1 313 résultats
Features: X for Escape - Photo-illustrated article (part 1 of 2) by Flt.-Lieut. Tony Pengelly describes the dramatic Great Escape from Luft Stalag III involving 83 prisoners, 50 of whom were later shot - basis for the classic WWII film The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen; Nice cover illustration by R. York Wilson features brass band practicing; W.A. Irwin becomes new Editor of Maclean's - photo and brief article; Relax - It's Good for You; Bee Business - Ervin Hogarth has 150 bees near Tara, Ontario; Mars Gone Barmy - Maj.-Gen. J.F.C. Fuller argues atomic war cannot be won; Where Milk is Medicine - Europe's lack of food in the aftermath of WWII; Britian's Place in the World; Washington Memo - U.S. Strikers want to keep war wages (52 for 40 or Fight!); Backstage Ottawa - NRMA men (Zombies) were sent to the First Canadian Division on or after VE Day; Is the Union Shop Democratic? - arguments for and against; Sculptors Elizabeth Wyn Wood and Mani Hahn - Photo-illustrated article; "When the Ice-Worms Nest Again" - Brief article discussing Robert Service; Stretch the Meat; and more. Short stories include: Molly Was a Doctor; White Horse; Soft Music. Nice ads for: The Wartime Prices and Trade Board (encouraging the mending of clothes); Imperial Oil (featuring oil exploration); Frigidaire, Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese; Canadian Pacific (color illustration of driving of the last spike to celebrate 60 years of progress, 1885-1945); Pepsodent Tooth Paste; Eveready Flashlight Batteries - featuring image of Vancouver radio personality Thora Anders; Arrid deodorant - featuring photo of Gertrude Niesen; Nostalgic one-page Maclean's subscription ad; National War Finance Committee; Nice colour-photo Caterpillar Diesel ad inside back cover features two dozers preparing new rail bed through mountains. 68 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this historic vintage issue. Book
Features: X for Escape - Photo-illustrated article (part 2 of 2) by Flt.-Lieut. Tony Pengelly describes the dramatic Great Escape from Luft Stalag III involving 83 prisoners, 50 of whom were later shot - basis for the classic WWII film The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen; Shakedown - Political favours and liquor licences; Life with Ivan - How does the average Russian live?; Marriages Mended - Domestic Relations Judge H.S. Mott has a 90% success rate; The Mine That Shook the World - A vivid photo-illustrated report on Eldorado, the super-secret mine in the Arctic which produces the raw material for atomic bombs; King Size Tenor - Lauritz Melchior, mighty tenor of the "Met"; Russia - A Split Personality; Backstage Ottawa - the taxpayer wins a battle; Big Business Farmer - George Wesley of Wrentham, Alberta, farms 16,000 acres in Alberta and grows enough wheat to feed a small city; The Truth About Epilepsy - Robert H. Feldt, M.D., has made immense strides toward taming this dreaded brain disease; Man of Many Voices - Meet Mercer (One-Man Cast) McLeod, first radio actor to sell a Canadian-recorded program for U.S. broadcasting; If You Should Get Venison - cooking tips; and more. Short Stories: World Premiere; Uncle Alfred; For These Thy Gifts. Nice ad for: C-I-L; Imperial Oil (How an oil well works); Good Year (with color illustration of firemen and forest fire); Snyder's Furniture; G.E. Electric Blankets (& Electric Flying Suits); Aunt Jemima Pancakes; Westinghouse in the electrical age 1920-1945; Life Savers (nice one-page color ad); Chase & Sanborn - featuring Charlie McCarthy in colour; Waterman's Taperite pen; Once-page colour-illustrated ad by Carling's honouring Jack Miner of Kingsville, Ontario; T.S. Simms "Pure Badger" shaving brushes; Lovely 1946 Ford (dark red) ad inside back cover; B.C. Apples ad on back cover features charming colour illustration of young lass holding basket of fruit. 72 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this historic vintage issue. Book
72 pages. Nice cover illustration of the H.M.S. Repulse by Eric Aldwinckle. Articles: Civilization in Danger - Liddell Hart explains how France and Britain have been forced into a defensive position; This Way, Please - wonderfully nostalgic photo-illustrated article on the Motion-Picture Theatre Usher; Oil is Where You Take It - article on the 112,000 miles of pipeline in North America; Co-ops Sell Fish and Homes - informative article on the history of the North Island Trollers' Co-operative Association (Queen Charlotte Islands) and the the Tompkinsville co-operative housing project at Reserve Mines on Cape Breton Island; To Be Blind Like This - James McDonald of Alberta explains how blindness since age 6 has not kept him from a full and happy life; Streamlined Groceries - great vintage article on food merchandising circa 1939 and how it eases the burden on housekeepers. Fiction: Graven Image of a Boy; South Sea Saga; So Nicely Put; Deep Waters (serial). Great one-page photo ad for International industrial crawlers and tractors. Excellent two-colour (orange) one-page photo ad for Chevrolet trucks. Lovely one-page colour ad for the 1939 Dodge car (orange). Colour Studebaker centrefold ad. 1939 Dodge truck ad. Bromo-Seltzer ad includes photo of Bridge expert Ely Culbertson. Photo of 97-year-old twins Hettie Brenton and Rhoda Dartt, born in Brookfield, Nova Scotia. Vintage one-page ad for Chrysler vans and pickup trucks. Willys Overland photo ad. Nostalgic colour-photo ad for Canadian Pacific's Banff and Lake Louise tourism features poolside ladies in bathing caps. Nice colour back cover 1939 Plymouth ad features a red Custom four-door Streamline Sedan. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue from the ominous months preceeding WWII. Book
1846ABE-89007074378 PAGES FORMAT PETIT IN 4-HUILE DE PALME/GRAVURE "FABRICATION DE L'HUILE DE PALME A WHYDA, EN GUINEE, COTE DES ESCLAVES DESSIN D'APRES NATURE PAR M.NOUSVEAUX"/TEXTE SUR 2P-REPUBLIQUE DE L'ANDORRE/CARTE/SUR 3P
Very Good French Paperback. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 18 cm). In French and English. 85, [1] p., unnumbered color and b/w plates. Minor wear on spine. A very good copy. A catalogue of exhibition held on between 28 November - 8 January 1973-1974. This is the 4th Edition. Mahmal et Attatichs: Peintres et voyageurs en Turquie, en Egypte et en Afrique du Nord.
1961010337Béziers l'Auteur 1961 In-8 broché, couverture illutrée Edition originale Dédicacé par l'auteur
19291134DG1929. Farbige Kreidezeichnung. Monogrammiert und datiert. Zusätzlich unten auf Passe-Partout signiert und datiert. 23 x 14 cm.
19291135DG1929. Farbige Ölkreide. Monogrammiert und datiert. Zusätzlich unten auf Passe-Partout signiert und datiert. 23 x 14 cm.
73 pages. Intended to '...Furnish operators and drillers with a concise and convenient arrangement of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulations which directly and indirectly concern the operations conducted on Petroleum and Natural Gas Leases." - from Introduction. Gilt lettering upon front board. Large map entitled "Map of Alberta Showing Natural Gas Resources" stored inside back board. Government stamps, prior owner's details and some markings inside front board. Various ink writings and markings upon back free endpaper. Binding intact. Average external wear and soiling. A rare surviving copy. Book
2000024593Oklahoma City OK: Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission 2000. 2000 Edition 6th print . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 206pp.CD; HB 3-ring binder; blk.w/white; slight rub w/cleantight pgs. Calculations & tests CD-ROM w/hotlinks included for easy mobility. <br/> <br/> Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission hardcover
19343798<p>This delightful pictorial map focusing on the North Pacific Ocean was distributed as a premium in connection with the syndicated radio program "Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen." The program featuring Jimmie Allen as an adventurous 16-year old pilot ran from 1933 to 1937 and from 1946 to 1947 and was sponsored initially by the Skelly Oil Company.</p><p>Background on the show appears on the Radio Days Theater of the Mind Museum website http://radiodaysmuseum.org<strong>:</strong></p><p><strong>"Broadcast History:</strong> 1933 to 1937 and 1946 to 1947.</p><p>The writers of Jimmie Allen had been flying aces in World War I. They came up with the idea of a show about a boy pilot while at a party in Kansas City and used their experience as pilots to create and write the show.</p><p>The show was one of the first to capitalize on the idea of a club as a promotional tool. To join the Jimmie Allen Flying Club all a child had to do was apply at any Skelly Gas Station the initial sponsor. As a member the child received a whole host of goodies ranging from a set of wings through to a "personal" letter from Jimmie himself. An incredible 600000 club newspapers were sent out to children each week and many thousands attended the Jimmie Allen Air Races that were held in Midwest cities.</p><p>The show was first broadcast between 1933 and 1937 and then came back to the air with brand new stories after the war between 1946 and 1947. The post-war stint in no way lived up to the fascination for the show in the 1930s."</p><p>http://radiodaysmuseum.org/index.php/our-collection-1/2-old-time-radio-shows/7-juvenile/265-air-adventures-of-jimmie-allen-the</p><p>An uncommon map.</p><p><strong>References:</strong> David Rumsey Map Collection: List no. 11105.001. No examples on OCLC.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong> Two vertical fold lines which may have been partially separated. Mounted on backing board. Very good.</p><p>ICN 7719.3</p> Skelly Oil Co.
33" x 25" coloured map. "Showing Dominion Lands Vacant. For complete information and regulations governing homestead entry apply to agent at Peace River..." Coal mines, water developed, other minerals, undeveloped minerals, oil and gas wells, power transmission lines and main roads indicated. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent homesteading memento of the Peace River/Grande-Prairie District. Book
193013064Fort Worth: Logan Map Company 1930. Folded map 23 x 17.75 inches. Old folds minor wear a few closed tears along folds repaired with tape on verso bottom left marginal section a bit munched up. Good condition. A scarce and detailed plat map for Reeves County Texas in the crook of West Texas between Fort Stockton and New Mexico. This gridded county map provides numerous details on land ownership oil leases railroad lands and other claims; a number of the major oil companies including Humble Texas California Marland and Atlantic were active in the county at this time. A key is printed in the margin locating various types of oil and gas wells. The middle portion of the map is overprinted in large red letters "Elliot & Waldron Title Companies" who provided information to prospective land buyers in Reeves and several surrounding West Texas counties at this time. <br /> <br /> "In the early 1920s Pecos became the focus of Delaware Basin oil exploration and received substantial publicity though little oil and gas were found in paying quantities. By 1930 however oil excitement had brought a larger and more diversified population to the county" -- Handbook of Texas online. We find records for about twenty Logan Map Company maps all recorded in single copies. Logan Map Company unknown
19351420Wichita: Wichita Mapping & Engineering Co 1935. Very good. Large blueline map 40.75 x 47 inches. Rolled. Some excess blue ink along bottom edge. Light wear at edges. Minor toning and dust soiling. Scattered neat contemporary manuscript annotations. Imposing and detailed oil and gas map showing developments in Kay County Oklahoma bordering Kansas directly south of Wichita. The present map delineates all the oil and gas wells being planned and drilled and all wells actively producing and abandoned. These are several large concentrations of activity the largest being between the towns of Blackwell Braman Dilworth and Peckham northeast of the Chikaskia River with others located near Tonkawa Ponca City and between Newkirk and Kaw. The map also notes land ownership for every section of every township in the county."The oil and gas industry stimulated an economic boom in the early 1900s. As early as 1894 gas had been discovered on the Marcus McClaskey farm southeast of Newkirk. However he kept the discovery a secret until he could prove up his land claim. By 1902 approximately six gas wells had been drilled northeast of Blackwell. In 1910 Ernest W. Marland founder of the 101 Ranch Oil Company drilled seven gas wells on the Millers' 101 Ranch. However the great oil boom in Kay County was precipitated by the discovery of oil by Marland on the Ponca allotment of Willie Cries Crys-for-War in June 1911. Louis H. Wentz soon entered the foray to locate oil in Kay County. The oil boom and bust created temporary peaks in population and several ghost towns such as Mervine Dilworth and Three Sands" - Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.Not in OCLC. We locate records for four other maps produced by the Wichita Mapping & Engineering Co. with only one being noted in any appreciable amount of copies. Wichita Mapping & Engineering Co unknown books
18582SAINTE-MARIE-SUR-MER (44), Ass. des Amis du peintre Mahuault-Le Déroff - 1997 - In-8 à l'italienne - Reliure pleine toile éditeur sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs - Très nombreuses reproductions hors texte en couleurs - Préface de Michel-Henry- Poèmes de Marie Le Déroff - Introduction d'Eliane Fouche - 118 pages - Très bel exemplaire
SAINTE-MARIE-SUR-MER (44), Ass. des Amis du peintre Mahuault-Le Déroff - 1997 - In-8 à l'italienne - Reliure pleine toile éditeur sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs - Très nombreuses reproductions hors texte en couleurs - Préface de Michel-Henry- Poèmes de Marie Le Déroff - Introduction d'Eliane Fouche - 118 pages - Très bel exemplaire Belle Envoi de l'auteur
Light wear to cover, creases on spine, and tape marks inside cover. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Black and white photos and illustrations. 174 pages. "Author Michael Starks has gathered, analyzed and translated the piles of scientific literature on his subject, including 'clandestine black market studies.' He has integrated and organized all this data and presents it coherently, with an admirable minimum of scientific talk. All necessary technical terms are carefully explained and the illustrations are informative if not stunning." [High Times Magazine]
1948666H1743Canada: Imperial Oil Limited Marine Department Imperial Oil Shipping Co. Limited 1948. Book. Good. Spiral Bound. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 286 pages. Index. Spiral bound in chocolate brown cloth-covered boards. Fold-out map of the world indicates zones and seasonal areas. A very detailed work covering: Marine Department Organization; Ship's Organization; Safety Measures Pollution Life Saving Fire Fighting; Shipping Casualties Damage to Property Salvage; Cargo and Cargo Handling; Repairs and Alterations; Personnel; Ship's Business; Operations - Deck Department Engine Department Steward Department; Marine Department Forms; Valve Markings; and more. Number stamped inside front board otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this vintage company manual which was presumably relied upon for the safe nautical transport of oil and related products the world over in the immediate aftermath of WWII. Imperial Oil Limited Marine Department, Imperial Oil Shipping Co. Limited Paperback
286 pages. Index. Spiral bound in chocolate brown cloth-covered boards. Fold-out map of the world indicates zones and seasonal areas. A very detailed work covering: Marine Department Organization; Ship's Organization; Safety Measures, Pollution, Life Saving, Fire Fighting; Shipping Casualties, Damage to Property, Salvage; Cargo and Cargo Handling; Repairs and Alterations; Personnel; Ship's Business; Operations - Deck Department, Engine Department, Steward Department; Marine Department Forms; Valve Markings; and more. Number stamped inside front board otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this vintage company manual which was presumably relied upon for the safe nautical transport of oil and related products the world over in the immediate aftermath of WWII. Book
CCC-83418. edition Librairie Renouard et H. Laurens, 78 pages . illustrations 20 gravures hors texte dont 5 a couleur, 23 gravures dans le textes, in-4 Format : 19,5 cm x 27cm, broche, cours complet de peinture a l'huile, photos possibles
741 pages. "Contains reports relating to all merchant and naval vessels of 500 tons gross and over reported to have been either totally lost or to have been declared constructive total losses due to all causes, including war losses, during the complete 34-year period from 1963 to 1996. Also included are those vessels between 100 grt and 499 grt where loss of life was reported to have exceeded 15 persons." - from Preface. Appendixes provide details of: Loss of life by year; War Total Losses; Largest vessels lost by year; Oil Tanker total losses; Bulk/Ore Carrier Total Losses; Largest Container Carrier Losses; Cruise Ship Total Losses; The Worst Passenger Ferry Disasters; Largest Tanker oil spills; Submarine Losses. Minimal library markings. Moderate wear. A sound reference copy. Book
1866235961Titusville: J.A. Mather 1866. 22 stereo cards with printed paper labels on verso titled in manuscript. 3-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Some wear to cards images near fine. 22 stereo cards with printed paper labels on verso titled in manuscript. 3-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches. A fascinating and important record of the birth of the oil industry in northwestern Pennsylvania.<br/><br/>British-born John Aked Mather 1829-1915 moved to the United States in 1856 and soon after was introduced to photography by an itinerant daguerreian. Mather travelled through West Virginia and Ohio before settling in Titusville Pa in 1860 with his wife. Edwin Drake of the Seneca Oil Company had begun drilling in August of 1859 and Mather was poised to become the oil boom's photographer of record travelling along Oil Creek River on his flatbed studio. Mather's views of wells and rigs were so popular in their time that owners would request Mather photograph their operations to encourage more investment. <br/><br/>The photographs that Mather took make up the largest and most significant pictorial record of the western Pennsylvania oil boom "a record of the first ten years of the industry a coverage without equal in any nineteenth century technology" Darrah The World of Stereographs p. 80. Notably these stereoviews are contemporary to the boom and thus more desirable than Mather's Historical Oil Region Views published in 1895 from the original negatives.<br/><br/>This group of 22 stereo views includes "Oil Seekers Pithole Penn" "Green Mountain Well " "Champion Wells Pioneer River" "RR Bridge & Pioneer from Oil Creek" "New York Well Pioneer" "Lady Stewart & Lady Brooks Pioneer River" "Petroleum Center Penn" "Fishers Shipping Sheds" "Old Shipping Platform Miller Farms" and the humorous "Sunken Fortune or Ruined Man"<br/><br/>See Giddens Paul H. Early Days of Oil: A Pictorial History of the Beginnings of the Industry in Pennsylvania Princeton: 1948. J.A. Mather unknown books
20121221962012 Editions Hazan - 2012 - In-4 broché, couverture à rabats, illustré par l'éditeur - 151 pages - Nombreuses illustrations en couleur, in et hors-texte, dans l'ouvrage - Envoi de Gilles Genty en 1ère page de titre - Ouvrage publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Maurice Denis, L'Éternel Printemps", musée des impressionnismes Giverny, du 1er avril au 15 juillet 2012.
100 pages. Features: The Road to The Left (part I); Visiting Man; Salute! - There Goes Romance; Plain Nice; Quite Happily Married; From This Day Forward; Nice one-page color ad for Campbell's soup shows 21 cans of their various flavours; Classy one-page color Camay soap ad features lady sought by gents on horse farm; Ponds cold cream ad features photos of Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel III; Vintage one-page color ad for Camel cigarettes features illustrations of Mrs. J. Gardner Coolidge, 2nd, Mrs. Thomas M. Carnegie, Jr., and Mrs. James Russell Lowell, plus endorsements by Miss Mary Byrd, Miss Alice Byrd, Mrs. Powell Cabot, Miss Anne Gould and Mrs. Potter d'Orsay Palmer; Photo of Miss Ruth Linton of St. Paul, MN as she endorses Nujol; One-page ad for Listerine toothpaste features photos of illustrator Dan Content and Betty Cook; Fascinating half-page photo ad sponsored by the California Fruit Growers Exchange proclaims "Tooth decay reduced 57% with fresh orange and lemon juice"; One-page illustrated ad for the new Ford V-8; Vintage one-page color ad for Sunkist oranges; Berry Shortcake recipe; Interior design article; Certo ad features photo of Iowa jelly and jam champion Mrs. C. Osborne; Very attractive one-page color-illustrated ad for Wesson Oil (to be used in mayonnaise) features pastel country scene; Bisquick ad features photo of Eleanor H. Dewey of Minneapolis; One-page Pond's face powder ad features color illustrations of Miss Whitney Bourne, Miss Charlotte Young, Miss Lilla Fiskk, Miss Mary Weld, Mrs. Edward Burns and Mrs. Frederic Bellinger; Several pages of lovely color illustrations of ladies' dress fashions; Photo of Edna Wallace Hopper in ad for her "Special Restorative (skin) Cream"; Vintage color comic-format ad for Lifebuoy and Rinso inside back cover cover topics such as B.O. and clothes boiling; Nice color-photo ad for Ivory Soap on back cover; and much more. Small faint date stamp atop back cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Openings at each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this delightful vintage issue. Magazine
92 pages. Features: Cover illustration of Eskimo-American Girl by Neysa McMein; Lovely full-page black and white ad for Victola on page 3 (featuring model No. 360); Full-page black and white ad for P and G Naptha soap on page 4 entitled 'From Arizona to the Adirondack'; "A Great Rushing of Wings, by Emma-Lindsay Squier - illustrated by Maurice L. Bower; The Midnight Revel, by Thomas Hardy - illustrated by N.C. Wyeth; The Candle in the Window, by Margaret Hill McCarter - illustrated by Edward F. Ward; Christmas, by Gene Stratton-Porter - woodcuts by John J.A. Murphy; The Splendid Road, by Vingie E. Roe - illustrated by Robert W. Stewart; Reversion, by Robert W. Chambers - illustrated by Gerald Leake; The Loring Mystery, by Jeffrey Farnol; The Gods He Served, by Melville Davisson Post - illustrated by C.D. Mitchell; Spanish Sunlight, by Anthony Pryde - illustrated by James H. Crank; Charming 2-colour Campbell's Soup ad features Campbell kid with calendar and title 'Never let a day go by without eating soup!' - 21 kinds, 12 cents a can; Fels-Naptha ad; Pond' cream ad; Brown Durrell Company - Gordon Hosiery ad; Awsome colour ad for Mazola salad and cooking oil; Nice Eureka vacuum cleaner ad; Forest Mills Underwear ad; Davenport Bed ad; Montgomery Ward Catalog ad; Wonderful full-page color ad for Diamond Walnuts; Fantastic full-page color ad for Kraft Cheese; Page 64 contains a complete Christmas game which can be cut out and played; 13 pages of wonderful vintage clothing styles for women and children; Full-page ad for Fleischmann's Yeast; Lovely color Colgate ad on back cover features Christmas gifts 'that are sure to please'. Unmarked. Average wear to contents. Covers detached and heavily worn, but present. Please note: One-third of page 41 has been removed - it appears to have contained a 'tempting hint for holiday cheer'. Book
