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Book and jacket in virtually mint condition. 192pp.
Publishers cloth. 4to. XXII, 226 pages. 29 cm. First edition. Describes the vast amount of Jewish-oriented material available to the researcher in the United States and Canada and how to access it. Specific sections focus on resources in states with large Jewish populations and detail the exceptionally useful documents at the LDS (Mormon) Family History Library. (JewishGen) Originally projected to be a three volume set, only volume one ever appeared. Subjects: Jews - Genealogy - Handbooks, manuals, etc. Light wear to jacket, outer edges lightly aged, light pen marks and single words highlighted on five pages, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition in good jacket. (GENE-1-24)
Red octavo ; 248 p : Illus Uncommon // Education -- Blind -- Therapy -- Conference
Paperback in good condition. Superficial marks, light scores, creases and edge wear on covers. Sticker on rear cover. Page block and title page are marked. One inch tear on hinge of front inside cover. Binding remains intact. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 3 plates and a large folding map; armorial cloth blocked in brown, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Chetham Society, Third Series, vol. XXI.
378p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Status is a Very Prolix Thing - sature by Charles H. King; The Cash Syndrome - humor by Charles Miron; "A Death in the Family" - fiction by Miriam Allen deFord; Ebon - Photo essay of raven-haired Lorna Lane; Stegopholy Anyone? - article on Masonry Mountaineers/Roof Climbers by Paul Brock; The Cure - fiction by Paul Jacobs; Photo essay on the Tri-State (Sky) Divers; The Vamp - or what happened to the bad old days in Babylon-on-the-Pacific - satire by Stan Cornyn; Chaste, Chasing, Chastened - satire by Robert G. Elliott - a modern discussion of a medieval custom; Ulysses in Beat Town - humor by Earle Schell; Profile of comedian Jackie Kannon; Fashion photos of men's rainwear; Baby Doll! - photo feature of Marie Barry; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
88 pages including index and bibliogrpahy. Contains black and white photos and illustrations. The daily life of the Macnab family in Dundurn Castle, Hamilton, Canada West (now Ontario) from January 17th to July 8th, 1846, is brought vividly to life in the charminlgy written Journal of Sophia Macnab. She was born at Hamilton on the 5th day of July, 1832, and died in England in 1917. She began her Journal at the age of thirteen and it is the most detailed document so far discovered of the life of her father Sir Allan Napier Macnab, who was born at Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) February 19th, 1798, and died in Dundurn Castle on August 9th, 1862. Book
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked front board, label removal mark to rear, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 132pp. This book was written with the interests of both family and local historian about the old Bramhall township, now in Stockport. It shows how the inhabitants lived, worked and relaxed. It contains the farmer's diary from the 1780s, a glossary, a number of appendices, family trees and bibliography We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
Paviere, Sydney H: The Devis Family of Painters. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1950. 148pp plus 4 colour and 48 monochrome plates. Cloth, 26x21cms. From an edition limited to 500 copies. Discusses and illustrates the works of the five portrait and landscape painters: Arthur (1711-87), Anthony (1729-1816), Thomas Anthony (1757-1810), Arthur William (1762-1822) and Robert Marris (1750-1827). From an edition limited to 500 copies. Discusses and illustrates the works of the five portrait and landscape painters: Arthur (1711-87), Anthony (1729-1816), Thomas Anthony (1757-1810), Arthur William (1762-1822) and Robert Marris (1750-1827). Text in English
46 pages. Describes the missionary life of the MacIndoe family in Senegal. Gift greetings inside front cover else unmarked. Average wear. No date. Circa 1956. Includes 4 pages of black and white photographic plates. Binding intact. Book
32 pages. Features: When Old Salem Hunted Witches - men and women were put to death on the accusation of little children; The Man Who Fights Alone - "The Cop is the World's Greatest Warrior" - article with statistics of policemen killed on the job; Why I Left New York (part 1) - a middle westerner moves there but is in conflict with its alien atmosphere; Who Pays for Our Radio Programs? - noted economics author explains how national advertisers foot the bill so we can listen-in without charge; Captain Kidd - Pirate-Catcher - the rover is commissioned to capture ships flying the black flag; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - no amount of pretense can improve upon the original; Editorials - the time of England's trouble, is the jury system a failure, police death roll, the family is the unit; Woodrow Wilson (part 9) - He refused to be rushed into hasty decisions; World War's Effect Upon the Negro - overseas the colored soldier acquired an entirely new estimate of his importance in the scheme of things; Dry-Farming - The Tragedy of the West - scores of deserted homes stand as mute monuments to the settler's struggle in a land where rain seldom comes; Moonlight Midnight on "Old Tim" - Climbing Mount Timpanogas; The Voyage of the Victoria - part 3 - further adventures of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers; A Dance a Week - Hull's Victory, Lady Walpole's Reel, and Speed the Plow (with piano music for each); amazing photos of strange worldwide professions - a daredevil juggling atop several chairs, rubber tappers in Ceylon demonstrating the herringbone system,Egyptian dervishes passing skewers through their cheeks, and a Korean peddler of earthen ware - carried upon his back! Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Tour of Distant Lands via Camera; The Cause of Nervous Breakdown; Socialism through the Eyes of the Churchman; What Books are Worthwhile - and Why?; The Scientist is the Most Effectual Agent for Democracy, Says Edwin E. Slosson; Certain Fundamental Safeguards are still needed in Our Cort-Martial System, so says a former Sergeant Major of the American Expeditionary Forces; The Scholar Analyzes the different Versions of the New Testament; Henry Ford's Page - prosperity has not arrived until the last family enjoys it; Editorials - Senate-nominee William S. Vare, Gertrude Ederle is the first woman ever to swim the English Channel, Rapid decline in prestige of Premier Baldwin, interfering in Mexican affairs; The Old-Time Revival - Is it good enough for us?; The Cry of the Crippled Children - is greater than that about which a Barrett Browning wrote; Lower California - Land of Mystery - Where American Filibusters once sought to establish a republic; The Truth About France - Lesson of Touraine and the Woolen Stocking; If Shakespeare Came to London - would he be able to find may of his old haunts?; The Lure of Lofty Places - There are thrills on the mountain tops and fascination in finding them - article with photos of/on Mount Rainier, Washington; Barefoot Dave - Son of Nature, Mute Throreau of the Woods - David Dugden of Les Cheneaux Islands; Child Welfare and Conscience - Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt sits in the world's largest juvenile court; Chats with office callers - drunks in Montreal, Schools taking on more and more responsibility for child-rearing, Dr. George Byron Gordon, labor strife on the streets of New York; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - Great Britain's financial problems, Citrate acid in drinks makes us thirsty, forged manuscripts of famous authors, Lots of gangsters being killed in Chicago; Briefly told. Photos of unusual trees of the world; Soiling to front cover near spine. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Woodrow Wilson Was Best and Worst Copy - his passion for accuracy conflicted with newspapermen who ignored serious things to ask him 'what he ate for breakfast' - part 3; Housekeeping in Our Paris Flat - how two Americans fared in the French Capital and "Got to Love Passy"; ; Never Separated a Single Family - open-door immigration specialists slander the United States Government - Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, urges passage of the most liberal of all the liberalizing measures - the Perlman bill; Life and Death on the Screen - A.C. Pillsbury films bacteria and pollen in action - motion pictures of flower fertilization; What's the Matter With Jim? - the story of a boy who would only work when he thought it play; Mr. Ford's Page - interesting thoughts on the forces involved with prohibition; Editorials - major criticism of the World Court and claim that in Michigan a list of Americans targetted for assassination by communists has been found; Golf - Can You Pick the Champions? - Americans will attempt to capture leading British honors - article with photos of Glenna Collett, Francis Ouimet, Macdonald Smith, Walter Hagen, Watts Gunn, Long Jim Barnes, Bobby Jones and Robert Gardner; Lincoln's Murder - Amazing Man Hunt - John Surratt and Papal Zouave accused of the crime, who leaped for liberty over a hundred-foot precipice - article with photos of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Mary Surratt; What it Costs the Chinese to Worship Their Ancestors - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Is America a Nation of Coffee-Bibbers? - Its people drink upward of forty billions of cups of this seductive beverage each year, consuming more than half of World's Production; Union of Irish and Jews in recent 'propaganda' plays - Abie's Irish Rose, Kosher Kitty Kelly; Great Writers Who Have Failed as Novelists; Seeking to Know What the Earth is Made of - the work of Professor Stjepan Mohorovicic and others; When the Broker Breaks the Law; A Dance a Week - The Lancers, a graceful square dance - first two figures, with piano sheet music (to be continued); Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon offers course in the guardianship of a real baby; The Jolly Old Pedagogue; Back cover features illustration of and quotation by Henry Thoreau. Small chip from fore-edge of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
315p., illus. History of the Cristiani family and their circus performing in the United States and Europe. Illus.w/ B/W photographs. Hardcover Good condition; fore edge stained, lacks frt. free endpaper
44 pages. Prepared to accompany an exhibit at the Provincial Archives of British Columbia, October 10, 1981 to March 31, 1982. "The Crease family contributed in diverse and notable ways to the development of British Columbia, and for this reason, the documentary record they kept is unquestionably worthy of permanent preservation... The rich variety of form of documentation in photos, paintings and drawings, legal records, financial accounts, letters and diaries, as well as their content, gives the collection added significance." - from Foreword. Abundantly illustrated in black and white with reproductions of archival photos and illustrations. Bit of writing atop page 1, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1st edition. Folio, 207 pages, illustrated. Near fine condition in hardback in near fine condition dust jacket. ISBN 0600376486. 41481. eng
102 pages. Great cover photo of boy writing love letter while sister looks on. Features; Nice GMC pickup truck ad; Nice half-page two-colour ad for the John Deere No. 5 mower; Nice ad for 1952 Ford cars; Foot and Mouth disease discovered at farm of Leonard Wass of McLean, Saskatchewan - a major threat to Canada's billion-dollar livestock industry; Green Leaves Falling (story); The perennial problem of soil losses from erosion; Farewell to the Years (storyy); Frontier Family - The Ardills of Farrell Creek, B.C. - photo-illustrated article; So You're Getting Power - article for farmers being connected to the electrical grid; Line Breeding for Daily Gain - some account of beef cattle improvement work at the U.S. Range Livestock Experiment Station, Miles City, Montana; Runaway Trailer (story) - part II; Caterpillar diesel farm tractor ad features photo of J.B. Francis of Sedley, Saskatchewan; One-page ad for the 1952 Meteor car; Vintage 2/3-page photo-illustrated ad for the new Case DC-4 tractor; Sam Harker of Standoff, Alberta raises sheep; Fantastic vintage one-page multiple-photo ad for Farmhad loaders and power boxes displays their gangly equipment handling big loads; Ben Lodoen of Fox Valley, Saskatchewan and his irrigation improvement; Nice one-page two-colour photo ad for Firestone tractor tires features Lawrence O. Larson; Nice vintage one-page two-colour ad for the Ferguson Twenty 85 tractor; 2/3-page ads for the Cockshutt seed drill and Drive-o-matic Combine; Nice photo ad for the Oliver No. 8 tractor; One-page Dodge car ad - "test the new Oriflow Ride"; Nice one-page photo ad for the Massey-Harris No. 509 one-way disc with roto-lift; Nice ad for Ford tractors; Ad for Dodge 'Job-Rated" trucks; Fordson Major tractor ad; Fargo truck ad; Excellent one-page ad for Ford Trucks features their three V-8 engines; Lovely colour-photo ad inside back cover for Swiss watches; Awesome colour-photo ad on back cover features a variety of Minneapolis-Moline machinery at work on the prairie. Please note: pages 49, 50, 55 and 56 missing. Center page loose but present. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this nice issue. Book
52 pages. Features: Nice one-page illustrated ad for "U.S." Boots; Nicely illustrated Fisher Body ad features scene in modern dairy barn; Is Uncle Sam Rich Enough To Give Us All A Farm?; Cranberry Folks are Sales Experts; Mouse-Guarding Our Orchards; Good Grass and a Cow Climate in Washington State; How to Nurse an Invalid Farm; They Needed a New Poultry House - cozy quarters brought winter eggs; Satan's Bushel (fiction); Fishing the Rogue (fiction); A Dane Tells What He Finds Wrong in Our Farming; Thanksgiving Chicken Pie (recipe); Nice one-page Hupmobile ad; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Oakland Motor Car Company; One-page illustrated Fordson tractor ad; Nice one-page two-color ad for Three-In-One Oil features shotgun and hunting scenes; Nice one-page ad for Gold Seal footwear; Sensational centerfold ad for "Ball Brand" footwear features their red ball; One-page ad for the Oldsmobile Six; Excellent one-page ad for the Buescher True-Tone Saxophone features photos of seventeen prominent artists of the day; Two-color ad for Firestone footwear inside back cover; Purina Hen Chow ad on back cover; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this marvelous vintage issue. Book
36 pages. Features: Charming cover illustration by J.F. Kernan shows boy munching apple he has successfuly stolen from mean old man waving a stick in background; Nicely illustrated one-page ad for Keystone Standard Watches shows wealthy father and son with pocket watch; The Cradle of the President - photo-illustrated history of the Plymouth, Vermont ancestral farm of President Calvin Coolidge; The Best Way to Destroy the Corn ear Worm; A Big Market for Little Apples; Hank the Hired Man Cartoon; Four-Basket Farming - three more shots at Market if the wheat goes bad; Winter greens for hogs - pasture seems the real key to profitable pigs; Pharaoh's Daughter (fiction); Stairway of the Sun (fiction); The Agitator Horns In - his ballyhooed panaceas can work only to harm the farmer; Illustrated one-page Hupp Motor Car (Huppmobile) ad; Nice two-page ad (with red ball) for "Ball-Band" boots (shows beige moisture stains); Listening In on Livestock; One-page illustrated ad for McKay Shurout Tire Chains; Stevens rifle ad; Nice two-color illustrated ad for Atlantic galvanized metal-ware shows woman hand-washing clothes; Purina Hen Chow ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Moisture exposure to back cover and back pages has fortunately resulted in quite minor effect. Otherwise, a sound and complete copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1st edition. 4to, 40 pages, illustrated. Good condition in red leather covers, no jacket, front cover has been clipped at top right corner. 39781. eng
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), coloured plate, illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; brown board, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, white faux-vellum back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Thomson (1976), p.42.
No publication date, 24 pages, illustrated, family trees. eng
256 pages. 400 practical craft projects with step-by-step instructions. Over 1,000 how-to drawings. Woodworking, Sewing & other Fancywork, Basketry, Paper Crafts, Shellwork and Beading, Floral Beauties, Miscellany, Projects for Children. Average wear. Gift greetings atop half-title page else unmarked. Binding intact. Solid working copy of this lovely work. Book
"The basic purposes of this book are simple: to distinguish between the various original printings and reprints of the four series [Family Dog, Bill Graham, Russ Gibb/Grande Ballroom, Neon Rose], to locate prints listing specific performers and to give credit to the correct artists and photographers who created this material." - Introduction. This vastly improved and expanded 642 page edition contains 185 pages more than the 1996 first edition. Hundreds of small grainy black and white illustrations. Appendices list Family Dog and Bill Graham numbered posters by artist and by performer. Index of Gibb/Grande artists/posters. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An exceptional copy of this indispensable reference. Book
