Forster, Walter O.MareMagnum
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606 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "The interesting account of how Lutheranism originated in Missouri - how a small band of 700 Saxon Germans left their beloved homeland in 1838, sailing in five ships from Bremerhaven, Germany, through the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans, then up the Mississippi to St. Louis, and then to Perry County, Missouri." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper. Occasional very light pencil markings to contents. Very light wear to clean and handsome book. Dust jacket, now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover, bears average wear and major sunning to spine. A sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. 257 pages.
33 pages. Includes sheet music for violin, piano, guitar & accordion for these songs: It's So Hard To Start Over Again, My Old Canadian Home, Dreaming of My Blue Eyes, Weary of Ramblin' Around, My Blue Skies, Don't Be Mean I Wasn't Mean To You, Farewell Sweetheart Farewell, Smiling Through Tears, Longing For My Mississippi Home, Sundown Blues, The Life and Death of John Dillinger, Longing For You, and Yodelin' My Babies To Sleep. Prior owner's details inside front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this marvelous Wilf Carter compilation. Book
A cura di Attilio Inturrisi.<BR>Collana L'Oblò.<BR>In 8° stretto; pp. 163; cartonato editoriale; rilegato all'americana (fresato, non cucito).<BR>CONDIZIONI BUONE con la consueta forte ingialitura delle pagine dovuta alla qualità della carta; timbro di proprietà al frontispizio; lieve menda al margine inferiore del dorso.
158pp. 29 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Folio 158p., illus. Chronicle of a raft trip down the Mississippi River. Hardcover Very good condition good
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
3 vols. (328, 292, 310 p.) Hardcover Very good condition, in later maroon cloth Howes A - 352
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: 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
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: 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
331 p. incl. front., plates. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
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
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
8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers mildly browned; original dove-blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at backstrip. With 2pp publisher's advertisement at end, and neat circulating library labels on front endpapers. With striking coloured dustwrapper artwork by William Siegel. The author's second book, following the publication of 'Mississippi' in the previous year. EXTREMELY SCARCE, AND THE MORE SO WITH DUSTWRAPPER IN THIS CONDITION.
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
Pages 97-192 plus 32 pages of vintage ads. Features: A Battle With a Bear - a young sportsman drops into a lively rough-and-tumble fight with a big black bear; Real-Life Romances of the War (part I) - Malcolm Savage Treacher, a sergeant in a famous regiment who has been invalided to England after an exciting time in the Near East sets down stories - cameos of the Great War - told to him by soldiers during his seven months' sojourn in various hospitals (part I); From Job To Job Around the World (part IV) - the continuing remarkable adventures of two young Americans who set out from San Francisco with ten dollars between them to work their way around the world - this instalment featuring their adventures in the Philippines, with photos; The Darkest Hour (part I) - Our experiences in the Great Serbian Retreat; A Year in Arctic Siberia (part II) - a well-known Polish lady describes her experiences in the little-known regions of far-northern Siberia; The Strategy of Sister Madeleine - the story of a French Captain's Escape from the Germans; The River That Won't Behave - the mighty Mississippi regularly floods enormous areas - article with many dramatic photos; Fallen Among Thieves - the author finds himself in a very nasty hole after taking a job offered him by strangers; A Holiday in Mongolia - Juliet Bredon offers a chatty description, illustrated with photos - of a trip into Mongolia on donkey-back; A Prisoner of the Rocks - F. Hopkins Graves was caught in a British Columbia avalanche and only escaped death by a miracle, only to find himself caught in a veritable rat trap among the rocks which he only escaped after two days; Photo of terrible street-car accident in Spokane, Washington; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 290-380 pages plus 36 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver" which shot its men from its torpedo tubes! (per cover illustration); The Fetish Man's Downfall - a tale from Accra in 1899 involving prisoner Yao Dwirra; Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line - marvelously photo-illustrated article about the engineering and scientific wonders of the first phone line connecting New York to San Francisco; "Black Tom" - an exciting story from the early days of the Pennsylvania oil-fields; "On the Wing" - extraordinary adventure with a big rattlesnake in southern Mississippi; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth (part V) - incredible tales of a party working its way through hostile svages and the forces of nature; The Train-Robbers - the tragic story of a hold-up on the Northern Pacific Railroad and the long man-hunt which followed, 1892-1894; Wicks's Ordeal - the terrible menace which a man-eating tiger constitutes to a community; Two Girls on a Ranch (part II) - two young ladies try to win fortune by running a ranch in the wilds of Arizona; The Secret Post Office - an amusing echo of the Boer War showing how the well-known 'slimness' and fertility of resource of the Boers were for once turned against them; Concerning Camels - some amusing stories; A South Pacific Piracy - an account of the tragic voyage of the brig "Moa," of Auckland, New Zealand in 1870; The beacon of the Gulf - photo-illustrated article on Bird Rock, which lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Photo of a 'home-made' train run on the only railway in British North Borneo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
320p. + Plus Frontis, Photographs and Drawings. Tall 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, lettered in gold and black. Front board and spine decorated with maps. Spine faded. Hardbound. Covers floods and storms in: Dayton and Columbus, Ohio; Omaha, Nebraska; New York; Indiana; Pennsylvania; and the Mississippi Valley. AMERICANA BOX 11 x3
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
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.
179p., illus. by Harry C. Edwards Hardcover Very good condition, edges worn, frontipiece tissue guard chipped Signed on the flyleaf by the author for Alexander MacKintosh
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
In-8° gr. (cm. 26,7x18,3), pp. 9 (da p. 193 a p, 201) con molte TABELLE.. Brossura editoriale. Timbrino di privata appartenenza.
