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Roy. 8vo., First [Sole] Edition, with an engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 4 engraved plates (original tissue guards present) and numerous head- and tail-pieces in the text; original decorative pebble-grained cloth blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, bevelled boards, covers mildly age-marked, backstrip a little mottled at head and tail (but all gilt entirely legible), a very good, unusually bright and clean copy. Scarce, especially in this condition.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous plates in monochrome; green buckram, upper board and backstrip lattered in gilt, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. EDITION LIMITED TO 2000 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 43). Detailed account of the damage and survival by the Dean, with a chapter on Damage & Reparation by W. Godfrey Allen. EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.250.
2 vols., 4to., First Edition, with plates and maps; marbled boards, calf backs, gilt tops, marbled endpapers, covers lightly worn at extremities, corners bruised else a very good, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE
Londres, 1933. Petit in-4; 96 pp, en feuilles, sous chemise cartonnée bordeaux, étui. Cette édition du manuscrit inédit du Comte de Caylus, a été limitée à cent soixante-quinze (175) exemplaires sur vélin teinté pour quelques amateurs. (N° 113). Ornée de 11 gravures assez libres rehaussées par COLLOT. (Première édition de ce texte érotique d'après Pascal PIA. Les Livres de l'enfer).
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: N. Clarke illustration of a Hudson attacking a Heinkel; Survivors of the Benares taken aboard; Photo of smiling British kids who survived 8 days adrift; The men who saved St. Paul's - defusing large unexploded German bombs; German guns to fight Germans; Text of a speech broadcasted by J. Maynard Keynes entitled "British Finances Today"; Photos of the destruction of night bombing in London; Photo of Londoners in underground stations after nightfall; Numerous photos of downed German aircraft in England; Photos of H.M. Submarine Sturgeon plus her Captain and crew - responsible for sinking a German transport which carried 3 to 4 thousand troops; centerfold illustration by S. Drigin shows German troop ship sinking after being torpedoed by H.M. Submarine Sturgeon; Photos of Dutch and Frenchmen supporting the British cause; South Africa shares its war effort; Aerial photos of Dunkirk as she appeared after the British Army left, and then after the R.A.F. left it - smashed; Photos of damage to Berlin and Calais; Illustrated article on the Balkan Melting Pot - Struggle for the control of strategic centres; full-page map of Rumania under the axe; Superb full-page photo portrait of W.A. (Billy) Bishop - Canada's Greatest Air Fighter; Photos of Rumania signing away her territory to Hungary; Captured Italian Savoia bomber; Commentary on the war this week; photos of Arabs who have rallied to the cause of freedom; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Photos of the destruction wrought by Swansea's three-night blitz, including bad damage to another London hospital; Photo of downed German bomber in southwest England; Photo-illustrated text of a Canadian broadcast by Lord Beaverbrook entitled "The Pathway of the Atlantic; Photo of Sir John Dill during a visit to the Aldershot command; Photo inside a Canadian auto factory - Canadian mechanical transport played a notable part in the big drive in the Western Desert; Photos of the German Hamburg-Amerika freighter Idarwald after being set ablaze by her crew after attempting to run the British blockade off Cuba; Five photos of Winston Churchill inspecting British Home Guard personnel; Great photos of the War in Libya; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black shows the port of Brest being bombed again; Polish sailors co-operating with the Royal Navy; Photo of a Pom Pom gun being reloaded by four sailors; Three photos of Australian Prime Minister R.G. Menzies - at Bengazi, in England, and at a southwest port; Photo-illustrated text of broadcast by Major-General R.J. Collins entitled "Progress in the Middle East"; Illustration by W. Grogman shows a British motor-torpedo boat shooting down a German bomber in the Channel; Inspection of a massive Irish coastal gun; Lord Gort is met in Ireland by Sir Henry R. Pownall; Commentary on the war this week; Four amazing photos of the castaways of Emira Island, where the Germans left 328 survivors of vessels they had sunk; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
Features: Lake Forest National Spring Meet - an outstanding success; Steam Meet - Lake Forest, Illinois; Down Memory Lane - Automobile Skits at Lake Forest; Royal Motorist King Edward VII - article with photos; Second Annual London to Brighton Tour; Annual Shore Run, Ocean City, NJ; In Duster & Veil; Rallye Lyon, France; 50th Anniversary of General Motors -article with photos; America's famous automobile society and its beginning - early members Henry M. Leland and Charles F. Kettering; 10th Granville Rally in Ohio; Ford Facts; Grand Canyon Tour; Early 1900 Mitchell; 1903 De Dion Bouton Type D; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: AACA First National Prize Winning Truck - 1920 Model T Ford Truck; I Collect Trucks - great photos of vintage trucks with article; Why we should collect trucks now; Trucks of AACA members; Hershey Region's Hospitality Trucks!; Historians Neglected the Motor Truck; United Parcel Service (UPS) Preserves replica of its first truck; Roll Call of 1801 Makes of Trucks sold in the United States during the past 55 Years or more - 7 pages!; Curt Blake represents AACA at Brussels; London to Brighton 1958; Teuf-Teuf Club de Paris - Famous WWI Taxi Cab restored to perfection; Understanding Brass Plating - Part II - Nickel and Chromium plating of antique and classic car parts; Antique Automobile Index for Vol. 21, No. 4 to Vol. 22, No. 5; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
274 pages including index. 69 illustrations. Contains the report of the proceedings of a two-day symposium held in London. Topics include: The Development of Ideas on Oxygen Transport by the Blood; Oxygen Transfer by the Lung; Hypoxia in Man; Hyperbaric Oxygen and the Significance of Increased Cerebral Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Tensions; Methods of Measuring Oxygen Content of Blood; The Theory and Construction of Oximeters; Methods of Measuring Oxygen Tensions of Blood and Organ Surfaces; The Measurement of Oxygen Tension in Tissues; The Significance of Oxygen Tension Measurements in Tissues; Arterial Oxygen Tensions in Surgical Patients; Alveolar-Arterial PO2 Differences in Anaesthesia; Interrelationships between Blood Oxygen Tensions and Cerebral Blood Flow; Oxygen measurements in Shock; The Effects of Hypoxia upon Human Performance and the Electroencephalogram. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now in attractive Brodart cover. Nice clean, square copy. Book
Features: Australia's first air V.C. - Wing Commander H.I. Edwards; Photos of Italian and German POWs in Africa; Presentation of the Polish air force flag in England - six photos; Russia bombs Rumanian oil-fields; Diagram of German gliders used at the battle of Crete - landing air troops; Four fantastic low-level daylight photos of the R.A.F. attack on Rotterdam - 100,000 tons of enemy shipping crippled; Russia's resistance - article by Cyril Falls; Photos from Russia - where Soviet troops are at death-grips with the German enemy; Centerfold illustration of 'Winnie", a huge camouflaged English gun which hurls vast shells across the channel into German-occupied territories; Two full-page illustrations of giant English guns mounted on rail cars; Photos of England's 'Front-Line" Town - Dover; Photos of leading personalities of the week; Two-page map of the western Pacific illustrates America's strategic air and naval position in relations to Japan and Singapore; Photos of the "Robin Moor" being blown up by the Germans - the first U.S. ship torpedoed by Germany; Three photos of the Robin Moor's survivors at sea; Full page family photo of the Duke and Duchess of Kent with their two children, aged five and four; Article on the Plover; Full-page Dunlot ad shows how they serve agriculture; Full-page ad for The Nuffield Organization shows air crews with their planes in background. Average wear. Faint ink stamps to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
Front cover illustration of General Gallieni, the Military Governor of Paris. The march of events from Austria's debacle at Lemberg to the turn of the tide in the west. Photos and illustrations include: The Belgian Mission in London; Eager young recruits for Lord Kitchener's new army; The Defences of Paris; Glimpses of Paris under the threat of another siege by the Prussians; Entry of the Huns into Picardy; centerfold illustration of French infantry hurrying forward to meet the hereditary foe on the battleground of Northern France; The horse in the war; Canada's aid in the war - superb rally of 108,000 men for active service; infantry of the First Canadian Contingent passing Stonehenge on their way from Salisbury Plain to London; Italian demonstration at the Queen's Hall, London; The Battle of the Marne; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Front cover portrait of Lieutenant-General Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson, C.B. The Russian Stand on the Five Rivers and the Battle of the Carpathians; Photos and illlustrations include: Germany's Christmas Day Air Raid on London; Bird's-eye view of Cuxhaven Harbour, at the mouth of the River Elbe; Full-page photographic portrait of Lieut.-General W.P. Pulteney, K.C.B., D.S.O., Commanding Third Army Corps; Austrian General Steger Steiner and staff in Galicia; 28-ton Austrian seige gun which fires a thousand pound projectile; and more. Covers secured by tape. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
Front cover portrait of Temp. Surgeon-General Humphry Davy Rolleston, Consultant physician to the Royal Navy and Senior Physician of St. George's Hospital, London. British agriculture on a war footing (conclusion). Life of the "Lower Deck" - How it was affected by War Service. Covers secured by tape. Book
8vo., First Edition; original dark green cloth, upper board blocked with regimental crest in silver and red, boards lightly age-marked, backstrip faded and lightly pulled at head else a very good, bright, clean copy. Extremely scarce. Sutcliffe, p.464; White, p.205.
16mo., on laid paper, with a woodcut frontispiece COLOURED BY HAND and numerous woodcuts in the text; newly and skilfully bound in marbled boards of the period, ORIGINAL PAPER LABEL PRESERVED, ORIGINAL TIES MOUNTED (one defective), an unusually fresh, clean copy. Published by Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press ('Rights Reserved: Wrongs Revenged'). The considerable popularity of the author's 'London Cries' published two years earlier at the price of one guinea prompted 'the publication of this additionally illustrated extension at the more popular price of a shilling'. With 6pp publisher's catalogue at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Folio, (330 x 205 mm), 5, [1]pp., docket title, folded, as issued. Not found on ESTC or Copac.
Features: Frontis illustration of Sergeant Duncan Tovey; Company Notes; Regimental Football results; Notes by the C.O.; Editorial; Company Dinners; List of new recruits in the past year; Correspondence; List of Scottish Societies in London; and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Features: Frontis photo of the "Daily Telegraph" Cup Team, with names of members in photo; Company notes; Our Regimental Plate - No. IV - "The Anson Cup" - with photo and article by Ian Bhreatannaich; Shooting results; Notes by the C.O.; The Route March in Scotland; Chaps are saying; The Regimental Canteen; Smoking Concert; Intelligence and Information in War - Part III of a lecture by Col. R.N. R. Reade; and more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Stories: Canadian Hold-Up; A Clerk Breaks Loose; The Editor's Post Bag; Have You Seen an Elephant; My Cycle Trip to Spain; Latest From London; Spanish Interlude; The Brass River Affair; They Brought Me Back Alive; Crawford's Cobra; The Wolves of the Cascades; My All Blacks; The Tantanoola Tiger. Average wear. Book
Features/Photos: First photographs in colour - treasures of the Russian Kremlin; Prince Andrew baptised; a drive-in bank; the shots at Johannesburg; An underground township protected against nuclear attack - a Cornell University model; The great temples of Abu Simbel; What the high dam will do to the antiquities of Nubia; St. John's College, Johannesburg, South Africa; Brasilia - Brazil's new capitol; one-page colour advertisement for Daimler Majestic; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features/Photos: in colour - the new Forth Road bridge, and other subjects; Queen Mary seamen and crew strike; The first U.N. troops in Katanga - a peaceful entry; The Royal visit to Orkney and Shetland Islands - a British monarch's first visit to the Shetlands for 700 years; teaching the Australian aboriginals to live in a modern world; American military inventions - up-to-date equipment in the United States Army; Karabel in Lycia; An American space triumph - the 13th Discoverer satellite; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Features/Photos: Facelift to Downing St.; Unique gold torque found after 3200 years; Floods in Devon, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and Hereford; The deposed Prime minister of Congo, Mr. Patrice Lumumba; Japanese royalty in India; The first crossing of Lake Michigan by a wheeled Amphibian - the U.S. Army LARC-15 (2 photos); Colour centrefold loose but present; Cranford House School; Caravan Exhibition at Olympia; the U.S. Tiros II experimental 'weather-eye' satellite - multiple photos; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Book
Features: In colour - A Cezanne and a Picasso; and Tibetan Butter Sculptures; Anti-nuclear warfare protest at North Pickenham; Britain's first high-speed motorway - opened by Mr. Macmillan; How Jordan and Lebanon stand today; Kariba Dam; Cranleigh School; New Automatic Blind Landing Equipment; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features/Photos: General De Gaulle breaks away from his security guards in Algeria; Rioting in Algiers - disagreement with President De Gualle's plans for an Algerian Republic; Photos of the atom bombs dropped upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki recently released; The Roman Bath the Tenth Legion built at Ramat Rahel, Jerusalem; Three Royal Naval Aircraft Carriers together in the Mediterranean; University College of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Small closed tear to lower right corner of front cover. Sound copy. Book
Features/Photos: The Queen in Pakistan and India; Belgian village engulfed by slag heap; JFK delivers state of the Union speech; Mars; The King's School, Ely; Statuettes from Hacilar; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine