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Stories: Marijuana Story - Author describes how he first encountered this evil weed, and the perilous experiences in which it later involved him (12 pages with illustrations); Pork and Beans; Shanghaied!; The Back of Beyond; The White Death; Almost My Tiger; Flamingo Island; Crocodile Craft; The Border Patrol; Frozen Horror; Georgie the Ant-Bear; The Coolies' Revenge; Stage Coach Triumphant; The Puri-Puri Man; Dead Man's Opal. Somewhat above-average but not excessive wear. Book
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
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
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.
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.
1st Puffin edition. Good pbk. Creasing to the covers. ISBN 0140509569. 15356. eng
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
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 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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 54 pages. Colorful illustrations. From the novel, "Journey to the West."
