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Front cover illustration of Major-General E.H.H. Allenby, the brilliant Cavalry Leader. Later phases of the Great Retreat. With the Northern French Armies during the Great Retreat. The Course of Events from Mons to Lemberg. Photos and illustrations include: The Grand Duke Nicholas - Generalissimo of the Russian Armies; with our French Allies - horse, foot, and artillery - in the field; Big Guns employed by the Allies against heavy artillery of the Germans; Buses converted to Lorries in France; and more. Average wear. Sound and unmarked copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 248 pages.
192 pages. Totally jam-packed with black and white reproductions of fantastic archival photos, plus some in color. Glossary of Trucker Talk. "Trucking is a way of life, with its own perspective on the world. It is a job with dignity and plenty of responsibility. It has its heartaches and it has its high times. It offers independence and a whiff of freedom, but for most who get behind the wheel of a semi truck, it soon becomes an obsession. Here is the story of these individuals and their vehicles from the Pioneer period to the present day." - dust jacket.. Umarked with average wear to book and dust jacket. A vintage gem for any fan of American trucking history. Book
28 pages. Features: Betty Lee - "How I kicked the movie habit"; The Homesteaders - they opened up the west (photo-illustrated pioneer anecdotes); Nice one-page colour-photo ad for the 1977 Ford Pickup Trucks features red and white model in manly fishing locale; The Bank of Beaux Arts - Since 1972 it's been given $1 million/year to purchase contemporary Canadian art and rent it to other government departments; Rewards of a Word Dealer - Novelist R. Lance Hill; Bedtime snack recipes. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Features: The Sears Roebuck office building in Minneapolis is featured in an ad for the Dovetail Anchor Slot Co. inside front cover; Super full-page photo ad for the Indiana Limestone company features the Palmolive Building in Chicago; Photo ad for Tidewater Red Cypress lumber; Nice pull-page photo ad for the Foley Saw Filer; Photo of the Ambassador Hotel Apartment Building in Milwaukee is featured in an ad for "Tie-To" inserts; Vintage full-page illustrated ad for International Trucks shows dump truck being loaded; vintage Skilsaw ad; The Missouri Pacific Building in St. Louis is featured in an ad for the Bonded Floors Company; Construction Technique in Remodeling - article with photos of how 5 stories were added to a 3-story building in San Francisco for a new department stor; Detailing Concrete Form Work - part V; Arc welding steel buildings and bridges - a review of progress to date and what remains to be done; The contractor and the courts; Latest prices of materials; Construction activity this week; Sealed proposal announcements; Back cover ad for General Electric features image of the Steuben Club Building in Chicago; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. These nostalgic topics and images are certain to please modern-day contractors. Magazine
40 pages. Features: Dovetail Anchor Slot Co. ad inside front cover features photo of the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company Building in Philadelphia; Nice full-page ad for the Indiana Limestone Company features photo of the Industrial Trust Co. Building in Providence, RI; Tidewater Red Cypress lumber ad features photo of 40-year-old water tank; Nice photo ad for the Bates-Truss Joists company; Tie-To Insert Company ad features photo of St. Mary's School of Nursing in Milwaukee; vintage Skilsaw ad; Largest Moving Job Successfully Completed - article and fantastic photos document moving the 9,000 ton Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church to a new Chicago location; Experiment with new credit structure in Denver, CO; Wear and tear on concrete floors -article with photos; Bookkeeping for the Contractor - part III; The contractor and the courts; Photo of construction of the Murray Wood Products plant at Memphis, TN; Photo of Andrew W. Mellon laying cornerstone of $10 million I.R.S. building in Washington, D.C.; Latest prices of materials; Construction activity this week; Sealed Proposal Announcements; Great illustrated ad for International Harvester inside back cover with image of one of their trucks at work in Chicago; Back cover ad for General Electric features photo of the new home of the Alabama Power Company in Birmingham; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. These nostalgic topics and images are certain to please modern-day contractors. Magazine
168 pages. Superb compilation of classic southern rock songs as performed by The Allman Brothers. Six pages of colour photos of band members. Includes music, chords and lyrics to: Ain't Wastin' Time No More; Blackhearted Woman; Blue Sky; Come and Go Blues; Don't Keep Me Wonderin'; Don't Want You No More; Dreams; Every Hungry Woman; Hot'Lanta; I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man; In Memory of Elizabeth Reed; It's Not My Cross To Bear; Jelly Jelly Blues; Jessica; Leave My Blues at Home; Les Brers in A Minor; Little Martha; Melissa; Midnight Rider; Mountain Jam; One Way Out; Pony Boy; Ramblin' Man; Revival; Southbound; Stand Back; Statesboro Blues; Stormy Monday Blues; Trouble, No More; Wasted Words; Whippin' Post; You Don't Love Me. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Precious memento of this great band. Book
142 pages. Features: Home-Built street trucks; First Time Around - Our clean custom cover S-truck; Time Traveler - a well-aged Chevy with lots of kick; Pro Phantom - this is how to do up a Chevy; Big Blue; Upstairs, Downstairs - home-built the hard way; 100+ beste bolt-ons; Ford's design guru speaks's out; How to Switch - TBI to TPI - manifold magic for Chevys; Fantastic back cover color-photo Toyota ad features Leo Warfield and his yellow pickup which has over 600,000 miles on it!; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
pp. 389, (26) [Publisher's catalogue listing books on Electricity and Electric Railroads]. Illustrated with numerous drawings of electric motors, generators and accessories. Stamped ownership of Foster & Freeman, Patents, Dec. 5, 1893 Washington, DC on front paste down and page 100. Inner hinges cracked. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full blue cloth binding, slightly worn. Title page continues: Being a Summary of Current Periodical Literature Relating to Electric Railway Construction, Operation, Systems, Machinery, Appliances, Etc.". First Edition. Very good condition. VERIA 3
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to lower corners of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 100pp. With twenty years of research and investigation behind it, this study traces the development of the steam traction engine and ever more powerful road haulage vehicles up to todays container lorries. Very well illustrated.
44 pages. Features: The Men of No-Man's Land - The Corps Franc; Society's Artist - Flora Lion; Centenary of Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the machine gun; The Child's View of the War - pictures they draw; Warehouse at the Bottom of the Lake - amazing photos of the Swiss storing 22 trucks of wheat at the bottom of a lake; The Swan Goes A-Courting - nature photos; New Faces - Judy Campbell, Betty Annn Davies, Bill Frazer, Jeremy Hawke, John Bentley; Why Not a Real War Budget?; The Life of William Temple, the Archbishop of York; Deanna Durbin Grows Up; Dancing Co-Eds - college girls of Kansas University; Diary of the War, No. 35 - The 33rd Week; Unite - Or Perish - The Way to World Unity; Do We Need a Spiritual Revival?; Nice back cover ad for Bird's Custard; Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
pp. 55, (9)[Lubrication Record]. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Damp stained. 8vo. Original printed wraps, worn. First Edition. A classic line of trucks. The windshield in the pick-up opened from the bottom for ventilation. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AUTO/1
pp. 55, (1)[Index]. Illustrated. 8vo. Original blue printed wraps, slightly worn. Covers all sorts of Chevrolet trucks, including the Independence Series and one and a half ton trucks, etc. First Edition. Nice copy. AUTO/1
Contents: Seattle will build 15,000 fine new homes (ad); Schlitz beer ad - in color with lovely model; New York Central Railroad ad - "Black Magic" - 95,000,000 tons of coal per year; Block votes tipped teh balance in closest election since 1916 - photo of FDR with Harry Truman; Photos of voting shenanigans in Chicago; V-2 weapons may win next war but come too late for this one - detailed article with air photo; Ignorant men and modern weapons - the inside story of the Chinese Army - with photos of refugees fleeing the Japanese; White trucks - color ad; France given more say in Europe in prelude to Big Three Meeting; Reprieve for the Canadian Zombies; Doukhobor mass disrobing; Cuban housecleaning - Grau purges Batista henchmen; Long-suffering victims of sinus problems can be cured; Nikola Tesla - prophet of tomorrow; Very military ad by Bankers Trust Company shows a soldier pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth; Color Sheaffer's pen ad inside back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Contents: color Parker pen ad inside front cover; interesting ad for the Curtiss Commando aircraft; Great International Harvester Truck/War Bonds ad; Pullman railcar ad with returning vets bearing swastika emblazoned souvenirs; Colour Cadillac ad; nice color ad for White Trucks - military theme; Does Truman lean left or right? - clues appear in the first 40 days; Are Japs Wanted? - article with interesting poster demanding fair play for America's Japanese; Congressional committee tours Concentration camps; Miami dogs killed after they kill Doretta Zinke; Blockade and bombs hit Japan as prelude to gathering storm - attrition is Allied policy while knockout forces transfer in strength to the Pacific; Great photo of the first Yank post V-E day ship bringing servicemen home; Great map indicating the 'Bomb Strategy Against Japan'; color Seiberling Tire ad; How to Starve out Japan - bomb the rice paddy dikes; Philippines - sobering losses; China - the Japs back up; Dramatic photo of the American Essex-class carrier Franklin (Big Ben) with its crew huddled on the flight deck after it was attacked by a single Japanese bomber with two 500lb bombs; Okinawa - sacrifice - 156 American marines and doughboys died there each day last week; photo of German prisoners with shovels in the massive American Henri Chappelle Cemetery in Belgium; Russia casts its shadow over Asia; Yugoslavs' willful grab at Trieste poses danger for Charter makers; Prince Faisal and other Arabs agree Palestine is an Arab state, despite a half-dozen vociferous Jewish organizations on the conference sidelines; Color Goodyear belt centerfold; Photo of Allied officers in front of Reichstag ruins; Pattern emerges for occupation - Allies command, Germans obey; "Life has no meaning" for Dr. Ley, once leader of the German labor front - article and photo; Nazi U-boat (with 'the Schnorkel') surrenders and is escorted to a Newfoundland port - photo; NBC airs dramatization of F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom; Max Schmeling released; Rosenberg's den of Royal Theives holds key to looted art of Europe; interesting ad for a Sperry gunsight "The gunsight that 'things' faster than humans... or Japs!"; Great color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Photo of "Mohawk Pete", Peter M. Feinberg, of Watertown; Nazi Rail Scandal; Rivalry of Junkers and Nazis Seems Stalemated; German Defense Minister Werner von Blomberg marries Elli Gruhn - Von Fritsch is purged after his angry reaction; von Ribbentrop promoted; Keitel promoted; 'Little Men' criticize New Deal; The Langley family of Walker County, Alabama, receives first Bankhead-Jones Act check (with family photo); Lawyer Dick Davis gets together with mobster Arthur Flegenheimere (Dutch Schultz); Who shot Russell Hardy?; Francisco Franco forms cabinet; Photos of goose-stepping Nazi and Italilan soldiers; Emma McClure and her symphonic pianos; Photo of Dr. Ralph Hultgren; 22-year-old John Joseph Lorencik is engaged to 70-year-old Henrietta Pieper; Photo of DC-4 being built; Ad for 1938 Ford Trucks inside back cover; Nice color-photo Four Roses Whiskey ad on back cover features the Dunhill tobacconist of St. James. Average wear. Unmarked. Discrete tape repair to top of coverfold. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Contents: Color ad for 'Ask for Ethyl'; Bankers Trust ad - Buy Victory Bonds; Babcock & Wilcox ad - bombs and beauty aids need steam; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color ad for 1946 Packard cars; Auto strike raises new issue for Industrial Wars in America - the nation's biggest union asks stake in affairs of management by cry of 'Let's see the books'; Mrs. Damato of Shenandoah, Pa. christens the U.S.S. Damato - she lost two sons in the war; Photo of James Hendrix, Army hero; Matt Kimes - cop killer; Why the Fleet could not retreat to the West Coast - Admiral William V. Pratt; Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack; Where the War Cause Lies - Japan; Nice color ad for General Tire; Color ad for the Aeroprop division of GM; Ezra Pound returns to the US to face charges of treason - with photo; The Federation of Atomic Scientists; Native world from Zion to Java stirred by nationalist little wars; 4 photos of Japan's Hirohito visiting the shrines of Ise to report Japan's defeat to his predecessors; Thorez, red architect of France; the Nuremberg Tribunal - with labelled photo of 20 defendants in their courtroom positions; two photos of Eva Braun; War-Winning Old Guard Begins Exodus from Top Service Jobs - retirements of Staff Chief and Fleet Commander are first of many peacetime moves; Super color centerfold for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Seabees dig in darkly for spell with Eskimos - Navy installations in the far north; Photo of the real Kilroy; C.D. Howe has his fingers in many pies; Canada's Baby Bonus; Heavy heavy over stock boom hangs wage-price policy delay; Inventor Gilbert Brereton and ramie; S. DeWitt Cough, President of Abbott Laboratories, calls for national health care; Robert Benchley 1889-1945; Color ad for teh Douglas DC-6; The reality of Salvador Dali; Unusual color Monsanto ad on back cover features young lovely speaking into a huge contemporary walkie-talkie. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
88 pages. Features: RFK seeks New York Senate seat; Barry Goldwater and Republican Party leaders meet to seek unity; "Frontlash" - might be how LBJ described Goldwater's initiative; Cyprus - Precarious ceasefire; South Vietnam - guerrilla war returns; Congo - rebel siege/approaching chaos; Negro problems in Elizabeth and Paterson, NJ; Two-page photo ad by NBC features political convention coverage by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley; Interesting 2/3-page article on James Bond author Ian Fleming, with small photo; Leon Bibb; Canada's Maclean's Magazine faces financial challenges; Golfer Juan (Chi Chi) Rodriguez - article with photos; August is Europe's Mad Vaction Month; Excellent one-page color-photo ad for International Trucks shows cab being mounted on frame in assembly plant, and finished product on the road; Lee Iacocca - his bet on the Ford Mustang pays off; Who Drinks? - The Beer Brewer's Dilemma; Hammermill Bond ad features large photo of Don Steele of Kansas City; The first papal helicopter ride; Billy James Hargis and the Christian Crusade for Christ and America; Two-page NBC Radio Network ad features illustrations of Russ Ward, Robert McCormick, Peter Hackes, and Morgan Beatty; Interesting color-photo ad inside back cover for Bank of America Travellers Cheques features scene in formal Japanese restaurant; Back cover color ad for Tempo cigarettes "with far more activated charcoal"; and much more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for Nash cars inside front cover; Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation; Nice one-page two-color ad for the April 19th issue of the Saturday Evening Post features photo of FDR's best friend, Harry Hopkins; Dictograph features photo of Mr. J.H. Victor, President of the Victor Mfg. & Gasket Co.; Brief obituaries for Loring C. Christie, Marcel Provost, Frederic William Wile, Isidore Witmark, Sen. Morris Sheppard, and Urbain J. Ledoux (Mr. Zero); Nice one-page ad for the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York illustrates its many amenities; Very attractive two-color one-page ad for New International Trucks features a red pickup; US Assumes Protection of Greenland; Submarine S-49; Photos of Pan-American Day in Greenfield, Iowa; Nazis overwhelm Yugoslavs and set up new Croation state; Pressure on Suez Mounts; The British in Greece; Kremlin treaty with Japanese follows hint of displeasure at Reich; Nice one-page color photo ad for American Cyanamid features geologist at work in beautiful wild country; Lots of war coverage; Great one-page color Cadillac ad; Nice centerfold color ad by GM features letter to their dealers from Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; Nice one-page color ad for Owens-Illinois packaging service shows lady tending cosmetics display; Photo of Air Secretary Robert A. Lovett; One-page color Calvert Whiskey ad features antelope; Great one-page color ad for Texaco features ill-looking boy who has just tried smoking a guitar; Cutting the $2 million Presidente Vargas diamond; Nazis and Drugs; Photo of boxer Jack Johnson; Nice Chevrolet ad; Nice 2/3-page ad for Moore-McCormack Lines shows incredible Rio; Mennonite conscientious objectors (COs) do bit at their camp, the Grottoes; Nice photo of new Lone Ranger Brace Beemer; Nice color-photo ad for Monsanto Plastics inside back cover features lady using Resinox adding machine; Back cover ad for Old Overholt whiskey. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Nice Dodge Truck ad inside front cover; Nice one-page Mercury 8 ad; Birthday of Jane Withers, juvenile movie star; George Jessel marries Lois Andrew; Obituaries for actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Jean Cardinal Verdier, Honore Willsie Morrow, and James Francis Smith; Nice photo one-page ad for Plymouth cars; British leap to meet challenge of Nazi onslaught in the North - considerable war coverage with photos; Hints of Italy's entry to war; Holland and Belgium jittery; Scandinavian Coup - Military and Naval Critiques; US Politics; Very nice one-page color ad for the LaSalle Special Sedan in a spring gardening scene; Unusual one-page Coke ad "Flick a Switch or Lift This Glass"; Great Chevrolet Truck ad with seven photos documents how they tested one of their trucks over 100,00 miles around North America; Contract Bridge - Capt. Gruenther is again Czar as Vanderbilt team wins cup; Interesting one-page ad for the New York World-Telegram explains how it is loved by Manhattanites; Early ad for Titleist / Acushnet golf balls includes illustrations of club pro teaching young golfer what balls to buy; Jacob Epstein's pink sculpture 'Adam'; Eugene Goossens and his Symphony Number 1; Nice two-color Schlitz beer ad; Grumman's speedy Skyrocket aircraft; Walter Hoving; Production of Tung oil from trees; Classy color ad for Schenley's Gin inside back cover; Back cover color-photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features tobacco buyer H.H. Scott and a tobacco field at Willow Springs, NC; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Supreme Court gives its blessing to Labor Relations Act and hands Roosevelt a victorious defeat - with photo of sit-downers and many related officials; Labor - Murphy medicine heals Chrysler strike - Ford and Vermont also prescribe for Sit-Downers - includes photo of Henry Ford, several photos of Hershey, PA - including a bloody-nosed John Loy - the aftermath of a riot at the American Gas Machine Co.'s Albert Lea, MN plant, and more; Photo-illustrated article on Britain's Stanley Baldwin, First Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; A brief article on Germany presciently declares that Germany requires at least two more years before it wil be ready for total war - it also foreshadows Hitler's secret agreement with Stalin; Interesting brief updates with photos from Spain, China and Japan; Prodigy Mary Christine Dunn; Great article with five photos on the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team; The first commercial radio show using an all-Negro cast goes to air - with photo of Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong; Federal Reserve supports market as institutions reduce their U.S. bond holdings; Hart Schaffner & Marx Celebrates its Golden Jubilee; Book revies; small news bits; and more. Many great vintage ads including a full-page ad for International half-ton trucks (vans), a full-page Chevrolet ad featuring two ladies, a luxurious full-page ad for the new Studebaker State President, and a lovely color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes on the back cover which features a lady driving a gas-powered scooter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
62 pages. Features: London Toy and Model Museum; Neustadt - an HO scale German layout by Stephen Rabone; Building a Layout - 17; Merry-Go-Round Hoppers; Performance of Locomotive Mechanisms -3; Plans Page - GNR Twin articulated suburban coaches; Lineside Lorries in the '80s; Wallsea - Barrie C. Walls with headlamp codes on his 0 gauge layout. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
45 pages. Index of motor marks. Chart of general dimensions. Undated but appears to be circa 1958. Chapters include: Chassis; Lorry Bodies; Vans and Cars; Buses; Special Purpose Vehicles; Details; Wheels; and more. Moderate quantity of markings to contents. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Frank Tumpane's views on book censorship; Nice one-page Canadair ad; Bill Zeckendorf's Big Real Estate Development Plans for Canada - article with great photos; Nice two-page color ad for the 1957 Plymouth; William Notman's irreplacable collection of half a million portraits and views - twelve pages of sample photos with captions; Why the Conservatives are swinging to Diefenbaker; The Junior League - exclusive women's service club; How Percy Williams Swect the Olympic Sprints - fantastic photos and flashback article to Canada's 1928 track sensation; Central Canada's wild rice - the weed that gourmets go for; Cinci beer ad; Philips TV ad - one page in color; Jasper cartoon; Fantastic colour centerfold ad for the 1957 Dodge - featuring a red two-door Mayfair; Marconi TV ad; Nice one-page two-color ad for Chevrolet trucks on the Alcan Highway; Foster Hewitt's most memorable meal; Ballerina Melissa Hayden is featured in a Canadian Wine Institute ad; Attractive photo ad for Warner's Corselettes; Nice color ad for 1957 Studebaker cars; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features two ladies lunching at soda counter. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Some dampstains. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
