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français In-8 de 245 pp.; broché de l'éditeur. Collection L'air du temps. Prix Albert Londres.
(Authors of the Caribbean Series) An anthology of stories set in Guyana and the islands of the Caribbean. Some tell of old legends, and the last story is full of pathos and hauntingly beautiful. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1944. 4to. mayor; XIII-526 pp. Con 701 ilustraciones fotográficas en negro entre el texto y 34 láminas en color. Encuadernación original en tela estampada.
Un volume de format in 8° en hauteur de 136 pp.; très nombreuses illustrations en couleurs. Reliure cartonnée de l'éditeur . Jaquette illustrée. Bel état. Voir photos. Peu fréquent.
Paris, Pierre Roger et Cie., Éditeurs, s.a. (1911). 4to.; 2 hs., 259 pp., 1 h., con 25 láminas fotográficas, obra del propio autor, fuera de texto y un mapa, aparte, de Centroamérica. Cubiertas originales de A. M. Gillet.
Köln & Weimar, Böhlau Verlag, 1992 [Forum Ibero-Americanum]. 4to.; XIV-486 pp. Con 113 ilustraciones fotográficas y reproducciones, en láminas aparte. Cubiertas originales.
pp. xvii, 540. Illustrations by Thornton Oakley. 8vo. Original full yellow cloth binding, soiled. An account of four voyages in the Caribbean taken by the authors. PA 11
Chipping and small open tears to DJ. Bookplate and previous owner's name in fep. Binding not tight; Thorough if slightly condescending look at the various islands of the west indies including Barbados, Cuba, Jamaica, etc ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 540 pages
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight traces of storage. 159pp. With a wealth of colour photographs giving the architecture, culture, social life and texture of the island of Cuba..
Sevilla, 2005. 4to. alargado; 555 pp., 1 h. Cubiertas originales.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with front and rear endpaper maps; original black cloth, gilt back, blue top (moderately faded), a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at edges, chipped with minor loss at head and tail (just affecting lettering) and with two short closed tears. Jacket design by William Belcher. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
Trinidad, The Trinidad Publishing Co., Vuillé's Printerie, 1924. 4to.; II-156 pp. Con ilustraciones entre el texto y 6 láminas fotográficas dobles, aparte. Más 28 hojas con anuncios publicitarios. Cubiertas originales.
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
329 p. Hardcover Good condition in good d.j. good
Features: Malevolent Mountain - The Western Hemisphere's Highest Peak Challenges Canada's Himilaya-Bound Mountaineers; The Quiet Famine - Biologists Protest and Bureaucrats Ponder as Hunger Decimates Canada's Seabird Colonies; Reflections in an Orbiting Eye - Canada from Space, Beauty and Science in the Images of Landsat; Leduc - A Legacy of Eclectic Excellence from a Quebecois Painter Undiscovered in his own time; Caribbean Backwaters - Riding the Ebb Tides of Colonialism in the Turks and Caicos. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Setting the Scene - Julia Clements; Birch Structures - Sylvie Expert-Bezancon; Bright and Beautiful - Baskets and Trays; Flower Arranging in the Caribbean; Reminiscences of a flower arranger - Joy Fleming; Winter Foliage - Rona Coleman; The Arum Family - Virginia Black; My Garden - George Foss; Flowers from a Winter Garden - Sheila Macqueen; A Wild Flower Sanctuary - W.J. Wegg; February in Your Garden - Frances Perry; Spring-Flowering Shade Plants - Edna Knowles; Natural Wood Containers; More Exotic Flower Lovers; Camilias in the British Isles; Silk Camelias; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice 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
Features: Commodore Vic-20 computer ad; Tourist invasion ends solitude of Queen Charlotte Islands; Richard Hatfield wins again in New Brunswick; Litton Systems bombed in Etobicoke; Federal by-election results - Peter Worthington proves spoiler; Limits on parental power - Camille Laurin; Trial of Albert Helmut Rauca; John McEnroe ad for Bic shavers; Poland's days of anguish, with colour photos - outcry over Solidarity's dismantling; King Hussein meets with Yasser Arafat - article with photo; Cover Story - Friends Again - U.S./Canadian relations; Scotiabank's Caribbean affair - the lure of tight bank secrecy laws and no corporate tax; International Harvester fights bankrupcy; Bytec's booming high-tech venture; Peter C. Newman on Bill Mulholland of BMO; Blood and Tears at the financially challenged CBC; Victims of drunk drivers fight back; The pride of the Tudor fleet - the rising of the Mary Rose; Noah's Ark and biblical truth; Fascinating National Citizens' Coalition ad slamming Pierre Trudeau - lists many of his damning quotes; The Amos Garrett Band - article with photo of Amos; Movie reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Fiddlers of the Marsh; Diamond Rock - Gibraltar of the Caribbean; Internal Waves - The Wake of Sea Monsters; Oyster Reefs - Valuable to More than Oysters; Hospital for Marine Mammals; Flamingo Tongues; Biological Sources of Energy from the Sea; Lighthouse Hostels; Black Bottlenosed Dolphin. Sound copy. Book
Features: Carmel Bay - Marine oasis in the cold Pacific; Leatherjackets - savory stingers; nations unite to fight pollution; Protecting the Caribbean; Oama summer; Cocos Island - Verdant treasure; Miniature marine foulers; Man-made Island - solution to economic and environmental woes. Sound copy. Book
Features: New trouble in the tide pools; Northern elephant seals return; Sunburst after nightfall; Will the Caribbean hawksbill turtle survive?; Unwanted oil and gas production; Li'l Red; Shark hunting on the Arkansas ocean deep; Follow up - Source of the Bermuda freak waves. Sound copy. Book
Features: What's in a cave?; Painting with pesticides - the controversial organotin paints; Stars with thousands of feet (star fish); The see-through salp; Lighthouse reef - a Caribbean atoll; Coralline algae - pink plants of fhe seafloor; Oceanography on stamps - the Christmas Island Phosphate Company. Sound copy. Book
100 pages. Features: Reports from Washington, India, and Russia in the Middle East; The Angry South, by Ralph McGill; The Family in Modern Drama, by Arthur Miller; Memory (poem), by Theodore Roethke; The Soviet Challenge and American Policy - Danger Unrecognized, by Averell Harriman; Drug for the Major - story by Geoffrey Household; George F. Baker - an Atlantic portrait, by Katherine Anne Porter - episode from a novel in progress; Orchard (poem), by Richard G. Hubler; Faith and History, by Duncan Howlett; Three Aprils and a Poet, by Carl Carmer; Mozart Festivals, by Curtis Cate. Colour ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whiskey inside from cover. Colour photo ad for Grace Line Caribbean Cruises on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
