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124 pages. Contents: James Wilkinson - America's most honored traitor; Mystery Killer Ship; Can a Tiger Whip a Bull?; Betting on Horse Races through the Mail!; College Football is for Boys Alan Ameche explains how much more difficult it is to play professionally; Pioneer Airmen Glenn L. Martin and Lary Bell; Big-bore rifles for downing a charging rhino; Chrysler's design challenge to reduce the height of its cars by five inches; Blowguns - quick, quiet and deadly (article iwth color photos); Turkeys west of the Pecos; Castration - Man's greatest hidden fear; Men's fall coats; Science studies your whiskers; and more. Champion Spark Plug ad features photo of Bobby Unser at the 1956 Pikes Peak Hill-Climb. Unmarked with heavy. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
48 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Great Western Railway; Who Were the Five Johns?; The Burlington Races; The Beginnings of the History of Hamilton; Chronicles of Corktown; The Story of a Pioneer Doctor - Harmaunus Smith; Crown Patentees of West Flamborough Township. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: The Eagle flys - a look at America's Airborne early warning system from the eagle eye of the F-15; The Lavochkin Lagg - Soviet Russia's best WWII fighter; The Great Days of the Cleveland Air Races; Part III of the Tony Levier Story. Art: McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles on "Bear" Alert and Airborne Alert. Some water rippling along top edge. Several small perforations to front cover. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Contents include: Primal images and primal ways of seeing, Species and race in the eighteenth century, Linnaeus' concept of species, Ray, Kant, Goethe, Buffon, Linnaeus, Classification of races, Herder, Leibniz, Oken, Buffon Leibniz, Blumenbach, Carus' race theory, etc. copyright Pistil Books, 2011
240 pages. Colour photography throughout. Text in English. Features: Baisakhi; The Surajkund Fair; Holi in Barsana, Uttar Pradesh; Santiniketan observes Basantotsav; Celebrations of the Chapchar Kut; Celebrating Bohaag Bihu; Celebrating Myoko; Festivals in Gujarat; Camel races at Osian, Rajasthan; Kawant Festivities; Vibrant hues of the walls of the fort of Jaisalmer; Ugadi - new year in Andhra Pradesh; The Biryani; Spring fashions; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Volume rilegato in tela, sovraccoperta originale, vi-125 tavole fotografiche molte delle quali ripiegate. Spledida pubblicazione qui offerta in ottime condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'irdine
Book shows very light shelf wear only, with some scuffing and fading to back cover. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 56 page book filled with b&w photos of the era: horse drawn carts, first horseless carriage in Vancouver, the first car crashes, lots more: 50 plates.
Features: Three Generations of Lawman - the Roy Johnston Family at Yukon, Oklahoma; The Myth of Deadwood Dick - six men who vied for the honor of being the 'hero' who never existed; Noisy, Sinful Goldfield, Nevada; And the Band Played On!; Wrangling Dudes in Yellowstone; Quicksand - Nature's Booby Trap; Silent Night of the Hermit; Fastest Track West of the Mississippi - some unforgettable races in old Spokane; The Fine Art of Ignoring Trouble - the town of Two Dot; Buried Riches on Old Horn's Peak; Murdered in Church - Socorro, New Mexico; Fishing in Idaho - spear heads; Mein Herr Gets a Look at Aljaska Land - first pictures ever published in Germany portraying 'Seward's icebox' (the former Russian America); and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. One inch opening at top of cover fold. Nice copy. Magazine
52 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Dar Mlodziezy; On the Waterfront; European Ferry Commentary; Panama Canal's Future; The Last of the Aces - The Texas Clipper; Voyage Report - Carry it Bulk!, by Captain A.W. Kinghorn; Portland Naval Base - Roger Fry reviews the eventful history of the Royal Navy's Dorset base now faced with closure; Ships colour Pictorial; Cutty Sark Tall Ships Races 1994; Under Sail - 'Provident'; Sailing the 'Royalist'; Weymouth Harbour in Old PHotographs - photofeature; A Captain and his Ship - Herodd Widding is master of the Nordlys, latest addition to Norway's Hurtigruten fleet; Naval Review; Ports of Call; Large colour photo of the Kruzenshtern inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
36 pages. Index of advertisers inside back cover. Features: Windjammer Days, by Captain C.c. Sainty; Westernmost Lighthouse in the U.S.A., by Eric Wahleen; International Tugboat Races; Princess of Vancouver; Ramblings in Indonesia, by Captain A. Cabot; Weather Observing in Ships, by L.K. McGlening; Ghosts of Old Seaman Behind Stained Glass, by Norman Hacking; Venture Proves Successful - Jervis Inlet Water Taxi Limited; New Freight Carrier Introduces "Pick a Back" System - the M.V. Clifford J. Rogers; New Company - The North Shore Dock & Warehouse Co., Ltd; ; Aerial Views of Harbours - Montreal, Sarnia, Prince Rupert, Port Alberni, Nanaimo, Victoria; Lions Gate Bridge photo taken from south end - with two handwritten names; Pilot's Convention; The Appointment of Captain Lee, by Captain Thomas Gilchrist; Half-page ad for The Black Ball Line; Mere Figureheads, by James E. Carver; M.V. Chinook II; Business is Coming to British Columbia; Sixth International Tugboat Races; They Have Passed On; Pigs and Ships. Writing on front cover. Gift inscription on President's Message page suggests this copy formerly belonged to Captain H. Roach, President of the Guild in 1955. Average wear. A sound copy. A great memento from the earlier days of west coast maritime navigation. Book
66 pages. Features: Ten pages of the best '49-'51 Fords; Firedome Deuce - real haulin' '32 with De Soto power; South American Custom - Custom Kaiser convertible; On-Top, Off-Top, Hardtop - a finned Stude from Chicago; Pint-size hand-built hauler; Bahama Blue Baby - '32 Ford owned by Bob Merriam; De-Chrome your own hood; 1956 records from Bonneville national speed trials and Kansas City national drag races; Conservative Grilles; and more. Above-average wear. Writing on front cover and title page. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
160 pages. Features: Grass silage facts; a shot of nitrogen for your crops?; ten tips to protect your flock; Journeying into America; Top feeders in a fat-cattle state - The Schmidt brothers of Clinton County, Iowa; I saw East Asia's unrest - John Strohm travelled to India, Indo-China and Malaya; Four Corn Belt Neighbors pool labor and equipment - Rusty Peddicord, Mickey Parr, Clint Peddicord, Floyd Long and Ken Peddicord; The way to maintain prosperity; "Swine Courts" control the hogs; Nice color-photo Camel cigarette ad on back cover features Metropolitan Opera Star Nadine Conner; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., with a tinted frontispiece, facsimile title, 11 plates (7 tinted), a folding map, two pedigrees (one folding and one double-page) and 2 tables (one folding and one full-page), small neat signature on front free endpaper; decorative cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES. High quality facsimile of the scarce original edition of 1866.
Features: Is it already too late for the Seventies? - 'our awards for achievement below and far short of the call of duty in the first year of the decade; The members of the Mob - meet the ones who've been weeded out, and you'll worry just as the cops worry - about the ones who are still with us; The Winds of the Sea - Tom and Greg Ryan are maritime fishermen; Suddenly pants are proper - fashion feature; George Eaton of the famous family races Grand Prix cars at 170 mph; Please note 1/3 of page 23 has been clipped out - this probably contained part of the 'you asked us' section; Rogers Chocolates - began when the chocolate bar was only 9 years old - photos and text (piece clipped from one photo); Homer Stephens conducts Canada' largest car auction - Cooksville Auto Auction; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
Features: Everything you wanted always wanted to know about the life of a stewardess... but were too shy to ask; On the Road with Young Canada - Part 2 of Dave Cobb's motorbike ride across Canada; So you think Pierre Trudeau's Doing a Lousy Job? - test your knowledge of the P.M.; The Quarterback's Bodyguards - offensive guards - Bill Danychuk, Jack Abendschan, Ken Sugarman, Roger Scales (Please note: pages 15 and 16 of this article are missing from this copy); Nancy Greene in the Marketplace - she makes $100,000 a year but she only endorses products she believes in; Professor Igor Kusyszyn teaches a course on betting on horse races; Kurt Weber's Roulette system won him $150,000; Our pick of the best Canadian fashions the federal government could find; half-page colour ad for Polaris snowmobiles; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
68 pages. Features: Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Douglas Super DC-8; Vietnam war news; Colonel Chappie James; H. Rap Brown; Prostitutes return to Mid-Town Manhattan; Murder of Haight-Ashbury drug dealers; Time Essay - Corruption in Asia; Dustup at Dong Ha; Poland's Gomulka is not pleased with Israel; Poet Andrei Voznesensky; Revolt in Anguilla; Cool photo of George Harrison and his wife; photo of Jane Fonda and wrens; One-page Lennox ad features photos of Expo 67 pavillions using their equpment; Vitamin D and the Races of Man; Beware the Brown Recluse Spider; Pianist Friedrich Gulda; Self-healing steel; Saratoga Story - Marie Louise Schroeder Hosford Whitney; Conjugal visits at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, MS; Passing of Matthew R. Goodman, Floyd G. Hoard, Frank Callan Norris, William Philip Spratling, Hans Anton Kroll, Josh Bryan Lee, Willard Monroe Kiplinger and Vittoria Valletta; Cover story on yachting; Austin R. Zender of the Peter Paul candy empire; Interesting early article on the need for more computer programmers; Amazing photo of 30-horsepower wheat harvester in Oregon (1880); 4 pages of color photos of farm mechanization; Fashions from Jonathan Logan Inc.; Judy Garland makes her third comeback; Miss Yoko Ona and her 76-minute film of bare British buttocks called 'No. 4'; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
56 pages. Features: Strip-teaser Cupcake Cassidy; Are You a Romantic Match-Maker?; A Canadian Looks at Hiroshima; How to save $300 at the Supermarket; How Horse Trainers Beat the Races - Johnny Starr; Women Hollywood Stars Hate; Tales of Canada's Map-Maker - David Thompson; Murder by Winnipeg's Jilted Gigolo - "Amorous" Albert Victor Westgate; How Sewing Stretches Your Wardrobe; It's Normal to be a bit Neurotic; Connie Stevens - "Hawaiian Eye"; Plight of our Common-Law Wives; August is Sandwich Time; The Forbes Family of Windsor Camps for Fun; Gordon Sinclair hunts for Tiger in India; Fantastic photo of the Ontario Tug-of-War Team of 1893 from Zorra Township which won the world championship at the Chicago World Fair in 1893; and more. Ads: Confederation Life one-page ad showing poverty-stricken man who gambled he wouldn't live to 65; Half-page ad for the CNE; Beautiful young lady in one-page colour-photo ad for Pepsi; Nice one-page photo ad for General Motors in Canada features George Martin fly fishing; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover features young couple on beach being struck by wave. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound and complete copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
Features: Columbia's Victory in the First of the America's Cup Races; Lord Montgomery retires from active service after 50 years in the British Army; Found in Persian Azerbaijan - a unique mannaean golden bowl; The St. Lawrence Seaway Prepares for the Queen's Opening; Pottery of the Unknown Kisalian Culture - Grave Goods from Sanga; Cheltenham College; The Interpol General Assembly Photo; Radar Warning and Control System Installed in H.M.S. Victorious; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Savannah and the Vanderbilt - it took 10 races and 3 years to get this famous race south of the Mason-Dixon Line - major article with great photos; Joseph S. Coates - Perfectionist; No. 1 Dupont Owner - Stanley B. Smith of State College, PA; Twice Burned - Twice Restored - A Steam Saga of true devotion - Bob Bohaty has restored his Locomobile steamer twice; A Rare Six Cylinder Sixty Horsepower White; Automatic Transmission 1905 - Gas Au Lec - the Corwin Manufacturing Company of Peabody, Ma; Roving Reporter's Page; In Duster and Veil; National Winners; Prize-Winning 1924 Model T Station Wagon; Covered Bridge Tour; Tire conversion table for car and motorcycle tire and standard beaded edge car tires; Ford Facts - The Ruckstell Axel; Tips on Restorying; Reworking an EMF Rear End; Who was Victor Page?; Making Patent Leather Fenders; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad salutes Canadian Airways Limited; Shank Proportions of Aircraft Connecting Rods; Construction of Aircraft Fuel Tanks; The Effect of Change of Weight on Airplane Performance; The Value of Weight Saving in Aircraft Design; Notes on Stresses in Metal Covering Under the Action of a Uniformly Distributed Load; Copper Hydrogen Electric Welding; The New Boeing Transport; Pratt & Whitney Two-Row Engine Development; World Aviation; The Servo Control System; Bumps Due to Gusts; A Radio System for Fog Landings; The Debrie Camera; New features of the Macon; New Products; Haskelite ad features prominent illustration of the Boeing 247; Back cover Racon Electric Co. ad includes photo of huge crowd at Cleveland air races last year; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Super cover photo of a Seversky Pursuit in flight; Nice Ethyl Corporation full-page ad recalls Robert Lathan soaring over Baltimore, Maryland in 1910; Great photo ad for BG spark plugs; Guest editorial by M.E. Ashton about Canada's bush airline operators "Looking for Fair Treatment"; Nice full-page ad for Gold Flake cigarettes features a scene in Delhi, India; The Ottawa Airport Opening - photos with article; Lockheed one-page ad; The 1938 John Webster Competitions - article with many photos; Nice one-page photo ad for the De Havilland Albatross; The National Air Races - many photos of faces at Cleveland, Ohio; Stinson ad features their Reliant; Cub Fleet Tours to Hamilton aand Toronto - article with photo of Miss Alma Heflin; Highlights in the Aviation News; Toronto Flying Club has outstanding record; One-page ad for the new 1939 Aeronca "50"; Radio Equipment in the DC-4 - article with photos; Fantastic centrefold ad for Fleet Aircraft features a very large photo of one of their biplanes; Kollsman Instrument Co. full-page ad with photo of their factory; Nice ad for the Barkley-Grow T8P-1 Transport; Nice one-page Brewster ad with photos; Nice Cub ad; Great Junkers ad inside back cover highlights their material inspection laboratory; A New Addition to a Famous Family; A New Pneumatic Ski Pedestal; The Luscombe at Winnipeg; Edo Floats for Bellancas; The New Moth Minor; Luscombes attend Ottawa Airport Opening; Portable ground station by Learadio; News from the West Coast; Tale Spinning from Winnipeg; Fantastic Intava products two-colour ad on back cover features photos of the seaplane "Mercury"; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad salutes Pan American Airways and their 107 airliners; The Moment Distribution Method for Solving Continuous Frameworks; Compound Floating Ailerons; Army Lighter-Than-Air; The Zap Flap; Effect of Controllable Pitch on Airplane Performance; The World's Largest Autogiro - ferries between two Florida country clubs; The Bryce Fuel-Injection Pump; A Radio Transmitter for the Itinerant Flyer; Symposium on Arctic and Winter Flying; Traffic Control at the Alleghany Airport; The Switlik Parachute Chair; Racon Electric Co. photo ad shows crowd at Cleveland Air Races; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 821-864. Features: Gorgeous Arthur Guinness, Son & Co. colour ad inside front cover features Toucan birds illustrated by Lobban; The U.S. Supreme Court; The Coronation Commission's First Meeting, and other royal occasions; Photos of the Silverstone races; The Stricken U.S.S. Wasp limps home - with photos of the 75' gash to her bow where she struck a mine-sweeper-destroyer; Photo of members of the Cho Oyu Expedition, including Mr. Eric Shipton; Stirling Moss is congratulated for a victory; Photo of Stalin holding child; The R.M.S. Gothic in the Captain Cook graving dock in Sydney; The Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli enters Grand Harbour, Malta; Aerial photos of Lake Eyre in South Australia - an inland sea that is fast reverting to a salt desert; Two pages of illustrations depict the recently completed Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, to be opened on May 21; Two pages of illustrations of engineering features of the new waterway, including the world's largest inland lock; Article entitled "Churchill versus Terpitz"; One-page map illustrates the Central African Federation Plan; Centerfold illustration of the City of Bath in the pride of its Roman civilization - Britain's most ancient spa as it was 1800 years ago; Photos of the Duke of Edinburgh in South Wales; Photos of the Queen and other visitors at the British Industries Fair; Photos of the Royal Danish visit to England; Photos of Personalities of the week - including the recently departed Sir Oswald Birley; Photos of Australia's possible atomic test sites; The New Kirkuk-Banias oil pipeline; Photos of amphibious and cliff assaults demonstrated with realism by the Royal Marines; Very tasteful colour-illustrated ad for the Daimler "Regency" inside back cover; Colour Hawker Siddeley Group ad (#5 in a series) on back cover; and more. Centerfold holding by one staple. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 73-112. Features: Cover illustration of Rudyard Kipling - veteran of English letters, Port of Empire, and a master of fiction; Photo of FDR's neutrality declaration; Six photos illustrate widespread havoc left in the wake of recent 90 mph winds, including the wrecked scenic railway at Ramsgate; Two pages of prominent photos document the diamond Jubilee of His Highness the Maharaja Gaekwar - a prince brought from obscurity to rule Baroda; Two pages of photos illustrate the Union Jack flying on the Abyssinian frontier - The Somaliland Camel Corps in British Somaliland; Page of reproductions of paintings hitherto unknown in Tibet - the art of Ajanta; A path along which Buddhism spread from India - page of photos illustrating Signor Tucci's latest expedition to Tibet; Six photos describe modern life and ancient legend in Tibet - a complicated exploration; Five photos of a Bull "Derby" in the island of Madura - Malay cattle breeders who drive their beasts in races; Book review of "Miracles and Adventures", by M. A. St. Clair Stobart; Article on the discovery of oscillating electrical circuits; Page of illustrations explain how electric oscillation is used in wireless and medical work; One page photo portrait of H.R.H. Prince Edward of Kent returning to London from Sandringham; Photo of the latest addition to the German Navy, the "Admiral Graf Von Spee"; Photo of HMS "Apollo"; The Italo-Abyssinian War - six photos; Page of photos of British and French warships in port and at sea; Centrefold aerial photo of Kenilworth Castle; Photo of grand birthday party for general Goering in the Berlin State Opera House; Photo of new high-speed German airliner, the "He.111" adopted by Lufthansa; The abbey's Chatham effigy cleaned - the "Eagle Face" modelled from life by Mrs. Wright; Photos of personalities of the week include Samuel Begg, Hugh Ruttledge, Samuel Rothafel ("Roxy"), Percy Thomas, John Gilbert, the Aga Khan, Malcolm Macdonald, Ramsay MacDonald, coal industry negotiators, and the "retirement" of Yehudi Menuhin at tea with members of his family; Light on the "Dark Age" of the northern Sudan - Nubian tombs containing art relics and signs of slave-sacrifice at a master's burial - remarkable discoveries at Firka; Page of photos of Wilhelm Backhaus in concert; one page Johnnie Walker ad shows three people at bar; Halfpage photo- illustrated ad for the Rover "Fourteen" Streamline Coupe; Colourful Dewar's ad on back cover features flu bugs cowering at sight of man in busy rainy street holding bottle of whisky; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
86 pages. Features: Ad for Verve magazine inside front cover. Human Beings in Traps - article discusses prosperous Hungarian Jews attempting to relocate to America; Interesting article in Hat Check Girls with photo of Abe Ellis, 'Hat Check King'; The Great Die-Off - 'nature's way of regulating the races that can't regulate themselves - applies to men, and war; "Sex-Mad" Psychiatrists lead failed research on inmates at Jackson Penitentiary aka Southern Michigan State University - article with photos; Revival of the Third Psyche - Psychoanalysis is sometimes good for the patient and always good for the analyst; German U-Boat torpedo hits cattleboat Nicosian - but the Germans were never heard from again - death in a ship's furnace; A Measure of Economic Recovery in Brockton, Mass. - article with photo of shoe worker Mrs. Agnes Flannery; The Case for Capitalism; Treachery on the Aragon Front in Spain; Photo of Italian Air Force flying in Swastika formation to honor Hitler's Rome visit; Photo of Wang Ko-min, Chinese chief of Japan's puppet regime in North China; Nice large photos of hat check girls Arlene Stone, Yvette Sossi;Audrey Dee, and Terry Redko. Full-page photo of Abe Ellis; Two large photos of dead killer whales in South Africa as a result of suicide/thinning-out cycle; Full-page photo portrait of Sigmund Freud; One-page photo of Avery Brundage; Fascinating color centerfold illustration depicts Europe with Spain appearing as a gored bull near death; Full-page photo portrait of film producer Reinhold Schunzel, who went to Vienna from Germany; One-page photo of formally dressed Danton Walker and Gertrude Lawrence in New York; One-page photo of Danton Walker with Paul Draper at the El Morocco; Photo of Lucius Beebe with Libby Holman; Other photo subjects include Paul Lyons, Paul Stewart, Kenneth Roberts, Dale Harrison, Louis Sobol, Sam Harris, Mrs. Bugs Baer, Billy Rose, Clifford Odets, Jed Harris, and George Ross of the NEA; Parisian Alderman of the Left - Leon Jouhaux; The International Brigade in Spain; Who Started the Spanish-American War? - did the whole thing result from a miscommunication?; The Rawest Deal in Sports - Amateur Athletes; Local Relief vs. Federal Work; Bow to the Sentry - fascinating article on Japanese censorship of its activities in China; The Trouble Boys - policing illegal gambling in the U.S.; Tale of poverty by a West Virginia coal miner; Article on film censorship states Goebbels controls 4/5 of German film production; Army Bomber burns at Azusa, California; Manhattan Columnists - article with photo of Walter Winchell's office; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear with openings at each end of coverfold. Moderate moisture exposure. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
