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Features: Charles Cotta and his four-wheel-drive Steamer; Philadelpia's Treasury of Automobile Information - the Thomas McKean Collection on the Automobile; Le Musee des Arts et Metiers de Paris; Getting antiques out of Mexico; The Best Car Built in America - The Story of the Locomobile; My Antique Model Automobiles; Albert Augustus Pope - He put a nation on wheels; "Good Roads" and Bad in the Alabama Black Belt - 1875-1917; Carbide Candlepower - interesting article on auto lighting; The Late Lord Austin of Longbridge - The father of the Wolseley and Austin cars; The Reluctant Helpmate; In Duster and Veil; Restoring a 1922 Stanley; The Cross Engine Franklin - Part 3 of 3; Book Review Index for all books reviewed in this publication 1945-1955; and more. Average wear. Some external soiling. Bit of writing atop front cover and in classified ads otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
65 pages. Includes fourteen black and white photos. Undated. Circa 1931. Author was Reverend of First United Church in Vancouver, B.C., "The Church with the Open Door" which "Ministers to 27 different nationalities, irrespective of race, color, class, or creed". - from title page. "... A story of human interest dealing with flesh and blood, telling you in a simple and direct manner something of the struggle for an existence on the part of thousands of homeless men in this great Canada of ours." - from page 9. Contents include topics such as: The Slave Market; The Tramp; The Juvenile Hobo; Why Men Fail; The Hobo and the Climate; Enforced Idleness; The Hobo and Alcohol; The Sex Life of the Hobo; How the Hobo Travels; Insanity; The Hobo and the Communist; and many more. Above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Short piece of grey tape atop spine. A worthy vintage copy which takes readers deep inside the lives of Canada's multitude of impoverished men during the Great Depression. Book
268 pages plus chronology and index. Signed by author and Gagliardi. "Next to him, the Roman roadbuilders were pikers. He is the world's greatest highway builder." - W.A.C. Bennett. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else clean and bright with minimal wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book
256 pages. Features: Woodbury ad includes wedding photos of Virginia Owen and William Loock, Jr. of New York; Nice Ivory soap ad includes photo of Cathy Avery; Hemorrhoids; Home Child Safety; New Gizmos; Color Camay ad features Mrs. John-Michael King; Advice for making a long car trip; The Most Wonderful Thing - story by Shirley Jackson; A Loaf of Bread and Thou - story by Millie McWhirter; The Long Journey - story by Martha Gellhorn; The Best Girl - story by Florence Jane Soman; A Low Sodium Diet; Gorgeous fashion photos; Composer Cesar Franck; Lana Turner is featured in color Lustre-Creme ad; Gloria Swanson in Jergens ad; Noxzema ad features Virginia Kavanagh of NYC, Paulette Hendrix of Savannah, GA, and Phyllis Riggs of Brooklyn; Lovely color Avon ad features Miss Ella Raines and her rep. Mrs. Virginia Ankener; Kim Hunter in Woodbury ad; Fantastic colour-photo Maytag ad features the three generation family of Mrs. James Cameron of Joliet, Illinois with grandfather H.G. Dahl, father Lloyd Dahl, grandson Glenn Dahl; Jell-O pudding ad; The Wonderful Vegetable Dinner; Strawberry tarts; U.S. Defense Bonds ad features photo-portrait of Major Carl L. Sitter, USMC, Medal of Honor recipient; Rex Harrison photo in National Silver company ad; Royal Crown Cola ad feature photo of Linda Darnell; Lovely fashion ads and illustrations; Spur Cola ad; Sensational back cover color Camel cigarette ad says "More Doctors Smoke Camels" and includes photos of hardworking doctor smoking; and much, much more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this charming issue. Magazine
54 pages. Features: P-Boat - Part I of the Consolidated PBY Catalina Story -development and production -article with many excellent illustrations and photos; Colour centerfold illustration of the Consolidated PBY-2 (Patrol Wing Four/Patrol Squadron 17); The Macchi Castoldi Fighters - excellent photo-illustrated article; Daredevil - Ormer Locklear - article with excellent photos. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
421 pages including index and many black and white photographic plates from the Bank's archives. Written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Scotiabank. Examines the history of the Bank as part of the larger history of Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, Canada, and, ultimately, the world financial community. An important contribution to banking, corporate, and Canadian history. Wonderful unmarked copy very closely approaching As New condition. Book
152 pages. Features: Listen Hear, You Parents!- a schoolteacher sounds off; Why Not Plenty For All? - No child should go hungry in the U.S.A.; John and Estelle Ferrans - article with nice photos in color and black and white; Hollywood Beats the Drum; Nice fashion photos; On Guard with Inoculation; Story book hair styles - with photos; Margaret Woolverton - Chicago traffic engineer; Frances Buss - CBS TV Director in New York; Dr. Lore Rose David - the only woman micropaleichthyologist; Josi (Josephine) Cucinotto - designer for tots; Woman of the Month - Dr. Karen Horney; Nice colour-photo Maybelline ad on back cover; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
112 pages. Tells the inside story of how the greatest game on earth came to Vancouver. Here's all the background to the franchise bid, the team building process, plus facts and statistics about the Grizzlies' first players. A dynamic full-colour gallery of the greats conveys all the magic of today's high-flying, gravity-defying superstars, including Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Grant Hill and more. A high quality glossy colour production. Light to moderate wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
152 pages. Index. Bibliography. Copiously illustrated with archival black and white photography. "The combination of text and visual history offers readers a privileged glimpse of the glory days of one of the coast's major industries." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop half-title page else clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket now preserved in Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book
18 pages. Features: Editorial on Farmer-Sportsmen Relations; Mailbag; Photo of Dr. P.G. Margetto with 30-lb spring; Group photo of Arv. Sestrap, Dr. Duncan, C. Chapman, J. Sestrap and their many fish taken from the Kitimat River; Nice photo ad for Edward Lipsett Ltd. entitled Ready for Steelhead shows angler and much fishing gear; Cold Steel - steelheads in the Thompson River; Nostalgic illustrated foul weather gear ad for Canor Plarex Ind. Ltd. features their sport jacket and steelhead and hunting jacket; Pictorial Story of the B.C. Gun Dog Club Retriever Trial - the many photos include "Hand" Dawson, Oliver Krog, and Jack Smyth, Bill Sinser, Ken Gibson, Chris Burton, Richard Pruden, and Bill Sinser with his labrador "Bulldozer of Crevamoy"; Photo of well-known big-game hunter Jim Bond (who will soon be speaking in Vancouver) seated above a large ram; Club News; Pistol article; Clay Chips - article including photos of Gordon Finch of Kelowna, Ed Richter with Blake Stokes and Ed Brown (all in their 80s), and the winning Kelowna team of Gordon Finch, Art Pollard, Don Ellis, Brian Cooney and Howard Mascron; B.C. Game Commission ad inside back cover says "Watch That Muzzle! - The 10 Commandments of Safety"; Back cover ad for Gibbs tackle's top steelhead lures; 'Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Small archival tape repair to bottom of coverfold. A quality vintage copy. Book
62 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of dog pulling curtain from lady; Editorial on 'The Lost Art of Living'; Nice one-page photo ad for the New Plymouth Six; Every Other Inch a Gentleman - part one of an anonymous Hollywood saga; Ad for Fleischmann's Yeast includes photos of Dr. Jules Monges and Dahlia Upchurch of Richmond, VA; Palmolive Shave Cream ad features photo of George Earl, trainer of "Torchy" Peden, bicycle racing champion; Will Japan Seize Alaska? - an arresting warning by Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana; Excitement at Kamp Kumfort - a nice girl seeking adventure finds it; Nice two-color (red and black) ad for Libby's Catchup; Rendezvous (part 2) - Amazing true adventures of American fighter Edgar Bouligny (with photos); No More Belindas - a wistful tale of elfin memories; Movie News and Photos - Catherine the Great, The Big Shakedown, Palooka, and Search for Beauty; Tamer of Lions - true story of La Goulue, a cancan dancer of the Moulin Rouge in Paris; Destroyer - a novel of a love deeper than the sea (part 4); The Eye of Fate (short story); Vox Pop; To the Ladies; Color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes on back cover features scene at tobacco auction. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Covers loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
112 pages. Index. Bibliography. Trademark list. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and diagrams. "A collector's guidebook for the USA." - from front cover. Chapters include: Introduction; Your Milkbottle Collection; How to Build a Milkbottle Collection; Especially Desirable Milkbottles; The Thatcher Story; Go-Withs for the Milk Bottle Collector; How to Display; Milk Bottle Mysteries; Studying the Milk Bottle Collection; "Bottoms Up"; How to Categorize a Collection of Milk Bottles; Amethyst Milk Bottles; Thatcher & Barnhart's Milkbottle Closure of 1886; Tin Tops; The Borden Company; Thatcher Company Catalog 1887. 1974 bottle-pricing guide laid in. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this precious reference. Book
128 pages. Features: Blueprint for World Government - "Metro", a deadly parallel to the forms of totalitarianism we are supposed to be fighting; The Trilogy for Victory - Will President Kennedy Use It?; The Moral Cost of the Welfare State; Is Censorship on the Way? - a department of government seeks to bar patriotic slogan from metered mail; Tranquilizers Can Kill You; Does Your Nose Always Know?; "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, Here Is..." - a humorous guide to guide-conducted foreign tours; Buy or Rent?; What Do You Know About Kissing?; Successfully Yours; Peace Corps - A Pied Piper Scheme; Deluge of Filth - foreign pornography pours into the USA on a daily basis by mail; Harry Lauder and his Long Underwear - "a story of great generosity of a man whose people are supposed to be notorious 'tightwads'"; You Can't Afford to Die - a move is on to eliminate costly funerals; Discrimination - Vice or Virtue?; A Lounsberry Scoop - one of the most thrilling episodes of the Old West; A Russian Fort in California - established by sea otter hunter and tanner Ivan Alexander Kuskov at Fort Ross; Seven Years of Horror - Margaret Buber-Neumann provides a firsthand account of life in the slave camps of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany - a commentary on the Eichmann trial; The Connally Reservation - the dangers of treaty law; Index to Volume XCII, January - June 1961. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
12 charming color-illustrated pages for young readers present the fanciful tale of how Hires R-J Root Beer Extract came to be enjoyed by children of the day. Features nine (unused) 'Magic Rubs' where rubbing a coin will reveal a hidden image. Light wear and minor external soiling. A quality copy of this lovely vintage Hires collectible. Book
361 pages. Dozens of black and white photos. "A tribute to the Boards, the parents, and the students, the teachers and the administrators whose contributions kept Strathcona well to the forefront." - from Editor's Note. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Spine leaning. A quality copy of this nostalgic and informative work. Book
6 pages. Cover photo of Marshall Montgomery. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this lovely vintage song. Book
72 pages. Features: Camp Pendleton cover illustration; Bell Telephone ad features photo of award-winner Dr. James W. McRae; Democratic Control in a Totalitarian Age; Sovite Amphibious Analysis; Ready to Fight, Part I - report from the ready forces, The 1st (First) Marine Division (REINF); Part 2 - Programs to Improve Readiness; How Castro Won - the eyewitness story of small unit actions - excellent photo-illustrated article; The Marine Reserve; Someone Inspects You Every Day; The Salty Skipper Says....; Support by Fire - Part VIII - Targets; The Commandant's Policies; Unofficial digest of orders and news of Marine leaders; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features include: Five Hundred Miles to Freedom - the story of nine survivors of the Japanese capture of Rabaul; The Land Sharks - Would-be settlers in Canada fall victim to wonderful stories from plausible strangers of how to 'get rich quick'; Man-Eater - A former member of the Burma Frontier Service describes the eventful career of a tiger; Vale of the Gods - a curious blend of immemorial ritual and popular merrymaking in the Northern Punjab; The Ju-Ju Doctor - The facts of an amazing occurence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - Author gets the scare of his live on an East Indian Island; The Sea-Dayaks of Borneo - Author finds the fromer head-hunters to be charming hosts; Section Man - A glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - A puzzling American murder case. Exterior heavily worn with chips missing from spine and front cover partially detached. Contents good. Pencilled name upon back cover. Magazine
Features include: How They Saved the "Ningpo" - A rare occasion when the tables were turned on Chinese sea pirates in 1945; Before the Fact - A missionary's puzzling story from primitive Africa; Seeking Sheba's "Lost" City - Author describes his adventures in Arabia and his accidental discovery of a practicable route to the mysterious city - abandoned for centuries; Over the Iron Curtain - Two R.A.F. officers endeavour to rescue a young Italian from Budapest in December 1945. The "WAFF" goes recruiting - Some amusing aspects of recruiting young tribesmen in West Africa; Wild Boars and Cattle Thieves - An adventure on a lonely island off the California coast; Zombies - a Haitian story; Island of Ships - Rouad, off the Syrian coast. Front cover detached but in good condition. Back cover almost detached. Most of spine missing. Contents in good condition. Name in pencil atop back cover. Magazine
122 pages. Features: Color-photo red Rambler car ad inside front cover; Photo ad for St. Louis includes Don Bush, Thelma Blumberg and Jack Zehrt; Schlitz color-photo ad of couple playing Monopoly; G.E. ad features pink washer and dryer; Half-page color Hires Root Beer ad; Two-page photo ad for Allied Van Lines; President of Columbia University says "College Shouldn't Take Four Years"; Newport - Kentucky's Open City; Aerial photo of suburban Palm Springs with dozens of pools and nary a green plant in sight; Gamber's Girl - short story; Great photo-illustrated article on Debbie Reynolds; Color-photo-illustrated article on the Sebring twelve-hour endurance auto race in Sebring, Florida; Emergency Flight (short story); They Volunteer to Suffer - test subjects at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health; Cuba - State of Confusion - fantastically photo-illustrated article, including Che Guevara; Let Yourself Go (short story); Norman Rockwell - My Adventures as an Illustrator (part 7); Marked for Death (short story); Moon Pilot (short story); Fisher body ad features photo of green Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight convertible; Night Without End (short story); Champion Spark Plug ad features photos of Mickey Thompson, Rodger Ward, Hugh Entrop and Max Conrad; *Beautiful* color-photo-ad for the 1960 (black) Chrysler Imperial; Color Tecumseh motor ad; Color ad for the Studebaker Lark car shows a pale green convertible at mail box; Color ad for Admiral fridges; Two-page Canadian Pacific color ad shows globe and illustrations of CP train, ship and airplane; Pepsi ad shows scene in horse barn with dalmation; Johnson outboard motor color-photo ad for the V-75; Arrow shirt ad features large color photo of glamorous evening scene in New York's Shubert Alley; and more. Nibbling to periphery of covers, otherwise a worthy vintage copy with average wear. Magazine
104 pages. Features: Cover illustration of busy train station; Two-page Chrysler photo ad - more room inside; Color (blue) Corvair ad; Nice Avis photo ad; After Khrushchev, Who?; Botts and the Picket Line (short story); The Disease that fooled X-Rays - Histoplasmosis; Marriage Mood (short story); When I Busted Out of the Navy - Part 4 of Norman Rockwell's "My Adventures as an Illustrator"; Color-photo-illustrated article on Marvin Glass, "Troubled King of Toys"; Next Window Please (humor); The road to St. Vivien (short story); Men and Capital, by John Kenneth Galbraith; Sip of Death (short story); Color-photo inside Strafford, Vermont's "meeting house"; Night without End (short story); The Man Who Rides Sharks - William R. Royal of Venice, Florida; Color-photo ad for the 1960 Turbine Drive Buick features light blue Invicta four-door sedan; Theh Monitor Affair (part 7); Interesting one-page ad for the new Dodge 'sweptline' trucks; Color Pontiac Catalina (red) ad; Photo ad for Matson cruises; ad for Chevrolet's Sturdi-Build large trucks; Color ad for Sylvania TVs features Jack Paar; and more. Average wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. A quality vintage copy. . Magazine
576 pages plus index. "The narrative makes for easy and highly interesting reading and coupled with the superb illustrations manages to bring this fascinating subject to life." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
128 pages. Features: Does it Really Matter What is True?; The Orphaned Beauty - strange story behind the song Silent Night; Why Johnny Won't Re-Enlist - communist strategy includes lowering the morale of U.S. fighting men; Red Fire From the Yellow Dragon - a new world power must be reckoned with since China's Dr. Tsien fled from the U.S.; Everybody Knows That; Floating Ghost Ship - The "Baychimo" used to call on Hudson Bay Company trading posts from her home port of Vancouver, B.C.; The Stomach - Turning Point - who is tampering with the soul of America?; Escape from Torture - how John Langdon outwitted Chief Walking Buffalo; The Theatre is a Weapon of War - Melville Burke tells the story of Red infiltration of the stage and screen; Secession Day - how the South missed a big chance to win the Civil War; Restored to Favor - the "Rehabilitation" of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose security clearance was revoked by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954; It's Your Money That's Being Squandered - Keynesian liberal theorists are more powerful than ever in Washington; "Save Me From the Trading Stamps" - premiums given by merchants cost more than customers realize; Our Political Health; Conspiracy in Foreign Affairs - a brillian expose of the influences at work in shaping U.S. foreign policy, by J.M. Shea; 47 Billion $ for Defense - a frank appraisal of our national defense theories; Setback at the U.N. after the death of Dag Hammarskjold; Christmas-card Winter; Volume 93 Index (July - December 1961); and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration by John Drew of Santa buying hot water bottlle; Ad for Beeman's Pepsin Gum inside front cover features photo of policeman and caption "That ugly cop... grinning!"; Glowing editorial about Canada's people and potential; How to Keep Peace on Earth, by Lieut.-General Robert Lee Bullard argues preparedness is the only way to end war; Dark of the Moon - part 2; Hell Hounds! - ex-legionnaire 1384 describes the lost garrison (part 3); Hollywood Goes Spanish with an epidemic of bull-fighting pictures; The Call of Christmas - s astory of divine justice in the wilderness; Certain Romantic Possibilities - the story of a forgotten prisoner and a girl who fell into a trap; One on the House - short story; Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus; Germany's Official Reply to Sgt. Halyburton; To the Ladies; and more. Back cover color-photo Camel cigarette ad features lady backgammon player, cigarette in hand; Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
102 pages. Features: Nice ad for Kraft ice cream toppings; Two-page 1960 Chrysler ad; Vintage one-page ad for Zenith pocket (transistor) radios; Oasis cigarette ad; Color Pontiac ad features a seaside blue 1960 Bonneville convertible; Our New Hospital Crisis - many unqualified foreigners are serving in US hospitals as interns and resident physicians; The Training of a Good Doctor - Susan Cook studies at the University of Chicago - major photo coverage; The Age of Payola - have our moral standards been destroyed by the pursuit of the dollar?; Vintage two-page color ad for the new 1960 Ford Falcon Wagons (both white); Pepsi ad features scene in horse barn with dalmation; Walter Lippmann explains Why We Accept Cheating; Nice photos of Connie Stevens with hunk Bill Troy, Mike McKee, and Jerry Eagle; Farley Granger in "The Third Season" - color photos; Sanka coffee ad features illustration of lady holding humongous coffee cup; article on pancakes; Modern fake flowers are very realistic; Marlboro ad features skin diver slouching in director-style chair - no wonder they adopted the Marlboro man a few years later; The Short-sleeved suit - tasteful fashion photos; Great two-page color ad for the (cream-colored) 1960 Buick Invicta Three-Seat Estate Wagon features Navajo people and a Monument Valley driving scene; The Quakers - religions in America; Basketball All America - with photos of Walt Bellamy, Terry Dischinger, Roger Kaiser, Darrall Imhoff, Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robertson, Tom Stith, Lee Shaffer, Jerry West and Len Wilkins; Hitler's Bloody Drive to Power - the inside story, with great photos; Photo Quiz; Color ad for "Man-Tan" product which tans white skin without sun (creepy); Two Young Friends Named Ellen - Ellen Erwitt and cripple Ellen Kalman of New Rochelle, N.Y. - touching photos; Back cover color-photo Lucky Strike ad shows smiling blonde injecting tar into her lungs; and more. Average wear. Nibble and short opening at bottom of coverfold. Small piece from bottom corner of back cover. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
