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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Previous owner's inked name/date along top edge of fep, couple small light blue smudges on ffep, otherwise clean and tight textblock. Some faint scractches and light shelf worn, plain brown cloth binding. 196p., including key and index. Wynar/Depp 8727. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B&W Photographs (illustrator). Hardcover. …

PB. Condition: good, wraps (softcover). 79pp. B&W and color illustrations (illustrator).

Hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket as Issued. First Edition. Colorado Museum of Natural History, Series #5, 1939. Full pebbled maroon cloth. Fold-out map of the Denver area at front. Photos throughout. With information on topography, life zones and plant associations, scope of work, key to locations, and more. Alfred Marshall Bailey (1894 - 1978) was an American ornithologist who was associated with the Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature and Science) in Colorado for most of his working life. He was a proponent of fieldwork, over the years leading or taking part in several further expeditions to various parts of the world, including the Arctic, Siberia, Mexico, Pacific islands, and New Zealands subantarctic Campbell Island. He was also a popularizer of science and a skilled photographer, producing the Denver Museum Pictorial series of booklets, and contributing articles to magazines such as National Geographic and Natural History. Robert J. Niedrach was the Curator of Birds of the Denver Museum of Natural History.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 124 pages. Short Stories: Hero with a Past; Surprise on the Desert; Night Ferry; The Lady and the Brute. Articles: Why Auto Insurance Costs So Much; The Doctors Who Make Children Grow - pediatric endocrinologists; Act of Compassion - F. de Sales Meyers, a WWII submariner,destroyed Japanese merchant shipping; Golden Isles of the Aegean - lovely Greek isle color photos; A Visit With boss of the Chicago White Sox, Bill Veeck; The Untold Story of Little Rock (part 3) - Faubus makes his move - photo-illustrated article on the first day of school when the National Guard ringed Central High and kept Negroes out; He Knows Where Your Money Goes - Secretary of the Treasury, Robert Anderson; Photo of Conductor Jacob Avshalomov at work. Serials: Island of Hate (part 1 of 5); The Case of the Mythical Monkeys (part 6 of 8). Ads: Movie "Say One For Me"; Graceful Chrysler Imperial ad features a maroon Le Baron 4-door Silvercrest Landau; GE Air Conditioners; Dutch Boy House Paint; Huge two-page Marlboro ad promotes their flip-top box; Dial Soap; Kraft Cracker Barrel Cheese; Campbell's Bean with Bacon Soup; AC Oil Filter ad featuring color photo of Victor Borge at the piano; Pall Mall cigarette ad; De Soto ad featuring its push-button transmision and a Firedome 4-door Sportsman; General Telephone; Band-Aid; Palmolive; Great two-page color photo 7up ad shows boy in backyard recliner; Kodak cameras; Swimquip pool equipment; Mopar parts; Vauxhall; L&M cigarette ad features James Arness in his 'Gunsmoke' attire offering a light to Miss Kitty(?); Nice two-page color photo Chevrolet ad features a silver Kingswood station wagon - with young boy hanging out back window as his mother drives!; Whitman's chocolates; Florida tourism; Mazola; Bulova; Johnson Outboards; Schlitz Beer; Smith-Corona Typewriters; Caterpillar ad features color photo of Al C. Church, Florida State Highway Engineer at Miami Beach; Norelco shavers; Nice color ad for McGregor sportswear; Nice color Coke ad on back covers features icy class and small image of soda fountain below. and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, June 6, 1959 - The Untold Story of Little Rock Short Stories: Hero with a Past; Surprise on the Desert; Night Ferry; The Lady and the Brute. Articles: Why Auto Insurance Costs So Much; The Doctors Who Make Children Grow - pe. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman (cover); Fields, Jack; Briggs, Austin;Bomberger, Bruce; Jones, Robert; (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Norman Rockwell cover illustration entitled "The Army Cook" depicts a cook with the 71st Brigade at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, who has just prepared a holiday feast for 137 hungry soldiers. This was a rare instance when a Rockwell cover corresponded with an article in the magazine. Features: Desert Battalion - An Army oasis of USO glamour girls invades Palm Springs, with great color photos; The Incredible Earl of Suffolk aka Charles Henry George ("Wild Jack") Howard, twentieth Earl of Suffolk - He lived and died for England (first of two articles); Memphis Yankee - Cotton pickery president Bill Robinson of McCallum and Robinson, Inc. in Tennessee; What's Wrong with our Patent System? - Jerome Frank proposes a plan - patent applied for; I Cheer the Referee - a football referee's wife boos the 60,000 who boo him; Woes of an Army Cook - but Army chow is better these days; Home Front gets Action - Cape Cod's civilian defense faces a real war test - with many color photos. Stories: Courage; Home is a Place; I Should Listen to Mabel!; Second Fiddle; Happy Land; Siren in the Night (part 2 of 6). Nice color-illustrated one-page White Truck ad shows linemen at work in winter storm. One-page B.F. Goodrich ad features photo of construction of the Inter-American Highway. 100 pages. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. 2" x 1" piece missing from back cover along coverfold. A worthy copy of this wonderful WWII-era issue.; Cover Illustration; Folio. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman (illustrator).…