181 résultats
96 pages. Index of advertisers. Features: Cover photo of the vessel 'Orient City' fully loaded with lumber; Two-color ad for Broderick yellow-strand wire rope inside front cover; Nicely logging-theme illustrated Timken bearing full-page ad; American Tiger Brand Wire Rope ad features great photo (circa 1885) of steam (bull) donkey and many loggers; R.G. LeTourneau ad features photo of their bulldozer and a Willamette-Hyster arch at work; Full-page two-color photo ad for Caterpillar features A.E. Baker of Fruit Growers Supply, Susanville, CA; Durable Douglas Fir Cross Arms used on telephone poles by the British Columbia Telephone Company - article with photo; Hand Methods Must Give Way to Mechanization in Eastern Canada - article; Photos of sawmill scenes in Sweden and Finland; Novel Effects in Wood at Paris Exposition - article with photos; Unique Power Plant of Vancouver Island Lumber Operation - Nootka Wood Products, Ltd. mill at Port Tasis (Tahsis) is driven by wood gas - article with photos - including photo of John P. Blenkinsop and Harry Smith and another photo of plant manager Lute D. Rogers with George M. Cornwall of this publication; Fantastic two-page two-color illustrated ad for the Ross Lumber Carrier, Model 90; S.A. Woods Machine Company ad features their new 412 planer and matcher; Magnificent full-page ad for Disston precision ground cross-cut saws includes photos of fallers at work with this two-man saw; Distinct saving shown to be possible with two-man bucking crews - article; Plywood's outdoor uses are increasing - photo-illustrated article; Meeting of the Wooden Box Association at San Francisco; Mark Markkula and his logging Bunks and Chunks - article with photos of products and Mr. Markkula; Nicely illustrated one-page ad for Hercules Engines of Canton, Ohio; Logging in Tillamook - article with photos; Super one-page photo ad for Feenaughty Machinery Co.'s FWD trucks - with photo showing a massive load being hauled; Nice truck-logging themed photo ad for Waukesha engines; Awesome photos of Allis-Chalmers tractors at work for the Big Lakes Box Company in Klamath Basin; Fantastic full-page ad with photos of the Washington Diesel Yarder made by Washington Iron Works; Crazy photo of trucks driving 132' logs across the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills' narrow old logging bridge above Skykomish, WA; Photo of a Dow low stump power saw at work; Small illustrated ad for P. Sharkey & Son Horse Collars; Photo of an FWD truck at work for Mr. W.S. Jeans of Culp Creek, OR; Superheaters - their use on Donkeys and Locomotives - article; Oriental strife affects Pacific Lumber Trade - article; France decides between steel and wood rail cars; Foreign Lumber Fleet - list of lumber vessels visiting Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia - and their capacities; Three Bamfiled, B.C. photos accompany brief article about Pacific Cable and Wireless, Ltd. and their cable which extends from Bamfield to New Zealand; Photo of G.L. Graiff with redwood charcoal experimental wood gas-powered truck - Hammond Redwood Co. of Samoa, CA; Reunion of pioneer members of the Southwestern Washington Lumber Manufacturers Association - with photos of T.H. MacLafferty, C.A. Doty, Charles Gilchrist, W.C. Miles, Jerry Startup, S.S. Somerville; Obituary of August K. Berter; Nice illustrated ad for the Warren Axe and Tool Co. of Warren, PA.; and more. Unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Chips missing from backstrip. Binding intact. A rare surviving issue of this highly informative vintage lumber periodical. Magazine
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Book in mint unread condition. 51pp. Concise histories about a number of tram networks based on towns and cities in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Well illustrated with maps.
Illustration Features: Miss D. Truscott, of St. Veep, Cornwall; The Marvel of Three Years - article by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; King George visits Vimy where Canada won glory; Fragments of fighting from four fronts; One the Marne Battlefield - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Italy sweeps Austria from the Adriatic Sea; Canadians enter Avion through fire and blood; Using bullet-proof shields; Ready for all emergencies afloat; The Long Arm of the Navy - it's wonderful to work in the seven seas (article by Percival Hislam); Miss Matilda of 'The Scrubbs' - article by Harold Ashton; Allied Artillery of Assault - 'Tanks' in action; Greece girds on her sword for war; Keeping Fit in the Navy - the Friendsly boxing bout; The Seaforth Highlanders - article with photo of officers. Above-average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 116 monochrome plates on 64, 5 illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. Published in Batsford's notable 'British Heritage' series.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Man Who Was Buried Alive - Part I - The Amazing Adventures of the "Marquis de Champaubert"; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part VI (conclusion) - John Gibbons wraps up his amusing walking tour of Southern Italy; A Himalayan Marriage Market - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article about a quaint annual fair where all eligible girls of the district assemble to be inspected by young men with a view to marriage; Filming in the Wilds - Part III of Major C. Lestock Reid's account of his major adventures attempting to film an adventure story in the Far East, this time in Indo-China - with two photos of Angkor Wat; A Deal in Diamonds - Dr. T. Hilding Svartengren was nearly swindled out of a fortune in Paris; The Town of Ghosts - Walter F. King discovers a deserted mining camp in the High Sierras which was abandoned in haste; Wreck-Hunting - For fifty years Herbert J. Gibson of Penzance, Cornwall, has built a photographic record of the ships driven onto the local rock-bound coasts - article with many dramatic photos; "Monty" The Man-Eater - Part I - One of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; The Ship of Mystery - The strange last voyage of a vessel to Manila where a soldier of fortune hoped to profit by the ship's cargo; Premonition - Can a man prevent his death after he has had a premonition of it?; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: In the Grip of the "Hip Sings" - Part II - an American businessman is also secretly a member of a lawless tong/Chinese secret society; How We Foiled "U 39" - H.O. Read, Late First Officer S.S. "Anglo-Californian", a horse transport, explains what happened when his vessel was attacked by a German U-Boat; Our Wanderings in Northern Africa - another of the popular "Penelope" articles covers Tunis, Kairouan, and Algeria (includes photo of Tunisian Jewesses in towering head-dresses intended to make them, all fat to enhance their marriage prospects); The Trapped Diver - Charles Margerison recounts his terrible underwater predicament working for the City of Toronto's Department of Works; On the Trail in Wonderland - Part I - Mary Roberts Rinehart explores the new Glacier Park in North-Western Montana; The Old Man of Tregennon Lodge - a very remarkable ghost story from Cornwall, England; From Job to Job Around the World - Part VIII - two young Americans begin broke in London but soon Mr. Fletcher travels to Norway under contract to do Arctic coal-mining; A Boy Hero of the Midi - translated from the diary of Eugene Escloupie, a 14-year-old French boy who smuggled himself to the front and took part in some hot WWI fighting; Our Fijian Field-Day - three young white men compete in sports contests against sport-loving Fijians (with nice photos); The Great Wire Mystery - copper wire was constantly stolen from South-East Pennsylvania railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies until the elusive culprit was caught; Fishing With Spades and Ploughs for the sand eel on the Normandy coast; and more. pp. 9 [ads], [2], 484-576, 10-16 [ads]. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part I - Events attending the siege and fall of Urfa where 500 French troops held out against the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks - article with photos; The World's Largest Ice Cavern - in the mountains of Tyrol in Austria - article with photos; The Three "Little People" of St. Gwendron - an odd story from the wilds of Cornwall involving the occult - article with photos; The World's Most Thrilling Sport - photo-illustrated article on the rock climbers of Tyrol; A Man's Luck - Part VII - a man tries to build an Alaska home for the girl of his dreams but keeps being jailed; The Loneliest Briton - Ernest Davies spent eight years in the Paumotus, three thousand miles from the nearest Australian or American ports; Photo of a thirty foot python; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part II - description of an exciting trip into the practically unknown region to the north of Cape Colony, sometimes called the "Mysterious Richtersveld"; Bill's First Lion - things didn't go as planned; The Man Who Fooled a Continent - "Lord Gordon Gordon" nearly brought about an international incident between Great Britain and the USA; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part IV - documenting what was probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies; "Moonshine Valley" - account of a raid on a stronghold of moonshiners in Strawn, Texas; The Death-Trap - A Texas cowpuncher's night of horror; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 444-528, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs, and line illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Collects favourite passages from sixteen volumes of the immensely popular Minack Chronicles, published between 1961 and 1990.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs, and line illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Collects favourite passages from sixteen volumes of the immensely popular Minack Chronicles, published between 1961 and 1990.
8vo., Sixth Edition, with coloured and monochrome maps and plans (a number folding) and coloured front endpaper map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, coves lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright,clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs and reproductions throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
8vo., Twenty-Third Edition, with numerous photographs and a double-page map in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
VG paperback reprint. 9632. eng
58 pages. Features: Narrow-Gauge Summer - nice photos; Railroading on Chesapeake Bay - Pennsylvania Railroad's saltwater fleet serves Norfolk and provides an alternate north-south route along the Atlantic Seaboard - article with photos; Third Morning Delivery - U.S. and Canadian Roads cooperate in hauling perishable and manifest freight the long way 'round from Chicago to the East - long article with map and photos; Photo Section; Nice centerfold photo of the Cornwall Railroad of 1895 - the American Standard locomotive Penryn is standing at the Lebanon, Pa. station; $7.50 to L.A. - That's the price Southern Pacific charges to ride the 470 miles from San Francisco - long article with photos; Last Train from Carson City - Virginia & Truckee closes its books - Photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and tinted photographs throughout; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Nelhams, the resident gardener, gives a richly illustrated account of the family, garden and plants associated with this magnificent feature of the Scilly Isles.
8vo., Third Edition, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue, upper board lightly faded at upper edge else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Twenty Years at St. Hilary. [Third Edition]
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Vg (no dj, pictorial card covers, slight rub to fore-edge of front cover, trace of erased pencil price front free endpaper, a very good clean copy with no other marks or inscriptions) quarto 120pp. Nearly 200 captioned old picture postcards from the Peter Dryden collection (b/w). First edition.
français 0 1865' p. 353 à 400 (48 p.). Fascicule orig., extrait de la série TOUR DU MONDE de l'année et semestre indiqués. Gravures ou photographies in-t et h-t. Format 21 x 29cm. Ex. collé en couverture d'attente, illustrée, carton rouge ou vert. Bonne présentation. TOUR-DU-MONDE VOYAGES GRANDE-BRETAGNE MINES CORNOUAILLES
1st Magnum edition. VG pbk. ISBN 0417034504. Cover illustration by Gino D'Achille. Romantic Suspense. 17789. eng
VG pbk reprint. ISBN 0903975971. 16211. eng
