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Pages 482-576 + 30 pages of ads. Features: The "Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - article with photos; The Wreck of the 'County of Anglesea' - fight for the life of a capsized ship; Wanderings in Northern Persia - II - article with first-ever published photos of Kelat-i-Nadiri, the Gibraltar of Persia, and many other photos; A Fiery Ordeal - surviving a 1904 volcano on Mount Kloet on the island of Java; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth, part VII; From Job to Job Around the World, Part II - fantastic travelogue of two young Americans in Japan and Korea with wonderful photos; The Saving Shadow - Rev. Wm. F. Rigge of the Creighton University Observatory uses shadows to help acquit a man facing serious charges; A Motor-Boat in Mexico - the villagers had never seen anything like it;; The Marchwood Ghost Mystery - A Highland Regiment soldier committed suicide in 1885 and his ghost was supposed to haunt the sentry's beat;;"The Heathen Chinee" - principally concerned with the Chinaman's attitude towards railways - also tells some quaint stories about the 'spirits of wind and water' which rule his actions during and after his life - article with great photos, especially all the Chinese aboard a Shanghai-Nanking Railway engine they had fled only a week before; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: The Treasure Map - Buried Treasure in the South Sea Islands, with photos; Salving the Guadarrama - a marine surveyor's account of a remarkable salvage operation; Mr. Kim's Secret - an incident from the grim struggle in Korea; The Man Who Turned Pirate - reprint of a 1938 story involving the American schooner-yacht Aafje, with photos; Australia's Mail-Men; Smiler - another case of Jack ashore getting into trouble in Malaya; The Earthquake - the author and his wife narrowly escape near the Tibetan frontier; Greek Fire - a forgotten incident from World War II involving the protection of a petroleum installation; Average wear. Back cover almost loose. Book
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates and maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in black, backstrip lettered in black, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1988003846Washington, Pergamon - Brassey's, 1988. -- Broschiert -- 8°
19732091502133904068Kankoku Soru 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Kankoku Soru paperback
200816538(China). Photospace. 2008. 187, (3) pages. With a lot of photos, mostly in colour. Original softcover binding. 24x20 cm
Usual library labels and stamps. Otherwise in excellent, very clean condition. Ex - Library
2008137668Centre for Fine Arts 2008 Livre en anglais. In-4 cartonné 33,4 cm sur 24,9. 256 pages. Bon état d’occasion.
Original Wraps. 4to. 5 pages. 28 cm. Volume 2, Number 7, Rosh Hashono 5712, October, 1951. Single sided mimeographed typed newsletter for Orthodox Jewish soldiers in the American Armed Forces. Front page 'Dear Moish' letter. Contains brief discussion of major aspects of the high holidays; portions titled: Praying to Pray, Selichoth, Rosh Hashanah, Ten Days of Penitence, Yom Kippur; further sections detail what is necessary for a proper observance (Minyan, fasting, if one has to eat what the restrictions are) . Last page includes letters from two soliders, on being relocated, being able to obtain kosher food without difficulty, about Jewish boys fighting in Kora. Includes a form to buy a Kosher food package for ten dollars, address of Jewish Servicemen's Religious Bureau, 5 Beekman Street, New York. Subjects: Jewish soldiers - United States - Religious life - Periodicals. Jewish soldiers - Religious life. Periodicals. United States. OCLC lists 2 copies (Harvard, Natl Libr Israel) . Pages aged, edges worn, bumped and slight tears; otherwise fresh. Good condition. (HOLO2-121-17)
Orignal Wraps. 4to. 4 pages. 28 cm. Volume 2, Number 6, Sivan 5711, June, 1951. Shevuoth Issue. Front Page 'Dear Moish' letter; signed Chiel (Rabbi Samuel Chiel? ; army chaplain in these years) ; discusses the rights of religious Jewry in Eretz Israel, the oppressive measures taken againt religious Jewry in Medinath Israel; relates the discipline needed on the battlefield as akin to the discipline needed for certain Mitzvot. Articles include 'The Meaning of Shevuoth', 'Those who Fight...Write' (letters from servicemen, thanking the Bureau for Kosher Pesach food, being able to stay an an orthodox home near the army base, a special seder service in Japan) , and 'Dinim about Yom Tov', concerning work not permitted on Yom Tov and exceptions specifically of use to servicemen. Subjects: Jewish soldiers - United States - Religious life - Periodicals. Jewish soldiers - Religious life. Periodicals. United States. OCLC lists 2 copies (Harvard, Natl Libr Israel) . Pages aged, very brittle at edges. Fair condition. (HOLO2-121-18)
Features: Mis-Applied Science, by Dr. Albert E. Burke - America is losing tomorrow's battles by insisting that scientists concentrate on producing better mousetraps; The Hot War in Vietnam - Can the U.S. win it?; Master of the Jab - Ho Chi Minh is waging the kind of war he knows best; Sunday's Gladiators - as the armed (pro football) combatants struggle before the crowds, there are reminders of ancient Rome; The Charmed Life of Gangster Tony Accardo - arrested 23 times but never convicted; That Bowl of Fire Called Chili - a peppery dish invented by the pioneers of the old Southwest is still savored by their descendants; My Awful Wedded Husband, by Mrs. Kirk Douglas; Inside the Frozen Mountain - colour photos from deep inside Wyoming's Fossil Mountain; Let'em Eat... Turkey - the crisis that erupted when the Veep missed Thanksgiving dinner in Korea, by Walter M. Turner; Boy's Home on the Range - at Boy's Ranch in the rugged cow country of Texas' Panhandle, Cal Farley uses work, love and discipline to turn bad boys into good ones. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Colour Corvair ad inside front cover. *Awesome* colour cadillac ad on page 9. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
234 p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Signed by the author. This interesting work argues that the little known clash between MacArthur and Roosevelt, which began on the island of Corregidor as the U. S. entered World War II, set the tone for subsequent Cold War struggles between the U. S. and Russia in the Far East. Contain good background on the Philippine political situation before and during World War II. Eyre was an advisor to Philippine president Sergio Osme. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Coldwar/Economics 11
1999009743London, Thames & Hudson, 1999. 288 S. Orig.-Broschur. Mit kleinem chinesischem Stempel,die letzte Seite mit kleinen Lesenotizen und 5 Seiten mit geringen Randanstreichungen in Kugelschreiber sonst schönes, gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren.
pp. viii, 295. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, slightly spotted. Coldwar/Economics 1 / 8
19992091502135408279Not Available 1999. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
pp. xi, 199. Numerous inked underlinings and notations. 8vo. Paperback. Coldwar/Economics 9
43644Pyongyang, Korea Foreign Languages Publishing House 1970 in 12 (18,5x12,5) 1 volume broché, plat supérieur de la couverture titré en lettres dorées, 123 pages. Workers of the Whole World United. Printed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kim Il Sung, 1912-1994, Homme d'Etat Nord Coréen. Bon exemplaire
1994108905Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford Westview Press. 1994. XI, 276 pages. Original cloth binding and dustjacket (Owner stamp). 24x16 cm
pp. xvi, 300, (xvii-cxlviii)[Epilogue, Bibliography, Footnotes]. 8vo. Original full black glossy wraps. Spiral bound. A study of American political response to Communism and One Worlders, supported by a large documentary apparatus. Written by the founder of the John Birch Society, this is a classic attack on President Eisenhower. The case is made that, while not exactly a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, his policies certainly aided and abetted the International Communist Conspiracy every bit as much as did those of his immediate Democratic predecessors. Coldwar/Economics 5
80p. Color map endpapers. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Spotted. Coldwar/Economics 7
190p. 8vo. Original full stiff cloth binding. Original dust jacket, spotted. First Edition. Coldwar/Economics 6
758p. Uncut. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Slightly soiled. Spine faded. OCC 7
12328London, Fisher Unwin 1895, 230x155mm, 608pages, editor's cloth binding. Book in good condition.
200797350HBWashington, D.C.:, The Brookins Institution Press, 2007. xii Seiten, 1 Bl., 592 Seiten, 1 Bl., OHLnbd., OU., 23,5 x 15,5 cm.
