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100 pages. Features: An eye on the market; Feeders for 18 cents a pound; Should you wash eggs?; Here's low-cost dairying; Corn combines speed the harvest; Quick-change wagon; Save labor in the home; A Christmas Call (fiction); The King's Pear Tree (fiction). Ads: Allis-Chalmers (color inside front cover); Rexall (with Amos 'n' Andy); Champion spark plugs ad features Kenneth Cooke of Malabar Farm near Mansfield, OH; Natural Rubber Burea ad shows armed Malayan guard at rubber plantation; 1952 Pontiac; Case Tractors - showing the 'VAC' model; Nice two-page color-photo ad for New Holland forage equipment; De Laval milkers; International Harvester McCormick Farmall Super C tractor (nice color photos); Massey-Harris combines; New Idea manure spreaders and attachments (color photo); Prince Albert Tobacco ad features Alfred Cronk and George Williams; Nice color 7up ad shows formal party scene in living room; Homelite chainsaws; Ford tractors (2 pages); McCulloch chainsaws; Wisconsin motors; Bolens garden tractors; Studebaker Commander V-8 (color inside back cover); Stark Bros. Nurseries (back cover). Small ad clipped from page 43. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 3/4"w x 10 1/8"h. 364 pages. Small tears on lightly worn dust jacket. Full gray cloth boards. Many b&w photos and illustrations.
128 pages. Many dozens of detailed diagrams and clear black and white photos. Topics include: details of design and construction; explantion of rating tables; explanation of service factors; method of rating reducers; Selection of reducers; Typical examples; Horsepower ratings and permissible overhung loads; Dimensions and weights; Outboard bearings; Assembly diagrams; Information necessary for selecting reducers; Flexible couplings; Speed increasers; Herringbone reducers combined with V-Belt drives; Standard Industrial installation views; Special units and installation views. Above-average wear and soiling. The first 28 pages each bear varying degrees of paper remnants affixed to them - most text and images are unaffected. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this very detailed and informative catalog. Book
Book shows light shelf wear only, a bit of edge wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Staple bound pamphlet with 55 pages, lots of b&w photos. Contents include: Speed twin, Postwar and 3T, Thunderbird and sprung frame, Unit construction, Specs.
in-12, 178 pages, fig. in-t., broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire. [SP-1]
8vo., with frontispiece (original tisue guard present), title-vignette, and numerous illustrations, diagrams and scores in the text; green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, black endpapers, backstrip lightly sunned else a remarkably bright, crisp copy. Collects fourteen plays based on well-known fairy tales. First published in 1896. SCARCE.
78 Pages. Glossy colour boards. Gift inscription covers most of the front free endpaper. A colour pictorial book presenting the German town of Schwalmstadt. Text in German and English. This is the largest town in the Schwalm-Eder region. Book
283 pages. Index. Dozens of wonderful black and white photos. "The UNITED STATES represents the fulfillment of a lifetime dream. Her design, her financing, her construction, her trials, her capturing the world's speed supremacy - all these were the crowning achievements of an amazingly successful life - the life of William Francis Gibbs... Tells the story of The Big Ship, as she was known at 21 West Street, the offices of Gibbs & Cox, where she was designed... She was drydocked in 1980 and passed with flying colours... So here's to the safest liner ever built, the fastest big ship ever and one of the world's masterpieces!" - from dust jacket. Prior owner's ink stamp inside front board else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear and some spine sunning to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; handsomely bound in navy full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
Presses de la Cité 1967, In-8 cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette. 284 pages. Bon état.
134 pages. Features: If War Comes Tomorrow?; We Fly the Piper Special; Speed Plus; New York's Winged Police; Roun-The-World Horsepower; State Supervised Flying; Alfalfa Airport; Supercruising the World; It's Fun on Floats; "Thimble Drome" Special; Plymouth's First International Model Meet; 1947 Nationals; Sky Bait; Make Your Exposures Count; The Air-O Mighty MIdget; Radio Control Stinson 150 - Part 2; Model Aero Club Directory; Many pages of great ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some age-toning to pages. Front cover beginning to loosen, otherwise a sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
128 p. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Photograph endpapers. Small 4to. 240 mm. Original half cloth and paper binding, slightly worn. First Printing. Very good. Modern digital photographers could benefit by reading various older books on photographic composition, technique, etc. W102RtStack
2 vols., oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; original green cloth, upper boards blocked with Goodwood crest in silver and black, backstrips lettered in silver, green endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's green card slip-case.
1st edition. Very good condition hardback in a very good condition price clipped dust jacket (one closed tear). 192 pages, illustrated. 40761. eng
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, page block is a little warped. 262 pages with lots of large b&w photos, including one kissed by Salvador Dali. Dust jacket has edge wear, scuffing, library stickers. Jack Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion, was a world traveller, a music hall performer, a prisoner at Leavenworth, a matador in the bullrings of Spain, a speed demon, a connoisseur of the arts and women, and a Renaissance man at the turn of the 20th Century. He held the title for seven years against the widespread popular demand for a new "white hope"..
95 pages. Features: Speed Racer; La Cage Noire; Bax; The Jester; Put it on the Barbie; New Frontiers; Stay Seated; Human(e) Moves; Friendly Terms; New Threads; Building Blocks; In Your Pocket; Mainly Moooi; Vacuum Packed; Like Clockwork. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this beautiful issue. Magazine
pp. xix, 400 + Frontis and Full Page Plates. XLib. Blind XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. XLib stamp on all edges. Plates clean. 220mm. Rebound in a satin striped cloth binding. Hypatia (ca: 360-415), was a Greek scholar from Alexandria, Egypt, considered the first notable woman in the history of mathematics. She taught philosophy and astronomy. She lived in Roman Egypt, and was killed by a Christian mob who accused her of causing religious turmoil. Some suggest that her murder marked the end of what is traditionally known as Classical antiquity. CLASSICS BX 2
Very nice typewriting instruction book. Full green cloth boards with super-seventies office illustration design in black with yellow lettering. 8 5/8"w x 11 3/8"h. 254 pages. Book is made to stand up by itself so you can look at it while typing. Previous student's name inside.
Very nice typewriting instruction book. Full blue cloth boards. 8 1/8"w x 11 "h. 172 pages. Book is made to stand up by itself so you can look at it while typing. Previous student's name inside.
140 pages. Contributors include: Henry Ford (The Fear of Overproduction), Ben Hecht, Leonard H. Nason, Margaret Culkin Banning, Captain Charles B. Scully, Katherine M. Schmitt, Joseph Hergesheimer. Nice contemporary advertisements from Del Monte, Coke, Camay, Campbell's Soup, Sunbrite Cleanser, Cord Auto, Graham Auto, Dodge Six, Essex Auto, Edison Mazda Lamps, Fordor Sedan (by Ford), Cellophane, Buick, Reo Speed Wagon, Valspar, Northern Pacific Rail Line, White Trucks, McCormick-Deering Industrial Power (*wonderful black and white photographs*), The Knapp-Felt Hat, A&P. Articles include: Why Drown? by Charles Scully, The Story of an Early Switchboard Operator, Tears to periphery of cover otherwise a solid copy with average wear. Book
134 pages. Contributors include: Isaac F. Marcosson, Vincent sheean, Nunnally Johnson, Alfredo Codona, Gilbert Patten, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Colonel Givens, John H. Doeg. Lovely vintage advertisements from: Whitman's Chocolates, Campbell's Soup, De Soto, Cadillac V-8, GM Radio, Oldsmobile, Ford Auto, Hudson and Essex, Reo-Royale, Willys Cars, Log Cabin Syrop, Auburn Auto, Sparton Radio, Nash Auto, Packard, Franklin Auto, Canada Dry. Articles include: Dime-Novel Days, Gymnasts (The Flying Codonas), Nevada Stories, Tennis as a Career, The Secretary to President Coolidge. Large tear to cover-fold and front cover else average wear. Nice solid copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Ok, let's just ignore the fact the author is named Willie and the title is Pocket Billiards. Contents include: Selection of cue, Proper grip, Stroke and follow-through, Kiss shots, Use of English, Speed of stroke, The satisfaction of developing a skill, etc. With vivid instructions. Author holds many pocket billards records.
28 pages. Features: War's Aftermath in the Orient (article with photos); Pictorial feature of rice farming in the Philippines; Photo of hurdles race at Antwerp featuring Earl Thompson of Canada - "The Greatest Hurdler of All Time"; Photos and news story of Poland's Paderewski; 'False Alarms' - a story; Photos from Japan - when her largest export was silk!; *Interesting and prophetic article by Darwin P. Kingsley entitled 'Watch your steps, American and Japan!' - Beyond the Pacific a vicious yellow press is yelping at us and the militarists are in control - over here Washington is sleeping peacefully - trouble may come; Mayor Henry Kiel of St. Louis; Woman President of a baseball league, Mr.s Lilly Nicholas; Whaling photos; Photos of a traffic cop running a speed trap... by peaking around a corner and holding a stop watch!; a centrifugal gun. Interesting advertisements by Clark Axles, Selden Motor Trucks, Kelly-Springfield, Columbia Grafonola, U.S. Pneumatic Truck Tires. Book
82 pages. Features: Lots of coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver; Moderate wear. Prior owner's address on front cover otherwise clean and unmarked wiht moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: LA fire boat - recent delivery; Skagen yard delivers multi-rig trawler; Alferas; Lung-Teh Shipbuilding of Taiwan builds the country's first self-righting SAR boat; Antipodean designers continue to lead in lightweight high speed technology; Diversification keeps fast ferry builders afloat; A visit to Derecktor Shipyard; Recently refurbished amphibious vehicles; Water jet propulsion for new Greek fireboats; Technology shift by Point Hope Shipyard of Victoria, B.C. - their shift to pilot boats; At Sea with Cara. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
