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82 pages. Articles: Terror/Crime in Our Cities - No. 1 - Detroit; University of North Carolina Football Coach Carl Grey Snavely - article with nice color photos; The Schary Script - M-G-M's Dore Schary is one of the busiest men in Hollywood; Clowns after Hours - The Minneapolis Aquatennial festival and its Aqua Jesters; My 4-Year War with the Reds; (part 3 of 5); So You Had a Virus?; Down with the Little Things; I Hate a Dumpy Woman; A Good Clean-Cut American Boy; Owl, He Crow For Midnight; Champion of Sonora; Valley of the Tyrant (part 2 fo 4); A Game of Skill. Includes these nice vintage ads: General Electric tvs; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring colour image of Mrs. Herbert Bayard Swope, Jr.; B.V.D. shirts; Admiral tvs; Lord Calvert Whiskey ad features full-page color photo portrait of author James Michener; Dodge Trucks; Pabst beer ad features photo of Sid Luckman; Plymouth cars; Puerto Rican Rum; General Motors; Bicycle playing cards; Nice full-page color Schenley Whiskey ad features Ed Sullivan; Camel cigarette ad on back cover includes Vic Scott, Albany to New York out-board racing champ. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
347 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "A definitive history of Chinatowns in Canada - the culmination of 20 years of research." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A splendid copy of this rare and important work. Book
68 pages. Features: Editorial - Why are We Afraid to Grow (i.e. why are we afraid of immigration); Mr. Gromyko is welcomed to London, England; The Last Days of Dr. Harry Cassidy, Canada's outstanding authority in the field of social welfare - He knew he would die within three weeks - How he tied together the loose ends of his life - with portrait by Charles Comfort, RCA; She Leads the Housewives Crusade - Dorothy Walton, once the world's best badminton player, is fast becoming our best-known housewife as she spearheads half a million women on in a campaign to make shopping easier, cheaper and better; How To Live Through an Auto Crash - this article could save your life; Father Thomas Coughlin - The Holy Terror from Hamilton - a Maclean's flashback - article with photos of the 1930s radio priest who held millions spellbound; The Hottest Spot in Canada - Point Pelee National Park - article with colour photos; The Happily Married Cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario - article with photos; They'll Move Anything - George Hill and Hill the Mover, Canada's largest moving company - article with photos; Leo, the Moth-Eaten Lion - Jack May saved the life of Leo the Lion at Toronto's Riverdale Zoo; What Every Young Bridegroom Should Know - humour by Barry Mather, illustrated by James Hill; Large colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSBs); Chevrolet ad; Massey-Harris colour-photo ad displays their new Electro-Forging process for making crankshafts; Full-page RCAF Recruiting ad; Full-page ad for Household Finance "I Rent Money"; Nice colour half-page ad for Aylmer canned peas; Great vintage ad for Pres-o-lite batteries features black and white photo of Toronto Maple Leaf Captain Ted (Teeder) Kennedy; Bold colour ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario inside back cover; Colour ad for Gyproc on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice vintage copy. Book
VOLUME TWO ONLY. RARE LIMITED EDITION of the memorial book dedicated to the Jews of the Bukovina district in southeastern Europe. The book uses authoritative sources to create a clear historical account of the Jewish community in Bukovina from the earliest records of its existence to the destruction during the Holocaust. Contains numerous b&w photographs and illustrations. 330x250mm. VIII+228 pages. Red leather Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket yellowing, dirty, wrinkled and slightly age-stained. Jacket edges and corners worn/tattered. Front cover bottom edge peeling. Spine edges bumped. [SUMMARY]: Save for some external wear (mostly to jacket), this extremely rare volume is in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
[INCOMPLETE SET - VOLUMES II-VI] [VOL. II]: Fin du siège de 885-886 à la mort de Philippe-Auguste / [VOL. III]: Fin du règne de Philippe-Auguste à la mort de Charles V / [VOL. IV]: Paris au XVe siècle / [VOL. V]: Paris au XVIe siecle / [VOL VI]: Sous Les Premiers Bourbons. 28x22 cm. 437+470+486+626+741 pages. Gilt hardcover. Volumes III-VI in dust jacket. [Vol. III]: Spine slightly stained. [ALL VOLUMES]: Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
RARE collection of 23 papers in German and English from the international symposium on the christianization of cities in Late Antiquity. Copy from the library of an eminent Israeli archaeologist Yoram Tsafrir (1938-2015), who also contributed a paper included in this volume. Most papers are in German, three are in English. [LIST OF AUTHORS]: Gunnar Brands, Achim Arbeiter, Franz A. Bauer, Albrecht Berger, Robert Born, Beat Brenk, Ortwin Dally, Klaus S. Freyberger, Peter Grossmann, Andreas Gutsfeld, Wolfram Hoepfner, Kenneth Holum, Hans-Rudolf Meier, Karl Leo Noethlichs, Alexis Oepen, Ulrich Real, Klaus Rheidt, Hans-Georg Severin, Hilke Thür, Yoram Tsafrir Bryan Ward-Perkins, Rainer Warland, Ulrike Wulf. Includes 125 b&w full-page plates, several of them fold-out, and index of places (Orts- und Länderregister). 245x175mm. VIII+310 pages & 125 full-page plates. Illustrated Hardcover. Cover and spine rubbed. Cover edges and spine bottom edge bumped. Cover upper corners and spine upper edge rubbed. Previous owner's name (Yoram Tsafrir) written in Hebrew in pencil on front whitepage upper edge/corner. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare volume of conference proceedings, of immense interest to historians of urban development and Christianity in Late Antiquity, is in good condition.
RARE reprint from The Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society of a thoroughly documented study of the cults, shrines ('awlia) and sanctuaries (maqamat) of Muslim saints, a major contribution to the ethnography of Arab Palestine (especially popular Islam and popular religion in Palestine) by Tawfiq Canaan (1882-1964), a pioneering physician, ethnographer and Palestinian nationalist. Besides being a major medical researcher and the first President of the Palestine Arab Medical Association, the director of several Jerusalem area hospitals before, during, and after the 1948 war, he wrote several books and more than 50 articles on the subject of Palestinian folklore in English and German, which serve as valuable resources to researchers of Palestinian and Middle Eastern heritage. Tawfiq was also a collector of over 1,400 amulets and talismans held to have healing and protective qualities, and upon publishing analyses of these objects, and other popular folk traditions and practices, he was recognized already in his lifetime as a major ethnographer and anthropologist. Contains also a Hebrew title-page, though the book is in English. 215x140mm. VIII+331 pages. Softcover. Cover and spine slightly rubbed. Cover and pages upper corner slightly bumped/wrinkled. Rear cover upper edge wrinkled and slightly chipped. Cover corners and edges, and spine edges and hinges rubbed. Inner cover browning. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare inquiry into the folklore and beliefs of Palestinian Arabs, one of the most outstanding contributions to the ethnography of Arab Palestine, is overall in good condition.
RARE journal of a voyage to the Holy Land, Sinai and Petra in 1899-1901 with beautiful color illustrations by the author's husband. 220x145mm. 244 pages. Green cloth Hardcover. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Cover dirty and rubbed/worn. Cover corners bumped. Cover and spine yellowing. Spine edges bumped and peeling/tattered. Inner cover, whitepages and few pages throughout the book age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book, a real treat for any serious collector of Holy Land books, is in good condition.
FIRST EDITION of a RARE TWO VOLUME record of Sir Austen Henry Layard's first adventurous journey to the East and residence among different tribes of Persia in the years 1840-1842. This book mentioned by the late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing in his diary as 'one of the most interesting books'. The author - Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (1817-1894), was an eminent English traveler, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Contains two beautiful b&w illustrations, two frontispieces and three fold-out maps. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 205x140mm. 490+511 pages [+20]. Olive green cloth Hardcover. Gilt lettering and red and green patterns on front cover and spine. Text block edges age-stained. Cover yellowing and dirty/stained. Cover corners and spine edges bumped and worn. Binding slightly visible on inner cover (but still intact). Small sticker on front whitepage. Illustrations and some pages slightly age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare first edition of a two-volume illustrated memoir of travels and residence in Persia by an illustrious Late Victorian England personality is in good condition.
RARE single volume containing THREE important texts on the Middle East, written in English during the 17th and 18th centuries. The first two are travel journals of pilgrims: the first is Henry Maundrell's journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem through the Galilee, and the second is an account of Italian missionaries' visit to mount Sinai. The third title is a detailed account of Islam, with a special emphasis on the rites of pilgrimage, written by the journalist Joseph Pitts. With 4 b&w plates and 2 fold-out plates. 210x125mm. VIII+520 pages. Patterned brown leather Hardcover. Embossed lettering and gilt decoration on spine. Text block edges marbled. Cover and spine worn. Cover heavily rubbed and scratched. Front cover detached. Cover corners/edges and spine edges bumped and peeling. Spine and spine edges peeling. Sticker on spine bottom edge. Ex-libris sticker and binder's sticker on endpaper. Ink inscription on whitepage. Rear whitepage bottom torn and partly missing (NO damage to text - blank whitepage). Pates and some pages somewhat age-stained. Pages yellowing and wavy. [SUMMARY]: Despite the damage to cover, this rare collection of early modern European texts on the Middle East is internally in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This book's cover is very worn, loose or missing. If you'd like, we can send this book to be rebound for an extra charge.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR with DEDICATION dated 1983. EXTREMELY RARE extensively illustrated monograph on ancient mosaic patterns by Asher Ovadia - Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University, an expert in archeology and art of classical culture. The signed dedication in Hebrew is addressed to Moshe Barasch (1920-2004) - a renowned art historian who founded the Art History department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was Professor Emeritus there, the first Israeli art historian to attain worldwide recognition. Contains 44 full-page b&w plates with 120 figures. 285x220mm. 206 pages & 44 plates. Grey cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Red lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket slightly rubbed and slightly yellowing. Jacket edges wrinkled. Spine upper edge slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare illustrated book on ancient mosaic patterns by an eminent authority in the field, of immense interest to art historians and archaeologists, is in good condition.
RARE comprehensive monograph on agricultural and archeological aspects of the Negev desert by Yehuda D. Nevo (1932-1992), an eminent Israeli archaeologist who discovered Kufic inscriptions in the Negev desert, four hundred of which were published in "Ancient Arabic Inscriptions from the Negev" published by IPS, Negev, Israel, in 1993. Contains 36 full-page plates, a bibliography, five appendices and many indices. 320x240. VI+259 pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Spine edges bumped. Several light bump-marks on rear cover. Rear cover upper corner wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare study of the Negev desert by an eminent authority in the field, a major contribution to the study of ancient Arab desert cultures, is otherwise in very good condition.
308 pages. Undated. Circa 1980s or 1990s. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Begins with the family about to emigrate to Canada from Far Sawrey... In Ottawa he is forty-two and a Medical Radiobiologist-Epidemiologist with appreciable practical and academic experience in the field of human radiation effects." - from preface. Light wear externally. Contents clean, crisp and unmarked. Nice tight square copy. Book
v, 203 one-side pages. "Lists names of the inhabitants, businessmen and professional men, in the cities, towns and villages throughout the province of Ontario in 1851. A digitally enlarged reprint of the Ontario portion of The Canada Directory (1851) to which has been added a new index to the cities, towns and villages." - title page. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy of this valuable Ontario geneaological reference. Book
36 pages. Features: British Columbians All; Can We Learn From History?; Letters; Pioneer Pilots of the Skeena - article with great photos; Our We Slaves to Our Clocks?; 210 Miles on Horseback - in 55 degrees below - to attend the funeral of Charlie Fortier, Chief of the Chu Chua Indians; Nature Oddities; Wonder-Weed Ramie Grass Would Revolutionize Textile Industry; B.C. History - Finance and Early Vancouver Island Events; Some Observations of a Rambling Angler; The Monument - poem by an unknown author; Frontal Attack - From the Rear! - a skunk story; The Mighty Hunter; "Pacific Pete" in Big Program - Westcoast's ammended all-Canadian natural gas pipeline route to Vancouver and cities of the U.S. pacific coast; Stewart, B.C. - article with photos; Nice ads on covers include Finning, the Yukon Brewery Syndicate, Port Hope Garage Ltd., and The Charles Hotel; Dozens of nostalgic local ads, some with photos. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
342 pages including index and many black and white photographs. "The years between 1822 and 1967 saw Canadian history in the making, not only in large cities and populated areas, but also in small rural communities such as Douro in Peterborough County. Herein are chronicled facts of historical importance in the area. There are also glimpses into the lives of many who served the township well during the generations. Some of these were very colourful folk indeed. Several of Canada's best known writers were domiciled here. Pioneer days in Upper Canada are recalled from old records, diaries and family lore.... Those who get to know Douro in these pages will appreciate how proud its natives are of their township and why many visitors return here year after year. Here is law observance and a history of good interfaith and interracial relations which could be a model for all Canada" - from dust jacket. Small gift greetings atop page III else sparkling clean and unmarked. Faintest wear overall. Dust jacket now preserved in Brodart cover. A beautiful copy. Book
32 pages. Cover photo of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko playing with their infant son, Prince Naruhito Hironomiya. Many great vintage ads for Japan's major manufacturers. Many photos. Articles include: Close U.S.-Japan Relations Important to Free World; Japan's Electronics Industry Helps Set World Pace in Price and Quality; American Cities Have 23 Sisters in Japan; Japan Leads the World in Shipbuilding; Japan's Dam Construction Expertise; Japan's National Parks; Japan one of the best U.S. customers; Five million TV sets in use - Radio vying for audience; Tokyo Metropolis; Japanese farmers achieve maximum crop on small plot, use new methods/chemicals; The Tea Ceremony and Flower Arrangement; Japanese Toys; Japanese Souvenirs. Average wear. Unmarked. An informative and interesting memento from the days before Japan's rise to prominence as a world manufacturing and banking power. Book
334 pages. Papers include: Health Needs and Civic Action; Housing and Health; Scientific Research by the Public Health Service; The Census and the Public Health Movement; Sources of Information upon the Public Health Movement; Work of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health; Public Health Movement on the Pacific Coast; Protecting Public Health in Pennsylvania; Health Problems of the Indians; Health Problems of the Negroes; The Rural Health Movement; Sanitation in Rural Communities; Tropical Diseases and Health in the United States; The House Fly as a Carrier of Disease; The Mosquito Campaign as a Sanitary Measure; Clean Milk and Public Health; Ventilation and Public Health; Social Service Work in Hospitals; Mouth Hygiene and its Relation to Health; The Physical Care of Children; What American Cities are Doing for the Health of School Children; The Elimination of Feeble-Mindedness; Prevention of Infantile Blindness; The Warfare Against Infant Mortality. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
30 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Stellar Design Work - SOM's (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's) Four Major Telescopes; Stark in the Park - The Chicago Historical Society Wing; Champaign-Urbana at the Crossroads - a time of decision for the twin cities; and more. Moderate wear. Tanning along front cover fold. Bit of writing atop front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
132 pages. Fiction: Vacation at Home; Co-Hater; The Quarrel; The Star of Double Darkness; Forbidden Valley (part 3 of 7); The Magnificent Phoney (conclusion). Articles: We Like the Foreign-Service Life - Russ and Beatrice Ann Russell; Cities of the World - Buenos Aires - article with nice color photos; How Safe is Your Safe-Deposit Box?; I Pick Littler to Win the Open - great golf article with many photos; Too Much is Our Trouble - we pay millions to store excess food while others are desperately hungry; The Face of America - River Tragedy at downed bridge spanning the Homochitto 15 miles south of Natchez - J.E. Lay tries to save other drivers; The Doodads Women Wear! - Jeweler Sam Kramer of Greenwich Village - article with great photos; The Pooches Never Had it So Good. Ads: Northern Pacific Railway - North Coast Limited with the Vista-Dome; Republic Steel; Color-photo ad for KitchenAid appliances; G.E. Clothes Washers; Campbell's Soup; Buick Roadmaster - nice color-photo ad; Texaco - registered rest rooms; Philco appliances; Great color-photo ad for Sealtest features milkshakes; GM; GE Fridges; *Fantastic* two-page color-photo ad for GMC trucks; Chevrolet; Boeing ad features B-52; Fantastic one-page color ad for Seven-Up (7-up) features ice cream floats; Eaton truck axle ad features photo of White Morot Company salesman William N. Labarre as well as fleet owner Everett Lawrence of New Orleans; Very nice one-page color ad for Viceroy cigarettes features 'Facts About Cigarette Smoking'; Interesting two-page black and white photo ad for GE shows their generators and electric motors being used for experimental farm equipment; Nice color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features Marilyn-like lady on bike; Betty Crocker pie crust mix ad on back cover. Above-average but not excessive external wear. Bit of unobtrusive writing at bottom of page 128. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
26 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The Greening of Landscape Architecture; In the Spirit of Jens Jensen and Alfred Caldwell; The Garage with the big plaza on top - part of a redevelopment in Tulsa; David Kropp - Bring Back the Prairie; The works of Novak-Carlson and Associates; How to develop new open space inside our cities; The Springfield landscape - a bid for licensing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
Articles: Pauline Jewett - a department of peace?; William F. Buckley offers a cure for U.S. Disorder; Tenat Power - the high-rise people of Canada's cities complain they are harried by their landlords under antiquated laws; Canadian recreational nautical feature; In Praise of Older Horses - Ian Tyson tells why saddle sores can be fun - his account of a 130-mile prairie trail ride, with photos; The Ann Spiller Case - the bank manager responds; Hands off my Door Knobs - Robert Thomas Allen complains about things that are 'new and improved'; The Great Nutrition Game; The All Canadian Fabrication - fashion feature with colour photos; Robert Weaver - CBC Radio's top literary scout and buyer, an editor, critic, anthologist and best friend Canadian writers ever had; Robert Freedman has brought the ultimate in discotheques to Canada - The Electric Circus. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Articles: How to Tell Hawks from Doves among Canada's 38,500 policemen - and why you're safer if you can - views of various chiefs of police; Where has all our best land gone? - the surrender of our best land to the Americans could be the ultimate sellout; The crusade to make Canada's national capital a tale of two cities; How to keep up with Fashion's shifting erogenous zone - with great colour photos, including cover shot; The Revealing Canadian Compulsion for Profanity - a Martin Goldfarb report; Photojournalist Cathy Wismer reports on CFL Football, thus violating one of North America's last inviolate preserves For Men Only - with many Argo photos; I'm Married, happy, and went through hell for a legal abortion, by Roberta Squire; The U.S. Senator from Canada - Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska; The new fad of treasure hunting with metal detectors; Many lost cities in Brazil; Paul Almond's 'Act of the Heart'; William Robson, undenighable novelist; Colour ad for the full line of Ski-Doo products; Flying from Edmonton to Vancouver to watch the new Vancouver Canucks. Scorpion Snowmobile Ad. Great colour ad for the 1971 Mercury Cougar; Nice colour ad for the 1971 Ford Mustang. Fantastic full-page colour ad for Sno-Jet featuring Al Unser, Bobby Unser and Mario Andretti. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The New Cities - a national report on the downtown revolution - what it means to the people; For the Sake of Argument - public 'inquiries' often abuse justice - a lawyer says stop legal smears - Aubrey Golden; Our Schools are Loaded Against Boys - a school principal shows how the system is weighted unfairly in favor of girls; The Carnies on the Picture Tube - a lighthearted look at junk TV and the people who make money making it; The Kennedy Dynasty, Part IV - how the family opened the blitz that was to elect the first Catholic president; My first 50 years in medicine - Dr. Alton Goldbloom's testament to the pleasures and pains of treating the young; The Great Balloon Voyage - How the air age reached Canada in 1859, but the aeronauts ended up hoofing it; Last chance for the Deer People - as the caribou goes, so go the Eskimos - trying to save both; A report on Canada's secret John Birchers (JBS / John Birch Society), by Pierre Berton; Nice colour photo ad for Canadian Club whiskey inside back cover features B.C. "High-Riggers" race of Gordie Eve; Back cover ad for the 1963 Chevrolet Impala Convertible on a ski hill. Some age-toning to pages at edges. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of the RCMP National Ride; The Cannibal Cities - how urban sprawl is eating Canada alive, by Jane Becker; The Magical RCMP Musical Ride - with colour photos; Can you trust a Chiropractor with your Health? - two million people do; Does anybody here speak Canadian? - by Barbara Moon; Nights and Days of a Ward Boss - Frank (Banjo) Hanleyand how he runs his polyglot political kingdom on the seedy side of Montreal; Ask the Name of the Lion, by Ralph Allen (conclusion); Nice colour photo centerfold displays seven models of Kodak cameras; Nice colour photo Molson Canadian ad inside back cover shows picnicking family with the bridge over the Welland Canal under construction near St. Catherines. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
