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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
Paris, Asselin et Houzeau, 1917. In-8 relié percaline de l'éditeur. 249 pages. Photos. Bon état.
<p>18,8 cm brossura editoriale con vignetta (maiale); p. 168 con numerose tabelle e 38 figure nel testo. Qualche macchietta brunita</p>
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear and small tears to dust jacket. 310 pages. Many b&w illustrations.
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
48 pages. Reprint of the 1939 edition. Nice reader illustrated in black and white. Prior owner's name inside front cover else unmarked. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
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
First edition, 34, [2 adverts]pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
8 pages. Lovely colour illustrations. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this charming vintage work. Book
Unpaginated. With a push, Jane sends her pig off on a wild cart ride. The cart is stopped by a rock and the pig flies into the mud - and "moving" is a part of it all. Part of a series. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
Crayon scribbling upon endpapers and some pages. Average wear. Decent working copy. Book
Mm 175x245 Collana "Testi e Documenti per la Storia della questione Sarda - (Il Riformismo settecentesco in Sardegna) a cura di Luigi Bulferetti" - Volume in copertina rigida con titolo oro al piatto e al dorso, custodia originale figurata, 599 pagine. Copia in ottime condizioni, pari al nuovo; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
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
207 pages. Some black and white photographs. Book has a significant cant. Binding intact. Extensive pencil underlining and notes throughout. Danish text on pig breeding and pig husbandry. Book
Stamp and school bookplate inside. Many b&w photos. Clean and unmarked. 370 pages.
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
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 242 pages. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 54 pages. Colorful illustrations. From the novel, "Journey to the West."
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
Pages 659-702. Features: Cover photo of the Victor of Ashangi, Marshall Badoglio, commander-in-chief of the Italian forces in Abyssinia; Photo of Gen. Smuts appealing for peace in Europe; Photo of the Kadir Cup "pig sticking"event in India, with photo of winner, Capt. P. H. J. Tuck with his horse Manifest; Two-page pictorial map of the Franco-German and Belgo-German frontiers - of world interest since the Rhineland was reoccupied; Two pages of photo of massive Burmese Leogriff (Cinthe) under construction as the funeral pyre for the cremation of a dead priest; Photo illustrated article on Brazil nuts - a minor mystery; Six photos from filming of "Kliou", the first Technicolor film to be photographed entirely in the jungle; Two pages of photos of the "Alps" of South Africa; Page of fascinating photos illustrating the world's greatest telescopic "eye", this great 200 inch telescope disc is twice the diameter of the disc in the Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, the biggest at present in use; Page of photos of medieval ship carvings in a Devonshire church - sculpted 16th-century three-masters; Page of photos illustrate the coldest Easter of the century; Page of photos of the king personally bestowing the Royal Maundy to aged men and women; Magnificent centrefold aerial photo of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia - before construction of the Lion's Gate Bridge - as she celebrates her Golden Jubilee; Two pages of text and photos present a mysterious 12th Dynasty hoard - Treasures of Asiatic origin found at Toud, near Luxor; Photos of personalities of the week include Herr Leopold von Hoesch, Señor Alcala Zamora, Dr. Constantine Demerjis, Señor Martinez Barrio, and the king inspecting the Grenadier guards; Photo illustrated article on Galapagos wildlife; One-page photo illustrated Harrods ad presents pocket watches; One-page Johnnie Walker ad shows him inspecting barrels by flashlight; Interesting photo shows crowd gathered around an Imperial Airways airmail service plane at Kai Tak aerodrome, Hong Kong, after it arrived from Penang for the first time; Photos of Lt. Col. F. J. Popham, and Mr. Francis A. L. Would; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Humber Twelve car; Back cover two-colour ad promotes The Sphere, The Tatler, The Sketch, Sporting and Dramatic News, and the Illustrated London News. Please note: pages 685-686 missing. Several interior pages loose but present. Faint store ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy vintage issue. Magazine
8vo., Fifth Impression; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with 'propeller' motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Published four months after the first edition. Arguably the finest account of the Battle of Britain by a British fighter pilot. Hillary flew Spitfires out of Hornchurch with 603 Squadron and claimed five victories before being badly burned over the North Sea. An early member of the Guinea Pig Club, he was treated by McIndoe and returned to duty, but was killed shortly after in a training accident. The work was many times reprinted, but early issues are scarce. The US title is 'Falling Through Space'. Enser, p.157
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with 'propeller' motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Arguably the finest account of the Battle of Britain by a British fighter pilot. Hillary flew Spitfires out of Hornchurch with 603 Squadron and claimed five victories before being badly burned over the North Sea. An early member of the Guinea Pig Club, he was treated by McIndoe and returned to duty, but was killed shortly after in a training accident. The work was many times reprinted, but early issues are scarce. The US title is 'Falling Through Space'. Enser, p.157
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.
Paper-covered boards show peeling and cracking, especially along spine. Unpaginated. 6 3/4"w x 8"h.
Cover 1/3rd torn up spine, covers generally freyed with edgewear, stains, etc. Binding still solid otherwise, about the size of the Whole Earth Catalog, 752 pages with Movement authors throughout as well as illustrations, photos, all in b&w, often small print. Sections include: The New Americans, Rebellion, Resistance revolutionary action, People of color, Gi's, Learning, People media/pig media, How to live what we do, Theater in the streets, Community of prison, Student rebellion, Revolutionary professionalism The law and the people, Panters in babylon, Women's liberation, Columbia: a watershed, etc.
