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Sm. 8vo. First Edition with line illustrations as frontispiece and 16 coloured plates; original series binding of pictorial boards a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. King Penguin 60.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout, signature on front paste-down; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
144 pages. Features: Charming colour ad for Deepfreeze Home Appliances inside front cover; Would you throw $357 million into Hell's Canyon?; MGM Color Movie of the Month Calendar; Nice colour ad for Champion Spark Plugs features young batter; Colour 1952 Chevrolet ad; Vivien Kellems - Woman on the Warpath - Anti-Income Tax Crusader; Belinda Osborn, by Hannah Smith; Religion and Our Schools, by Liston Pope, Ph.D.; First Quarrel, by Sarah and Ronald Morrisette; You Can Leave Your Troubles Behind - Smiley Blanton argues that trips can help us in the confused modern world; I'll Never Marry a Bureaucrat, by Elenore Nelson; Star Witness, by Allan Vaughan Elston; Live Wire, by Charles T. Webb; The Escape, by Alice Eldridge; Look Out Rembrandt, Here We Come!, by Jack Long; The Torn Invitation, by Norman Katkov; They Gambled on Greatness - Gilbert J. (Gil) McDougald and Family, by Vance Packard; New Helps for Your Headaches, by Clarence Woodbury; Girl With A Past, by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger; Puppet Family - The Copelan Family of Jamaica, N.Y.; Doctor Soccer - Bill Feffrey of Penn State; Judge Stanley Scherr of Baltimore deals only with traffic court for youngsters; Harriet Dreilinger is one of the nation's best woman magicians; The "Corn Tones" perform for wounded GI's in Tokyo General Hospital; Virgil Stauffer and International Friendship Gardens of Michigan City, Indiana; Blanche Holland works as a hat check girl to travel around the world!; Bombproof Caveman - Herman Knaust of Catskill, NY has a business protecting records from atomic blasts in his underground vaults; Marietta Larson and her Dogettes; Mrs. Warner Nelson cuts cans; Dr. W. Harry Everhart tries to bring back Maine's Atlantic salmon; Chauncey M. Willey Sr. - carver of granite monuments; Coed of the Month - Phyllis Stickler; Holiday Time in Sweden - with photos; Weapon of Fear, by Harmon Coxe; 1-page ad honoring Jt. (jg) Thomas Hudner, Jr. U.S.N., Medal of Honor recipient. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Mm 155x210 Collana "Nuovocinema/Pesaro". Brossura editoriale di XIII-357 pagine. Copia molto buona. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published to accompany the major exhibition mounted severally by Kimbell Art Museum, Walters Art Museum and the National Gallery.
STORIA GENERALE DEL CINEMA CON PROBLEMATICA INTRODUTTIVA 3 VOLUMI I PRIMI DUE A CURA DI GHIRARDINI, COMPLESSIVE 1152 PP. IL TERZO DIRETTO DA VINCENZO BASSOLI CINEMA CONTEMPORANEO 604 PP. EDIZIONI ORSA MAGGIORE 1988. SEGNI DEL TEMPO, BRUNITURE AI TAGLI, NEL COMPLESSO BUONE SE NON OTTIME CONDIZIONI. Parole e frasi comuni alcuni Alexander Korda ambientato America americani americano artistico attori capolavoro caratteristiche Carol Reed certo Chaplin cinema italiano commedia commerciale complesso critica derivato dimostrare diretto disegno animato Disney documentario dopoguerradramma drammatico Duvivier Edward Dmytryk Eisenstein espressive esso estetico Feyder film di guerra Ford fotografia gangster generale genere giovane Grierson Hollywood infatti interpretato invece Jean Jean Gabin John John Ford King Vidor Laurence Olivier lotta maggior Marcel Carnè mente mezzo cinematografico miglior film moglie mondo Monsieur Verdoux morale narrativo neorealismo nonostante opere Orson Welles Pabst particolare periodo personaggi polizia preciso problema produttori produzione proprioprotagonista psicologico Pudovkin ragazza rappresenta realistica realizzato realtà regista René Clair resta riesce risulta riuscito rivela Robert romanzo scena sceneggiatore sceneggiatura scenografie schermo significato sincerità sociale soggetto soltanto sonorosovietico stilistica storia del cinema storico successo sviluppo svolge teatrale tecnica tedesco tendenza tipicamente tratta umano valore vari viene western William Wyler Wyler
136 pages. Features: Warner Sportster; How to Buy Your Own Airplane; Transatlantic Robin; Installing Your Engine; Ultralights in Oregon; You Can Fly Anything. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
36" x 25.5". Indicates 25 foot contours, water bodies, roads, rail lines, structures, etc. Light wear. Book
Paris, Editions Rivages, 1989. Collection "Histoire". Un fort volume broché de format in 8° de 424 pp.; cahier photographique au centre du livre. Bon état. Tampon ex-libris.
Features: First Annual Report of American Express Companies; John F. Stevens Retires From Hill Lines; B.F. Bush Succeeds George Gould as president of the Missouri Pacific Railway (with photo of Mr. Bush); Causes for Trade Depression; Development of Alaska Fisheries; Hearing Regarding Pacific Coast Rate Cases; Larger Terminal Yards Planned for Tacoma; The Railroads and the Panama Canal; Sixty-Seven Steamships in Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet - article with nice illustration; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Three Sailors of the British Steamer Benedick convicted of mutiny by Edinburgh court; Captain David Baird to take charge of the Victoria and Vancouver Stevedore Co.'s Vancouver Branch - with photo of Mr. Baird; Suspension of Capt. Alfred Croskey Reduced; Tacoma News; Captain Fred Warner to command the famous steamer Corwin (brief article with photo); Nice illustrated one-page ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West", which connects Seattle to San Francisco; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Vulcan Iron Works of Seattle features an aerial view of their plant; Willamette Iron & Steel Works ad features nice photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and pumping water in the air; Canadian-Pacific Railway Steamships ad features schedule for their connections between Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: Balloon Training at NAS Lakehurst; Underwriter's Laboratories Aircraft and Pilots Registers; How the Allies trained the American Air Service; The War Diary of John R. 'Killer' Kane - part III; The Stardusters - a history of the 406th Figher Group; Pineapple Airlines - an operational history of VR-21 - part I; The last flight of Lawrence B. Sperry; Seversky AP-7; The race from 'Point Zero' - Curtiss vs. Wright; Beware the Man with the Tape Recorder; Operation Sun-Run; The Douglas DC-1 - 50 years ago; What killed Harriet Quimby; Bell XP-77 Design Origin; Davis-Monthan - home of the USA's 'Surplus' Air Force; The War Diary of John R. 'Killer' Kane - Part IV (conclusion); Jim Warner - Radioman; American-built civilian Airplaines in the Netherlands East Indies, 1935-1942; Pineapple Airlines - an operational history of VR-21 - part II; The Crash of the TWA Fokker F-10A; Doing their duty Side by Side - American Aviation Personnel in Allied Service; The Lockheed Constellation (A history) Part I; Lillie-Vought Biplane (Chance M. Vought's Early Designs of World War I Era); American Military Aircraft in Siam 1934-1940; U.S.S. Intrepid Air Museum; The 366th Fighter Group in WWII; Hollywood's 13 black cats; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 1" open tear on tissue paper dust jacket. Full white cloth boards. 9 7/8"w x 12 1/4"h. Section of 15 accordion pages with full color illustrations, followed by 26 pages. with 14 color plates. Text by Edmund White, David Moos, and Marina Warner.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.38.
6 pages. Sensous cover illustration of Pola Negri. From the RKO Radio presentation of Pola Negri in "A Woman Commands" with Roland Young, Basil Rathbone and H.B. Warner. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Coverfold openings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps in red; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased with minor loss at edges. The Far Eastern Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph newspaper relates a decade of covering south-east Asia immediately after WWII. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Includes a bibliography. SCARCE.
40 pages. Features: Nice two-color addressograph ad inside front cover; AT&T charged with waste and extravagance; Gargantua the gorilla leads a streamlined new Ringling circus to town - article with photos; George Jean Nathan; Franco's offensive rolls forward; Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn defies clergy and puts over sweepstakes bill; Francis William Rickett and Ben Smith - mystery men of Mexican oil; Photo of smiling FDR with Marvin McIntyre; Photo of Father Charles Coughlin of Detroit; Negro politician Nathaniel Brewer, of Cambridge, MA; Squaws riot in Northern Minnesota; Interesting article on Key West, Florida; Nazis put their Nordic paganism into print - rules for marriage ceremonies in the Temples of Blood; Photo of the Prince of Liechtenstein and his wife; The Soviet Union's NSRA (Northern Sea Route Administration) is one of the few government agencies to escape the Stalin purge; Tsung Tsai Chiang becomes Stalin of China; Egyptian feud between Farouk I and Nahas Pasha; Fantastic hockey photo shows American goalie Earl Robertson playing against the Chicago Black Hawks; Nice photo of Joan Blondell with police; Burial announcement of Col. Edward M. House - and picture of him with Woodrow Wilson; Nice one-page photo ad for the Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera; Interesting photo of black children at Milk Bar - Rev. Amos H. Carnegie; Interesting picket outside Boyles Furniture Store in Utah; Labor Racketeers Still Flourishing; Nice photo ad for Warner & Swasey turret lathes of Cleveland; C.I.O. seamen picket Maritime Commission offices in Washington; Leonor F. Loree leaves the D.& H. (with photo); Nice color ad inside back cover for San Francisco tourism features illustration of rotating street car; Back cover color photo ad for Four Roses whiskey features letter from John Chapman. Average wear. Unmarked. Small clipping from page 7. A worthy vintage copy Book
60 pages. Features: Great color-photo ad for Fisher Body inside front cover features young lady with horse; Nice one-page ad for Long Distance with close-up image of young man; Photo and brief write-up of 72-year-old pancake-eating champion Charles Sharp of Iowa; Eye-catching one-page two-color ad for the February 1st issue of the Saturday Evening Post leads off with a profile of American Airlines President "C.R."Smith; Plymouth car ad; Debate on Lend-Lease - article with photos including Charles A. Lindbergh and Joseph P. Kennedy; British Drive Against Italy rescues lifeline of empire - new losses force Fascists to accept German domination; Amazing photo of a large (freight) trainload of Italian prisoners being moved to the rear; Blow-up in Rumania - failure of Iron Guard Revolt Strengthens Antonescu - article with photo of Horia Sima; Japan's Strong Men - Konoye strips Diet of powers as Matsuoka praises Axis goal; Nice color ad for Seagram's V.O. shows Canadian server crossing the border into the U.S.; Negroes in Uniform - article with photo of part of Uncle Sam's ninth cavalry Regiment; Nice ad for the 1941 De Soto which features Fluid Drive with Simplimatic Transmission; Great photo of 7 year-old Barbara Schulz of Evanston, IL who is chief taster for the Reed candy plant in Chicago; Nice photo ad for the Edison Voicewriter/Ediphone includes NBC's Bill Stern and "Ellen Randolph" (Gertrude Warner); Photo of basketball player Stanley "Stutz" Modzelewski; Photos of Bob Feller and Bobo Newson; Radio sensation Martin Block; ad promoting air travel shows plane flying over old-timer pouring hot water into the radiator of his snowbound car; Nice color-photo ad on back cover for Lucky Strike cigarettes features Connor Aycock, tobacco warehouse owner of Durham, NC; and much more. Center page holding by one staple. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Nice photo ad for Warner & Swasey Turret Lathes features the McDonald Observatory at Mt. Locke, Texas; American Recognition of Franco Fits into "Stop Hitler" Drive; GoodYear Tire ad features photo of Richard M. Teall of Toledo, Ohio; Swallowing goldfish at Harvard; "Tough Johnny" Torrio faces jail for income tax evasion; Photo of FDR shaking hands with George Washington Carver; Experts forecast Negro return to the Republican fold in 1940; Beautiful one-page color ad for the new Cadillac Sixty Special features a dark blue car in front of hotel; Nice one-page photo ad for Vitamins Plus; Great Britain awakens to Reich Threat of Supremacy - major article with photos of Polish leaders, Danzig Nazi leader Foerster, and more; Nuisance Islands - Japan's Seizure of Spratlys gives her a bargaining point; Spain - Rebuilding - with photo of Julian Besteiro; How U.S. Leads World in Synthetic Chemistry; New malarial problem carried to Brazil by stowaway insect; Large and lovely photo of Katharine Hepburn; Frank Andrea and the television set he has placed on the market - photo with article; Six photos of screwballer Carl Hubbell in action; Hudson car ad; Cy Young turns 72; Marriage of Clark Gable to Carole Lombard; Hitler's half-brother, William Patrick Hitler, arrives in New York; Nice ad for the RCA Victrola; Obituary for Gen. Gerardo Machado, exiled ex-President of Cuba; Making safer safety glass; Intereseting ad for Elliott Addressing Machines; Ford V8 car ad inside back cover; Color-photo ad for Four Roses Whiskey on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
108 pages. Features: Nice color Chrysler ad inside front cover shows prosperous family and emphasizes imagination and safety; Classic one-page Bell Telephone ad shows pretty switchboard operator holding wire; Kelly Springfield Tire ad shows fashionable sidewalk scene; Nice Hilton ad features The Stevens Hotel in Chicago; Classy one-page color ad for Florsheim two-tone shoes; Nice color Ford car ad presents the (red) 1946 convertible; Intriguing one-page ad by Warner & Swasey called "Did Hitler Win the War?" provides text explaining how a lack of co-operation between France's labor, management and government led to the fall of that nation, thus co-operation is required for victory; Nice one-page photo-illustrated Pan American World Airways ad promotes their worldwide cargo service; Food - scarcer and scarcer; Beautiful photos of the many daughters of Daniel O'Neil in Boston with Mgr. Francis A. Burke; Mr. Truman and the Navy; Great one-page color ad for General Tire features golf theme; How tomorrow's war will be fought; Photos of UN offices in Sperry building and New York World's Fair building; Japanese women vote for first time; China - Civil War; Photos of beatings in Italy; Russian General Vassily D. Sokolovsky; News of the world in Russian; Tractors of gold on the Canadian prairies; Genuinely unique one-page two-color ad entitled "Mad dog!" by the America Fore insurance company shows angry dog and photo of car, the interior of which has been torn to shreds by a dog which was locked in it; Brief obituaries for George Ernest May, Lyle Saxon and Viscount Southwood; Photo of German V-2 rocket on launch pad in White Sands, NM where it wll soon be launched to conduct upper atmosphere research; Nice one-page ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Creighton Bros. leghorn chicken breeders; Article and photo of Theodore (Ted) Samuel Williams; Photo of Boston Red Sox Manager Joe Cronin; Tasteful one-page ad for McCall's Magazine features painting by John Koch; Great photo of Arthur Callenstein of Chicago playing marbles; Milller High Life Beer ad shows black many in white jacket holding ttray of beer; Weird Kreml Hair Tonic illustrated ad; A New Socialist International?; and more. Average wear and soiling. Please note: centerfold ad missing, otherwise a worthy vintage copy. Book
302p. Text illustrations by Jo Dendel. Inked ownership. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly worn. Nice copy. AFRICA/2
80 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Dominion Inlaid Linoleum inside front cover; Editorial topics include - Advertising our country, Typical problems in the western provinces, The Return of Employment, and The Cost of Sickness; The Smooth Silence (short story); The Carpenter (short story); Peiping (Beijing/Peking) Under Martial Law - photo-illustrated article of events in troubled China; Not a Case for the Jury (short story); The Girl Who Wouldn't Get Up (short story); The Spongers (short story); First Easter Among the Godless - photo-illustrated article told by Alexander Welikotny describes his experiences in Russia; Heil Summer, Heil Sport, All Heil! - article looks forward to the Olympics, with photos of Canadian Crew Champions, The Leanders "Eight" of Hamilton, broad jumper "Sammy" Richardson, and walker "Hank" Cieman of Toronto; Nice one-page Plymouth ad features a four-Door Touring Sedan and photo of A.B. Ellis, Radio Engineer of station CKLW; Parker pen one-page ad features photo of Princess Rostislav; Nice one-page Dodge care ad includes photo of a Model "D2" four-door Touring Sedan, and photo of Mr. F. Lyle Kelly, of Windsor, Ontario; First report of the Bank of Canada; Great two-page Easter Chevrolet ad features a green two-door; Movie news includes photos of Warner Baxter, Charlie Chaplin, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Billy Lee, and Shirley Temple; Great one-page Lux soap ad features photo of Grace Moore; Pond's ad includes photo of Eleanor Roosevelt, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Latrobe Roosevelt of Washington, D.C.; Blue Jay Corn Plaster ad entitled "Corn Demon Killed"; Half-page Canadian National Railways ad features Jasper National Park; Cooking article; Nice one-page ad for Magic Baking Powder; features Miss Lillian Loughton; Spring Cleaning article; Nice one-page Heinz ad features photo of Josephine Gibson; Canadian Pacific half-page ad features photo of the Empress of Britain; Uncommon half-page ad for Ingram's Milkweed Cream; Beauty article; Tangee ad features photo of Lyle Talbot who picked the most appealing lips in an interesting test; World Sayings; Ad inside back cover protests preferential treatment of foreign periodicals in Canada; Wonderful colour back-cover ad for Tea features a Ripley's Believe it or Not theme and says "Drink More Tea for Vitality!"; and more. Average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
LeRoy's story of his love affair with Hollywood and the art form that was once the wonder of the world. 244 pages. Dust jacket price clipped and with small chips and worn corners and top/tail of spine. Massive inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper.
36" x 25.5". Indicates 25 foot contours, water bodies, roads, rail lines, structures, etc. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
1st edition. Good hbk. Former public library copy rebound in pale red cloth, gilt. Damage to the inside front cover. Ink inscription on the front endpaper. 16954. eng