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Mm 110x160 Volume rilegato in tela rossa con titolo in oro al piatto e al dorso, x-221 pagine profusamente illustrate con tavole in nero e a colori non comprese nel testo redatto in lingua inglese - X-221 pages with sixty-one illustrations thirty-six of which are in colours by the Author and twenty-five from photographs. Libro in ottime condizioni con il solo dorso un poco brunito. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla confervma dell'ordine.
72 pages. Features: Cover illustrations features Bell's Inks of Ottawa; "New" Bitters Claimed for Canada - Royal Italian Bitters, probably Canada's most beautiful bitters bottle; The Empress Fruit Jar; Digging Report - with photos; The Big Coca-Cola Dig - on the old Expo '86 site in Vancouver]; Canadian Glass Insulators - The Foster Brothers Glass Works, St. Johns, Canada East (1855-1880); Canadian Jar Talk - The American Nag Co. Porcelain Lined; The Beaver Soda Water Works; Black Glass in 18th Century Europe; C. Gates, Son & Company Limited Middleton, Nova Scotia - One of Canada's Oldest Medicine Companies 1840-1949; Bell's Inks, Ottawa; New and Unknown Gingers; Fraser Valley Show, Oct '93; Canadian Clubs; Show Listings; Interesting letters to the editor; Classifieds; Black and white illustrations. Printed upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this particularly informative issue. Book
Features: The Big Un - a bull named the Laird of Lanark; Sixty-Seven Days around the World - all to prove that Tacoma, Washington lay directly in the path of the quickest route to Europe, Asia, or wherever! - George Francis Train; Fruit Tramps - The James Hatcher Apricot Ranch near Piru Creek; The Death of Mannen Clements; Lost Mine at Sandia; Angel of the Yukon - Miss Emily Morgan and a first-hand account of the famous and dramatic race against time 'carrying the serum to Nome'; Otto Franc - Riddle of the Pitchfork Ranch - Meeteetse, Wyoming; The First Comanche Cowboy - Charley Ross; Untamed Onion Creek, near Driftwood, Texas; A Six-Figure Hermit! - Al Dankel of Colorado; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
64 pages. Many lovely archival photos in text. Describes Goldstream, Highlands, Colwood, Happy Valley, Albert Head, Metchosin, Rocky Point, Sooke, and Otter Point with special reference to their desirability as sites for pleasant homes and the suitability for three special lines of agriculture: sheep, fruit and poultry. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this lovely vintage item. Book
70 pages. Index. Dozens of helpful and informative black and white photos and diagrams. "Discusses from the farm-home standpoint the canning of fruits, vegetables and meats canned by the processed-in-the-can method in open-top sealed-without-solder tin cans and the more common types of glass jars cooked in home-devised hot water outfits and home types of pressure kettles." - from page 2. A wonderful heritage canning published over 80 years ago. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Would make a lovely and practical gift. Book
410 pages. Subject was born in Winnipeg as the third son of J.S. Woodsworth. With his geological degree he pioneered in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Northern Rhodesia. He taught high school for 17 years, became principal, and was a fruit farmer in the Okanagan. Clean, bright and unmarked with faintest wear. Blank bookplate inside front cover. Excellent copy. Book
196 pages. Features: Clamping a ban on brucellosis; Remote control for kilowatts; Pork profits begin with your boar; It's size that sells your fruit; Bulbs that bring an early spring; Hydraulic power makes tough jobs easy; Farm with fine tradition; Your Hog-cholera worries are whipped Sheep fit a lot of farms; Is your debt load balanced right?; The Great Greenbug fight; The squirrel and the .22; It's always farm-fire season; Tight bins for ear corn; The Kansas Twister (fiction); Scipio Takes a Day Off (fiction); Trail East (part 2 of 4). Ads: B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Edwin B. Fenske of Reisel, Texas; Oldsmobile super '88'; Rayovac batteries (one color page); Florence heaters; USS Steel ad with photo of Ernest Randal of Morningview Stock Farm of Marion, Alabama; Small clipping from photo of page 31 of the article on the Porter farm of Terrell, TX; Ferguson '30' Tractor (color photo); Ford cars (color photos); Massey-Harris tractors; Studebaker trucks (color); Pontiac car; Dodge car; Chevrolet pickups; Lee work wear; Buick Roadmaster; Blue Bell work clothing; Ford Trucks - nice color photo ad with George Stephens of Douglas, AZ; Amazing Wolverine work shoe ad shows lady pulling plow; Two-page Chrysler photo ad by photographer Anton Bruehl includes designer A.W. Ross, Edward Barna, Leo Poma, and Dorothy D. Cooledge; Plymouth car; Ball Brand boots; Gulistan carpet (2 color pages); GMC truck; Motorola TV (one-page with photo); Homelite chainsaws; 'Peter Pain' attacks man in Ben-Gay ad; Peters ammo ad features Frank Niemuth of Fremont, WI; Willys 4WD Trucks; Lombard chainsaws; Betty Grable photos in Auto-Lite ad; McCulloch chainsaws; Tide detergents; Boltaflex (one page with color photo); Toni ad with Pat Barnard and Rita Daigle plus twins Janey and Joey Pope; Aunt Jemima (color); Domestic sewmachines; Jergens ad with Mrs. John Rinehart; Singer Sewing Centres; Nice one-page photo-illustrated ad for the American Hereford Association; Morton's salt; Sensational color Camel cigarette ad on back cover features gorgeous Joan Crawford in low-cut red dress. Tiny coupon clipped from page 177. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Index. Bibliography. Approximately 200 pages. An excellent and uncommon overview of the life and accomplishments of prolific plant breeder Luther Burbank, one of the greatest Americans in history. This copy is in such lovely condition that it appears to be a current reprint, but we can find no evidence to support this. Very light wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
128 pages. Features: Fatter beef from cheaper roughage; Feeding guides for supplement A; Now the plants bite back; Look what's happening to hogs; How i made the cage system work; You can dry baled hay; Saving work with water; Bloat; A 'wired' hand for every farm; New method saves $2-a-pound seed; Range-bull record, artificially bred; Carts ease dairy chores; Here's low-cost range and brooding equipment; Learning how to judge land; They've made weed control work; The Biggest Liar in Alaska (fiction); Gangway for Tomorrow (conclusion); Jeff Davis, Mississippi rebuilds for youth; Elsa Dean with daughters Wilma and Nancy. Ads: GE fridges (color, inside front cover); '52 Buick; Champion spark plug ad features 10,640 acre fruit farm at Bakersfield, CA with J.A. Di Giorgio and J.C. Lyttle; Super '88' Oldsmobile; Ford trucks (color); International Trucks (color, Treamside Farm); Oliver tractors (66, 77 and 88); Lee work clothes; Chevrolet trucks; Dodge trucks - featuring Sam Harrod of Frankfort, KY; Sheppard diesel tractors; Moorman's ad features William Lally and family of Dane County, WI; Jeep (one page with 4 photos); Harley-Davidson (Marlon Brando-style male shown riding); Ford cars; Hudson cars (color); Studebaker trucks (color); Infamous color-illustrated ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover says "More Doctors Smoke Camels". Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
499 pages. Index. Average wear. Chapter titles include: The Background of our Present Trade; Effects of Industrial Expansion and City Growth; Artificial Ice Brings Revolution; Hazards of the New Industry; How the Handler Became Banker; History, Extent, and Future of Canning; The Status of the Industry in 1913; and much more. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper else unmarked. Binding intact. Bright gilt lettering upon spine. Sound copy of this fascinating contribution to the history of the North American produce merchandising industry. Book
PARIS, bureau du journal/TROYES, Imp. G. Arbouin - TETE de COLLECTION - 1 ère Année - 1900 - N° 1au N° 74 - In-4 - Reliure basane frottée- Dos à nerfs - Illustrations Nb en texte - 904 pages, y compris Tables alphabétiques des auteurs & des Matières & Table des figures - Bon exemplaire PARIS, bureau du journal/TROYES, Imp. G. Arbouin - 2 ème Année - 1901 - N° 76 au N° 127 du 25/08/1901 - In-4 - Reliure 1/2 basane frottée à coins (manque en tête) Dos à nerfs - Illustrations Nb en texte - 686 pages - Bon exemplaire, très frais intérieurement
8vo [22.5 x 14 cm]; viii, 52, [iv, publisher's ads], fine hand colored frontis plate of the Late Admirable Peach by James Andrews, other illustrations. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering, lightly rubbed, small endpaper bookplate, minor foxing on title, else clean and near fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The book was published posthumously, and enlarged, by John Cox.
96 pages. Index. "Offers an array of recipes, from the classic to the most inventive and unusual, for three of Canada's finest summer fruits." - from dust jacket. Includes 125 recipes. Above-average wear and soiling. Usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
148 pages. Features: They take care of their own - Mormons supporting each other; Big litters are not accident; Crates will save your pigs; Fresh grass for your winter feed; Double check on the hens; Turkey every day; The Saga of Oak Orchard Creek - Four generations of the Brown family made Orchard Dale Fruit Farm one of New York's finest, near Waterport in Orleans County - article with great color photos (small clipping from one of the photos); Bringing back abandoned land; Better fire protection is up to you; The men behind your market news; Corncobs to to fatten beef; Photo of violin-making farmer Oscar Nash of Minnesota; Photo of Clarence Lustfeld of Buckley, IL and his remote controls for his tractor; and more. Ads: Ipana ad with radio team Tex and Jinx; Texaco ad with photo of Emil Johnson of Longmont, CO; Buick; Studebaker trucks; Arthur Godfrey in Chesterfield cigarette ad; 1949 Kaiser cars (color); Oliver tractors - 66, 77, 88; Dodge; Jergens ad with Mrs. Bertha Robb and her family of Brattleboro, Vermont; Chrysler (nice 2-pages in color); Gibson tractors; Cone denim; Life insurance ad features Vermont apple growers Brower and Helen Hall of Grand Isle; Plumb axes; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
258 pages. Features: Woodbury Soap photo ad features Joyce Edwards of Stamford CT and Russell Otis Washburn; Town of the Month - Palmer Lake, Colorado; Nice color Tide ad; Color ad for Midnight by Tussy; Color Campbell's Soup ad includes fruit cake recipe; Color Ivory soap ad features beauties; Miss Alma Shon; Kristin Holmberg of Erick, OK resembles the December 1949 cover girl of this magazine; Nice black and white photo in Warner's foundations and bras ad features three ladies; Color photo of Deborah Kerr in Lux ad; Color ad for Baker's chocolate chips; Nice color-photo ad for Jell-O puddings & pie fillings; Is that toy a delight or a danger?; Christmas toys for babies and toddlers; Nice color-photo ad for Heinz pickles; Color ad for Duz laundry saop; Lovely color 1952 Dodge car ad; How to choose a Christmas tree; Nice color-photo Ivory Snow ad; Small World - fiction by Margaret Cousins; The Beautiful Time - story by Ruth Branning Molloy; Madeline's Rescue - wonderfully illustrated story about the famous young girl created by Ludwig Bemelmans; Between Me and Myself - Christmas story by Mary Louise Bryan; Lovely color-photo illustrated article on 'Six Robes for Christmas Eve'; Color-photo article with gift wrapping ideas; Photos of Christmas door design ideas; Lovely vintage color-photo ad for New Prell shampoo; Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Francis Irenee du Pont II; Jergens ad features photos of Lizabeth Scott, co-star of movie "Red Mountain"; Toni ad features photos of twins Jany and Joey Pope, plus Pat Barnard and Rita Daigle of New York; Two-color Kleenex ad features Little Lulu; Jergens ad includes photo of Gloria Swanson; 'Cooking with Gas' ad features Mrs. George J. Waddell of Kansas City, MO, and Mrs. Marc Wyse of Cleveland; Photo of Ray Milland in National Silver Co. ad; Photo of Vladimir Horowitz in RCA ad; Great vintage color ad for Cosco kitchen stools and high chairs; Fantastic color Coke ad features Santa with his list of good boys and girls; Fantastic color-photo ad for ITT's "Coolerator" electric range; Color Daystrom furniture ad; Very nice American Airlines ad inside back cover shows ticket agent serving lady holding hat box; Back cover Crisco ad; and much, much more. Somewhat above-average wear with one-inch opening to bottom of backstrip. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Magazine
42 pages. Features: Behind the Scenes of the Royal Tour of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip - article with great colour photos; Ben Hogan Battles His Toughest Foe - article with colour photos; 60's Fashion - Lick-and Stick Tattoos called Put-Ons - colour photos; The Fruits of July - recipes; Wonderful colour photo centerfold shows huge crowd on Parliament Hill with the Queen; "I Had a Legal Abortion" - a Canadian woman discovers how minor a major operation can be in London's Harley St. 'Circus'; A Memory of Darkness (Part 1 of this novel by Margaret Summerton). Average wear. Unmarked. Sunning to lower left corner of front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Circa 1930s as horses are photographed pullling farm implements. Dozens of vintage prairie agricultural informational sheets, each with its own topic, stored in an original gilt-lettered black Eaton's two-ring binder. Topics are too many to list but include: Seed Grain Testing; The value of registered seed; Reward Wheat; Fall Rye; Growing Corn on the Prairies; Root crops; Ensilage crops; Sunflowers as Ensilage; Crop Rotations; Summerfallow Substitutes; Sweet Clover; Winter Egg Production; Hogs - Goitre and Iodine; The Farm Garden; Asparagus for Every Garden; Growing Fruit on the Prairies; Weeds and Their Control; Clean up! Paint up! Plant up!; Suggested books for the home library; Swat the Fly; Practical Cookery; The School Lunch; Beekeeping Advice; Fire Prevention on the Farm; and much, much more. Pages yellowed with age. Some pages all or partially free of binding. Some contemporary handwritten notes on blank pages at back of binder. A wonderful Canadian prairie collectible packed with timeless practical advice for how to survive on the land. Book
64 pages. Features: Gorgeous Revlon lipstick ad; Like Father, Like Daughter - Princess Anne; Could you live in Kitchener-Waterloo? - article with photos; The Girls Who Leave Home; Day of Storm (story); Former nun Leona A. Brady talks about leaving the convent, her marriage and motherhood; Communes - a new 'family' way of life - with photo of Jim and Pat Wilson and their baby in the Yellow Ford Truck on Toronto's Baldwin St.; Late Summer Fruits; Sew 18 Fashions for Half the Ready to Wear Cost. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
270 pages including index. Frontis is black and white plate of author with Luther Burbank, John Burroughs and Edith Simonds. Unmarked. "There are plenty of garden books giving all the facts - for reference... This book is for consecutive reading. The important facts are here, too, but sugar-coated with wise and witty remarks and spiced with anecdotes and other things that suggest the perfuned atmosphere of the gardedn and appeal to the garden maniac... The world's most famous gardener, Luther Burbank, wrote to the author of this book that its chapters are, in his opinion, "The best that have so far been written on garden subjects. You get the facts in such a pleasing, human way that they are irresistible." - from page xiii. Chapters include: Educated Strawberries and Burbank Plums; Commercial Value of Burbank's Creations; Japanese Burbanks and Morning-Glories; Must We Raise Our Own Fruits Too?; Do Apples Keep the Doctor Away?; Why Not Grow Papaws, America's Most Delicious Fruit?; The Retired Rich Need Not Die; The Joys of Creative Gardening. Above-average wear to exterior with lettering nearly gone from spine. Binding intact. Book
50 pages. Features: Charming cover illustration of children with wishbone; Color ad for Purina chicken chow inside front cover; Nice one-page ad for Victrolas features illustrations of Geraldine Farrar, Gigli and Heifetz; Photo-illustrated article on the John and Prisciilla Alden House at Duxbury, MA, near Plymouth; How the Center-Soll Community has brought its neighborhood together - photo-illustrated article; Amaryllis - a Desirable House Plant; Two subscribers tell how they financed their own homes - article by Rebecca Du Pont and Charles A. Hartley; Good seed potatoes for the home garden; Shrub suggestions for southern gardens - article with photos; Screening the undesireable; "Edgevale" flat-roof house plan; Hot water heaters; Nice 'Say it with Flowers' one-page ad appears to be a predecessor to FTD ads; Books for use and decoration; An Old-Time Thanksgiving Dinner; 2/3-page ad encouraging people to buy land in Canada; How to Buy and Cook Meats; The What and How of Veal; Backyard fruit experiences; A chicken ranch in a loft; Music for every home - Music from the air; Embroideries suitable for gift or bazaar. Above-average wear and soiling. Covers present - almost detached. Openings to page 10. Center page loose but present. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
54 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Purina Poultry Chows inside front cover; Comment by E.T. Meredith; Our Vacation by the Gasoline Route - great photo-illustrated article about vacationing with car and tent; How I Built My Home in Spare Time - photo-illustrated article by Frank I. Hanson; How to Grow Asters Successfully; Perfect Privacy with Lattice Fences - photo-illustrated article; Have You Tried These Vegetables? - Cardoons, a variety of eggplant, a Japanese burdock, rocket salad, Chinese white cabbage, Shui-Tsai - with photos; Electricity in the Small Home; Radio is making the home the most interesting place to be; How We Finished Our Dream House - article with photos; Houses of Famous Americans - photo-illustrated article about "Hardscrabble" - the cabin home of Ulysses S. Grant; A Backyard Garden in June - with suggestiions for your city lot; The Society of Little Gardens - photo-illustrated article about an organization fostering the correct improvement of yards; Growing Sweet Corn Successfully; Nice one-page ad for Johnson's Polishing Wax; Tips to make your June work count; Nice one-page ad for Hupmobile cars; Great vintage one-page ad for Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires; Successful Home Canning of Vegetables - article with photos; Half-page ad for The New Overland car; How to Adjust Your (Push) Lawn Mower - great illustrated article; How to build your own garage - illustrated article; Ads for oak flooring and the use of birch wood in homes; 2/3-page ad for The Davenport Bed; Has Music Led Us Astray?; The Novel of the Year - 'Trodden Gold'; Summer Care of Growing Stock (chickens); Nice half-page Coke ad; Two Compfortable Home Plans; Faust Coffee ad; Ad for the Iron Horse Cold Pack Canner; Illustrated embroidery article; Nice photo-illustrated one-page ad for Munsingwear underwear for ladies; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Dolly Gray of New York; Inside back cover is a fantastic two-color illustrated ad for Harris Brothers Co. of Chicago who sell many home building products; Nice back cover ad for the New Phaeton Reo car (partially covered by address label). Above-average wear. Coverfold mostly open. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Charlevoix - Une Grande Paroisse - nice photos; La Pomme - Fruit Defendu, Gaspille; L'Amour... L'amour... Ils ont Peur De L'Amour!; L'amour... "Epouse la Fille du Voisin"; Une Minorite Irreductible - la secte des Fils de la Liberte, en Columbie-Britannique; La Douceur De La Vie En Nouvelle-France. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features Include: The Fruit Ranch Riddle - An interesting murder investigation at the Morrisey fruit ranch near Selah, Washington, USA; Interviewing an Eruption - Filming a volcano in the Belgian Congo; The "Lion-Men" of Ussure (Part 2) - The amazing story of Tanganyikans posing as "lion-men"; Exploring the "Great Diagonal" - an ambitious attempt to open the interior of Brazil; Stowaway to Spitzbergen; "Book-Keeper Wanted" - a colourful story from Western Australia; The Blind Malik - A Quaint Tale from Waziristan; The Dingo - An amusing story from the outback; The Bull-Gang - a young Englishman finds his way into a dirty pulp mill job in Canada; Ship's Guard; Ramaswamy's Pal - from 'the queer side of things' . Average to above-average wear. Some staining and prior owner's name upon back cover. Chips from spine. Decent copy. Magazine
Features: Three pages of great photos of the Churchill/FDR meeting at sea aboard the H.M. Battleship "Prince of Wales"; Photos of the life of seamen aboard the latest battleships; Photos of fly-killing and tank repair operations in the African desert; War article by Cyril Falls with photos, including overhead shot of the Cernavoda railway bridge across the Danube, before it was destroyed by the Soviet Air Force; 2-page illustration of a 'cutting-out' excercise by a flotilla of fast motor-boats and amphibian troops in East Anglia; Personalities and Events of the week; Super aerial photo of bombs falling on Knapsack power station August 12th during a daylight raid; Centerfold illustration of the "Bristol" Blenheim Mark IV; Four amazing photos of the immediate aftermath of the attack in the Knapsack power plant; 13 photos of Nazi defeat on the Russian front; Interesting tables and graphics depict petrol rations and oil tankers - an analysis for car owners; Article on the Spider Wort, with photos; Nice half-page ad for Eno's "Fruit Salt". Average wear. Faint ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
Lyon, Imp. B. Arnaud, 1947-1948. 2 vol. grand in-8 brochés, 561-576 pp. Très nombreuses illustrations en noir. Couvertures défraichies, dos insolés mais bon état des ouvrages.