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Sixth edition. Good hard covers, Vols. I & II. Quarterbound, tan leather and marbled card. Previous owner's sticker to front pastedown, others signed at title page. Shelf and handling wear is notable on cover, edges and corners, and incl. discolouration to page block, and foxing throughout. Pages are tightly bound, and despite gentle foxing within the text block, images and text remains clear and legible. CN Used
74 pages. Articles: My Pal, Drew Pearson; Richest Man in the Cemetery - warning to wives who don't want to be widows; It Happened in Mississippi - Thousands of sharecroppers in the 13 fertile delta counties are buying and equipping their own farms with aid from the Farmers Home Administration; Voyage of the Pagan - John Caldwell's Sailing Adventure (part 2 of 3); I Cover the Animals - nature writer John (Tex) O'Reilly; The Surprising Phillip Jessup - the man who helped lift the Berlin blockade; It's in the Cards - Jack Jarvis of Seattle prints funny membership cards; Marvelous Mel Parnell; - Pitcher with a Bat; Johnny Lujack - photos; Green-Eyed Movie Madcap - Shelley Winters - article with color photo. Fiction: The Legal Bride (part 1 of 6); Bitter Honey; Everyone Needs a Pet; Zone of Interior; Just Like I Hate Money; The Bells of St. Pierre. Nice vintage ads include: Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring photo of Miss Audrey Keon; DeSoto cars; RCA Victor radios; Plymouth; Canada Dry - super one-page ad in color; Kool-Aid; Companion Magazine; Oldsmobile; Back cover ad for Lucky Strike features tobacco buyer B.G. Conner. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Conversations with Quebec's Revolutionaries, by Peter Gzowski; One Man's Intimate Picture of the FLQ; The Savage Legacy of Columbia's Civil War; The Life and Times of Wheeler-Dealer Ralph Farris - nice photos; The Wild Trade in new and used animals, by Robert Thomas Allen; The Gold-Braid Mind is Destroying our Navy - so says James Plomer; What Jack McClelland has done to book publishing in Canada; Portrait of a great modern shrine - Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal; Artistic full-page ad for TCA (Trans-Canada Airlines); Funky full-page colour photo ad for Martini & Rossi shows man and woman with dog at ice machine; Colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows rows of empty bottles on picnic table with smiling couple at far end. Somewhat above-average wear. Coverfold partially open and tender. A worthy vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Photos of elegant southern doorways inside front cover; The Moon - A Vast Desert without Water, Air or Life - article with photos; A Mexican Speaks to Americans - Julio Zetina of the Rotary Club of Mexico City; How a President Andrew Johnson was Impeached; Our Illegal Spenders - deficiency appropriations not authorized by law; New Idols for the Gallery - fantastic early ice hockey article with photos of Nels (Nelson) Stewart of the Montreal Maroons, Happy Holmes - goalkeeper for the Detroit Cougars, Ching Johnson and Taffey Abel of the New York Rangers; I Heard it With My Own Ears - some ghosts of sound that haunt the average man; Henry Ford's Page - coping with the business cycle; Editorials - United States in China, capital punishment, what's the poor farmer to do; When 'Wee Tim'rous Beasties Take Their Winter Sleep - illustrated article on hibernating animals and insects; The How of Snow-Blindness; The Adventures of the Imaginative Child (part 2); The Future of the (Army) Tank - fantastic photo-illustrated article; Chats with Office Callers; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - the Boston Curb, and more; News Bits; Nice photos of various stunts inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: The sweaty fight for a single seat - the current federal election campaign; The merciful aftermath of the Moroccan oil tragedy - almost ten thousand men, women and children, paralyzed by poisoned cooking oil in 1959 are walking and working again - a Canadian medical team helped in the most devastating medical story of our time in Meknes, Morocco; The case for taking children away from their parents - Dr. Karl Bernhardt; Jeanine Beaubien - the woman who stages plays in 5 languages in Montreal's Powderhouse; How to spot a home-grown (Canadian) image; How Zoo Animals get their kicks - with photos; Ralph Allen's 'Lost Art of Fishing for Fun'; Nice colour photo full-page Pepsi ad; Toronto and Montreal should be provinces, by Donald C. Rowat; The Medical Care (Medicare) War - Ralph Allen reports from Saskatchewan. Moisture stains to upper corner of all pages. Average wear. Address labe. Binding intact. Book
74 pages. Features: Sex and Love of God; I Had Polio; Princess Margaret O'Brien of Hollywood; The House That Dimes Built - How Frank Woolworth parlayed a gift of gab into an American institution; Animals are the Craziest People; They Call Him Mr. Baffle - Leslie L. (Biff) Biffle, Secretary of the Senate; Down in the Arctic - Jack Kastner, Sir Robert Stirling-Hamilton, Ben Custer, Charles Wilcox and Jerome Scalise crash their plane in the Arctic; French Boxer Marcel Cerdan; Interesting back page opinion piece considers China's move to communism. Short Stories: The Loves of Martin; The Man of the House; Three Little Girls Wore Blue; The River; Martha and Her Dream Man; Ringside Maiden (part 5 of 8). Nice ads for: Studebaker Trucks (inside front cover), Zenith Televisions, Good Year Tires, RCA Victor audio products, Hudson cars (nice full-page color), Papst Blue Ribbon - one -page color ad featuring Mr. and Mrs. F. Warren Pershing,Vitalis (featuring Buddy O'Connor, General Motors GM - two-page color, Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring color photo of Mrs. William E. Benjamin II, Spam (in color), Back cover color photo ad for Camel cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Articles: The Facts About Business - an encouraging message from John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury; Governor Going Places - GovernorAlfred Eastlack Driscoll of New Jersey - article with nice photos; Terror in the Streets - Let's put police back on the beat; The Stars are Dave's Dish - Dave Chasen provides Hollywood feasts to the rich and famous - article with nice colour photo including Peter Lawford and Don Ameche; Animals Own Me; Dartmouth's Streamlined Mr. Chips - Professor Harry Wellman of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration; Our Kids with Crippled Mouths - a pathetic host of American children need major orthodontic work; It's No Love Game. Fiction: The Girls of Laurel Court; Use no Hooks; The Iron Butterfly (part 3 of 4); Mr. Dilsey's Magic Lure; The Combination; Eyewitnes. Nice vintage ads include: Ansco film, Zenith televisions, Ford cars; Pabst Blue Ribbon beer - featuring colour photo of actor Charles Laughton; Good Year tires (centerfold); Nesbitt's soda; Chevrolet - great two-page color ad; Budweiser; Douglas Super DC-3; Goebel beer; Camel cigarettes - great back cover ad featuring photo of Cole Porter plus Gene Bearden, Gladys Swarthout, Jeanne Wilson, Gene Sarazen, Sylvia MacNeill and "Dusty" Campbell. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
128 pages. Bibliography. "Travel through the eyes of artist and writer Sue Coleman to the Pacific Northwest. Her portrayal is both simple and unique - a challenging blend of two art forms, the uniting of two cultures. In these prints, Sue Coleman stimulates the imagination in an enjoyable balance between the artist's own love of nature and the legends of the native people of the Pacific Northwest... Gives the reader a delightful insight into the relationship between man and nature in the past and present." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Jasper cartoon cover illustration; Great full-page colour ad for the 1956 Pontiac models; Nice colour-photo full-page ad for the 1956 Dodge, featuring the Mayfair V-8 4-door sedan; Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield - feature article with photos; How long will Clifford Williams stay in jail? - young Canadian from troubled background is jailed for 28-years for his first offense; A Gold Cup for Fair Lady - short story; Former Adjutant-General of the Canadian Army, Major-General W.H.S. Macklin, speaks out against the astronomical sums being spent on the DEW (distant early warning) Line - he argues it can never protect Canada; Political Quebec - part IV of Bruce Hutchison's "The Unknown Country"; Animals Can Talk; The Campus That Covers a Province - The University of Alberta and its many interesting programs; Nice colour full-page ad for the new 1956 Chrysler (featuring Windsor 4-door sedan with 215 HP engine); Nice 2-colour full-page ad for Philips televisions; Nostalgic 3/4 page colour ad for McBrine luggage; Colour full-page ad for Chevrolet featuring the Bel Air Convertible; Full-page black and white photo ad for milk in Pure-Pak containers, including photos of Etril and Melvin Snyder, owners of Ontario's famous Maple Lane Dairy Ltd.; Nice colour full-page ad for Oldsmobile featuring the 1956 Super 88 Holiday Seday; Colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows sweethearts drinking with straws. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Through Spain in Disguise - Part I of the story of an odd wager, by the Countess Guerrini Malmignati; The Tiger-Man of the Whynooche - locals of Chehalis and Mason counties in Washington state feared this killer; The Ghost of Ozwatini - a strange story from Natal; "Quarrelsome Mac" - a nautical story; The "Hell-On-Earth" Legion - five years with the French Foreign Legion; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Our experiment in orange-growing (with wonderful photos) - part II; Nature's Nightmares - ugly animals; Nurse Warburton's Ordeal - she became lost while tramping from Hope to Princeton, British Columbia; Hunting the Australian Buffalo - article with super photos; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" - Part III of a trip from Shanghai to Copenhagen in a forty-foot yacht; Trial by Jury - an awkward trial in India; Tuk-Took - a little Eskimo girl, her step-mother, and her dog - with nice photos; A Dead Man's Diary - an unknown white man perishes in the African wilds, but leaves his diary; The Mystery of "Dutch Henry" who was wanted "dead or alive" by two governments; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. From the archives of the Royal Institution. Includes colour prints at the rear. Light exterior wear and a few small marks on the edges. Stamps on the front pastedown, FEP and title page. A few minor marks and nicked edges on the rough cut pages throughout. Very good for age; binding is sound; all text and illustrations are clear. CM Used
Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Xxiii, 1110 pages. 52 plates in colour and black-and-white. Boards and spine are marked, worn and faded. Leading corners, lower edges and spine foot are bumped and nicked. Spine head is torn and chipped. Other minor tears on spine body. Page block and pages are lightly tanned and marked. 'Royal Institution of Great Britain' stamp on FEP. Minor creases and nicks throughout pages. Binding is exposed at pastedowns and between one or two pages, but remains intact. Contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Xviii, 756 pages. 47 plates and 51 woodcuts in colour and black-and-white. Boards are marked and worn. Leading corners and spine ends are bumped and nicked. Rear spine side is partially split. Five centimetre split on front spine side. Page block and pages are lightly tanned and marked. 'Royal Institution of Great Britain' stamp on FEP. Minor nick on first contributors list page. Light creases throughout pages. Pastedown hinges are partially split, but binding remains intact. Contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Fourth Edition. Prepared by the International Committee on Veterinary Gross Anatomical Nomenclature and authorized by the Eighteenth General Assembly of the World Association of Veterinary Anatomists Gent (Belgium), 1992. Photo of table of contents available.
xxv + 589pp., in the series "Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus" volume 5, 25cm., publisher's hardcover in black cloth (spine slightly sunfaded & corners bit bumped), text and interior are clean, good condition, weight: 1.2kg., F105648
Current Topics in Veterinary and Animal Science Vol 16 Used
Contemporary ownership inscription on title, hand-coloured vignette on title and 8 hand-coloured illustrations on 4 plates, some minor browning of the text, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, [2], 24 pp., contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, gilt lettering on spine. Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of Henry Dawkins Esq. Harris, 217, 1.
P., Maison Quantin, 1890. In folio (33 x 46.5 cm) reliure à la Bradel toile éditeur, frontispice, XXXII- 186 pp. Avec 24 belles grandes pl. hors-texte en héliogravure, protégées par des serpentes, et de nombreuses vignettes dans le texte. Blanchiment de la couverture par endroit,un accroc au bas du dos, rousseurs sporadiques tout au long de l'ouvrage. Antoine-Louis Barye, né le 24 septembre 1795 à Paris et mort dans la même ville le 25 juin 1875, est un sculpteur et un peintre français, renommé pour ses sculptures animalières. Son fils et élève est le sculpteur Alfred Barye.
In 8. Dim. 22,5x15 cm. Pp. XIII+(3)+242, (2)+288. Interessante manuale di medicina veterinaria del 1824 scritto da Giulio Sandri. L'opera è formata da due volumi ed è completa. Il primo volume è dedicato ai proprietari di bestiame: Guida del proprietario di bestiame con consigli sulla scelta e cura del cavallo, conservazione e miglioramento delle razze (bue, pecora, vitello, pecora, capra), Lana, maiale, Volatili, Cane, Gatto Alla fine sono presenti due planches ripiegate che mostrano l'anatomia del cavallo e del toro. Il secondo tomo è un manuale per i medici di bestiame: Cognizioni sulla struttura degli animali, Medicamenti, Malattie, Infiammazioni, Malattie esterne e interne, Cenno di giurisprudenza veterinaria, ispezioni cadaveriche, regole di sanità ecc... Note manoscritte. In discrete condizioni Copertina in mezza pelle con titolo e decorazioni in oro al dorso in buone condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Dorso mancante al tomo primo. Legatura in buone condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in buone condizioni con fioriture. Segni di tarlo marginali talvolta con perdita di testo. Occhietto del primo tomo mancante. Interesting manual of Veterinarian medicine of 1824 written by Giulio Sandri. The work is made up of two volumes and it is complete. The first volume is dedicated to owners to cattle: Guide of cattle owner with suggestions about choice and care of horse, preservation and improvoment of breeds (bull, sheep, goat), wool, pig, birds, dog and cat. At the end there are two folded planches showing anatomy of horse and bull. The second tome is a manual for veterinarian physicians: Information about structure of animals, Medicines, deseases, Flammations, External and internal deseases, Veterinarian law, dead bodies inspections, health rules etc... In fair conditions. Half leather cover with golden title and decorations in the spine in good general conditions slightly worn in the edges and spine. Missing spine in the first tome. Binding in good conditions. Inside pages are in good conditions with foxings. Wormings sometimes with loss of text.
Herbonden, nieuwe vollederen blinde band met 4 nerven, 525pp+bladwijzer + algemeen register + 30pp. bijvoegsels, 13x20.5cm., 9 uitslaande gravures. Mooi, gaaf exemplaar met nieuwe vollederen band.
Pages 73-108. Features. Aerial cover photo of idle London shipping due to dockworker's strike; Photos of troops serving as stevedores unloading frozen beef from Argentina; Two-page illustration of Fettes College; Article entitled "Dollars, Sterling and European Trade"; Photos of striking dockworkers attending speeches; Two-pages of photos from the agricultural show at Shrewsbury, including Princess Elizabeth and many champion animals; Photos of personalities of the week include the winners of the Ashburton Shield, Tshekedi Khama, Cambridge Cricketeers, Mr. Alexander Diomedes, Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gossage; A.D. Locke, Harry Bradshaw, Seretse Khama, the former Miss Ruth Williams, Sir francis Mudie, Flight-Lt. K.H.F. Letford, and The Emir Idris El Senussi. Photo of the Enola Gay being presented to the Smithsonian Institution; Photo of Emir Abdul Illah with King Feisal of Iraq; Photo of robotic hand developed by German firm; Photos of U.N. Success in Indonesia - 3-stage evacuation of Java; Photo of restoration of Cleopatra's Needle, near Charing Cross; Two-page colour photo of the earliest realistic human portrait in the history of man, discovered in central France; Aerial photos of British castles with medieval fortifications; Attractive one-page colour ad for General Electric fridges; Colour Johnnie Walker cricket-themed ad on back cover; and more. Complete, intact and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
96 pages. Short Stories: Fair Warning; Swindler in the Family; Night Marshal; A Sentimental Subject. Articles: The Night Our Town Blew Up - photo-illustrated article of Roseburg, Oregon, scene of a massive explosion in 1959; The Animals Come First; They Called Us "The Law" - recollections of the wife of District Attorney W.A. (Bill) Morrison in Milam County, Texas; The Fight to Save the "Preemies" (premature babies); Speediest Kids Afloat - Australian swimmers John and Ilsa Konrads of Australia; They Killed Heydrich (Conclusion) - Seven Against a Regiment - story with many photos of the aftermath of the murder of SS Gen. reinhard Heydrich; The Face of America - The Well-Trained Angels; Beloved Bandits of the Skyways - a seagull story. Serials: The Secret of Sidewinder Gulch (part 1 of 7); The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (part 5 of 8). Ads: Caterpillar ad features photo of Philadelphia demolition scene; Dodge Trucks - with U-Haul theme; Nice one-page Pepsi ad with beach scene illustration; Campbell's Tomato Soup - used in BBQ sauce; Very nice one-page color-photo ad for the 1960 Turbine Drive Buick, featuring a black Electra 225 four-door sedan with yacht in background; Salem cigarettes - nice creekside scene; Dutch Boy Nalplex paint; Nostalgic color-photo centerfold ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Impala Convertible features white car and white horses; The Taylor family is featured in a two-page ad for the Insured Savings and Loan Association; Fisher Body; One-page color photo of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN; Lennox ad inside back cover; Great back cover color-photo Coke ad features bottle and glass floating on iceberg. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Unpaginated. "A young boy sets out one winter day to become a great hunter, but when he catches a helpless rabbit, his plans change." - from copyright page. A wonderful story indeed, lovingly illustrated. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper and remainder dot upon bottom edge of text else unmarked. If you look very closely through the archival grade clear Brodart dust jacket cover, you may see some dust jacket tears which have been carefully closed. Nice copy overall. The perfect gift for a hunter to pass down to that special young person. Book
Pages 883-920 plus outer layer of 8 pages of ads. Features: Metabolism of cold-blooded animals in different latitudes; Interpretation of Shankland's Experiment; Colour of the luminous background of the extra-galactic nebulae; Cross-section measurements with slow neutrons of different velocities; Structure of neutrons and beta-disintegration; Thermal decomposition of acetaldehyde and ethylene oxides - existence of short-lived intermediates; Absorption spectra and linkage of inorganic salts in the vapour state; Isotope displacement in the arc spectrum of platinum; Reported occurrence of European fishes on the Tavoy Coast, Burma; Darwin's Cavernularia; A colour reaction for the detection and determination of Vitamin D.; X-ray study of myosin; Ascorbic acid in paroxysmal haemoglobinuria; and more. Binding intact. Average external soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
10-1/4 by 7-1/2 by 1-1/4 inches. Topics include: Domestic Animals, Stock Brands, Maintenance of Children of Unmarried Parents; Coroners; Deserted Wives' Maintenance; Evidence; Prevention of Minors Carrying Firearms; Fires and Fire-escapes; Game; Highways; Industrial Home for Girls; Industrial Home for Boys; Infants; Trade Licences; Liquor Control; Magistrates; Mental Hospitals; Parents' Maintenance; Provincial Police and Prisons; Pool-rooms; Sheep Protection; Summary Convictions; Trespass; Noxious Weeds; Women's and Girls' Protection. Binding intact. Average wear. Unmarked. Age-toning to contents. Laid-in are chapters 50, 31, 11, and 5, plus Amendments to Statutes compiled for the use of Magistrates, Police, etc. passed by the Legislative Assembly, 1930 and 1931 sessions. A fascinating shapshot of these B.C. laws early last century. Times have definitely changed. Book