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8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 63 plates and folding map on japon; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on title. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR'S SISTER WITH HER LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. AN ELEGANT COPY OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT RECORD.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked leatherette padded boards and no bumping to corners. 240pp. By the editors of Time-Life books with text by Keith Wheeler, this book describes the Old Wild West and the new territory of Alaska, bought from Russia in 1867. Initially it was only slowly settled by the Americans although faster from 1880 when gold was found. The people and the land shown in a wealth of detail with superb period black & white photos from the 19th century . Also some colour paintings.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 27 photographs in the text and a folding map coloured in outline (very lightly browned); original green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE
René Julliard 1949, In-8 relié demi basane blonde à coins, 379 pages + cartes et photos. Bon état.
Julliard La Croix du Sud 1958, In-8 broché couverture illustrée, 380 pages. Dessins dans le texte. Signature de l'auteur en page de garde. Bon état.
Bernard Grasset 1946, In-8 broché, 380 pages, illustré de nombreux croquis et de cartes et de 8 pages hors texte en héliogravure . Bon état
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
155pp., 24cm., softcover, text in English, Doctoral Dissertation (Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden), text is clean and bright, good, G110184
x, [2], 256 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "Life among the Eskimos, in an isolated Hudson's Bay Company trading post on the far north-eastern shore of Hudson Bay, is vividly and engagingly described by a Manitoba girl who went North to marry the Post Manager and spent the first two years of her married life there. Includes discerning pictures of Eskimo character and ways of life, accounts of seal and whale hunts, and exciting stories of trips through dangerous waters clogged with drifting ice in a small motor-powered boat." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Moderate wear to publisher's canary yellow cloth. Binding intact. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
Paris, Grasset, 1958. In-8, broché, couverture illustrée, 315 pp. Bon exemplaire.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The "Goldenburg Coward" - True tale from the headwaters of Spruce River, British Columbia during the gold stampede of summer 1900; Hunting the Long-Haired Chinese Tiger - Lieut.-Commander the Hon. J.M. Kenworthy describes an eventful hunt for this tiger which is larger and more ferocious than the Indian variety; Through Arctic Seas - Part I - The eventful cruise of the Hudson Bay Company's steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life - with photos; Through Spain in Disguise - Part V - The Count and Countess Malmignati, disguised as Arab beggars, sing and dance for a living; Photo of the smallest teapot in the world, fashioned by Mr. T.A. Vickery, of Main Street, Bantry; Rebecca's Vengeance - An odd story of "Black Man's Magic" in the West Indies from 1903; Looking for Trouble - Alexander MacNab experiences disaster while engaged in a Mexican revolution under General Carranza; ; A Near Thing - A British Intelligence agent arouses suspicion while in German territory; Painting Wild Indians - A. Hyatt Verrill describes his experiences after spending years painting the little-known Indians of Central and South America; Cowboys and Raiders - Jesse C. Carson relates his association with Pancho Villa as a rebel 'general'; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Grace Sprange describes two years of disappointment, disillusionment, and disaster attempting to grow oranges - with photos; The Last of the Little "Shanghai" - brief update and photo on this trusty craft which had previously sailed from Shanghai to Copenhagen; Trapped in a Flooded Tunnel - The terrible experience which befell a diver near the Hartebeestpoort Irrigation Dam, near Pretoria, South Africa; "For the Hounour of the Mounted Police of Canada" - Herbert Patrick Lee relates an experience from when he was a recruit at Regina. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. Covers beginning to separate from textblock. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
80 pages. Features: Farwell, Saskatchewan Detachment; Cottonwood Patrol; Texas Adventure - Cpl. G.R. Mashford; Police and the Computer; Toy Guns; Frontier Law Enforcement; A "Tape Recording"; A Ranger's Lot; The Caribou Eskimos; It's Your Money; Jamboree of the Air; New Corner Brook Building; When We Were Young and Gay ; and more. Prior owner's details black out upon page one else unmarked with average wear. Centerfold taped in place, otherwise a sound copy. Book
58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: The Caribou Crisis - informative article in the state of the caribou; The Narwhal - Canada's Horn of the Uniforn; The Living Stone - photos of stone carvings of the Eskimos of the Eastern Arctic; Pierre Falcon - Bard of the Prairies; Governor George Simpson - "The Strangest Man I Ever Knew"; Samuel Black on the Finlay; Winston Churchill accepts appointment of Grand Seigneur of the Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay; Ninety Years Later - a tale of hard northern travel in the old style, exploring the wild Upper Finlay, 90 years after Samuel Black - great photo-illustrated article; Retreat of the Sea - photos taken in the neighbourhood of Fort Severn; The Minnesota Route - in the late 1850s the Hudson's Bay Company began to abandon the historic York Factory route to Lake Winnipeg in favour of that via St. Paul and the Red River; Sir George Simpson as Banker; Nice colour ad for Hudson's bay shirts for men on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
viii, 366 p., illus. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, paper tanned
1st American edition. Hardback in dustjacket. VG/G (frayed around the spine edges). ISBN 0802703690. Maps on the endpapers. 15338. eng
vi + 311pp.+ 1 carte dépliante (de l'Anderson et du bas Mackenzie) & 7 gravures hors-texte (dont 3 double-page) d'après les croquis de l'auteur, 1e édition, 18cm., reliure cart. (plats marbrés, dos en cuirt avec titre et faux-nerfs dorés), feuilles de garde marbrées, quelques cachets, bon exemplaire, A79658
80pp.avec qqs.ills., br.orig.ill., 22cm., estampe, bon état
64 pages. Features: Cover art by John Little features Grey Cup final game at Vancouver's Empire Stadium between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Montreal Alouettes; The revolution that's changing your shopping habits - topsy-turvy trends produced by the frenzied battle for the consumer's dollar; Will they ever beat the Eskimos? - with their baffling split-T the Edmonton Eskimos have won the CFL's Grey Cup twice in a row - the task they pose is not to stop them but to find the ball; We adopted a family of criminals - Rev. Gordon Phillips and Bluebell Stewart Phillips took in prostitutes, murderers aand gunmen, and rejoiced when they went straight; Remember when we raved about the radio? - in the depression thirties, when there was little to laugh about, the comedians on radio convulsed a continent and made the radio in the parlor the centre of every family's life - many great photos; The Secret War of Charles Goodeve, Part Two - How they opened the door for D-day - with photos, including his floating bridge and rocket-propelled grapnel inventions; What would Carrie Nation do?, by Vernon Hockley; Amazing General Motors colour centerfold featuring a kitchen completely finished in pink; Canadian Club ad features colour photos of white water skiing in Austria's Salzach River, a sport (first called skiyaking) invented by Austrian champ Harald Strohmeier; Painter A.Y. Jackson recalls his most memorable meals - one in Tom Thomson's shack on Severn St. in Toronto, the other given by Lord Beaverbrook; Great colour vintage ad for Labatt's Chrystal lager beer shows man relaxing with smoke being served by his wife in front of the tv after he has been cutting grass; Expensive Sunbeam Bread promotion was Canada's biggest; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover features old man in white rocking chair. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Magazine
202 pages. Glossary. Numerous black and white photographic plates and facsimile reproductions of documents. Autobiography of John C. Nesbitt who served in the R.C.A.F. in WWII, became a bush pilot, then flew for the R.C.M.P. before becoming a successful prospector. He accumulated over seventeen thousand hours as a pilot. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. Light wear to handsome maroon boards. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this adventurous life story. Book
Features: The Outport; The Story of Newfoundland; The Beothuk Indians; The Norse in Newfoundland; The Dialects of Newfoundland; Greenspond - Townscape in a tickle; Old Prints of Newfoundland; Collectors and Collections; Furniture - Imported and Country Styles to 1850; Building a St. John's Victorian House; Items Found in the New Found Land; Government House; Stamps, Insignia, Medals and Currency; Commissariat House; Period Pieces for a Refurbished Commissariat House; Painters of Newfoundland; The Moravian Missions and The Labrador Eskimos; Hawthorne College; The Newfoundland Historic Trust; Museums and Historic Sites; Arts and Culture Centres; Lighthouses; and more. Date hand-written atop front cover. Quality copy. Magazine
108 pages. Unmarked. Average wear. A quality copy of this nostalgic yearbook. Book
Features: How the Bill of Rights is getting in the way of justice; The Holy War to destroy Bill 99 - the fantastic law that trampled our freedoms underfoot; Jack Kent Cooke in Lotusland - he's living a rich, comic life in the U.S.A.; A Striking New Discovery in Eskimo Sculpture - first report on a group of artists who carve like angels and live like cavemen, the Caribou Eskimos of Baker Lake; Portrait of the American dollar we all love - how the great US foundations give away money creatively - $50 million in Canada; The world of Can't - a young cerebral palsy victim tells how he's beating the frustrations of charity; The Hottest Hand in Music - Zubin Mehta and the Montreal symphony; Will success spoil Gerald Gladstone?; Let the dropouts drop out, until they're ready to learn. Nice colour Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Contents: Color ad for 'Ask for Ethyl'; Bankers Trust ad - Buy Victory Bonds; Babcock & Wilcox ad - bombs and beauty aids need steam; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color ad for 1946 Packard cars; Auto strike raises new issue for Industrial Wars in America - the nation's biggest union asks stake in affairs of management by cry of 'Let's see the books'; Mrs. Damato of Shenandoah, Pa. christens the U.S.S. Damato - she lost two sons in the war; Photo of James Hendrix, Army hero; Matt Kimes - cop killer; Why the Fleet could not retreat to the West Coast - Admiral William V. Pratt; Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack; Where the War Cause Lies - Japan; Nice color ad for General Tire; Color ad for the Aeroprop division of GM; Ezra Pound returns to the US to face charges of treason - with photo; The Federation of Atomic Scientists; Native world from Zion to Java stirred by nationalist little wars; 4 photos of Japan's Hirohito visiting the shrines of Ise to report Japan's defeat to his predecessors; Thorez, red architect of France; the Nuremberg Tribunal - with labelled photo of 20 defendants in their courtroom positions; two photos of Eva Braun; War-Winning Old Guard Begins Exodus from Top Service Jobs - retirements of Staff Chief and Fleet Commander are first of many peacetime moves; Super color centerfold for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Seabees dig in darkly for spell with Eskimos - Navy installations in the far north; Photo of the real Kilroy; C.D. Howe has his fingers in many pies; Canada's Baby Bonus; Heavy heavy over stock boom hangs wage-price policy delay; Inventor Gilbert Brereton and ramie; S. DeWitt Cough, President of Abbott Laboratories, calls for national health care; Robert Benchley 1889-1945; Color ad for teh Douglas DC-6; The reality of Salvador Dali; Unusual color Monsanto ad on back cover features young lovely speaking into a huge contemporary walkie-talkie. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
12 pages. Features: Edmonton Eskimo action photo on cover; William K. Forbes marks retirement; Miss Irene Pollard marks 25th anniversary with company; Leila Kerr Marries; Paintings by Rudolf Anton Messner displayed at Eatons; Good Deeds Clup Haloween Party - text and photos; Passing of Mrs. Gussie Campbell; Murray W. Wickham honoured. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book