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Book is in excellent condition with a little sunning to the exterior and a few small smudges on the front end paper as the only flaws. Heavy weave gray cloth HB covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Author was a columnist with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Washington Teamster, the KRAB Program Guide, Puget soundings, The North Central Outlook, the Vancouver Sun, and these essays are reprints from those publications.
6 pages. Nice cover photo of Al Jolson. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Coverfold mostly open. Additional sheet music affixed inside front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Inscribed to Tom from Claude Duval on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to upper edge. 255pp. Claude Duval was The Sun's racing correspondent for 47 years. He tells the story of those times including inner secrets of the turf's top trainers and many hilarious moments on his world-wide travels.
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English and Korean. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held March 6-July 29, 2012 at the Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea. Curated by Choi Yoon-Jung. Participating artists: Park Saeng Kwang, Suh Yong Sun, Kim Chong Hak, and Hwang Chang Bae. Illustrated in color and black & white. 76 color plates, some double-page, about equally divided among the four artists. Also black & white installation shots. Biographical information on each artist. 11" high X 8" wide, 250 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
Aveva un'unica ricchezza: il suo fascino. E divenne una delle geishe più famose del Giappone.
46 pages. Songs include: Malaguena; Granada; Gymnopedie #1; Largo from Concerto in D; Ave Maria Op. 52 #6; Prelude #5; Laschia Ch'io Pianga; Adagio Cantabile; The River; The Singing Forest; Morning Sun Dance; Chinatown. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Writing on title page, otherwise unmarked. A worthy copy of this beautiful compilation. Book
82 pages. Features: Ancestral Trust - The English in the Eastern Roman Empire; Dining with Angels - Cuisine of the Eastern Roman Empire; The Anti-Empire - a brief history of Armenia; The Changing Tale of Armenian Clothing; Kingdom in the Sun II - The Other Norman Conquest; Fighting Cardinals - Henry Beaufort & Guiliano Cesarini; The Work of the Sofer - reproducing the holy texts of Jerusalem; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
82 pages. Features: A Kingdom in the Sun - The Other Norman Conquest; The Story of Henry, Eldest Son of Henry II of England; The Captive King - Richard the Lionheart; Gibraltar - a Medieval Military Base; Beware of Pretenders at Bosworth; Pilgrims at the Shrine of Saint Richard of Chichester; Table Etiquette in Medieval Society; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Hardcover in-8, 703 pp., nombreuses illustrations et figures in-t., cartonnage toile grise de l'éditeur, jaquette illustrée. Accrocs à la jaquette sinon tres bel exemplaire [MI-21]
Features: Nice Ford ad inside front cover features colour illustration of an old-time barn raising; Man From Missouri - A vivid close-up of Harry S. Truman, the onetime plowboy who was pitchforked into the White House; Here's a Fine Stymie! - humorous article about golf and the impact upon it by WWII; To Chuck - With Love (short story); "They're Full of Love and Mozart" - Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro tours Eisenhower's Germany; Sissy Fish? No Sir! - Charley Hartman and his Ontario Government Trout Rearing Station (fish hatchery) at Cold Water Creek take care of almost 3 million trout (with photos); 25,000 Miles to Battle - Lieut. Stuart Keate, an officer of Canada's new cruiser, the H.M.C.S. Uganda, describes why war in the Pacific is different than War in the Atlantic; Well, Good Night (short story); Charles H. Scott, Director of the Vancouver School of Art, chastises Vancouver's art patrons of not supporting Canadian artists; Stage set for an election in England; Ottawa political report; On the Corner in the Sun (short story); What About Russia? - Will the men of the Kremlin enter the family of nations or erect a Russian Great Wall?; Music By Adaskins, Canada's most musical family - Murray, Naomi, Yanova, Frances Marr, John, Frances James and Harry; Three-Way X-Ray - LeRoy J. Leishman, a Los Angeles inventor, solves the problem of bringing depth perception to the fluoroscope with his stereofluoroscope; Nice colour half-page Orange Crush ad shows girl with dog; Additional ads for Canada Dry, Kotex, Palmolive soap, Castoria, Lysol, Absorbine Jr., Vaseline hair tonic, and many more; One-page ad for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board encourages readers to use sugar sparingly; Back cover Coke ad features colour painting of a happy scene in Brussels where Canadian troops imbibe with friendly locals. 50 pages. Unmarked with average wear. Faint discoloration to back cover. Please note: missing first page. Last page loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage issue from the tail end of WWII, printed mere days before Truman, featured in this issue, authorized atomic bombs to fall upon Japan. Book
80 pages. Cover art shows football star Fred Doty and his fiancee Beverly Brown. Features: The Greatest Danger is Europe - a searching analysis which shows the peril in Europe where fear is stronger than the will to fight - by Matthew Halton; Don't Call Me Baby Face - Part two of the story of Vancouver Boxer Jimmy McLarnin - article with photos, including a shot of Jimmy golfing with Fred Astaire, Joe Louis and Bob Hope; I Saw the Chinese Reds Take Over - Norman McLaren explains how the 'new order' came to the country town of Pehpei - with photos; Never a Dull Moment at the Larches - Elizabeth Armstrong relates tales from her Victoria, B.C. boarding house; A License to Murder? - driver's licenses are handed out like dog tags; Lena Horne - Glamour C.O.D. - article with photos including a large colour full-page shot; Giants of Golgotha - story by Fred Delano; How We Massacred the Passenger Pigeon - a Maclean's flashback - once these birds blotted out the sun in Eastern Canada, but the last one died in 1914; Recipe - Take One Steamboat - Tony Didier, the chef of the CPR's Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, serves up a shore dinner - article with photo; Fantastic full-page Coke ad shows Coke Cooler, glass, and soda jerk above a thirsty city - very nice!; The People Only Death Will Touch - The Rev. Aurthur Payton and Lawrence Earl travelled to Nigeria to help Lepers -article and photo; Massey-Harris ad focuses on how their products help farmers step-up meat-making nutrients in the crops they grow; Li'l Abner Cream of Wheat ad; Dow Brewery ad honours Auguste Prenovost of Montreal who tacked a galloping horse to prevent disaster on a traffic-laden street; Barbara Ann Scott is featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Center pages loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
64 pages. Features: The RCMP's handling of a drug case is marred by mishap and tragedy - Eugene and Michele Uyeyama murdered; Special report on Canada's federal opposition - The Reform Party/Preston Manning/Keith Martin/Gilles Duceppe; Alexa McDonough - the NDP's new leader needs a seat, a profile and more MPs; Jean Charest attempts to revive federal Tories; John Savage - Time to Bow Out; Burr, Saskatchewan - striptease fever; War on biker gangs in Saint-Nicholas, Quebec; John Major's Last Stand, with photo of scumbag Tony Blair holding Sun Paper bearing Rupert Murdoch's endorsement of him; Contentious developments in the EU; Vultures close in on the Eaton's Empire; SaskTel - Canada's last public phone firm may vanish; Upsetting Chretien's electoral applecart, by Peter C. Newman; The Blue Jays and the Expos - a tale of two budgets, with photo of Roger Clemens in Jays Uniform; Elvis Stojko Reigns Again; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Contents: Drought in Africa (short article); B.C.'s Bill Bennet swings his axe - spending down and taxes up; Newfoundland politics - Brian Peckford; Worst of times for the NDP; U.S. shelves a fish treaty; Manitoba bilingualism battle; Robert Bourassa seeks Quebec Liberal leadership; Two-page ad for the new Audi 5000S; Blunt talk between Helmut Kohl and Yuri Andropov; George Schultz - futile side trip to the middle east; Fallout from the Robert Falls affair; Guatemala and Rios Montt; No Expo 1989 for Mitterand; Herman Kahn Obituary; Social update on Vickie Moss and Wayne Gretzky with nice photo; Dave Steib does well in baseball all-star game; Bill Vander Zalm to work for Vancouver Sun, after suing it while in office; The recovery takes shape; The Lessons of Japan Inc., by Peter C. Newman; Washington wakes up to Acid Rain; Results of Universiade 1983 in Edmonton; Wynton Marsallis; Reunion of The Band; Poor Toronto - forced to watch as Vancouver opens domed stadium - B.C. Place. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Dieudonn M'Bala M'Bala; No way to run a recession; How to Fix Canada's Parliamentary Question Period; The Soaring cost of Asper's Dream - the Museum of Human Rights; The People of Pakistan - pawns in a fatal game; Sarkozy's U.S. Love-fest hits a few snags; China's youth swallow the 'official' account of Tiananmen Square; Why Canadians have to wait for the latest gadgets; Game Guru - Don Mattrick of Microsoft; GM dealers remain positive; Sex, Drugs and Acrobats - a new expose on the rise and times of Cirque du Soleil billionaire founder Guy Laliberte; NHL Fitness Test; Woody Allen and Larry David; Gordon Ernest Thomas - Obituary; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
92 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. George's Island Park dinosaur in Calgary; Colour-photo Caterpillar ad inside front cover shows great scene of neon lights at night in Montreal; Great one-page colour Oldsmobile ad features a Super 88 Holiday Coupe and Deluxe Station Wagon, both red; Fantastic two-page colour-photo ad for Zenith radios, including their new shirtpocket radio (red); Classy one-page colour ad for Black Magic chocolates by Rowntree features scene in Venice; The Invisible Unemployed - an intimate report on the real distress of the unemployment that looks like prosperity - featuring the Vancouver family of John LaFleche, who was laid off from a plywood mill; The Rich are Coming out of Hiding - wealth is being flaunted; It's Telepathy That Brings Lassie Home; HMCS St. Laurent's race to rescue the enemy - it picked up 861 enemy survivors when the Arandora Star was sunk in July 1940 - article with photos; We Adopted a Negro - Hank and Joy Huycke adopt Ricky - photo-illustrated article; Weekend on Baffin Island - Telek is the only luxury resort under the midnight sun - photo-illustrated article; The Fatal Fascination of Car Racing - photo-illustrated article includes photos of the fatal wreck of Ted Pope, and Peter Ryan and Roger Penske winning the Sundown Grand Prix at Harewood Acres, Ontario; John Fienberg is the biggest little man in low-cost housing - photo-illustrated article on the chairman of Consolidated Building Corporation Ltd. of Toronto - fascinating article on how the baby-boom was housed in what is now the GTA; Medical diagnosis links alcohol and sex - a doctor examines increasing female alcohol use and how alcohols sometimes plays a constructive role in relations between the sexes; In Wrestling All the Indians are Chiefs - article by Mordecai Richler with great photo of Killer Kowalski wrestling Edouard Carpentier at the Montreal Forum; One-page colour-photo ad for FTD flowers; Half-page ad for Electrohome portable record players; Interesting one-page colour ad for Northern Electric features the province of Alberta; Colour centrefold Firestone ad features snow and snow tires; RCA Victor colour-photo one-page ad for their stereos features ballerina in forest; Philips Hi-Fi one-page colour-photo ad shows their draughtsman at work; 2/3-page colour ad for Ken-L dog food features bloodhound; 2/3-page colour ad for Puss'n Boots cat food features kitty leaning on can; One-page colour Pontiac ad features white 1961 Parisienne Sport Sedan driving through autumn leaves; Fleetwood TV and Hi-Fi ad; "Abraham Lincoln's" Indian Tombstone at Port Simpson; Back cover colour Coke photo ad features round loaf of bread used to make nice round sandwich; and more. Nibbling to top of spine. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
52 pages. Features: We're fumbling victory - Allied bickereing and indecision is wrecking Europe and sewing the seeds of another world conflict; Tell Them the Truth - a very philosophical and interesting piece by G. Brock Chisholm, M.D.; Romance in the Dark; Disease Killer from the Soil - Dr. Selman A. Waksman and streptomycin; CCF Show Window - after 18 months of socialist government, Saskatchewan is a small-scale display of what the CCF Party would like to do with the rest of Canada - article with photo of Saskatchewan's CCF Cabinet at work; Fish 'n' Ships (fiction); Prodigy at Sixty - author Tom Costain - article with photo; House that Sun Built - article (with photos) on passive solar construction; They Make Money - The Canadian Mint - article with photos; Keep 'Em Happy (fiction); fantastic full-page colour ad for White trucks shows a highway full of their products; 3/4 centerfold ad for Firestone Champion tires; Nice Carling's beer ad inside back cover shows winter horse-logging scene; Coke ad on back cover shows friends at a soda fountain; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Moisture staining to top edge of most pages. A worthy vintage copy. Book
in-8, 259 p., ill. h.t. coul., broché, couv. ill. Bel exemplaire. [BAT-8] L’auteur explique, avec le talent que nous lui connaissons, ce que les éclipses nous apprennent…
Paris, Le Soleil noir, série " Club ", 1974. Grand in-8, broché (260 x175), couverture à rabats illustrée d'un dessin d' Ipousteguy, 81 pp sous étui de l'éditeur. Edition originale. Un des 250 exemplaires numérotés dans la série Club sur vélin Royal pur fil n° de C1 à C 250 , enrichi d'une pointe sèche originale signée d'Ipoustéguy sur vélin de Rives. Reproduction de 23 pointes sèches gravées et signées par l'artiste. 13 reproductions d'oeuvres de Léonard de Vinci. Bel exemplaire neuf non coupé, n° C138.
In-8°, (4), 362pp, buono stato di conservazione, legatura in piena pelle alle armi in oro sui due piatti, angoli bordati di motivi in oro e bordatura in oro su entrambi i piatti, dorso con nervature con tasselli decorati e titolo in oro, completo di custodia, numerose illustrazioni, frontespizio in bianco e nero. In-8 °, (4), 362pp, in good condition, full calf binding with Louis XIV’s coat of arms in gold on the two plates, corners edged with gold motifs and gold edging on both plates, ribbed back with decorated ornaments and title in gold, complete with case, numerous illustrations, black and white ftitle page.
102 pages. Features: Nice ad for Kraft ice cream toppings; Two-page 1960 Chrysler ad; Vintage one-page ad for Zenith pocket (transistor) radios; Oasis cigarette ad; Color Pontiac ad features a seaside blue 1960 Bonneville convertible; Our New Hospital Crisis - many unqualified foreigners are serving in US hospitals as interns and resident physicians; The Training of a Good Doctor - Susan Cook studies at the University of Chicago - major photo coverage; The Age of Payola - have our moral standards been destroyed by the pursuit of the dollar?; Vintage two-page color ad for the new 1960 Ford Falcon Wagons (both white); Pepsi ad features scene in horse barn with dalmation; Walter Lippmann explains Why We Accept Cheating; Nice photos of Connie Stevens with hunk Bill Troy, Mike McKee, and Jerry Eagle; Farley Granger in "The Third Season" - color photos; Sanka coffee ad features illustration of lady holding humongous coffee cup; article on pancakes; Modern fake flowers are very realistic; Marlboro ad features skin diver slouching in director-style chair - no wonder they adopted the Marlboro man a few years later; The Short-sleeved suit - tasteful fashion photos; Great two-page color ad for the (cream-colored) 1960 Buick Invicta Three-Seat Estate Wagon features Navajo people and a Monument Valley driving scene; The Quakers - religions in America; Basketball All America - with photos of Walt Bellamy, Terry Dischinger, Roger Kaiser, Darrall Imhoff, Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robertson, Tom Stith, Lee Shaffer, Jerry West and Len Wilkins; Hitler's Bloody Drive to Power - the inside story, with great photos; Photo Quiz; Color ad for "Man-Tan" product which tans white skin without sun (creepy); Two Young Friends Named Ellen - Ellen Erwitt and cripple Ellen Kalman of New Rochelle, N.Y. - touching photos; Back cover color-photo Lucky Strike ad shows smiling blonde injecting tar into her lungs; and more. Average wear. Nibble and short opening at bottom of coverfold. Small piece from bottom corner of back cover. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
100 pages. Features: The former chief of French Intelligence in the U.S. reveals the fantastic story of Soviet espionage that penetrated De Gaulle's official family - 'Martel', the key Russian agent, repercussions that caught Kim Philby, J.F.K.'s secret letter to De Gaulle; German students storm the cities in the name of Red Rudi (Dutschke); End of the 'Wahine' in Wellington Harbor; The Emergence of James Earl Ray alias Eric Starvo Galt; Refugees on a bridge to nowhere - Vietnam; Gardiners Island - its haunted legacy - America's offshore fiefdom with piracy in its past; Super Shots from Big T - golfer Tom Weiskopf; Under the gaze of the charmer - Warren Beatty, footloose at the top; "Fog that foils an old disease - TB" - Dr. Sol R. Rosenthal; and more. Colour Ford Torino ad inside front cover; Nice 2-page colour ad for four Chevrolet models - Chevy II, Chevrolet, Camaro, Chevelle; nice 2-page GM colour car ad. Moderate wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 1960; in-8, 230 pp., relié pleine percaline d'éditeur, coloris anthracite, dos lisse, plats estampés et texte doré, sous Rhodoïd, d'après la maquette de Massin. Collection « Soleil ». Exemplaire numéroté 4248/5100. Ce texte est une pièce de théâtre en cinq actes. Elle fut jouée la première fois, en 1959, au Théâtre de la Renaissance. Sartre, écrivain et philosophe français, est né à Paris, en 1905, et meurt dans la même ville, en 1980. Il fut l'auteur d'une oeuvre prolifique. Il est connu aussi pour avoir été le compagnon de Simone de Beauvoir. Ouvrages célèbres : L'être et le néant, Les mots, L'existentialisme est un humanisme, etc. Bon état.
Hardcover in-8, 397 pages, illustrations in- et h.t. n/b, reliure plein cuir décor "Club". Bel exemplaire. [LAFF]
Mm 210x290 Volume in copertina rigida figurata, tagli colorati in viola, 504 pagine con testo calligrafico a fronte e disegni in nero ad intercalare ill testo del grande cantautore francese. Copia in condizioni di nuovo - brand new in original shrink-wrap; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Grand in-8°,.128 pages, nombreux dessins et photos in-t., broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [GD8/6]