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96 pages pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Gold-Seekers - Edward J. Hoyt and William Palmer experience terrible Central American hardships in pursuit of wealth; Anso the Inaccessible - photo-illustrated article on this quaint Pyrenees town in Spain; Against Odds - in 1896 the natives of Matebeleland rose against their masters and massacred nearly four hundred - two survivors tell their tale; Across the Andes on Foot - amazing photo-illustrated article; Adventures of an Outlaw-Hunter - exciting experiences related by Sergeant Frank W. Northern who waged a relentless war against criminals in San Diego; A Tale of a Tiger - an extraordinary affair in Rangoon, Burma - with great photos, including the Shway Dagon Pagoda; The Wanderings of an Entertainer (part III) - Mr. Robert Ganthony relates his eventful tour in Canada; Curiosities of the Holy Land (part II) - the picturesque habits of peasant life in Palestine are described, accompanied by photos; The Missing Boatswain - how this strange mystery was solved; My Durian - a traveller in Singapore has his first experience with this awful smelling fruit; The "Hodag" - photo-illustrated account of an elaborate hoax involving Mr. E.S. Shepard in Rhinelander, Wisconsin that, after thirty years, is still remembered throughout the state; "The Woman Who Never Came Back" - a description of the tricks of No-ha-de-lan, an astute old Alaskan witch-doctress, with photos; and more. Covers detached as one but present. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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
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
pp. xvi, 222. Illustrated. 4to. Original full cloth binding, damp stained. Original dust jacket, damp stained. A detailed history of Jefferson's gardens and their re-creation. A wonderful guide to early American pomology. An important element in the development of the pastoral ideal in American culture. PLANTS W133
200 pages. Features: Early days of Kelowna Hospital; Right Reverend A.J. Doull - First Bishop of the Diocese of Kootenay; Fort Vancouver, USA; Kenny McLean; Hugh Charles Catt - Lumby's First Magistrate; Tom Clarke - Pioneer Surveyor of Railroads and Highways; Grindrod Schools 1900-1976; Falkland, B.C.; Alexander MacDonell - pioneer stage driver and rancher; Nurse Warburton; Brief history of Noca Dairy, 1925-1975; Life on a B.C. Fruit Farm; J.G. Harris; Proposed Manning Park Expansion; Mrs. T.P. Upton; Herbert Hollick Kenyon; H.C.S. Collett; First Osoyoos School 1917; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Courrier du livre 1975. In-8 broché de 192 pages. Bon état
211 pages including index. Includes descriptions, origins, history, culinary uses and availability. A much needed source of information. Please note: pages 5 through 8 are loose. Otherwise, unmarked and lightly worn. Remains a nice copy in glossy covers. Book
in-8°, 95 pages, abdt ill. h.t. couleurs, dessins in-t., broche, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire. [DV-3] Choix des variétés, culture, taille.
in-8 de 95 pages, nombreux croquis, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [NV-15]
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, free endpapers lightly browned, title and preliminaries very lightly spotted; original brown cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Dedicated to Lytton Strachey, this collection includes thirty-seven of Gosse's inimitable essays including 'Mr. Sassoon's Satires', 'Miss Sitwell's Poems', 'The Prose of Dr. Johnson' and 'Bodley and the Bodleian'.
grand in-8°, 284 pages, rel. cartonnage ill. plast. Bel exemplaire. [CA26/3]
8vo., First Edition, with fine frontispiece COLOURED BY HAND (original tissue guard present), endpapers faded at margins; publisher's green pebble-grain cloth, boards elaborately blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
in-8°, 79 pages impr. en 2 coul., dessins in-t., index, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire. [DV-3]
Mm 170x210 Brossura originale con alette, 64 pagine con 48 fotografie in bianco e nero. Testo in lingua francese ed italiana - french-italian texts. Copia in condizioni di nuovo - brand new in original shrinkwrap. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Hardcover in-4 etroit, 264 pages, entierement illustré en couleurs, index, cartonnage illustre.- 9782706607745 Bel exemplaire. [P-24]
8 vo, 64 pages, colour illustrations throughout. (Pocket Gardener Series) eng
76 pages. Colour photography throughout. Text primarily in English. Features: Dining opportunities in Bangkok; Thailand's Fruits; Koh Lanta - excellent food in paradise; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Book shows light shelf wear with a little sunning to spine and edges. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 60 pages. The author befriended Ron Padgett and poet and artist Joe Brainard; the three went on to produce The White Dove Review, a magazine that published a number of writers associated with the American midcentury avant-garde, including Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), and Robert Creeley. Mr. Gallup is author of Hinges (1965), The Bingo (1966), Where I Hang My Hat (1970), The Wacking of the Fruit Trees: A Poem in 13 Parts (1975), and Above the Tree Line (1976). Gallup stopped publishing for many years until the release of Shiny Pencils at the Edge of Things: New and Selected Poems (2001). Limited edition: 1/750 Rare.
Srasbourg , Heitz , 1955. Grand in-8 broché, VXIII +519 pages + 28 pages de publicité de fabricants de matériel de jus de fruits. 113 figures dans le texte; Couverture légèrement défraichie, sinon bon état. Manuel pratique et théorique étudiant : la valeur alimentaire, les jus de fruits dans le monde, la préparation des moûts, les différentes stérilisations..Ouvrage très complet sur le sujet.
Strasboiurg Heitz 1955, grand et fort In-8 broché, 519 pages avec un index alphabétique, une trés importante bibliographie et une table des auteurs + pages de publicité en fin d'ouvrage. 113 figures dans le texte. Trés bon état.
888p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition! small dampstain in bottom margin
No inscriptions or marks. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with a little shelf wear. 216pp. This book contains the information which every gardener needs to be able to grow the plants which are excitingly different but are also a little more demanding.
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
Pages 41-80 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: The House of C.P. Searle, Esq., at Ipswich, Massachusetts; Hand-Made Rugs, the Revival of an Old Handicraft; Three Types of Gambrell Roof Houses - the home of Mr. Walter C. Sampson, at Summit, New Jersey, the home of Arthur E. Thayer at Dedham, Massachusetts, the home of Mr. Farnham, and the home of Mr. James Purdon, of Boston; Plant Breeding; The Dino Collection of Historic Armor - collected by the late Duc de Dino, Marquis of Talleyrand-Perigord; The Use of Anesthetics for Plants; A Few Neglected Fruits; A Seventeenth Century Homestead near Boston; A Wood Garden - at the country seat of Mr. H.H. Battles at Newton Square, PA; Nature's Traps; The Country Seat of Charles S. Brown, Esq., Mount Kisco, New York; A New Method of Housekeeping; The New Seed testing Station in Paris at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, then the Agronomic Institute in the Rue Cervantes; Great color back cover ad for Pierce Arrow cars (The George N. Pierce Company) features illustration of chauffeur holding door for woman in orange coat on city street; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Some pages loose but all present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [viii], 194 p., color and b/w ills. Türk kültüründe üzüm ve incir. Grape, fig, vineyard culture in Turkish culture.
