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682 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. Prior owner's name and town written atop title page. Minimal markings to contents. Average wear. Faint writing on spine. A sound copy of this incredible genealogical reference. (Krotki 896) 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
236 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "From its early history to the Klondike Gold Rush; from boom to bust; from two world wars to the excursion heyday of Bowen Island, here is a sea story that catches the pulse and character of the British Columbia coast." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Clean solid copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Nice Ipana photo ad inside front cover; To Girls Who Want to Get Married; - Lux ad; Candles Without Cake (fiction); Night Call (fiction); The Better Man (fictitious tale of a young pretty newspaper woman in Ethiopia - "From every side black men closed in, howling lustily, frothing themselves up..."; Shadowed Wedding (fiction); Look Your Best - tanning/makeup advice for the summer; Love Doesn't Last (fiction); 45 and Glad of It - middle age can make a woman a master or a slave; Nice full-page colour ad for Campbell's vegetable soup includes the Campbell kids; Full-page colour reproduction of a beautiful flower painting by Archibald Barnes, A.R.C.A.; Nice full-page Cream of Wheat ad features photo of cute little girl and small dog; I Nursed the Quintuplets - part 2 of Madame Louise de Kiriline's story of her work with Canada's famous Dionne quints - story with photo; Fashion photos; Photo of Bette Davis in Quaker cereal ad; The Movie Go-Round - a dependable monthly guide to good movie entertainment for the family; Honourary life membership in the Canadian Public Health Association awarded to Dr. McCullough, a columnist in this publication; Pie-making; The Weekend Guest - advice for hostesses; Meals of the Month; News Bits by Lotta Dempsey; Nice colour cartoon-style ads for Rinso and Lifebuoy inside back cover; Gorgeous colour ad for Buckingham cigarettes on back cover features young lady golfer. Address label atop front cover. Average wear. A nice vintage issue. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Age-toned pages. Stated second printing. Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. Evelyn Hall has gone there to get a divorce from her husband; Ann Childs works there as a change girl in a gambling casino. The movie Desert Hearts is based on this first novel by Jane Rule.
Pages 503-598, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Eight Days On a Capsized Ship - three seamen tough it out upon the overturned hull of the 'Anna Rebecca' in 1906 off Memel (with photos); My Adventures in Sarawak (part I) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describes her experiences getting to know 'the loveable little people and their language' (with photos); The Girl Who Came to Copperfield, Oregon - Miss Fern Hobbs was sent at the head of a regiment of soldiers to restore order in the lawless town of Copperfield - article with photo of Miss Hobbs; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part II) - Photo-illustrated account of the second half of Mr. Wilby's arduous journey, ending in British Columbia; My Escape from Kelantan - a veteran pioneer of Malaya, W.E. Nash, relates how he took a frail stern-wheel river steamer across the China Sea in the teeth of a monsoon; The Case of "Jack Thompson" - an Englishman in a Bolivian prison; The Haunted Trees - The Malays believe evil spirits take up residence in certain 'hantu' trees; Pieter Erberfeld, Traitor - the story behind this man and a memorial tablet, bearing his skull, in Batavia, Dutch West Indies (Indonesia); The Hermit of Smith's Mountain - a strange character in San Diego County; Man-Eaters - the menace wild animals constitute to dwellers in less-favoured parts of the world; Sport in the Ukraine - with photos; Freshwater Pearl-Fishing - clam-fishing as carried out on the rivers of Illinois - with great photos; Wanted, A Wife - the amusing adventures of Dominick Forese of Butte, Montana; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
88 pages. Features: Nice full-page photo ad for the Volkswagen 411; David and Sophie Lewis and their children Michael, Stephen, Janet and Nina - article on this political family plus photos; Major colour photo/tourism section on the Maritimes; John Bourne Dempsey II and "The Dempsey Canadian Newsletter"; 21 Steps to a safer car; Word puzzles and crossword completed on page 75; The Maclean's NHL All-Star Team - story with photos; Canada's emerging movie business; and more. Above-average wear. . Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
246 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. Businessman, philantropist, former lieutenant governor, distinguished citizen and devoted gardener, David Lam is one of the most respected and best-loved figures in British Columbia public life. This biography tells his remarkable story. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to cover. 28 pages. 8"w x 9 1/2"h. Pictorial paper covered boards with red cloth spine. Pictorial endpapers. Author and illustrator Glen Rounds was the recipient of more than 25 literary awards.
386 pages including index. Sir John, speaking from the quiet of the Rectorship of St. Andrews, provides us with a complete and humane story of difficult years in his life in this, the masterful second volume in an important autobiography. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper, else unmarked. Clean. Very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket. Nice copy. 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
Pages 513-561. Black and white photos. Features: Full-page photo of William Sidney Rossiter; Is New Hampshire completed? - President Hetzel's tribute to Mr. Rossiter; Great photos of typical scenes at local fairs - most involving animals; A controversy on vaccination - the pros and cons; How the farm community of Epson turned the tide - article with photos; The farm bureau movement; Making needles at Hill - Frank R. Woodward and the story of an indomitable spirit; A fraction of a second - interesting article on auto accidents - with photos; An anthology of one poem poets; Building for the future - the Londonderry Road - article with great photos; The kitchen as a workshop; Romance in the life of John Greenleaf Whittier; the Wo'thless feller; New Hampshire Necrology; and more. Average wear. Some external soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
94 pages. Articles: How Truman Did It; The Barbizon Hotel - For Women Only - article with nice photos; Dogs are Big Business; I Saw the Reds Taste Freedom - Col. Robert Bishop's dramatic recollection of Bucharest, Rumania's brief taste of liberty in 1944, with great photo; How to Give Money Away; My Life in a Cooking School. Fiction: You Can't Win 'em All!; Girl With a Horse for Sale; The Miracle of Tepayac; Make Something Happen; Passage to Panama (part 6 of 7). Aviation Features: My Story of the Wright Brothers; Cavalcade of Trnasportation; The Collier Trophy - for flight beyond the speed of sound - won by John Stack, Lawrence D. Bell and Captain Charles "Chuck" E. Yeager, USAF; Diary of the First Flight; Our Aerial Arsenal - great compilation of color illustrations of US military aircraft; ; The World the Kitty Hawk Made; Super color aerial photo of Niagara Falls with Rainbow Bridge in backbround. Illustration of basketball player George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers; Ads include: Nice color Canada Dry ad inside front cover; Martin 2-0-2 Airliner; Pan American World Airlines; American Airlines;; B.F. Goodrich; Plymouth cars; International Trucks; Douglas Aircraft - attractive military theme; Good Year's Cross -Wind Landing Wheel; TWA Airlines; Nice two-page color-photo ad for Hiram Walker's liquor; The 1949 Frazer car; Pabst beer features color photo of Mrs. Winston Guest; "Enchantment" movie starring David Niven; Bell Aircraft ad features illustrations of their helicopters and X-1 jet; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows Santa reaching into a fridge for a quick drink. Covers pulling from staples. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 147-246 plus approximately 50 pages of ads, front and back. Contents: The Church and the People; The Adventure of Being Human; The Passing of a Brigadier; Judson Harmon - His Record and His Views; Savings or Efficiency? - second article on home making series; The Woman Spoke - article on native americans with quote by Chief Iron Eye of the Omahas; Art and the Average Man; Teaching Our Soldiers to Shoot - photo-illustrated article; The Story of Karl Witte - first of a series of articles on the progress and training of the child; Yankee Doodle in the style of the classical composers; From Stage Coach to Motor Car - great photo-illustrated article on early motoring. Many wonderful vintage ads including a great one-page ad for Rexall "93" Hair Tonic; Heinz Soup, Post Toasties, 2-page ad for R.M. Owen & Co. / Reo Motor Car Co. featuring Reo the Fifth, Quaker Oats - with photo of Prof. A.P. Anderson "The Man Who Invented Foods Shot From Guns", Educator Crackers, Van Camp's Pork and Beans, Dioxogen, Cheney Silks, Strathmore Paper, Hotel Chamberlin (Virginia), Santa Fe California Limited, Hamburg American Line ad for West Indies Cruise, Pebeco Toothpaste, Ostermoor Mattresses, Mott's Plumbing, The Columbia Buggy Company - featuring the self-starting 1912 Model 68-D, The Buick Model 35, Diamond Tires, American Woolen Company, and many more. Two library ink stamps to front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
74 pages. Articles: How We Won - F.D.R. Jr.'s own story of his first political victory; Cool Reading for August; The Biggest Blast of the All (part 1 of 2) - The Untold Secrets Behind the bombing of Hiroshima - with photo of Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.; Hoyt of the Hambletonian - harness racing story with color photos; There They Were! Jet Hop to Europe - the first transatlantic jet ferrying mission; Charmer for a Nice Fee - Charlie Feldman and his Famous Artists Agency - article with nice color photo; Voyage of the Pagan - John Caldwell's Sailing Struggle to Australia (conclusion); Attractive Nuisance; The Legal Bride (part 2 of 6); The Drunkard's Wife; A Horse I Like; Then There Was Light; Moment of Doubt; Keep Up with the World; Picnic (by Stanley and Janice Berenstain with verse by Margaret Fishback; The Movie Audience. Are (The Ku Klux Klan) The Children of God? - Editorial with good color photo. Nice vintage ads for: Borden (with Elsie the cow); Willys-Overland 'Jeep' Trucks; International Trucks; Lucky Strike (featuring Dan Currin); General Motors (2 pages); Kodak; Silver Star Razors - featuring golfer Craig Wook, test pilot Gene May, Quarterback Bob Waterfield and American Airlines Chief Pilot, Harry Clark; Budweiser; The U.S. Army; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features nice collor image of Yvonne De Carlo and a smaller illustration of Powell L. Rogers of Mullins, S.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 4 fine coloured plates, 30 plates in monochrome and 2 illustrations in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. With personal book-label on front free endpaper. This detailed standard reference includes a list of plants from 'The Feate of Gardening' (c.1440) and an extensive historical bibliography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Hoyles I, p.206.
111 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos. Attractively signed and inscribed by author upon first blank leaf as follows "From - The Church of the Open Door, Vancouver, BC Yours Sincerely, Andrew Roddan." No other markings. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this evocative and sobering look back to the soup lines of the 1930s, and the men who stood in them. Book
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
61 pages. Black and white photos in text. Author was prominent for his support of single unemployed men during the Great Depression. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
305 pages. How to win at Bingo. Secrets of the game. The inside story! Includes funny stories, humourous facts and an excellent guide to the Bingo subculture of 58 million players in the U.S. and Canada. Tiny dab of liquid paper atop first page else clean and bright with very light wear. Nice copy. Great gift for your special bingo player. Book
24 pages. Features: Nelson Rockefelller explains how things are different since both his grandfathers quit school early to take jobs; Nice one-page color photo ad for Hunt's Catsup; The Last Basket - Wayne Estes of the Utah State basketball team had a strange premonition just before he died - article with nice photo of Estes at the basket; They Chose Paris - Six American career girls who moved there, and stayed - article with photos of Dorian Leigh, Janice Wells, Vicki Howard, Elmore Carruthers Richmond, Florence Gilliam and Rita Johnson; Nice 1/3-page color ad for Sophie Mae Peanut Brittle; The Baker's Art - recipes; Magic sciene tricks for kids; Diam "M" For Help - fictional story about when to tell your troubles to your Minister - and when not to; Zipcode USA - Teen Q&A - with photos of Lesley and Michael Gore; Inca Gold - historic items loaned to the U.S. by the government of Peru; Sensational color back cover ad for James Bond thriller books features action photos - including Pussy Galore pointing gun at James - a super Bond collectible! Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Cover illustration of boy standing in icy water; Nostalgic one-page illustrated ad for the circular Western Electric 560-AW loudspeaker; Marriage for Two (fiction by Roche); President Elect Herbert Hoover - It's Going To Be Different; Other Men's Poison (fiction by Roark Bradford); Thunder in the Backfield - Grantland Rice reviews the star-studded running backs of 1928, with photos of Ken Strong N.Y.U., and Chris Cagle of Army; In Loving Memory (fiction by Fred Sweet); "Too Collegiate" - fiction by Lucian Cary; Good Clean Fun - two pages of charming vintage illustrations of how people amused themselves before movies, radios and cars; The Ticker's In a Jam - great photo-illustrated article explaining stock ticker technology; Cabaret (fiction by O.C. Cohen); The Kid's Clever - Part 2 of the Gus Edwards story; Marvelous one-page illustrated ad for Flexible Flyer includes their seven sled models for children, plus an illustration of Commander Byrd at the South Pole; I Can Pick Winners, But - A famous horse racing handicapper explains why he still works for a living; The Shepherd of Guadaloupe, by Zane Grey (part VIII); Nice one-page Atwater Kent Radio ad includes photos of their Models 40 A.C., 42 A.C., a Model E circular speaker, Model 44 A.C., and Model 52 A.C.; Master of Sinister House (fiction by E. P. Oppenheim); Nice one-page color ad for the 50 box of Gillette shaving blades; Color centerfold ad for Remington Rand procalims "The Emancipation of the American Business Man" with illustration of "the bent and withered office drudge"; Nice one-page Edgeworth pipe tobacco ad includes illustration of their four-sized tin and letter from one F.W. Fitzpatrick; Classy one-page photo-illustrated ad by Bosch Radio (American Bosch Magneto Corporation) displays their Model 29B, 28A and features photo of the Model 28; Marvelous one-page ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes includes illustration and endorsement of Lady Grace Drummond Hay, the first woman to fly the Atlantic from Europe to the United States, aboard the Graf Zeppelin (which is also illustrated in the ad); Smoth Brothers' cough drops ad includes photo of vaudeville comedian Joe Cook; Quarter-page illustrated ad for Daisy Air Rifles - "That's What Our Boy Has Been Asking For"; Classic back cover Victrola ad displays their Models 835, 918, 43, 711, 255, and 1069. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
342 pages. Includes numerous interesting black and white photos. In this first-hand, first-person story, Larry Robinson tells what it's like to be Larry Robinson - to share in the glory of the Montreal Canadiens, to win six Stanley Cups as part of the celebrated franchise, to hold the NHL record for most playoff games played, to leave Canada for the endless summer of California and a new career as a Los Angeles King. Average wear. Unmarked. Some yellowing to pages. Reading crease along spine. Book
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
96 p. Color pictorial title page. Signed by the Author and Illustrator on title page. Text drawings. Mildly XLib. Sm. 4to. Original full light blue patterned cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gold. Binding slightly faded. Hardbound. SHELF W24
