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Features: Patricia Ford's Popular Pottery; M*A*S*H Remembered; Minis go back in the closet in New Jersey; The French Dollhouse Mystery; Maryy Penet & Phil Lavigne - a marriage of miniatures; Camille Stromm's Boutique de Parfum; The wasahachie Cottage - miniatures on a shoestring; Life on the Mini Mississippi; The Small Belongings of Dress - The Pilgrim Century 1607-1690; Fezziwig Accessories - The Traumas of Tiny; Joann's American Indian Crafts; Nearth and Home Floor Coverings; Room of the Month - Cobwebs and Clutter; Building with Bob - Finishing the Interior; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: The Most Awful Abduction of Elegant Elaine; He Fought the Blizzard of 1880 and won!; Incident at Las Cruces; The Diamond E and Diamond X Ranches; First Movie House West of the Mississippi; Ruthless Relative; Wild Game Country; Adventures of an Army Post Photographer; Cow-boy life in Texas or 27 years a mavrick; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Day We Bombed Mt. McKinley; South of the Antarctic Circle; Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Safari Photographers; Society's Antithesis - Wedding Dance of the Samburu; Inti Raymi - Inca Festival of the Sun; Measuring the Three Highest Mountains in Greenland; Willard Glazier and the Discovery of the Headwaters of the Mighty Mississippi. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
A farm and home weekly for Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas. Hundreds of vintage ads for such products as tree killer, rat-killing virus, one-man log-saws, organs, Kerosene engines, C.O.D. Revolvers (pistols), Dynamite (to dig ditches), Columbia Grafonola. Articles include "Are Tractors a Good Investment". Average wear. Usual library markings. Yellowed with age. Binding sound. Measures 14" x 10" x 1". A treasure trove of farming history. Book
Features: Rev. Dan McLellan has helped rescue 1,000,000 Peruvian Indians from poverty; After 3 centuries, leadership of America may be shifting from the weary East to the dynamic land beyond the Mississippi; We learned to live with tragic illness - a father tells what happened after his son and daughter-in-law, the parents of two youngsters, were stricken by crippling polio; Our new super-road - the controversial 41,000 mile interstate highway system and how it will change our lives; The Mystery of Charles de Gaulle; The Fleeting Fame of No-Hit Pitchers; The Great Wilderness Fight - Conservation vs. Commerce. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Millington's Lesson - Lawlessness in Burma prior to the British withdrawal; Glider Snatching - a story from Burma in World War II; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I of the adventure of an English walker in France; The Mayas of British Honduras; Unlucky Ship - the chief officer of a tramp steamer recalls the events which befell the ship; The Men-Lions Mystery - the shocking toll of human life levied by maneaters in Africa; Tow Boating Down the Mississippi - a voyage from Memphis to New Orleans, with photos; The Nukoni Ju-Ju - the abandoned Gold Coast Mines was avoided by natives; Death at Sundown - a curse which was fulfilled in startling fashion; Hurricane Journey - returning to his police job from war service, the author expected a quiet life; The Firebrand - a former Eritrean corporal in the Italian colonial police becomes a bandit; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Douglas Super DC-8; Vietnam war news; Colonel Chappie James; H. Rap Brown; Prostitutes return to Mid-Town Manhattan; Murder of Haight-Ashbury drug dealers; Time Essay - Corruption in Asia; Dustup at Dong Ha; Poland's Gomulka is not pleased with Israel; Poet Andrei Voznesensky; Revolt in Anguilla; Cool photo of George Harrison and his wife; photo of Jane Fonda and wrens; One-page Lennox ad features photos of Expo 67 pavillions using their equpment; Vitamin D and the Races of Man; Beware the Brown Recluse Spider; Pianist Friedrich Gulda; Self-healing steel; Saratoga Story - Marie Louise Schroeder Hosford Whitney; Conjugal visits at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, MS; Passing of Matthew R. Goodman, Floyd G. Hoard, Frank Callan Norris, William Philip Spratling, Hans Anton Kroll, Josh Bryan Lee, Willard Monroe Kiplinger and Vittoria Valletta; Cover story on yachting; Austin R. Zender of the Peter Paul candy empire; Interesting early article on the need for more computer programmers; Amazing photo of 30-horsepower wheat harvester in Oregon (1880); 4 pages of color photos of farm mechanization; Fashions from Jonathan Logan Inc.; Judy Garland makes her third comeback; Miss Yoko Ona and her 76-minute film of bare British buttocks called 'No. 4'; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Contents: Protests in the U.S. - photo of MLK; Apollo 204 - report on the capsulre fire disaster; Photo of RJK in Mississippi; Photo of Tom Clark in 1942 beside "Enemy Alien" poster; Time Essay - the Churches' influence on secular society; Feature article on Brazil and its President - with many color photos; Vietnam war update; Nice full-page color ad for Tempo cigarettes; Singapore - with photo of Kee Kuan Yew; Nice Jeepster ad; Mario Andretti; Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell in action photo; Shotputter Randy Matson; Loan shark Harold "Kayo" Konigsberg; Credit Cards; Boeing 737 maiden flight photo; Ford executives rewarded for success of Mustang; Emmett & Stone - merchandisers; Pipeline push in western Europe; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Passengers for the Graham County; In Canada in '67 - Trains vs. Cars and jets - Turbotrain/Go Train; These 567's speak any language - a passport for dieseldom's most famous power plant - in gauges from 36" to 5'6" - EMD; Can Mr. Barriger Save Miss Katy? - one man's fight to save the sickest railroad west of the Mississippi; G.I. in Civvies - locomotives have been subject to the draft since the time of Lincoln; The most uncommon Garratts of all - in Europe - nice photos; Rio Grande laid rails to Wet Mountain Valley Twice - long article, photos and table; The Pennsy 6100; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Clyde Carley tells about The Train Master - 'Dip' Dipprey - nice illustrated article; Steam in Mississippi - The Mississippian Railway - substantial article with photos; Pacific Great Eastern's (PGE's) RDC's - includes photo of 5 cars near Squamish, BC and map of RDC's on mainland British Columbia; Fantastic centerfold photo of the black smoke belching Louisville & Nashville M-1 2-8-4 1962 crossing the Red River Bridge at Stearns, Kentucky; Nice photo section; Railroad News Photos; New England in February - a Tripmaster feature; and more. Faint date stamp to front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Editorial - Biggest News from EMD since 1939; What EMD will have in its showrooms in 1966 - 2 pages of diagrams and photos; Photos of the Mississippi Maelstrom; Steam News Photos; Night photo of No. 45684 in England; Can New York City live happily ever after with 34,000 commuters? - what price rails to suburbia? - long article with illustrations and map; The Case of the Curved-Side Lightweight, introduced by the Cincinnati Car Company - Traction Classics; Photo Section - American Railroading... in 1908; Monarch Branch... after; Boarding the Century at Utica - excerpt from a 'Trains' reader letter; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Narrow Gauge to Santa Fe - 125 miles of desert railroad in a land where happy people are too poor to buy a newspaper; Granite From Vermont - Barre & Chelsea Railroad, steepest of the railways east of the Mississippi, brings stone down from the mountains; The Firefly; Reading Locomotive Growth - from Old Ironsides to streamlined Crusader - new 108-page book gives history of Reading power; Locust Point in Link and Pin Days; Transcontinental Tour; Illinois Terminal Railroad - only surviving typical interurban saw the writing on the wall - now a Class 1 freight and passenger line. Above-average soiling and wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Rodolpho Fierro - Bloody Butcher for Pancho Villa; Guthrie - Grand Old Lady of Oklahoma; Ten Days to Die - the battle of Fort Ridgely; Green River Knives - They Played a Role in Opening the West; The Pioneers Talked Turkey - old west cookery; Kansas State Historical Society Museum opens; Recollections of an Early Montana Cowboy - Roland Matthews. Western Hunting Knives; Bowie Knife - Legend in Steel; Jim Bowie and the 'Sandbar' Fight; Mississippi Rifle on the Plains 1848-1860; Mountain Man Rendezvous; She faced the Cheyenne alone - Ada Reed; Kerrville, Texas - home of the cowboy artists of America. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
In 4°, piena tela edit., tit. in oro e decori impressi ai piatti, pp. XIV-(2nn)-494-(2nn). Bellissima, rara pubblicazione corredata da 13 splendide tavv. in cromolito f.t. + 1 cartina geografica del viaggio, più volte pieg. posta in fine, alcune incisioni xilografiche a piena pag. Diario di una spedizione americana nel 1853 attraverso le Montagne Rocciose in California, descritto da Möllhausen che nel 1851 aveva intrapreso il viaggio con il Duca Paul di W?rttemberg da St. Lozius a Fort Laramie e le Montagne Rocciose dove trascorse diversi mesi tra gli indiani Omaha. Tracce d'uso alle cerniere, qualche piccolo rinforzo.
215 p. Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition
144 pages. Dark blue cloth covers with some soiling on the back, corners bumped. Foxing on pastedowns and free endpapers.
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: The Daguerreotype; Boston's Carvers and Joiners - Part II - Post-Revolutionary; Earliest Signed Picture by T. [Thomas] Chambers; French Landmarks [Buildings] - Along the Mississippi; Flower Prints and Flower Printmakers of the Eighteenth Century; Kenmore - In Fredericksburg, VA; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 241-312. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers loosening. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
114 pages. Fiction: The Vultures; That Time, That Sorrow; The Wooing of Cruller McCabe; Off the Reservation; Storm Before Daybreak; The Star Lake Murder; Divide & Conquer. Articles: Motherhood without Misery - painless childbirth technique from England; Old Man River's Children - the poor who live along the Mississippi near Memphis; The Handwriting on the Ice - blitzkrieg by air from the arctic; Racket on Wheels - black market used cars; Ringtail on the Run - coon-hunting by moonlight; Preacher in Song - Joshua (Josh) White; Quarterback Glenn Dobbs of the Dodgers; Blondie's Gold Mine - the saga of the cartoon Bumstead family. Ads include: Studebaker (color photo ad inside front cover); Clicquot Club; Philco radio-phonographs - featuring photo of Bing Crosby; Lucky Strike cigarettes; Nice color two-page Firestone ad features dozens of gifts; Camel cigarettes (More doctors smoke Camels...); Hudson cars; Gillette ad features caricature of footballer Dewitt "Tex" Coulter; Hudson cars (beautiful color ad); Movie ad for "The Best Years of Our Lives"; Good Year (centerfold); Samson card tables; Garod Radios; Champ Hats; Mercury cars; Budweiser beer; Fortune shoes; Waterman's pens; Waltham watches; Mallory Hats; Parker pens; Timely clothes; Old Spice; Manhattan sport shirts; Three Feathers Whiskey (inside back cover); Chesterfield cigarettes (back cover). Unmarked. Moderate wear. Cover holding by one staple. A nice vintage copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright embossed unmarked faux leather boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. 240pp. By the editors of Time-Life books with text by Paul O'Neil, this book describes the men who manned the boats which carried the explorers and settlers up and down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers as they moved further into the new country, as far as the Rocky Mountains in a wealth of detail and with superb contemporary black & white photos from the time. Also some in colour including detailed illustrations based on artwork.
50 pages. Interesting WWII commentary by publisher Joseph Lister Rutledge; Secret Power in the Far Pacific - Japan and Germany planned a 'perfect crime'... Here's why it failed, and why Japan cannot win (written in light of the Pearl Harbour attack); Never From Valiant Men - story by I.A.R. Wylie; Mickey Rooney - The Life and Loves of Box-Office Man No. 1 - article with photos; Photo feature of Alexis Smith; I Saw it Happen in Manilla - Annalee Whitmore describes Japanese bombing in the Philippines; Digest version of "Storm", a novel by George Stewart; The Goodwill Tour of Don Florencio De La Pampa; 40-question boxing quiz by Jack Dempsey; The Battle of Detroit - Frederick L. Collins gives a first-hand report of high-scale allied arms manufacturing; Mississippi Belle - story by Clements Ripley; Kellogg's All-Bran cereal ad; Stalin - Devil or Genius?, by Emil Ludwig with black and white photos; To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; Girl Meets Girl, by Bubbles Schinasi; Pictures You Ought to See, by Howard Barnes; Nice colour ad for Mercury Mills, Limited, Hamilton, on back cover. Cover photo of young girl nurse bandaging arm of her playmate's arm. Average wear. Address label with hand-written correction on front cover. Inked postal date stamp atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
128 pages. Features: Fatter beef from cheaper roughage; Feeding guides for supplement A; Now the plants bite back; Look what's happening to hogs; How i made the cage system work; You can dry baled hay; Saving work with water; Bloat; A 'wired' hand for every farm; New method saves $2-a-pound seed; Range-bull record, artificially bred; Carts ease dairy chores; Here's low-cost range and brooding equipment; Learning how to judge land; They've made weed control work; The Biggest Liar in Alaska (fiction); Gangway for Tomorrow (conclusion); Jeff Davis, Mississippi rebuilds for youth; Elsa Dean with daughters Wilma and Nancy. Ads: GE fridges (color, inside front cover); '52 Buick; Champion spark plug ad features 10,640 acre fruit farm at Bakersfield, CA with J.A. Di Giorgio and J.C. Lyttle; Super '88' Oldsmobile; Ford trucks (color); International Trucks (color, Treamside Farm); Oliver tractors (66, 77 and 88); Lee work clothes; Chevrolet trucks; Dodge trucks - featuring Sam Harrod of Frankfort, KY; Sheppard diesel tractors; Moorman's ad features William Lally and family of Dane County, WI; Jeep (one page with 4 photos); Harley-Davidson (Marlon Brando-style male shown riding); Ford cars; Hudson cars (color); Studebaker trucks (color); Infamous color-illustrated ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover says "More Doctors Smoke Camels". Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
xxvi, 237. Illustrated. Edges lightly foxed. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket. Second printing of the facsimile edition. Hardbound. Very good. In the era of the 1830s to the 1850s, Copeland and his gang of outlaws ranged over territory extending from Mobile Bay to Lake Pontchartrain, LA. The name "Copeland" became a fearsome household word. To this day, many are amazed that the life of one so young could have been so overfilled with felony. Dr. Pitt's narrative of Copeland's notorious life in crime was first published in 1858. W9 LEFT REAR STK
409p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Volume in 8°, tela editoriale, titolo al piatto ed al dorso, sguardie, carta del territorio più volte ripiegata, antiporta illustrata, frontespizio, XVI, 572 pp. tavole ft., illustrazioni nel testo. Uno fra i più bei volumi di esplorazione dell'America del Nord del XIX secolo. Uno splendido viaggio attraverso gli sconfinati orizzonti del subcontinente reso attraverso la parola e l'immagine in modo davvero eccellente. In perfette condizioni, assai poco comune riedizione
572 p. + Half title and two page map. Map loose with slight tear in margin. Profusely illustrated with full page plates and text drawings. Age stain. Manuscript ownership of Charles H. Rowes, Whitehall Station, PA, 1869 on front fly leaf. 225 mm. Original full leather binding, worn with loss at head and tail of spine. Boards fragile. Hardbound. Good. Albert Deane Richardson (1833-1869) was a well-known American journalist, Union spy, adventurer, and author. This work describes trip through Texas, from Preston to El Paso, on the U.S. Mail coach. Full of keen with observations. This is a greatly expanded version of Howes R253; Sabin 70980; Raines p. 173. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W7
