Low, Dorothy M.; Maltz, Maxwell; Carter, D.; Dickens, M.; Crosby, Kathy; Patten, M.; Nichols, B.MareMagnum
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76 pages. Features: Doctor's Diary - Acidosis; Home is Where You Are (short story); Be the Smartest Family under the Sun - #4 in our great fashion holiday fashion series; Fun loving easy knits; Song in Her Heart (serial); Polly the Dog's devotion to her blind owner Harry; My Life with Bing - photo-illustrated article by Mrs. Kathryn Grant Crosby; An End to Dreaming (short story); Don't Be Afraid of X-Rays; Transform your fireplace; Short articles on four girls who made their jobs passports to happy adventure - Frances Mattheson, Pamela Hammond, Penelope Grimes and Maxine Ridell; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Wall's Ice Cream; Recipes and colour photos of Glorious cakes for sweet or tea; Maternity fashion ideas; Many lovely ads; and more. Pages 47-48 missing. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
309 pages. Reference notes. "At the age of 18 the author was arrested by the secret police of Stalin's Soviet Union. She was thrust into the soul-breaking world of the Soviet prison system... Her crime? Choosing to fight against Stalin's tyranny, to resist evil with the limited resources of an 18-year-old." - from back cover. She spent 5 years in prison. Clean, bright and unmarked but for remainder dot upon bottom edge. Very nice copy. Book
4 pages. Features cover photo of Jimmy Morris holding guitar. Unmarked with average wear. Moderate external fading. A sound vintage copy. Book
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. Book depicts how to interpret Northwest Coast images for the Beaver, wolf, bear, eagle, raven, salmon, sea lion, shark, sun, human, wold man etc. in bentwood boxes, longhouses, canoes, hats, jewelry, masks, etc. Heavily illustrated, 64 pages.
40 pages. Features: Deltaport and Duke Point prepare for opening; Wreck of the S.S. Cowichan discovered; Mystery of the Dog Watch; Nautical Inspector Alan Shard; The Oriental Express; The Sun Princess; Truckspotting at the Nordel Weigh Scales; and more. Few markings. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Shipping urchin roe from Aristazabal to the cities of Japan; Nini Ginivisian recalls her wonderful trip by freighter; The day the Sun Diamond struck the Erawan off West Point Grey; Go-ahead for new transportation authority in Greater Vancouver; Fraser Port's new berth decicated; CN and Illinois Central plan merger; Another record year for the Port of Vancouver; Kyle Washington appointed President of Seaspan; Cover photo of diver Rick Corless seaching red sea urchins; Average wear. A sound copy. Book
24 pages. Features: 1 of of 3 Francophontes has never visited another province; The Sterling Qualities of Henry Birks - Founded in Montreal 100 years ago Birks caters to everyone but its product is still prestige - history of the famous Jewellery business with archival photos; New uses for Canada's depreciating money; Massive fold-out centerfold mountain lake scene sponsored by Player's cigarettes; A Day in the Life of Craig Russell - Outrageous!; Citizen Jan Fonda - article with colour photos; Darkness at Noon - total eclipse of the sun; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
202 pages. Boldly signed in blue marker by Raquel Welch upon her cover photo. Contents: Feature Article - The New Raquel - with many photos, most in color; Summer Fashion - Best Bets; The Sweater You Can't Get Along With This Summer; Fashion with Sol; Summer is...; Vogue Patterns; S. Hurok Presents!; New York's Museum of Modern Art; Museum Maker - Alfred H. Barr; Hubert de Givenchy and Diana Vreeland Talk about Balenciaga; Your Blood Pressure; Edward Steichen 1879-1973; and much more. Tiny bit of faint writing near top of front cover. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Crease to upper corner of back cover. Pages gently yellowing with age at periphery. A magnificent Raquel Welch collectible. Book
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
124 pages. Features: The new blue denim look for anywhere, anytime; Vogue Patterns in blue denim; The Beautiful People put on their coats - Pilar Crespi, Patrice Calmette, Mrs. Leonard Holzer, Mrs. Wyatt Emory Cooper; Swans and Cygnets - Three Generations of Beautiful Guinesses; Colour's the thing for evening; Knit's the thing for day; Fashion for the sun run, photographed in Puerto Rico; Exercises for flabby faces; Ballerina's Change of Hair; Hairdressers tell you how to go six weeks without them; Breast Sculpture; Your Looks are as Good as Your Discipline; Sex and the Topography of Love; A Place to Raise Eyebrows - Mr. and Mrs. Norman Parkinson's House in Tobago; Puerto Rico - Where the Past Grows Young; Puerto Rico Now; Pilar Crespi and Lauren Hutton - Around-The-World Flight Trips; and much more. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy copy. Book
92 pages. Text in French. Features: Le Chapitre Des Chapeaux; Ensemble a Cape Pour Le Printemps; Le Mouvement Projete En Avant; L'Ecole De Ski; Sous Le Soleil De Sestrieres; Les Nouvelles Collections; A La Decouvert; Le Massage Facial; Idees Nouvelles Dans Les Bikoux; Accessoires; Fraicheir Du taffetas Quadrille; S.A.R. La Princesse Marina De grece; Mue De L'Homme, par Jean-Richard Bloch; Matins de Printemps; Sur La Cote De Floride; A Burlington House; Sur La Scene; Many gorgeous vintage ads. Above-average wear. Soiling to front cover. Binding intact. Missing pages 71-72. A worthy reference copy of this marvelous vintage issue. Book
Mm 175x250 With an introductory note by Giuliano Frabetti. Volume cartonato, legatura editoriale in tela, 335 pagine, numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero e a colori, sovraccoperta originale e astuccio in cartoncino. Libro in condizioni di nuovo. Testo in inglese - english text. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
New Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In Turkish. 216 p. Türk tarih tezi, Günes-dil teorisi ve Kürt sorunu. (Bilim Yöntemi Türkiye'deki Uygulama 2). (Bütün Eserleri: 4).
78 pages. Features: Ron Rawlins '77 Chevy Pickup; Disc brake conversion; The Van Warehouse; Smokey Brainard's '79 Ford Courier; How To - Driveline Maintenance; Deora - Al Davis' amazing '65 Dodge A-100 custom; 5th Annual Mini-Truck Nationals; F-100 Connection - custom built frame; James Weston's '79 Dodge Power Wagon - Hemi-powered; Sun Kissed - centerfold photo of Peter Butrico's '54 Ford F-100; Grand Finale - the nation's top ISCA Show Vehicles; 2nd Texas Van Nationals; David Pullum's '55 Chevy Pickup; 9nth National Truck-In; How to vent van front fenders; Michele White's '75 Chevy LUV; Matt Westphall's '64 Ford Econoline; Ed Smith's '53 Ford F-100; Louise Ann Bettencourt's '75 Datsun; Andy Viault's '79 Dodge Van. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
With 10 fold out plates at end. 224 pages. Spine has been replaced, original soft paper covers. Rough edges, wear and creases to corners. Browning to page edges.
Features: Yuletide on the Santa Fe Trail; Last ride to Leadville; Dixieland in search of sun; the lady and the Pennsy; Yellow dog extra; News photos; New River Trains; and more. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
Book shows wear to covers with corner wear, a small tear at front cover, some edge wear. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save dots on "suggested minimum ages" pages. Toys which work, which are inexpensive, which are easily repaired, which parents and children make together, including dondut bird feeder, kazoo, ant jar, sun goggles, barometer, straw horn, sun dial, tube telephone, sand combs, moustaches, rope machine, city kite, pocket parachute, tire ring swing, bull roarer, soap bubbler, dancing man, propeller stick, etc. Copyright 2011 Pistil Books
80 pages. Cover: Eve Curie Contents: National Affairs: Fixer - Letter to President Roosevelt by Sondra (Bunny) Glatt; Judiciary: Birthday - Sol Bloom; Heroes: Rediscovery - Samuel Eliot Morison; Labor: Voices - United Mine Workers of America Convention; Rich Widow - Frances Payne Bingham Bolton; Organizations: Build-Up - Reverend Charles Edward Coughlin; Balkans: Peace-Lovers' Powwow - Balkan Entente (Foreign Ministers: Shokru Saracoglu, John Metaxas, Grigore Gafencu, and Alexander Cincar-Markovitch); Wilhelm's Solution - Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern; Soviet Union: Saga of the Sedov - Icebreaker Sedov; France: Women at Work - Frenchwomen Seeking War Work (Eve Curie); Germany: Black Guard Isms - Das Schwarze Korps; Japan: Hirohito vs. Kipling; War in China: General Giant Horse - General Ma Chan-shan; Economic Front: Hot Spot - Rumania and Oil; Northern Theatre: "Condemned to Death"? - Finland's Army under command of Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim; In the Air: Claims and Glimpses - Blitzkrieg; Medicine: "What Am I Doing?" - Eugen Steinach; Science: At Westinghouse (Electric & Manufacturing Co.); Science: Might-Have-Been - Atomic Energy; Education: "Sarcastic" (David James) Dove; The Press: Sentinel - Adams Sentinel history; Music: Prodigy - Andre Mathieu; Theatre: Exploits of Elaine (Barrie); Religion: Suppressed Spirits - Spiritualism; Christians on Christianity - William Orchard and Dr. Richard Roberts; Foreign Trade: (Sir Ellice Victor) Sassoon Again; Securities: Buying at the Bottom? - Charles Edward Merrill and Edward Allen Pierce; Utilities: Parceled Posted - Postal Telegraph Inc. and American Cable & Radio Corp.; Hello? - Moore Telephone System and William James Moore; and Manufacturing: Airacobra - Bell Aircraft Corp. and XP-39. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Cadillac Sixty-Two, 1940 Studebaker Commander, Campbell's Tomato Soup and Pall Mall Cigarettes. Binding intact, with minimal wearing along spine. Two small ink spots on front cover. Small mailing stamp bottom right back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
pp. xiv, 224 + Numerous full page photographs. Uncut. Large 8vo. Original full light blue cloth binding, gold lettered. Original dust jacket with price, slightly worn with small loss at top of spine. Hardbound. Nice copy. First Edition(?). SPACE/4
Several pages of black and white photos of McKuen. Songs include: Through European Windows; We May Never Touch the Sun; Going Down; I Love You, So I Haven't Been Myself This Week; If I Could Fly; The Black Eage; That Golden Summer By The Sea; Paris; The Women; On the Road Again; The Far West; And Tonight; The Far Side of the Hill; I'm At Peace; I Think of You; My Friend; Smell the Buttercup; Solitude's My Home; Forty Without Fear; To You; There Goes a Man Who Tried; The Sky's So Wide; Blessings of the Day; About the Time; I'll Say Goodbye. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
157p. Text drawings by A. L. Helm and the author. Endpapers beginning to brown. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, slightly worn and spotted. Hardbound. SPACE/4
55 pages. Features: Archbishop Howard H. Clark, Anglican Primate of All Canada; Miami - City of Intrigue in the Sun - plotters, counter-plotters, gun-runners and exiles from a half-dozen Latin-American lands keep U.S. lawmen busy; How to Improve Your Luck; Colour photos of sweater fashions; Under the Knife - comic; Dog with a Soft Spot for Orphans - a motherly French Bulldog; These Men Are Almost Dead of Thirst - French Hunters Die of Thirst in Sahara; Quebec Novelist Marie-Claire Blais Takes New York in her Stride; Stars on Ice - Stars turn out for the 25th anniversary of the Ice Follies in Hollywood; Patron Saint of the Hot-Rod Set - Gordon Taylor, Transportation Minister of Alberta; Dean Griffing and Frankie Filchock say it is time for Canadian football to go American; A boy's best friend is his duck; Nipper by Doug Wright. Colour ads for: Sun-Up; Crown Royal Syrup; Lady Galt Towels; Heinz Spaghetti; Robin Hood Cake Mix; Philishave Speed-Flex; Salada Tea; Five Roses Flour; Canadian General Electric Appliances; Lux Soaps; Coffee; Birds-Eye frozen dinners; Pepsi-Cola; Christie's Premium Crackers; Maple Leaf Sausages; Aylmer Soups; Cadbury's Choco; Betty Crocker; Simon's Cigars; Electrohome Stereos; SOS pads; Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
The second issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 114-224. Features: Canadian Curiosities - article with great illustrations; The Marvelous Feats of Juggler Ram Pershad; Earth Pyramids in the Rosengarten Mountains; "For the Company's Credit" - story of an ocean-liner race; The Queerest Monarch in the World - Mwanga, King of Uganda (illustrated article); The Wreck of the "Rising Sun" - fire at sea; Picnics in Perak - article with photo of many Malay sultans aboard elephants crossing a river; The Telegraphist of Neufchateau - true WWI story; The Romance of the Mission Field - part 1; Across the Atlantic in an Open Boat - article with photo of Harvo and Samuelson in their rowboat "Fox"; The Mysterious Tramp; Tree-Blazing - how explorers in Australia's interior mark trees to guide those who may come after them; Bagging a Man-Eater - Major A. St. H. Gibbons kills a lion to protect villagers - article with photo; "The Miracle of Moses" - the Platte High Line Canal in Colorado - article with photos; In Search of an Orchid; The Fiery Ordeal of Fiji - walking on coals (illustrated article; In the Ocean Depths - illustrated recollections of ocean diver John Pearce. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Last page is 224. It is uncertain if any pages were included after that. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 180-262 plus 16 pages of ads. This is a particularly excellent issue jammed full of fascinating accounts. Features: Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss and snow for nearly a week; Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny - he avenged the killing of his employer, an English officer; The Trade Guilds of Constantinople - article with truly amazing photos; The Yaqui Luck-Piece; My Brumby Hunt; When Everything Happened to Me - hauling timber in the 1870s; Salving (Salvaging) Fifty Million Pounds' Worth of Shipping - fantastic photo-illustrated article on some of the 500 ships saved by the Admiralty Salvage Section in WWI; The Sun Dance - photo-illustrated account of a trip to Alberta, Canada to witness the Sun Dance, an annual festival of the Indians; My Dashes fro Freedom - Lieut. E.H. Garland's account of how he escaped from 12 German prison camps in WWI - article with illustrations and photos of the Holzminden Tunnel; ; In Search of Gold - John A. Jordan in East Africa; Our Disastrous Cattle Drive - tale of an horrific Australian cattle drive; Fascinating photo of a "Tramps' Hotel" in the fashion of a jail - they are required to break a quantity of rock for use in road construction before they can leave; The Kaiser's Girls - a tale of 'amazing political intrique and cold-blooded devilry' from German-occupied Russia; The Serpent Garden of Butantan, near Sao Paulo, Brazil - photo-illustrated article; My 'Roo (Kangaroo) Hunt with the 'Flying Gang' - hunting on the banks of the Murray River; With the Ortolan Trappers - photo-illustrated article on how these birds were caught; and more. Half-page photo ad for the Granliden Hotel of Lake Sunapee, N.H.; Lovely illustrated one-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines - "Shooting the Rapids of the Historic St. Lawrence in 1819"; Uncommon ad for "Tobacco Redeemer" by Newell Pharmacal inside back cover claims to help smokers kick the habit in 48 to 72 hours. Covers detached as one, but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
