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A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 54 pages. Colorful illustrations. From the novel, "Journey to the West."
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 184 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket. 5 1/2"w x 8 1/4"h. Illustrated by Garth Williams. No date of publication given, but original price of $5.95 printed on dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription dated 1980. Probably from the seventies. Small tear on front endpapers.
273 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Extensive reference notes. "Great Britain and the United States reach a final settlement of Northwestern America's water boundary dispute." - from front cover. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
8 pages. Lovely colour illustrations. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this charming vintage work. Book
8 pages. Lovely colour illustrations. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this charming vintage work. Book
12 pages. Lovely colour illustrations. Average wear. Name neatly printed atop front cover. A sound copy of this charming vintage work. Book
Cover: Queen Elizabeth in a Fragonard Setting. Features include: Our Notebook; The Great World War: Behind the Fronts in Russia; The Glorious Wild Life of Africa; The World of Science: A Citizen of the World - The Pig; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: The End of the Papua Campaign: Japan's Army Annihilated; Three Vantage Sites of Recent Importance: The Siege of Leningrad Lifted, The Germans Surrounded at Stalingrad and Veliki Luki Captured; The Great Russian Drive to the West Goes On; Tripoli, City of a Million Palms, Falls to the Eighth Army; The Mareth Line, Which Rommel May Defend: Some of the Forts (inc map); Christmas Day in Tripolitania: Seasonal Fare and Concert Parties; The "Priest": 8th Army Howitzer Which Beat the German 88-MM Gun; Men Behind Montgomery's Victory: The R.A.O.C., Who Provided the Eighth Army with the Sinews of War (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); Tunisian Background: Scenes from the Area of the North African Campaign; Tripoli Surrenders to Montgomery: Scenes at the Triumphal Entry; Camera Occasions: News Items of Interest at Home and Overseas; Remains of the Great Roman Empire on the Route to Tripoli; Bombs Fall on Lille and Berlin; Daylight Raid on London; and How Pre-Fabricated Sections are used in the Building of Merchant Ships in British Shipyards (illustrated by G.H. Davis). Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Binding loose, staples rusted. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Front endpaper has been torn out. Edge wear to cover. 64 pages. 6 5/8"w x 9 1/8"h. Lovely, black and white and color illustrations by Clarence Biers.
86 pages. Articles: Chiselers' Holidy - long vacations on unemployment money; Our Job in Italy - Communism isn't beaten yet; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (5) - further negotiations with Stalin/the true story of the Atlantic Charter; Dancing-School Bonanza - the big business of teaching rumba, samba and tango; Joan of Arc - the movie starring Ingrid Bergman; Guinea Pig for Cancer - an experiment with atomic energy; Warren Warm-Up - appraising California's governor as a presidential candidate. Fiction: Ring-Shy; Death Had a Voice; The Man Who Painted Himself Blue; What Would You Do?; The Branble Bush (part 3 of 5); The General was an Honest Man. Ads include: Heinz ketchup (great photo ad); Toastmaster; Vitalis (with Lloyd Mangrum); Philco; Crosley fridges; Hudson cars; Auto-Lite spark plugs (featuring Ann Sheridan); Firestone Super-Balloon tires; Chevrolet trucks; 1949 Ford cars; Coke - large illustration of soda fountain; Dodge Trucks; Lord Calvert Whiskey - featuring full-page color-photo of author Hassoldt Davis; Walt Disney's "Melody Time" movie; Trailways bus lines; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 582-644 plus 8 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Illustration of Tsi An, Dowager Empress of China; On the House-Boat "Dragon"; The Minister's Fireworks; The Metropolitan Golf Champion - article with photo of Miss Genevieve Hecker; The Wife of Aguinaldo - substantial article on Mrs. Emilio Aguinaldo of the Philippines with photo portrait of her; The Automobile at the National Capital - article with great photos of early cars; The Little Brown Mate; The Dowager Empress of China; How to Sail a Cat-Boat - photo-illustrated article; The Meloon Farm (Continued); The World of Fashion - nicely illustrated; Long Cloaks for Early Autumn; New Designs for Serge and Linen Gowns; Cut Paper Patterns; Art Student Life in Paris; News of the Women's Clubs; The Child and Its World - III - The Child's Food; One Woman's Architectural Experiment - Mrs. Charles Coffin and her home in Montclair, New Jersey - article with nice photos; ; In Jocund Vein; Recipes for Warm Days; Nice ad for Armour's Pork and Beans on back cover features baby illustrations beneath tag line "You Don't Know Beans Until You've Tried..."; and more. Few library markings. Above-average wear to covers which are detached but present. Nibbling to upper corner of last few pages. A worthy copy of this charmming vintage issue. Book
Full brown cloth boards with pasted-down illustration. Worn, tattered dust jacket. 6 7/8"w x 7"h. 70 pages. Small ink mark on front endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked; tight binding.
Pages 147-246 plus approximately 50 pages of ads, front and back. Contents: The Church and the People; The Adventure of Being Human; The Passing of a Brigadier; Judson Harmon - His Record and His Views; Savings or Efficiency? - second article on home making series; The Woman Spoke - article on native americans with quote by Chief Iron Eye of the Omahas; Art and the Average Man; Teaching Our Soldiers to Shoot - photo-illustrated article; The Story of Karl Witte - first of a series of articles on the progress and training of the child; Yankee Doodle in the style of the classical composers; From Stage Coach to Motor Car - great photo-illustrated article on early motoring. Many wonderful vintage ads including a great one-page ad for Rexall "93" Hair Tonic; Heinz Soup, Post Toasties, 2-page ad for R.M. Owen & Co. / Reo Motor Car Co. featuring Reo the Fifth, Quaker Oats - with photo of Prof. A.P. Anderson "The Man Who Invented Foods Shot From Guns", Educator Crackers, Van Camp's Pork and Beans, Dioxogen, Cheney Silks, Strathmore Paper, Hotel Chamberlin (Virginia), Santa Fe California Limited, Hamburg American Line ad for West Indies Cruise, Pebeco Toothpaste, Ostermoor Mattresses, Mott's Plumbing, The Columbia Buggy Company - featuring the self-starting 1912 Model 68-D, The Buick Model 35, Diamond Tires, American Woolen Company, and many more. Two library ink stamps to front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1st Puffin edition. Good pbk. Creasing to the covers. ISBN 0140509569. 15356. eng
GALLONE 1998 TIRATURA LIMITATA A 3MILA ESEMPLARI SU CARTA JOB PARILUX DA 170 GRAMMI E RILEGATO DA LEM (NOSTRO ESEMPLARE N° 2387)FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: INTONSO, PERFETTO. L'antropologia del maiale nell'arte e nella letteratura, da Omero a Orwell: un inno al suino, compagno per millenni della vita dell'uomo: metafora del benessere, presenza positiva nella comunità, pietra miliare nell'alimentazione europea, è stato protagonista di opere d'arte letterarie, cinematografiche e pittoriche. Il volume segue le tracce del maiale nella più remota storia europea, la sua presenza nella letteratura a partire da Omero fino ai giorni nostri, il suo ruolo nelle tradizioni popolari e a "tavola". Il progetto si avvale delle ricerche dell'associazione Homo Edens.
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. 160 pages, lavishly illustrated with large graphic, color and b&w illustrations, photos throughout. Contents include: Hotels and nightspots: Balboa brewing company, iltmore hotel, Rendezvous room, Pig 'n Whistle, Cinegrill, Zebra room Lanai rooms, Drive-ins: Simon's drive ins, Wich stand , Roberts, Herbert's McDonnell's, Van de Kamps, Bob's Big Boy, Brown derby, McDonalds, Clifton's cafeteria, Dinner Houses: Melody land, Richlor's, Tam O; Shanter inn, Lawry's the prime rib, Las Vegas: El Rancho Vegas hotel, El Cortz, Flamingo, Desert Inn, Sands, Fremont, etc.
8vo, 461 pages, not illustrated. Containing entres of large white pigs born before 1st July 1961. eng
Volume 80, containing entres of large white pigs born before 1st July 1963. VG hbk bound in green cloth, gilt title lettering. 423 pages. 23388. eng
Features: Messerschmitt's Nightfighting 110s; The Weird but able Widow; Nachtjager - WWI; Hurricane Intruders; Colour Prints; Manchester Moments; The Pig that Flew; The German Quads; Bomber VC (Flt Sgt Aaron); Colour Prints; Beaus over Burma; Supply Kings - an appreciation of 31 Squadron RAF; SCARF, the 'unknown' VC; Focus on the Hurricane - photo feature; Thunderbolts in SEAC; Colour Prints; Carrier Operations - the pioneers; 3 Wing, RNAS; The Fairey Fulmar in operational service; SKUA; Collecting Aviation Data; PFF - a prologue; PFF - the background; SWALES - the South African PFF VC; Path finding in Italy - 614 Squadron; Plane Parade; Anti-shipping Hudsons; Coastal Halifax Log; Ordeal by Water; Condor at War; The First Vought Corsairs; USMC 'Ace of Spades' Squadron; Martin Torpedo Bombers; Navy Catapult-launced scouts; RAF Transports Reviewed; Handley Page Hastings; The Big Lift; 47 Squadron - a history. Undated. Issues appear to be circa 1970s or 1980s. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Bit of peeling from front free endpaper where label removed. Excellent copy. Book
82 pages. Features: The Terlingua, Velasco & Northern; Second Generation Garden Railroading - Part 2; Glues and Adhesives - Part 1; Equipment on the Pig Point Line; Building the Woodland Railway; The Table Saw - Part 4; Two Live Steamers. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Magnificent cover art from the Canadian Life Series by A.C. Valentine entitled "The Habitant". Contents: Nice colour Heinz Tomato Ketchup ad inside front cover. Hudson Motor Car Company ad for its Essex model; The Parts Pigs Play, by G.R. Stevens; Canada's Fighting Airmen - Part 3 - Billy Bishop Earns His Second Decoration, by Major George A. Drew; The Tides of Hymen, by Leslie Roberts; Letters of a Woman M.P. - humour by H.F. Gadsby; The St. Lawrence Question - Part 2 - The Dangers of Non-Co-operation - debating the deepening of the St. Lawrence, with photos; Gamblers, by Victor Lauriston; Canada in the Caribbean - our trade efforts in the West Indies, by Harwood Steele, with photos; Gurl's Garters, by Hubert Evans; Give the Girls A Hand - Canadian Women have crashed open the gate of sport, by H.H. Roxborough; Vimy V.C.'s - Another Chapter from the record of the Canadians who were awarded the Victoria Cross during the Great War, with photos of Major T.W. MacDowell, V.C., D.S.O., Lieutenant R.G. Combe, V.C.,k Private J.G. Pattison, V.C.; To Love and to Cherish - Part 4, by Constance Travers Sweatman; Nice Chrysler ad featuring the new '75' Royal Sedan; New Dodge Brothers Six car ad; Durant Motors of Canada ad for their "40" De Luxe Sedan; Strombert-Carlson Radio ad; Nice 2-colour ad for Swift's "Silverleaf" brand pure lard; Full-page Canada Dry ad with New Orleans theme; Nice Ford car photo ad promotes the concept of homes having two cars!; Nice Ovaltine ad; 10-minute Salads; Great vintage full-page ad by the Wallaceburg Brass & Iron Mfg. Co. for their Wallrich Shower and Waldorf Sink Faucet; Furniture finishing article; Business and Investments section; Great colour ad for Libby's Pork and Beans inside back cover; Very attractive colour ad for Parker Duofold DeLuxe pens. Address label upon front cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Middle page loose but present. Cup ring on back cover. A worthy copy of this marvelous piece of Canadiana. Book
Features: Colin Thatcher claims he was wrongly convicted; Harper's Recovery; Alberta's Wildrose Alliance; Obama's Health Care Proposal; Abdullah Abdullah - a new hope for Afghanistan; Germany gets Tough - sends troops to Afghanistan; Canada's chance to Emerge from America's Shadow?; The Race for the Perfect Battery; The Cooling Cure for Cardiac Arrest; Is Quebec the Human Guinea Pig Capital of North America?; Are we Drinking too much Water?; In Praise of Dead-End Jobs; What Happened to Quentin Tarantino?; Keeping a lid on Vancouver fun; Wal-mart's new cookies taste like Girl Scout cookies; Judith Josephine Koritar - Obituary; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Judy Bowsher - dollmaker with wallpaper sales experience; A True Master(man) - Arizona artisan John Masterman; A New Dawn in Miniatures - Dawn Dahn of Minnesota; Phil Nelson constructs replicas of Victorian mansions; Projects and plans - toy baby grand piano, French provincial chair, cat chair, pig chair; A Modern-day Gepetto - Canadian Suzan Kruger puts new life into antique toy designs; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
92 pages. Cover: Harold R. Medina Contents: Pork and Politics: "Arkansas Switch" Four Votes Switch to Beat a Labor Bill; New Jersey:The Boot for the Boss - Frank Hague; Trial: His Honor, Judge Patience - Federal Judge Harold R. Medina; Navy: Man With a Rowboat; Tides in the 81st Congress; Hong Kong: Still the Show Place; Japan: Easing the Burden; Britain: The Export Gap; Big Four: Opening Bids - How Russia Sees Benelux, (M. Robert) Schuman, (Ernest) Bevin, and the Atlantic Pact; Monaco: New Prince, New Problem - Prince Rainier III; China: The Communists Make Plans; Canadian Affairs: Head Cracking at Asbestos (Quebec); Medicine: Insulin Sub-Shock; 'Oldest Choirboy' - Morton Downey; Commercials Critic - Horace Schwerin; and Perspective: Bonn and Weimar. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Morris Cars, Chrysler, 1949 Hudson and Old Crow Whiskey. Nice color-photo ad on back cover features fencers Jane Gilbert and Hugo Castello promoting Camel cigarettes. Binding sound. Small mailing label bottom right front cover. Some soiling to upper portion of front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
172 pages. Features: Smart weapons in naval warfare; vibrations of the atomic nucleus; microbodies in the living cell; modern pork production; new inorganic materials; computer-intensive methods in statistics; the social influence of the Motte-and-Bailey Castle; sudden cardiac death - a problem in topology; and more. Small initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: The Death-Bore - A nightmare experience on a railway in the Andes of South America; Wilderness Wandereres - the barren ground caribou of Canada, many photos; Terror by Night - visiting the lonely northwest coast of Australia in search of the alleged footprints of a prehistoric dinosaur; The Spell-Binder - a Natal farmer describes a curious incident related to an African courtship; The Rest Cure - recuperating from tropical fever, the author takes an open-air job hoping it will aid his health...; A Papuan "Pig Festival", with great photos; Time is Money - a story from Bombay by P. Stones; The Steamer will not call; Stolen Gold - ramifications of Far East Gold Smuggling as revealed in Western Australia; The Onlooker - making the only pleasure cruise of his life, a ship's officer is unable to enjoy himself; Slumach Lost Creek Mine Ltd.; and more. Average wear. Chips and openings along backstrip. Binding intact. Book