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288 pages. After flipping from the Stanley Cup Playoffs to Martha Steward, author resolved to follow Canada's best export to the rest of the world, to find out whether the true game still existed elsewhere. Weaves hilarious stories of encounters with odd-sized rinks and players of wildly different talents and experiences with tales of his travels and bang-on observations about the game and players in North America. As he discovers, the tropic of hockey connects players and fans around the world. A wonderful gift for your special hockey fanatic. Book
26 pages. Features: Mailbag; Caribou From the Clouds - Wes Bickerton and a trip to Francois Lake for Mountain Caribou - article with photos of Harold Daye, Don and Wes Bickerton, and Shorty Innis; Photo of John Shelford receiving award from Game Director Frank Butler; Photo of Rick Lamb; Two nice illustrated ads for Parker-Hale rifles; Spa Lake Rod Smasher - the dry fly demons of the fly hills - article with photo of Al Worobey and his wife fishing on Bolean Lake; Illustrations of how to identify 'exotic' fish by their tails; Salt Water License - if proceeds from these licenses are used properly, good fish management should result; Boats; Water Safety tips; Let's Go Crabbing - article; Clay Chips - article with photos of Jim Logan, Henry Rempel, "Hand" Burnett, Bob Flintoft, Bill Thompson, Joe Lindsay, Ken Blagbourne, George Sherwood, Ry Beem, Chuck Collins, Murray Laidlaw, Aldon See, Sr., Ernie Todd, Stu Loutit, Wallace McMillan, Bill McLean, Rab. Williamson, Toni Grebliunas, Russ Barker, and Hugh McGowan; Nice illustrated ad for the new International Travelall Station Wagon inside back cover; Nice illustrated Lucky Lager ad on back cover; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front endpapers, free endpapers mildly browned; strongly bound in maroon pebble-grain cloth, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, crisp copy. As often, this copy is bound without the trade advertisements. First edition of the third part of 'The Book of the All-Round Angler', of which each constituent part is complete in itself. All four parts were severally republished and all are scarce in their original editions. Hampton p.77.
4 works in 1 vol., 8vo., Seventh Edition, the four divisions separately titled and paginated, with a frontispiece, 23 plates and over 320 illustrations and diagrams in the text; original plum cloth, upper board with blind frame border enclosing title and author lettered in gilt, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned (but all lettering wholly legible) else a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements throughout. The work comprises Division I: Angling for Coarse Fish. Fifth Edition, revised Courtney Williams; Division II: Angling for Pike. Tenth Edition, revised Courtney Williams; Division III: Angling for Game Fish. Seventh Edition, revised Courtney Williams; Division IV: Angling in Salt Water. Sixth Edition, revised Arthur Bell. A very nice copy of 'the most widely read work on angling in the world' (Publisher's Note). Hampton p.75.
124 pages. Wonderful colour illustration by Franklin Arbuckle shows lady in attic peacefully reviewing old issues of this publication. Contents: Colour ad for G.W.G. work clothing inside front cover; Editorial reviews the first fifty years of Maclean's; Beverley Baxter shines some Maclean's memories; Blair Fraser recalls "Our Terrible-Tempered Ancestors" - early Ottawa correspondents; Wonderful colour photo ad for Weston's Golden Brown Sodas (crackers); The Years Behind - Pierre Berton reviews the first half-century of Maclean's - the fads, the fashions, the worries and the woes, the bitter and the sweet and, above all, the enormous change - as seen through the pages of Maclean's - illustrated; The Years Ahead - Hugh MacLennan speculates on what kind of people we'll become; Fred Bodsworth and Norman Berrill project what we can expect from science and weather in the coming years; A Treasury of Memorable Fiction - Three Famous Stories from the Maclean's of the Twenties newly illustrated by Oscar Cahen - The Ardent Bigamist, by Somerset Maugham, P. Tidmus and the Fish, by Robert Ayre, Winter Dreams, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; *Fantastic* 10-page nostalgic album of old-time Maclean's Magazine Art - covers and ads in colour and black and white - includes four wonderful covers by Arthur Heming; A Stephen Leacock Sampler; Wonderful full-page colour ad for Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britain; Lovely colour full-page ad for Sweet Caps cigarettes at a football game; Colour ad for Seabreeze record players; Massey-Harris-Ferguson ad features Square Dancing - permitted by the leisure time for farmers created by farm equipment; Centerfold Rexall detailed ad for their 1 cent sale; Nice colour one-page 1956 Ford Meteor ad; Colour ad for ATW, Canada's leading towel; What They Said Would Happen - what Maclean's writers have predicted in the past; Nice colour ad for Tex-Made flannelette blankets; Clyde Gilmour looks back over 50 years of movies - wonderful archival illustrations; Colour Molson Export Ale ad; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows boy buying bottle for girl at pop machine at golf club. Front cover detached but present, otherwise average wear. A particularly wonderful vintage Maclean's issue. Book
in-8°, 147 pages, ill. in-t. coul., broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [CA26]
82 pages. Features: Great action cover photo shows Gerry Cheevers - with no mask - with arms and legs flailing; Vintage ad for CCM Tackaberry (Tacks) skates; Cooper-Weeks photo-hockey equipment ad features their white three-piece helmets; Bauer Bobby Hull Skates ad features photo of Bobby; Photo-illustrated article in Alan Eagleson - the man who pushes salaries up and up; Photo-illustrated article on Gerry Cheevers; Photo-illustrated article on Wayne Hillman; Photo-illustrated article on Yvan Cournoyer, "Yvan the Terrible"; Great six-page off-ice photo feature of the Red Wings visiting Chicago for a game; Dazzling Denis Dejordy - photo-illustrated article; The Big Train - Lionel Conacher excelled at every sport he tried - photo-illustrated article; Article on Brian Conacher - who comes from a great hockey family; Early Philadelphia Flyers article with photos of Bud Poile, Keith Allen, and their arena under construction; Long Island Arena - The Ebbets Field of Hockey; Article on the Hershey Bears with photos of Gil Gilbert, Wayne Rivers and Gene Ubriaco; Columbus Checkers article on their playing coach Edward (Moe) Bartoli; Murray Davison puts the blaze in the Oklahoma City Blazers; San Diego Gulls article with photos of Fred Hilts, Warren Hynes and Larry McNabb; Small ad for Northland sticks; Great half-page vintage ad for Eagle Toys tabletop hockey game; Modest moisture marks to covers and contents near each end of spine. Two-inch opening at bottom of coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this excellent vintage issue. Magazine
158 pages. Features: The "Lady Chatterley's Lover" Case - a legal left-wing softening of public morality; S.M.U. Pampers Leftism; Franco and Spain 1939-1959 - Spain may yet become our most effective ally; 1313's Mail Order Laws - we are letting collectivists take over our government through planted legislation; One-page photo of Ukrainian protesters against Khrushchev outside the UN building in New York; Front Men Ike and Khrushchev - fascinating article on why both may have been working for the Zionists; Subversion and the Warren Court - shattering legal victories for communists; Mercury Warned You; UN's Socialist Plan for Latin America; Termites of the Cross, Part V - "Communists and their co-conspirators, the World Zionists, concentrate their greatest efforts on destroying the religious beliefs which are the strength and hope of those who oppose the forces of evil - includes an expose of the ADL; Night Train to Bucharest; Bible Truths, Part IV; Charge Accounts Anonymous; Los Angeles' Smog Pot; Salk-Serum-Saddled Americans Still Get Polio - In Epidemics!; Putting Sound to Work; Bura! - Brutal New Game of Russian Youth; Armed Forces Manpower Wastage; Reprint of statement by William Zukerman in the Jewish Newsletter contesting the equation of criticism of Zionism with anti-Semitism, and defending former Senator Ralph E. Flanders who is presently being 'smeared every week' for questioning the philanthropic character of some activities of the United Jewish Appeal; Arnold Bennett's 24 Hour Day; Try Soil Feed-Back Mr. Benson!; Old Glory vs. Fairless Hills - battle to fly American flag over the local post office; More About Earthquakes, Part II; A Requiem for Reading; Americans, Speak Out! - excerpts of a speech by Dr. Revilo P. Oliver to the Illinois Daughters of the Revolution Convention; The Twenty-Second Amendment in Danger; The Old Wild West - Gone Forever?; Coloring Language Red - Let's Start a Propaganda Revolution and Call the Soviets by Their True Names; The Red-Headedest Mule Ever; The Age of 40; The Midget Car Neurosis; and more. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. Bottom half of page 57 missing, affecting Warren Court article. Lacking back cover and, possibly, back advertising page. A worthy vintage copy. Book
P., Firmin-Didot, 1979. In-12, IX-424 pages. Dos cassé, cependant bonne présentation.
160 pages including index and glossary. A beautiful compendium of the world's most entertaining and universally popular games. Every board in this fascinating and unique collection of over eighty games can be played on the page as book is designed to open flat. Instructions are on adjoining pages while all the pieces and other equipment needed for play are supplied on a separate cut-out sheet laid-in back board. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Moderate wear to attractive dust jacket which bears a closed two inch tear to top edge of back panel. Nice copy. Book
pp. xi, 118 + Photographs. Numerous line drawings. Mildly XLib. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Hardbound. Eighth printing. Nice copy. GAMES BOX 3
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1885 (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes,1). 4to.; XII pp., 373 pp. Ilustraciones entre el texto de John Sturgess y J. Charlton y una lámina en color de John Sturgess. Encuadernación original en tela estampada.
Barcelona, Edit. Inst. Investigaciones Pesqueras, 1955. Ilustraciones en b/n. Páginas desplegables. 468p. Tela editorial. Bisagra floja. Buen ejemplar.
72 pages. Features: Two-page color-photo ad for the Ford Series 10 tractor, "The World Tractor"; The Tuskegee Airmen Keep on Flying - the 99th Fighter Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bomber Group were the only all-black flying units organized by the US Air Force in WWII; Justice Rose Bird of the California Supreme Court; Reagan's War on Drugs - major article with photos, including George Bush Sr. leaning on bales of marijuana; Tax Bill politics in D.C.; A New Look at Child Labor; Jimmy Hoffa Legally Dead; Killenworth Mansion on Long Island - Soviet nest spying on local defense industries?; Bedford, IN - limestone capital of the world - Merle Edington and his Great Pyramid replica; Reagan's middle east peacemaker Philip Habib; Volkswagen Scirocco ad; Yassir Arafat - skilled in P.R.; Indira Gadhi's New Beginning; Vintage ad for Mattel Electronics' Intellivision "Starstrike" (Star Strike) video game; Peace shattered in Zimbabwe; Report from Tajikistan and the impact of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Color photo of tennis player Hu Na; Elvis Costello - No More Mr. Bad Guy; The University of San Francisco drops its basketball program - The High Price of Cheating; William P. Tavoulareas and his libel suit against the Washington Post; Beware of Child Molesters - one of 10 youngsters is sexually abused each year; Japan's High-Tech Challenge - the Asian powerhouse launches an all-out push into computers, robots and other 'knowledge intensive' industries; How Computers Change Lives; Building a Superbrain; Japan's New Risk Takers; Here Come the Robots; From Tennessee to Tokyo - Americans prepare for Nissan's new truck plant in Smyrna, TN; Electronic Gadgets of the Future; Controversial use of animals in scientific research; The Disappearing Drive-In Movie Theater; Lloyd DeGrane and a flock of pink flamingos; Passing of: Harold R. Foster, Harold T. Sakata, Dan Seymour, Tatyana Grosman, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Jucille Parker Markey; Olympus camera ad with inset photo of model (Cheryl Tiegs?); Filming of "That Championship Season" in Scranton, PA; Back cover Barclay cigarette ad features photo of James Bond-style man in white tux; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Mahó, Edit. Estampa M. Sintes Rotger, 1919. 61p. 8è major. Rústica editorial il·lustrada. Molt bon exemplar.
24 pages. Features: The Perfect System Myth - an argument against Russia's alleged peaceful intentions; Old Inn by the Roadside - The Clinton Hotel - article with photos; Camp Cookery - Game Recipes; Small Business League; The Rooster's Eye; Pioneer Ashcroft Author is Custodian of Archives - The Journal Museum and Archives; Sam Slade's Dream (poem); Finning ad on back cover with sawmill illustration; Dozens of nostalgic ads for local businesses. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 232 pages. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. B&W photos throughout. Contents include: Sufi snakes and ladders, dashboard monk, plush cuddly Buddha, squeaky toy laptop Buddha, Lookin' good for Jesus game, Makinah salat fun game, Karma chakra game, Haji Fun game, Kosherland, BuddhaWheel, Bibleopoly, Catholicopoly, Missionary Conquest, etc.
Milano, Fratelli Dumolard, 1887, 23 x 16 cm., hol. piel, puntas, XI – 907 págs. con 117 ilustraciones intercaladas.
8vo., [Second Edition?], with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black and 3 coloured plates; publisher's splendid pictorial binding of ribbed green cloth blocked in gilt and colours, pictorial back gilt, bevelled boards, green endpapers, lower hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. Avery's popular tale of school life was first published in 1906. In this edition, probably the second, E.H. Shepard adds characteristic verve to the illustrations. Scarce in this condition.
80 pages. Undated. Circa early 1900s? Colour illustration upon front board shows two young girls and a boy making daisy chains. Colour plate frontis (by D.C.S.?) shows girl on park bench reading to three youngsters and a dog seated around her, with the caption "There sits fair-haired Effie." Stories include: Playing Horses; The Concert at the Zoo; The Holiday Coach; The Bravest Deed; Going to See the Queen; A Visit to the Country; Elsie's Team; Eric's Holiday; Mrs. Lion's Infant School; A visit to the West Indies; Five Peas in a Pod; Proud Mr. Drake; The Whistling Pig; The Stray Lamb; The Boy and the Monkey; A Merry Game; How do you Do?; Mrs. Otter and Her Young Ones; Morning Song; The Wonderful Doll's House; Tired of Waiting; Poor Mrs. Duck!; The Grand Duchess; The Clever Cat; Eddy's Accident; My Portrait; Father's Birthday Present; Will's Wondrous Story; Katie's Present; and Topsy and the Gypsies. Contemporary pencil gift greetings atop front free endpaper. Erased pencil writing inside front board nearly invisible. Hinges intact. Binding sound. Original maroon cloth backstrip intact. Average wear and soiling to boards. Moderate yellowing to contents. A sound copy of this charming work. Book
Public Acts dealing with: Consolidation of the Statutes, Bush Fires, Charitable Associations, Companies, Courts - Official Stenographer, Regulation of Elections, Protection of Game, Jurors, Land Grants, Licenses, Mechanics Liens, Lulu Island (railway purposes), Magistrates, Medicine and Surgery, Minerals other than Coal, Quartz Mines, Municipalities, Probate and Letters of Administration, Canadian Western Central Railway, Columbia and Kootenay Railway, Public Roads, Royal Columbia Hospital, Royal Hospital, Public Schools, Summary Proceedings before Justice of the Peace, Supply, Taxes on Property, Trespass on Enclosed Land. Private Acts relating to: Anglican Synod of B.C.; Brockton Point Athletic Club, Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company, New Westminster Incorporation, Canadian Western Central Railway, New Westminster Southern Railway, New Westminster and Vancouver Short Line, Vancouver Street Railway, National and Electric Tramway and Lighting, Vancouver Incorporation, Victoria City Official Map. Binding fragile. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Rubber stamp of one E. Johnson inside boards and scattered through text. Book
Features: Photo and write-up of Mr. Edward Peacock, Late Member "A" Company, Regimental Number 452; Company Notes; Shooting Results; London Scottish Rifle Volunteers - An Appreciation; The Roarin' Game (curling; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Special Appeal Fund; Our Regimental Plate (No. VI. - The Trotter Cup) - photographed and described by Ian Bhreatannaich; Scots Abroad - a letter from Rhodesia; Proposed Poster for Recruits; Notes on the Attack, by the C.O.; Correspondence; and more. Four-inch tear to top of back cover. Water marks to top of first few pages. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
Features: Photo portrait and write-up re: The Late J.G.S. Anderson, the late Captain of "E" and "G" companies; Our Regimental Plate - No. IX - the "Lumsden" Cup - photo of the cup and article by 3304; Notes by the C.O.; Annual Inspection - with photo of Cols. Balfour, His Grace The Duke of Argyll, and Montgomerie, all in top hats at the saluting base; Shooting Results; Notes on Writing Orders, Tactical Problems, and the War Game (a); and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 271 p. First Edition. A study on Kirkuk rimes, ballads, folk songs. Kerkük havalari.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 271 p. First Edition. A study on Kirkuk rimes, ballads, folk songs. Operada gerçekçilik ve bes gerçekçi opera.