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1991247719PN. New. 1991. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
193116792JLos Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures 1931. First Edition. Original RKO Radio Pictures 1931-32 Campaign Book measures 11" x 14" 28 x 36 cm; 54 pages. There are smudges and stains on to the front cover and on the completely blank back cover and there are small tears and chipping around the edges of both covers. The interior pages are in fine condition This RKO Radio Pictures campaign book sent to theater owners to encourage them to show RKO movies. The book includes 54 pages with one and two-page spreads on RKO's upcoming movies and their best stars. Some of the movies and stars promoted include "Glamour" "Miracle City" "Exposed" "Frontier" "The Dove" Dolores Del Rio "The Slander Girl" Rex Beach Irene Dunne Lily Damita Wheeler & Woolsey and much more! Note that many of the pages have signed artwork by many different quite talented artists including Armand Seguso Fredric C. Madan Frank Bensing Patterson Rico and most of these artists have several different pieces in the book. Note that because RKO at this time did not have the biggest name stars they relied on movies with very lurid and sensational material and they created images for this campaign book that are both extremely colorful and often downright sexy! This is really one of the absolute nicest studio campaign books in terms of artwork that was created during the Golde Age of Hollywood. Note that even though this campaign book was sent to many theater owners it appears that very few examples have survived. We have seen film campaign books and related material for many years and I know for certain that this campaign book is extremely rare! Note that studios almost always spent far more money preparing campaign books than they did preparing movie posters often hiring very talented and well-known illustration artists because campaign books directly benefited the studio in getting theaters to book the movies. Also note that as was often the case with these campaign books some of the movies advertised were either never made had their titles changed before they were released or were made with different casts than those announced in the campaign book. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
19991-0870134973Michigan State Univ Pr 1999. Hardcover. New. 443 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. Michigan State Univ Pr hardcover
1994Q-1558851119Arte Publico Press 1994-07-31. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Arte Publico Press paperback
19961-0822317427Duke Univ Pr 1996. Paperback. New. 136 pages. 9.25x5.75x0.75 inches. Duke Univ Pr paperback
198483788México D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes : Archivo General de la Nación 1984. first edition. Hardcover. Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket. Light foxing to boards at spine; light foxing on foreedge of pages; yellow discoloration looks like mild liquid stain to boards around the edges possible chemical reaction; light wear around edges of dust jacket with some shelf-rubbing; else very nice secondhand copy; pages and illustrations are bright and free of marks and creases; binding is tight. in very good dust-jacket. Quarto in tan cloth in yellow glossy illus. dust jacket; illus. some color; 301 p. 29 cm. In Spanish. // 1000 copies printed. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes : Archivo General de la Nación hardcover
1995140432Association Pré-Alp/Editions Jacques Brémond 1995. Paperback. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture souple. Broché. 79 pages. <i>ref. 140432</i> Association Pré-Alp/Editions Jacques Brémond paperback
1991065154Philadelphia PA: Mid-Atlantic Region of the National Park Service 1991. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light blue wraps lettered/illus. in black. Spine panel slightly sunned slightly handled. Square firm binding unmarked interior. xxv271 pp. illus. Very scarce. Mid-Atlantic Region of the National Park Service Paperback
19762091502135421681Okinawa Times 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Okinawa Times paperback
1940170773London: British High Command in the East c.1940-43. Greetings and Peace be upon you A rare chit for RAF pilots to carry during the North Africa Campaign 1940-3 in case of being lost or captured. Written for the benefit of British personnel in the field the focus is simple and concise. The first paragraph in English and Arabic presents a simple greeting asking for hospitality. The following gives points of conduct such as "remove footwear before entering their tents" and "do not expect breakfast if you sleep the night. Arabs will give you a mid-day or evening meal". A word list includes translations of "friend" "food" "tired" and "enemy". The document was colloquially known as a "goolie chit" a "throwback from an earlier war when Royal Flying Corps pilots in India and Mesopotamia needed security in the form of a document that promised a reward to anyone who would bring a British aviator back to British lines. It was so called because local tribesmen in the area were said to turn over aviators to the women who castrated them for use as servants" Feast. We have encountered two other issues: one slightly simplified British issue and an American issue carried by all pilots and crewmen of the Twelfth Air Force with a message from President Roosevelt instead of the British High Command in the East. Quarto single-sheet 244 x 173 mm text in Arabic and English on recto only edge-mounted on thick black card within white card mount all on laminate board presented in dark oak frame with conservation acrylic glazing 353 x 280 mm. Vignette of the Great Seal of the Realm at head. Backed on coarse linen minor foxing sometime folded. A very good example of a fragile publication. "Notes for Communicating with Arabs" IBCC Digital Archive document 25543; Sean Feast Coming Down 1988. unknown
1996D370326ahmug174485Springer 1996-07-31. hardcover. Good. 6x0x9. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping. Springer hardcover
19812090502113716738Not Available 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
19992111902160200803Bungeishunju 1999. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Bungeishunju paperback
1969002859London New York Sydney Toronto: Paul Hamlyn 1969 Excellent tightly-bound book apparently never opened. Previous owner's name "Doreen Nofal" inked on inside front cover. 157pages richly illustrated with colour photographs. Size: Approx 5 " Wide and 7½ " Tall Paul Hamlyn hardcover
1918185020Basra: Base Isolation Hospital 7 January 1918. A medical logbook Army Book 27A for the Base Isolation Hospital in Basra recording the names and afflictions of over 250 Indian Persian Kurd Arab Chinese Turkish African and Mauritian participants in the Mesopotamian Campaign. A search of the National Archives returns only four documents related to this hospital none of them medical records. In the aftermath of the capture of Baghdad in March 1917 a vast network of hospitals was set up from the capital down to Basra treating both soldiers of the British and Indian armies and Turkish prisoners. "During 1918 the principal hospital areas on the lines of communication were Baghdad Kut Amara and Basra. Special dental ophthalmological and other departments such as bathing establishments were instituted and excellently organized. All the hospitals were made as perfect as possible" MacPherson & Mitchell p. 355. Basra itself contained approximately 14 hospitals including Base Isolation Hospital. This medical logbook notes the race age rank name and role of each of the 250 people admitted in 1918. Some of the afflictions include abscesses tachycardia malaria influenza sepsis and scurvy. The majority of soldiers survived their stays although the dates of death of those who did not are also recorded. Octavo. Printed tables throughout 26 pp. filled in with manuscript 52 pp. blank. Original pink paper wrappers red cloth backstrip string-stitched and glued into wrappers as issued paper label on front wrapper annotated in manuscript fore-edge flap with pink silk bookmarker at rear. Contemporary signature of G. A. Harrison on the front wrapper. Heavily sunned wrappers a little soiled creased and nicked at edges paper label lifting at one edge but secure contents slightly toned and occasionally foxed dust-soiling in gutters: a very good example. W. G. MacPherson & T. J. Mitchell History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services General History vol. 4 1924. hardcover
1925185029Calcutta: Government of India Press 1925. The ground enormously favoured the defence First edition of this detailed campaign history issued for official use only and complete as a two-part set. Nine sets are held institutionally but we have traced only a standalone copy of Part II in recent commerce. Comprehensive in scope the work was compiled for officers studying military strategy and tactics and was intended to be read alongside the published volumes of Brigadier-General F. J. Moberly's History of the Great War: The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918. "Where on point of fact the story is at variance with the version given in the official history it has been allowed to stand unaltered nor have the criticisms been changed in any way" introduction. The contents grew out of a 1923 tour of the Mesopotamian battlefields by personnel from the Staff College Quetta and several chapters were contributed by the military strategist and historian Major General Sir Wilkinson Dent Bird. Chapter XXV offers insightful reflections on the affect of terrain and geography on the prosecution of the war. This point is also stressed by plates reproducing aerial battlefield photographs that were taken specially by the RAF. The table of contents for Part II calls for 26 maps but the 26th "Explanation of the method of giving map co-ordinates" was likely either never issued or only issued with a few copies. It is not included in the set held in the India Office records at the British Library nor in the other copy traced in commerce. Our copy similarly has only 25. Sets are recorded at the British Library Imperial War Museum King's College London the London Library Texas A&M SUNY Potsdam Stellenbosch Defence Science and Technology Group Australia and UNSW Canberra Academy the map volume incomplete. WorldCat also lists a holding at Calgary but this seemingly includes Part I only. 2 vols octavo. Part I: 20 half-tone plates that facing p. 186 not called for: "Part of Sinn Abtar Redoubt Looking East". Part II: 25 maps some folding. Part I: Original drab boards yellow cloth backstrip spine and front cover lettered in black. Part II: Original light yellow linen map case printed title label. Front free endpaper and map case with ownership signature of Captain A. G. Armstrong 8th Indian Infantry Brigade which served in the Mesopotamian Campaign; occasional pencil sidelining likely his internally. Volume and case worn as expected for this type of material but sturdy Part I with browning and staining to front cover and at places internally the maps in Part II with edge wear and creasing from evident use a few small splits: a very good set. Not in Wells. hardcover
1917184984London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1917. Simla censured First edition. This report into the disastrous advance on Baghdad and the Siege of Kut heavily criticized Simla and the "confident optimism" of General Sir John Nixon p. 111. Its findings overhauled the prosecution of the Mesopotamian Campaign which became the purview of the War Office and experienced Western Front generals such as Stanley Maude. Parliamentary approval for an investigation into the Mesopotamia fiasco was granted by the Special Commissions Dardanelles and Mesopotamia Act of 1916 and Lord George Hamilton a former Secretary of State for India and First Lord of the Admiralty chaired the wide-ranging enquiry. The commission met over 60 times interviewed dozens of witnesses and trawled documentary evidence and witness statements. The final verdict laid the blame principally on Nixon and the inadequacies of the Government of India and the Indian Army: "In consequence of such want of touch the Military Authorities at Simla did not appreciate the difficulties of campaigning in Mesopotamia and from such lack of knowledge failed to make sufficient provision for surmounting the difficulties and drawbacks" p. 111. Quarto. Map folding chart illustrations labelled annexures II and III Annexure I not issued. Original blue wrappers spine and covers printed in black. Ex-London County Council Library with its annotated ink stamp on front cover. Small loss at foot of spine occasional cockling and spotting internally 90 mm stub tear: very good. unknown
19841002442<p>NEW ~ Attractive facsimile of this colorful manuscript from 1805 housed in the Archivo General de la Nacion in Mexico. Religious literature from the final years of the Spanish colonial era including visual poems and colorfully illustrated pages. 301pp. Color. Facsimile with an informative introduction. En espanol. Hard to find. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. In stock. Usually ships in three days. </p> INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES ; ARCHIVO GENERAL DE LA NACION hardcover
198430581aaozArchivo General de la Nacion 1984. Unknown Binding. Very Good. In Spanish. Hardbound with dust jacket. Cover edges moderately tanning. Jacket with light fading of spine spine edges; mild wear jacket edges intact. Archivo General de la Nacion unknown
1984SONG0590332465Scholastic 1984-05-09. hardcover. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Scholastic hardcover
1978103850Grosset & Dunlap 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/No Dust jacket. Clean tight and bright. Unused copy and very well preserved. An unusual must have addition to especially the avid collector's library! Don't pass this one up! Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. Orders are shipped daily via USPS with delivery confirmation. Grosset & Dunlap paperback
1935201293<p>San Francisco 1935. Very Good.</p><p>The idea for the Golden Gate International Exposition also known as the 1939 World's Fair was first formulated in 1933. In 1934 two architects William Peyton Day and George W. Kelham who was instrumental in the PPIE were tasked with evaluating various sites in and around the city.</p><p>By the end of 1934 that choice had narrowed to revamping the Presidio or to building an artificial island on the shoals of the Yerba Buena islands. A push by promoters of a mainland site was voted down in April 1935. As important a decision as this was there seems to be very little documentation on the campaign for a mainland site.</p><p>The poster lists 22 practical reasons for a mainland fair appealing primarily to reasons that would have a direct effect on residents of San Francisco. It failed however to inspire voters in the way that building "Treasure Island" did. By this time also Treasure Island had plans in the making for future use as an airport and other practical reasons of its own to exist.</p><p>Printed by the Sunset Courier. In 1925 the Courier was linked to an anti-union movement. In 1932 the Courier ran with the anti-Japanese headline "Orientals Are Invading Sunset District." In 1933 the Courier questioned the distribution of public funds to Jewish organizations. The relation of the Courier to the campaign is not known by me and they may have only offered the lowest printing rates.</p><p>Printed on newsprint single-sided with red ruled border and red "BECAUSE" repeated. Very Good condition 23" x 17" creased from folds minor edgewear.</p>
1976229393Montevideo Uruguay: Edicur 1976. Soft cover. Very Good. 172 pages in very good condition. Text is in SPANISH. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Page edges are lightly smudged. Bound in blue card covers with black titles. Worn around the edges with small creases and tears. Creased on the spine. Lightly darkened on the lower cover. SCARCE. VG <br/> <br/> Edicur paperback
19782080502106917292Not Available 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1962714866PN. New. 1962. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
