Cowan, John M.; Et alMareMagnum
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48 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Great Western Railway; Who Were the Five Johns?; The Burlington Races; The Beginnings of the History of Hamilton; Chronicles of Corktown; The Story of a Pioneer Doctor - Harmaunus Smith; Crown Patentees of West Flamborough Township. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
64 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Journal of a Scottish Farm Pupil in Ancaster 1881-1883; The Reverend Thomas Geoghegan, 1848-1906; From the Mayor's Chair - Then and Now, by Vic Copps; The Story of William Sampson, First Rector of grimsby, 1817-1822; The Railways of Hamilton; A History of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Hamilton; Early American and Canadian Glass; Baptismal Records of the Church of the Ascension (Anglican) Hamilton, 1851-53. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
36 pages. Black and white illustration of Lieut-Col. Charles R. McCullough, 1865-1947. Features: Clothes and History; Family Records and Family Histories; The Land Family; The Story of Jean Baptiste Rousseau; Crown Patentees of Barton Township. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
92 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Old Hess Street School, Hamilton; "Fronteschwein: (Trench Hog); The History of the Stoney Creek United Church, 1792-1925; The History of Duncans of Hamilton; James Durand's Eventful Careers, 1802-1834; The Story of Archibald Kerr, Thomas C. Kerr, and Inglewood; From Washington Boultbee's Diary, 1837-1841; Burlington Beach Volunteer Firemen's Association; My Company - Bell Canada; baptismal Records of the Church of the Ascension (Anglican) Hamilton, 1854. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
68 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: Lasalle's Arrival in Burlington Bay in 1669 and Lasalle's Probable Route to Tinawatawa; The Hamilton Jewish Committee; The Honourable and Gallant Knight; The Early History of the Hamilton Fire Department, 1816-1905; The Ledger of an Early Doctor of Barton and Ancaster, 1798-1801; The Historical Significance of the Niagara Escarpment; The Story of Rockwood Academy; One Hundred and Twenty-Six Years of Arrangments by Blachford and Wray; Crown Patentees of Glanford Township. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
40 pages. Coverage of the coronation. Special coverage of Canadians at the Coronation; Nice colour ad for Kraft salad dressings; Coronation Extra - Story by O.P. Paterson; Art for the Great Day - Helen McKie is an authority on regalia; The Ceremony and its Meaning; Article on the Coronation candles made by a small shop in Mamaroneck, New York; Centerfold colour illustration of the Coronation Procession route; The Two (Queen) Elizabeths - part 3 of 3; Attractive full-page colour ad for Sheaffer's Snorkel pen - features hummingbird on dark background; Nipper cartoon by Dough Wright; Unexpected historical Coronation incidents; Full-page two-colour ad for BA and its Peerless motor oil; Elizabethan Cookery - The Gore Hotel in Kensington; N.H.L. Worried over Royal Reaction - Photos of the Queen and her husband at hockey games in Montreal and Toronto; This Duchess has Stamina - Mary, Duchess of Devonshire, Mistress of the Robes to the Queen; Half-page ad for M.G.M's fild "Young Bess"; Royalty as a Model, by Marcia Winn; Victoria Eighteen - story by Sholto Watt; Colour ad for Welch's Grape Juice on back cover; Super Coke ad on page 5 features boy eating burger. Average wear. Unmarked. Some chipping and short openings to bottom edges of some pages. A worthy copy of this special issue. Book
28 pages. Features: Would you die for your country?; Dancer Ann Ditchburn - article with colour photo; Colour ad for the Eddie Bauer Snap-Jac; Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau - article with photos; Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales at age 30; The story of Hollywood - article with colour photos; A day in the life of Pierre Cardin; Mud and Blood - Passchendaele in WWI; Fighting for Peace - Canadian Peacekeepers (The Princess Pats) in Cyprus; Job Description of Windsor Mayor Bert Weeks - short article with photo; A Wonderful Time - A wonderful sampling of the collection of over 35,000 Canadian postcards owned by Allan Anderson and Betty Tomlinson; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Front cover photos of the Gerard LeBlond and Jack Wallace families; A Tale of Two Families - the Wallace and LeBlond families move with Canada to study the other official language; Toronto's Linda Thorson - The Canadian Avenger - article with photo (which includes Patrick MacNee; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Pontiac cars; AMICUS - Friends to the Friendless - the Toronto Bail Project; Nice colour centerfold ad for Honda motorcycles has a clipping from it upper right side which affects the Canadian Olympic Hockey story on the next page; Several nice photos of Canada's Olympic hockey team playing the Soviet Union; Wall-to-Wall Walruses on a small oogli in the Arctic Ocean - article and great colour photos; Nice Helena Rubinstein ad inside back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
24 pages. Features: Vitaly Uspinov's Mission - For 50 Years he has watched in helpless rage from Montreal as the Soviets destroy his Church - but he believes one day the faithful will return to Moscow; King Tyee and the Salmon Princess - Al Purdy writes a fishing story about the ones that will always get away - with colour photo; The Bubble Gum Kid - article on Expo Catcher Gary Carter - with nice colour photos; Nice half-page vintage colour ad for 1975 Dodge Vans; The Food Co-Operative Revolution, by Wayne Ellwood; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Features: New flag for Canada's 98th birthday - article with photos; The Queen Mother - Her Personal Story - part 1 of 4; Jean Seberg's Return to the Top - Burned at the stake on film and in reviews, she begain again in Europe - article with photos; Photo of Miss Patricia Soulliere, "Miss Textile of the Week"; Jerry Marx Survived An Avalanche - article with photos; Fantastic colour photo centerfold ad for the Rambler line of cars; Upsurge in Canada's Track and Field Athletic Performance; Paul Anka and Diana Ayoub, the girl he left behind (and after whom his first hit song is named); Kendo battles on the Fraser River Delta dunes in Steveston - Jim Murray studies the Japanese Martial Art - article with photos; ; Back cover Esso ad with the 'Tiger in your Tank' theme; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Features: There's a New Chic to the Soviet Woman - the tough austerity of Stalin's era has begun to soften, and the ladies are taking the lead - article with great photos; Cowboy Charioteers - brief article and three photos of chariot racing in Idaho; How Billy Barker Won his V.C. (Victoria Cross) - It was One Against 60 so he decided to Ram! - long article with illustrations; Yukon Artist Inger Fiskaa - article with photos; Regina's Wascana Lake Bird Sanctuary - article with photos; Candles With a Twist - a profitable business for Creston, B.C. teacher Sigurd Askevold - story with photos; Princess Alexandra of Kent Becomes a Scotsman's Bride - story with great colour photos; Leo Durocher Explains Why the Spitball Ain't Nasty - photos with story; German Kurt Hill Became a Sarcee Indian in Alberta - article with photos; Nice colour photo ad for Lowney's Glosette Raisins - back when they came in the red box with the window; Colour photo ad for Angel Face Lipstick; Moderate wear. Unmarked. Please note: 4"x10" clipping from page 39 only affects recipe and cartoon; Kiddie Who Needs a Caddie - Five-Year-Old Andrew McConnell is a good golfer - short article with five photos; A quality 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
28 pages. Features: The Safety Crusaders versus the Auto Makers - Part 1 of 2 - Will your car protect you if you are in an accident?; Sam Snead's Incredible Eagle - his return to the Canadian Open recalls his famous feat of 1938 - article with photos; Esso ad "Put a Tiger In Your Tank"; The Queen Mother - Her Personal Story (Part 3 of 4); Major photo feature and brief article on Mme. Afsar Kia, wife of Nouredin Kia, Iran's Ambassador to Canada - with photos of the Shah and Empress of Iran visiting Ottawa; Douglas Greeting Card ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
261 pages including index. Told for the first time, here are the stories of twelve of Canada's outstanding labour leaders and organizers. Their accounts tell the behind-the-scenes story of some of the key events in twentieth-century Canadian history from the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, the 1935 On-to-Ottawa trek of the unemployed which played a major role in the defeat of Tory prime minister R.B. Bennett and the 1945 Ford strike in Windsor which consolidated the rights of big industrial unions through to the 1972 Common Front of Quebec's public sector workers. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding solid. Book
210 pages including 28 pages of reproductions of black and white archival photos. Bright gilt lettering and adornment upon blue front board. Light wear. Faint museum stamp and trifle of writing atop front free endpaper. Binding tight. An attractive copy. Book
28 pages. Black and white illustrations. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
186 pages. Index. References. Abundant beautiful colour photos supplemented with reproductions of archival black and white photos. "A Mangificently illustrated, authoritative and lively tour of the dynamic ebb and flow between the water, the surrounding land and, above all, the people who strove and dreamed along the waterfront." - from dust jacket. Chapters include: The Northwest Coast; Skid Road Logging Port 1858-1886; Rails Meet the Sea 1887-1913; Dreams and Development 1914-1939; The Boom Years 1940-1959; Rise of the Ports 1960-present. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A nice copy of this handsome and informative work. Book
126 pages. "Recounts the step-by-step infiltration of Communism in China until the time was ripe for the final take-over by force. A story not of a benign agrarian revolution but of the unfolding of a ruthless plot strikingly similar to the Red conquest of other lands that have gone behind the Iron Curtain. The author writes with a sense of urgency in the belief that complacency and lack of wide-spread appreciation as to Communist technique are still handicapping the West in meeting the threat of International Communism both at home and abroad." - from front flap. Author was in charge of the hospital in Chungking for over twenty years. Prior owner's name atop title page else unmarked. Average wear. Book
32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Lightly damp stained. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers slightly soiled. Volume Two, Number Twenty. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. W8RtRear
pp. 222, (2) [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis and full page drawings. Damp stained. XLib stamp of Nathan E. Reist's Library, Lime Rock, PA. (Nathan was of Mennonite decent. He later became a teacher in Lititz, PA). Small 8vo. 6 3/4 inches. Original full purple cloth binding, faded. Boards embossed and decorated in blind. Spine decorated and lettered in gold. Extremities slightly worn. Hardbound. First in a series of six juvenile books on travel in the East. HOLY LAND BOX 2.
160 pages. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Title on half-title page has been crayoned in. Title on title page partially inked-in. Occasional child's markings to contents and back endpaper. Half of page 11 missing. Book
24 page colour illustrated book with 33 rpm record which, unfortunately, has a piece broken from it. See the pictures. Hear the record. Read the book. Average wear to book which is unmarked. Book
240 pages including index. A book about the author's love for the high fells and the rivered valleys, and the marvellous Dales people. The story of many different walks he has made and photographed over the last fifteen years. A book for everyone who loves the British countryside in all her moods. Book clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear to green boards. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Nice copy of a lovely book. Book
316 pages. "By providing only a glimpse of northern people's own statments and the problems of uranium mining, this book proves that the real 'outside agitators' are the mining companies." - from introduction. "We as a society have failed the Wollaston Lake community in the basic human right to information and to health. We are multiplying comparable self-destructive behaviors all over the world. Please read on because the story of Wollaston Lake is our own story, the story of our land, our food and our brothers and sisters." - from Foreward by Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Mild lean to spine. Very good copy. Book
162 pages. Features: Vogue's-Eye View - Girl Power; Mainbocher - the soft and pretty evening looks worn by Lauren Hutton; The new bathing suits; Bare Legs in Town - with shorts, short skirts, long slits, the coolest little dresses, tiny tops and the leotard idea, the perfect coat, black day and night, romantic evenings; Vogue Patterns - Berber blue for summer; You've Come a Long Way Baby Oil; Perfume is for Wearing; Diary of a Glad Houseguest - or, The Inside Story of Beauty and the Beach; Tension - that everyday threat to American women - and what to do about it; The New Freedom of Domestic Bliss - Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Dillman, Mrs. David Hemmings, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Peake, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sakowitz; Family-Power - Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy; The Ties Women Cannot Shake - and Have; Elaine - her restaurant, her famous friends; Gloria Steinhem - Coming of Age in America; Top Woman in the State Department - The Honorable Barbara M. Watson; Fighting Hard; Fighting Soft; Freed Spirits - Eleanor Holmes Norton, Bricktop, Barbara Roquemore; On Target - Judith Peabody; On Target - Shirley Verrett; Most Wanted 1971 - Sexy Ann-Margaret; Most Wanted 1971 - Funny Lily Tomlin; Two Faces of Suzy; Couple-Speak - Happy Marriage; Couple-Speak - rape true and false; Wife-Power - Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson; The Go Decor; Candice Bergen and her California House; and more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Clear tape along spine. A worthy reference copy. Book
