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Racing Pigeons.......2007-09-17
I'm very happy about this book and I'll expect that it will a lot usefull for me. Thanks for your attention .
Marcus
Pigeons Are Valuable Assets........2005-09-09
The origins of the modern-day racing pigeon can be traced thousands of years. There were records and carvings of Rock Doves dating from 3,000 B.C. Even Noah took aboard his Ark two doves. They are the ancestors of today's pigeons, the lovely, bright gentle birds.
Throughout history, the pigeon had been used by Asian And European civilizations as a speedy and reliable carrier of messages. They were used during the war by the British.
When the first marathon runner gained victory in the Olympic Games at Pisa in AD230, he sent the new home via his hen bired (a pigeon), which he had taken with him. This book is illustrated throughout and the subject of training pigeons, both yound and old, is explained in depth.
Racing Pigeons by David Glover.......2003-01-26
This is a good book with good information. The book was received in excellent condition (new) and in a very timely manner.
Racing Pigeons by David Glover.......2002-11-27
I have raised pigeons for over 45 years and have read most everything avaiable about them, This book is a very good one and has lots of pictures that give the reader a clear picture of what he is describing in the text. There are not many good books on the racing side of the sport so this one should be welcomed. I would highly recommend it to anyone that has an interest in learning more about raising or racing pigeons.
My new bible!.......2001-10-28
An amazing book! Excellent. Brilliant. Inspired. This book is brimming with wit and humor and is a wonderful example of the genius that sprouts out of the European people on occasion. A book like this is as rare as they come... Glover and Beaumont are surely paving the way for a new breed of comedy. Keep an eye out... this book is sure to win a Pulitzer. I can only hope to hear more from these outrageous new authors in the future. Truly!
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The seventh delightful mystery starring community college professor Bel Barret, the sleuth that the Baldwin City Ledger calls, "Evanovich's Stephanie Plum twenty–five years later."
Fifty–something community college professor and amateur sleuth Bel Barrett is at it again. When Dom Tomaselli, a student from her memoir–writing class for senior citizens, shows up dead, she agrees to investigate whether his fall from a rooftop was an accident––or murder. But with her aged mother so depressed that she can't even make her weekly trips to Atlantic City, and with her wedding to her boyfriend Sal coming up, she hardly has time for anything, let alone sleuthing. So with the help of Dom's daughter Flora, Bel determines that Dom's inveterate gambler brother–in–law, who owed him money, is the primary suspect. But could an extortion plot and a long–ago arson case also be central to the old man's demise? With the help of her best pals from the community college, Bel weaves together the different strands of one of the most baffling cases she's ever seen...and discovers that the history of her beloved Hoboken is far more sordid than she'd ever imagined.
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Hot on the Trail.......2007-03-30
I have read the entire series and loved it funny, engaging and keeps you reading till the end. The book arrived quickly and in great condition.
A Most Satisfying Read.......2005-10-27
"Hot on the Trail" fulfills all the criteria for a satisfying read: characters with distinct and engaging personalities, a suspect-filled plot that develops intriguing byways, witty dialogue to move the story forward while deepening the reader's understanding of the dynamics among the story's cast. While these characteristics are highly enjoyable in all of Jane Isenberg's delightful Bel Barrett series, "Hot on the Trail" also successfully and empathetically explores the processes of aging, cultural alterations, and the many definitions of family. Isenberg's selection of pigeon racing as a crucial background element of the story adds interesting detail that also illuminates some ingredients of a murder. An evening spent with "Hot on the Trail" offers many satisfactions, whether or not you have met Bel Barrett and company before. Enjoy!
A perfect plane book.......2005-10-18
Hot on the Trail is an upbeat, fun read that brings me back to Hoboken,all those pigeons, two dead bodies, and that special brand of NJ politics! Finally, Bel and Sol get married and what a neat surprise the wedding is. Take this book on your next flight and enjoy!
Disappointing.......2005-03-01
Hot On The Trail is the eighth book in Jane Isenberg's Bel Barrett mystery series. Bel Barrett is a women in her fifties who works as a New Jersey community college professor. In this instalment she gets more than expected (but not really) when she agrees to teach an extra evening writing class for seniors.
Like previous instalments someone dies; in this case it turns out to be one of her students, racing pigeon master, 83 year old Dom Tomaselli. His body shows up frozen in the snow next to the house he shares with his children. An apparent accident. Dom's daughter, Flora (whose also one of Bel's students), doesn't think it was an accident and she's pretty sure her Uncle killed him over a long term debt. Bel soon finds out he is not the only suspect.
Bel doesn't work alone on her search for the killer. Her side kicks, I mean best friends Illuminada and Betty are there pretty much every step of the way. Occasionally, she calls on her fiancé Sol Hecht for back up. The characters didn't stop there and this is one of the regrets for this book. Lots of names are mentioned in the first ten pages. The swamp made it hard to keep them straight and to remember who is who. It didn't get any better as more and more names were introduced throughout. Each chapter started off with an email or an excerpt from one of her student's memoirs. This just added to the who is who confusion.
"Who cares?" was a common thought as I read through the chapter of her surprise wedding. I really didn't care who was sitting with who or knew who. It was a stagnant stop to what little momentum there was to the story.
When a book is compared to the likes of Evanovich's Plum series I expect it to be an easy, funny read with some suspense. This book had none of these qualities. It took me three weeks to read while Evanovich's are usually done within two days. This story was dry and drowned out with lifeless characters. The interesting facts about pigeon racing (like the fastest pigeon clocked was 92mph, 49 mph faster than the fastest horse) are lost and seem like they were just stuck in for prosperity's sake. This book is not high on my list for recommendation.
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Kill the Sidekicks.......2005-01-26
I haven't really enjoyed this series for the past few installments. However, I did enjoy this one. And that's because the story wasn't overfilled with the annoying sidekicks, Illuminada and Betty.
Both characters have outworn themselves in this series, having turned into a couple of unlikeable, stereotypical caricatures. Illuminada, the impatient Cuban, can't get through a paragraph without throwing out a "chiquita" and looking at her watch. Betty, the controlling African-American, can't get through a paragraph without throwing out a "girlfriend" and barking out orders. These two got old a long time ago, and the series is just so much more enjoyable when Bel is interacting with Sol, Ma, Sofia, Wendy, her kids and her students.
Hopefully the author has realized this and the series will continue in a positive manner, as it did with this installment.
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i love pigeons.......2001-02-20
it is a cool book get it and i love ashley kraatz
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Mary Moon is Missing (Chapter, Puffin)
Patricia Reilly Giff
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From the creator of the best-selling Kids of the Polk Street School series comes The Adventures of Minnie and Max, a new series about a spunky female detective and her trusty feline sidekick, Max.
In Mary Moon Is Missing, Minnie and her cat Max are on the case when a valuable racing pigeon disappears. The Pigeon Prize Race is this Saturday, and time is running out. Can they rescue the stolen pigeon in time?
"Likable characters and briskly paced stories make for an engaging mystery series." --The Horn Book
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In this book, McCafferty follows the history of pigeon fancying and, in particular, the sterling work put in by the handlers and their charges in both the world wars.
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- A touching remembrance of pigeon
- a great book
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Aloft: A Meditation on Pigeons and Pigeon-Flying
Stephen J. Bodio
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A touching remembrance of pigeon.......2003-10-13
I very much enjoyed this book, so much so I read it in one weekend and was sorry it wasn't much longer. The author discusses his connection to pigeons from his very young years to midlife. Even though he grew up on the East Coast and I grew up on the West Coast we had some of the same experiences with pigeons and those who keep and race them. Reading it brought back fond and bittersweet memories of my birds and the loft I had at my parents' house. Both the birds and my beloved parents are long gone and I miss them all and those carefree days of adolence. I enjoyed reading about the author's experiences with his birds, especially finding and raising rare and exotic breeds. I hope the author writes another book about pigeons and it is much longer than this one. He has an easy to read style of writing.
a great book.......1999-01-21
nice and helpfull book for me and my childre
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Adventures of Minnie and Max: Mary Moon Is Missing
Patricia Reilly Giff
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The basis of breeding racing pigeons,
Leon Fradley Whitney
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Jam-packed with invaluable and indispensable information, this is the Pattern Glass guide that every collector needs.
This completely revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive listing of Pattern Glass pieces for nearly 350 patterns. Each pattern includes alternate names, original production numbers, reproduction information, and references. Features 23,000 listings with detailed descriptions of each piece that include size, inscriptions, color, appearance, dates, and accurate pricing information.
Images of each pattern, including Wedding Ring, Valentine, Royal Oak, Queen Anne, Galloway, and Bleeding Heart, facilitate easy identification.
• Nearly 350 American Pattern Glass patterns illustrated
• Accurate, up-to-date information
• Valuable alphabetical index for easy use
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The Lack of an Index - moan and groan!!! .......2006-12-27
Ditto to the above review of this book! "Index, Index, Index!!!" I am a relative newbie to antique glass and started a few months ago trying to identify family pieces. Because of the volume, extensive research, pictures, etc... of this source, I bought it a couple of months ago. What a waste of time and money. This book ***only*** has an alphabetical listing of patterns in the Table of Contents - no index. As I am trying to ***indentify*** a glass pattern - do not know the pattern name, the Table of Contents is useless. I have to laborously search page by page (500+) in hopes of stumbling on a black and white pic or sketch of the pattern. Granted several other glass books only have alpha listings of patterns but they are smaller in volume making it a bit easier to thumb through them. Now Warman's Glass by Schroy does have an index which lists not only pattern names but catagories with sub-levels. Why couldn't this book have taken a little more effort and added an invaluable index?
Index, Index, Index!!!.......2006-12-13
I'm sorry to say this book makes me want to stick a fork in my eye every time I use it.
That's because mostly I need to identify an unfamiliar piece of glass, so I don't have a pattern name yet, and for some reason the authors chose to assume that anyone using this book would already know the pattern name of what they were looking up! Even the table of contents lacks any organization other than alphabetical pattern names.
But most of all, identification is made hair-pullingly difficult by the lack of even a rudimentary INDEX.
The authors have provided no way to look up patterns by characteristics such as 'star and circle,' or 'ribbed with lattice,' etc. The authors of books on marks have managed to come up with organization systems like this - so why is it so lacking in pattern identification books? This is not the only book without an index, even Mauzy's excellent book on Depression glass forces you to look at every pattern on every page when you're researching an unfamiliar piece.
But, what makes this book's lack of index particularly egregious is its enormous size and complexity. Having to look at mostly black and white line drawings of patterns on EVERY SINGLE page of this book's 498 (!) pages of patterns is so discouraging I have yet to actually id a piece. I keep just giving up, which makes this book a waste of money.
In fact, if you have a pattern name, you've already GOT identification, haven't you? All you really need to know is the price and what else is available in the pattern line, which YOU HAVE ALREADY IDENTIFIED YOURSELF!! The use of the word "Identification" in this book's title is an outrageous lie.
The only way to make this book valuable to the majority of collectors, who have not managed to memorize thousands of EAPG patterns, is to buy another better organized book of patterns and use this one for the exhaustive listing of all pieces produced or reproduced under each pattern name.
Obviously, the authors put a lot of hard work into this huge volume (which is the only reason this torture device still got two stars) but expecting anyone to access all that info without an index is ridiculous. This is a reference book after all, and reference books are meant to be WELL organized.
If the authors had done more than just part of the job, and included at least an index and/or at least one other organization method than alphabetical pattern names, this could have been THE definitive guide to EAPG. What a disappointment.
This was my first book on EAPG so I don't have any alternative suggestions, but perhaps someone else out there does?
Book Description
Almost 900 black and white photographs and approximately 1,500 patterns from Ashburton to Zippered Block are within the pages of this long loved book. Clear pictures, authoritative reproduction information, uses, rarities, bargain patterns, plate numbers from standard texts, and accurate indexing are provided. The original format and commentary have been left intact, and updated information supplied where appropriate. 2000 values. REVIEW: This book is truly a treasure for doll lovers, sure to bring back happy memories of childhood dolls that they played with when they were little. Both new and seasoned collectors will adore this book, which is filled with full color photos of dolls from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Informative & Descriptive.......2004-02-10
This book is a good guide to finding older patterns from the mid to late 1800's through mid 1900's. The pictures are all in black and white, which makes it a bit harder to see some specifics, but in all, it has been incredibly helpful and I would definitely suggest it to anyone researching Early American Pattern Glass. 5 Stars! Thanks Alice Hulett Metz for all of your research!
A comprehensive, authoritative, definitive collector guide........2000-06-04
Alice Hulett Metz's Much More Early American Pattern Glass provides an excellent guide of updated values for American pattern glass, including patterns not previously listed and almost 900 photos lending to identification. Don't expect the color photos of some; this is a bare-bones yet important values guide which includes plenty of details on how to see, judge and price good early glass.
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Ruth Webb Lees Handbook of Early American Pressed Glass Patterns
Ruth W. Lee
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- Early American Pattern Glass
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Early American Pattern Glass
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Customer Reviews:
Early American Pattern Glass.......2005-12-31
Found two patterns of EAPG glass,I've been stumped by, within five minutes.Already paid for itself.
Pattern Glass Identification book.......2000-11-01
Early American Pattern Glass is a reprint of Alice Hulett Metz's book first published in 1958 and considered by many to be the "bible" of pattern glass collecting. The Early American Pattern Glass Society contributed by forming a committee of eight experienced collectors and dealers to review and revise the content. The format and Metz's comments are intact, however, prices are updated and new information concerning the patterns are grouped together making the differences and similarities more apparent. There are 1500 identified patterns(more listed than in any other book) with 900 of these patterns photographed. Some of these are very slight variations of the patterns. For identification purposes, I found the book to be very helpful.
Authoritative, comprehensive, reliable guide and reference........2000-02-04
Alice Hulett Metz's Early American Pattern Glass provides updated values along with black and white photos of about 1500 patterns. From uses and terminology to patterns and plate numbers, this is THE item of choice for any early glass collector.
What smells? This book!.......2000-01-08
THIS BOOK IS ALMOST ALL PHOTOS OF GOBLETS, VERY FEW PHOTOS OF ANYTHING ELSE,THE PHOTOS ARE POOR IN MANY EXAMPLES, THE PRICES SEEM VERY UNREAL. RUTH WEBB LEES HANDBOOK OF EARLY AMERICAN PRESSED GLASS PATTERNS IS MUCH MORE INFORMATIVE AND HAS BETTER PHOTOS IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE THIRTIES. THE BEST NEW BOOK IVE FOUND ON PATTERN GLASS IS THE COLLECTORS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PATTERN GLASS. BY MOLLIE HELEN MCCAIN. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU BUY MOLLIES BOOK, YOU WONT BE DISAPOINTED WITH IT, AS I WAS WITH THIS ONE.
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Early American Pattern Glass
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Identification and valuation of about 1500 patterns, clear photos, authoritative reproduction information, uses, terminology, rarities, bargain patterns, plate numbers from standard texts, and accurate indexing. Comb bound softcover.
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