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Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of the "Mary Clyne" - A chief officer's story of a weird and nerve-trying affair that happened on board a tramp steamer; Housekeeping in the Wilds of Bechuanaland - Vivian France explains how she set up her home a month's ox-cart journey from civilization - with nice photos ; Following the Frontier Trail - Part II - The continued adventures of Edith Ammons Kohl in Wyoming; Our Caribou Hunt - How four young Newfoundlanders went into the interior one winter to shoot caribou, and what happened to them; Pekin [Peking / Beijing] to London - Mostly By Car - Part II - A most adventurous 15,000 miles, with nautical detours around civil war in China, and floods in Siam and Burma - with nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I - The amusing narrative of a decidedly unathletic 46-year-old Londoner who decided to tramp from the French coast to Lourdes; The Black Trackers of Australia - follow-up to "The Great Boulder Murder Case" which appeared in the prior issue; Photo of sheep being used as pack animals on the way from Tibet to the Rampur Fair; A Chinese Night's Entertainment - A lively interlude in the peaceful routine of life at a mission-station in a remote Chinese town; Buddy Assheton's Return - A tragic story from Western Canada, as told by a member of the Mounted Police; My Room-Mate - The amusing story of what happened one night at a hotel in a Queensland township; The Unmasking of Gola Singh - A member of the Indian police goes bad, creating the need for a delicate investigation; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part I - C.V. Warren travels to a tea estate in Ceylon and describes his experiences and the general routine of the tea-planter's life, with photos. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage 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
UTET 1990 COLLANA GIURISPRUDENZA SISTEMATICA DI DIRITTO PENALE DIRETTA DA PIERO BRICOLA E VLADIMIRO ZAGREBELSKY NUOVO, ANCORA IMBALLATO.
pp. xx, 508, 8 [Loeb Classical Library catalogue]. Title page ruled in green with publisher's device. Text in Greek and English on opposite pages. Top edge gilt. 170mm. Original full green cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gold gilt. Extremities slightly worn. Hardbound. Very good. CLASSICS BX 3
pp. (8), 17-471, 23-35 [Paper read by R.S. Rhodes, of Chicago, at the Fourteenth Convention of American Teachers of the Deaf, at Flint, Michigan], (6) [Illustrated Publisher's catalogue, includes advertisement for the Deaf, The Audiphone, hearing through the teeth] + Frontis and full page drawings. Many pages printed upon light color drawings, red, purple, green and blue, which cover the full page. Note: Six candid original photographs of cowboys pasted on first fly leaves. Four Photographs of cowboys and their horses, one photograph of their bunk house and one photograph of their chuck wagon. Small loss on bottom margin affecting text on pages 143 and 144. Inner hinges slightly cracked. Floral end papers. Paper beginning to brown and slightly brittle. Small 8vo. 200 mm. Original publisher's green cloth binding. Front board decorated in silver with design of a cowboy and his horse within an elaborate border. Spine decorated and lettered in silver. Extremities slightly rubbed with very small loss. Graff 3328; Howes P500; Jenkins. Texas #689; Adams. Rampaging Herd #1819. One of the Earliest Books on the Cowboy. An exceptional artifact of early cowboy culture. W4
A miscellany on books and book collecting. Signed inscription from author on front free endpaper. Brown red cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Dust jacket faded on spine and creased on lower front corner. Page edges foxed and browned.
72 pages. Features: Ceramics for Investment - a guide to 'brokering' antique Spode for another collector; The Best of the Web (internet); Market Survey; Artscene; Index of Contents 1999; Decoration by Design - Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair at the Marquee, Battersea Park; The King's Head - royal figures were popular subjects for decoration on early English Delft; Ranby Hall - perfect setting for English and Continental furniture, decorations and garden statuary; Essay in Gilding; Goldsmith Richard Hilliard Investigated - part II; Nice colour photo ad for Roger Lamb on back cover; and much more. Lavishly produced upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
22 pages. Features: Mailbag; The Earthworm - info. and diagram; Frankly Speaking - funds for government agencies, soil bank programme, Fraser Foreshore Shooting, More Boat Launching Ramps Needed; Many pages of nostalgic boat information and ads; Fantastic centrefold ad for Dreem Boats & Marina Ltd. of Vancouver includes photos and specs. of eighteen different boad models; Operation Goodwill - photo-illustrated article on a batch of British Columbia's California bighorn sheep which will re-establish their species in Washington State, including photo of the animals and a group photo of Lawson G. Sugden, Joe Gibault, John M. Gladney, John Leskowski, Lawson G. Sugden, Ken Walmsley, and Raleigh Moreland (Sugden's head is bandaged as he was injured by a ram's horn during loading of the animals!); Ad inside back cover by the B.C. Game Commission advises anglers their 1958 licenses are now required; Clay Chips - lists of winners of shooting competitions; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for pages 8 and 9 with marginalia and underlining. 586 pages, chapters include Of terrorism and the arts, Posh art and post-historic art, The anti-aesthetics of an art of chaos, Furniture as frame, Vital structures: the constructive nexus in South America, The ruptura group and concrete art, Gego and the analytic context, Julio Le Parc, promoter of technological art, On the subject of Waldemar Cordeiro's popcretos, Critical painting of Jose Balmes, Leon Ferrari: Dogma and resistance, Play and grief, etc. Full color prints and photos throughout, often full page.
417 pages. Index. Appendices. Footnotes. List of sixty black and white illustrations. A rare surviving copy of this important reference, made all the more engaging by today's environment of competing fiat currency devaluations. "Hitherto Numismatists when stydying the Origines of Coinage had confined themselves to the materials presented to them in the earliest money of Lydia, Greece and Italy, and on the other hand the Metrologists had almost completely limited their range of observation to the systems of Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. As the Comparative Method has yielded such excellent results in the study of other human institutions, I have endeavoured by its aid to get some new principles which may throw some fresh light on the first beginnings of monetary and weight systems." - from Preface. Attractive gilt decoration upon green front board. Legible gilt lettering upon backstrip. Average external soiling and wear. Several chips from and lengthy openings along backstrip which has become brittle with age. Narrow opening along most of front hinge. Back hinge open. Bookplate discretely removed inside front board. Unmarked. A tender but worthy copy. Book
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 5 plates and very numerous facsimiles in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy.
pp. xv, 292. Frontis plus illustrations. 8vo. Original gold stamped red cloth binding. Limited to 450 copies. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF6
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.
3 vols., 8vo., with frontispieces, title-vignettes and numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, red tops, red endpapers, a near fine set in publishers board slip-case blocked in gilt. Bright set of Sassoon's classic fictional autobiography, first published by FS as single volumes in 1971, 1974 and 1974 respectively. The first two volumes are illustrated by Lamb; the last by Lawrence. This is the 1993 reissue with redesigned slip-case.
Two works in one volume. pp. 141 (3)[Publisher's ad.] + Two illustrations. 12mo. Nice contemporary binding of red moire cloth, a little worn at head and tail. Slightly foxed. Translated from the German original 'Das Laemmchen' probably by Louis Friedel. This particular edition of 'The Little Lamb' is rare. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! FR3
in-8, 276 p., rel. cart. éd., jaq. ill. Très bel exemplaire [CA-9][109B-17]
72 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of boy celebrating summer vacation; Sisman's Scampers shoe ad inside front cover; Editorials deal with these topics - Partial Relief, A Doctor, Not a Nurse, Maintaining the Tradition, The Cooperatives, Farewell Toscanini, and Not Conquest but Murder; Trollop (short story); This Peace (short story); A Modern Odyssey - photo-illustrated article by Edgar N. Brown describes sea travel; Rough 'Un (short story); The Black Ace (short story); The Smooth Silence (short story); The Dilemma of Debt; Scotland Yard Versus Crime - photo-illustrated article on the system employed by this world famous organization to track down criminals, law breakers and lesser offenders; Golf Duds & Meteors - photo-illustrated golf article with photos of Charles A. Whitcome, Albert "Scotty" Campbell, Lex Robson, Tony Manero, Willie Lamb, and Tommy Armour; It's In the Bag - interesting article on the history of purses; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features Banff; Palmolive ad features photo of Montreal stylist and designer Doris Preston; Nostalgic half-page ad for McClary Stoves; Vintage half-page photo ad for Eddy's Sterilized White Swan toilet paper shows fellow in bathing suit at the beach; Movie news with photos of Clark Gable, Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino, William Powell, Jean Chadburn, Alison Skipworth, Warren William, Conrad Veidt, Renee Ray, and more; Lux soap ad features photo of Joan Bennett; Photo of Dick Powell in Quaker Puffed Wheat ad; Pond's ad features photos of Miss Barbara Hebbard and Lady Daphne Straight; Unusual half-page ad for Blue-Jay Corn Plaster, by Bauer & Black Scientific; Nice half-page Canadian Pacific photo-ad features the Empress of Britain; Business News includes mention of the recent Alberta default; Cooking article; Lovely one-page colour Kraft ad features their cheese products; Nice one-page Heinz ad features their vinegar and Olive Oil; Vintage half-page Rice Krispies ad; Beauty article; Why Baby Cries; One-page Carnation Milk ad features five large photos of each of the individual Dionne Quints; World Sayings; Colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy and Rinso; Rare colour back cover ad for Red Indian oil and Marathon Blue gasoline features illustration of native elders in feathered headgear, painted by Winold Reiss; and more. Covers loose but present. Average wear and soiling. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In French. [6], 202 p., many b/w and color ills. Le Karabash. Chiens des Bergers nomades. Son histoire, son travail, son avenir. Mise en page et travail informatique; Anne-Marie Derbent. Nous avons essaye de faire un premier pas dans la decouverte du Karabash et de ses cousins au sein même des communautes pastorales qui les utilisent depuis la nuit des temps comme chiens de travail. Ils ont une stabilite exceptionnelle a la fois morphologique tres bien adaptee aux grandes etendues et comportementale façonnee grâçe a une selection raisonnee etalee dans le temps. Ces chiens de protection, qui ont des racines tres anciennes, sont aujourd'hui en danger de disparition en tant que chiens de travail. Ils dovient être sauvegardes au même titre qu'une espece protegee. Sommaire; Avant-propos, Le chien en Turque., Le chien en rue (Sokak köpegi).; Le chiens de rue d'Istanbul.; Le chien de travail.; Les 'races'' de chiens en Turquie.; Un peu d'histoire.; Le chien dans l'histoire Turque.; Mise au point sur le nom du Kangal.; Premiers contacts avec les occidentaux.; Ke Karabash et le 'Berger d'Anatolie'.; Gestion du Karabash en Turquie.; Le Malakli.; Le combat de chien et le Karabash.; Ses origines.; Sa personnalite.; Chiox du chiot Karabash en occident.; Son education en occident.; Flanquer une raclee.; Punition du chien.; La gestion de la hierarchie.; Education du jeune Karabash pour la protection des troupeaux.; Traditions et pratiques pastorales.; Son avenir.; Signes distinctifs du Karabash.; Variete de couleur du pelage.; Sa morphologie, son adaptation.; Son esperance de vie.; Son alimentation traditionnelle.; La selection des chiots en Turquie.; La selection des chiots reproducteurs en Turquie.; Choisir un chiot par pointage.; La Karabash 'Français' peut-il remplir sa mission originelle de protection en France?; Recentes etudes genetiques.; Un mot sur le patou.; Contributions de nos amis eleveurs occidentaux.; Conclusion.; Bibliographie.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's inscription inside. 137 pages. 5"w x 7 1/2"h. No date given - probably early seventies, because there is an ISBN.
80 pages. Features: Young Narwhal; Mississauga COPS; They Got Their... Ghost?; A Crude Mace in Surrey, B.C.; "Ursus Horribilis"; Rogue Sheep Killer: A Story of K Troop 1959; Poetic Justice; Derek Thomas Ivany; The "Pierce" Touch; Barrage of Bullets in Nanaimo; Barbados Drug Seminars; A Page From the Old West; "Thank-You" Christmas Card - Jasper National Park; Ingenuity Pays Off; and much more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's details blacked out upon title page else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
