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32 pages. Features: Tour of Distant Lands via Camera; The Cause of Nervous Breakdown; Socialism through the Eyes of the Churchman; What Books are Worthwhile - and Why?; The Scientist is the Most Effectual Agent for Democracy, Says Edwin E. Slosson; Certain Fundamental Safeguards are still needed in Our Cort-Martial System, so says a former Sergeant Major of the American Expeditionary Forces; The Scholar Analyzes the different Versions of the New Testament; Henry Ford's Page - prosperity has not arrived until the last family enjoys it; Editorials - Senate-nominee William S. Vare, Gertrude Ederle is the first woman ever to swim the English Channel, Rapid decline in prestige of Premier Baldwin, interfering in Mexican affairs; The Old-Time Revival - Is it good enough for us?; The Cry of the Crippled Children - is greater than that about which a Barrett Browning wrote; Lower California - Land of Mystery - Where American Filibusters once sought to establish a republic; The Truth About France - Lesson of Touraine and the Woolen Stocking; If Shakespeare Came to London - would he be able to find may of his old haunts?; The Lure of Lofty Places - There are thrills on the mountain tops and fascination in finding them - article with photos of/on Mount Rainier, Washington; Barefoot Dave - Son of Nature, Mute Throreau of the Woods - David Dugden of Les Cheneaux Islands; Child Welfare and Conscience - Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt sits in the world's largest juvenile court; Chats with office callers - drunks in Montreal, Schools taking on more and more responsibility for child-rearing, Dr. George Byron Gordon, labor strife on the streets of New York; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - Great Britain's financial problems, Citrate acid in drinks makes us thirsty, forged manuscripts of famous authors, Lots of gangsters being killed in Chicago; Briefly told. Photos of unusual trees of the world; Soiling to front cover near spine. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
34 pages. Features: Briefly Told - fascinating news bits inside front cover; William Jennings Bryan - The Great Commoner - article with photos; Who is the Governor of Texas? - Miriam A. Ferguson - photo-illustrated article; Home Crafts for Idle Hands; A Jewish Rabbi in Jerusalem (Joseph Klausner) Writes "Jesus of Nazareth" and refutes Jewish traditions - a review of this much discussed book; How the Coolidge Cabinet Funcations; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - The Qualities of Practicability in Ideas; Editorial - What is the Neglected Truth?; The Couzens Investigation; Chats with Office Callers - Who Owns the Movie Industry? - A Man From Poland Describes Conditions in his Country where 'business is entirely out of the hands of the Poles', General Coxey of "Coxey's Army; Sapiro Officials Run a Sideline - second article on the plight of Sapiro's tobacco co-operatives, "all members of Sapiro associations should read these articles"; Famous Conductor Sir Henry Wood, of Queen's Hall Orchestra in London; Hynes E. Terry Guides People Through the Capitol; Bell Collection at the Glenwood Mission Inn, California; Interesting news items from across the nation; Aviation from the Navy's Viewpoint - conclusion of a photo-illustrated article by Captain W.S. Pye, U.S.N.; An Icelandic Tale; Are the Movies Cruel to Animals?; Some further instruction on the Correct Movements in a Plain Quadrille Dance - with illustrations; Aerial photo of cloud-shrouded Mount of the Holy Cross in Eagle County, Colorado. Some pages free from staples but present. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: An Intimate Talk with John Galsworthy; A Mixture No Nation Can Stand - America's stomach revolts at concoction of outlawed liquor crooked politics; America Writes A Book - the most crowded field of endeavor in this country; The Price-Fixing Association - how it ingeniously evades those troublesome anti-trust laws; Birth-Control - A World Blight - in this second article on birth control, Father McClorey says if propaganda succeeds, earth will become a desolate planet, driving through space, as dead as the moon; Pere Gilbault, le Coureur des Bois - a man of northern Michigan, philosopher, and artist for art's sake; Mr. Ford's Page - "The Economic Value of Accuracy is impossible to exaggerate"; Editorials - the Eucharistic Congress, Wilhelm Hohenzollern retains his estates in Germany, the 'dry' hearings in Washington, the manipulation of money; An Intimate Story of a Best Seller - struggling author finds publisher and new novel reaches an appreciative public; What's the Matter with the Ministers? - do our American preachers lack conviction concering the substance and efficacy of their message?; Voyage of the Victoria - Patagonia (part 6); Chats with Office Callers; The Fighting Quaker Who Made Cannon - Rhode Island and South Carolina Signers Included Stephen Hopkins, Outlawed by his Co-Religionists; A Dance a Week - Dictionary of Dance Terms; A Dog Molded a Man's Career - Bernhardt Wall and "Man's Best Friend"; News snippets include 'Gallic Ire vs. Cockney Sarcasm', 'Hooks and Eyes, Buttons and Religion', Joseph Conrad was not a Jew, Japs Ardently Copy Our Mistakes, Two Extremes of the Law, and Shoe Leather Hits Orient; Charming photos of kids from around the world, including four-year-old Pearl Hay of London. Middle page loose but present. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
4to., Fifteenth Edition, with frontispiece, plates, illustrations and plans in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a well-preserved, bright, clean copy. The rear wrapper carries an advertisement for the Charing Cross Turkish Baths - a favourite haunt of Holmes and Watson!
4 pages. Features wonderful full-page photo of Vera Lynn on back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-8 and 13-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Photo of Japanese, British and U.S. diplomates in England attemtping to replace the old London Naval Treaty; Chuckwalla wrecked on west coast of Vancouver Island; Mayor Leeming will run again; Manchukuo disregarding protests against proposed oil monopoly in state; America wants to lead in removal of barriers against international trade - warns against extreme nationalism; Government passes first market plan under B.C. Statute to protect tree fruit growers; Burnett's Gin ad; Piggly Wiggly ad; Editorial page; nice illustrated ad for Rogers and Majestic "Mystery-Tube" radios; City and District News bits; Social pages; Travel page; Sports page with head photo of Aurel Joliat in story about the 1934-35 Les Canadiens hockey team; Business page; Cartoon page. two pages of classified ads; large fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear. Above-average soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
451pp. 26 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
36 pages, illustrated. eng
Folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), title in purple and black, 7 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present) and 32 plates in monochrome; original purple buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly-age-soiled and with one or two short closed tears.
583 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Contents divided into the following sections: Tales and Tale-Bearers; The Classical and Biblical Past; The Present Terror of the World; The Great Turk; The Sophy and the Shi'a; A Great Plotter and Projector in Matters of State; The Greatest Traveller in his time; The Throne of Piracy; The Prophet and his Book; Festivities alla Turchesca and alla Moresca; Moslems on the London Stage. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. Spine taped. Worthy reading copy. Book
93pp., 25cm., text in English, bound in modern hardcover (marbled boards, gilt title on spine), Doctoral Dissertation (A Disertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidate for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, [Bound with: 1) COFFMANN, A New Theory concerning the Origin of the Miracle Play, Doctoral Dissertation (idem), 1914, 84pp. & 2) DE VOCHT, Introduction to The Wizard a play by Simon Baylie - edited for the first time from the Durham and London Manuscripts with introduction and notes, 118pp. (containing only the introduction by De Vocht), Louvain, Librairie Universitaire, 1930], T109406
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
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip. A REVIEW COPY WITH THE PUBLISHER'S RREQUEST SLIP LOOSELY INSERTED. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at fold-ins. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series, edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at backstrip. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
3 vols., roy. 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with frontispieces and numerous fine full-page photographs throughout, contemporary inscription and tape-marks on front free endpaper of second volume; cloth (olive/brown/blue respectively), upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper The set comprises: First Book. Introduction by John Codrington (second impression 1951); Second Book. Introduction by Raymond Birt. Photographs by G.F. Allen (first edition 1953); Third Book. Photographs by G.F. Allen (first edition 1956). COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
This very special issue contains two items of major significance. Jack London's prize-winning "What Communities Lose by the Competitive System" appears here for the first time on pages 58-64. This is immediately followed by Part I of "The First Men in the Moon" by H.G. Wells on pages 65-80. pp. [16] ads, 104, [8] plates, [36] ads, [6] cartoons, [10] ads. The dozens and dozens of illustrated ads, some of which are in color, are nothing short of spectacular, our favorite being the four-page two-color glossy illustrated ad for The "Mobile" Company of America, an early and short-lived automaker located on Kingsland Point at Tarrytown-On-The-Hudson, New York. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A well-preserved copy of this spectacular issue. Woodbridge, London & Tweney [Enlarged Edition] #909. Book
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A clean very tight copy with slightly soiled grey covers, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 192pp. A series of essays on various aspects of the English town.
Third Edition, 35, [1] pp., modern marbled wrappers. Kress, 4538; Goldsmith, 7763.
DJ with light edgewear. Rough spot on front free endpaper from removed sticker. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 192 pages
Hardback reprint. VG/G. 6756. eng
32p. + Plus frontis. Numerous photographs of German medals now in the Victoria and Alberta Museum. Tall 8vo. Original full gray blue printed wraps. Remains of album mountings on rear wrap. Hill was the keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. Nice copy. WWI 13
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 236 pages. A record of the scandal involving eminent Victorians and a male brothel in London.
