captain paul harper (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good +. 18 x 13 cm. 12 mo. 54 pages. Flexible red boards. Three fold out maps. Former owner's name and an old price stamp on front endpaper. Gutters are cracked, binding is still intact.

Condizione: Good +. First Edition. Octavo, flexible red leatherette covers, 54 pages, stapled, with black and white photo reproductions. Includes three folding maps. A fragile book cracked in gutters; pages 27-30 detached but laid in; a little scattered foxing. Pages browning at edges. This guide includes tips on hotels and motor transportation near the battlefields. "The author of this book served for nine months with the Visitors' Bureau, G.H. O., A. E. F., as a guide to the American Battlefields conducting official guests of the A. E. F. over the entire western front." Inscribed by the author: to Lou Tilden / From / The Happy Warrior / P. Church Harper. Tilden was at Princeton ('22). (Captain Harper, among other things, was the father of Paul Harper, Jr, who became chairman of the advertising agency Needham Harper.) World War I, France. 012204A.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Honore, Paul (cover); Fitzgerald, W.O.; Clarke, W.W.; Harper, George; Graham, J. (illustratore). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: A Wasted Sugar Supply - Honey from Honeybees; Wild Youth Proves a Myth - 'girls and boys' between 35 and 45 are rolling up the crime wave; Making the Government Efficient - reorganization would cut 100,000 unnecessary employees from federal payrolls; The White House - a Mecca for Cranks - Secret Service men must be ever alert to guard the President from the Unbalanced; Missionaries and Machine Guns - many preachers of the gospel do not want the protection of bullets; Tom Learns to Play the Game - an American boy who on mastering himself was able to direct others; Henry Ford's Page - Lower price no longer means lower equality; Editorials - making the movies dry, the value of vulgarity, Mussolini forbids earthquake prophet,exams proposed for ministers of religion, Washington's inability to think in other than political terms; Writing Verse for Composite Readers - some versifiers cultivate eccentricity, others are themselves, and therefore poets; Sad Men Who Look So Wistfully at the Sky - author, William F. Hopp has been chaplain of the Michigan State Prison for over seven years - article with photos; Duelists (Fighter Pilots) of the Sky - a tale of knights-errant and their deeds - of their light-heartedness, and their gallant, tragic fate; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 3) The Big Snake and the Little Dog - and how a darky made millions from circus side shows; Chats with Office Callers - Christmas cards began with Jewish Adolph Tuck, controversy in Canada over union with the U.S., sighting of monster near Prince Rupert, B.C.; The Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Fascinating illustrated ad for homes which can be built for under $1k in materials; I Read In the Papers - article by Nathaniel Zalowitz in the 'Jewish Daily Forward' declares ".For the overwhelming majority of Jews in American assimilation in any true sense of the term is absolutely out of the question."; The Barefoot Boy - poetry by J.G. Whittier inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.