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63 pages. Features: How courts price your injuries; The mystery flight of Rudolph Hess (first of 3 parts); Penguin thinks he's people; Carmelites - rare glimpse of a silent world; 10-page life insurance advertising supplement; Policewoman Sally Krowchynski of the Edmonton Flying Police Club; Fantastic full-page colour Jantzen ad featuring a very handsome Jean Beliveau; Educated Dice - the rolling reader contains seven dice with different words on each face - it makes learning to read into a game; Water Beetle - Ray Pastuck converted his Volkswagen into a boat!; Canada's biggest unconfined explosion at Suffield, Alberta - 3 great colour photos - smoke ring; Collector of Militaria - Eduard Kohler of Neuberg, Germany; He Killed in his sleep - Willis Boshears killed Jean Constable; "We flew into Hurricane Carla" - the crew of plane 5 spent five days tracking the worst tropical storm in 60 years, and their reports enabled half a million persons to flee; NHL President Clarence Campbell's 15 years in office; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Mm 155x220 Galleria del Minotauro. Volume in copertina rigida, sovraccoperta editoriale, 301 pagine con illustrazioni a colori e in bianco e nero. Libro in buono-ottimo stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
A book of poems with twelve full-page tipped-in colour plates. This edition limited to one thousand two hundred and fifty copies. 36 pages. Dust jacket has tears and edgewear and soiling. Red cloth covers, gilt title on spine and front cover.
36 pages. Features: How the Secret Army Tried to Kill De Gaulle - article with photos; Hand Knits fashion photo feature (colour photos); Full-page photo ad for Canadian Pacific's flights to the Orient features beautiful Asian woman; Bill Warwick of Penticton hockey fame seeks to return the "real" World Hockey Tournament Campionship trophy to the Russians - after his team returned a phony cup! - article and photos; TV's Fresh Young Faces - colour photos of Dinah Christie, Julie Rekai, Rhonda Silver, Lorraine Green, Louise Marleau and Beth Morris; Constable Ted Owens teaches safety in Saanich schools. Nipper comic. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Green cover with pasted-down illustration. 9"w x 7 3/4"h. 224 pages. Illustrated throughout with artwork by artists such as Monet, Constable, and Turner, among others.
48 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of lady on red background; Nice colour-photo ad for Swift's Premium bacon inside front cover; Brief news items include The Ledger of Life, A Good Resolution, The Glow of True Happiness, We are Mostly All Strangers, and Improved Seeing and Knowing; Nice one-page ad for two new Ford V-8 cars for 1938, the Standard Ford V-8 Tudor and the De Luxe Ford V-8 Fordor; Editorials touch on - The Farmer and the Income Tax, Fascist Influence in the New World, Sources of Wealth, and World Trade; Attractively illustrated one-page McLaughlin Buick ad features a blue Series 46-19, Five-Passenger Sedan with Trunk; London's Famous Underground - photo-illustrated article; The Batley Inheritance (short story); Liberal Reward (short story); The Vagabonds (short story); Junior G-Men - photo-illustrated article on Vancouver Police Constable Ronald Eveleigh and his initiative to reduce juvenile delinquency; Strange Achievement - Charles E. Jones is founder of the world bird sanctuary at Collingwood East, a suburb of Vancouver, B.C.; The Murder on the Links (part III/3 of this Agatha Christie story); Mystery Man of Golf - Laverne Moore, alias Johnny Montague - article with photos; Sweet Caporals ad features photo of dog 'Rathlin Roundalay', owned by Miss Katherine Savage of Montreal West, Quebec; Hollywood news with photos of Andrea Leeds, Nita NAldi, Lily Pons, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Douglass Montgomery, Jean Parker, and more; Photo of Alice Faye in Woodbury Cold Cream ad; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Old Scottie comic; Article on Curling; Beauty article; Cooking article; Recipes; How to make a dinner mat; World Sayings; Nice colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy (lady in tub), and Rinso (lady on cliff); Canadian fish ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
20 pages. Features: The Outstanding Canadians of 1966 - Isabel LeBourdais, Dr. Gustave Gingras, Elaine Tanner, Joseph Papp, Bonny Rush, Georges Lemay, Lili St. Cyr, Jean Drapeau, Norma Lougheed, Dalton Camp, Elmer Sopha, Joey Smallwood, Eric Griffiths, Martine Van Hamel, Harry Jerome, Glenn Hall, Dirk Hoogendoorn, Constable Del Moore, Joe Borowski, Mary English; Photo and brief write-up of Medicine Hat farmer Art Millington and his battle to sell unpasteurized milk; Colour fashion photos 'hide-and-seek sex'; Artist Feliks Topolski; Doug Barkley's fight to recover from a serious hockey eye injury; Len Johnson and how this captain of an Empress found happiness as a second mate on a B.C. ferry. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
BIOGRAFIA DI COROT BIETTI 1946 255 PP. SEGNI DEL TEMPO, PICCOLO TAGLIO SUL RETRO AL FONDO DELLA SOVRACCOPERTA DI BROSSURA, PER IL RESTO CONDIZIONI BUONE SE NON OTTIME.
80 colour plates; covers plastic protected; first inner hinge torn and repaired with librarian tape; library sticker on spine ans inside cover; library plate on FEP; library stamp on page block; text and illustration tight and bright Ex-Library
120 pages. Features: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; Moholy-Nagy - Proto-Holographer; The Aesthetic of transparency in Russian modernism; Transparency in art; Windows - Transparency and enclosure; Poems on John Constable; Arctic Transparency and Reflection; The poetry of Harry Martinson; Perceptual transparency in Cezanne's paintings; A short essay on the painter Monet; Aspects of transparency in music; Transparency of architecture and man; Banco Coca - transparent architecture in Madrid; Glass in architecture; Transparency and reflection in sculpture and architecture; On Victor Pasmore's use of transparency; The work of Mary Martin; Light, space and transparency; Transparency and visual ambiguity; book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
pp. 11 + Plus twelve large full page color plates. Slight foxing. Endpapers beginning to brown. Small folio. Original full tan cloth binding. ART 3
Wear, creases and spots to cover. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 762 pages. The Walter Pach translation with a new introduction by Robert Motherwell.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous reproductions (many full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Nice copy of a standard refence.
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and reproductions in the text; grey cloth, upper board with mounted illustrations, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case.
4to, 80 pages, illustrated. eng
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 184 plates and a pedigree in the text, neat inscription on front paste-downs, some light and inoffensive spotting; cloth, gilt backs, boards very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly frayed and creased at edges. Vol. I: The Plates; Vol. II: Catalogue Raisonne. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Hachette 1967. In-Folio broché couverture illustrée rempliée de 16 planches + texte .Bon état
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 79pp. Very well illustrated study of the paintings of John Constable with biographical details. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Dead Men's Tracks - Part I - A story from Western Australia about a lost mine; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part II - How the first white woman in history succeeded in entering Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet; Stumbling Pete (Peter Dawson) - a tale of two trappers on the northern coast of British Columbia; Down the World's Most Dangerous River - A thrilling 750 mile boat voyage down the Colorado River, with photos; Muskrat Farming in Canada - One of the latest industries to be established in Canada - breeding muskrats for their pelts on a commercial scale; Marooned in the Swamps - A veteran hunter is abandoned in the heart of Africa; Murder will Out - How R.N.W.M.P. Constable Pennecuick searched for three missing travellers - one of the most remarkable cases in the annals of the famous Mounted Police of Canada, with photos; The Gorilla of Ubangui - A trip to French Congo in search of a huge gorilla; The Promotion of Constable Sidi, a Nigerian Policeman; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part III - The continued adventures of two city-bred sisters who took up homesteading in South Dakota. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Black and white illustrations throughout. Features: Northland Patrol - RCMP Constable DeLisle's three-thousand-mile mid-winter sled-trip through the Canadian Arctic to investigate a murder; The Hoodoo Liner - A strange yarn from a bad-luck mail steamer; Jungle Racket - A curious story from the wilds of Malaya; The Lurking Terror - Australian launch skipper Peter Brooks catches a giant groper which menaced pearl divers - article with photo; The Maharajah's Elephant - what happened when a royal elephant died in India; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County, Illinois (part 2) - Bad Charlie Birger is finally put out of commission; The "Tom Thumb Circus" Affair - murder mystery against the bizarre background of a collection of performing animals and birds; Titus George's Trouble - a poltergeist story from a Ceylon tea estate; Jungle Pets (with photos - including lady riding a giraffe; They Prowl By Night - an encounter with a lion-man; Mrs. Brown's Good Cause - everything goes wrong at an Indian grand concert fundraiser; The Mountain of Fate - an attempt to scale Mount Kungwe in East Africa. 66 pages plus 22 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Discovery - Gold Town in the Atlin District of B.C.; The Collector's Page; Edward Dossetter's Queen Charlottes - he was a photographer who travelled the northwest coast in the late 1870s; The 1913 Liberty Nickel; Billy Ballou - The Forgotten Expressman; Canadiana - spitoons/cuspidors; The Cliff Dweller; Letters from the North-West - Part II - A.R. Dyre was a young North West Mounted Police Constable from 1882 to 1885; Our Vanishing Heritage - false front buildings; Gagnon and His Flying Machine - was he the first to make a vertical free (helicopter) flight in 1907?. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
564 pages. Crease on lower corner of front cover and down side of spine, light soiling to covers, spine slightly browned
4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome reproductions; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in cream, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE
