Beattie ken (8 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Good+. In illustrated wraps. Third Edition. Vintage Large Softcover with related ephemera, 1996, Stated Third Edition, Australian-Thai Chamber of Commerce, 34 pages. Good+, in illustrated wraps. Moderate shelf/edge wear and minor curling to covers. Well done memorial history to the soldiers who suffered while building the Thai-Burma Railway at Hellfire Pass in WW2. illustrated with vintage photographs and drawings. Laid in is a "Certificate Of Pride" from the State Railway Of Thailand which reference the history of the Railway and the film "The Bridge On THe River Kwai". A very respectable copy with related ephemera. LOC SSE-03.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. Later Edition. A booklet on the notorious Thailand-Burma railway built by British, Australian, Dutch and American prisoners of war and impressed Asian laborers. During its construction 12,000 allied POWs died mainly of disease, sickness, malnutrition and exhaustion and were buried along the railway. The Asian laborers had a death rate between 80,000 and 100,000. 6th Edition. Tall pictorial softcover, staple binding, 40 pp., illustrated with maps and photos as well as sketches drawn by the prisoners. Mild wear, unmarked, tight binding.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Very Good. 4to. stapled wraps, b/w illus. Very good, small tear to cover at bottom of spine.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Lightly soiled softcover, back cover has some rubbed out pen markings. Edges are showing some wear. Corners are flipped. Light creasing to spine. The interior is all bright and clean, excepting a few words that have been underlined in blue pen. Binding is solid. Inscribed by author inside the front cover: "To Agnes - The 2nd best Saskatchewan Gardener! Good Gardening, Ken Beattie.". Inscribed by Author(s). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Cover illustration of plane loading with folks travelling to avoid winter climes; Communist Party of Canada changes its name back from Labor Progressive Party; One-page colour ad for the Chevrolet Corvair; Why Are Canadians So Slow to Anger? - asks Hugh Garner; Ross Maclean - the CBC TV star you never see; Jeann Beattie's robbery led to her becoming 'big sister' to youth group "The Saints"; Visit with Anthony Eden; Women fight to save elm tree in Winnipeg's Wolseley Ave; Canada finds her own Pepys - Sir Joseph Pope; When Ballet Came to the Bush - Les Grans Ballets Canadiens visits Sept Isles; My Life on the Ocean Wave - McKenzie travels on the Empress of Britain on her last call of the year at Montreal; Investors Syndicate ad includes photo of T.O. Peterson, President; Above-average soiling/wear to back cover Coke ad which features young lovely in formal attire; and more. Small patch of soiling to lower corner of several interior pages. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Anderson, Don (illustratore).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 62 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle of young boy in horse-drawn cart; Brooke Claxton - The Cabinet Minister Who Never Sleeps; Troubles of a Royal Dress Designer - Hardy Amies; Victor - headwaiter at Montreal's famous Normandie Room; Angel (fiction by Albert Lefevre); The Strike That Terrified All Canada - Winnipeg's General Strike and Bloody Sunday, June 21, 1919; North America's Oldest Boomtown - St. John's, Newfoundland; The Biggest Twins in History - Jack and Leo Leavy of Vancouver are 6 feet 10 inches tall and weigh 300lb; The Caterpillars are Coming - major enemy of forests; Uncommon one-page colour ad for BA and their 88 & 98 gasolines with illustration of car racing up mountain past eagle's next; Fantastic "Vancouverites Map of Canada" by Len Norris radically emphasizes B.C. whilst Toronto is not even mentioned; Nice colour-photo vintage ad for Snyder's Dynavista sectional furniture; Uncommon Molson's ad includes only illustrated home-improvement tips by Tom Gard; Nice colour-illustrated one-page Chevrolet ad shows the 1952 Styleline De Luxe 4-Door; Half-page Bank of Toronto ad with photo of welder; Nice colour Aylmer canned peas ad; Austin A-40 one-page two-colour ad; Nostalgic one-page colour Tex-made fabric ad shows three well-dressed ladies; Half-page colour ad for Valentine shoes for men; One-page colour ad for Ford cars; One-page colour REO truck ad shows truck hauling head of the Sphinx!; Colour 2/3-page ad for Johns-Manville Lifetime asbestos roofing shingles shows blowtorch trying to burn roof; One-page colour Massey-Harris ad explains how 84 million baby chicks must be fed in Canada each year; Half-page colour ad for Champion spark plugs features sports car maker Briggs S. Cunningham; One-page colour ad for the 1952 Studebaker Starliner (teale Commander V-8 Starliner) inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A very nice vintage copy. Arbuckle, Franklin; Wilson, Nell; Norris, Len (illustratore).…