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16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Scenic Highway Policy - too little thought given to Road Programs; Big and Little Storms - the how, where and why of sundry dusty doings in the air; Burro Language; Irises from Bulbs - there is a wider range than most gardeners seem to realize; Andy's last chapter - a Florida sandhill crane - how he helped to dissolve the barriers between his own kind and man; The carriers of Death - the microscope reveals how insects transport disease; The Giant Water Bug - a picture story of a strange insect; The Story of the Red Giants; A Unique Nature Club - The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences celebrates its fiftieth anniversary; Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
pp. 377-434, frontisp., 3 col. pls., 61 pls. of halftone photos, 32 figs., refs. New plain wrs.
64 pages. Features: Nice ad for the 1939 Oldsmobile Six inside front cover; News digest includes topics such as "Appeasement and its difficulties", "Why British Opinion in Changing", "Germany's Colonial Ambitions", "The Statecraft of Equivalents", and "Italy's Clash with France"; Met Life one-page photo ad entitled "A Day in the Life of (sales agent) Donald Martin"; Neville Chamberlain, World Champion of Peace - nicely photo-illustrated article (little did he know how wrong he would soon be proven to be); Reckless Lady (short story); With Fire (short story); What the Eye Doesn't See (short story); Arctic Madness - photo-illustrated article tells the Baffin Island tale of the death of a white fur trader - with photos of RCMP Staff Sergeant A.H. Joy, Loodloo, Innoyah, Petoot, Ahteetah, Nookudlah and Ooroorengnak; Babiche Walking - wonderful article on snowshoeing (snow-shoeing); The Garden Next Door (short story); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part 4 of 5 of this Agatha Christie story); One-page Colgate ad features illustrations of the Dionne Quints; Vintage two-page Magic Baking Powder ad features the New York World's Fair; Kellogg's All-Bran ad features Mutt and Jeff comic; Movie news with photos of Virginia Bruce and Florence George; Photo of Miss Brenda Fraser in Woodbery soap ad; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; Fashion illustrations; Half-page Italy tourism ad, sponsored by Italian Line, Limited; Pond's cold cream ad features photo of Marjorie Fairchild; Are You a Man's Girl? - with helpful scorecard(!); It Isn't What You Say - advice for speaking better; Sport Suppers - recipes; Half-page colour ad for Canadian fish; Curve Control - corsets, foundation garments and the female shape; Photos of Barbara Stanwyck in Lux soap ad; Small St. Petersburg (Florida) photo-ad says '12,000 Canadians" choose it; World Quotes; Back cover colour Coke ad shows bottle beside open book and reading glasses, with inset illustration of vintage six-pack case; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
La Rochelle : Musée du Nouveau Monde, 1980 - In-4 oblong - Couverture illustrée en couleurs - Illustrations NB & couleurs, certaines PP - 128 pages - très propre
Copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo de "La Domenica del Corriere" del 3/10/1926
Features: McCahill tests the 'hot' new Rolls-Royce V8 and the Mercury; Build a 23-foot cabin cruiser for only $800 (Hotei); World's toughest military training - Navy Frogmen; home movie-taking made easy; our army needs new weapons - now!; Grow muscles in your backyard; 1924 Hispano-Suiza Racer; Six-ton rubber boat - Amphitrite; America's first hydrofoil ferry - the Flying Fish connects Bellingham, WA with Victoria BC; Eugene Durrance and his Florida Sea Brine Laboratory sell sea water!; Sailing on sand; Fire Buff's unique collection - James Dodge; An early Black and Decker cordless drill; clockwork marvels; Infra-red Burglar Alarm; Aluminum Pistol; "Space Camera" Eyeglasses; Transtainer; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. (colour ad on back cover shows glamourous tennis players smoking Winston cigarettes) Book
Features: Swedish spike belt; Tiny German Brutsch Mopetta; "We can death-proof our highways"; Big Boom in Dinghies; HO Electric Cars; Talking Teeth; The $200,000 Pipemobile, built by The American Pipe and Construction Co.; Preview of the 1961 cars; Test of the Hillman Minx; Florida Speed Museum; McCahill tests the Ford Tunderbird; The Amphicar from Germany; Russian Iron - photos of 8 Russian automobiles; Care for your Rambler American; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
A heroine you'll never forget. A woman who battles fiercely for survival and her own independence, but surrenders completely to the man she loves. This is Eugenia Price's inspiring story of a unique American Heroine - a woman whose strength and resourcefulness overcame every obstacle to survival in an untamed and turbulent land as it struggled for independence. Maria is a true pioneer, hardworking, valiant, self-reliant. But she is also a vibrant, flesh-and-blood woman, tempestuous in passion, steadfast in love. Book
Ricardo Fernandez de Gaceo, a Spaniard living in Weston, Florida, is one of the world's leading suppliers of fake lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts. This report explains how to identify them. (If you order through ABE, I will reduce shipping charge to zero.)
72 pages. Features: The Caustic Genius of Sir Thomas Beecham; Christianity - Revival or Decline?; The Polish Art Treasures - colour Karsh photos of ancient and priceless heirlooms rushed from Poland at the outbreak of WWII; A Gift from the Princess - story by Mary E. Grannan - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; A Winter Vacation on a Summer-Cottage Budget - a cheap holiday for a family of four in hot Florida; Two-page colour-illustrated "Christmas Shopping Game" by Peter Whalley; An Excursion into Canada by Charles Dickens - a Maclean's flashback; The Alien - story by W.O. Mitchell - chapter 7. Average wear. External soiling. Coverfold partly open. Center page holding by one staple. Fore-edge opening to back cover which is missing 7"x2" chunk from bottom edge. Book
Features: How Toronto's 2,500-man police force really works - a rare behind-the-scenes look by Chief James Mackey; Gisele Mackenzie - My Perilous Plunge into the Big Time; I went to Florida - by Canoe! - Ward Seeley; A Rare Peak at Russian Art - many colour illustrations; A visit with Patricia Joudry and John Steele; How Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater conquered the New World. Middle page loose but present. Half of page nine, most likely an ad, has been removed. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Features: Why Inco must be nationalized, by Nick Lowe; Canada - inflation problems; Post office fights to maintain monopoly powers; Whycocomagh reserve natives protest against chemical spraying they say will pollute their water supply; Chaotic search for a solution in Lebanon; Mexico - land of sinking hopes; Ahmed Shah Masoud - the Che Guevara of Afghanistan - feared by the Soviets; Untangling the scandal fo God's Banker, Roberto Calvi; Breaking up Chirac's Paris; Bulent Ecevit on trial; War on firearms in the US; Sheikh Mohammed charged in Florida; Contrad Black and an 'honourable settlement' to a war - Norcen and Hanna Mining; Ratings of Canadian banks lowered by DBRS; People section contains news and colour photos of Susan Jacks, Princess Anne, Trevor Berbick and The Ducklings; Italy wins the World Cup of Soccer - Paolo Rossi; The fight against MS (Multiple Sclerosis); Canadian Jews oppose Lebanon invasion - Bob Kellermann; Home offices gain in popularity due to technology and desire to stay in touch with family - Kent Harding; Cover Story - movie special effects - Tron, Yoda, The Thing, Poltergeist, Wrath of Khan, etc.; Flashback to King Kong's special effects in 1933. Entertainment reviews. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Features: "Peace" gets a friendlier hearing - a new force in US politics is making the word peace respectable again; Old Age at Eleven - a boy's last brave days may help science save other boys from dying of old age - Arthur Balidoy had the rare disease progeria; How to spot the marrying kind - some of Canada's champion bigamists explain their addiction to wife-hunting; Ordeal at Stratford - Chris Plummer and Kate Reid, off stage, show why they're Canada's best on stage; The Pictures most people buy - art's real best sellers - reproductions by 'famous unknown'; A Fond Farewell to Toronto - Blair Fraser; Why Canadians go south in summer - a livelier, cheaper Florida than they'll find in winter; This year in Jerusalem - Mordecai Richler explores his other homeland for the first time; B.C.'s high-flying bucket brigade - Mars water bombers. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
88 pages. Features: Fantastic fold-out two-panel colour cover photo of the four Richardsons of Regina who are world curling champions; Brief article on how Nanaimo Realty paid its realtors to lose weight - and sales increased!; Nice one-page black and white Volkswagen photo ad entitled "Who backs up the Volkswagen?"; Nice one-page colour photo ad for Florida orange juice shows smiling girl wearing white ear muffs; What Winter Does to Canada - and vice versa; What to wear to a Fashion Opening - photo-illustrated article; Duel in the Kitchen (fiction); The Return of the Winter Carnivals; The Simple Joys of Camping in a Snowdrift; Hockey Isn't As Rough as it Used to Be - Part 1 of Jack Adams' "My 43 Years in Hockey" - photo-illustrated article (with large photo of Howie Meeker pounding a limp Canadien); The Second Splendid Discovery of Spices; How to Gain Entree to the Social Pages; Canada's world champions of Curling - Ernie Richardson and the Richardsons of Regina; Population Explosion on the Ski Slopes; Skier's Dream - two-page colour-photo-illustrated brief article with two maps describe how Franz Wilhelmsen and the Garibaldi Olympic Committee seek to have the massive potential of Whistler Mountain developed for the Winter Olympics of 1968; Best and Worst Movies of 1960; Escape to the Sun - Robert Thomas Allen's road trip from California to Florida; Seagrams ad features colour painting of winter carnival by Henry Simpkins; Large colour ad for Apollo Beach waterfront real estate development near Tampa; Canadian Club colour-photo one-page ad features Walter Gonnason falling into an ice crevasse on Mount Victoria Glacier in Alberta; Why color TV isn't here yet - and when it may be; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features skating couple; and more. Discrete six-inch clear archival tape repair to bottom left corner of front cover, otherwise unmmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
278 p., illus. Cartography by Russell H. Lenz Hardcover Very good condition good
108 pages. Features: Great color ad for a purple two-door Buick Grand Sport Riviera; Cover photo of Munick; Front cover fold-out photo of Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot; Segretation Crisis - Chicago's Troubled Schools; Germany Twenty Years After Hitler; The Last 100 Days; Germany Today; A New World of Surgery; The Butler goes to College - California students work their way through college; Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox High Note; On the Set with Moreau and Bardot; Electric heat features color photo of Gene Carolan and family in Iowa; Edison Electric Inst. ad features photos of Edward Stansfield and family of PA, Giacomo Liggera and wife of Poughkeepsie, Oklahoma executive Kenneth White, Jr. and wife, and Kentucky Salesman Arthur Waits of Lexington, and family; Dove ad features photo of Mrs. Marilyn Konzet of Great Neck, Long Island; Lovely color-photo ad for the (yellow) 1965 Chrysler; Two-page color Del-Monte ad; Nice color-photo FTD ad; Vintage two-page colour-photo ad for Greyhound bus lines; Two-page Budweiser ad says "No additives, please!"; Color-photo ad for a maroon Chevrolet 1965 Chevelle; CBS radio network ad with photos of Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Lowell Thomas, Phil Rizzuto, Marvin Kalb, Frank Gifford and Harry Reasoner; Classy color ad for a cream-colored 1965 Pontiac Bonneville (in Italy?); Wow! - two-page color-photo ad for the (red) 1965 Ford Mustang GT; All-American cities; Nice color ad for GMC pickup trucks; Back cover color ad for Chesterfield King cigarettes includes photos of Elly Travlou Dubinsky of Missouri, randall A. OSmon of Florida, and Donald C. Barnette, Jr., of Ohio; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
126 pages. Features: Nice photo ad for the 1960 Dodge Dart station wagon(cream-coloured); 2.5 page (with foldout) ad with yummy ice cream photos, sponsored by the American Dairy Association; Photo of Paul L. Stover, of Stover Studio, in Pennzoil ad; Bassett furniture ad; Greata two-page color B.F. Goodrich ad includes illustrations of many contemporary shoe styles, including the popular P.F. Flyers; Coke ad features photo of lady spraying man with ose; The day Ike Snubbed Me - by Harry Truman (part 1 of 3); Brothers Peter and Paul are adopted; Lorna Doone cookie ad; Great photo of kids in Log Cabin syrup ad; Two-page color Kodak camera ad shows eight of their 1960 products; Nice illustrated ad for the 1960 Pontiac Bonnevile (yellow) beside large ship; Dentistry goes Hi-Fi - Dr. Wallace Gardner uses an Audiac to help his patients remain at ease; Boating Feature with lovely color fashion photos; Nice one-page photo of Bill France, president of NASCAR; Color-photo-illustrated feature on boats; Water Traffic Cop - Sgt. Roy Janson of Fort Lauderdale, FL; The Tinker family of Ocala Florida goes afloat; Pepsi ad shows couple leaning on trunk of car; Gordon Hill - boat test driver; What is Prejudice?; Two-page Chrysler ad; America's top golf pros pick the most difficult holes in the U.S.; One-page color-photo ad for the (pink) 1960 Rambler custom cross country station wagon; George Nelson designs unusual clocks; Abby Dalton - a television original; Nice 7up ad inside back cover shows formally dressed young couple on swing; Back cover color-photo Camel cigarette ad shows Graeme Howard Jr., Yale Law 1960, smoking with his feet up in law library; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Milano, 1955, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 641/652 con fotografie, tavole fotografiche ed una cartina. - !! 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.
Carta geografica in cui sono raffigurati i territori della Florida, il Texas ed il Messico. Sia lungo la linea costiera che il territorio del Texas si rifanno alle esplorazioni di La Salle.
Copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo de "La Domenica del Corriere" del 6/05/1934
La tavola di copertina, a colori, e quella opposta ma non descritta, de "La Domenica del Corriere", n. 18 del 6/05/1934
Raffigurazione geografica del territorio nord americano in particolare di Canada o Nouvelle France ed una parte degli Stati Uniti (Florida, Carolaina, Luisiana, Virginia...). Interessante evidenziare come l'estensione del Canada venga aumentata, verso sud, a discapito dei territori delle colonie inglesi.
Features: Ferns in southern Florida; Osmunda regalis L.; Out to see ferns; and more. Cup rings upon front cover. Book
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.
In 8, pp. 429. Br. ed. con mancanza al p. post e al d. Bibliographie de Belgique, p. 205.
