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Pages 195-224. Features: Hon. Samuel C. Eastman - article with full-page photo portrait and photo of Mr. Eastman's Concord home; The Congregational Church at Laconia - article with several photos of the church and its personalities; Old King Saul - Giant White Pine tree at Center Harbor - article with photos; Seventy-Five Years Ago and Now; An Unintentional Scare; Will of Deacon John Blanchard of Dunstable; Obituaries for Harrison Haley, Hon. Joseph F. Wiggin, Hon. George A Wason; Thaddeus E. Sanger; Rt. Rev. John B. Delany; Prof. George A. Wentworth, Daniel Wadsworth Coe; Poems; and more. Inside back cover is a nicely illustrated ad for the Boston and Maine Railroad / Seashore Lake and Mountain Resorts. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
xiii, 276 p. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
594 p. Hardcover Good condition in chipped d.j. fair
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
238 pages including black and white plates. Author's signature upon half-title page. "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. Clean, bright and unmarked. Negligible wear. Beautiful copy. Book
Pages 278-346. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: The main street of the ocean; May song; New Hampshire horses; Yesterday; The administration of a great department in the city of Boston; The pianist; Some passing thoughts on literature; The fairy king; Lisbon, N.H.; Sweet May; The Legend of John Levin and Mary Glasse - Chapter 21; Fair Ormond; The Society of Colonial Wars in New Hampshire; Educational department; New Hampshire Necrology; Nice full-page photo of the Riverside Stock Farm, Newport, N.H. Some peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Blue paper-covered boards with red duck design. Brown cloth spine shows fading at bottom. Later printing. 9 1/2"w x 12 1/4"h. Beautiful sepia toned illustrations. Caldecott Medal winner.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Green cloth board with black duckling design. Later printing. 9 1/8"w x 12 1/4"h. Beautiful sepia toned illustrations. Caldecott Medal winner.
95 p., illus. w/ color photographs by Peter H. Dreyer Hardcover Very good condition good
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
in-16 broché, cartes (2 depliantes en couleurs), plans, illustrations en couleurs. Très bel exemplaire. [LP-10]
252p. 8 cm. Paperback Very good condition
600p. First signature loose. XLib. 8vo. Original full half leather binding. Spine taped. Extremities worn. BLKAM 1.
190 p. The first of 19 volumes printed from 1832 to 1835. May lack a frontis or a front fly leaf. Age stain. Insect damage to inner front hinge. 24mo. 150 mm. Original gray paper covering polished green paper boards, loss of gray paper on rear board. Original leather spine, worn. Boards fragile. S&S/AI 13575. Hardbound. AI BX 2
Book is very clean with very light scuffing to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
274p. Hardcover Very good condition good Signed by the author
131 p. illus. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
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.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original red cloth bdg. Bilingual titles on two boards and title pages in French and Ottoman script. Slight age-related toning to pages, the Ottoman face of cloth is stained. Spine restored skillfully. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). Text entirely in Ottoman Turkish. 2 volumes set: ([4], 92 p., 19 color plts.; 52 p., 8 color plts. -of which five illustrate the symbols and flags of the different companies of janissaries and two depict the Grand Vizier and the Capudan Pacha-). All plates are complete. Hegira 1325 = Gregorian 1909. Rare first edition of the early uniform book of the Ottoman army with the most attractive color plates ever and extremely rare with its complete plates. The artist of the plates was Hüsnü Tengüz (1876-1950), one of the most famous Turkish painters. He was assigned to the Military Museum Commission by Mahmut Sevket Pasha in 1908-1909, and after 1910, he was appointed as the painter of the Naval Museum, until 1917. "Premiere Partie 1326 jusqu'a 1826 avec 247 gravures coloriees. Par Mahmoud Chevket Pacha General Divisionnaire Inspecteur general des 1er, 2me et 3me Ordous. Prix 20 Piastres". In this work by Mahmud Shevket Pasha, who was the Ottoman Grand Vizier and the Commander of the Movement Army, dealing with the Ottoman military organization together with military clothing and uniforms; the clothes of the soldiers belonging to these organizations are exhibited together on their exquisitely beautiful plates. The descriptions of the pictures cover all the military classes serving in the Ottoman army. The two parts refer to the two periods of Turkish military organization: Pt. One (figures 1-48) depicts the Ottoman court functionaries, Pt. Two (figures 1-58) the new army. Özege 16005.; Atabey 238.; Not in BLC. GL (Part One only); OCLC: 16110303, 27957549, Not in Blackmer. Bebek 134.
Paperback Very good condition Signed by the author
16 pages. Features: Quote about joy in life (with photo) by Charlie Chaplin; The White Lie (fiction); Dandelion - a read-aloud story; Dorothy Doll's Law - she is Head Wardrobe Mistress of the "Folies Bergere"; To See a Summer Morning (fiction); Cool Tomato Recipes; Letter from Housewife Mrs. W.E. Bueker about how railway automation has affected her husband's career, and the lives of many other families, for the worse; Should the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, Wear the Hope Diamond?.. Color ad for Cut-Rite plastic bags; Average wear. Unmarked. Coupon removed from Royal Pudding ad on page 9 and Good Seasons Gravy ad on page 11, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
26 pages. Features: Ad for the Charles Hotel of Boston Bar, B.C. inside front cover; Editorial critical of James Sinclair's statement in the House of Commons that "Canada's aim must be to cut down the excess purchasing power in the hands of the people"; The Squamen's Union; Case of the Frozen Brides - part 3; Pioneer Judge's Wife - 4th instalment - includes photo of camel being used for packing over the Cariboo Trail; Job's Comforter; Along the Trapline; Dozens of great ads for small B.C. businessses; Nice Finning ad on back cover for the Caterpillar D4-HT4 Traxcavator Team; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this vintage British Columbia publication. Magazine
258p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-394-74894-8. xxxiv, 317 pages; illus; index. Preface is guide to architectural terms. Illustrated with 26 maps and 200 photographs, absorbing armchair reading and tool for first hand discovery [from cover].
16 pages. Features: Gorgeous cover photo of Dalia Lavi; Japan Goes Yankee - article with wonderful photos of American culture being adopted by the Japanese; Thailand Adventure - American Jacqueline Ayer went to Bangkok as a housewife, became a fashion designer, and today she's bringing Eastern flavor to U.S. women; Daddy's Eight Daughters - Charlie Rose writes of the beautiful family of General Chien Tai, former chief representative of China to the United Nations - includes magnificent family photo of Mi-mi, Do-do, Octavia, Re-re, General Chien Tai, Satellite, Madame Tai, Uranium, La-la, Si-si, Fa-fa and So-so; A Girl's Life in Red China - Sansan, a pretty teen-ager, has a message for Americans her own age (she escaped to Hong Kong in 1962) and here describes the plight of living in Red China; Hong Kong Tea Party - Cooking Far Eastern Style in Kitty Wing Min's Home. Color ads include; Miss Clairol and Hush Puppies (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this most wonderful issue. Magazine
