Alton, Charles LiveseyMareMagnum
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Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked, tight binding. 174 pages. Super cool graphic dust jacket with front blurb cut off.
Mondadori, ottobre 2004. Traduzione di Giovanna Gnanato. Titolo originale: The way the crow flies. Rilegato con sovraccoperta. Sovraccoperta con ordinarie tracce d'uso. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
38 pages. Features: The Now Generation - B.C. Conservationists Get Things Done; Helicopter Over Canada; Giant Atlantic Salmon of Newfoundland's Humber River; The Suicidal Duck; Fighting Witefish - The most exciting fishing in years; Saving lost plugs; A Trip to Remember - Largemouth Bass near Parry Sound; Three Best Flies for Big Trout; Good Bass Fishing in B.C. Lakes; Fishing Bruce County's Saugeen River; Spring Methods for Walleyes; Fishfood; Sturgeon from Sturgeon Falls; All Canada N.S.S.A. Skeet Team for 1967; Early Honda generator ad on back cover shows young lady watching TV in her rowboat; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Four center pages loose but present (and will be restapled if you request). A worthy vintage copy. Book
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, the latter moderately age-soiled and with neat but yellowed tape repairs. A scarce title in the much sought-after 'How to Catch Them' series.
32 pages. Features: The Loneliest Man in New York - an intimate study of Frank A. Munsey by one of his former newspaper executives; Through the colored glasses of Freudism the doctor looks at Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady - and decides that Freud should be repudiated; Building Good Roads by Gasoline - income from tolls, gas tax and licenses pays for U.S. roads; America's Scattered Children - the American flag flies in Alaska and more than halfway across the Pacific on thousands of islands; 'Bad English' is a Heritage from Olden Times - much of the grammar now classed as incorrect has come down to us by word of mouth from the time of Chaucer and before; Henry Ford's Page - understanding how the public mind moves from interest to disinterest; Editorials - the defeat of Mrs. Ferguson in Texas was actually a repudiation of her husband, Jim Ferguson, corn is a huge commodity, taxes hurt the British whisky-making industry; Voyage of the Victoria - The Passage of the Strait (part 9); The Women of Mexico Awake - they claim freedom which their American sisters enjoy; Pity the Poor Baseball Scout! - he deals in human ivory; Phoning in the Woods - photo-illustrated article on phone lines serving fire-fighting Forest Rangers in Montana; Chats with Office Callers - New Yorker article explains how for three times in a row the writer attended church, only to witness the uplifting of those of another religion; Rare Americana in a Unique Setting - the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Some Vanished Towns of Kansas - cities that died before they had lived/State Capital which could not be found; Interesting tree photos inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition showing very minor shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 371 pages with a series of additional plates at the back. Reprint of the 1884 text notable for the author having been accorded rare privileges in observing dance-related activities.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 47 plates (the majority containing several photographs), and 165 illustrations, diagrams and maps in the text; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate and several neat stamps. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Memoir No. 10. The author's final and most important work, and a standard reference. Patrick Buxton (1892-1955) was one of the leading medical entomologists and parasitologists of his generation. Working in both tropical and desert environments he became an expert in the connections between insect life and human diseases. His most popular work is probably 'Animal Life in Deserts' (1923) but the present work, published in the year of his death, will undoubtedly prove his lasting memorial. Scarce in anything like this condition.
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and hundreds of illustrations and diagrams in the text; original series binding of red faux-morocco cloth, upper board and and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, red top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published in the larger 'reference' format', this version contains virtually the same text as the first edition (1951) but with an extended bibliography. 'It is still the only modern work on the Diptera' (Marren). Marren, pp. 175-176.
Topics: Tropical medicine before the war; the new efforts; insects and public health; Flies and Mosquitoes; Malaria; Its prevention secured; Bubonic Plague and Rats; The Rat Flea; Prevention of the Plague; The Tsetse Fly; Trench Fever; The Disease and its Cause; The Battle Against Lice; New Discoveries; Infection of Volunteers; Trench Fever and Soldiers' Heart; Treatment; Other Parasites; The Stimulus of War and Public Health. Quite a detailed treatment of the topic with dozens of black and white photos and diagrams. Very informative. Average wear. Bit of liquid paper on front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and the text, and 4 coloured plates of flies as endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on half-title verso; original pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green top, yapped edges, joints very lightly rubbed, half-inch split in upper joint at headband else a very good, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's advertisement bound in at end.
88 pages. Features: Are you buying your feeders right?; Your greatest opportunity is grass; They save the seed; Wire floor for hens; Hot-weather dairyman; How to keep livestock disease off your farm; Cut cleanup time with new glass pipelines; We kill 'super' flies; Longer life for your steel bins and tanks; Asphalt film holds seedbeds in place. Ads include: Prince Albert tobacco ad with Carl Smith and James Franks; Buick; Oldsmobile Super '88'; Mrs. Frank W. Wilson of St. Paul, MN in Atlas Tire ad; Oliver two-row corn picker; Herbert Gruenhagen of Howard Lake, MN in USS Steel ad; Nice color Studebaker truck ad; Gates Tires ad features Forrest Churchill of Perks, IL and L.W. Hewitt of Spokane, WA; Champion spark plug ad features photos of Wm. O'Neill and Bernard A. Gillespie on Gillespie's 87,000 acre Arizona ranch; Ferguson tractors; Harley-Davidson 55 HP Hydra-Glide; Tide detergent; Chevrolet cars; Blue Bell work clothes; Great color 7up ad with young girl on beach. Average wear. Scribbling on back cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
104 pages. The following only touches upon the highlights of the considerable fascinating photos and text in this issue. Features: Amazing cover illustration of a huge amphibious truck; Doctors face death trailing living poisons of mystery diseases; Radio pen writes in letters of fire on far-away screen - with photo of its inventor Allen B. DuMont; One-page photo-illustrated article on the preservation of vanishing totem poles in the Pacific Northwest; Photo of C.R. Klein of Santa Monica, California and his 268 HP motor; Girl fights octopus for underwater movie taken by inventor Leon F. Douglass; America's oldest road roaller found; Crackup of mighty glacier caught for first time by sound camera; Three American chinchilla farms produce most costly furs - with illustration of M.F. Chapman; Flies down radio beam through a mile of fog; How to check up on time and the seasons; Accidents still produce great inventions; Huge truck for land or water carries shipload of cargo. Ads: Fantastic one-page orange and black ad for The A.C. Gilbert Company, maker of Erector toys for boys, featuring the New Erector Sensational No. 7 Set; Nice Midwest Radio Corp. ad inside back cover features their 16-Tube All-Wave Radio, with inset photo of Wilbur Long, Jr. of Newberry, South Carolina; Outstanding back cover color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features world billiard champion Erich Hagenlocher performing before attentive crowd. Modest wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Unpaginated. With a push, Jane sends her pig off on a wild cart ride. The cart is stopped by a rock and the pig flies into the mud - and "moving" is a part of it all. Part of a series. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 80 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: French warship sinks two u-boats; How Britain sweeps the seas for mines; Victims of Germany's unrestricted warfare at sea - the Sliedrecht, the Spaarndam, and the Pilsudski; Wellington bomber demonstrating low-flying attack; The Training of the French Soldier - article with photos; R.A.F. plane flies home with half a wing; These men control the war at sea - photo of the Board of Admiralty in session in Whitehall; Britain's mine-killing patrol at work; R.A.F. shoot down seven mazi planes in a day; Excellent centerfold illustrations explain "How Nazi Planes and U-Boats Lay Magnetic Mines in Shipping Channels; Somewhere in France with our Allies; British troops at home in training; Britain's War and Peace Aims - speech of Neville Chamberlain with photos; Clothing the British Army; "Deutschland" sinks and armed merchant cruiser, the Rawalpindi; Navy capture two German merchant ships - the Konsul Hendrik Fisser and the Borkum; The Brtish Army in France - review by Leslie Hore-Belisha; British Fighters raid Nazi seaplane base at Borkum; Making Lorries for the British Army; A Commentary on the War; Keeping a watch on the home front skies; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. 59 black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Super full-page photo of an enemy tanker ablaze in the English Channel while an RAF plane flies by; Great photo of British battleship gunner blinded by Italian navy smokescreen; 2 photos of Italy's naval flight of fancy - and reality; Illustrated text of broadcast by Winston Churchill entitled "War of the Unknown Warriors"; Photos of French national holiday celebrated in London; 4 Excellent photos of downed Nazi raiders in England; 9 head-shot photos of men honoured by the King for bravery - D.H. Grice, S.F. Coutts-Wood; J.L. Fletcher, G. Stanning, H.F.H. Layman, J.H. Mugridge, R.H.A. Lee, G.A. Craig, J.L. Allen; Excellent full-page photo of fruitless air attack on a British convoy in the English Channel; interesting photos of assorted barriers to hold back the enemy in England; Centerfold illustration of a fierce German attack on a British convoy in the 14 July as broadcast by Mr. Charles Gardner, the B.B.C. news observer; Photos of the navy's ceaseless patrol; Photo of the King being piped aboard a vessel of the "Mosquito Navy"; Photos of sons of the motherland rallying; Illustrated article entitled 'Our Colonial Air Armada'; Full-page aerial photo of Rotterdam after it was levelled by the Germans on May 14th, 1940; Photos of aluminum pots donated for aircraft construction; A commentary on the war this week; Photos of Britain's preparations for the defence of Hong Kong; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Full-page photo of four aircraft of the Netherlands Indies Air Arm in flight over Java; R.A.F. Pilot flies captured Italian Caproni 133 to the Sudan from Eritrea; Grim photos of action in the Albanian mountains - women packing heavy crates over the steep, snowy passes; Photo-illustrated text of Official Statement on the National Scheme for Pre-entry Preparation for the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm - The Air Training Corps; Illustration by Montague B. Black shows the last minutes of the Italian sea raider Ramb I which was sunk by H.M.S. Leander, a cruiser of the New Zealand squadron; British Navy Raid on the Lofoten Islands - 11 great photos; Centerfold illustration by William McDowell shows "What we did at Lofoten Islands"; War in the Western front - Bengazi welcomes Australians, drilling a water well, an abandoned Italian encampment, and several other photos; Photo-Illustrated article entitled "An Eastern Arsenal - Large-scale production of Munition Supplies Effected by the Delhi Conference"; Two photos of winter with the Royal Navy; Three photos of the King and Queen in Scotland; A commentary on the war this week; Europe under the Nazis - anti-aircraft gun guarding Rumanian oil tanks, Luftwaffe men marching in Italy, full-page photo of Hitler addressing 'his dupes' at the crowded Sportpalast on the anniversary of the Nazi party; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Rulers of the waves - various naval photos; Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland - photos of Hess, his smashed plane, and David Maclean, the ploughman who witnessed Hess's arrival and took him into his mother's house; Photo-illustrated text of article by Anthony Eden entitled "Progress of the War"; Photo of the Nazi advance on Larissa; Full-page photo of a quayside scene as British and Imperial troops return from Greece; Aerial photo of the Kirkuk oil fields from which oil is pipelined to Haifa; Map of the Middle East entitled "Threat to the Oil-Fields of Iraq shows the position of Iraq and its oil-fields in relation to Turkey, Syria and the Mediterranean; Wars of the night air - Photo of Wellington bombers and a crew as they wait for nightfall on May 10th when a heavy raid was made on Hamburg; Photo of a bomber crew being debriefed upon their return; Photo of a Douglas DB7 in flight; H.M. the King chats with crack night-fighting pilots before they take off to engage the enemy on May 8th; Photos of the Home Guard which is now one-year-old; Illustrated centerfold by Montague B. Black shows R.A.F. havoc in Hamburg; Photos of destruction to Big Ben, the House of Commons, Westminster Hall, Westminster Abbey, the Westminster Deanery, Westminster Upper School, a 700-year-old church in Bromley, Kent, and Liverpool; Photo of smiling German prisoners being marched at a London station; Photo-illustrated article by Dr. P.S. Gerbrandy of the Netherlands entitled "Faith of the Netherlands"; German sketch of a mysterious massive gun which is used to shell Dover; Photos of medical patients being removed from London's blitz; A commentary on the war this week; Photos of Britain on guard; Full-page photo of a Newfoundland artillery crew hauling its large 6" gun; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
With numerous illustrations and drawings. Pages 125-256.
Paginated 73:135
84 pages. Features: Great cover illustration of Victoria Harbour by Franklin Arbuckle; Parker pen ad inside front cover with photo of Sir Ernest MacMillan; Housing outlook grows darker; Why Wives are Going Out to Work - close-up look at this social and economic revolution - with photos of Mrs. Audrey and Mr. Lorne Hunt and family of Toronto; The White Pagan (fiction by Ward Holm Tanzer); Ontario's Quetico Park; Everybody's Playing the Stock Market Again - the busiest flurry since 1929; Why Uncle Sam has blocked the St. Lawrence Seaway; We Found the Last Wild West (part 3 of this tale by Richmond P. Hobson Jr.); Milk Run to Korea - Pierre Berton flies with the RCAF to Korea on one of its many flights to deliver supplies and bring the wounded home; The Toughest Man Afloat - 57-year-old Fred White, bosun of the Canuk Line freighter Triberg; The Small-town movie house at Hantsport, Nova Scotia; They Say You Taste Like Pork - the last ten years have been easily the worst in the recent history of cannibalism; Nice colour one-page ad for the Hillman Minx (blue convertible); Austin car ad; Nice colour Buick ad features red two-door Riveira Custom; Very nice one-page colour Chevrolet ad features the Bel Air; Half-page two-colour tourism ad for Ontario; Penicillin for Sweet Molly - by James Thurber; 1951 Ford car colour ad; 3/4-page Canadian Pacific ad features their Alaska, Banff and Lake Louise destinations; Dow Brewery Award features James Philpott of Toronto who suffered burns rescuing youngster from Scarborough home; Nice colour Coke ad on back cover with illustration of taxi driver relaxing; and more. Chunk from upper corner of front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with 4 coloured plates, 4 plates in monochrome and 8 illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel.
287 pages. For every pilot who flies single and light-twin-engine general aviation aircraft. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Decent working copy. Book
