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In 8°, broch. edit. con piccole mende, dorso rifatto, pp 214, num. ill. fot. n.t. e f.t., carta geografica f.t. Timbri di bibl. estinta. Importante studio di geografia economica eseguito in occasione dell'Esposizione Internazionale di Roubaix del 1911. Ediz. orig.
240 pages including glossary. Author reveals the story of his life as an infantry lieutenant on the ground in Vietnam. If some soldiers, barely out of high school, might die there, others might find hidden steel in themselves and grow. Author was one who grew, also one who fought, one who killed, and one for whom the helicopter finally came to take away a shattered body. A book of truth and power which stands proudly with the best books written about men in combat. Prior owner's bookplate upon front endpaper, else unmarked. Light wear to clean book. Several tiny tears to dust jacket which shows light wear. Very nice copy. Book
152 pages. Features: Evading the Draft - major article; Spunky King Hussein fights to hold on in Jordan; Dino De Laurentiis - Moviemaker - nice photos; High end steam engine auction; Levi Smith's Bonus - 15 Grandchildren (part III); The day the Bible beat the monkeys - John Scobes and the Scopes trial; Adam Clayton Powell repels the press; Come with Mr. Capote to a Masked Ball - many photos; The perforated curtain - a surprise package in Eastern Europe (with photos); the sole surviving 'river Bushman' of Okavango swamps; Round wooden home overlooks Bolinas Lagoon; Too many pigeons in San Francisco. Great 2-page colour ad for the 1967 Barracuda! 1967 colour Buick ad. Average wear. Address label on front else unmarked. Book
98 pages. Features: SEAL's top secret - the untold story of Red Cel; SOF in Russia - to T & E new Bizon SMG; Backpack nukes for Vietnam - inside special forces A-bomb project; Mercs making big $ in Angola; Citizen militias - are they really legal?; US military involved in Waco raid - documented proof. Average wear. Solid unmarked copy. Book
Features: 30 years and still not out! The story of the Canberra; Hellcat Nightfighters - WWII's best; "Gee Bee's" Q.E.D. - the Sky Conqueror; Boeing's PW-9. Art: Martin B-57 Canberras' Combat Canberras in Vietnam; Sarabia's "Sky Conqueror"; 5-view "Gee Bee" Q.E.D. Book
134 pages. Bilingual English/Vietnamese. Beautiful colour photography throughout. Features: Festivals in Springtime; Tet Rituals; Photo Essay on Festivals; Tet in the City - a summary of preparations for and significance of New Year's celebration; Celebrate Sticky! - Banh Chung; Chinese Flavor Hits Hanoi; The Kitchen Gods; Nguyen Tu Nghiem; Vietnamese Contemporary Art; Water Puppets - Phan Van Ngai; Fog Season in the Highlands; APEC 14 - The Imprint of Vietnam; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features include: Orchid collecting in Vietnam; Growing Cool Odontoglossums in the Sacramento Valley; Effect of Growth-regulating substances on the size of flower and bloom date of cymbidium sicily 'grandee'; Orchid genera, illustrated - VI; What's an extinguisher? - a new term for your glossary; Lips tell an interesting story in cymbidiums - a Gripp on growing; Dendrobium musciferum? - collector's item; a new species of maxillaria; life with seedlings - growing orchids indoors; aspasia hybrid genera - man-made genera; orchid collecting in the souther Shan states, Burma; Thunia marshalliana in Hawaii; A flasking tool for orchid seeds. Magazine
L'écrivain, journaliste et dessinateur, né à Saint-Malo et mort à Moscou, deviendra en 1889 rédacteur au Drapeau, organe de la Ligue des patriotes fondée par Déroulède.
in-12, 285 pp., broche, couverture illustrée.- RARE édition originale. Bel exemplaire. [MI-2] Premier prix 1954-1955 de l´Association des artistes et écricaine du Viet-Nam.
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. Dust jacket has shelf wear, edge wear, small tears at corners and top spine. 219 pages with a great many b&w photos, many large or full page, covering all aspects of life in Prosser, washington: agriculture, labor, ecology, political turmoil, city government, energy shortage, health, businesses, transportation, housing, education, sports, the young, leasure, drugs, religions, crime, Vietnam, etc.
83 pages. Features: Nahanni; A Short History of Vietnam; A View From the Khyber Pass; Canadian Army Staff College; Regimental Depot; First Battalion Report; Second Battalion Report - 1963; The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (3 PPCLI); The Rifle Brigade Letter; Sharp-shooters in Bottle Green; Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Association; 2483 Esquimalt (Princess Patricia's) Cadet Corps. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Some yellowing to contents. Book
68 pages. Features: The Sixties - Our Unbelievable Decade - with many of the most dramatic images, especially JFK; The Tense Vigil of Mrs. O'Grady - her husband, Air Force Maj. John O'Grady went down over North Vietnam 32 months ago and his fate is still unknown; Our last chance to halt the arms race; Children of the World; Godfrey Cambridge Turns White; Mussels from Maine; Zorba the Viking - Photo-illustrated article on Minnesota Vikings quarterback Joe Kapp. Ads: Beautiful color-photo ad inside front cover for the 1970 Mercury Cyclone GT; Tareyton 100's; Calvert Extra Whiskey; AT&T ad features large blurry photo of New York Giants football player; Color photo ad for the 1970 Chevelle Malibu; Polaroid's Countdown Camera; Beautiful Bulova watch ad; Nice back cover L&M cigarette ad features good-looking couple. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Wild weasel thuds in Vietnam; The DC 3 goes to war; Vigilante - the Navy's last heavyweight. Art: North American RA-5C Vigilante; Republic F-105D; Republic F-105G Wild Weasels; Republic F-105D & B; Republic F-105B Book
Features: Typhoon/Tempest/Tornado - the emergence of the British Fighter/Bomber; Grumman's last Torpedo Bomber; War Diary of a Helicopter Gunship Pilot in Vietnam - Exclusive photos. Art: North American F-86F Sabres; Lockheed XFV-1; Grumman AF-2S Guardian Book
Features: The assault helicopter in Vietnam and the aerial gunships of the future; Demonology from McDonnell; F2H Banshee; Goodbye to "Great Bombers" - Last of the biplane bombers. Art: Banshee montage Book
100 pages. Features: The former chief of French Intelligence in the U.S. reveals the fantastic story of Soviet espionage that penetrated De Gaulle's official family - 'Martel', the key Russian agent, repercussions that caught Kim Philby, J.F.K.'s secret letter to De Gaulle; German students storm the cities in the name of Red Rudi (Dutschke); End of the 'Wahine' in Wellington Harbor; The Emergence of James Earl Ray alias Eric Starvo Galt; Refugees on a bridge to nowhere - Vietnam; Gardiners Island - its haunted legacy - America's offshore fiefdom with piracy in its past; Super Shots from Big T - golfer Tom Weiskopf; Under the gaze of the charmer - Warren Beatty, footloose at the top; "Fog that foils an old disease - TB" - Dr. Sol R. Rosenthal; and more. Colour Ford Torino ad inside front cover; Nice 2-page colour ad for four Chevrolet models - Chevy II, Chevrolet, Camaro, Chevelle; nice 2-page GM colour car ad. Moderate wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: 'Silent Majorities' and the Vietnam War; The Origin of Galaxies; Genetic Repressors; Computer Displays; How Snakes Move; Neoglaciation; An Archaic Indian Cemetery in Newfoundland; The Clock of the malaria parasite. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
30 pages. Black and white illustrations in text from photos. A compilation of the author's moving articles in the Canadian Tribune regarding his two weeks in North Vietnam in October of 1967. Titles include: The City Lives, Awesome Spectacle, A War for Life, A Hero of Vietnam, Terror Bombing (with cutaway photo of cluster bomb), From Hanoi to Haiphong, Organizing for War; Songs are Weapons, Unbreakable Optimism. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Partially yellowed with age. A sound copy of this interesting and informative compilation. Book
320 pages. Footnotes. Index. Black and white reproductions of photos. "Leading historians look back over more than one hundred years to show how navies have often made a critical difference to the fighting ashore and the contest for mastery in the air. Topics treated in detail include: The naval air war over Galipoli, Japan's joint operation in China in 1895, Air defence of naval and amphibious forces in the Falklands, Australian naval pilots and air mobile helicopter operations in Vietnam, German Navy land campaigns of WWII, THe US Navy in the capture of Okinawa, Submarine operations in the Arctic, Naval peacekeeping in Somalia, Maritime blockades in Post-War China, and many others. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. An excellent copy. Book
xii + 123pp. + 2pp. stellingen, 25cm., Doctoraal proefschrift (Universiteit van Amsterdam), gebroch., stempeltje op keerzijde titelblad, tekst helder en in goede staat, X112197
740 p., très nbr. ill. coul. Inv. 20096.
Edizione: Prima edizione . Pagine: 462 . Illustrazioni: Foto a colori fuori testo e disegni in bianco e nero . Rilegatura: Cartonato telato verde con sovracoperta . Collana: Ingrandimenti .
Book shows general wear to covers and suffers warping of much of the fore edge of the page block due to moisture exposure, with some staining of the lower R. corner. Large format publication with b&w illustrations throughout, mostly photos, some full page. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents include: Civil Rights:Songs of the Freedom Movement; The Voter Registration Campaign; Into the Urban Ghettoes; The White Student Movement; Vietnam: "Masters of War"; Let Us Shape the Future; A Statement on Civil Disobedience; The Anti-Napalm Campaign; Against the Army; Support for Liberation of the Black Nation: The Liberation of Women; Serve the People; The Panther Program; Community Union Projects: JOIN & Its Successors; Armed Struggle; Toward a Revolutionary Decade, Bull Conner's jail, Port Huron Statement, Rise up angry, Negroes with guns, Executive mandate #3, Organizing self-defense groups, etc. 175 pages.
247pp., br.orig., bel état
xiii + 489pp.+ frontispice, reliure en plein-cuir, bel état, [texte en italien]