MACDONALD Ross (Kenneth MILLAR)MareMagnum
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New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1969, in-8, mezza tela editoriale con sovraccoperta figurata (questa con minimi difetti), pp. (8), 243, (3). Prima edizione. Ottime condizioni.
16 pages. Features: Quote about joy in life (with photo) by Charlie Chaplin; The White Lie (fiction); Dandelion - a read-aloud story; Dorothy Doll's Law - she is Head Wardrobe Mistress of the "Folies Bergere"; To See a Summer Morning (fiction); Cool Tomato Recipes; Letter from Housewife Mrs. W.E. Bueker about how railway automation has affected her husband's career, and the lives of many other families, for the worse; Should the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, Wear the Hope Diamond?.. Color ad for Cut-Rite plastic bags; Average wear. Unmarked. Coupon removed from Royal Pudding ad on page 9 and Good Seasons Gravy ad on page 11, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
134 pages. Features: Poverty Starved Romance; No Right To Love Her; The Hate That Knows No End; My Underworld Rivals; Child of Sin; I Wanted to Be Free; My Most Terrible Moment; My Sister's Betrayer; Air Hostess; My Stolen Hours of Love; And They Say Children Forget; My Business is Beauty; Fruit of Paradise; The New Spring Styles; Your Homemaker Library; Sturdy Foods for Sturdy Babies; How and Why - homemaking issues; Ponds ad features Mrs. T. Markoe Robertson, the former Miss Cordelia Biddle; Lux ad features Marjorie Sheerin; Sobering one-page ad by the National Citizen's Committee features illustration of dirty-faced child and text 'It's Hard for a Hungry Citizen to be a Good Citizen'. This is a heavily worn copy. Long opening to page 43. Bottom inch of front cover missing. Chips and openings along spine. Age-toning to contents. Back cover missing. A worthy reading copy of this very nostalgic item. Magazine
54 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of cowboy on bike in cactus patch; Nice color Coke ad inside front cover features young lady playing cards; The Dole - A Great Calamity (depression-era editorial); The Private Life of Charlie Chaplin - major photo-illustrated article; Cash and Carry - how an American girl, a Chinese baby, and $70 worth of trouble proved that China's a grand place to shop!; Married for Glory - a racket is exposed - the surprising confessions of a "Publicity Wedding" promoter; Classy one-page two-color Chevrolet ad features orange convertible; Movie news, reviews and photos - Voltaire, Gambling Ship, Hold Your Man, Melody Cruise; The Fight on the Farm Front - how the back-to-the-land movement, in accord with the New Deal, is advancing Americans toward national rehabilitation; What is Good Form? - the rollicking story of a modern girl who got what she went after; Ma Potter Goes for Golf (part 1); Pretty Sadie McKee - new problems and a new loneliness enter the story of another 'bad girl'; The Perfect Job (short story); Happy Days; Still Alive - part 4 of the amazing true story of a pilgrimage of terror through Asia, by Georgei Beloff; To the Ladies; Vox Pop; Back cover color-illustrated Chesterfield cigarette ad features smoking damsel in swing. Above-average wear and external soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
262 pages. Index. "Mr. McDougall left his Ontario home in 1873 to seek his fortune in the West, first as a trader on the Fort Carlton Trail, and then for some fifty years as a merchant in Edmonton (population 40 when he arrived in 1879)." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
160 pages including footnotes, bibliography and index. Numerous black and white reproductions of fascinating archival photos. "Tells the story of Anticosti and its people from the discovery by Jacques Cartier to the present day." - dust jacket. Book unmarked with average wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
145 pages. This warm and revealing biography portrays a dedicated public servant, an international figure, loyal to Canada and the British Empire, and a devoted family man. The inspiring story of a great nation builder whose perseverance and spirit of adventure brought him recognition throught the world. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Above average but not excessive wear. Decent reading copy. Book
Pages 170-252, plus 20 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Warden of the Marches; Seeds of Fortune; An Elephant-Poacher's Odyssey; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - part 2; "Denied Admittance" - an Ellis Island Story; The Shrine or Ordam Padshah; The Two Portraits; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - part 2; The Isles of the Arafura; Cave-Hunting in New Mexico; A Rolling Stone. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
291 pages including index. Author's signature and inscription to a friend upon front endpaper. Author's humourous 'private' note to same friend written upon a removable post-it-note also upon front endpaper. Tells the story of British Columbia's dynamic credit union movement and the role played by its central organization, B.C. Central Credit Union. Ultimately, this is the story of thousands of individual volunteers who banded together to create financial institutions to meet their needs, and how their pioneering efforts have endured in the work of following generations. Superb giftable copy with only the faintest signs of handling. Book
Pages 82-103. Undated. Circa 1980? Features: Chronology 1933 - part 14 - many photos; Captain Loudon Pierce Watkins, MC - Zeppelin Fighter; Normandy Summer; Book Reviews; Clunks to the Congo - The Story of Operation Simba; Airman's Album 15. Average wear. Binding intact. Bit of writing on page 101. A sound copy. Book
181 pages including glossary and notes. Illustrated in black and white. Chapters include: Origins; the coming of the longshoremen; the open shop era; the people create the Port of Tacoma; the great strike of 1934; the AFL-CIO split; mechanization; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Tight and square. Nice copy. Book
175 pages. Brad Magnus, the subject of the book, has signed his first name upon title page. A family love story centred upon son Brad, the second of four boys, who was born with Down Syndrome. "The essence of our story is: Every person is valuable! Our personal faith and therefore our positive outlook, continues to give us courage to try what seems impossible." - from introduction. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
243 pages including index and black and white photos. Hockey fans who saw Frank Mahovlich play will never forget the combination of power and grace that defined the on-ice presence of a hockey superstar. He was a Toronto Maple Leaf by age nineteen. In his first year in the NHL he beat out Bobby Hull for the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year. And so began a Hall of Fame career, spanning twenty-one years in the NHL and WHA, that saw six Stanley Cups, the end of the six team era, and a Senate appointment. Relies upon 30 interviews with the Big M's peers. An insightful portrayal of a hockey legend, father and mentor. A very attractively illustrated and unmarked volume with very light wear. Book
326 pages including index and black and white photos. The personal story of Theoren Fleury. Follows him through an entire hockey season while he was with the Calgary Flames. More than a sports biography, this is an engaging and insightful look at hockey as a child's game, an adult's profession, big business, mass entertainment, family pastime, and the greatest spectator sport yet invented. "...a fascinating glimpse of human nature on the rampage." - Peter C. Newman. Published before Fleury's problems in New York and Chicago. Includes 16 pages of black and white photos. Clean, bright and unmarked. Faint signs of handling. Excellent copy. Book
Editor's inscription atop half-title page states this is copy#2. Includes note from Editor to his daughter laid in. 78 pages. Black and white illustrations. Mallett was shot down over Belgium on May 26th, 1944. Thanks to the well-organised Belgian Maquis and their support by Allied Intelligence, he and his bomb-aimer managed to avoid capture and after many adventures eventually returned to Canada." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Book
251 pages. For the elementary school librarian, here is a ready-to-go resource crammed with practical new ideas and lively activities to reinforce functional library skills and motivate children to read! Includes over 200 stimulating newsletter articles, library skills puzzles and games, book talks, book circulators, story time readers, and other aids - all complete, keyed to appropriate grade levels, and ready for immediate use in your own library program. Light wear. Prior owner's rubber stamp inside front cover else unmarked. Light wear. Contents clean. Nice copy. Book
Features: Through Spain in Disguise - Part I of the story of an odd wager, by the Countess Guerrini Malmignati; The Tiger-Man of the Whynooche - locals of Chehalis and Mason counties in Washington state feared this killer; The Ghost of Ozwatini - a strange story from Natal; "Quarrelsome Mac" - a nautical story; The "Hell-On-Earth" Legion - five years with the French Foreign Legion; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Our experiment in orange-growing (with wonderful photos) - part II; Nature's Nightmares - ugly animals; Nurse Warburton's Ordeal - she became lost while tramping from Hope to Princeton, British Columbia; Hunting the Australian Buffalo - article with super photos; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" - Part III of a trip from Shanghai to Copenhagen in a forty-foot yacht; Trial by Jury - an awkward trial in India; Tuk-Took - a little Eskimo girl, her step-mother, and her dog - with nice photos; A Dead Man's Diary - an unknown white man perishes in the African wilds, but leaves his diary; The Mystery of "Dutch Henry" who was wanted "dead or alive" by two governments; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
55p. Signed by the Author. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, top of spine chipped. First Edition. A nice copy of this charming autobiography of two cocker spaniels told from the viewpoint of the older dog. PETS/1
Pages 86-168+ 20 pages of nice ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, "The Muscle Builder". Features: Mazulla and His Sahib, part 1 - moving Indian adventures, with photos; Neilson's New Man -a story of country life in New Zealand; The Tale-Teller of Algiers - the strange adventure of a visitor to Algiers in October, 1925; Mussolini's War Against the Mafia in Sicily - describes the first stage of the great 'clean-up' - a most dramatic and exciting business - article with photos of Police Commissioner Spano, Signor Mori of Palermo, Gaetono Ferrarello, Carmelo Andaloro, Salvatore Ferrarello, and Nicolo Andaloro; Mr. Stepper, I.D.B. - a diamond story; The Trouble in Coeur D'Alene - part 2 - going undercover to investigage labor-management conflict in the mining district of Northern Idaho - with photos; "Free-Trading" in the Arctic - great photo-illustrated article about white traders living in remote Indian and Eskimo territories; Photo of Korean wedding; One Thing After Another - troubles on the Inyoka Tobacco Estate in Rhodesia, with photo of author and trouble-making jackal; Across North America in a Motor-Boat, part 4 of this record-setting 6,000 mile trip - with maps and photos; The Cleverest Thieves on Earth - The Criminal Tribes of India - a photo-illustrated account of the 'crims' and their hereditary war against society. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 223-290 plus ads. Features: The Taxi-man's Revenge - officers shot at Prince Rupert, British Columbia Court House in 1937; The Miracle; The Shooter; The Man Who Waited - a story from Oto in southern Nigeria in 1911; Loot From Peking - an important ring and tablets circa the Boxer Rebellion; The Human Tiger; First Blood - an amusing tale from India; Burton's Boots; My Wife; The Clue of the Single Finger-print, Part II - the hold-up of the First National Bank at Lamar, Colorado, and its bloody aftermath; O-I-L - a story from the wilds of Patagonia; Diamond Cut Diamond - A Gold Coast mining struggle; The "Debbil-Debbil" Stone - what happened when the grave of a medicine man was unearthed; short article on the "Padley Martyrs" with photo; many nostalgic ads; and more. Covers present but detached as one. Bit of price sticker remnant on front cover. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
100 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. Joseph's Convent on Toronto's Bay Street, with nuns raking fall leaves; The dream of Rt. Hon. L.S. Amery - his son Julian became an M.P. but son John was hanged for wartime pro-Nazi broadcasts; Nice two-page colour-photo ad for General Motors trucks presents a blue pickup and a red 2-ton stake truck; Vintage one-page photo ad for the Toro "Power Handle which allowed one motor to power numerous yard care attachments; What Virtue Has Done to Montreal - excellent photo-illustrated article discusses how the girls are being chased out of town and the bars being forced to close on time - with photos of Frank Pretula, Louis Greco, Pierre DesMarais, Jean Drapeau, Pax Plante, Armand Courval, and members of the morality squad; The Miracle that began in a Stable - Dr. J.G. Fitzgerald and the history of his Connaught Laboratories which makes vaccines - photo-illustrated article; How to Handle Women; Photo-illustrated article on the unlikeliest couple in show business - George Murray and Shirley Harmer; Will a Machine Ever Take Your Job? - Article on what automation will mean to Canada; The Great Chinese Food Hoax - colour-photo-illustrated article on how Canada's Cantonese cooks are now being recognized for their delicious Chinese dishes, rather than the Canadian food they had been preparing in their cafes; The Great Carlak's Bitter Magic (short story); Life on the Gulf Islands - great photo-illustrated article on the 4,000 Canadians enjoying the dream of living on an island in the Pacific - with photos of Margaret Robinson, George Copeland, Bob Holloman, Derril Georgeson, Winnie Lautmann, Norm Preston, and Mr. and Mrs. A. King; Who Was the Mad Trapper of Rat River? - Illustrated article on Albert Johnson who shot others before being killed by a posse; How I Made my Killing in the Market - all you need is a few bucks and some 'inside dope'; One-page National Cash Register (NCR) colour ad features lovely redhead; Color ad features the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C.; Haig & Haig whisky ad features nice colour photo of Eilean Donan Castle; Sisman Tredders shoe ad features photo and endorsement by Lloyd Percival; Nice one-page colour Sylvania TV ad; Half-page Homelite ad shows large tree being brought down; Unusual one-page colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSB) illustrates how to read a tea cup; Quarter-page Moosehead Pale Ale ad features illustration of moose looking at portaging canoeist; Great one-page illustrated Dunlop Tires ad features photo of hero Mr. Martin Binkle of Kitchener, a driver for the Cope Transport Company who rescued children from a blazing farmhouse on highway 6 near Rockton; Labatt's IPA ale ad features photo of Wexford, Ontario labourer Frederick Gilbert; Nice one-page two-colour ad for 1955 GMC trucks hilights their all-new V8 engines; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Name/bookplate to front end paper. Brown markings (foxing ?) to a few pages and tanned page edges. Unmarked front board, slightly marked rear, slight sunning to edges and minor bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with some marks, sunned and rubbed and with pieces missing 160pp. Children's story. Extremely scarce first edition.
Name/bookplate to front end paper. Brown markings (foxing ?) to a fair number of pages, quite intense to two pages and well tanned page edges. Unmarked very slightly sunned boards and bumping to lower front corner. Dust jacket price clipped, marked, torn, sunned and rubbed 181pp. Children's story. Scarce first edition.
30p. Line drawings by Oliver James. Designed by Sol Calvin Cohen. Printed on light blue paper. Decorative endpapers. 8vo. Original cloth over paper boards, very slightly worn at extremities. Limited Edition. No limitation statement of number of copies, but certainly small. Nice copy. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W67 x 2
Fine Croatian Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Texts in Turkish, introductory text and biographies of the authors are in Croatian. 147 p. The book consists of Turkish examples and summaries of the works of famous novelists and writers, from Kemal Tahir to Yasar Kemal, from Ömer Seyfettin to Nazim Hikmet, and authors' short biographies written in Croatian. Scarce.
