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Features: Kathryn Besarany - Miniaturist of the Month; Dee Price Boquist and her Theatrical Flair; Dolores Kott's Can-Do Bears; Martin Silber built this mansion for his mom Rhea; Leslie Pinkston's Mission in Needlepoint; Susan B. Sirkis and her delightful greenhouse; The Stansbury-Burris House; Ethel Hicks' Angel Children; Myra Stell and her Arrow Head Trading Post; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Victorian Interiors; Treasuring Tiggy Winkles - Kathryn Franze's little bears; Q&A with Jan Wolf - Miniatures Architect; David and Jill Shepherd - delicate porcelain designs; Christine Casey's Romantic Bouquets; Edwin Baker - architect turned Miniaturist; Barbara Fagan's Wreaths and Baskets; Evelyn Lenz on how to make dolls with character; Carolyn Condon's original dollhouse; Mary Koshuta's Knitted Warmth - little sweater sets for doll children; Joann' Attic; A Jelly Cupboard; Clifton House - Part VI; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Bears & Bearophobia - How Rare is Your Bear?; Teddy Bears - America's Huggable Sweethearts; Tiggywinlkes Bears by Kathryn Franze and Susan Johnson; Mr. "T" Bear; The Drexel University Museum - a tucked-away treasure; Norma Slominsky -a very special touch; Carter's Grove keeps growing; Barbara Bunce - a multi-faceted jewel; Clifford Yerks - Simply Shaker; Erik Hansen - the Kitbash Kid; Jeanne Knoop - The Playful Imagination; DIY Instant Antiques; Room of the Month - Feminine Fancy; Building with Bob - Wiring and Masonry; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Merry Makings; Flooring - the beautiful basis; Gretchen Deans; Angela Trotta Thomas; Sixteen Centuries of Santa; Karen Markland; The Guild School c/o Cloud Nine; Artisan Showcase; Old Friends; Build Your Dollhouse - Part III; A Sampler of Santas; The Bride of the 90s; An Inspired Hepplewhite; Christmas Bears; Nebraska Sod House - Part III; Dream Room VI - Log Cabin Retreat; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: From Tukwila to Kitsap - so much to see in Seattle; Museum in Miniature - Betty Martin's "California Institute of Art"; Laurie Sisson; Meet Ray Whitledge; Beach house gets indoor plumbing; San Jose's Good Samaritan Show; A Colonial Keeping Room; Paper Ware for your Picnic Fare; Ready Teddies - three bears; A 1/4" scale pool table; A Curved Back Sofa; A Cozy Corner - an elaborately draped and pillowed bay was a must have in the late Victorian home; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Bears do the Darndest Things; Reflections of Teddy Contest - how Teddy makes life more bearable; Grand Prize Winner; Mr. Chuzzelwit Remembers Christmas Past; Decorationg with Teddy Bears - Thanksgiving and Christmas; Advertising Bears; Celebearities; Teddy Bear Artist Rebecca White; Show Santa Bear Got his Fame; Santa Bear and Miss Mouse; A Teddie from Eddie; Personality Dogs - Part Two; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
114 pages. Features: Reports on Canada's Boom, Washington, and Jordan; Other Worlds Than Ours, by Donald H. Menzel; British Cultural Fatique, by Kenneth Tynan; Hunting Moon, by William Wister Haines; The Kidnaping of Kamlon, by Agnes Newton Keith; Horizon Thong (a poem), by George Abbe; Soviet Industry, by Edward Crankshaw; Cockles, Brambles, and Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas in Wales, by John Malcolm Brinnin; Saturday Night, a Story, by Marjorie Anais Housepian; Educational Television, by Leland Hazard; The Wreath - a story, by Frank O'Connor; T.E. Lawrenc- Man or Myth?, by B.H. Liddell Hart; Charles de Gaulle, by Curtis Cate; Air Travel with Stopovers, by Mitchell Goodman (part 2). Interesting colour ad by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover; Black and white photo ad by the Bell Telephone System shows damage of Hurricane Diane. Nice black and white photo ad by Columbia Records features pianist Robert Casadesus; Colour ad for the European Travel Commission inside back cover; Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: Anzacs' Great Record During 1917 (conclusion); The Organisation of Youth in the War (by Sir Robert Baden-Powell and E.K. Nugent). Colour illustration laid in bears the caption "At a Franco-British Outpost in the Great German Advance, March, 1918". Centerfold illustrations of the Australians in the Holy Land. Average wear. Staples have disintegrated. Book
Pages 385-424. Features: This Tourist Business of Ours - is it a billion dollar ballyhoo? - photo at Radium Hot Springs; Painted Mountains - Cameron Lake of Waterton National Park; Camper - Respect the Weather!; White Water - photo-illustrated canoeing article by Grey Owl; Memories of Flashing Streams - the trout run big in Cape Breton; "A Big Bee" Brings Pipe of Peace - wonderfully photo-illustrated article describes how treaty money is paid, land is dealt, etc. with Ontario's Native peoples; Blackbird Blizzards; When You're Lost in the Woods - using your watch as a compass; Birds for the Prairie Shelter Belt; With Our Junior Fire Wardens; Trailing the Clouds on Horseback - the life of Rocky Mountain Guide Old Man Logan; Jack Miner's Mail Bag; A Bird Sanctuary in Nova Scotia - by John W. Piggott; Forest Business in British Columbia, by Hon. N.S. Lougheed - includes amazing half-page photo of fallers, their long saws and massive fallen timber; ; Black Bass Furnish Hot Weather Sport, by Ozark Ripley. Nice two-colour ad for C.I.L.'s Dominion Ammunition inside front cover. Canadian National ad inside back cover promotes big game hunting in Canada. Nice ad for Western Super-X shotgun shells on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: The Franciscans - they possess an inner peace that modern people seek, but rarely find; Pursuit of a Painkiller - the development of Phenazocine, a synthetic narcotic to replace the useful but addictive drug morphine; Adventures of the Mind - Life's Mysterious Clocks, by Frank A. Brown Jr.; A Christmas Letter; How to Speak French without saying a word - humor by Stewart Alsop; Winter's wildest sport - iceboating; Is European Education better than ours? - a five-nation survey of 4142 school children provides an astonishing report - long and detailed article with many photos. Great color Schlitz ad inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Features: Horrific opening photo of the ruins of Wesel bears the caption 'German cities are being pulverised to dust; photos of the British jet plane, the Gloster-Whittle; photos of the crossing of the River Rhine; Photos and details of Hitler's Berhof at Berchtesgaden; Photos of the capture of Mandalay; photos from Iwo Jima; The capture of Wesel; New equipment for use against Germans and 'Japs'; Pictures from Russia; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Unpaginated. Undated. Circa early 1900s? Nice colour illustration on front board. Many black and white illustrations in text. Cracks along each hinge. Two-inch piece missing from bottom corner of one page - text unaffected. Somewhat above-average wear. Still a pleasing copy of this lovely vintage title. Book
Features: The Mystery of Dead Man's Valley - a series of uncanny tragedies connected with a sinister region in the far north of Canada, by Philip H. Godsell; Saharan Adventure - a fascinating journey across the Sahara (to be continued); The "Moorish Prince" Affair - a strange story from aboard a British steamer; Aboriginal Rain-Making in Australia; The thing that eats men - a tale of the 'tree crocodile' from Papua; Hunting Polar Bears, by J.C. Carp, with photos; The Big Bang - a wartime story from Lagos, Nigeria; The Jail Breaker - the case of John Carroll; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Mystery of Dead Man's Valley - a series of uncanny tragedies connected with a sinister region in the far north of Canada, by Philip H. Godsell; Saharan Adventure - a fascinating journey across the Sahara (to be continued); The "Moorish Prince" Affair - a strange story from aboard a British steamer; Aboriginal Rain-Making in Australia; The thing that eats men - a tale of the 'tree crocodile' from Papua; Hunting Polar Bears, by J.C. Carp, with photos; The Big Bang - a wartime story from Lagos, Nigeria; The Jail Breaker - the case of John Carroll; and more. Few chips from backstrip. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Features: West to Adventure - the life of Arthur 'Jack' Letheby in Western North America (Part I); Fear at First Sight - man-eater danger in Africa; Introduction to Murder - Captain Philip Chambers' account of multiple-murder in Casablanca; Besieged by Sea Snakes - the horrifying encounter of an Ecuadoran fisherman; The Devil Follows the Net - The early story of the North Sea fishing grounds - sudden wealth, and sudden death; Karmuk's Prophecy - an Eskimo's experiences with polar bears in the Far North; Mangaia Trader - Part XI of "I Know and Island" - Rarotonga, main island of the Cook Islands; Bridal-Cake Sentinel - the unusually-shaped Guardian of the English Channel; Big City Leopard Hunt - Oklahoma City, 1950; Snatched from the Orient - adventure of the submarine Thule in the Singapore Strait, by Alastair Mars; Mystery of the Vanished Herds - Przewalski's Mongolian wild horses; Jungle Honeymoon; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. Book
Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Backstrip almost entirely missing. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Decent copy. Book
Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Lew Brady's Partner, by Samuel Merwin; Ingram & Co., by J.W. Marshall; Jack Farrington's Beanstalk - VIII, by David Loraine and Arthur Floyd Henderson; The Lost Legacy, by C.A. Stephens; Greenland Ho! (with black and white photos), by David Binney Putnam; Model Airplanes - V, by F. Alexander Magoun; The Wonder Story of Steinmetz - VII - photo of Steinmetz with Edison, by John Winthrop HAmmond; How Nancy Ann's Grandfather Scared Three Bears, by Frances Margaret Fox. Nice ad for the "Hawaiian Banjo-Uke" on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 302 pages.
VG/VG near fine. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. lovely clean copy. reprint. Virtually mint copy of book celebrating the centenary of one of the founding fathers of the toy industry & one of the few still in private hands, w/ colour photos of throughout
Pages 117-176 plus several pages of vintage ads. Features: Forty-Eight Days Adrift! - after being torpedoed, nine Norwegian seamen spent weeks adrift; Three Mean Killers; Revenge! - in 1916 North Bay, Ontario Pole Leo Leopold vows to get Detective Fred Fefbyre when he gets out of prison; The Fatal Watch; Lost Mines; Cowboys Adrift - two youngsters from a Cariboo, British Columbia ranch make their first trip to Vancouver; Deck Passage; The Ming Jar - what happened after the author purchased a choice piece of porcelain; "Prickly Pete"; The Relapinawa Buffalo - an outlaw buffalo terrorizes an entire Ceylonese district; The Yellow Box; The Amateurs; The Finger of Fate; The Interlopers - an Australian cattle drover story; Adventures with Polar Bears; and more. Above-average wear to front cover and back strip so front cover holding loosely. Small bit of sticker remnant on front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
172 pages. Join this experienced artist and aviator on the flights of his life. Phillips' paintings of the great aircraft depicted in this book give you the experiences of an eyewitness in ways that photography never could. "The finest reproduction possible is supervised by the artist to fill these pages with more than eighty full-color pieces of art, plus sketches and drawings direct from Phillips' personal sketchbooks. In addition there are two three-page fold-outs, to communicate the sensation of flying as no other book can." - from dust jacket. Book as new. Dust jacket bears quarter inch nick to top corner of front panel, else shows negligible wear. Beautiful copy. Gift quality. Book
Hardcover in-4°,180 pp, nombreuses illustrations, cartonnage sous jaquette illustréé. Etat proche du NEUF.- Very fine copy [QU-4]
28 pages, illustrated by the author, ex public library with usual stamps and rear endpaper removed. eng
