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48 pages. Features: Rave Reviews for Ed Koch; Quebecois Flock to the beaches of the south coast of Maine; Fairy-Tale Wedding of Charles, the Prince of Wales, to Diana Spencer - nice photos; Abolhassan Bani-Sadr; VIA Rail drops 15 Runs; World Record Swim for Alex Baumann; Strikes at Algoma Steel and Stelco; Straight-speaking Laura Sabia; B.C. Hatchery Accident results in many blind fish; Saskatoon aims to become a prairie Tivoli Gardens; Shorts - Fashion; Stopping the Suicide Cycle; Rock Music - with picture of Michael Anthony of Van Halen and Loverboy. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Railroad news photos; Easy Does It - great photo of a wrecker and its crew at work; The Colorado Midland Story - 1 - 4'8.5" to the Narrow Gauge Country - informative article with photos; Big as B&O but not as busy - the New South Wales Government Railways - great article with photos; Fantastic 2-page photo in Philadelphia, August 4, 1933 showing two locomotives of the Reading Philadelphia to New York service; Photo Section; The Passenger - keep him happy! - article about the passenger service industry; Would You Believe it?; Tripmaster - details of a rail trip along California; Steam in Indian Summer - Steam still at work in Quebec - article with photos; Beware the Wrath of the Editor - a photo test - identify the railroad and wheel arrangement; When a Man Wishes he'd never left the farm - large super 1951 photo of a Southern Pacific (T&NO) local freight crossing the intracoastal Waterway at Houma, La.; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Three-inch opening along bottom of coverfold, otherwise a sound copy. Book
28 pages. Features: Would you die for your country?; Dancer Ann Ditchburn - article with colour photo; Colour ad for the Eddie Bauer Snap-Jac; Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau - article with photos; Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales at age 30; The story of Hollywood - article with colour photos; A day in the life of Pierre Cardin; Mud and Blood - Passchendaele in WWI; Fighting for Peace - Canadian Peacekeepers (The Princess Pats) in Cyprus; Job Description of Windsor Mayor Bert Weeks - short article with photo; A Wonderful Time - A wonderful sampling of the collection of over 35,000 Canadian postcards owned by Allan Anderson and Betty Tomlinson; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
167 pages. Topics include: the government's role in N.W.T. recreation; Slavey Quill Bands; A frozen glimpse of British exploration in the Canadian Arctic; Eleonor McNeil of Fort Smith; The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the Western Arctic, 1903-1924; Archaeology at Great Bear Lake; Inuit youth and secondary education in the Northwest Territories; Reflections, shades and shadows. Average wear. Unmarked. Tight and square. A sound copy. Book
38 pages. Features: Full-page photo of the Pope's Coronation; Photos of Representatives of Great Britain and other powers at the Papal Coronation; Full-page photo of the Pope's Open-Air Coronation on the Balcony of St. Peter's; Papal Coronation seen by a vaster crowd than ever before; The "Scapa Flow" of the Spanish Republican Fleet!; A Bronze Age Potter's Workshop - The First Found in Palestine - photos; Lachish - Traces of Nebuchadnezzar's Invasions - and Art Relics - photos; Two photos of the first white giraffe seen in Kenya - an adult "Albino" Bull; Among the "Red Men" of Ecuador - article with photos; How the Colorados Dye Themselves Scarlet and Trim their Hair - photos; Two dramatic photos of the sinking of the S.S. "Lillian" after a collission with the German freighter "Wiegand"; Royal Events and Activities of the Week - photos; Sultan of Perak Installed; The Japanese bomb Shumchun Market near Hong Kong - photo; Strange photo of gas mask for babies; Incredible colour photo of literally a "Red Indian" - a Colorado of Ecuador with skin and hair dyed scarlet from seeds of the blood tree and wearing a silver nose pin; Colour centerfold illustration of the only town established by the Romans in Wales - Venta Silurum; Photos of personalities of the week including Mahatma Gandhi, Field-Marshal Goering (in civilian clothes) and his wife, Colonel Rodriguez Lister, Dona Dolores Ibarruri; The Crisis in Slovakia - photos of leading personalities and turbulent scenes - Hlinka Guards; King of the late King George V. in St. George's Chapel; and more; Average wear. Centerfold and pages 411-416 loose but present. Pages 445-450 and any pages beyond page 452 missing. Magazine
244 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Describes Welsh immigration and settlements, discusses the survival of the Welsh language and cultural institutions in Canada, and tells the story of a number of famous Canadians of Welsh extraction." - from back cover. Prior owner's ink stamp partially stroked out inside front cover. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Backstrip chipped. Worthy reference copy. Book
iv, 402 pages. Nice illustration plates including one fold out map. Well worn covers. Gutter of title page cracked and title page half loose but still holding. Rear pastedown gutter cracked. Wear to top/base of spine and cover corners. Binding generally ok but getting fragile.
114 pages. Features: Reports on Canada's Boom, Washington, and Jordan; Other Worlds Than Ours, by Donald H. Menzel; British Cultural Fatique, by Kenneth Tynan; Hunting Moon, by William Wister Haines; The Kidnaping of Kamlon, by Agnes Newton Keith; Horizon Thong (a poem), by George Abbe; Soviet Industry, by Edward Crankshaw; Cockles, Brambles, and Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas in Wales, by John Malcolm Brinnin; Saturday Night, a Story, by Marjorie Anais Housepian; Educational Television, by Leland Hazard; The Wreath - a story, by Frank O'Connor; T.E. Lawrenc- Man or Myth?, by B.H. Liddell Hart; Charles de Gaulle, by Curtis Cate; Air Travel with Stopovers, by Mitchell Goodman (part 2). Interesting colour ad by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover; Black and white photo ad by the Bell Telephone System shows damage of Hurricane Diane. Nice black and white photo ad by Columbia Records features pianist Robert Casadesus; Colour ad for the European Travel Commission inside back cover; Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Reports on Washington, Cambodia, Norway and Hungary; Dylan Thomas in Wales, by John Malcolm Brinnin; Undergraduates on Apron Strings, by Howard Mumford Jones; Hadrian's Villa (poem) by Adrienne Cecile Rich; The Menace of Radiation, by N.J. Berrill; The Inventor and the Acress, a story by William Saroyan; Women in Red China, by James Cameron; Why Prisoners Riot, by H.W. Hollister; Brotherly Love - a story by George Johnston; The Land of Cockayne (poem), by Eric Barker; The Portrait Painter and His Subject, by Charles Hopkinson; Thomas Mann's Farewell, by Frederic Morton; The Writer in the University, by Alfred Kazin; Air Travel with Stopovers (part I), by Mitchell Goodman. Black and white photo ad by General Electric shows the evolution of the refrigerator from 1900 the cupboard-mounted models of 1955. Color ad for Convair aircraft inside front cover. Great black and white photo ad by Columbia Records on page 27 features Somerset Maugham. Nice colour ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon inside back cover. Colour back cover ad for Grace Line Caribbean vacations. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Roy. 8vo. Sole Edition with 9 lithographed plates and very numerous illustrations in the text some occasional light spotting; contemporary cloth blocked in blind gilt back uncut covers a little age-marked backstrip sunned and chipped at head and tail a ve Section I: stone coffins and coffin-lids devoid of effigies; Section II: semi-effigial monuments
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; original green cloth, a very good, clean copy. With trade advertisements at rear
267 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "... Will revive controversy about one of the most appalling naval tragedies of World War II - a tragedy that had, perhaps, more far-reaching consequences than any other... Tells the story of the passing of the capital ship, as well as the story of the end of Western ascendancy over the Far East." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Tulle and Lace Veils; Fashionable Employments; Dinner-Parties; Dinners, by Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of rainy weather; New York Fashions - camel's-hair cloth; loadies' cloth costumes; new tunics; "Dolly Vardens"; Calicoes; plannel polonaises and wrappers; toys, chromo-lithographs; Personal; towel rack of carved wood with embroidery; braid-work lunch bag; canvas work-bag with point russe embroidery; tatted and crochet insertion and edging for lingerie; Border for curtains, lambrequins; Suits for girls and blys from 1 to 15 years old; The Lovels of Arden - continiued; Grumbers; knitted and crochet worsted glove; velvet and kid kitchen glove; sewing-weight with case for sewing utensils; Royal's Raffle, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Sayings and Doings; Paris Gossip; The Prince of Wales - illustration and write-up; Netted clothes-bag; crochet and tatted and needle-work collars for children; point lace cover for fan; humor. Average wear. Book
8vo., Sole Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 28 monochrome plates on 24, 2 folding plates, 17 illustrations and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text, 3 folding maps on japon (2 coloured in outline and one coloured), appendices including 6 tables (4 folding), 5 folding sketch-maps in red and black and 1 folding meteorological table, some light foxing throughout; cloth, blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, covers a little faded else a sound, clean copy of a very scarce work. The definitive general study and notoriously hard to find. Neate 142
Yr ail argraphiad, 12mo (175 x 105 mm), [4], 5-129, [1] pp., contemporary sheep, hinges partly cracked, small piece missing from tail of spine, a good copy. Gweinidog annheilwng o Eglwys Loegr = Griffith Jones.
4to, 117pp., of typescript with the author's additions and corrections, from the library of Owen Morris, loose in envelope. Published in 1989 in 'The National Library of Wales Journal'.
Roy. 8vo., ALL PUBLISHED; navy buckram, gilt back, gilt top, UNCUT AND UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
8vo, 21.2cm. Pp. viii,140, 1 map, 2 fold. sections, 10 figs. in text. Orig. cloth, gilt lettering on front cover. Very good. - Author's inscribed presentation copy to Rev. S. Gaskig, F.G.S. In the list of illustrations on page vi is called for three more plates but there is no evidence that these have been in this copy. The author was "a business man devoting all his leisure time to geological research" (Challinor, History of British geology).
110 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
Pages 1381-1412. Many great black and white photos. Features: Captain Fryatt and the "Brussels" in the War of 1914-1918 (continued); Australia's Oldest Steamship - The "Edina"; The United States Navy; Luxury Cruising - The Arandora Star of the Blue Star Line; Sailing Ships in Collision - off Newcastle, New South Wales, April 1902 - photos with captions; By-Passing Niagara - the new Welland Canal; Youth at the Helm - William Albert Robinson sailed round the world from New York between June 1928 and November 1931 in a ketch only 32 feet 6 inches long. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Three-hole punched. A sound copy. Book
Features: Steam Travel and Photography 40 Years ago -- 1958 Part 1 - Czechoslovakia; Chile's last Broad Gauge Compound; The Eritrean Railway Phoenix; The C.36 Class 4- 6- 0s of New South Wales; Sardinia; Working Steam in Sweden 1949; Back Track. Small date stamp atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Yankee Moguls in England; Railways Above the Streets of New York; AD60 Class Beyer Garratt Locomotives of the New South Wales Railways; Locomotives of the Jamaica Government Railway - Concluding Part; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Manchester Flyers; Final Curtain - Plymouth to Paddington on the Western Tribute Special; 20 Years of South Wales Inter-City Services; North Eastern Locomotives-2 - Studies in Locomotive Performance, No. 13; Weekend in France; Then and Now - Eastleigh; British Rail in Camera - Manchester and Environs/ West Country Scenes; Specials on the Southend Line; Western Wanderings; Two Venerable 2-4-0s; Stamps; and more. Price stamped upon front cover else unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: The Metal Japanners of Pontypool and Usk; A Welsh Dozen - Welsh artists; The Porcelains of Nantgarw and Swansea; Antique Welsh Love Spoons; Influence of Welsh Landscape in Painting; The Antique Glass of Wales; Silver in Wales; Jones the Clock; The Charm of Welsh National Dress; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
