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28 pages. Loaded with black and white photos. Contents include: Photo of Vedder Miller and Harold Dodsworth working on cables in the Cedar telephone building in Vancouver; Mrs. Operater Laura Mann at work; Susan Allison and Mary Gallo; Photos of the Princeton telephone office; Clarence Boulier at Princeton; Many photos of employees happily engaged in social activities; Miss Barbara Lovatt with her accordion; Photos of portions of Vancouver's long distance office; Article and photos of flood affecting Mission and Agassiz, including washed-out bridge; Miss Peggy Love; 15 Years ago in company history; Company sports activities; Marriage-related activities of employees. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
445 pages. Footnotes. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Thomas Dufferin Pattullo was premier of British Columbia from 1938 to 1941. Governing through the tumultuous years of the 1930s, his Liberal administration offered what was arguable the most vigorous response to the Depression in Canada... Duff Pattullo's life is as much a history of the province as it is an account of an individual." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which bears discolourations to lower section. A quality copy. Book
316 pages. The third book in the four-book series that forms the basis of the ACBL teaching program. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Terror in a Penthouse; The Man They All Hated; Racing Eights; The Sniper; Glergyman in Khaki; Too Much Talent; Tigers in Paradise; Hocus Focus; Styling a Car; Power Training for Rugby Clubs; Brother Goose; Bloodier Bridge; Olympic Athletes Show You How; Hollywood Horse Race; David Langdon's Sketch Book - Starnewstanard; The Gorilla Hit Low; plus photos of Adele Collins, Julie Newmar (the girl in the moon), and Janice Van Ayre; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
Features: "The Military Profession - Lt. Gen. W.A.B. Anderson, Commander of Mobile Command; Biathalon Training; From North Star to Southern Cross - The Travels of a Yukon and its crew; Destroying a beached Second World War British Mine, lodged in driftwood on a Vancouver Island beach; Sea survival for Starfighter pilots; They were given a real bridge to blow up - 2 Field Squadron, Royal Canadian Engineers brings down the old Hawkshaw Bridge, mid-way between Fredericton and Woodstock, N.B.; Shades of Alley Oop - a CH-113A Voyageur removes dinosaur bones from their ancient resting place; Classroom for the sea - Fleet School (Pacific) at Esquimalt (5 pages); The Buffalo Aircraft - Our newest tactical transport; Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile systems. Sound copy. Magazine
90 pages. Features: Build an A-frame Bridge; The Del Mar Fair; Calvary Southern's 4-6-0; The SP in 1:32 Scale; Garden Railway Objectives; Modifying LGB Coaches; Toucan; The Table Saw - Part 1; Prairie City Feed and Grain; A Sentimental Journey. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
100 pages. Features: The former chief of French Intelligence in the U.S. reveals the fantastic story of Soviet espionage that penetrated De Gaulle's official family - 'Martel', the key Russian agent, repercussions that caught Kim Philby, J.F.K.'s secret letter to De Gaulle; German students storm the cities in the name of Red Rudi (Dutschke); End of the 'Wahine' in Wellington Harbor; The Emergence of James Earl Ray alias Eric Starvo Galt; Refugees on a bridge to nowhere - Vietnam; Gardiners Island - its haunted legacy - America's offshore fiefdom with piracy in its past; Super Shots from Big T - golfer Tom Weiskopf; Under the gaze of the charmer - Warren Beatty, footloose at the top; "Fog that foils an old disease - TB" - Dr. Sol R. Rosenthal; and more. Colour Ford Torino ad inside front cover; Nice 2-page colour ad for four Chevrolet models - Chevy II, Chevrolet, Camaro, Chevelle; nice 2-page GM colour car ad. Moderate wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A quality copy. Book
106 pages. Features: Refired Supreme Court judge John Major in Conversation re. bungled Air India bombing investigation; Link between residential schools and native suicide; Husky roams wild in Cobalt, Ontario; Canada Day Survey; The Jordan River is Polluted; Pakistan - land of the generals; Is Frank Stronach Canada's greediest man?; Portrait of the Queen's marriage to Prince Philip; Brothers in Arms - William and Harry; New Hoover Dam Bridge; Floyd Nicholson 1938-2010; and more. Average wear. Address label clipped from front cover. Book
154 pages. Features: Remembering the North Shore Line after 21 years; Pacific Coast Logging - Steam Locomotives; Harford Associates for Railroad Modeling; Plans for 5 small, but interesting, layouts; Easy Bridge Mounting - a simple way to avoid track allighment problems when installing bridges; The Milwaukee Road's latest paint scheme; Coal cars for the Colorado Midland; Signs and Philosophy; Beginning from Scratch; RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award - CPR Kootenay Divsion short van; Cathels & Sorenson's Prairie in the Mountains; The water tank at Chemainus, B.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Swindon Reminiscences; Steam in the Twilight Years; It's Not Just the Engines - The Search for the Less Obvious Railway Features is Often Worth While; Mystery Tour in Sardinia; Sails on Rails; Worcester Winners; Some Other A3s; Gresley Engines at Work; Adams Radial Back on the Bluebell; Lillie Bridge Loco Memories; Crewe Basford Hall Disappears - 1; Return to Steam in Canada; Conversion Rail - permanent way for locomotives and tramway vehicles in the 1830s; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
Articles: Gerald E. Panting and the Development of Maritime History in Canada; Showing the Flag - Hugh Palliser in Western Newfoundland; Newfoundland Spring Sealing Disasters to 1914; A Bridge Across the Water - Liverpool Shipbrokers and the Transfer of Eastern Canadian Sailing Vessels, 1855-1880; The Shipping Industry in British Columbia from 1867 to 1914; plus numerous book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
46 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC replaces Busy Switches - new slip switches at Harmon, N.Y.; The Rio Grande - General Palmer's little narrow gauge road of the Colorado mountains grew into one of America's most important 'bridge' systems; Driving Gear for Turbine Locomotives - Pennsylvania Railroad's experimental unit has uniform torque, fully balanced drive wheels, high efficiency at speed; new locomotive; Built in Roanoke - Norfolk & Western has been building most of its locomotives at its Roanoke Shops; Railroad Ticket Man - What does the passenger look like to the man on the other side of the ticket window?; Tall Stacked Old Timers - Three gems from a leading locomotive photo collection; Chicago Station Gets New Shed - Illinois Central Rebuilds - Illinois Central tears down old high arch and builds slotted roof. Average wear. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Magazine
120 pages plus 6 pages of ads. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Faint doodle upon front cover. A worthy copy of this charming vintage auction bridge booklet. Book
Book is in excellent condition with very light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 416 pages full of full page color photos, floor plans, elevations, landscape drawings, etc. Features include:Wild Turkey distillery complex, Inout house, the Smile, Wrap house, Linear cabin, Michigan lake house, Newberg residence, North main, Point house, Immanuel church and paris centre, Cologne, Mont-Blanc base camp, Nanjing Wanjing garden chapel, Grandview Heights aquatic centre, T3, Samuel Beckett civic campus, et al.
8vo., First Edition, some minimal offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities and a little browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. Dustwrapper artwork by R.F. Micklewright. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
44 pages. Dozens of black and white illustrations. Chapters include: Woods and Materials; Mold & Work Board; Boiling Through; Tools & Glue; Bending the Sides; Linings and End Blocks; Assembling the Sides; Jointing Top & Back; Top & Back Construction; Neck Construction; Fretboard; Bridge; Gluing Top and Back; Banding and Purfling; Finishing; Supplement - for folk guitar construction. Average wear. Moderate external soiling. Pencil markings to page three, otherwise unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent guide. Book
xxii, [8], 148 pp. Many black and white diagrams and reproductions of archival photos. At time of publication the author's family was the only American builder of authentic wooden highway covered bridges. "Anyone who almost single handedly has repaired, rebuilt and even completely constructed twenty-two covered bridges deserves a marble pedestal in the antiquarian Hall of Fame. This has been the accomplishment of Milton Graton. The bridges described in this volume round out a significant and colorful contribution to the preservation of the New England heritage." - Foreword. Bit of writing on front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Moderate wear to colorful dust jacket now preserved in mylar. A quality copy of this excellent history. Book
Undated but appears to be circa late 1930s. Folds open to reveal "Contract Bridge Summary (Approach Forcing System) With Digest of Leads and Laws" inside front cover and score pad, sponsored by Fidelity-Phenix Fire Insurance Co., 80 Maiden Lane, New York City, inside back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice bridge collectible. Book
Features: The Potsdam Conspiracy - Chapters from the Inner History of the War - 1, by Lovat Fraser; Photos of the varied work of General Currie's (Canadian) gallant troops; French Pontoniers - the master bridge builders; Working amid the waters on the Flanders front - chain ferry/dam building; Vanguard of a vast American host for France; Waves of attack from trench and breastwork; The Third Battle of Ypres - article by Max Pemberton on the dawn of a titanic conflict in the Flemish markets; In Battle or Barter Ever Cheerful Canadians; French Infantry advance in battle formation - firing-line and supports take a German trench; When Paris was Saved - how Bordeaux celebrated the Victory of the Marne; U-boat Pirates Captured by Belgian Cavalry; How the Gotha's Gun Tunnel Cures the "Blind Spot"; Huns glorify their air-murderers and macines; Gog and Magog on Rations - article by Harold Ashton; Impressions of the Inferno in Artois and Lens; Warm welcome waiting at journey's end; The Empire's Roll of Honour. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Contents: U.S. Riots - 1967 Toll and before - detailed coverage; Reagan leaves hospital; Successful Minuteman II Launch; William Dale Archerd - charged as insulin murderer; Wilcox Expedition on Mount McKinley; Israel's new territories; Vietnam war update; Photo of Wuhan's double-decked road & rail bridge over the Yangtze; Photo of Stalin and daughter in 1934; Mercenaries in the Congo; Photo of Rees-Mogg; Photo of Mick Jagger; Uncommon full-page colour RCA ad shows their computer being used in a school - years before Apple!; Photo of Roger Maris with Orlando Cepeda; OGO-4 Satellite; LSD & the Unborn; Shirley Polykoff and advertising; Alfried Krupp; Shell Oil Refinery at Rotterdam; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Features: Photo ad for stockbroker John Brick of Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis; Collapse of the Silver Bridge into the Ohio River between Kanauga, Ohio and Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Time Essay - What Negotiations in Vietnam might mean; Greece - the Coup that collapsed; The Soviet Fleet in the Mediterranean; Land Rush in Brazil - the Fuller family in Boias; Beautiful color-photo ad for Cadillac; Student protests in Europe; Nice two-page color ad by BOAC showing the Concorde; Asian Recreation for U.S. Fighting Men - article with four great pages of photos; Entertainer Bob Hope; Underground nuclear test near New Mexico's Leandro Canyon; A.M.C.'s Amitron car; Lockheed's AH-56A; Denmark's Godtfred Kirk Christiansen and Lego; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Camelback bows out; The David and Goliath story of Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Hell Gate Bridge - across the East River in New York City; Photo Section; When Steam ruled the Delaware & Hudson; My 34 years on a short line - George Baggett; Lady with a Past - a Colorado 10 wheeler has out-lived the Mallets and 4-8-4s of our time; Why Carnivals are moving by rail; and more. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Locomotives - Data on Cotton Belt L-1, Southern Pacific P-13; The Man in the Tower; Baltimore Belt Line - tunnel route replaced time-consuming ferry transfer across Baltimore Harbor - is electrified in tunnels; Yosemite Valley Railroad - Gateway to Yosemite National Park; Pennsylvania Special - 3 miles in 85 seconds! - a speed record that stands today, 38 years after it was made; Helper Engines - used where mountains must be crossed; By Rail to Guatemala - U.S. and Mexican freight cars roll into Central America with the completion of the Suchiate Bridge; The Bear and the Semaphore - bear forces young signalman up a signal pole; Locomotives of the Wisconsin Central, including No. 96. Average wear and soiling. Small date stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
74 pages. Featuers: California's Floating Islands of Hell - prison ships; River Full of Whiskey - Brigadier-General Stand Watie; Massacre at Caborca - Henry Alexander Crabb and his followers invaded Mexico; Vengeance Rides a Black Horse - Indians are killed at Weaverville, California after Mr. Anderson was killed by a native; Rail Honeymoon for Eight - Jim Bridger and company terrify white woman by posing as wild Indians at Walla Walla; The Paddlewheelers and the Hungry Miners - Paddlewheeler "New Racket" is stranded in the ice of the Yukon River; Forgotten Fort on the Bloody Bozeman - Fort C.F. Smith and the belligerant Sioux; Something Under the Bridge - life in East Las Vegas in the 1880's; Headstrong Henry Mudge - Playboy Rancher of Hodgeman County, Kansas; Glittering Gold - Before Sutter's Mill; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Three-inch opening at foot of coverfold, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Stranraers (Strannies) on the West Coast; Axel Duch's Air Bridge to Biafra; V.I.A.'s Seawind Flies; Unusual landing at Shearwater; Canada's Best Helicopter Long Line Pilot. Sound copy. Magazine
