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Folio (320 x 215mm). (16) ll, including frontispiece, 618 pp, (14) ll. Engraved frontispiece, title in red and black with large engraved vignette, numerous engraved illustrations including large-format ones, and numerous woodcut illustrations, headpieces and initials, with final blank. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. Somewhat browned and with a small defect in the engraved title-page, but still in good condition, binding slightly bowed.
8vo., Third Edition thus, with portrait frontspiece (original tissue guard present); newly bound in grey boards, backstrip with printed paper label, hand-made endpapers, original cloth from upper board and backstrip mounted on new and separate leaves at front, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published two months after the first edition. SCARCE. Enser, p.96
Paper wrappers. 11 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Community Emergency - Emergency Association! was a sermon delivered by Rabbi Hermann Klein, concerning the catastrophic community emergency that plagues the Jewish community today, namely, the need for solidarity amongst all Jews in Berlin. Rabbi Hermann Klein, Hungarian born, was a Rabbi in Berlin, and perished in Riga in 1942. His cousin and friend Eugenio Villas of Buenos Aires is given a dedication on the title page; most likely Villas reprinted this sermon as a pamphlet after Klein sent it to him. With institutional blind stamp on last page. Subjects: Jewish sermons - German. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Slightly browned and soiled covers, bumped topmost edge. Very Good Condition. (LATAM1-26)
ill., br. L'autore di fumetti Reinhard Kleist illustra la vita movimentata del "Man in Black": dalle sue prime session con Elvis al concerto a Folsom Prison, che alla fine degli anni Sessanta ha reso il musicista la voce più famosa d'America, fino al suo spettacolare ritorno a fianco del produttore Rick Rubin. Un libro che ci permette di conoscere in modo unico il vero Johnny Cash e i suoi brani.
48 pages. Features: Longitudinal Stability for Very Large Airplanes; Solution of Anomalies With Flying Models; Practical Structures; Economics of Airplane Sales; Outlook for Aviation; Aircraft Radio - a description of both radio receiving and transmitting apparatus for the large multi-motored planes as well as the small please plane; Maintenance of an Air Transport Service and Safety Standards; Ad for Western Electric radio telephone receiver; Stromberg-Carlson ad with photo of Lt. J.H. Doolittle, shown with his famous fog-flying plane; New Aircraft - with photo of Schroeder-Wentworth Guggenheim Safety Contest entry, the Paramount Cabinaire, the Curtiss P-y Hawk, and the Wallace Touroplane; News of the Industry; Airports and Airways; New Developments; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First UK Edition, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; orange cloth, gilt back, backstrip very slightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in the US in the previous year.
(FT) Hardcover. 345 Pages. 33 cm. First edition. In Yiddish and some Spanish. Celebrating one hundred years of Jewish life in Argentina, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Subjects: Jews - Argentina Biography. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Red cloth over boards, with silver debossed title, marbled endboards. Edge of back cover barely bumped, in near flawless condition. Very Good +. (LATAM1-9)
349p., illus. Hardcover Good condition, lacking front free endpaper
369p. Hardcover Very good condition good
128 pages. Features: The Engineering of Consent - The Mental Health Movement is linked to thought control and is a powerful weapon of coercion; Straight Talk - why is freedom forever on the defensive?; A Scratchin' Good Time - fungus diseases, allergies and poison ivy are plaguing Americans as never before; Last Train to Silverton - the mountain wonderland of southwestern Colorado possesses an American heirloom; The Invisible Conflict - five popular beliefs, created and spread by the propaganda mills in this country, are proven to be false; ; What Will You Tell Your Children When They Ask About the America That Was?; Bobby-Sox Pandemonium - Washington is a scene of helter-skelter as everybody 'plays it by ear'; Revolutions Come in Different Packages - to claim a kinship between the American Patriots of 1776 and advocates of revolution today is a false assumption; "They'd Better Forget It" - Mr. A.G. Heinsohn, Jr. of Cherokee Textile Mills refuses to trade in his advertising postage plate to Pitney-Bowes; This Is Not a Democracy; How New Money Is Created - origin of the present fractional reserve system ob banking is traced back to the goldsmith bankers of western Europe during the 17th century; Strange Tale of Two Books - GUJA agents and their sinister activities; Kahn's Kernels; If I Were King; The First Prophet of Modern Communism - the evil legacy of Karl Marx; New York Is a Fabulous Town; What Happens to the Bond Money? - few citizens understand what happens to funds supposedly collected to pay off state and municipal bonded indebtedness; The Education Show-Case - more than anything, the teaching profession needs the development of character; A Milepost in Labor Relations - how an enterprising raiload track foreman got a good day's work from his men; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
524 pages. School stamp to half-title page otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A quality working copy. Book
408 pages. Couple of school stamps otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no flaws with creaseless covers and spine, sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile.
Book is in excellent condition; unread, appears new in every respect save a tiny bit of edge wear at spine ends, some fading. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 601 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 512 pages.
48 pages. Features: cover photo of the Ciudad de Armenia; Large photo of the Rangitane inside front cover; Full-page photo of the Royal Mail Line passenger ship Andes; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; Cruise Ship Review; Steamer Services of the Great Western Railway - This year the railway world is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Great Western Railway. Here we review the maritime aspects of the railway's activities, with this part describing GWR's activities in the 19th century - Part 1; Down South America Way - Bernard Young recalls his shipping observations at Rio de Janeiro between the wars, observations which were often made upside-down!; Ship Canal Memories; The Port of New York and New Jersey - Ted Scull reviews the changes of the past twenty years; Under Sail; Nice photo of the Colima inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition wth grey heavy weave HB covers with gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, 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. 315 pages with alphabetical listing of the who's who from p. 170 on. Also section of facsimile reproductions from each of the 63 tractates of the Babylonian Talmud, reproduced from the original Hebrew published in Vilna, Lithuania in 1880 by the famous typographer and printer, Baruch Romm. " In addition to a brief but vivid description of what the Talmud is, when it was written and what it includes, it is crammed full of fascinating biographical sketches of hundreds of the great scholars of the Palestinian and Babylonian academies, whose interpretations of Scripture are the backbone of the Talmud."
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's stamp and plate on front end paper. 171 pages, b&w illustrations.
Pages 449-536, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Mystery of Dominic Pietro - how an innocent man was saved from the gallows; The Trials of A Naturalist's Wife - part 4; A Woman's Ordeal - Mrs. C.T. Sturgis was a prisoner of Mexican bandits; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - Part 2 of the great photo-illustrated story of the author's travels among the Wahhabi Arabs; Hunting the Addo Elephants - they were marked for extinction at the hand of famous hunter Major Pretorius - article with many photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 5 - Adventures in Peru, with great photos, including carrying a piano up a mountain!; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season - terrible flooding makes travel very difficult; Photo of 30,000 coconuts being sprouted in Tobago; In Old Madrid - two Americans are left behind in Madrid with an elephant and soon the animal is matched up for battle with a fine Spanish bull!; Photo of London "Dog Market"; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron - Part 2; Photo of the only inhabited "Cloghaun" in Ireland; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 4 - The Adventures and Daring Escape of Airman Capt. T.W. White; A Land of Gods - photo-illustrated article about the people and places of the Kulu Valley of India; The Hunting of Lot Shumway - the pursuit and ultimate capture of this Northern Arizona badman; How Nixon Made Good - a western railroad tale; Photo of Harry Rich of Kansas City - the Human Gun Carriage!; Photo of large tree growing up through millstone at Sheldon's Mill at South Dover, New York. Somewhat above-average wear with openings along backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
36 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: Paul Kane's Western Art; Fort Victoria 1843-1858 (Part I); Mapping the Border; Bulldog Kelly's Buried Loot; The Lost Rocker Mine. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
78 pages. Features include: cashing in on meteorites; Pennsylvania; Carolina Gold; Patio Sailing; Tumbling cabs for profit; the Rio Puerco Valley; The Byrum Brothers; Aerial photos and how they can help; Northern steamship emblems; Ontario trip; Northeastern sites; coinshooting North Carolina tobacco barns; the psychology of collecting. Average wear. Book
83 pages. Features include: Exploring wrong places can be fatal; Build and use an Electrolysis Cleaner; Loose change in abandoned oil camps; Exploring a new Mexico lumber camp; We looted a town for pirate gold; Prospecting on the Yuba; Swap meets; Mining for fun and profit. Average wear. Book
82 pages. Features: seeking authentic lost gold eagles; mining for fun and profit; Aerial photos; Johnson's Island; Boulevard Bonanza; Workshops; Treasure in trash; California's Chuckawalla Mountains. Some defects by not too bad overall. Book
83 pages. Features include: Search where others don't; the latest in cabochon equipment; unique detector in Pennsylvania; white sand of Pensacola; Colorado's ghost towns; Aerial photos; a gold recovery system; Florence, Oregon; Front cover rumbled. Contents in nice shape. Book