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124 pages. Features: Cover painting of barber shop in Kemano, B.C.; Nice Christmas ad for Parker Pens inside front cover; Editorial - If Nationalism's okay, it's okay for everybody; Women are not a race apart - opinion piece by Anne Francis; Nice one-page colour-photo ad features inset photo of Dorothy Moreau, Miss Canada 1956; How London Dimmed Liberace's Smile; Nostalgic one-page Christmas-motif ad for Ganong's Delector Chocolates; Electrohome TV ad shows dad babysitting; Two-page colour ad for Schick electric shavers for ladies; From Ottawa - Can politics compete with Howdy Doody?; Panel Discussion about Women - with contributions by Nathan Steinberg, Madame Renee Vautelet, Miss Anne Hamilton, Mrs. L.M. Baldwin, Dr. Marion Hilliard, Dr. Reva Gerstein, Miss E.W. Loosley and Dr. Ashley Montagu; The Lady is a Labor (Labour) Leader - Huguette Plamondon; How Serious is the Threat of Radiation? - we are constant targets of radioactivity - what is it doing to us - and future generations? - some disturbing facts; Johnny Lombardi's Kingdom of Music and Macaroni - this war vet opened an Italian grocery, broadcast Italian music, and imported Italian movies; The Tragic Case of the Man Who Played Jesus - Peter and Mina Sala were key figures in the 1941 Belcher Islands murders - Peter posed as God, Ouyerack as Christ, and Mina went mad, leading naked women and children on the ice where six died; Comic Paul Kligman - master of the Jewish joke - photo-illustrated article; The Story of Olga - novel; One-page colour-photo ad for McBrine luggage; Two-page colour-photo ad for Kodak cameras; Great Caterpillar one-page photo ad features D8 Cats pulling large loads across the vast wastes of Antarctica as part of Operation Deepfreeze; Two-page ad for Philishave for ladies features figure skaters; Hammond Chord Organ ad features home Christmas scene; *Sensational* two-page colour-photo ad for the 1957 Pontiac (red Laurentian 4-Door Sport Sedan with white roof and stripe); Classy one-page diamond ad for Birks Jewellers features attractive lady and tropical fish; Canadian Club one-page colour-photo ad features Fred Klaus and Tom Morison who are hit by an avalanche while skiing in the Austrian Alps; Nostalgic Red Cap Ale / Black Label Beer colour-photo ad features "Mabel" and mand in red cap putting the finishing pieces on a beautiful Christmas tree; Classy one-page colour ad for Electrohome celebrating their 50th anniversary in 1957; Schick mens' shavers centrefold ad; Nice colour ad for Pyrex decorator casserole dishes; Colourful Moirs Chocolates ad features Santa; Nice colour ad for Maxwell House coffee; Colour photo of elegant couple in Wiser's whisky ad; Remington shaver ad features great colour photo of hatless Santa getting ready to shave; 3/4-page colour ad for B.C. Apples features illustrations of little boy and girl; Robert W. Service recounts his most memorable meal - after being lost at forty below; Interesting colour ad for Cummins portable electric tools; Great archival colour ad for Crown Zellerback Canada features nice illustration of Christmas package being delivered, with written details of their kraft paper production at Elk Falls, their Richmond, B.C. box plant, and their pioneer Ocean Falls mill; Attractive large colour-photo ad for Lawson & Jomes Limited features the labels they print for O'Keefe ale, beer and double stout; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Page 57 taped into place with archival tape, otherwise a sound and pleasing vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Nice colour-illustrated military-themed Canada Post ad inside front cover; Assault on Normandy, by Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro, with photos; "Stand By to Beach", by Commander Peter MacRitchie, RCNVR - D-Day Coverage - article with photos; Dinner for Four - fiction by Marguerite Eyssen; How Long will You Live?, by Dr. W.W. Bauer; So This is Rome, by Peter Stursberg - impressions of the eternal city after liberation; Britain After the War, by Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald; 'Stardom's No Joke' says Judith Evelyn, 1,000 times a star in Angel Street; Interesting news bits from across the country; Have a Good Time, John - fiction by Alberta Pierson Hannum; Johnny Longden Up, by Jim Coleman, with photos; Brilliant Business - Canadians are proving they can master the ancient craft of diamond cutting; Wedding Bells for another Woodbury (Soap) Deb - the former Thelma Bertha Bowell of B.C. and Lieutenant Wilbert Kennith Carter - ad with photos; Colour Kodak ad explains colour printing; Lovely colour ad for Dr. West's toothbrushes; Nice colour ad for Nabisco Shredded Wheat; *RARE* full-page colour GM ad commemorates the contribution of the quarter-million vehicles they contributed to the war effort - caption reads "The First Billion Miles are the Hardest!; Similar colour ad by Ford Motor Company inside back cover shows their trucks at work in war and at home; Heintzman & Co. piano ad; *Wonderful* colour-illustrated Coke ad on back cover shows a sailor returning from war being welcomed to his industrial former place of work; Faint bit of writing and address label upon front cover. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this important wartime issue. Magazine
84 pages plus 36 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part I; The Pirates of the "Ethel" - a tale of Australian piracy from 1899; The White Wanderer - my life among the Nomad Arabs - article with nice photos; The Queer Side of Things - My "Hunch" - a cowboy's plain tale of an odd adventure in Nevada; The Mystery of the "Flying Stones" - a weird story related by a South African policeman; The Judge's Joke - Judge Sawicki of Cleveland was anxious to be rid of three drunks; "Slippery Wiley" Scores Again - an illicit gold buyer in Australia; Photo and caption of a 1.5 ton monster sea turtle caught off Lowestoft, on the east coast of England!; Children of the Desert - a first-hand study of the manners and customs of the Navajo Indians - article with nice photos; Hunter's Luck on the Lion Trail - a lion-hunting story from East Africa - with nice photos; Over the Victoria Falls in a Canoe - Trooper Ramsay survived the 420' fall!; The Haunted Cabin - a queer little tale from Maroon Mountain, British Columbia; Man and his Needs; Stamps of the World. Nice full-page ad for Barney's Tobacco inside front cover. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
First and only edition. ONE OF ONLY 8 COPIES PRINTED of this charming compilation of humorous memories and anecdotes from turn-of-the-century Barcelona. Mainly in Spanish, but with some Catalan. Signed by the author. Printed amateurishly, but fortunately the author selected decent paper, which is not at all fragile. 105 + 4 pp. 12mo. Original printed wraps. Minor wear to wraps, else fine. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE BOOK, PERHAPS THE ONLY SURVIVING COPY. Not in Palau.
P. Chez A. Barraud, libraire, 1872. 4 volumes in-8, reliés demi chagrin bleu, couvertures lavande conservées, dos à nerfs, tête dorée. Nombreuses illustrations hors texte, bandeaux. Numérotation par histoire dans chaque volume. Exemplaire n°3/150 sur grand papier vélin. C. Brunet a repris le recueil de PS Caron, qu'il a modifié. Des rousseurs marginales et sur les tranches, sinon bon état.
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of the U.S.S. West Virginia; New York's Little Joke on New York - a study of the prohibition referendum - an oasis that proved to be a mirage; The Sesqui-Centennial Nears Its End - article with photos; 'Coin' Harvey - Prophet of Monte Ne - he would build a pyramid in the Ozarks to tell posterity why our civilization has failed; Painless Taxation - The Refuge of Quack Politicians who advocate 'painless' taxation; The Greatest Need of the U.S. Navy - an adequate merchant marine; A Tale of The Islands That Dot Boston Harbor; Henry Ford's Page - today's farming problem; Editorials - Judge William S. Kenyon on Official Etiquette, Our new diplomacy, the very mushroom growth of jazz is enough to predict its ephemerality, New light on the Dawes Plan; Our Greatest Football Fable - The All American Team; The Tragic Story of the Jeannette Expedition - Part II of this photo-illustrated article ; Dances of Olden Times; The Lure of the Puppet - Marionettes date from the dawn of civilization; Chats with Office Callers; I Read in the Papers; Great photos inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
FIRST EDITION of this important and amusing 15th century farce, whose plot is drawn from Rutebeuf's fabliau of the "Pet au vilain". Published by Silvestre as part of the "Poesies Gothiques Francoises" series, which was printed by Crapelet and edited by Francisque Michel. From a total edition of 100 copies, this is ONE OF ONLY 50 ON BETTER PAPER (handmade Dutch laid paper). Beautifully printed in black-letter (Gothic) types by Crapelet. 4to. Attractively bound in recent cloth. Uncut. Original wraps bound in. Edges a little bit dusty, else fine and bright. Brunet IV, 754.
16 pages. Features: Lovely color cover photo of Claudia Cardinale - Girl in the Park; Medical Hypnotism - Part I; Westport's Other Mother - Patricia O'Regan Brown of Westport, CT has started a club called "The Junior Years" to help girls grow up; Taste For Mischief (fiction); Quick and Easy Dessert Recipes; Q&A; My Son, My Son - Don Paul Nathanson's idea to help sons measure up to their fathers; "I Can Never Tell A Joke" - great lines by Groucho Marx, Victor Borge and Sam Goldwyn. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this special vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 63-124. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: A summer voyage to Greenland; The new sweet-peas; Fred Lewis Pattee; The church and men; Cameron's joke; Coasting on Mile Hill; Hollis - An Agricultural town - feature article with many photos; Dorothys choice; Trust; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
28 pages. Features: Great colour photo ad inside front cover for Borg winter coat fashions for women; Brian Moore - We Were like the Jews in Nazi Germany; On the Rocks - the suburban lives of Vancouver Island lighthouse keepers - feature article with colour photos; 'Exiled' Author Norman Levine Comes Home after 20 years; The Royal Canadian Air Farce - article with great colour photo; Misadventure in the Jade Trade - Laurie Hughes has been fighting to stop the sellout of a rare and precious Canadian resource - article with colour photo of Hughes; Article on she fashion by Marina Sturdza; Howie Meeker appears in ad for Reed Career Service. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
Features: Frank Boucher's Challenge - how we can end the farce of sending fourth-rate teams to the world hockey championships; Nurse Joyce Relyea and her job at the Hospital for Sick Children; Chatham - the good town that's fighting a bad name - its politicians live in fear of nameless terrorists, Ottawa lists it as a 'depressed area', the morals of the children have been thrown into serious question; The Pleasure of Ruins, by photographer Roloff Beny - with great b/w photos, including the Shah and queen of Iran; How the Hedlin family of Winnipeg leaped the language barrier together and learned French; Dr. John Knox, former Danish Ambassador, writes about the Canadian beaver; Robert Thomas Allen on Greece; Volkswagen van ad featuring the entire population of Jiggs, Nevada in one van!. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Is Abstract Art a Private Joke? - Roger Burlingame; Television USA - John Bartlow Martin's close-up report on the controversial side of TV; People on the Way Up - Brigid Bazlen, Thomas Eagleton, Shelagh Delaney, Jack Heberlig; The Spreading Ocean Floor - Dr. Robert S. Dietz; Many Top-Rated Football Pros were once casual rejects - does their success prove that a coach is no better prophet than anyone else?; The Strange Affair of the Vasa - this unlucky warship sank on her maiden voyage but was found and raised three centuries later; Doctor in the White House - a revealing portrait of Dr.Travell, the first female physician ever entrusted with the President's health; Washington Views Berlin - the strategy Government experts are mapping out to deal with Krushchev. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Two volumes. pp. 458; 446 + Engraved portrait frontis, and an engraved title page. 16 mo. 128 mm. All edges gold gilt. The whole of volume two is a type facsimile of the Latin and English text of the first edition (circa. 1638). Full leather bindings; spines highly decorated; front board of volume one detached. Of this edition only 125 copies were printed. Subscribers to this very limited edition include the great book collectors Richard Heber and Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Manuscript note in volume one: "Bought at Poynder Sale. June 1855. Sotheby. Lot 67. 1L. This is probably John Poynder (1779-1849) - but his very valuable library was apparently sold by Sotheby in 1850. 'Barnabae Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal' is the most famous of poet Richard Brathwaite's (1588?-1673). It appeared in 1638 under the pseudonym 'Corymbaeus.' It is a sparkling record of English travel, in Latin and English verse. It was neglected in its own age, but being reprinted under the title of 'Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys,' achieved a considerable success during the eighteenth century, and is still in some vogue. The authorship was not ascertained until the publication of the seventh edition by Joseph Haslewood in 1818. Previously supposed authors were known as: Corymbaeus; Philogenes Pandonius; Musaeus Palatinus; Clitus-Alexandrinus. Southey pronounced the original the best piece of rhymed Latin in modern literature. There are great details of 17th century English social life, and drinking customs. Wither to Prior 85; Lowndes I 260. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SW3
Scarce edition of nine farces, with copious scholarly and textual notes. This collection illustrates, perhaps better than any other, the transformation of French comic theater at the close of the middle ages and the beginning of the renaissance. 8vo. Recent boards. Uncut. Original wraps bound in. Wrappers lightly chipped and spotted, else fine.
Stories: The Female of the Species; A Weighty Problem; The Town of Ghosts; The Judge's Joke; On Patrol; The Djimat; Adventure Ahoy; The Doctor's Jacket; A New Zealand Man-Hunt; Rough Luck; The Phantom Gunman; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
pp. iv, 500. Slight foxing. 12mo. Original full red gold decorated cloth binding. Old repair. Spine mounted on red buckram with some loss. Extremities worn. HUMOR 6
96 pages. Features: Thriller - The Frog that Fell out of the Sky; Modern Adventure - Four R.A.F. Planes disappeared before Flying Officer Vickers unmasked the treachery that was to set the frontier aflame with Revolt; The Sky Clown - a joke costs a brave man his courage and makes a fighter of a fool; Call Me Jennie - Major Sharpness made Tigers out of Rabbits - but his first Creation won a most Untigerish name; True Story - The Epic Story of Famous R.F.C Unit - No. 56 Squadron; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
First edition of this important compilation of medieval comedies, most of which are practically impossible to find elsewhere. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. 8vo, publisher's cloth. Uncut. Near fine. Bossuat 5846 and 5904; Gay III, 953; Brunet IV, 1147; Graesse VI(1), 48.
90 pages. Features/Articles: Charlottetown - the pleasures of a small town with the stimulation of a city; Horns and Antlers - Revered, admired, coveted... and different in most respects; Ship-time! - for many northern communities the sea-lift is their life line; Perth Revival - dramatic mainstreet program has restored a small Ontario town's charm and character; The International Plowing Match - Canada's biggest outdoor farm show; Ducks on the Prairies - every western slough has its hungry residents, and their appetite is no joke to grain farmers; When is a tree not a tree - strange shapes and fascinating adaptations at the treeline; Riding the Rails in private style - privately-owned railcars; Fraser Valley Hops - the choice of brewers around the world; Our Endangered Species in Art; Lake Laberge (rhymes with marge) and other Yukon Names. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Libretto originale della farsa giocosa rappresentata nel Teatro Re di Milano nell'estate del 1831. In condizioni discrete ma raro. Brossura
74p. Decorated title page. Each leaf protected with a blank. All edges gold. Comic caricature illustrations throughout. Paper beginning to brown. Very slight dampstain. Some old staining. 4to. Original full gold pictorial red cloth binding. Extremities worn. Rebacked. Richard Doyle (1824-1883) was the son of a noted British cartoonist and the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A very charming set of cartoons, illustrating a "Grand Tour" in America [New York; Canada; and Cuba]. Fascinating Victorian humor and satire. HUMOR 8
Two Volumes bound in one: pp. 323; 347. Engraved bookplate of Macaulay. 12mo. 185 mm. Later 19th century binding. Leather spine over marbled covered boards. Spine decorated and lettered in gold gilt, worn and repaired. Hardbound. Good. Hook was an English man of letters and composer, and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first postcard was received by Hook in 1840, which he probably posted to himself. While he was confined in a debtors sponging-house from (1823-1825), he wrote the nine volumes of stories afterwards collected under the title of Sayings and Doings. After various successes Hook returned to his old habits and a prolonged attempt to combine industry and dissipation resulted in the confession that he was done up in purse, in mind and in body. His estate was seized by the Treasury. He never married but lived with Mary Anne Doughty and they had six children. Hook was one of the most brilliant figures of Georgian times. He inspired the characters of Lucian Gay in Benjamin Disraeli's novel Coningsby and Mr Wagg in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Coleridge praised him as being 'as true a genius as Dante'. First American edition. SCARCE. S&S/AI 16576. PAIMP 23
128p. Over 350 cartoons, more than 100 in color. Folio. Original full cartoon decorated wraps. Fairly nice copy of a very scarce cartoon book. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! HUMOR 1
392p. Very worn and stained. Lacks first and last end papers. Ownership in mirror writing: John Strearig, April, 2, 1865 (a couple of weeks before Lincoln's assasination). Isn't it likely that this copy entertained many a Civil War Soldier? Blue inked rubbing of a 1859 seated liberty half dollar. 12mo. Original full brown publisher's cloth binding, very worn. Rather scarce. HUMOR 1
pp. vii, 221, (4)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus frontis and full page drawings. Top edge red. Uncut. Label of Author's Autograph Edition. Signed by the author. Limited Edition. No. 481 of Five Hundred Copies. 8vo. Original full white embossed brown cloth binding decorated with coffee cups. Coffee cup ring on front cover. Rear board very worn and faded. HUMOR 8
