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88 pages. Short Stories: Rigged Race; Not Her Kind; The Tailor's Secret; Challenge in the Sky. Novelette: The Hands of Cormac Joyce. Articles: The Difference Between Black and White; Bowling is Booming; The Face of America - Great color photo of digging out from deep snow in Oswego New York; Tales of the Laundry Sleuths - these investigators discover the causes of mystery rips and stains which occasionally plague laundries and irritate customers; Castro, Trujillo and Turmoil - a report from the uneasy, strategic Caribbean, where the Communists are exploiting political unrest to turn Latin Americans against the US - with many photos, including Che Guevara; Our Urban Revolution - Can We Halt the Chaos? (conclusion); Big, Happy Family - The Soldi clan of Italy has 31,000 members; Riddle of the Frozen Giants - what may have killed the prehistoric mammoths. Ads: Calvert Reserve - with sexy lady eating from her partner's toothpick; Dodge Trucks - with push-button transmission; Seven-Up (7up) - one-man-band entertains his lady; Campbell's Soup; Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight (98); Tareyton cigarettes; Colgate toothpaste; U.S. Savings Bonds; Great one-page Budweiser color-photo ad features lady looking over her shoulder; International Trucks; Nice color-photo Coke ad on back cover features debutante being offered Cokes by four young men. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
159 pages. "Deserted by his wife Estella, Jake is engaged in the symbolic carving of Samson whose story is not unlike his own." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: The unfolding tragedy of drug-deformed babies - side effects of a new drug called thalidomide are causing tragic deformities in newborn Canadian babies; The Slapstick Saga of the S.S. Tropic Sea - she'd been a virtuous lady on the Great Lakes, but she was a notorious tramp in the Caribbean and sailed into piracy, gunplay and mutiny, or so the rumours went; How the NAACP Plots the Negro Revolution; The only Canadian the Chinese ever heard of - Dr. Norman Bethune is one of China's five national heroes; How John Bassett, businessman, became a celebrity; Ask the name of the lion - part 2 of Ralph Allen's novel of the new Congo; The Bankruptcy Racket - many of Canada's 1,500 bankruptcies a year are deliberate, planned frauds in which everybody is bilked but the bankrupt and his friends; The New Wave in Canadian Music - Ronald Turini, Marek Jablonski, Richard Gresko, Zubin Mehta and Boris Brott. Additional story: Japanese join Canadian whalers off B.C.'s coast. Nice colour Pepsi ad on page 49. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
84 pages. Features: John Gerald Benson - Banana Doctor; China's handmade "Red Flag" luxury auto - only 400 exist; Mistaseni Rock is blown to bits behind the future site of the Gardiner Dam; The Caribbean - our sunny new frontier; Canadians in the Caribbean - they've found their own personal paradise; The pleasures of paradise in the Caribbean; Dalton Camp - the man who finally belled the cat; Big-Money Cattle - Holsteins have been taken over by the jet set; Comeback for the one-room school?; Could India Feed Us?; The Lonely death of Charlie Wenjack; Edna - where are you?; The Eccentric oracle of Barrett's Landing, Nova Scotia; Full-page Volvo car ad; Canadiana - Gerald Stevens' column; Great full-page colour photo ad for the '67 Buick Skylark; Wonderful colour ad for Smirnoff Vodka featuring Zsa-Zsa Gabor wearing lots of diamonds. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
128 pages. Features: Is the U.S. Losing Out in the Caribbean?; The Fourth of July - 1908; "Fair Play for America" Committee; The Fair Trae Racket; The Lost Colony of the Confederacy - A bizarre tale of a Colony of defeated Confederates who tried to start over again in South America; A Barber Speaks His Mind - things a customer should know in view of the rising price of haircuts; What Are You Reading These Days? - A critique that throws light on brainwashing techniques of the book and magazine publishers in America; Debatability of Fluoridation; Smith Street, U.S.A. - reprint of a 1939 article on the battle for democracy in the U.S.; Straight Talk; Nostalgia; Stage Fright - a common fear is explained; The Challenge of Underdevelloped Countries; Red Spies Plague America - an army of 300,000 spies steal military and atomic secrets; Underground "Noah's Ark" - man-made salt caverns in Kansas offer protection in the event of enemy attack; A "New" Task for the Church - the American home has become a real mission field; Old Warhorse Still in Harness - how Charlie Younts dealt with retirement; Exit the Aircraft Carrier; How to Prevent a Cold; Vi Murphy Keeps Her Word - courageous reporter goes to jail rather than betray news source; A Discovery That Changed the World - Paper; The Dalton Trumbo Trumpet - he was jailed in 1950 for contempt of Congress, has since written scripts for Exodus and Spartacus, and now receives adulation. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
Barcelona, Librería del Plus Ultra, 1859. 4to.menor; XIX-117 pp., y una lámina litografica plegada a la que le falta un pequeño trozo. Encuadernación moderna en media tela.
Barcelona, Imprenta de A. Bergnes y Compañía, 1832. 4to.; 149 pp. Ejemplar falto de las láminas. Cubiertas provisionales en cartulina.
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of HMS Bristol; Nice photo of HMS Fearless (L10); Full-page photo of Norwegian Caribbean Lines' Norway; On the Waterfront; Aberdeen Steam Trawlers - their rise and decline; Dunkirk! - part 3 - Forty years after the evacuation the heroine of Dunkirk lies derelict on a mud bank in the Isle of Wight; "Waverley's" Dunkirk Tribute; 'R' is for Aircraft Carrier - part 1 - Richard Osborne describes the history of the pendant numbers of ships of the Royal Navy from the days of sail to the present time; ss Norway at Southampton - excellent photos; The Loss of HMS Delight - in July 1940 the destroyer 'Delight' was sunk by Nazi aircraft South of Portland Bill whilst on passage from Portsmouth to the Clyde; New Ship News; European Commentary; Tugs Still in Steam at Naples - Rick Hogben describes an active Italian steam fleet; Letters; Ship Sales; Where to see the Cruise Ships; Nice photo of the HMS Anson in 1946. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Bella carta geografica raffigurante l'arcipelago caraibico delle Piccole Antille, tratta dall'atlante del Borghi. mm 320x240 su foglio di mm 470x360. In ottimo stato (fine copy)
48 pages. Features: A Woodfire Apprenticeship; An Uneasy Familiarity - Mimi Cabri's Work; The Sophistication of the Anagama - Chester Nealie; Susan Low-Beer; The making of Terracotta Pots in the Caribbean; The Work of Jun Kaneko. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
192 pages. Features: Reports on Argentina, Suez, France and Australia; Box Office is Not Enough, by Agnes De Mille; I Shall Vote for Eisenhower, by Robert Cutler; Why the Democrats should win, by Gerald W. Johnson; The Burning of the Waters (story) by James Still; Children of Light (poem) by Robert Huff; A Growth of Moderation, by Sumner H. Slichter; Country Auction (poem) by George F. Dell; Too Much Man (story) by Wolf Mankowitz; The Pendulum of Taste, by John Carter; The Long Night, by Lowell D. Blanton; Person-to-Person, by Leland Hazard; Courtesy on Wheels, by Mary Ellen Chase; The Shakespeare Boom?, by Alfred Harbage; Wolf Mankowitz, by John Metcalf; The Arab World - A Culture in Tradition - essays, stories, and verse by writers in the Arab World - a 72 page feature. Nice colour ad for Dewar's "White Label" and Ancestor scotch whisky inside front cover; Colour ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon inside back cover. Colour photo ad for Grace Line Caribbean Cruises on back cover. Nice colour full-page ad by the European Travel Commission on page 20. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
First edition, [2], 78, [2]pp., slight foxing of first few leaves, folding table, disbound. In reply to "An Address to the Members of the New Parliament, on the proceedings of the Colonial Department.....", which held that if slaves were freed they would not work, and as a consequence the colonialist's properties would fall into decay through lack of labourers. This pamphlet denies that the proceedings of the Colonial Department on the matter of Caribbean slavery had been injudicious and unauthorised. Ragatz, p.451; Sabin, 69410.
Boards with minor wear to extremities. Gilt lettering a bit faded. Hinges a bit gapping (but holding strongly together). ; Numerous b&w illustrations from photographs ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 676 pages
Wear and small open tears to DJ. Wear to extremities. Binding could be tighter ; A personal account of Haiti, reflective of its time; 8vo; 304 pages
Quarto in dark green cloth; xix, 317 pages, 82 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm; bibliographical references (pages 307-309) "This edition is limited to one thousand numbered copies of which this is no. [118]" / Forests and forestry -- Caribbean Sea. Forests and forestry -- Tropics. Forests and forestry -- Caribbean Area. ForÍts -- CaraÔbes (RÈgion) ForÍts -- RÈgions tropicales. Forests and forestry. Regenwouden. Caribbean Sea. Tropics. Autecologie; autecology; caribisch gebied; caribbean; bosbouw; forestry; plantenecologie; plant ecology; opstandsontwikkeling; stand development; opstandsstructuur; stand structure; subtropen; subtropics; bomen; trees; tropische regenbossen; tropical rain forests; tropen; tropics; vegetatie; vegetation; Ecology of Tropical Forests; Ecologie van tropische bossen
1st English edition. Later boards. 8vo. 94 pages, 22 cm. In English. CONTENTS: Characteristics of the Jewish Settlement --- The Pre-Historic' Period --- The New Immigration [refugees & survivors] --- Economic Development --- Culture and Press --- Jews and Cubans --- Organizing the Community. Translated from Spanish into English by Simon Wolin. Boris Sapir (1902-1989) was a prominent Russian Menshevik who fled to Germany then Cuba after the Bolshevik ascension to power. He worked as a historian during his brief time in Cuba, but he ultimately emigrated to the U. S. SUBJECTS: Cuban Jewry. No copies in OCLC. Ex-library with usual markings. Some damp stains, but overall Very good condition. (YID-32-22)
Gallimard,Du Monde Entier, 1965, 215 pp., édition originale française, exemplaire numérotés sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, n° 19/26, broché, couverture un peu jaunie avec rousseurs, non coupés, bon état.
246 pages. "Granny Brown, known as GB to her many friends and enemies, was tennant of one of the king-sized dust-bins constructed and filled with rubbish by the slum area behind Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was a stonebreaker by profession and by genius historian of all the scandalous gossip of the community". - from back cover. Underlining and/or marginalia interspersed throughout. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Interview with Hugo McPherson, formerly chairman of the NFB (National Film Board); Free-form FM and Montreal's CKGM-FM; Vancouver falconer George Galicz; Photo of Strom Thurmond after being pelted with marshmallows in Pittsburgh school last January; Storm clouds for the Weathermen; Article on Charles Manson and Linda Kasabian; Hero's welcome for Army Sergeant Esequiel Torres of Brownsville, Texas; The Deep River Ancient Muster; Yes from Nasser, Dilemma for Israel; The Points of Issue in the Hostile Middle East; Soviet AN-22 crashes into the North Atlantic while delivering relief supplies to Peru; Germany - the rocky road to recognition; Cambodia - the discreet U.S. Presence; The Caribbean - 'Tourism is Whorism"; Photo of Joe Pepitone sitting on Cadillac; Street Christians - Jesus as the ultimate trip; Color photos of art dealers Ben Heller, Sam Salz, Eugene Thaw, Michael Hall, Jane Wade, Charles Slatkin, Harold Diamond, and Harold Reed; Passing of Phillip J. Lucier, Jim G. Lucas, Iain Macleod, Barry Wood, Ilse Stanley and Panayotis Pipinelis; Major article and photo of singer Bessie Smith; The Old in the Country of the Young; The Prospects for Living Even Longer - Dr. Alex Comfort; A Kingdom Besieged - John M. King of Denver; Germany's Krupp rises again; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
344 pages. Spans the period of eighty years of Jamaican history following the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865. This period is seen through the eyes of Johny Campbell, who is of mixed African and European blood. Contents clean and unmarked. Covers significantly rubbed and showing average wear. Solid copy. Book
306p. Decorated title page. Lacks front fly leaf. Mildly age stained. 12mo. Original full green publisher's cloth binding. Embossed in blind and stamped with publisher's device. Gilt decorated and lettered spine. Slightly worn at extremities. Hardbound. First Edition. Fabens (1821-1875) went to the Island of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic and Haiti) to farm. He gives us a wonderful account of: his efforts to profitably grow fruit and vegetables; his relations with his neighbors; general conditions on the island; etc. Sabin 34420. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/7
Faint foxing to top edge; Limited Edition # 811 of 1,000 copies; 8vo; 318 pages
Complet en 3 tomes, vii + 1486pp. (pagination continuée) + 52 planches (avec photos en n/bl), 24cm., br.orig., Thèse de Doctorat, cachet au verso de la p.d.t., texte frais et en bon état, poids: 2.5kg., A110555
36 pages. Handsomely produced on glossy stock generously illustrated with color and black and white reproductions of archival photos, ads, and illustrations. Features: William D. Allison - The Master of Suspension; Recollections of Bill Allison's Youngest Son; The 1955 Caribbean Hardtop; Hot Rodding the Packard V-8; Buying a Brand New 50-Year Old Packard - an original 1955 Patrician - article with many color photos; 1955 - Everything Was New; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Book
280p. 24mo. Original quarter leather binding over marbled boards. Front board detached. Spine decorated in gold with leather label. Raised bands. Small loss at tail. Hardbound. Sabin 29312. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LATIN AMERICA BOX 1.
