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369p. frontis. Tales of the Frontier" series Hardcover Very good conditon
120 pages. Short Stories: Doomsday and Mr. Lincoln; Forbidden Zone; The Imaginary Heir; Marry the Boss' Daughter. Articles: Bright Young Boss of Princeton - Bob Goheen; Adventures of the Mind - 25 - How War began; Color-photo feature on the North Atlantic island of St. Pierre; Hectic Home of the Los Angeles (L.A.) Dodgers - Los Angeles Coliseum; Medicine's Legal Nightmare, Part 2, Doctors in Court; Making a Man Out of Charlie - great photo-illustrated article on 10-year-old Prince Charles; D Day, conclusion, Beachhead Established. Serials: The Dark Road (part 2 of 6); Comanche Captives (part 6 of 7). Ads: GE and Philco fridges; Bufferin; GE Appliances; Northern tissue; Lark Play Wagon (baby blue) by Studebaker; NAPA parts; Coffeematic by Universal; Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup; Pontiac (orange); Betty Crocker / Sunkist "Mystery Lemon Pie Contest"; Western Auto; Arrow Shirts; Ford Cars - featuring a blue Country Sedan station wagon in fishing/camping scene; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Ravioli; Benny Goodman is prominently featured in a Texaco ad; Centerfold Texaco color-photo ad; Karo Syrup; Band-Aid; Packard Bell TVs; Gulf - super color night photo of Corvette (?) filling up; Admiral fridges; Foremost 'Big Dip' Ice Milk; Canada Tourism; Cushman 780 Truckster; Hammond organs; Betty Crocker Devils Food Cake ad on back cover; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: We're Cheating our Children - Betsy Fancher argues that a parent-sponsored junior rat race has warped the meaning of childhood; Nice four-page colour-illustrated advert. for Chevrolet cars (all white); Patients for Profit - high-powered promotion, limited services and pursuit of the fast bucks are bringing many proprietary hospitals under attack; He Takes the Starch out of Protocol - Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke has pioneered dramatic changes on the Washington scene; The Kind of Gal I Am (Part 1 of 3) - Rosalind Russell - many nice colour photos; The Party Chairmen - Bill Miller and John Bailey; Handsome colour ad for the 1963 Chrysler New Yorker; 6 nice pages of color ads for Ford cars; The Durable Huguenots - persecuted for centuries, the Protestant minority today is a cultured, successful and proud elite in Catholic France; My Life with Juvenile Gangs (conclusion) by Vincent Riccio - the death of Tommy Hanlon; Masters of Second Place - the San Francisco 49ers; Another Western - Who Needs it? - The Virginian is converted into a 90-minute TV Series. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
132 pages. Fiction: Shark Water; The Jacksboro Mob; Marriage is Not for Me!; The Lost City; The Girl He Remembered (part 1 of 2); The Artless Heiress (part 3 of 8). Articles: The Deep South Says "Never!" to Desegregation (part 1 of 5); I Call on Wyatt Earp - the real life of TV's fastest-drawing, straightest-shooting Western marshal, as played by Hugh O'Brian; How They Meet Payrolls in Russia - are Red industry executives as good as their American counterparts?; Mr. President! - the Presidential press conference; The Face of America - The Languid Sands of Ocean City (photo); Is Sherman Lollar Better Than Yogi Berra?; Boom in Part-Time Jobs - with photo of Elmer Winter and Aaron Scheinfeld of Manpower Inc.; The Gentlemen in the Garden - The Men's Garden Club of Los Angeles - wonderful color photos; Ads: Western Union ad features photo of Fred Cole, President, Cole of California; Whitman's Chocolates; Republic Steel; Chrysler Windsor Two-Door Hardtop - color-photo; Boeing 707; Hammond organs; Admiral fridges - nice two-pages in color; Interesting two-page Pure Oil ad; Hertz Rent a car; Frigidaire pink fridge; Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup; Two-page Pontiac photo ad; Nice color vintage Thermos ad; Ford color ad featuring the Fairlane 500 Town Victoria; Wheaties - with square dancing motif; Nice two-page color photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau instructs how to prepare Iced Coffee; Sunbeam percolator; L&M cigarettes with nautical theme; Nice color-photo ad for Johnson outboard motors; Nice two-page color American Airlines ad shows wealthy clientelle; Caterpillar ad displays work on the interstate highway system; Two-page GM ad for Fisher Body; Harrison air conditioning color-photo ad; National Cash Register ad for till that calculates change; Avis Rent-a car; Yale Hoist color-photo ad shows Hanford Atomic Plant nuclear waste being handled by one of their hoists, complete with men in hazmat suits; Union Pacific All Coach Domeliner ad; Wow- uncommon half-page color ad for Dairy Queen; Dogde Power Giant truck ad; Nice one-page color Viceroy cigarette ad features Sam Snead and Cary Middlecoff. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: I say prisons are a failure, by Hal Hollister; England, Ever England - the English village survives the storms of social revolution; Hot-Tempered Baltimore Oriole - Jim Gentile ; Glamour Treatment for the Mentally Ill - helping women in mental hospital; He's Got Artistic Drive; The Untold Stories of the Civil War - An Infidel's Sword - Johnnie Ring's high sense of duty converted the captain; Adventures of the Mind - The Revolution in Western Thought, by Huston Smith; The Face of America - Nose Job on Lincoln at Mount Rushmore. First page of advertising missing. Pages 65/66 missing. Page 67 loose but present. Above-average wear. Book
271 p. Numerous illustrations. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding soiled. Original priced dust jacket, worn and chipped. Hardbound. Very good. W10
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 264 pages.
322 p. Pictorial endpapers. Inked ownership. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Second edition.Hardbound. Very good. Walter Noble Burns (1872-1932) created entertaining and dramatic biographies of Western figures, like Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp, that forever installed them into the pantheon of heroes from the Old West. W7
644 p.+ Full page color plates by Lejaren A. Hiller. Inner hinge on title page and frontis cracked. Edges foxed. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding. Front board decorated in color with a cowboy on his horse. Binding very slightly soiled. Second edition. Hardbound. Very good. W6
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 28 plates on 14, 22 maps (several full-page) in the text, 2 large folding maps and coloured front and rear endpaper reproductions of sketch-maps by Rommel; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. 'No commander in history has written an account of his campaigns to match the vividness and value of Rommel's'. Hart was in no doubt about the responsibility of his task, the more so since much of this unique material had to be painstakingly reassembled from its various hiding-places safe from Hitler's eyes. Half a century later, the brilliance of Hart's achievement is undimmed. An outstanding record from one of the greatest commanders of the war. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.374.
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 28 plates on 14, 22 maps (several full-page) in the text, 2 large folding maps and coloured front and rear endpaper reproductions of sketch-maps by Rommel, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red tweed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at head of backstrip and with one short closed tear on rear panel. 'No commander in history has written an account of his campaigns to match the vividness and value of Rommel's'. Hart was in no doubt about the responsibility of his task, the more so since much of this unique material had to be painstakingly reassembled from its various hiding-places safe from Hitler's eyes. Half a century later, the brilliance of Hart's achievement is undimmed. An outstanding record from one of the greatest commanders of the war. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.374.
225 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photographic plates. Handsome gilt lettering and decoration upon front board. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this pleasing work on Nature's master engineer. Book
Hardcover Very good condition good
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and facsimiles in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
107 pages. "With the publishing of this volume, Mrs. Simkin's work doubtless will find its place in future anthologies of Canadian verse. Uncomplicated, notably without pessimism, hers is in shart contrast to much poetry of our time... It distils the essence of Maritime practicality and good cheer and blends it with the dauntless optimism so characteristic of those who have known the rigors of Western farm life and have loved and understood the prairie moods, even those that are harsh to the point of cruelty." - from Preface. Includes 105 poems. Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked. Moderate wear and soiling. Binding sound. Nice copy. Book
185pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
192 p. Drawings by D.L. Hartman. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Book Club Edition. Hardbound. Very good. W9 RT FRONT STK
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; original orange cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. A remarkable collection of over 500 photographs forming a detailed history of the siege. Each is meticulously identified, located and captioned. Enser, p.424.
319 p. Hardcover Good condition in red cloth, spine faded
136 pages. Includes brief bio of Travis, a list of his awards, and two black and white photos. Songs include: Anything; Diggin' Up Bones; Forever and Ever, Amen; Good Intentions; I Told You So; I Won't Need You Anymore; Messin' With My Mind; My Heart Cracked (Bit It Did Not Break); My House; 1982; No Place Like Home; On the Other Hand; Promises; Reasons I Cheat; Send My Body Home on a Freight Train; The Storms of Life; There'll Always Be a Honky Tonk Somewhere; Tonight I'm Walkin' Out on the Blues; Tonight We're Gonna Tear Down the Walls; Too Gone Too Long; The Truth is Lyin' Next to You; What'll You Do About Me. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this great compilation. Book
372p Hardcover Very good condition good
272 pages. "A fascinating book - really one of a kind - and the best adventure story of a family struggling on the western frontier that I have ever read." - Andy Russell. Maps. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition; new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
Book shows light wear only to red cloth HB covers, gilt print at spine, with light corner wear, spine fading and a stain at the top of the page ends, otherwise clean. 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. 193 pages, publisher's page shows no additional printings.
pp. xxvi, 386. Top edge lightly foxed. Softcover. Penguin Classics paperback. Very good. W1