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90 pages. Fiction: The Fugitives; He Loves Me; Take Care When You Say Hello; The Long Denial (part 3 of 4); When the Lilacs Bloomed; Mr. Digney Has a Dream. Articles: The Deadliest War - Germ Warfare; Judy Holliday - star of 'Born Yesterday'; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon criticizes abuse of power in Congress; How to Run a Prize Fight - the Louis-Conn brawl; Scranton Buys its Own Jobs; Lessons in cooking fish on the beach in the Nassau, Bahamas manner; George Vogel is staff Organist at the Freeport Bank of Freeport, Long Island; Miracle Bark of the California Redwood; and more. Ads include: Color GE Radio ad featuring Frank Sinatra; Great color photo ad for International trucks featuresWillers Truck Service of Sioux Falls, SD, plus the Herman Oil Transport Company of Fremont, NB; Lucky Strike cigarette ad; Borden's ad featuring Elsie the Cow; Martin Aircraft; Nice color-photo ad for Oldsmobile and its new Hydra-matic transmission; Bendix Aviation; Hickok belts; Little Lulu is featured prominently in a Keenex ad; Santa Fe Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Douglas DC-4 aircraft; Piper aircraft; Mercury cars; Acushnet golf balls; Very attractive ad for Jantzen swim suits and sun clothes; Blatz Beer - sailing scene; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features bride. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
98 pages. Fiction: See you in the movies; The black devil; Papa played the cello; Bright message; A drive through the country; The outraged heart (part 3 of 4). Articles: Trieste - Battleground for Peace - article with photos; Message to Americans; One Hungry World; I Am a Spastic; Call Them Mister; Brass Hats and Blue Pencils - the Stars & Stripes Army newspaper; Benedict Bogeaus' Movies; A Million Miles of Fishing - a vast tuna industry awaits development in the Pacific Islands; Nice color ad for GE radios; Great color ad for International diesel tractor pulling a scraper; Sweet color one-page ad for the Mercury (Woody) Station Wagon; Great color Coke ad shows magician at work; Union Pacific ad featuresYellowstone National Park; Nice color Chrysler ad; Wonderful photo ad for Columbia sun Glasses; Nice GMC truck ad features G.I. Joe in barber shop; Nice one-page Borden's ad featuring Elsie the Cow; Nice Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover features tobacco farmer; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
82 pages. Features: Photo of a girlish Diana Ross on title page; Zeffirelli's 'brother Sun sister Moon' - photos; Photo-illustrated interview with Franco Zeffirelli; 'Lady Sings the Blues' - 5 pages of awesome photos; A Man's World - concluding portion of an analysis of the films of William Wellman, with photos; 'Last Tango in Paris' - 4 pages of photos; Reviews; 'Sounder' - photos; 'Cries and Whispers' - photos; '1776' - photos; 'Two-Lane Blacktop' - photos; Pin-up of the Past - Jack Buchanan; 'Bluebeard' - photos; Full-page ad for 'Last Tango in Paris'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Mm 120x190 Collana "il Cammeo" - Volume in copertina, 442 pagine con 9 tavole in nero non comprese nel testo. sovraccoperta con ampia lacuna, firma di precedente proprietario. Opera in buone condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Very clean inside and out, but some sticker residue, brownish to rear cover. Text in English and Italian. Introduction by Enrico Pedrini. There is a signed typewritten letter from Daniel Rothbart to a colleague laid in. Illustrated in black & white with 49 plates. Discusses the work of Barnett Newman, Morris Louis, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Al Held, and Sol Lewitt. 10" high X 8" wide, 46 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
166p. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, slightly stained. Original dust jacket, stained and worn. Hardbound. Third printing. SPACE/5
250 pages. Features: Body Sculpture - extraordinary new jewelling in metal by Claude Lalanne, Oscar Gustin; Kore-sculpture in cloth - Mrs. Wyatt Emory Cooper in her fabled Fortuny dresses; Fashion in the Persian-blue gardens of the sun - photos from Iran; Can't Eat Politics... Can't Eat Art; Chanel Always Now; The Miraculous Churches of Kizhi; At Kizhi - "Gulls Sit High on Their Sacred Perches"; Mumba-Flamenca - Three Spectacular Stars; Kirdis of Cameroon; Liza Minnelli; Vladimir Nabokov Talks about Vladimir Nabokov; Chanel and Hepburn - Les Grandes Mam'selles; Woodstock Music and art Fair; A Trance of Poppies; Samuel Beckett Talks about Beckett; Iran, Born Persia; H.I.M. Empress Farah Pahlavi, Shahbanou of Iran; and more. The usual magnificent assortment of ads, our favorite being the Chanel No. 5 ad on page 29 which features an intimate embrace; Two-page ad for Zsa Zsa Gabor's ZigZag perfume. Spine taped. Binding intact. Ink stamps to front cover. Above-average external wear. A stunning compilation of 1960s fashion photography in color and black and white. Hours of enjoyment and amazement await you! Book
LEGENDS JAZZ EDITORI RIUNITI 2002 FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: PERFETTO E INTONSO. Il testo presenta una monografia del jazzista John Coltrane fornendo notizie sulla sua vita, le sue opere discografiche e la sua eredità artistica.
44 pages. Features: Exploring the Oceans - article exploring the scope of oceanography up to the present - includes maps and photos, including photo of a Coelacanth caught on December 20, 1952; Strange Harbour; The "Cutty Sark" - Last of a Glorious Era; Revolt on the Clyde - Resistance to British Railways' plan to add four pleasure steamers to their Firth of Clyde passenger services - the Maids of Ashton, Argyll, Skelmorlie and Cumbrae; Line Squall; Boom in Morocco - sardines have become big business here since the war - article with interesting photos; Loss of the "Hannington Court" in 1941 - article with photo; A Naval Centenary; Excellent photo of the P. & O. passenger liner "Arcadia" under construction; and more. One-page ad for John Brown and Company presents the M.V. Ruahine, built for the New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. at Clydebank; Numerous additional excellent illustrated ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Londres 1790, In-16 demi basane blonde à coins, dos lisse orné de filets et fleurons dorés, piéce de titre rouge. XXXIV + 142 pages. Bon exemplaire.
180 pages including index. A decade-by-decade history of 20th century British Columbia as recorded on the front (and inside) pages of our newspapers. This instant history is sometimes told eloquently, and sometimes matter-of-factly, but it is a living record of our society. Author spent 34 years with the Vancouver Sun. Black and white illustrations. Lightest wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy in glossy illustrated covers. Book
112 pages. Includes guitar sheet music and lyrics for these great Police songs: Born in the Fifties; Canary in a Coalmine; Can't Stand Losing You; De Do Do Do; Don't Stand So Close To Me; Every Breath You Take; Every Little Thing She Does is Magic; Invisible Sun; King of Pain; Main in a Suitcase; Message in a Bottle; Omegaman; Roxanne; Secret Journey; Spirits in the Material World; Synchronicity II; Walking on the Moon; When the World is Running Down You Make the Best of What's Still Around; Wrapped Around Your Finger. Moderate wear. Minimal markings to contents. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great compilation. Book
Paris, Durand - Guillaumin, 1857, in-8, legatura novecentesca in mezzo marocchino blu con nervi e filettature in oro al dorso, piatti in carta marmorizzata verde, pp. 160. Ottime condizioni.
Features: Orchids in the Sun - The Botanical Gardens of the University of Puerto Rico; Epiphytic Orchids as Parasites of their Host Trees; From Flask to Flower in a Flash; Publication Available on Conserving Fuel Usage in Glass Greenhouses with Surface-Mounted Air-Inflated Plastic; Brassavola, Rhyncholaelia, Sophronitis, Sophronitella and Leptotes - 2 - Collector's Item; Environments, Endangered Species and What We Should Do About Them; The Endemic Orchid species of Puerto Rico; Wire Baskets for Cattleyas and Other Orchids; Clonal Propagation of Phalaenopsis by Leaf Tissue Culture; Taking the Guesswork out of Watering; Pruing Cattleya seedlings and Divisions; Relativity, Sunlight and the Intergeneric Greenhouse. Heavy wear to spine crease. Moderate rubbing to covers. Else lightly worn. Book
102 pages. Anguloas of Venezuela - Orchids of Venezuela; Establishing Telipogons: An Exercise in Perseverance; Vandopsis - Lovers of the Sun; Malaysian Phalaenopsis Specialist; a Greenhouse Culture of Disa uniflora Berg. in Gothenburg; Quisqueya - A New and Endemic Genus from the Island of Hispaniola; An Introduction to the Orchid Genera of Africa - from A to Z. Some rubbing and light wear to covers. Book
158 pages including index. "Creative movement activities can help promote self-expression and self-confidence in children. This book shows how. Introducing the technique of teaching through imagery, this fun-filled book shows parents, teachers, group leaders, and anyone working with children ages 3 to 11 how to unleash a child's creative energy and channel it into productive learning experiences." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Few short tears to attractive dust jacket. Very nice copy overall. Book
Mm 140x205 Brossura editoriale di 297 pagine, alcune illustrazioni in bianco e nero fuori testo. Leggeri, ordinari segni del tempo concentrati all'esterno, peraltro buona copia con legature ben salde. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Full blue cloth boards. Interior pages clean and unmarked; 11"w x 8 1/2"h. 202 pages. Many black and white photographs, illustrations, and diagrams. Hard-to-find. Contents include: Shading and insolation measurements of models, Solar and standard time, Graphical methods to determine the suns' path, Shading effect of trees and vegetation, Calculation of solar energy, Effectiveness of shading devices, Heat-transmission of meterials, Economy of devices, Summary of method, Application of the Method in a design example, Charts and diagrams, Vocabulary of devices, Illustrations of theory and practice, References, etc.
pp. xviii, 379. Numerous illustrations. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, slightly soiled at edges. Original dust jacket with price, soiled. Hardbound. SPACE/6
399 pages of dozens of great hits from the early 80s. A brief sampling of the songs includes: Against the Wind, All My Love, And the Cradle Will Rock, Boulevard, Could I Have This Dance; Fade Away, Fame, Hey Nineteen, Hungry Heart, I'm Coming Out, Keep on Loving You, Little Jeannie, Lonely Together, Look What You've Done to Me, Miss Sun, Never Be The Same, One Step Closer, Passion, Sailing, Upside Down, Woman, and dozens more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding tight. A sound copy of this fantastic compilation. If you are wondering about a particular song please let us know. Book
112 pages. Features: Vladimir Nekola generates his own electric power in downtown Chicago using wind and sun; Stu Kingman and family install a home photovoltaic system; Wind Generators and Birds; Electric Cars - Toys or Reality?; EV Battery Chargers; Electric Vehicle Tires; A Graphic Guide to Solar Water Pumping; California 'Net Metering' legislation introduced; Mark Klein and the Gimme Shelter Crew; David Booth's straw bale home odyssey; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Behind the scenes of news gathering - a co-operative, non-profit organization aids in disseminating accurately the news of the world (the Associated Press); Editorials - cause or effect of war? - fundamentals of education - "Rolling down to Rio" by airplane - drug control; More hard luck for the ether - a funal blow is dealt to the ether theory by experiments performed with a highly refined interferometer; Tungsten bows to the plating bath - this important metal can now be deposited electrolytically; The sun an atom builder - a new theory - an attempt to explain where the sun gets the energy which it radiates; Wings over three Americas - safety and comfort for passengers are the aims of international airways; Science lends a hand to the Red Cross; New paints from synthetic resins; Are swimming pools a health menace?; Some important exhibitions in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; A solar observatory for the amateur - how to build simple equipment for solare research work; Cotton stalks - a new source of rayon; Celluloid taxidermy; Taming Silicosis; Combating magnetism in watches - Elinvar makes possible non-magnetic watch parts; When a sunbeam splits - an elementary principle of physics and an unusual analogy; The private car, yacht of the rails - the utmost in luxury that can be built within the limitiations of a railroad car. Two creases to front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
192 pages. Cover illustration by Emmett Watson. Contents: The Road to Kandahar, by Harold Lamb; Renegade - The Horse Thief Rendezvous, by Georges Surdez and Raymond S. Spears; Down in a Dugout, by Leonard H. Nason; The Sun Chasers, by Hugh Pendexter; Code, by L. Paul; Uncle Nng and the Pale Blue Dog, by Carroll K. Michener; The Dance Hall Fisherman, by James Stevens; French M.P.'s, by Steamer; The Bells of San Juan, by Alan LeMay; The Lights of Rip Shin Bald, by Hapsburg Liebe; The Bogas of Magdalena, by Edgar Young; Alias The Blackbird, by Joel Townsley Rogers; Dragomen, by Royce Brier. Attractive water-color illustrated ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover. Peripheral wear to covers. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
111 pages. An awesome collection of blues songs including: All Your Love, Back Door Man, Blues Get Off My Shoulder, Boom Boom, Bring it on Home, Call Me, Can't Hold On Much Longer, Carol, Checkin' Up on my Baby, Close to You, Don't Start Me Talkin', Every Day I Have the Blues, Evil is Going On, Fattening Frogs for Snakes, Goin' Down Slow, Good Morning Little School Girl, Here Tis', I Can't Quit You Baby, I Love the Life I Live, I'd Rather Go Blind, It do me so Good, Killing Floor, Little Queenie, Mellow Down Easy, Mother Earth, Reconsider Baby, The Seventh Son, Sitting on Top of the World, Smokestack Lightnin', So Many Roads, Spoonful, Steppin' Out, The Sun is Shining, Susie-Q, Tell Me, That's All Right, Walking by Myself, Wang Dang Doodle, Who Do You Love, Who's Been Talking, You Shook Me. Binding intact. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Three-inch opening to front cover at base of spine. A worthy copy of this superlative compilation. Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office at Hope; 3 pages re: 'Up-to-the-minute' phone system for Vancouver's city hall; Article and photo of J.C. (Joe) Armstrong, founder of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Hope Joins our Phone System; 3 page article with photos re: The Jeffrees and the Pendrays - telephone pioneers in Victoria; The Birthplace of the Telephone - 2 page article; Employee sales plan resutls; Table of number of phone sets per B.C. community, January 1, 1937; The McMicking Family Tradition - 3 pages with photos; Roland (Sam) Nosworthy; North Vancouver Phones to Llanerchymedd; E.J. Haughton of Victoria; Linemen best Coquihalla avalanches; Lloyd Purdy; Peter McNeish; 'Thank-you' replaces repetition of numbers in Vancouver; George H. Halse, former CEO, passes away - 3 pages with photos; Cavalsky's Store was Nanaimo's first telephone office - 2 pages with photos; E. Purcell Johnston; Fire sweeps the Vancouver Sun - 2 pages; Harry Wilson; Great photo of construction men in front of Nanaimo phone office 25 years ago; 1886 fire leaves the Janes family home as Vancouver's telephone office - with photo; Robert Daniel Davies; We can telephone to China!; Life as a Vancouver operator; Low rates for Long-Distance calls Sundays and every night - with full-page rate sheet; Service to Britannia and Texada; Mrs. George Pittendrigh - Vancouver's first Toll Operator; PNE parade float cover photo; Service to Alaska now available; Operators rally to relieve load during Marpole fire; Edmund Esson; Juanita Booth, Seymour chief operator; James Cummins of Victoria - pioneer phone man; Newcastle Island picnic; Flat Rate Telephone Service for Greater Vancouver - 4 pages with photos; Dominion phone organization meets at Minaki Lodge; We can now talk to Haiti; "Operator, Get Me to the Police!" - 3 pages with photos; Anchor fouls North Vancouver cable; Engineers 'see' by phone during construction of new Pattullo Bridge, with photo; Photo of the London international switchboard - heart of the world telephone network; Ocean Falls and Edinburgh linked; Vancouver's phone directory - with photos; Vancouver can now 'magic carpet' from Vancouver to Bagdad; T. Percy Waters; Ten Years of Transoceanic Telephone Service, with photos; B.C. ship-to-shore service now available on commercial basis; Voices under the sea, by Al Miller; Reginald H. Milner; Pioneer James Cowherd; Submarine link with Britannia - 4 page article with photos; New Whytecliff office; Alfred Crickmay and his brothers; Development of the phone in B.C., by James Hamilton, V.P.; Operators used to need great memories - 2 page article with great Victorian-era operating room photo; Zeballos and Alert bay join phone system - article and photos; Prince Rupert centre of new radiotelephone network; Police session told of proposed teletype network; First call from Atlantic ship to Vancouver; Radio hams in our company; Newcastle Island picnic; Miss Almina Eligh; West Van exchange now includes Whytecliff; PNE float details and photos; F.C. Patterson retires, replaced by C.C. Simpson; Two submarine cables severed by Pier D Fire - with photos and text; Ship-to-shore demonstration on CJOR radio; Vancouver's telephone system will be converted to dial; C.A. (Charlie) Price; Frank C. Paterson; Beware of the common cold; Vancouver toll ro Book
