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68 pages. Features: Great colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Rab Butler's Bid for Power - in London Letter; Biggest Man on the Biggest Campus - Dr. Sidney Smith is President of the University of Toronto - article with photos; We Live in the World's Most Famous House - William Levitt of Levitt and Sons has built thousands of houses since the war in Levittown, NY and Levittown, PA - he is the Henry Ford of housing - article with photos; Billy Sunday of the Birds - a Maclean's flashback to Jack Miner and his legacy of caring for wild birds - article with photos in colour and black and white; The Farmer Who Makes Movies - Osmond Borradaile, the veteran Canadian cameraman has returned to his Chilliwack farm and has no intention of ever returning to the Hollywood rat race he once knew - article with photos; The Champ Still Baby Sits - Marline Stewart (Streit) of Fonthill, Ontario hasn't let all her trophies dazzle her - young gifted golfer article with photos; For 3 Nights Only - story by Joseph Schull illustrated by Marray Smith; Hero of the Hunted Men - Yaroslav Stetzko leads an army of underground fighters in a crusade to crush Russian imperialism - the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) - photos and article; Our Passport was a Dishrag - Johnny Cochrane and and Lenny Burton, two Canadian girls, describe their wonderful low-budget world travels - article with photos; Never Bet With Your Wife - humour by Robert Thomas Allen, illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; Cartoons by Peter Whalley - The Income Inquisition; Nice colour photos ad for Massey-Harris says "Power Farming Makes Canada a Land of Plenty"; Great centerfold ad for the 1952 Ford; Household Finance (HFC) full-page ad; Nice half-page ad for movie Macao, starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell; Full-page colour REO truck ad; 1952 Mercury car ad; Nice colour ad for Champion spark plugs inside back cover features young baseball player at bat; Sweet two-page colour ad for 1952 General Motors cars; Altas Tire ad features Byron, Michigan. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
80 pages. Cover art shows football star Fred Doty and his fiancee Beverly Brown. Features: The Greatest Danger is Europe - a searching analysis which shows the peril in Europe where fear is stronger than the will to fight - by Matthew Halton; Don't Call Me Baby Face - Part two of the story of Vancouver Boxer Jimmy McLarnin - article with photos, including a shot of Jimmy golfing with Fred Astaire, Joe Louis and Bob Hope; I Saw the Chinese Reds Take Over - Norman McLaren explains how the 'new order' came to the country town of Pehpei - with photos; Never a Dull Moment at the Larches - Elizabeth Armstrong relates tales from her Victoria, B.C. boarding house; A License to Murder? - driver's licenses are handed out like dog tags; Lena Horne - Glamour C.O.D. - article with photos including a large colour full-page shot; Giants of Golgotha - story by Fred Delano; How We Massacred the Passenger Pigeon - a Maclean's flashback - once these birds blotted out the sun in Eastern Canada, but the last one died in 1914; Recipe - Take One Steamboat - Tony Didier, the chef of the CPR's Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, serves up a shore dinner - article with photo; Fantastic full-page Coke ad shows Coke Cooler, glass, and soda jerk above a thirsty city - very nice!; The People Only Death Will Touch - The Rev. Aurthur Payton and Lawrence Earl travelled to Nigeria to help Lepers -article and photo; Massey-Harris ad focuses on how their products help farmers step-up meat-making nutrients in the crops they grow; Li'l Abner Cream of Wheat ad; Dow Brewery ad honours Auguste Prenovost of Montreal who tacked a galloping horse to prevent disaster on a traffic-laden street; Barbara Ann Scott is featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Center pages loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
136pp. 31 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, in padded leatherette
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 48 pages. 9 1/8"w x 9 "h. A children's sex education book from the seventies - sperm, eggs, mother, father, pregnancy, babies. Black and white photographs.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, and photographs and illustrations in the text; terracotta cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Pp. xlix, 674, 12 plts - 4 in clr, 67 b/w figs & 237 distribution maps. Cloth, DJ, sm 4to. No other volumes were subsequently published. Very good copy in not so good DJ. [P-15]
Paris, Librairie centrale d'agriculture et de jardinage, Auguste Coin éditeur, Vers 1890. In-12 relié demi-chagrin à coins, dos lisse à faux nerfs dorés, titre dorés, petit manque en queue, et un mors ouvert. Frontispice, 428 pages, figures dans le texte.
Bornemann 1925, In-8 broché, 124 pages. Figures dans le texte. Bon exemplaire.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 120 pages. 8"w x 11"h. Many b&w and color illustrations. Selected bibliography, plates and commentaries.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 96 pages. Text in German. Pages are uncut (and not meant to be). Previous owner's name inside. Many black and white and some color illustrations. Edge wear to cover.
603 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. A wonderful overview of Nova Scotia over 100 years ago. The forty-one chapters include: History; Geology; County Histories; Mines; Indians; Tourism; Fisheries; Apple Culture; Agriculture; Institutions of Learning; Timber and Lumber Resources; Paper Pulp Resources; Quarries; Game Law; Birds; Manufacturing Concerns; Institutions for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb; Governance; The Common School System. Prior owner's details neatly written atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Blue cloth attractively adorned with black decoration upon front board and bright gilt lettering upon backstrip. Binding intact with minor spine slant. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this informative work. Book
Folio in color illus white DJ with blue spine; 261 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 252) and index. A lovely copy which I was sorely tempted to open, but, alas, have refrained. || Contents: Introduction: historical images. Wrought in the margin: the age of handmade illustrations and woodcuts. Colored after nature: the age of engravings. Drawn on stone: the age of lithographs. Feel of the feathers: the modern age. || Ornithological illustration -- History. Birds in art -- History. Birds -- Pictorial works. Birds in art. || *** Extra shipping charge apply for overseas due to weight (5lbs 13oz) and size of book. ***
4to., First Edition, with numerous full-page plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Impressive selection by the pioneer wildlife photographer.
64 pages. Attractively illustrated with colourful glossy boards. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Fryaing to edges and corners of full black cloth boards. Faded spine. 9 3/4"w x 13 1/4"h. 174 pages. No date of publication shown; circa 1960's. Many b&w illustrations interpsersed with the text, plus 174 plates, many with full-page photos. Beautiful decorative endpapers. Topics include: Chimes, Carillons, Comb Mechanisms, Free metal Reeds, Organ Mechanisms, Flute-Playing Clocks, Barrel Organs, Orchestrions, Mechanical Singing Birds, Androides, and Stringed Instruments
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 15 coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present) and 8 plates in monochrome (all original captioned tisue guards present), endpapers very lightly spotted; dark green cloth, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. 'Lodge (1860-1953) was an outstanding artist, rivalling Wolf and bettering Thorburn in his ability to paint birds of prey. Some of his best work was reproduced in the twelve volumes of Bannerman's 'Birds of the British Isles'. With this work he achieved his life's ambition to draw all our native birds' (Jackson). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Albin Michel 1963, In-8 broché sous jaquette illustrée. 264 pages + photos en hors texte . Trés bon état.
La Maison Rustique. 1966. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 31 pages. Illustré de dessins et photos en noir et blanc hors texte. Tampons au dos du 1er plat et en page de titre. Coll. 'Mes Amies les bêtes'.
VG in pictorial boards. (Collins wonder colour books). 14444. eng
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 83 full-page photographs in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a good, clean copy.
1st edition. VG hbk in glazed pictorial boards. Covers insect life, the reptile world and bird life. ISBN 0860208567. 19818. eng
Roy., 8vo., Fifth Impression, with coloured portrait frontispiece, vignettes on half-title and title, 15 fine coloured plates and 46 plates in monochrome; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean, fresh copy. First published in a limited edition in 1935.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. King Penguin 67. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Black and white photos. Pretty decorated binding showing the red breasted robins in a heart shape. 250 pages, plus advertisements.
