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197980836General Motors Acceptance Corporation / Calvin E. Nelson 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Bound lease agreement. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. General Motors Acceptance Corporation / Calvin E. Nelson hardcover
92 pages. Features: Nice Mimeograph ad shows their duplicator in use in many military offices; Great Fairbanks, Morse & Co. ad shows sub sinking Japanese carrier with caption "The Speak a Language the Japs Understand"; One-page Boeing photo ad for the B-17 shows an Axis plane about to crash land; Marjorie Gestring marries - with photo of her; Brief obituaries for Mrs. Emma G.M. Fall, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sir Edward Beatty, and Ben B. Lindsey; Dramatic Beech Aircraft one-page photo ad shows an AT-11 dropping bombs; Uncommon Cadillac ad shows their new M-5 tank (who knew Cadillac made tanks?); Fall of Gabes - Montgomery won on his biggest gamble; Major war coverage; Photo of US bombers attacking Japanese ship in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea; Aerial photo of Krupp Works bombed by RAF; Interesting photo of Japanese soldiers in Burma dancing with Geisha girls; Series of domestic rebukes to FDR; Photo of Fiorello H. La Guardia in uniform during WWI; Before and after photos of a Seattle meat market illustrate meat shortage; Buick ad shows large shells being manufactured; Great one-page color ad for the Vega Ventura aircraft; Photo in massive Douglas Aircraft factory at Oklahoma City which builds Skytrains; Photo of Greg Rice and his two-mile world's record run; Photo of sheep grazing in the Pasadena Rose Bowl(!); Photo of "Hit Parade" dance star Chinita; Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota; Canadian Club ad features color photos of Tarpon Springs, Florida Sponge-fishermen; Nice back cover color-photo ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features night photo of Merchant Mariners at sea; and much more. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Boeing Vertol one-page photo ad for the 107 helicopter - shown landing, floating and taking off from water; Photos and specs of Tactical Missiles Around the World; E.W. Bliss Company ad for their "Portable Airport for Marine Corps" which slingshots jets aloft from a short runway; Bell Helicopter ad promotes their electronics which permit landing with ceiling zero-zero; A Second Field for the Career Marine; Good Citizenship Begins with Small Acts; Is the Flight Safety Program Hurting Combat Readiness?; WWII Military Balance Sheet (part 2 of 2) - analysis of WWII's top echelon leadership, concluding with judgements on some of the Allies best-known generals; The GV-1 - Our new transport and aerial refueler; Riots and Marines; Who's a Rebel? - The Lessons learned in Lebanon in 1958; Transfers and Promotions; Color ad for the Phantom II fighter on back cover; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Not pretty but a worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [Aircraft Profile 205].
19992090502113709303Not Available 1999. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
106 pages. Map endpapers. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. "The chronicle of the Highline District, a 32-square-mile area south of Seattle. Within its boundaries are: Burien, Normandy Park and Des Moines, and a bustling international airport. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy of this engaging and informative work. Book
Book shows light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind . 132 pages in very large format. Heavily illustrated with b&w photos throughout, an impressive chronology of the history of Washington and the Northwest, Seattle.
2023x-3031370147Springer Nature 2023. Hardcover. New. 300 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.00 inches. Springer Nature hardcover
130 pages. Short Stories: Last Chance for Love; The Hard Man; Cause to Kill; The Second-String Baby Sitter. Articles: The Jerry Giesler Story - article with photos, including Marilyn Monroe, Part I - Hollywood is my Client; Haven for the Uninhibited - Roger Coster and his cockeyed chateau in Haiti - color photos; Help for Homeowners; This is No Game for Kids - great photo-illustrated article on Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Bobby Layne; ; The Poland I Saw - the Poles still face a grim battle for existence; The Lady Knows Her Rockets - Dr. Dorothy Martin Simon is a rocket scientist at Avco's laboratories at Wilmington, MA; We're Always on the Spot - the school board of New Milford, CT; Serials: Too Many Ghosts (part 3 of 7); Ordeal on Blood. Ads: Pontiac Ventura Sports Coupe for 1960; Mayflower Movers; Schlitz beer (skating scene); Pall Mall cigarettes - with avacado; Coffeematic coffe pots; Chanel No. 5; Rambler car lineup for 1960 (four color pages); Caterpillar - building flood-protection pond; Arrow Shirts; 1960 Chevrolet (red Bel Air 2-door sedan); GE TVs; 1960 Buick with Guide-Matic; Parkay Margerine centerfold; Spring cigarettes; Northern Tissue; 1960 Turbine Drive Buick (blue Le Sabre 4-door sedan); Conn organs; Boeing 707 and 720; Admiral TVs; Avis Rent-a-Car; Ladies' Home Journal; Philadelphia Electric Company; American Optical - great color ad featuring funky frames for glasses; De Beers Diamonds; Pepsi; Douglas DC-8; Bruce floor wax; Betty Crocker Cake Mixes (back cover). Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; cloth, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, firm copy in the dustwrapper, the latter worn and frayed at joints and edges. Scarce, especially in the dustwrapper
19631183411963 Edité par Nestlé, Peter, Cailler, Kohler - 1963 - In-4, cartonnage illustré de l'éditeur - 198 pages - Très nombreuses illustrations et reproductions photographiques en couleurs et en N&B contrecollées
66 pages. Features: Thompson Valves front cover ad commemorates the "Cape Cod" which flew from New York to Istanbul in 1930; Interesting Bell System ad for their Teletypewriters; Interesting Stanavo ad explains how the Sperry automatic pilot recently flew an Eastern Air Transport for twenty minutes at Newark Airport - text with photo of H.A. Elliott of Eastern; Applications of Electricity in Aircraft; Sikorsky's Contributions to the Huge Amphibians - The S-40; Simplicity in Light Plane Design - article illustrated with photo and diagrams, plus power plant and fuel system specs; Simplicity in Light Plane Engine Design; Design of Riveted Joints; Airplane Construction Production Methods; Manufacture of Precision Parts for Aircraft Engines; Two photos of new Boeing bomber which carries a crew of five and two 1,000lb bombs; Centerfold ad celebrates the consolidation of Airway Age with Aviation Engineering; Good Year tire ad includes photo and endorsement from Northwest Airways; Interesting 'Postal Telegraph' ad; Nice illustrated Chance Vought Corporation ad for their Navy Corsairs; Great photo ad for the Autogiro inside back cover; Impressive photo ad for Martin Aircraft on back cover shows some of their impressive manufacturing equipment; Forming of Aluminum Sheet for Aircraft; Servicing Pratt & Whitney Engines; French Design Powerful Water-Cooled Engine; Schneider Cup Engine; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
94 pages. Features include: Boeing 707 - the class of '58; RAF Alaska Training Exercise; Air Atlantique - open days; Marine Training in the Californian Desert; One Man's Passion for the Grumman Albatross; Flying the F-117 Stealth; Farnborough photo-album; CF-18A with unique colours. Moderate wear. Unmarked. No tears. Solid copy. Book
Pages 193-224. Features: Cover photo of Cardinal Mindszenty, Prince Primate of Hungary, during his trial for treason; Nice one-page colour ad for Number Seven cigarettes; Article on sea rescue; One-page photo of the light fleet aircraft carrier Vengeance at Portland, with an air sea rescue helicopter hovering over her flight deck; Four excellent aerial photos of New York City, with emphasis upon Manhattan; One-page illustration of Generalissimo Stalin; Three photos of Indians remembering Gandhi's assassination; Three photos of the Pan-American airliner "Monarch Of The Skies" and its passengers after they survived a midair collision; One-page photo of H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, returning home after five years' service with the Russian Navy; Photo of Tokyo crowd listening to Kyuichi Tokudo, the Communist Party Sec.; Photos of devastation in Berlin - materials from Hitler's destroyed Reich Chancellery are used to rebuild a Russian sponsored building; Naval manoeuvres in the Mediterranean; Photos of personalities of the week include Mr. A.K. Helm, Capt. John Terry, Mr. Kingsbury Smith, Lord Baldwin, Mr. L.J. Edwards, Prof. Reuter, Cardinal Mindszenty, Sir David Keir, and others; The Kravchenko libel action; Churchill receives the Grotius Medal; Centrefold illustrations show new bypass for the Suez Canal; Photo of Boeing XB-47 test landing with new parachute- brake; Two-page illustration of dozens of animals at the London zoo, and their monetary values; Photos of guided missile testing at Holloman US Air Force Base in New Mexico; Photos of what was Derby House and is now Hutchinson House; Photos of Gloucester Cathedral tomb effigies; one-page colour ad for Lotus boots and shoes; Colour Schweppes ad on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 1057-1092. Features: Colour ad inside front cover by Dunlop Rubber features illustration of St. Mary's Cathedral in Iona; Five photos of the moon and planets from the Palomar Observatory; Nice one-page photo portrait of Admiral Lord Mountbatten; Six photos of the Circus at Olympia - with the Queen and Prince Phillip present; The Private papers of Douglas Haig, 1914-1919; Photos of Lake Eyre's transformation from desert to lake to desert; A Canadian Fighter Wing for N.A.T.O. - three photos of the handing-over of the R.C.A.F. fighter base at Grostenquin, in France, with men and aircraft, to the command of N.A.T.O.; Two photos of America's latest eight-jet stratofortress, the Boeing YB-B52 Stratofortress; Eisenhower's visit to Korea; Photo of Eisenhower carving his Thanksgiving turkey; Six photos of West Africa's first waterborne "Petrol Train", the 'Adama' and her barges' 1,200-mile voyage; Centerfold illustration of Canterbury as it was in Roman times; Deciphering the palimpset of Canterbury (courtesy of excavations made possible by the blitz); Seven photos of the presentation of the Noble prizes by King Gustaf, and the Nobel banquet; Photos of personalities of the week, including Sir William Dampier and Sir William Goscombe John; Photo of the new President of Israel, Mr. Itzhak Ben-Zvi, taking the oath in the Knesset; Six photos of an automatic mail sorting machine in use in a Belgian post office; Photos and brief write-ups of the regular contributors to the publication - Frank Davis, J.C. Trewin, Baruch H. Wood, Clarence Elliott, Cyril Falls, Arthur Bryant, Sir John Squire, E.D. O'Brien, Mrs. Romilly John, Dr. Maurice Burton and Alan Dent; Nice colour ad on back cover for Imperial Leather's toilet powder; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 113-140. Features: Cover photo of Brigade H.Q. in the desert battle zone where the Brigadier, South African Command, directs operations - and photos of bombs exploding nearby; Twelve fascinating photos beneath the heading "Fighting in the Western Desert - Vivid Incidents, and Personalities, including Rommel in Tobruk and General Freyberg, V.C., Wounded; Two large photos from "The Battle of Midway Island"; Two-page map of the world entitled "Oil - The Supply Problem of the Warring Powers - A Map of Production Areas and Lines of Ocean Transport"; The Crisis in Russia (article); Seven great photos illustrate the pre-fabrication system in Shipbuilding - the U.S. sets the world's record in production; Photos of incendiary bombs - as were showered upon Hamburg - being prepared for raid; Two pages of photos and text describe the fall of Sebastopol; Centrefold illustration shows young British Officers studying tactical problems with models; Interesting photo-illustrated article explains how vegetables are dried, thus effecting considerable transport economy; Page of photos explaining the benefits of dried meat; Photo of test flight of the Boeing patrol bomber "XPBB-1"; Page of photos engaged in obstacle course training; Six photos of the "Mustang" - the fastest Army co-operation plane in the world; Two pages of photos of ice-covered decks of warships; Photos of twelve personalities of the week include cricketeer "Andy" Ducat, Sir Hugh C.T. Dowding, and Wing-Cdr. Hon. M. Aitken; Nice colour back cover ad for Puritan Leather Soles features illustration of Oliver Cromwell. This copy was never stapled. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
92 pages. Short Stories: The Magic Lane; Captain Ashore; Girl in the Middle; The Boy and the Bear. Articles: Are We Safe From Our Own Bombs? - with amazing photo of downed C-124 Globemaster which crashed carrying three H-bombs, plus several other amazing crash photos; I Call on Rock Hudson - with nice color photos; How We Bagged the Mafia (conclusion); Oral Polio Vaccine - The Best Yet?; The Friendly Americans - Prakash C. Jain of India concludes we are very nice people; Adventures of the Mind - The Religious Traditions of Our Nation; The Face of America - Moving Day - great color photos of Mrs. Kathryn C. Sutton's home being moved from its original location in Bridgewater, PA; The Love Life of a Shy Bird - rare photo of a hen woodcock atop her egges. Serials: The Secret of Sidewinder Gulch (part 4 of 7); The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (conclusion). Ads: Hotpoint Fridges (inside front cover); Boeing 720; Acushnet Golf Balls; Firestone Tires; Bayer Aspirin; RCA Whirlpool Gass Appliances; Hamm's Beer; Morris 1000 car; 1960 Chevrolet Trucks - two-page color ad; Schlitz Beer - color centerfold; Shasta Soda; Two-page GM Diesel ad features great large photo of Euclid scraper at work; US Savings Bonds; B.F. Goodrich Tires - two color pages; Dial Soap; L&M Cigarettes (back cover). Above-average but not excessive wear. Some discoloration to back cover. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
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198759459Angry Mountain Press 1987. Complete with foldout illustration of airplane & illustrated endpapers. This volume is from the lifetime collection of retired librarian Margaret Enid Knox Goggin. Hardback Clothbound. Fine Condition. Angry Mountain Press Hardcover
2013143734Leiden Netherlands: Brill 2013. Hardcover. As New. Cream & red boards 464 pp. some BW illus. Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. A collection of 19 essays: 10 written in English 9 in German. Draws "on case studies from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries covering Europe and beyond. . Investigates how knowledge was acquired organized and sometimes lost. It examines collections of texts and objects -- libraries textbooks miscellanies commonplace books data collections pertaining to historical events encyclopedias royal and ducal treasures curiosity cabinets galleries and museums -- to uncover the processes of accumulation organization selection and rejection that have shaped learning. The essays emphasize the complex relationship between the intentions of collectors and the limitations they encountered." back cover. Brill hardcover
