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Articles: Instruments of Security - The Royal Canadian Navy's Procurement of the Tribal-Class Destroyers, 1938-1943; Robert Steele and Company - Shipbuilders of Greenock; Hell Boats of the RCN - The Canadian Navy and the Motor Torpedo Boat, 1936-1941; plus part of Gerald E. Panting's Canadian Maritime Bibliography and several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
17,7×8,8 cm. Bellissima scena stereoscopica facente parte della rarissima serie detta delle “Diableries” realizzata intorno al 1860-70. Uno strappetto senza perdita di carta in una delle due albumine e per il resto esemplare in buone condizioni di conservazione. La scena descrive una danza tenuta all’inferno dove sono presenti, scheletri, dame ed una figura maschile. Queste affascinanti e rare fotografie stereoscopiche vennero realizzate in Francia a partire dal 1860 circa e furono realizzate fino alla fine del XIX° secolo. Le carte raffigurano un intero immaginario sotterraneo, popolato da diavoli, satiri e scheletri intenti nella maggior parte dei casi a divertirsi o impegnati in lavori tipicamente umani. Le carte sono vere e proprie opere d’arte in sé. Conosciute come “french tissues”, furono ideate appositamente per consentire loro di essere visualizzate (in apparecchi stereoscopici) con un gioco di luci che trasformava, quando colpite da una luce diretta, le vedute in bianco e nero, in animate scene a colori tridimensionali. Rappresentarono all’epoca della loro realizzazione un importante innovazione visiva. La fotografia che riproduceva il reale era ora capace di mischiare finzione e realtà creando delle scene che a chi le guardava potevano sembrar esser prese dal vero. Le scenografie erano realizzate con grande umorismo tanto che si possono in parte considerare come le antesignane dei mondi fantasiosi realizzate per il cinema da Georges Méliès sul finire del XIX° secolo. Le scene raffiguranti queste “Diableries” furono realizzate con grande abilità artistica e artigianale in argilla da un piccolo gruppo di scultori che riuscirono a rendere estremamente veritiere le scene realizzate. Poste poi su un tavolo le opere venivano fotografavate con una macchina fotografica speciale ideata per realizzare stereoscopie. Le fotografie venivano poi impresse su carta all’albumina molto sottile. Il recto dell’albumina veniva poi in parte colorata. Un sottile velina veniva poi applicata dietro alle stesse per rendere i colori visibili solo quando la foto si trova con una fonte di luce al recto. Dei piccoli forellini venivano poi aggiunti per aumentare l’effetto visivo in corrispondenza degli occhi dei demoni e degli scheletri o in corrispondenza dei lampioni, lampadari e fuochi. Rarissima.
Réédition d'une poésie de 1586, dont il n'existe, en 1878, aucune édition originale complète connue. La poésie était dédiée à Jacques de Myolans. Selon A. Benoit, qui introduit le texte, « rien de plus simple que le thème de la comédie de Voron : trois délégués de Pluton siègent aux enfers pour juger les âmes des mortels ». Comparaissent Alexandre le Grand, Mahomet, Néron, Epicure, Crésus, Héliogabale et Sardanapale en qui sont personnifiés les sept pêchés capitaux puis Diogène, Codrus, Socrate, Solon, Pertinax, Pythagore et Hippolyte qui représentent les sept vertus contraires.
Features: Remembering Lowell Thomas - patron of exploration; Northern Labrador Expedition - the Torngat Mountain Range; Birds, Bombs and Borders - migrants find refuge in disputed area north of the Sea of Galilee; From Sydney to Darwin - an Australian odyssey by motorcycle - Benjamin H. Shoemaker; In the Footsteps of the Dinosaurs - Peace River Canyon; Norwegian Explorers - their impact on Polar exploration; Obsidian Technology in Mexico - the cutting edge of an ancient culture; Journeys to the Gates of Hell - exploring the effects of nuclear explosions; Of Karyatids and Friezes - where marble was quaried for the age of Pericles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Clean and unmarked with light wear. The life story of Finlay Booth; I think Earp took Johnny Ringo; Sanders of Turkey Creek; Secret Coves and Lost Worlds; A Mighty Good Railroad Town; McGonagill Pays Off; Black Robes and Circuit Riders; Hell! Dodge City ain't in the the United States!; Tom Fuller for Breakfast and three to a bed; Eleven limbs for eleven killers; and more. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: The Potsdam Conspiracy - Chapters from the Inner History of the War - 1, by Lovat Fraser; Photos of the varied work of General Currie's (Canadian) gallant troops; French Pontoniers - the master bridge builders; Working amid the waters on the Flanders front - chain ferry/dam building; Vanguard of a vast American host for France; Waves of attack from trench and breastwork; The Third Battle of Ypres - article by Max Pemberton on the dawn of a titanic conflict in the Flemish markets; In Battle or Barter Ever Cheerful Canadians; French Infantry advance in battle formation - firing-line and supports take a German trench; When Paris was Saved - how Bordeaux celebrated the Victory of the Marne; U-boat Pirates Captured by Belgian Cavalry; How the Gotha's Gun Tunnel Cures the "Blind Spot"; Huns glorify their air-murderers and macines; Gog and Magog on Rations - article by Harold Ashton; Impressions of the Inferno in Artois and Lens; Warm welcome waiting at journey's end; The Empire's Roll of Honour. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Features: The Camelback bows out; The David and Goliath story of Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Hell Gate Bridge - across the East River in New York City; Photo Section; When Steam ruled the Delaware & Hudson; My 34 years on a short line - George Baggett; Lady with a Past - a Colorado 10 wheeler has out-lived the Mallets and 4-8-4s of our time; Why Carnivals are moving by rail; and more. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
80 pages. Includes 4-pages of colour photos from the movie plus sheet music for the following great songs: Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground; Bloody Mary Morning; Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain; Comin' Back to Texas; Fiddlin' Around; Heaven and Hell; I Don't Do Windows; I Guess I've Come to Live Here in Your Eyes; If You Can Touch Her at All; If You Want Me To Love You, I Will; It's Not Supposed to Be That Way; Jumpin' Cotton-Eyed Joe; Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again); Make the World Go Away; On the Road Again; Pick Up the Tempo; So You Think You're a Cowboy; A Song for You; Two Sides to Every Story; Uncloudy Day; Whiskey River; Workin' Man Blues; You Show Me Yours (And I'll Show You Mine). Heavily-used with usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
74 pages. Featuers: California's Floating Islands of Hell - prison ships; River Full of Whiskey - Brigadier-General Stand Watie; Massacre at Caborca - Henry Alexander Crabb and his followers invaded Mexico; Vengeance Rides a Black Horse - Indians are killed at Weaverville, California after Mr. Anderson was killed by a native; Rail Honeymoon for Eight - Jim Bridger and company terrify white woman by posing as wild Indians at Walla Walla; The Paddlewheelers and the Hungry Miners - Paddlewheeler "New Racket" is stranded in the ice of the Yukon River; Forgotten Fort on the Bloody Bozeman - Fort C.F. Smith and the belligerant Sioux; Something Under the Bridge - life in East Las Vegas in the 1880's; Headstrong Henry Mudge - Playboy Rancher of Hodgeman County, Kansas; Glittering Gold - Before Sutter's Mill; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Three-inch opening at foot of coverfold, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Old West's Incredible Counterfeiter; Gunfighter Who Didn't Fire a Shot; Damndest Scramble in the West; The Emperor of San Francisco; Ranger McNelly's Desperate Bargain; Poker Alice - Queen of the Gamblers; Blackjack Ketchum - the End of HIs Gang; A Basket of Bones; Five Tickets to Hell. Average wear. Magazine
Features: Hell on the Largo - Henry Coleman; Kiamichi Warrior's gold - a headless apparition had a vested interest in the wealth of the Choctaw Nation!; Beartown's "Guardians of Public Morality" - Beartown, Montana; Wising up in the West - the life of a young man on the Kansas prairie/Dodge City; Iron Man William Henry Harrison Llewellyn; Did Chief Jospeh (Nez Perce Indian Chief) Slay Mrs. Manuel?; Hemmed in by rattlesnakes - berrypickers in a prickly situation; Ghosts of the Sierritas - copper rich Twin Buttes; Wells Fargo Horse Express; The Lively Nights of a Coon-Dog Man; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
98 pages. Curtiss P-6 in the Netherlands East Indies; Night Fighter from Junkers - story of the deadly Ju 88 night fighters; Fighter Formations - history of fighter tactics; Not So Black Widow - P-61s in the Pacific; Messerschmitt Me 410A/Cross - beautifully restored German fighter in the RAF Museum; Fighter Night - Dangerous WWII mission in a Hurricane; Bristol Beaufighter - rare examples of a famous fighter; Bat Out'a Hell - history of the Douglas Skyray and Skynight; Deadly Long Nose - Famous Focke Wulf FW 190D and Ta 152 fighters; Farewell to the Ugly Duckling - the Fairey Gannet has made its last flight; Most-war Military Mitchells - Mitchells served in the USAF until the early 1960s; Norwegian Warriors - Norwegian pilots during WWII. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
60 pages. Features include: The Shoot at the Venlo Bridges; Full Circle - VFA-81 "The Sunliners," - full Mediterranean Cruise; T-Birds Roost at 14 Wing; Hell Hole in Paradise - Bill Lockwood; A Bomber Pilot's Diary - F/L Lyle James; The Making of a Fighter Pilot; Wings on the Internet?; Famine Flight - Ethiopia; Friendship in a Beastly War - Rudolph Hengst, POW; Billy Bishop was an Army Officer in WWI; Light wear. Address label on back cover. Nice copy. Book
Features: Article by Lovat Fraser - War Problems of the New Year; Gallant charge of the Fort Garry Horse (photos) - Lieutenant H. Strachan; Chinese men view war's ruin in west; Photos of Australians in France; French Premier with the heroes of Mort Homme; 'Thunderers' (gunes) that defy the foe before Verdun; Glimpses of East Africa from a German Camera; How I was arrested as a spy - an experience undergone three times by Hamilton Fyfe during Russia's spy-fever; Cambrai illustrations; Spotting for the Guns - adventures of John S. Margerison, Observation Officer of the Kite Balloons; From the Yser and Somme to Brenta and Piave; The Kaiser as Patron of the 'Prince of Hell' (illustrations); Airship that searches the sea for submarines; War-time wages and prices - causes and effects of their simultaneous increase (article); Forcing the entrance to Palestine at Gaza (illustrations); Photos of American Engineers who aid the British guards; Photos of English women engaged in agriculture on the home front; Photos of Victoria Cross (V.C.) recipients Pte. M.J. O'Rourke, Sergt. J. Ockenden; Pte. W.H. Butler; Cpl. E.A. Egerton (brief text included); The South Lancashires - 1 page (with photo) information about this regiment. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Black Mountain's Mystery Mine - Amos Byers; The Hell of Hail; The Sea's Happy Hunting Ground - Padre Island; The Innocent be Damned; Holes of the Turkey Track; The Lure of Jade; Dead Men Can't Testify; Hills of Wealth and Superstition; The Day I Saw the Mormon; Lost Garrison of the Cascades; "Get a Spade!" - David A. (Al) Cochran; War of the Burnt-Out Fires - Captain James Jackson; Twenty Years Among our Hostile Indians; Gold on the California Road; Wilderness Jump-Off - Dixie Mining District. Writing on front cover to contents. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
17,7×8,8 cm. Bellissima scena stereoscopica facente parte della rarissima serie detta delle “Diableries” realizzata intorno al 1860-70. Uno strappetto senza perdita di carta in una delle due albumine, da restaurare, alcuni segnetti e per il resto esemplare in buone condizioni di conservazione. Nella scena possiamo vedere Satana che sta eseguendo una scultura mentre degli scheletri intorno sono intenti ad altri passatempi. Fra le figure vediamo anche un treno. Queste affascinanti e rare fotografie stereoscopiche vennero realizzate in Francia a partire dal 1860 circa e furono realizzate fino alla fine del XIX° secolo. Le carte raffigurano un intero immaginario sotterraneo, popolato da diavoli, satiri e scheletri intenti nella maggior parte dei casi a divertirsi o impegnati in lavori tipicamente umani. Le carte sono vere e proprie opere d’arte in sé. Conosciute come “french tissues”, furono ideate appositamente per consentire loro di essere visualizzate (in apparecchi stereoscopici) con un gioco di luci che trasformava, quando colpite da una luce diretta, le vedute in bianco e nero, in animate scene a colori tridimensionali. Rappresentarono all’epoca della loro realizzazione un importante innovazione visiva. La fotografia che riproduceva il reale era ora capace di mischiare finzione e realtà creando delle scene che a chi le guardava potevano sembrar esser prese dal vero. Le scenografie erano realizzate con grande umorismo tanto che si possono in parte considerare come le antesignane dei mondi fantasiosi realizzate per il cinema da Georges Méliès sul finire del XIX° secolo. Le scene raffiguranti queste “Diableries” furono realizzate con grande abilità artistica e artigianale in argilla da un piccolo gruppo di scultori che riuscirono a rendere estremamente veritiere le scene realizzate. Poste poi su un tavolo le opere venivano fotografavate con una macchina fotografica speciale ideata per realizzare stereoscopie. Le fotografie venivano poi impresse su carta all’albumina molto sottile. Il recto dell’albumina veniva poi in parte colorata. Un sottile velina veniva poi applicata dietro alle stesse per rendere i colori visibili solo quando la foto si trova con una fonte di luce al recto. Dei piccoli forellini venivano poi aggiunti per aumentare l’effetto visivo in corrispondenza degli occhi dei demoni e degli scheletri o in corrispondenza dei lampioni, lampadari e fuochi. Rarissima.
58 pages. Features: Ad for 'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'; Interview with Liliana Cavani, Italy's foremost woman director; Liliana Cavani's 'The Cannibals' - photos; A Survey of the more elusive features of the 18th London Film Festival; 'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz' - photos; The All-Singing All Dancing Last Fifites Picture Show - sixth instalment; 'The Four Musketeers' - photos; Revies of 'Little Malcolm', 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia', 'The Night Porter', 'Paul and Michelle', 'Neither by Day Nor By Night', 'Moments', Aquirre, Wrath of God', 'Breezy', 'Scenes From a Marriage', 'Verdict', 'Peter Pan' (re-issue); 'The Longest Yard' - photos; 'The Towering Inferno' - photos; The Night of the Hunter - part #4 of a series on cult movies; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: A Man Called Shep; The Kiowa Raiders of Rainy Mountain - great photos; Bill Hickok's Friends; There's still Gold in Oregon; The Mystery of Pranty Wash - Gila County, Arizona; Charley Smith (1856-1882) Still Wears his Six-Gun - a ranger and the outlaw who killed him; Bloodshed in Kansas - Hugoton and Woodsdale were at war ninety years ago; Amanda Alberta, aka 'Cowboy Joe'; A Matter of Survival - 150 feet and four days of hell; The Wild West that Flickered - not all the action in a movie house was on the silver screen!; Trail Tragedy - and to Caleb Magill it was a private affair; 95-year-old fishin' hole - the Gunnison River and the Hillside Resort. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Binding intact. Pages yellowed with age. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Illustration of loading a twin-barrelled 4.7 on a British destroyer; Super photo of the proofing of a huge naval gun; Photo of a British vessel with 15" guns blazing; The King and Queen visit the Ministry of Information; A General Review of the War - House of Commons statement by Winston Churchill; Excellent full-page photo of kitchen pots being placed into smelting furnace; Map of Chad territory; S. Drigin illustration of R.A.F. planes attacking German guns bombarding Dover from France; Excellent aerial photos above the FIAT works at Turin and the Krupp works at Essen; Great photo of bombing action by 5 Wellesley bombers on the Asmara aerodrome in northern Africa; S. Drigin centerfold illustration of R.A.F. bombers hitting secret war bases in the Black Forest; Dramatic photos of London war damage plus photos of the King and Winston Churchill inspecting damage; Downed German planes in England; Very dramatic full-page photo of London's inferno of fire behind London Bridge; Amazing photo of contrails left by British fighters attacking Nazi raiders over London, September 6th; Photo-illustrated Article - The First Year for the British Army; A commentary on the war this week; Photos of British Cavalry in Palestine; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Fighting the War with Sidearms; Doggus Delecti; Where Are They Now? - Jack Ensch; The LSO Today - Roger, Ball; The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver - photo essay; At Marshal - Summer of '45; Haw Heroes Pull Pilot From Inferno; The FV-124 Revisited; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Line Camp Outlaw; My Mother, Ella Byler Dobie - Live Oak County, Texas; Prowling for Loot on Delaware Creek - Bill Cook's Train Robbery Loot; Lame Charlie Speaks - the solution to the old mystery of the Mainden's Grave?; Hell for Leather Ranger - William T. Henderson and Murrieta; Horny Toad Man of the Horny Toad Division of the Santa Fe Railway; Nick Eggenhoffer's West; Jornada Cattle Drive; Lure of the Gold Camps - Folks just had to get to California; The Search for Zonia - ghost town; Wild Old Days!; Washday in Indian Territory - with scrub board, tub and pails, the chore took all day. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: A Strong Medicine Wind - Wind Goomda, Kiowa Warrior; Bullfrog Blackie; I Shall be a Borrower of Money" - the owner of the Sierra Bonita Ranch, H.C. Hooker; The Holdouts of Dublin Gulch; Feather Fort - it looked like the Comanches would win; Flash Flood - death that gives no notice; William H. Jackson's Cross of Snow - a gigantic Christian symbol on a mountainside in the Rockies; A Strange Summons - Ranger Ran Runnels is assigned to make a fifty-mile stretch of hell (rail line) as safe as a walk in the park; Jimmy, the Skull; Alberta Cowboys - thoughts of a long-ago summer and laughing men who knew horses; Blind Boone and 'The Marshfield Tornado'. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: Fabulous Horse Steel Dust - the true account of Texas' most celebrated stallion; Gunsight on Target! - the Death Valley Jayhawkers; Skid Roads - great logging story by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; The Cherokee Remember Their Badmen; Ruckus at Old Fort Musselshell; Ancient Salt Trails - the ancient Walpi pueble dispatched salt trains annually to Zuni; 1874 - Year of the Grasshopper; True West Scrapbook; Tragedy at Pig Pen, Hidalgo, New Mexico; Wild Old Days; The Prowler with the Big Foot - a Texas story; Hell at 1200 feet! - The Daly-West Mine explosion of 1902; Trailin' Down to Nebraska. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book