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Features: The first transatlantic jet airliner service; Princess Margaret's informal visit to Belgium; Regimental Fire; H.M.S. Leopard Commissioned at Portsmouth; Rugby School; Labour Party Conference at Scarborough; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: 2-page colour ad. for Mercedes-Benz; Informal scenes from Mr. Khrushchev's 'ebullient' tour of the U.S.A.; St. Thomas's Chasuble - a wonderful relic of Islamic Needlework; Felsted School; Liberal Party Posters; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: in colour - Azaleas, a comet, royal treasures, and land reclamation; Kariba Dam; Mt. Palomar; The Expansion of the Universe, Part I of a science series; 1959 Motor Show; Hadrian's Wall; Benenden School; Vineyards in England; Libyan desert reclamation; Britain's Collieries; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features/Photos: The Royal Familiy proudly displays baby Andrew at Balmoral; 1960 Olympic Heroes and Heroines; Confusion in the Congo; Mickey Thompson reaches 404.6 mph driving Challenger I; Skyliner crash lands in Egypt; British aircraft constructors; Farnborough; Three stages of a 'scramble' by Vulcan bombers at Farmborough; Missile display; Hurricane Donna; Taunton's School, Southampton; Photo of a huge oak bored through to make way for telephone wires; and more. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Features/Photos: Centrefold - Four Flemish masterpieces in colour (centrefold loose but present); King Baudouin of the Belgians with his fiancee, Dona Fabiola De Mora Y Aragon; 20 years after the Battle of Britain; Three governments claim they rule the Congo Republic; B-47 jet bomber lands in Shannon, Eire after mid-air collision 300 miles away; devastation in the trail of hurricane Donna on the eastern seaboard of America; what the architect and engineer are doing to the face of London, Plymouth and Dorset; Royal School, Bath; Triaga, a nuclear reactor designed for teaching purposes; New airline pilot training college at Hamble; The Bluebird crash; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Book
Features: Khrushchev at the U.N.; Princess Alexandra's tour; Khrushchev's American Tour; Labour Party Election Posters; The Sacred Bull of Tchoga Zanbil - destroyed in 640 B.C. and now repaired; Cutaway diagram of H.M. Cruiser Tiger; Nylon rifle needs no lubrication; The Royal Grammar School, Guildford; Attractive Spode China colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Newspaper crisis; A summer of tension for Pakistan?; Taxation - the penalty for living, the punishment for death; The Ghurkas - bravest of the brave; After the moon - what next?; Apollo's heatshield helps the housewife; Original sin - and that man on the moon; May God preserve us from good taste!; What price pageantry?; Divine antics in Arcadia; Will man become a mole?; Aiglon - the school in the Alps; Healey and the great defence 'delusion'; Gainsborough at the Queen's Gallery; Tabarka; The Rolls Royce story; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
28 pages. Features: Front cover photo of London's great "Wings for Victory" Week - 100,000 people in Trafalgar Square; 12 related photos on the following two pages; Wonderful full-page photo of flying fortresses - prominent in the sensational Bismarck Sea battle; The Battle of the Bismarck Sea - article by Cyril Falls; Axis Forces Take a Pounding in the Retreat from Kasserine - Six photos; Indians gathered around a downed Japanese plane; Sketch of Germany's latest air transport - the Me. 323 six-engined "Powered Glider"; Large separate photos of submarine chasers the H.M.S. "Abelia" and the H.M.S. "Rother"; Hour-by-Hour the Bombs Rain Down on Emeny Targets in Europe - seven aerial photos; London Air Raid Shelter Tragedy - three photos of the shelter where 178 people died; Funeral of the Late Captain E.A. Fitzroy; The New Speaker of the House of Commons and his wife, Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown; Before and after photos of factory of the Societe des Produits Chimiques, at Tessenderloo, in Belgium - apparently when the factory was bombed there were 1,200 caualties and 4,000 left homeless; Squadron Leader H.R.K. Wells; Photos of new German anti-personnel bomb; Footbal cup final in Tripoli; Centerfold illustrations of doctors and dentists at work in the desert Army's Front Lines; Photos of London's "Wings for Victory" truimphal march through the city; Subhas Chandra speaking in Berlin; Captain S.H.A. Haggard; Alvar Liddell joins the R.A.F.; Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem; Photos of some of the international pilots of the Air Transport Auxilliary; Photos from two recent war films, the Russian "One Day of War" and the British "Desert Victory"; Fascinating photos of a training school for submarine crews; Glimpses of Nazi Germany - article by Charles E. Byles; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of Longstop Hill - taken before the gallant assault which dislodged the enemy; Photos of Allied Leaders of the Victorious Land and Air Forces in Tunisia - Leiut.-General K.A.N. Anderson, Major-General Omar M. Bradley; Air Marshal Coningham, Major-General Carl Spaatz, and Air Chief-Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder; Large photo portraits of General Dwight Eisenhower and General Sir Harold Alexander; Bizerta - The Powerful Naval Base which fell to the Allies on May 7 - five photos; The Tunisian Capital Captured by the British - Two photos of the city from the air; Prelude to Victory - Five photos of infantry in Tunisia, laying the foundations; Armour and Air Power in Action for the final forward surge - five photos; Collapse of Tunis and Bizerta - article by Cyril Falls; Sicily now our war front-line objective in Axis eyes - large map of Sicily; Dramatic photos of an enemy minesweeper being beaten up by cannon fire off the Dutch coast; Photos of the Thunderbolt in flight and on the ground; Photo of the handing over of ten cub-chasers by the U.S. to Cuba; The Miles M-28 aircraft; Photo of Montgomery being presented with a signed photo of Chang Kai-Shek; Photo of young King Feisal of Iraq with Victor Lampson, son of the British Ambassador in Cairo; Great centerfold photos of the Allies' new "outsize" landing barges off the coasts of North Africa - loaded with troops; Many photos of Hitler's Concrete Atlantic Wall under feverish construction; The Queen inspects the Black Watch of Canada; Photo of an R.A.F. Hurricane mounted on the bow of an Allied cargo vessel; Oldsmobile Armament Training School - photo of students assembling 20mm cannons while blindfolded; Precision bombing of Sousse - Harbour, Ships and Installations; Brought up in England - photo-illustrated article by H.R.H. Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand; Photos of Carthage - Once mistress of the seas - now a suburb of Tunis; Catching Food and Water from the Sea - a new survival kit for Castaways - seven photos with captions; The Great Famine in Honan, China - three dramatic photos, including an image of a family stripping bark from a tree to eat; Photos of Pre-fabricated Tugs being built inland in England; Nice photo of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral under construction; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Book
28 pages. Features: Cover photo of the King inspecting the manufacture of a large gun barrel; Page of photos of Royal interest in industry's war effort - the King's tour of Midlands arms factories; Photos of Blenheim Palace as a public school and Malvern's Wartime Move; Full-page photo of Malvern schoolboys in Blenheim Palace; Full-page photo on the deck of a British Destroyer as depth-charges are discharged; Three photos of lifeboats for castaway airmen; Page of photos of personalities/notable people in teh public eye; Full-page photo of a Russian paratroop Demonstration; An R.A.F. triumph over Scotland - German Reconnaissance plane shot down - Six photos; Two large photos of "The Bomber Shot Down in East Lothian; Photos showing a French H.Q. staff at work - the technique of modern generalship at work; Centerfold illustration of the first air attack on a British convoy - the raiding seaplanes routed by our fighters; Two-page illustration of British men of all rank awaiting their turn in a "Naffy" canteen on the Western Front; Photos of German Prisoners of War in Britain; S.S. Yorkshire sunk without warning - three photos; Photos of German commerce-raiding and the Valleyfield Pit disaster; The pocket battleship "Deutschland" - superb photo and diagrammatic drawing; Watching and Waiting - article by Cyril Falls; German illustration of attack on the "Ark Royal"; Minesweepers at work - six photos; and more. Bit of writing atop front outer cover. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound copy. Book
Features: The Ill-fated Hans Hedtoft; The Duke of Edinburgh in India; Westonbirt School; Ivory Poaching in Kenya; Queen Victoria's Railway Saloon; Stunning Bank Architecture in Oklahoma City; The Hammersmith Fly-Over; Work on the Great Mound of Charsada, Near Peshawar; Auto Feature - The M.G. MGA Coupe; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Martin P6M-2 Seamaster Jet Seaplane; The Duke in Sarawak and North Brunei; The Sweet and the bitter in Russia; The Planet Mars - Part IV of a science series; Mr. Macmillan speaks on Russian Television; Westminster School; Austin A40 colour full-page ad; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Great Flagstaff of Kew Gardens Carved from a Single Douglas Fir from British Columbia; Lovely colour Humber Super Snipe Ad.; Florida's 'Red Tide' Plague kills fish by the Multi-Million; The Threat of the Aswan Dam to the 4200-year-old Abu Simbel Temples; Auto Feature - The Rolls Royce Phantom V; The 1959 Auto Show (multi-page); Manchester Grammar School; Around the world in 80 hours; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1st edition. Good hbk in faded and stained red cloth. Ink inscription on the front endpaper. Light foxing to the page edges. 17919. eng
302pp.with ills., 25cm., illustrated cart.cover, stamp, VG, R73604
Approximately a quarter of an inch thick. Contains selected essays written by officers of JSC 20, including: G.W. Barling; R.F. Yarker; K.B. Barton; G. Balodis; N.G. Willis ("A Canadian Policy to Combat Terrorism); G.W. Healey; J.G. Demers and M. Melissen. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. Completely clean, Slight bump to lower right corner. Text in Spanish with English at the end. Illustrated in color. With contributions by Jorge Silvetti, George Hargreaves, Peter Rowe, and Rodolfo Machado among others. 11" high X 9" wide, 255 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
Bound run of Vantech yearbooks for the years 1927 through 1932. Each yearbook was originally bound in softcover. All covers included. Binding may readily be disassembled to reveal 6 sound and complete issues. Very rare. Moderate wear overall. Some years contain autographs. One loose page shows nice photos of the 1931 champion soccer and track teams. A precious and unique memento of early Vancouver. Book
Mm 165x245 Volume di pp. 541, legatura in tela, dorso e piatto anteriore impressi in oro, 8 tavole, 326 illustrazioni in bianco e nero, fioriture alle 8 tavole in cartoncino. Opera in buone condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY
In-8 (cm. 25), tela editoriale, titolo oro al dorso, fregio al piatto, pp. (10), 474, con 9 tavole in bianco e nero fuori testo e 295 illustrazioni, sempre in bianco e nero, nel testo. Disponibile il solo volume XII dedicato a Botticelli, “The School of Botticelli”, Filippino Lippi, Jacopo del Sellaio e Raffaellino del Garbo o dei Carli. Text in English. In ottimo stato (nice copy).
238 pages. Index. Extensively illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. Charts and tables. A wartime text "especially written for carpenters and other woodworkers who desire to engage in boat or ship building, and as a textbook for schools." - subtitle. Amazingly, a prior owner has neatly handwritten over twenty pages of pertinent notes on and near front and back endpaper! Some additional markings to contents. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
178 pages. Bibliography. Character Index. General Index. Map. Diagram. Black and white frontisplate illustration depicts ancient courtroom scene. Appendix Three contains fascinating list of proverbial sayings. "Primarily a sociological study which does not pretend to deal fully with all the questions that would occur to sinologists." - from Introduction. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper. Some ink underlining and marginalia to first portion of contents. A sound working copy. Book
144 p. 12mo. Original leather backed paper boards. Very scarce American Imprint. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 7
PARIS, Librairie de l'Action Française - 1925 - In-8, 19,5x12 - Reliure pleine toile - Dos lisse -148 + Table - Bon exemplaire
Fine Very Good Turkish Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [xxiv], 744 p., b/w ills. Mogol istilâsina kadar Türkistan. Translated by Hakki Dursun Yildiz. Turkestan down to the Mongol invasion. First Edition. Rare.
