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paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. THE SCRIPT! Presentable ACTING EDITION in good condition. Some shelf wear to the covers. Tight binding and the text flows clearly. Enjoy this Acting Script reliable for performance.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. VINTAGE SCRIPT! Enjoy this rare acting edition script FROM THE OLD DAYS! Shelf wear and former actor name to the cover. Some tanning to the pages. The binding is good and the text flows clearly. Take a cherished look at this theater script from days gone by valuable for your dramatic needs.…

Zustand: Good. : Este libro, titulado 'Panorama de la Biología Contemporánea', es una obra que ofrece una visión general de la biología moderna. Publicado en 1975 por Alianza Universidad, el libro cuenta con 401 páginas y está escrito en español. Es una selección y comentario de Roland Hoste, con la versión española de Carlos Castrodeza. El libro es una valiosa fuente de información para estudiantes y profesionales de la biología. EAN: 9788420621289 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Ciencias Título: Panorama de la biología contemporánea Autor: Albert L. Lehninger| A. J. Marshall| W. M. Court Brown Idioma: es-ES Páginas: 401 Formato: tapa blanda Año de publicación: 1975.…

Zustand: Very good. light shelfwear. 0 Includes illustrations. (1)"The Soiled Angel of Tsingchow" by William Chamberlain (Was this beautiful girl a traitor against her own brother's guerrillas? ); (2) "Never Been Away! " by Joel Reeve (It takes a good fighter to say that wneh everyone claims he is finihsed. ); (3) "One Bottle of Aquavit" by Albert M. Ottenheimer (Strange things happen at sea. Ghosts drink aquavit, for instance. ); (4) "Tuesday in Times Square" by Harold H. Prommel (What was so spine-chilling that it literally frightened a man to death? ); (5)"Never Kick a Kalinga" by Guy Emery (At least not when a dosen natives are after one beautiful white woman. ); (6)"Too Eager a beaver" by Phil Magee (Even tough young cops make mistakes-especially the ambitious ones. ); (7)"One Down to Blondie" by John R. Pederson (He was lost and alone-and in the enemy's path during the Bulge. ); (8)"An Unhappy Burglar" by Morris Osofsky (The eldest son had always been the burglar. But he liked to pick pockets. ); (9)"Instead of a Gun" by Goodrich S. Walton "A crackjack short-short story with a satisfying finale. ); (10)"I've Killed a Man! " by Fred Lane (He had to stand and watch them frame him, tighter and tighter. ); ARTICLES-(1)"The Match Game" by John T. Dunlavy (Amazing facts matches and users. ); (2) "Bootleggers of the Tall Timber" by Luther Locke (The end of an incredible era in the already incredible Northwest. ); (3)"How to [Click Below for Full Description].…

Softcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Mass market paperback. Light dampstain on edges, wrapper curled, good only. The third of a series of volumes highlighting writing from around the world. Authors include Margaret Mead, Hollis Summers, Jose Suarez Carreno, Peggy Bennett, Richard Eberhart, C. Tunnard, H.H. Reed, David Dempsey, Ignazio Silone, Louis Auchincloss, M.R. Kadish, Dyland Thomas, John Lee Wheldon, Hamdi Bey, Gene Bara, Robert Pinget, Evan S. Connell, Jr., Jay Leyda, R.S. Niedelman, Alberto Moravia, John Howard Griffin, Peter Matthieseen, Albert J. Guerard, Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, William H. Matchett, Spencer Brown, Alexander Trocchi, Galway Kinnell, Patrick Boland, Howard Moss, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Byron Vazakas, John Ashbery, Harry Duncan, Herbert Morris, Lucinda Collins, and B. Rajan. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. The wraps are a bit marked and worn. Internally clean and tightly bound. The top right corner of the text block is 'curved'. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. Xii, 290 Pp. Turquoise Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Light Wear, Gilt Brilliant, Faint Dampstainig To Cloth. Dust Jacket Priced $3.75, Very Worn, Dampstainied, Extensive Tape Repairs To Inside Of Jacket, Fair Only. Dust Jacket Blurbs By William O. Douglas, Robert M. Hutchins, Paul B. Sears, Harold C. Urey, Albert Einstein, H. J. Muller; Brown Was An Outstanding Scientist Himself; But Few World Politicians Or Business Leaders 1946-Present, Out Of Hundreds Of Thousands, Ever Tried To Seriously Address These Issues, Apparently Because They're Not There For The General Welfare. Harrison Scott Brown ( 1917 - 1986) Was An American Nuclear Chemist And Geochemist. He Was A Political Activist, Who Lectured And Wrote On The Issues Of Arms Limitation, Natural Resources And World Hunger. During World War Ii, Brown Worked At The Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory And Clinton Engineer Works, Where He Worked On Ways To Separate Plutonium From Uranium. The Techniques He Helped Develop Were Used At The Hanford Site To Produce The Plutonium Used In The Fat Man Bomb Dropped On Nagasaki. After The War He Lectured On The Dangers Of Nuclear Weapons. After The War, He Worked At The University Of Chicago, Where He Pioneered Nuclear Geochemistry. The Study Of Meteorites By Brown And His Students Led To The First Close Approximation Of The Age Of The Earth And The Solar System. In 1948 Brown Was Awarded The American Association For The Advancement Of Science Prize For His Work On Meteorites.Between 1951 And 1977, He Worked At The California Institute Of Technology (Caltech) Where He Contributed To Advances In Telescopic Instrumentation, Jet Propulsion, And Infrared Astronomy. While There He Attracted Several Former Colleagues And Highly Regarded Scientists To The Team. Together They Made Advancements In Telescopic Instrumentation, Jet Propulsion (Contributing To Nasa's Early Planetary Exploration Missions), And Infrared Astronomy. In June 1954 He Was One Of Twenty Scientists Under The Age Of Forty Identified By Fortune Magazine As "Top Young Scientists In U. S. Universities And Industry". In The Early 1970S, He Began Working More Directly On The Resource/Environment Issues That He Had Been Developing In His Books. In 1977, He Became Director Of The Newly Created Resource Systems Institute Of The East-West Center In Hawaii Where He Turned Full Time To Work On Understanding And Influencing The Interactions Of Energy, Mineral, And Food Systems In The Asia-Pacific Region, Themes He Had Developed In His Books Since The 1950S.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 456 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. ; ISBN 9780669280029, 066928002X OCLC 31890473 LCCN 94076841 LC DG533 .M27 1995 Dewey 945/.05 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; This collection of readings offers the best of contemporary Italian Renaissance scholarship, classic studies, and excerpts from a great variety of important primary sources in a single volume. Unique to this text is the presentation of conflicting interpretations of major issues in Renaissance history ; Contents: Pt. 1. The Renaissance problem -- 1. The Renaissance problem -- The culture of the Italian Renaissance / Jacob Burckhardt -- Did women have a renaissance? / Joan Kelly -- pt. II. The material world -- 2. The plage and public health -- The plague strikes Orvieto / Elisabeth Carpentier -- Medical reputations and the Black Death / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages / Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasett -- 3. The economy of city and countryside -- Landed property and trade in medieval Siena / Giuliano Pinto -- The preconditions for luxury consumption / Richard A. Goldthwaite -- Women's work in Renaissance Tuscany / Judith C. Brown -- 4. Urban needs and opportunities -- The Italian urban experience / Marvin B. Becker -- Social mobility in Florence / David Herlihy -- The urban territory of a Florentine merchant, 1400 / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- pt. III. Political forms -- 5. Renaissance Venice and Florence emerge -- Guild republicianism in Trecento Florence / John M. Najemy -- The Venetian aristocracy takes control / Frederic C. Lane -- 6. Forms of government in Renaissance Italy -- Communes and despots in late-medieval Italy / P.J. Jones -- The rise of the Medici / Dale Kent -- 7. Machiavelli's world -- The prince : political science or political satire? / Garrett Mattingly -- Machiavelli's advice to princes / Quentin Skinner Pt. IV. Humanism -- The beginnings of humanism / Ronald G. Witt -- Petrarch and the discovery of human nature / Hans Baron -- 9. Humanism serves the state -- In defense of civic humanism / Hans Baron -- The significance of civic humanism / Albert Rabil, Jr -- The moral philosophy of a Venetian humanist, Giovanni Caldiera / Margaret L. King -- 10. Schools of humanism -- Humanism and scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Antiquity versus modernity / Charles Trinkaus -- pt. V. Urban society and culture -- Maternity, widowhood, and dowry in Florence / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Wives and husbands in late medieval Venice / Stanley Chonjnacki -- 12. Conspicuous consumption -- The building of Renaissance Florence / Richard A. Goldwaite -- Sumptuary law and social relations in Renaissance Italy / Diane Owen Hughes -- 13. Spirituality and ritual -- Ritual behavior in Renaissance Florence / Richard Trexler -- Art and pageantry in Renaissance Venice / Edward Muir -- 14. The end of the Renaissance? -- Changing assumptions in later Renaissance culture / William J. Bouwsma -- Clerics and laymen in Italian literature / Carlo Dionisotti ; FINE. Book.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Xii, 290 Pp. Turquoise Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Near Fine, No Marks, Gilt Brilliant, Bumping To Spine Ends. Dust Jacket Priced $3.75, Wear, Chipping At Corners, Short Edge Tears, Good Only. Dust Jacket Blurbs By William O. Douglas, Robert M. Hutchins, Paul B. Sears, Harold C. Urey, Albert Einstein, H. J. Muller; Brown Was An Outstanding Scientist Himself; But Few World Politicians Or Business Leaders 1946-Present, Out Of Hundreds Of Thousands, Ever Tried To Seriously Address These Issues, Apparently Because They're Not There For Our General Welfare. Per Wikipedia, Harrison Scott Brown (1917 - 1986) Was An American Nuclear Chemist And Geochemist. He Was A Political Activist, Who Lectured And Wrote On The Issues Of Arms Limitation, Natural Resources And World Hunger. During World War Ii, Brown Worked At The Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory And Clinton Engineer Works, Where He Worked On Ways To Separate Plutonium From Uranium. The Techniques He Helped Develop Were Used At The Hanford Site To Produce The Plutonium Used In The Fat Man Bomb Dropped On Nagasaki. After The War He Lectured On The Dangers Of Nuclear Weapons. After The War, He Worked At The University Of Chicago, Where He Pioneered Nuclear Geochemistry. The Study Of Meteorites By Brown And His Students Led To The First Close Approximation Of The Age Of The Earth And The Solar System. In 1948 Brown Was Awarded The American Association For The Advancement Of Science Prize For His Work On Meteorites.Between 1951 And 1977, He Worked At The California Institute Of Technology (Caltech) Where He Contributed To Advances In Telescopic Instrumentation, Jet Propulsion, And Infrared Astronomy. While There He Attracted Several Former Colleagues And Highly Regarded Scientists To The Team. Together They Made Advancements In Telescopic Instrumentation, Jet Propulsion (Contributing To Nasa's Early Planetary Exploration Missions), And Infrared Astronomy. In June 1954 He Was One Of Twenty Scientists Under The Age Of Forty Identified By Fortune Magazine As "Top Young Scientists In U. S. Universities And Industry". In The Early 1970S, He Began Working More Directly On The Resource/Environment Issues That He Had Been Developing In His Books. In 1977, He Became Director Of The Newly Created Resource Systems Institute Of The East-West Center In Hawaii Where He Turned Full Time To Work On Understanding And Influencing The Interactions Of Energy, Mineral, And Food Systems In The Asia-Pacific Region, Themes He Had Developed In His Books Since The 1950S.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 417 pages. 9.25x8.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJohn Donne, edited by Gary A. Stringer, Albert C. Labriola, Jeffrey S. Johnson, Paul A. Parrish, Tracy E. McLawhorn, Meg Lota Brown, Eugene Cunnar, Robert C. Evans, Robert T. Fallon, Kate Gartner Frost, Corinee W. Guy..

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a comprehensive digest of general and topical commentary on John Donne's Songs and Sonets from the early 17th century through 1999. Arranged chronologically within sections, the material in the present volume is organized under the following chapter headings: General Commentary; Autobiography and Persona; Critical Reception; Dating, Publication History, and Manuscript Tradition; Donne's Originality: Praise and Blame; Dramatic Elements; T. S. Eliot; Imagery; Language and Rhetoric; Love and Sexual Imagery; Mannerism and Baroque; Medievalism; Paradox; Petrarchism; Platonism; Psychological Analysis; Religion; Science and the New Learning; Versification; Wit and Metaphysical Conceit; Women. This book was begun under the direction of Albert C. Labriola, who served as the Volume Commentary Editor until his death in March 2009. Completed by his students and colleagues with the Variorum project, the volume is dedicated to Professor Labriola's memory.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. xiii, 628 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm OCLC 760180 ; brown textured cloth with embossed lettering ; no dustjacket ; repair to back gutter ; dig to bottom of spine ; Contents:IN MEMORIAM-Henry Watterson -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH-Joel Chandler Harris -- MEMORIAL SKETCH--Marion Verdery -- SPEECHES -- THE NEW SOUTH-Delivered at the Banquet of the New England Club New York December 21 1886 -- THE SOUTH AND HER PROBLEM-At the Dallas Texas State Fair October 26 1887 -- AT THE AUGUSTA EXPOSITION-In November 1887 -- AGAINST CENTRALIZATION-Before the Society of the University of Virginia June 25 1889 -- THE FARMER AND THE CITIES-At Elberton Georgia in June 1889 -- AT THE BOSTON BANQUET-Before the Merchants' Association in December 1889 -- BEFORE THE BAY STATE CLUB-1889 -- WRITINGS -- SMALL JANE -The Story of a Little Heroine -- DOBBS--A Thumb-nail Sketch of a Martyr-A Blaze of Honesty-The Father of Incongruity-Five Dollars a Week A Conscientious Debtor -- A CORNER LOT -- THE ATHEISTIC TIDE SWEEPING Over The CONTINENT-The threatened Destruction of the Simple Faith of the Fathers by the Vain Deceits of Modern Philosophers -- ON THE OCEAN WAVE-An Amateur's Experience on a Steamship-How Sea-Sickness Works-The Sights of the SeaThe Lovers and the Pilot-Some Conclusions not Jumped at -- TWO MEN WHO HAVE THRILLED THE STATE-An Accidental Meeting on the Street in which Two Great Men areRecognized as the Types of Two Clashing Theories-Toombs's Successes-Brown's Judgment -- ??? How AN OLD MAN COME HOME -A Story Without a Moral Picked out of a Busy Life -- COTTON & ITS KINGDOM IN PLAIN BLACK AND WHITE-Reply to Mr Cable -- THE LITTE BOY IN THE BALCONY -- POEMS BY VARIOUS HANDS -- GRADY-F L Stanton -- ATLANTA-Josephine Pollard -- HENRY W GRADY-James Whitcombe Riley -- A REQUIEM IN MEMORY OF HIM THAT'S AWA Montgomery M Folsom -- HENRY WOODFIN GRADY-Henry O'Meara -- HENRY W GRADY-Henry Jerome Stockard -- WHO WOULD CALL HIM BACK ?-Belle Eyre -- HENRY W GRADY-G W Lyon -- WHAT THE MASTER MADE-Mel R Colquitt -- IN ATLANTA CHRISTMAS 1889-Henry Clay Lukens -- IN MEMORY OF HENRY WOODFIN GRADY-Lee Fairchild -- A SOUTHERN CHRISTMAS DAY-N C Thompson -- IN MEMORY OF HENRY W GRADY-Elizabeth J Hereford -- HENRY W GRADY-Mary E Bryan -- THE OLD AND THE NEW-J M Gibson -- HENRY W GRADY-E A B from the Boston Globe -- AT GRADY'S GRAVE-Charles W Hubner -- MEMORIAL MEETINGS -- THE ATLANTA MEMORIAL MEETING -- The Chi Phi Memorial -- Address of Hon Patrick Walsh -- Hon B II Hill -- Julius L Brown -- Hon Albert Cox -- Walter B Hill -- Judge Howard Van Epps -- Prof H C White -- Hon John Temple Graves -- Governor Gordon -- Resolutions -- MEMORIAL MEETING AT MACON GA -- Alumni Resolutions -- Address of Mr Richardson -- Mr Boifeuillet -- Major Hanson -- Judge Speers -- Mr Washington -- Mr Patterson -- PERSONAL TRIBUTES -- THOUGHTS ON H W GRADY-By B H Samett -- SEARGENT S PRENTISS AND HENRY W GRADY Similarity of Genius and Patriotism-By Joseph F Pon -- SERMON-By Dr T De Witt Talmage -- TRIBUTES OF THE NORTHERN PRESS -- He was the Embodiment of the Spirit of the New South From the New York World -- A Thoroughly American Journalist-From the New York Herald -- A Loss to the Whole Country--From the New York Tribune -- What Henry W Grady Represented-From the New York Commercial Advertiser -- A Far-sighted Statesman-From the New York Star -- An Apostle of the New Faith-From the New York Times -- The Foremost Leader-From the New York Christian Union -- Glorious Mission-From the Albany N Y Argus -- His Lofty Ideal-From the Philadelphia Press -- His Patriotism-From the Philadelphia Ledger -- Oratory and the Press-From the Boston Advertiser -- Lesson of Mr Grady's Life-From the Philadelphia Times -- His Loss a General Calamity-From the St Louis Globe Democrat -- Saddest of Sequels-From the Manchester N H Union -- A Life of Promise-From the Chicago Inter- Ocean -- Electrified the Whole Country-From the Pittsburg Dispatch -- A Large Brain and a Large Heart; FAIR. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good + Jacket. 1st Edition. Xii, 290 Pp. Turquoise Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Fine, No Marks, Gilt Brilliant. Dust Jacket Priced $3.75, Slight Usage. Dust Jacket Blurbs By William O. Douglas, Robert M. Hutchins, Paul B. Sears, Harold C. Urey, Albert Einstein, H. J. Muller; Brown Was An Outstanding Scientist Himself; But Few World Politicians Or Business Leaders (1946 To Present) Ever Tried To Seriously Address These Issues, Apparently Because They're Not There Primarily For The General Welfare. Harrison Scott Brown ( 1917 - 1986) Was An American Nuclear Chemist And Geochemist. He Was A Political Activist, Who Lectured And Wrote On The Issues Of Arms Limitation, Natural Resources And World Hunger. During World War Ii, Brown Worked At The Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory And Clinton Engineer Works, Where He Worked On Ways To Separate Plutonium From Uranium. The Techniques He Helped Develop Were Used At The Hanford Site To Produce The Plutonium Used In The Fat Man Bomb Dropped On Nagasaki. After The War He Lectured On The Dangers Of Nuclear Weapons. After The War, He Worked At The University Of Chicago, Where He Pioneered Nuclear Geochemistry. The Study Of Meteorites By Brown And His Students Led To The First Close Approximation Of The Age Of The Earth And The Solar System. In 1948 Brown Was Awarded The American Association For The Advancement Of Science Prize For His Work On Meteorites.Between 1951 And 1977, He Worked At The California Institute Of Technology (Caltech) Where He Contributed To Advances In Telescopic Instrumentation, Jet Propulsion, And Infrared Astronomy. While There He Attracted Several Former Colleagues And Highly Regarded Scientists To The Team. Together They Made Advancements In Telescopic Instrumentation, Jet Propulsion (Contributing To Nasa's Early Planetary Exploration Missions), And Infrared Astronomy. In June 1954 He Was One Of Twenty Scientists Under The Age Of Forty Identified By Fortune Magazine As "Top Young Scientists In U. S. Universities And Industry". In The Early 1970S, He Began Working More Directly On The Resource/Environment Issues That He Had Been Developing In His Books. In 1977, He Became Director Of The Newly Created Resource Systems Institute Of The East-West Center In Hawaii Where He Turned Full Time To Work On Understanding And Influencing The Interactions Of Energy, Mineral, And Food Systems In The Asia-Pacific Region, Themes He Had Developed In His Books Since The 1950S. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The June, July, August & September 1953 issues of Verdict, vol 1 #s1 - 4, a mystery digest from the mid 1950s. GGA covers. Contents include parts 1 - 4 of 5 of Fer-de-Lance, the first Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout (Note - Verdict ceased publication in the US with the September issue. Consequently part 5 of this serial was never published. There was a British edition of the magazine that continued publication. However, I have not seen part 5 in that edition either.), Trouble is My Business and Bay City Blues, novellas by Raymond Chandler, A Glass of Milk, a Peter Chambers Mystery and Kudos From the Kid, A Peter Chambers novelette by Henry Kane, His Heart Could Break, The Dead Mr Duck and Motive, John J Malone short stories by Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig), Don't Look Behind You and The Amazing Dip, short stories by Fredric Brown, Marihuana and a Pistol by Chester M Himes, All at Once, No Alice and You Take Ballistics, short stories by Cornell Woolrich, The Man Who Lost His Head and No Escape, short stories ,by Bruno Fischer, Homecoming by Dorothy B Hughes, Suicide and Keeper of the Killed, a Johnny Liddell novelette by Frank Kane, Big Boy Blues by Damon Runyon, QL.696.C9, a Nick Noble short story by Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White), Three O'Clock by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich), Dead Man by James M Cain, Material Witness by George Harmon Coxe, Vicious Circle by Evan Hunter (Salvatore Albert Lombino, Ed McBain), and others. Condition issues include: June - Light creases to the bottom right of the front cover; July - Light rubbing to the covers, light round, red stamp (appears to be Italian) at the top right of the back cover; August - roughness to the fore edge and some rubbing and light creases to the front cover, small loss a various spots along the spine; September - roughness to the fore edge of the front cover and some rubbing at the bottom of the spine, small loss at the bottom margin of the back cover (it looks like a varmint chewed on it) that diminishes and fades out by page 100. Note: Frank Kane is listed as an author on the front cover of the July issue but it doesn't have a story by him. A good to very good and hard to assemble set of the complete run of this title's issues with stories and installments by prominent and collectible authors.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Un-numbered pages, many ads. Condition is Very Good; previous owner's name on 1st page and rear cover, in pencil, paper on spine ends missing, pages are very clean and unmarked, binding is tight. STK.

Large 8vo. viii + 549pp. + [i]. Port. frontis. Sm. ownership inscription, original cloth sl. rubbed along lower edges, in lightly soiled and sl. chipped price clipped d/w. Oriental Studies 5. US$67.

Texte in Deutsch und Englisch. Die Übersetzung ins Englische von Ernst von Haagen. Übersetzung der Einleitung vom Englischen ins Deutsche von Antje Pehnt.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; xv, 343 p., incl. front., illus., plates, ports. 20 cm. LCCN 20011644 OCLC 3247460 LC F327 .M44 ; blue cloth with lettering in black ; no dustjacket ; tear at top of spinAfter searching for more than a year for stories of heroes, deeds of daring, of interesting adventuresand worth-while happenings in the history of our state, I came to feel that Alabama's history is so filled with glorious deeds, magnificent sacrifices, thrills and heart-throbs, that the children of the state should be told what truly great men and women their forebears were." ; Contents : Jean Ortis / De Soto's Arrival in Alabama -- A Very Impolite Guest, The Battle of Mauvilla Bienville -- The First White Settlement -- The Expedition That Failed, French Massacred at Natchez Settlement -- The Girls Who Came to an Unknown Land, The First Wives for the Colonists , Twelve Ugly Ducklings, Girls of the Chest -- The Emperor of Coweta, How the French Made Friends with the Indians -- Game Losers, Conditions During Early Settlement -- A Russian Princess, An Early Romance at Wetumpka -- His Mother, An Indian's Courage -- Princess Mary, James Oglethorpe Comes to Alabama -- Stung Arm, An Indian Princess Befriends the French -- Lachlan McGillivray, English Traders Come Among the Indians -- Alexander McGillivray, A Man Whose Power Affected the Nation -- The Heroine of Little River, How the Tensaw Settlers were Saved -- The Camp Angel, British Refugees Wander Through Ahibama, Courage Wins Reward, Paro Saves the Wanderers -- A Real Hero, A Negro Saves the Lives of the Immigrants -- Little Tempey Ellis, Tiny White Girl Rescued by "Old Milly" -- Isaac Heaton's Dogs, Fort Sinquefield in the Greek War -- A Brave Indian, Talladega Fort Saved by General Jackson -- The Canoe Fight, Sam Dale, Jere Austill and James Smith Stage a Great Fight -- Kindness That Came Back, The Fort Mims Massacre -- The Red Eagle, A Reproduction of Alexander Meek's Poem of the Creek War -- Nannawyah, Indians are Warned of Their Removal to the West -- The Stranger Within Our Gates, Aaron Burr's Capture --The Yazoo Fraud, Early Settlers Come into Alabama --The One-Man Senate, Alabama Becomes a Territory, then a State -- The Vine and Olive Company, French Refugees Settle Dcmopolis -- The Man Who Could Make Cow-Bells, St. Stephen's Prosperous Days -- John Hunt's Town, The Founding of Huntsville -- Andrew Dexter's Tract, The Beginning of Montgomery -- Cedar Creek Furnace, The Beginning of Iron-Making in Alabama -- A Vice-President of the United States, Wm. Rufus King, the Founder of Selma -- A Captain of Industry, Daniel Pratt, the Founder of Prattville -- La Fayette's Visit, A French General, the Friend of Amerioa -- Francis Scott Key's Mission to Alabama, Trouble with the Indians -- The First Railroad in Alabama, Experiences of Early Railroad Builders Osceola, The Leader of the Creeks and the Seminoles -- William C. Travis, Leader in the War for Texas Independence -- Billy Goold, The Man Who Found Fortunes for Others -- Jefferson Davis, Memories Recalled by Mrs. Mary Phelan Watt -- Supplies for Southern Soldiers, The Ordnance Department of the Confederacy -- The Boy Artilleryman, John Pelham -- Emma Sansom, The Girl Who Showed General Forrest "The Lost Ford"-- A Story of Real Strategem, General Streight Surrenders to General Forrest -- Fighting Joe Wheeler, Hero of Two Wars -- The Flagship Tennessee, A Naval Battle in Mobile Bay -- A King -of the High Seas, Raphael Semmes, Commander of the "Alabama" -- The David and Goliath of the Sea, The First Torpedo Boat -- A Boy Hero, Thomas Jones Shows His Courage -- Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction Days in Alabama -- What One Boy Made of Himself, How James Pugh Became "The Patrick Henry of Alabama" -- The Birth of Birmingham, How John T. Milner Laid the Foundation for the Great Town , Difficulties of the Young Engineer, The Trick that Didn't Work, The Greatness of the Resources of "The Pittsburg of the South" etc ; scarce ; G. Book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 60 pages. Features: Marvelous colour ad for the Banff Springs Hotel inside front cover; Nice Anaconda ad shows factory worker with lunch bucket heading to work beneath caption "Night Fighter"; News digest includes 'Failure of Sir Stafford Cripps', 'India is like old Eire', 'Next step in India', 'Arch-traitor Pierry Laval returns to Vichy'; Trans-Canada Telephone System one-page ad encourages readers to call 'station-to-station' rather than 'person-to-person' to preserve wartime bandwidth; Editorial discusses cutting frills; One-page ad sponsored by Canadian Industry spells out their contribution to the Canadian war effort; Love Comes to the Wedding; Hounds in Harness - great photo-illustrated article explains many uses of dogs for man's service; Green Cedars (short story); The War of Axis Lies - great article on war disinformation, with samples of doctored photos used to mislead viewers; Anything but Backward (short story); The Body in the Box (short story); Motors on the Warpath - photo-illustrated article on General Motors and its huge contribution to Canada's war effort, including photo of General McNaughton inspecting vehicle at Oshawa plant; Great one-page illustrated ad for the Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada shows brave pioneer farmers reaching for their muskets to defend against enemies (whereas current governments would probably refer to such men as terrorists); One-page Westinghouse ad oultines ways to save energy in the home, leaving more for war production; "What's Cookin' in Hollywood' - article with photos of Hedy La Marr, Judy Garland, Ruth Hussey, Tyrone Power and Marsha Hunt cooking in their kitchens; Ads featuring photos of Miss Betty Cordon and Paulette Goddard; Photo and write-up of Rise Stevens; Preparing for Parenthood - article; On the Kitchen Front - article about open air meals, long cool drinks, eggs and what you can do with them, bread, and the roast of the month; Beauty and Fashions article; Canadian General Electric ad features "A Victory Diet"; Quotes from around the world; National War Finance Committee ad for War Savings Stamps inside back cover features lady 'loading a rifle by licking a stamp'; *Sensational* wartime colour Coke ad on back cover shows bottle being held by muscular arm with sleeve rolled up and coveralls; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this excellent wartime issue. Schultz, W.K.; Warner, Charles; Berger, David; Jousset, D.A.; Brown, George; (illustrator). …