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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
[6], 7-393, [9] ads, pages. Index. Nostalgic ads for local businesses. Compiled for the benefit of the Seattle Fruit & Flower Mission, an all-volunteer organization founded in 1907 which gave "dietary aid to those who were ill or undernourished, irrespective of race or creed." - Foreword. Handwritten note on last page. Average wear to illustrated silver boards. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this charming full-spectrum compilation of Seattle recipes dating back to the roaring twenties. Book
145 pages including index and black and white illustrations. Extensively referenced. Chapters include: the Irish Adventurers; the Viceroy's Ranch; the District Corporation - the Ricardo Era; "The New Golcanda"; The Fruit Grower's Municipality; Depression and Disillusionment; Rural Society in Transition; Rural Municipality as suburb. Very faint wear. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
74 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Whitman's prestige chocolates inside front cover; Essex car ad; Mimeograph ad; Business is Business (short story); What's the Racket? - interesting article about rackets - what they are and how they work; Moonlight on the Water (short story); Beyond the War (a war short story); Position in Life - how a woman chooses her position in life; In the Strongroom (short story); A Ship Comes In - the dramatic story of Eugenie Leontovich, principal actress in Grand Hotel; - article with photo; Yuan Hee See Laughs (part VII); Gunsight Trail (part VI); Golf "Coarse" - how to make a smaller crop of divets; How Dry We Are - what is known about droughts and what measures for relief have been attempted i.e. photo of electrically-charged sand being discharged into the air; A Mere Detail (short story); Beautiful color full-page photo of a green car in Fisher Body ad; Wonderful two-page color ad for Dutch Boy paint shows Dutch Boy painting atop ladder; Full-page color ad for bananas by the United Fruit Company; Full-page Buick ad; Canada Dry full-page ad; Fleischmann's Yeast ad featuring Dr. Emil Fronz of Vienna; Two-page colour centerfold ad for General Electric refrigerators - very nostalgic!; Full-page ad for Chrysler Eights & Sixes; Nice two-color full-page ad for Williams shaving cream/Aqua Velva; Color ad for Seald-Sweet grapefruit; Two-page ad for Veedol oil - "so clear you can read a newspaper through it"; Full-page ad with photo for the Autogiro - an early helicopter!; Ad for True Temper step-down steel shafts for golf clubs with photo of the 6th Tee at Pebble Beach; Vintage ad for Wilson golf equipment inside back cover; Nice color Ford ad inside back cover shows policeman in car; Nice color Frigidaire refrigerator ad on back cover (soiled). Average external wear and soiling with a few peripheral chips/openings. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
102 pages. Articles: So You Want to Be President! - a White House reporter describes the rugged aspects of the job; The Farmer's Best Friend - The National Grange and its achievements; Designs for Touring - Out where the west ends (part 6); Men, Mikes and Money (part 2) - good music goes on the air, and Radio City is opened; Who Will Ever Run the Red Sox? - how will the team play for Boss Man McCarthy; Blazers are Back for Men - great color photos. Fiction: I Have a Wallet; The Shearing at Nello; The Horse Lattitudes; Violet; My Sister Mary; I'm a Stranger in Town Myself. Includes these ads: Hart Schaffner & Marx (inside front cover); Bell Telephone; Monarch canned fruit; GMC Trucks; Nash cars; Auto-Lite Spark Plugs (featuring Betty Hutton); RCA Victor radios; Pabst beer featuring colour photo of Miss Gladys Swarthout and Mr. Frank Chapman; Douglas shoes; Dodge trucks; Fisher body; Gillette Blue Blades/razors (2 pages in color); Plymouth; Chevrolet; Puritan Sportswear; Good Year; McGregor cool cord shirts; Hickok belts; The New Hudson cars; Lord Calvert liquor ad with full-page colour photo of Mr. William Lescaze; Walt Disney's "Melody Time" movie; Jeep Station Wagon; Ballantine's Ale; Trailways bus lines; Studebaker; Camel cigarettes ad on back cover features water skier Nance Stilley. Covers pulling from staples, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
98 pages. Articles: Out of This World - the great telescope on Palomar; Fashion High Command - how experts choose clothes to suit most American women; Can We Guarantee a Free Europe?; Two-Party Gal - Mrs. Perle Mesta; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 3) - The Common-law Marriage - his visit to Churchill in 1941; Saint-Lo Fights another Battle - much of the town still in rubble after Normandy invasion; Block that Toothache! - good news for those who don't like the dentist's drill. Fiction: The Bramble Bush (part 1 of 5); Dear Miss Phillips; Once to Every Woman; Shadow of Fu Manchu (conclusion); Important to a Man; It All Came Out. Ads include: Nash cars; Vitalis (with photo of Bobby Riggs); Borden's products - featuring Elsie the Cow; 'Jeep' Station Wagon; International School buses - rare ad!; Fisher Body; Douglas Shoes; Mercury cars (lovely 2-pages); DeSoto cars; Columbia bikes; Cory coffee-maker; Kodak; Santa Fe Railroad; Schlitz; Chrysler centerfold (puppy theme); Hamiliton watches; Jayson shirts; GM Electro-motive division; Kaiser Frazer; Fruit of the Loom; Chesterfield cigarettes (back cover) - featuring Alan Ladd. Unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
94 pages. Articles: New Menace in Missouri - Charles (Boss) Binaggio and criminality - article with photos; Can the C.I.O. Get Rid of the Commies?; The Town the G.I.s called "Smith" - Natchitoches, Louisiana - article with nice photos; Pilotless Fighter Plane of Tomorrow - a convincing argument that machines are about to outdistance us mortals, with nice color illustrations by Birney Lettick - a very prescient article; What Gives in Rasslin'? - article with fantastic photos of wrestlers including Gorgeous George, Jim Londos, Bronko Nagurski, Maurice Tillet (the angel), Lee Henning, Sandor Szabo, Man Mountain Dean, Ernie Dusek, Strangler Lewis; Nicest Guy in Washington - General Omar Bradley; Strangest Garden in the World - At the Argonne National Laboratory Dr. Norbert J. Scully produces radioactive drugs and other plant products which cannot be manufactured - article with photo. Fiction: One Came Back; A Dinner For Lily; Bootleger's Treasure (part 2 of 4); Decorator's Helper; Where They Make the Wine; No Need to Hustle. Includes these nice vintage ads; Borden - featuring Elsie the Cow; Willys Station Wagon (Jeep); International Trucks; Oldsmobile cars; Arro Shirts; Firestone; Plymouth; Hickok men's accessories; Haband Company Ties (nice two-page color ad); Fisher body; Canada Dry; Dodge cars; Mallory hats; Del Monte Catsup; New Hudson cars; United Aircraft; Silver Star razor blades - featuring several notable men; Monarch canned fruit and veggies (nice colour full-page); Nice Sheaffer's pen ad on back cover. Three-inch opening to bottom of cover fold. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
in-8 etroit, 96 pp., illustrations couleurs in-t, broche, couverture illustree plast. Tres bel exemplaire. [NV-30]
Lyon, Editions Agence Gutemberg 1930. In-8 broché couverture illustrée de 67 pages. Figures. Très bon état
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
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
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
Features: Tender Buttons - a shop dedicated to buttons; Fine Machine Sewing - Hemstitching - Part II; Smocking - Lesson One by Mollie Jane Taylor; Mother's Day - gifts to stitch; French Handsewn Pincushion - pullout pattern and instructions; Canada - Western Style - Calgary's Stampede Fashions; Smock Plate; Linen Handkerchief Case; Summer's Juicy Fruits - an orchard of picks; Elizabeth Garrett's Sampler - a SAGA chapter's project; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
in-8 de 95 pages, nombreux croquis, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [NV-15]
P., Bailliere, 1943-1944.2 volumes in-12 brochés, 523 pages. Non coupés. Le tome 2 comprend : les rosacées, les ampélidées, les saxifragées, les urticacées, les cupulifères, les juglandacées, variétés et maladies.
Avignon, imp. E. Millo, 1910. In-8 broché, 15 pages.
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.
Book is in excellent condition with a little corner wear to the covers only. Binding is solid and square, , exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 158 pages, contents include: Juno, Honey, Horseradish, Hash, Hemp, Henna, Frogs, Fruit, Crabapple, etc.
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
212 pages. Index, bibliography and index. Monotone diagrams and colour photos. This guide and cookbook includes 35 species for wild-food gourmets. "Each section contains a botanical description, notes on general habitat and distribution, a drawing or colour photograph, and information on the folklore of each plant, with notes on its historical, medicinal, or cosmetic uses. Also included are a large selection of recipes for jams, jellies, beverages, wines, pies, desserts, main dishes and snacks. Some of these are based on recipes that were used by the Indians and the Inuit, or by early pioneers." - back cover. Prior owner's name and date atop half-title page, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this wonderful guide. Book
215p Hardcover Very good condition good
In 8° (21x13,5 cm); 8 pp. Brossura coeva gialla. Prima edizione singola rara, nessun esemplare censito in ICCU di questa memoria di interesse medico e farmaceutica dedicata ad alcuni esperimenti fatti dal noto medico torinese Vincenzo Cristin. Il libello, dopo un’introduzione sulla provenienza della pianta da dove si è ricavato il nuovo medicinale, passa poi ad indicare il processo e la composizione dello stesso, descrive i risultati ottenuti con l’utilizzo di questo nuovo tipo di china ricavato dalla pianta Hylocereus undatus. Questa è una pianta della famiglia delle Cactaceae. Il suo frutto viene chiamato Pitahaya o Pitaya e può essere rosso (in inglese Red Dragon Fruit) oppure giallo. Le ultime due pagine contengono il giudizio esperto del farmacista Schiapparelli. Raro ed in ottime condizioni di conservazione.
Montauban 1960, 2 volumes In-4 brochés, 32 + 66 pages. Trés bon état.
in-8 carre, 160 pp., dessins in-t, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bon etat. [TA-1]
Hardcover grand in-8 carre, 119 pp., illustrations en couleurs, cartonnage editeur illustre. Bel exemplaire [CA29-2]
