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This is a very good softcover copy of the first issue of 'Stellar Gas', the New York University Science Fiction Club magazine, with light wear. Simply bound with one staple at the top left corner, these are zeroxed or mimeographed sheets. Illustrated in black & white with film stills. Artwork on cover and throughout by Laura Brighenti. This issue featured Harlan Ellison at an event at NYU. Also a comic strip 'Dasein'. The number '1' is on the front cover lower left corner in a box. 11" high X 8" wide, 10 pages printed rectos only. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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. Contents include: Intro, Geologic formations: Pre-Jurassic rock, Formations of the central metamorphic belt, Klamath Mountains, Formations of teh western paleozoic and triassic belt, Klamath Mountains, Formations of Jurassic and cretaceous ages: South fork belt of Diller, Hershey, Kerr Ranch, Knoxville formation, Shasta series, Tertiary rocks: Stata of Eocene age, Covelo area, Shasta Valley area, Strata of miocene age Point Arena area, Covelo, Garberville Petrolia, areas Wimer formation of Maxon, etc. Pages 64 through 78 have summaries of mineral commodities with maps for gold, platinum, chromite, copper, silver, quicksilver, maganese, gas and oil, coal, nonmetallic mineral commodities, Misc, metalliferous commodities. With 3' x 3' fold out map in full color in excellent condtion in pocket at back of book.
64 pages. Features: How should we bring up our next child?; What you don't know about C.D. Howe; The double life of Injun Joe; The bear cub is everybody's baby; When the world went bicycle crazy. Excellent colour full-page ad for White Rose gas stations. Wonderful full-page colour ad for Leonard appliances. Interesting colour ad inside back cover is sponsored by Massey-Harris-Ferguson and shows a farmer hooking up a rooftop TV antenna - text explains how the lives of farmers will be improved. Above-average wear. Centrefold loose but present. Cover detached but present. Magazine
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 68 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Ad for Mein Kampf, part 2, inside front cover; French Premier Daladier and Admiral Darlan aboard U-boat hunters; 5 photos of French women working in aircraft factories; four photos of Polish sailors fighting with the British Navy; Three photos of night on the British front in France - with gas masks in use; End of another German submarine, the U.39; How the colonial empire of France comes to the aid of France - illustrated article; Newfoundland answers call to arms; With the Finnish army at the front; full-page photo portrait of General Vuillemin, Supreme Commander of the French Air Force; Illustrated centerfold displays the range of Allied and German aerial gun-power; two photos of a downed ME 109; large photo of a downed Dornier 17 afire in a French field; Australian airmen join R.A.F. Coastal Command - working with the Short Sunderland flying boat; Article - U.S. and the War - President Roosevelt issues a warning to Americans; Photo of American bomber over the New York World's Fair; Photo of massive French railway artillery; Training men as stokers for the Royal Navy; New Zealand troops in training at home; A commentary on the war this week; Training men from the ranks as officers; Ad for "I Was Hitler's Maid" inside back cover; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Photo of a British sea fort manned by the Royal Military; Armed might of the motherland, including photos of Mr. Anthony Eden in the field; Illustrated article by Professor W.L. Bragg entitled Science in War - with photo of producer gas vehicle; Illustration of a Hampden bomber dropping a mine at the entrance to a u-boat base; Coastal Command's vigil of sea and sky; With Britain's desert army; Map of our army's swift advance to Sidi Barrani; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black of British tanks cutting through to the coast and Sidi Barrani; Photos of the battle in the Balkans, including photo of the Anglo-Greek war council; The British take Fort Gallabat; Bomb damage in London; His Majesty sees Birmingham blitz havoc; Illustrated article entitled An Army Trained for Victory - preparing the Soldiers of Britain for the Task of European Liberation; Aerial full-page photo of Kiel Naval Base; At sea with an escort; A commentary on the war for this week; Fighting for a free France; Summary of the chief events of the war this week. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
in-8° pp. XXIV-351 con 200 fig. n.t. e con XLVIII pagine pubblicitarie di materiale inerente l'argomento. Bross. edit. Lievi tracce d'uso.
28 pages. Features: One-Third of Canada lies north of 60; The Harding Family of Frobisher Bay; Housing inequality in Inuvik; Major oil and gas finds in the Mackenzie; Elijay Smith - Chief of the Yukon Native Brotherhood; James Wah-Shee - President of the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories; Men Who Guide the North - Northwest Territories Commissioner Stuart Hodgson and Yukon Commissioner James Smith; Sea Lift to Spence Bay, the most northerly mainland port of the North American continent; Staying Warm in the North; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Some sunning to edges of front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
In-8 (cm. 20.30), brossura illustrata, pp. 141, (3), con illustrazioni in bianco e nero fuori testo. Traduzione di Luisa Zappa. Prima edizione italiana. In buono stato (good copy).
Mm 135x210 Brossura editoriale di pagine 204 con alcune illustrazioni in nero. Nuovo. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; original buff boards printed in black, brown cloth back, upper board lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy. With neat personal name stamp on front paste-down. The original, pre-war, edition of the second of a series of fourteen ARP Handbooks published by the Home Office (ARP Department) at the outbreak of WWII and covering many aspects of air raid precautions. Later versions were issued in pamphlet form with the title 'First Aid and Nursing for Gas Casualties'. Despite the number issued surprisingly few appear to have survived in this condition. S.O. Code: 34-229-2. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., Third Edition, with photographs, illustrations and diagrams in the text; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With front endpaper advertisement. Second in a series of fourteen ARP Handbooks published by the Home Office (ARP Department) at the outbreak of WWII and covering many aspects of air raid precautions. Despite the number issued surprisingly few appear to have survived in this condition. S.O. Code: 51-1481.
145 pages. Index. Bibliography. Fold-out at page 128. Indended primarily for doctors. Treats the subject from the aspect of civil air raid precautions. Reprint of the 1937 first edition. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's name atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
69 pages. "Designed to describe a scheme of precautions which it is hoped would prove effective in preventing avoidable injury and loss of life, or widespread dislocation of national activities." - from Preface. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Sticker removal mark on front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1. - 30. Tausend. ca. 17,3 x 12,4 cm. IX, 120 S.; (4) S. und beide hintere Deckel mit Werbung zum Thema mit Abbildungen. Original-Broschur mit Deckeltitel. (= Der Gasabwehrdienst der Truppe. Ein Handbuch für den Truppenausbilder. Band II). Gut erhalten.
4. unveränderte Auflage. Kl.8°. XI, 140 S. Original-Broschur mit Deckeltitel. (= Der Gasabwehrdienst der Truppe. Band 1). Wenig berieben, Buchhandlungs-Stempel mit Bestellhinweisen auf unterem Titelrand, gut erhalten. Mit 27 Text-Abbildungen nach Zeichnungen und 6 Anlagen.
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. 450 pages with a great many photos, mostly in b&w. Chapters, with a large number of sub-chapters, include Rail corridors through the Cordillera to Canada's two Pacific gatways; The first Pacific gateways to overseas treade; The gateways 1917 to 1929 -- Panama extends Vancouver's reach to atlantic markets; A visual record of the gateway ports and the men who moved to cagoes 1843 to 1918; The depression years 1930 to 1938; The war years 1939 to 1945; The gateways 1946 to 1970 -- new markets for bulk commodities -- etc. for a total of eleven chapters ending with The facilities needed to handle overseas treade to 2020.
18,1x12,7 cm; (8), 160, (8) pp. Brossura. Interessante volume sul funzionamento dei motori a gas, a petrolio, ad aria, analizzati separatamente anche in base al loro ideatore: Delamare, Lothammer, Durand, Daimler. 51 figure in bianco e nero accompagnano il testo. In barbe con alcune pagine intonse. Buono stato di conservazione. GOOD COPY. RARE.
76 pages. Features: Boeing photo ad features experimental military equipment powered by gas turbines; Korea Controversy; Ike's Patronage Problems; Senator Styles Bridges says "Atomize Foe if we Must"; High feelings in High Court on Dixie School Segregation; Investigations - Red Front Funds; Korean War coverage; Color ad for General Tires; Nice two-page color ad for National Steel; Fairbanks-Morse color ad highlights New Orleans; Riots and Riches in North Africa - many troubles beset France; Indo-China setback; White defiance in South Africa; Photo of Sweden's Greta Hoffstrom who now appears on that country's money; Nice one-page two-color Hilton Hotels ad features proclamation of Christmas; Illustrations of Moscow fashions; Nice illustrated two-color ad for Continental Motors Corporation features heavy equipment at work; Fantastic color-photo-illustrated centerfold ad for Lockheed features their new Super Constellation - awesome cabin photos!; Canada/CBC's TV "Iron Curtain" is finally pierced by private broadcasters; Artists with Brush and Talent Paint Americana for Americans - Norman Rockwell, Al Parker, Joe De Mers, Harold Von Schmidt, Floyd Cavis; Nice two-page color ad for General Motors (GM) trucks, locomotives and other heavy equipment; Nice two-color one-page ad for the Mallory UHF converter (radio); Basketball article; Fred Haney photo; Brief obituaries for Comdr. Charles H. Lightoller and Capt. Charles G. Duffy; Howard Hughes back in charge of RKO; Henry Hazlitt writes on the collapse of controls; Asiatic Fever; Gamma Globulin Bank; Champion spark plug ad features photo of Indianapolis 500 winner Louis Meyer; Hyster forklift ad on last page; and more. Covers heavily-worn and loose but present. Above-average external soiling. Minor tape repair to spine. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Book shows minor edge and corner wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is barely hanging together with large open tears. 280 pages with about 20 page glossy b&w photo section. Contents include: London water supply, Sewers, Tunnels under the Thames, Trains go underground, Gas and elctric mains, Crypts, Chapels, Treasures, Temples, Tombs, Dives, Deep shelters, etc.
107 S. Original Karton mit illustriertem Deckeltitel. (= Sonderdruck der Hannoverschen Geschichtsblätter N.F. Band 7, Heft 1) Etwas angestaubt, am unteren Rand etwas fleckig. Insgesamt guter Zustand. "Geschichte der Gasversorgung..." mit schwarzweißen Abbildungen nach Skizzen und Fotografien.
24 pages. Consolidating British Positions in the Balkans; Photos of flame attacks by night and day; Photos of British troops in respirators walking through poison gas from their own bombs; Photo of a French artillery commander's hardened headquarters; Photo of French troops and their gun which fires 220lb shells - such guns helped the French win at Champagne in 1915; Roadside photo of German troops killed and wounded by a French bombardment of howitzers; Photo of a floating bridge being constructed across the Tigris by Indo-British Pioneers; Photo of dozens of British sailors pulling a naval gun across a Mesopotamian desert; Photos of belligerents carrying goods in Cameroon; Photo of Russian machine guns and gunners on the bessarabia front; Good Bye to Gallipoli! - the last scenes - four photos and one two-page illustration (which is loose but present); Records of the Regments in the War - XI - The Dorsets; Photos of mascots; Before, during, and after photos of the German demolition of the church of Lampernisse; Three photos of Damage in Paris after a Zeppelin bombing raid; Photos of 17 brave British sons decorated for Valour. Lacking outer wraps. Last page loose but present. Appears to have been disbound from a hardcover volume. A rough but worthy reference copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Lovely cover illustration of blonde on boat; Great vintage colour Imperial (Oil) ad inside front cover features old-style gas pump; Editorial topics include Prison Rule, Support the Schools, The Cause of Crime, Who Lost the Election?, Success or Failure?, A Faulty System, World Trade, and Interest Rates; Nice one-page photo-illustrated ad for magazine "The Nor'-West Farmer"; A Policeman's Point of View (short story); Yellow on White (short story); Newfoundland - Canada's Economic Partner - great photo-illustrated article; Serg'int Luck (short story); Modern Eve - article illustrated with amazine photos of reptile skins used in fashion, our favourite being a model clad in 25' of python skin!; Hot Cargo (short story); Ceylone - Tea Garden of the World - nice photo-illustrated article; Pond's one-page ad includes photo of Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel III; Woodbury's one-page soap ad features photo of Baroness Ida Legan; Two-page General Motors (GM) of Canada ad highlights their design innovations; Movie news includes photos of Ruby Keeler, Dorothy Dell, Mary Carlisle, Muriel Evans, Ruth Channing, Gloria Stuart, Paul Kelly, and more; Business News discusses inflation and advertising trends; Young Man and his Problem; Legal Info.; Nice 1/4-page illustrated ad for Aylmer tomato catsup; Fashion illustrations; Heinz one-page ad includes illustrations of several of their products; Cooking article; World Sayings; Colour Lifebuoy and Rinso ads inside back cover; Nostalgic colour-photo ad for P and G naptha soap on back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
72 pages. Features: Conversations with Quebec's Revolutionaries, by Peter Gzowski; One Man's Intimate Picture of the FLQ; The Savage Legacy of Columbia's Civil War; The Life and Times of Wheeler-Dealer Ralph Farris - nice photos; The Wild Trade in new and used animals, by Robert Thomas Allen; The Gold-Braid Mind is Destroying our Navy - so says James Plomer; What Jack McClelland has done to book publishing in Canada; Portrait of a great modern shrine - Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal; Artistic full-page ad for TCA (Trans-Canada Airlines); Funky full-page colour photo ad for Martini & Rossi shows man and woman with dog at ice machine; Colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows rows of empty bottles on picnic table with smiling couple at far end. Somewhat above-average wear. Coverfold partially open and tender. A worthy vintage copy. Book
PUF Que Sais Je ? 1960, In-12 broché. 127 pages. Bon état.
PUF Que Sais Je ? 1960, In-12 broché, 127 pages. Bon état.