Circa 1990. Unpaginated. Gorgeous colour photography throughout. Book as new but for small stains in each lower corner of blue cloth front board. Splendid copy. View More...
16 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada, October, 1943. Contents:Talking of Americans; America Thinks Again; Is America United?; The American Way in Wartime; The Question We're Always Asking; How Can We Reach Each Other?; Index to issues 27-52 of this publication. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. View More...
80 pages. Features:. Withdrawal from Europe "An Illustion" - we must have close co-operation with West Germany; Lest Us Reason Together - photo feature on LBJ; Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson (Lady Bird) - article with photo about the public servant without pay; The Muddled Problem of Presidential Succession - which was brought home by the death of JFK; After Five Years, de Gaulle Still Towers; The average height of Americans is increasing; A Master Builder at 75 - photo feature on the works of New York's Robert Moses; When a Negro is on Trial in the South - is the picture painted by novels and films... View More...
Pages 384-512 plus dozens of pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Racketeers and Organized Labor; Whoe Gets the Children - a wife's reflections on divorce; The New Stage Fright - talking pictures; The Real Value of the League of Nations; Is History a Fraud?; The Wallflower Complex; The Curious Statistics of Suicide; and much more. The following wonderful ads are worthy of mention: Nice Stetson Hats (for men) ad inside front cover; The Hotels Statler; Cadillac Motor Car Company - with illustration of their V-16-powered car; Japan Tourist Burea (color); Hawaii Tourist Bureau (color); and lastly a... View More...
160 pages. Index. Glossary. Profusely illustrated with magnificent archival black and white photographic plates. "A pictorial history of the logging railways of the western woods. An epic portrait of men and machines now vanishing from the west." - subtitle. An invaluable and awe-inspiring record of the days of yore. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Moderate wear and spine sunning to dust jacket. A quality copy. View More...
119 pages. Introduction by Lou Handman, composer of "Are You Lonesome Tonight" and many other hits states in part "I know of no one who could be more capable to write a book on the songwriting and music publishing business". Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Nice copy of this nostalgic work. View More...
Pages 328-410 plus ads. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos; Features: Along the Piscataquog - a Sketch of Weare; Witch Hazel; From the Piazza - Mt. Washington from the Mt. Pleasant House; War Pictures (continued); Dethroned; Wild Reutlingen - a romance of the time of the great king; Home; The Charities of New Hampshire; Franklin Benjamin Sanborn; John B. Peaslee; Autumn Among the Hills; An Old Barn and its Swallows; The Dying Leaf; The Relation of the Agricultural College to the Common Schools; The Sentinels; New Hampshire Necrology. Good photos of two old asylums for ... View More...
147 pages. Glossary of Spanish and English equestrian terms. Many black and white illustrations. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, Number 39. A study of early forms of saddles in Western North America. Includes an illustrated catalogue of equestrian artifacts drawn from the Smithsonian Institution's holdings and from other important collections for an exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, 1794-1976. Heavily-worn with usual library markings. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy of this excellent reference. View More...
Lot of 8 four-page menus from the S.S. Yukon Star, each measuring 8.5" x 5.5" and featuring a charming color cover illustrations of a notable Alaskan dog, with brief write-ups of each dog on back page. Dogs include: Blizzard - owned by Slim Williams; Two Husky puppies; Wolf - raced by Mary Joyce in the Alaska Dog Derby; Cheechako - owned by Lieutenant Colonel Francis E. Maslin; Rye - given to the Army at Chilkoot Barracks by Mary Joyce; Mageik - Father Hubbard's famous sled dog; Jack - racing dog owned by Grover Bayless of Fairbanks; and Smokey - a favorite among forty army dogs formerly stat... View More...
16 pages. Features: Holiday Boy - tropical Christmas fiction; Six celebrities describe their unforgettable Christmas presents - William Menninger, Helen Keller, Kyle Rote, Edward Steichen, The Rt. Rev. James Pike, and musical comedy star Lisa Kirk; Artists and the Madonna; Food for Christmas Stockings; Knockouut Knickers - fashion story for the ski slopes with color photo; Color ads include: Del Monte Golden Sweet Corn, Kent cigarettes, Quaker Oats - colour photo ad features Mr. Benjamin Thomas and son David of Levittown, NY; Salem cigarettes (back cover) features young couple standing on ra... View More...
100 pages. Features: Fantastic Chrysler/Plymouth color-photo 4-panel ad inside front cover features the Scamp, Valiant Brougham and Gold Duster; State of the President (Richard Nixon); Electronic Vision - research aims for artificial sight; Film "The Exorcist" leads to frenzy of interest in exorcisms; Pending coalminer strike in Britain; America's oil companies seen as villains in the energy squeeze; Dr. Thomas E. Deiker argues for gun control; Nice color-photo ad for the Ford Maverick; Watergate scandal - John Dean, H.R. Haldeman; Photo of President Nixon and family with Billy Graham; Illino... View More...
122 pages. Features: Cover photo of New Jersey Couple Frank and Barbara Calabrese with adopted daughter Rachel; The New Face of Adoption; Vietnam combat diary; Sen. Strom Thurmond; New birth control techniques; Color photos of daily life on the Chinese Mainland; Can Wage-Price freezes work?; The Increasing Role of Computers in art - from music to poetry to visual works; One-page ad for Moneysworth with photo of Ralph Ginzburg; Dixie Takes the Bus; photo of burning school buses in Pontiac, Michigan; Reflecting on Black Panther George Jackson, killed in San Quentin recently; Sales of lottery ti... View More...
280 pages including glossary. Includes fold-out maps and many illustrations. Collecting sites. All major roads. National Parks: Craters of the Moon; Glacier; Grand Teton; Yellowstone. Average wear. Unmarked. Good working copy of this excellent and interesting reference. View More...
4 pages. This song was introduced by the National War Savings Committee during WWI. Great patriotically-illustrated front cover shows a cross-section of Americans stepping up to financially support the WWI war effort. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. View More...
230 pages. "With hundreds of classic (and crazy) advertisements, covers in full color, and howling articles from America's favorite family magazine of the 20's, 30's & 40's." - from dust jacket. Former library copy with minimal library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this entertaining and nostalgic compilation. View More...
510 pages. Features include: The Centennial of Mormonism; The Last of the Boarding Houses; A Bohunk Woman; White Magic; Frankenstein, Inc.; Reb Samuel; "Freemasons" among North Dakota Indians; The Man Who Killed Tecumseh; Some Americans in Japan; A Negro Looks Ahead; Business Cycles; and many more. Bound in brown cloth. Binder's small stamp inside front board otherwise clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. View More...
74 pages. Articles: Tradition Can't Win Wars - General H.H. (Hap) Arnold proposes a method of tightening civilian control of national defense - article with color photo; Confessions of a Congressman's Son - author anonymous; Lincoln's Lost Speech - an American Psalm; It's Ed Wynn Again - in Video - one of the greatest clowns in entertainment history; The Marvelous Mounties - As They Really Are (part 2 of 2); Doctor "Doc" J.S. Dorton - He Makes Our Hearts Gay at the Country Fair - Shelby, North Carolina; Blood and Thunder - Raymond L. Caldwell has assembled the world's best collection of "Penny... View More...
214 pages. "Portrays the Vanderbilts in the witty engaging manner of his (author's) best fiction." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Solid copy. View More...
45 pages. Undated. Circa 1941. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Includes detailed instructions on: what to do in an air raid; the blackout.; Emergency Traffic regulations; Civilian Protection. View More...
