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Chicago: Cort Theatre, 1925. Wraps. Very good. 7.75 x 5.25 inches, color pictorial wraps, very good. 16 pp, illustrated, ads, program, etc. The play, about adventures and romance in wes… Mehr…

Chicago: Cort Theatre, 1925. Wraps. Very good. 7.75 x 5.25 inches, color pictorial wraps, very good. 16 pp, illustrated, ads, program, etc. The play, about adventures and romance in west Africa, was also made into a movie in 1942, starring Walter Pigeon and Hedy Lamarr. We've provided the plot of the movie, which differs only slightly from the play: During the early years of World War II Worthing (Richard Ainley) the "boss", is on board a seaplane, the Congo Queen on an inspection tour of rubber plantations in remote locations in the West African jungle. The plane lands at a large, modern operation. Worthing tells the local supervisor that they must maximize production because the Japanese hold Malaya, reducing the supply of that critical war material. He points to a photograph on the wall that shows thatched shacks beside a river and remembers the old days, in 1910, before "refrigerators, electricity and air-conditioning gadgets...schools and infirmaries." The camera zooms into the photo, which comes to life. Four men, the only whites within hundreds of square miles, eagerly await the arrival of the riverboat Congo Queen. Wilbur Ashley (Bramwell Fletcher) and his boss, Harry Witzel (Walter Pidgeon), have succumbed to the monotony of living and working together in isolation and grown to hate one-another. Ashley is finally going home, being replaced by the abominably green Langford (Richard Carlson), set to commence a four-year stint. The other greeters are the badly alcoholic doctor (Frank Morgan) and ineffectual missionary Reverend Dr. Roberts (Henry O'Neill). There is nothing Witzel hates more than breaking in a new man. He and Langford get off to a bad start, with Witzel constantly badgering Langford and insisting that he'll never stick, won't work out, and would do them both a favor by just going home. Things only go downhill from there. As it had been with Ashley, it takes all of the efforts of the doctor and Roberts to keep the two men from each other's throats. The situation becomes worse when Tondelayo (Hedy Lamarr), a notorious bauble-craving native seductress, returns. Harry, as resident magistrate, has already ordered her to leave his district, declaring her to be a disruptive, immoral influence. Tondelayo begins to work her wiles on Langford. Despite warnings from all three of the other men (and clearly to spite Witzel), he falls for her charms - as both Ashley and Witzel had before him. And her incessant pestering for silks and bangles and gold jewelry from Lagos. When Witzel's orders her expelled once more, Langford decides to marry her to put her past the slightly deranged but well-intentioned man's incessant rebukes. Roberts reveals that rather than being a native African, she is half Egyptian and half Arab, making marriage unpleasant to the other men's sensibilities but morally acceptable. In spite of his better judgment, and loud and sustained protests from Witzel, Roberts feels compelled by his faith to join the couple in holy matrimony. After five months, Tondelayo has grown bored of her husband, and he of her. Always stirring up trouble to spice up her life, she tries to seduce Harry; he refused to allow the old flame to be re-lit, reminding her that she is Mrs. Langford "until death do you part". With that she sees a way out of her bonds. When Langford becomes sick, the doctor gives her medicine to administer to him. She obtains poison from a native in trade for a rifle and gives him that instead. Harry, suspecting her deception, hides, then ambushes her just as she is about to give Langford a fatal dose. In his dual roles of local magistrate and self-appointed avenger of wrong, Harry forces her to drink the rest of the poison. She runs away screaming and collapses on the jungle floor. The doctor takes Langford away on the Congo Queen for better medical treatment, Witzel identifying the man merely as white cargo'. From the boat comes Langford's replacement: a young, maddeningly enthusiastic, and infuriatingly naive Worthing. After trying but failing to hold his temper, Harry seizes him and forcefully tells him that he will stick around. Nothing will stop him from living, breathing, and thinking rubber 24 hours a day., Cort Theatre, 1925, 3, 0 Aviation History WWII AIR WAR; THE MEN, THE MACHINES, THE MISSIONS Cowles Enthusiast Media, c1996 174pp, tall 8vo oblong, b/w and color photos, color ill, near new in d/w, one corner bumped, 0, Whitby, ON, Canada: Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 007551480X . 224 pp. Photos. Jacket edges slighty worn, light shelfwear. Prev owner's bookplate on the ffep. Designed by David O'Malley. A lavishly illustrated book of fantastic photos focussing on the Canadian fighter pilot. A great book for the aviation enthusiast, with superb photographs. McQuarrie is one of the best aviation photographers in the business, and this book presents evidence of his skills. Large, heavy book. ; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall ., Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited, 1992, 3, Whitby, ON, Canada: Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 007551480X . 224 pp. Photos. Jacket edges slightly worn, light shelfwear. Spine, corners bumped. Designed by David O'Malley. A lavishly illustrated book of fantastic photos focusing on the Canadian fighter pilot. A great book for the aviation enthusiast, with superb photographs. McQuarrie is one of the best aviation photographers in the business, and this book presents evidence of his skills. Large, heavy book. ; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall ., Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited, 1992, 3, UK,12mo wraps,p/back original,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title. Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn, but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.This example,at the time (1961),was the ONLY British format preceding both the UK+US HB+ dw/dj,1st edns published simultaneously in 1973.There was a US edn/issue but only in 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn also published in 1961,by Random House.] FINE-. Neat,black inked owner name to top internal edge of card cover and no price removal to cover.Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,matt,multi-coloured repeated geometric design illustrated covers with black lettering to front and author's thumbnail b/w portrait and black lettering to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and appears no reading creases to spine/backstrip - though there is one diagonal corner crease to top corner of pp23/4.Top+fore-edges though inevitably aged/toned are generally bright and clean - no foxing/spotting or other marks; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine other than page-edge toning and one dog-ear reading crease to aforementioned pp23/4 corners,else appears unread - apart from my own collation. UK,slim 12mo wraps,p/back original,1st edn,9-93pp [paginated] includes Acts 1-4; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/table, cast+production notes with the 4 actors scenes in designated Acts of the play to it's reverse,last paginated page's reverse is unpaginated,as are the last 2pp blanks.This play was first produced at the Pembroke Theatre-in-the-Round, Croydon,6 December with a cast of just four actors: Barry Foster, Robert Ayres,Harry Towb and Susan Hampshire and each playing several parts.It was an immediate success and Donleavy received the Evening Standard 'Most Promising Playwright Award'. Milton Shulman wrote of it 'The writing is witty and sharp,the characters are brilliantly observed and the situations ping with authenticity.' Kenneth Tynan and the other critics were equally enthusiastic and the play was transferred complete with cast to the Comedy Theatre, London,24th January 1961. J. P. Donleavy passed away in Ireland on September 14,2017 at the age of 91. Returning from study abroad,Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife.His first encounter in New York is with a funeral director,with whom he reluctantly takes employment to pay for the burial expenses.In the course of his duties he meets the beautiful Fanny Sourpuss over her millionaire husband's dead body.However,his over-enthusiastic handling of his first corpse lands him in court. Cornelius Christian wanders through the great sad cathedral that is New York,examining the human condition in all its comic pathos and lonely absurdity.Whether lingering in the Automat drinking from half empty coffee cups and stealing baked beans from the plates of customers who go looking for ketchup,or finding love on a street corner only to end up fighting his way out of a hooker's fists,Cornelius Christian,heroic anti-hero,sings of life's goodness in the wake of disaster. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **, LONDON.PENGUIN,1961., 5, Mushroom Model Publications, 2005. New book, 120 pages. The Boulton Paul Defiant is one Britain's most famous night fighter aircraft. First used as a day, then night fighter during the Battle of Britain, and later saw service as an Air Sea Rescue aircraft and as a Target Tug. The book contains 53 black and white wartime photos, 18 black and white line drawings of various marks in 1/72nd scale, 136 color photos that are walk-around shots of the last existing example of a Defiant in the Hendon Museum, UK, several information charts, 16 illustrations out maintenance manuals and 40 full color side profile paintings (a couple of which are three-views).This book will have great appeal to model builders, aircraft enthusiasts, and aviation historians.. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Juszczak, Artur. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Mushroom Model Publications, 2005, 5, Mushroom Model Publications, 2005. New book, 120 pages. The Boulton Paul Defiant is one Britain's most famous night fighter aircraft. First used as a day, then night fighter during the Battle of Britain, and later saw service as an Air Sea Rescue aircraft and as a Target Tug. The book contains 53 black and white wartime photos, 18 black and white line drawings of various marks in 1/72nd scale, 136 color photos that are walk-around shots of the last existing example of a Defiant in the Hendon Museum, UK, several information charts, 16 illustrations out maintenance manuals and 40 full color side profile paintings (a couple of which are three-views).This book will have great appeal to model builders, aircraft enthusiasts, and aviation historians.. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Juszczak, Artur. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Mushroom Model Publications, 2005, 5, Mushroom Model Publications, 2005. New book, 120 pages. The Boulton Paul Defiant is one Britain's most famous night fighter aircraft. First used as a day, then night fighter during the Battle of Britain, and later saw service as an Air Sea Rescue aircraft and as a Target Tug. The book contains 53 black and white wartime photos, 18 black and white line drawings of various marks in 1/72nd scale, 136 color photos that are walk-around shots of the last existing example of a Defiant in the Hendon Museum, UK, several information charts, 16 illustrations out maintenance manuals and 40 full color side profile paintings (a couple of which are three-views).This book will have great appeal to model builders, aircraft enthusiasts, and aviation historians.. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Juszczak, Artur. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Mushroom Model Publications, 2005, 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn, but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,glossy laminated, colour photographic upper wrap,b/w publisher advert to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - one small closed tear to top,rear corner of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges lightly aged but very clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean, blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip with clean,plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,vii+1-166pp [paginated] includes a contents list/table,author introduction,21 chapters,profuse b/w photographs,b/w illus by Bob Sanders; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and 2pp blanks to rear. A book for those who have an active interest in country matters and,particularly,field sports. The contents include: Buying guns,using them, clothing to wear and other practical advice (including safety),Cartridges to use (and a section on collecting),Gun dogs and their training, Organizing a shoot,Rearing pheasants and partridges, Game animals and birds: [a-g) rabbits and hares,badgers, stoats and weasels,pigeons,crows,starlings,woodcock and snipe,deer,wildfowling,grouse and blackgame,Poachers,Trapping and Conservation. The author has spent many years enjoying the role of an amateur gamekeeper.Being an experienced writer he is able to give the necessary instructions and advice in a concise,yet interesting manner.His personal anecdotes make the text 'come to life' so the book is much more than an instruction manual.Finding a lost badger island; 'capturing' an injured buzzard;and rescuing Drac the Raven from certain death,are some of the delightful accounts included. There are 48 illustrations of guns,animals,birds,traps and other aspects of Gamekeeping. Recommended to all who are interested in a full and balanced programme of Field Sports with adequate provision for conservation. Gamekeepers,farmers and sportsmen should find much of interest.Following on from his vast number of elegant and authoritative shooting articles written during his earlier career in banking (he worked for the Midland Bank), this is his first book on the subject.It went into four editions and is very collectable and highly sought after amongst shooting enthusiasts,despite parts of the text being out of date due to changes over the years,in shooting legislation.A much revised edition of the book was published in 1989 by Boydell & Brewer. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. N.B. ALL buyers please note,item's actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if offered P/p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always. **, UK.LISS,HANTS.SPUR PUBLICATIONS CO,1976., 4, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Dw/dj included for completeness only - approx. 99% complete.] VG/GOOD-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Matt,grey background to spine and front panel of dw/dj, with capitalised,white shadowed dark blue - lettered part-title and white-lettered sub-title to front panel; spine/backstrip with capitalised,dark blue lettered part+sub titleing,author name and publisher's name to foot of same,rear panel white background with black-lettered synopsis. Shelf-wear,bumping,creasing,chipping,small closed tears with miniscule loss to corner tips and minimal loss at both head+foot of spine but without affecting any lettering. Top+fore-edges though lightly aged/toned are generally bright and surprisingly - clear of foxing/spotting though ther is one small blemish on top edges; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered original plain green cloth boards with corresponding sunning areas wher dw/dj damaged or missing, i.e. head+foot of spine,corner tips and edges; bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers with very minimal foxing. UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,7-256pp [paginated] includes author Introduction,15 chapters and appendices (3) - University Match results 1871/2 to 1950/1.Oxford Blues and Cambridge Blues; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, Acknowledgement author to Editor of TheDaily Telegraph for use of reports of Oxford v. Cambridge matches for 1930-38. In spite of the exterior appearance of the GOOD dw/dj, internally,the book is in an acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 70+ year-old age.It is only the exterior faults that prevents a slightly higher grading overall.Despite them,it really is still a more than acceptable example for its age,and for its historical content. OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE is the first complete and comprehensive story of the 'Varsity match.It begins in the days when the teams were twenty a side,when they walked a mile or so to a ground to play before a handful of spectators,and goes on to the great sporting occasion of our own times at Twickenham before 60,000 people. 'Oxford v. Cambridge',however,is no mere catalogue of games and players,although these are described and discussed in detail.Howard Marshall,with the assistance of Colonel J. P. Jordan (rugby football correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) shows how much the game in general owes to 'Varsity football. He examines the tactics of almost every match played between the two.He shows how these tactics have changed and developed over the years,and how they have influenced rigbyfootball throughout the country.With a keen,critical and expert pen he gives fascinating and authoritative portraits of some of the great tacticians and personalities. The critical tactical study,the analysis of great players, together with invaluable appendices,make 'Oxford v. Cambridge' a book for every rugger enthusiast and a distinguished contribution to sporting literature. Played 69 matches.Oxford won 32,Cambridge 26 and 11 were drawn. No matches played 1940-45 Howard Marshall,author,sports journalist and B.B.C. commentator,was educated at Haileybury,and gained his Blue as a second row forward against Cambridge in 1922. Colonel J.P. Jordan,O.B.E.,M.C.,educated at Dulwich and Oxford,has been an authority on the game for thirty years. He has reported over two hundred International matches, and has watched every 'Varsity match (except four) since 1898. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note, stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **, LONDON.CLERKE & COCKERAN,1951., 2.75, London: Bracken Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1989. Hard Cover. Lge 4to 1851703241 Very heavy book but no extra postage will be requested. Due to weight we cannot supply this book outside of United Kingdon. Dust jacket complete in a clear protective sleeve. Blue cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Bump to top of spine. 2000 Photographs, Colour & b/w. 948 pages plus index. Clean and tight. IVE VOLUMES IN ONE With more than 2,000 illustrations in black and white and full colour This definitive reference source brings together in one volume five encyclopedic guides to the history of aviation from the days of hot air balloons to today's supersonic transports. Both aviation professionals and enthusiasts will find Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation to be a fascinating chronicle of the tremendous advances in flight technology. Fred T. Jane felt compelled to include an apologetic footnote inside his first guide to the world's aircraft. He attributed the work's large number of unillustrated pages both to his inexperience at this type of information gathering, as well as to the general reluctance of industry professionals to provide him with it. But that was in 1909. By the advent of World War I, the quantity and quality of statistics contained in the annual editions of All the World's Aircraft had improved so greatly that the volume was deemed a security risk. The book, already completed and too costly to reprint, was sent back to the printer with Jane's instruction to obliterate entries relevant to the war effort with indelible black ink! When Jane died two years later, his successor promised to make the annual volumes a perpetual monument to his memory. Today the Jane's name signifies the best among aviation reference sources. It was at the suggestion of Michael J. H. Taylor, a member of the current editorial staff of All the World's Aircraft that an encyclopedic volume be compiled that would encompass the vast amount of material housed in the Jane's archives. When Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation appeared in five separate volumes it was hailed as the most comprehensive book of aviation history ever published. Here now in one complete volume is that authoritative text and a detailed supplement describing hundreds of aircraft that have made their mark in flight history since its original publication. From the first Wright Flyerto the latest Northrop B-2A stealth bomber Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation captures the romance, thrills, and science of flight. MICHAEL J. H. TAYLOR is Assistant Editor to Jane's All the World's Aircraft, and during his twenty years of aviation writing has published 97 books. With more than 5000 entries on all the world's aircraft, from the pioneers to the present day. ., Bracken Books, 1989, 3<

1989, ISBN: 1851703241

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[EAN: 9781851703241], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Bracken Books, London], Jacket, Very heavy book but no extra postage will be requested. Due to weight we cannot supply this book outside of United Kingdon. Dust jacket complete in a clear protective sleeve. Blue cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Bump to top of spine. 2000 Photographs, Colour & b/w. 948 pages plus index. Clean and tight. IVE VOLUMES IN ONE With more than 2,000 illustrations in black and white and full colour This definitive reference source brings together in one volume five encyclopedic guides to the history of aviation from the days of hot air balloons to today's supersonic transports. Both aviation professionals and enthusiasts will find Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation to be a fascinating chronicle of the tremendous advances in flight technology. Fred T. Jane felt compelled to include an apologetic footnote inside his first guide to the world's aircraft. He attributed the work's large number of unillustrated pages both to his inexperience at this type of information gathering, as well as to the general reluctance of industry professionals to provide him with it. But that was in 1909. By the advent of World War I, the quantity and quality of statistics contained in the annual editions of All the World's Aircraft had improved so greatly that the volume was deemed a security risk. The book, already completed and too costly to reprint, was sent back to the printer with Jane's instruction to obliterate entries relevant to the war effort with indelible black ink! When Jane died two years later, his successor promised to make the annual volumes a perpetual monument to his memory. Today the Jane's name signifies the best among aviation reference sources. It was at the suggestion of Michael J. H. Taylor, a member of the current editorial staff of All the World's Aircraft that an encyclopedic volume be compiled that would encompass the vast amount of material housed in the Jane's archives. When Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation appeared in five separate volumes it was hailed as the most comprehensive book of aviation history ever published. Here now in one complete volume is that authoritative text and a detailed supplement describing hundreds of aircraft that have made their mark in flight history since its original publication. From the first Wright Flyerto the latest Northrop B-2A stealth bomber Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation captures the romance, thrills, and science of flight. MICHAEL J. H. TAYLOR is Assistant Editor to Jane's All the World's Aircraft, and during his twenty years of aviation writing has published 97 books. With more than 5000 entries on all the world's aircraft, from the pioneers to the present day. Size: Lge 4to, Books<

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