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Features: Delta County, Colorado Sheep War; Concords in Africa? - Stage Coaches were used in Africa too!; A Golden Jesus - Famed artifact of the Henry Mountains; The Stringfield Massacre - McMullen County, Texas; How about living in a Bank? - the Christy Building, formerly the Ness County Bank building in Scott City, Kansas; Queenie Danced Naked at the Convention of the Panhandle and Southwestern Stockmen's Association in Oklahoma City in 1914; Desert Cowboy - Sam Cuddeback, the last of the Mojave's early-day riders; War Horse No. 9 - Montcalm and Mr. Auclair; Old Red Mountain City, Montana; Panhandle Outlaw - Shine Popejoy; All of us Thorps could Ride! - a Washington state/Yakima Valley family; Wild Old Days!; Methods of Boys on the Hustle;A Con-Man's Christmas Carol. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Why I Wrote the book about Buffalo Bill - Nebraska writer Nellie Snyder Yost Tells all; Love and the Sexes on the Western Frontier; How to be a Ghost Towner - The Best Way to re-live the Old West is to visit the places where it once thrived; California's First Gold Rush - Gold was mined in California at least as early as the early 19th Century, if not before as Indians brought gold to the mission padres for trading purposes; Mysterious Disappearance of a Utah mine owner, Mike Sullivan; Christmas at Old Fort Concho, Texas; Bodie, California - Pictorial views of the Boom and the Bust; Lost Yocum Silver Mine - This Missouri Farmer thinks he's sitting on Riches; Gunnison's Ghosts (in Gunnison County, Colorado); Palace Station - overnight stage stop for travelers between Prescott and Phoenix; Head Cheese and Other Cheeses - Forgotten Frontier Food, Part II; Fooled by Real Gold at Sheep Ranch, California. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
24 pages. Contents: Spring 'Lambs' in Immense Number Flock to Wall Street to be Slaughtered; Insurance and Industrial Magnates Fatten - Unashamed, on lifeblood of people; Government declares war on racketeers and all lawless elements in general; 1933 Pulitzer Awards; Chief Provisions of Sweeping Farm Relief - Farm Mortgage - Inflation Bill; Foreign News - Japan to ask for US recognition of Manchukuo; Control of Chinese Eastern Railway Causes Tension; Photo of Dr. T.V. Soong, Chinese Minister of Defense, and a Harvard grad; Full text of President Roosevelt's radio address to the nation; Illustration of Senator Fred H. Brown of New Hampshire; Illustration of Mrs. Cordell Hull; Science; Broadcasting; "Sunken Dollars' - a real old-time thriller story of the sea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
64 pages. Many lovely archival photos in text. Describes Goldstream, Highlands, Colwood, Happy Valley, Albert Head, Metchosin, Rocky Point, Sooke, and Otter Point with special reference to their desirability as sites for pleasant homes and the suitability for three special lines of agriculture: sheep, fruit and poultry. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this lovely vintage item. Book
First edition, 47, [1]pp., ownership inscription on title "Philip Wolfe", disbound. Kress, 4296; Goldsmith, 7404.
Artificial Grasslands of Summer and Winter, Ewe's Food and Farm Improvement in the Surroundings of Geneva. viii, 528 pages. Well worn covers but firm solid binding.
Two Volumes. Illustrated with numerous engravings. Engraved Portrait Frontis in volume one with offsetting onto title page. Double column. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Early engraved bookplate of Brown on front paste down of both volumes. Bookseller's label on front paste down of both volumes. 215mm. Disbound. Original full leather bindings. Boards ruled in gold. Both front boards of both volumes detached. Original spines decorated in gold with original title spine labels. Hardbound. Dedicated to Charles Lamb. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. ENGSETS BX 6
Pages 269-318. Features: Cover photo of Mr. H.M. Tomlinson; Nice illustrated ad for John Buchan and his new novel Castle Gay; H.M. Tomlinson; Charles Lamb; Edward John Trelawny; Sir Arthur Pinero; Biographies of the Moment; Bookman Gallery - Frank Kendon; Ambrose Bierce; Coronets and Hearts; The Trail of the Criminal; and much more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Unknown New Zealand - Two young men set out to explore unmapped territory between Lake Te Anau and the coast, only to meet with disaster - A lake (Bloxham) and waterfall (Dorizac) discovered by these plucky young climbers are officially named after them; Saharan Adventure - includes encounters with the blue-eyed Tuaregs, the veiled nomads of the desert, who wear chain-mail armour of the Crusades and carry swords and lances; Six Wild Sheep - Describes author's experience trying to capture Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo; The Pirates of the Ethel - First published in 1929, this is an authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Oakhill's "Souvenir" - the adventure of a crocodile hunter; The Tame Bandit - An amusing story arising out of the troubles in Malaya - Dragged away from farm and family by the terrorists, and forced to serve with them under the threat of death, an inoffensive little Chinese secretly vowed vengeance, and at long last achieved it; "Cockeye" - Phases of Life From All Over the World - Vivid little close-ups of manners and customs around the world; Guardians of the Mountains - The Wardens of Canada's National Parks. Colour 'Butlin's Holiday Camp' brochure laid-in. Staining to page i of advertisements. Front cover detached. Heavy wear externally. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with three frontispieces and very numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, coloured tops and endpapers (green/brown/terracotta respectively), a near fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. Comprises 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' (ill. Lynton Lamb; 1971), 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' (ill. Lynton Lamb; 1974) and 'Sherston's Progress' (ill. John Lawrence; 1974). First editions of one of the most successful recent publications from the Folio Society. All three volumes have been several times re-issued individually and again as a 'boxed set' in 1993. Crisp set of Sassoon's 'fictitious' autobiography (first published 1928-30-36) in which his story is told by 'George Sherston'. The acclaimed trilogy was later published in a single volume as 'The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston' (1937) and subsequently complemented by further volumes of autobiography in his own name.
Exhibition catalog for the show of the same name by the publisher's gallery in excellent condition, as new. Lavishly produced with gilt page ends, ribbon bookmark, 131 pages of full color prints throughout. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is new also. Some of the artist's featured include: Francisco Goya, Rembrandt, Ernest Lumsden, Barbara Rode Zouzouline, Laurence Hyde, John Koerner, Henry E, Sybil Andrews, Kenojuak Ashevak, Jack Hardman, Ann Kipling, Bob Steele, Ian Baxter, Jack Wise, Joe Plaskett, Alisair Bell, Roy Kiyooka, Rita Letendre, Glenn Lewis, Kate Craig, PlK. Page-Irwin, Ana Wong, Deborah Koenker, Arnold Shives, Lynda Cuddy, Molly Lamb Bobak, J.C. Heywood, Micah Lexier, Aganetha Dyck, Eric Bergman, et al.
156 pages. Includes two contributions by Jack O'Connor: Gambling for Gambrels - a long chance on finding some Arizona quail; The .250/3000 Can Shoot!. Other features include: Great cover art by J.F. Kernan; Leave Some Game for the Future!; A penny proves its worth for a California deer hunter; Scrappy little panfish; The Oakland County Sportsmen's Club and the Detroit Sportsmen's Congress - two successful clubs and how they got that way; Wrong-way buck all but fools Massachusetts hunters; The Annual Alpena Wildcat (Bobcat) Hunt; Color illustration of wildfowl on the Mississippi flyway; Illinois sportsmen overcome ringneck pheasant shortage by raising them; Which rifle to use on Britihs Columbia Bighorn Sheep? - great photo-illustrated article; Choosing and Shooting Your Handgun; Hurricane-happy trout in New Jersey; Raccoon hunting near Grand Rapids, Michigan; Furry Son of Satan - savage king of the North Carolina wilderness - an 8-page, true-to-life biography; Hunting Seasons for 1946-47; Teach Your Pup Obedience; and more. Ads include: Color ad for Remington Express shells inside front cover; How to pick up a porcupine bare-handed!; Photo of T.J. Harman of York PA with his Alaska moose bearing antlers 64 inches wide. Interesting one-page color ad for Hallmark Christmas Cars for Men - with colored game bird designs; One-page Savage ad for the Model 99 and Model 745. One-page Christmas ad for Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. features beautiful lady offering gift guns; Classy one-page color ad for Ballantine Ale; Nice one-page color ad for Goebel Beer; Feather Foam coat ad; Nice two-color ad for Gaines dog food features photo of Elias C. Vail; Lovely color Santa-themed ad for Prince Albert tobacco and Camel cigarettes on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
200 pages. Features: Recipe for Co-op success; An eye for quality - New Jersey poultryman Charles Cane and family - article with color photos; Putting the brakes on DDT; Two farms in one - Jacob and Walter Meyer from near Tremont in Tazewell County, IL; The obliging chrysanthemum; Don't let the borer stampede you; Silo underground; Save money with grass; Lamb chops for the southwest; Look down and you look ahead; Who's going to breed our beef?; They built prosperity on 'worthless soil' - Saint Louis County, MN; and more. Ads: Good Year ad includes photo of Clark County, Nevada Sheriff Glen Jones and Atlanta salesman Louis W. Hill; Texaco ad includes photo of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Johnson and daughter Lorraine near Longmont, CO; B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Kenneth Austin near Janesville, WI; Oldsmobile; International Trucks; 2-page color Plymouth ad; Ferguson Tractor; Frazer Manhattan car (color); Chrysler (with fluid drive); New Holland harvesters; Dodge; Ford Tractors (2 pages); Ford Trucks - featuring "Doc" Webb of Webb's City; Jeep; New Hudson cars; Minneapolis-Moline Bale-O-Matic; Studebaker color car ad inside back cover features H.T. Asbury of Winchester Peak near Lexington, Kentucky. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound 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
Features: Auction Report; Hutchison House - a fine stone house in Peterborough; Joseph Legare 1795-1855; Style Influences in the Furniture of Upper Canada; Manitoba Paperweight; Molly Lamb Bobak - one of Canada's most prolific painters; Potteries of the Brothers Glass - one of the last major potteries to operate in Ontario (in London). Clean, 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
Excellent condition: little to no edgewear, no marking of any kind to text/interior covers straight and clean. Contents include Chromosomal aberrations, Banding of chromosomes and karyotyping, Fertilization, parthenogenesis and sex determination, Somatic cell hybridization, Fertility as affected by chromosomes, Laboratory procedures for chromosome studies, etc.
This is a fine hardcover copy in as new condition. Completely clean inside and out. Binding firm. Appears unread. Text in French. This is volume 28 in the series published by Brill on 'Culture & History of the Ancient Near East'. This volume deals with the ancient Anatolian textual evidence on dreams. 10" high X 6" wide, 344 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
224 p. + 3 plates, one plate loose. Text woodcuts of horses. Age stain. 16mo. 175 mm. Original full cloth binding, faded and worn. Hardbound. Good. In OCLC only the British Library is shown as holding this very scarce treatise. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! HORSE BX 1
26 pages. Features: Mailbag; Caribou From the Clouds - Wes Bickerton and a trip to Francois Lake for Mountain Caribou - article with photos of Harold Daye, Don and Wes Bickerton, and Shorty Innis; Photo of John Shelford receiving award from Game Director Frank Butler; Photo of Rick Lamb; Two nice illustrated ads for Parker-Hale rifles; Spa Lake Rod Smasher - the dry fly demons of the fly hills - article with photo of Al Worobey and his wife fishing on Bolean Lake; Illustrations of how to identify 'exotic' fish by their tails; Salt Water License - if proceeds from these licenses are used properly, good fish management should result; Boats; Water Safety tips; Let's Go Crabbing - article; Clay Chips - article with photos of Jim Logan, Henry Rempel, "Hand" Burnett, Bob Flintoft, Bill Thompson, Joe Lindsay, Ken Blagbourne, George Sherwood, Ry Beem, Chuck Collins, Murray Laidlaw, Aldon See, Sr., Ernie Todd, Stu Loutit, Wallace McMillan, Bill McLean, Rab. Williamson, Toni Grebliunas, Russ Barker, and Hugh McGowan; Nice illustrated ad for the new International Travelall Station Wagon inside back cover; Nice illustrated Lucky Lager ad on back cover; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
120 pages. Features: What to do about social security; Low-cost lamb feeding; Dollars from pullet flocks; Paint will protect you; Silage goes underground; Tougher than sassafras sprouts - Leo Nussbaum and family of the Missouri Ozarks; Old glory takes to sea; Better chicks for meat production; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Middle four leaves loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
102 pages. Great cover photo of boy writing love letter while sister looks on. Features; Nice GMC pickup truck ad; Nice half-page two-colour ad for the John Deere No. 5 mower; Nice ad for 1952 Ford cars; Foot and Mouth disease discovered at farm of Leonard Wass of McLean, Saskatchewan - a major threat to Canada's billion-dollar livestock industry; Green Leaves Falling (story); The perennial problem of soil losses from erosion; Farewell to the Years (storyy); Frontier Family - The Ardills of Farrell Creek, B.C. - photo-illustrated article; So You're Getting Power - article for farmers being connected to the electrical grid; Line Breeding for Daily Gain - some account of beef cattle improvement work at the U.S. Range Livestock Experiment Station, Miles City, Montana; Runaway Trailer (story) - part II; Caterpillar diesel farm tractor ad features photo of J.B. Francis of Sedley, Saskatchewan; One-page ad for the 1952 Meteor car; Vintage 2/3-page photo-illustrated ad for the new Case DC-4 tractor; Sam Harker of Standoff, Alberta raises sheep; Fantastic vintage one-page multiple-photo ad for Farmhad loaders and power boxes displays their gangly equipment handling big loads; Ben Lodoen of Fox Valley, Saskatchewan and his irrigation improvement; Nice one-page two-colour photo ad for Firestone tractor tires features Lawrence O. Larson; Nice vintage one-page two-colour ad for the Ferguson Twenty 85 tractor; 2/3-page ads for the Cockshutt seed drill and Drive-o-matic Combine; Nice photo ad for the Oliver No. 8 tractor; One-page Dodge car ad - "test the new Oriflow Ride"; Nice one-page photo ad for the Massey-Harris No. 509 one-way disc with roto-lift; Nice ad for Ford tractors; Ad for Dodge 'Job-Rated" trucks; Fordson Major tractor ad; Fargo truck ad; Excellent one-page ad for Ford Trucks features their three V-8 engines; Lovely colour-photo ad inside back cover for Swiss watches; Awesome colour-photo ad on back cover features a variety of Minneapolis-Moline machinery at work on the prairie. Please note: pages 49, 50, 55 and 56 missing. Center page loose but present. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this nice issue. Book
192 pages. Features: The perils of prosperity; A system that makes hog sense; Don't underrate brother rat; Are sheep on the way out?; Push-button chores; Prepackaging moves toward the farm; The Wunder Wagon; They're farming by plane; To beat weeds in grain; Ohio Bride and Groom - Gerald and Beulah Parpster of Ashland County, Ohio - nice photo-illustrated article; Community-service bank - Bendersville National Bank of Adams County, PA; Triumph of the trees; Forecasts to help you fight plant diseases; Irrigated pastures; Photo of Martin Burkholder of Lancaster County, PA who recently sold his land for possibly a record price of $995/acre; and more. Ads: Texaco ad features photos of the England Brothers' farm at Brookshire, TX, including their dehydrator; B.F. Goodrich ad includes photo of Edwin R. Kent of Juniata, Nebraska; Lee jeans; Oldsmobile; Jeep; GM; New Idea equipment; 1949 Frazer Manhattan car; Gorgeous color-photo ad for John Deere tractors; Photo of S.C. Cracraft of Jackson, MO in Hood boot ad; Dodge trucks; Life insurance ad features photos of the Walter Melott family of San Jose, CA; Blue Bell denim; Admiral phonograph; Ford tractors (2 pages); Gibson tractors; Norge fridges; Modess (nice color illustration of lady reclining in chair); Lux ad with Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison; Satina ad with photo of Mrs. P.F. McEwan of Chicago; and more. Heavy external wear with loss to front cover and back cover missing. Bit of writing on front cover. Contents intact. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
This publication "aims to print authentic first hand accounts interpretative of the region and its people; to encourage the collection and preservation of the traditional materials of Alberta; and to help foster a literature indigenous to this part of the Canadian West." - from inside front cover. Contents: The Chinook Yark; Sayings heard in Alberta Ukrainian Homes; Klondikers; A Famous Alberta Yarn - told by Oliver Aldridge, son of Mountaineer Bill Aldridge; Potato Bugs; The Edmonton Overland Route to the Yukon; Duhamel (Battle River Crossing); Ghosts - Gus Erickson of the Westlock district had problems with them; Bob Edward's version of how Medicine Hat got its name; Bob Edwards and I; A Bob Edwards Yarn about the "Eye-Opener" race of 1906; Some Northern Trails; A Famous Alberta Yarn about a Russian settler who made his own harnesses from rawhide; A Fast Runner - fanciful tale of a young Englishman and his sheep roundup; Attention Alberta Writers - information about the Alberta Folklore and Local History Project; Interesting details of "The Outlaw", an Alberta newspaper in 1896. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. The first issue of this wonderful publication. Book
34 pages. Features: B.C. Federation of Fish & Game Clubs' Convention - article with photo of president Dave Maw of Vancouver and photo of E.L. "Ted" Barsby of Nanaimo, past-president and chairman of the convention; Mailbag; B.C.'s Game Conservation Project Fund; Sea Gulls - G.L. Henderson writes an article about how their numbers should be moderated - with photo of game wardens George Lyons and "Butch" Tyler; Half-page ad for B.C.'s Department of Recreation and Conservation features photo of Minister The Hon. Earle C. Westwood; One-page Crown Zellerback Canada ad with heading "Hunting Not Prohibited Here"; Photos of Ken Hodgson, Charlie Miller, Bert Farr, Charlie Hodgson, Jim Treadgold, Ralph Shaw, Jim Martin, Jim Haslam, and Earl Popham; Seven bighorn sheep released in the Steens Mountain area; Dream House away from home - ideas for hunting cabins; Potential fishing to be had at Stump Lake; One page ad for the split bamboo rods offered by Hardy Brothers and Milwards of England; What is Pollution?; Ontario conducts first Canadian fishing survey; Clay Chips - article with photos of Don Stewart, Jim Couse, Wally Stakowski and Mrs. Grayce Freeman; Three photos and write-up of the pet wolves owned by Indian Agent Wilf Desmarais of Burns Lake, B.C.; Winchester Moves into Canada; Boats - article with photo of Gerry Palmer at the helm of the Belisarius; New outboard drive units; Nice illustrated Lucky Black Label beer ad on back cover shows man in barber's chair; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
