Viereck, George Sylvester: EditorMareMagnum
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16 pages. Features: Wonderful full-age photo-illustrated ad for Interlaken Summer Camp for Boys, La Porte County, Indiana, inside front cover; The Vilest Crime of the Ages - The movement to discredit the Germans at home as well as the German element in this country; An Obsolete Jeffersonian Doctrine - the right to traffic in munitions of war with belligerent nations; Did the Lusitania carry cargo like this? - The Cleveland Automatic Company's high explsive shells break into smaller pieces which are poisonous and will painfully kill victims in four hours without immediate treatment - an ad for these shells from the 'American Machinist' is reproduced here; The German Army as a National Backbone, by Frank Koester; $16,000,000 "Neutrality"; Let Sir Richard Crawford Pack his Trunks; Some "English Outrages"; The New York Herald Admits the Truth; Italy's Entry into the War; American Neutrality a Myth; English Poisonous Gases; British Cabinet Breaking; Gas Bombs used by the English and French; News from Germany; Kaffee Hag ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Three-inch opening to bottom of coverfold, otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 128 pages. Full black cloth boards with white plant illustration. Discolored marks on yellow endpapers. Tears on worn dust jacket. Black and white drawings. "Deadly Harvest gives a clear and detailed explanation of where poisons are found, and lists the varieties of garden plants, hedge plants, and wild plants which are potential dangers to us all. The book's practical and valuable advice covers both the problems of antidotes and the eradication of the plants themselves. There is also a fascinating history of man's encounter with plant dangers, including several medieval methods of deliberate poisoning, as well as many illustrative cases of accidental poisoning." Hard-to-find book.
76 pages. Bibliography. Index to Common Names. Index to Scientific Names. Considers plants in the following classifications: house plants; herbaceous garden ornamentals; Ornamental trees, shrubs and vines; fruits, vegetables, forage and cover crops; plants causing dermatitis; ornamentals toxic to livestock; algae; fleshy fungi. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates, and line illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of pictorial boards, a very good, clean copy. King Penguin 23. One of the scarcest King Penguins. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Pages 129-192. Black and white illustrations. Recommended for use in the public school libraries of British Columbia. Chapters include: The Battle of Neuve Chapelle; Soldiers' Stories of Neuve Chapelle; The Dardanelles; How We Failed at "The Narrows"; The Story of Hill 60; The Poisonous Cloud. Undated but presumably printed circa 1920. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Collecting Glass Knives - long article with great photos; Moore's Revealed Remedy - Luther L. Moore's concoction of roots and bark peculiar to Puget Sound; Jar Talk; Trade Cards While You Can - article with great vintage illustrations; British Bottle Bits - Poisonous Ammonia Bottles; Extra Special Deliveries; B.N.N.; Auctions; Researching Envelopes Without Dates; Up-Dates; Irish Whiskey - article with photos. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: A Dream Come True - Jim and Barb Sinsley and their trip to New England for Bottlemania; Strangers in a Strange Land - the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the American Dream - article and many fantastic vintage ads and illustrations; His Crown Caused a Revolution - William Painter of Baltimore invented the crown cork; Jar Talk; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - Fairy Lights; Pretty, Strange, and Poisonous - the garden of Ben and Miriam Glassman; The Label Space - Raymond's Best Pickles, a Canadian bottle - Labelled embossed Putnam Lightning jars - Labeled Phoenix Surgical Dressing Jar; American Seals; Up-Dates; Auction Directory; Super Digger. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos. Features: The Fredericksburg Brewery, by Dave Scafani; Pre-Historic Baseball Cards (Continued), by Dave Cheadle; A Poisonous Mixture - Various Poison Containers, by Ben & Miriam Glassman; Jar Talk, by Jack La Baume; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - "True Bits" - Dr. Mackenzie Catarrh Cure, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - Snuff and other Product Jars, by Tom Caniff; Up-Dates; "Roll Out the Barrel", by Ralph Van Brocklin. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Meeting Report - Poisonous Plants; The Rattlesnake Fern in Japan; Climbing Ferns; Antique Fern Prints; Home Grown Jungle; and more Book
First and only edition, 12mo, [2], 12, [2]pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
Authors of previous edition included Ernest Theophron Chapman. Gilt coat of arms of The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain on front cover. Previous owner had his name printed, in gilt with the year 1891, on front cover. Index, followed by eight pages of publisher's list. Small splits joints of spine. Wear to cover corners and top/tail of spine. Inscription on front free endpaper and pencilled signature and date at top of title page.
