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Paperclip marks on copyright page, Very Good Condition Lacks Jacket? ; 8vo; xiii, 91 pages; 8vo., 91 pages. Very heavy work, includes apendices on the German Account (in the German) , the Portuguese Documents (in Portuguese) , etc. Letter from Hebrew Union College laid in. Very Good + condition. (SEF-23-17)xx
114 pages. Features: Artist - Brad Price; Baca Street; R&B Barbecue; Artist - Charles Collins; Nussbaumer Fine Art; Cover Artist - Malcolm Furlow; and more. Presents Museums, Art, Fashion, Home Furnishings, Jewelry, Dining, Special Rates. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
231 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. Black and white photographic plates. "The fascinating first hand story of Canada's unique Christian liberal arts college in British Columbia by its founding president." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear to book. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Rulers of the waves - various naval photos; Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland - photos of Hess, his smashed plane, and David Maclean, the ploughman who witnessed Hess's arrival and took him into his mother's house; Photo-illustrated text of article by Anthony Eden entitled "Progress of the War"; Photo of the Nazi advance on Larissa; Full-page photo of a quayside scene as British and Imperial troops return from Greece; Aerial photo of the Kirkuk oil fields from which oil is pipelined to Haifa; Map of the Middle East entitled "Threat to the Oil-Fields of Iraq shows the position of Iraq and its oil-fields in relation to Turkey, Syria and the Mediterranean; Wars of the night air - Photo of Wellington bombers and a crew as they wait for nightfall on May 10th when a heavy raid was made on Hamburg; Photo of a bomber crew being debriefed upon their return; Photo of a Douglas DB7 in flight; H.M. the King chats with crack night-fighting pilots before they take off to engage the enemy on May 8th; Photos of the Home Guard which is now one-year-old; Illustrated centerfold by Montague B. Black shows R.A.F. havoc in Hamburg; Photos of destruction to Big Ben, the House of Commons, Westminster Hall, Westminster Abbey, the Westminster Deanery, Westminster Upper School, a 700-year-old church in Bromley, Kent, and Liverpool; Photo of smiling German prisoners being marched at a London station; Photo-illustrated article by Dr. P.S. Gerbrandy of the Netherlands entitled "Faith of the Netherlands"; German sketch of a mysterious massive gun which is used to shell Dover; Photos of medical patients being removed from London's blitz; A commentary on the war this week; Photos of Britain on guard; Full-page photo of a Newfoundland artillery crew hauling its large 6" gun; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
Features: Sansai - Edible Wild Plants Japanese Style (includes glossary); Beyond Romance - Kobe Earthquake Fails to shake the Faith of Chiko School Iemoto; Floral Focus - Nandina; Ikebana Portfolio; Noh - Silence Between Sounds; From Point to Plane - The Creation of Moribana. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Union Pacific shuttles 2400 cars a day through its new hump yard at North Platte; Pennsylvania Railroad's new Reservation System - article with photos; 2-10-4 to Revelstoke, B.C. - Canadian Pacific Selkirk No. 5927, defeated last winter by a diesel, is still slugging it out across the Rocky Mountains - article with photos; Pacifics to Placid - Oil-burning K-11's wheel tonnage and tourists over an Adirondack Mountain branch which New York Central Leases from Delaware & Hudson - article with photos; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3780 taking water at San Bernardino; Prairie State Railroad - Peoria-St. Louis passengers travel via the electric way when they ride the Illinois Terminal's streamliners on the only through route between the cities - article with photos, list of rolling stock, and map; Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company - this West Virginia private lumber road gets a boost from new coal mines; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: 18 wonderfully illustrated pages of the North Coast Limited with substantial text (including photo of Babe Ruth)!; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Locomotives you didn't expect to meet on the Santa Fe Trail - big, new AT&SF engine book includes surprises; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Built by American Car & Foundry (A.C.F.) - a photo story; Official Guide - presents hundreds of pages of timetables; The Diesel's Big Year - in 1950 steam was on the way out, but the gas turbine was a new opponent to diesel; Photo Section - includes centerfold photo of a Santa Fe eastbound freight near Kingman, Az; Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern - uncommon interurban in Iowa - article, photos and map of the "Crandic Route"; Astra Domes in the Northwest - article with photos; The Stewart Special - awesome article and photos of rail action in the Korean War; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Summit, California - where Chard Walker shepherds Santa Fe and Union Pacific trains over the top of Cajon Pass - great photos and some text; New York Central's New England States - come on a streamliner ride from Boston to Chicago; From Randolph to Togus on the Kennebec Central; Photo Section; Dining Car Blues - Your Meal on Wheels costs the railroad more than it costs you - long article with great photos; The Thrifty Compound Steam Engine - article with photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: The Steam Locomotive - Is is about to be displaced by other types of motive power, or can it still hold its own; B&O President Series; Cincinnati Union Terminal - This utilitarian monument to civic pride costs $1.20 for every passenger using it; Eastern and Western Trains - Chicago & Eastern Illinois freight engine 1933 - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Chief double headed; Chessie - Chesapeake & Ohio's little sleeping Cheshire gets fan mail and catnip mice; Denver Railfan - R.H. Kindig records Colorado railroading with an eye for action and beauty; Horseshoe Curve - Scenery and trains make the P RR near Altoona a mecca of railroad interest; Sacramento Northern Railroad - longest all-electric main line serves produce centers with network of tracks. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage 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: Fastest Ox Train on the Santa Fe Trail!; Fringe Benefits of a Prospector; They Called Him Elza - Elza Lay of the Wild Bunch; Navidad en la Villita - little known Christmas customs practiced in the Southwest; Rolling Stone - running away from home; The Hall Murders; Joseph (Joe) McCoy Scouts Texas; Greatest public library - the cemetary; The Trap - it opened up the west; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Dark Deed at San Miguel - Jim Beckwith stumbled onto a scene of carnage; Santa Fe Gambling Lady - Dona Maria Gertrudis Barcelo, aka La Tules; "We'll Never Forgive Old Harney" - song of the maltreated 2nd Infantry at Fort Pierre - General William S. Harney; The Red Front Feed Barn - wagon freighters of Southeastern Colorado - Elkhart, Kansas and the barn on the O.K. Osteen farm; Expendable Harrisburg, Arizona (5 miles SE of present day Salome, Arizona); Stray Leaves - the first foreign imported Thoroughbred horse ever to be shipped to Addington, Indian Territory - St. Swithen; Sins of the Father - John A. and Johann Augustus Sutter - Sutter's Fort; Tragedy on Salmon Falls Creek - Contact, Nevada; The Old Cartwright Ranch - Jackson Manford and one of Arizona's most successful spreads; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Milt Bryan's Adventures on the Santa Fe Trail; Lonely are the Graves - The Bundy Avant Story - Part I - New Mexico in the days when the thin population was intent on bettering itself; Lost Soldiers' Mine - Somewhere in the Coquille Mountains is a very cold trail to a very real gold vein!; Killers' Trail of Thread - the Green DeWitt Colony in the Mexican province of Texas-Coahuila; The "Coffee" Woman - sequel to "Bloodshed in Kansas" in the April issue; Shingle Mill Country - Van Buren County, Arkansas; Infidelity at Old Fort Laramie; Zane Grey's mysterious guide; The Soldier's Farewell - the guerilla war on the Mexican border in 1915; One Man's Rubble is another man's Gold - men with strong backs headed for San Francisco after it burned in 1906; Lost Mines of Mexico. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
441 pages. Bibliography. Footnotes. Index. "An insider's look at what goes on at a magic show, behind the scenes, and in the mind of the magician... Explains the principles of deception, exposing those innocent-seeming motions that conceal vital actions from onlookers... Demonstrates how the conjurer uses misdirection of space and time and simple optical illusions to fool an audience. Also explores off-stage magic, that is, the various techniques used by such 'magicians' as advertisers, politicians, spies, con artists, movie directors, spies, psychics, faith healers, and others use to deceive and influence you." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Book
287 p. Foxed. Damp stain. Uncut. Manuscript ownership and inscription of William Wilson "Book Price 22 cents bought at auction Baltimore December 23, 1830" on second fly leaf. Ink offsetting on title page from the bold inscription on fly leaf. 12mo. 205 mm. Old crude leather repaired spine over paper covered boards. Boards stained. William Wilson (born 1749), came to Baltimore from the county of Limerick, Ireland, in 1770. Soon after the end of the Revolutionary War he became a shipping power, and a large importer of English goods. He was distinguished for his uprightness and liberality, and was prominent in public matters (including interest-free loans to the government). He was one of the founders of the First Baptist Church, which was originally located on the site of the Shot Tower. S&S/AI 20345. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 6
72 pages. Features: Benjamin Franklin Daniels - Fighting Man!; Big Bend Treasure Hunt - Indian Caves; Grey Robe - Mysterious Benefactor of the Navajo; Radersburg, Montana - a town that split the difference; Seige of the McSween House in Lincoln; Jesse Knight - The Mormon Wizard; An early California tale of adventure; A Choctaw's Revenge - Alfred Victor hunts down the killers of his son; The 1913 Dump of Snow on Denver - Thirteen Million Tons!; Good men and bad in a famous saloon on the Santa Fe Trail, the Don Diego Hotel; and more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
82 pages. Features: Scotty's Fantastic Trip - record run from Los Angeles to Chicago on the Santa Fe, chartered by Death Valley Scotty in 1905; Memories of Frisco Steam - some of the most beautiful locomotives in the country; Farewell, GM&O (Gulf, Mobile & Ohio) - merger spells the end; Rio Grande on the Run - Utah's Wasatch Range offers quite a barrier to the D&RGW's run to the west; Steam at Christchurch; Commuting in British Columbia - great article with map and colour photos; Guide to Night Photography; Through Illinois on the Locals; Little Dumpy Steams Again - restoration of a locomotive for the Monticello and Sangamon Valley Railway. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Illustration Features: America Arrayed in Arms; Why I Have Faith in Russia - article by Hamilton Fyfe; "Vive La France!" in the face of instant death (torpedoes); General Maude's Great Advance in Mesopotamia; In the Tracks of the Turks in the Tigris Valley; How Bullecourt was Won - article be Max Pemberton; Behind the Lines in France; British Guns aid Italy on the Carso Front; Episodes in the Great Battle of Arras; Men of the Green Brassard - some famous correspondents and their work (article); Plowing and Sowing for harvests of life and death; Mosques and Minarets of old-world Bagdad; Canadian Kite Balloons and Captured Teuton Trophy; Willing Women workers; Italians push on towards Trieste; Regimental Record - The Kensingtons (article); Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Narrow Gauge to Santa Fe - 125 miles of desert railroad in a land where happy people are too poor to buy a newspaper; Granite From Vermont - Barre & Chelsea Railroad, steepest of the railways east of the Mississippi, brings stone down from the mountains; The Firefly; Reading Locomotive Growth - from Old Ironsides to streamlined Crusader - new 108-page book gives history of Reading power; Locust Point in Link and Pin Days; Transcontinental Tour; Illinois Terminal Railroad - only surviving typical interurban saw the writing on the wall - now a Class 1 freight and passenger line. Above-average soiling and wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
3 volumes in-12, reliure demi-toile noir, pièces d Bel ensemble. [HA-109/3] Traduction entierment nouvelle du texte allemand par Charles d'EBELING.
Raffigurazione planimetrica del porto accompagnata da descrizione statistica riguardante: condizioni nautiche e commerciali, movimento commerciale, opere esistenti e opere eseguite tra il 1861 ed il 1870, dopo la costituzione del Regno d'Italia. Il tutto racchiuso in decorativa cornice
645 pages. Index. Frontis portrait of Thomas Wildey, the Founder of the American Odd Fellowship. Author presents his thoughts about the principles of the Odd Fellowship, and the history and practices of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. Chapters include: Immortality, Friendship, Love, Truth, The Besetting Sin, Rebekah, Service, Loyalty, Faith, Hope, Charity, Universal Justice, A Machine, Home, A Challenge, The Jericho Road. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
156 pages. Lots of great photos of Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie, and Derek and the Dominoes. Fantastic two-page 'History of Eric Clapton' traces his history in great detail from 1963 through 1977, listing dozens of fellow performers, tour details, etc. Includes sheet music for voice and piano with guitar chords for forty-two songs including: After Midnight;; Crossroads; I Shot the Sheriff; Lay Down Sally; Layla; Let it Rain; Little Wing; Only You Know and I Know; Strange Brew; Sunshine of Your Love; White Room; Wonderful Tonight; and so many more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Minor bit of writing on table of contents otherwise unmarked. A sound working copy of this awesome Eric Clapton compilation. Book
26 pages. Cover: Fred Astaire Features include: Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge; Songs of the West (by Roy Rogers); Music by Percy Faith; Love That Boy! (Elliot Lawrence); Song Hits Record Shop; and Vivacious Vera-Ellen. Collection of lyrics to the popular songs of that era including: Winter Wonderland; Copacabana; Have I Told You Lately That I Love You; and many more. Full page b/w movie poster "The Man I Love" starring Ida Lupino and Robert Alda on inside front cover. Check marks in ink next to some song titles. Previous owners name written in ink on front cover. A worthy reading copy. Magazine