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20 pages. Features: 45% of Canadians own 3 or more credit cards; Helen Shaver in Hollywood - article and great colour photo; Job descroption of J.B. Priestly - article with colour photo; Poster show at the Art Gallery of Ontario - brief article with 5 wonderful colour reproductions of the 61featured posters in the show; The credit card game - article with an interesting colour collage of 72 of the most commonly used cards; A Capital Affair - excerpt from "A Very Political Lady" by Judy LaMarsh; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 287-352, 14 ads. Features: My Adventures in "German South-West" (I) - a bicycle trip through south-west Africa; The Blue Powder - a story of bewitching from Nigeria; Among the Yahgans - a sailor's story from the waters of Tierra del Fuego; The Queen Side of Things - My Chinese Crystal - the events which came with a curio believed to have been stolen from a Chinese temple; The Devil-Panther - two British sportsmen seek to kill this beast; An Errand of Mercy - the difficulties of travel in rural Paraguay; "Hoodlum" - Roger Berry was a fireman aboard a Lake Erie tug; The Talking Crow - a tale from autumn 1922; Outlaws at Bay - a tale from North-west India; Rescuing the Doctor - a tale from the Peruvian jungle; Malayan Gang-Robbers; The Yacca-Gummers; Anstruther Gets a Job; Man and His Needs. Heavily worn. Covers nearly detached. Bit of writing atop first page of advertising and page 339. A worthy reading copy. Book
28 pages. Features: 1 out of 8 Canadians has been injured in a car accident; Einstein's 100th Birthday - article with photo; A day in the life of downhill ski racer (Crazy Canuck) Ken Read - article with photo; Job description of a model - article and photo of Jane Fellowes; A Jew in Germany - article by Mordecai Richler; Bright Lights of Broadway - Ulf Nilsson and Anders Hedberg of the New York Rangers - article with photos; The Mystery of Pain; Sonic Bust - the British and French governments are scrapping the Concorde after 10 years, 16 planes and $2.5 billion; The evolving designs of food processors; Neil Simon - the good humour man - article with colour photo; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Why build the atom-powered bomber?; My memories of Pius XII; What's wrong with boxing?; Patriotic young Americans; The Edacious Spider; The dubious origin of the fourteenth amendment; Americana; Subversion by the Communist underground remains the strongest weapon against U.S.A.; This we face; Jimmy Hoffa's plan for conquest; The Job Walter Reuther wants; Clear it with COPE - is a labor government in 1960 invevitable?; Racketeer & Communist dominated unions; The Republican debacle in California; The ways of big daddy - the Southern textile industry; Wit's End; Spotlight on performance; You can't kill an umpire; African agriculture; How to be a successful hypochondriac; Bible prophecy V; He solved the mystery of the eel - Johannes Schmidt; and more. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Features: Bobby Moore writes for you - 'England's worst player gets a yellow jersey; 16,000 miles of high speed danger - over a hundred cars will battle in the World Cup Rally - Roger Clark will pilot the SHOOT rally car; Quick Quiz; Interview with Nottingham Forest's Henry Newton; Tony Hateley - 'he always gives all he's got!'; Full-page colour photo of Alan Warboys; Johan Cruyff - the George Best of Holland; When the "Wee Blue Devils" Thrashed England! - a SHOOT special on the Home Championships; Home Championships Line-Up; Ian Bowyer - the star who silenced the Kop!; Colour centerfold photo of the Queen's Park Rangers - second division pacemakers; Too old at 30? - some exceptions to the rule; Five leading referees speak out about their tough job; Peter Simpson played his way into England's limelight; If Swansea can keep up their promotion challenge, the crowds will flock back to Vetch Field; Full-page color photos of Billy Hughes and John McPhee; Dundee's bid to become Soctland's Senior Soccer City; Can Burnley break their no-win hoodoo?; Focus on Derek Parkin; Scrapbook of the Sixties; Back cover colour photo of Gordon Marshall. Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
52 pages. Target San Francisco - the charms and pitfalls of the city of the next American Legion convention; Take Two and Hit to Right, by Duane Decker; Fringe of the Iron Curtain, by William Henry Chamberlin; Skeet is Back in Civvies - The Clay Target Brotherhood; Nice color ad for Ford cars and their 100 HP engine - illustration features red Ford passing Canadian Mounties; Color Greyhound bus ad features California redwood; Hash and Salad forever, by Jack Cluett; No Love Allowed, by Eddie Forester; Ben Hogan Reconverts - Golfer Ben Hogan served in the Army Air Force for approximately three years - now he is finding his golf game again; Police Jobs for Veterans; But We Expected You at Dakar, by Frederic Sondern Jr. and Donald Q. Coster; Taking Care of Vets Still our No. 1 Job, by John Stelle, National Commander; Nice colour ad for Hiram Walker's Imperial whiskey; Nice colour ad for Blatz beer; Color Seagram's ad inside back cover; Great color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover features emergency doctor and claims "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette". Many additional nice vintage ads. Average wear. Address label on front cover. A sound copy of this interesting vintage issue. Magazine
Features: Everything you wanted always wanted to know about the life of a stewardess... but were too shy to ask; On the Road with Young Canada - Part 2 of Dave Cobb's motorbike ride across Canada; So you think Pierre Trudeau's Doing a Lousy Job? - test your knowledge of the P.M.; The Quarterback's Bodyguards - offensive guards - Bill Danychuk, Jack Abendschan, Ken Sugarman, Roger Scales (Please note: pages 15 and 16 of this article are missing from this copy); Nancy Greene in the Marketplace - she makes $100,000 a year but she only endorses products she believes in; Professor Igor Kusyszyn teaches a course on betting on horse races; Kurt Weber's Roulette system won him $150,000; Our pick of the best Canadian fashions the federal government could find; half-page colour ad for Polaris snowmobiles; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
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
Features: Millington's Lesson - Lawlessness in Burma prior to the British withdrawal; Glider Snatching - a story from Burma in World War II; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I of the adventure of an English walker in France; The Mayas of British Honduras; Unlucky Ship - the chief officer of a tramp steamer recalls the events which befell the ship; The Men-Lions Mystery - the shocking toll of human life levied by maneaters in Africa; Tow Boating Down the Mississippi - a voyage from Memphis to New Orleans, with photos; The Nukoni Ju-Ju - the abandoned Gold Coast Mines was avoided by natives; Death at Sundown - a curse which was fulfilled in startling fashion; Hurricane Journey - returning to his police job from war service, the author expected a quiet life; The Firebrand - a former Eritrean corporal in the Italian colonial police becomes a bandit; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features Include: The Fruit Ranch Riddle - An interesting murder investigation at the Morrisey fruit ranch near Selah, Washington, USA; Interviewing an Eruption - Filming a volcano in the Belgian Congo; The "Lion-Men" of Ussure (Part 2) - The amazing story of Tanganyikans posing as "lion-men"; Exploring the "Great Diagonal" - an ambitious attempt to open the interior of Brazil; Stowaway to Spitzbergen; "Book-Keeper Wanted" - a colourful story from Western Australia; The Blind Malik - A Quaint Tale from Waziristan; The Dingo - An amusing story from the outback; The Bull-Gang - a young Englishman finds his way into a dirty pulp mill job in Canada; Ship's Guard; Ramaswamy's Pal - from 'the queer side of things' . Average to above-average wear. Some staining and prior owner's name upon back cover. Chips from spine. Decent copy. Magazine
Features: Announcement, with photos, that after seven years of research, the Caterpillar Tractor Company has applied the diesel engine successfully to the tractor. Contains fascinating two-page wide graphic which illustrates and describes business cycles and patent applications from 1840 to 1932 Articles: The transmission engineer's job - to design a n electrical transmission line, tie in a number of power stations, and solve the many attendant problems oftern requires years of work; Editorials - too old at 40? - airplane engine reliability - peace in radio - expensive babies; Gold from goldfish - goldfish, once imported, now raised in great numbers here; Star colors and star temperatures - the problems with which astrophysicists deal in determining the heat given off by flaming heavenly bodies; The business man takes wings - an account of an actual business trip around the country in which much time and money were saved; New light on Sasanian culture - culture of the peoples whose lands were the scene of the wars of Alexander the Great, as shown by recent archeological finds; Concrete bridge makes new record - George Westinghouse Bridge has America's longest concrete span; Is space curved? - some confusing concepts of the physicists cleared up by simple scissors work; Looking at stresses - complex stresses in structures directly vivible by new method; Big Springs - Some springs in this country flow great rivers of water; Why a watch keeps time - two years' time is often required to design a watch that will consistently keep accurate time; Gun recoil control - simple muzzle attachment reduces recoil of guns and prevents lift of the muzzle off the target; Endurance cut from the hillside - stone for modern buildings is cut in huge blocks by methods that have felt the touch of the machine age. Moderate to average wear. Magazine
120 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos. Index of advertisers. Features: Sell Your Customer Service Economy and Not Just First Cost; On the Job Service Record; Newly Devised Drier-Graph Matches Drier to Job; Mind Your Own Business Figures; New Components for Beverage Dispensing; This Business of Service; Let's Look the Gift Horse in the Mouth; Ashley of Carrier Reports on Carrene-7; How the 59 cent dollar got that way; and much more. Many vintage ads. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this uncommon vintage trade journal. Nice gift idea for a modern refrigeration technician. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Castro's War on Capitalism in Cuba; Counting Heads - the first U.S. census was no easy job; Juvenile Integrity Starts in the Home; The Korean Myth - Misconceptions Americans have about Korea; 1960 Version of "The Little Red Hen"; Cold War in International Athletics - opposing Communist athletes intent on propaganda; The Tenth Man - baseball's most important player can be the groundskeeper; Facts Russia Does Not Tell; School Teaching Beats Working for a Living; The Truly Satisfying Life; The China Clipper; Who are the Metrocrats?; Listen to This; Honey - Nutritious Nostrum; Who Wants to Abolish the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?; They Tamed the Wild Missouri River; Is There Free Speech?; The greatest Train Robbery; Walter, The Adaptable Weasel; A Kentucky Political Education; Don't Let your Shoulder Freeze; This Is Christianity - Young Korean Joon Gon Kim's Ministry to Communists; You Can Do Something; Those Modern Eskimos; A Return to Common Sense in Education - Pennsylvania teacher shuns methods that produce illiterate blockheads; The Organization Mother; January-June 1960 Index. Back cover Flag Day coverage features lovely photo of youngsters Kay and Tony of the Dario Politella family of Lindenhurst, Long Island. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1990x-3540532757Springer 1990. Paperback. New. 279 pages. 9.53x6.69x0.64 inches. Springer paperback
3261021527.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1869ROD0058163F.Polo. 24 octobre 1869. In-Plano. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 4 pages, gravures noir et blanc in texte, 1ère page en couleurs: caricature par Job.. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.441-Journaux satiriques anciens
RO40086120Charavay, Martin. Non daté. In-Folio. Relié. Etat passable, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Déchirures. Env. 100 pages. Illustré de nombreux dessins en couleur dans et hors texte. Ouvrage très abîmé: dos presque entièrement détruit; plats abîmés et détachés; pages de garde très abîmées et détachées; pages abîmées et détachées; quelques rousseurs. A restaurer.. . . . Classification Dewey : 944-Histoire de France varia
1900R320016162H.E. MARTIN. VERS 1900. In-Folio. Cartonné. Etat d'usage, 1er plat abîmé, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. Environ 40 pages illustrées de nombreux dessins en couleurs in et hors texte et phrases musicales - Cartonnage monochrome - 1er plat abimé sur un coin et frotté sur les tranches.. . . . Classification Dewey : 781.599-Musique militaire
773686like new. unknown
19106540Paris: Librairie Felix Juven 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. First Edition. Hardcover. Part of the series "Collection d'Albums Historiques". Text in French. Overall a handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear new endpages and reinforced spine light toning to leaves else tight and unmarred. Blue cloth boards gilt and black ink lettering and decorative elements red grey and green ink decorative elements full page chromolitho plates with text overprinting red edgestains. Small fo. np. Illus color plates. Librairie Felix Juven hardcover
19106540Paris: Librairie Felix Juven n.d. ca. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. Light shelf/edge wear new endpages and reinforced spine light toning to leaves else tight and unmarred. Blue cloth boards gilt and black ink lettering and decorative elements red grey and green ink decorative elements full page chromolitho plates with text overprinting red edgestains. Small fo. np. Illus color plates. <br/><br/>Part of the series "Collection d'Albums Historiques". Text in French. Overall a handsome copy. Librairie Felix Juven hardcover books
1804ALEX169Printed by A. Bartram for Jacob Johnson & Co. et. al. Philadelphia: . 1804 pp. v 3 5-224. Text beginning to brown but not brittle. Light dampstain. New marbled endpapers. 12mo. 180 mm. Rebound in brown cloth. Leather spine label. Hardbound. Very Good. 'Squire' Job Roberts 1757-1851 was a remarkable man of Welsh Quaker decent. He was born lived and died in Whitpain close to Gwynedd and for many years he was one of the most conspicuous figures in the farming business and social circles of Gwynedd. He did much to improve the methods of farming planted hedges introduced the feeding of green fodder to cattle instead of grazing built a barn which was enormously large according to the usual standard and very early introduced the use of gypsum on fields. He was one of the first in Pennsylvania to introduce and breed Merino sheep and during the movement to establish the manufacture of silk he was one of its most zealous promoters. In 1791 Gov. Mifflin appointed him a justice of the peace and he continued as such until 1820 when he resigned and returned to farming and other entreprenureal pursuits. S&S/AI 7203; Sabin 71898; Rink 1148. SCARCE. PRICE JUST REDUCED! PAIMP 10. Hardcover. Good. Printed by A. Bartram for Jacob Johnson & Co. et. al., Philadelphia: . hardcover
1942137922New York: Samuel French 1942. First Edition. First Edition. Three-act play that is the basis for the 1945 film noir "The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry" directed by Robert Siodmak and starring George Sanders and Geraldine Fitzgerald. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket with a couple of tiny chips at the extremities and very light occasional foxing. Samuel French unknown books
183441915Philadelphia: Printed for the Society 1834. 63 1 pp. Disbound remnants of wrapper in blank inner margin of title page. Else Very Good with a clean text. <br /> <br /> Tyson was a Philadelphia lawyer and Whig and a prominent public citizen who spoke out on a number of contemporary issues. Believing that Negroes were inferior in "moral virtue" he nevertheless opposed Slavery and proposed voluntary African colonization as the solution to their presence in this country.<br /> Much information is presented on the doings of the Colonization Society.<br /> LCP 10520. Printed for the Society unknown
181510391Boston: Bradford & Read 1815. hardcover. very good-. 5 plates 216pp. 8vo original boards neatly re-backed in blue cloth ex-lib. Boston: Bradford & Read 1815. First Edition. Presentation copy.<br/><br/> In 3 parts Part 1- A Compendious View of the Climate and Diseases of These States 1620-1806; Part 2- An Inquiry Into the Prevailing Epidemic; Part 3- Catarrhus: or Slight Inflammation from Cold Attended with but Little or no Fever. Austin 2074.<br/><br/> Bradford & Read unknown books
