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Staple-bound, 8 1/4"w x 10 3/4"h, 48 page publication. Worn cover. Many b&w photos and illustrations. No date shown; circa 1970.
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).
Mm 150x210 Collana "Saggi e documenti dei popoli nuovi" - Brossura originale con bandelle, 195 pagine. Copia ottima, poco o nulla consultata.
20 pages. Features: Getting Wound Up for Christmas; New Evidence in the Case of the Crown vs. Gun-an-noot - article with photos; Not the Average Our Gang Comedy - interesting children from across Canada; Sweeping Them Off Their Feet - Lou Sendel is the best ballroom dancer in Canada; Doug Wright's Family cartoon; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
32 pages. Features: Amazing one-page photo of Fred Einarson working 100 feet above Fisherman's Cove as he repars a cable to Eagle Island; Nice Aerial photo of downtown Vancouver looking from the south-southwest; Six photos of Kamloops staff at work; Photos of installation of New Westminster automatic equipment; Photos of company services being used inside Vancouver's new Public Safety Building; Photos of Cranbrook Staff - at work and at their public ball!; Photos relating to the installation of new automatic equipment for Cloverdale; Photos of dancing and skating employees; Photo of Fred (Mickey) Sharp who helped police capture bank robbers; 1954 Annual Report Highlights; Record expansion this year; Short article on pay phones; Retirees; In Memoriam - Frank C. Paterson and Robert B. Smith; social news; and much more. Lower corner of covers and pages bumped/worn, otherwise average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Includes desert pancakes, fritters, crepes, cream rolls, cookies, dumplings, puddings, pastries and pies, cakes. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
347 pages. "Surely one of the most dramatic human adventures of our time is this amazing escape story of a German prisoner of war, sentenced to twenty-five years of forced labor in a Siberian mine. Rebelling against the brutal life of a Soviet prison camp, Clemens Forell undertook three years of lonely, fear-haunted flight across the endless wastes of Siberia - in pursuit of freedom." - from dust jacket. Average wear to unmarked book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy mylar cover. A sound copy. Book
Pages 161-196 plus 4 pages of ads. Features: Cover photo of the Eiger, where Barry Brewster lost his life, plus text and more photos; Russian dock collides with the South Goodwin lightship; Photo of Simon Paterson coming ashore after swimming the English Channel underwater in just under 14 hours; Photo of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the pro--fascist union movement, being knocked to the ground by demonstrators in Manchester on July 29; Four photos of the Queen at Plymouth and Dartmouth; Indian forces attack Chinese post in Ladakh - article with photo; Photo of Egyptian tank and Conquerer rocket; Major Michael Banks, Lieut. Hugh Wiltshire, and John Hinde successfully climb Mount McKinley; Major E. J. E. Mills and Capt. M. R. Jones are killed 5000 feet from the summit of Khingyang Chish in the Himalayas; Photo of new French bathyscaphe, L'Archimede, which successfully plunged to a depth of 31,350 feet on July 15; Photo of First Lady Mrs. Kennedy and Col. John Glenn waterskiing near Hyannis Port Massachusetts, Photo of Russian high jumper Valeriy Brumel setting world record of 7'5" at Stanford on July 22; America's Cup sailing photos, Aerial photo of devastation caused by exploding propane truck at Berlin, New York; Honolulu crash scene photo where 27 people died when a Britannia airliner crashed while landing; Photo of triple-hulled airship under construction at Trenton, New Jersey; Two photos of NASA's "Project Apollo"; Review of "Red Plush and Black Velvet", by Joseph Wechsberg - Dame Nellie Melba was Australia's queen of song; Two pages of illustrations show how the USA proposes to land two men on the moon in a few years; Two pages of photos of the new Chelsea barracks; Fantastic centrefold aerial photo of a packed Los Angeles Dodgers baseball stadium surrounded by many acres of cars; Four illustrations of the threatened monuments of Nubia; Photos of historic English buildings to be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere; Photos of personalities of the week include Richard Aldington, Sir Burke Trend, Sir Laurence Hellsby, W. Armstrong, the Very Rev. M. M. Gibbs, Mr. C. Dearrsley, Aelred Watkin, Lord Freyberg, V. C., Major E. J. E. Mills, Capt. M. R. Jones, Mr. J. Mannings, Mr. J. T. Molony, the Duke of Norfork, The Right Honourable T. Rinfret, P. C.; Page of photos of horses and riders at the Royal International Horse Show; One-page photo of Miss Pat's Smythe riding Flanagan at the White City; Three photos of Bubbles, the 14 foot black pilot whale at Marineland, California, performing her tricks; Beautiful one-page aerial photo of the Colossus of Chiba, Kwannon, the Japanese goddess of mercy, standing 170 feet tall; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Pages: 245-280. Features: Cover photo of Sir Anthony Eden preparing to address the nation about the Suez crisis; Nice one-page Sunbeam car ad; Lovely colour Guinness ad inside front cover features the gramophone; Photos from Egypt re. the Suez Crisis, including Nasser; The Suez Crisis -two pages of photos and text of British troop movements and preparations, evacuees from Egypt and French warships at Toulon; The G.I.G.S. Conference at Camberley; Dr. Musaddeq released from prison; Photos of the Queen in Iona - first monarch to visit for 900 years; One-page photo portrait of Princess Anne; Steeple of Milwaukee Lutheran Church being lifted by crane; Great centerfold photo entitiled "Scene of Departure" shows British paratroopers of the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade Group waiting dockside before going on board the 'Theseus' enroute to Suez; The Temple at Nippur, the ancient holy city of Sumeria and Babylonia; Photos of seventeen personalities of the week, including Dr. Harold E. Wynn, Sprinter Mrs. J.F. Paul, 100m record breakers Pte. I. Murchison and Pte. W. Williams, Sir W. Paterson, Pablo Picasso at bullfight and King Idris of Libya with President Bayar of Turkey; Columbia dynamite disaster at Cali - 1,000 dead; Belgian mine disaster shocks the world - five photos - 276 miners trapped 3,000 feet underground; Photos of 50 conductors and artists performing at the tenth Edinburgh International Festival; Nice colour-photo Brooke Bond ad inside back cover features Major and Mrs. George Delaval Astley and their two children; Back cover features nice colour photo ad for B.O.A.C. with Stewardess offering delicacies to well-dressed passengers; and more. Average wear. Minor bit of moisture exposure to fore-edge. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 969-1012. Features: Great colour ad for Standard Triumph (cars) features Christmas church bell-ringers; Cover photo of the Queen with the leaders of the Commonwealth; Nice one-page Rolex ad features woodcut illustration of a gardener by Eric Fraser; Photo of the Scottish Court of Chivalry; Nice one-page photo of the summit of Everest 8,000 feet above the recent Swiss expedition, plus four other great half-page photos of the expedition; Interesting photos of the home fleet's arctic cruise - testing protective clothing in the far north; Two pages of photos of miniature Queens from the Lilian Lunn doll collection; National Service Under review; First stamps of Elizabeth's reign; The Duchess of Kent's return; Colour centerfold illustration of the historic gems now in the regalia of British sovereigns; Three colour-photos of the people and homes of the North Cameroons - the Fali, a mountain people who believe humans were first taught knowledge by a toad; Nice one-page series of illustrations show how diamonds are processed at a large Amsterdam works; Malayan Navy photos; photo of a German WWII two-man submarine with torpedoe still attached - found near Alkmaar, 20 miles from Amsterdam; Fresh masterpieces discovered in the palace of the Byzantine Emperors; Food, Bacteria and Farming; Two half-page photos illustrate the siege of Na-Sam, the fortified airstrip in northwest indo-china in which 10,000 to 15,000 French Union troops faced three communist divisions; Photos of personalities of the week, including figure skater Miss V. Osborn and Cicely Hamilton who passed away on December 6th; Photo of the Shah of Iran and Queen Soraya touring the Abadan refinery; Photo of Jomo Kenyatta at Kapenguria in handcuffs; Photo of the recent Swiss Everest team; Photo of the remains of the native township of Albertynsville, near Johannesburg; Photo of a huge underground nazi WWII petrol storage tank; Charming full-colour ad for Meltis' New Berry Fruits candies inside back cover; Nice colour Johnnie Walker ad on back cover features Christmas/New Year theme; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
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
18 [ads], 313-374 pages. Features: A Diver Down a Gold Mine - an Italian worker stranded 1,000 feet down a flooded Australian mine is saved by deep-sea divers; The Forgotten Islands - The Chathams; A Tasmanian Robinson Crusoe - In 1904 the British barque Brier Holme went down and the only survivor lived three months on an uninhabited island; The Green Scarab; The Thief-Catcher - a holy man in India; Money to Burn - experiences while left in charge of a Transvaal farm; The Woman Who Walked to Siberia - Lillian Alling; Smugglers All; On the Edge of the World - final installment of Richard Brenton's adventures in Tierra del Fuego; Coin counterfeiters in Tanganyika; The Taking of Ventotene - a naval story in the Drake tradition; The Jinx - a man brings bad luck to others but escapes unscathed; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Sm. 4to., with coloured photographic title and numerous fine coloured photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, gold endpapers, silk marker, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
62 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle of young boy in horse-drawn cart; Brooke Claxton - The Cabinet Minister Who Never Sleeps; Troubles of a Royal Dress Designer - Hardy Amies; Victor - headwaiter at Montreal's famous Normandie Room; Angel (fiction by Albert Lefevre); The Strike That Terrified All Canada - Winnipeg's General Strike and Bloody Sunday, June 21, 1919; North America's Oldest Boomtown - St. John's, Newfoundland; The Biggest Twins in History - Jack and Leo Leavy of Vancouver are 6 feet 10 inches tall and weigh 300lb; The Caterpillars are Coming - major enemy of forests; Uncommon one-page colour ad for BA and their 88 & 98 gasolines with illustration of car racing up mountain past eagle's next; Fantastic "Vancouverites Map of Canada" by Len Norris radically emphasizes B.C. whilst Toronto is not even mentioned; Nice colour-photo vintage ad for Snyder's Dynavista sectional furniture; Uncommon Molson's ad includes only illustrated home-improvement tips by Tom Gard; Nice colour-illustrated one-page Chevrolet ad shows the 1952 Styleline De Luxe 4-Door; Half-page Bank of Toronto ad with photo of welder; Nice colour Aylmer canned peas ad; Austin A-40 one-page two-colour ad; Nostalgic one-page colour Tex-made fabric ad shows three well-dressed ladies; Half-page colour ad for Valentine shoes for men; One-page colour ad for Ford cars; One-page colour REO truck ad shows truck hauling head of the Sphinx!; Colour 2/3-page ad for Johns-Manville Lifetime asbestos roofing shingles shows blowtorch trying to burn roof; One-page colour Massey-Harris ad explains how 84 million baby chicks must be fed in Canada each year; Half-page colour ad for Champion spark plugs features sports car maker Briggs S. Cunningham; One-page colour ad for the 1952 Studebaker Starliner (teale Commander V-8 Starliner) inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A very nice vintage copy. Book
Features: A Man Called Shep; The Kiowa Raiders of Rainy Mountain - great photos; Bill Hickok's Friends; There's still Gold in Oregon; The Mystery of Pranty Wash - Gila County, Arizona; Charley Smith (1856-1882) Still Wears his Six-Gun - a ranger and the outlaw who killed him; Bloodshed in Kansas - Hugoton and Woodsdale were at war ninety years ago; Amanda Alberta, aka 'Cowboy Joe'; A Matter of Survival - 150 feet and four days of hell; The Wild West that Flickered - not all the action in a movie house was on the silver screen!; Trail Tragedy - and to Caleb Magill it was a private affair; 95-year-old fishin' hole - the Gunnison River and the Hillside Resort. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Binding intact. Pages yellowed with age. A sound copy. Book
Very Good English Original bdg. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. Many b/w plates. [xii], 340 p., 1 folding huge map. A tour through the famine districs of India.
Pages 362-448, plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Girl With the Red Hair; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 1; A 'Q" and a "U"; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season; "Bully's" Last Battle; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron; Queer Fixes - Falling Ten Thousand Feet; What Happened to Marshall Mabey; Gassed on a Chimney; My Two Years of Captivity Among the Turks - part 3; Among the Dyaks; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - part 3; On Foot Through South America, part 4; Silas Seeks London; In Little Known Afghanistan; Odds and Ends. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
144 pages. Features: Cover Photo of General Charles de Gaulle; An All Volunteer Army - the cash for abolishing the draft; Two Kinds of Tankers - clean and dirty - life aboard these ever-growing sea vessels; France's Struggle of Apres de Gaulle has Begun; Haight Ashbury - the 'Hashbury' is the Capital of the Hippies - great photo-illustrated article by Hunter S. Thompson; The Price of Hogs is way down; There are 300 Negroes at the University of Alabama - 4 years after Governor Wallace stood in the door - photo-illustrated article; Classy photo-ad for Hunter Haig men's fashions features gent in cream-colored suit beneath caption 'How Completely Have You Conformed?'; Fantastic Magee Carpet ad features "Schultz The Carpet Ripper"; Amazing color centerfold cross-section illustration of Montreal's Place Bonaventure and its 3.1 million square feet of commercial space; Photo of Vivian Malone, the first Negro to graduate from U.A., in 1965; Fashion photos of summer separates; Many gorgeous color fashion ads; "; How to Talk Childrenese; Photos of home designed for Mr. & Mrs. Charles Prussack by George Nemeny; and more. Above-average external wear. Covers loose but present. Faint library stamp and handwritten date upon front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: The Queen of Kipling's Mandalay - article on Burma with photo of Supayalat and King Thibaw; The New 'Real Estate Bond' Industry (2nd article of 2) - First Mortgages on the Unknown Future Amount to Many Millions; A Good Look at Our Young People - analysis discloses that the newer generation is not deteriorating; Why Not Keep Faith with the Moro Race? - Justice is due to these people as well as to the other natives of Philippines - photo illustrated article on these people of Mindanao; What Has Become of Ben? - a boy whose restless gypsy blood made him an aimless wanderer; Mr. Henry Ford's Page - "Low wages shows poor management, poor finance, poor production"; Editorials - Senator Borah to the Lead, The Unitarian Women of the U.S., How important is news?, Which way is Coolidge going?, Anesthetic discovery at the University of Wisconsin; African Lions Roamed in Hollywood - discoveries indicate prehistoric game trail once extended from Old World to New; Why the Great Strike Failed - American gives vivid pictures of English lovel-headedness when millions of workers downed tools - article with photos; The Voyage of the Victoria - Westward Ho! (part 5 of a series); When General U.S. Grant Gathered Hides at Galena - for a time he forsook army life to engage in humble ways of earning a living in commerce; Ad for The Canal Band and Trust Co. of New Orleans; interesting piece about Jewish historian Josephus and his original text, in Aramaic, describing Jesus and his life; Mark Twain as Traveler (short article); New Oriental Limited ad features Glacier National Park; A Dance a Week - Positions of Feet in Dancing; Wild Flower Gardens - The Pansy King of Wisconsin, William Toole, Sr.; Fascinating illustrations of Pioneer tests in Aerostats (balloons). Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage 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
First edition, small 8vo (165 x 100 mm), xvi, 108 + 18pp., of adverts, lithographed frontis., (with a light stain in the lower blank corner), orig. pictorial printer paper boards, printed paper spine label, spine worn, upper board holding by cords. An uncommon book, though it did run to some four editions by 1836. Ten pages are devoted to 'Curious particulars relative to the origin of the history of gloves'. The same author also published, in 1830, 'Economy of the Teeth'.
176 pages. Features: Can a young man start farming today?; Now you can prove bulls as yearlings; Farming three to twenty feet down - Louis Bromfield's Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio has very deep fertile soil; Irrigated acres in New Mexico - The Roybal family has built prosperity in a moutain valley - article with color photos; "This is my best bet yet"; You can be wiped overnight - are you an 'insurance sinner?'; Making milk with a tractor - H.E. Babcock sets up dairy farms to be manned mainly by a ma with a tractor; Lilies for you, too; How to get a country doctor; Science saves your grain; They sing for fun - the Will County Rural Chorus; Very attractive one-page two-color Chesterfield cigarette ad prominently featuring Glenn Ford; Ford truck photo ad features Perry Browning of Winchester, Kentucky; Two-page color GM ad includes illustration of their Milford, MI proving grounds; Back cover features one of the infamous Camel cigarette ads stating "More Doctors Smoke Camels", with photo of doctor smoking; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
60 pages. Adventures of the author. Undated. Possibly a reprint of the 1952 edition. - circa 1960? Book
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
