Higham, CharlesMareMagnum
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277 pages. Bibliography. Index. "Provides a full-scale picture of the American businessmen who dealt with the Nazis right through World War II... A meticulously documented, dispassionately told behind-the-scenes picture of American involvement with the Nazis before, during and after World War II." - from dust jacket. Light wear. Unmarked. Dust jacket preserved in Brodart cover. Very nice copy of this important work. Book
46 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: Washington & Old Dominion Railway; Center Entrance Cars for KC & St. J.; Express & Freight Traffic in Providence; Boston's Two Rooms & Bath Articulateds; Illinois Traction Freight House at Springfield; Erie Railroad Electrified Branch; The Oregon Electric Railway; New Double Deck Cars for Pittsburgh; Track Reconstruction in San Francisco; Express Car for Auto Shipments (NOT&L); Center Entrance Cars for Memphiis; THI&E Terre Haute Terminal; New Cars for Michgan United; Chicago's Oil Delivery Car; Recent Passenger Stations in Los Angeles on PE; also other items, plans, maps and charts. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
n.p. 8vo. Original full printed wraps in a tablet like format. XLib. Slightly worn. Pro-Nazi arguments bolstered with a report on projected plans for Nazi takeover of Central and South America. WWIIA/1.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and photographs, illustrations and charts in the text; patterned boards, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Features: Killer German Shephers at Lynchburg - the Goodman Family; Jerome Park Reservoir; Time Essay - How America Drinks; Israel - Unusual Occupation; Nice Lincoln Continental color-photo ad; Photo of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; Don Rickles - Mr. Warmth; Football - photo of Lundy and Brown of the Rams flattening Johnny Unitas; Photo of the Electric Prunes recording; Movie - The Graduate; Dr. Dolittle movie; Cover Story - Jersey Standard/Standard Oil; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
60 pages. Features: Canadian Troops to Cyprus; Feature Article on Alberta - The New Industrial State; Eric Lafferty Harvie, Q.C.; Building Empires in the Oil Sands; Major Coverage of The Fateful Vote to Impeach Richard Nixon; Chairman Peter Rodino; Support for Nixon at San Clemente; Passing of Wayne Morse, "The Tiger", of Oregon; Greek Military Junta Resigns; Constantine Caramanlis returns to Greece; Tense aftermath of three-da war between Turkey and Cyprus; South Korean politics and Park Chung Hee; Celebrity photos of Johnny Unitas, Gloria Swanson, Hank (Henry) Aaron and Mark Sptiz; Bufo Plague in Australia; Rev. George von Hilsheimer of the Green Valley School for troubled children in Orange City, FL; Return of a Supergroup - CSNY (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) - article with photo of the band at Seattle sound check; Cellist Janos Starker; Desegregation - Historic reversal in Detroit; Back to the Unfabulous '50s; Fashion - The Loose Look; Ad for the Skyline Hotels; A Challenge from Evangelicals; Dealing with Inflation; Federal Reserve Chairman-Designate Alan Greenspan - article with photo; Race for natural resources in Wyoming; Battle of the Little Big Cars - short article with photos of the Ford Monarch and Granada; Inflation, Communist Style; Nice half-page ad for the CBC's news show "The National' with photos of seventeen of its journalists; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Contents: U.S. Riots - 1967 Toll and before - detailed coverage; Reagan leaves hospital; Successful Minuteman II Launch; William Dale Archerd - charged as insulin murderer; Wilcox Expedition on Mount McKinley; Israel's new territories; Vietnam war update; Photo of Wuhan's double-decked road & rail bridge over the Yangtze; Photo of Stalin and daughter in 1934; Mercenaries in the Congo; Photo of Rees-Mogg; Photo of Mick Jagger; Uncommon full-page colour RCA ad shows their computer being used in a school - years before Apple!; Photo of Roger Maris with Orlando Cepeda; OGO-4 Satellite; LSD & the Unborn; Shirley Polykoff and advertising; Alfried Krupp; Shell Oil Refinery at Rotterdam; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Contents: Article and many haunting photos of Communist East Germany; "Torrey Canyon" oil spill; Genetics - Dr. Dobzhansky; Nice Cadillac ad; Estimating crowd size; Nice color photo ad shows the VW bug, squareback and van; Manhattan "Be-in"; Great page of color psychadelic posters; Birth Control/The Pill - feature article; Sam 951 - Charolais breeding bull; U.S. King Crab Catch; Unemployment in Israel; Nice Ford Thunderbird ad on back cover; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
72 pages. Features: Playing Politics with Gas (The Energy Crisis) - Pressured by Jerry Brown, President Carter sounds optimistic - and confused; Backlash against Big Oil helps Alaskan conservation bill; Victor Louis provides a Soviet insider's view of the coming war with China; Two-page color photo ad for the Volkswagen Rabbit claims it can drive from Halifax to Vancouver on $69 of fuel!; A. Philip Randolph - "The Most Dangerous Negro"; American pilots William Spradley and Roy McLemore are captured in Columbia; The Zimbabwe Dilemma - what should the U.S. and Britain do about the Muzorewa regime?; There is a contract on the Shah of Iran; The Rising Cost of Peace - Egypt and Israel beginning to feel the pinch; Riyadh and U.S. at odds over Saudis providing F-5 aircraft to Egypt; Invertiew with Taiwan's President Chiang Ching-kuo; Two-page article on North Korea with color photos; Wayne Murty vs. the Aga Khan; Fidel returns to Mexico to seek help from Lopez Portillo; Kissinger and Kraft in China; Celebrity photos of Willie Nelson, Kirk Douglas, Fereydoun Hoveida, and more; Spectacular Bid wins the Preakness; Affirmitive action affirmed at Sears; Jay Van Andel; Education - learning to live with TV; US Health Costs - What Limit?; Expensive new medical toys - the CAT scan and portable dialysis machine; Andy Kaufman - Comedy's stand-up Pirandello; Nice color Datsun ad features yellow 210; Color ad for the Fiat Strada (blue) inside back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Peugeot 204 ad; A talk with Prime Minister Trudeau; Recovering oil from the sunken tanker Arrow in Chedabucto Bay; St. Mary's Church in Red Deer, Alberta - unusual architecture by Douglas Cardinal; U.S. Postal Service Strike; Home life of letter carrier Peter Stafford of New York; The Enduring Mail Mess; Miasma of My Lai - with photo of General Koster; S.S. "Columbia Eagle"; Death of bomber Diana Oughton; Danger and Opportunity in Indochina - major war coverage; Israel-P.L.O. conflict - article with photo of smiling Arafat in Jordanian cave office and six pages of excellent colour photos of the opposing military forces; Willi Stoph - from bricklayer to organization man; Rampaging plague of mice in Australia; Reproduction of controversial British poster depicting a pregnant man; Ronald Reagan deals with student protests; Last days of the "California Zephyr" train - article with photo; Photo-illustrated article on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSN&Y); The Berlin Syndrome; Banned ad for "The Boys in the Band"; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
80 pages. Features: Carter and Begin meet for one last try to save peace talks; Jerry Brown's Budget Balancing Act; Jane Byrne knocks out Mayor of Chicago; American foreign policy in the middle east; Khomeini's Kingdom Qum; China's Putative War Against Vietnam; China's War with India; Saudi fears of subversion from Yemen; Queen receives valuable gifts from Dubai; Idi Amin's Big Trouble; The Oil Squeeze of 1979; Oil Authority Walter Levy; China Faces Reality - still much promise, but also worry about money and lower goals; Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal meets Hua Kuo-feng; Henry Bloch of H&R Block Co.; Concerns over fallout from nuclear testing; Chaos in Television as the networks claw for audiences; Manic of Mork - Robin Williams - article with color photo; Features with the heads of ABC, CBS and NBC, Fred Pierce, William Paley, Fred Silverman; John McPhee writes of his favorite restaurant, "The Bullhead" in Shohala, PA; Color-photo ad for the Peugeot 604 SL; Voyager 1's rendezvous with Jupiter; Passing of Dewey Bartlett, Mustafa Barzani, W.A.C. Bennett, Henrich Focke; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Canadian budget battle over defense expenses; Robert Fulford and his 'Saturday Night' magazine; Photo of Janis Joplin performing; The Canadian Canvas - A Broad Sweep (of Canadian art); President Ford's risky plan against slumpflation; CIA director William Colby defends himself; Clouds over Playboy's Bunnyland - suicide of Bobbie Arnstein - article with photo of pall-bearer Hugh Hefner; In Defense of Politicians - Do We Ask Too Much?; Eight-page colour-photo illustrated centerfold ad feature by Macmillan Bloedel explains how forests grow; Barefoot Rudolf Nureyev; Moscow's repudiation of trade agreements a serious blow to detente; Saga of the (Henry) Jackson Amendment; Triumph for the moderates in China; Bloody peace in Indochina; The P.L.O. Strategy - Fight and Talk; Truce fails in Northern Ireland; Fragile independence in Angola; Trouble in Cyprus; Ujamaa's bitter harvest in Tanzania; Passing of Baron Jean-Louis de Portal, Gustavo Rohas Pinilla, Li Fu-chun and Alberta oil baron Eric Lafferty Harvie; Goalie Rogatien (Rogie) Vachon and the success of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings - photo-illustrated article; Basketball star Jimmy Wilkins; Jailed Baptist Georgi Vins; Troubled Trident submarine program - article with photo of construction at Bremerton, WA; Scandal in Education - Barbara and Harry Lowther; Artist Robert Rauschenberg; The General Dynamics YF-16 fighter wins a dogfight; Color photo ad for Panasonic TV features gent with monocle; Retailer W.T. Grant Co. cuts back; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: Audi 80 On the Road, plus a preview ride in the Wolseley 2200 and a run in a Bristol 403; History of the Post War Touring Car - Part 6; Coachwork? - Peter Stengel who has built bodies on both sides of the Atlantic makes some personal observations - article with photos including some in colour; Tudor Rees is an expert at fixing elderly car radios; Tony Rolt - a brilliant newcomer to motor racing before the war; New Oil in Older Cars - speaking with Castrol chemists about the way modern lubricants help us maintain our thoroughbred cars; R.G.S. Atalanta - Jonathan Wood concludes his account of the Specials Dick Shattock produced between 1952 and 1956 at a small garage at Winkfield, Berks; The Cars Called Carrera - tracing a story of Porsche development and testing the last word in production 911s; Continental Circus, 1974; Speed Merchants Classic Car Championship - Round 1; Mille Miglia 1940 - Michael Bowler looks back at a great race; De Tomaso Vallelunga - article with colour photos; Classic of the Month - Michelotti 'Jaguar Le Mans" and more. Moisture exposure to top edge. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
20 pages. Features: Where the Beauties Are - They Migrate to the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. - with photos of Barbara Ahl; Battle Rankin, Barbara Jean Gup, Fran Eddy, Wing Eng Lee, Jayne Lahey and George Ann Miller; Impressions of Former First Lady Abigail Adams; Men Are Out and Women Are In - hiring in favor of ladies in Washington - with small photos of Rose McKee, Mary I. Bunting, Jane Fiquet Hanna, Liz Carpenter, India Edwards and Lee Walsh; Protocol Rules for Wives New to Washington, D.C.; White House Fare - LBJ's Presidential table has ranged from home style to elegant (with photo of LBJ and his wife at home in Texas. Nice color ads for: Dole Pineapple, Pillsbury Mocha Fudge cake mixes, Dole frozen fruit drink mix, Helene Curtis Tender Touch Bath Oil. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
211 p. + Illustrations. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. One of the best records of America's first oil rush. PA 26
301 p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, slightly soiled. The gaudy and turbulent years of the first oil rush: Pennsylvania, 1859-1880. Scarce English edition. PA 23
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 75 pages, publisher page shows no additional printings.
Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: My Rest-Cure - experience on a house-boat in Kashmir; The Saving of the "Cardium" - what happened with this oil ship caught fire with 12,000 tons of benzene aboard; The Hinton Murder Case, and George W. Pendleton; "Little Woman of Flame" - what happened with two solitary white women took up farming in East Africa; Photo of steeplejack Jack Hassler climbing a building in Philadelphia; "My Strangest Experience"; The Lifted Veil, part 6 of a strange story of two British officer POWs in Turkey; The Temple of the Tapirs - an exciting trip into the wilds of Mexico; "Draw Poker" - a detective recounts a New York story; Among the Bolshevists - an R.A.F. officers interesting sidelights on the operations against the Bolshevists in North Russia - with great photos; Into the Unknown - part 2 - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea; A Cowboy Adrift; A Kedah Buffalo-Fight - photo-illustrated story of this little-known Malay (Malaysian) sport; Photo of huge (dead) gorilla in the Cameroons; Anthropop-Apology; The Long Arm of the Law - murderers who were detected years after their crimes; The Battle of Ludlow - strikers battle state militiamen in the Colorado coalfields. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A "Gringo" in Old Mexico - An engineer escapes with his life, less a friend and his money; "The Old Small Cat" - Cornered by Shanghai Police, a Chinese bandit only succumbed after a 19 hour battle involving many weapons used against him - includes photos; Flying Thrills in Canada's Northland - A fascinating photo-illustrated article showing how the Far North of Canada is being opened up by passenger and transport aircraft; South African Outlaws - Two prominent law-breakers, Jack Howard and Reilly; At Grips With the Desert - Part I of Donald R.G. Cameron's crossing of the Sahara in which his party became lost for ten days; The Mud-Dwellers of Caparroso - Photo-illustrated story about this amazing Spanish village - with photos; Photo of the first three men to scale 'Balanced Rock' near Castleford, Idaho - Clarence French, George Ernest, and John Carolls; A Little Oversight - A story about a 'Palm Oil Ruffian' pioneer trader in West Africa; Something for Nothing - A queer experience that befell Margaret S. Coffman near Goatneck, Texas; "The Bobbery Pack" - A hunting story from India; Waterways of the "Swiss Sahara" - Photo-illustrated article about the fascinating 'bisses' used to divert glacial runoff to irrigate a particularly dry part of Switzerland; The Coffin Ship - A weird story from the Far East dealing with a murderous Chinese secret society; The Gold That Wasn't - A dummy gold ingot is mysteriously stolen in New South Wales; The "Great Scalp Frauds" Case - Frank Mossman, Game Warden of Pacific County in Washington State, explains how he discovered an ingenious swindle; Man and His Needs. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Backstrip entirely nibbled away. Back cover loose but present, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Features: Gurkha Soldier - the author served with the Gurkha's throughout the late war; Canada's Cat-Swings - Cat trains are used to transport supplies over huge distances in Canada's north; Shark Bait - Elephant Graveyards; The Interventor Gets Busy - reprint of the 1934 story of the author who was sent to Peru to secure possession of some mines which had been illegally seized; V.G.I. - the author, C.A. Chard, had an undersea career of 30 years; The Bungalow - story from a little Indian rest house; Salmon-Fishing in Bering Sea - Interesting glimpses of the salmon-packing industry in Alaska, with photos; British Courage - fire aboard the British Courage which was carrying nine thousand tons of oil; The Smoke-Signal - a story from and Australian mounted constable; and more. Small openings along back strip. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
Stories: Nemesis!; The Wild Cat Intervenes; Special Assignment; Magic in Malaya; Uncercover Work; Tracking Down Hot Oil; Old Samuel; Jungle Law; The Crocodile-Killer; A Den of Thieves; Bushmen on the Bench; The By-Pass; On an Australian Cattle-Station. Above-average wear. Book
Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Magician's Curse - a vendetta on Sardinia; With a Motion-Picture Camera Under the Sea - using the ingenious technology invented by Mr. J. Ernest Williamson - article with wonderful photos; Three Asses In the Pyrenees - part 3 of a fun pursuit of adventure travel in Europe; The Soul of Burma - Part 2 of 2 - nice photo-illustrated article on a trip to Irawadi; "Sugar" - ; The Tragedy of "Miss Miami" - this flying boad crashed on a trip to Bimini from Miami; On the Spoor of the Elephant - J. Morewood Dowsett describes his escape from elephants, and recounts stories of his companion John Deacon - article with photos; My Boa-Constrictor - Sir Curtis Lampson and a snake which escaped in a crowded hotel; Paper Money - a quick tale from West Africa; Caught in a Death-Trap - Part 2 of 2 of the remarkable tribulations of two motorcyclists crossing the Mojave desert in California; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part 3 of 3 of this incredible biography; Millions in Oil - the marvels of Mexia, America's latest field - article with photos; Luck - a story from Alaska. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Stories: The Ice Jam; The Manila Fireflies; Squaw Mike; Crashing into Burma; The Wheat Stealers; What Happened to the Bullion Box; One Christmas Day; The Railroad Boomer; There She Blows!; Rounded-up Wild Elephants; Tracking Down Hot Oil; Witchcraft; A Ride for 1000 Pounds; On Patrol with the B.P.P. Average wear. Book
Pages 194-284 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Romance of the French Foreign Legion; Adrift in a Mine-Field - two men drift through a mine-field in a crippled seaplane, fending off mines with their bare hands!; That Night - a rice-planter's cyclone ordeal on Bordelieu Island off the Florida coast; An Englishwoman in South America - Mrs. Mayer-Nixson describes the ways of Chilean (Chilian) policemen, the curious manners and customs of the people, and the odd habits of Chilean servants; The End of the Rainbow - an adventure of Etienne, a half-breed trapper in Northern Canada who had not heard of WWI; Rua the Prophet - the curious history of a Maori fanatic, Rua Kenana, who established a native "New Jerusalem" in the heart of the wild and inaccessible Urewera Mountains of New Zealand - article with great photos; Canada's Last Frontier - part II of a photo-illustrated narrative of a trip to Canada's Eskimo country - including a photo of Fort McMurray which was but a tiny clearing in the woods, plus a photo of an early oil well, and the Pelican gas 'gusher' which had been buring for 18 years!; Our Zambezi Lion-Hunt - adventure involving a black-faced lion; The Tale of the "Tara" - the adventures of the crew of the auxilliary cruiser "Tara," torpedoed off the North African coast - photo-illustrated article; Exploring the Black Canyon - A.L. Fellows and W.W. Torrence help tap a river by a tunnel which irrigates a previously barren valley in Colorado. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Stories: Beachcomber's Luck; Exploring in Unknown Tibet; Canada's Wildlife Sanctuaries; Falconry in India; The Day that Disappeared; Hank; The Cruise of the Teddy; Hot Oil; Dope (Drug Smuggling in Egypt); Second Mate; Messenger of the Court; The Man with the Harp Once More; The Haunted Island. Above-average wear. Book
