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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
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
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
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.
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.
pp. xii, 305. Map upon front endpaper. Numerous black and white photographic plates. " A masterly account of the first solo flight made from Great Britain to Canada via Greenland. Recounts author's mishaps, his crash at Iceland, his second attempt, his Greenland adventures, and his ultimate success. Also includes much that is extremely interesting about Mr. Grierson's record flight from India to Great Britain and his experiences of winter aviation in Europe. Tells of an intrepid piece of pioneering courageously carried out, but which history has, perhaps, been made." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name and date atop half-title page else unmarked. Average wear. Binding sound. Some spotting and soiling to edges. Small chips, tears and yellowing to dust jacket. Nice copy overall. Book
Name to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. Creasing to covers. Clean tight pages with unmarked well-sunned boards, rubbed spine and no bumping to corners. 105pp. Beginning with Motoring Memories of 1947, momth by month, the book lists all the British manufacturers of cars for 1948 with at least one photograph from every make. With a fascinating price list for all models at the end.
Name to front end paper. No other 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. Attached bookmark representing tram tickets. 71pp. The twilight of the Glasgow tram. 'An aesthete's trambulation in the gloaming of the tramway age in dear auld Gleska toon'. Captioned black & white photographs of trams in Glasgow, mainly towards the end of their working days in the late 1950s to early 1960s.
80 pages. Features: The Evergreen Bentleys; The Blower Bentley; Our Man in Germany - Ernst H.E. Richartz; The Silent Sentinel of the American Road (Part 2) - Gas Pumps - fantastic article with great photos; Road test of the Supercharged 4.5 Litre Bentley which appeared in Autocar magazine in September, 1930; Climb to the Clouds - Mount Washington, July 1904; Start of a Love Affair - The American and His Car; Mercer Pioneer Passes - Finley Robertson Porter, 1872-1964; The Knights at Indy; Antique Automobile Index - 1963; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1st edition. 8vo, 112 pages, illustrated. Fine condition paperback. 39824. eng
12 pages approximately 8" x 8" folded in half to make effectively 24 pages measuring approx. 8" x 4". Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white photos. Proposes fourteen days of activities/destinations for tourists to the Vancouver area. These include: Stanley Park and Marine Drive, English Bay Beach, Indian River Park, Grouse Mountain Resort, Grand Canyon Park and Capilano Canyon, B.C. Electric Observation Car and Crystal Pool, Bowen Island, Union Steamship Northern Trip, New Westminster and Cheakamus Canyon, Horseshoe Bay and the C.N.R. Triangle Tour, Vancouver Golf Courses, Hollyburn Ridge, West Vancouver, Squamish and Howe Sound, Lynn Canyon, Harrison Hot Springs, The Cariboo Road, and Vancouver Island Includes a great 3-panel aerial illustration of the lower mainland by H.E. White, looking inland from the southwest (there was no YVR in those days). Moderate wear. Unmarked. A high-quality example of this magnificent early Vancouver tourism booklet, undoubtedly highlighted by the colour illustration of a young lady in period swimwear on the beach at English Bay. Absolute magic! Book
74 pages. Features: Doomed Ships and Sunken Treasure; Elixir Jim's Magic Formula - Jim Dixon; Pancho Villa's Columbus Road; Out of the Wilds - A Medical Genius - Dr. Carlos Montezuma; Caballero - Prince of the Mountaineers - Jedediah Strong Smith; Who Lassed that Crazy Steer?; The Last California Ranger - William James Howard; The Big Nothing Roundup; Trail that Led to Gay Santa Fe; The Ram's Horn Tree; Secret of the Mission Treasure - Father Eusebio Francisco Kino Above-average wear. Back cover missing. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 83pp. An account of gas, electric and steam traction on the Trafford Park Estate, Manchester, covering the Estates Company's own undertakings together with those of the Manchester and Salford Tramways. Centenary Revised Edition.
Mm 260x290 Nuovo - Volume cartonato rigido, 143 pagine con numerose illustrazioni in nero nel testo. Libro in condizioni di nuovo - brand new. Testo italiano-inglese - English-Italian texts. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Book appears in mint unread condition. 128pp. This collection of over 200 well-captioned photographs traces road and rail transport in the whole of Greater Manchester between the mid-19th and the end of the 20th century.
Un viaggio attraverso i luoghi e le genti del grande inviato Gianni Granzotto. Opera di profonda suggestione.
Pages 85-168, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Queen Side of Things - The Shot That Failed; Derelicts of Misfortune; Short Stories - The Novice, My Friend the Sea; Clearing the Road; Through Borneo by 'Bus; Tshaka's Treasure; When Davy Jones Invaded Eden; Work-Hunting in New Zealand - part 1; A Run on Raincoats; Phases of Life - When the Tanker Took Fire, The Tribal Law, Streets Paved with Gold; Man and His Needs; Stamps of the World. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 24, 8 coloured maps, and 7 full-page maps in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE, AND WITH A PRESENTATION A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR ON HIS PERSONAL LETTERHEAD TO DONALD EALES-WHITE. The first of Lyall Grant's masterly analyses of the Burma war and forerunner of 'The Japanese Invasion' (co-written with Tamayama and similarly privately printed some six years later). In this outstanding analysis, using extensive fresh information from both British and Japanese sources, Grant produces the most authoritative history to date. Includes command structures, OOB, statistical appendices and bibliography. An outstanding contribution to the history of WWII. Signed copies are very scarce. Graham & Cole E20.
50 pages. Features: One-page ad for'Jabberwocky'; Photo-illustrated article on the age of the romantic idealist and reflected by the sadly neglected world of Rafael Sabatini; Black Sunday' - photos; Interview with film composer Miklos Rozsa; 'Islands in the Stream' - photos; Reviews - 'Rocky', 'Seven Beauties', 'Kings of the Road', 'The Squeeze', 'Day of Wrath', 'Freaky Friday', 'Silver Streak', 'Helter Skelter', 'Eclipse', 'The Middleman', 'Private Vices & Public Virtues', 'Even Dwarfs Started Small'; 'Wizards' - illustrations; ad for 'The Eagle Has Landed'; 'Seven Beauties' - photos; 'Private Vices & Public Virtues' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Contains Acts relating to: Assessment; Power of Attorney; Breeding Stock; Cattle Ranges; Choses in Action; Civil Causes; Foreign Companies; Voluntary Conveyances; Debentures; Debts and Choses in Action; Elections; Execution against Lands; Fences; Gold Mining; Jurors; Land; Licences; Loan; Methodist Church of Canada; Mining; Municipalities; Public Parks; Procedure; Qualification and Registration of Voters; Road Tolls; Roads; Public Schools; Supply; Taxes; Tolls; Trustees; Victoria and Esquimalt Railway (E&N); Voluntary Conveyances. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
Contains Acts relating to: Land Registry Ordinance; Justice of the Peace; Mineral Ordinance; Gold Mining; Municipality Act; Election of MLAs; Office of Sheriff; The Public School Act; Public Works Act; Drainage, Dyking, and Irrigation; Wild Land Tax; Road Ordinance; Election of MLAs; Gold Mining; Courts Merger; MPs ineligible to be MLAs; Fireman's Protection Act; Proof under Oath; Suits against the Crown; Supply of Water to Victoria; Land Ordinance, 1870; William Creek Fire Brigade; Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company (E&N), Incorporation of; Replevin; The Public Inquiries Aid Act; An Act to Secure Wives and Children; Indemnification of members of the Legislative Assembly; Asylums for the Insane; Rights of the Property of Married Women; Bills of Sale; The Constitution Act, 1871; Scale of Fees to be taken by certain officers; Agricultural Societies; Allowances to Jurors in Criminal Cases; the Legislative Assembly Privileges Act; Game Ordinance; Attorneys of the Supreme Court to be called to the bar of said court; The Homestead Ordinance; Defraying the expenses of civil government; Indemnification of Members of the Executive Council and others; Practitioners in the County Courts and other inferior Courts; Privileges of the members of the Legislative Assembly; An act to render legitimate, children born out of lawful wedlock. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
Contains Acts relating to: Affidavits, Declarations, and Affirmations; Bills of Sale; Births Deaths and Marriages; Execution Creditors; Executive Council; Fences; Game; Graving Dock; Insolvency; Lands; Lieutenant-Governor and his Deputies; Members' Indemnity; Municipalities; New Westminster; Independence of Parliament; Partition; Police Constables; Quesnelle River Ditch Company; Sheriffs and Appointment of Registrars of the Supreme Court; Supply; Property Taxes; Telephone Company (Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Co.); Tolls (Cariboo Waggon Road); Victoria City; Waverly Hydraulic Mining Company. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
Contains Acts relating to: Articles 2 and 12 of the Terms of Union; Crown Lands; Gold Mining; Coroner's Jury Act; Road Tax Extension; Oaths of Office; Public Boarding Schools; Administration of Justice; Agricultural Societies; Courts Merger Ordinance; Qualification and Registration of Voters; Breeding Stock; Ferries; Municipality Act; Victoria Water Works Debentures; Legal Professions; Vancouver Island Real Estate Taxes; Licences Ordinance; Fireworks - careless use of; Remedies of creditors against the Lands of their debtors; Real Estate Conveyance; Granting of Leases. Front hinge going. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Ex-Library
Contains Acts relating to: Act Interpretation, Regulation of Coal Mines, Prospecting for Coal Mines, Coroners, County Courts, Assize and Nisi Prius, Superior Courts, Creditor's Relief, Attachment of Debts, Sumas Dyking, Evidence, Ferries in Municipalities, Game, Island Railway - Graving Dock and Railway Lands, Jurors and Juries, Justices of the Peace, Crown Lands, Married Woman's Property, Minerals, Prospecting for Minerals, Municipalities, Salt Spring Island, Provincial Officers, Quesnelle Lake Dam, Columbia and Kootenay Railway, Fraser River Railway, New Westminster Railway, South Wellington Railway, Sleighs (on Cariboo Trunk Road), Stipendiary Magistrates, Supply, Victoria City Official Map, Victoria Transfer Company, Voters, Eagle Pass Wagon Road, Yale Fire Brigade, Extention of Yates Street in Victoria. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Ex-Library
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. Includes Goodwood Priority Telegram pages, Brief History of the Centrefold, and 40th Anniversary of Sir Jackie Stewart's Grand Prix debut.
