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286 pages. Archival black and white illustrations. "Here is the day-to-day stuff of life in the forest industry." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
Pages 41-80. Features: The Saddest Woman in the World - Marie of Russia - article with photos; Buried Treasure - a complete story; Photo tips of what not to do with your Gramphone; Most People Have a Double - but is sometimes means trouble - article with photos; Does Marriage Mean Going ThroughThe Mill? - a story that answers the problem; Lovers or Friends? - Woodbine Willie discusses the truth about companionship between the sexes; Wit of the Week; Open That Window! - and help yourself to health; "Stop & Look" pictures include Copenhagen church in the shape of an organ; Why George Tupper wished his wife many unhappy returns (fiction); In a Floating "Hell" - horses break loose aboard a storm-tossed ship enroute to Russia from Canada; Angel Esquire (continued); The Story of the Birmingham Municipal Bank; and more. Staples disintegrated. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo. First Edition thus; pictorial wrappers a very good clean copy. PS 65.
79 pages. Dellightfully illustrated with black and white sketches in text and eight most adorable full-page colour plates. Includes thirteen short stories for beginning readers. Titles include: This Year's Calendar; A Small Little Dog; George Had a Window Box; An Embroidered Hanky; A Motor-car Story; Evangeline's Dolly; An Indian Brave; Her Shetland Pony; Toodles at the Telephone; All be the Sea; A Birthday Card; Marjorie Maude Grows Up!. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this charming vintage work. Book
56 pages. Features: Colour Imperial (Oil) ad inside front cover features old-style gas pumps and bottled oil; Editorial topics include Preserving Balance, The Limit of Freedom, The Limit of Socialism, The Impasse, Adult Education, and Strong Medicine; Nice one-page ad for Waterman's pens features photo of artist Howard Chandler Christy; Travel for the Average Man - article which touches on the tough economic times of the day; Rain Before Seven (short story); Echo of Erin (short story); Modernizing the Land of the Master - great photo-illustrated article on Palestine; The Man Who Lived in Twilight (short story); The Native Returns - photo-illustrated article on Robert Watson's return to the place of his rural Scotland boyhood; One-page Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Henry Field of Chicago; The Birth of a Novel (fiction); Nice one-page illustrated Ford car ad shows stylish coupe and traffic cop; Movie News includes photos of Margaret Sullavan, Douglas Montgomery, Rosemary Ames, W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Una Merkek, Harold Lloyd, Hugh Williams, Helen Twelvetrees, and more; Interesting one-page Lux ad features photo of gagged man; Palmolive ad includes photo of Gladys Swarthout; One-page ad features several Heinz food products; Two-page General Motors of canada ad says "Progress out of the Common Sense of Canadian Motorists"; Legal article; Investment news; Half-page Canadian National photo-ad features budget vacations in Eastern Canada; Cooking article; World Sayings; Chipso ad inside back cover includes colour photo of Mrs. R.L. Pine and her family, plus her black dishwasher Birdie (Bertha); and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Covers detached but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 303-396 plus 28 pages of ads, many wonderfully illustrated. Numerous black and white illustrations and photos in text. Features: Saved by Two Inches - How a big-horn sheep brought a veteran hunter to the verge of destruction in Montana; Gun-Running with Mexican Outlaw Emiliano Zapata - article with great photos; A Terrible Trip - Gold Searching in German New Guinea; Twenty Years in Newfoundland (Part II) - article with nice photos; Fishermen's Luck - a story from New Zealand involving T. Colthart, H. Hewlett and D.G. FitzGibbon; Across the Andes and Down the Amazon - the story of an adventurous journey (part II); The Well of Skulls - a story from Hyderabad; The Lake of Life - the Idiong secret society in Africa; The King Who Met His Match - a story from Sierra Leone; Trapped in a Tank (cover illustration); Captured by the Monkey-Men - an explorer's tale from the Orinoco River; The Smugglers of Gibraltar; Pete the Pup - an adventurous dog in New Mexico. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Minor chipping to back strip. Three inch opening between front cover and base of spine. Overall a pleasing copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
144 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. Black and white photographic plates. Statistical tables. "Paints with a broad brush the popular, imaginative aspect of the industry." - from Foreward. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
48p. + Photograph Frontis. Damp stained. 12mo. Original pink wraps, front cover decorated with a female dancer and stars. Damp stained. PA PAMPH 20_5 BX2
197 pages. A book about television in Canada, particularly the CBC and particularly as seen through the eyes of one who has been involved in television for a dozen years. A gifted raconteur, Barris shares the experiences of his association with the CBC, partly because "I have always enjoyed telling a story, sharing a yarn, passong on an anecdote. Combines humour with thoughtful analysis in discussion of the CBC's inner machinations, personalities, attitudes and policies, producers, stars, visiting celebrities, television critics, and the viewing public. Discard stamp upon front endpaper else unmarked. Very light wear to book. Small tears and chipping to dust jacket. Book
88 pages. Features: Cover photo features Carlton E. Golden, Steven A. Kingman and William C. Dalrymple; The Old Gunny Says....; Today's DI - he must convert 75 stumbling civilians into a platoon of smart-stepping U.S. Marines - article with photo of Grady J. Studdard and many others; Staff NCO Selection Boards - article with photo of Col. M.P. Ryan; Sasebo Note - letter and photos from General Harry Schmidt; Academy Prep - the first rung of the ladder to higher education and a commission; Return the the Islands - New Caledonia - although the area around Noumea was dotted with military establishments during WWII, little evidence remains; Portsmouth - Post of the Corps; Chin (story); Long Beach Reservists - records of the Reserve unit date back to 1904; List of Retirees, with photo of Randolph Berkeley; Photos of these Rifle Competition Winners - Lawrence N. Dubia and Ernest O. Chilson; Nice one-page photo of Leatherneck's Miss DI, Barbara Hobart in swimwear with marine hat and sword; List of Transfers; Corps Album - great archival photos; Back cover color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features G.L. Stavely of Mexico Hat, Utah, skipper for geologists mapping the Colorado River; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this great issue. Magazine
120 pages. Select bibliography. Dozens of great black and white archival photos. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
144 pages. Bibliography. Illustrated in colour and black and white. "Provides a fascinating background into the life of those of us who live and train with the British Army Training Unit Suffield. It also records the history of this magnificent part of Canada and is an excellent piece of joint Anglo-Canadian work." - Foreword. Gift greetings atop half-title page. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
347 pages. "Surely one of the most dramatic human adventures of our time is this amazing escape story of a German prisoner of war, sentenced to twenty-five years of forced labor in a Siberian mine. Rebelling against the brutal life of a Soviet prison camp, Clemens Forell undertook three years of lonely, fear-haunted flight across the endless wastes of Siberia - in pursuit of freedom." - from dust jacket. Average wear to unmarked book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy mylar cover. A sound copy. Book
"Mr Beachcroft considers in detail the work of the mid-ninteenth to the mid-twentieth century writers in this second and final essay." Split to top 30mm of spine. Some creasing to covers.
pp. vi, 206. Some damp staining on margins. Interleaved with questions on typed tissue papers. This copy used as a teaching tool. 12mo. Original printed paper wraps, soiled. Head and tail of spine have small loss. Second edition. Copyrighted by Workers Education Bureau of America. The Workers' Bookshelf, Volume V. Very good. ECON/BUS BOX 1
192 pages. Map endpapers. Black and white photographic frontis and plates. Bottom half-inch of spine damaged. Green boards. Unmarked. Quality working copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Feature photo-illustrated interview with Warren Beatty; 'Lucky Lady' - photos; Cannes 1975; 'The French Connection II' - photos'; Shopping for Soundtracks; Recent Swedish Cinema Unseen in Britain; 'The Little Prince' - photos; Reviews - 'The Passenger', 'Illumination', 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore', 'Knots', 'Deadly China Doll', 'The Mattei Affair', 'Uptown Saturday Night', 'Blood Money', 'The Donald Duck Story'; 'Bite the Bullet' - photos; 'The Yakuza' - photos; Review of book 'The Nazi Cinema'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
176 pages. Lovely black and white photographs throughout. Originally published in 1924. Average wear. Binding sound. School stamps upon endpapers. Guaranteed to bring a smile to new readers. Book
pp. xi, 269 + Frontis. Original full cloth binding. Fourth printing, of the first edition. THE LIFE STORY OF THE FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM. OCC 9.
364 pages including index. Tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. Explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and cancer, all within the framework of Dr. Becker's colorful and controversial career. Unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
252p. + full page drawings by Dan B. Timmons. Small 4to. Original printed wraps. LOC W19
255 pages including index. Sections include: The Comstock; The Age of Leisurely Transport; The Cables; Promontory; Wells, Fargo & Co.; Night Life; Lucky Baldwin; Newspapers; Fire Department; Resorts; The Palace; Public and Private Luxury; Chinatown. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Moderate wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Solid copy. Book
pp. viii, 254. Very XLib. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Spine crudely taped. Fair. First Edition. PA SHELF 08B
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 89 p. Kaçakçi Sahan. Hikâyeler.
216 pages including index. Beginning with the creation of Canada's first national park in Banff in 1885, the author provides a sympathetic story of the historical tension between conservation and profit which has marked Canada's national parks policy. Traces this motif from the era of MacDonald and Van Horne, through that of Mackenzie King to the initiatives of Trudeau and Chretien. One inch tear to bottom of front cover at spine. Covers show significant wear but contents clean and unmarked. Book
