Daves, MichaelMareMagnum
264 résultats
Edge wear to blue cover. Front endpaper has been torn out. Dust jacket is tattered. 8 5/8"w x 11 1/4"h. 128 pages. Illustrations by Gordon Laite in black, blue, and red.
Xilografia acquerellataestratta da "Petit Courrier des Dames"Paris - Boulevart des Italiens, 1 Modes de M.me Lasalle 37 Ch.sée d Antinmisure 19x27,5 cmE 4040
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 192 pages. Many b&w photos and illustrations. The main topics are quality of work, style, blades v. machines, the sheepowner's responsibilities, the shearer's diet and clothing (ladies can make adaptions), runs (working periods), shearing the sheep, dealing with difficult sheep, crutching, the shearer's gear, grinders, sharpening cutters and combs, hand-pieces, work in the shed, care and repair of shearing machines, shearing competitions, safety in the woolshed, and the design of woolsheds and sheepyards. Also includes a useful comparison of sheep breeds and their qualities, 28 photographs, and and appendix of shearing terms.
This is a wooden picture book made from four pieces of wood with color illustrations on both sides. The book is bound with leather straps and wooden beads. 8 1/2"w x 6 3/4"h. The animals pictured are geese, cows, a goat, pigeons, chickens, pigs, sheep, and rabbits. Publisher's order number 3981. No date of publication shown. No text.
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
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.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb.
Mm 115x205 Volume in copertina rigide, sovraccoperta originale con piccoli strappi ai margini, 296 pagine. Prima edizione, in buono stato complessivo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 55 p., 18 numerous b/w plts. Türkiyede merinos. Merinos ve sun'î tohumlama tarihçesi, yerli irklarla mukayese, çogaltilmalari hakkinda mütalâlar. Merino in Turkey and its wool history. First Edition.
Fine English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In English. 148 p., color ills. Contents: The Dog.; Shepherd Dog Breeds of the World.; Native Dog Breeds of the World.; Origin of the Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shepherd Dog.; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shepherd Dog.; The Turkish Kangal (karabash) Shepherd Dog in the UK (Written by Margeret Mellor).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in Netherlands (Written by Peter Vink).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in Germany (Written by Liza Borg).;The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in France (Written by Liza Borg).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog in the Continent (Written by Liza Borg).; The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog and the Wolf.; Breed Charecteristics of the Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog.; Behavioural Chracteristics of The Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog.; Stud Selection.; Reproduction of the Turkish Kangal (Karabash) Shephered Dog.; Managment.; Nutrition.; Materials and Equipment.; Training.; Sickness and Treatment.
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
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: Henry Turkeyfoot - the last of his kind - he lived by the gun; Charles Banks Wilson - artist; James (Jim) F. Wardner and his Black Cat Farm - on a 2,000 acre island in Bellingham Bay, in upper Puget Sound; Why Woollies give mankind the Willies - James W. Gilmore and sheep; Wolfville, Arizona; Isaac Rouse of Fort Worth - "Coyote Bill" Banty - a bunkhouse murder touched off one of Idaho's biggest manhunts; A Herdsman for Cowman - Walter Gann; Heading South to Taos, by Fred Girard; A Central Pacific Ghost Ride - East to Promontory; The James-Younger Robbery in Columbia, Kentucky; The Desert will do its part - when a man wants to stay a live; Grave/Tombstone photos; Wild Old Days! Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Dad Fairbanks - Desert Man and his Nevada mule teams; Midnight Ride - Black Devil; Those Marrying Earp Men; Bond's Alley - Hillsboro, Texas; "Escorting' sheep from California to Montana; When Klondike Mike Broke Trail with a Dead Man - Tanana Valley, Alaska; The Day General E.S. Godfrey Got Lost; Wild Old Days!; A Dog Called Baldy; Blizzard on Hog Eye Mesa. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
126 pages. Features: Seven IRA men escape from prison ship The Maidstone; Leo Durocher; Noah Dietrich recalls the day they jailed Howard Hughes; Alan Gibbs - Hollywood stuntman; Handsome Marlborough centerfold loose but present; Eva Cropp - she swims with dangerous fish; The Uncensored adventures of Lewis and Clark; The Mad Marlin (fish) of Punta Carnero; Golf fashion photos; Five on a Raft - and then there were Three - Juan Puga, Richard Antonio and Tom Rash were rescued from Elliott Key, Florida. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Book
pp. xiii, 395. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with paintings and drawings; designed by Bert Clarke; printed at The Thistle Press; set in monotype Caslon Old Style; Curtis Colophon laid paper. Inked ownership of Jefford F. Oller on front fly leaf. 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Bound by the Russell-Rutter Company in full woven forest-green cloth, very slight spotting tail of spine. Original color printed paper spine label. Original yellow slip case, slightly soiled. Fifteen hundred copies have been made, of which this is copy number 420 and it is signed by the illustrator, Lynton Lamb (1907-1977). Fine. Fine Books from the Limited Editions Club make great gifts. SHELF W92
8vo., with illustrations and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in the UK as 'War in a Stringbag' in 1977. Well-written account by a pilot who served in virtually every theatre in which the Fleet Air Arm was involved. Vivid coverage of Taranto. Enser, p.88; Law, 9782.
Cover photo of Radio City Music Hall organists Jack Ward, Dick Leibert and Ray Bohr. Contents: Photo of the interior of Loew's Theatre, Akron, Ohio - An acre of seats in a palace of splendor. The Kilgen Wonder Organ - Part 1 - how the Kilgen Company of St. Louis responded to a shortage of organs in the 1920s - 3-page article with great photos. Snippets from England. Ad for the 1970 Conn 3-Manual Theatre Organ. The Gil White Residence 3/11 Organ. Nuggets from the golden days. Song Slides and Theatre Organists - the theatre organ solo in which glass song-slides were projected upon a motion picture screen developed from a humble beginning. Biography of performer Henry B. Murtagh. Toronto's Odeon Carlton Theatre - article with photo - opened in 1948. Reader contributions. Hollywood Cavalcade. The Esther McDonald Stayner Story - a theatre organ biography, with photos. New York Paramount now nostalgia. A Living Tribute to Farny Wurlitzer and Lou Rosa. Fifteenth convention of A.T.O.S. in New York. Bill Lamb named honourary member. Theatre Organists Hall of Fame - Lee Erwin. Photos and write-ups of twenty artists who performed at the fifteenth convention. Closing the Allyn Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut - Angelo Mastagni and Jack Martin of Clinton's Inc. purchased the organ and donated it to the ATOS Chapter - story with photos. Record reviews. Letters to the Editor. Rodgers delivers 'Style 260 Special' organ to Bob Power - article with photos (and ad on back cover). Chapter news. Classified ads. Nice Wurlitzer organ ad inside front cover. Classified ads. Rodgers Organ ad on back cover features photo of Bob Power and his new custom built Conn organ. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book
Features: Sir Douglas, Sheep Dog - detective work on a ranch; The Last Straw - the revolt of a modern mother; Sewing Susie - V; The Philosopher's Club - how a kid brother can be a nuisance; Fact and Comment; This Busy World - the situation in China and fighting in Nicaragua; Miscellany; The Y.C. Lab - a pedal-powered boat! Average wear. A sound copy. Book
London, Readers Union Ltd. by arrangement with Constable & C., 1940, in-8, solida legatura posteriore in piena tela azzurra, tassello con titolo oro al dorso, pp. 277, (3). Edizione fuori commercio.
1st Pan edition. Good pbk. Page edges browning. Ink inscription on the inside front cover. 17128. eng
pp. 119, cm 21x13, rileg. edit. con sopracoperta, illustrated by Susan E. Sims.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and very numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter age-soiled and browned on (predominantly white) rear panel Dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and plates; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of a Folio classic.
