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58 pages. Features: Summit, California - where Chard Walker shepherds Santa Fe and Union Pacific trains over the top of Cajon Pass - great photos and some text; New York Central's New England States - come on a streamliner ride from Boston to Chicago; From Randolph to Togus on the Kennebec Central; Photo Section; Dining Car Blues - Your Meal on Wheels costs the railroad more than it costs you - long article with great photos; The Thrifty Compound Steam Engine - article with photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
24 pages. Contents: Front page article about crabs with great photo of crab biting lady bather on toe; Grilling the house of Morgan & Co. Digs Up Plenty of Pay Dirt - Senator 'Kingfish' Huey Long grills Thomas W. Lamont; Oklahoma's Quadruplets - Mona, Roberta, Leots and Mary Keys - graduate from high school; Million Names on Uncle Sam's Pay Roll; Gandhi Fast No Record - with grainy photo from an earlier date; It's No Longer the 'hicks from the sticks' - now it's the 'gullible cityites'; Foreign News - World Economic Conference in London, German Reichsbank declares partial moratorium on foreign payments on its debt; Europe's Big Four Sign Up for 10 Years of Peace and Good Will; Broadcasting; Current Events; Illustration of Lieut. Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley, the only surviving officer of the Akron; Justice Department reveals details of gold hoarders; George N. Peek - Administrator of the Agriculture Adjustment Act (with illustration); Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson slated to be the czar of industry - with small illustration; Great ingenuity used to build models for Chicago Fair; Prof. F.E. Lumley on Propaganda; Marketing; Capital Chat - with photo of the official records of the House of Representatives - it holds 10,000,000 documents; Scientific; Gulf Stream Shifts off Boston; Huge new offering of US Bonds and Securities Greatly Oversubscribed; "Sunken Dollars" - a real old-time thriller story of th esea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); Aviation - artist's rendering of a proposed seadrome, and discussion of airships; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
237 pages. Generously illustrated with reproductions of colour and black and white photos. Part one includes interviews with Bobby Orr's parents, friends and coaches who discuss his early years in Parry Sound, Ontario. Part two contains exercises and drillls taught at the Bobby Orr- Mike Walton Hockey Camp in Orillia, Ontario. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A nice copy of this excellent Bobby Orr collectible. Book
72 pages. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Wreck of the Valencia; Sandon - The Silver City; Dr. Emily Stowe - Canada's First Female Practitioner; Memories of Erie; Canadian Raiders in the Southwest; Observing the Solar Eclipse - 1860; How to Recover Fine Gold; Collins' Overland Telegraph (Part 3); The Battle of Frenchtown; The Boston Bean Jar; Dog Child and the Samurai Sword; The Coureurs de Bois; Pioneer Relics; Canadian Chronicles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
240 pages. Black and white photographic plates. The entertaining biography of the cocksure kid from Niagara Falls Ontario who starred for the Boston Bruins in their 1970s glory days. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A nice vintage copy. Book
16 pages of densely packed text and numerous black and white reproductions of excellent photos. Features: Dim future for Boston's MTA trolley-Subway; Philadephia & Western Scrapbook; The Norristown Rail Division of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. - includes roster and map; Bullet Cars - article with photos, weights and grainy reproduction of blueprint; Brief news bits from Chicago, Cleveland, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New Orleans and San Francisco. Laid-in photocopy of track map, dated 1945, of the Phila. & Western Rwy. Co., Book
Cloth. 8vo. 100 pages. Subtitle: "A Sociologically Oriented Study of an Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Community in an American Big-City Neighborhood Between 1870 and 1900." Introduction by Jerome Himelhoch. Nice, clean copy in Very Good Condition. (AMR38-20)
312p., 9 illus, incl. 1 col Hardcover Very good condition, spine ends worn
4pp., broadsheet newspaper, 450 x 325mm, upper margin closely cropped affect a few words. Includes national, foreign and regional news; regional and some London advertising, shipping news from Boston and other east coast ports, local public notices, publishers, insurance and auction announcements, real estate sales. Some advertisements illustrated with small cuts.
Two Volumes Bound In One: pp. 216; 144 of (156?). Portrait Frontis in first volume, very worn with chipped edges. Manuscript ownership of John R. Hagerty, July 1847 on verso of frontis. Browned and age stain. 12mo. 175 mm. Disbound. S&S/AI 14993/9414. Poor. AI BX 4
Historia tou Protestantismou. The author was Bishop of Boston from 1938-1949 and later was Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain. [NOTE : Volume A ONLY] 476p. [WorldCat lists only 4 copies in the USA], Book
pp. vii, 214, (1) [Errata]. Light age stain. Early manuscript ownership of 'Robert J. Fisher, York PA' on paste down. Fisher was a famous and important judge in York County. Engraved card of the author, 'Commander William Gibson, U.S. Navy' with his penciled correction in Preface. Small 8vo. 185 mm. Original patterned cloth binding. Boards decorated and embossed with a design of a ship in harbor. Extremities worn. Spine repaired. Binder's ticket of Bradley & Co. Boston on rear paste down. Very good. Hardbound. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 3
pp. xx, 508, (2) [Publisher's catalogue] + Portrait Frontis + two plates and a vignette. Penciled genealogical notes in the margins. Uncut. Mildly XLib. Some signatures loose. 4to. 240 mm. Original paper covered boards, worn. Spine taped. James Otis (Jr.) [1725-1783] was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts; a member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly; and an early advocate of the Patriot views against British injustice that led to the American Revolution. His catchphrase "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" became a basic Patriot position. S&S/AI 14321. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 1
Four Volumes. pp. 596; 577; 691; 713 + Folded two page map of Boston in color, and other illustrations, maps etc. 4to. Original full cloth binding; somewhat worn and stained. XLib. Skidompha Library, Damriscotta, ME. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NEW ENG 4
238 pages including black and white plates. "I found out for the first time, while reading this book, that I almost didn't get the Bruins' coaching job. that was a shocker... This is one of those super books you won't want to put down." - Don Cherry, Hockey Night in Canada. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. Yellow boards show moderate wear and soiling. Solid copy. Book
Features: Collision on the High Seas; The Co-ed or the Townie; By Boats Possessed; The Sheriff Who Never Gave Up; Fire at the Cocoanut Grove - the Boston nightclub became a furnace, trapping 1,000 revelers in one of the worst disasters in America's history; Three Brides, a Bathtub, and Murder; Saga's Photo Contest; Mel Ott - The Boy Wonder; The Marine in the Halloween Mask; The Big Build-up; The Most Versatile Shotgun Sport; Von Richtofen - The Last Knight of Battle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: A date with nostalgia - a fleet of square riggers and schooners off New Bedford, Massachusetts; Newport Again - this time the world prize for One Ton yachts; Rusty at the Helm - Sylvia Everdell of Boston; Why sail alone across Lake Michigan? - well, why not?; Racing the Trailerable; A Boast and a Big Prize - the first MacGregor Challenge; Tobago Cays - gems of the Grenadines; The Westerly Conway - offshore yacht from England; Allied Seawind II - New Gillmer Circumnatigator; Downeaster 38 - Traditional cruiser from California; Kaufman 30-footer - C-Flex 1/2 ton cup yacht; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
This is a very good hardcover copy bound in burgundy cloth, spine sunned, title in gilt. Completely clean. The illustrated slipcase has a little wear to the edges. The paper title label is intact. Limited edition of 2000 copies. Stated first edition. Illustrated in color and black & white. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 393 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
64p. A few margins torn with slight loss. 16mo. Original printed wraps, also with very slight loss. Don't be mis-led by "Re-print" in the title. This is the original first edition of this rare little piece. OCLC records only the copy at the Massachusetts Historical Society. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SCARCE. AMERICANA BOX 5
505 p. + Color Frontis. Illustrated with musical scores. Irregular pagination. Foxed. Early ownership stamp of Edwin R. Prendergast on title page and elsewhere. Manuscript ownership of Edwin R. Prendergast on title page. XLib bookplate of St. Bernard's Seminary Library (Pittsford, near Rochester, NY) on front paste down. Large 8vo. 230 mm. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind. Cloth faded and slightly worn. A curious work, which attempts to draw direct parallels between pleasant musical melodies and the "music" of animal sounds. He analyzes the voices of contemporary vocal performers with his special point of view in mind. Importantly, he tries to transcribe animal sounds into musical notation. S&S/AI 50462. Hardbound. Good. AI BX 8
Good Turkish Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 45 p. First edition of this first Turkish translation of Gorki's famous work 'Lenin', translated by Dr. Fuad (or Fuat] Sabit [Agacikli] (1876-1935), in the year 1936, when Gorki died. After the Erzurum Congress, held in 1919, Fuad Sabit was sent to Baku as a representative to help the Bolsheviks and to get their support for the National Struggle (1919-1922). Afterward, he joined the Turkish Communist Party. He completed successful diplomatic actions in Baku, Dagestan, and Moscow. On September 01, 1923, he was promoted to medical major. Only two institutional copies in OCLC: 81901974.
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5". Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
Features: Cover illustration of Christopher Columbus landing; Rare American Pewter Tea Pot; Antiques in Florida; Living With Antiques - in St. Augustine, Florida; Quality in Pewter - An Editorial Note; The Style Antique in Furniture - II - Its American Manifestations and their Prototypes; Mrs. Mifflin's Fringe Loom; The Bowne House - A Seventeenth-Century Dwelling in Flushing, Long Island; The Last Black-Powder Rifles used in the United States Service; Nineteenth-Century Cane-Seat Chairs; Glassmaking in South Boston - Part II; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 177-244. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
44 pages. Features: Students successful in conserving the Dundas Valley in Ancaster, Ontario win the "Rosie" Award; Zany horrors from the Grey Cup; Nancy Greene is featured in a colour photo Mars Bar ad; Editorial cartoonist Paul Szeb was nobody in Hamilton but they love him in Boston; Nice half-page colour photo ad for Ford's 1973 pickups; Nice two-page colour fashion photo feature; What can you say to a man who may kill you? - part II of The Doomsday Flight - Paul Joseph Cini hijacked an Air Canada DC-8 bound for Toronto from Calgary; The Wally Wagon - built by UBC Engineering students - article with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Mattel shows 15 of their toys; Have a Merry Hanukkah; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: Colour photo of Bobby Orr in Yardley ad inside front cover; Bobby Orr article; It's Suicide to get in front of Bobby Orr's Shot; Bruins' 50th anniversary; Canucks Quiz; NHL History article - with Terry Sawchuk photo; Nice Dennis Ververgaert photo feature; Wayne Cashman featured in VanCity ad; Player of the Week - Don Tannahill; Canucks vs. Boston last year; Photos of Canuck players, staff and management; Photos of Boston Bruin players; Charisma - Bobby Orr Style; What fans should know about Phil Esposito; Great back page caricature/feature of Bobby Lalonde; plus many great vintage ads. Umarked with light wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
