Wallace, Alfred RusselMareMagnum
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638 pages. Index. "Undoubtedly the classic work on the flora and fauna and peoples of the area which is now called Indonesia." - from back cover. Above-average wear. Front hinge taped. Front flyleaf removed. Usual library markings. Five-panel black and white fold-out map. A worthy reading copy. Book
64 pages. Includes piano music and lyrics for these great songs: Blue Moon; Lost; Lilacs in the Rain; My Blue Heaven; I Cried For You; Whispering; Once in a While; You're a Sweetheart; Stairway to the Stars; How Am I to Know?; I'm Always Chasing Rainbows; I'm in the Mood for Love; What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?; Temptation; Sweet as a Song; Bewildered; Good-Bye Jonah; My Own; I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'; Thanks for Ev'rything. Unmarked with average wear. Contents clean. A sound copy of this wonderful 1930s compilation. Book
190 pages. Illustrated. Issued under the direction of the Council of Women for Home Missions. "It is generally acknowledged that Mormonism is similar to Mohammedansim in its endorsement of the practice of polygamy, and its ideas of heaven. Many other points of similarity between these systems have been noted by students, and the Book of Mormon has marked resemblance to the Koran. As all ancient religions have a modern equivalent, Mormonism can justly be claimed to be the modern form of Mohammedanism, and not incorrectly termed "the Islam of America." - From the Editorial Committees. Prior owner's name and initials atop front endpaper. Front hinge open. Moderate quantity of markings to contents. Above average wear to beige boards. Book
28 pages. Features: Violence in the streets - can we keep our cities safe?; Four of Golf's top players rate each other - Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Gary Player and Gary Cowan - article with colour photos of Palmer and Trevino; Nice two-page colour photo fashion segment; Rockhead's Paradise in Montreal - when American blacks are looking for fun they head to this club - article with colour photos; What do you think of the Gallup Poll?; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Great one-page ad for 'The Big Sleep'; ad for 'The Cheap Detective'; 'Heaven Can Wait' - photos; Photo-illustrated interview with Director John Hancock; 'F.I.S.T.' - photos; Photo-illustrated article on 'The Continental Sex Kittens', including Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Elsa Martinelli, Marisa Allasio, Mylene Demongeot and Gina Lollobrigida; Article on Brigitte Bardot; 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' - photos; Reviews - 'The Cheap Detective', 'Death on the Nile', 'The Greek Tycoon', 'Heaven Can Wait', 'Between the Lines', 'F.I.S.T.', 'The Swarm', 'The Serpent's Egg', 'An Enemy of the People', 'Lola Montes' (reissue); 'Hooper' - photos; 'Death on the Nile' - photos; Photo-illustrated article on film superstars of the past; 'The Big Sleep' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
24 pages. Includes piano music, lyrics and chords. Songs include: Free From the Curse of the Law; Garment of Praise; He's More Than Enough; I Want to Stroll Over Heaven; I will Arise and Go Home; In Jesus' Name; It is Written; Mightily in Me; Peculiar; That's What I Have, That's Who I Am; The Key; Wonderful, Excellent, Mighty. Average wear. Few markings to contents. A sound copy. Book
392 pages. Index. Black and white frontis photo portrait of author. Map endpapers. "Heavily worn. Front hinge open. Library markings to first blank leaf. Front free endpaper, first blank leaf, and page 3 detached but present. A worthy reading copy of these engaging medical adventures. Book
50 pages. Features: Colour ad for Venezuela's first film festival inside front cover; Photo-illustrated article with director Robert Mulligan (part 1 of 2); Robert Mulligan's 'Bloodbrothers' - photos; Venezuelan Revelation - photos and article re: festival at the National Film Theatre, December 7-12; Recent Hungarian Cinema - photo-illustrated article; Terrence Malick's 'Days of Heaven' - four pages of preview photos; Reviews - 'Jaws 2', 'Black and White in Colour', 'Watership Down', 'One Sings, The Other Doesn't', 'Citizens Band', ''Blood Relatives', 'Tarka the Otter', 'Shipwreck!', 'Pardon Mon Affaire, Too'; 'Corvette Summer' - photos; Review of book on the films of Michael Winner; 'National Lampoon's Animal House' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
96 pages. Features: Dean Martin has the Last Laugh (without Jerry Lewis); The Beast of Belsen and the Dragon Tattoo; The Shrinking Violet - a story for lads with taller sweeties; Sucker in Paradise; Those Brooklyn Indians - 5,000 Mohawks in New York's most famous borough - Iron Workers, Big Chiefs of High Steel Construction; "My Favourite Girl" Photo Contest; The Man Who Married Annie Oakley - Frank Butler; The Great Football Swindle; Chinatown's Bloody Emperor - Fung Jing Toy evaded 200 attempts on his life; The Real-Life Drama of Willie the Actor - Willie Sutton; Yankee Lynch Mob - an angry crowd goes berserk at Port Jervis, New York; A Sight for Tired Eyes - Gale Fagan; Killer Trail of the Glanton Gang. Many nostalgic ads. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
Pages 337-376. Black and white photos. Features: Radar Proved Miracle Development of WWII; Radio in Freight Yard Service on the B.&O.; Survey of Union Members' Interest in Publications; Trades and Labor Congress Meeting; The Atomic Bomb is no Secret - Decisive discovery which led to the building of the atomic bomb was made by Germans in 1938 - with photos, by Dr. Edward U. Condon; Signal Changes on Milwaukee, Rock Island and Kansas City Southern near Kansas City, Mo.; The Fall and Rise of Manila - after more than three years of Japanese rule little was left of the once great "Fool's Paradise" - with photos, by E.H. Jacoby; Head-end collision on the Missouri Pacific; and more. Average wear. Fold-mark down middle. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; What a railroad does best - Louisville & Nashville's coal moving operation between Paradise (on the Green River in western Kentucky) and Widow's Creek (on the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama) - text, photos and map; A Tale of Two Freight Trains - Extra 3045 North and No. 75 - long article with photos and map; photo section; Trains Go to Alaska - 4 - Cold War Railroading - how Khrushchev holds down the Alaska Railroad's operating ratio; The Longest Short Line in the Smallest State - The Narragansett Pier Railroad; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Arizona in the '50's (conclusion) - a paradise of devils; Bear River Loot - Lafe Roberts and train robbery money; Scoreboard of the Raiders - how fast horses could change ownership in 1870 Texas; Lightning Stealers - manipulating a telegraph line to 'peddle calamity' could give men an easy fortune!; Pleasant Valley and Cowboy Flat - a last glimpse of the Doolin-Dalton outlaws before they turned to banks; A brush with death - the Arnett Hotel, Boulder, Colorado; Last Victim of the Vigilantes - Con Murphy; Mysterious Lady of Yankee Fork - Agnes Elizabeth King Hawthorne and one wedding too many, Bonanza, Idaho; King of the Windmillers - Ray D. Knox, installer of 7 in 10 windmills in the range country near Roswell, New Mexico; Miner's Finishing School - Tuscarora; Wild Old Days. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
365 pages. Reprint of the 1902 first edition. Black and white illustrations. Above-average wear and soiling with numerous defects and school markings. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy of this old-time favorite. Book
28 pages. Includes piano music for the following songs: Blue Moon, High Noon, I'm in the Mood for Love, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Pagan Love Song, Paradise, Ruby, Singin' In the Rain, Taking a Chance on Love, Three Coins in a Fountain. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this vintage compilation. Book
10 pages. Undated. Appears to be circa 1900. Heavily worn with many chips and tears. Binding sewn by prior owner. May have been published in US. Sheet music
64 pages. Features: Furniture-Making in Harbour Grace - Part I - Alexander and Edward Parsons, Francis Cody; Reading Armorials on Silver; Asian Art in the National Gallery; The Weldon Collection; Small-Scale Graphics - Stamps; Maurice Cullen Revisited - Evanescent themes and Impressionistic Principles; The Copper that came from Heaven - Exhibition celebrates the dance dramas of the Kwakwaka'wakw; The Art of Francis Silver - Folk Artist Commented on life in Nova Scotia from the 1860s on; Martyrdom of the Jesuit Fathers - the most remembered image of early Canada. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
86 pages. Features/Articles: Canada's international problems; Our new national currency museum in Ottawa; Log drive - a great Canadian tradition - great photos; Hunting dinosaurs in Alberta's great bonebed; The Acadians who had a problem in France; Salmon revival in Lake Ontario; Atlantic Salmon once teemed in Lake Ontario; How to Raise Sawllowtail Butterflies; Protein-rich wild rice - our only native cereal; Architectural Heirloom - The East Block of Ottawa's Parliament Buildings; Beautiful Barkley Sound - paradise for divers. Above-average wear. Covers almost loose. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
Features: Suddenly I wanted to go sailing - G.A. (Andy) Marken; Kialoa III; AMERICA Lives! (colour centerfold!); Little Yacht for blue water and big fun - the 20 foot Able; Swampfire - American level racer and 3/4 ton winner; Rating is no handicap for Wylie's impressive NO GO-7; Stylish Palmer Johnson cruiser 43CR built by Wauquiez; Miller & Whitworth design GINKGO type for glass production; Twin Screw Nicholson 70 designed for plush cruising; Bonjour Tahiti - Hobie sailors race in paradise - world competition at Baie de Matavai; Javelin - a class close-up; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
84 pages. Numerous black and white illustrations. Features: The Dome of Heaven; About a type of Islamic Incense Burner; The Secret of the Medieval Masons; An Explanation of Stornaloco's Formula; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Stories: Sturgeon Fishing in Canada; Dynamite Joe; Round the World on Four Shillings; A Cowboy in Trouble; Zaman's Paradise; How We Saved the Indian Empire; The Sign; The flag-pole; Blind Peter; The Lamb-Eater Bore; The Viaduct; Muldoon's Gold Mine. Above-average but not excessive wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
cm. 21,5 x 32, xxiv-330 pp. con 15 tavv. f.t. a colori e 106 figg. n.t. in b.n. Rilegato (Hardcover). Arte e archeologia - Studi e documenti Viene studiata la prima e pi? importante collezione d?arte in epoca moderna, per opera dei Medici di Firenze durante il Quattrocento. Basandosi su documenti originali e un?ampia scelta di letteratura secondaria, il libro svela perch? i Medici scelsero di dedicarsi all?arte, come si mossero per accumulare tanti oggetti preziosi e cosa significasse l?arte per loro e per i loro contemporanei. Un catalogo ragionato documenta inoltre le numerose, straordinarie opere raccolte dalla famiglia. This study illuminates the first and most important art collection of the modern era, which was formed in the fifteenth century by the Medici of Florence. By drawing on primary documents and a wide range of scholarly literature, the book explains why the Medici chose to devote themselves to art, how they managed to accumulate their many precious things, and what their art meant for them and their contemporaries. 1791 gr. xxiv-330 p.
Large format book with green leatherette spine and silk covered boards. 9 5/8"w x 12 7/8"h. 304 pages. In Near Fine slipcase with slight wear. Preface by Peter Ackroyd, introduction by John Wain, Illustrations by William Blake. Fourth printing.
Sm. folio, with coloured frontispiece and 11 fine coloured plates; terracotta watered silk cloth, green morocco back lettered and blocked in gilt, green top, green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
83 pages, including three nice pages of color photos. Songs include: Something Happened on the Way to Heaven; Against All Odds; Who Said I Would; One More Night; Don't Lose My Number; Do You Remember; Another Day in Paradise; Separate Lives; In the Air Tonight; You Can't Hurry Love; Twho Hearts; Sussudio; Groovy Kind of Love; Easy Lover; Take Me Home. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy of this awesome compilation. Book
289 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "Follow in the footsteps of the young man from Denhoff, North Dakota, as he matures, serves in the U.S. Army, becomes a musician, an electronics engineer, then a chela (student) of ECKANKAR under the guidance of his predecessor Sri Paul Twitchell, the 971st Living ECK Master." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
