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1490799109.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2011Q-1429673338Capstone Press 2011-08-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Capstone Press paperback
17846495Amsterdam et Paris, 1784 ; in-8 ; cartonnage rigide de papier bleu de l'époque, non rogné ; XVI, 591 pp., 2 gravures hors-texte d'après Marillier.
Features: What I Learned from the (Tennis) Champion (W.T. Tilden, 2nd), by Alexander L. Wiener; The Scratches on the Glass - VII, by Gladys Black; Alias Mosquito, by Zay Philbrook; That's Facing it, Bingo!, by Valentine Vine and Arthur Floyd Henderson; The Art of Adjustment, by Gamaliel Bradford; How to make real bows and arrows; Our own League of Nations (at Wellesley, by Elizabeth Page); Ray Coon and the Doughnuts, by G.H. Smith; and more. Nice ad for 'Checkers' candied popcorn on page 371; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition in every respect with sharp corners on the covers. Text is clean and unmarked, solid, square, straight binding showing little to no wear of any kind. Dust jacket has edge wear, and chipping at corners, a few small tears. Many b&w photos, very detailed text, 189 pages. Former owner's embossed stamp on front end paper. Chapters include The air staff have doubts; Mosquito in five editions; low level and shallow dive; Embry and the Pinpoint raids; the Mosquito goes to sea;
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
Features: Exploring the Green Hell - describes journeys to Brazil's Matto Grosso; Ning Wo Intervenes - reprint of a 1928 story involving a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; The Mystery of 'Lost Creek Mine' - sequel of a 1941 story of a lost gold mine in the wilds of British Columbia; The 'Man-Leopards of Malimbu - a Nigerian story; Among the Hairy Ainu of Japan; The Mosquito Net - another elephant hunting tale by Capt. B.B. Celliers; The Train Robbers - Indian Railway Thieves; The Accursed Island - landing on an uninhabited atoll to repair his schooner, the author made an amazing discovery; The Hirazawa Case - a strange mass murder/poisoning case in Japan; and more. Covers loose but present. Tape along backstrip. 2"x2" chunk missing from back cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Luck of the 'Moro' - a vessel which possessed an uncanny knack of getting in and out of trouble; Photo of Harry Houdini in a strait jacket hanging from the twenty-story Oakland Tribune building; Old Man Crag - a New Zealand tale of a stolen map to a gold mine; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - the author penetrates deep into Amazonia - with photos, including photo of a floating island (part 1); Eskimo Wireless - a strange story from the Far North of Canada; The Ivory Raiders - paints a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the ivory-raiders and their fierce satellites in Turkanaland, a wild district of Central Africa bordering on the western shores of Lake Rudolf - includes photos; A Woman Travels Across Arizona's Painted Desert - article with great photos; Zaman's Paradise - a story from India; The Resurrection of Klaas - the story of a Kaffir's miraculous escape from what seemed a certain and horrible death; New Zealand Sea Fishing - with photos of huge fish; From the Great Craters of the Congo Game-Lands - with gorilla photos (part 1); The Puzzle of Martenelle - it took 24 years to prove a death was not a suicide; A Missionary on the 'Mosquito Coast' - Rev. L. Taylor recalls tales from nine years spent as a Moravian missionary in Nicaragua - with photos; An Amazing Escape - Creswick escapes in South Africa; Full-page ad for a most unique General Electric electric truck for hauling utility poles. Above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
84 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: An Elephant-Hunt in Canada - a six-week hunt results when seven valuable elephants escaped from a circus and took to the British Columbia woods - article with photos; A Fugitive in Thirstland - A former German officer who became a adventurer is South Africa is continually chased by the police; Trekking in Unknown Abyssinia - great photo-illustrated article; The Friendly Mosquito - how a mosquito saved the life of T.A. Shields; Our Salvage Job - a plucky attempt to salvage the crippled vessel Stiklestadt; The Decree of the Wild - a grim tale of the Canadian Far North, 1,200 miles north of Edmonton; "The White Man's Great War-Game" (part III) - amongst the savages of the Sura, Angas, and other primitive tribes of Northern Nigeria, Geoffrey Barkas produced a film founded upon the history of British Administration - article with great photos; Gulbaz Khan's Revenge - the story of a long-delayed vengeance for a trifling action that had far-reaching consequences; Where Everybody Plays "Cat's Cradle" - photo-illustrated article on the people of the Pelews (Pelew Islands); Fur-Getting in Australia - Australian men make a good living hunting rabbits and foxes for their furs; The Partnership That Went Wrong - four U.S. Army soldiers pool their savings to run a sawmill; What Happened to Wilson - struggle for life with an enraged tiger in the heart of a big city; Through France with "Sylvabelle" (part II) - Mr. Leslie Richardson's yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Cover illustration of a demobilised soldier putting his uniform away. Illustration of the H.M.S. Caradoc firing upon a Bolshevist position on the Estonian coast. Demobilising the Women - finding work for a million. Photo of the French Army marching into Bavaria. A Mosquito tank utilised as a tractor for barges on the Meuse Canal. Under the Union Jack in Wintry Baltic Waters - 5 photos. British Naval Activity Against the Bolshevists - 3 photos. Versailles - Then and Now - article. Superb photogravure center spread features portrait of Woodrow Wilson with King George V, M. Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George. Triumphs of our Military Genius - Victorious Inventions in War Machinery. New Devices of Defence and Defiance in the Navy - 5 photos. Triumphant Italians Installed in Trieste - Two Great photos. Britons Released by Revolutionary Berlin - Ruhleben Camp, near Berlin - 3 photos. Photo of Liebknecht, leader of the 'Spartacus' group of German Socialists, speaking to a large crowd in the Siegesalle, Berlin. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
46 pages. This special issue contains many outstanding photos from the albums of Victoria photographer F. Dally who visited the Cariboo in 1868. Features: Transportation to the Goldfields; Photos of Barkerville and its pioneers; Famous photos of the Cariboo gold rush by C. Fulton; The Ne'er Do Well Claim; The Prairie Flower Claim; The Forest Rose Claim; The Mucho Oro Claim; The Aurora claim; The Davis Claim; The Quesnel hockey team in 1912; Soda Creek in 1868; Boston Bar in 1863; A mule train crossing the Quesnel River in 1868; The Cottonwood House; Various sternwheelers; Nicaragua Bluff in 1863; Clinton in 1868; Freight outfit departing Ashcroft 18 1898; The Bank of British Columbia at Richfield in 1868; The community of Van Winkle in 1868; A settlement on Mosquito Creek and Richfield in 1868; Camerontown circa 1868; Kellyville on Grouse Creek in 1868; Mrs. Janet Allen and her Mosquito Creek boarding house in 1868; Photo portrait of F.J. Barnard, founder of the famed B.X. Company; Several additional photo portraits of notable local personalities; Local cemetery photos; plus many wonderful ads, some with photos. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous monochrome photographs in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
28 pages. Features: Photos of the grim terrain in Tunisia - craggy heights and perilous ridges; Photos of lighter moments in Tunisia; Mules solve Mountain Problems in Tunisia; Unconventional Pictures of Three Famous Generals in Tunisia - General Montgomery, General Alexander, and Lieut.-General George Patton seated on a hillside watching his men advancing to attack; The House of Lords Roll of Honour - photos of thirteen legislators lost in action; The Commons Roll of Honour - photos of nine legislators lost in action; Photo of the first launching of land bombers at sea from the deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier "Hornet"; Photos related to Doolittle's famous raid on Tokyo; R.A.F. Bombers lay waste to 100 acres of factory buildings in Stettin - five aerial photos; The Great Struggle in Tunisia - article by Cyril Falls; The British Assault on Longstop Hill and Bou Arada Bastions - six photos; Centerfold illustration of a British 3 inch mortar in action in Tunisia giving close support to infantry; Photos of George Edward Kruger-Gray, Commander J.W. Linton, Rear-Admiral Philip John Mack and Viktor Lutze; Nice large illustration of Britain's All-Wooden Mosquito Bomber - includes partial cutaway view; Photos of construction of oil pipeline from Texas to New York via Norris City, Illinois; Photo of Roosevelt with Mexican President Camacho; Photos of General Sikorski, Acting Wing Commander Hugh Malcolm and Sir Basil Brooke; Four *Amazing* large aerial photos show the fate of Italy's last two heavy cruisers, "Trieste" and Gorizia"; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Pages 57-84. Features: Cover portrait of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky; Informative diagrams of Germany's E-Boat - a naval mosquito with torpedoes and guns; Photos of the four Cherbourg forts, situated on the outer breakwater, which were the last to surrender; Review of "Behind the Steel Wall" by Arvid Fredborg; The campaign in Italy - seven recent photos; Montgomery's Great Success - the liberation of Caen by British and Canadian Troops - four photos; Article entitled "Offensives on All Fronts"; Five aerial photos of bomb damage to Peenemunde, home of the flying bomb, attacked by the R.A.F.; Photos of German flying bombs in flight, and damage they have done; One-page illustration of R.A.F. control centre battling flying bombs; Fascinating two-page centrefold illustration shows flying bomb installations in Northern France; Three photos inside London's massive bomb shelters; Photo of Copenhagen department store ablaze, with fire-fighters held back by people who accuse the owner of collaborating with the nazis; Poland's underground army shows well-organised resistance - seven photos; Eleven photos in the wake of the Red Army's great advance - Minsk and other bastions of the shattered German lines; U.S. Troops capture Saipan Island - ten photos of the most ambitious amphibious operation yet attempted in the Pacific; Photos of personalities of the week include Major W.H. Smith, The Rev. Dr. J. Moore Ferguson, Fd.-Marshal Von Kluge, Sir Bernard Montgomery visiting the "Rodney", The Duchess of Kent with her children, Roosevelt welcoming De Gaulle to the White House, Captured German nurses in Cherbourg, Wing Commander J. Johnson, General Ivan Chernyakhovsky, and Field-Marshal Von Rundstedt; One-page illustration of airborne tug aircraft hooking to glider on the ground; Photos of underground hot water tapped by the people of Reykjavik; Iceland declares her independence - six photos; Nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
25217371-nnew. unknown
25217371like new. unknown
334 pages. Papers include: Health Needs and Civic Action; Housing and Health; Scientific Research by the Public Health Service; The Census and the Public Health Movement; Sources of Information upon the Public Health Movement; Work of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health; Public Health Movement on the Pacific Coast; Protecting Public Health in Pennsylvania; Health Problems of the Indians; Health Problems of the Negroes; The Rural Health Movement; Sanitation in Rural Communities; Tropical Diseases and Health in the United States; The House Fly as a Carrier of Disease; The Mosquito Campaign as a Sanitary Measure; Clean Milk and Public Health; Ventilation and Public Health; Social Service Work in Hospitals; Mouth Hygiene and its Relation to Health; The Physical Care of Children; What American Cities are Doing for the Health of School Children; The Elimination of Feeble-Mindedness; Prevention of Infantile Blindness; The Warfare Against Infant Mortality. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Book is as-new with a solid binding, sharp corners, 90 pages with many large, b&w photos. No marking or writing of any kind to text/interior, creaseless covers and spine. Depicts the steamboat passengers who recall the steamboats' days on Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest and features the Virginia V, member of the 'Mosquito Fleet' of steamers on Puget Sound, from active career to restoration. Fold - out schematic at back in excellent condition. In business for 20 years we provide excellent customer service and ship with appropriate packing material to assure you purchase arrives undamaged.
32 unnumbered pages. Oblong 8" x 10.75". Black and white illustrations. Contents: Biographical details of the authors, Notes on the Cosmogony and History of the Squamish Indians, The Beginning of the People of Squamish, Creation of the Squamish People, The Coming of Religion to the Squamish People, The Sea Serpent of Burrard Inlet, The Sea Serpent of Howe Sound, and a tribute to Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this precious Squamish Nation memento. Hale 5738 Book
Features: Nice two-colour Browning Rifles ad inside front cover; Leased Lakes Pay Off; Trout and the Beginning Angler; Hike to Hatheume; Quebec Province Fabulous in Choice of Outdoors Fare; Visit Quebec This Summer; Interestsing illustrated ad for the Swingfog mosquito and blackfly fogger; Pete McGillen on Fishing; Recoil or Kick; The Pest That Was the Pheasant; May and Dogs; Great ad for Chinook Sleeping Bags on back cover; and more. Average wear and soiling. A sound copy. Book
Inscribed by Tom Janus and Carolyn Neal to Seattle columnist Paul Dorpat. Includes bookmark advertising this book and business card for Thomas Kilday Janus. Spine a bit cocked. 9 1/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 224 pages. A comprehensive, lavishly illustrated history of the Puget Sound's water-based public transportation system.
60 pages. Contents include: deHavilland Mosquito NF.XV; Bristol Fashions; Piratical Pot-Pouri; Blackburn/HS Buccaneer S.1 plans; Down Memory Lane; Of Lancaster and York; where to draw the line. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Book
Paginated 231:332.
ABE-1151822236TIRAGE ARGENTIQUE 18X13-AGENCE KEYSTONE-LÉGENDE:"LA PRINCESSE MARGARET QUI SÉJOURNE DEPUIS HIER À PARIS A VISITÉ CE MATIN LA TOUR EIFFEL. LA PRINCESSE,ACCOMPAGNÉE DU CAPITAINE OLIVER DAWNAY (DERRIÈRE),SECRÉTAIRE DE LA REINE,ET D'UN OFFICIEL DE LA TOUR EIFFEL (À DROITE) À LA DEUXIÈME PLATE-FORME DE LA TOUR." ED/BG/211151- (CP8)
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