism; Nice fulll-page colour ad for the 1964 Acadian; Major article on Separatism by Peter Gzowski - includes many results of related public opinion polls; How Gwethalyn Graham and Solange Chaput Rolland feel about separatism; Malcolm Muggeridge describes the cult of Lord Beaverbrook; Blair Fraser reports from Africa that "The Blacks' New Enemies Are Black"; The Football Game The Fans Don't See - 1962 all-star John McMurtry describes the sixty-minute war of attrition that is the professional football player's real work; Wabush, Labrador - Bustling Construction camp - article with photos; A Moliere Play About Canada - see it on TV - in French; Why Gean Gascon is our first man of the Theatre; Lovely colour centerfold ad for the 1964 Buicks; Nice colour photo ad for Peter Jackson cigarettes; Entertainment Reviews; Laid-in is a news clipping from 19 December 1963 which includes a very graphic photo of Sgt.-Maj. Walter Leja seconds after he was maimed while attempting to disarm an FLQ bomb in a Montreal mailbox. Considerable writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Contents: interesting Borg-Warner ad features color military illustration promoting their desalination equipment; Full-page ad for movie 'To Have and Have Not' starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; Interesting ad with several photos of the Great Northern Railway; Norfolk and Western Railway color ad; Friction over policy for Europe disturbs relations of big three - idealism of U.S. clashes with realism of British and quiet toughness of Reds; Red Thrust on Hungarian front may be master key to victory - Vienna, aim of campaign, is strategically a greater prize than even capital of Reich; Inside V-2 - official British diagram of a German V-2 shows the workings of the rocket and its relative size as compared with a man; The Ormoc Trap; Disaster in China - struggling to save lifelines to the Occident; Kaywoodie Briar pipe - beautiful color ad; Photo of a Fifteenth Air Force Liberator aflame over a heavy flak barrage; Men over 26 to fill the ranks as casualty lists grow longer - 26 to 37's must work or fight in bitter war months ahead; Interesting ad for the Comptometer displays a Googol! - of interest to modern-day Google fans!; White Truck color ad - attractive; France sated with bloodletting - moderates move to halt purge - Germans threaten reprisals against French captives in Reich if executions are continued; Photo of Canadian General Crerar with Cpl. E. O'Connor of Toronto; De Gaulle with Molotov; Industry puts reconversion aside to answer hurry call for arms; The Japs failed purge of the Philippine educational system; Great Lakes Steel color ad featuring futuristic auto body styles. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. Book
Features: Cover photo of Peter Mellor (Burnley); Bobby Moore thinks the leage title looks like going north; black and white photo of Jimmy Husband (Everton); Big-Hitting Bombers! (Goal Scorers) - Bobby Charlton, Jon Sammels, Neil Young, Andy Penman, Peter Lorimer, Alan Hinton; John Toshack and Brian Clark- 'My kind of players'; Colour full-page photos of Brian Kinsey (Charlton) and Tony Coleman (Sheffield Wednesday); Denis Law of Manchester United says "I Hate Watching Football"; The Blues Make Chelsea Fans Happy!; Edinburgh clubs hit the jackpot... in Glasgow; Colour team centerfold photo of "Heart of Midlothian"; John Osborne - the 'Quiz King' 'Keeper; Brave little Exeter shook the giants of Man. United!; Colour photo of Eddi Loyden (Barnsley); Colour photo of Dave Mackay; Big stars who cost small fortunes; Focus on John Sydenham (Southhampton); Colour back cover photo of Mike Summerbee (Manchester City); and more. Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
Approx. 40 pages. Features: Sir Thomas F. Purves; Electric Motor Mainenance cards; Electric Motors for Turbo Compressors; Electro-Medical Apparatus; A New Portable Electric Pump-Sprayer set; The Theory and Practice of Automobile Electrical Engineering - Part 5; Some notes on Exhaust Fans; Rectifier Type Photo-cells; How Transmission Line Faults Affect the User of Electric Power; Large Moving-Coil Voltage Regulators; Coronation Lighting Equipment; Physical Society's Exhibition - 1937; Lighting a reconstructed public hall. Well worn but intact. Unmarked. Book
Features: He makes cops come clean - Orlando W. Wilson, Chicago's new Chief of Police; France's enchanted corner - Brittany; Ballplayers vs. the Fans - challenges for Mickey Mantle; The PX - World's Biggest Discount House; I Call on Pete Martin, by Bing Crosby (Conclusion); Adventures of the Mind - The Time of Our Lives, by Norman John (N.J.) Berrill. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Two inch by two inch clipping from top of page 20. Book
