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Stories: The Great Porcupine Fire; Asking for Trouble; Singing Our Way Through Europe; Feats of Indian Fakirs; The Wyoming Outlaw; Worms that have Turned; Our Township; The Road-Makers; A Californian Lion Farm; Vanished Ivory; Pieces of Eight; Bird of Bad Luck; Two Collisions. Average wear. Book
Features: The first transatlantic jet airliner service; Princess Margaret's informal visit to Belgium; Regimental Fire; H.M.S. Leopard Commissioned at Portsmouth; Rugby School; Labour Party Conference at Scarborough; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
94 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with high-quality reproductions of wonderful archival photos. Topics include: The Great Vancouver Fire, June 13, 1886; Vancouver is Named; Photos of massive trees; Clearing the C.P.R. Townsite; Vancouver Becomes a City, 6 April 1886; First Meeting of City Council; The First Morgue; Discover of the Source of Capilano Creek; Conversation With A.P. Horne; Unveiling of the Capilano Dam and Capilano Lake. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this highly informative and superbly illustrated issue. Lowther 2057, Hale 12375. Book
Cover portrait of Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who has entered the Cabinet as Minister of Blockade and Contraband. Feature: The Clash of Teutonic and Anglo-Celtic Interests in the United States. The Germanic Conspiracy against the United States. Photos re: German Lieutenant Robert Fay, in the U.S. Photos of American munitions factories destroyed in the name of Kaiserism. Photos of a motor convoy transporting $52 million from the Bank of England to Wall Street. Photos of the Royal Flying Corps in training. Portrait photo of Lieut.-General Sir E.H.H. Allenby. Centerfold photos of the U.S. Destroyers Benham and Parker (trailed by immense clouds of black smoke!). Photos of Canada's burning Parliament building - captions says fire was started by German incendiary bombs (if true, this history has been suppressed in Canada). Three photos of Viscount French of Ypres inspecting men of his home command. Covers secured by tape. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
in-4 (mm 200x150), pp.4. Le prime due pp. comprendono la Sentenza di Morte proclamata in seguito all'omicidio del brigadiere dei Carabinieri Antonio Sparapani e del soldato svizzero Carlo Adolf, per opera di Bagioli Giacomo, anni 29, pescivendolo; Casadio Francesco, anni 26, sartore; Baldoni GIovanni, anni 18, garzone macellaro. Seguono 2 pp. con la "Relazione di uno Spaventevole Incendio" accorso a Tolone il 2 agosto. "....gli abitanti dele case vicine gettavano i loro mobili nelle strade, sebbene queste case si trovino ad una assai grande distanza dal centro dell'incendio, il calore era si forte che le persone son tutte calcinate". . .
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Cover illustrations of playing cards (c.1800); Connecticut Chest-on-Chest (c.1780) - frontispiece; Playing Cards for Kings and Kibitzers; Who Trained David Rittenhouse?; American and English Chairs - A Pictorial Demonstration; Early American Papermaking - from Wasp to Watermark; The Hornbook for Collectors - The ABC's of American Pottery; Antiques in Domestic Settings - Conner Prairie Farm, a Historic Indiana Farmstead restored by Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly; Antiques and Business - An Antiques Collection Influences a Business Policy; Christie's of London - Gutted by fire in April 1941 - article with photos; An Auction Note From England; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 109-164. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers nearly detached. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
116 pages. Fiction: The Second Mrs. Thorpe; The Mysterious Mr. Todd; The Lady Called Brazil; Tornado!; Ambush at Blanco Canyon (part 2 of 4); The Girl From the Mimosa Club (parf 4 of 7); The conclusiong of Doom Cliff. Articles: What Happened to the Magic of Childhood? - They are missing the aimless days we used to know; Alan Ladd - Hollywood's Unlikely Hero - with several photos including Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe; The Secrets of Jamestown - extraordinary treasures unearthed during restoration for 350th birthday; How the Israelis Blitzed Nasser's Army - article with photos of Dayan and his men, and other scenes; We Made the "Impossible" Tour - Conclusion - The Land of Fire - three agonizing miles of travel in southern Argentina; The Face of America - Great color photo inside caboose; Incredible New Frontier - Kitimat, British Columbia. Ads: Nostalgic two-page Inco ad explains their developments in the Mystery-Moak Lakes area of northern Manitoba (perhaps the site of modern-day Thompson?); Nice color one-page ad for Heinz Campside beans; Nice two-page photo ad for General Motors highlights Keene, New Hampshire, home of Kingsbury Machine Tool Corporation - with photos of Mayor J. Alfred Dennis, H.T. Kingsbury, Chester L. Kingsbury, Gunnar Swahnberg, Ed Kingsbury, Earl Riley, Jim Riley, and Blair Howe; Nice two-page ad for Westinghouse TVs; Whitman's Chocolates; Campbell's Soup; Fantastic two-page Cadillac ad displays a red Sedan de Ville four-door hartdop; Tareyton; Pontiac; De Soto cars - nice color photo; American Airlines - two-pages in color; 1957 Mercury cars with great color image of a red Colony Park station wagon with new power-lift back window; Cushman Eagle mini-bike; Detroit Diesel - quarry scene in color; Frigidaire clothes washers; Canada tourism; GMC Trucks - the 860 Diesel; Chief Engineer Roebling, the man behind the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, is honored in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Great vintage National Cash Register (NCR) ad inside back cover - their new register calculates change!. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Frontispiece engraving by Edward Savage entitled 'Liberty and the American Eagle'; Milestones; Trends in Collecting; The Integrity of the Antique; What Would I Save in Case of Fire?; Is There an American Design?; Craftsmen at War; Decorating with Antiques; John Janvier - Delaware Cabinetmaker; An Antique Dealer's Yesterdays; The Ornamentation of Silver - A Pictorial Demonstration; William Mount - Long Island Genre Artist; A Rare Engraving by Kensett Identified; Antiques in Domestic Settings - 'Shandy Hall' in the Western Reserve; The Springfield Rifle of the Civil War; Firing Glasses - American (?); and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. 96 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
50 pages. Features: Should Husbands and Wives Take Separate Holidays?; New Hope for High Blood Pressure - the Rice Diet; Dr. Harold Taylor - photo-illustrated article on the young President of Sarah Lawrence College; Little Audrey - great photo-illustrated article on actress Audrey Totter; Do You Want to Run a Resort?; Rides That Thrill - and Sometimes Kill - a look at amusement park rides; Movie reviews - including 11 photos; Dinah Shore's favourite laugh; Why a Golf Ball has Dimples. Stories: Forty Words; Animal Crackers for Breakfast. Condensed Book: The Border Lord (part 2 of 2). Ads: Colour Carling's ad insdie front cover urges forest fire prevention; Nice photo ad for movie 'Dear Ruth'; Lysol - for feminine hygeine(?); Colgate dental cream; Vaseline Hair Tonic; Johnson Sea-Horse Outboard Motors; O'Keefe's colour ad on back cover features map of Alberta. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound and pleasing vintage copy. Book
160 pages. Numerous great colour illustrations and statistics. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Please note: mild waviness to pages, presumably due to past moisture exposure. No stains or odours. Book
Signed by author upon title page. 215 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. "In this book I have told some of the stories of life in Northern Ontario, of its people, and their struggles to change a wilderness into a happy land." - page 3. Gift greetings atop title page, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative local history. [Bishop p.1095] Book
164 pages. Bibliography. Index. Appendices. Abundantly illustrated with archival black and white illustrations. Chapters include: The Bucket Brigade; Volunteer Firemen; The Waterworks; Professional Firemen; Changing Traditions; Depression Years; Wartime Fire Department; Post-War Growth; Out with the Old; Modern Fire Fighters. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A quality copy. Book
254 pages plus several appendices. Glossy illustrated covers. Signed and numbered by author upon front free endpaper. "A tribute to the men and women who have proudly and honourably served Canada in the Fire Service... Gathers for the first time a comprehensive account of the Fire Service's legacy and accomplishments. Embarrassments, humorous tales and outstanding achievements by both fire crews and individual firefighters are recounted. Approximately 200 visuals accompany the text." - from back cover. Minimal library markings. Light wear. A quality copy. Book
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original publisher's binding of pictorial blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and black, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, expertly recased, backstrips faded (but all gilt wholly legible), else a good, clean set. First appearance of twelve short stories of 'the grotesque and the terrible', comprising: The Story of the Beetle Hunter; The Story of the Man with the Watches; The Story of the Lost Special; The Story of the Sealed Room; The Story of the Black Doctor; The Story of the Club-Footed Grocer; The Story of the Brazilian Cat; The Story of the Japanned Box; The Story of the Jew's Breast-Plate; The Story of B.24; The Story of the Latin Tutor; The Story of the Brown Hand. The tales were collected and published (together with five later stories) as Round the Fire Stories in 1908. VERY SCARCE. Green & Gibson, p.151-152.
76 pages. Features: John L. Lewis vs. the People - the man who ran the coal mines in wartime says the U.S. must break the power monopoly of John L. Lewis; Look Out when you Eat Out; What to do in a Fire; Hundred-Year Harvest - Farmers in 72 lands use Massy-Harris equipment; Elizabeth and Philip - Close-up of a Royal Romance; Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh; The Nahanni Valley. Nice colour ads for: The Banff Springs Hotel; Campbell's Vegetable Soup; Stetson Hats; Canada Dry; SOS Pads; Nabisco Shredded Wheat; Maxwell House Coffee; Kellogg's Corn Flakes; Good Year Tires; Carling Breweries; Studebaker automobiles. Average wear. Covers partially detached. A worthy copy of this very nostalgic issue. Book
68 pages. 17" x 11". Index. Reprint of The Apostolic Faith (1906 - 08) which was originally printed in Los Angeles and edited by William J. Seymour. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Cycling Round the World - Part I - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years travelling over 20,000 miles on his own!; Akimaldo's Great Idea - A story which proves West Africans have a sense of humour "even if in a somewhat perverted form"; The Girl Stowaway of the 'Cecilie' - Part I - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; The "Teak-Wallahs" of Northern Siam - A fascinating photo-illustrated look at the teak industry of northern Siam; Two Men and a Donkey - Part III - The adventures of two young artists walking from the South of France to Spain; Europeans Walk Through Fire! - An amazing photo-illustrated account of two Europeans who traversed white-hot coals barefoot with Hindu devotees, emerging apparently unscathed!; Hide-and-Seek With a Lion - A rare time when a can opener saved a life; All in the Day's Work - J.A. Browne, a policeman at Antler, Manitoba, heads out to gather a tough character - with photo of Browne; The Secret Pass - "Slippery" Wiley continues his misdeeds in the West Australia goldfields; The Yok San Mystery - Ning Wo solves another puzzling mystery in the Malay States; The Avenger of Blood - A curious case of Eskimo blood-vengeance from Alaska; "The Land of Opportunity" - Part II - Arthur W. Upfield provides readers with an idea of what lies in store if they elect to 'try their luck' in Australia, with photos; An African Man-Hunt - E.E. Stuart-Reid chased a rogue native constable of the Northern Rhodesia Police through the forest for three weeks; 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Square inch of loss to upper corner of front cover. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of the King and Duke of Kent welcomning U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant to England; Illustration of Don Alfonso De Bourbon of Hapsburg who died in Rome on February 28th; Seven photos of Mogadishi, capital of Italian Somaliland, captured by General Cunningham; Four pages of excellent photos show R.A.F. gunners undergoing intensive training; Page of photos of Turkey's dauntless leaders - Ismet Ineunu, Dr. Refik Saydam, and Bay Sukru Sarajoglu; Map-illustrated article entitled "The Germans in the Mediterranean"; Two pages of illustrations of the men and machines of the Turkish Air Force which confront the Axis menace; Two pages of photos illustrate the emancipation of Turkish women - shown are a judge, politician, professor, artists, and more; Centerfold illustration shows torpedoed ship with devastating damage in drydock for repairs (please note: significant coffee stains to this illustration); Full-page photo of British infantryman in Libya in full battle gear; Full-page photo of Fully-armed Greek infantryman on the Albanian front; Two-page illustration of R.A.S.C. men drawing rations in a typical skilfully concealed distribution centre; Photos of bomb damaged S. Mary's Church in Swansea; Photo of massive 1.75 ton unexploded Nazi bomb recovered from East Anglia; Photo of devastating R.A.F bomb damage to German rail marshalling yard; Photos of personalities of the week include G.W. Rendel, M. Filoff, M.N. Momtchiloff, M. De Vleeschauwer with General Cunningham, Mrs. Rex Benson with Air Marshal Portal, Joseph Kennedy giving evidence on the Lease-and-Lend bill in Washington, L. Von A. De La Periere, Dr. J. Rendel Harris, and the Rev. Eric S. Loveday; Two pages of photos of Lifeboatmen - always on duty defying the seas and Nazi bombers; Illustrated instructions how to personally deal with fire bombs; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
636pp. avec quelques gravures dans le texte + 9 planches dépliantes hors-texte, 2e édition, 25cm., brochure originale (dos peu restauré, bien protégée apr une couverture supplémentaire e papier cristal), texte frais (sans rousseurs), rare, poids: 1.3kg., V81259
Pages 482-576 + 30 pages of ads. Features: The "Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - article with photos; The Wreck of the 'County of Anglesea' - fight for the life of a capsized ship; Wanderings in Northern Persia - II - article with first-ever published photos of Kelat-i-Nadiri, the Gibraltar of Persia, and many other photos; A Fiery Ordeal - surviving a 1904 volcano on Mount Kloet on the island of Java; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth, part VII; From Job to Job Around the World, Part II - fantastic travelogue of two young Americans in Japan and Korea with wonderful photos; The Saving Shadow - Rev. Wm. F. Rigge of the Creighton University Observatory uses shadows to help acquit a man facing serious charges; A Motor-Boat in Mexico - the villagers had never seen anything like it;; The Marchwood Ghost Mystery - A Highland Regiment soldier committed suicide in 1885 and his ghost was supposed to haunt the sentry's beat;;"The Heathen Chinee" - principally concerned with the Chinaman's attitude towards railways - also tells some quaint stories about the 'spirits of wind and water' which rule his actions during and after his life - article with great photos, especially all the Chinese aboard a Shanghai-Nanking Railway engine they had fled only a week before; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Second edition, with addition of 'many new and beautiful Fire-Works', 8vo (206 x 116 mm), xxvi, 262, [2]pp., with the final errata leaf and list of subscribers, turn-ins slightly offset onto title, 8 folding engraved plates, cont. calf, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a very nice clean copy. A reissue, with a cancel title page, of the original edition of 1765 which was "remarkable as it is the first book dealing exlusively with recreational fireworks in English since Babington's classic work of 1655." This reissue has pages 253-255 have been excised from the original with the additional 11 pages from 253 to 262 describing the set-pieces depicted on the extra 3 plates. Provenance: Early armorial bookplate of Philip Earl Stanhope; From the library Military Library of Thomas Francis Fremantle (3rd Lord Cottesloe). Philip, A Bibliography of Firework Books, J020.2.
