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Mm 185x275 Collana "Nuova enciclopedia agraria italiana" - Volume rilegato in mezza tela coeva, viii-187 pagine con 13 tavole e 241 figure in nero nel testo. Copia in ottime condizioni; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
313 pages including index. "A timely account of Canada's ivory towers... reveals a set of institutions now choked by right-wing pig weed, left wing brambles and much poison ivy." - Andrew Nikiforuk. "A balanced, perceptive account of the crisis afflicting Canada's universities - and it's not just tuition fees or falling grants." - J.L. Granatstein. Moderate wear. Unmarked but for remainder mark upon bottom edge. Solid 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
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
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
78 pages. Features: All American Pickup 2000; Cover and two-page color photos of UDREAMN, a 1976 Ford Courier owned by M. Scott Liles; Waterhole #3 - Gary & Shirley Bishop's 1977 Dodge B-200 Maxivan; Toyota's new Van Wagon Arrive; How to Build a hydraulic parts press; Six-Banger Buildup - squeeze more performance from your Detroit straight six; Jerry Tucker's 1955 Chevrolet Stepside - "Tucker's Toy"; Junkyard Gold - Jon D. Venable, Matthews 1956 Ford Panel Van; Ogden '83 Chevy/GMC Event; Chimney Rock '83; Mack Products; Pile of the Month; Night Stalker and Low Lid - chopped vans owned by David & Sonja Guymon (1974 Ford E-100 van) and Larry & Ellen Ryan (1969 Ford E-100 van); PORC 4x4 - Craig Burgwald's 1982 Toyota 4x4. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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.
12 pages. Lovely colour illustrations. Average wear. Name neatly printed atop front cover. A sound copy of this charming vintage work. Book
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
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Bandit's Bride - Part I - Pancho Villa, the bandit-Revolutionist of Mexico, rescued the heroine of this exclusive narrative from a loveless marriage with a Mormon and married her himself - one of the most remarkable stories of love, battle and intrigue ever published; Unknown Animals of the African Wilds - J.A. Jordan describes recent finds such as the Okapi, Bongo, Giant Pig, Pygmy Elephant, the "dingonek", and the "Rhodesian Monster" - article with photos; Private McTosher Discovers London - the adventures of a Highland soldier visiting London for the first time; A Flying Man in South America - Part IV - John G. Barron took a monoplane to South America and performed flying shows for 2.5 years, often before people who had never before seen a plane; How We Salved the Vigilant - While some of the crew headed for safety aboard a Dutch liner, three remaining crewmembers managed to safely guide the Vigilant to port!; The Finding of the "Mollybaun" - the discovery of a big nugget in Coolgardie, Western Australia, leads to multiple murders; Strange Stories of the War - a selection of incidents entitled A Kite Balloon Adventure, The Lady of the Manor, Mixed Identities, The "Phantom Sniper", The Subaltern's Gun, and The Mysterious Message; On the Borders of Tibet - Part III - Reginald Farrar spent two years wandering - largely among wild lands and wilder people whose chief desire was to build the intruding foreigner up in a damp bonfire to smoulder to death - with photos; The Ring - a dramatic story of the old days in New Zealand, before white and Maori had settled down in friendship; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Vanished Boatswain, The Monster of Regendorf, Bavaria; Remittance Men - an account of sundry remittance men the author met during his sojourn in Africa; The Tragedy of Sanborn Harbour - wholesale murder at the cod-fishing station on remote Nagai Island, Alaska; Photo of 'two Indians squaws' casting ballots in California for the Presidential election; Photo of 'The Human Fly' scaling a tall building in Birmingham, Alabama; and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 194-284, 5-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Africa's Mystery Beasts - Remarkable stories concerning what may be the progeny of prehistoric monsters, several of which appear to be formidable opponents for any hunter; Through the Heart of Afghanistan - Part I - Emil Trinkler had exceptional opportunities for travelling in untrodden regions, with photos; The Dancing Dead - A veteran gold-seeker's account of a weird and terrifying experience that befell a party of prospectors in New Guinea, with photo of witch-doctor; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part II; "King Kauri" - The Kauri tree is to New Zealand what the oak is to England - article with photos; The Two Sheriffs - A strange murder situation is encountered by a veteran cow-puncher in the wilds of Montana; My Wild Boar - A newcomer to India is warned not to shoot wild pig; "Next Time" - An amusing story from the Yukon country; Lachmee's Vow - A tiger tale from Hindustan; The Sacred White Crow of Yaunghwe - brief article with two photos; The Great Boulder Murder Case - The story of one of the most remarkable murder mysteries in the annals of Australia, with photo and map; Photo of salt prospecting in Cheshire; "Bushman's Luck" - A remarkable story from New Zealand; Out of the Deep - The strange story of a famous schooner that sank off Sable Island, the "graveyard of the Atlantic," to reappear in most dramatic circumstances; Sequel to the "Lost Cabin" Mine Mystery - New information regarding this story which appeared in the September, 1920 issue; Trailing the Beaver-Poachers - Game law enforcer Frank Mossman relates some of his experiences with illegal trappers in the North-west, who often do not hesitate to shoot - with photos; "Baldy Red's" Come-Back - A bootlegger smuggles illicit whisky into the forbidden Northland of Canada. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. Lower half of backstrip missing. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
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 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
Pages 386-478 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Price of Gold - an appalling catastrophe strikes a prosperous mining camp at South Porcupine, Ontario; Besieged by Cannibals - a solitary man in the Congo is besieged in his house by a mob of bloodthirsty savages; The Bull and the Barque - a bull on board a ship is worse than a bull in a china-shop; A Bad Bargain - a young Englishmen is tricked into years of misery on the deadly Niger coast before turning the tables on the tricksters; The Empire's Secrets - a British soldier consents to sell plans and photos of the defences of one of Great Britain's most important bases in the East - before disaster overtook him; Out of the Darkness - a rash young man crosses the Rocky Mountains alone in winter-time; Wanderings in Northern Persia (part I) - great photo-illustrated account of a journey beginning from Enzeli; From Job to Job Around the World (part I) - two young Americans with ten dollars between them set out to work their way around the world; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth (VI) - the author's expedition fights nature and hostile natives; McGrath's Voyage - a white trader, a boy, and a pig make a wonderful 2,000-mile trip across the South Pacific in an open boat - safely passing through a hurricane; photo of a hot-water geyser struck by drillers in Calistoga, California; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. 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
Fine/fine (fine copy in fine unclipped dj, as new, no signs of use) octavo 401pp. First printing. The role of the pig and its relationship to Jews in European Christian culture, a broad study of the complex role of the animal and a close historical analysis of anti-Semitism and the creation of real-life myths.
148 pages. Contributors include: Eve Garrette Grady, Wallace Irwin, Sophie Kerr, Paul Jones, Frank Condon, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Robert Lansing. Wonderful period advertisements include: Whitman's Chocolates, Sheaffer's Pens, Hart Schaffner & Marx, Campbell's Pork and Beans, La Salle V-8, Oldsmobile, General Electric Refrigerator, Ford Motor Company, Brookfield Butter, Republic Steel, Packard, Willys-Knight (gorgeous 2 page colour ad), Reo-Royale (lovely colour ad), Dutch Boy Paint, White Trucks, Franklin Auto (Colour Ad Featuring Amelia Earhart!), Jantzen Swimwear, DeVaux 6-75, Middishade Clothes, Monarch Foods, RCA Victor Superette. Articles include: Is There Forced Labor in Russia?; When Wilson Failed as Peacemaker, Airport Groundsman, Lion Taming. Average wear. Solid, unmarked copy. Book
10 page board book. Prior owner's name atop page one else unmarked. Average to above-average wear. Binding sound. Undated - circa 1970? 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
64 pages. Prior owner's first name upon front endpaper else unmarked. Moderate wear. Contents in excellent condition. Binding solid. Nice copy. Book
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
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.
Paper-covered boards show peeling and cracking, especially along spine. Unpaginated. 6 3/4"w x 8"h.
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.
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