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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.
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 and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 15pp. With very attractive colour photographs of German trams mounted, one for each month of the year plus front cover. Calendar at foot of each page removable to provide a ring binder of these delightful photographs to hang and display. Text at rear explains the detail of each photograph. All text in German.
48 pages. Songs include: Alone; An Evening Prayer; At the End of the Road; Be Still My Soul; Be Thou Near; Blessed Redeemer; Christ Waits; Does Jesus Care; God Understands; How you Forgotten God?; He Died for Me; His Dearest Name; His Love is all my Plea; I Never Walk Alone; I'd Rather be a Christian; In the Garden with Jesus; Ivory Palaces; Jesus, Blessed Jesus; Jesus Whispers Peace; Little is Much, When God is in it; My Heavenly Home; No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus; O Soul Without a Saviour; O What a Day When I See Him; O, What a Wonderful Saviour; Overflowing; Peace to Those Who Believe; Put Thine Arms around me; Sing me a song of Sharon's Rose; So May You; Some Golden Daybreak; Somebody Cares; Somebody Else Needs Him, Too; Speak, My Lord; Surrender; That Wonderful Name; The Glory of His Presence; The Man of Galilee; The Slighted Stranger; The Stranger by the Sea; Then Jesus Came; Today; What Think Ye of Christ?; When God is Near; When I Kneel Down to Pray; Wonderful; You Must Open the Door. Somewhat above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
More tales from Avonlea that inspired the CBC tv series "The Road to Avonlea. S inspired the TV series "The Road to Avonlea" Book
More tales from Avonlea that inspired the CBC tv sereis "The Road to Avonlea. Stated First Canadian Edition September 1953. (This title was originally issued 1920 by L.C.Page, Boston and was the subject of a prolonged, but eventually successful ,series of law suits by the author against the publisher) Red cloth over boards, cover and text clean and bright. Hinges starting, but otherwise very good ,no dj. Book
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54 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Purina Poultry Chows inside front cover; Comment by E.T. Meredith; Our Vacation by the Gasoline Route - great photo-illustrated article about vacationing with car and tent; How I Built My Home in Spare Time - photo-illustrated article by Frank I. Hanson; How to Grow Asters Successfully; Perfect Privacy with Lattice Fences - photo-illustrated article; Have You Tried These Vegetables? - Cardoons, a variety of eggplant, a Japanese burdock, rocket salad, Chinese white cabbage, Shui-Tsai - with photos; Electricity in the Small Home; Radio is making the home the most interesting place to be; How We Finished Our Dream House - article with photos; Houses of Famous Americans - photo-illustrated article about "Hardscrabble" - the cabin home of Ulysses S. Grant; A Backyard Garden in June - with suggestiions for your city lot; The Society of Little Gardens - photo-illustrated article about an organization fostering the correct improvement of yards; Growing Sweet Corn Successfully; Nice one-page ad for Johnson's Polishing Wax; Tips to make your June work count; Nice one-page ad for Hupmobile cars; Great vintage one-page ad for Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires; Successful Home Canning of Vegetables - article with photos; Half-page ad for The New Overland car; How to Adjust Your (Push) Lawn Mower - great illustrated article; How to build your own garage - illustrated article; Ads for oak flooring and the use of birch wood in homes; 2/3-page ad for The Davenport Bed; Has Music Led Us Astray?; The Novel of the Year - 'Trodden Gold'; Summer Care of Growing Stock (chickens); Nice half-page Coke ad; Two Compfortable Home Plans; Faust Coffee ad; Ad for the Iron Horse Cold Pack Canner; Illustrated embroidery article; Nice photo-illustrated one-page ad for Munsingwear underwear for ladies; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Dolly Gray of New York; Inside back cover is a fantastic two-color illustrated ad for Harris Brothers Co. of Chicago who sell many home building products; Nice back cover ad for the New Phaeton Reo car (partially covered by address label). Above-average wear. Coverfold mostly open. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
46 pages. Features: early day mail lines in Texas; Bits of Historical Information; a desperate hand-to-hand battle; John L. Goforth - a plow pioneer of Parker; six-shooters in the old southwest; a journey through Texas in 1856; taking the law to the Rio Grande; Baileys and Polleys among Earliest Texans; Noah Smithwick recorded Texas history; "I'll know what you're talking about"; Rangers' desperate battle with the Indians; John B. Hood - the man of courage; old Rockport Road - laid out by a preacher. Clean and unmarked. Undated - circa 1990? Book
Features: Brakeman on the Great Northern - W.S. Dulmage - long article with great photos; Lost Arch Nuggets; The West's Most Competent Mercenary - Emilio Kosterlitzsky; Dodging the Road Agents - an Oregon tale; Sixty Years ago on the Kootenai; You don't chase the wild bunch on a bycycle - bank robbery at Montpelier, Idaho; Old-time storekeeper - Civilization's advance scout - Thomas McGuill; Cheyenne girl and white man's ways - Amache Ochinee Prowers; Under the wing of the Raven - Temple Houston, youngest son of Sam Houston; All the news that's fit to laugh at! - Colonel Robert Lowery, famous newspaper editor of the Kootenays during the mining days; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
72 pages. Many black and white reproductions of fascinating archival photos. Features: Robert Clay Allison (The Wild Wolf) - the cowboy gunfighter born near Waynesboro in Wayne County, Tennessee; The Early Cattle Trails - Three Mountain Road, Wilderness Road and Bay State Cowpath were forerunners of the Longhorn highways; Dakota Mail Riflers and Special Agent John B. Furay; A Hallway in Hades - Quicksilver/Mercury discovery on a section of land owned by Howard E. Perry east of Terlingua, a hamlet of jacals in the Big Bend in Brewster County, Texas; A Man the Earth Talked To - Senator John Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst; The Indians Named Him Shine - Shine Smith's work with and huge Christmas parties for the Navajo on an impoverished reservation; Murder at the Sawdust Pile - Martin Zidmair and murder near Livinston, Montana circa 1903; Prettiest Girl at Wimberley's Mill, Texas - Virgie L. Moritz (nee Mayes); Peyote Priest - James Kassanovoid, Comanche; Iron Horse vs. Dobbin - the Siskiyou Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad connected Eugene with Medford, Oregon; A Town of Gourds - Calabasas in the Santa Cruz Valley, Arizona; Fleet-footed Frontiersmen - William Price Cooper outran Indians, and their ponies, to save his skin; 101 memories, and then some! - Col. Frank S. Giles and the 101 Ranch; Leechtown Legends - small gold rush town 20 miles northwest of Victoria, British Columbia at the junction of the Leech and Sooke Rivers ; Twenty Years among our hostile Indians - their characteristics, customs, habits, religion, marriages, dances and battles; Mrs. Faye Shobert of Central City, Colorado discovers Lost Gold Mine on her property!. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Oblong 8vo., with numeous illustrations and maps; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Revised version of the original edition of 1988.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 136pp. The story of St Marks' West Gorton, Ardwick AFC and Manchester City FC 1880-1989. With a wealth of captioned black & white photographs and many features from the press re-printed. Scarce.
48 pages. Includes: Ta-ra-ra boom de-ay; The Dandy Coloured Coon; Where did you get that Hat?; For Old Time's Sake; Looking for a Coon Like Me; The Midnight Sun; The Idler; A little Bit off the Top; Bid me Good-bye for ever; Algy, the Piccadilly Johnny; If It Wasn't for the 'ouses in Between; In the Twi-Twi-Twilight; Glorious Beer; If Those Lips Could Only Speak; We all go the same way home; Down the Road. Average wear. Pages yellowed. A sound working copy. Circa 1930? Book
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
1st edition. VG pbk. ISBN 1853321440. 20751. eng
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked brown cloth boards, slight fingermarking to page fore-edges only, none to pages and no bumping to corners. Cream dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slightly sunned spine. 151pp. An enthusiast's Workshop Manual for the Ford Anglia, Prefect, Classic and Cortina and variations from September 1959 onwards.
Book shows light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, decorated endpapers. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 125 pages, all b&w. Contains issues #1 through #3: with stories: I Carrot, Road Hogs from Outer Space, Flaming Carrot and His World, Death Gets Drunk, The Bandit Moons, Adventures in Limbo, etc. copyright Pistil Books, 2011
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
Features: Special silk issue. Tracing the silk road; Shibori Expressions - Ana Lisa Hedstrom and D'Arcie Beytebiere; The Silk Reflections of C.J. Yao; Silkworks - a collection of industry, gallery, and artist. An interview with Dominic Di Mare. Prior owner's name and address label upon front cover. Quality copy. Magazine
"Road to Avonlea" is a CBC/Sullivan Films TV series based on stories and characters created by L.M. Montgomery.Young Felix starts a delivery business so that he may continue to afford Blackie, the beloved family stallion, but the business succeeds so well that Felix's judgement is clouded by greed. Book
Initials/date on contents page. No other 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. 128pp. Public transport in Portsmouth from 1840 onwards. Well illustrated. Maps from 1909 and 1930 as end papers.
"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
Features: Daniel Denison Streeter, FN 1913; Amos Burg, FN 1931; U.S. Caving Team Attains Record Depth; Searching for Aloe plants in Africa; Kansas City Museum - Osage culture exhibits; The Dog that helped win the West - Scannon, the Newfoundland dog who accompanied Lewis and Clark; Bimini Marine-Archeology Expedition - underwater formations considered artificial; Rowing across the Atlantic - Curtis and Kathleen Saville in their Excalibur; Exploration under the Arctic Ice - submarine surveyors of the polar region; First U.S. Atlantic Route Flight - William M. Masland was the navigator on the Pan American Sikorsky S-42 that made the first route survey across the Atlantic Ocean in 1937. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Future of Exploration - a scientist forecasts space colonies; Classification of Volcanoes - type of eruption used as guide; Jeanne Gurnee - Dedicated Caver - a productive underground career; Migrating White Storks in Peril - south Sinai wetlands on route destroyed; The Darien of Panama - the twilight of a unique environment; Domestic Dogs from the Neolithic of China - new finds documented in scientific collaboration; Proclomations and Messages observe 75th anniversary; How Dr. Bush retrieved the Time Capsule of 1928 from the cornerstone of our former clubhouse; Nordenskiold and the Northeast Passage - a centennial tribute; Enhydros - how they occur and what we can learn from them; Exploration and Energy - a driving force through the ages. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book