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50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Great colour cover photo of scene inside trading post; Delta Marsh Revisited - waterfowl research station on the shores of Lake Manitoba; Eskimo Sleds - photo-illustrated article; Trading at Padlei, N.W.T. - ; Northern Portraits - photos taken along the Alaska Highway; Conflict on Puget Sound - friction between the Company men at Nisqually and the incoming American settlers, a century ago; First Short-Wave in the Arctic (part II); Filming the Northland - the making of the NFB film 'Indian Canoeman'; Klondike Memories - adventures of young Englishmen who struck it rich in the Klondike; There Go Flukes! - giant sperm whale fights for its life against killer ship ("Nahmint") and killer whales - photo-illustrated article; La Perouse on Hudson Bay - hitherto unpublished eye-witness account of the French capture of Prince of Wales's Fort and York Factory in 1782; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay shirts for men and women on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Wilderness Treasure - travelling along the historic 'Voyageur's Highway' in the Quetico-Superior border region; Protecting the Canadian side of the Quetico-Superior region; 'Home is Some Taffy Hair' - tale from the HBC post at Lake Harbour; People of the Snows - photo portraits; Exploring the Kazan River in 1926 - Thierry Mallet - photo-illustrated article; 3000 Miles by Dog Sled - tale of missionary journey made by late Canon Turner, which was almost the best ever made with dogs north of the Arctic Circle, written from his diaries and letters by his brother Edward; James Bay Cabin - C.S. Maclean and his guide Arthur Smith; Sealing - New Style - photo-illustrated article; Photos of outside and inside of the HBC's new fur sales building in Montreal; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: What it means to be Canadian; Mr. McIntosh's wonderful apple - in 1811 a settler made a strange discovery; The trial of Ambroise Lepine - murder, politics and the public memory; In the footsteps of the workers - Canadian labour history walking tours; Mr. King and Lady Byng - Hate at first sight; Canada's Black Defenders - former slaves answer the call to arms; The struggle for a secret Canadian ballot. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
16 pages. Includes: Biffo the Bear; The 3 Bears; Roger the Dodger; Danny on a Dolphin; Little Plum; Billy Whizz; The Bash Street Kids; Pup Parade with the Bash Street Dogs; Lord Snooty; Minnie the Minx; Here Come The Q-Bikes; Dennis the Menace. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
73 pages plus eleven fold-out plans. Index. Gilt lettering upon navy blue front board and backstrip. Average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
100 pages. Features: Reports from Washington and London; Report on Science and Industry; Ship of Fools (an episode), by Katherine Anne Porter; Catholic Temper in Poland, by Graham Greene; Hunter-Killers in the Atlantic, by Samuel Eliot Morison; Why do we Teach Poetry?, by Archibald MacLeish; After Four Years - a poem, by May Sarton; Uprooting the Indians, by Ruth Mulvey Harmer; How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank - story by John Steinbeck; A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing, by Anna Mary Wells; Management in Search of Men, by David A. Shepard; John Gunther's Africa, by Richard E. Danielson; Messenger - a poem by Hortense Flexner; Nice colour ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Mm 285x310 Volume rilegato in tela con sovraccoperta, 256 pagine profusamente illustrate a colori. Testo in lingua inglese - english text. Libro in condizioni di nuovo - brand new. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 351pp. A splendid authoritative collection of poems about bicycles and cycling including many not previously published. Scarce in the UK.
84 pages. Numerous black and white illustrations. Features: The Dome of Heaven; About a type of Islamic Incense Burner; The Secret of the Medieval Masons; An Explanation of Stornaloco's Formula; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
80 pages. Features: The Origin of the Two- Tower Facade in Romanesque Architecture; Esteban March, Baroque Battle and Portrait Painter; Milan and Savoldo; and more. Contents clean and unmarked. Average external wear. A sound copy. Book
Pages 78-111. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Features: The art of the scriptorium of Einsiedeln; Turkish "bird" rugs and their design; A lost cartoon for Leonardo's Madonna with St. Anne; Average wear. Exterior partially darkened with age. Binding intact. Gift greetings upon title page. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of Ab Jenkins and his 1933 V-12 Pierce-Arrow; Obituary of Arthur Kumpf inside front cover - Mr. Kumpf had a long association with the Pierce-Arrow, including service as a racer and endurance driver in the U.S. and Europe; list of Ab Jenkins' Driving achievements; Fredericksburg Meet Photos on pages 13 through 20; items on pages 4 through 9 are from the March 31, 1930 issue of 'The Pierce-Arrow News' (which was a large 'newspaper format' factory publication); Some Pierce-Arrows at Harrah's - with text and photos; New Parts Set-Up Gives Rush Service; Downton Window Display Proves Successful for Holden-Nelson; Here's the way your parts orders are handled; Speech of Col. Charles Clifton, 1917; Speech of Mr. Day about factory plans for the maintenance and up-building of Pierce-Arrow quality; Paint Shop Memories, by William L. Fischer; Many great photos from the 1974 PAS meet; Text of talk given at meet by Maurice A. Thorne. Back cover features reproduction of an ad for the Pierce-Arrow Travelodge, an early house/travel-trailer which could be pulled by car. Moderate wear. Umarked. A quality copy. Book
44 pages. Bilingual English/ French. Many black and white photos. Features: The path to confederation; The Glover album; Naomi Jackson Grove papers; Establishing the Newfoundland Experimental Station, 1946-1950; New Province, New Park; "Earl Grey, the Governor, and Confederation"; Canada's Newfoundland commenorative postage stamp of 1949; New Canadian postal archives; How the war altered Newfoundland's relations with Canada, the US and Britain; Newfoundland as recorded by women; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
Pages 145-212 plus 90 pages of ads. Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white photography throughout. Features: Cover photo of 1301 Astor Street Apartments, Chicago; Frontis photo of the Van Tassel Apartments at North Tarrytown, NY; How Can Apartment Facilities be Provided For the Lower-Income Groups?; Low Rental Dwellings - how can building cost be reduced?; Reducing Apartment Costs by Economy of Planning, Construction and Operation; Chronology of Development of Garden Apartments and Group Row Homes; How Large-Scale Housing Projects are Developed; Portfolio of Apartment Houses; Price-Winning Apartments in New York - Plates; Colors to Relieve Eye Strain in the Surgical Operating Theater; The Need for a New Housing Economy; Dozens of sensational full-page illustrated ads; and much more. Minimal library markings. Average wear. External soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Magazine
Features: The Fascination of English Porcelain Figures; Furniture for a Faith - Shaker Furniture; Thoresby Hall; The Story of English Drinking Glasses, Part II - Plain Stems and Newcastle Glasses, 1730-1750; Animals in Porcelain; Some Thoughts on Oriental Art; Charm and Variety in Victorian Silhouettes; The Powerful Lure of Self-Portraits; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Violet M. White - a Personal Remembrance; Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire - The Historic Home of the Vernon Family; The Beginnings of Furnishing with Antiques; Jacobus Houbraken - the Master Engraver - Second Series; The Regency Screen Desk; The Rise of the Suffolk School; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Some pages loose but present. Book
Features: The United Service Club, Pall Mall; Five Water-Colourists - H.B. Brabazon, George Cattermole, H.B. Carter; E.W. Cooke, W.J. Muller; A Cool look at Hertford House; Some Uncommon Examples of Old English Pewter; "Stevengraphs" - the other side of the picture; Jewellery made in steel and iron; Fair news; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Magazine
Features: Taxing historic houses; A Nation that Saved its Art - Polish Art Treasures at the Royal Academy covering 1,000 years; Packwood House - a National Trust Mansion in the Forest of Arden; Roman Domestic Glass; Pick of the Furniture Market; A Galaxy of Teapots - The Shand Kydd Collection, Part II; Prints made from Silhouettes; Hieratic Art of the Elizabethans - Exhibition at the Tate Gallery; The Case for Dr. Wall - has a pioneer of English Porcelain been unjustly discredited; and more. Minimal markings. Average wear. Pages in the back half are loose but present. Magazine
Features: The True Father of English Clockmaking; Sulgrave Manor - The Northamptonshire Home of the Washingtons; 18th Century Soap-Boxes; Genius, Conformity and Eccentricity - The Bicentenary Exhibition at the Royal Academy; The Fromanteels - an Exhibition Illustrating the first Twelve Years of the Pendulum Clock; 16th and 17th century Swiss Stained Glass Painting; Opaque Twist Soda Glasses - are they of English or continental provenance?; English 18th century Furniture at Kenwood; Thoughts about Hallmarks on Silver; Interpreting Classic Landscapes by Old Masters; Paintings by Paul Huet (Exhibition at the Heim Gallery); New V. and A. Gallery for Musical Instruments; Fair news; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Magazine
334 pages. Papers include: Health Needs and Civic Action; Housing and Health; Scientific Research by the Public Health Service; The Census and the Public Health Movement; Sources of Information upon the Public Health Movement; Work of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health; Public Health Movement on the Pacific Coast; Protecting Public Health in Pennsylvania; Health Problems of the Indians; Health Problems of the Negroes; The Rural Health Movement; Sanitation in Rural Communities; Tropical Diseases and Health in the United States; The House Fly as a Carrier of Disease; The Mosquito Campaign as a Sanitary Measure; Clean Milk and Public Health; Ventilation and Public Health; Social Service Work in Hospitals; Mouth Hygiene and its Relation to Health; The Physical Care of Children; What American Cities are Doing for the Health of School Children; The Elimination of Feeble-Mindedness; Prevention of Infantile Blindness; The Warfare Against Infant Mortality. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
8vo., Third Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous monochrome plates and endpaper maps; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, green top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. With splendid wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Brian Cook. Neate 401.
42 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: Pounding Waves and Creaking Timbers - first of three chapters of "Master of the Moonrise"; The Whistle Pig - the marmot that scared the bear did not heed its own warning; Frontier Town - a Ketchikan old-timer who was there in 1898 presents some interesting recollections; No One at Home at Kulukak - Silence, complete, awful silence in a remote place can be a terrible thing; First Impressions - The first of two chapters of "Cannery Village"; and more. Unmarked. Moderate evidence of moisture exposure. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
A very rare and wonderful find! Take a trip down memory lane with this complete issue of the (Toronto) Star Weekly from March of 1947. Includes five separate components. Magazine Section Number One (16 pages) includes: Harvest in Springtime, by Mary Brinker Post; Tall Tales of the Rattler, by J. Frank Dobie; article entitled 'Arctic Becomes Frontier in New U.S. Strategy'; Trouble in the Desert, by Chester Chatfield; Article - Swing to Nationallization - in which Emil Lengyel describes how various European countries are nationalizing their industries; Article - England's Under Ground - in which Harold A. Albert writes of English Archaeology; Article by Benjamin Waife describes Einstein's contention that two-thirds of people might be killed in nuclear war; Go-Getting Granby, Quebec - nice article with photos; Article - Argentina's 'Little Eva' Bids for More Power; 'Mart, I Know Women!', by Sven Skaar; King of the Clarinet - Barry Ulanov writes of Benny Goodman - includes photos; Moshin Ali writes about 'Opening Up a Forbidden Land' in Nepal; 'Jap Children Learn a New Way', in which Richard Hughes writes about children in the 'bomb-blackened' suburbs of Tokyo; Boxing's 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs; Article on scientific study of the sun by Charles Greeley Abbot; Article - Bombay to Cut Booze by States; Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has invented a Global Alphabet - article by Mario A. Pei; Claws and Effect, by Clifford L. Walters; plus various black and white ads. Magazine Section Number Two (12 pages) contains: Superior Moustrap, by Travis Ingham; The Sobbing Wind, by Keith Edgar; Monkey-Shines in Zooland, by William M. Mann; News article with the headline "German Divorce a Bargain at $40 - Free if Poor; Britain's Land Revolution, in which Matthew Halton of the CBC describes progress with Britain's Town and Country Planning Bill; Plant Sleuth, by Leigh Henry; Lost Lode - Third Instalment; Your Easter Bonnet, with photos; Variety in the Lenten Menu; The 'Cheesecake' Industry - How Hollywood celebrities spend much of their time posing for publicity photos - includes colour photos of Patricia White and Frances Gifford; Colour half-page cartoon entitled 'Right Around Home' by Dudley Fisher on the theme of 'We Do Our Banking - Such as it is'. The third section is 'Rimrock Red' - a Star Weekly Complete Novel (15 pages) by Lytle Shannon. Page 16 of this section is a cartoon called Vignettes of Life on the theme "Spring is Near". Next we have a twenty-page colour cartoon section - "Canada's Best" - including offerings of: Jane Arden; Thimble Theatre - Starring Popeye; Winnie Winkle; The Lone Ranger; Steve Canyon; Ella Cinders; Invisible Scarlet O'Neil; Dick Tracy;Tarzan; Blondie; Little Orphan Annie; Superman; Napoleon; Flash Gordon; Moon Mullins; Pepsi and Pete (Pepsi cartoon/ad); Mandrake the Magician; Bringing Up Father; Li'l Abner; Terry and the Pirates; Little Lulu; Abbie and Slats. Please note there are fore-edge tears to some of these cartoon pages. Finally we have the 26-page Star Weekly magazine which features a colour cover illustration by Anderson of a boy preparing cough medicine for his sick pooch in front of the pot-bellied stove. The magazine contains dozens of black and white photos on themes including: The Far East's Colorful Highways and Byways (including a most primitive scene scene of stilt fishing huts in the Kalang River near Singapore's civil airport); The Transit Twins and Trolley Triplets - the children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Macatee of Philadelphiago through 420 diapers weekly!; Life with the world's largest fishing fleet of Norway; Nice full-page colour Campbell's Soup ad; British Folk Dances; Rebirth of Monte Cassino; Colour Bovril ad. Barbara Ann Scott; Lois Maxwell; Gale Robbins; Colour centerfold ad for Rogers Bros. Silverplate; Nice colour Kellogg's All-Bran ad (with beige stain in upper corner; Michele and Mikey Morgan; Stewart Granger with son James; Grandson of Rin Tin Tin; Colour ad for Lipt Book
In 8? (cm 22), Brossura, pagg. con risvolti, cop. ill. a colori, pagg. 167 con qualche ill. b.n. n.t., ottimo es. Prima ed unica edizione. L'opera si inserisce entro l'ambito del Censimento mondiale dei codici danteschi promosso dalla Societ? Dantesca Italiana, offrendo un'opportuna e necessaria documentazione inerente lo specifico regionale marchigiano. Il senigalliese Albani si ? occupato a lungo di Dante, gi? borsista per la Societ? Dantesca Italiana, ha pubblicato molti articoli su riviste e periodici e due volumi a carattere filologico sulla Commedia; ha inoltre scritto anche di poesia e letteratura contemporanea.
In 8? (cm 26,5), Brossura edit., pagg.22 (da pag. 135 a pag. 157) con qualche illustr. b.n. n.t. Estratto dal Volume. "La congregazione dell'Oratorio di San Filippo Neri nelle Marche del '600" , buon es.
