Mira, Julia; Russel BarshMareMagnum
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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 32 pages. 8 1/2"w x 12 1/4"h. Artist coloring book with illustrations by Julia Mira and text and photography by Russel Barsh.
65 pages. The famous beginning reader book. "I sat by a lake. I looked at the sky, and as I looked, a fly went by...." Bright glossy colour-illustrated boards. Last page had five inch tear along spine which has been repaired. Not a book club edition. Book
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
60 pages. Features include: Sea Kings in Somalia; The Bug Smasher - The Beech 18; The Wing Concept; Baden-Soellingen - forty years of excellence; Air Division - forty years of history ***Pictorial centerfold of 1 Air Division detached but present***; Halifax Flies; Norad at 35; Flying the Firefly; They Got no Gongs - excerpt from 'Behind the Glory'; Leonard Cheshire dies; VU 33 - the final parade. Average wear. Address label upon back cover. Solid copy. Book
60 pages. Features include: Out of Africa - a flight into Kigali; Operation Scotch - The Lifeline; Supersonic Training Aid; Dumbo - the Liberator that could; Canadian Contingent to Rodeo '94; Canada's Unknown Hero - Dan Cooper; Cosmopolitan - a class act; Swordfish (Stringbag) Flies Again; William Barker VC and the Formation of the RCAF; 3 Bridges to Berlin; Address label on back cover. Book
44 pages. Features include: CF-18 in Qatar; Sleep, Eat and Fly; P/O Prune... Dutiful but Dumb; Flame-Out - Col. G. Brennand (Ret); Diligent Search - by Desmond Chorley; Grounded at Petawawa; When Butterflies insulted Eagles; Cats in the Desert; Bomarc Memorial; The Endless Chain - Javelin flies at Mach One; Sar tech airman of the Quarter - Al Banky. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Address label upon back cover. Nice copy. Book
Book shows light wear to blue cloth covers, some edge wear with illustration by George Herriman at cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking except for front endpaper with prev. owner's name in pen and glued plate. Illustrated red endpapers, 296 pages with Mr. Harriman's illustrations throughout. Chapters include: a radical flea, archy revolts, archy climbs everest, archy flies, kidding the boss, becoming a low brow, mehitabel meets her mate, mehitabel pulls a party, mehitabel joins the navy, what is a lady, what the ants are saying.
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.
Features: Stranraers (Strannies) on the West Coast; Axel Duch's Air Bridge to Biafra; V.I.A.'s Seawind Flies; Unusual landing at Shearwater; Canada's Best Helicopter Long Line Pilot. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Dick Laidman - from Bush to Boardroom; E & B flies the R44; Liberator VY241 - Chris Weicht recalls a tragedy in the lonely peaks of the BC Coast Range; Painting Klee Wyck - mural on Helijet's S-76 by Tony Coon; B-36B Bomber #2075 is ditched in B.C. in 1950 - The very first accident with nuclear weapons, as listed in the DOD summaries of accidents involving US nuclear weapons 1950-1980 - *little known B.C. history*; First Flight at 81!. Sound copy. Magazine
pp. xlvi, 276. Small 4to. New plain wraps. Scarce. NH 5
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.
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
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.
Features: The Eider Man - Passion and controversy mark Jean Bedard's ambitious plans to save the island ecosystem of the lower St. Lawrence; Preservation Instinct - Science and craft come together at the Canadian Conservation Institute, a lifeline to the nation's past; Mystery of the Murrelet - a secretive seabird flies into the heart of a West Coast controversy; Passage to Baikal - an uneasy journey to the troubled heartland of Siberia; Baby Chase - hailed by the infertile, reproductive medicine is revolutionizing human conception, but critics see it as a ticking time bomb. Light wear. Quality copy. Book
298 pages. Numerous excellent black and white photographic plates, including frontis image of author in milkmaid garb. Line diagrams. "In this book it has been my earnest desire and aim to present the dairy industry in a simple, practical manner, in the hope of benefitting those desirous of improving and succeeding in their chosen occupation." - from page vi. The fifty-two chapters cover such topics as: farm, stable, cow, heifer, rations, silos, crops, water, milk, cream, butter, cheese, and many more. Author was Demonstrator and Lecturer in Dairying at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Canada. Both hinges open. Above-average wear to exterior which features a charming (albeit well-worn) milkmaid illustration upon front board. Blank 'Notes' pages at end of book contain several pages of handwritten breeding records from the 1930s. No other markings. Despite its heavy wear, this work presents a wonderful overview of dairying in the early 20th century and cannot help but bring a smile to the face of anyone involved in the modern dairy industry. Book
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.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
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 a coloured frontispiece and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at edges.
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
