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AN UNRECORDED EDITION (apparently the second) of the first monograph on the merino sheep. The first edition is dated "ventÙse, an V" (February-March, 1797) and the next recorded edition is dated "frimaire, an VII" (November-December, 1798). This edition is dated simply "an VI" (September 1797 to September 1798), and thus clearly falls in between. 61 pp. 8vo. Printed on very fine laid paper. 8vo. A PRISTINE COPY, ENTIRELY UNCUT, SEWN AS ISSUED IN UNPRINTED WRAPS. Some tearing to spine of wraps, otherwise FINE AND BRIGHT. An extremely rare survival.
88 pages. Songs include: Squonk; The Carpet Crawl; Robbery Assault and Battery; Afterglow; Firth of Fifth; I Know What I Like; The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway; The Musical Box; Supper's Ready; Cinema Show. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy of this timeless Genesis compilation. Book
136 pages. Songs include: Abacab; Behind the Lines; Dance on a Volcano; Duchess; Follow You Follow Me; Heathaze; I Know What I Like; (In Your Wardrobe); Illegal Alien; Keep It Dark; The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway; Mad Man Moon; Mama; Man on the Corner; Many Too Many; Misunderstanding; No Reply at All; One for the Vine; Paperlate; Taking It All Too Hard; That's All; Turn It On Again; A Trick of the Tail; Your Own Special Way. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Unused. An wonderful vintage copy of this excellent Genesis compilation. Gift quality. Book
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
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
PIRONTI E FIGLI 1954 213 PP. BARBE STANCHE E CON QUALCHE STRAPPETTO, SEGNI DEL TEMPO, BUONE CONDIZIONI GENERALI.
92 pages. Features: Nice Mimeograph ad shows their duplicator in use in many military offices; Great Fairbanks, Morse & Co. ad shows sub sinking Japanese carrier with caption "The Speak a Language the Japs Understand"; One-page Boeing photo ad for the B-17 shows an Axis plane about to crash land; Marjorie Gestring marries - with photo of her; Brief obituaries for Mrs. Emma G.M. Fall, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sir Edward Beatty, and Ben B. Lindsey; Dramatic Beech Aircraft one-page photo ad shows an AT-11 dropping bombs; Uncommon Cadillac ad shows their new M-5 tank (who knew Cadillac made tanks?); Fall of Gabes - Montgomery won on his biggest gamble; Major war coverage; Photo of US bombers attacking Japanese ship in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea; Aerial photo of Krupp Works bombed by RAF; Interesting photo of Japanese soldiers in Burma dancing with Geisha girls; Series of domestic rebukes to FDR; Photo of Fiorello H. La Guardia in uniform during WWI; Before and after photos of a Seattle meat market illustrate meat shortage; Buick ad shows large shells being manufactured; Great one-page color ad for the Vega Ventura aircraft; Photo in massive Douglas Aircraft factory at Oklahoma City which builds Skytrains; Photo of Greg Rice and his two-mile world's record run; Photo of sheep grazing in the Pasadena Rose Bowl(!); Photo of "Hit Parade" dance star Chinita; Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota; Canadian Club ad features color photos of Tarpon Springs, Florida Sponge-fishermen; Nice back cover color-photo ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features night photo of Merchant Mariners at sea; and much more. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
VHS video tape with case. Average wear. Writing on cover. Undated - circa 1990? Book
Franco Cordero Passi d'arme. , Einaudi 1979, Libro usato con copertina e pagine leggermente ingiallite. Tagli leggermente impolverati Buono (Good) . <br> <br> <br> 433<br>
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. 188 pages.
136 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. "Presents the story of the 1891 sheep shearer's strike - what happened, why the strike was focussed on Barcaldine and how it changed Australia." - back board. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A handsome copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear and small tears to dust jacket. 310 pages. Many b&w illustrations.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Papers in English and French. [xiv], [1], 384, [18] p. International Symposium on Production of Sheep and Goat in Mediterranean Area. 17-21 Octobre 1983. European Association for Animal Production.
48 pages. This glamorous publication brought New York women the information they needed: news of the choicest fashion, entertainment, current happenings, where to go, what to see, and how much to pay. Features: Nice color cover photo of lady and her moving man; Fantastic promo inside front cover features photo of "strip tease" artist Gypsy Rose Lee and enticing information about the article on her which will appear in the next issue; Franklin Simon & Co. full-page ad for the new short sleeved "Scotch-and-Soda" Dresses; Full-page ad for Schaefer Beer - "now in cans"; Letters; Very nice one-page Macy's Little Shop photo ad featuring a Schiaparelli coat with beaver collar and muff; Nice half-page photo ad by Best & Co. features the Norman Hartnell Gardenia Gown; Opinions of the New York Woman; Photos of Frog Jumping championship at Ben Riley's Arrowhead Inn; Who'll Buy My Pictures? - photos of street sellers of art and poetry around Washington Square; Hold That Husband; Art for your own home - prints by the American Artists Group - with eight examples; Mary - the tale of a maid; Polly Pettit Deals in Ideas - she's been asked to serve as display director for Madison Avenue's 100th birthday celebration; What Dolly Madison Will Miss - the Madison Avenue Centennial call up memories of the plump, flouncing lady who was a prize shopper in her day; Great one-page color-photo ad for Macy's featuring model in long red coat with a black Persian lamb collar; Pull Your Punches - Artie McGovern's gym shapes the middles of Wall Street financiers - article with photo; The Fashion Editor's Diary; Autumn makeup; Great photos of the fashion $100 will buy in New York; Fantastic 'October' centerfold features color illustrations and black and white photos of seasonal fashions, their prices, and where they may be purchased; So Much To Buy; Photos of winter coat fashions; The Life and Times of a Silk Stocking - article with microphotos; How to be a Brand New Parent - article; Two-page color-illustrated feature on space-saving double-use furniture; Model rooms; Short cuts to good dinners; Five photos of Tallulah Bankhead; "Top Man" on Broadway - Theresa Helburn; Photos of the making of "Dodsworth", showing Mary Astor and Walter Huston; Dorothy Arzner - the only woman to ever become a motion picture director; Fantastic one-page color ad for the new "French Bootery" at 22 E. 57th St.; Madison Avenue - Rue de la Paix... a la New York; Tables About Town - details about meals offered by area restaurants, with prices; Manhattan Date Book; Those Itsy-Bitsy Gals! - Kitty Sharp writes about how men can't resist those 'little girls' too weak to pick up their own words; Nice color ad for Marchand's Golden Hair Wash inside back cover features blonde holding dog; and more. Unmarked with modest wear. A quality copy of this great vintage depression-era item. Magazine
Dedication, signed 'Jan' on front free endpaper. Lower front cover corner bumped. Tear to top back edge of dust jacket.
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.
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.
Covers of both volumes have discoloured areas. Wear to extremities. Volume I has tape repair to front free endpaper, soiling to preliminary pages. Index. 337 pages. Volume II has tape repair to gutter of front pastedown. 341 pages. Index. Page edges of both volumes uncut and numerous pages in volume II unopened.
88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Features: The End of the Master Bandit - The Death of Emiliano Zapata; The Women Snake-Charmers of Mount Popa, Burma (Myanmar); The Revenge of the Kuki Khels - a grim story from the North-West frontier of India; Photo of storehouse of human skulls and bones beneath church at Hythe, Kent; In Quest of Cannibals - part 1 - Exploration and Adventure in Unknown New Guinea - with great photos; Desert Flying - part 1 - over Sinai, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia; Morrison's Moose - adventure at a logging camp near the borders of Maine and New Brunswick; Relief Worker's Adventures - part IV - thrilling illustrated experiences among the war victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia; My Day with Royalty - at a Royal Review in Siam; The Sheep Thief; My South African Adventures - part 3; The Bear Man; The Adventures of Newspaper-Man - part VI - odd experiences as an emigrant; Trapped in a Sunken Submarine; Black Man's Magic - amazing photo-illustrated article in the fetish and witchcraft practiced in the Belgian Congo; 'Twixt The Snake and the Rock - thrilling adventure while mountain climbing near Delolali, India; Dragged by an Airship; The Apostle of the Coco-nut (Coconut) - a man in the German New Guinea Islands professes coco-nuts are the proper and only food for man - article with many photos. Openings to and loss from backstrip. Minor moisture-induced undulating. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
70 pages. Features: Problems of a Park Keeper - Allan Best is curator of Stanley Park's popular zoo; Our California Bighorn Sheep - Can They Survive?, by Robert F. Harrington; Cape Beale, by William J. Betts; Pioneers of British Columbia - The Voageurs; Adventure in Rocks - Ron Purvis; Upper Fraser Sternwheel Days - Part Three; Landmarks of History - Those Cariboo Stampedes; Purchase of 500 acres of California bighorn winter range at Vaseux Lake by the Okanagan Similkameen Parks Society; Mine Tailings into Buttle Lake; and more. Nice ads include: B.C. Tel (inside front cover); Carling Pilsener Beer; McCulloch chainsaws; Snow Cruiser Snowmobiles; Pil'Can Beer; Lucky Beer (on back cover). Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Sans lieu - 1935 - In-8 - Broché - couverture illustrée aux 1 & 4 plats - Illustrations en texte - 16 pages
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
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. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 204 pages, interview format with forward.
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
286 p. 185mm. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind. Small loss at head and tail of spine. Hardbound. Very good. Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) was an English author, essayist, and intellectual. Includes essays on: Essays on Shakespeare, Pope, Lamb, Goethe and Schiller. LIT BX 1
