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20 pages. Features: The Sally Ann in Suburbia - Lieutenant Ken Chapman wages the Salvation Army's battle in North Vancouver - with great colour photo of Ken and Brenda Chapman of London, Ontario; K-Tel's Greatest Hits - fantastic kitschy article - with great colour photos - about the firm's hit products, and it's leader Philip Kives, a former Saskatchewan farm boy - products include the Miracle Brush, Hair Magician, Multi-Sharpener, Feather-Touch Knife, Record Selector, Frypans, Veg-o-matic, Patty Stacker, Multi-Exerciser, Super-Bond glue - a cool article!; Comparing the lot of a department store sales lady in 1907 with the modern version - a fascinating study plus archival photos; How to win at the most popular board games - Othello, Scrabble, Monopoly, Mastermind, Risk, Organized Crime; A fascinating short history of Christmas carols; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Nice colour photo ad for the Pontiac Parisienne and Firebird; Maclean's interviews John Porter; The Rich - 12 pages of photos and articles on some of Canada's wealthiest people - The Eatons (great full-page photo of John and Fred Eaton), The Irvings, John Basset Jr., Charles Bronfman and Chet Bell; Gordon P. Osler - a member of the WASP elite that runs the Canadian economy; Invest in the Rich Look - colour photo fashion segment; London Ontario's old family scions and nouveaux riches; Meditation - Awesome colour photos and article on the Beatles with the Maharishi in India; How to get paid for not working - scams to collect unemployment insurance; The uncommon cold and how I cured it; Two pages of photos of top Mutual Life of Canada sales leaders; Nice colour photo ad forthe Chevrolet Impala; Coke photo ad on back cover features Tiffany lamp; and more. Covers barely holding by one staple. Peripheral staining to front cover. Chips/openings to top edge of back cover and last few pages Unmarked. Despite its deficiencies, still a worthy vintage copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear and small blemish from price tag removal on cover. Printed on one-side only on heavy cardstock. Includes step-by-step, illustrated instructions, clearly numbered pieces, and an exploding diagram for easy assembly.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
Giro del mondo in Underground. A Londra, città dalle trecento lingue, un viaggio nei tunnel della mitica metropolitana.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous full-page photographs throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Rodger was London photographer for Life magazine. Many of his images are already classics of war photography; a number appear here for the first time.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with 17 fine drawings on japon, each separated by blank leaf and organised with printed tabs by category; navy faux-morocco cloth lettered in gilt, twin-screw fastening, a very good, bright, clean copy. The Pritchard Binder was intended as a sales aid for representatives and agents canvassing retail outlets. It is unclear how many drawings constituted a full set; the drawings here present are: LMS LOCOS (8 drawings): Class 5 Mixed Traffic Locomotive by Stanier (code M/L/10); 0-6-6-0 Diesel Electric Loco by Ivatt (code M/L/12); Class 7p 4cyl Pacific Express Loco by Stanier (code M/L/14); Class 8 2-8-0 Freight Locomotive by Stanier (code M/L/16); Class OF Diesel-Electric Shunter by Armstrong-Whitworth (code: M/L/19); Class 4p 2-6-4 Passenger Tank by Stanier (code M/L/21); Class 2 Intermediate Passenger 4-4-0 by Fowler (code M/L/25); Class 4 0-6-0 Standard Goods by Fowler (code M/L/26). LMS TENDERS: (2 drawings): Standard 4000 Gallon Tender (code M/TE/20); 3500 Gallon Tender (code M/TE/21). LNER LOCOS (1 drawing): 0-6-2 Suburban Passenger Tank Loco by Gresley (code NE/L/47). GWR LOCOS (1 drawing): 0-6-0 Pannier Tank 5700 Class (code W/L/17). WAGONS (5 drawings): Fuel Oil Tank Wagon by Shell-Mex and Anglo-Persian Oil (code G/112); 4 Wheel Steel Container Truck & 6 Wheel Steel Truck (Vehicle Carrier) (code G/114); 40 Ton Hopper Ballast Wagon & 10 Ton Box Van (code G/117); 50 Ton Sulphate Wagon & 25 Ton Covered Van (code G/126); Covered All Metal Bogie Van 'Mink F' & All Metal Bogie Coal Wagon (code G/128). A further 4 drawings, not by Roche and unconnected with the set, are loosely inserted. SCARCE ALBEIT INCOMPLETE.
Appears in mint unread condition 48pp.
49 pages, illustrated, plans. eng
49 pages, illustrated, plans. eng
49 pages, illustrated, plans. eng
48 pages, illustrated, plans. eng
A full - colour souvenir book on the residence of the British monarch. Written in co - operation with the Royal Collection, it describes how the Palace developed from its early days as the home of the Duke of Buckingham, to the garden residence of the Hanoverian kings, to its present position as the official home of the Queen and her family. The book describes in detail how the treasures in the palace were collected and acquired by the kings and queens over the century and gives background on the craftsmen and artists whose works and paintings adorn the palace. It tells the story of the architects and builders who have worked on the palace to make it what we see now, and the attempts by the monarchs to control the costs, and of the development of the gardens by a series of queens Clean Copy
8vo., First Edition, some light age-staining throughout; original dark red cloth, upper board elaborately blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, very neatly recased, a well-preserved copy of a very scarce work. With the trade ticket of Cockle of Littlehampton on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Bone & Son on rear paste-down.. Robinson, a sculptor of Derby, travelled widely in his pursuit of original and selected pieces, including epitaphs by Tennyson, Longfellow, Wordsworth, Nicoll, Langley and many others. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; attractively bound in half calf, marbled boards, gilt back, sage endpapers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE. Anderson p.205
Small handbook issued by London Transport to guide visitors to the various places in London associated with the stories of Charles Dickens. Includes a section on how to get to them by public transportation. Foreword by Monica Dickens. 166p. illus. Book
Six volumes (called Divisions). Illustrated with 34 bold and crisp steel engraved plates of eminent public figures; and a steel engraved title vignette of Palmerston's country residence, Broadlands. Text partially unopened. Tall 8vo. 270mm x 190mm. Original full green cloth bindings, lettered in gold. XLib. Very good. Henry John Temple (1784-1865) was the elder son of Henry Temple, second Viscount Palmerston. He succeeded to the peerage in 1802 and became a Tory MP in 1807, eventually becoming Foreign Secretary in 1830,a post which he held for many years, being active in all the great international of the early Victorian era. events and upheavals. He became prime minister in 1855. During his political career, he was elected to sit in 17 parliaments and served four monarchs: George III, George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria. Though XLib, this set is still clean and tight. It would make a wonderful gift for anyone interested in England and her once vast Empire. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W64
in-8°, 662 pp, illustrations, broche, couverture noire à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire. [CA31-3]
8vo., First English Edition; green cloth, backstrip lettered in orange, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip. THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE DEDICATEE AND CARRIES HIS INITIALLED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON DEDICATION. Rewritten English version of the Danish edition published in 1949.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 48pp. The history of the Cloth Fair and Cloth Fair Chambers built on the former site of the priory of St Bartholomew the Great and one of London's oldest buildings. The first known record of Cloth Fair dates from the charter of 1133. Illustrated. Very scarce.
In 8, pp. 13 + (1) con 8 tavv. f.t. in b/n. Br. ed. con punti metallici al d. e lievi tracce di ruggine al p. ant. Testo di presentazione di Jasper Ridley. Catalogo delle acquisizioni della Tate Gallery di Londra durante gli anni della guerra. Fra queste opere di William Blake, Edward Burra, Paul Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Modigliani, etc...
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; boards lettered in black, cloth back, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy.
pp. iv, 60, 360. 12mo. Disbound. Old ownerships. A great record of the individuals involved in the official life of England and its Colonies during this momentous period. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 8
151pp., 21cm., softcover, text in German, Doctoral Dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie der Philosophischen Fakultät der Freien Universität Berlin), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, G110597
grand in-8°, 443 pages, broché, couverture illustrée à rabats. Bel exemplaire. [FRA-2]
