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Features: Surprising island of the Northern Sea - Iceland; The Flowers Known as Birds - the Bird of Paradise from South Africa; What Maestros Look like to me - Sol Nemkov tells his adventures in the concert world while playing for such temperamental geniuses as Toscanini and Stokowski; You can't live in New York - untold miseries plague those who set up housekeeping in Manhattan, says long-time resident Horace Sutton; My Next 60 Movies - James Stewart (conclusion); Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - Satchel Paige, the American League's first Negro pitcher; The Coyote - World's Champion People Taunter - some claim he is one of man's best friends. Above-average wear. Covers almost detached. Small clipping from ad on page 55 - text unaffected. 1/6 page photo of coyote clipped from page 42. Top 2/3 of page 81 clipped out - this seems to have removed part of a novel. Nice color Coke ad on back cover. Book
47 pages. Features: The (bilingual) National Theatre School of Canada, located in Montreal; They Expect Miracles of (baseball player) Frank Howard; Dillies by Dali - the famed surrealist applies his ideas to a new medium - the designing of jewelry - with seven colour illustrations; Amanda Blake says "I don't need men" - marriage has no place in the life of the girl TV viewers know as Gunsmoke's Kitty Russell; Maurice Chevalier - the eternal youth; Anatomy of a Wedding - X-ray wedding photos!; Showing the flag - 798 Mini-minor cars are arranged to form a giant Union Jack (with colour photo); They have a word for it - a series of new Canadian dictionaries published by Gage; Essie Johnson - new model missionary - a Canadian works in Northern Rhodesia to prepare the Africans to educate their own people; Colour photos of birds; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
140 pages. Features: Nice one-page color ad for Kraft Cocoa Mix; 1-page color ad for Emery 'Magic Candle Bars'; Nice 1-page color ad for Pan American Airlines featuring Rio; The Truth About the Klan (KKK) Today - article with three photos including Dr. Lycurgus Spinks and Sam Roper; Stop That Shoplifter - article on shoplifters - mostly women - who steal $75 million per year; My Unsuspecting Bride (fiction); Kids Will Swallow Anything - the bronchoscope is used to safe children who swallow many strange objects - photo-illustrated article; It's a Man's World After All (fiction); Massive Foul-up - Our Planes, Tires, Tractors and Clothing - meant for the Nationalists - end up with China's Communist forces - article with photo; Mr. Technicolor - article on Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus with six color photos; The Hairbreadth Escapes of the USS Barb - article and photos of this US submarine which attacked Jap factories, made cities black out - and even blew a railroad train sky-high; The Du Ponts - part 3 of a photo-illustrated article on this family of industrial wizards; The Failure (fiction); Photo-illustrated feature article on Concord, New Hampshire; The Woman Who Wouldn't Run (fiction); Jack of Swords (fiction); Very attractive 1-page color ad for Campbell's soup; 1-page color ad for Ford cars; Homicide House (fiction); 1-page color Birds Eye Lima Beans ad featuring Carrie; 2-page black and white ad for Silver Star shaving blades features photos of Gene Cavallero, Wallis Rigby, Dr. A.W. Lindberg, Armand Denis, H. George Petrie, Rockwell Gardiner and Captain Arthur W. Pierce; Gorgeous colour 1-page Cadillac ad; Webster Cigar ad featuring large illustration of H.D. Hover, owner of Ciro's of Hollywood; Crosley television ad; Beautiful 1-page color ad for Studebaker trucks; 1-page 2-color ad for Frigidaire electric ranges; Borden's cheese ad features Elsie the Cow; 1-page color photo ad for Simmons hide-a-beds; 1-page color-photo ad for International Trucks mentions James Melton and the 'Harvest of Stars' radio show; 1-page color ad for Johnson & Johnson surgical dressings features reproduction of painting by Gladys Rockmore Davis showing boy tending to a girl's leg; Upjohn ad features reproduction of painting of young boy by Lawrence Beall Smith; 1/2 page color ad for Pixie cameras; 1-page Dumont tv ad; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features photo of Aqua-skiing stars Martha Mitchell and Margie Fletcher plus a photo of ace bowler Joe Wilman. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
80 pages. Features: Great colour-photo ad for the 1962 Dodge Valiant (red) inside front cover; International Harvester mining equipment ad features photos at the McDame Mountain asbestos mine in the Cassiar range, near the B.C.-Yukon border; Colour 1962 Chrysler ad; Work Addiction - the habit that rules men who rule the rat race; The Undeserving Poor - a group portrait of the small and anonymous minority of Canada's poor who eat up the lion's share of welfare money; Why I Stole the Luxury Liner "Santa Maria"; A New Look at the Great Lakes - article with colour photos; A Fall of Birds (fiction); The Rise of the Tree-Savers - heavy duty equipment is used to transplant mature trees in Ontario which would otherwise be destroyed by development; The Nightmare Life of a Hemophiliac; My Secret Rendezvous with a Red Attache - Toronto student Harry Malcolmson and his meeting with Serguei Divilkovsky; The West Indians - Our Loneliest Immigrants - permanent strangers in a white land; The Fifth Comeback of Jacques Normand, Quebec's First Funnyman; Canadian Club colour photo ad features surfing photos of Mark Lyons; Log of Seagoing Scientists aboard the "Porte Dauphine"; The Prime Minister's New Vision - a national power grid; Operation Fleshcreeper - Red answer to NATO arms; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad features young square dancers. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Features: The Candid Opinions of Mackenzie King - what his private diaries reveal - with photos (part 1 of 2); Birds of the Eastern Forest - the illustrations of J. Fenwick Lansdowne, with article; Margot Kidder - Actress - article with photos; Jaco Kaminsky - Montreal's Balloon Man - article with photo; Golf's Hole-in-One - with photo of Spain's Miguel retrieving his lucky ball; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
82 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo Pepsi ad inside front cover; 1962 Zenith TV ad; Political slush funds corrupt all parties; The Year the Government Sold the St. Lawrence River (power rights) to the Beauharnois power company; Last chance to save the world's rarest birds; 1961 - Summer of the Angry Forest Fires in the northern bush - article with colour photos; Brock Chisholm - Incredible Canadian; Disturbing report from inside the juvenile courts; A Weekend with the 'Wild Ones' at Wasaga Beach - short article with photos; UNESCO - the hope of the world - on paper; Cherchez La Femme de Montreal - photo feature; Julie de St. Laurent - portrait of a royal mistress; What it's like to lose the Irish Sweepstakes - Tom and Elsie Marsh of Squamish B.C.; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Pages 69-130. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; Some Alaskan Experiences; Gilman Marston (poem); Our Winter Birds and their food relations; The Philippines (poem); Rt. Rev. Philander Chase, D.D., Bishop of Ohio and of Illinois; The Old Daguerreotype; "Finnigan's Chateau"; New Hampshire Industries (first paper) - Our Only Piano Factory - article with great photos and illustrations of the Prescott Piano Company factory; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 262-320. Printed upon glossy stock. Nice reproductions of black and white photos. Features: The Nashaway Woman's Club; Early Life of rev. Thomas Baldwin; The Vegetable Food of Birds; The Christian Science Home School; The Baptist Church in Hopkinton; Poems. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
28 pages. Features: Front cover photo of the ice-covered deck of the H.M.S. "Vansittart"; Great full-age photo of Brigadier K. Pierce Smith taking the salute as a long line of British troops start their maneuvres in Malta; Striking with Success at Enemy Shipping in the Mediterranean - The Fleet Air Arm in Malta - 12 photos; The German Attack in Central Tunisia - article by Cyril Falls; Two large photos of the new German Mark VI Tank - the Tiger in Tunisia; Stalingrad Aftermath - Victory Scenes from a Gallant City - five photos including Field Marshal Paulus and General Von Daniels; Illustrations and texts describing a German Night-Fighter Control Room, as described by the Enemy; Facsimiles of Churchill's directive to General Alexander re: destroying Rommel's army, and Alexander's message advising Churchill of the completion of said mission; Photo of Sir Stafford Cripps visiting Miss Joan Hughes, an A.T.A. instructor; General interest news photos including the King visiting his army in Scotland, a demonstration of a new military raft in Northern Ireland, two sons of the Sultan of Morocco aboard a U.S. Army tank; Air Vice-Marshal Broadhurst, Captain R.St. Vincent Sherbrooke, the Arctic V.C., Air Chief-Marshal Sir Charles Portal in Malta; Centerfold illustration of "Tarzan" Troops - Commandos in training crossing a river by rope; 10,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Axis Europe in February - with five aerial photos; Photos of personalities in the news; Identifying Real German Planes; Photos of tank crews training indoors; Food Yeast - its discovery may revolutionize the health of nations - with eight photos; From Dockside to Battlefront - how tanks and trucks are unshipped, built up, and dispatched to the front lines in North Africa - with eleven great photos; Photos of Falcons (birds) in flight; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Small quarto in dark green clot -backed, gilt-titled boards; 111 pages : frontispiece, 5 plates ; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 91-101). Supplement has same dimensions in brown printed wraps; 24p. Presumably quite scarce thus, in such fine condion. / Birds -- Rhode Island. U.S.A. Ornithology, Natural History New England.
44 pages. Features:;Six by Two - article on the ship's bunk; British Signals for a Pilot; The Bermuda Race; Shipwrights of Buckler's Hard - this tiny hamlet was once an important shipyard; Intuition of Sea-going rats; Looking at Lisbon - City of Ulysses - article with nice photos; The Gannet - the largest and most impressive of British sea birds; Cleared Foreign; Sailors' Warning; Danish Captain Christiansen , Pilot - A photo-illustrated admiring article of this highest order seaman and navigator by Commander J. Radford, R.D., R.N.R., Retired; Oil Tankers To-day - photo-illustrated article; H.M. Queer Craft - strange vessels which did and did not see operation in WWII, including several two-million ton artificial icebergs envisioned as floating aircraft carriers by Churchill; and more. Numerous excellent illustrated ads. Unmarked with above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Roy. 8vo., Second Issue, with a frontispiece, 17 plates and 50 illustrations in the text (the plates and illustrations from photographs by T.A. Cotton), half-title lightly browned; original pictorial pale blue cloth, upper board with three goldeneye and title to an art nouveau design in dark blue, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Published in the same year as the first edition. A lovely copy of a scarce work. . Cotton) half-title lightly browned; original pictorial pale blue cloth upper board with three goldeneye and title to an art nouveau design in dark blue gilt back uncut a remarkably bright clean copy. Published in the same year as the first edition.
2 vols. illus Series title: New York State Education Department. New York State Museum. Memoir 12. Hardcover Very good conditon
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, title in blue and black, title-vignette in monochrome, 15 coloured plates and numerous monochrome illustrations in the text, small 'dog-ear' (without loss) at lower corner of front free endpaper and half-title, some very mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original decorative buckram gilt, gilt back, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at tail of backstrip (not affecting lettering) and with some light soiling against the (predominantly white) lower panel. An unusually nice copy of BB's classic work, free from inscriptions and price-clipping. With a small early twentieth century trade ticket on front paste-down.
43 pages. Includes lyrics, guitar chords and music for the following songs and more: The Aussie Bar-B-Que Song; The Ballad of Henry Holloway; And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda; Birds of a Feather; Bushfire; Goodbye Lucky Country; The Great Aussie Takeaway; Hard Hard Times; He's Nobody's Moggy Now; If Wishes Were Fishes; Just Not Coping; Little Gomez; No Man's Land - The Green Fields of France; Now I'm Easy; Old Friends; A Reason for it All; Safe in the Harbour; Scraps of Paper; Shining River; Soldier, Soldier; When the Wind Blows; Notes on the Songs. Undated. Appears to be circa 1980s. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
318 pages. Index. Gorgeous black and white bird illustrations. Text not in English. Large tear to page 283. Olive green front board and backstrip very attractively decorated in colour and gilt. Back hinge open. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy copy of this vintage copy. Book
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Rockingham-glazed Earthenware Pitcher - Prontispiece Editorial; The Pineapple - Symbol of Hospitality; Kentucky Silver and its Makers; Blow Birds; Running Fireman; St. Louis Fire Hats; The Fire Engine in Prints; Gideon Shyrock - Kentucky Architect; Edwards Place - In Abraham Lincoln's Springfield; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. 56 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
[8]-123, [7] pp. Index. Glossary. Color state map indicating life zones. Many detailed black and white illustrations. "Common and scientific names are given in all cases, with the number of each bird given to it in the Check List of the American Ornithologist's Union. Following the birds' names are given indicating letters, which tell of the birds' residential or visiting habits, and the portions of the State in which the birds may be found." - Foreword. Printed upon glossy stock. Above-average wear. Covers and blank first leaf detached but present. A worthy copy of this vintage Illinois ornithological memento. Book
Fine in polished dark grren, gilt stamped and Illus boards; AEG; xx, 442 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : b&w illustrations ; 24 cm. In original slipcase. Place mark ribbon bound in. Limited edition, number 312 of 1,000 copies. For the National Sporting Fraternity Limited. Signed Underwood, Shoffstall, and Rickhoff. Contents: Lifestyle of the upland king. The brave quail / by Robert Ruark -- My respects to Mr. Bob / by Gene Hill -- What is a quail hunter? / by Charley Dickey -- Bobwhite through the year. The prince of game birds / by Charlie Elliott -- The enemies of quail / by Archibald Rutledge -- The gun and the game. To hit a quail in the tail / by Warren Page -- How to miss birds / by Havilah Babcock -- The London gun / by Bob Brister -- Slim Boggins' mistake / by Havilah Babcock -- Hunting around. The Warwick woodlands / by Frank Forester -- Sometimes you can't find them / by Havilah Babcock -- You separate the men from the boys / by Robert Ruark -- They only shoot cockbirds in Carolina / by Jim Rikhoff -- Quail of the eastern sho' / by A.R. Beverley-Giddings -- Bobs of the bayou bank / by Nash Buckingham -- Pipeline "pottiges" / by Nash Buckingham -- Quail of the Kalmias / by Archibald Rutledge -- The dogs that make the hunting. The old maid / by Havilah Babcock -- The mystery of scent / by Ray P. Holland -- Jack / by Ray P. Holland -- Carry me back / by Nash Buckingham -- Mollie / by Paul Hyde Bonner -- Good-time Charlie / by Horace Lytle -- The biscuit eater / by James Street -- The hunting coat / by Paul Annixter -- Some fireside quail stories. Play house / by Nash Buckingham -- Bobwhite blue, Bobwhite gray! / by Nash Buckingham -- The home covey / by Tom Kelly -- The shell / by William Humphrey -- A private affair / by Harold P. Sheldon -- The sundown covey / by Lamar Underwood -- The end of a perfect day / by Horace Lytle./ Bird hunting, Quail shooting.†Fowl
52 pages. Features: Photo and "Aurevoir" by C.H. Greenway, Wing Commander, Commanding Officer; article by Chaplain F/L W.C. Daniel; The Philosopher and the Birds - A short Christmas Story; Ivan Ackery - A Master Showman, by LAC. S.R. Finkel; Station Adjutant Flight Lieutenant R.A. Kirkwood, by W01 K. Pugsley; Tops in Entertainment; Our First Station Dance; Sergeant John Chipman Kerr, V.C.; Film Cutting in One Uneasy Lesson, by Flying Officer Phillip Booth; Sports - considerable news of station sports activities; Phone interview with Lovely Susan Hawyard; Presentation of a Kittyhawk aircraft to the R.C.A.F.; Acceptance Testing of New Aircraft for the R.C.A.F., by W.L. Thomlinson, Squadron Leader; British Columbia Takes a Bow, by F/Sgt., D.J. Miller; Defence of the Airmen's Mess, by F/O H.J. Bird; Wonderful centerfold montage of photos with captions, and message from Commanding Officer; Army News; Women's Auxiliary to the Air Service; Nice photo ad for Harron Bros. Limited Funeral Home; Dozens of excellent vintage ads for Vancouver-area small businesses; and more. Moderate wear. Tiny ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy of this vintage R.C.A.F. publication. Magazine
Folio 2 vol., illus. 431 plates reproduced in color for the first time from the collection at the New York Historical Society Hardcover Very good condition in slightly worn slipcase
xii, 328 p. illus. 23 cm. Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition
119 pages. Includes piano music and lyrics to the following 40 songs: My true love hath my heart; Good night; Where shall the lover rest; Willow, willow, willow; Take, o those lips away; No longer mourn for me; Blow, blow thou winter wind; To Lucasta, on going to the wars; If thou would'st ease thine heart; To Althea, from prison; Why so pale and wan; Weep you no more; There by none of Beauty's daughters; Bright star; A stray nymph of Dian; Proud Maisie; Lay a garland on my hearse; A Welsh lullaby; When comes my Gwen; And yet I love her till I die; Love is a bable; Under the greenwood tree; On a time the amorous Silvy; Ye little birds that sit and sing; O never say that I was false of heart; Sleep; Nightfall in winter; Dirge in woods; Grapes; Armida's garden; My heart is like a singing bird; Why art thou slow; To blossoms; Rosaline; Dream pedlary; Why so pale and wan (earlier, unpublished version). Usual library markings. Covers almost detached. Above-average wear. Book
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 19 monochrome plates on 16, and 2 illustrations and 20 maps and diagrams in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, boards very lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly spotted on (predominantly white) rear panel. New Naturalist Monograph, 2. With dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Sm. 8vo., Sole Trade (and Best) Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and a plate, some minor foxing to endpapers, preliminaries and title only, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a most attractive copy of a scarce Central Wales avifauna. The first publicly available avifauna of the county, being a substantially revised and enlarged edition of the author's first, privately printed, list. NOT RECORDED BY TATE
