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Pages 352-468. Features: Technique in American watercolors from the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachussetts; The Ximenez-Fatio House in Saint Augustine, Florida; A Charleston, South Carolina playbill of 1794; The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch on historical blue Staffordshire - Part II - the later buildings, 1810-1832; John Seymour in Portland, Maine; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Damage to lower corner of front cover. A worthy reference copy. Book
195p. Inked ownership of Margaret J. Judball. Top edge gold. Marbled endpapers. 12mo. Three-quarters red leather over marble boards. Spine lettered in gold with raised bands. Front hinge beginning to crack but not fragile. Hardbound. Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902), a Philadelphia novelist, journalist, and short story writer. His first fame came from 'Rudder Grange' (1879). A whimsical story of a newlywed couple living aboard a canal boat with a young servant, Pomona. The humorous novel is replete with absurdities typical of Stockton's humor, and its success brought him literary fame and occasions two sequels: 'The Rudder Grangers Abroad' (1891) and 'Pomona's Travels' (1894). First Edition. Nice copy. TRAVEL/1
40 pages. Features: Wonderful Player's cigarette colour-photo ad inside front cover shows lady skier relaxing; Plan for Manitoba to repay its existing public debt; Claybake on the Kennebecasis - Colour-photo-illustrated article on Dykelands Pottery, founded in Moss Glen, New Brunswick; Not Valor Alone (short story); Photo-illustrated article on British Columbia's new wood product Plywood; Canada bets on Britain; The Talking Tree (short story); Beautiful But Smart - colour-photo-illustrated article on Cypress Gardens of Winter Haven, Florida; The Bamboozling of Mr. Gascoigne (short story); October fashion article; Recipes; Nice one-page colour ad for Swift's Premium Bacon; Fashion illustrations; World Sayings; Back cover O'Keefe's ad features reproduction of painting "The Man of Medicine" by R. York Wilson; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A nice copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Unpaginated. Includes auction results sheet. Excellent photography throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Book
60 pages. Features: Sven Hedin - The Go-Between; Can Nazi Ersatz Win? - great photos of material collection and innovative products borne of necessity; The Last Thirty Seconds before the Curtain's Up - photos of show-girls as they prepare to go on-stage; A Plea for Mothers - they fight for higher allowances while their men are away; Marineland in Florida - Porpoises' Paradise; Indoor Flying - R.A.F. Flight Simulators (the Visual Link Trainer); The Red Cross - interesting information and photos of this organization; Prison A.R.P. - French women prisoners of La Petite Roquette are provided with gas masks and other preparations in the event of German attack; Diary of the War, No. 29 - The Twenty-Seventh Week; Cartoon by Low mocks Goering; We Shall Win; Nice ad for the Bush Radio on back cover features Christopher Stone. Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
373 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
278 p., illus. Cartography by Russell H. Lenz Hardcover Very good condition good
24p. PAMPHLET Very good condition
Mm 210x280 Volume di pp. XVI-358, piena tela verde con titolo e fregi in oro al piatto anteriore e al dorso, 176 tavole in bianco e nero nel testo, VIII tavole a colori che raffigurano diversi giardini individuati per stato d'appartenenza, 26 in tutto. Cerniera leggermente allentata, ma in buono stato complessivo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY
12mo [19 x 12.5 cm]; 69 pp, 6 lithographed plates including frontis. original brown cloth, gilt title lettering on cover, spine chipped, frayed and worn, lightly foxed, good copy, pages 39-40 removed but with the text added in neat manuscript. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The manuscript addition to the removed leaf states: 'These pages were objected to by the Minorcan population who raised a mob and made Sewall cut them from every book'. Howes S304. 'One of the most interesting towns in this country in many historical points of view, has been prepared to meet the wants of those who may desire to learn something of the place in view of a sojourn or who may already have come hither in search of health' (introduction). The attractive plates are mainly of views, but also one of the pineapple.
106 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Old Angus Scotch inside front cover; One-page ad for LaSalle cars; What Price English Justice?; Multiple cartoons with Nazi personages; The Secret Fuse Under Mexico - the country is rife with covert operations by Germany, Japan and Italy - article with reproductions of pertinent documents; Fascism's New World Thrust - Germany, Italy and Japan have taken over the lion's share of trade with Latin America; Mussolini Vs. His Past; Smutting Up the Circulation - Sex sells publications; Yesterday's Wrong Turning - Two million died in WWI as a result of the decision of a few men; Inside the Queerest Shipwreck - the SS President Hoover rammed a reef off Formosa; FDR's wife wonders why babies should be kept alive if there will not be a job for them when they get older; Norway, The Next Belgium - fascinating article foretells WWII events about to unfold in Norway; Henry Ford buys 1.25 million acres near Punta Gorda, Florida as a favor to Thomas Edison; Dying, Well or Badly - By Ernest Hemingway - article with grotesque large photos of dead soldiers; A Measure of Recovery - Labor fights for control of New Orleans; Kemal Ataturk - Hoodlum as Hero - his record with women is indubitably the worst; Santa on Route 17 - W.E. Riker and his two-hundred yard 'holy city' in California; Exit the Gentleman Officer - Richthofen was buried by his enemy with full military honors but his memory is mocked by the crumpled corpses of women and children in Guernica; Bidding the Guild Good-Bye - The Theatre Guild takes the bumps toward the ash can; Inside the Third Reich - article on the prohibition of criticism of the Nazi regime in Germany; The Men Who Helped a Hero - the sixteen men who were with Alvin C. York when he 'singlehanded' captured 132 Germans; They Still Want to Get In - article on illegal aliens entering the U.S. across the Mexican border; Man with Six Countries - A European journalist sells the plans for the defense of Pilsen to the Germans; Wrong Man, Time and Place - Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball; Thousand Mile Gun - Britain's rulers seem to believe Germany possesses a long-range rocket-gun; Nostalgic 2-page illustrated ad for Look Magazine; One-page ad for Parent's Magazine features photos of George J. Hecht and Clara Savage Littledale; The Fable of Man's Salvation; Classy half-page ad for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel; Nice color ad for Eagle pencils features their Mikado, Verithin and Turquoise products; Nice color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features tobacco expert in white suit and hat. Above-average but not excessive wear. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Milano, 1958, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 927/942 con numerose illustrazioni. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
Book is in excellent condition with very light edge wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind and is in impressively fine condition with tipped-in color plates and b&w prints, map endpapers showing the locations of the text. Dust jacket is price clipped and is extensively repaired at edges with scotch tape. Contents include The pleasure gardens, White conduit house, Marylebone gardens, Jenny's whim, Bagnigge wells, Islington spa, Sadler's wells, Highbury barn, Bermondsey spa, The English grotto, Finch's grotto gardens, Florida gardens, The Yorkshire stingo, etc.
Milano, 1955, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 983/986 con 3 fotografie ed una tavola fotografica. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
Bright red cloth boards show edge wear and fading and fraying at top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket is in tatters. Pictorial endpapers. Interior pages clean and unmarked. 202 pages.
212 pages. Two unique places - Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy and Sanibel on the west coast of Florida. Prior owner's name on front flyleaf. Average wear. Includes black and white photos. Book
106 pages. Short Stories: Space Secret; Phantom Millions; Detective Sister Mary; The Lady and the Killer. Articles: This is the Life I Love - Alicia Patterson of the famous Amercan newspaper family; My Husband, Arthur Murray (part 2); Patients Should Tell the Truth; The Reds Booted Me out of China - British Reporter Jack Gee spent 9 uncomfortable months inside the Chinese People's Republic; Defense Decides the Big Ones - Henry P. Iba of Oklahoma State explains his basketball tactics; Adventures of the Mind, 21 - When Time Began. Serials: Riviera Prelude (part 1 of 2); The Cardiff Giant Affair (part 4 of 8). Ads: GE (yellow) appliances; Johnson & Johnson clear tape; Very nice two-page color-photo American Airlines ad shows passengers disembarking "the new jet-powered Electra flagship"; Great color-photo Plymouth ad shows white 1959 Fury convertible; Evinrude outboard motors; Lowry organs; Canada Tourism; Very nice two-page color-photo ad for the new Chevrolet Nomad wagon - shown at Universal-International Studios in Hollywood; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Pizza; Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup; Frigidaire Fridges; Mytinger & Casselberry; Colgate Dental Cream; 1959 Ford Cars (showing teal Fairlane 500); Port St. Lucie, Florida real estate; Pall Mall cigarettes; Northern toilet paper; Chesterfield cigarettes - snow-scene photos; Foremost cottage cheese; Olympic TV/Phono/Stereo; Pream coffee whitener; National Steel (auto mural photo); Sears vitamins; Speed Queen appliances; Ipana plus tooth paste; Back cover color ad for Betty Crocker Chiffon Cake Mixes; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
36 pages. Features: B.C.'s Contribution to Northwest Defences - 21 Miles of Mud Road - the worst section in the 6,000 miles of roads connecting Florida to Fairbanks!; B.C. Truckers Are Losing $1,000,,000 Per Year - due to antiquated customs regulations; From Montana to the Klondyke (conclusion) - the experiences of Frank R. Miles - this part covers an expedition to the head of the White River in 1900 and the discovery of native copper - article with photos and map; Proposed Cost Highway to Alaska of Great International Importance; Should we make Canada and the US into One Country?; Modern Tugs Ply Upper Fraser - photos with captions of the Westply III and IV; Central B.C. Airways Inaugurates Daily East-West Service - photos with captions; Political article by O.R. Baxter who thinks one of our few remaining freedoms is to think; Beans for Busbies - an appeal has been made to prospectors to search for Manganese; Nice Finning Caterpillar ad on back cover with illustration of a cat pulling a loaded arch through the woods; Dozens of nostalgic ads for local businesses. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
112 pages. Features: On Language; Handling Hogs; Hard Times in Chicago - article with five photos of new Mayor Jane Byrne; A New Kind of Man in the Making - Alvin Toffler explains the Third Wave; Whatever Happened to Jerry Brown? - nice color photo and article on his quest for the Democratic nomination - also includes photo of Jerry Brown with Linda Rondstadt, and another of Brown with Jane Fonda, Helen Reddy and musical group Chicago; Russia - Changed but Unchanged - photo-illustrated article by Anthony Austin who returns to Moscow after an absence of 20 years; Two-page color Jordache ad features boy, girl, and chimp on skateboard; The Bright Whites - Fashion for kids; One-page ad for Wynmoor Village real estate development in Florida; Datsun 200-SX ad; Nice one-page color Ferrari ad; Cunard ad featuring photo of the QE2 with twin towers in background; Real estate ads; Many camp ads; and more. Average wear. Two library stamps to front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
pp. 377-434, frontisp., 3 col. pls., 61 pls. of halftone photos, 32 figs., refs. New plain wrs.
In-4°, due volumi, (5), CCXLII, 413, due carte pieghevoli (La Florida en el ano 1591, La Florida en el ano 1765), tavole; pp 801 Rilegatura in mezza pergamena con tasselli al dorso. Pedro Menendez de Aviles fu il primo governatore spagnolo della Florida, capo generale dell’Armada contro l’Inghilterra In-4°, two volumes, (5), CCXLII, 413, two folded maps (La Florida en el ano 1591, La Florida en el ano 1765), plates, pp 801. Half parchemine binding. Pedro Menendez de Aviles was the first Spanish governor of Florida, Chief General of the Armada against England
198p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
283 p. + Photo Illustrations. Some slight foxing. Gilt decorated full green cloth binding. Dr. Willoughby H. Reed was born in Norristown, Montgomery county, PA in, 1856. He learned the trade of printing; graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1879, and from Jefferson Medical College in 1882. He practiced medicine for several years at Cape May Point, New Jersey, and at his home at Jeffersonville. After his marriage to Annie R. Jarrett, November 8, 1884, he engaged in the drug business at Norristown. This is a collection of a series of letters sent to the Press (especially the Norristown Daily Ledger) chronicling trips made from 1903-1922. Many interesting photos, including: Mr. and Mrs. Reed in their home in Jeffersonville; "Wren's Nest" near Audubon, PA on the Perkiomen Creek; Multoman Falls and Benson Ridge; Keye's Gold Mine; Kern River Valley, CA; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Bright Angel Trail; Hilburd Ranch, CA; Etc. Signed presentation from the author to Frederick S. Fox on the rear pastedown. Hardbound. Very good+. Scarce. PA 13
Stralcio in 4° dall'ebdomadario "Le Tour du Monde", completo in 96 pp. (numerate da 97 a 144 e da 369 a 416). Assolutamente inedito, ricchissimo iconograficamente di magnifiche silografie, di non facile reperibilità, senza legatura, in bello stato.
True crime story of '.the trusting bride who discoverd her husband was a cold-blooded killer" A matchmaking aunt introduced Lisa Paspalakis, daughter of prosperous Greek American businessman in Daytona Beach, Florida to a "nice" young man from Greece. But instead of the apparrent "perfect husband" Kosta Fotopoulos was a thief, pimp and drug dealer who was eventually convicted of his crimes.248p. + 8 pages of plates. Book
