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Second Edition, [iv],46,[2]pp., with a final advert leaf, author's presentation copy, inscribed in French 'A Son Excellence M. Le Comte de Ravantlow, President de la Chambre des Gabelles, De la part de l'Auteur', orig. wrappers, spine slightly torn. Promotes the production of more wool and urges for the establishment of a society to investigate the best methods of developing suitable breeds. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 14668; Perkins, 1586.
Second Edition, with the final advert. leaf G4, [4], 46, [2] pp., disbound. Sir John Sinclair inaugurated the British Wool Society at a large sheep-shearing festival held in 1791 at Newhalls Inn, Queensferry. He is credited with initiating these sheep-shearings which were later developed by Francis Russell, the fifth Duke of Bedford. Kress, B2206; Goldsmith, 14668.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 207 pages. Black and white illustrations.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Plastic comb binding. Oblong format: 9"w x 6"h. Contents: The Beginning Shepherd; Buying Sheep; Shelter and Equipment; Breeds and Breeding; Health Care; A Good Lamb Crop; Wool Production; Management; Cooking with Lamb; On Location with Sheep Producers; Appendix; For Further Reading; Index. 128 pages.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Plastic comb binding. Oblong format: 9"w x 6"h. Contents: The Beginning Shepherd; Buying Sheep; Shelter and Equipment; Breeds and Breeding; Health Care; A Good Lamb Crop; Wool Production; Management; Cooking with Lamb; On Location with Sheep Producers; Appendix; For Further Reading; Index. 128 pages.
420 pages including index. A handbook to specific preventive measures and cures to all common pet and livestock ailments. Unmarked. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Great reference. Book
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and full-page coloured illustration in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy with original mailing envelope. Ariel Poems, New Series.
352 pages. A very colourful and sumptuously produced publication. Features include: Melissa Changon; Vladimir Ribatchok; Nicola Prinsen; Shinah Lee; Carole Freeman; Hashim Hannoon; Michael Hermesh; Susie Cipolla; Greg Miller; Brent Heighton; Steven Lamb; and many more. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of moose towering over hunter and his dog; Colour ad for Masonite Presdwood inside front cover; Vintage one-page ad for the Gainaday 200 washing machine made by Northern Electric; One-page Waterman's pen ad features fall maple leaves; Wonderful one-page two-colour (black and blue) recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) entitled "Advance with the Navy" shows sailors climbing onto deck; Very nice colour ad for Monarch-Knit sweaters features pipe-smoking man in yellow sweater raking leaves; One-page Weston's / George Weston Limited ad features the Canadian farmer; Canada Under C.C.F. - Socialism? - article with photos of Pat Conroy, C.H. Millard, Percy Benough, Professor George Grube, Professor Frank Scott and Premier Tommy Douglas; The Torch (short story); Leader of the C.C. F., M.J. Coldwell - photo-illustrated article; Whoa, Pete! (short story); Forum on religious faiths; What it Takes (short story); Nice one-page Chevrolet ad features green 1948 Fleetline; One-page text ad by The House of Seagram entitled "What Price Democracy"; Dot and I Meet Flaming Youth - two adolescent femmes fatales meet the life of the party; D.P. (Displaced Persons) Success Story - article explains how Poles Joe Korol and Leo Polenz have fled their homeland for Canada and are succeeding as independent farmers near Ottawa - with eighteen great photos, including some of their friends Annajean and Rose; Women's section includes photos of Mrs. N.C. Stephens, Mrs. Egmont Frankel, Miss Margaret Hyndman, Mrs. F.C. Brunke and Miss Orian Warwick; One-page colour ad for Heinz soup; Marboleum one-page colour ad shows nostalgic home colour scheme; Half-page colour ad for McClary ranges; Half-page colour ad for Westinghouse fridges; Fashion article with photos; Carling's ad inside back cover features colour reproduction of Rocky Mountain Sheep painting by Beverley Herbert; Wonderful colour Coke ad on back cover features young couple proudly holding six-pack while grocer looks over their shoulders; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
32 pages. Features: A Preacher Tells The Inside Story of Sinclair Lewis and His Preacher Book; A $20,000,000 Bond Issue That Will Cost the Taxpayers $49,500,000 (second in a series presenting some of the hidden features of modern finance underlying public bond issues); Gibson Girls, Gibson Men and the Chicago World's Fair; Japan Looks to America to Prevent Wars - Freedom from Extra Taxation for Armaments What They Most Want - article with wonderful photos; Every Person Has At Least One Book in Him; Henry Ford's Page - Finance Must Get Into Step; Editorials - Professor E.W. Kemmerer and Polish debt, Conspiracy, Fraud, the Elk Hills Oil Reserve, and Messrs. Doheny and Fall, attempt to impeach Judge Frank Cooper for upholding the country's prohibition law; People of the British Isles - The English; A Doctor Looks at Doctors - and sees them as they cannot see themselves; The True Story of Mary's Little Lamb - article with illustration of Mary Elizabeth Sawyer (Mrs. Columbus Tyler) and teacher Miss Polly Kimball; One-page ad (with photo) for Edison - Columbia - Victor recordings of the Old American Dances, as played by the Henry Ford Dance Orchestra; What is a Dollar Worth? (short piece); Chats with Office Callers - Smedley Butler cleans liquor from the San Diego Marine Barracks; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - Controversial play entitled "The Captive" and Otto H. Kahn of Famous Players, Ripon College student Lynn Wells operates a bookstore but carries no inventory, with nearly all his orders going to foreign countries; News Bits; photos of large sailboats inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear with nibbling along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration features WWII sailor dancing with attractive blonde; Drying Eggs - a new war industry - article with photo of egg drying room in Trenton plant of the Canadian Doughnut Co.; Are Farmers Indifferent? - article with photos of the homesteads of Orley Shaw near Forest, ON, and K.M. Betzner of R.R.2 Waterloo, ON; Farmers of the Lower Saint John - article with photos of the Fox and Dingee homesteads of Gagetown, N.B.; Treasure of a Derelict (fiction); Storm Tide (fiction); Fascinating half-page ad by the Department of Munitions and Supply says "Drastic New Regulations Are Now In Effect" restricting sales of new and used tires, tubes and retreading services; Half-page ad for Findlay Ranges of Carleton Place, ON shows military scene and housewife saying she can wait for her range in order to provide metal to the military; An Army Without Banners - article explains how women are producing food at home to supply the military, with photos of Beth Kellington and Mrs. Will Hewlett of the Stouffville district in York County; Photo-illustrated article on the 1942 Kemptville Conference of the Women's Institutes; Aunt Helen's Boys and Girls; Illustrated half-page ad by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario says WWII is "A War of Steel and Electricity"; Nice photo of horse-drawn hay wagon in action on the Cotton farm near Orillia; Photo of Wallace Knapp of Galt, Ontario on horse-drawn potato planter; Photo of young John McTaggart feeding lamb at the Don Head Farm in Richmond, Hill; Photos of prize animals owned by Featherstone Bros. of Oakville, Haas Bros. of Paris, Byron Rath of Mossley, J.R. Beattie of Aurora, R. Norman Hogg of Uxbridge, and Alfred Bagg of Edgeley; Poultry section includes photo of chicken 'apartment building' of Dr. D.F. McKinley of Unionville, ON; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label remnant on front cover. Five-inch diameter hole neatly cut from back cover, otherwise a sound vintage copy of this fascinating wartime issue. Book
160 pages. Index. "The legendary heroes of the woods come alive in this collection of stories from the golden age of logging on the West Coast." - from dust jacket. Reproductions of many wonderful archival black and white photos. Dust jacket attractive in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Somewhat above-average wear and usual library markings to book. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this engaging work. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Taking of Hamjah's Head - One of the most elusive outlaws ever to trouble the Philppine Constabulary finally meets his fate - with photos; Smuggling on the Spanish Main - J. Vance Marshall became acquainted with two leading Spanish-American contrabandistas and became entangled in some most exciting happenings; The Man Who Was Buried Alive! - Part II (conclusion) of the amazing adventures of the "Marquis de Champaubert", with photos; The Voyage of the "Annie Marble" - part I - Quaint experiences of a three month journey through France in a fifteen-foot boat, with photos; "Monty" the Man-Eater - Part II - One of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; M'tagati (the Zulu word for witchcraft); Money For Nothing - A veteran prospector buys a mine for almost nothing but it produces thousands of pounds of gold, with photo; The Little Red Karen - Hugh Nisbet, a veteran of the forests of Burma and Siam, describes his encounter with Nanchai, a Siamese dacoit who was believed to be proof against bullet and sword - with two photos; Over Shoshone Falls in a Canvas Boat - Al Faussett, a former lumberjack, went over Idaho's Shoshone Falls - a cataract considerably higher than Niagara - in a twelve-foot canvas boat! (with phot of Faussett in his boat); The Kamalu "Ju-Ju" - Frank Hives aims to shut down a mysterious Nigerian Ju-Ju, or fetish, responsible for the disappearance of hundreds of victims; Sheep-Farming in the Sahara - A photo-illustrated account of how R.V.C. Bodley has partnered with an Arab chief to breed sheep, incidentally showing how the rulers of tribes deal with thieves and murderers who occasionally disturb the peace of the desert; Desert Ghosts - weird little story from the Egyptian desert; Black Magic - A queer tale from India; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 184 p., color ills. Children of the steppe: The Anatolian wild sheep. With an introduction by George Schaller.= Bozkirin çocuklari: Anadolu yaban koyunu. George Schaller'in önsözüyle. Photos by Aykut Ince.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text, title very faintly spotted; handsomely bound in full drak green crushed morocco, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, gilt top, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The illustrations were drawn by Lamb in the Oxfordshire village around which the trilogy is written.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignettes and illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in full crushed morocco (burgundy/blue/green respectively), backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, a most attractive set ideal as a gift or for presentation. The illustrations were drawn by Lamb in the Oxfordshire village around which the trilogy is written.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text, title very faintly spotted; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, gilt top, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The illustrations were drawn by Lamb in the Oxfordshire village around which the trilogy is written.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, gilt top, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The illustrations were drawn by Lamb in the Oxfordshire village around which the trilogy is written.
100 pages plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Real-Life Romances - six narratives of travel in Italy; Captain Thompson's 'Catch' - Captain Thompson of Knight's Key, Florida catches a huge bizarre 'whale/shark' - article with photos; Drifting Through Mesopotamia - Russian M. Dutkevitch and his photo-illustrated account of floating down the mighty Tigris to Bagdad; A Naturalist in the Arctic - Mr. Koren, a Norwegian naturalist, becomes a castaway in Siberia after his vessel is wrecked in the ice; The "Phantom Brigands" of Pegomas - how the puzzle of these these French criminals (described in the March, 1912 issue) was finally solved; Our Trip to the Kolahoi Glacier - a journey by two officers of the Indian Army to the source of the Jhelum River - with great photos; My Adventures in Sarawak (part II) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describes her time as the Rajah's bride; Two Years in Guatemala - Alfred R. Lamb describes his eventful time organizing the police force of Guatemala; The Bishop's Visit - what happened when a Bishop visited the bungalow of an Indian planter; The Fur-Buyer's Peril - Frank J. Scheider nearly froze to death in the wilds of Ontario; Moose-Hunting in New Brunswick; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
6 vols., 8vo., original series binding of navy cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. WC 217, 268, 298, 305, 472, 398 respectively. With splendid dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb.
6 vols., 8vo., original series binding of navy cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. WC 468, 447, 357, 450, 454, 462 respectively. With dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb (volumes 2,3,5,6) and Dodie Masterman (volume 4).
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, titles in sepia and black, several plates and illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpapers, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original series binding of brown cloth, gilt back, gilt tops, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper.
8vo., original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WC 447. First published in WC as two volumes in in 1937; as a double volume in 1951. Dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb. Bright copy of the second of the Palliser novels.
8vo. Third Impression with title-vignette and 8 full-page plates; dark red cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
