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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
Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1851 - In-4 - Broché - 235 pages - 28 planches H.T. représentant les animaux primés (avec légende) - bon exemplaire - envoi rapide et soigné
Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1851 - In-4 - Broché - 235 pages - 31 planches H.T. représentant les animaux primés (avec légende) - bon exemplaire - envoi rapide et soigné
Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1852 - In-4 - Broché - 249 pages - 31 planches H.T. représentant les animaux primés (avec légende) - bon exemplaire - envoi rapide et soigné
Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1853 - In-4 - Broché - 235 pages - 36 superbes planches H.T. représentant les animaux primés (avec légende) - bon exemplaire - envoi rapide et soigné
Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1856 - In-4 - Broché - 43 pages - 538 planches H.T. représentant les animaux primés (avec légende) - bon exemplaire - envoi rapide et soigné
Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1851 - In-4 - Broché - 355 pages - 26 planches H.T. représentant les animaux primés (avec légende) - bon exemplaire - envoi rapide et soigné
8 page pop-up book which, when opened and secured by paper clip per instructions, provides a 360 degree view. Undated. Circa 1955? Westminster Books logo upon back cover. Printed in Holland. Covers show smiling boy and girl in barnyard with pig and dog. Former owner's name neatly printed beneath first pop-up. Spiral metal binding partially flattened at spots. Large tear to third pop-up was repaired by former owner. Small opening to bottom of first pop-up also repaired. Half-inch opening to bottom of back cover. Average external wear. Lovely softly-hued colour illustrations depict active, yet tranquil farm scenes. 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
8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Includes over 900 titles described and annotated in full.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter just a little browned at upper edges of fold-ins. The author's first book, and the beginning of a wonderful stream of cookery titles from the only writer to rival her close friend Elizabeth David. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
42 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: Pounding Waves and Creaking Timbers - first of three chapters of "Master of the Moonrise"; The Whistle Pig - the marmot that scared the bear did not heed its own warning; Frontier Town - a Ketchikan old-timer who was there in 1898 presents some interesting recollections; No One at Home at Kulukak - Silence, complete, awful silence in a remote place can be a terrible thing; First Impressions - The first of two chapters of "Cannery Village"; and more. Unmarked. Moderate evidence of moisture exposure. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Fabulous Horse Steel Dust - the true account of Texas' most celebrated stallion; Gunsight on Target! - the Death Valley Jayhawkers; Skid Roads - great logging story by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; The Cherokee Remember Their Badmen; Ruckus at Old Fort Musselshell; Ancient Salt Trails - the ancient Walpi pueble dispatched salt trains annually to Zuni; 1874 - Year of the Grasshopper; True West Scrapbook; Tragedy at Pig Pen, Hidalgo, New Mexico; Wild Old Days; The Prowler with the Big Foot - a Texas story; Hell at 1200 feet! - The Daly-West Mine explosion of 1902; Trailin' Down to Nebraska. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
34 pages. Features: The Comfortable Pew, by Pierre Berton; Carol Morley - Canadian girl from London is a zany, zesty star in a top New York Revue - and now she wants to tackle Broadway; Name Droppers comic strip; How Canada's Flag Was Born, by Robert McKeown; Greased pig event at the University of Alberta's first rodeo - article with colour photos of animated young ladies; George Chuvalo Could Beat Floyd Patterson - photo-illustrated boxing article by Andy O'Brien; Port Moody B. C.'s Thunderbird Fast Draw Club - article and colour photos of the folks who love to shoot fast; Nipper - Doug Wright comic strip. Various tears. Considerable damage to covers. Book
144 pages. Features: What about price supports?; Easier ways to handle corn; Roughage capacity; Save your beans; Pig hatcheries are here to stay; a plan for low-cost grade A milk; Keeping out of mortgage trouble; Wet-weather implements; Apply nitrogen now for extra profits; More beef from dry-land pasture; Better pasture with less cost and work; Machines dig their silage; They seed in standing corn; Six-Man football in Salem, New York, with photos including coach Bob Kana. Shopping with the Baugh family at Rucker-Rosenstock's, a department store in Petersburg, VA. Ads include: Nice color Studebaker car ad inside front cover; 1952 Buick; Willys 4WD trucks; New Holland baler ad features Ellsworth Waite of Alexander, NY; International Harvester (color photos); Prince Albert tobacco ad features singer George Morgan and William F. Quinn; Champion spark plug ad features great photos of Clarence, Frank and George Hoff who farm near Saginaw, Michigan; Ford pickups - with color photo of rancher and rice farmer W.E. Worthen, Jr. of Highlands, Texas; Oliver "Superior" seed drill; New Idea one-row corn picker (color photos); Charles Donaldson of Center Point Iowa appears in a Carlon pipe ad; Allis-Chalmers CA tractor; Ford Tractor (2-pages with photos); Kendall Gibson of Kirkwood, Illiinois appears in American Fence ad; Massey-Harris Tractor; Very nice color-photo 7up ad features BBQ scene with Granpa; Blue Bell work clothes; Funky color-photo ad for the Ford Ranch Wagon (drab blue); Pontiac car; Jergens lotion ad features Mrs. J.J. Hall of Grapevine, Texas, and her family; Winchester Super-X silvertip ammo; Noxzema ad features Mary Austin of Brooklyn, NY. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
96 pages. Features: Small date written on front cover. One-inch opening to fore-edge of some page. Small chip from fore-edge of back cover. The woman comments; The thankless children; What British Brides can teach us; The Welcome Wagon; Are You Just a Plaything of Nature? (ad for Pinkham's vegetable compound); How Good a Mother Are You?: Her Murders are Profitable - Mary Roberts Rinehard; Mother Hubbard and her Frozen Cupboard; Bernhardt in the Suburbs - the little theater is big business; Pork can poison you; New Lives for the Old; Prevent Sunburn; They Shall Take Up Serpents; The women who walked in danger - Bryant's Station in 1872; Break bad Habits; Leave it to Girls; She raised her boys on morning glories - Ada Belle Pirle; Marriage Faces a Crisis; Hard Water - Household Swindle; Confessions of a Telephone Operator; Blind Pianist Jimmy Osborn; Martha Golm - the doctor who cured herself; Average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
196 pages. Features: Clamping a ban on brucellosis; Remote control for kilowatts; Pork profits begin with your boar; It's size that sells your fruit; Bulbs that bring an early spring; Hydraulic power makes tough jobs easy; Farm with fine tradition; Your Hog-cholera worries are whipped Sheep fit a lot of farms; Is your debt load balanced right?; The Great Greenbug fight; The squirrel and the .22; It's always farm-fire season; Tight bins for ear corn; The Kansas Twister (fiction); Scipio Takes a Day Off (fiction); Trail East (part 2 of 4). Ads: B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Edwin B. Fenske of Reisel, Texas; Oldsmobile super '88'; Rayovac batteries (one color page); Florence heaters; USS Steel ad with photo of Ernest Randal of Morningview Stock Farm of Marion, Alabama; Small clipping from photo of page 31 of the article on the Porter farm of Terrell, TX; Ferguson '30' Tractor (color photo); Ford cars (color photos); Massey-Harris tractors; Studebaker trucks (color); Pontiac car; Dodge car; Chevrolet pickups; Lee work wear; Buick Roadmaster; Blue Bell work clothing; Ford Trucks - nice color photo ad with George Stephens of Douglas, AZ; Amazing Wolverine work shoe ad shows lady pulling plow; Two-page Chrysler photo ad by photographer Anton Bruehl includes designer A.W. Ross, Edward Barna, Leo Poma, and Dorothy D. Cooledge; Plymouth car; Ball Brand boots; Gulistan carpet (2 color pages); GMC truck; Motorola TV (one-page with photo); Homelite chainsaws; 'Peter Pain' attacks man in Ben-Gay ad; Peters ammo ad features Frank Niemuth of Fremont, WI; Willys 4WD Trucks; Lombard chainsaws; Betty Grable photos in Auto-Lite ad; McCulloch chainsaws; Tide detergents; Boltaflex (one page with color photo); Toni ad with Pat Barnard and Rita Daigle plus twins Janey and Joey Pope; Aunt Jemima (color); Domestic sewmachines; Jergens ad with Mrs. John Rinehart; Singer Sewing Centres; Nice one-page photo-illustrated ad for the American Hereford Association; Morton's salt; Sensational color Camel cigarette ad on back cover features gorgeous Joan Crawford in low-cut red dress. Tiny coupon clipped from page 177. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
280 pages. Songs include: Going Down; Superstition; Cause We've Ended as Lovers; I Ain't Superstitious; Ambitious; Guitar Shop; Where Were You; People Get Ready; Led Boots; The Pump; El Becko; Air Blower; Freeway Jam; Situation; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Star Cycle; Blue Wind; Beck's Bolero; Rock My Plumsoul; Ket Me Love You; All Shook Up; Spanish Boots; Plynth; Rice Pudding. An unused copy. One-inch opening at top of front cover and spine, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A wonderful Jeff Beck collectible. Book
Includes music and lyrics for the following songs: The Band Played Waltzing Matilda; No Man's Land; Leaving Nancy; Since Nancy Died; Now I'm Easy; The Song of the Whale; Leaving in the Morning; Glasgow Lullaby; Shining River; Sandy is a Soldier; Life-Boat Men of Hoy; Belle of Broughton; No Use for Him; Mary and Me; Front Row Cowboy; The Wee China Pig; Big Mansion House on the Hill; The Aussie Bar-B-Que Song; She'll Be Right; The War Correspondent; Love Song of a Simple Man; My Youngest Song Came Home Today; Song Notes. Interesting black and white illustrations. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
184 pages. Features: Photo of twins Myra and Mary Long of Sheldon, IL; Texaco ad with Clarence Calrson of near Marshalltown, IA who plants corn with electricity; B.F. Goodrich ad features H.B. Johnson and Son citrus farm in Escondido, CA; Hybrid corn goes high-protein; Good-bye butcher bulls; Sell through a roadside stand; "That's Something Jim Developed" - James Fairbank, extension engineer at the College of Agriculture of the University of California at Davis; Rear-Engine Tractors; Calling All Animals; A new milk-pricing system; The Brubakers of Lancaster County - great color-photo-illustrated article on the family farm of Levi and Anna Brubaker, two miles west of Lancaster; Television is busting out all over; Short cuts to pork profits; Simplified insect control; Grass silage is a 'natural'; Residence of Claude Rains; and more. Ads: Good Year ad with photo of Lee Hunter of Jacksonville, FL and H.A. Vreeland of West Milford, NJ; Oldsmobile; GE radios; Ford trucks (color); Admiral radio; Oliver tractor; John Deere tractor (one page in color); Case slicer baler; Wheaties ad with photo of Missouri State Fair winner W.S. Buckley, of Garden City; Buick; Arvin radios; New Dodge trucks; Lee work clothes; Ford tractors (2 pages); Blue Bell denim - with photo of H.R. Belden; Disston one-man chainsaw; Sparton radio (color photo); Lux ad features Veronica Lake; Nice color Studebaker ad inside back cover features Isak Pedersen of Tietonview near Yakima, WA; Color Surge milker ad on back cover. Clipping from ad on page 39, A worthy vintage 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
74 pages. Fiction: Straw Hat Circuit; Candlelight and Salt Pork; A Little Fire; Sleep, My Love (part 2 of 5); The Wonderful Race at Rimrock; Come Back, Come Back. Articles: Who is a Negro - the problem of lightskin colored folks who pass as whites; St. George and the Marxian Dragon - a report on the first year of Britain's experiment in socialism; All-America Water Queens - The A.A.U. picks a team of the nation's 14 best girl swimmers; What George Bernard Shaw thinks at Ninety; The Truth About Henry Kaiser - this, part 2 of 3, deals chiefly with his invasion of the automobile industry; The Scholar and the Sprout - Life with Uncle Roger at Mrs. McTiver's Cape Cod boardinghouse. Nice ads include: Seiberling tires; Life Savers candies; Nice color ad for GMC Trucks; Sensational color centerfold ad for the new Chevrolet; Talon ad features color photo of woman in corset; Nice two-color two-page Buick ad; Nice one-page color ad for Mercury cars; One-page color ad for Pontiac's new 1946 DeLuxe Station Wagon; Corby's Whiskey - with golf photos; Great color photo ad for Canadian Club inside back cover features logging scenes in northern British Columbia; Lucky Strike ad on back cover. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Numerous black and white photographs. "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - From Preface. Contents: Chapter CLIV - The Battle of the Somme (II). 2-panel map laid in entitled "Area of the Battle of the Somme, July to October, 1916. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine