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Please note: colour plate not included. Chapter CCLXXXIX - The Secret of Jutland - with photos and illustrations. Super centerfold action photos of British ships at full speed and firing their 13.5" and 12" guns. Many photos of the British warships that won glory in the Battle of Jutland. Battle diagrams. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
Contents include: Manavilins - III; The Great Ship Swallower; Private Trading; Those Puzzling Star Names; Collections Lost at Sea; In Memoriam - the British Square Sailer; Speed Sound Signals - stoppage - Collision; Dramatised Versions - V. Hotkins' Code; Wanted - an Esprit de Corps of the Sea; The Good Old Days; The Marine Services of Nigeria - III; Ships of South Kensington; Swediish East India company; Watermen of the Thames - a company centenary; Leaves from a Longshore log; and more. Above-average wear. Spine leaning. Bit of writing atop front cover else unmarked. Worthy copy of this fascinating periodical. Book
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Railroad News - Shades of Jay Gould!; Short article and photo of the world's fastest train - the S.N.C.F. CC-7121; Tales of the Century - The 20th Century Limited - article with photos; Cover Story - The Story of Speed - America's fastest trains of 1954; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of a Texas & New Orleans (Southern Pacific) 4-4-0; When Steam Ruled Cajon Pass - great photos; In 1953; Nobody wanted a steam locomotive for the first time in 125 years; In Search of Steam - 2 - along an obscure branch in New Brunswick is the oldest living locomotive in Canada; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: 1957 Locomotive Showroom - great photos and write-ups for offerings from Electro-Motive, Alco Products, Fairbanks-Morse, and General Electric; Confessions of a Train-Watcher - great article by David P. Morgan; 05 - Pictorial Diagnosis of a Great Locomotive (4-8-4); Twenty Years of Speed - the only complete and authoritative annual analysis of North American train speed - detailed report - a Trains exclusive; Dieselization hits the 90% mark - what comes next?; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Openings at each end of cover fold, otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
Features: Fastest President on Wheels - Richard and Mrs. Nixon take the Metroliner (photos and article); Railroad News Photos - 6 pages; The Trains of Turkey - great article with photos and map; Is GTM/TH Valid? - tonnage x speed = deception; So you want to run a railroad? - management training programs offered by the railroad industry; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: The man in the White House cares; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Our managing editor (Rosemary Entringer) pulls the throttle on a T-1; Badges of Distinction - or, the diamond wasn't exclusive to Lima; How Truckers, Firemen, and Lawyers are Designing Diesels - some not so subtle influences upon the builders; Railroad art by our readers; Central Keeps the Cake - the only complete and authoritative analysis of world-wide train speed; A very special 2-10-0 Bozkurt; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Did America enter WWII in 1938? The real story of Pre Lend-Lease French Hawk 75 Fighters; The search for speed - Part II of Howell Miller Designs; Miles & Atwood racer plans and drawings - the DH-4 "Flaming Coffins". Art: Curtiss P-36 Hawk at Wright Field; Miles & Atwood Racer 5-view; Miles & Atwood "Miss Tulsa" Special Profile and Cutaway 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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"..
1st edition. Very good condition hardback in a very good condition price clipped dust jacket (one closed tear). 192 pages, illustrated. 40761. eng
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.
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
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
Presses de la Cité 1967, In-8 cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette. 284 pages. Bon état.
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.
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
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
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.
in-12, 178 pages, fig. in-t., broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire. [SP-1]
