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128 pages including index. Sections include: art nouveau clocks; bracket clocks; bee hive clocks; calendar clocks; carriage clocks; china clocks; clock sets; cottage clocks; cuckoo clocks; empire clocks etc.; frame clocks; grandfather clocks; mantal clocks; novelty clocks; ogee clocks; pequegnat clocks; schoolroom clocks; sharp gothic clocks; ships clocks; steeple clocks; vienna regulators; wall clocks; and more. Most clocks shown were offered for sale during the past seven years, but the values given are those current at the time of printing. Prior owner's rubber stamp and date handwritten upon front flyleaf, else unmarked. Average wear. Book
70 pages. Contents: Introduction to Scott F. Foppiano; From Concept to Cabaret - Dayton, Ohio's Huffman District gains a theatre organ in Dennis Werkmeister's Carriage House Organ Loft; Betty Grey - Theatre Organist Undaunted (includes early black and white photo of the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago; The Shoestring Saga of Opus 1059; Member news; Two-page photo-illustrated article on Chicago's Uptown Theatre. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1917 first edition. 608 pages. Index. Color frontisplate explains color printing. Profusely illustrated with 780 drawings and reproductions of sensational black and white photos. "The marvels of modern industry and invention , the interesting stories of common things, the mysterious processes of nature, simply explained" - subtitle. An exceptionally informative and fascinating snapshot of long forgotten state of the art technology from over a century ago. The fifty-two chapters include topics such as: The Story of the Submarine; The Story in the Talking Machine; The Story of the Motorcycle; The Story of Building a Silo; The Story of America's First Horseless Carriage (and no, it was not invented by Henry Ford!); The Story in the Making of a Magazine; The Story in a Sausage; The Story in a Billiard Table; The Story of the Taking of Food from the Air; The Story of the Growth of the Motor Truck; The Story of Tunnels Under the Hudson River; and so many more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear to decorated brown cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 129-160. Features: Eight-photo, two-page feature on the full-scale production of tanks in Britain; Archbishop fo Canterbury, Dr. Lang, announces his resignation; Fascinating photos of massive concrete U-boat shelters being built on the Atlantic coast; Map of Southern Malaya where the Japanese are able to easily land using flat-bottomed boats; Photos after the Japanese sinking of the 'Prince of Wales' and the 'Repulse', with heads bobbing in water - and Captain William Tennant of the 'Repulse' after his rescue; Map of the Western Pacific, indicating dates of Japanese landings on many islands; Five photos of the U.S. Vanguard arriving in Great Britain; Photos of twelve people of the week including Admiral Chan-Chak, Admiral Husband Kimmel, Lieut.-General Walter Short, painter Richard Sickert, Mrs. Yvonne Llewellyn Roberts, Edward Elliott, and Major-General De Villiers; Events in Russia (article with three maps); Four photos of new battleship "Duke of York" and its carriage of Mr. Churchill to U.S.A.; Large photo portrait of General Douglas MacArthur; One-page map of Batan (Bataan) Peninsula, Philippines, where Gen. MacArthur, the Americans and Filipinos have gallantly held the Japanese at bay for four weeks; Fascinating two-pages with fourteen illustrations of how Aerodromes are defended, above and under the ground; Two-pages of twelve vivid photos of scenes on the Russian front; Bardia Recaptured - two pages with eleven fascinating photos; The Eighth Army's Trail - six photos of Benghazi after its capture; Six photos of the Royal Air Force v. the Weather in the desert; Four amazing photos of the "Flying Wing" designed gy John K. Northrop, including three photos of it in flight; Theatre Royal, Bristol, to be saved for the nation? - six photos; Marvelous two-color OXO ad on back cover shows young lovely offering a tray of steaming drinks; Vintage ads. This issue was never stapled. Clean and unmarked with only moderate wear. A quality copy of this great wartime issue. Book
177 pages. "A concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for making colors. Illustrated." - from title page. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average wear externally. Book
Pages 186-238. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos. Features: East Coast Carriage Workings; The Robinson 2-8-0s - part 2; French signalling practice - part 1; Steam memories; A 200th anniversary round-up; Simplon route centenary; Welcome to the Dart Yalley Railway; An Invitation to alight; Cambridge University Railway Society photographic competition; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: B.F. Bush on Evil Results to Accrue from Diversion of Capital from Railway Enterprises; Japanese Trainmaster kills self after Emperor is delayed; Tell the Truth, Mr. (Gifford) Pinchot! - fallout from a December 16th article about Alaska; Charles F. Speare discusses the alliance between the Northern Pacific and the Chicago & Northwestern Railroads; Southern Pacific and Pacific Mail (article from the Wall Street Journal); Cash Shortage in Western Canada; Captain N.E. Cousins has been in the employ of the Pacific Coast Steamship Lines Co. since 1878 - article with photo; Get Ready for the Opening of the Panama Canal; Economy of the [Seattle] Municipal Plan (part 2) - major article with map; Cunard and Anchor Lines Amalgamate - article with list of the vessels, and their tonnage, of each company; Protest the Carriage of Navy Coal in Foreign Bottoms - George F. Thorndyke of the Globe Navigation Company speaks out; Edvard Jansen to take over from Ida Wilson Lewis, "The Grace Darling of America", tending the Lime Rock light station; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Illustration of the central winch on Dredge New Orleans; Portland News Notes; Schedule for Canadian-Pacific Railways Steamships connecting Seattle with Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Foglio sciolto. Indicazioni per le carrozze che portano gli spettatori a vedere le rappresentazioni al teatro Aliberti e Valle.
302 pages including index. Heavy wear and usual markings of a former school book, but forget all that. This is a wonderful book with which to teach your children the basics of health. Covers: the human body and the great laws of health; the framework of the body; the muscles and carriage of the body; foods and why we need them; the digestive organs and their work; and over two dozen more wonderful chapters. Includes helpful and interesting contemporary illustrations, including photos of an open air school, so designed to provide proper ventilation for students. Book
Features: Small accomplishments - how readers spend the long winter days; Dollhouses from Scratch; Nutshell News 1996 Index; Beyond Maynard Manor; Cinderella Fantasy Carriage; A Wisconsin mansion in miniature - Marie Pisors' masterpiece; Nautical by Nice; Show Scene - Andover, Massachussetts; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Indian Dolls; April; What do you know about Barbie?; Victorian Dolls from Babies to Ballerinas; Nodders; Girl in the Garden; Six Pack Carriage; Collectible Doll Cards; A Man of Today with his doll of Yesteryday; Doll Pillow Cover; Petal Blossom Costume; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Folio. Facsimile reproduction of the volume of plates published to accompany Diderot's Encyclopedie of 1776. Paperback Very good condition A valuable source of illustrations of the arts and crafts before the industrial revolution. Text in French
64 pages. Features: Okinawa cover illustration and details of the home of the Third Marine Division; Air photos of Futema, Camp Schwab, Camp Sukiran, Camp Hauge and Camp Courtney; New Close Support Artillery Prospects; Close Air Support - A 4D multiple carriage; Sikorsky ad features photos of the S-60 and S-55; Pattern for Limited War; The Salty Skipper; Combat Course; Let's Perk Up Our Reserves; Princeton Landing - the LPH-5; The Lieutenant's Gatlings - now this gun is called the Vulcan; The Strike Cell - part 2; Report from the Ready Forces - The 3d Marine Division - Combat Readiness, and Programs to Improve Readiness; The M14 Rifle - A Comparison; Does the Leader make the Difference?; Photo ad for the new Lockheed GV-1 tanker; Promotions and Transfers; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Great colour Sweet Caps (Caporal) ad inside front cover; Editorial - how Gulf Oil vetoed Ottawa's pipeline plans; Gorgeous colour-photo two-page ad for General Motors four-door hard tops, Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight De Luxe Holiday Sedan and Buick Special 4-door Riviera; The Unknown Man who bought the Globe and Mail - who's R. Howard Webster? - sparked by Howard's financial wizardry, the five Webster brothers mushroomed the fur and fuel empire their father, Lorne Webster, left into a private trust that virtually blankets North America in the fields of Fuel, Stevedoring, Tankers, Hardware, The Imperial Trust, and more; Why I'm out of TV - Choir leader Dr. Leslie Bell bowed out when the singers became dancers and he was made to act; The Race to sell new cars - the market has been turned topsy-turvy by the hottest competition since the horseless carriage replaced the buggy - great black and white photos!; The blonde who leaps from the clouds - RCAF Para-nurse F/O Marion Macdonald; How they'll blow up Ripple Rock - for decades this underwater monster in the Strait of Georgia has been wrecking ships and drowning sailors; When a Canadian Ruled Oregon - Towering John McLoughlin from Riviere du Loup was king of Columbia - the Oregon and Washington of today; The doctors in overalls who've changed your life - the research done by Ontario Veterinary College; That Yellow Prairie Sky - Robert Kroetsch; Is there Really an Abominable Snowman?, by Willy Ley; Nostalgic full-page colour photo ad for Toro (fortieth anniversary) mowers; Colour Visking Weiners ad; nice colour full-page ad for the all-new 1955 Plymouth; Nice colour full-page ad for the Oldsmobile 88-98. Average wear. Binding sound. Address label on front. A quality copy. Book
47 pages. Songs include: Amor, Autumn Leaves, Michelle, Never on Sunday, A Taste of Honey, Yesterday, and dozens more. Average wear. Few markings. A worthy working copy of this nice compilation of organ sheet music. Book
Book shows light wear to covers only. 20 page staple bound pamphlet. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is marked with occasional marginalia, B&W photos throughout, mechanical drawings. Contents include: Track assembly, Carriage, Torch clamp, Elevation shaft swivel clamp, Mast and arm, Mast mounting base, Setup and operation.
16 pages. Contents: Before the Doctor Comes - boils, carbuncles, and felons; Suits for girsl and boys from 4 to 15 years old; Regimen of Travel; New York Fashions - French Cashmere, English fabrics, Cicillian cloth, widow's silk, fall shawls, cloth and cashmere wraps, house jackets, velvets, opera cloaks; Personal; Watch-case; Dressing-case; Carriage leather music port-folio; suit for girl from 3 to 5 years old; corners of tapestry borders for covers, cushions, etc.; suit for girl from 10 to 12 years old; suit for girl from 7 to 9 years old; bows for slippers; drilling and crochet clothes-bag; tatted and crochet fringe; Nursing as a Profession for Ladies; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Fall hats and bonnets - many illustrations; Vague People; Seeing the World; The Gipsy's Glass; Useful Recipes; Large illustration "Croquet Under Difficulties"; Crape sprays for trimming hats; Lady's Walking Suit; Lady's house dress; Women in the French Revolution; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Features: Marguerite polonaise walking suit; Pocket-Money; New York Fashions - the Marguerite Polonaise, coats and vests, mantelets, fall bonnets, round hats, Balmoral skirt; Personal; Crochet work-stand cover darned in point d'Esprit; Cover for quilt; Venetian embroidery and point lace insertion for lingerie; point lace edging for lingerie; crochet and tatted rosette; boots, gaiters, and slippers; glass eyes; Miss Phippeny's Heir; In a Club; Crochet lambrequin worked in point de reprise; ladies' and children's morning dresses; corner of border for covers, sofa cushions, etc. colored embroidery; ladies' and children's house and walking dresses; Chines Grotesqueness; Ladies' fall carriage and visiting dresses; Bert's Monogram; Paris Fashions; Full-page illustration "In a Club", by William B. Myers; large illustrations of ladies' fall carriage and visiting dresses; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
20 pages. Contents: Autumn and Winter Toilettes; The Care of a French-flat kitchen; Small Selfishnesses; Women and emN - the winter school of slang; Family living on $500 a year - part XLII; New York Fashions - French dresses, French toilettes in wool; skirts and draperies, basques and drimmings, polonaises, prevailing colors, carriage costumes; Personal; Galloon for trimming hats and bonnets; Bulgarian wedding ceremonies; An English Hospital - with illustrations; Paston Carew - Millionaire and Miser - continued; Paris Fashion; Nice centerfold illustration "Winter Wrappings"; Mrs. Beardsley; The Woodlanders - continued; How to Judge a Horse; The Maldives Islands; humor. Above-average wear. Pattern included. Book
16 pages. Contents: Winter Street and Opera Toilettes - cover illustration; Family Geniuses; Manners Upon the Road - of Philosophy; New York Fashions - furst, mink, sable, seal-skin, astrakhan and persiani, ermine and white fox, children's furs, furs for gentlemen, carriage robes, opera cloaks and carriage wraps; Personal; Borders for Fichus, jackets, hoods, etc.; crochet hexagon for cover, knitted hexagon for cover, crochet stitch for under-skirts; fringes for trimming capes, hoods, etc.; Girl's Crochet collar; Lady's knitted and crochet mitten; Grandpapa's Story - a Thanksgiving Episode; Great centerfold compilation of humorous Thanksgiving illustrations; Paris Fashions; Charles Mathews; Debenham's Vow - continued; Nice Thanksgiving full-page illustration with young lady praying; humor. Average wear. Clipping from first page. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's suits; Friendship versus love; Manners Upon the Road - of porches; New York Fashions - plain-basque suit, spring suits, capes, corsages, the watteau postilion, upper skirts, polonaises with capes, lower skirts and kilting; Personal; Fans and Jet Jewelry; Ball and Evening Coiffures; Lady's knitted girdle; embroidered crepe de Chine scarf; gentleman's knitted chest protector; lady's knitted and crochet house shoe; knitted and crochet overshoe; flannel sole for house shoes; lilac velvet and satin cravat bow; black gros grain cravat bow with fringed ends; tapestry border for rugs, cairs, etc.; Cross Purposes - a Valentine Story; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Useful Recipes; Nice full-page illustration "The First Installment - half past eight on Valentine morning; Wonderful full-page series of illustrations depicting "Cupid's Adventures", by Frank Bellew; London's Heart - continued; Nice illustration "Going to the Matinee" shows happy family in carriage; Some Old Dresses; humor. Average wear. Book
14 pages. Contents: Ladies' winter wrappings; Sending for the doctor; Family Cooking, by Pierre Blot - part IV; Uammers Upon the Road - of a mapless fellow-traveler; New York Fashions - the dolman-mantle walking suit; the princesse dress; melon puffs; carriage wraps; morning wrappers; dresses for a bridal party; invitations; Personal; Tapestry design for a rug; Paris Fashions; Christmas-Eve; Ladies' coiffures; tatted rosette; crochet rosette for cravat ends, etc.; Oriental embroidery for sofa-pillow;; tulle and lace bretelle-fichu; suit for girl from 10 to 12 years old; needle-work edging; ladies' walking suits; Converts; Sayings and Doings; To the Bitter End - continued; humor. Average wear. Note: pages 837-838 mssing. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's suits; Fire-proof dresses; The Parlor; Manners Upon the Road - of Mountain air; New York Fashions - fall goods, faille, fancy silks, woolen goods, ecru woolens, Jacquard goods, about plaids and stripes, French calicoes, trimming laces, varieties; Personal; Toy harness and whip; bat of steel springs, carriage leather, and cord; netted and crochet ball net; black figured tulle jacket; black figured tulle Bedouin mantilla; crochet and flannel garters; skipping-rope with braid and cord cover; embroidered Panama convas work-box; knitted square for coverlets; Pollys' Victory; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Lovely full-page illustration for the month of August; Two half-page illustrations of watering-place toilettes; To the Bitter End - continued; English gossip; Sketches at Naples; Illustration "Naples - consulting the oracle of the cumaean sibyl; Nice large illustration "The English Laborer's Home - Evenings"; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Silk and cashmere walking suit; poplin walking suit; Poonah-Work; Domestic Life; MAnners upon the Road; New York Fashions - ladies' cloth, cloakings, twilled woolen goods, lingerie, laces, hints about costumes; Personal; Lace and Point Lace Collar; Waste-paper basket with embroidered lambrequins; waste-paper basket run with colored braid; point lace tidy; crochet insertion for lingerie; point lace and crochet insertion for lingerie; tatted edging; tatted rosettes for lingerie; tatted square for lingerie; Hannah - continued; sayings and doings; netted guipure insertion and edging; point lace and crochet edging; lady's point lace and crochet gimp chemise yoke; knitted and crochet insertion; needle-work edging for lingerie; crochet edging worked crosswise; crochet insertion worked crosswise; point lace and crochet insertion; cashmere over-skirt; ecru crepe de Chine over-skirt; Algerienne over-skirt; How Nationalities Grow Old; My Prophet; The Lunch-Table-Coffee; Useful Recipes; carriage leather wall tidy to hang over wash-stand; embroidery designs for a foundation for toilette cushions, etc.; Blood-sucking Bats; humor. Average wear. Clipping from page 603. Book
16 pages. Contents: Lace Veils; Evening Coiffure for Young Lady; Impromptu Furniture; The Garden; Manners Upon the Road - of desertion; New York Fashions - Parisian dresses, Easter toilettes, parasols, lace veils, carpets, curtains and upholstery, paper-hangings; Personal; Embroidery designs for wrappings, dresses, etc., in soutache, point russe, chain stitch, and satin stitch; Cambric needle-work insertion, and point lace handkerchief; Case for thread, silk and sewing utensils; case for pocket-comb, button-hook, etc.; silver canvas needle-book; cord and crochet fringe for coverlets; Widow Henderson's Happenings; English Gossip; George Eliot's Sayings; Sayings and Doings; The Duke of Edinburgh's Museum; An American Costume Ball in Rome; London's Heart - continued; Seed-Sowing; "Fashion Repeats Herself"; Paris Fashions; Lighting and Furnishing; Lady's Carriage dress - nice illustration; humor. Average wear. Book