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A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: John Mix Stanley, Pioneer Painter; Music Sheets for Stamp Collectors; Furniture of the Boston Tories; Antiques in Domestic Settings - Ante-Bellum Homes in Natchez; Cogdell and Mills, Charleston Sculptors; Here Lyes Buried - Taste and Trade in Charleston Tombstones; The Hornbook for Collectors - The ABC's of Early American Furniture; English Silver of American Interest; A Note on Nankin, Colonial Calico; Check List of the Works of Cogdell and Mills; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 161-220. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
100 pages. Features: Cover illustration of breakfast in a kitchen being repainted; We Met Death on K2 (part 1 of 2) - color-photo illustrated article about the American expedition which met tragic defeat; I Flew With the Stratojets - great photo-illustrated article about life aboard a nuclear bomber, B-47 jet flying from Tampa to England, including mid-air refueling; It's Never Too Late to Go to College - each year 12,000 inquisitive adults attend New York University; The Dog That Trained Me - Sally Carrighar and her Husky dog Bobo; Professor in a Hot Spot - amateur diplomat James B. Conant, ex-president of Harvard, is the new U.S. High Commissioner to Germany; The AEC - The Life History of an Atomic (A-bomb) (part 2 of 2) - the ore-to-stockpile story of the most expensive and complex industrial operation the world has evern known; His Time is Worth $10,000 a Day - great photo-illustrated article on Boston millionaire Johnny Fox; Things You Never Knew About Pencils; Editorial - Red Rule Detested by Russion Millions. Nile Kinnick, Jr. - the best player I ever coached. Fiction: The Beautiful Hitchhiker; First Holdup; Botts and the Impossible Mountain; The Babe in Toyland; The Coward; They Double Agent (conclusion); Cry Murder (part 4 of 7). Ads: Interesting color ad for Howard Zink seat covers; Color Frigidaire ad with Christmas theme; Color Estabrook pen ad; Nice color two-page ad for Chevrolet trucks shows a range of models; Great color-photo ad for Van Heusen features Jeff Chandler and Anthony Quinn; Attractive color-photo ad for the 1954 DeSoto Automatic cars; Lowell Thomas is featured in a Kaiser car ad; Champion spark plug ad features photos of car racers Bill Blair, Dick Rathman, Fonty Flock, and Buck Baker; Nostalgic two-page color American Airlines ad features Christmas theme; Northwest Pacific ad features photo of horse named "Nig" which pulled a rail car 750 miles; Color ad for Webcor turntables; Great vintage color-photo ad for Stromberg-Carlson TVs. Somewhat above-average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Oversize. 124 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
121p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition, gift inscription on endpaper
Pages 189-244. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: A Norwegian Road - interesting article with great photos from Norway; A Story of Old New England; The causes of the decrease of birds; The Vaughans - A California Idyl (continued); Thomas Leavitt and his artist friend, James Akin; Life on the Magalloway; The Gipsy Maiden's Song (poem); Nice photo ad for the Boston and Maine Railroad; New Hampshire Necrology. Sunning to front cover. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
86 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Laird & Co. Apple Brandy inside front cover; Samson card table ad; Chamberlain and British press censorship; Britain War Preparations; The Kaiser on Hitler; Myra Kingsley - Star of the Star-Gazers; The German-Japanese Spy Alliance - article with photos of Nazi spies in America, Lt. Comm. Farnsworth, Harry T. Thompson, Eric Glaser, Otto Voss, Guenther Rumrich and Johanna Hofmann; 20th-Century Wonder Girl Eleanora Sears of Boston; Feuding Among the FCC; Red Cross Surgeon in China describes how injuried and sick Japanese soldiers are killed rather than tended to, 'for the glory of the Emperoro'; Photos of yoga disciple Buddha Bose in various unusual physical states; Photo of toy tanks being painted in Nuremberg, Germany; Photo of toy battleships being painted by Japanese teen; Other photo subjects include French Foreign Minister Bonnet, Labor man Dave Beck, the Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska, Mr. Rolly sharpening a huge saw blade in Alaska, Japanese soldiers in action, Dr, Virgil Dickson, Principal Bruce Zimmerman, Dr. Vaclav Podstata, many photos of children being racially integrated in the U.S., the Budin Clinic in New York, X-ray devices, streetlighting for safety, and the Brooklyn bail bond racket; Dave Beck - Political and Economic Boss of the Pacific Northwest; Hugh Bartlett Monjar and his assorted 'clubs' make him a lot of money; Meddling in Matanuska; Article on Marihuana - "Our Newest Vice"; America's Solution to a Minority Problem - racial mixing of kids in California; Would You Have Noticed That? - Albert S. Osbornprobably has the world's most observant eyes and is a 'student of questioned documents'; Humanitarian surgeons look forward to the day when their intervention will no longer be needed; Proper Highway Illumination for safety; Cleveland's Negro Problem - the "Future Outlook League" uses racketeer-style methods to promote black employment; Hoaxes often invented to sell newspapers; Photo of bicycle polo game; Article on Crooked Bond Bailsmen in New York; Nice color-photo back cover ad for Lucky Strike features tobacco buyer James Walker and associates chatting around pot-bellied stove; and more. Above-average wear. Front cover nearly loose. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
20 pages. Features: Nice color cover photo of Luci Baines and Lady Bird Johnson; Jack Nicklaus - Golf's Golden Bear; Chesterfield cigarette ad features photos of security guard Dale McRoberts, Sr., gallery operator Tami Apt, and Washington State commercial fisherman Floyd Cummins; Luci and Lynda - Daughters of President Lyndon Johnson - article with nice photos; No Secrets Any More - electronic gadgets have put everyone on stage, and privacy is becoming a rare luxury; Teen questions and answers with celebrity photos; Your Money And Your Life - get organized!; Before You Do-It-Yourself - home reno repairs; Before and after photos of celebrities Janet Gaynor, Freddie Bartholomew, Deanna Durbin, "Wrong Way" Corrigan, and Ruby Keeler; Wonderful one-page color-photo ad for Hidden Magic Hair Spray features lady dressed in black; Recipes; Nice one-page ad for 1965 Plymouth cars including the Fury Wagon, Belvedere Wagon and Valiant Wagon. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this special vintage issue. Magazine
80 pages. Features: Twill and Tencel for a line of luxury scarves; One threading, four patterns, four towels; Budget bamboo shawl; Pom-Poms add fun to scarves and shawls; A quick-and-easy rug with chenille 'worms'; Ditchling throw - reinvent yarn with a spinning wheel; warp once, weave two throws - and more!; Twill blocks are a weaver's best friend; Ten Yarns for ten bucks; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Fine Tigrinya Original wrappers. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In English and Tigrinya. 28 p., b/w ills. Extremely rare fifth issue published in July 1975 in the fourth year of publication of the, a bulletin of the movement known as "Eritreans for Liberation in North America" (EFLNA), which emerged in 1970 and ceased to exist by the end of 1979. Contents: Editorial; Some notes on the changing role of the Eritrean woman; Victory and revolution in Southern Africa; 14th Anniversary of the Eritrean revolution; The proletariat: Its international and Eritrean history; International backing heightens; Brief news from the field; More on Ethiopia's socialists; 2 articles in Tigrinya alphabet. Not located in OCLC.
294 pages. Index. Black and white photographs. "Esposito saw it all: the booze, the drugs, the women, the financial shenanigans, the good times and the camaraderie, the bad times and the back-stabbing... Takes readers into the boardrooms, back rooms - and even the bedrooms - of the men who make their lives in the NHL." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reading copy of this entertaining and ongoing tale. Book
pp. x, 284. 12 mo. 195 mm. Paper browned, but not at all chipped. Original full red cloth binding, lettered in gold, and decorated in blind; slightly worn at head and tail. Large printed ans manuscript bookplate for the: Private Library of Douwe P. Boersma. The 4th American Edition, From the 15th London Edition (1844) Revised and Enlarged, with the addition of the most recent statistics relating to religious sects in the United States, by the American editor. A scarce American edition of this classic. PA55
158 p. Of 2 copies, one has bookplate & signature of Edw. T. Mosely, descendant of a Dorchester settler. Hardcover Good condition; top & bottom of spine chipped
Milano, 1951, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 641/652 con una cartina ed 8 fotografie. - !! 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.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original pictorial wrappers. Chromo-lithographed photo-montage collage cover with seven b/w photos of African buildings and natives, and a red map of Africa. Complete in wrappers and folded huge Africa map (size: 57 x 82 cm). Cover size: 28.5 x 20.5 cm. In Turkish. Scale: 1/20,000,000. A very rare chromo-lithographed Africa map, prepared for the geography lessons about foreign countries in Turkey in 1930. The map shows the territories of the African continent, which was still politically under European colonialism as of the 1930s. It includes Rio de Oro (Spanish territory), Fas [i.e. Morocco], Algeria, Sahara, Cameroon (French territories), Trabulus [i.e. Libya] as Italian territory; and Liberia, Egypt, East Sudan, Eritre [i.e. Eritrea], Habesistan [i.e. Ethiopia], Somali, Kenya, Belgian Kongo, Angola, Mozambique and South African land including Rhodesia (equivalent in the territory to modern Zimbabwe), Transvaal, The Orange Free State [Oranje-Vrystaat], Natal and Kap [Cape] with Madagascar. An extra panel for the same scale map showing the Suez Canal, Nile Delta, and North Egypt in the lower-left corner. Duran studied in Istanbul and Paris. He worked as a geography teacher in various high schools and afterward he undertook the positions of lecturer and administrator in Ankara Gazi Education Institute for a time. He was known for his writings on various topics and particularly for his works on geography. Born in the imperial period, Duran conducted the first cartographic studies of the Republic of Turkey after the transition to the Republican administration. Sealed. Slight foxing. Otherwise a fine copy. Not in OCLC.
203p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
214 p. + Frontis. Early manuscript ownership of A. Hatzfield on title page. In block letters on rear fly leaf "From the ruins of "Old Main" of Westminster College Burned Jan. 24, 1927, 1861-1927." This refers to the college located in New Wilmington, PA, where two 'Old Main' had burned to the ground in 1861 and 1927. First fly leaves and verso of Frontis light smoke damage. Top edge darkened. 24mo. 145 mm. Original very worn leather binding. Front board detached. Boards stained. Spine very worn with loss. S&S/AI 5326. Hardbound. AI BX 5
Pages 41-80 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: The House of C.P. Searle, Esq., at Ipswich, Massachusetts; Hand-Made Rugs, the Revival of an Old Handicraft; Three Types of Gambrell Roof Houses - the home of Mr. Walter C. Sampson, at Summit, New Jersey, the home of Arthur E. Thayer at Dedham, Massachusetts, the home of Mr. Farnham, and the home of Mr. James Purdon, of Boston; Plant Breeding; The Dino Collection of Historic Armor - collected by the late Duc de Dino, Marquis of Talleyrand-Perigord; The Use of Anesthetics for Plants; A Few Neglected Fruits; A Seventeenth Century Homestead near Boston; A Wood Garden - at the country seat of Mr. H.H. Battles at Newton Square, PA; Nature's Traps; The Country Seat of Charles S. Brown, Esq., Mount Kisco, New York; A New Method of Housekeeping; The New Seed testing Station in Paris at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, then the Agronomic Institute in the Rue Cervantes; Great color back cover ad for Pierce Arrow cars (The George N. Pierce Company) features illustration of chauffeur holding door for woman in orange coat on city street; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Some pages loose but all present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 121 - 160 plus xx pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: A Country Creek in Springtime; Notable American Homes - The Country Seat of M.P. Slade, Esq., at Mt. Kisco, NY; Garden Streams and Appropriate Bridges; A Remodeled Colonial House - The Country Seat of Frederick Converse Beach, Esq., at Stratford, CT; The Garden Joys of a Country Home; The Summer Home of Lucien Oudin, Esq., Water Mill, Long Island; The Application of Stencil Work in Home Decoration - fascinating photo-illustrated article features the "Swastika," or Symbol of Good Luck; The Forced Culture of Asparagus in France; A House at Newton Centre, MA, designed by Mr. Edward B. Stratton, of Boston; Gorgeous back cover color ad for Crystal Domino Sugar, sold in 5lb sealed boxes; and more. Printed on glossy stock. From a bound volume. Complete and unmarked with Average wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 255-294 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: "Maxwell Court," The Residence of Francis T. Maxwell, Esq., at Rockville, CT; Leaded Glass Windows for Domestic Use; "Kinnekort," - The Residence of Edward K. Cone, Esq., at Colonia, NJ; Etching on Copper and Brass; Glimpses of Tokeneke - Some Attractive Homes at Rowayton, CT, including those of Mr. H.D. Taintor, Mr. E.H. Norton, Esq., Mr. Walter Blabon, Mr. Thomas Alsop, Mr. Gerrit Smith, Joseph D. Sawyer, Jr., and Mr. Charles H. Pope; Summer Gardening in France; The Home and Studio of Artist Miss Cecilia Beaux at East Cloucester, MA, designed by architect Mr. Charles K. Cummings of Boston; Chickering Piano ad on back cover; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Some pages loose but all present. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 81- 120 plus xx pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: Ad for the Clinton Fireproofing System includes great photo of the mansion of Mr. Spreckles under construction in San Francisco; "Overloch" - The fountain of the formal garden; "Overloch," The Country Home of John A. Burnham, Esq., Wenham, MA; The Disposal of Bric-A-Brac; Residence of Van Wyck Rossiter, Esq., Nyack, NY; Fences in Towns and Villages; Illumination at Mount Vernon; The Summer Home of Spencer Hall, Esq., Water Witch, NJ - Built in the Mission style of Architecture; Planning a Country Home; The House Roof and It's Garden - a neglected opportunity / a successful house-top garden; The Historic Wentworth House at Little Harbor, NH, owned by Mr. J. Templeman Coolidge, Jr., of Boston, MA; Three Pennsylvania Houses designed by Mr. D. Knickerbacker Boyd, of Philadelphia; The Plant and the Season; Fantastic back cover ad for Pacific Mail S.S. Co. of San Francisco promotes their boat service from San Francisco to Hawaii, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Manila; and more. Printed on glossy stock. From a bound volume. Complete and unmarked with Average wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
76 pages. Features: Colour photo of Bobby Orr in Yardley ad inside front cover; Carol Vadnais Has a Job To Do; Meet Dallas Smith; Canucks on the Road - candid photos; Photos of Canuck management, staff and players; Nice CJOR ad features Jack Webster; Who is the Greatest? - Bobby Orr or Eddie Shore?; The Leaders are Most Important; Nice full-page CKNW ad features Jim Robson; Don Awrey - The Bruiser; Photos of Dunc Wilson at Work; Royal Bank Player of the Week - Bryan McSheffrey; Great full-page caricature feature on John Bucyk; Wayne Cashman Works the Corners; Photos of Bruin players; Center page loose but present; Great colour photo ad for "Old Style" beer features blacksmith; Full-page ad for Butler Tire features Don Awrey; J.Paul McConnell in CKWX ad; Article on the Knee/Bobby Orr; plus many great vintage ads. Short tape repair to page 21. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
268p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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