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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
London/…, Cassell & Cy. 1948, xiii + 167pp.+ 1 portrait, 1st ed., linen cover
64 pages. Features: Funny cover illustration of ditzy blonde beating table of men at poker; Nice colour GWG (Great Western Garment) ad inside front cover for their Drillers Drill work clothes for men; One-page blue and black recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF); One-page colour ad for the 1949 'futuramic' Oldsmobile; One-page colour ad for Waterman's pens features the new Crusader Trioset; Are We Governed by Bureaucrats? - an examination of the brain trust alleged to run Canada from the back room; Seventeen Lotus Blossoms - early appearance of this Sax Rohmer story, illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Quebec City - photo-illustrated article; McCarthy's Last Affair - short story involving hockey; Television - The New Monster - 'a cultural bomb is being thrown into Canadian homes', by Morley Callaghan; Eyes in the Dark (short story); Canada's New Statesman - Louis St. Laurent; Champion spark plugs ad features illustration of man pouring sap from maple tree; Handsome colour centerfold Chevrolet ad features a 1949 Fleetline four-door sedan with Fisher Body; A Dime for God - photo-illustrated article about the good works of Frere (Brother) Sauvageau, the Quebec Brother who, by his beggin, has fed, clothed, and educated hundreds of boys, and cured souls by asking them to have faith; "Going Steady" and the Sex Problem; One-page colour-photo ad for Heinz canned soup, spaghetti and baked beans; Colour half-page Canada Dry ad; Canadian General Electric (CGE) ad for their radios, including the Models C122, C751 and C545; Quarter-page ad for the Thistle 'minipak' baby stroller and 'nibs' chariot; Rare one-page two-colour (red and black) Canadian Red Cross ad features illustration of plaintive woman (nurse?) at top; Fashion article on hats includes photos; Nice half-page colour Quick Quaker Oats ad features illustration of young boy dreaming of growing to be a basketball star; Housecleaning Can Be Fun (?); Half-page colour-photo ad for Sovereign Potters features Mornglo ware; Wabasso Cottons ad inside back cover features colour photo of two girls in bonnets feeding ducks; Nice back cover Coke ad features illustration of nervous young man visiting young girl's home; and more. Average wear. Four-inch opening to bottom of coverfold. Address hand-corrected on address label, otherwise unmarked. A nice copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
132 pages. Features: Many great color-photo fashion ads; The Mad Diary of a Manhattan Ecologist - Anne Richardson Roiphe; Nice color ad for Omega watches; Photo of John T. Morgan in Bogen Boutiques ad; Interesting Dreyfuss Fund ad features large photo of lion's head; Great photo ad for Ben Khan features Knick' basketball player Walt (Clyde) Frazier; Living Through the Allende Revolution - A Chilean Familiy Chronicle - major photo-illustrated article; Jean-Paul Sartre Accuses the Intellectuals of Bad Faith; It's Not How You Play The Game, But What Pill You Take - the genie of the pill bottle threatens both athletes and athletics; The Natives May Win One - The Great Alaskan Real-Estate Deal - land claims of the Kotzebue people; Rene Dubos views mankind's future with confidence; Pearl S. Buck ad features photos of darling children who are prisoners of war - Amerasian children left in Asian countries by American GI's; Great funky color ad for Supergraphics highlights their 70's adhesive plastics interior finishings; Great "Polish Screwdriver" ad for Wodka Wyborowa - The Polish Vodka; Nice one-page Dewar's Whisky ad features photo of playwright Terrence McNally; and more. Please Note: Pages 43-46 loose but present. Centerfold and pages 95-98 missing. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
61 pages. "Art in conflict - it has always been because it is misunderstood by so many who fail to grasp its meaning - much to be regretted - by no mean for by being rejected the urge for expression in the soul of the true artist often grows deeper with defeat" - from forward. A collection of 27 poems. Signed and inscribed by author across from title page. Average wear. Binding sound. Bookplate and two pen markings atop front free endpaper. Book
8vo. Viii, 95 pages. Lectures by some of the Giants of 20th Century Conservative Judaism. Foreword, by L. Finkelstein. -The Song of Songs and the Jewish religious mentality, by G. D. Cohen. -To grow in wisdom, by A. J. Heschel. -The Biblical grounding of human value, by M. Greenberg. -God, man, and Israel in the Bible, by M. Arzt. -Isaiah: prophet, thinker, world statesman, by R. Gordis. -The flowering of American democracy: Greek branches and Jewish roots, by B. Mandelbaum. SUBJECT (S) : Judaism. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Colored endpapers. Very minimal shelf wear. Clean text and tight binding. In Very Good condition. (BIBLE-1-26) .
220 pages. Fiction: Botts Runs For His Life; Weddings are For Women; Slum Kid; Murder Island; Anything for a Pal; Broken Promise; The Disappearance of Dolan (conclusion); Nothing to Lose (part 5 of 8). Articles: A New Trap for Runaway Husbands - the Fugitive-Husbands Law; Loveliest Wilderness in the World - Kew Gardens - color photos; The Amazing Mr. Churchill - Wonderful Winston, the Prisoner of War, part 3 of 8; So That's What You Dream About!; The Man Who Sets Off Atom Bombs - Dr. Alvin Graves; Sardi's - New York's Glamorous Hash House; The Pilots Who Lost Their Wings - Japanese Pilots; The Curious Ways of Manhattan Cliff Dwellers; Will Blood Flow Next in Morocco?; Our Most Arrogant Bureaucrat - Michael Straus, Commissioner of Reclamation. Ads: Studebaker Trucks; New York Life; Allis-Chalmers electric motors; Nescafe; American Gas Association ad features Mrs. Leslie Bonney of Cambridge, MA, Mrs. R.B. Butler of Tulsa OK, and Mrs. Geraldine Work of Santa Cruz, CA; Motorola radios; General Motors; Westinghouse Appliances; Ford cars; Inland Ice Cube Trays; Packard Cars - nice 2-page color-photo ad; General Electric Appliances; Eaton Truck Axles; Crosley Fridges - with Faith Baldwin; Handsome color United Air Lines ad; Great two-page color TWA ad; Nice two-page color Nash auto ad features the Ambassador Custom; Pall Mall cigarettes; Two-page color Chevrolet ad; Nice one-page color ad for Jarman shoes; Nice one-page Squibb ad shows faithful dog holding child's dress to prevent her from running into street; Nice one-page color ad for movie 'Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick' starring Dinah Shore; Two-page GMC truck ad; Color photo of Randolph Scott in ad for Stereo Realist 3D cameras; Olympic televisions; Permutit water softeners; Clorets; Johnston Lawn Mowers; Telechron clocks; Majestic Rotomatic lawnmowers; Homko mowers; Nice one-page two-color ad for Jacobsen power lawn mowers; Johnson outboard mowers; Nice one-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes features noted sportsman-engineer Paul Henry; Coke ad on back cover shows empty bottles and caps on counter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Presidential campaigns are a sham - Dean Burch, G.O.P. National Committee Chairman; We Can't Let Them Down - Stewart Alsop discusses the Vietnam War; Discotheque - Go Go Madness strikes and the nation gyres in a frenzy of Swim, Surf and Frug - many colour photos; Vietnam - where do we go from here? - more and more Americans are dying - at the center of the chaos stands U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Davenport Taylor; A mirage of beautiful air - feature on Liz Renay; Anyone for Survival? - not so long ago, fallout shelters were the hot topic of discussion; A sentimental journey to Dracula's Hometown - Borgo Pass in the Romanian People's Republic; Lyndon Johnson's Religion - the President holds to a surprising faith, and it has an uncanny influence on him; Light-Heavyweight Boxing's World Champion Willie Pastrano - champion of nonviolence. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Book in as new condition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Slipcase in very good condition with small bump one corner and two small pressure marks to one edge. 363pp. An updated approach to the events and actions from the 14th century under the Holy Office of the Spanish Inquisition, based on recent historical research.
cm. 14 x 21, 96 pp. con 16 ill. in 12 tavv. f.t. Fondazione Giorgio Cini - Civilt? (le) asiatiche Inglese 226 gr. 96 p.
pp. xiv, (4), (11)-424. Foxed. Page 97 torn without loss. 8vo. 225 mm. Original worn leather binding. Boards detached. Original leather spine label. Loss at head. S&S/AI 2939. Collates complete. Hardbound. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 6
This issue titled Private Lives and their public enemies: journalism, the law, television, medicine, secret police, etc. Contributors include J. B. Priestley, Paul Getty, Adam Faith and Brigitte Bardot. 176 pages. Covers have some creases and browning.
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
Features: In Search of the Hairy Frog - An expedition into the little-known interior of the British Cameroons, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - An audacious hold-up in Malta G.C. of a navy van containing a considerable payroll, with photos; Luck of the Game - story from a Gold Coast Prospector; Ozark Excursion - interesting people including a cross-bow hunter; The Lost Mine - Tisingal, in the interior of Panama; The Cowrie Shell - white men usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bill - a fellow in Australia; House-to-House; Japanese glass net-balls (floats); Brown's Donkey - an incident from the North African Desert; The Rest House - a striking example of premonition from India; and more. Above-average wear. Brown tape secures covers. Book
Features: In Search of the "Hairy Frog" - an expedition into the British Cameroons collecting specimens of wild animals and birds for zoos, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - an audacious hold-up of a large Navy payroll in Malta, G.C.; Luck of the Game - a story from an original prospector in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; Ozark Excursion - hunting with the hillmen, including one who uses a crossbow and another who 'catches fish with his teeth'; The Lost Mine (Part 2) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reported to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spaniards; The Cowrie Shell - White men in Africa usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bull; House-to-House; Japanese Net Balls (Glass Floats); Brown's Donkey - a strange incident from the North African desert; The Rest-House - a tale from the Eastern Himialayas; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Embroidery magazine with features on Thai hill-tribe embroidery, art therapy, art & inspiration, catwalk commissions, Rachel Howard, ancient textile workers, perceptions of the 21st century, message and image, faith & fabric from Le Puy to Santiago, city & guilds, paper & stitch work, Threadmill Textile Artists and embroidery sales, events, books and exhibitions.
250 pages including index. Exploring the idea of citizenship in the evolving post-national context, author argues that old ideas of civic belonging, historically tied to blood, belief and law, need to be reconceived. Argues for a new model that will give voice and structure to our longing to be part of something larger than we are. "Appeals to the thoughtful reader who thrives on insights into the way humans interact or who enjoys a rich tapestry of concepts and ideas and the thinkers behind them." - The Globe and Mail. Minor underlining and marginalia upon several pages. Minimal wear. Attractive glossy illustrated covers. Book
68 pages. Features: Judge Clement Haynsworth; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird; Photo of 9th Infantry Division leaving Vietnam; SALT; The anguish of Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick; Killer Camille - the greatest storm - article with photos; A tighter (Soviet) vise on Czechoslovakia; The Burning of the Al Aqsa mosque - article with photo; Two flags over Ulster; Biafra situation worsens - article with color photos; India - Indira Gandhi v. the Syndicate; Woodstock and the message from history's biggest happening - article with color photos; Why Louis Blaiberg died (after heart transplant); Who owns the (Miami) beaches?; Sherman Skolnick's Guerilla war against the Illinois justice system - article with photos; Article and photos in memory of architect Mies van der Rohe, creator of the glass and steel high-rise; Evangelist Billy James Hargis in Jerusalem; Merv Griffin; The Smothers Brothers; Interesting article on the rock music scene with photo of Blind Faith seated around large tree; The influence of the LP record; Controlling inflation; The Hilton Hotel family - Conrad and son Barron; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of sh elf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in protective clear cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Book explores the relationship of chilhood play to political imagination: relations between make-believe and belief, playful vision and serious theory, theatre and the theatres of politics and war, ritualization of everyday life, visions of reality and it's manifestation in art, psycholo-analysis, science and the American Dream. Yow.
Seuil 1978, In-8 broché. 260 pages. Bon état.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Fine. [xi], 286, [2] p. First edition. In Turkish. Stone and rock cult in Turkish belief. Türklerde tasla ilgili inançlar.
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21.5 x 13.5 cm). Mint. 240 p. In Turkish. Stone and rock cult in Turkish belief. Türklerde tasla ilgili inançlar.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). Very good. [14], 317 p. In Turkish. Stone and rock cult in Turkish belief. Türklerde tasla ilgili inançlar.
Le Serment / Fayard 1986, In-12 broché, 308 pages. Trés bon état.