Language: Irish
Published by OIFIG DHÍOLTA FOILLSEACHÁIN RIALTAIS, DUBLIN
Seller: O'Brien Books, Wexford, WEX, Ireland
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. AN MHIORBHAILT, (THE MIRACLE) LE CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND, AGUS NIALL MAC SUIBHNE D'AISTRIGH. 1ST GAEILGE EDITION HARDBACK WITH DUSTJACKET, MYLAR COVERED, DJ HAS SMALL TEARS. 489 PAGES. SIGNED BY MÍCHEAL ÓG MAC PHÁIDÍN, (1884-1958) T.D. DONEGAL.
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Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
hardback good+ condition in blue cloth (pen marks on a few pages).
Published by Curtis Publishing Company, USA, 1960
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. Dick Sargent (cover); Walter Skor; McGill; R.G. Harris; Bruce Bomberger (illustrator). First Edition. 104 pages. Features: Cover illustration of busy train station; Two-page Chrysler photo ad - more room inside; Color (blue) Corvair ad; Nice Avis photo ad; After Khrushchev, Who?; Botts and the Picket Line (short story); The Disease that fooled X-Rays - Histoplasmosis; Marriage Mood (short story); When I Busted Out of the Navy - Part 4 of Norman Rockwell's "My Adventures as an Illustrator"; Color-photo-illustrated article on Marvin Glass, "Troubled King of Toys"; Next Window Please (humor); The road to St. Vivien (short story); Men and Capital, by John Kenneth Galbraith; Sip of Death (short story); Color-photo inside Strafford, Vermont's "meeting house"; Night without End (short story); The Man Who Rides Sharks - William R. Royal of Venice, Florida; Color-photo ad for the 1960 Turbine Drive Buick features light blue Invicta four-door sedan; Theh Monitor Affair (part 7); Interesting one-page ad for the new Dodge 'sweptline' trucks; Color Pontiac Catalina (red) ad; Photo ad for Matson cruises; ad for Chevrolet's Sturdi-Build large trucks; Color ad for Sylvania TVs features Jack Paar; and more. Average wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. A quality vintage copy. .
Published by Curtis, USA, 1960
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. Alajalov (cover): Fields, Jack; Bomberger, Bruce; Stevens, Peter; Harris,R.G.; Hamill, George (illustrator). First Edition. 96 pages. Short Stories: Fair Warning; Swindler in the Family; Night Marshal; A Sentimental Subject. Articles: The Night Our Town Blew Up - photo-illustrated article of Roseburg, Oregon, scene of a massive explosion in 1959; The Animals Come First; They Called Us "The Law" - recollections of the wife of District Attorney W.A. (Bill) Morrison in Milam County, Texas; The Fight to Save the "Preemies" (premature babies); Speediest Kids Afloat - Australian swimmers John and Ilsa Konrads of Australia; They Killed Heydrich (Conclusion) - Seven Against a Regiment - story with many photos of the aftermath of the murder of SS Gen. reinhard Heydrich; The Face of America - The Well-Trained Angels; Beloved Bandits of the Skyways - a seagull story. Serials: The Secret of Sidewinder Gulch (part 1 of 7); The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (part 5 of 8). Ads: Caterpillar ad features photo of Philadelphia demolition scene; Dodge Trucks - with U-Haul theme; Nice one-page Pepsi ad with beach scene illustration; Campbell's Tomato Soup - used in BBQ sauce; Very nice one-page color-photo ad for the 1960 Turbine Drive Buick, featuring a black Electra 225 four-door sedan with yacht in background; Salem cigarettes - nice creekside scene; Dutch Boy Nalplex paint; Nostalgic color-photo centerfold ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Impala Convertible features white car and white horses; The Taylor family is featured in a two-page ad for the Insured Savings and Loan Association; Fisher Body; One-page color photo of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN; Lennox ad inside back cover; Great back cover color-photo Coke ad features bottle and glass floating on iceberg. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.
Published by Curtis, USA, 1959
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Sargent, Dick (cover); Bates, Sam; Skor, Walter; Georgi,Edwin (illustrator). First Edition. 84 pages. Short Stories: Alexander Botts, Security Agent; The Day of the Hanging; Beauty and the Beatnik; Prowler in the House. Articles: Civil Defense - a National Disgrace; Hollywood's Late-Blooming Redhead; His Grace Will Do Anything - the Most Noble John Robert Russell, thirteenth Duke of Bedford, resorts to screwball antics to pay taxes on his ancestral estate; The Face of America - Cold, Clear and Deep - fantastic color photo of swimmers with (an intact) Mount St. Helens in background; Are Pipe Smokers People?; The Struggle To Get Jimmy Hoffa - Part 3 - The Labor Boss Leaves a Paper Trail of strange financial dealings; My Baseball Farmhands - John Mullen, boss of the Milwaukee Braves, describes the stars and flops he's uncovered in his job of developing big-league players; Secrets of a Lion Tamer - article on Mel Koontz with great color photos. Serials: Mark of Treachery (part 1 of 8); Death Walk (part 3 of 6). Ads: Colgate toothpaste; Portland Cement Association - featuring photo of Phil (Scooter) Rizzuto; AC Spark Plug ad features color illustrations of Janet Blair and John Raitt; Chrysler (Windsor two-door); Pall Mall cigarettes; Frigidaire pink refrigerator-freezer; Northern Tissue; L&M cigarettes - back cover color-photo ad featuring James Arness. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, July 11, 1959 Alexander Botts, Security Agent; The Day of the Hanging; Beauty and the Beatnik; Prowler in the House. Articles: Civil Defense - a National Disgrace; Hollywood's Late-Blooming Redhead; His Grace Will Do Anything.
Published by The Curtis Publishing Company, USA, 1952
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. Falter, John (cover); Rubin, Hy; Utz, Thornton; Peterson, Perry; Augustiny, Edward; Prins, Ben; Prins, Kimberly; Aylward, W.J. (Alcoa ad) (illustrator). First Edition. 104 pages. Fiction: Not Fit To Live With; The Case For the State; Recalled to Duty; The Secret Ingredient; Tombstone (part 1 of 8); The Hunted Woman (pare 3 of 6). Articles: God Sent Them to the Slums - dedicated young ministers in narcotic-ridden East Harlem; The Cities of America - Reno - article with great color photos; The National League Comes Back - after the American League has won the last 5 World Series championships; Watch Your Step at Conventions! - you may be observed by the television cameras!; The Morey Case - Why Did They Kill? - part 4 of 4 - young murderers of a nurse in Ann Arbor; It's No Fun To Be An Englishman - life is tough in England; His Heart Belongs to Jersey - Governor Alfred Driscoll. Ads: Old Gold cigarettes; De Soto cars; Great one-page color photo Kennecott Copper ad features large photo of miner loaded with dynamite at Bingham Canyon; Pontiac; Lincoln; French's foods; Sealtest sherbets and ices; Pall Mall cigarettes; Nash cars - Golden Airflyte; Purolator oil filter ad features Andy Devine (Jingles in 'Wild Bill Hickok'); Amazine one-page ad by Conrad Hilton of Hilton Hotels shows Uncle Sam on his knees praying to God "Our Father in Heaven. Be Swift to Save Us, before the darkness falls"; Golfer Bobby Jones is featured in an ad for Atlantic Bond Paper; Baseball player Paul Richards is featured in a Gillette ad; Lt. Colonel Reginald R. Myers; USMC Medal of Honor winner is featured in an ad for U.S. Defense Bonds. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy.
Published by Curtis Publishing Company, USA, 1950
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Alajalov; Hughes, George; Pott, Rudy; Briggs, Austin; Englert, George; Sewell, Amos; Lidov, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. 76 pages. Nice cover illustration of young couple discovering they have each bought a Christmas tree. Articles: Ill Take Sled Dogs for Rough Going - Alaskan ranger Grant Pearson travels by dog sled; Spare Parts for Human Bodies - The U.S. Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland maintains an inventory of replacement parts for wounded soldiers; The Ladies Like 'Em Rugged - John Wayne is Hollywood's No. 1 he-man; The Kids Don't Remember a Thing - a new generation of young Americans flies over England, defending her against the Reds; All-Time Champ of the Lobbyists - Sam Ward was the most engaging scoundrel to ever afflict Washington; It's Tough to Go to School in New Mexico - color-photo-illustrated article about kids in Catron County who commute up to 50 miles one way through savage territory and wicked weather; Our Softhearted Warriors in Korea - US Troops care for pathetic Korean war orphans; India Opens Her Hidden Storehouse - American machinery is tapping rich farmland in India; Article on Napalm a.k.a. Bouncing Fire; Every Brick of the Vernal, Utah Post Office was shipped in by Mail! Short Stories: Child of Divorce; Company for Christmas Dinner; Granny Hite and the Angry Mob; Small-Town Doctor. Serials: The Desperate Woman (part 5 of 6); The Great Mail Robbery (conclusion). Ads: Nice one-page colour-photo ad for Cyanamid features artist Andre Dugo painting Christmas Seal illustration; Fatima Cigarettes; Color-photo Caterpillar ad features two Cat dragging loads of Christmas trees from bush; Nice color-illustrated ad for Studebaker trucks inside back cover; Sunkist naval orange ad on back cover. Small chip from lower tip of front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear and soiling. Faint pink discoloration near lower corner of several pages. Complete and intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.