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320pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
314 pages including index. A story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily one-industry towns. Average quantity of markings to text. Light wear. Book
Two volumes. Title pages printed in red and black. 16mo. Original full blue cloth binding. Nice set. FRENG 5
147p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
319p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Sm. folio, First Edition, with 80 fine coloured and 60 tinted plates; original oatmeal holland, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES
in-8°, 257p., 224 illustrations, index, bind in b., dustwrapper. Very good condition. [EN-2/3]
Raffigurazione dell'assegnazione delle medaglie per la guerra di Crimea
pp. vi, 403 + Plus portrait frontis. Lacks first fly leaf. XLib stamps on title page and elsewhere. Library bookplate. 8vo. Original full aqua colored cloth binding. FRENG 4
32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Gene Tratton Porter - The Woman - Glimpses of Novelist's Inner Life Revealed in Intimate Talk with Friend; How the South Regards the Negro - "We shall speak with no malice in our hearts - We aim merely to be frank"; "Off Agin! On Agin! Gone Agin! - there have been 25 Premiers of France this century, almost one a year; Is Europe Satisfied with the League of Nations? - governments and peoples differ as to what benefits, if any, are to be derived; New Salem, Illinois - The Town That Put Lincoln on the Map; Passing of the Yankee Country Store - better transportation and mail order house have sounded knell of village emporium; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - there is much that can be done to lift up America's back lands lf neglect; Editorials - the true sesqui-centennial, up from slavery, scarcely any play can get by today on Broadway without a prostitute, war debts, Max Goldberg and the murder of "Lefty" Kanter; Woodrow Wilson - Master of Dreams (part 7); Traveling Around Without a Coat - a garment which becomes a symbol of respectability and passport to civilization; Voyage of the Victoria (2nd part of a series) - Finding of the Spiceries; What I Remember of Longfellow - famous Novelist's son give intimate personal recollections of the author of 'Evangeline'; The Bedouins and the Wahabis (short article); Nations take action for World Sanitation; A Dance a Week - The Minuet - with piano sheet music; R.C. (Mac) MacLeod and his Walla Walla, Washington magazine "Up-to-the-Times"; The Last of the Catawba Nation; Fantastic photos of unusual occupations - Paris rat catcher, alligator trainer, Swiss lace-maker, village musicians of Brittany, One-man travelling restaurant in Java, and a Cairo drinking water pedlar. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of William's Island in the Tennessee River; The Destiny of the Democratic Party Hinges Largely Upon the Two-Thirds Rule; Pay-As-You-Go in Building Good Roads - Tennessee Constructs its Highways with Funds from Current Revenues - nice photo-illustrated article; The Rise of Mustapha Kemal Pasha; Letter to the Folks - a letter franked by Abraham Lincoln in 1934; What's Wrong with the Press? - an newspaperman answers this perennial question (part 1); The Changing Fashions of Being Presented at Court; Henry Ford's Page - how to maintain a logical prosperit; Editorials - Mr. Mellon and the Tarriff Manifesto, the McFadden Banking Bill, The Education of Mr. Vare; Forces That Are Reshaping Mexico - a study of those who ruled the country before the revolution and those who are ruling it now; The Little Trades of Paris Streets - the soul of an ancient city; The Lights of Other Days - Candles and Candlesticks - photo-illustrated article; Now Just Who IS Queer - The Chinese or Ourselves?; A Forest Tragedy - waste leaves the lumbering towns of Tioga County, PA Destitute; I Read in the Papers - In memory of Billy the Kid, Petroleum in Ancient Times, Franklin Expedition Relics Found; Nice photos inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
337p. Hardcover Good condition
xxxvi + 640, xvi + 552 pages. Balance of title reads as follows: "Containing an Account of the Cruel Civil Wars Between the Houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the Possession of Paris and Normandy By the English; Their Expulsion Thence; and of Other Memorable Events That Happened in the Kingdom of France, as well as in other Countries. A History of Fair Example, and of Great Profit to the French. Beginning at the Year MCCCC., Where that of Sir John Froissart Finishes, and Ending at the Year MCCCCLXVII., and Continued by Others to the Year MDXVI." Illustrated with woodcuts. Bookplate of Reginald Hibbert Tupper upon each front free endpaper. Mr. Tupper was the son of the Canadian Prime Minister of the same name. Ink signature upon verso of front blank leaf of volume I. Some foxing to colour title page of volume I. Faded marbling to edges. Back hinge of Volume I starting. Somewhat above-average external wear. Both volumes tight and square. Book
New edition. Good in soiled and marked white cloth, gilt. Inscription on the front endpaper. With 12 illustrations by Harry Morley. 14135. eng
20 pages. Features: Diefenbaker's Final Fray; Erna Paris describes her juror service during a rape trial; Fantastic colour photo for GM featuring John Brooks and his red Firebird; Calgary Stampeder receiver Terry Evanshen thinks himself to touchdowns; Salad recipes; Doug Wright's Family; The St. Boniface hawks - two of the Lowthian brothers have fought in Vietnam in U.S. units. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
28 pages. Features: 300 Reasons why people like to live in Canada; Nice colour photo ad for the 1975 Canadian Open Golf Tournament - with photos of Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer; Feature on the movie Rollerball - article and colour photos; Massive colour centerfold for Export A cigarettes; Prairie Gatsbys - Historic Mansions of the West - with a photo of the Edmonton home of W.J. Magrath, two photos of the interior of the home of J.H. Ashdown in Winnipeg, and a photo of the Coste home in Calgary; Nice full-page colour ad for movie The Wind and the Lion which starred Sean Connery and Candice Bergen; Doug Wright's Family; Nice double-page colour fashion photo of Paris couture; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 229-274. Features: Literary Gents - G.B. Shaw; Kenneth Grahame; Travellers and their tales; George Bernard Shaw as Music Critic; Books we have never read; Contemporary Foreign Writers - Grazia Deledda; E.M. Delafield as a Novelist; Aphra Behn; Commentary on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"; New light on Coleridge; Mary Woolstonecraft; The Transports of Thomas Traherne; The Benighted States; A Tractarian of Economics; Romantic Paris; Drama on Dartmoor; Early Translations from the Russian (part II); and more. Bit of writing and faint ink stamp upon front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Bumped corners and fraying at top and bottom of spine. Stated First Edition.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full gray cloth boards. Slight edge wear. 344 pages.
96, 158 [ads], pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: The Residence of Heatly C. Dulles, Esq., Villa Nova, Pa - Mellor, Meigs & Howe, Architects; The Villa Frullino, near Florence, Italy; The Early Architecture of Pennsylvania - Part II; The San Antonio Country Club, San Antonio, Texas - George Willis, Architect; Training for the Practice of Architecture; A Louis XVI Shopfront; Building Material Prices in 1921; The New Plans for Paris; Portfolio of Current Architecture; Notes and Comments. Above-average external wear. Covers and backstrip missing. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Features: New York to Paris - around the world in one hundred and seventy days - from the files of George Schuster; 1957 Glidden Tour; World's Largest Antique Auto Meet - the national fall meet at Hershey; The "One Car" Club - Road Testing a 1913 Merz Cyclecar; The Eastbourne Battle of Flowers in May, 1896; Basket Case on a Budget - or - Who Needs Money When He Has a Friend? - a three-year restoration of a Ford Town Car - article with photos; Self-Propelled Vehicles from 1400 to 1900 - today's automobile got its start in the dark ages - article with photos; 7th annual "Old Car Festival" at Ford's Greenfield Village; America's Fastest Antique Car - Thomas J. Lester's 1913 LozierIn Duster and Veil; Opel and Vauxhall celebrate anniversaries with introduction to American Market - article with photos; Memories of a DuPont Special; Sixtieth Anniversary for Olds; Ford Facts - Black Radiator Restorations; Index for November, 1945, Volume 9, No. 3-4 to Fall, 1957, Volume 21, No. 3 *39 Pages*; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Charles Cotta and his four-wheel-drive Steamer; Philadelpia's Treasury of Automobile Information - the Thomas McKean Collection on the Automobile; Le Musee des Arts et Metiers de Paris; Getting antiques out of Mexico; The Best Car Built in America - The Story of the Locomobile; My Antique Model Automobiles; Albert Augustus Pope - He put a nation on wheels; "Good Roads" and Bad in the Alabama Black Belt - 1875-1917; Carbide Candlepower - interesting article on auto lighting; The Late Lord Austin of Longbridge - The father of the Wolseley and Austin cars; The Reluctant Helpmate; In Duster and Veil; Restoring a 1922 Stanley; The Cross Engine Franklin - Part 3 of 3; Book Review Index for all books reviewed in this publication 1945-1955; and more. Average wear. Some external soiling. Bit of writing atop front cover and in classified ads otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: 20th Annual Meeting; Une Voiture Francaise de 53 ans de Paris en Amerique; A Speedy Restoration - a 1925 Dodge business sedan; The Cross Engine Franklin - Part 2 - major article with illustrations; Cadillac - from one to sixteen cylinders - specifications for 97 Cadillac models from 1902 to 1942; 1921 Overland with a personality; Will the Monsters Vanish? - vintage trucks; The Reo Model T; The Kearns Automobile; The Second Half; List of American Auto Manufacturers 1925-1954; 1902 Automobile Memo Book; Restoration of Steam Boilers; Brewster Body for a T; London's First Automobile Exhibition; Low-priced cars on the early British market; In Duster and Veil; and more. Average wear. Some external soiling. Few minor markings in classified ad section otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: AACA First National Prize Winning Truck - 1920 Model T Ford Truck; I Collect Trucks - great photos of vintage trucks with article; Why we should collect trucks now; Trucks of AACA members; Hershey Region's Hospitality Trucks!; Historians Neglected the Motor Truck; United Parcel Service (UPS) Preserves replica of its first truck; Roll Call of 1801 Makes of Trucks sold in the United States during the past 55 Years or more - 7 pages!; Curt Blake represents AACA at Brussels; London to Brighton 1958; Teuf-Teuf Club de Paris - Famous WWI Taxi Cab restored to perfection; Understanding Brass Plating - Part II - Nickel and Chromium plating of antique and classic car parts; Antique Automobile Index for Vol. 21, No. 4 to Vol. 22, No. 5; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
