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Pages 612-634. Features: Cover illustration at Herreshoff's Yard, Bristol, Rhode Island, of the launching of "Columbia," built to defend "America's" Cup against "Shamrock"; Our Opportunities; This Busy World; Photos of Men of the Day - A.J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad, W.W. Keen of the American Medical Association, and Henry O. Havemeyer; Photos and brief obituaries for "Waltz King" Johann Strauss and Richard Parks Bland; Photo of Captain H.E. Nichols, U.S.N. who commanded the U.S.S. "Monadnock"; Photos from the Philippines of - General Lawton at the Battle of Baliuag, General MacArthur on the Skirmish Line, Colonel Summers and staff leaving Baliuag with six battalions, General Lawton in his field HQ at Angat, Colonel Summers's troops on the march, Colonel Summers's command advancing to the Battle of Moasin; The Philippine Revolt - The Santa Cruz Expedition; An English Mother (poem); The Fifth Annual Lake Mohonk Arbitration Conference; Image of the French cruiser "SFAX" bringing Captain Dreyfuss home for retrial; Full page illustration "A Faro Game at El Paso"; A Curious Coincidence; A Queen's Charity; London; Two-page centerfold illustration of the North Atlantic Squadron in the Harbor of Cape Haitien, Island of Haiti "A Visit From the Natives"; Hawaiian America - lengthy article with Oahu, Hawaii, Maui and Kauai; Amateur Sport - baseball article with many photos of college players; The Conspirators (continued); Illustration "Forced Inspiration" by Peter Newell on back cover. Great vintage ads. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
353 - 384, viii [ads] pages. Features: Many nostalgic ads; Seen on the Stage - including photos of Maude Adams, Raymond Hitchcock, Ethel Barrymore, and Bruce McRae; Working directions for Vogue weekly pattern No. 317; Ad for the Surrey Type One Ramber car by Thomas B. Jeffery & Company; Lovely one-page illustrated ad for the Arnold Print Works of New York, featuring their Superfine Organdie and Grecian Voileplus fabrics; Lovely one-page illustrated ad for Rajah and Burlingham fabrics and silks; American Women and Marriage (article); Several one-page illustrations of current fashion; Well-Dressed Man section includes photos of walking coat, waistcoat of suit, fancy white waistcoat, and novel handkerchief; Fabulous Peck & Peck Hosiery ad on back cover features seven wonderful illustrations of contemporary decorated ladies stockings (No. 68 through 74); many current news snippets on a variety of topics. Unmarked with average wear. Please note: large clipping of toque from page 367 affects centerfold illustration on other side of page. Front cover loose but present. Back cover nearly loose. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Book
Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sledge Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson as described by Capt. Madigan - major article with fascinating photos; My Adventures in the World War, Part 3 of E. Ashmead-Bartlett's adventures as a war correspondent; In the Land of the Lapps - Part 3 - photo-illustrated description of the life and customs of these fascinating and little-known people; The Gum Lands of New Zealand - photo-illustrated article on the Kauri gum industry of New Zealand; How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France - important information about the Chinese Labour Corps which assisted British armies in non-combatant duties at the Front were recruited in China and transported from their distant homes in the Far East across the seas to France, travelling via Canada; Marooned in the Arctic - E.H.L. Mitchell went to Alaska on a mining venture but was shipwrecked and marooned on a barren island for eight weeks; The Water-Gardeners of Amiens, France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Lost in the Mine - the lamp of a boy working in a Welsh coillery went out and he lost his way - and nearly his life; Photo of the four-hundred and fifty Temples of the Law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 354-440 plus 24 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Bullet-proof Scotchman - an adventure of John Mundell in the Pampas of Uruguay; ; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - part I - wonderful photos in China; An Exciting Trading Trip - efforts to trade with a warlike tribe in East Africa; Some Strange WWI Escapes from Germany - part II; Interesting photo and short article of Dog Rib Indians in Canada receiving their annual grant of one pound, as well as presents, from the Canadian government; Among the Wild Tribes of Darien - exploring the native tribes of Panama - with great photos; Stories of the War - Thirty Hours in No Man's Land - in WWI an Australian trooper on the Western Front is wounded and must make his way back to his own lines; Siringa's Last Battle - a native boy helps in one of the first fights in German East Africa, A Week in a Lens Dungeon - McLean and Ebbs of the 87th Canadian Battalion hid in a cellar for a week before making their way back to their lines; Miraculous Escapes from Sunken Submarines; An Adventurous Hunt After Man-eating Crocodiles - in Victoria Nyanza; The Mountain Warriors of France - excellent photos; The Zulu Love Medicine - part II of what happend when Zulus killed an Englishman to use his body for love medicine; Wonders of Northern Syria - article with many great photos of architectural remains; Carter's Exoneration - a stirring story of the Australian Mounted Police. Great multi-page advertising feature on the Waterproof Products Corporation. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Cover: Le Touquet, France Canadian Soldiers Walking Along Promenade. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Norfolk Portraits" by R.W. Ketton-Cremer; The Great World War: Is This the Final Round? (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: The Problem of Migrating Birds. Pictorial Journals include: Stubborn Resistance - American Troops in Moving Up for the Final Assault; The Greatest of Airborne Operations - The Invasion of Holland; Canals and Rivers of the Netherlands, Scene of a Vital Battle (inc map); Le Havre: The British Capture of the Important Enemy-Held Port; Infantry and Flame-Throwers in Action: Some of the Prisoners; The Triumphant Advance of the Allies: Scenes of Liberated France and Belgium; The Dutch Landscape Covered with Grounded and Falling Allied Parachutes; The First Penetration By U.S. Troops of the Siegfried Line; The A.V.R.E.: A British Mortar Tank Designed for Breaching Fortifications; The Battle of Britain Commemoration Service in Westminster Abbey on Sunday, September17, 1944; Secrets of the Flying Bomb: Constructional Details Revealed; The Mystery Structure Near St. Omer - Believed a Long-Range V-2 Base; The Quebec Conference, 1944; War Items of Interest; Pencil Studies of Gandhi and Jinnah, Who Recently Met in Bombay (illus. by Feliks Topolski); and Norman Wilkinson's Exhibition of "War at Sea" Paintings in London. Advertising cover: moderate to excessive wear, with prior owners ink stamp with some writing centre front cover. Page 339/340 missing. Page 361/362 loose but present. Covers loose and taped at fold. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy reading copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hunting of Gonzales - An adventure of Senor Ramon Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Adrift on an Ice-Floe - Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green provides a photo-illustrated account of the amazing fashion in which a primitive Eskimo extricated himself from a predicament which would assuredly spelt death for a white man; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part II - Winifred S. Blackman's photo-illustrated account of the three winters she spent with the local people of Upper Egypt; Fraser's Price - The tale of an angered railroad engineer; The Three Angleteers - Part V (conclusion) of the trouble and adventures of three English wanderers in Constantinople and Athens; "Remember the Mortons" - A stirring story of an episode in the Matabele rebellion of 1895; Salvage Extraordinary - An Indian planter's account of an odd affair on the Brahmaputra River in Assam, including photo of five elephants pushing a stranded steamer; The Head-Hunters of Sepik - Part III - Beatrice Grimshaw explored the Sepik River of New Guinea and dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Where Everyone is Wealthy - The Osage Indians of Oklahoma come up with the strangest ways to divest themselves of their wealth earned from local oil - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part III - Count Nils Cronstedt spares a condemned bull-terrier which rewards him by saving him multiple times while he served in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; "Old White Face" - Allen Borders of Montana relates a terrifying cougar experience; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part III - The story of a British officer's remarkable journey - disguised as an Oriental - across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; "Captain Jed" - a tale of the whalers of New Bedford, MA, involving the "Cap'n Jed" and the "Wanderer" - very few men have ever fought a 'right' whale single-handed and lived to tell the tale; Python and Lion in Nyassaland - after visiting a witch-doctor for poisoning the author is attacked first by a great python, then a lion!; Photo of a Manchurian man 7 feet and 3 inches tall; Photo of a veritable forest of masts at Lowestoft, the Suffolk fishing port, during the height of herring season; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
191825979V. Darantière, 1918. Fort volume in-4 (28 x 22 cm), 999 pages, portrait gravé de J.-F. Garnier en frontispice, une grande carte dépliante en couleurs du Duché de Bourgogne en 1790. Introduction de Joseph Garnier, terminée par Ernest Champeaux. Trois grandes parties : Livre I.-De la condition des personnes en Bourgogne avant l'institution des Chartes.- Livre II.- Marche de la révolution communale en Bourgogne.- Livre III.- Institutions nées de la révolution communale.-Appendice.-2750g.C. - Oeuvre d'une immense érudition sur le passé ancestral de la Bourgogne, la vie bourguignonne dans les domaines politique, religieux, industriels, commerciaux, corporatives, ou privés.- Peu de rousseurs, couverture âbimée, notamment dos recollé, mais ensemble solide et complet. Rare.
2010x-1439847665CRC Pr I Llc 2010. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 460 pages. 9.53x6.50x1.22 inches. CRC Pr I Llc hardcover
20062111902152907768Chusekisha 2006. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 179x120mm Number of books: 18 books in total Chusekisha paperback
SLIVCN-9781611227505NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC (9/2012)
1996DBS-9780306448447Plenum 1996. 1st. Hardcover. New. Plenum hardcover
1996DBS-9780306448447Plenum 1996. 1st. Hardcover. New. Plenum hardcover
170021236A Paris, chez Pierre Emery, 1700. In-12 de [12]-401-[7] pages, plein veau moucheté brun, dos à nerfs orné de filets et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge.
192332654New York: Smart Set Company Inc. 1923. Text paper white ragged wear along right front cover and lower right paper edge small chip to lower right front corner reading crease and corner creases a good to very good copy. 32654. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Magazine. Article "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective" by Dashiell Hammett. Reference: Laymen Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography C8. Smart Set Company, Inc. unknown
1930148911Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1930. 16 page vintage program for the 1930 film announcing its showing at Broadway theaters in New York with abundant black and white photographs of actors aerial stunts and Howard Hughes throughout.<br /> <br /> Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production a story about World War I combat pilots today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent film and then retooled as a talkie in the wake of "The Jazz Singer." Most of the film is shot in black and white but one sequence is in color-the only color footage ever released of actress Jean Harlow before her untimely death. <br /> <br /> James Whale was hired by Hughes to direct the talking sequences Whale's first major effort in Hollywood but the overall production took so long that Whale's subsequent directorial effort "Journey's End" was released first.<br /> <br /> Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.<br /> <br /> Card wrappers saddle stapled 5 x 6.5 inches. 16 pages. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1833240340London: Effingham Wilson 1833. First edition. Wood-engraved frontispiece dated 1833 vignette on title illustrations in text. 6 96 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary blue cloth backed boards later paper label. Notes on pastedown. Very good. First edition. Wood-engraved frontispiece dated 1833 vignette on title illustrations in text. 6 96 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Lovely contemporary copy of this well illustrated angler's companion. Westwood & Satchell p. 13 Effingham Wilson unknown books
05840New York: The Citadel Press 1971. Signed on the front free endpaper "Frederic March - 1971"<br /> <br /> MARCH Fredric. QUIRK Lawrence J. The Films of Fredric March. New York: The Citadel Press 1971. <br /> <br /> First edition. Large quarto 11 x 9 1/2 inches; 280 x 240 mm. 1-2551 blank pp. Illustrated throughout in black & white. <br /> <br /> Publisher's black cloth over boards spine lettered in green. A fine copy in a near fine pictorial dust jacket.<br /> <br /> Signed on the front free endpaper "Frederic March - 1971".<br /> <br /> Fredric March born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel 1897-1975 was an American actor regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. As a performer he was known for his versatility. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards a Golden Globe Award and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and three Emmy Awards. New York: The Citadel Press, 1971 unknown
1928001822NY: Covici Friede 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed limited edition of this quintessential Jazz Age narrative poem by an early New Yorker editor and author of another of the era's signature poems The Wild Party 1926. Written in terse rhyming couplets The Set-Up concerns an aging Black boxer Pansy Jones who is coerced into throwing a fight against a lesser opponent. Double-crossed by his manager Jones revolts and wins the fight only to be chased to his presumed death on the New York subway tracks. March was reportedly inspired to write the poem after a viewing of Negro Boxer a 1927 painting by James Chapin. The Set-Up became a best- seller on publication going through numerous early printings and was later adapted into the 1949 Robert Wise film noir of the same name although Wise chose to eliminate the poem's racial commentary by making the main character white. This limited first edition handsomely illustrated by Alexander King is signed and hand-numbered by March on a limitation page at front. First edition. Limited to 275 signed and hand-numbered copies of which this is No. 156. Octavo 6.5 x 10 in.; 184pp.; patterned paper boards backed with tan cloth; paper spine label printed in red. About near fine with mild bumping to the top corners and moderate shelfwear resulting in some splitting and loss of paper at the tips and along the bottoms of the boards. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Lacking the original publisher's slipcase. <br/> <br/> Covici Friede hardcover
1928012420New York: Covici Friede 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Tall 8vo. 184pp Sharp First Trade Edition of this classic poem about an African American boxer made into the 1949 Film Noir of the same title starring Robert Ryan. Also published in a signed limited edition. Square tight and clean throughout with some fairly mild page edge toning. A touch of softness at the spine ends but quite minor. Solid unclipped dust-jacket $2.00 has a few chips to top edges and toning to edges and spine. Still solid and complete with no tears or creases. An attractive collectable copy at a great price. Covici Friede hardcover
1931159965N.p.: N.p. 1931. Collection of nine vintage negatives from the 1931 pre-Code horror film. <br /> <br /> Based on the classic 1886 novella and considered by many to be the definitive adaptation. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Actor for Fredric March. <br /> <br /> 6 x 4 inches. Fine. Housed in a paper envelope with annotations in manuscript pencil and ink. N.p. unknown
1933146070Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. First Draft script for the 1933 film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper.<br/><br/>Lt. Henry Crocker a blithe Royal Air Force pilot realizes that the constant violence of war is beginning to take a harsh toll on Lt. Jerry Young his flying ace buddy who is showing signs of cracking up. When Young breaks down and eventually commits suicide Crocker decides to stage his death as an in-air combat casualty in order to save his friend's reputation. The script's original ending seen in this early version depicted Crocker years later as a bedraggled old man homeless and alone staring at a memorial plaque with an epitaph praising Young's heroism. <br/><br/>Tall peach titled self wrappers noted as FIRST SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 451 dated January 30 1933 with credits for screenwriters Bogart Rogers and Seton I. Miller. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeographed on peach stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with creasing to the top left corner of the rear wrapper side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
19872693011th Airborne Division Association. Fine. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Soft Cover. As New. Tight clean and crisp. A gently read book in excellent condition. Illustrated with photograps and a diagram. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Very Scarce. As New. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 48 pages . 11th Airborne Division Association paperback
196731087New York: Columbia University 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Folios. Newsprint. Six early issues from the first year of publication of Columbia University's student answer to their west coast counterparts in the world of underground newspapers. Columbia definitely took the higher ground with less psychedelia and more serious content. Still issues covered varying subjects of protest and the Viet-Nam war. Issue size varied but all include anywhere from 10 to 18 pages. Some light expected tanning to paper else very good indeed. Roughly 11 x 15" tall. Surprisingly uncommon. Columbia University paperback books
192927669Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1929. Text paper tanned but supple closed tears and creases to yapp edges a very good to nearly fine copy. 27669. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf. pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn Donald Wandrei Frank Belknap Long "The Hounds of Tindalos" August Derleth Edmond Hamilton S. Fowler Wright Eli Colter and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193727887Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1937. Text paper tanned but supple a fine copy. 27887. Octavo single issue cover art by Margaret Brundage pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Dorothy Quick Robert Bloch G. G. Pendarves Edmond Hamilton Manly Wade Wellman and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
