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IN 8. REL CART [MOY]. ENV 230 PP. 50 PPL EN NOIR. [MOY]
171 pages. Features include: The PPCLI Comedy Company; Regimental Depot; First Battalion; Second Battalion; Regimental Band; Mobile Command Headquarters; CFB Rivers; Max Flex (Canadian Airborne Regiment); The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (3 PPCLI); 2551 Airborne Cadet Corps; 2554 PPCLI Cadet Corps; Quevrain to Mons; Back to the Battlefields; Ottawa Ceremonies; 3 Bn The Royal Green Jackets; PPCLI Association; etc. Prior owner's neat ink stamp upon each half of front endpaper else unmarked. Moderate wear. Flexible forest green cloth boards with gilt lettering and emblem. Nice copy. Book
82 pages. Features: Harry Shuler Dent; An ABM Primer; Alaska Wildfires; The impoverished Havasupai tribe; Las Vegas reaches a new pinnacle of preposterousnous; Rockefeller's tour of Central and South America; The Lesson of Ben Het in Vietnam; Land for South Vietnam's peasants; Ad for the VW Squareback sedan; Heroin deaths in NYC; Oriole pitcher Dave McNally; Are courts more severe with black defendants; Reinforcement Therapy; Singer Tom Jones - article with photo; The Jackson brothers hog hollering in Spivery's Corner NC; Diagram illustrates bioaccumulation of toxins; The Art of Henry Tanner; Sex as a Spectator Sport - changing sexual attitudes in the U.S.; Conversations on the new Eroticism - article which includes photo of Billy Graham in Times Square smut shop; Article on bank credit cards; Copycat ads; Oakland Raider Art Powell starts successful business Black & Brown Trading Stamp Co.; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
267 pages including references and black and white illustrations. Chapters include: The Heritage; The Royal Navy and its Medical Services in Canada; R.C.N. Beginnings; World War I (1914-1918); Hiatus - Between Wars; A Growing Naval Medical Service; Teh Working Milieu Ashore; War at Sea; Experiences, Commendations and Deaths; As Told By Eyewitnesses; After War Horizons; The Post War - A Time of Change. Liquid paper has been applied to front endpaper else contents unmarked. Adhesives have been mostly removed from spine and front board. Library stamp is upon top edge of text. Light wear to blue boards with gilt lettering. Contents tight and square. Remains a nice copy. Book
COFFRET - 32.5 x 44 cm - Emboîtage bleu - 1975 - Edition Originale - Comprend : - Port-folio avec mention au 1 er plat mention "Centenaire du Sénat de la République" & en relief dessin du Sénat en médaillon, contenant la gravure d'Albert Decaris, accompagné du timbre du centenaire + 1 carte postale couleurs avec le timbre du centenaire avec cachet + envoi de l'expéditeur (Président du sénat) à son destinataire le Général B. Richard, commandant militaire du Palais + Article du monde du 25/26 mai 1975. - Médaille commémorative. - Livre : Le Palais du Luxembourg et se métamorphoses - In-4 - Edition luxueuse de l'imprimerie Draeger Hors Commerce numérotée - Cartonnage éditeur sous plastique - illustration au 1 er plat - Largement illustré de plans , photographies des extérieurs et intérieurs en couleurs et noir et blanc. . Très légères traces d'humidité en page de titre - 140 ages - Catalogue d'exposition - in-8 - Illustrations en texte - 71 pages + Table - Livre " Pour connaître le Sénat" - La documentation française - 1975 - Petit In-4 - Couverture illustrée par Albert Decaris - 285 pages - Affiche de l'Exposition. Le tout dans l'emboîtage en excellenrt état - envoi rapide et soigné
96 pages. Features: Nice Plymouth Six ad featuring interview with G.R. Stevens of Elgin, Illinois; ATT ad features woman using old-style phone; Buying automatic refrigerators; "Human-Eye" camera opens new way to television; Snakeskin and marble made by photography; Planes to dump rain on crops; Photo of tidal wave in the River Severn, in England; Queer jobs in the Arctic - Major L.T. Burwash in pursuit of the North Magnetic Pole; Two-passenger sailplane has closed cockpits; Rare Stamp Racketeers thwarted by black light; Human body gets machine tests; Freak vehicles for air, land, and water; Animal movie actors trained by strange tricks; Tires torn to pieces in safety tests; Homemade Sextant; Is Rudy Hofmeister the fastest wood carver?; War Waged on Insects with Lights and Odors; Microscope "Movies" on Screen; Newest Household Devices; Weird stunts with aluminum in the home laboratory; One-man show with a magic hat; Adding earphones to your radio; Radio sets now tuned by sight; New gears shift themselves; A simply built high striker; Tools and Materials Captain McCann uses to build ship models; Graceful stool built from coat hangers; Sport belt made of knotted string; Simple design for boy's auto (go-kart); Luggage Making on the kitchen table; Taking telephoto shots with your own camera; Helpful hints for motorists; plus dozens of other brief and interesting illustrated items. Great cartoon-style ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover features magic tricks. Somewhat above-average wear. Faint store stamp on back cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
296 pages including black and white illustrations. Intended primarily as a text for students in Money and Banking in the senior courses of commercial high schools in Canada. Chapters include: Rise of Money; Canada's Monetary System; Credit and Credit Instruments; Monetary Standards; Rise of Banking; The Banking Business; Branch Banking in Canada; Deposit Accounts and Reserves of Canadian Banks; Loans and Investments of Canadian Banks; Supervision of the Canadian Banking System; Crises and the Canadian Banks; History of the Canadian Banking System; Stock Exchanges; Domestic and Foreign Exchange; Inflation of Currency; The English Banking System; The French Banking System; The Banking System of the United States; Other Banking Systems of the World; The Central Bank of Canada. Very light wear. Contents clean and bright. Prior owner's name and date upon front endpaper. Bookseller's stamp upon back endpaper. No other markings. Binding like new. Light blue cloth boards. Splendid copy of this excellent reference. Book
IN 8. BR [BAD]. 426 PP. 7 ILL EN NOIR DEPLIANTES. [MOY]. ROUSSEURS. DOS CASSE.
IN 4. DEMI BASANE [MOY]. 575 PP. 2 PPL EN NOIR. [BE]
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: John Mix Stanley, Pioneer Painter; Music Sheets for Stamp Collectors; Furniture of the Boston Tories; Antiques in Domestic Settings - Ante-Bellum Homes in Natchez; Cogdell and Mills, Charleston Sculptors; Here Lyes Buried - Taste and Trade in Charleston Tombstones; The Hornbook for Collectors - The ABC's of Early American Furniture; English Silver of American Interest; A Note on Nankin, Colonial Calico; Check List of the Works of Cogdell and Mills; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 161-220. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
Features: Photos of British troops and supplies at Arnhem, plus battle photos; Photos of damage to Channel ports; photos of sea forts protecting London; and more. Average wear. Prior owner's name and stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Page 397 loose but present (because page 415 has been removed and is not included). Centerfold (loose but present) provides a large and fascinating cut-away diagram of 'the secrets of the flying bomb' - how the robot's flight and dive are automatically controlled. Book
58, [8 ads] pages. Features: Cover photo of memorial service for Ramsay MacDonald; Seven photos illustrated Ramsay MacDonald's last homecoming - Bermuda to Lossiemouth; Nice photo of M. Chautemps and M. Delbos of France outside French embassy in London; Two-pages of photos entitle "An Australian Problem - The Primitive 'Black Fellow' [Aborigine] of the Bush, Threatened with Extinction - 'Living Human Fossils' of Australia; One-page illustration of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret inspecting the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum; One-page illustration of construction of the New Waterloo Bridge; Fifteen photos of the Quetzal - the Aztec symbol bird - first speciments ever kept alive in captivity or photographed; Article on ships includes cross section illustration of boat with flash steam propulstion; Wonderful three-page article 'English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century' includes five beautiful colour photos of clothing samples; Five-photos illustrate airplane de-icing techniques; Photo of the 'Ayro' wheel being demonstrated to air apprentices; Photo of wreckage after German plane crashed into Croydon hangar; Photo of Prince Bernhard's car after it crashed with a truck; Article and colour photos of jewels found at Tsarskoye Selo; Colour centrefold illustration of the Cango Caves in South Africa; Nice one-page colour Dunlop tire ad with red background; Photos of personalities of the week include: J.D. Low, J.A. Brett, Nahas Pasha with Sir Miles Lampson, E.O.W. Hunt, D.E. A. Pettit, the Maharaja of Kapur-Thala; General Iwane Matsui and his wife, Miss Lilian Baylis, Dr. C. Tate regan, Clive Forster Cooper, H.L. Murphy, Maurice Hely-Hutchinson, Herr Walther Funk, Laurence D. Holt, Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson, M. Janson of Belgium; Ten photos of Japanese military recruits being honoured with ceremonies, scrolls, money and 'senin-baris'; Three interior photos of Hitler's mountain home near Berchtesgaden where he recently spoke with Lord Halifax for five hours; Three photos from Goering's estate where he too met Lord Halifax; Nice colour Peek Frean's ad; Colour ad for Craven 'A' cigarettes; Nice Martell ad shows butler bowing mid-table between two imbibing gentlemen; Harrod's Christmas gift ideas; Classy Bentley car photo ad; and more. Unmarked with above-average external wear. A worthy vintage reference copy. Book
Pages 449-512. Features: In Peril Among the Riffs - How Sir Malcolm Campbell and Flight-Lieut. Don nearly lost their lives in North Africa - article with photos; With the Seal Hunters - photo-illustrated article on the heroic and arduous labours of the gallant fishermen for seals amongst the ice-floes of the coast of Labrador; Famous Figures in Football - G. (Geoffrey) N. Foster and Dr. R. Cove-Smith - article with photo; Sixty Years of Soccer - article with photos of William McCracken, Fanny Walden, G.O. Smith, Victor Watson, and Clifford Bastin; The Secret of Druid's Cross (mystery story); Why Keep a Log Book?; Field Hockey Tactics - article with photos; Making Morris Motors - photo-illustrated article on the manufacture of Morris cars; The Poacher's Wirelss (fiction); The Reversed Watermark (fiction); The Hooghly River - the World's Worst (article); The Story of Stamp Collecting. No table of contents. Covers loose but present. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
20 pages. Features: How They Keep Horse Racing Honest - Science Invades the Sport - article with photos; Why Protestants Mourn Pope John; Zenith TV ad; The Fort Henry Guards - article with colour photos; Birth of a Stamp - Ernst Roch and Canada's new Five Cent Stamp featuring the Queen - article and great photos; Boy Scout Shadow Compass. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Let's keep the filibuster, by Hodding Carter; The Kremlin's Persecution of Jews - a firsthand report on the newest campaign inside Russia to stamp out an age-old religion and way of life; The Mutiny of Marlon Brando - how the petulant superstar broke the budget in a marathon remake of Mutiny on the Bounty; Famous people who don't remember me - a veteran Government official's amusing encounters with Winston Churchill and other celebrated figures; People on the way up - Seena Hamilton, discus champ Dave Weill, Nancy Schoonover, bus magnate George Sage; On Trial - Jimmy Hoffa and Adam Clayton Powell, part 2 of 3; How to get along with the Bees; Dinner with the Kennedys - what to expect when you receive Washington's most sought-after invitation, a bid to spend a gala evening at the White House; Radio's Pill Pusher - Carlton Fredericks, self-styled 'foremost nutritionist' has amassed a fortune endorsing vitamins and wonder foods. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
47 pages. Features: The secret delights of the shunpiker - Bill and Vivian Heine have explored the quiet back roads of many parts of Canada; Millie Perkins is Glad She was Fired - the girl film fans knew as Anne Frank is free to fulfill her new ambition - to become an actress; De Gaulle is the Man for Me - Field Marshall Montgomery on leadership towards the resolution of the East-West strife; A spoonful of syrup may stamp out Polio - mobile medical teams test the oral vaccine Sabin in Wedgeport and Comeau Hill, N.S.; School that teaches the three Ps - Poise Posture and Presence - Phyllis Leeman's Pixie School of Modelling in New Westminster, B.C.; Humourous signs keep people off the grass; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
66 pages. Features: Design for leather; Junior craftsman project; Woodcarving caricaturist - Alfred Perry of Cedar Grove, Ontario - article with photos; Painting in oils is easy; Felt Spectacle case; Food casting; The Sculptured Shillalagh; Stamp collecting; Hobby cures a soldier - Private Jerome Biegel of the U.S. Army carves matches; How to Make Crepe-Paper Flowers (part 2); Home Weaving Service; Message from the Hon. Paul Martin; 1949 National Hobby Exhibition; List of hobby exhibitors; Feature exhibits, Phil. S. Quelch's operating miniature sawmill; Profitable little animals; Mosaic pictures from human hair; Neville C. Seymour and his silk strand etchings; The Narcissus; Garden Glimpses; Fine Wood Inlay; Model Railroads; Shell Craft; Spiral Coil Applique; Camera Kinks; Your Photography; Weaving with Reeds; A Hall Lantern; Birch Bark Art; Hobby-Craft Patterns; Model Plane Contest; What's New; and more. Interesting full-page ad for Canadian government annuities shows regretful elder woman holding broom outside boarding house. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this very uncommon vintage Canadian hobby publication. Book
Features: photo of interesting "new ears" for anti-aircraft gunners; a 4000 year food experiment - nutritional equilibrium in over-populated China; Editorials - spend for prosperity - Daniel Guggenheim - International affairs; Instrument flying to combat fog; Elevated highway to speed traffic in New York; X-ray fingers feel out the atomic structure of matter; A fact-finding laboratory; Archeology enters the stamp world; What is a quantum?; Feeding the crew of a battleship; More about pluto - further observations confirm its right to rank as a planet; Oil from below the ocean floor - oil derrick and pier are constructed in perilous waters; Factory wastes turned to profits; Scattered light and the Raman effect; An atom of Lutecium - its atomic structure is plotted for the first time; A murder, and the story the pistols told; When crude oil crosses the seas; Traveling home for phone linemen - a railroad train refitted as living, eating ,recreation quarters; Aviation in 1930, a summary. Back cover features colour advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes. An attractive woman is reclined beneath the caption "20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating." Cord front wheel drive automobile advertisement inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Great one-page colour-photo Molson's Canadian ad shows the tall bottles they used before the stubbies; Why Single Out Sex as the Only Real Road to Sin? - asks Morley Callaghan; How W.S. (Shakes) Morrison Shook Parliament; Is Anybody Winning the Trading-Stamp War?; The Lavish and Lovely Laurentian Mountains; Can Little Bill Smith lick the heavyweights of Labour? - this transport union leader squares off with Hoffa and Banks; How I Learned About Strangers; A Visit with Mr. & Mrs. Jan Rubes - he's a Czech political refugee; Loneliness - perhaps the most common and least studied social problem of our time; Sir John A. MacDonald's first and only trip to the west - he 'pacified' the Indians, admired the embryo cities, and got stung in a Victoria hotel; Clyde Gilmour picks the best and worst movies of 1959; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
136 pages. Features: Gorgeous color-photo fashion ads; The Farmer Frustrates Khrushchev - the peasant who would rather work for himself than the state helps keep Soviet output down; The Peasant - Half of Russia - great photos; Why They Fight for the P.A.T. (Parents and Taxpayers Group) - pairing schools to obtain racial balance; Britain's Political Style is Not Like Ours; The Walls Do Have Ears - the electronic art of listening in on other people's conversations has reached new heights; A New Canal Dug By Atom Bombs - fascinating illustrated proposal to use nukes to create a new Panama Canal; The Job of White House Housekeeper - Anne Lincoln; Four Days Shalt Thou Labor? - the rise of technology pushes for shorter work weeks; Stamps for Art's Sake - new U.S. stamp dedicated to the arts was designed by Stuart Davis; Fantastic Dan River fashion ad shows man standing between steam rollers; Where the Old Cars Go; Which Sex Owns the Pants? - where will the trend end?; Nice one-page ad for Jerry Vale song albums; Cesar Romero is featured in Petrocelli suit ad; Article on African ants; Getting into the Act - photos of Peter Fonda, Pia Lindstrom, Lynn Redgrave, Mia Farrow, Tim Rooney and Edward Albert; The Puerto Rican Tide Begins to Turn - Migrants returning to their island now match the numbers moving to the island of Manhattan; Photos of Glamour Fashions by Tiers; The Making of a Conscience; Uncommon Tuffies ad shows boys playing roller hockey; One-page color ad for Grace Line shows their large fleet at sea; Nice one-page color-photo ad for Bolla wine; Heublein Cocktails ad features formal color photo of Michael Rennie; One-page color Benson & Hedges ad features badges of American President Lines, Matson Navigation, Italian Line, Furness lines, Cunard Steam-Ship Company and United States Lines; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
78 pages. Features: Battleship Killer - The War's Strangest Story - Torpedo-riding Italians sank enough British ships in Alexandria Harbor to give the Axis the advantage in the Mediterranean - but the Axis never knew it!; Our Reeking Halls of Justice (part 1 of 2); The Glory Road (part 2 of 2); Stampede in Stamps - Stamps become a popular investment - with photo of Joe Granville (presumably the same Joe Granville who went on to a successful career on Wall Street); Oh, You Beautiful Blonde! - Marie Wilson; Is the Witch Doctor Helping You? - century-old secrets of primitive medicos are turning out to be cure for diseases that have baffled modern medical men for years. Fiction: There Are Older Things Than War; Brood of Evil; Set in Concrete; Willow Woman; No Sentiment; Pride's Castle (part 3 of 8); Cleveland Indian reliever Gene Bearden; Back page opinion column regarding the recommendations of the Hoover Commission. Includes these ads: B.V.D. Sports Shirts, Zenith Televisions, Mercury cars, GM (nice 2-page color ad), Ford car color photo ad with black lawn jockey appearing twice, Nice color one-page ad for the U.S. Army, Pincor lawn mowers, Spam, Durkee's margerine, Mallory hats, Lucky Strike colour photo ad features pretty lady river fishing. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
406 pages plus a 32 page catalogue of books from the publisher. Military biography. Chapter headings include: Learning Arabic; Cairo; Old Egyptian Army Worthless; Formation of the New Army; The Duke of Hamilton and Turner; Conscription done unjustly; Lying evidence to Escape Military Service; The Mahmal or Holy Carpet; Sir Samuel Baker's Letter; The Second Battle of El Teb; The Battle of Tamai; More about Tamai; The Road to Berber; A Journey to Senheit; The Mission at Keren; To Aden; The Albacore's Search-Light; Gregorie's Little Ways; The Calvary Enter Pped; The Effendi Miz Salute; The Stars Fall Down; Kosheh; No Advance on Dongola; Wady Halfa the Frontier. Includes black and white photographic frontis of author in military dress. Above average wear and soiling. Both hinges cracked. Prior owner's rubber stamp applied multiple times through book. Cigarette ordour. Occasional child's pencil markings. Despite the above, binding remains relatively tight. Decent reading copy. Book
ix, [3], 642 pages. Index. Over three-hundred illustrations, including many wonderful black and white plates at back. "The culmination of many years of work in the gathering of material and weaving the story of one of the world's most potent instruments for the development of manufacture, trade and industry." - Foreword. Former library copy rebound in gray buckram with usual markings. No dust jacket. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this fascinating history. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice colour Oldsmobile ad inside front cover; Join CUSO and spend a weekend with a real live duck-hunting maharajah; The West grows by Moose Jaw just sits and watches the trains go by; The Ship that Died of Shame - the HMCS Inch Arran; Bill Edwards of Oakville and his "Truth Paste" toothpaste; The Battle for the Warrendale Children; Harold Town Creates the Connoisseur's Christmas Tree - article with many colour photos; New Hustle in the Holy Land - it is polishing itself up to boost tourism; Nicholos Monsarrat - an interview before he left after living for fourteen years in Canada; Nightcap - it's TV with a leer and a plunging neckline, a busty, bawdy baby that nobody loves... just the viewers - article with photos; A Second Look at the "Facts" about Cancer and Smoking by the author of "You May Smoke"; George Feyer and his Comic Art (with a postage stamp theme); Eric Levinson claims Harry Houdini speaks to him from the grave - article with photos; Nice colour photo ad for Botany 500; What's New in Medicine; Nice ad for the 1967 Chrysler Newport; Bolens Diablo Rouge snowmobile ad; GM ad for their new energy absorving steering column; Code ad with Christmas theme on back cover. Average wear. 2"x2" piece missing from fore-edge of back cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
546 pages. Black and white frontis of George Vancouver plus twenty black and white photographic reproductions. Author was well-equiped for this work. By disposition a student, he became greatly engrossed in his researches, and secured copies of all the old records of voyages to the coast of British Columbia and knew their contents intimately. His duties in command of the Quadra took him to every portion of the British Columbia coast, including a great many waters that were practically unsurveyed, and so he acquired a thorough knowledge not only of the charts in existence, but also of the unwritten lore of Indians and traders experienced in the intricacies of that most magnificent coast. Major damage and closed tears to pages 527-530 with two chunks missing from page 529. Fortunately all text remains and is legible. Once inch tear to interior of page 546. Map at page 547 removed. Back hinge open. Front hinge going. Prior owner's small initial rubber stamp upon front endpaper and bottom edge else unmarked. Average soiling. Moderate yellowing. Gilt lettering upon spine remains clearly legible. Above average wear to dark green cloth spine and boards. A good first edition reading copy of this comprehensive reference. Book