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370 pages. Index. "For every member of the Aircraft Warning Service, every member of the Armed Services, every member of aviation,, every air-minded citizen! This brand-new, complete and authoritative guide contains over 1,300 photographs and 3-position silhouettes of the world's leading war planes - both Allied and Axis types. It includes the amazing new 2-Line "Friend or Foe" flash identification system All recognition charactistics based on the famous WEFT formula. No less than 350 military aircraft are described and illustrated, including over 90 American warplanes, 70 British, over 60 German, over 30 Jap, and over 40 Italian planes. It also describes and illustrates planes of Russia, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain and France. It includes Barrage Balloons, Blimps and Rotating wing aircraft. Beyond comparison this is the biggest, most comprehensive volume of its kind in America!" - from back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Prior owner's name atop title page. Ends of backstrip discretely secured by tape. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful reference. Book
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue tweed cloth, gilt back, rear endpapers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue tweed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Saint-Brieuc , Les presse Bretonnes - 1974 - 1 volume In-8 - Couverture imprimée - 1 grande carte dépliante - Photographies NB en texte - 106 pages - Ex. non coupe - Propre
ff. (19), 278, 112, 70, 132 leaves. Engraved pictorial title page and tailpiece, and five historiated double-page folding maps and city views (by Savary). Woodcut tailpieces, large and small decorative and historiated initials. Light marginal worming in preliminaries. Map of Paradise with wear at the margins. Engraved title mounted. Printed titles for the Prophets and New Testament. Folio. Contemporary full leather binding over split oak boards. Corners and clasp holders in thick brass. Spine and joints deteriorated; boards detached. Still impressive, and priced to allow for proper restoration. Engraved bookplate of R. Percy Alden, drawn by the American artist J. Alden Weir. Alden's house, "Millwood," in Cornwall, PA was designed by Stanford White. .This book is the famous Dutch Lutheran Bible of 1648. It was based on the Low German Bible printed at Madeburg in 1554, which was translated by J. Bugenhagen from Luther's Bible of 1545. It was published for the use of his brother Mennonites in 1560 by N. Biestkens van Diest in Emden, and became famous as the Biestkens Bible. Darlow and Moule 'Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of the Holy Scripture' No. 3311 says that this edition is "A revision of the 'Biestkens Bible' prepared on the basis of Luther's by Adolf Visscher of the Lutheran Church at Amsterdam. This became the standard Bible of the Dutch Lutherans." It is curious to note that it is the only Dutch Bible ever published by van Baardt. Darlow & Moule 3311. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Scarce. W108
4to., with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly age-browned else a very good, clean copy. With a reprint of a relevant page from 'The Times' loosely inserted. One of the plates is a striking full-page view of the Thames Estuary looking downstream from Richmond to the sea at a height of 21,000 feet.. Scarce in this condition.
249 pages. "Few Canadians have ever heard of Kananaskis, but it has a primary place in any honest history of this country. It was there in 1940, in a camp designed for prisoners-of-war, that left-wing Canadians were interned without trial for two years. One of them was William Repka."- June Callwood. Gift greetings atop half-title page, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Minor moisture exposure to lower corner. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 24 pages of coloured plates; pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and black, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
A Modified Stuart 5A Steam Engine; Bass No 9 in 5" gauge; A Small 'Weir' Type Stationary Boiler Feed Pump, circa 1885; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" gauge; Some Secrets of the Bagnall-Price Valve Gear re-discovered. Excellent copy. Book
A Model Shaping Machine; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" Gauge; A Modified Stuart 5A Steam Engine; The 'DEE' Seduction; Farcot's Table Engine; Drummond Brothers of Guildford; A Small 'Weir' Type Stationary Boiler Feed Pump, circa 1885. Excellent copy. Book
'Justin's' - a Beginner's Stirling-Cycle Engine; Farcot's Table Engine; Wenford; A Small 'Weir' Type Stationary Boiler Feed Pump, Circa 1885, BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" gauge. Excellent copy. Book
'Justin's' - a Beginner's Stirling-Cycle Engine; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" gauge; GT3 Locomotive; Farcot's Table Engine; A Small 'Weir' Type Stationary Boiler Feed Pump, circa 1885. Excellent copy. Book
24 page booklet. 9" x 7". Reproductions of various dramatic V-1-related black and white wartime photos on almost every page. Most pages half text and half photo. "This monstrous machine that rides the skies beyond all human control seems to the people (of London) to have a power of evil greater than anything that has gone before." - fro page 3. Published in December, 1944 by the British Information Services which were located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York. Back cover cutaway illustration of the V-1 explains how it works, with accompanying text on pages 20-22. Unmarked. Average wear. No notable defects. A sound vintage copy of this sombre WWII memento. Book
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at edges with very minor loss at head of backstrip. The author's fourth novel of the war and uncommon in this condition
Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. 340 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Traces this honourable history from 1859. Unmarked with average wear to cream cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. A sound copy. STRATHERN 3353. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 81 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Great ad for part 1 of Hitler's Mein Kampf inside back cover - with proceeds to the British Red Cross; Barrage balloons over Thames Estuary; With the French Army on the Western Front; H.M. the King inspects naval commands - Lieut. H.E.M. Glenny, R.N., is decorated by the King for courage in dealing with enemy mines; French Naval Chief's visit to Great Britain - Admiral Francois Darlan; Nazi airmen bomb defencless trawlers - three crewmembers of the Etruria were killed; Canada's contribution to Britain's Might - article with many great photos; Full-page photo portrait of General Sir Edmund Ironside; British forces in the front line; Battle of the River Plate on 13th December - photos of the Exeter, Achilles and Ajax plus photos of their captains; three photos of damage to the Graf Spee plus a great photo of the Graf Spee at sea; Great centerfold illustrations explain the naval battle tactics of the fight with the Admiral Graf Spee, two awesome full-page photos of the scuttling of the Graf Spee; The British Navy's sea exploits - broadcast speech by Winston Churchill; Photos of the H.M. Submarine Ursula, her Captain Bethell and crew, plus the German cruiser Koeln which they sunk, photo of H.M. submarine Salmon; Neville Chamberlain visits British forces in France; Activity on the German front; R.A.F. successes in raid over Heligoland Bight; Photos of the German liner Columbus before and after being set afire by her crew on December 19th; A commentary on the war this week; Russian troops captured by the Finns; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Balloons from Britain's balloon barrage leaving massive hangar for handling practice; Photos of Scotland's garrison on guard; Polish soldiers watch the Scottish coast; At sea with the Australian Army; Illustrated of the text of a broadcast by L.S. Amery entitled "War Effort in India and Burma"; Greek war in pictures; RAF arrive to help the Greeks; Full-page map of the Balkan battlefield - scene of Italian retreat; Photo of Archbishop Chrysanthos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church, with Air Vice-Marshal J.H. D'Albiac and Rear-Admiral C.E. Turle, and others; Photo of Greece's political and military leaders immediately after the Italian invasion; Photos of how the RAF makes war on Italy; Photo evidence of successful R.A.F. raid on Mai Edaga in Eritrea; Air photo of destruction in Behgazi port after an R.A.F. bombing; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black captures the drama of Koritza, Italian headquarters in Albania, falling to advancing Greeks; Nice photo of three Beauforts in a moonlit sky; Wireless training; NIce close-up photo of a torpedoe being loaded into the belly of a plane; Illustration by N. Clarke dedicated to the first fighter pilot to win the V.C., Flight-Lieut. James Brindley Nicolson; Illustrated text of broadcast by Sir Angus Gillan entitled "Importance of the Sudan"; Australians building a railway in southern England; A.A. Training in South Africa; Bomb damage to the library at University College, London, Bristol church, London offices, and a Midland town; A Commentary on the war this week; Photos of new leaders of the R.A.F. including Sir R. Brooke-Popham, Sir A. Barratt, J.H. D'Albiac, A.T. (Bomber) Harris, Sir Charles Portal, W.S. Douglas, E.L. Gossage, Sir Hugh Dowding, and B. Babington; Supporters in Malaya and Mauritius; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
267 pages. Through telepathic communication with Jerry Garcia, legendary member of the Grateful Dead, Wendy Weir, sister of Dead guitarist Bob Weir, presents Jerry's deep, loving, and often humorous insights from the realm of the spirit and his wishes not only for the band that has become a cultural phenomenon but for each and every one of us. Excellent giftable copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; black cloth, gilt back, maroon endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Very Good Good English Original bdg. with original dust wrapper. In Turkish and English. 4to. (32 x 24 cm). Color and b/w ills. [xviii], 2 color plts.; 237 p.; 122 p. plts. + (several color plts in texts). Dust jacket is worn-out.
grand in-8°, 491 pp, ill., broche, couv. Bon etat (passages soul.). [LA-4]
In-4, 199p. Ouvrage fondamental pour qui s'intéresse à l'histoire et à la construction du plus grand barrage de Suisse. Abondante iconographie, photographies, plans, etc... Bien complet du pratique feuillet volant de table des illustrations. Enrichi du prospectus de 8 pages invitant à devenir actionnaire de Grande Dixence SA. Inscription en page de garde, titre collé sur le dos muet de la jaquette (étiquette Dymo), sinon très bel exemplaire.
Rodez Carrère 1910. In-12 broché de 149 pages. Edition originale .Très bon état
