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Illustration of horses pulling British soldiers in boats across the River Scarps. What a Bolshevist 'Peace' Means, by Lovat Fraser. 5 photos of Canadians homeward bound, their duty done. Quaint Quarters of the Fighting Men in France - 4 photos. 2 Photos of Shell-Smother Caught by the Camera. Trifles picked up on the blazed trail of war - 5 photos. Waiting for the opening offensive on the West. The True Story of Henry - by 'Vedette'. Illustration of an early version of the caterpillar tractor at work in Palestine. British mouth organ band in Palestine. Canine helpers in battle. A Serbian Supper-Party - some lively memories from the Lower Danube, by Hamilton Fyfe. Builders of the fleet that flies - 5 photos. Six great photos of Britannia, the Tank that rules the trenches. Photos of concrete vessels - can be built in a third of the time. Australia's Great Achievement - Heroic doings on land and sea, article with 6 photos. The Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, article by John S. Margerison. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Storyteller Michael Parents; G6 Leaders Meet at Montebello - article with color photos; Ronald Reagan - Commander from Culver City; Clinch River - a Breeder Reactor for Howard Baker; New US policies on immigration; Senators urge William Casey to quit CIA; Daniel Yankelovich predicts new "ethic of commitment"; Prince Charles Weds Lady Diana - feature article with color photos; Precarous Peace Between Israel and P.L.O.; Tough Challenges in Poland; U.S. Favouring China over Taiwan; Pope's Assailant Mehmet Ali Agca gets life; Attack from the right in El Salvador; Hunger strikers lose favour in Northern Ireland; Karl Barth's last letters mix vitriol and compassion; The merits oof multi-billion-dollar mergers; Chrysler turns up a winner under Lee Iococca; Cola wars in Thailand; Iceberg Cool - Theodore Taylor uses ice for air conditioning - on a large scale; Sailing article - "Happiness is a Hobie Cat"; Time Inc. shuts the Washington Star; MADD - growing protest against lenient punishment for drunk drivers; Passing of Carol Fox, Fernand Spaak, Gabriel Hauge and Abram Kardiner; Prehistoric zoo at Archer, Florida okra farm; Steps taken to save the whales; A vote for Egypt's Aswan Dam; Soprano Mirella Freni; Summer Computer Camps replace snakes and frogs; The Pessimistic Vision of the late artist Philip Guston; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
114 pages. Features: Outrage after North Korea shoots down American EC-121 piloted by Lieut. Commander James Overstreet; The Sirhan Sirhan verdict; Crookston, MN flood; Strike leader Mary Moultrie in SC; Fascinating photo-illustrated article on North Korea - What is Behind Their Belligerence?; End of the Dubcek era in Czechoslovakia; Vietnam war news; A visit to the home of RFK's family in Virginia; Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals play first major league baseball game outside the U.S.; Great color-photo ads for the Kingswood Estate station wagon, Ford Maverick (centerfold), Chrysler Newport and Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado; Police death squads in Rio; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Ohio's polluted Cuyahoga River - with photo of it on fire; Colour photos of President Nixon welcoming the Apollo 11 astronauts back to earth; The Mysteries of Chappaquiddick; Photo of Nixon with President Marcos of the Philippines; Stories on the aftermath of Apollo 11; Suez battles; The Chosen Prince of Spain; Kikuyu Suspect Njoroge; Color samples of pastel art by Robert Natkin and Richard Diebenkorn; Ruler of the Road - auto racer Jackie Stewart; Article on Japan's ascendancy; Photo of Laotian troops studying Mao; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Clyde Carley tells about The Train Master - 'Dip' Dipprey - nice illustrated article; Steam in Mississippi - The Mississippian Railway - substantial article with photos; Pacific Great Eastern's (PGE's) RDC's - includes photo of 5 cars near Squamish, BC and map of RDC's on mainland British Columbia; Fantastic centerfold photo of the black smoke belching Louisville & Nashville M-1 2-8-4 1962 crossing the Red River Bridge at Stearns, Kentucky; Nice photo section; Railroad News Photos; New England in February - a Tripmaster feature; and more. Faint date stamp to front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Engine that made Penn Station Possible - the DD1 - long article with illustrations including colour painted centerfold; Your choice - Two-Storey Santa Fe Streamliners or Pennsy's ankle-view train, both built by Budd; Railway news photos; Railroads out of Rio - Brazil's frantic search for modernism has rudely booted the locomotive out of public affection - article with photos; Great photo section; Steam in Indian Summer - 5 - Steam - it fares better in the flatlands; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The saga of blue-eyed Herman Wol - Old Wolf Post; Indian Saddle Makers; Artist Paul Dyck collects Rare Indian Saddles; Somebody lost $3 million - The Islander goes down in Alaska's Inside Passage with gold on board; Loops and Swift Horses are Surer than Lead - Roping a Bear in Montana!; Twenty Years among our hostile Indians - J.Lee Humfreville; The Bane of Thieves - Dave Cook of Colorado; Jack Healy - the horse tamer; Meat's Meat - a starving man will eat anything; Powder River Expedition - General Patrick Connor and an ill-fated Sioux campaign in Wyoming; Saint or Devil - Padre Antonio Martinez of New Mexico; The Atoka Track - old Choctaw country; The Wanderers, by Rosie M. Norrish; In Defense of the 'old-time' coyote; The Backtracker - John Clarke of Comanche Texas tracks down his son's murderer; Wild Old Days!. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Rodolpho Fierro - Bloody Butcher for Pancho Villa; Guthrie - Grand Old Lady of Oklahoma; Ten Days to Die - the battle of Fort Ridgely; Green River Knives - They Played a Role in Opening the West; The Pioneers Talked Turkey - old west cookery; Kansas State Historical Society Museum opens; Recollections of an Early Montana Cowboy - Roland Matthews. Western Hunting Knives; Bowie Knife - Legend in Steel; Jim Bowie and the 'Sandbar' Fight; Mississippi Rifle on the Plains 1848-1860; Mountain Man Rendezvous; She faced the Cheyenne alone - Ada Reed; Kerrville, Texas - home of the cowboy artists of America. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Glamorous colour photo of woman wearing arctic fox evening cloak inside front cover; The Mad Giant and the Mountie - a huge Swede who worked on a section gang makes a sudden divorce from sanity; Frank Oliver - Spokesman for the West; Cold War on the Fraser River - the Yucultas near Fort Langley were dreaded by all the tribes along the river - until the day when the cold war became a hot war; The Simple Men; First Lady of the Rails - "The Countess of Dufferin"; On Board the M.V. Fort Hearne - great photo study; Robert (Bob) Chambers Edwards (Eye-Opener Bob); Trapping the Big Horn - there was lots of action when some California Bighorn sheep were corralled in the Chilcotin country for shipment to Oregon; The Formative Years - II - part 2 of an article on the early settlement of the area which, 50 years ago, became Saskatchewan and Alberta; The Story of The Sault - on the centenary of the first American locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Dr. Clever Bald sketches the history of the two towns - Canadian and American - beside the rapids; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the British India cruise ship Uganda; Nice photo of RFA Grey Rover; Full-page photo of passenger-cargo liner Rangitata in 1937; On the Waterfront; New Ship News; European Commentary; 'Tribal' Class Frigates; 'Result' goes home - the career of the last of the merchant schooners; British India's Educational Cruise Ships; The Battle of Cape Matapan - Brenda Ralph Lewis relates the action in the decisive naval engagement with the Italian Fleet in March, 1941; Coasters Past and Present; Irish Greeks - four sister ships owned by the Irish Shipping Company of Dublin; Ships of the Seven Seas - Havjo, Liebenwalde, Matadi Palm, and La Cordillera; Letters; Ship Sales; Nice photo of the HMS Manxman in 1953. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
229 pages. Index. Featuring 25 songs as recorded by Point of Grace in their original keys and arrangements. Songs include: Dying to Reach You; Faith, Hope & Love; Gather at the River; God is With Us; Got to be Time; The Great Divide; The House That Mercy Built; I Have No Doubt; I'll Be Believing; Jesus Will Still Be There; Love Enough; The Love He Has FOr YOu; Love Like No Other; Living the Legacy; More Than Anything; No More Pain; One More Broken Heart; Refuge of Love; Take Me Back; This Day; This Gift; What's He Gonna Say About Me; Without the Love of Jesus. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: The Caribou Crisis - informative article in the state of the caribou; The Narwhal - Canada's Horn of the Uniforn; The Living Stone - photos of stone carvings of the Eskimos of the Eastern Arctic; Pierre Falcon - Bard of the Prairies; Governor George Simpson - "The Strangest Man I Ever Knew"; Samuel Black on the Finlay; Winston Churchill accepts appointment of Grand Seigneur of the Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay; Ninety Years Later - a tale of hard northern travel in the old style, exploring the wild Upper Finlay, 90 years after Samuel Black - great photo-illustrated article; Retreat of the Sea - photos taken in the neighbourhood of Fort Severn; The Minnesota Route - in the late 1850s the Hudson's Bay Company began to abandon the historic York Factory route to Lake Winnipeg in favour of that via St. Paul and the Red River; Sir George Simpson as Banker; Nice colour ad for Hudson's bay shirts for men on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
140 pages. Features: Musical harvest in Hood River Valley, Oregon; Kill that tough brush this winter; Quick build-up for poor soil - ; Carrier-track feed bunks; What's in a name?; Farm Christmas - Roy Tolin and family of Indiana; A county builds its own prosperity - Pike County, MS; The right way to remodel your barn - Oneida County, NY; See what's knocking at our door!; 'Catch' insurance for grasses, legumes; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
192 pages. Features: Big government is in your county, too; They struck it rich with soil tests; Let's wipe out hog cholera; New life for old barns Ditching at $0.10 a foot; They took a holiday in the Rockies - the Harold Davises of Oklahoma; Range lambs with less risk; Headache and heartache for your heirs?; Beef with Brahman blood; More milk at less cost; New chemicals control old enemies of livestock; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features color photo of Rita Tennant; and more. Several closed openings and some soiling to back cover. Pencil writing on several pages, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Cover shows smiling cowboy on rearing horse. Features: Wise Old Man - Adventures of author while conducting scientific research in remote Amazonia; A Sailor on Horseback - The American adventures of a former British Merchant Seaman, first as a lumberjack and then as a cowboy on a 'dude-ranch'; He Knew Too Much - A grim story of dope-running on the Egyptian border; Lunch-Time Tiger - Author is called upon to deal with a tiger which was terrifying the inhabitants of a Pathan village; The Castaways of the 'Dundonald' - reprint of one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - describes how a British ship was driven ashore on a barren islet in the remote Southern Pacific, where for many weary months the survivors endured many privations in a desperate struggle for existence; A Taste of Freedom - Three firemen jump ship in a South American port... but fate was against them, and they were almost glad to get back; Ghost-Town Memories - Tourist visit the Western U.S. abandoned mining-camps of long ago; Across the Kalahari Desert - The author traversed the trackless Kalahari in a motor-car by way of a dried-up river bed. Black and white illustrations. Chipping to spine. Above-average wear. Magazine
164 pages. Features: Let's Build the Right Farm Program; What's Ahead for Beef?; Golden Weapon against Mastitis; The Axeman's Woman; A River Plan That Works - Ohio's Muskingum District; What is Good Hay?; Small and Useful; The Flying Dutchman of Lancaster County - Dutch Bucher, at 62, just purchased his 37th motorcycle; Movable Haymows and Cattle Sheds; Family of Showmen - the Ben Dische family of Evansville, WI; Keeping out Livestock Plaugues; Making a market for trees - Woodland Products, Incorporated, of West Chester, PA; Photo of Burney Willis, track star now world's champion rodeo rider; Ford truck ad features Roy Halvorson of Duluth, MN, Christmas tree king of the world; Nice two-page Ford tractor ad; 1950 Harley-Davidson Hydro-Glide small illustrated ad; Photo-illustrated one-page Jeep ad; Color Studebaker car ad inside back cover features Ohio's N.W. Bechtel with his son Kenneth R. and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
206 pages. Topics: The Stendall Site (C3-Wa-1) in the rural municipalilty of Wallace, Manitoba; A Salvage Survey of the Upper Highwood and Elbow River Basins and the Adjacent Upper Kananaskis Basin, Alberta; Preliminary Investigation in the St. Mary and Belly River Regions, 1973; Preliminary Description and Interpretation of the S.S. Burmis Site (DjPn-62) 1974; Chipman River Survey and Excavation, Black Lake; The Bakken-Wright Site - a multi-component bison kill in southwestern Saskatchewan. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
Padova, coi tipi di Angelo Sicca, 1841, in-8 grande, legatura coeva in mezza pelle, pp. [4], 153, [3]. Prima edizione, impressa su carta grave. Invio autografo dell'autore a Giuseppe de Menghin sulla controguardia anteriore, con allegato suo biglietto da visita. Consunzioni alla carta di rivestimento dei piatti, qualche mancanza lungo la cerniera posteriore.
This is a very good hardcover copy without dust jacket as issued with almost no wear. Bound in red cloth printed with gilt device on the front cover only. This is a limited edition of 50 numbered copies not for sale. This is number XXXIV. This in effect is the second edition of Bertichem's 1856 original edition. Short modern introduction in English and Portuguese (four pages). Illustrated in color with 47 plates. 12" high X 17" wide. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
704 p. Minutes of actions taken at legal meeting of the inhabitants of Brookline from 1686 - 1838. Hardcover Very good condition
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket of the first Greek edition. Completely clean inside and out. Dust jacket lightly toned. Text completely in Greek. This is the first Greek edition of Focas' work: 'The Lower Danube River in the southeastern European political and economic complex from antiquity' to the Conference of Belgrade of 1948, published in English in 1987. 30 black & white photographic plates. 10" high X 7" wide, 478 pages. Printed in Greece by Stavros Georgiadis, for the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serial No 144 Thessaloniki, October 1975. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 314 pages. a great many black and white photos. History of this British Columbia community. Previous owner's name inside.
Hardcover, 8vo, 2 volumes in one book, 320 pages. Singerman 3742. The second part is under the title: The Sabbath in primitive christianity: with Jesus and the apostles. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Bibliotheque Nationale de France) . St. Joseph, Missouri was the base of the pony express. Nice 19th Century Western Americana Jewish imprint. Bound in period wrappers Lightwear to edges. Wear to cover spine. Otherwise, good condition. Scarce. (Spec-9-7-D)
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
Book is very clean with very light shelf wear to covers, no creases to covers or spine, sharp corners, no marking of any kind to text/interior, solid, tight, straight binding. Signed by author on front endpaper with several illustrations, June, 2007. Fold-out map is intact and undamaged, 314 pages, many illustrations and b&w photos.
