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8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition. Enser, p.318.
32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Woodrow Wilson Was Best and Worst Copy - his passion for accuracy conflicted with newspapermen who ignored serious things to ask him 'what he ate for breakfast' - part 3; Housekeeping in Our Paris Flat - how two Americans fared in the French Capital and "Got to Love Passy"; ; Never Separated a Single Family - open-door immigration specialists slander the United States Government - Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, urges passage of the most liberal of all the liberalizing measures - the Perlman bill; Life and Death on the Screen - A.C. Pillsbury films bacteria and pollen in action - motion pictures of flower fertilization; What's the Matter With Jim? - the story of a boy who would only work when he thought it play; Mr. Ford's Page - interesting thoughts on the forces involved with prohibition; Editorials - major criticism of the World Court and claim that in Michigan a list of Americans targetted for assassination by communists has been found; Golf - Can You Pick the Champions? - Americans will attempt to capture leading British honors - article with photos of Glenna Collett, Francis Ouimet, Macdonald Smith, Walter Hagen, Watts Gunn, Long Jim Barnes, Bobby Jones and Robert Gardner; Lincoln's Murder - Amazing Man Hunt - John Surratt and Papal Zouave accused of the crime, who leaped for liberty over a hundred-foot precipice - article with photos of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Mary Surratt; What it Costs the Chinese to Worship Their Ancestors - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Is America a Nation of Coffee-Bibbers? - Its people drink upward of forty billions of cups of this seductive beverage each year, consuming more than half of World's Production; Union of Irish and Jews in recent 'propaganda' plays - Abie's Irish Rose, Kosher Kitty Kelly; Great Writers Who Have Failed as Novelists; Seeking to Know What the Earth is Made of - the work of Professor Stjepan Mohorovicic and others; When the Broker Breaks the Law; A Dance a Week - The Lancers, a graceful square dance - first two figures, with piano sheet music (to be continued); Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon offers course in the guardianship of a real baby; The Jolly Old Pedagogue; Back cover features illustration of and quotation by Henry Thoreau. Small chip from fore-edge of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Edizione: Prima edizione . Pagine: 222 . Formato: 16° . Rilegatura: Cartonato telato bordeaux novecentesco con tassello in pelle nera con titoli in oro . Stato: Buono . Collana: Notre vieux Paris .
Aux Armes de France 1941, In-8 broché, 220 pages. Bon état.
- Librairie du Parti socialiste, Paris 1908, 12x19cm, broché. - First edition. A very good copy. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale. Bel exemplaire.
2 parties reliées en un volume in-12, lxvj-280; xliv-280-[4]pages Huitième édition (la première date de 1788). La matière de ce guide est entièrement tirée du volumineux Guide des amateurs et des étrangers voyageurs à Paris, ou Description raisonnée de cette ville, de sa banlieue, qui était paru en 1787 en deux volumes. Bien complet du plan dépliant de Paris en début de volume. Très bel exemplaire.
Two volumes bound in one. pp. 657; 314. Double column. Text printed within a frame. XLib. XLib stamp on title pages and elsewhere. XLib bookplate of Lutheran Seminary Gettysburg. Large 8vo. Original full embossed brown cloth binding. White library stamp on spine. FRENG 1 / 5
30pp.+ frontispice (planche double-page ; vue sur l'Arc de triomphe), 22cm., brochure originale, qqs. rousseurs et vagues taches, rare, G96299
Broch?. 126 pages. 16x24 cm.
Percaline de l'?diteur. 126 pages. 17x24 cm.
Broch?. 140 pages. Rousseurs. Dos factice. 16x24 cm.
Broch?. 125 pages. Rousseurs ? la couverture. 17x24 cm.
Broch?. 124 pages. 16x24 cm.
Reliure ?diteur. 378 pages.
Broch?. 70 pages. Couverture d?fra?chie. 17x24 cm.
Reli?. 314 pages.
P., Ollendorf, 1896. In-12 broché sous couverture jaune, 10 pages. Très bon état
Broch?. 32 pages.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked front board and no bumping to corners. 63pp. All there was to see and do in Paris in 1970.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 144pp. Leisure, culture, eating, history and much more about Paris. Text in English and Frence.
