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The Golden Age of Train Travel
ISBN: 9780747813248 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the century after 1865 all the largest railroad companies had flagship luxury trains, spectacularly appointed steamliners offering unrivaled standards of service and thoughtful amenities including ladies' perfume and carnations for gentlemen. These luxury trains transported well-heeled passengers in grand style across spectacular American landscapes in an atmosphere of privilege and elegance. Including the iconic Super Chief of the Sante Fe Railway and New York Central System's fabled 20th Century Limited, they became legends in their day and for decades after their last runs. This...
For the century after 1865 all the largest railroad companies had flagship luxury trains, spectacularly appointed steamliners offering unrivaled stand...
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49,37 zł |
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Signs of Our Past: Porcelain Enamel Advertising in America
ISBN: 9780764330421 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The beauty and diverse graphics found on porcelain enamel advertising has garnered interest from collectors worldwide. Here are some of the finest examples of advertising signs for petroleum, automobiles, gasoline, beer, paints and varnishes, telephone, tobacco, soda pop and more. Over 700 porcelain signs are included in this full color, informative book. Price guide included.
The beauty and diverse graphics found on porcelain enamel advertising has garnered interest from collectors worldwide. Here are some of the finest exa...
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301,98 zł |
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The Clock Repairer's Handbook
ISBN: 9781602399617 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Laurie Penman has written an indispensable guide for both the absolute beginner and the experienced clock enthusiast. The Clock Repairer's Handbook provides information on how to repair and maintain a clock's delicate mechanics and teaches the basics of clock repairing through detailed, easy-to-follow instructions and more than three hundred instructive diagrams and illustrations. Advice and directions for cleaning clock movements, pivoting and mounting, fixing train faults and gears, the importance of lubrication and friction, and how to make sure the strike and chimes work on the...
Laurie Penman has written an indispensable guide for both the absolute beginner and the experienced clock enthusiast. The Clock Repairer's Handbook...
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73,86 zł |
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Breweriana : American Beer Collectibles
ISBN: 9780747810445 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though beer is one of the oldest beverages around, beer can collecting--particularly in the United States--really picked up steam in the 1930s when beer in cans first appeared. Since then, beer can collecting and breweriana has become vastly popular, with a variety of clubs and associations springing up across the country and around the world. Brewery collectibles became especially popular in the 1970s, and today breweriana remains a popular pastime, especially with the onset of the microbrew revolution. Author Kevin Kious explores the history of beer and collecting in Breweriana. Kious looks...
Though beer is one of the oldest beverages around, beer can collecting--particularly in the United States--really picked up steam in the 1930s when be...
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43,88 zł |
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American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs
ISBN: 9780806142494 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill--an instantly recognizable feature of the American landscape. Boasting nearly two hundred striking images, this book is the first devoted to photographs illustrating historic wind machines throughout North America.
T. Lindsay Baker, an expert historian on windmills, has written about wind-power history for twenty-five years. His album contains historic images captured by professional windmiller B. H. -Tex- Burdick and from corporate archives of windmill manufacturers. It depicts windmills in a... From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill--an instantly recognizable feature of the American lan...
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130,19 zł |
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The World of Beer Memorabilia: Identification and Value Guide
ISBN: 9780891457497 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World of Beer Memorabilia: Identification and Value Guide
The World of Beer Memorabilia: Identification and Value Guide
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143,23 zł |
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American Notes
ISBN: 9781847188724 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This account of Dickens' first tour of the United States was deeply, and probably to some extent deliberately, controversial on its first publication. It shifts between specific observation and outspoken general comment on the USA at the time.
This account of Dickens' first tour of the United States was deeply, and probably to some extent deliberately, controversial on its first publication....
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43,88 zł |
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Chronicling the West for Harper's, Volume 12: Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 1873-1874
ISBN: 9780806143767 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The opening of the West after the Civil War drew a flood of Americans and immigrants to the frontier. Among the liveliest records of the westering of the 1870s is the series of prints collected for the first time in this book. Chronicling the West for Harper's showcases 100 illustrations made for the weekly magazine by French artists Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier on a cross-country assignment in 1873 and 1874. The pair--"Frenzeny & Tavernier," as they signed their work--documented the newly accessible territories, their diverse inhabitants, and the changing frontier. Historian...
The opening of the West after the Civil War drew a flood of Americans and immigrants to the frontier. Among the liveliest records of the westering of ...
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280,16 zł |
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The American Circus
ISBN: 9780300185393 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The circus is a source of nostalgia for Americans of all ages, either from memories of attending P. T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth," or through the colorful evocations in many movies, television programs, and books. Interest in the circus phenomenon is unflagging, yet there have been few publications that look closely at how the circus's European origins were refashioned for an American audience. Lavishly illustrated and carefully researched, this volume explores how American culture, values, demography, and business practices altered the fundamental nature of the European circus, and... The circus is a source of nostalgia for Americans of all ages, either from memories of attending P. T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth," or throug... |
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302,03 zł |
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Improving Classroom Performance: Spoon Feed No More, Practical Applications for Effective Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9781845906948 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With experience as teachers, observers and trainers, Stephen Chapman, Steve Garnett and Alan Jervis have produced a book which will inspire new teachers as well as reinvigorate more experienced ones who are looking for fresh ideas free of jargon.
With experience as teachers, observers and trainers, Stephen Chapman, Steve Garnett and Alan Jervis have produced a book which will inspire new teache...
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170,40 zł |
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Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture
ISBN: 9780231167789 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Winnebago Nation, popular critic James B. Twitchell takes a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend the night in one's car. For the young the roadtrip is a coming-of-age ceremony; for those later in life it is the realization of a lifelong desire to be spontaneous, nomadic, and free. Informed by his own experiences on the road, Twitchell recounts the RV's origins and evolution over the twentieth century; its rise, fall, and rebirth as a cultural icon; its growing mechanical complexity as it evolved from an estate wagon to a converted bus to a...
In Winnebago Nation, popular critic James B. Twitchell takes a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend the ...
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93,30 zł |
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The Ultimate Cigar Book: 4th Edition
ISBN: 9781632206572 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1993, The Ultimate Cigar Book has become a classic in its field, and is generally credited with having helped launch the current cigar smoking craze. It has been reprinted numerous times in the United States, and is now sold worldwide. No other book contains as much detailed and factual information on virtually every facet of cigar making and cigar smoking. And now this trendsetting been has been revised in this fourth edition for the aficionado of the future Forget 1492. This book starts out in B. C. (Before Columbus) and transports the cigar enthusiast on a...
First published in 1993, The Ultimate Cigar Book has become a classic in its field, and is generally credited with having helped launch the cur...
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108,63 zł |
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Klimt
ISBN: 9783836558075 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gold, flowers, and female beauty: The work of the decadent Austrian symbolist The unfading popularity ofGustav Klimt (1862 1918)attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, anddeath.The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created surfaces of ornate and jewel-like luminosity which show influence of both Egyptian and Japanese art. Through paintings, murals, and friezes, his work is defined byradiant color, fluid lines, floral elements, and mosaic-like patterning.With a number of subjects dealing...
Gold, flowers, and female beauty: The work of the decadent Austrian symbolist The unfading popularity ofGustav Klimt (1862 1918)attests not only to th...
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77,61 zł |
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Bosch
ISBN: 9783836559867 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between heaven and hell: Hieronymus Bosch s meticulous visions of the grotesque, debauched, and divine As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces ofHieronymus Bosch (1450 1516)remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Theirintricate, allegorical, and often startling contenthas captivated not only art historians, but alsofashion designers, rock stars, writers, and punk rockers, as well as countless modern and contemporary artist successors.Although rooted in the Old Netherlandish tradition, Bosch developed ahighly subjective, richly suggestive styleto render both the...
Between heaven and hell: Hieronymus Bosch s meticulous visions of the grotesque, debauched, and divine As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpi...
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77,61 zł |
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The World of Beer Memorabilia: Identification and Value Guide
ISBN: 9781681622781 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Loaded with over 200 sharp color photos, this book showcases the personal collection of Herb
Loaded with over 200 sharp color photos, this book showcases the personal collection of Herb
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86,72 zł |
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Gentlemen'S Book of Etiquette: A Manual of Politeness from a Gentler Time
ISBN: 9780486813479 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What should you do if you find a bug on your plate? How do you ask someone to dance? What's the least offensive way to enjoy your cigar? These and other questions of social decorum are answered in this classic etiquette book. Published just before the Civil War, this volume offers enduring advice for courtesy-challenged men. Common-sense suggestions for socializing, exercise, flirting, dining, and dressing reveal that the basics of proper behavior haven't changed all that much ― and in situations where they have, today's gentlemen may find something worth learning from their...
What should you do if you find a bug on your plate? How do you ask someone to dance? What's the least offensive way to enjoy your cigar? These and oth...
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87,92 zł |
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Journey: Through the Middle Passage
ISBN: 9781478775515 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,91 zł |
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What We Keep: 150 People Share the One Object That Brings Them Joy, Magic, and Meaning
ISBN: 9780762462544 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PostSecret meets Humans of New York in this "show and tell" collection of stories and photos, where people share the one object that they treasure the most.
PostSecret meets Humans of New York in this "show and tell" collection of stories and photos, where people share the one object that they treasure the...
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141,65 zł |
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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette: Manual of Politeness
ISBN: 9781721236404 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,55 zł |
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The Witches of New York
ISBN: 9789492355348 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,20 zł |
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