Nystel, Ole T.; Banta, O.W.; Moore, Jean-Michael; Matlock, Gene D.; Secrest, William B.; et alMareMagnum
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96 pages. Loaded with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Reprint of the book 'Three Months with Wild Indians" by Ole T. Nystel, who was held captive by the Comanches; "Tex" Banta, Mountain Man of the 1880s; Silver Creek Reminiscences - Idaho; The Sadie Bloomer Affair; The Mayor of Old Los Angeles - Stephen C. Foster; Warrior's Pledge - Chief Crow Dog; Railroading by Smoke - great early rail tales; Secret Sorrows of a Sheepherder; Behind the Donner Monument; I still dig for buried treasure; Devil's Grin; Wash Barker and the Rock Pens; Beef on the Move - roundup on the Powder River in 1895!; They stole the Parson's Pants; Buffalo Roundup at Sea - Catalina Island; Heap good Medicine - mustard plaster; Doughbelly's Doin's; Hell-for-leather (Jim) Pike; He didn't want to smoke - a tale involving James Bowie and his famous knife; The Bronc-buster from Texas; The town of Rough and Ready's 100 year war in California; Outlaws never die; Gentleman Jackass. Chip from fore-edge of page 48 (with no loss of content). Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
This is a fine copy bound in illustrated flexible boards. Signed and inscribed in black marker, by the artist, Ai Jing, on the front endpaper. Most text in CHINESE. Illustrated throughout in color with photographs on almost every page. 9" square, about 210 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
48 pages. Includes 11 pages of nice black and white photos of the group. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: A 'Soalin'; Blowin' in the Wind; Day is Done; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; Early Mornin' Rain; For Lovin' Me (That's What You Get); Freight Train; I Dig Rock and Roll Music; Leavingk, On a Jet Plane; Lemon Tree; Puff (the Magic Dragon); Stewball; Too Much of Nothing. Average wear. Few markings to contents. A sound vintage copy. Book
204 pages. Songs include: Bad; Beat It; Billie Jean; Black or White; Blood on the Dance Floor; Childhood; Dirty Diana; Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough; Earth Song; Ghosts; The Girl is Mine; Heal the World; History; Human Nature; I Just Can't Stop Loving You; In the Closet; Man in the Mirror; Remember the Time; Rock With You; Say Say Say; Scream; She's Out of My Life; Smooth Criminal; They Don't Care About Us; Thriller; 2 Bad; Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'; The Way You Make Me Feel; Will You Be There; You Are Not Alone. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. A worthy working copy of this magical compilation of the magical works of the King of Pop. Book
219 pages. "Intimate photo portraits of the rooms and swimming pools and decor, the gardens and exteriors - the whole way of life that is 'The Hollywood Style'" - dust jacket. View the homes of: Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, Tony Curtis, Jennifer Jones, John Barrymore, Will Rogers, Rudy Vallee, Ira Gershwin, Natalie Wood, Gypsy Rose Lee, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Rock Hudson, Eva Marie Saint, James Coburn, and Steve McQueen. Profusely illustrated with nostalgic color and black and white photos. Endpapers illustrated with Hollywood street map. Book unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this glorious journey back to the gaudy Hollywood home styles of the 1960s. Book
216 pages. Colour photography throughout. Text in English. Features: The Mundanthurai sanctuaryis Tamil Nadu's haven for wildlife enthusiasts; The Unknown Lucknow; Bharatpur's Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary; Devil Rays off the coast of the Maldives; Nagpur and Indian aviation achievements; Suits that make the man; Jijoy Chowdhury's evocative images of a winter morning in Kolkata; Kurukshetra is steeped in mythological grandeur; Sakinalu packs a punch for the Telegus; Sri Lanka's capital; Bentota Beach; Sigiriya Rock; Buddhist art; Sri Lankan cuisine; Tea and golf in Nuwara Eliya's green hills; Baila; Sri Lankan writers; Tamilian tales; Geoffrey Bawa's architectural style; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
105 pages including index. Black and white illustrations. "Surveys of most of the known commercial or potentially commercial, readily accessible calcareous (limestone) deposits of southwestern British Columbia. Limestone denotes a rock of sedimentary origin consisting mainly of calcium carbonate (calcite) or the double carbonate of calcium and magnesium (dolomite)." - from page 7. Table of contents include geology (origin, modifications, mineralogical composition), quarrying and processing (procedure, impure beds, topography, marketing - uses and specifications), stratigraphy (palaeozoic, triassic, jurassic), descriptions of deposits (Chilliwack River, Vancouver Island, Horne Lake). above-average wear. Spine taped. Usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
96 pages. Bibliography. Signed by author upon title page. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos. Binding intact. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Contents of This is Poison! - article with many great illustrataions; A Star Was Born - The Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher Co.- super article with great photos; Chuck Malone with Bitters on Display; What Makes Glass Transparent?; British Bottle Bits; Special Deliveries; The J.J. Melchers WZ. Distilling Co. of Schiedam, Holland; Messages; Up-Dates; Little Rock Show; So You're Going to Collect Insulators? - Reflections and advice by Dick Bowman. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Mysteries of the Mexican Codices; A Primary Paleolithic Site - The Deccan College Campus, Pune India; The Viking Expedition - Searching for life in the sands of Mars; Underwater Classroom for Young Aquanauts; On Christopher Columbus's "Great Mistake"; Caribou, Reindeer and snow; Papua New Guinea Tribal Payback; In search of the Rock Vole. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Aviaries of Edward Marshall Boehm; Nomads of the Gabra - wanderers of the wasteland; Photogrammetry Breakthrough - formulas bring honors to an amateur, John P. Snyder; The Space Oblique Mercator Projection; Marine fish in a Freshwater Lake - the enigma of Lake Nicaragua; Photos of rock carvings by Harrison Forman; Sonic Exploration for Subterranean Resources - seismic reflections probe the earth; Ankh linked to Supernova - ancient Egyptian symbol records astronomical event; The Wrangel Island Affair - Vilhalmur Stefansson's expedition; Pampas, Gulls and Gauchos - life on the Argentine Plain. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
15 pages. Features: The Wonders of the Champlain Trail; New Tourist Wonderland in Alberta, thanks to the completion of the last section of the Bow River-Nordegg Forestry Road; The Glamour of St. Andrews by-the-Sea; Roll back the years with a Roadmap; International Opera House of Rock Island, Quebec. Happy Motoring (on a budget) with the Little Woman. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's house and street suits; Bills of fare for breakfasts, by Pierre Blot; Manners Upon the Road - of the Indian Summer; New York Fashions - mourning goods, mourning dresses, models, bonnets and veils, wraps and furs, gloves, handkerchiefs; Personal; black woolen lace for dresses, wrappings, etc. imitation guipure; Netted Hair Nets; mignardise and crochet rosettes for toilette cushions, tidies, etc.; Knitted night slip for child from 1 to 3 years old; Sayings and Doings; Great centerfold illustration of Ladies' and Children's Walking Suits; Basket for fancy-work, spools, thread; Paris Fashions; Thanksgiving at the Big Rock; Larry's Apprenticeship - an Irish fairy legend; Visiting Toilette; humor. Average wear. Book
Contents: Commodore 64 computer ad inside front cover; Legacy of massacre at Sabra and Shatila camps; Can we Afford Public Enterprise, by Dian Cohen; Trudeau delivers ultimatum - greedy wage and salary demands not to be tolerated; Rene Levesque in Paris with Mitterand; Ottawa and Alberta sign energy pact; Western Canada Concept (WCC) in tatters - leader Gordon Kesler sent packing; Italy's search for stability; Poland - dealing with the Vatican; Debategate; Arafat wins a respite; War in Chad; Expos and Blue Jays in first place - feature article; Minor league baseball in Canada; Leo Rautins goes to the NBA; TD Bank ventures toward discount brokerage; Belzberg's First City Trust takes over Pocklington's Fidelity Trust Co.; Simpson's Sears fined $1 million over diamond promotion; Japan in the 21st century, by Peter C. Newman; Growing Canadian AIDS alarm; Legal Heroin in Holland?; Pain of the Triathalon; Women inch toward equality in the workplace; Phil Edmonston and the squeeze on lemon cars; Proposals for dealing with illegals in Canada; Newfoundland's Wonderful Grand Band offers a raunchy combination of satire, slapstick and rock; The annual Stampede Art Auction in Calgary; Alden Nowlan - obituary. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Pittston battles for New Brunswick refinery in Eastport; Explosive student woes in France; Can we trust our spies?, by Barbara Amiel; Joe Clark searching for second ballot support; Robert Kaplan under attack for his new CSIS; Dave Barrett bows out leaving no heir; Militant Nova Scotia lobster fishermen; The trial of Gilles Gregoire; Inside Canada's Prisons - cover story with photos; Texas Instruments PC ad; British national election campaign; Scandal in Somalia; Congress approves the MX missile; Deadly new phase of warfare in South Africa; Canadian shipyards fighting to survive on government contracts; On the Nissan Assembly Line in Japan, by Peter C. Newman; NHL faces anti-trust challenge after refusing to allow the sale of the St. Louis Blues to a Saskatoon group - Bill Hunter; Commodore 64 computer ad; Into the tomb of HMS Breadalbane - interesting underwater photos; Bruce Allen - the most successful manager in the history of Canadian rock; Fotheringham on the Hitler diaries hoax. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: When Bob Dalton Hit the Longview Bank; Montana - the last frontier to be branded; Geronimo's Wives; Gold Beneath Toadstool Rock; The Tragic Punishment of James Black; Mademoiselle Nevada; Dodging Death along the Smoky Hill River; Bulkeley Wells - polite and lethal; The Crest and Crumble of Crook City; The Difference between Oregon and California Miners; Off to Indiana!; The Monarchs; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
pages 575-538. Features: All-Relay Interlocking at Manchester, N.H. on the B.& M. - two plants installed in 1898 are replaced; Electronics Laboratory Car on the Rock Island; Automatic Block Signals Installed on the Kansas City Southern; Train Communication tested on T. & N.O. Lines of the S.P. - inductive carrier system; Railroad Radio Laboratory Car; Dual-Frequency Yard Communication - Jacksonville Terminal, Jacksonville, Florida; New Devices; and more. Many great illustrated contemporary ads. Average wear. Fold-mark down middle. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Capturing Satellites in Space looking back at earth; Waiting for a Vision; Exploring Earth's Life Support System; Hunting Wildlife with Pen and Palette; Ecuador's Forest Refuge; The Rock Art of Cape York Peninsula; Indian Sites of the Alaskan Islands; Why we do it; The Great Horned Owl. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: A future for zoos?; On Eagle's Wings - spacecraft for the 21st century; Challenging a dragon - descending the mighty Mekong; Spiritual Summits - Mountainscapes; Expedition Mongolia - A window on the past; Graven Images - The Rock art of the Helan Shan; Sheep Domestication on the roof of the world. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Gun Parts from an 18th Century Kaskaskia Indian Village; The 1931 Rock Island Arsenal M2 - America's last Calvalry Saber; An Experimental Winchester Lever-Action Musket; A Cased Venditti Pistol. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
ix, (1), 210 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white diagrams and photographic plates. "Presents a full and factual account of the origins and history of these strangest of monuments." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
48 pages. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Mining for Coal; Singing the Blues; When Your World Was Turning For Me; He Walked on Water; No Stoppin' Us Now; It's Just a Matter of Time; Card Carryin' Fool; Somewhere in My Broken Heart; Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart; Have a Nice Rests of Your Life. Three black and white photos of Travis. Very clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
8vo., Sixth Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, 187 plates and 5 diagrams in the text; original green buckram, upper board lettered in white, gilt back, backstrip lettering mildly dulled (but entirely legible) else a near fine copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SIR FRANCIS TUDSBERY AT CHAMPFLEURIE AND BEARS HIS FINE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Francis and Isabella Tudsbery occupied and managed the Champfleurie Estate and its famous gardens, near Linlithgow Palace, during much of the twentieth century. Their son Robin was an equerry to the late Queen Mother. The work was first published in 1901 with far fewer plates. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end, and small trade ticket os Harrison of Ipswich on front paste-down. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
ISBN : 3888146259. Schirmer/Mosel. 1992. In-Folio Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 115 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en couleur et en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Carte de visite annotée collée au dos du 1er plat. Préface de Tom Wolfe. Intro. de Jann S. Wenner. Edité par L. Kratochvil.
