118 résultats
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. In publisher's special slip-case. Mint. 4to. (31 x 22 cm). In Turkish. 292 p. Many color and b/w ills. Apiculture in Turkey from the Ottoman Empire to present-day. Ari biziz, bal bizdedir. Dünden bugüne Türkiye'de aricilik.
44 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Bulldog Kelly - Cold-Blooded Murderer; Victoria Mariner's Search for Gold - Capt. C.H. McLeod; Daredevil in a Petticoat - Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell the tale; Some Facts About Gold (part 2); A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey - when colonists arrived in the promised land there was no one to meet them and none of the food, lodging or transportation they had been promised; The Night of the Meteors; West with the Harvesters - an army of 1,500 adventurers headed west to harvest the wheat and perhaps grow up with the country; Ghost Town Log (part 1) - British Columbia offers hundreds of ghost towns, mining camps and historic sites; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1 Vol. In-8 in elegante m. pelle con ang. Tit. oro su doppio tass. al dorso pag. XIV-504 una tav. incisa in fine Piatti marm. Leggeriss. fioriture, ma ottimo esemplare PROG 31216 CATT_ATT 43
in-8, 199 pp., broché, couverture illustrée. Bon état (Qq passages soulignés). [BAT-8]
in-8°, 88 pp., broche, couv. illustree. Bel exemplaire [SC-3][[CA29-5/77]
in-8°, 175 pages, ill. h.t. coul., desins, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire. [SC-1]
Very Good English Contemporary cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [xii], 528 p. A comprehensive study on bees, history of beekeeping and its techniques. Balarisi hastaliklari.
24 pages. Features:The Psychology of Colour - by Mel Stephen; Workshop Etiquette; For Janet - by Sue Ann Bly; My Special Friend - by Elizabeth Broomfield; On the Way to Granny's - by Linda Cuyler; and more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: "A Quiet Life" - cover illustration by W.T. Smedley; Shy People; Dunce or Pedant; Women and Men - women's letters; Family living on $500 a years - par IV; New York Fashions - warm jackets, hoods and robes for selighing, toboggan suits, inexpensive house dresses, hints about spring goods; Personal; South Kensington Designs; The Heir of the Ages, by James Payn - continued; The Cantankerous Wife - a folk-tale from the Russian of Afansief, by Mrs. Burton Harrison; Modern Kitchens; centerfold illustration of Warwick Castle; Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miser - continued; Honey William; The Great Botallack Mine; Evening Toilettes; Flower Garnitures for Evening Dresses; Ladies' Gloves; Arab Cookery, by Zahera - meat dishes; Evening toilettes; Evening corsage with lace trimming; humor. Above-average wear. Cover fold mostly open. Book
78 pages. Features: Helena Guergis in conversation with Peter C. Newman; Why Stephen Harper thinks he's smarter than the experts on everything; Why our highest court seems afraid to take on the Harper government; Canada's first army reserve unit north of 60 gets its boots wet; Leah Henderson and Alex Hundert spent 24 days in custody after the G20 protests; What to do about Kim Jong-il and North Korea?; Mohamed El Baradei causes headaches for Hosni Mubarak; Hossein Derakhshan; Obama promised to tackle climate change but...; America turns on Alberta oil; Netflix plans to shake up Canadian TV; Embattled Mel Gibson; Outraged Moms, Trashy Daughters - how did those steeped in the women's lib movement produce girls who think being a sex object is powerful?; Angelina Jolie biographer has much to teach her about her past; Trailer Hitch Guru of London, Ontario - Andy Thomson Jr.; Tips from a professional lie spotter; Launa May Lunn 1944-2010; and more. Average wear. Address label covered with white label. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Canada Recruits the "Man Who Won the War" - bonus-length feature article and photos of Sir Robert Watson-Watt, widely acclaimed as the individual who did the most toward the Allied victory in WWII - he discovered radar in 1934 and is now guiding Canada's hush-hush first line of defense in the far north; Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary - story by Ronald R. Smith - illustrated by Bruce Johnson; The Silent Struggle at Laval - will the Church or the staterule Laval University? - article by Roger Lemelin with colour photos; Alan Brown of Sick Kids Hospital - the best baby doctor Canada ever had - photos with article; Who Wants to Kiss A Man With a Beard? - humour by Bob Collins - illustrated by Don Sexton; Will Women Ever Run the Country? - by Ottawa's spunky mayor Charlotte Whitton; An Ikon for Irena - a story set in the Soviet Untion by Richard Wilcox - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Bring Lots of Money, Honey - humour by John Largo; Meteor car ad. Chip from and small repair to bottom edge of front cover, and 10"x3" chunk missing from bottom of back cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Book
Features: McAdam, N.B. refuses to die - a former railway town; Mel Allen hired to promote the New Jersey Devils; Auditor-General Kenneth Dye casts another net; Operation Red Pepper and Hugh Hambleton; Mulroney endorses Clark, for now; Whitehorse Copper Mines to close; Too many wolves in Yellowknife; Ray and Jean Luyendyk and their (current) family of 27 children, 22 of whom are adopted; President Zia ul-Haq meets Reagan; South Africa attacks Maseru, Lesotho; Back to the MX missile drawing board; Wiretapping the Teamsters; Cover story - Poland's tense revival, with many great colour photos; OPEC price cuts pose a threat; the UAW's pace-setting deal; Peter C. Newman on the Corporate Shareholding Limitation Act; Requiem for a champion - Harry Jerome; The flip sie of Nelson Skalbania; Equal work doesn't pay for women; Love Canal update - toxic land. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Joy Winch appears in cover photo beside a maple sap bucket on the farm of Frank Rumble at Maple, Ontario; Are We a Godless People? - by Hugh MacLennan; Seven Wise Men - Canada's Supreme Court - article with photos; No Hunting Allowed - story by William R. Scott; Sir Stafford Cripps - Labor's Unloved Genius - article with photo; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - an illustrated discussion of car designs; Three Thousand Nights on Wheels - Curtis M. Ruffin is a porter on the Toronto-Vancouver run of the Canadian National Railways - article with nice photos; Green Gables and Red Roads - Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) is a little chunk of the old world; A Kind Word for a Cannibal - an interesting look at the spider; Mrs. Tibbett's Glacier - story by Corey Ford illustrated by Mel Crawford; Jing-a-Low for all That Dough! - gambling at ace-ways in Whitehorse; Meteor car ad; Nice ad for REO 1.5 Ton trucks and buses; Li'l Abner Cream of Wheat ad; Nice colour ad for Stafford's chocolate syrup; Noxema ad features photos of Pat Heselton, Marilyn Ruth, Louise Prestlien, and Margaret Eustace; Joan Fontaine is featured in an Auto-Lite spark plug ad; Ad for the Thor Automatic Sink; Coke ad on back cover shows woman in story picking up a 6-pack. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A nice copy. Book
192 pages. Cover photo of Jacqueline Kennedy and kids on horseback. Features: Lucille Ball - How I Got to Be President; More Wives Ask - Who Am I and What Should I Do With My Life?; Louis Nizer - How to Tell the Truth in Court; Gary Cooper - A Final Act of Courage; Perle Mesta - Seven First Ladies I Have Known; Nice full-page colour photo Coke ad featuring Clown and lady in dress; Many pages of great vintage colour photo ads; Child Care in Russia Better Than Ours?; Great colour ad for Carter's "French Doll" Clothes; The Fraud of Femininity, by Betty Friedan; The Girl Who Said No, by Mel Heimer; Donovan's Retreat, by James Robbins MIller; A Friend of a Friend, by Margaret Cousins; The Moonflower Vine, Jetta Carleton; Captain Kangaroo Play-Together Page; Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy. Book
Features: Bouncing Baby - a celluloid doll; Return of the Bru - once ravaged by fire, twice beautiful; Kathe Kruse and her mischief dolls - the dolls Hitler banned; A Valentine cut-out - an unusual paper doll; Hilda - a Dutch Doll - complete pattern; The Wonderful Effanbee Honey Walker; Accessorizing, Beautifying, and Customizing Your Dolls; Friday the 13th - the story of Lydia; the Leather soft-sculptures of Cheri Calvert Casler - Antelope Mountain Dolls; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Workshops; Victorian Legacy - Architect's Angle; F.A.O. Schwarz's Wood Dollhouse; Petite French Porcelain cityscapes; Trish Schwartzberg's Modern Furniture; Don Davis' Rooms; Creative Notebook IX - Beaded Wood; Hooked on Rugs; Hilltop II - furniture in Microspect - 1/4" scale chairs for every room; Canning Vegetables; 1/2" scale bed finishing touches; Claycrafting - Honey Bear; Make country accessories from old TV components; Playhouse furniture; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: The Blizzard, by Walt Coburn; Revival at Seven Rivers - The Jones Family of New Mexico; Canyon of the Skeletons - a young Crow brave helps his people survive; The Fight that Finished Tombstone - the knockout punch by Mel Rigley was the most expensive punch in the entire history of the west!; Lady Moon - Catherine Evelyn Gartman was loud of voice, crude and boisterous of manner; Man, was it rough! - rugged Idaho Territory; The Last Owl-Hoot - lawmen called Earl Durand 'The Wyoming Tarzan'; Lost - a fortune in silver, somewhere in Arizona; They Could Laugh... at Death - the pioneers never lost their sense of humour; Sandhills Tragedy - children lost in the great sandhills of Western Nebraska, the dread fear of every pioneer family; The 'Fightin'est' Ranger - Jim Gillett; Military Ghosts on the Carson - Fort Churchill; Oklahoma Scout, by Theodore Baughman; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Collision on the High Seas; The Co-ed or the Townie; By Boats Possessed; The Sheriff Who Never Gave Up; Fire at the Cocoanut Grove - the Boston nightclub became a furnace, trapping 1,000 revelers in one of the worst disasters in America's history; Three Brides, a Bathtub, and Murder; Saga's Photo Contest; Mel Ott - The Boy Wonder; The Marine in the Halloween Mask; The Big Build-up; The Most Versatile Shotgun Sport; Von Richtofen - The Last Knight of Battle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Pitney-Bowes ad features Mike Lawlor; Kodak M18 Movie Camera ad; Map of Canadian Pacific's holdings; Artist Claude Goulet; X-15 Crashes in Mojave Desert, taking the life of Air Force Major Michael J. Adams; Vietnam war coverage; Ferdinand Marcos electoral victory in the Philippines; Fantastic two-page photo ad for Crown Zellerbach Canada Limited features large black and white archival photo of loggers with color inset photo of the lovely Mrs. Tom Radford of (our hometown) Ladysmith, BC; Dressing up the Masai in Tanzania; South Yemen - Yoke of Independence; Photo of Miss World, Madeleine Hartog-Bel who passed out when she was named the winner; Photo of Oregon State's Haggard kicking field goal vs. U.S.C.; Passing of racehorse Dark Star; German Publisher Axel Springer; Stella's Radial Rainbows; Nice color photo of John D. Garnet in Schaefer Pen ad; Passing of Major General Bruno A. Hochmuth, Bernard Kilgore, Joan Lowell, Serafino Romualdi, Clementine Paddleford, Ida Cox, Sir Archibald Nye and Dr. Elmer V. McCollum; Divorce of Ralph Schoenman and J.D. Salinger; San Antonio's fast-rising Hilton Palacio Del Rio Hotel; Jeep Wagoneer ad; Photo of band "The Doors" at the Fillmore; Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Dick Honey tree-chipping in New Zealand. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Tan paper-covered boards with maroon cloth spine. 100 pages. 5 1/8"w x 7 5/8"h.
Interior pages clean and unmarked. Open tear and glue marks on front endpaper. Red cloth boards show wear and stains, with closed tear on spine. 5 1/4"w x 7 5/8"h. 100 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Pink cloth boards. Worn dust jacket with tears, including big open tear. 5 1/4"w x 7 3/4"h. 100 pages.
Clean, unmarked interior pages; glued binding slightly separated at center (see photo). Some scribbles on rear endpaper. Beige cloth boards. Edge wear to cover. 5 1/4"w x 7 1/2"h. 100 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Maroon cloth spine. 100 pages.
Book is in excellent condition with a little foxing to the endpapers only. Binding is solid and square, in bright blue cloth covers with silvers sparkles. 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, no tears. Red dot at top page ends.