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Book in mint unread condition. 120pp. Pictorial history of the road public transport systems of Glasgow from the end of the 19th century, with excellent captions and a few related period advertisements.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor indenting and slight creasing. 144pp. Illustrated celebration of the Volkswagen Beetle in all it's original transformations and in its multi-varied skins.
64 pages. Features Gross's great song Shannon. Photos of Henry Gross in color and black and white. Other songs include: Juke Box Song; Lincoln Road; Overton Square; Springtime Mama; Moonshine Alley; One Last Time; Something In Between; Someday; Pokey. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Lovely colour photography throughout. Features: Of Pattanams and Rajdhanis; Rajpath; Tulsi Pipe Road; Park Street; Mylapore; Interview - Rahul Mehrotra; Malls - A Photo-feature; ITC Hotel Grand Central Sheraton and Towers, Mumbai; Interview - Hafeez Contractor; Chennai - First City; Driven to Spirituality; Vintage Cars; Our Public Figures; List of ITC-Welcomgroup Hotels. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Nice color ad for General Electric radios inside front cover; Hudson Essex car ad shows mother dropping kids at school; Nice full-page ad for Mimeograph; They'll Come Shooting (short story); Power and Glory - the gutsy story of Boies Penrose, one of the most prodigious figures in American political life - article with photos; Wild Geese (short story); A Lady of Resource (short story); Naughty Girl - Lenore Ulric serves allure in generous portions - article with photos; The Meanest Beast - battle between black leopard and shark; The Road Back (part VI of short story); You Couldn't Hate Patrick (short story); Thoughts that Win - Advice by champion golfer Jerome D. Travers - article with photo; Nice full-page color ad for Seald Sweet grapefruits; Full-page ad for Canada Dry ginger ales; The Scotty Dog (short story); Fantastic centerfold two-colour ad for Colorado tourism; Louisville & Nashville (L&N) Railroad full-page ad; Full-page ad for Philco radios features photos of Gary Cooper; Nice Chrysler ad; Full-page Fleischmann's Yeast ad encourages readers to eat three cakes per day (!); Back page article on prohibition; Attractive color Ford ad inside back cover shows doctor making housecall in the evening snow; Color Ipana ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
406 pages plus a 32 page catalogue of books from the publisher. Military biography. Chapter headings include: Learning Arabic; Cairo; Old Egyptian Army Worthless; Formation of the New Army; The Duke of Hamilton and Turner; Conscription done unjustly; Lying evidence to Escape Military Service; The Mahmal or Holy Carpet; Sir Samuel Baker's Letter; The Second Battle of El Teb; The Battle of Tamai; More about Tamai; The Road to Berber; A Journey to Senheit; The Mission at Keren; To Aden; The Albacore's Search-Light; Gregorie's Little Ways; The Calvary Enter Pped; The Effendi Miz Salute; The Stars Fall Down; Kosheh; No Advance on Dongola; Wady Halfa the Frontier. Includes black and white photographic frontis of author in military dress. Above average wear and soiling. Both hinges cracked. Prior owner's rubber stamp applied multiple times through book. Cigarette ordour. Occasional child's pencil markings. Despite the above, binding remains relatively tight. Decent reading copy. Book
Cover Painting by William Winter shows a joyous last day of school. Features: Colour photo Studebaker Commander V-8 ad inside front cover; Nice colour ad for George Weston Limited shows bride-to-be with family; Spyglass on Sweden - the Welfare State; If the Russians Attack Canada - article with photos and interesting map of likeliest Canadian targets; Wide Open, Excellency, by Lesley Holmes; How the Stock Crooks Operate, by Fred Bodsworth - how the 'blower boys' peddle worthless stocks via long-distance phone; The Long Ordeal of Mrs. Tak Sook Kyun - the Korean War has taken her home near the Manchrian border, her husband, her baby, and tossed her up like driftwood on the crowded Pusan hills - article by Pierre Berton with sad photos; Banff - a paradise for Sultans and Stenos - article with great colour photos; The Ups and Downs of Alan Young - originally from West Vancouver, he fought his way to the top in radio and movies; What it's Like to Live in the Dark - Larry Bartlett was blinded by a German shell; Boswell of the Brooks - Writer Roderick Haig-Brown milks a cow every day and gets called "Your Worship" - article with photos; The Secret Behind The Fiery Phantom that Sails Bay Chaleur; Nice colour illustrated ad for Allis-Chalmers Rumely, Ltd showing a grader levelling a country road; Attractive colour ad for the Hillman Minx Convertible; Colour illustrated Coke centerfold shows store display and picnic lunch packed and ready to eat; Colour Chevrolet ad featuring a 2-door Bel Air; Nice colour photo ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture; Colour illustrated ad for the Ford Custom Deluxe Convertible; Nice 2-colour ad for the Austin A-40 Devon auto; Nice colour Parker Pen ad inside back cover features endorsement by Mazo De La Roche; Colour Margene ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy of this particularly wonderful issue. Magazine
136 pages. Several pages of black and white photos of Tom T. Hall plus two pages of biographical information. Includes sheet music for piano and voice with guitar chords for these songs: Back When We Were Young; The Bourbon Man; Canadian Woman (Canadian Clubs); Candy in the Window; Coot Marseilles Blues; Country Cabin-itis; Country Is; Forget It; God Came Through Belleville Georgia; Gone to Hell in a Basket; Grandma Whistled; I Feel Like Flying Away; I Know Who I'll Be Seeing in New Zealand; I Love; Joe Don't Let Your Music Kill You; Last Hard Town; The Loneliest Girl in the Crowd; The Man Who Hated Freckles; Me and Jesus; The Monkey That Became President; More About John Henry; Never Having You; Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine; One More Song for Jesus; Original Traveling Man; Pamela Brown; Pay No Attention to Alice; A Piece of the Road; Pratt Street; The Promise and the Dream; Ravishing Ruby; The Rolling Hills of Middletown; Running Wild; She Gave Her Heart to Jethro; Souvenirs; Spokane Motel Blues; St. Louis Named a Shoe After Me; The Story of Your Life is in Your Face; Subdivision Blues; That Song is Driving Me Crazy; Turn it On, Turn it On, Turn it On; When Nobody Wants Your Body Anymore; Who Needs a Baby; Windy City Anne; You Love Everybody But You. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this great Tom T. Hall memento. Book
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery. A visiting missionary's tales of adventure send Sara Stanley on a mission, accompanied by Peter Craig, the hired hand at Rose Cottage, during which she discovers the real meaning of goodness and charity.Bookstore stamp else very good Book
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery. The return of Roger King--world-famous geologist--turns the King farm topsy-turvy with excitement. But a boyhood feud between Roger and his brother Alec wreaks havoc on the homecoming, and sparks begin to fly--not just between the King grown-ups, but between cousin Felix and Andrew as well. Book
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery. Sarah must solve Olivia's dilemma when the young woman finds herself caught in the middle of two well-intentioned gentlemen suitors. Book
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery. Responsible for the loss of the school library fund, Sara takes it upon herself to raise the money again, launching one disastrous scheme after another. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light edge wear to book and dust jacket. Small tears and discoloration to dust jacket. Stated First Edition. 138 pages. Previous owner's name inside.
Book in mint condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of handling. 112pp. A record of AEC vehicles from the earliest B-type of 1912 to the Reliance coach chassis of AEC's later years, including the merger with British Leyland in 1962 and the importance of London buses to the firm.
58 pages. Features: The Hejia Village Hoard - a snapshot of China's silk road trade; The Burial location and dating of the Hejia Village treasures; Three Textiles from Turfan; The Illustrative Sequence on An Jia's Screen - a depiction of the Daily Life of a Sabao; 'Divine Presence' at Casa Asia in Barcelona; 'Ming - The Golden Age of Chinese Furniture' at the Musee Guimet; Blanc de Chine at the China Institute Gallery; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. An excellent copy of this beautiful issue. Magazine
Booklet in mint unread condition. 20pp. Captioned photographs of early forms of transport in Newcastle-Upon Tyne. Scarce.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, title-vignette, and numerous plates and illustrations in the text, frontispiece guard spotting lightly offset to title; original pictorial buff cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, uncut, a very good, bright, fresh copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, titles in red and black, title-vignettes, and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; original pictorial buff cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in black, uncut, covers moderately age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, title-vignette, 26 plates and numerous illustrations in the text, minimal spotting to text; original pictorial terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in dark red, uncut, a well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp, firm copy. With the fine etched armorial bookplate of R.J. Carthew on front paste-down, and blind stamp of WH Smith on front free endpaper.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, titles in red and black, title-vignettes, and numerous plates and illustrations in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; original pictorial ribbed blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in black, uncut, a very good, bright, fresh copy. With the trade ticket of Hugh Rees of Pall Mall on front paste-downs. The set comprises Vol. I: London to Gloucester; Vol. II: Gloucester to Milford Haven. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, and very numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the tet, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth, uncut, uper hinge cracked but binding perfectly sound, an unusually bright, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, 26 plates and 46 illustrations (several full-page) in the text, free endpapers lightly foxed, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth blocked in black, pictorial backstrip lettered in black, uncut and partially unopened, covers mildly age-stained, backstrip dulled (but all lettering entirely legible) else a very good, clean copy of a scarce account.
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 249pp. The first thorough study of medieval bridges which rewrites their history from early Anglo-Saxon England right up to the Industrial Revolution, providing new insights into many aspects of the subject.
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. 295 pages with sections on Victoria and school days, Teignmouth, Eli Harrison, Tom pool murder, Eastern Thakur, Parliament buildings, etc.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Slight creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with slrightly marked boards. 879-1002pp. Features on renewing a Mini timing chain, Ford column change, Herald data, Fiat gearbox overhall, AC fuel pump care and checking car electrics. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased.
