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68 pages. Features and Articles: Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside front cover; Journalist Robert Low returns from reporting the news for three years on each side of the Balkans' lowering iron curtain; The North Atlantic Treaty is announced; Shostakovich applies to visit the U.S.; Allen Ellender's filibuster record in Louisiana; Federal Judge Medina and his trial of eleven communists charged with conspiring to overthrow the government; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. announces for the seat of the 20th district on Manhattan's West Side; Dave Beck of the A.F.L. Teamsters; Boston's Anna Sullivan and the illegitimate child she sought to hide; William L. Cox and his truck wreck; Red Rioters in Rome; The Kremlin's white paper on the North Atlantic pact; Gotfred Hoelvold crosses teh border between Norway and Russia; "about 500,000 Arabs are now refugees from areas of Palestine controlled by the Israeli army. Jews - most of them refugees from Europe - have taken over the Arabs' communities. John Luter reports from the former Arab community of Akir"; Anti-communism and Luigi Gedda in Italy; Moscow's Literary Gazette declare's Tolstoy's Pocket Books version of Anna Karenina a 'monstrous crime against world culture'; The Amir of Bahawalpur; Colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Army Active or Reserve Forces; Caterpillar ad says 'Stop Murder at Crossroads!' and implores readers to invest in overpasses and underpasses; Johnny Groth - a choice of scholarships; Professor Chauncey Tinker of Yale; Fargo Truck ad; Peter Mennin; Herbert Zipper; Cover story - Aviation - Juan Trippe and Pan American Airways; Colour South African wine ad inside back cover. "Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news". Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose from one staple, otherwise a sound copy. Book
76 pages. Cover: Japan's Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai. Contents: National Affairs: Louisiana: Twelve Years (Concluded) - Governor Race - Sam Houston Jones defeats Earl Long; Michigan: Chase Salmon Osborn Takes on U.S. Bureau of Census; Foreign Affairs: Scandinavia - Foreign Ministers for Norway, Sweden and Denmark Meet over Finnish-Russian War; India: Frontier Firebrand - Mirza Ali Khan a.k.a. Fakir of Ipi; Russia: White Red City - Leningrad in the Middle of Finnish-Russian War; Japan: Son of a Samurai - Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai; Dominican Republic: Smiling Plot - General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo donates land to Jewish and Non-Jewish Refugees of World War II; World War: Grand Strategy - Widening out in the Northern Blockade and Southern Stirrings in Rumania; Northern Theatre: Russians battle into Viipuri; The Press: South's Guardian - Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky; Education: Growing Concern - Frank Aydelotte to Leave Swarthmore College; Science: Tough Guys - Charles Wilkes and Elisha Kent Kane (1820 - 1857); Psousennes Found - Archeologist Pierre Montet finds tomb of King Psousennes I; Religion: Interdict - Interdict imposed on Holy Redeemer Church in Cleveland, Ohio by Archbishop Joseph Schrembs; Business & Finance: Associated Gas & Electric - Bankruptcy Restructuring; and Manufacturing: Schoolgirl Complexion - Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Comapny. Full page colour vintage print advertising with Susann Shaw, Florence Dornin and Dana Dale promoting Chesterfield Cigarettes. Binding intact. Small mailing stamp bottom right back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: Perlman's piggyback; Photo ad/portrait of Howard E. Simpson of GM Electro-motive division; News Photos; Formula for a Chant - photos of the 'chanting' V-16 2-stroke diesel engine; Be (Berea)Tower in Ohio - more than 50 trains converge on this 111-lever plant daily - excellent article and photos; Where Diesels Fear to tread - a steam loco replaces a deisel in 38" floodwaters in Louisiana - near the Red River; Would You Believe it? - news bits with photos; Flat Faces - a wonderful photo study of multiple cab-forward locomotives; "2-in-1" Engines - Austrian railroaders move iron ore up 7% grades using a rack and adhesion line; North of Lake Erie - many wonderful pages of photos of interurbans, etc. in southern Ontario; The True Story of Kate Shelley - the girl they stopped the trains for - an 1881 Iowa wreck and a 15-year-old girl - wonderful story and photos; Question of Survival - how can railroads survive?; Where Are We? - fun photo test; Trona Totes Trona - three Baldwins haul Trona on the Mojave Desert - article and photos; ; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Short opening along cover fold which is loosening from bottom staple. Book
Features: Garett's Death - Conspiracy or Doublecross? - Patrick F. Garrett; Scotty Lovelock's Mysterious Assayer - Andrew H. Scott; Queen Caches in the Old West; Hunting Redskins and Their Nests - Colonel George Hunter in Washington state; Roaming the Back Country - "Chicken Red"; On to Telluride and Gold! - Julius Hansen; Ross' Bad Leg - Ross Estes; Rainbow Over the Dragoons - Courtland, Arizona; The Legacy of Jean Lafitte - in the Neutral Strip of Louisiana; Hudson's Bay Company - oldest and most powerful North American Enterprise. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
70 pages. Features: Traumatic tumbler tells all; The high risk road to treasure; how to pick a treasure-hunting buddy; The pearls of Concho - it's true, there is a pearl rush in Texas; Safe in doses large or small - a Rhode Island dump yields bottles; Don't give up - there's treasure to be found; Placer mining in the Arizona desert; Coler Gulch gold; Getting more out of treasure hunting; A few words about geodes; if you like variety in your diggin's try New Hampshire; Some Kansas ghost towns; Warm spring treasure - a Montana TH'ing spot; Quartz and Feldspar crystals north of Mohave California; Relic hunting Louisiana. Average wear. Book
62 pages. Features: The Beaverhead Stage stop; Gold finding for the weekend; Good slabbin' means good cabbin' - suggestions for cutting gem rocks; Those Prolific Pops - bottle variety; The Modern Treasure Hunters; The Lost Ferry Boat Treasure - Lake Erie still holds 120 railway cars; History carved in rock - Louisiana rock formations; Are you a successful treasure hunter?; Dig yourself a whet stone; Boy scouts and treasure hunting - Fort Cureton relics; Learn your own soil conditions; Hawaii calls. Somewhat above average wear. Book
Grasset 1992, In-8 broché, 286 pages. Avec cartes. Bon état
In-8°; pp. 65, Due piccoli timbri a inchiostro al frontespizio. Resoconto delle attività delle missioni cattoliche in america del nord sotto il vescovo Du Bourg, la cui diocesi includeva l’Ohio, Mississippi, e le valli del Missouri. Du Bourg arrivò a Baltimora nel 1817 con un gruppo di preti e monache, e da lì viaggiò fino a Saint Louis. In quest’opera si riportano le attività svolte principalmente con gli Indiani. SABIN 55987
in-8°, 342 pages, broché. Bel exemplaire. [BAT-8] Texte présenté et annoté d'après les manuscrits par Reginald HAMEL.
4to, [4], 12pp., orig. printed wrappers. General Berthier was sent by Napoleon in 1800 as Ambassador-Extraordinary to Spain to negotiate the retrocession of Louisiana to France. The progress of these negotiations are recorded in the following 7 lots here offered by Maggs Bros. Ltd.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. From the blurb: Lyle Saxon's timeless impressions of colorful New Orleans, first recorded more than half a century ago, not only reveal inherent mystery and frivolity, but also recall the city's elaborate history, spanning more than two centures and three cultures. The various aspects of the French, Spanish and Creole societies, which continue to define today's city, are documented here through wide-ranging vignettes of daily life and elaborate rituals. ...."
pp. 598 + Color plates. Tall 8vo. Nice faux leather cloth binding. A very tight and clean copy. A really excellent and still useful study. W147
grand in-8°, XVI-263 pages, ill. in-t. n., -, tables, broche, couverture illustree Bel exemplaire [CA29-2]
100 pages. Features: Possibilities for planting wall gardens - rock walls; Showing civic pride with trees; The proper way to remove branches - photo-illustrated article on pruning trees; The third season in my garden; How shingles help in remodeling; Homes of famous Americans - part XLVI - Lockerbie Street, the home of James Whitcomb Riley; Let's have a fireplace; Nice one-page Johnson's Polishing Was ad features illustration of mother and child waxing floor; Preparing for your garden next year; Nice one-page color ad for Johns-Manville asbestos shingles features illustration of castle under attack; Nice one-page color Congoleum ad; Reader's letters; How proper insulation will help improve the home; Nice one-page ad for the Louisiana Red Cypress Bureau features the birth of New Orleans; A garden for a playmate; Nice one-page ad for 'Say it With Flowers' features George Washington and his mother; Poet Lew Sarrett's prescription for a tired world - with photo of Sarrett; Nice 2/3-page ad for True Temper yard tools; Nice vintage 2/3-page ad for Stanley Tools shows man installing bookrack; Nice 2/3-page ad for Yale door lock hardware; Poultry - a profitable hobby; Nice one-page Montgomery Ward & Co ad for their catalog; Nice 2/3-page ad for Sargent locks and hardware; Budgets for couples; Charming 2/3-page ad for the Wurlitzer Studio Grand piano; Beware of fake music publishers; Building healthy bodies - trees in the yard allow kids to exercise; One-page illustrated ad for the Kalamazoo Stove company; Attractive color ad for Sun-Maid raisins inside back cover; Soiled color ad for Mohawk Rugs on back cover. Above-average wear and soiling. Nibbling to upper corners. Covers detached but present. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
Tours A. Mame 1852, In-8 pleine basane marron, dos à nerfs trés orné, plats estampés à froid avec fer de lycée sur le premier, 233 pages, tranches marbrées. Bon exemplaire.
Pages 90-176 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: The Slacker - a young Californian deserts the Army and his lady to flee to Mexico where great misery follows, but he eventually atones; The Mysterious Witch Doctors of Siberia - disguised as a Russian peasant, the author penetrated into little-known Siberia to investigate the uncanny doings of the native Shamans - article with photos; My Island of Dreams - Part II - the adventures of Amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings (with photos); Through Central America on Horseback - Part V - riding through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - story with photos of earthquake damage in Guatemala City; Mountain Mysteries - the strange story of Mr. Crump who was lost for 18 days in the Lakeland crags, plus other cases of mysterious disappearances; Cheating Death - John Edwin Hogg recounts his most harrowing experience; A Bear-Hunt in Lousiana - interesting and successful hunt in the Louisiana Marsh - with photos; My Burglar - a Singapore encounter with a Chinese burglar, stripped naked and greased from head to foot, with fish-hooks in his pigtail and a double-edged sword between his teeth; The Rajah's Lift - the tragic story of a home-made hydraulic lift; The New Moon - information in a diary saves the lives of two men; A Man's Luck - Part III of Hjalmar Hutzebeck's story of life and love in the Far North; Photo and brief write-up of the world's most northerly police post; Photo of the smallest business house in the world in Duncan, Oklahoma; 'House of Gold' built by a wealthy miner in the California's Mojave Desert; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Back cover almost loose. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
281pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Book shows light wear at edges, bumped and lightly worn corners, covers in dark green cloth with gilt embossed lettering and border on front and spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save stamp at free front endpaper "Clement's news & cigar store." Back cover has little marks, straight, solid binding. Noted Louisiana author and historian Grace King King?s final novel was a historical romance titled La Dame de Sainte Hermine (1924), set in eighteenth-century Louisiana. Combining her love and command of historical detail with her novelistic skill, this work embellished the well-known historical phenomenon of the "casket girls," young French women given money and passage to Louisiana by the king in hopes of populating the New World settlement.
212p., illus. Photos by James Ricau Hardcover Very good condition good
74 pages Features: Charlie Brannan and his Wonderful World - The Secretary of Agriculture; Who Said Promised Land? - transplanted Europeans fled tyranny only to find disillusionment and tragedy in the sugar lands of Louisiana - article with moving photos; The Actor Who Won't Stay Dead - Rudolph Valentino - article with photos; Broadway Ticket Scandal; The Old Home Town Fights to Live - Lexington, Illinois - article with good photos; A One-Shot Cure for Syphilis; Sawyer of the Phillies - Freshman Manager Eddie Sawyer; Vivien Kellems; The Iron Butterfly (part 1 of 4); Very Unusual in California; Freddy Fowler and the Ace; My Birthday's in July; The Golden Dart (conclusion); Morning After. Nice ads for: Gem razor blades; Herbert Tareyton cigarette ad featuring color photo of Miss Gladys Munn Pulitzer; Admiral portable radios; RCA Victor radios; Fisher Body; Seagram's Gin; B.V.D. clothing; Westinghouse fridges; Kleenex Tissues - features Little Luli and Tubby; Super Canada Dry full-page colour ad features their Spur Cola, Ginger Ale, Club Soda and Hi-Spot; The Martin Viking, by Martin Aircraft; Scotch Cellophane Tape; Packard cars; Lucky Strike (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Facsimile of the scarce New York: 1880 first English edition. 407p. 8vo. Original leather grained cloth binding. Fine condition. These facsimiles are the most affordable way to study, own, and enjoy such rare Americana. NW29. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
In-16° (cm. 18x12), pp. 218. Bross. edit. Solido, lievi mende al pur ancor integro dorso e alle cuffie. Il libro che decretò finalmente il successo di HEARN, raffinato scrittore americano d'origine greca, cittadino del mondo, tra i più acuti yamatologi (divenne giapponese, sposò la figlia di un samurai, dal 1890 visse e insegnò in Giappone); qui l'incanto di un'isola del Golfo del Messico, vicina alla foce del Missisippi, che l'aveva incantato nel 1884, quando da New Orleans vi si recò a passare un'estate.
in-8°, XXXIII-367 pages, notes, index, rel. pl. toile decor. ed. Reimpression integrale de l'edition parue chez Tross a Paris en 1872. [CA33-4] Très bel exemplaire.
143pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Mm 285x310 Volume rilegato in tela con sovraccoperta, 256 pagine profusamente illustrate a colori. Testo in lingua inglese - english text. Libro in condizioni di nuovo - brand new. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
