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Cover art by Franklin Arbuckle depicts jockey card game at Toronto's old Woodbine racetrack. Nice colour White Rose service station ad inside front cover. Colour Buick ad. What's Happening to Cars? - Maclean's asks representatives of six major auto makers. Now We're Finding Out How Children Think, by Janice Tyrwhitt; My Six Furious Years as a City Father, by Charlotte Whitton, former Mayor of Ottawa. How much pain can you stand - some faint at a pinprick while others feel no pain - Georgia Fitzgerald explores this topic; Blair Fraser asks "Who Leads Asia?' - and speculates that China will come out on top of India. The Inter-Galaxy Beauty Contest, by Robert Zacks; Albertans are catching lots of trout - a fish once thought to exist only in clear running water. When Voting Was a High Adventure - a review of when Canadians fought there way to the polls, often sold their votes and sometimes found cheats had stolen the election. Our Wild Atomic City - Elliot Lake - story with photos. Sensational colour ad for DeSoto cars. Colour MobilOil ad featuring 1957 Oldsmobile. Full-page black and white photo ad for the 60-second Polaroid Land Camera. Colour illustrated ad for Toronto's King Edward Sheraton Hotel. Studebaker-Packard black and white photo ad featuring the 4-door Champion model. Interesting colour photo ad by Caterpillar inside back cover extolls the virtues of Ontario's partially completed Highway 401. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A quality copy. Book
Features: Nice 2-page colour ad for the 1966 Pontiac Parisienne Sport Coupe; Ten Million voters in search of an issue; Who'll be around after the Federal Election? - this could be the last campaign for Pearson and Diefenbaker; Stop the world - they want to get off - John Ruddy interviews Scottie Mayer, Jack Martin, Cecilie Kwiat, and Andrew Mikolasch - Canadian Hippies; The HIdden Treasures of a Shy Rebel - J.E.H. MacDonald created a truly Canadian style of art and played a leading role in the founding of the Group of Seven - with several lovely colour samples of his works; The land that lives on borrowed time - bird watchers explore Hong Kong's awesome beauty, hopeless poverty, sample irresistible bargains, watch the prettiest girls in Asia... and some birds too!, Part 2 of a series by Fred Bodsworth; Death of a Great Lake - by smothering Lake Erie with pollution, man is making it an odorous, slime-covered graveyard; Frequent prison inmate Joe Bouchard describes his home away from jail, while writing his autobiography; Very colourful photo centerfold ad for the Ford Fairlanes; Should doctors be licensing doctors; Great two-page colour photo spread of the 1966 Oldsmobiles; Canadiana by Gerald Stevens; Claude Wagner - the man Quebec's crooked politicians can't touch and the gangs can't beat; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Battle of the St. Lawrence - for five tragic months of 1942 U-Boats hunted in St. Lawrence waters, scoring 23 kills... Here's a story that's never been told; Straight talk from Mike Pearson - 'we won't be anybody's satellite"; Those Middle-Age Blues - how men can avoid a crackup; Carnival in the Classroom; London Letter - Mid-Atlantic Logbook; Backstage at Ottawa; Beauty Contests are the Bunk - here's the lowdown on the pin-ups - after his 20 years on the judge's bench, Gordon Sinclair confesses it's mostly phoney; Halfbacks, Greenbacks and Red Ink - ledgers, not linemen, rule big league football (photo of Annis Stukus with Al Marshall; Hot-Water Skipper - Captain Norman Reach is at the wheel of the world's greatest fresh-water fleet (Canada Steamship Lines/CSL); I went to a Nudist Camp (a few miles south of Seattle) - in clothes at Camp Forestia, columnist Scott was covered with confusion - the next day he took them both off. Nice colour Coke ad on page 39. Reo Truck ad on page 5. Abundant tears. Some water stains. Reading copy only. Book
88 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration of young female horse rider at fireplace by Joseph Farrelly; Nice colour photo ad for Gillette razors inside front cover; full-page black and white photo ad for the Hupmobile 1931 Sixes and Eights; Mrs. Biddle Stewart is featured in a lovely black and white photo portrait in a full-page ad for Ponds beauty products; Canada's New Prime Minister - Hon.R.B. Bennett - with biographical photos; Air Air-Minded North - Jack Patterson on Grizzled Prospectors, mining moguls, Indians, white men, sky-pilots, bootleggers - all of whom fly in the north country - with photos; The Operating Room Mystery - story by Benge Atlee; Canada and the Imperial Conference at 10 Downing Street, by C.L. Sibley - struggling to save the economy of the British Empire; How to Make a Hole in One, by Grattan O'Leary; Inifficiency Incorporated - story by W. Redvers Dent; Pioneers of the Steel Trail - Part 5 - Sam G. MacIntosh, The Oldest Engineer, tells his story - with photos; What's Wrong With Our Tennis? - John Holden argues we think of tennis as a sport rather than as a profession - with photos of Dr. Wright and Willard F. Crocker; Backfire - a story by Sewell Peaslee Wright; Full-page colour reproduction of Richard Jack's "Victoria Mountain, Lake O'Hara; Smart Fellow - story by Frederick B. Watt; The King's Fool - story by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Photo-illustrated ad about Intestinal Fatigue featuring 'Italy's great Physician-Statesman" Dottore Raffaele Paolucci, Director of Lanciano Hospital; Interesting news story about the Wailing Wall and how the Geneva Commission must judge the rights of Jews and Muslims; Northern Electric ad entitled 'Liberation' explains how their 'electrical servant' (water pump) relieves women of having to pump and carry water - a very nostalgic ad!; Bachelors Taxed in Germany - the nation wants more babies; Dodge car ad; Nice full-page black and white photo ad for Stewart-Warner Radios; Lovely colour full-page ad for Parker Duofold pens; Nice full-page colour ad for Heinz cooked Spaghetti; Full-page historic ad by the Province of Ontario alerting its drivers to the new Financial Responsibility Law with respect to owners and operators of motor vehicles in the province; Hotels Statler ad; Lt.-Col. Kingsford-Smith is featured in a full-page black and white photo ad for the Studebaker President and Commander models; Wonderful 4-page centerfold ad for the new Marconi Radio - includes names and photos of numerous prominent Canadians who endorse the new Marconi receiving sets (radios) - past page of ad features photos of the following models - Senior Combination, A.C. Senior, 2 volt DC Superior, A.C. Standard, A.C. Junior; Sherwin-Williams full-page 2-colour paint ad; Very attractive full-page colour photo ad for Probak Shaving Blades featuring photo of Henry J. Gaisman; Two-page black and white ad for the 1.5 ton Dodge Truck for $745; George Cuthbertson - Freshwater Painter - illustration with article; Stylish two-colour full-page ad for the Chevrolet Six; Nice full-page colour illustrated ad for Swift's Brookfield Butter; Full-page photo ad for Bauer & Black medical products; Picnic Suppers, illustrated article by Helen G. Campbell; Brilliant Color Schemes for Dark Bedrooms, by F.L. deN. Scott; Lovely full-page colour illustrated ad for P and G Soap inside back cover features teacher and studen; Stylish colour ad for Community Plate silverware on back cover. Address label atop front cover. Faint erasure to front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
Book titles as follows: Dick Whittington, The Shoemaker and the Elves, Seven with One Blow, The Goose Girl, Rapunzel, The Princess and the Pea, The Frog Prince, Beauty and the Beast, Snow-White and Rose-Red, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, and The Golden Goose. Each tiny book illustrated in colour. All books unmarked with moderate to average wear. Pages stapled together and protected by illustrated card covers. Books are secured inside what publisher refers to as a "casket." Left and right halves of casket are illustrated with happy elves. These fold open to reveal more smiling elves and two much smaller snowflake-decorated doors which, when opened, reveal the books. Casket illustrations are partially faded and side panels rumpled. Flap at top folds up to read "My Happy Story Box." Casket in fair condition overall - fortunately its most attractive features are in good condition. Back of casket displays promotional line drawings and text upon a yellow background. Casket is approximately 6.5" high (8" including fold-up), 5" wide and almost 2.5" deep. Circa 1960? Book
Features: Chuckles - a wonderful doll auction find; A Neglected Beauty - only an Armand Marseille No. 390; Barbie - the little girls and doll collectors dream come true!; Madame Alexander's 'So Big" baby doll original sleeper and pinafore; Carolee Creation's 12" Jody doll; A glimpse of doll collecting in the past; Barbara Peterson Comley - Original doll artisan; Restoring Collectable Composition Dolls; Rubber Molds; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Portfolio in Praise of Parks; The Early Years of the Parks; Kouchibouguac - River of the Long Tides; Dave Cardinal - warden in Banff National Park; Concise Guide to Parks; Why Parks - a personal essay; The National Park System - aiming for representation in the country's 48 natural regions; The Last Native Grassland - proposed national park site in southwest Saskatchewan; Auyuittuq - Beauty on a Grand Scale; The West Coast Lifesaving Trail - five days of backpacking along a historic coastline. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Contents: Color ad for 'Ask for Ethyl'; Bankers Trust ad - Buy Victory Bonds; Babcock & Wilcox ad - bombs and beauty aids need steam; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color ad for 1946 Packard cars; Auto strike raises new issue for Industrial Wars in America - the nation's biggest union asks stake in affairs of management by cry of 'Let's see the books'; Mrs. Damato of Shenandoah, Pa. christens the U.S.S. Damato - she lost two sons in the war; Photo of James Hendrix, Army hero; Matt Kimes - cop killer; Why the Fleet could not retreat to the West Coast - Admiral William V. Pratt; Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack; Where the War Cause Lies - Japan; Nice color ad for General Tire; Color ad for the Aeroprop division of GM; Ezra Pound returns to the US to face charges of treason - with photo; The Federation of Atomic Scientists; Native world from Zion to Java stirred by nationalist little wars; 4 photos of Japan's Hirohito visiting the shrines of Ise to report Japan's defeat to his predecessors; Thorez, red architect of France; the Nuremberg Tribunal - with labelled photo of 20 defendants in their courtroom positions; two photos of Eva Braun; War-Winning Old Guard Begins Exodus from Top Service Jobs - retirements of Staff Chief and Fleet Commander are first of many peacetime moves; Super color centerfold for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Seabees dig in darkly for spell with Eskimos - Navy installations in the far north; Photo of the real Kilroy; C.D. Howe has his fingers in many pies; Canada's Baby Bonus; Heavy heavy over stock boom hangs wage-price policy delay; Inventor Gilbert Brereton and ramie; S. DeWitt Cough, President of Abbott Laboratories, calls for national health care; Robert Benchley 1889-1945; Color ad for teh Douglas DC-6; The reality of Salvador Dali; Unusual color Monsanto ad on back cover features young lovely speaking into a huge contemporary walkie-talkie. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Scratch-Built Doors; Memories of Britain; Noral Olson; The Swan Pub; Golden Memories, by Betty Salpekar; Show Highlights; Eye of the Needle Shoppe; Reader Accomplishments; Bunny Basket and Easter House; Build Your Dollhouse, part 7; Simply Marble-ous; Biedermeier Beauty; Nine authentic storage boxes to make; Dream Room 10 - mom's room in the 1940s; Mounted Antlers; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Surface Beauty; Keystone dollhouses - "The Birches"; Pierre Zador's Furniture; Ned and Dick Kellogg; Native American Art; Elisabett Andrews; Shows; the Cheney Rooms in the Baltimore Museum of Art; Christmas in the Southwest; A Victorian Fainting Couch; Craft a Chaise; Along the Mall IV - Gourmet Shop Plus; Aids for Gluing; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Sarah & Jane Gregory enjoy searching for and creating miniatures; Gail Morey's Canine Crowd; Ralph & Lucy Ord's Sculptured Settings; Nicole Walton Marble - To Windsor and Beyond; Sheila DeTurk captures the beauty of the English countryside; America's First Ladies - The Designer Look (1969-1986); Wes Hart's Precious Metals; The Shelburne Museum brings the sights and sounds of circus magic to life; Gayle Baillargeon has heard the call of the wild in Canada; Paintings in Petit Point by Annamae Cuthbert; Peggy Mills - Portraitist of the Tiny; Linda Driscoll's work with shuttle and hook; Mary's Menus - Thankful Desserts for Autumn; The Toys of Christmas Past; The Art of Arranging Flowers in Miniature; Joann's Cooking with Mrs. Claus; Sifter & Sieve - two kitchen accessories; A Tiny Christmas greeting vignette; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Nutworking; Jane Freeman - Manhattan's most creative trash collector; Rosie Duck Designs; Albina Herron; Sylvan Subdivision - Hollow Tree Houses; Mousescapes; Critter Lake Campsites; Show Scene; Bent Willow Beds; American-Style Highboy; The Bride of the 1920s; Lebrechaun's Lair; Fantasy Trees; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Nutworking - how to share miniatures with young ones without breaking them; Aaron Friedman's dollhouses; Roadside Stands - Tourist Traps; Southwestern Harmony; Native American Miniatures IV - Spider Woman's Legacy - Navajo women weave tradition and beauty; The Beginning of the End - planning projects; The Museum of International Folk Art; Artist Victoria Taylor-Gore's Tiny Pastels; Newark's World of Mini Mania Show; Seven pages of projects with a Southwestern slant; A House in Old Santa Fe - an adobe hacienda; Microcrafting an Oriental Trio - a 1/4" scale Chinese Room; Victorian Storefront Highlight; Along the Mall XX - Election Campaign Headquarters; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: A Bit of British Accent; Modeling Modern; Bed, Breakfast, and Brooke!; Make Mine Modern - An Annie!; Contemporary Gallery; A Modern Medley; The Contemporary Living Room; Trick or Treat!; Crafting Frank Lloyd Wright's living room on a waterfall - Fallingwater; Mother's Fantasy Cribs; Biedermeier Beauty; The Carnival; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: The London Dolls House Festival; Miniature Mysteries - Unknown Collectables; Classics in Miniature - Barbara Raheb's Books; The Binders' Hobby; Wendy Allin Strives for Sweet Perfection; Edgar Schmidt scales his Old World talent into new dimensions; The Tourist Cabin Bath; The Thomas Jefferson State Reception Room; Claycrafting - a toddler toy; Microcrafting - making lights; Figure Sculpting IV - watch the figure; Along the Mall IX - A Beauty Salon; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: A Bunny of a House - build this 1/4" scale Gothic style cottage; Matchstick Madness - Paul Marti has a 'flare' for incredible architecture; 1/144 scale makes a Little House (On or Off the Prairie); Beauty and the Beast Costumes - 1" scale dolls; A Fantasy House Comes True - Dona Sim's Sabine Inn is an Italian Renaissance fantasy in miniature; Mini pinatas for a little Happy Fifth of May celebration. and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Minor moisture exposure to top edge. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Class A Yachts get good grades in SORC; Dorothy Crossley's Virgin Island Interlude - a life of cruising; A day of hard winter sailing; Swedish Mistress - a liberated gal; Yankee 30 - for MORC or offshore competition; Ericson's Dramatic look matched by high performance features; Allied's new 30-footer - a good chance to win; Schock's Santana 37 features expansive rig; Thunderbird; FUN is pretty, fast, seaworthy - and was built in a basement; Bolero on Satin; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Blue Peter Design - Jinker, Clark Sweet's 40 foot cutter; Those one ton darlings - 1974 S.O.R.C. results; Motorsailing; Happiness is a Swedish Beauty - Sachi; Wintery Mid-Winters; Ned McCrea's design for the simple sailing life - the Balao 18 sailor; New Paceship PY23 is sophisticated trailerable yacht; Pretty S&S design imported from Sweden - the IW 31; C&C one ton design is flat out racer - Windquest; For the Cruising Life - Henrik Aas' White Lady 51; Flat-out 'log' racing in the Chesapeake; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: A series of photos from San Francisco Bay; S.O.R.C.; A Memoire from Maine - sailing story and pictures by Mary J. Finke; Young Salts; 26-foot Sloop designed by Allton Dunsford to further the art of gunkholing - CAROLINA; No-Nonsense Rogger from Holland is capable 50-50 motorsailer; Surprise! - a Richard Carlson motorsailer that sails well to weather; Modified Ericson shows impressive comfort gains - the 39-B; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: BRUSHFIRE - burned by the rule, she's an elegant fast racer - sailing profile of a pre-IOR ocean racer by Gunnar C. Anderson; The light air touch - the North American Flying Scot Championship last August on Lake Pontchartrain of New Orleans; At last... a breeze; Southern Circuit '76 - year of the exotic from carbon fibers to wood; The script worked, with changes; Geared up for the SORC; Yes, they are wood!; Hot rod from out of the past - the Hampton, an 18-footer from 42 years ago can compete with some of the high performance designs of today; A crew of boys - pictures by Bob Grieser - the CHRISTIAN RADICH makes her way up the Chesapeake; Petit Nevis - where whales are butchered; PIRANA - 45' 7" S&S/PJ racer; M&W 33-footer - Radical 3/4 ton cupper; Monterey Clipper - 36'2" pilothouse motorsailer; Westsail 28 - Small ocean cruiser; and more. Clean with light wear. Faint doodling in lettering on front cover. Nice copy. Book
Features: Two -Ton Test - who's the best at IOP 32?; They call it the greatest spectacle in yacht racing - from Newport Harbor, California to Ensenada, Mexico; Under iron canopies through pastures on an inland passage to teh lakes; Victoria Yachtscape - another Balboa?; Alden's MALABAR IV lives! - she's MISTRESS II of New Orleans; Innovative monocoque 1/4 tonner, a cruiser too - Art Paine and TWO BITS; English Archer type is connoisseur's cruising yacht - Charles Ward, builder of the Saga 34; Frers turns to cruising with attractive 40-footer - the Frers 40; Farallon 29 - stiff family cruiser, competent to weather; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: A date with nostalgia - a fleet of square riggers and schooners off New Bedford, Massachusetts; Newport Again - this time the world prize for One Ton yachts; Rusty at the Helm - Sylvia Everdell of Boston; Why sail alone across Lake Michigan? - well, why not?; Racing the Trailerable; A Boast and a Big Prize - the first MacGregor Challenge; Tobago Cays - gems of the Grenadines; The Westerly Conway - offshore yacht from England; Allied Seawind II - New Gillmer Circumnatigator; Downeaster 38 - Traditional cruiser from California; Kaufman 30-footer - C-Flex 1/2 ton cup yacht; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Autumn on the Chesapeake; Last Dance off Steel Shore (Chicago); Cape 25 is small cruiser with good looks; Luxurious Challenger 48 is large cruising sailer; The Triton - glass success of the fifites; A Portfolio... by Denis Mason; Schooners at play in race sponsored by Ida Lewis Yacht Club, Newport, Rhode Island; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: The International One design on display in San Francisco Bay; Schonner Sailing Lives! - Nelly Bly, Lucky Star, Courier, Teragram, Albatross, Quissett, Golden Hind; Oh, Shenandoah - the 108-foot U.S. Revenue cutter replica - 8-page feature; Tonners level off in soft air scuffle - the North American One Ton Sailing Championship at St. Petersburg, Florida; Richards modifies his Tilikum for IOR; Aluminum S&S sloop features owner-designed accomodation plan - Tortue; 30 knots!; Proa Flying; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: Profile of a surprise winner - Golden Dazy; Bluenose II sails inside America; Yes, Virginia - we know your sailors love your water; Meet the Tsar - from Performance Sailcraft who brought us the Laser; Four Schooners - COASTER, LEAH, BRIGADOON OF BOOTH BAY, FAIR WEATHER; Don't miss Young Island's voluptuous tropical growth, jump-up nightlife; Vega 8-ton - Crealock ocean traveller; Paquet - 55'6" McCurdy & Rhodes ketch; HELENA - 38-foot cruising sloop; Frers 46 - Alloy 10R sloop; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
