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Features: I fished the finest spot in North America - Tazin Lake; Primitive weapons guard our jets at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines; Owner's Reports - Ford Falcon and Pontiac; GM Lift-off Hardtop; Build this safe sidewalk classic - it runs on a battery (complete plans); Midget go-anywhere power plant; Helicopter Airliners - Vertol 107/Rotodyne/Sikorsky S-61; The chemical war on weeds; "Hot Dog" tailpipe; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: French Lance-Grenade Battery; Along Russia's long line from Riga to Armenia (4 photos); Forces behind the Russian Revolution (1-page article); Means and modes of locomotion in Mesopotamia; Past and present in picturesque Bagdad; Deadly British Mortar that Balks the Hun; Deceptive Trench-Forestry on the Ancre; On the way to Bapaume - a wingless butterfly; Italians watch effects of new French grenade; The flight from Bukarest - 2-page article plus 4 photos; Indian Empire after the War - article by St. Nihal Singh; 4 photos of Prussian piracy - windjammer torpedoed by U-boat in the Channel; The Scottish borderers on the Somme - article. Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
Paperback Light wear with fold/scruff marks on cover. Pages clean with no w ritings, no tear and n highlights.
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Excellent full-page aerial photo looking down on three Messerschmitt's raiding an English town; Great full-page night photo of a 4.5" anti-aircraft battery of the Western Command at work; Pill box vigil; Inside a watch post; photos of how shell-burst data is recorded; Problems of the Royal Navy - photo-illustrated text of broadcast by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield; Dramatic illustration by Montague B. Black shows a Hurricane pilot ramming a Dornier; Greece also answers the call to arms - five photos and full-page map indicating where Greece and Italy are at Grips; Article on the air war on Britain - Official report on Germany's losses over a period of twelve weeks; photos of famous London buildings bombed; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Blackshows night attack on Naples with Vesuvius smoking in the background; Four dramatic photos of an Italian submarine under attack, going down, and having its crew picked up by a British destroyer; Photos of H.M. the King with the Eastern Command; Progress of the War - Commons Statement by Winston Churchill; Empire troops in the desert war; A commentary on the war this week; Exellent photos of Naples' Maritime Railway Station, The Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia and Essen - Germany's City of Steel with its Krupp works; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. Cover holding loosely. Contents tight. Book
226 pages. Features: V-8 S-10; It Ain't Ugly; S-10 Contest Winner; Pro-Flare Ford (cover photo); Renegade Ranger - custom '70s Ford; Ranger Splash - Ford's new youth truck for the '90s; WYBUYNU - Brandon Murrill's cool classic; Attention Getter; Dave Hill's alternate Scout; Pro-Faction pro-street Slantcab; Fully restored GMC Suburban; Pacific Coast Suburban; Post War Panel; Mini-Addiction; Battery operated Nissan pickups?; Late Start - Mom's mini Isuzu; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: How Sears, Roebuck won the West (includes 1902 ad for a 'bust developer' gizmo); Wyatt Earp and the Civil War - he answered the call of distant drums; Repeating rifles on the frontier - more popular on the post war frontier than revolving rifles were lever-action repeaters - Spencers, Henrys and others; A Gunfighter Craze is Sweeping the Country; A History of Wine in California - from Mission Grapes to Premium Wines; Black Bart (C.E. Bolton) - Backpacking Robber-Poet; Wild West Shotguns - They were even used for 'salting' mines; The Lost Wagon Train; Big Russell-Remington Collection in Fort Worth - Texas Oilman's Art Displayed at Gallery; He was hanged for *planning* a murder - A.J. (Andy) Hudspeth; Natural Foods of the 'Digger' Indians; Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Cover photo of Holland America Line's Rotterdam and Nieuw Amsterdam; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial - official photos of the Royal New Zealand Navy's 50th Anniversary Fleet Review; A Captain and his Ship - Vincenzo Barbera is master of the Repubblica di Genova; Cargo Ship to Kirkenes - Fred Thompson travelled aboard Norway's famous coastal express service beyond the Arctic Circle; From Ocean to Ocean - Stephen M. Payne describes a memorable cruise through the Panama Canal aboard Holland America Line's cruise ship Rotterdam; Butter Boat Voyage - Keith Goss sails between Grimsby and Esbjerg in the DFDS freight ro-ros Dana Maxima and Dana Cimbria; Cruise Ship Review; Naval Occasions - colour photofeature; Twenty-five Years of container ships - part 2; 'T' Class Conversions - Roger Fry describes the conversion of eight WWII submarines into Fast Battery Drive boats between 1948-56; The Loss of the Empress of Asia - Neil McCart recalls the final days of the Canadian Pacific liner sunk by Japanese aircraft fifty years ago this month; Ports of Call; Ferry Fleets Update; Ferry Focus - Color Line; Signals; Large colour photo of the Nordnorge inside front cover; and more. Above-average wear to covers, with part of back cover missing. A worthy reference copy. Book
48 pages. An advanced course of study designed to follow up any of the various elementary and intermediate methods. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
104 pages. Features: .Great colour photo ad for Chevrolet Trucks inside front cover; New Holland forage harvester ad featuring their Flo-Trac feed; Nice Buick ad; Great colour one-page ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes; Photo of Footballer Bobby Layne is featured in a Prest-o-lite battery ad; Nice color-photo one-page ad for International Harvester tractors features their Farmall Fast-Hitch; Let's eally Sell Milk; How to stay in the Beef business with Brood Cows and Feeder Cattle; Is Your Pond a Money Maker?; International Trade Makes You Prosperous; Jabez and the Devil's Seat; Careful Credit can work for you; Sweet color ad for Studebaker Trucks; Meet-type hogs save time and feed; Low-cost housing for small flocks of hens; "Ferguson 30" tractor ad; Great color-photo one-page ad for New Idea pickers; Great photo ad for Willys Jeeps and 4-Wheel-Drive trucks; Great GM auto products color centerfold displays many of their brands/products; Checking your cattle for 'Slow Drag"; Kohler Electric Plants (Generator) ad; Rhubard Ridge cartoon; Margaret Lindsay appears in a colour photo ad for Crosley fridges; Nice Ford car ad; Opera for Everybody; Colour fashion photos show creations by designer Helen Rose of M-G-M; Basic training for your dog; Article on teaching children the facts of life by Beulah France, R.N.; Ann Delafield cosmetics ad features her photo; Pansies for Sale - a nice small business; Nice one-page colour photo ad for 7UP features a family picnic of fried chicken; Just What is Wrong with Abundance?. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Front cover illustration of trained dogs used as trench messengers. Illustration of British seaplane airman. Grabbe & Co., Unlimited - article on inflated British food prices. Danger Points in the East - article by Lovat Fraser. Photos of saving Holy Objects from the 'Sacrilegious' Hun. Photos from Mesopotamia - ruins and modern doings. Photos of Humane Treatment of Turks Taken in the Pursuit. Chateau and Church shattered by Huns - photos. Photos of lights being used in war; Woodrow Wilson - 'The Only Statesman in the World' - article by Hamilton Fyfe. Photos of French and American soldiers. Lighter Moments/Recreation. Photos of 'Work at home for enmeshing enemy mines at sea'. "The Winners" by Boyd Cable. Photos of stout-hearted soldiers of Resurgent Serbia. Photos of 'Preparing for the Future in Corn Land & Quarry'. Photos of curious contrasts. "The Eyes of the Battery" - Certain liveliness at an artillery observation post by 'O.Pip'. Photos of decorated individuals. Book
Stories: Alaska's Lone Eagles; A Really Dangerous Job; Long Odds; Trouble at Los Cruces; The Rivals; My Pet Panther; Land of Drums; The Great Thirst; Fighting 'Dope' Out East; El Diablo; Brazilian Beachcombers; The Girl Opal Miner. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
168 pages. Features: Cover photo of Maurice Lawson of Warren County, Indiana; You can earn more of the food dollar; The case for Eisenhower; The case for Stevenson; Do broilers fet your farm?; Farming for Insoak keeps water where it belongs - Jess Dewees of Clinton, Oklahoma; They shorten dairy chores; The wild and free mustangs; Urea helps stalks and cobs make low-cost beef; A laborsaving crib; Moving corn with power; Winter Oats move northward; Improved rambouillet best for U.S.; Better nests - cleaner eggs; Tractors with superpower - great photo of Elmer Horn of Kirby, Ohio,and his articulating four-wheel-drive tractor; Safe farrowing at low cost; Nice photo of huge crowd of troops in Korea enjoying USO headliner Betty Hutton; Ads include: 1952 Buick; 1952 "Rocket" Oldsmobile Super 88; Lee work clothes; Texaco ad features W.E. (Bill) Stephens (inventor of a tree pulller), co-inventor A.A. (Cotton) Zogg, and Texaco driver T.I. Trahan; Very nice Ford truck color photo ad features cranberry grower Russell Makepeace of Cape Cod; The Massey-Harris "55" tractor; Robert Schaller of Onalaska, WI is shown in a USS Steel ad; Nice color-photo B.F. Goodrich ad features John O. Pickens and son Dick of Hoytville, Ohio; International Trucks (color photo at Brook Farm); John Deere Model 50 and 60 tractors (color); Chevrolet; Plymoth; Homelite chainsaws; Photo of Groucho Marx in Auto-Lite battery ad; Ferguson tractor; Champion spark plug ad features Gene Wakeland of Huntertown, Indiana; Sheppard Diesel tractor; Wolverine work shoes; Dodge truck ad features Bowater Pearson of Attica, Indiana; Tide detergent; '52 Ford car; Jell-O pudding; Brer Rabbit molasses; Blue Bell work clothes; Peters ammo ad features shooter Don Westwater of San Francisco; Great color back cover ad for Camel cigarettes features stage and screen star Richard Carlson. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Giant relief map of Messines Ridge; Photo of General Sir Henry Wilson; Photo of Signor Caproni - Italian Aeroplane inventor; On the western front in Flanders - a railway laid by the Canadian Royal Engineers; Super two-page photo of a Baghdad street crowd watching British gunners hauling a heavy gun; General Allenby's advance towards Jerusalem; Romances of the Regiments - the 10th and the 37th; The "Friedrich der Grosse" brings U.S. troops across the sea; Two-page photo of a British Battery under attack near Passchendaele; Bad weather road traps on the Flanders front; using x-rays on the Western front; Devastation on the Flanders front; Admiral Mayo visits Sir David Beatty; Picking the brain of a captured Zeppelin; Women operating tractors; With General Allenby's Army in Palestine; Average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
Full page illustration of the new chief of the Imperial General Staff, Lieut.-General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson. Some Lighter Aspects of a Fleet Action - by 'Bartimeus'. Preaching and Practising Prudent Economy - 5 photos. An Aeroplane Shoot on the Western Front, by 'O.Pip'. Artillery Preparation Against the Great Attack - 3 photos of a massive British rail-mounted gun and a French shell dump. Amazing photo of French observers serving as part of an anti-aircraft battery. Five photos of kite balloons. Women at work. Tanks and Trimphs from the French Front - 4 photos. From the Forge of Vulcan to the Field of Mars - two illustrations of massive guns. The U Boats and the U.S. - a confident view of the Transatlantic Transport (article). At Army Headquarters, article by Hamilton Fyfe. Arresting Attila's Advance to the Adriatic - 5 photos. New Laws for New Conditions - how the Australian Commonwealth Set the Example. Photos of decorated soldiers. Adventures of an ensign, article by 'Vedette'. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of HMS Hecate; Great photo of Canadian Pacific`s Empress of England berthed at Liverpool inside front cover; Nice photo of Bugsier`s tug Simson towing drilling rig through Dover Strait; On the Waterfront; Where to See the Cruise Ships; Naval Review; Shipping of the North East Coast Ports - A review of current activity from Blyth to Seaham Harbour; Part 1; Still in Steam on the Clyde - Lennox II and Hopper No 25; Falklands Fleet`s Royal Finale - photo feature; The Lovely Ketch ``Irene``; Ships of the `Cardiff` Class - a review of the development of the standard design bulk carrier which has gained a reputation for reliability and economy; Guardians of the Dover Strait - a report on the work of the HM Coastguard Station at Langdon Battery, Dover; Letters, European Ferry Commentary; Fleet List 1982 - pennant numbers of warships of the Royal Navy and Vessels of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service - part 2 - K to Y; Letters; Nice photo of the HMS Oribi in 1946 inside back cover; and more. Ad clipped from last page. Covers detached but present, otherwise average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
pp. 389, (26) [Publisher's catalogue listing books on Electricity and Electric Railroads]. Illustrated with numerous drawings of electric motors, generators and accessories. Stamped ownership of Foster & Freeman, Patents, Dec. 5, 1893 Washington, DC on front paste down and page 100. Inner hinges cracked. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full blue cloth binding, slightly worn. Title page continues: Being a Summary of Current Periodical Literature Relating to Electric Railway Construction, Operation, Systems, Machinery, Appliances, Etc.". First Edition. Very good condition. VERIA 3
514 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. List of abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. Four colour plates. Several black and white illustrations. "A thumb-nail sketch of Royal Canadian Artillery batteries mobilized for service during the 1939 to 1945 conflict." - from Preface. "D.W. (Wilf) Falconer, who served the Guns from Dieppe to The Dollart has, through his dedication and untiring efforts, produced a reference work ensuring the units and details of their histories will always be remembered. The degree of accuracy and attention to detail... are second to none. It is my pleasure to recommend this book as a reference source to all students of military history and to all collectors of memorabilia of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery." - J.P. Beer, MBE, CD, Colonel, R.C.A. (Ret'd). Clean and unmarked with light wear. Possibly unread. Tight and square. A quality copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Cover Photo of Elizabeth Taylor with son; Old Gold cigarette ad inside front cover features hound dog; Bell Telephone ad illustrates their solar battery which generates electricity from sunlight; Wonderful color Texaco ad shows dalmation puppies being towed behind boat; Nice Elgin watch ad; Great color ad for Ford's 1954 Sunliner, Skyliner and staton wagons; Totally awesome one-page color-photo ad for Fisher Body shows fashionable dame in Palm Springs with red Chevrolet convertible; Nice one-page color ad for movie "The Black Shield of Falworth"; Edward R. Murrow - the man, the myth and the McCarthy Fighter; A vacation is what you make it; Should we support an attack in Red China?; Nice one-page ad for Campbell's chicken with rice soup; Two-page color ad for Cheez Whiz; Nice color Pepsi ad shows couple on beach; Finns love pesapallo - in Finland this is baseball; Color photos of Hollywood mothers - June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Jeanne Crain, and Lauren Bacall; My Years with Herbert Hoover; Nice fashion photos; Country Doctor in New York - Dr. J. Jerome Steinfelder; Lovely one-page Kleenex ad with Little Lulu illustrations on beach; How close are we to space travel?; Photos of Bob Hope in Catalina sweaters ad; The Mighty (Ted) Theodore Bernard Kluszewski of the Cincinnati Reds - article with photo of Jim Greengrass, Gus Bell and Ted Kluszewski shirtless in batting stance; American Art and Tradition Go Abroad; Nice color Schenley whiskey ad inside back cover; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features photos of John W. Fincher of Cairo, GA, A.R. Schneidewind of Upper Montclair, NJ, J. Russell Fraser of Detroit, Mrs. Katharine B. Coelsch of The Dalles, OR, W.C. Fowler of Dallas, TX, and Mrs. B. Collins Edgar of Lookout Mountain, TN, and Evelyn Terjesen of New York; and more. Loss/nibbling to periphery of front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Full-page ad for movie The Benny Goodman Story with photo of Steve Allen and Donna Reed; Full-page ad for Slingerland Drums with photo of Gene Krupa; Brief article with headline "Buddy Rich Quits Drums to be Song and Dancer" (?????); Part I of the Benny Goodman story - the man who turned music upside down; 'Voice of America' interviews Benny Goodman; Photo ad for the Deagan Vibraharp featuring Lionel Hampton; Meet Mr. Yaged; Frank Holton & Co. Trombone ad featuring photo of Ralph Marterie and his All Holton Trombone Section; Guild Guitar ad featuring photo of Johhny Smith; Buescher sax ad featuring photo of Danny Ludovici, Shep Fields, Buck Thompson and Bernis Hatch; Jimmy Giuffre "Gazelle' Solo sheet music; John Lewis Shows Piano Style - sheet music; Lotus Bud sheet music; Martin trumpet ad inside back cover features photo of Leonard B. Smith; Benny Goodman image featured in backpage ad for Selmer clarinets; and more. Ink stamp to front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Includes special 8 page photogravure supplement on the Argus Three. Articles: Using the Loud-Speaker; All about Low-Frequency Coupling; Indoor Aerial Erection; The Screen-Grid Valve as a Detector; Do you understand characteristic curves?; Radio Wrinkles from Readers; Reveivers and their Records; Tapping and its Uses - 1; Radiogram Receivers; Simple apparatus for measuring Resistances; The Beginner's Supplement; How to choose a suitable L.T. Battery for your set; Below 100 metres; Chats on Components; The Arithmetic of Wireless - 2; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Corner clipped from lower back cover. Book
Topics: Fitting a Pick-up; Automatic Grid Bias from Battery Sets; Details Often Overlooked; Simple Former for Short-Wave Coils; Simple Tester for Tuning Coils; Economical Construction; Combined with Efficiency; A Cheap Fault-Finder; The Loud-Speaker and the Output Stage; Causes of Instability; Radio Wrinkles from Readers; Receivers and Their Records; Introducing the Argus Three (3); The Speaker Speaks; Selectivity with Plug-in Coils; Choosing a Modern Valve - 3; The Beginner's Supplement; Can you Read a Circuit Diagram?; Below 100 metres; The Gang Menace - the fallacies of uni-control in Radio Receivers; Chats on Components; The Arithmetic of Wireless - 1; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Corner clipped from lower back cover. Book
104 pages. Features: Great color photo Studebaker ad inside front cover features military insert; Plymouth ad; Great colour photo ad for Armstrong's Asphalt Tile; The First American Crusade - Herbert Hoover's personal memoirs of World War I, originally intended for release after his death but printed here in view of the imminent entrance of the US into World War II - with photos; Go Fly a Kite, story by Eddy Orcutt; Hearts of Oak, by Walter Havighurst; Cellini to Hearst to Klotz - the sale of fine art and objects by Gimbel Brothers; Stanford Football Coach Clark Shaughnessy behind the Eight Ball - article with photos; The Liar That Laid an Egg, by William Hazlett Upson; First Baby, by Dorothy Thomas; Botany Bay, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall; Morale in a Test Tube - Research at the Merck plant in Rahway, NJ; Great color photo ad for Campbell's Soup; The Phantom Filly, by George Agnew Chamberlain; Nice color ad for Oldsmobile cars, featureing a red two-door model; Great color ad for GM locomotives; Nice two-page Buick ad; Chrysler ad; Color Cadillac ad; Dodge Fluid-Drive car ad; Wonderful full-page two-color cartoon strip-style ad for Hotpoint appliances; Wonderful two-page color ad for Del Monte canned foods and their 3rd annual Round-Up; Nice two-color full-page ad for Champion spark plugs shows lady in top-had being hit by snowball; Fantastic Timken bearing ad shows all the military applications of its products; Wonderful color ad for the 1942 Packard Clipper, featuring a blue Clipper Club Sedan; Large color ad for RCA Victor Radios; Great color ad for Old Gold Cigarettes shows smooching young couple; Underwood typewriter ad; Dramatic illustrated Eveready Battery ad depicts the attack on the Egyptian liner ZamZam as experienced by C.A. McCarthy; Nice two-color ads for Nunn-Bush shoes and Aunt Jemima Pancakes; Lovely full-page color ad for Roblee shoes for men; Luden's cough drop ad illustrates 'Clothespin Nose"; Nice color ad inside back cover for Van Camp's pork and beans features Mrs. Lou Little; Ivory Soap ad on back cover. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Originally printed in 1938 in Britain, this copy reprinted with permission in Canada in 1940 with amendments Nos. 1 and 2. Quite a detailed treatise with chapters entitled: Organization of a Coast Fortress in Peace; Responsibility for Training; Annual Training; Charts and Maps; Range-Finders and Other Instruments; Misc. Instruments; Laying; Ballistics; Gunnery Calculations; Gunnery Calculations - Automatic Sights; Range Tables and Initial Corrections; Calibration; Battery Drill and Fire Discipline; Instructions for Training and Examination in Range-Finding; Instructions for Training Examination in x, 224 pages. Plotting Room Duties; Instructions for Training and Examination in Laying; Instructions for Training and Examination in Telephony; Instructions for the Examination for Skill-At-Arms Badges for Gunnery; plus appendices on probability and the slide rule. Several fold-outs. Black and white diagrams. Unmarked with average wear. Binding tight. A sound copy of this vintage WWII reference. Book
Features: Two-pages of Soviet cities now facing the gigantic Nazi battering-ram; Illustrations of two missing aces - Flight Lieut. J.C. Mungo-Park and Wing-Commander J.R. Kayll; Clearn photo of the Soviet emergency "Council of Defense", including Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Malenkov and Berya; Wonderful photo of three large drums built for Haile Selassie and his new Abyssinian state; How the Nazis took Crete - five enemy views of paratroop operations; Thirteen photos of personalities of the day, including good photo of the funeral cortege of German ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; Nine great photos of the besieged garrison of Tobruk; Article - Hitler's assault on Russia, by Cyril Falls; Air photos of French Aerodromes at Boulogne and St. Omer smashed by the R.A.F.; Super before and during photos of R.A.F. attack on the rail marshalling yard at Hazebrouck; Centerfold illustration of large-scale English mimic night attempt to land barge-borne troops and tanks (early D-Day training); Photos of Home Guard excercises - street fighting on London; Four photos of camouflaged snipers; Iraqi armistice - six photos, including one of Imir Abdul Illah, the Regent; After the Battle of Amba Alagi - The Italians Surrender - Two good photos; Photo of Nazi glider in Crete; Amazing photos of the "Imperial Transport", cut in half by a U-boat but still salvaged!; Article - the nutritive value of plankton; Syria's historic invasion route - inscriptions at the Dog River - seven photos; Nice half-page ad for Rolls-Royce cars. Average wear. Faint Ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, large folding map at end and decorative endpapers; blue coarse-grain cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, covers and paste-downs (only) damp-marked else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The WWI service record of 11th (Ilkley) Battery, IV West Riding (Howitzer) Brigade RFA (renamed 245th Brigade RA in May 1916). Includes Nominal Roll, ROH, Awards & Decorations, and list of places visited. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. White, p.221.
