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Features: What happened to Common Sense? - Calvin D. Linton says not only do we live in the best-educated age in history, it may well also be the most gullible; Doomsday Merchant of the Far Right - Billy James Hargis leads a witch-hunt in pursuit of Communists; People on the Way Up - Comic Dick Shawn, Ross Pritchard, Charlene Curry, Janet Ades, Rochelle Hood; Czar of the Bunny Empire - Hugh Hefner, with color photos; The Bridge of Hope - Topeka's effort to help mental patients return to regular life; Me and my mixed up trees - Frank J. Taylor and 'the confessions of a compulsive grafter who tells backyard (Luther) Burbanks how to turn the tables on nature; Irrepressible Egoist - Dick Stuart, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocky slugger; Hot Weapon in the Cold War - at President Kennedy's urging, the Army is beefing up its Special Forces, who are trained to combat Red guerillas around the globe. Nice color Pepsi ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Unfair Tax Laws - you are probably paying more than your share, says Ross M. Robertson; Albania - where Stalin still rules - can this tiny, backward Communist nation continue to oppose Khrushchev's power?; People on the Way Up - Giancarlo Baghetti, Jane Powell Rosenthal, Mark Wilson (TV's top magician); The Grass Craze - lawn lovers by the millions have taken the greensward to heart - here's how to work wonders with your private pasture; The New Frontier Women - wives of White House insiders battle to keep up with the sophisticated, hectic life in the Capital, by Flora Lewis; We Waste a Million Kids a Year - can our schools bridge the gap? - part 2 of 3; Timeless Idaho - how this wildly beautiful state preserves a slow-paced, independent way of life; The Last Days of Sugar Ray - the rise and fall of America's flashiest titleholder, the boxer they said would never have money trouble. Uncommon full-page advertisement for Tea ('The Hot Refresher') features the Detroit Red Wings NHL Hockey Team with black and white images of Sid Abel, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, and others. Average wear. Tears to to some interior pages at fold, otherwise a sound copy. 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
Demobilisation - Cover illustration of a faithful charger being sold while its British officer looks on. Illustration of Woodrow Wilson, President Poincare, and Mr. Lloyd George at the opening of the Peace Conference. Photo: French Arms Beyond the Rhine. Illustrations of 'Prussia's Arrogance in 1871'. Air Trips to Paris and Back in Four Hours - 4 photos of 'Airco' machines. British keep guard on the Bridge at Cologne - 4 great photos. "To the Rhine!" - Retribution after Fifty Years, 3 photos. Storm and Fog Claim Ships that War had Spared - 6 photos. Photo of the salved French submarine Curie. Problems of the Peace Conference - by Sir Sidney Low. A United States of Germany? - by F.W. Wile. Imperial Guile - What the Camera Saw at Spa. Photo of Berlin protest march against Bolshevism. Photo of Rodin's sculpture of Eve being exhumed from her grave in a garden in Doai where she was hidden from the Germans. Welcoming home America's Navy - 3 photos. Airship and Aeroplane Raids over Great Britain, 1914-18 - chart and map. Channel Train-Ferry and its new 'Mystery' port - 4 photos including the 'Dazzle'. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated with age. Still a worthy copy. Book
Stories: Unsolved Mysteries; My Japanese Journey; Wali Khan's Raid; The Lost Flyers; The Death-Belt; Fighting Crickets; A Bottle of Medicine; The Wooden Bridge; A Port Unknown; Black Alice; The Devil-Bees; The Birders of Barren Island. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
91 pages plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: The Artificial Volcano - an incident of the Italian campaign in the Dolomites; Soko the Stanleyville Chimp - raised by the author J.A. Jordan - with many photos; Seven to One - a vendetta and Arkansas farmer Walter Ridgeley of the Texarkana area; A Lofty Ambition - Tom Needham of Cleveland, Ohio recounts how he tried to perform a high dive from a lofty bridge to become a famous actor - with photos; A Canadian Lumber Camp at Riviere aux Ecorces, Quebec - Part II - with photos; In the Casting Pit - a tale of one of the finest deeds of courage and self-sacrifice on record; On the Road in the country of Georgia, by R.Courtier-Forser - illustrated; The White "Maori" - Kimble Bent spent 50 years in the bush - with photos; The Old Firm - a remarkable mystery is recounted from the documents and personal narratives of W.H. Holloway; The Strength of Dan Dempster - this Canadian frontier railway track foreman saved the men of a work-train from destruction with a superhuman act of strength; Round Labrador and Hudson's Bay - Part 1 of E.W. Hawkes' 3,000 mile journey, with great photos; Finding a Wife - S.A. Beattie went hunting for Jaguars in the British Honduras... but ended up with a wife; Throssell's "V.C." - How Hugo Throssell won the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli; Photo of two Jewish street merchants in New York's east side. Lovely color ad for the Vose Player Piano on back cover. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
Features: The "Hold-Up" at Fenelon; Avalances; A Tramp in Spain - VI; Hunting the Giant Tortoise; A Desert Tragedy; The Land of the Shrimp-God; How "Buffalo Bill" Won his Name; The Looting of the "Bang Yee"; On the March in the Bahr-El-Ghazal - III; Francisca Machalek, the female burglar; The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud; "Monkey"; The Happenings of a Night; A West African Mutiny; Paris to New York Overland - IV; A Chapter of Mishaps; My Experiences at Kano - I; Besieged in a Tree; The Man-Stealers; In the Grip of the Quagmire; The Monks' Republic; The Strange Case of the "Ferret"; The Calculut Affair; Some Japanese Signboards; A Tramp in Spain - VII; Hoist By His Own Petard; The Island of Captive Kings; The March of "Coxey's Army"; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - I; In the Land of the "Never-Never"; The Range War; A Thousand Miles in a Refrigerator; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - II; How the Treasure was Saved; A Tardy Vindication; Rambles in Macedonia; Attacked by Wolves in the Desert; A Tramp in Spain - VIII; My Experiences at Kano - II; Defective in the Barrel; The Last of the Bushrangers; Prisons of Many Lands; The Solving of a Mystery; "Meistertrunk" at Rothenburg; The Shrine by the Nujha Bridge; Among the Buriats; Adrift on a Raft; A Night of Horrors; The Narcissus Festival at Montreux; A Mountain of Salt; After the "Mad Mullah"; A Unique Summer Residence; The Wandering Jew; With the British to Sokoto; John Glover of Texas; A Baby Parade; How the Gipsy Queen found her lover; A Cargo of Cats; A Tramp in Spain; When the Water Came Down; A Mystery of the Bush; The Story of My Chinese God; A Battle with a Rhino; After the "Mad Mullah" - II; The Pursuit of Captain Victor - II; The Cave-Dwellers of Mexoco; Calamity Jane; With the British to Sokoto - II; Arrested as Spies; When Niagara Ran Dry; The Flying Dutchman; Among the South Sea Cannibals - I; Across Sumatra in a Motor-Car; A Tramp in Spain - X; Our Attempt to Reach Mecca; A Puma Hunt in Surrey; Entombed in a Capsized Ship; With the British to Sokoto - II; The Apotheosis of Simpson; Our Quiet Little Shooting Trip; My Adventure with a Lunatic; A Tramp in Spain - XI; Sacred Town of Mandhata; Mystery of Silver Bow Valley; Among the South Sea Cannibals - II; A Night in a God-House; The Tragedy of the "Maria" and My Part in it; The Red Pig of Poora; Two-Thousand Miles in a Trawler; The Most Inaccessible Place in China; What Happened at Morelia; The Blumencorso at Hamburg. Heavily worn. Backstrip almost detached. Binding open after second blank leaf. A worthy reading copy. Book
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
56 pages. Features and Articles: Dean Acheson - the Man from Middletown; Gerard Graham Dennis - Canadian criminal; Charlie Monak of Detroit becomes a top man in a Pyramid Friendship Club - the fad that is infecting the nation; Anna Louise Strong; Exposing 14 million people in Russian slave labour camps; Shortage of women in Germany; "Imported Anti-Semetism - Furor over Dickens' Oliver Twist movie keeps it from U.S. screens; Israel chooses Jerusalem for the opening ceremony of its newly elected Constituent Assembly - Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Zionism's elder statesman, is President; Canada's Baby Bonus; George Drew - new leader of the Progressive Conservatives in Canada; McGill students vote a black girl, Beryl Dickinson-Dash, as their Winter Carnival Queen; Using airplanes to evacuate suffering Eskimos from stormy Somerset Island; Latin American Development; Boxer dog Zazarac Brandy wins dog shows; Leon Birkhead claims 'The Churchman' and its editor Rev. Guy Emery Shipler are involved with at least 25 'Communist front or Communist organizations; Military desire for guided missiles - uninhabited aircraft; Great black and white photo ad for Labatt's; Harvey O. Brooks - writer of the song A Little Bird Told Me; English pianist 'Solomon' comes to Carnegie Hall; Conductor Willem Mengelberg; A.Y.D. - American Youth for Democracy - a renamed version of the Y.C.L. (Young Communist League); 3,610 Chinese university students in the U.S. struggle to pay their bills after the war in their homeland; the FCC takes over a 160-metre amateur band for the use of loran - U.S. Ham Radio operators will end up with more elbow room; Tabloid newspapers; New Hampshire's Senator Charles R. Tobey has guns for Textron President Royal Little after the company wives out 3,500 jobs in Nashua, N.H.; Photo of Duo's 'Flagship' trailer which features a 'flying bridge' at the back; Colour photo ad for John McHale shoes inside back cover. This Canadian edition contains editorial content identical with the U.S. edition except for added Canadian news. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Engineers I Have Known , by Thomas O. Acree; Famous Locomotives - 25 - Two incredible photos of the Beyer-Garratt 6000 - locomotive hallmark of the British Empire; American Locomitive Company (Alco) - We're not a foundry any more! - impressive article with photos; Photo Section; When Steam Ruled the Monon; A Mikado & Friends - super photo of loco and crew atop bridge near Clear Creek, In; The Piedmont & Northern Story - 2; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; In Search of Steam - 3 - The Dominion Atlantic Railway; Valhalla of the Iron Horse - Baltimore & Ohio's Transportation Museum - article with photos; Great Photo Section - Santa Margarita Hill; When Steam Ruled the Clinchfield Railroad - photo section; Catenary over the Carolinas - The Piedmont & Northern Story - 1; Short Line Scrapbook - amazing photos and article of the old Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railroad - incredible photo of loco atop the Cowlitz River Bridge -200' above the river!; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Clyde Carley tells about The Train Master - 'Dip' Dipprey - nice illustrated article; Steam in Mississippi - The Mississippian Railway - substantial article with photos; Pacific Great Eastern's (PGE's) RDC's - includes photo of 5 cars near Squamish, BC and map of RDC's on mainland British Columbia; Fantastic centerfold photo of the black smoke belching Louisville & Nashville M-1 2-8-4 1962 crossing the Red River Bridge at Stearns, Kentucky; Nice photo section; Railroad News Photos; New England in February - a Tripmaster feature; and more. Faint date stamp to front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad news photos; Steam news photos; The Rathole Division is no more - super two-page photo of a train at mid-span of the New River Bridge plus photos of the Keno Road Cut, the Grassy Gap Cut, and more; Our GM Scrapbook - 2 - 9900 to 9908 the Custom Years - nicely illustrated article; Super 2-page photo of a 0-8-8-0 in the shops at Colonie, N.Y. in 1927; Switchbacks and Shays - passengers are scaling 10 percent grades iup West Virginia's Bald Knob - great article and photos; American Railway Progress Exposition Track Exhibit in Chicago - article and photos; Photos of diesels bucking snow in New England; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: John W. Barriger III, 1899-1976; Derailment and accident photos; Steam's last chance - Pennsylvania Railroad gambles - and loses - on the steam-powered T1-class for passenger power after World War II; "Fireboy, know something? We don't fit through that bridge"; How to build a DL109 - great photos; Rio Grande's Monarch Branch Revisited - an exercise in the use of the 26-C automatic brake valve, F-3 retainers, and COBRA brake shoes; Colur centerfold of the Katy Pacific 401 (Lima 1920) in 1945; The Iris G, et al - much of Canadian Pacific's history has been written upon the water, perhaps most poignantly by this tug, its train-on-a-barge, and their ancestors; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: All about Budd's new coast; Middleman of the Alphabet Route - Pittsburgh & West Virginia (P&WV) bankrupted its builder, turned to coal for a living, finally came into its own as a speed-conscious bridge road - latter day solvency stems in part from the travels of a very famous business car; A Virginia & Truckee Sampler; New York Central's Oldest Steam Engine - an Alco 1000-type diesel electric locomotive; nice photo section; Colour centerfold painting of Starrucca Viaduct; The Pioneer III - an 85 foot long car! - article with many photos/diagrams; Steam in Indian Summer - Concerning Henry Ford, a 4-6-0 built in 1900, small boys and bliss and ignorance; Railroad news photos; Nice black and white ad for Elector-Motive Division's (EMD's) Aerotrain; and more. 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
Features: Super 16 illustrated article on Maine's biggest two-footer - The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes; The strangest piece of coal-carrying equipment on the U.S. rails today - Southern Railway No. 100; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photos of Washout in the West - Colorado's South Platte River rampaged in June; That All-American Look - an ALCO DH-643 diesel hydraulic; Strange Train for a GG1; The Accident that Couldn't Happen - on September 25, 1964 the Rock Island's lift bridge across the Des Plaines River at Joliet Ill was rendered inoperative by a broken pinion gear while the bridge was in a raised position - this led to a collission at 52 mph; Article - America's unremarked and reluctant but quite splendid innkeepers - the railroads; Nice colour photo EMD centerfold; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. Bottom five inches of cover fold open. A sound copy. Magazine
60 pages. Features: Illinois Central's Floating Bridge - great photos; Jersey Meadows - Railroad Workshop of the East - photos, map and good article; In the Land of Evangeline - a look at Nova Scotia's transportation system; Photo section; The last passenger run for the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railroad; Twilight of the Trolley - Columbus, Ohio's interurban network was dying - photos and article - the Columbus, Urbana & Western; The Presidents - B&O's Super Pacifics - great photos with article; Every Day is Wash Day - how streamliners are cleaned daily; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Why boys leave home; Cincinnati Union Terminal; The South Shore Line; Louisville and Nashville bought no larger engines than these 2 - 8 - 4s; New Haven's great Poughkeepsie Bridge; The two foot gauge Monson; 5th annual motive power survey; and more. Two small date stamps upon front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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
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
Features: The Cow Business and Joe Kirley; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Old Joe Bennett; The First Colorado Mountain Man - Jim Pursley; The Baking Soda Book - Luisa and Henry Benedict; Rice, Dice and Lichee Nuts - America was not the promised land for those who crossed the wrong ocean to get here - Chinese immigrants; Graveyard of Violence - the W.S. Ranch, just north of Alma, New Mexico; Idaho Volunteers and the Nez Perce - an uncovered report reveals how professional some local militia units could be; Licensed Murder - Captain William Byrnes; Deputy Marshal Joe Morgan of New Mexico; A Girl and Her Horse - Chief Plenty Coups invited young women to race, but they weren't supposed to win!; Battle of the Deschutes - sabotage prevailed in the railroaders' war for the key route to San Francisco - with fantastic photo of workers 'walking the plank' to get to work building a bridge 348 feet above the Crooked River Gorge!; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear as staples have almost torn free from covers, else a sound copy. Book
Features: Dave Walker - Long on Nerve - the Dave Walker Ranch in the east part of Poncha Park on Cottonwood Creek, Colorado; Roaming the Back Country with Hood River Blackie - Strange Animals - Bigfoot, Sasquatch; Clara Baasch lived next door to the infamous Vicente Silva; The Peculiarities of Sam Smith - An Old Man's Three Treasures - A. C. Lucas and his Chinatown discoveries; The 'Cutter' - his profession was devilment!; Addison P. Day - Rodeo Great; Cyclone Cave - Natural Bridge Park, Arkansas; J.K. Carper - Mountain Man; Towns Without Whistles in Oklahoma Territory; An Artist's Two Years Alone in the Desert - Frederick Melville DuMond lived in a cave to reproduce 'the West's insanity of color'; Cromwell Dixon's Fatal Ride - biplane pilot, Blossburg, Montana. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
74 ages. Features: Ceylon strike; Doolittle Raider; Willys Jeep; Allied Oil Plot; Bridge Busters; U-boat Turkey Shoot. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Good working copy. Book
