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Features. Grumman X-29A; Cook Island Hopping; "Mallet Blow"; Blackburn's Buccaneer - 1; Captured Argentine aircraft in the UK; Slingsby T67M Firefly; Schneider Trophy 1929; Air Malawi; Blackburn's Buccaneer - 2; R. Norwegian A.F.; Starfighter Twilight; 'Ocean Safari 85'; German Cargo Services; Where have all the Tridents gone?; ARV Super 2; Chinese 'Coke' with a western flavour; 'Frogfoot'; Back to Barbados; R.A.F. Finningley; Orions provide ASW network around the world; Coat of many colours; Aeronautical Research in WWI; South African DC-3 Anniversary; Republic of Singapore A.F.; EAP - Britain's fighter demonstrator; Bell AH-1W SuperCobra; First TriStar K.1 for No. 216 Squadron; Final Top-up with No. 57 Squadron; Zeppelin-Staaken E.4/20; Sun'n Fun; R.A.F. Fighter Command 50 years on; British Caledonian Airways - part 1; Electronic Warfare - part 1; R. Moroccan A.F.; Hanover Report; Tiger Club Air Show; Outback Medic; British Caledonian Airways - part 2; What to see at Farnborough; R.A.F. Support Helicopters; British Aerospace 146; British Caledonian Airways - part 3; Lynx Speed Record; British Aerospace ATP; Chile's Air Force; Sea Harrier Training; Freighters at Birmingham; Tactical Fighter Meet '86; Eastern Air Lines - part 1; Farnborough postscript; Beverleys in Aden; Visit to China; R.A.F. Support Helicopters; EW Training in the R.A.F.; Oshkosh Highlights; Eastern Air Lines - part 2; Westland Lysander; Index laid in. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. A quality copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Great cover art of a Sunday School teacher struggling to maintain order; Editorial - a fond farewell to Harry S. Truman; Great ad for International Harvester excavating equipment; Our Sorry Record on Housing - Canada rates last among western nations since WWII - article with photos; Youth and Age in a Timeless Seaport - Karsh photographs Saint John, New Brunswick; Queen of the Sob Sister - a Maclean's Flashback to Mrs. Kathleen (Kit) Blake Watkins, the world's first woman war correspondent; Rory Peter's Last Run - story by David MacDonald - illustrated by Jack Bush; How Margery Anderson Came Back from Insanity after a nervous breakdown in 1945; When Ignorance is Bliss - humour by Robert Thomas Allen illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; Do Civil Servants Earn Their Salaries? - The Government (Ottawa) Girl - red tape, the frustration of routine work and Ottawa's man shortage often bring disillusionment to her - article with photos; Nice colour-photo ad for Allis-Chalmers excavation equipment - Ungava theme; 1953 Dodge ad; Excellent Coke ad on back cover features man in a foundry. Clean and unmarked with light wear. An excellent vintage copy. Book
Almost two inches thick. Some of the many topics include: Blood feud between Iraq and Iran; Uniforms for white collar industries; Shelly Duvall; Helmut Schmidt; Pierre Trudeau and Canada's Arctic Oil; Lindsay Wagner; Urban Cowboy; Strike by PSAC; Anne Murray; Politically incorrect lawn jockeys; Burt Reynolds; William Pollock and Drake International; France's Nuclear Gamble; Rita Moreno; Vietnamese Boat People; CDC - Canada Development Company is now majority-owned by private shareholders; El Asnam Earthquake; Brian Peckford - Confederation's Bad Boy; Carter vs. Reagan campaign; Tennessee Williams; Monique Leyrac; Big Government Squeezes Big Oil; Trudeau's National Energy Policy (NEP); Sterling Lyon; Michaele Jordana; Reza Pahlavi assumes the mantle of Shah in exile; Reagan Beats Carter; Single parent poverty; Problems with the Dall Sheep in the Kluane Lake area of the Yukon; Lockeport Nova Scotia has lost three fish plants but the people remain strong; Melody Anderson; The Global Struggle for Human Rights; Discovering Saturn; Susan Jacks; Lynn Johnston; Roy McMurtry and RCMP wrongdoing; The West Goes Wild over federal energy policy; Douglas Christie and the Western Canadian Concept; Sharon Timmins; Nick Taylor; John Fraser views China; The Pain Threshold; Mood Drugs - cure or curse; Cherie Lunghi; Farewell to Jules Leger; Devastating earthquake in southern Italy; Search for an industrial strategy for Canada; Viktor Beleko lands his Soviet Union Foxbat aircraft in Japan; Two Hungarians defect to Canada; Soviet tanks roll into Poland; Joni Mitchell dons black face to play a pimp; John Lennon killed - cover photo; Brooke Shields; Poles in search of food; The Kent Commission looks at the concentration of Newspaper ownership; Light wear. Firmly bound. Few library markings. Book
98 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; What became of swimmer Trudy Ederle; Rare one-page photo ad for Sikorsky Aircraft featuresS-51; Classy color ad for Lincoln cars - "Nothing Could Be Finer"; Color ad for Borden's instant coffee features 'dumb' husband serving wife in twin bed; Neat Jeep ad shows Jeep on side with arrows indicating design features such as PTO (power take off) at front and back; Fifteen photos of Harry Truman accompany article on him; Tony Doto - a soldier trained to kill has trouble in civilian life; Mr. Truman's plan for the Middle East; What price Soviet-Iranian Accord? - with photo of Dr. Ali-Akbar Daftary and his daughter, Iran Ala; Middle East - Bevin, Pashas, and Peoples; Herbert Hoover pleads for food for children; Manchurian scramble in China; Photo of Hirohito; Nice color-photo Kodachrome ad; Nice color centerfold ad for Jones & Laughlin Steel features over the road freighting illustration - before steel; The New France watches the Rhine; Velasco Ibarra loses friends in Ecuador; Brief obituaries for C. Oscar Strand, Thomas Dixon, and composer Vincent Youmans; Photo of 13-year-old Jerry Mullen of Los Angeles having glass removed from his backside - the 15th trip to hospital for this accident-prone boy; Nice one-page ad for Western Air Lines - America's Pioneer Airline; National black market in lumber - 'peckerwood' sawmills; The town of Arlington, MO is sold by Fred Pillman for $10,000 - with photo; Nice Delta Airlines ad; Nice one-page color ad for the Gilbert Paper Company of Menasha, Wisconsin, provides aerial illustration of their snow-bound plant; Nice ad for Gaylord Boxes; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Clear tape along coverfold. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Two Men and a Donkey - Part I - two young artists walk from the South of France to Spain; With a Pack-Train in Jasper National Park, Canada; Dead Men's Tracks - Part II - a Western Australia Story about a lost mine; My Adventures in Mexico - Part I, by John Edwin Hogg; Obtaining an identity card in France; The Harpist of Alexandria; My First Panther - The Fur Trail - a trappers tale from the southern end of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part III (Conclusion) - how a white woman succeeded, for the first time in history, in entering Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet; The King of the Dedangs - how an obsure adventurer became a short-term king of certain savage tribes; Checkmate - how a murderous gang of dacoits in India met their Waterloo; a special home in Parksville, British Columbia (photos); A Night with Crocodiles - an eventful African river journey. Covers loose but present. Light pencil signature atop front cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
60 pages. Features: One-page photo ad for Goodrich Silvertown tires shows huge 100-ton transformer on large flatbed trailer; Babe Ruth's birthday (with small photo); Marriage of Dorris Bowdon to Nunnally Johnson (with small photo); Obituary for Capt. Wilford H. (Captain Billy) Fawcett; Obituary for Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada; Absolutely gorgeous one-page full-color ad for Diamond T Super-Service Trucks; Nice one-page photo ad for International Trucks illustrates work on huge aquaduct to bring water to Rio de Janeiro; Photo of Maurice Wrixon with his unique animal - half cat, half monkey?; George R. Hart performed marriages wholesale before being shut down; Census Storm - maze of "Prying Questions"; American Youth Congress (AYC) Blasts War; War Rumblings in Near East mark Anzac arrival in Suez; Allies provide guns for Finland; Photo of German soldiers at Essen Krupp works scanning skies for bombers; How the Finnish War Affects the Western Front; IRA Bombers' Hanging Brings Riots in Dublin and Belfast; Censor woes in France; Four war photos from Finland; Lord Haw-Haw; Britain's new fighter, the Boulton & Paul Defiant; Walt Disney - illustrated Pinocchio movie article; Intimate view of Hitler by Hermann Rauschning; Joe Louis fights Arturo Godoy - with photos; Nice one-page photo ad for Chrysler features the 6-passenger New Yorker sedan; Photo of figures skaters Eugene Turner and Joan Tozzer; Nice one-page Chevrolet ad features the Special De Luxe Sport Sedan; Fast photo captures runners William Fritz, Charles Beetham and Charles Quigley in the Boston Garden; Weird 2/3-page photo ad for Kreml Shampoo and Hair Tonic; Alcoholics Anonymous; Fashionable one-page ad for Mallory hats; Fashion designers Elizabeth Hawes and Muriel King; GM shareholder Charles S. Mott; Nice color-photo ad for the new 1940 Studebaker Commander features an orange car surrounded by a well-heeled group; Back cover features nice ad for Old Overholt Whiskey with an illustration of the Falstaff Inn of Pennsylvania. And much more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Documents the magnificent designs and thoughts of Purcell and Elmslie. Illustrated in black and white. Few library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this precious compilation. Book
Pages 217-244 plus many additional pages of wonderful vintage ads. Contents: Ad for Whitehead Aircraft; Martinsyde ad; S.E. Saunders ad; Palladium Commercial Vehicles photo ad; The Question of Reprisals; Sopwith ad; Page of six photos of aeroplanes of the Fifth Army of France; The Medical Aspects of Flying; The Gentle Art of Propaganda; Honours for the R.N.A.S.; An Albatross Fighting Biplane - informative article with photos and diagrams; Westland Aircraft ad; The Roll of Honour; International Aircraft Standards (continued); half-page photo of observation balloon to watch enemy movements on the British western front in France; Personals; The Air Force Debate; Aviation in Parliament; The British Air Services - announcements and appointments; Flight Buyer's Guide and Trade Directory; and more. Unmarked. Covers tender. A worthy vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 989-1014 plus many additional pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: Honours for the R.F.C.; The Roll of Honour; Wing Bracing and Head Resistance; The Burges Speed Scout Biplane (with scale drawings and three photos); The Royal Aero Club - Official News; Turin to London Non-Stop - with map and photo of Captain Laureati and Michael Angelo Tonzo; ; Airisms from the Four Winds; "X" Aircraft Raids; The British Air Services - appointments and promotions; Aircraft Work at the Front - Official Information; Magneto Ignition - simple explanation of the fundamentals with illustrations; The Society of British Aircraft Constructors - official notices; Side-Winds; Imports and Exports 1916-1917; Full-page illustration with text honouring Second Lieutenant J.C. Currie "for conspicuous gallantry" while acting as observer to another officer; Fantastic full-page Avro ad; Nice full-page ad with photo for Palmer Cord Tyres and Wheels; The Huns Air Service; Flight-Lieut. Curt Wolff (who replaced Baron von Richthofen as leader of Squadron 12) killed in action; Air photo of massive damage to the village of Bermericourt; Photo of the Kaiser decorating officers on the western front; Photo of Italian F.B.A. flying boat; Two photos of the first of the U.S. Navy's 'blimps'; Great full-page illustrated ad for "Triplex"safety glass for use in goggles and windshields; Personals; Great illustrated ad for the "Newhaven Coat"; and more. Bit of faint underlining to magneto article otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 137-162 plus many additional pages of wonderful vintage ads. Contents: Whitehead Aircraft ad; Curtiss Aircraft ad; Intensive Aircraft Production; The Control of the Metal Trade; Aerial Activity in the West; Sopwith ad; Full-page illustration by Black of the stranded "Goeben" being bombed in the Dardanelles; Savage Hun Sentence on British Officers; The Attitude of the A.S.E.; German Dreams of Conquest; "Clouds and Rain Hindered the Work of Our Airmen"; The Italian S.V.A. Fighting Scout - article with photos and drawings; Air Fighting in Janaury; The Roll of Honour; "X" Aircraft Raids; The Raid on Paris; A Post-War Aeroplane - design by F. W. Halliwell; Photo of a British night bombing plane in France; Details of British Air Raids; Armchair Reflections by "The Dreamer"; The British Air Services - announcements and appointments; Aircraft work at the front; Personals; International Aircraft Standards; Army Club cigaratte ad on back cover; Flight Buyers' Guide and Trade Directory; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage issue. Magazine
Photos - The Liberation of Brussels by British Troops; Photos of Nazi 'Flying Bomb' equipment (launching ramp, etc.); More V-1 Flying bomb-related photos; Photos of London's balloon flying-bomb defences; Germans thrown out of Brussels; dummy airfield and guns; a smashed Tiger Tank; Scenes during the Liberation of France; photos of the great allied advance on the western front; Photos of the breaching of the Gothic Line on the Adriatic sector by the Eighth Army. Advertorial covers not included. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Two volumes in-4to, 1) XII + 798 p., including frontispice and env. 15 planches n./b., 2) 782 pp., including frontispice and 15 planches n./b.; binding in red-morocco with corners, gilt spine with Art Nouveau motifs, some rubbing to the head and tails of spines. Pages are bright with occasional spotting.
Very Good English Guzel prenses [= Guzel princess]. Saray entrikalari / Afiyet resimli ve merakli romandir 3 volumes. 1 - 152 [First 152 no.], muharriri: Avanzade M[ehmed] Suleyman, prep by: Sisag Ferid, Lusyen matbaasi, Dersaadet, Galata, Ist., h. 1329 - 1331 = m. 1912 - 1914. Half leather bound. 2 binding are in original cloth in their period, 1 is in contemporary cloth in Ottoman lettered gilt. 1-40, 41- 79, 79-152 no.s is collected 3 separate volumes. Some fascicules are double. Large 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Good / very good. "Simdilik haftada muntazaman uc forma nesrolunur. Nushasi 20 para". B/w ills.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original decorative cloth bdg. in Ottoman style. 4to. (29 x 21 cm). In Ottoman script. 146 p., b/w ills. and musical scores. Litho. Rehber-i mûsikî. (French: Tambouri Djemil Bey), (1873, Istanbul - July 28, 1916, Istanbul) was an Ottoman tambur, yayli tambur, kemençe, and lavta virtuoso and composer, who has greatly contributed to the taksim (taqsim), (improvisation on a makam / maqam) genre in Ottoman classical music. His son, Mesut Cemil Bey, was an equally renowned Turkish tambur virtuoso. First Edition. Extremely rare. Özege 16642. Akdogu I, 82.
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with 58 plates on 25, 9 coloured maps (2 folding), numerous illustrations and maps (many full-page and some coloured in outline) in the text and front and rear endpaper maps coloured in outline; original cloth gilt, badge blocked in gilt on upper board, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The standard account of the regiment's service in WWII. Includes list of pre-war camps, numerous personnel lists, honours & awards, and ROH. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.240; White, p.174.
337p. illus. Hardcover Very good condition spine darkend some cover soiling
New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). Turkish Edition of EsseGesse's Il Grande Blek. Every issue is 226 p. B/w ills. Teksas 1-26. 26 volumes set. First 26 volumes. Covers by Fatih Okta. [=Il Grande Blek].
Editions Fleuve Noir, 1953. Collection Western. In-12 broché, couverture illustrée par Gourdon de 187 pages. Aventures et bagarres de Johny Sopper n°16. Pliures en dos néanmoins bon exemplaire.. N°16 de la série WESTERN
(FT) 1st edition. Later Cloth, 8vo, 137 pages. Includes portrait and well over 40 photo plates of life in the Colony. 25 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Argentina -- Colonia Lucienville -- History. Jews -- Colonization -- Argentina -- Colonia Lucienville -- History. Agricultural colonies -- Argentina -- Colonia Lucienville -- History. Jewish farmers -- Argentina -- Colonia Lucienville -- History. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide (JTS, NYPL, LOC, FAU, U of Chicago, Harvard, Toronto, McGill), none west of chicago nor outside North America. Reprinted in 1986, this is the original edition from 1932. Bound in later boards, some internal binding repairs, ex-library with minimal markings. Good Condition. (LATAM1-46)
84 pages. Articles: Is the Western Alliance Breaking Up?; The Fastest-Growing City in the World - Toronto!; The Man with the $100,000 Voice - Joel Aldred; Bruce Hutchison Rediscovers the Unknown Country - Part 8; What you don't know about Sleep; Has France Learned to Drink Safely?; The Tug That Never Gave Up - The Sudbury; Watch out girls, I'm Dangerous! Nice full-page 2 colour ad for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. Average wear. Front cover present but detached. Page 43/44 missing. Page 55 loose but present. Back cover detached but present. Please inquire if you prefer a better copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: The North Western Railway of India - Lengthy article with dozens of wonderful photos; How New Locomotives Pay for Themselves through Savings in Maintenance; Locomotive Feed Water Devices - article with photos and many detailed diagrams; Designing a Modern Ice Plant- informative article with many photos; Huge 66" 50-ton Gate Valve for use beneath New York City; Ship by Rail - promoting the use of railways for shipping; The First Baldwin Locomotives for Persia - interesting details about Persia's rail system - 4 Mogul (2-6-0) units ordered; The History and Development of Locomotive Crains and Heavy Deck Machinery - informative bilingual (English/Spanish) article with great vintage photos; Twelve pages of excellent photo ads. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
72 pages. Features: Single Expansion Articulated Locomotives on the Western Pacific Railroad - with interesting information about the railroad and stunning photos in the Feather River Canyon; Five Baldwin Locomotives for the U.S.S.R. Railways - excellent photos of their fabrication and loading onto ships; Baldwin Locomotives of Historic Interest; The Baldwin-Southwark Corporation - a detailed treatment with many superb photos; An Unusual Order for large Bronze Castings - Manganese Bronze Pipe Castings for New York City's Water Supply System; California Lumber Moves Eastward - short article with photo courtesy of the McCloud River Railroad Company showing the "Shevlin Pine Special"; The History and Development of Locomotive Cranes and Heavy Deck Machinery - Bilingual (English/Spanish) article with amazing photos; Two Locomotive Boilers go Overboard in rough seas off Brazil - with photos; Testing a 4-8-4 Type Locomotive on the Lehigh Valley Railroad - includes very detailed technical specifications/test results; Eliminating the Hot Engine around the Terminal Shop - a new electric spotter is manufactured by the Whiting Corporation; Thirteen pages of excellent photo ads. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
84 pages. Features: Where do good locomotives go when they die?; The Western Maryland Railway - very long article with dozens of super photos; James McNaughton - obituary; Locomotive Coal, Sand and Cinder Handling Facilities - article and wonderful photos of contemporary technology; The Island of Jamaica and its Railway system - Substantial article with many great photos; Recent locomotives; The Building of a large flanging press - superlative article and photos describe the fabrication of a 1,400 ton Southwark press destined for use in the Eddystone plant; An Epoch in the History of Industry - June 28 marked the completion of the final transfer of the Works from Philadelphia to Eddystone - extensive coverage and numerous photos; The Commonwealth Edison Company and the Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway - article with photos; Heavy Trains and runs on the Chinese Eastern Railway - lengthy article with many archival photos - superb documentation; A Notable Shipment of All-Steel Passenger Equipment for Brazil - fascinating photos and description of the loading of 23 rail cars onto the motorship "Belpareil"; A Unique Logging Railroad - the Porterfield & Ellis Company of Ontonagon County, Michigan - interesting article and photos; Gasoline Locomotives for Industrial Switching - built by Whitcomb; Ten pages of excellent photo ads. Average external soiling and wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Motive Power Progress on the Chicago and North Western - very lengthy article with dozens of wonderful photos; Arthur Latham Church - obituary with photo portrait; Testing Railway Motor Cars - detailed article with many photos; The First Steam Railroad in the State of New Jersey - The Camden & Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company; The Manufacturer's Railway Company of St. Louis; The Railways of New South Wales - long article with many excellent photos; A Roundhouse Pit Crane; Extending the Electric Truck Range - Jaw-dropping article on the state of electric delivery trucks way back in 1931... including the following comment "The electric street truck has been with us for such a long time that many truck users feel they know it and know all about it."... (so why don't we have them now???); Baldwin Locomotives of Historic Interest; The Redwood Empire Special - the greatest single rail shipment of lumber in the history of the west - 117 cars with more than 3,000,000 feet of lumber - with photos; Fourteen pages of excellent photo ads. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
183 pages. A heavily worn and soiled vintage copy. Occasional markings to contents. Binding intact. A much used and loved copy. Book
