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24 pages. Features: Man and Sky - Safety is the Goal but Disaster Lies Between - article with photo of the Hindenberg disaster; The National Scene; Organized Labor and the Movies; Seeking taxes from Pierre S. duPont and John J. Raskob - with photos of each; Jim Crowism; Photo of Congressman A.W. Mitchell; Italy, Peeve, Censorship; Mexico, Church, Land; Sugar Pact; Spanish Civil War Update, with photo of Basque troops in Bilbao; Small international news bits; The Mellon Institute; Photo of Glenn Martin; Editorials; Robert R. Young and the Van Sweringen rail empire; Feature article on Neville Chamberlain, with photo of him and his wife; The Movie World - with bizarre 'puckered' photo of Rufe Davis; Photo of Sohn - who flew with canvas wings - and died; Air safety compared to rail and auto safety; Very fascinating aviation photos on back page show very unusual planes; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
88 pages. Features: How I'll Beat Marvin Hagler, by Roberto Duran; How I'll Beat Roberto Duran, by Marvin Hagler; Sugar Ray Leonard on Duran, Hagler, Hearns and more; Boxing's Scandal - The Mysterious Case of Panama Lewis and the Cut Gloves; James Garza - the new west coast sensation; Anatomy of a non-fight - Michael Spinks vs. Eddie Mustafa Muhammad - what really happened?; Ringside Reports; Colour photos of Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns and Roberto Duran; Budweiser International Rankings; Kronk Boxing Team; Gotch Against Jack Johnson - the dream match that almost was; Carl 'Bobo' Olson. Bit of writing in marker atop front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Unfair Tax Laws - you are probably paying more than your share, says Ross M. Robertson; Albania - where Stalin still rules - can this tiny, backward Communist nation continue to oppose Khrushchev's power?; People on the Way Up - Giancarlo Baghetti, Jane Powell Rosenthal, Mark Wilson (TV's top magician); The Grass Craze - lawn lovers by the millions have taken the greensward to heart - here's how to work wonders with your private pasture; The New Frontier Women - wives of White House insiders battle to keep up with the sophisticated, hectic life in the Capital, by Flora Lewis; We Waste a Million Kids a Year - can our schools bridge the gap? - part 2 of 3; Timeless Idaho - how this wildly beautiful state preserves a slow-paced, independent way of life; The Last Days of Sugar Ray - the rise and fall of America's flashiest titleholder, the boxer they said would never have money trouble. Uncommon full-page advertisement for Tea ('The Hot Refresher') features the Detroit Red Wings NHL Hockey Team with black and white images of Sid Abel, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, and others. Average wear. Tears to to some interior pages at fold, otherwise a sound copy. Book
Stories: The Christmas Tree Derby; The Last of the Conquistadores; Solving Five Thousand Mysteries; Climbing under a Mountain; Searching for Smith; The Land of Mud Castles; South Sea Sugar; We Covered the Water-Front; Shark Hunting; The Spell; Mystery Moths; The Pursuit of the Breelong Blacks. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
Published around 1994, 8vo, 379 pages, not illustrated. eng
xiv,307 + 201pp., 33cm., reliure cart. (dos en cuir rouge avec titre doré, plats marbrés), feuilles de garde marbrées, texte et intérieur frais et sans rousseurs, bon état, rare, B83547
guitar tab edition, 87 pages with no marking of any kind to text. Words and music to 13 songs.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, full-page maps in the text and endpaper maps in sepia; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Well-illustrated, detailed and often harrowing account of the West Indies under slavery. The original edition is already scarce in this condition.
A Paris, de l’imprimerie impériale, chez Méquignon, 1810. In/8 reliure demi-basane, dos lisse à pièce de titre brique et filets dorés, 382 pages, 3è édition. Reliure très fatiguée, mais bel état des feuillets. Antoine Augustin Parmentier pharmacien, agronome, nutritionniste et hygiéniste français. 1737-1813. Pour remédier à la pénurie de sucre de canne, il préconise l’emploi de sucres de raisins et d’autres végétaux sucrés. Il s’intéresse à la conservation des farines, du vin et des produits laitiers. Vicaire col. 658 signale la première édition de cet ouvrage sous un titre légèrement différent (Instruction...) en 1809. Considérations générales sur les végétaux d’où l’on a extrait du sucre. Sucre de maïs, sucre de betterave, sucre de canne. Procédés de la ménagère, du pharmacien, du manufacturier. Des fabriques de sirops et conserves de raisins, élixir de Garus, hydromels, etc...
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Six Skulls - Part I - Sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings" - the twenty-five year persecution of Walter G. Patterson who, while a young man in Butte, Montana, was compelled to join a lawless Chinese tong; An Amazing Voyage - The escape from Spain of a number of interned German officers; A Flying Man in South America - Part VI - The adventures of John G. Barron, who spent 2.5 years giving flying exhibitions in South America, often to people who had never before seen an aircraft; The Child of Terbeeke - How a child saved a British Battalion from annihilation; Humours of the East African Campaign; Panton's Feud - how aviators and artillery co-operate at the Front; On the Borders of Tibet - Part V - Photo-illustrated account of the author's two years wanderings in these wild lands of wilder people; A Bandit's Bride - Part III - The strange story of Pancho Villa's wife, with photos, including photo of Villa and Zapata on horseback in Mexico City in 1915 when they practically controlled Mexico; Railway Building in the Wilderness - Part I - Construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific through the Canadian Rockies, with great photos; The Faithful Lover - The history of William Anderson and Catherine Burthe; Photo of Mashukwlumbwe tribesmen with hair spikes over two feet tall!; Ten-page investment ad for the Sugar Cane By-Products Co., which apparently sought to solve the shortage of wood pulp by using sugar cane; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 388-472, 8-24 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
pp. xx, 332. Numerous photo illustrations, many in color. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Nice copy. ART 5
68 pages. Features: Brief obituaries for Capt. James H. Cook, M. Sayle Taylor, William Fortune, Madame Hranoush Bey, and Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick; Jap threat in Pacific Grows; Sea Strategy of the Japanese Thrust; Singapore Siege; Battle of Macassar Strait; Bloody Bataan; Defensive Tactics of Germans Wring Praise from the Reds; Photo (from last year) of crashed Russian pilot being interrogated by Germans; Hawaii is a testing ground for command; Churchill wins showdown by Parliament still testy; Charles Yoshii is the voice of Japan's Lord Haw Haw; Photos of Sir Stafford Cripps and James Maxton; Photo of Corinne Luchaire, pal of Nazis; Quisling becomes Premier of Norway; Photo of last Plymouth coming off line before plant converted to war production; Disney and Donald Duck are recruited to help Americans complete their income tax forms - and sooner; Iron Fireman ad features Howard A. Lincoln, President of Bemis & Call Co.; Great photo of a Vought-Sikorsky flying boat Excalibur taking off on maiden flight at Stratford, CT; Bomb shelter to be built for Liberty Bell; Two reasons for sugar rationing; Agriculture Department insists average Amercan woman is dumpy; The tall players for West Texas State College's basket ball team - article with photo of Charlie Halbert; Photo of Pastor boxing Lesnevich; Photo and article on Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel); Photo of news headline where FDR asks parasites to leave Washington; Photo of Donald Forbes; Photos of Veronica Lake; Photos of Rev. Lawrence Lacour with his wife; Commissionner Alexander M. Damon and his wife retire from Salvation Army; Canadian Club whiskey color photo ad inside back cover looks at Mardi Gras in New Orleans; Nice color back cover ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features Lois January, star of state and screen. Somewhat above-average wear and external soiling. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
399pp VG/none spine slightly rubbed on edges and with faint traces of dust, some spotting on endpapers and pastedown, otherwise a very good copy. Comprehensive work on the cane sugar industry in the world, containing many illustrations, tables and several fold-out maps in colour.
Libro rilegato come nuovo; Copertina rigida
Volume in lingua francese impresso nel 1904 e successivamente rilegato in coperta rigida in mezza pelle coeva con titoli impressi in oro al dorso lievemente ingiallita dal tempo presentante abrasioni piccoli strappi e mancanze ai margini ed a ridosso del dorso in particolare alle cuffie ed agli angoli e macchioline di decolorazione dovute ad abrasione da sfregamento anche ai piatti. Pagine pienamente agibili alla lettura anche se naturalmente e leggermente ingiallite dal tempo in particolare ai tagli esterni e sporadicamente fiorite ai margini esterni dei primi fogli. Occasionali illustrazioni in nero nel testo. Bordi non perfettamente rifilati. Numero pagine 425. USATO
Une feuille 21x27 cm. Cachet de service.
Hachette, Bibliothèque "Vie à la campagne", 1913. trois volumes, In/8 broché, couverture illustrée d'une vignette Tome I : 32 planches de photographies en noir, 202 pages ; Tome II : illustré de 32 planches et de 79 photographies. Tomme III avec 32 planches et 95 photographies, 194 pages. Choix et cueillette des fruits, préparation des fruits, préparation des sirops, mise en flacon et stérilisation, les abricots entiers au sirop, les ananas en rondelles, les bananes, les cerises, les figues, les fraises et les framboises, la mousse de fraises, les groseilles à grappes, les groseilles à maquereaux, les macédoines d'été et d'arrière saison, les mirabelles, les pêches et les brugnons, les demi-pêches et les pêches entières au kirsch, les poires, les pommes et les coings, les prunes reines-claudes, les prunes reines-claude au sirop concentré et alcoolisé, les marrons et les nèfles.
Baillière et fils “Encyclopedie agricole” Paris, 1920. In/12 broché, 170 figures in-texte (shémas et photographies), 458 p., 7 f., 2ème édition. Ouvrage dense très précis : les agents et les méthodes de conservation, partique de la conservation des fruits, législation sur les conserves, rôle des coopératives, débouchés, étude spéciale des fruits (de abricot à sureau).
144pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition Sponsored by U.S. Sugar Corp.
Tananarive, Pitot et Cie, 1932. In-4 broché, 328 pp. suivies de XI planches et de 2 cartes. Dos insolé. Très bon état.
32 pages. Features: A Wasted Sugar Supply - Honey from Honeybees; Wild Youth Proves a Myth - 'girls and boys' between 35 and 45 are rolling up the crime wave; Making the Government Efficient - reorganization would cut 100,000 unnecessary employees from federal payrolls; The White House - a Mecca for Cranks - Secret Service men must be ever alert to guard the President from the Unbalanced; Missionaries and Machine Guns - many preachers of the gospel do not want the protection of bullets; Tom Learns to Play the Game - an American boy who on mastering himself was able to direct others; Henry Ford's Page - Lower price no longer means lower equality; Editorials - making the movies dry, the value of vulgarity, Mussolini forbids earthquake prophet,exams proposed for ministers of religion, Washington's inability to think in other than political terms; Writing Verse for Composite Readers - some versifiers cultivate eccentricity, others are themselves, and therefore poets; Sad Men Who Look So Wistfully at the Sky - author, William F. Hopp has been chaplain of the Michigan State Prison for over seven years - article with photos; Duelists (Fighter Pilots) of the Sky - a tale of knights-errant and their deeds - of their light-heartedness, and their gallant, tragic fate; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 3) The Big Snake and the Little Dog - and how a darky made millions from circus side shows; Chats with Office Callers - Christmas cards began with Jewish Adolph Tuck, controversy in Canada over union with the U.S., sighting of monster near Prince Rupert, B.C.; The Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Fascinating illustrated ad for homes which can be built for under $1k in materials; I Read In the Papers - article by Nathaniel Zalowitz in the 'Jewish Daily Forward' declares "...For the overwhelming majority of Jews in American assimilation in any true sense of the term is absolutely out of the question."; The Barefoot Boy - poetry by J.G. Whittier inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Du May 2001. In/4, reliure éditeur cartonné sous jaquette illustrée, 208 pages, illustrations photographiques couleurs, images, factures, chromos, boîtes, livres, albums, les marques classées par ordre alphabétique...
Book is in excellent condition in every respect, with an equally clean and new dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked in any way. Solid, square, straight, tight binding. 143 pages, maps, photos, charts, diagrams, tables.
Average wear. A sound copy. Book
