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Reddy lived with his old Granny Fox. pp.120. Black and white illustrations. 1943 reprint of the 1913 first edition. Small ink mark inside back board otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality vintage copy of this charming work. Dowhan p.247. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards with gilt illustration. Small tears on dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by William Stobbs.128 pages. First American Edition.
58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Glamorous colour photo of woman wearing arctic fox evening cloak inside front cover; The Mad Giant and the Mountie - a huge Swede who worked on a section gang makes a sudden divorce from sanity; Frank Oliver - Spokesman for the West; Cold War on the Fraser River - the Yucultas near Fort Langley were dreaded by all the tribes along the river - until the day when the cold war became a hot war; The Simple Men; First Lady of the Rails - "The Countess of Dufferin"; On Board the M.V. Fort Hearne - great photo study; Robert (Bob) Chambers Edwards (Eye-Opener Bob); Trapping the Big Horn - there was lots of action when some California Bighorn sheep were corralled in the Chilcotin country for shipment to Oregon; The Formative Years - II - part 2 of an article on the early settlement of the area which, 50 years ago, became Saskatchewan and Alberta; The Story of The Sault - on the centenary of the first American locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Dr. Clever Bald sketches the history of the two towns - Canadian and American - beside the rapids; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Small folio. Illustrated by Carlise's cartoons of an old-guard pack of irreverent hounds, as they originally appeared in the pages of The Sportsman Magazine. Tan pictorial boards, printed in color. Normal wear here and there, but still a very good copy. Bold manuscript ownership of E. D. Orbell. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 1250 copies. Siegel 87; Frazier C-1-a. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W139
Studies, essays and sketches of animal life. With Index. Top page edges gilt. Browning to free endpapers, a very slight wear to cover corners and top/tail of spine.
1st edition. Hardback in a protected dust jacket. VG/G (slight loss to top right edge of jacket front cover). Translated into English by Eric L. Fox.23019. eng
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 32 plates and 3 plans in the text; red buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the Corporation's presentation bookplate on front paste-down
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The second detective novel featuring Madeleine Fox.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of the British Memorial School, Ypres, in WWII. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece and 48 pages of coloured photographs; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny creases to top of spine. 381pp. Based around Edinburgh, a case for Inspector Malcolm Fox to solve.
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, purple endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first Inspector Malcom Fox novel.
102 pages. Great cover photo of boy writing love letter while sister looks on. Features; Nice GMC pickup truck ad; Nice half-page two-colour ad for the John Deere No. 5 mower; Nice ad for 1952 Ford cars; Foot and Mouth disease discovered at farm of Leonard Wass of McLean, Saskatchewan - a major threat to Canada's billion-dollar livestock industry; Green Leaves Falling (story); The perennial problem of soil losses from erosion; Farewell to the Years (storyy); Frontier Family - The Ardills of Farrell Creek, B.C. - photo-illustrated article; So You're Getting Power - article for farmers being connected to the electrical grid; Line Breeding for Daily Gain - some account of beef cattle improvement work at the U.S. Range Livestock Experiment Station, Miles City, Montana; Runaway Trailer (story) - part II; Caterpillar diesel farm tractor ad features photo of J.B. Francis of Sedley, Saskatchewan; One-page ad for the 1952 Meteor car; Vintage 2/3-page photo-illustrated ad for the new Case DC-4 tractor; Sam Harker of Standoff, Alberta raises sheep; Fantastic vintage one-page multiple-photo ad for Farmhad loaders and power boxes displays their gangly equipment handling big loads; Ben Lodoen of Fox Valley, Saskatchewan and his irrigation improvement; Nice one-page two-colour photo ad for Firestone tractor tires features Lawrence O. Larson; Nice vintage one-page two-colour ad for the Ferguson Twenty 85 tractor; 2/3-page ads for the Cockshutt seed drill and Drive-o-matic Combine; Nice photo ad for the Oliver No. 8 tractor; One-page Dodge car ad - "test the new Oriflow Ride"; Nice one-page photo ad for the Massey-Harris No. 509 one-way disc with roto-lift; Nice ad for Ford tractors; Ad for Dodge 'Job-Rated" trucks; Fordson Major tractor ad; Fargo truck ad; Excellent one-page ad for Ford Trucks features their three V-8 engines; Lovely colour-photo ad inside back cover for Swiss watches; Awesome colour-photo ad on back cover features a variety of Minneapolis-Moline machinery at work on the prairie. Please note: pages 49, 50, 55 and 56 missing. Center page loose but present. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this nice issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter nicked at extremities. Arguably Uffa's most popular work, in which he recounts many highlights of his sailing career. VERY SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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
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
This is a very good hardcover reference copy in a good only dust jacket. Dust jacket worn around the edges, spine tips chipped. The spine tips of the book itself also worn. Very clean inside. No marks. Illustrated in color and black & white. Biographies of the artists. Bibliography. 12 1/2" high X 9 1/2" wide, 332 pages.
12mo, all in verse, [2], 24 pp., original Phillipps boards, lacking most of back-strip, uncut and unopened, a good copy. Printed at the Middle Hill Press for Sir Thomas Phillipps. The three poems are by Edward Goulburn, Martin Hawke, and Sir Thomas Phillipps, respectively. Holzenberg, 466; Schwerdt 1, p.214.
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
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
Some scribbles inside front cover and spots on some pages. Black and white illustrations by Don Nelson. 5 1/4"w x 7 3/8"h.
8vo., Second Impression, with several illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, sewed as issued, front wrapper mildly sunned, small label scar on rear wrapper, a good, clean copy. With a long A.L.s from the Rt. Revd Eric Treacy, Bishop of Wakefield, loosely inserted. Published in the same month as the first impression.
Approximately 60 pages. Songs include: Yes! We have no Bananas; Annabelle; Oh! Min; Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; If I knew you then as I know you now; Seven or Eleven; I've Got the Yes!; The Gold-Digger; Lost (A Wonderful Girl); Abie's Irish Rose; Underneath the Sip Sip Sippy Moon; Stingo Stungo; Away down east in Maine; Rosetime and You; Honeymoon Chines; Somebody Else Took You Out of My Arms; Rock me to sleep with My Virginia Melody; Down on the farm; Frankie and Johnie; Where the Bamboo Babies Grow; Mammy's Little Silver Lining; Little Rover; Starlight Bay; Doggone Whipporwill; True Blue Sam; Magic Eyes. Arranged in dance form as fox trots, one steps and waltzes. Piano solo only. Average wear. Covers holding by one staple. Book
Pages 381-420. Features: Cover photo of Joseph Stalin; Nice color ad for Sanderson fabrics and wallpapers inside front cover; Two pages of photos and information on Mr. Stalin; Photos of the Coronation Maids of Honour; Photos of Stalin mourners; Article on Russian Succession; Photos of new members of the Russian government, led by G.M. Malenkov; Two-pages of interesting illustrations explain the young science of oceanography which may one day avert disasters such as the North Sea floods; Photos of flood of refugees from East Germany; Cross country championship won by D.A.G. Pirie of South London Harriers; Photo of the first intact MIG 15 to fall into western hands, courtesy of a Polish pilot requesting political asylum at Roenne Airport, Bornholm Island; Bodies of French aviators of the "Normandie-Niemen' squadron returned to France from the Russians; Photo of signing of the Tripartite Balkan Pact at Ankara on February 28th by the foregin ministers of Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia; Photo of U.S. embassy in Moscow which is nearing completion; Mr. Colin Fox completes 87 day solo sailing across the Atlantic; Photos of personalities of the week, including chess player Dr. Tartakower, Marshal Tito, Malayan communist Lee Meng, convicted British spy Edgar Sanders, Kenyan Chief Simeon Kioko, Sergei Prokofiev, Sir Robert Gower, Clare Boothe Luce, and Mr. C.G.M. Des Graz, the former Chairman of Sotheby's; Article and photos regarding a Troglodyte city of 20,000 years ago - new discoveries in Spanish caves; Life and death of the cave bear; Swiss Watchmaker's ad inside back cover features lovely woodcut of man peering through microscope; Reed Paper colour illustrated ad by Roy Carnon on back cover features girl in red coat in shop; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 561-588. Features: Three photos of the new Sherman tank which helped to smash Rommel; Two pages of photos of 'The Great Battle of Egypt" which generated 75,000 Axis casualties; Two-pages of illustrations of the work of the men of the R.A.S.C., without whom the Egyptian advance would not have been possible; Twelve photos illustrate "The Mightiest Naval Operation in History - The Allied Occupation of North Africa, Without Losing a Ship; Re-Opening the Mediterranean (article); Miscellaneous photos from the desert pursuit of Rommel; Photos of ten personalities of the week include Captain E. Rickenbacker, Rear-Admiral Daniel Callaghan, Miss Violet Vanbrugh, Henry Fox, G.C., G.M., and Charles de Gaulle addressing Free French at Albert Hall; Dramatic photos of naval action; Amazing centerfold explanatory illustration of "A Major Landing Operation as Accomplished in North Africa; Incredible photos of how Stalingrad's population lives under continues bombardment; Aerial photo of U-boat base at Lorient being bombed; Dramatic one-page aerial photos shows bombs falling toward the Lorient U-boat base; Two-page photo feature of work of the the Army Film and Photographic Service in action. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
