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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].
First Edition, [iii],4-62,[2]pp., later buckram. Begun as a commercial speculation, this bridge project, like others, became the centre of an important political controversy, involving questions of governmental roles in commercial development and public protection and access. Dorchester Neck and the annexation of that peninsula to the town of Boston. The state Legislature approved a petition in 1804 to annex the Neck to Boston and authorised a toll bridge to link the two areas. The Boston South Bridge opened in 1805.
First Edition, [iv], iv, [xii list of subscribers], 382, 84pp., engraved frontispiece and dedication, 4 engraved plates, one folding pedigree (torn but complete), wood engravings in the text, cont. calf, re-backed, leather label to spine.
78 pages. Articles:Campus Crusader - Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence College; Designs for Touring 5 - a trip to New York's Finger Lakes; No Miracle in the Marshall Plan - we must wage a war of education in Europe; High Prices Make Cheap Living - the effects of inflation on America's middle class; Brothers in Crime - The Notorious Renos, train robbers of the 1860s; Bob Taft's Martha - she's a veteran politcal campaigner. Fiction: A Cross for Urdia; Fair Exchange; A Penny For Your Thoughts; Madam President; The April Load; The Gracious Senor. Includes the following ads: Studebaker (inside front cover); Listerine antiseptic - featuring black porter; RKO movies of the month; American Kitchens; De Beers Diamonds - with portrait of Miss Virginia H. Palfrey of Boston; Heinz Ketchup; Philco radio-phonographs; International Harvester TD-24 bulldozer (great color photo); "Frontier-Buck" shoes by Fortune; Talon slide fasteners; Ballantines Ale; Old Thompson Whiskey; Life Savers; Emerson Radios; Prince Albert pipe tobacco; MontaMower; Dromedary Corn Muffin Mix; Spam; United Jewish Appeal full-page fundraising ad featuring crying Israelli infant in crate; Interesting US Savings Bond ad shows large wolf with teeth bared and caption "Wolf Poison" (they equate bond purchasing with keeping the wolf away from your door); Rutland Patching Plaster; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
86 pages. Fiction: The Captain's Cap; I Want You To See My Sister; Mother Loved Father; Sleep, My Love; The Leopard; A Day on the Ocean. Articles: Cinderella Sport - Harness Racing Reaches New Heights; Being a Communist in the USA has its headaches; Low Man on a Lightning Rod; Ethel Merman's Broadway Success - article with color photos; The Truth about Henry Kaiser - conclusion; Boston's Incredible Mayor Curley - article with photos; Movie Catastrophe Maker - Mr. "Breezy" Eason; Bermuda novelty hats made of real flowers and fruits; Brief article with photos of Consolidated Vultee's six-engined B-36. Nice ads include: Color ad for GE radios featuring Marjorie Reynolds; Good Year tires; Great color ad for International Trucks; Vitalis scalp oil; Borden's - with Elsie the Cow; New York Central Railway; Piper Aircraft; Nice 2-page color ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad; GM Electro-Motive Division; Great Coke ad shows local men at soda fountain with cob of corn; Ford Trucks; Schlitz Beer; TWA; "Rendezvous with Annie" movie ad; Packard cars; Carling's Ale; Back cover ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features lovely color photo of young woman. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
82 pages. Fiction: Leader of the Band; The Other Woman; The Senator was Indiscreet; The Reformer; Sleep, My Love; Callaghan's Miracle. Articles: The Roosevelt I Knew (part 1); No War with Russia; Just Swing the Club Head - Golf Pro Ernest Jones; Why Teachers Quit School; Bermuda - Tourist Paradise; Dowager Queen - Mrs. Twombly; Everyone catches a fish at this lake near Azusa, CA; Color photo aboard a luxuriously appointed C-47 (DC-3) designed by Raymond Loewy; One Year After V-J Day. Ads include: Eveready Batteries; Philco record players; Santa Fe Railroad; *Fantastic* Wurlitzer Juke Box ad "Nickel's worth of fun - fishermen have lunch"; "Crack-Up" movie; Good Year tire centerfold; Frigidaire fridges; Waltham watches; Old Mr. Boston Liquor; Kodak film; Squirt Soda; "The Killers" movie starring Ava Gardner; Aeronca airplanes; Nice Jeep ad inside back cover; Lucky Strike ad on back cover. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Features: Nice 1-page photo ad features 'teen-age' fashion model Kitty Higgins and her two children; Nice 1-page color ad for Lyon Whitewall Tires; The Sweetest Town on Earth - the modest community of Grasse, in southern France has the perfume industry by the nose - article with color photos; The Bosom of My Family (fiction); The Railroads Fight Back; The Flappers Chilidren - a veteran of WWII compares the doughboys who returned from WWI with today's ex-G.I.s - article with photos; Who's Kilroy? Cocktails for One (fiction); Sleeping Beauty (fiction); Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley (fiction); Nice 1-page color ad for International Trucks features a K-7 parked outside a diner; 1-page color ad for Seagram's V.O.; Great color one-page ad for Borden's Hemo vitamin drink; 1-page color-photo ad for Ansco film; Grand Slam Gags - a bridge tournament champ passes along some funny stories; Two-page color ad for Old Mr. Boston Liquor; Very colorful 1-page Christmas ad for Carling Red Cap Ale; The Host (fiction); Nice 1-page color ad for movie 'The Jolson Story'; 1-page color ad for Harwood's blended Canadian Whisky; Nice 1-page color ad for Gordon's Gin; The Songs Roll By (fiction); 1-page ad for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) features great photo of the first national auto show in 1900; The Bell of San Anselmo (fiction); Nice 1-page color ad for Goebel Beer; Christmas in the Desert - color photos of Christmas lights on cactii; Christmas Coke ad on back cover shows family gift-wrapping. Somewhat above-average wear. Small chips from cover fold. A worthy vintage copy. Book
86 pages. Articles: How the Reds Snatched Henry Wallace; The World's Biggest Store - Macy's in New York - article with nice photos; Nancy and Me - the famous Nancy comic strip; A Princess Sells Her Sarong - Malia Sunario Wiranata Kusuma of Java (Indonesia); The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 17 - conclusion); Has Polio Met Its Match in Darvisul?; The Human Female. Photo of Johnny Sain with Phil Masi, Tommy Holmes and Mike McCormick of the Boston Braves. Fiction: Marriage 1948 (part 1 of 5); The Wedding Present; She's a Big Girl Now; The Glass Cornet; Second Man on the Ticket (conclusion); Duffy Takes a Hand. Ads include: Dodge cars; Pan American Airlines; Ethyl; Florsheim Shoes; Vitalis - featuring Ben Hogan; De Beers (with small marking at bottom); Philco phonographs; 1949 Ford cars; Coke ad shows a table of four on a train being served by black man; Otto Graham's Football book and Pennsylvania footballs; B.V.D. clothing; Mallory Hats; Revere cameras and projectors; Texaco (polo theme); Bell Telephone (long distance operator); Great Northern Railway; Dan River; Dixon's Enduro pencil sharpener; Winthrop shoes; Plymouth cars; Botany 500 fashions; Hamm's beer; South Wind car warmers; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Covers pulling from staples. Sunning to right edge of front cover. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
98 pages. Fiction: Roman Mosaic; Old Sorority Sister; Stranger Than Truth; Tiger Swamp Campaign; The Spur; Faster Than a Mule. Articles: A Republican suggests solutions for our major problems; Peace Street / Rue de la Paix - The Wall Street of Fashion in Paris - article with photos of Rambaud, Schiaparelli; Billions in the Mud - article and photos of our pacific bases - wrestled from the Japs - which are now monuments of neglect (photos of acres of equipment); Brains in the Ballet; Ted Williams - The World Series and Me; Curare may be a cure for Polio; Pictures in Stones. Ads include: Sheaffer's pens; B.F. Goodrich tires; Seiberling tires; Rensie Watches; Knox men's fashions; Borden's Instant Coffee; Hudson Cars - a very attractive color ad; Firestone tires; Columbia Records - featuring Frank Sinatra; Ford cars; General Motors - featuring image of boy at wooden school desk; Miller beer; Jeep station wagons; Remington shavers; "No Leave No Love" movie ad featuring Van Johnson; Fantastic color photo ad for Caterpillar bulldozers; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring kindly old doctor. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Articles:.Stanley Anderson of Britain is Becoming An American; The Forty-Niners Listen in the Hills - Mining for Uranium - article with color photos; Unholy Crusade - Communism vs. the Church; Psycho Ward No. 3 - Boston Psychopathic; Young People in Theatre - John Barrymore, Jr.; No Business for Sissies - Henry Trefflich is the biggest wild-animal dealer in the U.S.; Star Without a Country - Tennis star Jaroslav Drobny; Great last page photo of a barn-raising bee with dozens of men at work. Fiction: renegade; The Sleeper; Give Me My Golden Arm; The Red Dog; Deadfall (part 2 of 3); The Heirs. Includes these nice vintage ads: Studebaker Trucks; Hamilton watches; Zenith tvs; Ansco camera film; Porto-Ped shoes; Chevrolet cars; Hickok men's fashion accessories; Plymouth cars; Pabst Blue Ribbon beer - with nice colour photo of "Hap" Arnold and his wife; Ford car-safety contest (centerfold); Budweiser; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring Olympic swimmer Jeanne Wilson. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
164p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Anno 1865 completo della collana Condition and doings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Fascicolo della seconda metà dell'800 in 8.o, stato discreto, coperta in carta, catalogazione bibliotecaria manoscritta su piatto anteriore, bruniture, dorso molto consunto, macchie, tracce di fioritura sparsa, tagli poco ambrati, pagine ben conservate, ultime leggermente ambrate. Numero Pagine 54 USATO
Anno 1868 completo della collana Condition and doings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Fascicolo della seconda metà dell'800 in 8.o, stato discreto, coperta in carta, catalogazione bibliotecaria manoscritta su piatto anteriore, alcuni segni del tempo, gora, fioritura sparsa, tagli ambrati, pagine in buono stato, alcune leggermente ambrate. Numero Pagine 79 USATO
Fascicolo della metà dell'800 in 8.o, stato discreto, coperta in carta, appunti su piatto anteriore, bruniture, gora, bordo e dorso poco sfregati, tracce di fioritura sparsa, tagli bruniti, pagine ben conservate, margini appena ambrati. Numero Pagine xxvii USATO
Book is in excellent condition with some light foxing to the page ends. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 277 pages, content include: Rise of modern ball games, Early american cricket, Players, Clubs, Baseball's boom and cricket's survival, etc. Short b&w photo section.
287 p. Hardcover Very good condition good d.j.
287 p. Hardcover very good condition, t.p. creased good d.j. Signed by the author for John Driscoll
pp. 362. 8vo. 200 mm. Original publishers pictorial binding in red and gilt. Print in red ink serves as cover art. Spine gilt aswell. All plates present. Manuscript ownership of Jas. H. Righter on front pastedown. Also old label from the Fon Der Smith's Bookstore in Lancaster. All plates present. Slight rubbing of spine and corners. Cover worn in places, but still attractive. Hardbound. Very good. NW65
oblong, 157p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
270 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. Darryl Sittler's signature and inscription upon half-title page. Details in exciting play-by-play accounts, such highs as his record-setting ten-point game against the Boston Bruins and his overtime goal against Czechoslovakia that won the 1976 Canada Cup. Also recounts his lows, particularly toward the end of his career. "Sittler tells his story the way he played - bluntly and bravely." - Jim Proudfoot, Toronto Star. Book as new. Dust jacket price-clipped with very light wear. Beautiful copy. An excellent gift for your special Maple Leaf fan. Book
Raffigurazione del municipio della città
144p., illus. Hardcover Good condition, worn and chipped spine
243p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
240 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Two volumes with continuous pagination. Illustrated engraved half titles. Thirty full page cooper engraved plates. Plate 25, The Phaeton, bound as "Frontis" in volume II. Plates 6 and 28 heavily foxed, other plates lightly foxed. Deckled edges. Wide margins. 235 mm. Volume II has printed paper boards, front board detached. Volume I lacks printed paper boards. Bindings need to be resewn. This Dance of Death deals with the visit Death eventually pays to people in all walks of life. Some are especially interesting and unusual, ie: the Boxer; the Cricketer; the Lawyer; the Alychemist, and, of course, the Antiquary. S&S/AI 32881. From the second London edition. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED AGAIN! AI BX 7