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Les Editeurs Français Réunis, 1976, 218 pp., broché, couverture un peu jaunie et empoussiérée, tranches brunies, état correct.
8vo., First Edition, moderate cuttings residue on front free endpaper, half-title and rear paste-down, top and fore-edges mildly mottled; original beige cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a good, firm, internally clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter complete but browned at fold-ins, repaired at inner surfaces, with one medium closed tear, lightly spotted on rear panel, slightly sunned at backstrip but bright and vivid on front panel. Fifth novel in the sequence 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight', with striking dustwrapper artwork by Broom Lynne. A good working copy of the scarcest novel of the Chronicle. NOW VERY SCARCE WITH THE DUSTWRAPPER IN ANY CONDITION. Gretton 41; Matthews A42.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13,5 cm). In Turkish. First and only edition. 13 p. An extremely rare tractate on 'Quakers' order. Unknown translator. Kuveyker Mezhebi. Rühbansiz bir din.
Unpaginated. Oblong 9.875" x 6.75". Soling and bumps to boards. Contents good+. Normal library markings. A fox helps the hounds get rid of their fleas... so they can sleep well... allowing the fox to dine at the farm! Good story! Book
Child's ink stamp upon front endpaper else unmarked. Light wear. Nice glossy copy.! Book
648 pages. Index. Loaded with reproductions of wonderful archival black and white archival photos. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper otherwise unmarked with moderate wear and some faint blemishes to front board. A quality copy. Book
16 pages. Features: Supportive comments inside from cover; Who Provoked the War? - incidents showing the historical progress of events toward the inevitable clash; Has France a Title to Alsace-Lorraine? - extracts of a letter by Thomas Carlyle to the London Times during the Franco-German War; The American Press and the War, by Dr. A.B. Faust; Ernst Haeckel and Rudolph Eucken Rally to the Flag; Supportive letter from William C. Fox, Ex-American Minister to Ecuador; We and the World - poem by Hanns Heinz Ewers; Brief piece about the 'Loquacious" German Ambassador Count Bernstorff; A call for Americans of German and Austro-Hungarian blood to organize; Full-page image depicting Germany as the defender of civilization against the Barbarian Host; News the New York Times would like to suppress; Poem entitled "For All We Have and Are" by Frederick H. Martens; We Poles in Austria, by an Austrian Pole; The German-American and the President's Neutrality Proclamation, by Prof. Julius Goebel; The War Situation - latest news of WWI; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Cover holding by one staple otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
16 pages. Features: The War of 1920, being the fictional diary of Gustav Bauerfeldt, War Correspondent of the Berliner Rundschau - Part 1; What we Demand of President Wilson In the Spirit of 'Seventy-Six'; Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany with Edward Lyell Fox; The Eliots and the Parkhursts, a poem by Stephen Oland; "To See Ourselves as Others See Us", by Dr. Edmund von Mach; Mr. Bryan and the German-Americans; The Worm Turns - at last American manufacturers are making an energetic protest to President Wilson against England's strangulation of American commerce; Why Franklin Knight Lane, Secretary of the Interior, and William Bauchop Wilson, head of the Department of Labor, Should Resign; Why They Are Against Peace - one of the most virulent pro-Ally newspapers in New England is owned by interests manufacturing war supplies for the Allies; Swiss View on our "Neutrality"; News from Germany; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Three-inch opening to bottom of coverfold otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
78 pages. Articles: Kingfish of the Dixiecrats (part 1 of 2) - Leander H. Perez; Danger - Office Party; Nobody's Safe in Philadelphia (another "Terror in our Cities" report); They Whistle While They Work - article on NBA referees with great photos of Jimmy Enright, Bud Lowell, Phil Fox, Pat Kennedy and Joe Serafin; Benjamine (Ben) Franklin Michtom Loves Little Dolls - his Ideal Novelty & Toy Company makes two million dolls per year - article with great color photos; "Please Rush the Gal in the Pink Corset" (continuing the life and times of Sears, Roebuck); Mama has Glamour; Sailor in the Rain; An Icicle Built for Two; The Rise of Carthage; Wolf!; Cinderella Rides Again (part 3 of 5); Write Finis. Includes nice ads for: General Electric; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring color image of Miss Mary Damon; Ford cars; Pontiac color centerfold; Botany clothing; Mercury cars; Kaywoodie Briar Pipes (full-color page with boxing theme); GM Electro-Motive division. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 237-276. Topics include: Remembrance Day in London; Fox Hunting; Moscow Anniversary; Terror in Cyprus; The Unification of Western Europe; Hong Kong Development; South of Nasser; African Women Demonstrate; Coronation of the Pope; Guided Missiles in East Anglia; Return of Bulwark; Ambitious Projects; Vespa Scooters; Oil Driling; Unmarked. Average wear with two inch opening at top of cover crease. Binding intact. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full white cloth boards. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. 9 1/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 126 pages.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Previous owner's name inside. Beautiful black and white and color illustrations by Clement Hurd. 10"w x 11 1/2'h. Approx. 32 pages.
140 pages. Short Stories: Hard-Luck Girl; The Words of Love; Dangerous Bluff; His Sister's Keeper. Articles: Why do they Hate us in Panama? - photo-illustrated article about anti-American riots; The Birds' Last Stand - 6,000 exotic birds may be evicted from their Stone Harbor, New Jersey haven; Pilots Aren't Obsolete Yet - the recently-cancelled B-70 Valkyrie bomber may be necessary for our survival; Los Angeles' Cure for Drunks - California desert rehabilitation farm; The Movies' Modern Marco Polo - Stanley Goldsmith is Twentieth Century Fox's chief trouble shooter for pictures filmed overseas; They Call Me Madam (part 2 of 4) - Washington's legendary hostess Perle Mesta; Fabulous Mine in the Sea - The Grand Isle Sulphur Mine in the Gulf of Mexico; Touring Russia Made Easy. Serials: If Hitler Had Invaded England (part 2 of 3); The Tewksbury Feud. Ads: Dogde Trucks (inside front cover); Employers Mutuals of Wausau - with photos of John M. Fox of the Minute Maid Corporation and company driver Eddie Mew plus Ed Waters; GE Appliances; Spring cigarettes; Fantastic two-page color-photo (red) Corvair ad features gents in black suits and hats checking out the car; Old Crow Whisky, with one-page color illustration of James Crow with his neighbors; Two-pages of the Ford Galaxie; Lowry organs; Quaker State Oil; The BMC 850 (Mini) (2 pages in color); Canadian Pacific Dome Cars (1 color page); Nice color photo ad for the (red) Chrysler Imperial in a horse-racing setting; Hotpoint fridges; Cadillac Guide-Matic; Scott Paper; ScottTowel multi-color towels; Schlitz beer - flying a kite; Kem-Tone and Kem-Glo Paint; Johnson V-75 outboard motor; Toro lawn and garden products; Admiral TVs; Cracker Barrel Cheese; Caterpillar; Smith-Corona typewriters; Hertz rental cars; Boeing 720; Samsonite luggge with Queen's guards in background; The Denver Hilton Hotel; Karpen furniture (very funky); Nabisco Veri-Thin Pretzels; American Seating Company; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
89p. + Plus color frontis and eleven lovely full page color plates of dogs. Folio. 9.25 x 12.25" Original full cloth backed color pictorial binding, extremities slightly worn. These plates are often broken out of this book and sold individually - a practice which we deplore. PETS/2
1st edition. 'A Young Puffin Original'. VG pbk. Page edges browning. Illustrated by Gunvor Edwards. 21830. eng
50 pages. Features: Photo-illustrated Interview with Max Von Sydow; 'Voyage of the Damned' - photos; The Golden Age of Terror - Part Two - Julian Fox looks at some aspects of the Horror-Fantasy Film from 1930 to 1936; 'The Missouri Breaks' - photos; Reviews - 'In Celebration', 'Tenderness of the Wolves', 'Black Emanuelle', 'Gator', 'Vigilante Force', The Diamond Mercenaries', 'Savage Man, Savage Beast', 'Lies My Father Told Me', 'Hollywood Cowboy', 'The Sin of Father Mouret', 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'Devices and Desires'; 'The Sound of Music' (reissue); You Don't Have to Get Wet - Anthony Simmons on the problems of retaining individuality and independence in the British cinema; 'The First Nudie Musical' - photos. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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
186p. Photographs and drawings. 4to. Original full blue cloth binding. Contributors include: James Herriot, Art Buchwald, Richard Meade and many others. HORSE 1
561p. Foxed. Age stained. Early ownership of Ansel Fox on front fly leaf. 8vo. Original full leather binding. Boards and spine embossed in blind. Edges rubbed and worn. Front board fragile. "This work, friendly reader, would not have been written had not the leading events of the Anglo-French war in the East, in defense of Turkey against Russia, satisfied the writer that this war was the one foretold by Daniel, in Chapter 11, verses, 44, 45". Scarce. Hardbound. Good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! RELIGION BOX 1
Mm 110x180 Segunda edicion. Brossura editoriale di 479 pagine, numerose immagini in bianco e nero e a colori. Spanish text. Esemplare in buone condizoni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 11 plates; original red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip lightly sunned, upper board unevenly faded at upper edge else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
Multi-paginated Profusely illustrated with black and white photography, diagrams and advertisements. No. 2410 Vol. 67 contains: Maritime Britannia - first particulars of Canadair's CL-28; Re-Rising Sun - the Japanese aircraft industry 10 years after VJ-Day; Southern Air Traffic Control at London Airport; H.M. Carriers 1955 - survey's the role of the aircraft carrier in a thermo-nuclear age and previews the carrier strength of British and Commonwealth navies; Carrier Developments - recent inventions to increase efficiency on the flight deck; Scotland's Air Ambulances - two B.E.A. Herons go into operation. No. 2411 Vol. 67 8 April 1955 contains: The Speed of the Fox - a fairey occasion with historic associations; Jodel D.112 and Druine Turbi - Two French Ultra-light Two-seaters Compared; London Airport Central - photos of the new passenger handling block; Ferry 604 - The diary of a Viscount delivery flight to Montreal; Radically New Cockpit Design - U.S. Navy's television instrumentation; No. 47 Squadron - history of a famous transport command unit; Air Gunnery at Sylt; The Edo Amphibious Float; Two photos of the Handley Page Victor; The Deuce - English Electric's Digital Computer; T.C.A. and the Viscount - Background to the North American debut of a British turboprop airliner. No. 2413 Vol. 67 22 April 1955: Photo of the Hiller "Flying Platform"; Mixed Power - Engines of Different Species in Combination, Mr. M.J. Brennan's R.Ae.S. Lecture; Actuallites Francaises - the mighty Armagnac *page 519-520 missing from this article*; At the controls of the B-45 - Second-pilot time on a four-jet bomber; Britannia's Johannesburg Trials - Phase one of the tropical tests; Idlewild's New Terminal Area. No.2414 Vol.67 29 April 1955: Guide to First 1955 National Air Races; The Supercharged Turboprop - Dr. Hooker's S.A.E. Lecture on the Bristol B.E. 25, successor to the Proteus; Automatic Interception - all-weather single-seaters defending the U.K.; Meeting of the Airways; Actualites Francaises - the Morane-Saulnier M.S.760 Paris; Silencing Jet Helicopters - a notable paper by Professor E.J. Richards; Sopwith Camel - Historic Military Aircraft No. 10; Tower of London - radar, radio and lighting controls in the new central building. No. 2415 Vol. 67 6 May 1955: A Coming-of-age with Gannets; Actualites Francaises - part 3 - non-stop variety in light aircraft; Jet Provost - Hunting Percival's New Av Initio Trainer (includes 2-page detailed drawing); The First Round - Swansea sees the start of the 1955 national air races; Off the Ice - an R.C.A.F. helicopter rescues a Cessna which was partially submerged beneath ice; Igor Sikorsky in Great Britain - Pioneer Helicopter Designer's Lecture to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Fabrications to Float and Fly - rubber dinghies, balloons, and much else - the work of the R.F. D company; "Hot" Parts by the Hundred - Briggs Motor Bodies, Ltd. No. 2416 Vol. 67 13 May 1955: More Thoughts on Jet Lift; Routine Atlantic Crossing - Passenger's impressions of a typical Transatlantic flight by B.O.A.C. Stratocruiser; The World's Air Forces - Their compostion, duties and aircraft *2 pages of this article are loose but present*; 1955 Military Aircraft Data; National Aircraft Insignia; The World's Air Forces Cont'd. No. 2417 Vol. 67 May 20, 1955: A Truimphant British Motion Picture - The Dam Busters; Luftwaffe Redivivus - Germany's New Air Force for A.A.F.C.E. - Its strenghts and constitution; The Party Line on Airlines - Tories, Labour and Liberals express their view for "flight"; Supersonic Fighter - a critical examination of the F-100A Super Sabre (with detailed drawing); Introduction to Air Freight - Part 1 American Domestic Scene; The S.N.C.A.S.E. S.E. 210 Caravalle - France's First Jet Airliner (with detailed drawing); Regularity in the making - the technical organization behind B.O.A.C.; Flight Control - an historical review - Abstracts from Dr. Draper's Wilbur Wright Lecture; Deutsche Lufthansa in Book
8vo., First Edition, with pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
846 pages. The story of those people who at one time or another lived in Sintaluta and its districts, thereby contributing to its history from the early days to the present. Black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers. Very large multi-page fold-out at page 116 documents tombstones in the Sintaluta cemetery. This fold out bears a closed tear and handwritten instructions for how to open it. No other markings. Light wear overall. Illustrated red boards. Half-inch notch to back edge of spine three inches from foot of spine. A quality copy. Book