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84 pages plus 36 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part I; The Pirates of the "Ethel" - a tale of Australian piracy from 1899; The White Wanderer - my life among the Nomad Arabs - article with nice photos; The Queer Side of Things - My "Hunch" - a cowboy's plain tale of an odd adventure in Nevada; The Mystery of the "Flying Stones" - a weird story related by a South African policeman; The Judge's Joke - Judge Sawicki of Cleveland was anxious to be rid of three drunks; "Slippery Wiley" Scores Again - an illicit gold buyer in Australia; Photo and caption of a 1.5 ton monster sea turtle caught off Lowestoft, on the east coast of England!; Children of the Desert - a first-hand study of the manners and customs of the Navajo Indians - article with nice photos; Hunter's Luck on the Lion Trail - a lion-hunting story from East Africa - with nice photos; Over the Victoria Falls in a Canoe - Trooper Ramsay survived the 420' fall!; The Haunted Cabin - a queer little tale from Maroon Mountain, British Columbia; Man and his Needs; Stamps of the World. Nice full-page ad for Barney's Tobacco inside front cover. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of lady on red background; Nice colour-photo ad for Swift's Premium bacon inside front cover; Brief news items include The Ledger of Life, A Good Resolution, The Glow of True Happiness, We are Mostly All Strangers, and Improved Seeing and Knowing; Nice one-page ad for two new Ford V-8 cars for 1938, the Standard Ford V-8 Tudor and the De Luxe Ford V-8 Fordor; Editorials touch on - The Farmer and the Income Tax, Fascist Influence in the New World, Sources of Wealth, and World Trade; Attractively illustrated one-page McLaughlin Buick ad features a blue Series 46-19, Five-Passenger Sedan with Trunk; London's Famous Underground - photo-illustrated article; The Batley Inheritance (short story); Liberal Reward (short story); The Vagabonds (short story); Junior G-Men - photo-illustrated article on Vancouver Police Constable Ronald Eveleigh and his initiative to reduce juvenile delinquency; Strange Achievement - Charles E. Jones is founder of the world bird sanctuary at Collingwood East, a suburb of Vancouver, B.C.; The Murder on the Links (part III/3 of this Agatha Christie story); Mystery Man of Golf - Laverne Moore, alias Johnny Montague - article with photos; Sweet Caporals ad features photo of dog 'Rathlin Roundalay', owned by Miss Katherine Savage of Montreal West, Quebec; Hollywood news with photos of Andrea Leeds, Nita NAldi, Lily Pons, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Douglass Montgomery, Jean Parker, and more; Photo of Alice Faye in Woodbury Cold Cream ad; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Old Scottie comic; Article on Curling; Beauty article; Cooking article; Recipes; How to make a dinner mat; World Sayings; Nice colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy (lady in tub), and Rinso (lady on cliff); Canadian fish ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
58 pages. Features: Nice color ad for General Electric radios inside front cover; Hudson Essex car ad shows mother dropping kids at school; Nice full-page ad for Mimeograph; They'll Come Shooting (short story); Power and Glory - the gutsy story of Boies Penrose, one of the most prodigious figures in American political life - article with photos; Wild Geese (short story); A Lady of Resource (short story); Naughty Girl - Lenore Ulric serves allure in generous portions - article with photos; The Meanest Beast - battle between black leopard and shark; The Road Back (part VI of short story); You Couldn't Hate Patrick (short story); Thoughts that Win - Advice by champion golfer Jerome D. Travers - article with photo; Nice full-page color ad for Seald Sweet grapefruits; Full-page ad for Canada Dry ginger ales; The Scotty Dog (short story); Fantastic centerfold two-colour ad for Colorado tourism; Louisville & Nashville (L&N) Railroad full-page ad; Full-page ad for Philco radios features photos of Gary Cooper; Nice Chrysler ad; Full-page Fleischmann's Yeast ad encourages readers to eat three cakes per day (!); Back page article on prohibition; Attractive color Ford ad inside back cover shows doctor making housecall in the evening snow; Color Ipana ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cute colour cover illustration by Joachim Gauthier; Dignified colour ad inside front cover presents the new 1939 Ford cars, showing a dark green De Luxe V-8 Fordor Sedan and a blue V-8 Tudor Sedan; News digest includes these headings - For a Cool Head, What Happened at Munich, Two Different Problems, The Belgian Parallel, Keep the Home Fires Burning, and Books of the Season; One-page ad for Parker Vacumatic Pens; "The Bells of Bethlehem" - Photo-illustrated Christmas article on the Holy Land; Before St. Mihiel and All That (short story); Mrs. Scodger's Husband (short story); Letters to a Former Husband (short story); Britain's Army Road Scouts - great photo-illustrated article on the British Automobile Association (A.A.); The Man Who Was Lucky (short story); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part 2 of 5) by Agatha Christie; Salute to Winter Sport - article with photos of ski jumper, bob-sledders and the honourable rite of 'bouncing' (in front of the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec); Nice Kodak one-page ad; Hollywood news includes photos of Shirley Temple, Loretta Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mickey Rooney, Hedy Lamarr, Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Jane Withers, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Edward G. Robertson with his wife; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; Personal Finance article; Christmas dinner suggestions and recipes; Gorgeous colour ad inside back cover for this magazine features formal couple and many front cover images on jet black background; Handsome colour Nash car ad on back cover features an orange 1939 four-door; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Brief news items - The Dominion's 71st Birthday, No Province Can Live to Itself, Unwholesome Periodicals, Women Under Fascism and Communism, Dominion Day, The South African Election, and Franco-Italian Conversations; Land of Wish-It-Were (verse); Air Linger (short story); Just Beginning (short story); Man the Lifeboat - interesting photo-illustrated article on lifeboats and their need; Smooth Joe (short story); The Autobiography of Sir Herbert Barker (part II); Salvage (conclusion); Golf's Grand Old Man - photo-illustrated article on George S. Lyon; Palmolive ad features the Dionne Quints; Hollywood news, with photos of Edna May Oliver, Spencer Tracy, Alice Brady, Cora Witherspoon, John Barrymore, and others; The Dead Letter (short story); Dr. Robert H. Coats, Keeper of the Domesday Book, Custodian of the Censuses of Canada; Sweet Caporal cigarette ad features photo of dog "Bob", an Alsatian owned by Miss Elizabeth Brice of Westmount, Quebec; Business News/Personal Finance article; Summer cookery article; Glammour Girl in the Making - illustrated fashion article; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration blonde beauty clutching her list of suitors; Lovely one-page colour-photo ad for McLaughlin-Buick features green car and flower saleslady; News digest includes 'President Roosevelt intervenes', 'The Washington Proposal', The 'Halt-Hitler' movement; 'Parallel Perfidies', and 'Albania and Poland'; If I Die Before I Wake (part I); Thank-you Too Much (short story); Wings Over Britain - photo-illustrated article on the balloon barrages and fighter squadrons defending against hostile bombers; The Sweet Shot (short story); Behind the Goose Step - photo-illustrated article examines whether the people of Italy and Germany desire war or peace; Not in Our Stars (short story); Golf article includes photo of Henry Cotton, Sam Snead, Mrs. P.J. Mulqueen, Canadian Ladies' Open Champion, and Ralph Guldahl; One-page Palmolive soap ad includes photo inset of Dorothy Phelan of 24 Prince Arthur St., St. Lambert, Quebec; Automotive Industries of Canada-sponsored one-page feature on the province of Manitoba, with map and text; Cecille Has a Birthday (short story); Personal finance article; Movie News - with photos of Jeffrey Lynn, Paul Lucas, Victory Jory, Shirley Temple, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexander Hall, Zazu Pitts, and George Raft; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad for the Banff Springs Hotel; Woodbury soap ad features photo of Miss Gloria Armstrong of New York; Fashion illustrations; Vintage Craven "A" cigarette ad includes small photo of couple smoking up; Classy one-page colour ad for Crane kitchen and bath plumbing fixtures; Interesting Hair-Dos - article with photos; Pond's ad includes photos of The Lady Rosemary Gresham, Mrs. Robert Armstrong, of Toronto, and The Hon. Ann Shaughnessy; Photo of The Lady Patricia French in skin-vitamin ad; Article on the health impact of sugar; Nice half-page colour ad for Sisman's Scampers shoes; Canaries (half-page article); Cooking article with Bridge Luncheon suggestions; Frigidaire one-page fridge ad; Weed control in lawns; Quotes from around the world; Very nice colour back cover Coke ad features young man with tie blowing in breeze, and inset photo of Coke machine at gas station; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
76 pages. Features: Nice cover photo of the King and Queen with Princess Elizabeth; Fisher Body one-page ad features a McLaughlin-Buick; Wonderful colour one-page ad for Frigidaire fridges; News digest includes these headings - 'The Wild Geese', 'Politicians and Newspapers', 'Totalitarian Swapping', 'First Families', 'A Modern Napoleon', 'Mr. Bennett's Farewell', 'Dictatorship as a Refuge', 'Canada's Lesson from Europe', 'Dominion Unity', and 'Democracy's Frontier'; *Gorgeous* one-page colour ad for a dark blue 1939 Nash 4-Door Sedan; Canada's King and Queen Come Home - photo-illustrated article on their Canadian visit; The Iron Key (short story); Crime Comes to South Street (short story); All Our To-Morrows (short story); Historical Rhymes of Canada; Mr. Mayland Takes a Single (short story); Not in our Stars (short story); Strictly "Off the Record" - nice photo-illustrated article on Canadian figure skating with photos of Mary Rose Thacker of the Winnipeg Winter Club, Norah McCarthy, Canadiand Ladies' Junior Champion of 1938, and her 1939 Canadian Pair Champion partner Ralph McCreath, of the Toronto Skating Club; Nice one-page ad for the 1939 Pontiac; One-page Kodak ad with photos of six of their cameras, complete with prices and basic specs; The province of Saskatchewan is high-lighted in a one-page ad by the Automotive Industries of Canada; Banff and Alaska are featured in Canadian Pacific travel ad; Movie news with photos of Herbert Stothart, Bob Wright, Chet Forrest, pianist Stokowski, and Deanna Durbin; Fashion Illustrations; Canadian National ad features Jasper; Kellogg's All-Bran ad features "Fair Enough!" comic by C.A. Vought; Are You House Dreaming? - article on house design suggestions; Spring Magic - beauty article; Pond's ad features photos of The Lady Ursula Stewart and The Lady Bourke; Another Pond's ad features photo of Lady Harmsworth; Eating for Efficiency and Health; vintage Magic Baking Powder one-page ad features the New York World's Fair; Fabric Fundamentals; World Quotes; Nice colour Coke ad inside back cover features young man in tie and jacket drinking, with small inset colour photo of Coke cooler; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 87-168 plus 32 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Queer Side of Things - The Haunted Rest-House - an occult story from West Africa; In the Hands of the Bedouin - part I of Anton Hauptmann's story; Hitting the Iron Trial - part I of the author's train-hopping adventure from Vancouver, British Columbia to New York before he carried on to England; Update on the "Harpist of Alexandria", made famous in the July 1928 issue of this publication; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - part II; "Lo! The Poor Indian" - An amusing account of the ways and wiles of the Red men of British Columbia - with photos; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery - one of the most remarkable crimes in the annals of the West Australian Police; The Elephant-Slayer - an amusing story from Kenya colony in 1905-6; A Weighty Problem - young Captain Gillon and the vessel Saragossa; Piano Tuner Kenneth J. McCombie's Adventure; In a Hole - the author fell into a hole at a New Mexico gravel pit; "Wide World" Sequels; The "Fleet of the Lost" - great article about the old windjammers residing at Alameda, on the shores of San Francisco Bay - article with nice photos; Man and his Needs; House and Garden; Stamps of the World. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Amazing Adventure of Los Angeles policeman Sergeant Arthur W. Bethel - major photo-illustrated article; The Seer of Kantara; Unknown Peru - part 1 - photo-illustrated article on travel and adventure in the Andes; Our Election - election corruption in an American city; In Search of Sea-Monsters - part 2 - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges travels the world to capture the world's largest fish - photo-illustrated article; The Panther's revenge - a child-eating panther terrorizes an Indian village; An Up-Country Holiday in China - nice photo-illustrated article; Outlaws at Bay - a regiment captures a gang of native desperadoes in North-West India - article with photos; The Charm That Came Back - a special coin returns to B.J. Munchweiler; The Ku-Ula - an ancient Hawaiian superstition; Mark Cambell's Last "Stunt" - after a big scare he stopped performing daredevil stunts in the air for film 'thrillers'; Taming the Silver Fox - visit to a fur farm in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada - great photo-illustrated article; The Talking Crow - a story from the Virginia Mountains; Unusual Revenge - a 1910 story involving a North-West Mounted Policeman; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Watts Trading Co. of New York City features seven handguns and two pairs of binoculars - all with prices and descriptions; Lovely one-page ad for Whiteland radios. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
56 Pages. Features: Cover photo of "Russia's Winter Army on the March" showing soldiers on skis; United States Lines ad inside front cover features Eliot Wadsworth of the Chamber of Commerce; Color-photo one-page ad for The Commercial Travelers Mutual Accident Association of America; One-page ad for Dumont televisions; Japan is Still a Dangerous Enemy - article with naval battle photos including a dramatic one-page photo of a U.S. rocket assault on Peleliu Island; The Delicate Balance to be Kept in Europe Demands Statesmanship; Poem to the leaders of the Allied Nations; Wonderfully illustrated article on Idlewild Airport (New York International Airport, later renamed in honor of JFK) by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia; Nice color one-page Celanese ad advertises their Lumarith plastic car parts; Harry Truman article on his new job as Vice-President; Article on music composer Richard Rodgers (with photo) explains that he writes musical amid office confusion; Lovely one-page color ad for Richelieu Pearls features lady in strapless top; Inside story of a Handbag - casing new light on the ways of womankind!; Nice color ad for Valliant Vineyards; Al Smith - a friend looks at the record - great photo-illustrated article on the life of Governor Alfred E. Smith; One-page ad for Congress Playing Cards; The Story of Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Nostalgic ad for the defoe Shipbuilding Company of Bay City, Michigan; Color photo ad for Thomas' Protein Bread features attractive lady in yellow dress; Color ad fo Presto Cake Flour; Photo-illustrated recipe for Coffee Cake Without Sugar; Wonderful one-page colour ad for Sand W Fine Apple Juice features two lovely young ladies; Article on tomorrow's refrigerators; Teen-Age Decalogue; Wheatena ad shows bride carrying groom over the threshold; Lovely two pages of photo of formal hat fashions for ladies; Chow for the Wacs - they don't need as much food as they've been receiving; Gorgeous one-page color-photo fashion ad for Donnybrook Classic; Color ad for Oxydol soap; Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder ad features sensuous scene; ad for Scott fine radio receivers; Color ad for Jackson & Perkins Co. flowers on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue. Book
52 pages. Features: Outstanding colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover shows their products being used on a gigantic Rio de Janeiro water conductor project; Nice ad for the Ford V-8 Truck (van); Canada Dry ad; "By the Lovely Dove" (fiction); Beverley Baxter reports on his trip to the war front; Sneed and the Loud Suit (fiction); An Industry with a Creed - The story of the world's biggest asbestos mine at Asbestos, Quebec - article with photos (no breathing protection in sight); A Menace to Navigation (fiction); Canada's Fighting Forces - Part 5 - The Servicing Units - article with photos; Wings of Hazard (fiction); Mary Rose Thacker - Winnipeg's North American figure skating champion - article with nice photo; Great colour full-page ad for DeSoto cars says "Enjoy Life!"; Nice highbrow colour full-page ad for Chrysler cars; Gordon Dunstan's Quiz; Nice Pontiac car ad; Nice colour ad for Nash cars on back cover. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A very pleasing copy. Book
84 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle shows ducks being defeathered after hunt; One-page Bank of Montreal ad features the Kemano power house; Editorial discusses TV censorship; Lovely one-page vintage colour-photo ad for Ganong's chocolates; Mackenzie King and the "Revolt" of the Army - was the Canadian Army on the verge of an uprising in 1944 over conscription?; How They Saved the Worst Kid in Town - after four years of patient care an adopted brat becomes a happy, healthy kid (Children's Aid Society / CAS story from Toronto in 1947); It's a Sin What They Do To The Sandwich! - humorous article with comedian Mickey Lester; All the Fun of the Fair (short story); When Sears Joins Up with Simpson's; Where Even Women Stop Talking - retreats across the country are finding that a weekend of silence, prayer and meditation opens the door to a more personal peace; The Rollicking Republic That Doesn't Exist - nice photo-illustrated article on the parts of Maine, Quebec and New Brunswick which constitute 'The Republic of Madawaska'; Sailor A.G. Malan Fights His Greatest Battle - a legendary RAF hero spearheads a peaceful veteran's revolt against D.F. Malan in South Africa; Will Shakespeare Slept Here; Nice one-page Kodak ad features colour-photo of lady in Kodak-yellow dress; Very attractive one-page colour Coke ad features young lady pulling bottles from cooler at BBQ; Weston's one-page colour ad show's Grandma training grandchildren to pray at her knee; One-page illustrated ad for Elizabeth Arden with caption "She Holds Beauty in her Fingertips"; Sweet Caps (Caporals) cigarette ad shows puffing majorette; Awesome Pontiac centrefold ad with huge photo of two-door Catalina; One-page Noxzema photo ad features lovely Lally Pepler of Toronto, Florence Wood of Montreal, and Jeanette Horpestad of Vancouver; Cream of Wheat ad features Li'l Abner comic; Half-page Stanfield's ad features man smoking pipe standing in long underwear; One-page two-colour ad for Austin cars; Back cover colour ad for Old Dutch cleanser features pretty girl; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
96 pages. Features: Cover art by Fenwick Lansdowne; Nice colour ad for GWG inside front cover features casual fashions for ladies; Tim Buck's Future; The Bankruptcy of George H. Ridout's Ontario real estate empire; Will Maggie Muggins be Canada's next movie star?; Bruce Hutchison argues 'We're Being Corrupted By Our Boom'; One-page photo ad for Crown Zellerbach Canada features Forester Ken Mulholland; Diary of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke pictures Churchill as a happy genius without judgement; One-page Chevrolet ad features pink 1957 Chevy coupe with white roof; Is B.C.'s fanfare for Wenner-Gren another false alarm? - he has an Olympian plan to develop the B.C. Trench - photo-illustrated article; Siobhan McKenna and the Statford Festival - photo-illustrated article; Fenwick Lansdowne and his Unbelievable Bird Paintings; How the Russians are trained to hate the west - interesting photo-illustrated cold war-era article explains that the Russian people are not fooled by their state propaganda; The Wonderland of Louis B. Mayer (conclusion) - fantastic photo-illustrated article explains how the thirties were a bonanza for this Canadian star-maker who made Garbo talk, discovered Judy Garland and hit the jackpot with 'Gone With the Wind'; Was Our Biggest Historical Find Our Biggest Hoax? - awful suspicion that Viking relics 'found' in Northern Ontario and proudly displayed in our largest museum are probably fake - fascinating photo-illustrated article about relics 'found' by James Dodd and Fletcher Gill in 1930 on a Beardsmore, Ontario mining claim; Why the (Toronto Maple Leafs) Kid Line became a legend - sensational photo-illustrated article - part IV of the story of the Conachers; Will the nickel book make a new man of Manitoba? - Trapper Walter Johnson staked the Moak Lake area then sold his secret for a fortune - photo-illustrated article; Fantastic one-page colour Meteor car ad features yellow and black car with white roof, plus endorsement by Ed Sullivan, whose photo appears in lower left corner; Sensational colour two-page Meteor car ad includes illustrations of sixteen cars!; Black Label Beer ad features 'Mabel'; When Louis Mayer sang to Jeanneatte Macdonald; Nice one-page colour ad for 1957 Chrysler cars features a red Windsor 2-door hardtop (with white roof); How Pal became Lassie and how Elizabeth Taylor started on a fast climb to stardom; Colour ad for Jello-O orange instant pudding; Colour centrefold ad for Simmons mattresses; McCulloch chainsaw ad features the Model 39; Pilkington Glass ad features colour photo of the living room of the J.L. Silverman home in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Wonderful one-page colour ad for the 1957 Monarch Turnpike Cruiser car features their new dual-curve windshield; Nice colour ad for Dow ale; Max (Rawhide) Ferguson describes his most memorable meal; Baby photo of footballer Normie Kwong; Nice one-page colour-photo Oldsmobile ad features white car in front of fashionable city location; Colour ad for Molson Golden Ale; 1957 Dodge ad inside back cover features yellow car with white trim and roof; Coke ad on back cover features Hawaiian get-together; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
411 pages. Index. Many black and white archival illustrations. "Our book begins with the stories of that special breed, the pioneer homesteaders. It continues with records of the changes and the development of the area." Gilt lettering and decoration upon light green cloth-covered boards. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this informative local history and invaluable genealogical reference. Krotki [2e) 540, Book
76 pages. Features: Wonderful cover illustration of ice fishing huts by Macpherson; Quebec Board of Cinema Censors bans film Martin Luther as it shows the Pope in a bad light; Should White Marry Black? - Interracial Marriage; Dulles Battles an Uneasy Europe; Colour Plymouth ad; John Tunney's Stubborn Fight for Justice - this pro-union Winnipeg milkman spent seven years and thousands of dollars battling the union leaders who cost him his job - bonus-length feature article with photos; Do You Know How Old You Really Are? - new atom-age tests make a liar of the calendar; The Lakehead-core of Canada - Karsh photo feature on Fort William-Port Arthur (Thunder Bay) - with interesting emphasis on the huge Finnish labour force; The Memory of a Sentimental Morning - story by Ronald R. Smith - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; People Won't Believe the Colonel's Blind - Col. Eddie Baker and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB); He Tried to Create the Perfect Wife - story by Robert Olson; There'll Never Be Another Model T - a Maclean's flashback to 1922 when Henry Ford's 'car for the multitude' became almost a way of life; Lovely colour ad for the 1954 DeSoto; My Adventures in Basic English, by Steve Laszkiewicz, a displace person (DP) from Poland; Unusual colour centerfold "Do I Have To Grow Old?" shows fashionable woman - sponsored by the Canadian Banana Company; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover "After the Prom... it's Coke Time". Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
124 pages. Features: Peter Whalley's cover illustrations depict the many phases of deer hunting; Editorial laments the 'sickness' of TV giveaway shows; How Iron Man Sir Anthony Eden Made Good; Half-page Wawanesa Insurance ad features photo of 1948 Olympic Champion Barbara Ann Scott figure skating; Great two-page colour ad for a white on red 1956 Plymouth Belvedere V-8 Four-door hardtop; The New Wonder Drugs That Fight Insanity - photo-illustrated article on Chlorpromazine and reserpine; Buck Crump's Love Affair with the CPR - photo-illustrated article on the rise of Buck Crump from machinist's apprentice to 51-year-old president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR); The Cooney's and their seven adopted children - photo-illustrated article on the family of Lillian and Joe Cooney of Toronto; St. Boniface (Manitoba) is Nobody's Suburb - photo-illustrated article on the largest French-Canadian settlement outside Quebec; Where to buy an ancestor cheap - Ben Ward-Price runs Canada's busiest auction gallery, Ward-Price Ltd. - photo-illustrated article; Uncle Charley's Secret Treasure (short story); The Unconquered warriors of Ohsweken - photo-illustrated article on the Iroquois and their unknown 'republic' in the heart of Ontario; How the Highlanders Took Nova Scotia - they are making the place more Scottish than Scotland - photo-illustrated article; Flashback article on the September 15, 1885 tragic death of Jumbo the elephant at St. Thomas, Ontario; God's Little Fleet - Rev. John Antle and the Columbia Coast Mission visit the raft villages of B.C.'s coastal loggers - nice photo-illustrated article; Two Hunters (arctic short story); Want a Moose in Your Parlor? - photo-illustrated article on taxidermist Clifford McCutcheon and his Oliver Spanner & Co. Ltd. of Toronto; What's Your Day to Shine?; One-page colour-photo ad for NCR (National Cash Register Company) shows lady working adding machine; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1956 Ford Fairlane Victoria (white on salmon colour); Nice Sylvania TV ad; One-page photo-ad for Ronson lighters; Bright two-page colour ad for the 1956 Dodge Mayfair 4-dr hardtop (black on yellow); Beautiful two-page colour ad for the new 1956 De Soto Fireflite 4-door hardtop (white on blue); Colour Seabreeze ad shows eight of their record players; Rare one-page two-colour illustrated ad for McCulloch chain saws shows lady cutting log; Fantastic One-page illustrated Dunlop Tire ad explains how hero Edward Chipman of the Elmhurst Dairy in Montreal entered a burning home three times to save children on the Caughnawaga Indian Reservation just before Christmas 1954; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features photo of their new Empress of Britain; Molson's Golden ale ad features colour illustration of 'Goldie' the lion playing checkers; Colour ad for Moirs Pot of Gold chocolates; Admiral TV ad features their 'Regina', 'Manitoba' and 'Collingwood' models; Canadian Wine Institute colour ad features M. Andre Vaucher and Mlle. Micheline Dubois, both of France; Nice colour ad for the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington shows its huge banquet room; Barrett Company ad includes photos of F.E. Shaw, Tim Kier, George Goddard, L.O. Heron and John Hawthorne; Labatt's IPA ale ad includes photo of Toronto crane operator Leo Maltais; Interesting 1/3-page piece on artist Simpkins and his cartoon bear Jasper; Canadian Anecdote - When B.C. Had a Navy; Caterpillar ad inside back cover shows terribly muddy backroad and explains how the state of Kansas has performed major upgrades to its roads; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover has one-inch stain at top; and more. Discrete clear archival-tape repairs to coverfold, otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A pleasing vintage copy of this nice issue. Book
74 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Whitman's prestige chocolates inside front cover; Essex car ad; Mimeograph ad; Business is Business (short story); What's the Racket? - interesting article about rackets - what they are and how they work; Moonlight on the Water (short story); Beyond the War (a war short story); Position in Life - how a woman chooses her position in life; In the Strongroom (short story); A Ship Comes In - the dramatic story of Eugenie Leontovich, principal actress in Grand Hotel; - article with photo; Yuan Hee See Laughs (part VII); Gunsight Trail (part VI); Golf "Coarse" - how to make a smaller crop of divets; How Dry We Are - what is known about droughts and what measures for relief have been attempted i.e. photo of electrically-charged sand being discharged into the air; A Mere Detail (short story); Beautiful color full-page photo of a green car in Fisher Body ad; Wonderful two-page color ad for Dutch Boy paint shows Dutch Boy painting atop ladder; Full-page color ad for bananas by the United Fruit Company; Full-page Buick ad; Canada Dry full-page ad; Fleischmann's Yeast ad featuring Dr. Emil Fronz of Vienna; Two-page colour centerfold ad for General Electric refrigerators - very nostalgic!; Full-page ad for Chrysler Eights & Sixes; Nice two-color full-page ad for Williams shaving cream/Aqua Velva; Color ad for Seald-Sweet grapefruit; Two-page ad for Veedol oil - "so clear you can read a newspaper through it"; Full-page ad with photo for the Autogiro - an early helicopter!; Ad for True Temper step-down steel shafts for golf clubs with photo of the 6th Tee at Pebble Beach; Vintage ad for Wilson golf equipment inside back cover; Nice color Ford ad inside back cover shows policeman in car; Nice color Frigidaire refrigerator ad on back cover (soiled). Average external wear and soiling with a few peripheral chips/openings. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 449-536, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Mystery of Dominic Pietro - how an innocent man was saved from the gallows; The Trials of A Naturalist's Wife - part 4; A Woman's Ordeal - Mrs. C.T. Sturgis was a prisoner of Mexican bandits; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - Part 2 of the great photo-illustrated story of the author's travels among the Wahhabi Arabs; Hunting the Addo Elephants - they were marked for extinction at the hand of famous hunter Major Pretorius - article with many photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 5 - Adventures in Peru, with great photos, including carrying a piano up a mountain!; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season - terrible flooding makes travel very difficult; Photo of 30,000 coconuts being sprouted in Tobago; In Old Madrid - two Americans are left behind in Madrid with an elephant and soon the animal is matched up for battle with a fine Spanish bull!; Photo of London "Dog Market"; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron - Part 2; Photo of the only inhabited "Cloghaun" in Ireland; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 4 - The Adventures and Daring Escape of Airman Capt. T.W. White; A Land of Gods - photo-illustrated article about the people and places of the Kulu Valley of India; The Hunting of Lot Shumway - the pursuit and ultimate capture of this Northern Arizona badman; How Nixon Made Good - a western railroad tale; Photo of Harry Rich of Kansas City - the Human Gun Carriage!; Photo of large tree growing up through millstone at Sheldon's Mill at South Dover, New York. Somewhat above-average wear with openings along backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
134 pages. Contributors include: Isaac F. Marcosson, Vincent sheean, Nunnally Johnson, Alfredo Codona, Gilbert Patten, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Colonel Givens, John H. Doeg. Lovely vintage advertisements from: Whitman's Chocolates, Campbell's Soup, De Soto, Cadillac V-8, GM Radio, Oldsmobile, Ford Auto, Hudson and Essex, Reo-Royale, Willys Cars, Log Cabin Syrop, Auburn Auto, Sparton Radio, Nash Auto, Packard, Franklin Auto, Canada Dry. Articles include: Dime-Novel Days, Gymnasts (The Flying Codonas), Nevada Stories, Tennis as a Career, The Secretary to President Coolidge. Large tear to cover-fold and front cover else average wear. Nice solid copy. Book
84 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: An Elephant-Hunt in Canada - a six-week hunt results when seven valuable elephants escaped from a circus and took to the British Columbia woods - article with photos; A Fugitive in Thirstland - A former German officer who became a adventurer is South Africa is continually chased by the police; Trekking in Unknown Abyssinia - great photo-illustrated article; The Friendly Mosquito - how a mosquito saved the life of T.A. Shields; Our Salvage Job - a plucky attempt to salvage the crippled vessel Stiklestadt; The Decree of the Wild - a grim tale of the Canadian Far North, 1,200 miles north of Edmonton; "The White Man's Great War-Game" (part III) - amongst the savages of the Sura, Angas, and other primitive tribes of Northern Nigeria, Geoffrey Barkas produced a film founded upon the history of British Administration - article with great photos; Gulbaz Khan's Revenge - the story of a long-delayed vengeance for a trifling action that had far-reaching consequences; Where Everybody Plays "Cat's Cradle" - photo-illustrated article on the people of the Pelews (Pelew Islands); Fur-Getting in Australia - Australian men make a good living hunting rabbits and foxes for their furs; The Partnership That Went Wrong - four U.S. Army soldiers pool their savings to run a sawmill; What Happened to Wilson - struggle for life with an enraged tiger in the heart of a big city; Through France with "Sylvabelle" (part II) - Mr. Leslie Richardson's yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
68 pages. Features: Fantastic two-colour full-page photo ad for International Trac-Tractor roadbuilding equipment; Wakeville Awake! - Part 1 of a serial by Leslie McFarlane; Parker Pen ad; The Stars Hang High (fiction); Lord Tweedsmuir's Vision of a New World; Mackenzie King, R.J. Manion, J.S. Woodsworth and John Blackmore comment on the nation's war effort; Five Wee Wimmen - another Donald Mackellen story (fiction); Canada's Fighting Forces - Part 6 - Pay and Records - article with photos; Bats in the Belfry - Dr. Harold B. Hitchcock studies bats - photo sequence; Feud on High Plateau (fiction); Gordon Dunstan's Quiz #12; Hudson Six ad; Frigidaire Fridge ad; War on the Parasite - the new institute of Parasitology at Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec; Rare article and photos of hockey on Cape Breton - the Glace Bay Miners, North Sydney Vics and Sydney Millionaires - with photos of McGibbon,k Squarebriggs, Larabie, Clifton, Craig and Bill Hannon, Van Daele, Langille and Bill Gill - very rare!; GMC Truck (van) ad; Plymouth ad; Dodge car ad; Dodge truck ad; Sensational colour photo centerfold ad for Studebaker cars; Interesting drawn ad for Kleenex attempts to convince readers to adopt the Kleenex habit (it seems to have worked); Photo ad for Tangee make-up "Will He Kiss You Tonight?"; Cartoon strip-style ad for Hinds hand cream featuring beauty advisor "Honey"; Nice Fargo truck ad features photo of a Charlottetown, P.E.I. unit with snowplow mounted on front; Skis for Planes - the Elliott brothers' workshop in Sioux Lookoutk, Ontario - article with photo; *Fantastic* two-page election ad for "Fighting Bob" Manion takes aim at Mackenzie King; Ford V-8 ad inside back cover; Nice colour ad for canned lobster on back cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
76 pages. Features: Hugh Cudlipp - the new comet of Fleet St.; Funky colour ad for Buick; I served on a murder jury; How to get your boss's job; The University of Saskatchewan - The precocious alma mater of the prairies; How I got mixed up in the Cuban revolution; Eat fat and grow slim - Dr. Ray N. Lawson's approach is having success; Stoker Mahoney and Pill No. 2-183 - an uncensored naval story from WWII involving seasickness; A challenging new concept of French Canada - Philippe Garigue closely examines St. Justin, Quebec - article with great photos; Great 'wishbone' colour ad for the 1959 Dodge; Massive Black Label beer centerfold ad!; Julian Janvrin and his family are featured in a full-page ad by the Bank of Montreal; Nice Chevrolet Impala sport coupe photo ad; Colour photo ad for O'Keefe beer inside back cover features Irish setter licking lady's face; Nice Valentine theme Coke ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Credit Cards are Making Cash Old-Fashioned - article with photo of Alfred Ritchie, founder of the Master Credit service; Goma - the second gorilla born in captivity - article with great photos; Jump For Joy - Teaching Ukrainian Dance at the Ukrainian Centre in Edmonton - great photo-illustrated article; Full page ad for Jack the Ripper movie starring Lee Patterson; Vintage two-page colour ad for Jell-O pudding and pie filling; Dorothy Dent Describes Her Battle with Parkinson's Disease - article with photos; Two Italian Nuns Learn to Fly so then can service remote areas - short story with four photos - Sisters Maria Cleofe and Maria Innocenza; Nice two-page colour photo ad for Kroehler furniture; Sermons are Short in the Skier's Church - Rev. Horace G. Baugh preaches in Quebec's Laurentian Mountains - article with photos; I Was a Member of the Ghost Squad - More Cases of an Undercover Cop (Part 2 of 2) - Ex-Det.-Supt. John Gosling of Scotland Yard describes his battle of wits with some notable forgers and an elusive receiver; A Visit to Martha Hyer's Home Overlooking Los Angeles - article with many great photos; Andy O'Brien Describes how Russians may win the Stanley Cup! - article with photo; Robert Abels collects miniature replica's of antique firearms - brief article with five photos; Nice colour-photo ad for Old Tyme Syrup; Colour ad for People's Credit Jewellers on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Few minor clear tape repairs. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 265-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Hunting the Giant Crocodiles of the Bayano, Central America - with amazing photos; The Radio Man's Adventure - terrible experience for Ross Knight in the High Sierras of California; The Golden River - The Kawarau River in New Zealand is to be dammed so its bed may be mined for gold - photo-illustrated article; The Missing Necklace - a tale from the Malay Peninsula; The Lady and the Python - photo-illustrated story from Port Elizabeth; My Novel Holiday - Mercer Sherwood Maloney works as a 'messman' on a cargo-steamer in order to visit Europe; My Search for the King's Treasure, by Lieut. Colonel K.M. Foss, Late Indian Army; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - the log of the "St. Francois Xavier" reports a sighting, according to a 1903 news clipping from the 'Vancouver Province'; Where Cannibals Roam - part 3 - wonderfully photo-illustrated article from Papua; The Looker-on - how card sharks on an Atlantic liner were unmasked; Saved by "The Wide World Magazine" - how reader Hubert H. Arthur benefitted from a 1922 article on a Japanese science called 'Katsu'; Johnny Mackay's Last Hand - a half-breed card player in Canada's northland; Man Versus Lion - South African game ranger is forced to kill lion with sheath knife; Remains of man found in hollow tree - news clipping from the World Herald of Omaha, NE; Two Years in Borneo - part 2 - a strange story of love potion; Some Adventures with Bears - bear stories from Alberta and British Columbia; One-page General Electric ad features 'electric logger' in the Washington woods; One-page Lionel Strongfort ad entitled "When Marriage is Fatal". Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
56 pages. Features: Fantastic colour International Harvester truck ad inside front cover; Money Marriage - the story of a girl who learned that money doesn't paddle a canoe in a crisis, by Eve Burkhardt; Kings Who Came to Canada, by W.J. Baanks; The Pipe Pushers, by Weston Martyn; Your Clothes and Your Clothes - a gibe at wollen-armored males who dare to laugh at women's clothes, by Mary Lowery Ross; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - the crash of appeasement; Beautiful Homes, I Love You, by Anne Wormser; A $300,000,000 Business - Canada's Tourism industry - fascinating!; Deep Waters, by Ben Ames Williams; It Does Rain Fish - dropping fingerling trout from airplains is Quebec's latest method of restocking Northern lakes; Great 1939 Chevrolet centerfold ad; Nice colour Stetson Hat ad inside back cover; Colour photo Studebaker Champion ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
