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Pages 1413-1444. Many great black and white photos. Features: Youth at the Helm - William Albert Robinson sailed round the world from New York between June 1928 and November 1931 in a ketch only 32 feet 6 inches long (conclusion); Vanishing Coastal Craft - no fewer than 200 distinct types of coastal craft round the shores of Great Britain are rapidly disappearing; Pelagic Whaling - old methods of whaling have been largely superseded by floating factories that can work independently of any land base; The French Navy; Fishery Protection - Britain's Fishery Protection Service; Britain's Passenger Ports - many interesting ports deal with cross-Channel packets which ply regularly to and from Great Britain; The Battle of Tsushima. Moderate wear. Minor markings on page 1444. Three-hole punched. A sound copy. Book
264 pages. Features: Barrack Essentials - life in a shipping container; Barbara Hill's Texas apartment; San Diego couple's 426 sf home; The Higashibata Tokyo home uses the engawa; Aleksandra Kasuba's stretched fabric environments in New Mexico; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Exclusive - For the First Time Anywhere, the Custer Flying Wing!; Rocket Fighter Pt II - Attacking the Bomber Streams; WW II's Pacific Graveyards; The Lightning in North Africa and Compressibility at 30,000 feet; Outlandish Winged wonders. Art: Lockheed P-38H; Lockheed F-5B; Messerschmitt 163S & 263; Kawanishi H8K 2 "Emily"; Mitsubishi G4M1 "Betty"; Vought F4U Corsair Book
170 pages. Features: Lisa Steinberg is killed by her father, Joel Steinberg, who also beat his partner, Hedda Nussbaum - sad photos and story. Celebrity-studded opening of the Malibu Adobe eatery in Malibu; Charles and Di in Germany; 40th Anniversary of the King and Queen; Don Cappelletti sells his 90-foot-high home in Marshfield, MA; Jason Miller tests the new weather in Scranton; Donald Woods still seeking justice for Stephen Biko in the film Cry Freedom; Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher; Jonathan Butler of South Africa; Sam Lopata - clown prince of restaurant designers; Moon Pies; Lottery winner Michael Wittkowski - won $40 million in the Illinois state lottery in 1984; Auto Racer Jim Fitzgerald killed in wreck; The New Politics of Pot; Tania Aebi - around the world in 29 months by sailboat; Don Johnson and Sheena Easton announce their TV engagement and hope for a big reception; Poster artist Robbie Conal; Robert W. Duck; Designer Mary Ann Restivo; Staci Keanan of TV's My Two Dads; Marine Corps says good-bye to Charles Russell, its last active-duty WWII combat vet; Siedah Garrett. Average wear. Unmarked. One-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover. A sound copy. Magazine
208 pages including glossary. "Describes clinker and cold-moulded construction methods for sailing, rowing or powered boats up to 20 feet in length. Covers every stage in the process from preparation, tools, materials, plans, keel structure, planking, frames, centreboards and decks to finishing off the hull, masts and oars. Includes specifications for 3 clinker boats which can be built at home by the amateur." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with minimal wear and some foxing to top edge. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Book
72 pages. Songs include: Any Way You Want It; Baby Don't Go; Back on My Feet Again; Computer Game; Fire in the Morning; How Do I Make You; I Pledge My Love; I Shoulda Loved Ya; I Thank You; I Wish I Was Eighteen Again; Lost in Love; Off the Wall; Outside My Window; Refugee; Rock With You; Set Me Free; Us and Love; Where Does the Lovein' Go; With You I'm Born Again; Years. Above-average but not excessive wear. A sound working copy of this great compilation. Book
86 pages. Features: Golden rails of the Pacific Coast - a visit to Del Oro Pacific's Modular Layout; A Spectrum of Standards; The South Pacific Coast in 4 by 8 feet - Gary Broader's "Finescale" Module; One-On-One - Model Die Casting's Two Bay Hopper; Landscapes - alpine gardening; Scratchbuild a wood freight platform - every layout needs at least one; Bachmann Coach/Combine Kits; Ask Mr. Micro; Handlaying Track and Building Roadbed; Track car set offs; Keep it Simple. Clean with light wear. A nice copy. Book
134 pages. Features: Vogue's Eye View - This is it; Fall Forecast - real-life fashion - the velvet blazer as a suit, as separates; the fur-trimmed coat, the caped coat, belted and swingy; Dressing in layers - with a rolling suede cape, rolled up pants, leotards and little skirts; The new pants suits in mixed patterns; the little knit dress; the black knit dinner suit; the black velvet smoking; Chubbies - new fizz for evening in fur, in feathers; Silvana Mangano; Forecast for legs and feet - the shoes, boots, and stockings to wear with the new fall clothes; Vogue Patterns - You did this yourself? - suit looks for day and evening - and the fabrics to make them in; Clothes to knit and crochet; Gayelord Hauser - "For My Toast I Want Butter"; Motivate Yourself; How do you wear your hair in the blazer life?; The new real-life hair colourings; Working with your hands, by Arnold A. Hutschnecker, M.D.; Country House near London for Prince and Princess Stanislas Radziwill; Horoscope for Maria Elise Crummere; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Spine taped. Covers missing A worthy reading copy. Book
117 pages. Average wear. Price sticker upon back cover. Illustrated covers. Undated. Chapters include: Disqualifying the Author; Why Dont You; Why Don't You Live Like Us?; Why Don't You Develop, Produce, DO Something with it?; Why Don't You - stand on your own feet?; Why Don't You - get ahead? Why Don't You - move into civilization; The Comfortable Canadian Hypocrisy; What Can We Do? The Church. Book
257 pages. Author's inscription upon title page. Biography of a survivor of World War II. "As I bailed out of the side of the aircraft, I counted to five to make sure I was clear of the plane. Then I pulled the ripcord and in about two seconds there was a terrific slap on both sides of my face as the shoot straps hit me. At the same time, there was a terrific jolt as the shoot slowed my descent.... before I knew anything else, I crashed through some trees and came to a halt in pitch darkness.... I finally realized that my feet were not on the ground." Decent reading copy. Book
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
64 pages. Includes desert pancakes, fritters, crepes, cream rolls, cookies, dumplings, puddings, pastries and pies, cakes. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
60 pages. Adventures of the author. Undated. Possibly a reprint of the 1952 edition. - circa 1960? Book
135 pages including index. A cute little honey cookbook with sections devoted to: breakfast, beverages, breads, salads and dressings, meats and vegetables, cakes, pies, cookies, desserts and canning with honey. Gift Greetings upon half-title page, else unmarked. Price sticker remains upon front cover. Average wear. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: Patent Medicine Horror - Their manufacturers recognized the appeal of the morbid to the American Public - great article with vintage morbid ads; Ants Interred - a Garry Owen Strengthening Bitters tale; Political Trade Cards - buying the votes and selling the goods - great vintage ads; Jar Talk; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - tinder boxes and other items which predate the modern friction match; Expo '92; Auction Directory; The Label Space - picked Pigs Feet Bottles, and other bottles probably marketed through the Sears-Roebuck catalog; Up-Dates; Dispensing Tablets - Ben and Miriam Glassman examine their newly acquired poison bottles; Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: What's in a cave?; Painting with pesticides - the controversial organotin paints; Stars with thousands of feet (star fish); The see-through salp; Lighthouse reef - a Caribbean atoll; Coralline algae - pink plants of fhe seafloor; Oceanography on stamps - the Christmas Island Phosphate Company. Sound copy. Book
Features: The 8th Air Force's Greatest Day - Fighting the Luftwaffe at 30,000 feet; Was the Bearcat WW II's finest piston engined fighter?; Dolphin and Snipe - the later day Sopwiths; HItting Mach 3.0 in the Bell X-2 Part II. Art: The Great Air Battle of Jan. 14, 1945; Grumman F8F-1 & F8f-2; Grumman F8F-2 & F8F-1. Please note: water-induced rippling to covers and pages. Book
128 pages. "Paints a fascinating portrait of this ingenious branch of architecture. Provides a brief history of treehouses, from Caligula through the Medici to Queen Victoria. Shows how to design and build a treehouse, from picking the right tree to shingling the roof. Tells stories of dozens of treehouses and the people who built them, from simple platforms to arboreal palaces lived in by adults. The centrepiece of the book is a photo essay of a spectacular octagonal treehouse thirty feet up an old-growth fir on Saltspring Island in British Columbia." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Reading copy only. Very rough condition... as befits a very popular former library copy. Covers detached from contents, but present. Book
198 pages. Author's nice inscription, rubber stamp and signature upon front flyleaf. Rather than a travelogue, this is an attempt to see events in China through author's own eyes and to interpret some of its history through personal experience... "The story of someone who has had a love affair with China." - from back cover. A very personal account of author's involvement with the three modern eras of Chinese history: the last days of the Ching dynasty, the republican years, and the years since the Communist Revolution. Author was born in Hong Kong in 1909. Includes black and white illustrations plus a special slip laid in which depicts the actual size of a shoe worn by women with bound feet. Minimal wear. No markings. Attractive glossy illustrated covers. Book
162 pages. Index. Illustrations. A family self-care guide for relieving common foot problems. Prior owner's name atop half-title page else clean and bright with light wear. Nice copy. Book
232 pages including index. Over 130 Low-Fat and Fat-Free Recipes for Scrumptious and Simple-to-Make Cakes, Cookies, Brownies, Muffins, Pies, Breads, Plus Many Other Tasty Goodies. Unmarked. Minimal wear. Giftable. Book
128 pages. A systematic course of instruction, it guides you from the basic steps - skating forwars, skating backward - through to the most advanced techniques such as double flip and triple Salchow. Complemented by over 30 full colour figure illustrations. Diagrams showing correct positioning of the feet accompany each illustration. Includes photos of today's stars. Excellent reference. Usual library markings. Average wear. Solid copy. Book
247 pages with b&w illustrations with movement lines on nearly every page. Chapters include Fists, palms, hooks and claws, Leg snapping (cutting and smashing, two feet kick, patting and locking ), Strength boxing, Hand to hand fight boxing, etc. Text is in Chinese and English.
Book shows light wear to covers. pages age-toned. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is mostly clean and free of marking, occasionally black pages have written notes, prev. owner's name at front. 133 pages. Contents include: Determination of the diameters of standing trees, the Heights of standing trees, Construction of a dendrometer, Construction of a Hypsometer, Collention of data, Log rules, Preliminary calculations, Determination of the merchantable contents in board feet of felled trees, ..of the total cubic contents, Field studies, Office studies, etc.
AA.VV. (Antinoro, Alfredo - Amaducci, Giovanni - Bonello, Valter - Calvo, Emanuela - Camoglio, Giancarlo - De Ambrogio, Dario - Della Mora, Dario - Della Mora, Feliciano - Diciotti, Fabrizio - Ferro, Renato - Gazzola, Franco - Lanza, Elisa - Luongo, Marina - Marnetto, Mauro - Monzeglio, Gabriella - Pes, Daniela - Prodam Tich, Silvia - Riccardi, Omar - Vigo, Carlo) la Collina torinese. Quattro passi tra storia, arte e archeologia: le immagini e i testi della mostra. Torino, Gruppo Archeologico Torinese-GAT (Via Bazzi 2) - tipolitografia Coire (Stampa) 1998 italian, in quarto pp. 48 I ed.. Catalogo della mostra del Gruppo Archeologico Torinese - GAT (Via Bazzi, 2 - Torino) 1998. IV/48/brossura in cartoncino ruvido avorio (Grafica a cura del Gruppo Archeologico Torinese). Illustrazioni seppia. Stato buono (copertina leggermente polverosa).
