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126 pages. Fiction: Problem Mother; The Face of Death; First Baby; The Forbidden Island; Kiowa Moon (part 2 of 7); The Golden Shadow (conclusion). Articles: How an Amblance Chaser Works - other people's accidents make him money; If a President Collapses - proposed solutions to the problem of what to do if/when a President falls ill; The Face of America - The Golden Triangle - large color photo of the Monongahela meeting the Allegheny River; We are on the Spot in Spain - Franco's dictatorship rests on a powder keg; Premature Births Can Be Prevented - Releasin is used to delay labor - with photo of Mrs. Lorraine Yarsinsky and her triplets; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge - par 6 of 7 - his feud with Rudy Vallee, and the day he was arrested as a spy; We Flew Operation Sharkbait - Col. Charles F. Blair, Jr., USAF Res. recounts the harrowing tension-filled hoursin a jet fighter that spanned the Atlantic on a hush-hush test flight - the first Great Circle Route flight to Europe in a Thunderstreak Interceptor; Fishing at its Fanciest - article and great color photos from Palm Beach; My Ware with the Army - W.H. Von Rosenstiel got no mail for three months so went over his colonel's head - with astounding results; Should your child be a Librarian? Ads: Winston cigarettes (taste good); Pream coffee; Amana fridges (very nostalgic); Hart Schaffner & Marx clothing - with color photos of Dr. Joyce Brothers and Hal March of the $64,000 Question; 'Eggs Belong in Breakfast'; Presto appliances; Nice 1-page color ad for Boeing's 707; Ford cars - two-page color photo; Westinghouse washer - the famous 'sand test'; Tareyton; Pontiac cars - nice yellow Super Chief two-door hardtop; Baldwin Organs; GMC Air Suspension Tractors - two color pages; Union Pacific Railroad Vacations; RCA TV Service; Underwood Typewriters (golden gloves); Allis-Chalmers - 2-page ad showing their cement plant; USS United States Steel with illustration of futuristic bridge; GMAC color photo ad with old ladies telling young mom what to do; Nice two-page Borg-Warner ad in 'believe-it-or-not' format; Nice one-page color Pepsi adshows young painting couple; Magnavox High Fidelity TVs; MacGregor baseball gloves - featuring Red Schoendienst; GM two-page photo ad features Amanda, Ohio, home of GM supplier Mid-West Fabricating - with photos of Stanton Johns, Francis and Helen Crago, Dick Young, and L.E. Conrad; Evinrude outboard motors - nice color-photo ad; Ponderosa Pine Windows; Anchor Fence; IBM Selectric Typewriters; Santa Fe Super Chief; Briggs & Stratton engines; Nice Viceroy cigarette ad features bowler Don Carter; Chrysler 4-door hardtop Windsor - color photo; Betty Crocker Li'l Angel Food Cake Mix ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
132 pages. Features: Gorgeous cover illustration of Peachtree Street in Atlanta, by John Falter; Great Day in the Morning (short story by G.S. Albee); Stowaway Boy (short story by Olaf Ruhen); Counterfeit Wife (short story by Robert Carson); The White Warrior (short story by Bill Gulick); We Learned To Live With Tragedy - Sparky Ratcliffe's ability to walk was threatened after an auto accident; Year of Decision for Bill Rigney, Manager of the San Francisco Giants; California's Complex Governor - Pat Brown struggles with capital punishment and the case of Caryl Chessman; Madam Soap Opera - Irna Phillips may be the all-time champ at providing misery-loving housewives with their daily ration of tears on TV; Flowers With Wings - Interflora; The Face of America - photo of New Harbor at Rockport, MA; They Killed Heydrich - The Betrayal (part 2 of 3) - the atrocity of Lidice failed to break the spirit of the Czechs, but then the Nazis found a traitor, Sgt. Karel Curda; Adventures of the Mind - The Origin of the Elements, by William Alfred Fowler; Nice one-page color-illustrated ad for Canadian Pacific jet-prop Britannia aircraft which fly from Montreal to Rome; The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (part 4 of 8); Journey Into Danger (conclusion); Two-page ad for GM Diesel Products; Unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Features: I was a daughter of the Gold Rush - the exciting story of Klondy Nelson; The Face of America - Song of Old (photo); Rebirth of the Ohio River; This is My Story - Arthur Godfrey (part 8 of 8); Exiles of the Wasteland - Red Shaw and Lou Kley run an isolated Utah railroad outpost for the Southern Pacific Railroad; What Happened to These Children - fascinating explanation of the 700-year-old mystery of the Pied Piper of Hamelin; Cities of the world (#15) - Guatemala City; How to Handle $100,000,000 - The Philadelphia Board of City Trusts. Fiction: A Candle of the Lord; The Lady Hated Jazz; The Warmhearted Polar Bear; Kiss Me, Sergeant; The case of the Mission Poison (part 3 of 8); The Burning Hills (conclusion). Above-average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Long tear to back cover with related puncture/tear to last few pages. Unmarked. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy of this great issue. Magazine
140 pages. Contributors include: Henry Ford (The Fear of Overproduction), Ben Hecht, Leonard H. Nason, Margaret Culkin Banning, Captain Charles B. Scully, Katherine M. Schmitt, Joseph Hergesheimer. Nice contemporary advertisements from Del Monte, Coke, Camay, Campbell's Soup, Sunbrite Cleanser, Cord Auto, Graham Auto, Dodge Six, Essex Auto, Edison Mazda Lamps, Fordor Sedan (by Ford), Cellophane, Buick, Reo Speed Wagon, Valspar, Northern Pacific Rail Line, White Trucks, McCormick-Deering Industrial Power (*wonderful black and white photographs*), The Knapp-Felt Hat, A&P. Articles include: Why Drown? by Charles Scully, The Story of an Early Switchboard Operator, Tears to periphery of cover otherwise a solid copy with average wear. Book
134 pages. Contributors include: Isaac F. Marcosson, Vincent sheean, Nunnally Johnson, Alfredo Codona, Gilbert Patten, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Colonel Givens, John H. Doeg. Lovely vintage advertisements from: Whitman's Chocolates, Campbell's Soup, De Soto, Cadillac V-8, GM Radio, Oldsmobile, Ford Auto, Hudson and Essex, Reo-Royale, Willys Cars, Log Cabin Syrop, Auburn Auto, Sparton Radio, Nash Auto, Packard, Franklin Auto, Canada Dry. Articles include: Dime-Novel Days, Gymnasts (The Flying Codonas), Nevada Stories, Tennis as a Career, The Secretary to President Coolidge. Large tear to cover-fold and front cover else average wear. Nice solid copy. Book
(Codice AP/0426) In 8° 27 pages with 5 plates (11 photos) and 2 fgures. Excerpt with paper covers. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
2 vols., 8vo., with numerous photographs and maps throughout, and coloured endpaper maps; original two tone red-brown cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers mildly frayed and creased at extremities.
Sm. Folio, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
232 pages including index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Frances Barkley's "Reminiscences," published here for the first time, contain her descriptions of their life at sea, and visits to South America, India, China, and what is now known as Alaska and British Columbia. Author has added a wealth of interesting detail on the Barkleys and the world of their time. Offers an intriguing view of the eighteenth century and of a high-spirited woman in British Columbia's past. Dab of liquid paper atop first page. Prior owner's name and blind stamp upon half-title page. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Sold from an institution wits neat stamp on title. A volume in the Official History of Australia in WWII.
272 pages. "A fascinating book - really one of a kind - and the best adventure story of a family struggling on the western frontier that I have ever read." - Andy Russell. Maps. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. By the editors of Time-Life books with text by Keith Wheeler, this book describes the Wild West workers on the pioneer railroads in a wealth of detail and with superb contemporary black & white photos from the time. Also some in colour including detailed illustrations of the locomotives. Small piece missing from lower corner of final page. 240pp.
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations and maps in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The US edition was published in 1966. Enser, p.103 (recording the first edition).
56 pages (in two consecutive complete issues), including sketch illustrations and in-text sketch maps. Plus photographic plates and a fold-out colour map measuring approximately 7.5 x 10.25 inches (19 x 27cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. Two complete issues, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is an intriguing and detailed account of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition, originally planned to investigate certain biological problems, and dealing with several matters other than the origin of the reef. This article contains new material and views on the nature and origin of low wooded islands and sand cays. Several other problems, which had been occasionally touched upon by earlier writers, have also been elaborated on. Of particular interest, mention is made of the evidence for uplift along the East Australian Coast, the formation of sand and shingle spits, and the question of cliffing. The main object of this report was to dicuss the evidence for faulting.
8vo., First Edition, with large folding map; blue cloth, gilt back, a good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its labels on covers and endpapers. Imperial Studies No., 7. SCARCE
192p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
England, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964, 8vo punto metallico, pp. 25 con una carta (a pagina doppia) nel testo.
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xv, 180 pp, 15 plates from photos including frontis, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, cover lightly soiled, interior is clean, else a fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The first half of the book describes the author's journey in 1901 to Baghdad, Basra, Bahirin, Muscat, Sherpore, etc around the Persian Gulf where he visits some areas off the beaten track. The second half of the book describes his stay on several Pacific islands including Tonga, Haapai, Fiji, etc and is remarkable for its explicit illustrations of cannibals, including one entitled 'Cannibals dragging prisoners to the ovens', two others showing cannibals slaughtering their victims. The author didn't seem too concerned about becoming a victim. There have been only two copies at auction in the last 25 years, the last at Sotheby's in 1997 selling at US$782, although it wasn't in as good a condition as this copy.
viii, 280 pages. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Covering three generations of hockey heroes, this is a fascinating history of the sport, and of its royal family." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherwise book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this important hockey history. Book
8vo., Second Australian Edition, with a frontispiece, 16 plates on 11 and a double map in red on blue stock; handsomely bound in red full morocco, backs gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on title. Daisy Bates's classic work was first published by Murray in 1938; with a first Australian edition following in 1944.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and coloured maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; ivory tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a near fine copy. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 8.
251 pages. Index. Bibliography. Appendices. Over 280 black and white illustrations, photographs, maps, timetables, reproductions and scale drawings. "The steamships played a formative role in the development of the north Pacific coast of North America and the CPR's Princesses will have a long place in its history. This is their story, told candidly but with affection." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Boards with moderate wear to extremities. ; 8vo; 535 pages
large 8vo [25 x 18 cm]; lxxvii, 322 pp, plates, maps including endpaper maps showing route, bibliog, index. original pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine and clean, unused. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Bougainville sailed through the Pacific, stopping at Tahiti, through the Samoan Islands, to Vanuatu, to the Australian Great Barrier Reef, north to New Guinea, Solomon Islands, making a number of discoveries including the island named after him, continuing home via the Dutch East Indies and Indian Ocean. His voyage lead to many other French expeditions. He discovered the bougainvillea flower. His journal was first published in 1977 in French and this is the first edition in English. A 70 page introduction provides an excellent historical perspective.
