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Features: French Furniture in the Huntington Collection; Belleek - Irish Porcelain Establishment; F.N. Loveroff - Neglected Artist; Decorating with Antiques; The Merry Reign of the Christmas Card; Sheepshead Banknotes; Period Pieces - Sunderland Lustre Ware. Address label on front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: Santa's Workshop; World Famed Miniatures - The Thorne Rooms; Puerto Rican Santos; Unusual Collection - Light on Lithophanes; A Dealer's Viewpoint, by Margaret Philip; A Gift For Christmas, 1865 - the earliest known Canadian picture-book for little children - 'An Illustrated Comic Alphabet'. Bit of writing atop front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: High Victorian Design; The John A. Macdonald Album; The Jacques and Hay Style? - Canadian Cabinet makers and Victorian Style; A Rare Canadiana Discovery - St. Johns Porcelain Bust; Victoria Hall - Preservation in Cobourgh; Hair Receivers - Those little jars with a hole in the top; The International Silver Company - Silverplate in Canada; Bringing Home Britain - for the collector abroad; Canada's Victorian Christmas Cards; Beadwork Whimsies; Papier Mache. Nice clean copy. Magazine
382 pages. Features: Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed may be the wealthest investor outside the U.S.; The Fortune e-50 index; Dell's big new act; Excite@Home merges content and cable; DoubleClick - The Heart of Internet Advertising; USWeb/CKS grows up; The Clubby world of venture capitalists has become more aggressive and cutthroat; Japans R&D - get ready for robot dogs, video cell phones, electronic wall paper, and more; How to most effectively buy influence in Washington; The NRA is Under the Gun; What Would Machiavelli Do?; Dot Com time bomb on Madison Avenue - net brand promotion will stop after Christmas; Fast Ferries - radical new shapes are breaking speed records - it's a whole new breed of catamaran; Challengers Move in on ERP. Light wear. A nice clean copy. Magazine
Features: Ikenobo School; Sogetsu School; Soami School; Ichiyo School; Ryusei-ha School; Sumie and Poetry; Ikebana for Christmas; Chiko School; Shoho School; Seifu Enshu School; Koryu Shohtoh-kai School; Ohara School; Impressions of South Africa. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: At the Ice King's Board; Nature rolls her own - snow rollers - fascinating photo!; What kind of Christmas tree is yours?; Trailing the Woodfolk - tracking; A Builder of Aerial Tunnels; Partridge Berry - plant of Christmas Cheer; The Roc (Rukh) of Ages; Conservation - Logic and Convervation; Conseration and the Boy - building a sane, intelligent, sympathetic view of wildlife; A Christmas green conservation project; Accidents and highway billboards; The Royal Group in Northern Skies; Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
111 pages. Includes group photo and list of names of attendees of the Canadian Army Staff College, 9 January 1956 - 16 November 1956. Heavily worn. Covers loose as one, but present. Moisture stain to lower corner. A worthy reference copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Christmas on the Plains; Hoofprints Through Time - reconstructing the pygmy horse Nannippus which roamed the Texas panhandle; Sid Forrest and a Horse Named Nickels; We Ride at Montecito - the Monticito Turf Club; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Young Western Artist Tenny De Witt; Diamond "S" Ranch - 20 minutes from downtown Seattle; The California Falsarienda - used for breaking and training stock horses in the past; Cow Cuttin'; Some Thoughts on Reining, by W.T. Warren; Sonny Boy (horse) Killed; Winner's Circle - photos with captions; Down the Straightaway; Horse Truck De Luxe - an all-purpose general farm truck and livestock carrier designed and built by ranchers near Medford Oregon; Leap Across Devil's Gulch, by Jesse James III; Horseman's Scrapbook; The Junior Horseman; Index for volume XVIII of this publication; and more. Ad for Lee Riders jeans features Casey Tibbs; Frank H. Lee hat ad on page 8 features Bill Linderman; Nice black and white photo ad for Stetson hats inside front cover. Hyer Boot ad on back cover. Fantastic color Ryon Roper hat ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Stories: Our pilgrimage to Badrinath; The sheriff learns a lesson; the headless man; Bill of the desert; Between ourselves; McKellar's medallion; the Black Knight; Happy Jack; Bushman's Holiday; Copper Palaver; The Passing of a Ju-Ju; Through the Congo to Natal; The Taming of Gamu. Front cover detached. Above-average wear. Book
Stories: The Christmas Tree Derby; The Last of the Conquistadores; Solving Five Thousand Mysteries; Climbing under a Mountain; Searching for Smith; The Land of Mud Castles; South Sea Sugar; We Covered the Water-Front; Shark Hunting; The Spell; Mystery Moths; The Pursuit of the Breelong Blacks. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
Features: Christmas at the Rocky Point Crossing on the Missouri in Montana; Devil Sam's Gold; Russell Watercolors Found!; The Nightmare of Old Folsom Prison; Half-Million Dollar Stage Coach Robbery - Jacksonville, Oregon and stage driver Jack Montgomery who would only stop for a blown up road!; Perils of Desert Treasure Hunting... and how to survive them! - snakes, bugs, scorpions, Gila Monsters; Mystery of the Sansbois - a taste of the supernatural; Retribution at Fort McLane - the four versions of Mangus Colorado's death; The Aerial Liner for the Forty-niner! - this airline never got off the ground; Child Bride of a Buccaneer - Jean Lafitte's Captain; Lovely old postcards; Wild Old Days!; Missouri's Possible Fortune in Silver?; What Happened to Edna Wilson?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Old-Time Line Camp Christmas; Lost Tres Amigos Diggings in Baja California; The West of Gary Cooper; Rough Justice - astonishing incidents; Wealth of the Santa Clara - silver and lead; Horror at Midnight - a little cabin becomes a butcher shop in Siloam Springs, Arkansas; Top Man of the Fearless Thirteen - Burt Mossman; Bill Fairweather's Luck - he struck it rich in Alder Gulch; Bachelor Miners - great photos of various cabin styles; When Charles A. Siringo was Marked for Death; The Virginian, by Owen Wister; Letters from the 'Bloody First' - the bleak life of an enlisted man in the 1860s; Just Baling Wire - photos of various uses!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Fastest Ox Train on the Santa Fe Trail!; Fringe Benefits of a Prospector; They Called Him Elza - Elza Lay of the Wild Bunch; Navidad en la Villita - little known Christmas customs practiced in the Southwest; Rolling Stone - running away from home; The Hall Murders; Joseph (Joe) McCoy Scouts Texas; Greatest public library - the cemetary; The Trap - it opened up the west; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Delta County, Colorado Sheep War; Concords in Africa? - Stage Coaches were used in Africa too!; A Golden Jesus - Famed artifact of the Henry Mountains; The Stringfield Massacre - McMullen County, Texas; How about living in a Bank? - the Christy Building, formerly the Ness County Bank building in Scott City, Kansas; Queenie Danced Naked at the Convention of the Panhandle and Southwestern Stockmen's Association in Oklahoma City in 1914; Desert Cowboy - Sam Cuddeback, the last of the Mojave's early-day riders; War Horse No. 9 - Montcalm and Mr. Auclair; Old Red Mountain City, Montana; Panhandle Outlaw - Shine Popejoy; All of us Thorps could Ride! - a Washington state/Yakima Valley family; Wild Old Days!; Methods of Boys on the Hustle;A Con-Man's Christmas Carol. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Why I Wrote the book about Buffalo Bill - Nebraska writer Nellie Snyder Yost Tells all; Love and the Sexes on the Western Frontier; How to be a Ghost Towner - The Best Way to re-live the Old West is to visit the places where it once thrived; California's First Gold Rush - Gold was mined in California at least as early as the early 19th Century, if not before as Indians brought gold to the mission padres for trading purposes; Mysterious Disappearance of a Utah mine owner, Mike Sullivan; Christmas at Old Fort Concho, Texas; Bodie, California - Pictorial views of the Boom and the Bust; Lost Yocum Silver Mine - This Missouri Farmer thinks he's sitting on Riches; Gunnison's Ghosts (in Gunnison County, Colorado); Palace Station - overnight stage stop for travelers between Prescott and Phoenix; Head Cheese and Other Cheeses - Forgotten Frontier Food, Part II; Fooled by Real Gold at Sheep Ranch, California. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
146 pages. Features: A Christmas Tale; Minton Figures and Groups; Past Toys for Present Collectors; Anglo-Canadian Art; A Case for the Cigar Smoker; Antiques in Childhood; Victoria Art; Auction Room Delights; Masters Old and New; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with vintage ads. Bottom two inches of spine open, otherwise clean and unmarked with average wear. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
34 pages. Features: Artist Helen Granger Young - From Painting to Porcelain; The Christmas Manger Scene - a Folk Art Collection; Happenings;; Brigitte Hiekel appears in one-page ad for the Kidney Foundation of Canada; Allan Osborne contributes to motion picture history; Meet the Artists - pictures and biographies of 32 personalities, with an example of their work; Showcase; Collectors Letters - unusual questions are answered; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
20 pages. Features: Only 31% of Canadians live in the town where they were born; The Muppets - article with colour photos of Miss Piggy, Kermit, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, Rowlf, Scooter, Waldorf and Statler; Job description of Father Fred Olds of Winnipeg's Blessed Sacrament Church - photo and article; Three pages of photos and brief bios of notable people who dies in 1978 - including Will Geer, Robert Shaw, Garfield Weston, Bob Crane, and dozens more; Christmas Chestnuts - tracing the history of 11 yuletide standards including The Nutcracker, The Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Gift ot the Magi, etc.; A Day in the life of Santa Claus; Bethlehem - since the six day war it has become a city of shopping centres and souvenir shops and a mecca for busloads of tourists; Christmas recipes by Margo Oliver (with colour photo); and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
36 pages. Attractive black and white illustrations on every second page. Includes these carols: Angels from the Realms of Glory; Away in a Manger; Deck the Halls; First Nowell (Noel); God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Holly and the Ivy; I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Joy To the World; O Come, All Ye Faithful; O Little Town of Bethlehem; O Thou Joyful Day; Once in Royal David's City; Silent Night; We Three Kings; What Child is This?. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this sentimental WWII-era favorite. Book
422 pages. Colour photography throughout. This full-sized catalogue presents thousands of items. Unmarked with moderate external wear. A quality copy of this delightfully nostalgic 1991 Christmas catalogue - from a time before digital cameras and cell phones. Book
44 pages. Features: The whole world is drifting apart - Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson played a key role in developing the continental drift theory - article with photo; Shoplifting costs your family about $75 a year; Nice colour photo ad for the 1973 Plymouth Satellite; Some of our doctors are getting very interested in acupuncture; Bob Wright is wild about Whales - article with colour photos; 17 Great Christmas Gifts - colour photos; Great full-page colour-photo of Betty Kennedy and Austin Willis as part of fashion feature; My heroes are older now - Tom Alderman recalls the Pony Line of Max and Doug Bentley and Bill Mosienko of the Chicago Black Hawks; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Mattel toys displays 15 of their toys; Colour photo ad for Sony TVs; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Chipping and openings to top edge of spine otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Judith Jedlicka collects baskets; Boehm keeps spreading its wings; The collectible Creche; Christmas ornaments to collect; A new look at Peter Max; Arlene Francis - her TV fans have been showering her with symbols of love for years; The Western Art of New Yorker Gregory Perillo; What's all this flap about flappers? - desired objects of the jazz age; A Horatio Alger Anniversary; Ellis Nassour's elephant collection; Unknown Hummel Madonna with wings found. Ask the experts. Average wear. Name upon front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
26 pages. Signed by author upon first page. Subjects include: Pink Double Roses; Grapes & Morning Glories; Christmas Chickadees; Poppies; Dusky Pink Roses; Cherries & Roses; Christmas Rose with English Robins; Green Apples; Pink Double Roses. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: Dead Man's Double - the strange story of a landsman who, anxious to get home to Australia, shipped aboard a foreign tramp to work his passage; Baptism of Fire - the story of a young Forest Ranger employed by the British Columbia Forest Service in 1927, and how a fire trapped over 100 people in a logging camp; A Case of Contraband - An amusing story of how, between revolutions, men had ways of their own of getting around difficulties; The Golden Ingot - the diverting story of an ingenious Gold Coast version of the time-honoured "confidence trick"; Down Mexico Way - The exciting adventure of two young seafarers who light-heartedly set out to explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker; Pioneer Pilot - Mr. Peter Strong flew over the Drakensberg Mountains between Basutoland and Natal; One Thing After Another - Recalls the narator's fall and subsequent rise in the depression days of Australia; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-Servicemen; South Sea Burial Customs - Visiting the outlying islands of the remote Cook Group, in the South-East Pacific, the authoress came upon many curious death-customs; Olsen's Secret - A grim story from the American coalfields; Front cover was attached with tape but is now detached. Back cover missing. Contents unmarked and in decent condition. Magazine
Many lovely colour illustrations and advertisements. Above-average wear. Some pages loose but present. Book
