whyte hall (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 160 pages; Physical desc. : 160 p. ; 18 cm. Subjects: Economics. 3 Kg.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of civil servant Whyte Hall's vanishingly scarce financial thriller. The very scarce first edition of this 1936 novel.The work of author Augustus Alfred Rayner, who regularly published under the pseudonym 'Whyte Hall'.The novel begins with the line 'the power of gold must not be lost, my friends', with the work concerning international intrigue, gold, the wealth of nations, and a burglary.The author published a non-fiction work on economics, titled 'Key in Our Bosom: the Monetary Problem Solved'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards exceptionally bright, with fading to back strip, and bumping to back strip head and tail. Rubbing to back strip, resulting in small losses to the ink. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Smith, Hall; Warner, Charles; Jousset, D.A.; Greene, Hamilton; Clymer, John F.; Greene, Hamilton (illustrator). First Edition. 56 pages. Features: Nice colour Christmas Wabasso Cottons ad inside front cover; News digest includes nervous tension in Germany, turning the tide in Egypt, and fascism's twentieth anniversary; One-page ad for Trans-Canada Telephone System includes illustration encouraging citizens to minimize long distance usage in favour of wartime needs; Nice colour-illustrated Ritz ad shows ladies in grocery store; Secret Eyes - fascinating photo-illustrated article on wartime espionage, with photos of Lieut.-General H.R. Pownall and "The Lark", Marthe Richer; Houses of Glass (short story); Low Pressure Salesman (short story); Unprofessional Services (short story); After They Bale Out - photo-illustrated article on what happens to pilots when they have to bale out of their planes; Ace High (short story); Hollywood news and photos; Nice colour one-page ad for GM of Canada says "Victory is our Business" and shows armoured vehicles in service; One-page Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.) recruiting ad says "We're in another Team now"; Ford Motor Company ad shows wartime manufacturing; Woodbury Soap ad includes photos of Miss Mary Bishop of Toronto, in training as a field-to-field ferry pilot; Photo of Brenda Joyce in Woodbury Cold Cream ad; On the Kitchen Front - turkey recipe article; Nice one-page colour-illustrated Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Suggested gifts for women in uniform; Nice one-page Yardley ad; Fashion illustrations; Sayings from around the world; Nice colour Coke ad inside back cover shows Santa and Christmas scenes; Nice colour back cover ad for B.C. (British Columbia) apples includes illustration of men in uniform; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this excellent wartime issue.