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82 pages Features: Robert Sherwood - King of English; I Flew for Israel - Julian Swing explains why he fought for Israel; The Truth About Mail-Order Marriage; New Jobs for Liberty Ships - article with amazing photo of dozens of ships at anchor; John Bull in search of a Future - Britain is on the road to being a power again; White Brother of the Navajo - Indian Trader Roman Hubbell; Tennis Town Tempest - Great article and color photos of Gertrude Moran; Two-page photo of the Grand Canyon. Fiction: I Never Dream; The Conquest of Jan; The Queen Maker; A Sitter for Mother; Pride's Castle. Ads include: Chevrolet trucks, Fisher Body, Dodge trucks - featuring a blue grocery van, Kleenex - featuring Little Lulu and Tubby, Back cover Chesterfield Cigarettes ad featuring John Lund and James H. Darden (of Farmville, H.C.), Coke - drinking from bottles near a lighthouse, Pennsylvania Railroad - the new Broadway Limited, MontaMower, Pepsi, Pontiac cars, Amazing two-page color-photo ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer features Gary and Mrs. Cooper, Jonathan M. Wainwright, Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, James Montgomery Flagg, Gladys Swarthout and husband Frank Chapman, Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Robinson and Mr. & Mrs. F. Warren Pershing. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
<p> 41 cm, solida rilegatura coeva in piena tela, titolo in oro al dorso, p. 1000 ca. numerosissime ill. e foto anche a piena e doppia pagina in b/n una doppia pagina a colori (Wool Winder). Illustrazioni relative a: equitazione, caccia, sport, canottaggio, militaria, moda, cinofilia, giochi, spettacolo ecc. Ex libris nobiliare al verso della copertina</p>
Pages 722-756. Features: Cover photo of suburban Shanghai Airport converted to defence strong point; The bicentenary exhibition in honour of Dr. Jenner, discoverer of vaccination; Photos of seal pups abandoned in South Africa; Austrian antique arms, armour, models and toys on display in London; Article on "The stately pleasure dome" of the Caliph Hisham revealed in recent excavations near Jericho; Photos of the Khirbet mosaics; Book review of "An Autobiography and other Essays" by G. M. Trevelyan; Article on the Campaign of Novara, 1849 with photo of Radetzky; Photo of flood damage in Fort Worth Texas; Photo of memorial to the Champion Italian Association football team, The Torino F. C., wiped out in an air crash on May 4; Photos from Shanghai, the beleaguered city; One-page map of Shanghai, China's richest prize, now within the communist grasp; Photos of personalities of the week include Maj. Gen. Kvashnin, Wing Commander M.A. Smith, Dr. Gilbert H Grosvenor, Mr. Stanley A. Williams, Sir William Nicholson, Mr. James V. Forrestal, Archbishop Damaskinos, Lieut. George Albert Cairns, V. C., Mr. George Rogers, Mr. Robert Mellish, Mr. J.P. Mallalieu, Mr. William Blyton, Mr. Frank Beswick, Mr. James T. Adams, Dr. H. A. H. Boot, Prof. J.T. Randall, Prof. J. Sayers, and Sir William Coates; Protesting the auction of ex- Marshal Petain's confiscated effects; Photo of Miss Joan Curry, who beat Miss Louise Brough in the French lawn tennis championships; Two pages of dramatic photos of the railway strike in Berlin - scenes of struggle for the stations in the western sectors between the workers on strike and Soviet-controlled railway and "people's" police; Drilling reveals Britain's new Staffordshire coalfield May yield 400 million tons; Photos of huge celebration in Tripoli after the United Nations rejected the proposal to give Italy trusteeship of Tripolitani Photo of royalist Bavarians saluting their Crown Prince Rupprecht on his 80th birthday; Incredible photo of the Martin Marshall Mars flying boat, with its 301 passengers and seven crew on its wings and massed beside it; Two pages of photos of heavenly bodies revealed by the 200 inch Mount Palomar telescope; Page of illustrations shows why a wrecked ship may break in two. Lacking first few pages of advertisements. Unmarked with average wear. Moderate soiling to front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages: 801-844. Features: Great colour ad inside front cover for British Motor Corporation (BMC) features illustration of elephant pulling massive log; Nice one-page Rover car ad; Cover photo of the Queen and her husband arriving at Ascot on Royal Hunt Cup Day; Dramatic cricket photos - test match between England and Australia; Review of the First or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards on parade at Windsor; Photos of ten personalities of the week, including Mr. Michael Arlen, Golda Myerson, Thomas J. Watson, and Professor James J. Guest; Swiss Everest climbers; Royal Polo; Churchill and Truman; King Faisal of Iraq; Seven illustrations of Britain's first 'motors only' road - the preston by-pass; Nice two-page photo montage of seeded tennis players for the Wimbledon singles titles; One page with three large photos of a gathering of heroes - scenes from the Queen's review of holders of the Victoria Cross (V.C.); Magnificent centerfold photo of the Queen arriving in horse-drawn carriage at London's Hyde Park to review 300 holders of the Victoria Cross; Photos from the Troodos Mountains 'Sweep' in Cyprus - terrorists and a deadly fire; Photos of Krushchev and Tito; The vanished crown of Mary of Modena - a counterfeit of the seventeenth century found under a royal diadem of the eighteenth; Mrs. Nasser votes in Egypt; Photos from East Germany - Russina withdrawals; Photo of fourteen Canadian Victoria Cross (V.C.) recipients on their arrival at Portsmouth; Arrival of 14 Australian recipients of the Victoria Cross at Tilbury Docks; Arrival of 10 Indian recipients of the Victoria Cross at Tilbury Docks; One-page ad for Wolseley cars; Nice colour-photo ad inside back cover for Ilford colour film features Stonehenge and a Marilyn Monroe look-alike; Nice colour ad on back page for Midland Bank Gift Cheques; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
24 pages. Features: Dalton Camp; A Mother at 15 - Childbirths are on the rise among younger girls; Cathy Wilson and Martin and Downs Circus - Canada's last remaining 'Mud Show' visits Nipawin, Saskatchewan - article with great colour photos; The Last Romp - Ronnie Hawkins at 45; Table Tennis Miracle Spin - Tricks of the Trade #3 - Errol Caetano makes the ball move in mysterious ways; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
Pages 341-384. Features: nice ad for the Sporting and Dramatic News inside front cover; Cover photo of Canada's loftiest peak, the unconquered summit of Mount Waddington, plu two pages of text and photos showing a climbing party on the treacherous mountain; Photo of bizarre sea creature washed up at Querqueville, near Cherbourg - probably the remains of a basking shark; Two pages of detailed illustrations explaining drought and its dangers in rural England, plus schemes for alleviating water famine; Photo-illustrated book review of "Secrets of the Red Sea", by Henry de Manfreid; Photos and text describe jewelry of a Byzantine-Nubian Queen - more treasures from a mysterious Egyptian cemetery; Photo-illustrated article on an expedition to Cocos Island in search of long-buried pirate treasure with gold and silver indicating instruments; 12 photos illustrate life in the Saar, a district to choose by plebiscite government by Germany, France or the League; Two full-page photos of vast flocks of ducks at the unique Open Lake Sanctuary in Arkansas, plus photos of Mr. George S. Wilcox who protects the ducks; Photos of personalities of the week include the commission of government inaugurated in Newfoundland, Sir James Jeans, Sir H. G. Lyons, Madame Stavisky, the archduke Otto and ex-Empress Zita; the Queen of Siam and H. W. Austin in the Monte Carlo lawn tennis handicap; Acquitted Reichstag fire trial prisoners released and welcomed in Moscow include Mr. Popoff, Dimitroff and Taneff, Norman O'Neill, John Dillinger, Prof. S. F. Oldenburg, and Princess Irina Youssoupoff, who was awarded damages in the "Rasputin" film libel action; Centrefold photos of Prince George's 4000 mile tour in South Africa; Photo of the outdoor construction of Imperial Airways liner "Scylla" (too large for a hangar); Photo of stowaways John Pitzer and Arthur Martin afloat in the Gulf of Mexico; Photo of huge crowd in Trafalgar Square gathered to hear speeches about the unemployment bill; Photos of low British reservoirs; Photo of zeppelin "LZ 129" under construction; Photos of destroyed buildings in Kalgoorlie, Australia after anti-foreigner riots; Article and three photos describe sinking of the "Cheliuskin" near Wrangell Island; Photos of archaic Chinese jade in perfection - finds in the Lo-Yang tombs; Two pages of text and photos describe discoveries which "surpass anything yet known of archaic Chinese jade"; One-page ad for the new Ford Fourteen car; Half-page ad for the Crossley two-litre car; Half-page ad for the Armstrong Siddeley Twenty car; Half-page Rover car ad; Nice half-page Bentley car ad; Back cover ad for Douglas Stuart; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Contents: Full-page ad for Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard; Editorial by Wilbur M. Philpott calls for more Co-operative Credit Unions; Ad for Good Year G3 tires; The Loves of John Barrymore - Part I, by Frederick L. Collins - with black and white photos; Nice ad for Birks Jewellers featuring Olivia de Havilland; "None So Bline" - story by Hurd Barrett; Star Dust, story by Barbara Aldrich; Youth at Bay, by Beverly Hills; Superstitions on the Tennis Court, by Helen Wills Moody; Nemesis in Hollywood - story by Walter de Steiguer; To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; Bivouac in Hell, by Captain W.J. Blackledge; Beeman's Pepsin Gum ad; Any Woman Can be Beautiful, by Madame Sylvia; Wife Trouble, by Wallace Irwin; Attractive two-colour ad for Lushus Jelly dessert; Sex for School Children - John Erskine makes an eloquent plea for an end to half-truths; The Strangler of the Bronx - Secrets of New York's Homicide Squad as told by a headquarters old-timer; Godiva was a Lady, by Lawrence Saunders (part 6); Nice colour comic-style ad for Rinso inside back cover; Super colour ad for British Consols (cigarettes) features the same Scottish lass later featured in the advertising for Export A; Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Cover facial photos of Gratien Gelinas; Emotion, by June Callwood; What went wrong with Canada, by Peter C. Newman; The last days of the French in Algeria - article with photos by Peter Stollery; The savage fight for life above the timberline - Jean George describes how animals outsmart the mountains; Bernard 'boom boom' Geoffrion - the highest scoring baritone in history!; Vandalism - the kids' crime that no one really understands; Minute by minute on the day of birth - with photos; Colour photo tennis Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Very attractive full-page two-colour ad for International Harvester's TracTractors; Ad for RCA Victor audio products; Runaround in Reverse (short story); Jail Without Locks - British Columbia's new Borstal home near Vancouver - a prison with no guards nor locks - article with photos; Edward Johnson of Guelph - Part 1 - article with photos; A Train Journey (short story); Beverley Baxter's letter from London; Beauty Business - article about beauty products - with photos of their manufacture; Will Poland Be Next?, by Douglas Reed - article with photos; The Flying Yorkshireman (short story); Well I Declare! - tips on dealing with Customs officers - article with photos; Nice ad for Chevroet trucks; Hudson car ad; Tennis player Don Budge is featured in Bromo-Seltzer ad; Lux soap ad featuring photos of Claudette Colbert and Andrea Leeds; Canada's First Marathon Victory - W.J. (Billy) Sherring of Hamilton won the marathon at the Athens Olympics in 1906 - brief article with photos; Nice half-page colour ad for Sisman's Scampers (shoes). Above-average external wear. Coverfold halfway open. Covers almost loose. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
56 pages. Features: Cover illustration of McGill tennis courts (before they were converted to a parking lot) by John Little; Great colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover features red dump truck; Interesting one-page Parke-Davis ad features Robert Thom painting 'Susruta' of a surgeon of old India at work; Nice One-page photo ad for Matinee cigarettes features couple in floral scene; Why Not a Written Marriage Contract?; Why Herbert Morrison won't take his just reward; One-page colour-illustrated ad for Canada Steamship Lines; Death is Not Inevitable - says Dr. Hans Selye; Will Our National Emblem Vanish? - A Mystery Affliction is Killing Our Maple Trees; Our Magistrates and Judges struggle with one of the most exacting and thankless jobs in public life - article with photos of Ontario Supreme Court Justice D.C. Wells and Ontario Court of Appeals Justices Morden, McGillivray and Roach; Holiday Weekend in Calgary - Bill and Merna Mitchell and kids invade Alberta's oil and cattle capital to pack a surprising amount of cultural pleasure into one weekend; How to Curb Your Tensions; Jack Wells - Winnipeg's maverick of the sports mike - article with photos; Nice 2/3-page colour-photo ad for Puss'n Boots cat food features three ginger cats; Champion Spark Plugs ad features photo of Jim Rathmann in Italy after he won the world's fastest 500 mile race at Monza; Nice colour-photo ad for Labatt's India Pale Ale features topless man with towel over shoulders; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features photos of a tyrolean traverse being performed in Alberta, courtesy of Guide John Dodds; Interesting CNR passenger train ad with photo insert of napping passenger over traffic jam scene; Great colour GWG clothing ad inside back cover features back-to-school fashions; back cover colour-photo ad sponsored by Fleischmann's Yeast features many ways to serve bread; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
28 pages. Features: Norman Bethune - The Sinner Who Became a Saint - article with many illustration in colour and black and white; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Benson & Hedges cigarettes features fishermen holding their catch; Plain Jayne - Actress Jayne Eastwood - with great full-page colour photo; Scotiabank centerfold ad; Joseph Sedgwick - Master of Advocacy - article with full-page colour-photo portrait of this great Canadian lawyer; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Crown brand corn syrup; The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Mailman - How Ottawa cut Tom Howard's Olympic Chances in Half; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Cavalier cigarettes features tennis scene; Full-page ad for Chiclets gun contest; Meat Recipes; Doug Wright's Family comic. Minor doodling near top of front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Toronto's Yonge St. Mall; Judge Sandra Ellen Oxner of Nova Scotia; Windor, Ontario - A Few Years of Grace (in wake of Detroit riots); Tricia Nixon to Marry Edward Finch Cox - major article with nice color photos; Brigadier General John W. Donaldson; Jimmy Hoffa Steps Down - For Now; Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) ad shows sky crane (helicopter) working from one of their boats, the Fort St. Louis, at Pond Inlet; Murder suspect Juan Corona in California; Audie Murphy; Coming to Terms with Vietnam; South Vietnam Presidential election; Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Marie Antoine Hubert Luns; The disputed Aksai Chin; Celebrity photos of Liberace (in crazy outfit) and Raquel Welch playing tennis; Austerity on the U.S. Campus; The Jackson Five at Home - article with great photo; Improving on Methadone; Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Calgary Inn shows chef carving beef in dining room; Race horse Canonero; Passing of Reinhold Niebuhr; and more. Small tick marks to index. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
in-8, pp. XVII,339. Leg. edit fig, tit. oro al dorso. Interessante monografia dedicata allo sport all'aria aperta al femminile, tra gli sport trattati: ginnastica, danza, nuoto, canottaggio, golf, atletica, tennis, hockey, basket ball. Ciascun capitolo è dedicato ad uno sport ed è curato da un autore diverso. Introduzione a cura di Lucille Eaton Hill direttore del Physical training del Wellesley college. Adorno di oltre 200 illustrazioni.. .
Pages 1025-1124 (99 pages in total). Includes index and prices. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Intended to be read by shop owners. Presents a wonderful cross-section of "the most complete stocks in Western Canada" - from page 1024. Extensive listings of firearms and related products. Also included are products for dogs, traps, thermos and related products, flashlights and batteries, lighters, harmonicas, cards, baseball, tennis, badminton, golf, football, hockey, soccer, volleyball, basketball, boxing, lawn bowling, croquet, roller skating, snow shoes, bicycles and ski equipment. Above-average but not excessive wear. Front cover taped in place. Back cover missing. A very enjoyable and nostalgic item. Young readers will be amazed to see how far today's gear has advanced in the past 50+ years, particularly ski equipment. Book
20 pages. Features: Great tabloid-style Maggie Thatcher front cover; Canadians dubious about the 4-day week; Daughter of the Empire - Margaret Thatcher - article with colour caricature illustration; A day in the life of John Kenneth Galbraith - article with colour photo; CUPW (Canadian Union of Postal Workers) president Jean-Claude Parrot - article with colour photo; New kid on the tennis court - John McEnroe - article and colour photo; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
164 pages. Features: The Wild One - Keanu Reeves on Sex, Hollywood and Life on the Run; Blood and Death on the Front Lines of the Ebola-Virus Nightmare; Scenes from Carly Simon's Tortured Family Album; The Inside Story of Kevin Costner's Disaster-Prone "Waterworld"; The Chaos in Women's Tennis. Bob Woodward's other Writing Partner; Marylou Whitney's Turf War; Malibu East and Dominick Dunne on the O.J. Simpson Trial. Light to moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
in-16, pp. 223, (1) e 9 illustrazioni fotografiche, tela edit.tit. oro al dorso. Prima edizione. L'autore è stato per molti anni il corrispondente del Daily Telegraph, il libro raccoglie numerosi articoli pubblicati per la testata. Sono qui conservate le testimonianze dei grandi tennisti, quali: Wilding, Lenglen, Wills, Lacoste, Alvarez, Tilden, Borotra, Crawford, Vonn Cramm, Perry etc, con dettagliati resoconti dei più famosi matches. Dedica manoscritto sul foglio di risguardo.. .
Gruppo di 40 foto a colori, anni '90 circa, di cm. 29 x 20 circa, tennisti in gara, e non. Tutte :
Gruppo di 40 foto a colori, anni '90 circa, di cm. 29 x 20 circa, tennisti in gara, e non. Tutte :
129 pages. Tips from the Australian Davis Cup Captain whose coaching made champions of Rosewall, Emerson, Hoad, Newcombe, and Laver. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket is chipped at edges and bears somewhat above-average wear. Book
Contents: The Politics of Pot; The federal government's six and five program stays alive; Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Canada; The NDP's quiet revolution; Quebecair for Quebecois; The Way We Are - latest national census results; The rise of a bilingual Canadian elite; Tales of five vibrant cities in transition - Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax; Walter Mondale vs. John Glenn; Pope John Paul's challenge of hope for Poland; Yasser Arafat's movement is faced with disintegration; Striking back at Pinochet in Chile; Takeover battle for Canadian Tire; Peter Newman writes about how the next Japanese export to Canada will be money; Carling Bassett's brush with tennis glory; Battle over the Health Act; The Garrison Diversion Scheme; Thomas Barton's device eats PCBs; Nice ad for Apple personal computers; Rev. Kaye McKibbon founds organization to support ministers in conflict with the church; Allan Fotheringham's humorous take on the federal Liberals sniffing the wind for a successor to Trudeau. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: What I Learned from the (Tennis) Champion (W.T. Tilden, 2nd), by Alexander L. Wiener; The Scratches on the Glass - VII, by Gladys Black; Alias Mosquito, by Zay Philbrook; That's Facing it, Bingo!, by Valentine Vine and Arthur Floyd Henderson; The Art of Adjustment, by Gamaliel Bradford; How to make real bows and arrows; Our own League of Nations (at Wellesley, by Elizabeth Page); Ray Coon and the Doughnuts, by G.H. Smith; and more. Nice ad for 'Checkers' candied popcorn on page 371; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Children and Dogs Amuse Each Other; Britain Without Sign-posts; Cover photo of Mrs. Michael Menzies (the former Kay Stammers) playing tennis; Some Candidates for the New Derby - Photos of 11 fine horses; Wilfred Taylor - Broadcasting the Derby; Sport Lives On; Rapier Sums Up the New Derby; Winchester Avoid Defeat by the M.C.C. (cricket news); Derbys and Oaks of the Last War - photos of winning horses from 1915-1918; Now is the time to know something about a rifle - Sir Pelham Warner changes his bat for a gun - brief article with 13 photos; Bombay Hunt's Gymkhana (near Bombay) - 13 photos; How They Race at Beersheeba - six photos of camel racing in Palestine; Stowe Too Strong for Bedford - 14 cricket photos with brief captions; Roehampton Sunday - six photos of the Red Cross Lawn Tennis Tournament, including photos of Murray Deloford, Mrs. Frank Strawson, Miss G.M. Harvey, and Rosemary Thomas; Photos of theatre stars Evelyn Laye and Robert Helpmann (in drag); Movie news and photos; Centuries Plentiful in Public Schools Cricket; Sergeant Braddock rejoins marines at age 52; Openings along coverfold, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy example of this vintage wartime issue Book
in-8, pp. 167, bross. edit. con cop. fig. Con molte figg. n.t. [MM8-009]
20 pages. Features: Daniel Ludwign and Jari Florestal - his massive pulp wood miracle on the Amazon which grows and harvests the fast-growing Gmelina tree; Colour ad for Player's tennis featuring photo of Bjorn Borg in action; The Sound of Musicke - The Six Members of the Huggett family play more than 30 musical instruments - all European-made replicas of 16th- and 17th-century wind and string instruments; Whistling Bernie Smith - Vancouver's Best-Known Street Cop; Large colour Export "A" ad featuring men men working with logs; In a Northern Light - northern Canadian movie viewers prefer reality as depicted in films like Asivaqtiin by young Inuk Mosha Michael; Harry Bruce - what you smell is all me; Doug Wright's Family comic strip; Peach recipes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
