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160 pages. Features: What was killed was not only the President but the Promise; How to Survive in the Kremlin; General Westmoreland - inheritor of a wretched war; The Road Back for teh G.O.P., by Jacob K. Javits; White Mercenaries on a 'rabbit hunt' in The Congo; Photos of the new Verrazano-Narrows bridge; Michelangelo Antonioni - 'Most Controversial Director'; Gallery of Presidential Also-Rans, including Goldwater-Miller; The dizzying pace of Luxembourger life - and why Common Market bureaucrats don't want to make it their headquarters; After the Yankees What? - a TV Drama - C.B.S, the Columbia Broadcasting System; New Musicals, New Songwriters; Petain - of Verdun, of Vichy, of history; When children don't achieve. Crossword completed in pencil. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
Articles: The Structure of English Wooden Ships - William Sutherland's Ship Circa 1710; An Explosive Story - the rise and fall of the common depth charge; part of Gerald E. Panting's Canadian Maritime Bibliography; plus numerous book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: What happened to Common Sense? - Calvin D. Linton says not only do we live in the best-educated age in history, it may well also be the most gullible; Doomsday Merchant of the Far Right - Billy James Hargis leads a witch-hunt in pursuit of Communists; People on the Way Up - Comic Dick Shawn, Ross Pritchard, Charlene Curry, Janet Ades, Rochelle Hood; Czar of the Bunny Empire - Hugh Hefner, with color photos; The Bridge of Hope - Topeka's effort to help mental patients return to regular life; Me and my mixed up trees - Frank J. Taylor and 'the confessions of a compulsive grafter who tells backyard (Luther) Burbanks how to turn the tables on nature; Irrepressible Egoist - Dick Stuart, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocky slugger; Hot Weapon in the Cold War - at President Kennedy's urging, the Army is beefing up its Special Forces, who are trained to combat Red guerillas around the globe. Nice color Pepsi ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Last Chance for Vietnam - international flare-ups may topple this strategically located country - many interesting black and white photos; People on the Way Up - Peter Beard, Craig Ellwood, Building Designer, The Van Dorn Sisters; Paris gives Women a break, by Oleg Cassini (pages 29-32 loose but present); You CAN afford college - Princeton's financial-aid officer tells how to swing the high cost of higher education; Nice pink Cadillac ad on page 33; 'Common Market' - what does it mean to us? - a report by Christian A. Herter; Hockey's Gashouse Gang - the story of the rambunctious Chicago Black Hawks, the team that scrapped its way to icedom's coveted Stanley Cup (they haven't won it since - very rare Black Hawk material!); City in the Shadow - the ghost of Boss Frank Hague lingers in Jersey City . Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Crooks Get all the Breaks - Virgil W. Peterson; Can our children learn faster? - at the Whitby School in Connecticut, the Montessori method is used to teach the three Rs; People on the Way Up - Gigi Reynolds Carrier, Dick Gregory, Joy Tymezyszyn Jr., Jane Marilley; Abraham Kaplan on 'Are Psychiatrists and Clergymen enemies or allies?'; Connie Francis - what made her a star, and how does she survive the competition?; Casey Stengel; How Sotheby's venerable London auction house sets prices and tastes for highbrows; The Vanishing Hillbilly - the proud Ozark mounaineer is being modernized out of existence as TVs become more common than indoor plumbing. Great 2-page color Chevrolet Jobmaster Trucks ad. Nice Coke ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Galleon Gold - Lieut. Harry E. Rieseberg is continually drawn to the silver shoals off the Bahamas to search for underwater treasure; Trapped by the Bor Herd of Elephants; The Mowha Maneater - a tiger story in the Indian jungles; We Chose Danger - an adventure of Frank Illingworth in troubled Morocco; Badboy of the Fisheries - the common seal; H.M.S. Thule Intercepts - an intensely dramatic story of a submarine at war as told by its Commander, Alastair Mars, D.S.O., D.S.C. and Bar; Volcanic Island - "I Know an Island"; Swallowed by the Jungle - the conclusion of "Manhunt in Green Hell", a story from the French Guiana jungle; Iceland Pony Race; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Chip from spine. Sound copy. Book
31 pages. Features: Canada's first long-distance car rally - Heather Wilson and Margaret Taylor travel 4,098.2 miles; Jack Lemmon went from from Harvard to Hollywood; Milkweed - the Swee-Scented Killer - a common Canadian flower traps many of the insects that pollinate it; Learning how to fall - Judo lessons; Son who sings his mother's songs - Ernie McCulloch of Calgary; Dramatic Canadian Soccer Gamble - $1 million spent to import big-time play - Stanley Mathews, Tony Macedo; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
72 pages. Features: Antisubmarine warfare, the 'St. Croix' and Vice Admiral Rayner; Big crowds for JFK in Berkeley and New Orleans; Test pilot Joe Walker and the X-15; Major Vietnam war coverage; Queen Juliana of the Netherlands; The European Common Market - toward ten; President Ayub of Pakistan; Manhattan's pioneering Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Photos of baseball players Cletis Leroy Boyer and Kenton Lloyd Boyer; Photo and coverage of Jack Nicklaus; Rocket Richard appears in Vitalis ad; Photo of Andy Warhol in art article; Passing of Frank Wilson Braden, Harry Guy Bartholomew, Walter Phelps Hall, Major General Ralph Emerson Truman and Helen Dortch Longstreet; Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov tours U.S.; The P-1127 VTOL; Photo of California hod carriers on strike; Photo of Mr. Norman Brunt of Port Credit, Ontario in Atlas Steels ad; and more. Centerfold ad holding by one staple. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Everyman's diesel primer - the abc's of 'phenomenally productive equipment; Ingersoll-Rand - catalyst of dieselization *extensive and profusely illustrated article*; Joy and Pain on the Boston & Maine. Average wear. Unmarked. Small white sticker on back cover. Book
Features: Ben W. Heineman; The great Tug-of-War - pushing match at Kent, Washington on 22 February, 1920 between a GE 261-ton bipolar No. 10254 vs. a 278 ton 2-6-6-2 Mallet No. 9520; Classics under catenary (and beside third rail) - from the power in the trolley to the motors fed, electrification has had a common theme - nonstandardization - B&O No. 1 was first, Central's tinplate prototype, New Haven's A.C./D.C. box-cab motors, Norfolk & Western's side-rod box-cabs, Milwaukee's bipolar gearless motors, The Classic GG1, Great Northern Had the Biggest; Muskingum's prototype for the future; The when and if of wires; Those Russian Electrics; The Mystique of Electrification - when we regarded electric traction as noncontagious - hence safe; First Generation M.U. Average wear. Unmarked. Small white sticker on back cover. Book
Features: BR (British Rail) - a new image; South Vietnam - progress under fire; Railroad news Photos; Steam News Photos; Photo of Mexico's National Railway TR-3 Mountain type No. 3306; 17th Annual Motive Power Survey - The Common Denominator - 2,500 HP; A generation passes - Southern Pacific's locomotive 6153 ends its 15 year career; The Aging Dignity of Chicago Union Station - many photos; 4-panel colour fold-out centerfold ad by GM's EMD; Identify 10 diesels by looking at their wheels; If New York Central Says Yes - Central's second look at commuters; Photo of Cass Scenic No. 7, a balloon-stacked three truck Shay, in action in 1964; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
62 pages. Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photo feature on the US Railroad Administration's 4-6-2 of WWI - the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL); A Tale of Two Railroads - Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley have more in common than their deficits - article with photos and map; Ad with colour photos for GM's new locomotives at work in the Rockies; Photo Section; Super 1.5-page 1909 photo of the Delaware & Hudson Camelback 837 on the turntable at Oneonta, NY; And Then There Was One - What's ahead for South Shore, sole survivor of Insull's Traction Triumvirate? - article with photos and map; and more. Unmarked with average wear A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: The Nunes Brothers' Boat and Ways Company; Chainsaw Lumbermaking - Natural Knees - Will Malloff explains how to cut your own crook timber; The Shipsmith's Art - Turning your hand to forge work; A New ERA - Vic Carpenter's idea of a perfect runabout; Reviewing TARNE's Keel, Part II - the final steps in fitting, fastening, and fairing it in; Inside the Wood Block - a maintenance guide; Jack Tyrrell - a fourth generation boatbuilder; Irish Hookers; The Galway Bay Pucan - a new 'little hooker'; Ancient Curraghs - they may never become extinct!; Improving the classic dinghy - eliminating some common problems; Hardtack's Running Moor - practical sailorizing from times past; Lashmanship - keeping things in their proper place; Boatbuilding in Grenada - a last bastion of wooden boat building with hand tools alone. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: The BOWDOIN Project - Admiral MacMillan's Arctic Schooner; Common Sense and the Energy 48; Boat Plans and the Public Domain; Rowing the Maine Coast in a Matinicus peapod; Building MARTHA's Tender, Part III; Ceilings; On Deck - details that look good and perform well; Old Wooden Thistles provide stiff comptetion for their fiberglass competitors; The Vineyard Haven 15; Keeping a Cutting Edge - Handsaws; The Barnegat Bay Sneakbox; Getting the Old Girl Back in Shape - an ingenious resteaming method for easing the tension in new frames. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
français In-12 de 279 pp.; demi-toile (reliure modeste de l'époque). Edition originale. Importante cerne claire au fond des feuillets, plats légèrement voilés. Rare.
In-8 (cm. 23.50), brossura illustrata (lievi fioriture), pp. 166, (2), con illustrazioni in bianco e nero fuori testo. In buono stato (good copy).
261 pages including index. Told for the first time, here are the stories of twelve of Canada's outstanding labour leaders and organizers. Their accounts tell the behind-the-scenes story of some of the key events in twentieth-century Canadian history from the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, the 1935 On-to-Ottawa trek of the unemployed which played a major role in the defeat of Tory prime minister R.B. Bennett and the 1945 Ford strike in Windsor which consolidated the rights of big industrial unions through to the 1972 Common Front of Quebec's public sector workers. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding solid. Book
144 pages including index. A detailed and well-illustrated explanation of the technical terms and rules of blazon and of the science of Armory. Explains how individual coats of arms properly interpreted can be a valuable source of historical knowledge. Chapters include: heralds and heraldry; tinctures, partitions, ordinaries and sub-ordinaries; common charges; the rules of blazon; differencing and marshalling of arms; crests, crowns and coronets; the description of the achievement, and some famous arms; ecclesiastical heraldry; arms of heiresses, and hatchements; the seal; the badge; banners of arms, standards and flags. Average wear. Usual library markings else unmarked. Minor lean to spine. Book
Arles, Editions Sulliver, 2000. In-8 broché, 354 pp. TB état.
Genève, Crémille, 1970. 3 volumes in-12 reliure skivertex de l'éditeur rouge et bleue, 254, 250 et 250 pages, nombreuses illustrations en hors texte. Excellent état.
Ensemble de 3 volumes de format in 12 de 256 pp. chacun; reliures de l'éditeurs richement décorées; nombreuses illustrations reproduisant des documents de l'époque. Ensemble en très bel état. Voir photos.
Le Sycomore, 1979, 377 pp., préface de Jean Maitron, broché, couverture légèrement défraîchie, dos un peu décoloré, état très correct.
252 pages including bibliography and glossary. Subject is a young Guatemalan peasant woman, already famous in her country as a national leader, whose life vividly reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Markings/highlighting to a handful of pages. Average wear. Bit of writing inside front cover. Average wear. Book
200 pages. Features: Cover painting of Gertrude Stein and some members of her salon; Great Jade East ad; Lovely fashion ads; Nice two-page color-photo Christmas ad for Longines watches; Nice two-page color photo ad for Omega watches; Gorgeous black and white photos Shiseido ad; Nice Van Cleef & Aprels ad features Piaget watches; Classic Rhodes shirt ad features boy working on his soap box racer; The (Gertrude) Stein Salon was the First Museum of Modern Art - photo-illustrated article; To a Name-Dropper, the Stein Salon was Heaven - photos and brief write-ups of Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Sitwell, Guillaume Apollinaire, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Alice B. Toklas and James Joyce; A Berlin Commune is a Big Happy Family (Sometimes) - hundreds of young leftist Berliners are experimenting with communal living at Linkeck - photo-illustrated article; A New Factory Product - 'Instant Education'; A westerner residing in Peking writes about the bitter struggle between Mao and Liu Shao-chi forces; A Ride Along the Suez Canal - photo-illustrated article; The Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn - "One-Man Think Tank"; Fantastic two-page color-photo ad for the Hat Corporation of America features 18 hats being modelled; Lovely Lancome ad for their Fidji product; Wonderful color-photo centerfold of Miss Springmaid, Dawn Gemay; Two-page color ad for eight models of Kodak Instamatic cameras; Centerfold Kodak ad for their movie cameras and projectors; Two more pages of Kodak ads for their flash cameras, slide projector, and more; What? Americans Hate Kids?; Many more pages of Christmas gift ads; Save the Children Federation ad features photo of Mary Carnwath; Nice Thom McAn ad features three ladies at shoeshine stand; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
NANTES, De L'Imprimerie De Camille Mellinet Editeur, sans date ( 1843) - In-8 Broché - 5 volumes sur 1 2 volumes (T. I,II, III, IV & V) - manque de papier, couverture recollée, illustrée d'une gravure de Germain représentant les armes de la ville de Nantes - légères rousseurs - 452, 414, 414, 410, & 414 pages - bien qu'incomplet - Rare
