Correspondents of The TimesMareMagnum
6 422 résultats
Cover portrait of M. Kerensky. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos. Contents: Rise of the Soviet; Bolsheviks and Maximalists; Jewish Influences; Indiscipline in the army; Kerensky abolishes the death penalty; Alexeieff as Generalissimo; German Propaganda; Lenin and his agents; Resignation of Miliukoff; Provisional government's note to the allies; replies of Great Britain and France; No annexations and no indemnity; Resignation of Gutchkoff; A coalition cabinet; the 'soldier's charter'; dismissal of generals; Kerensky's visit to the armies; chaos in Russia; confiscation of land; mutinees in the fleet and armies; The Sukhomlinoff Trial; All-Russian congress of Soviets; Drunkenness revived; Treatment of the Imperial family; The Revolution and the Church; Fraternization with the enemy; women solderis. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Please note: the following issues may be of interest: Part 13 - The History of the Russian Army/The Russian Army at the Outbreak of War; Part 32 - Russia's Problem - The First Invasion of East Prussia; Part 33 - The Russian Conquest of Galicia; Part 44 - The last phases of the Russian Winter Campaign (1914-15); Part 50 - The Russian Offensive in the Carpathians (1915); Part 55 - The Campaign against the Baltic Provinces/ The Austro-German Victory on the Dunajec; Part 56 - The Reconquest of Przemysl and Lemberg; Part 61 - The Fall of Warsaw; Part 65 - The Advance from Warsaw, Last stages of the summer campaign (1915); Part 97 - Russia at War; Part 105 - The Russian Offensive of 1916 - first phase; Part 110 - The Russian Offensive of 1916 - Second phase; Part 122 - The Russian Offensive of 1916 - last phase; Part 124 - The Russian Campaign in 1915-16 in Armenia; Part 159 - The Adbication of the Tsar. Magazine
Pages 97-192 plus 32 pages of vintage ads. Features: A Battle With a Bear - a young sportsman drops into a lively rough-and-tumble fight with a big black bear; Real-Life Romances of the War (part I) - Malcolm Savage Treacher, a sergeant in a famous regiment who has been invalided to England after an exciting time in the Near East sets down stories - cameos of the Great War - told to him by soldiers during his seven months' sojourn in various hospitals (part I); From Job To Job Around the World (part IV) - the continuing remarkable adventures of two young Americans who set out from San Francisco with ten dollars between them to work their way around the world - this instalment featuring their adventures in the Philippines, with photos; The Darkest Hour (part I) - Our experiences in the Great Serbian Retreat; A Year in Arctic Siberia (part II) - a well-known Polish lady describes her experiences in the little-known regions of far-northern Siberia; The Strategy of Sister Madeleine - the story of a French Captain's Escape from the Germans; The River That Won't Behave - the mighty Mississippi regularly floods enormous areas - article with many dramatic photos; Fallen Among Thieves - the author finds himself in a very nasty hole after taking a job offered him by strangers; A Holiday in Mongolia - Juliet Bredon offers a chatty description, illustrated with photos - of a trip into Mongolia on donkey-back; A Prisoner of the Rocks - F. Hopkins Graves was caught in a British Columbia avalanche and only escaped death by a miracle, only to find himself caught in a veritable rat trap among the rocks which he only escaped after two days; Photo of terrible street-car accident in Spokane, Washington; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 294-388 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Captain's Baby - a respected officer of the Australian Steam Navigation Company takes a little urchin under his protection, leading to humorous difficulties; A Journey into Arabistan - photo-illustrated account of a journey through a little-known part of Persia; The Quest of the Peso-La-Ki - the romantic story of a hidden Western Navajo silver mine, sought for vainly by daring prospectors for over a century; Tight Corners (part II) - photo-illustrated adventures from West and Central Africa; The Girl-Man - a young woman aged 23 tires of an unhappy marriage and sinks her identity and sex to reappear as a man named Frank Duffy and wander the United States for three years - until she is discovered by a policeman and a court orders her to 'go back to the skirts'; Icebergs - interesting photo-illustrated article by Lacey Amy; Dodging Death - in Australia, Sydney Wright falls from a building under construction, only to be saved by landing on telegraph wires (per cover illustration); A wife on an Indian coffee plantation cures her husband of constantly 'talking shop'; Milly's Hobby; Europe's "Wild West" - photo-illustrated article on the great Hungarian Hortobagy; "The Doctor" - in Ceylon Gunner Duncan is tragically burned to death; Our Travels in Safari-Land (part III) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) describes her ambitious journey through British East Africa; The Missing Ship - in 1897 the American clipper T.F. Oakes and her crew were considered lost, but miraculously saved by the crew of the "Kasbek"; Interesting photo of the grave of a British Columbia Indian chief in a hit above stumps; Photo of a Burmese boy 'undergoing the operation of tattooing', with brief write-up; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
54 pages. Features: Attractive cover illustration of lady in swimwear; Let's Have Direct Relief for Our Real Forgotten Man - Editorial against high real estate taxes; Death Looks for Cinderella (part 1); Is Father Coughlin Anti-Semitic? - His Own Answer - article with photo; Country Club Scandal (short story); I Was a Showman Too - Volatile Ex-New York Mayor James J. Walker talks of brass bands and ballyhoo; Hearts in Danger (fiction); How to Win Sick Friends and Influence Them - flowers are lovely but show a little originality!; The Good Earth Answers (pioneer family fiction); Purge in Hot Springs (conclusion); Matinee Today (short story); To the Ladies; Hell's Bargainers - Traitors to the Law - Sam Leibowitz exposes the method of lawyer-criminals; Rancher-Artist Augustus (Gus) Kenderdine - candidate for the Canadian Hall of Fame (article with photo); Tennis is a Dub's Game - words of cheer from champion Helen Hull Jacobs; Toronto's Royal York Hotel is featured prominently inside back cover; Colour back cover ad for the Physical Culture Hotel, Dansville, New York. Somewhat above-average external wear. Light pencil doodling to cartoon on page 46 and art contest blank on page 51. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Nice ad for the 1939 Oldsmobile Six inside front cover; News digest includes topics such as "Appeasement and its difficulties", "Why British Opinion in Changing", "Germany's Colonial Ambitions", "The Statecraft of Equivalents", and "Italy's Clash with France"; Met Life one-page photo ad entitled "A Day in the Life of (sales agent) Donald Martin"; Neville Chamberlain, World Champion of Peace - nicely photo-illustrated article (little did he know how wrong he would soon be proven to be); Reckless Lady (short story); With Fire (short story); What the Eye Doesn't See (short story); Arctic Madness - photo-illustrated article tells the Baffin Island tale of the death of a white fur trader - with photos of RCMP Staff Sergeant A.H. Joy, Loodloo, Innoyah, Petoot, Ahteetah, Nookudlah and Ooroorengnak; Babiche Walking - wonderful article on snowshoeing (snow-shoeing); The Garden Next Door (short story); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part 4 of 5 of this Agatha Christie story); One-page Colgate ad features illustrations of the Dionne Quints; Vintage two-page Magic Baking Powder ad features the New York World's Fair; Kellogg's All-Bran ad features Mutt and Jeff comic; Movie news with photos of Virginia Bruce and Florence George; Photo of Miss Brenda Fraser in Woodbery soap ad; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; Fashion illustrations; Half-page Italy tourism ad, sponsored by Italian Line, Limited; Pond's cold cream ad features photo of Marjorie Fairchild; Are You a Man's Girl? - with helpful scorecard(!); It Isn't What You Say - advice for speaking better; Sport Suppers - recipes; Half-page colour ad for Canadian fish; Curve Control - corsets, foundation garments and the female shape; Photos of Barbara Stanwyck in Lux soap ad; Small St. Petersburg (Florida) photo-ad says '12,000 Canadians" choose it; World Quotes; Back cover colour Coke ad shows bottle beside open book and reading glasses, with inset illustration of vintage six-pack case; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 194-286 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: The Floating Death - a North Sea trawler skipper's heroic battle with a mine entangled in the trawler's nets; The Darkest Hour - Part II - experiences in the great Serbian (WWI) retreat to Albania (with photo of the Serbian Cavalry fording the River Drin and more); The Snake-Hunter - John Rolliston's terrible fight; The Sheriff's Ruse - how the Sheriff of Deadwood tricked three desperadoes; Real-Life Romances of the War (WWI) - Part II; A Year In Arctic Siberia - Part III - amazing article and photos taken by Polish authoress M.A. Czaplicka as she travelled 6,000 miles researching the nomadic Yenisei tribes; Baiting the "Boche" - the people of Brussels turn their humour upon the humourless huns who have taken possession of their city; Remarkable Rocks - photo-illustrated article of remarkable rocks around the world; The Girl Sergeant - young Zoe Smirnova joined the Russian Army at age 15 and fought in the battlefields of Galicia; From Job to Job Around the World - Part V - two young Americans spend time in India, with great photos; A Theatre in Cannibal-Land - Papuan savages entertain themselves with amateur theatricals! (article with great photos); A Black Outlaw - a native desperado gives Natal Police much trouble; On the Way to War - the adventures of two young Americans, Herbert H. Hope and Jack Heward, who struggle to make their way to England to fight the Germans; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 90-176 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: The Slacker - a young Californian deserts the Army and his lady to flee to Mexico where great misery follows, but he eventually atones; The Mysterious Witch Doctors of Siberia - disguised as a Russian peasant, the author penetrated into little-known Siberia to investigate the uncanny doings of the native Shamans - article with photos; My Island of Dreams - Part II - the adventures of Amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings (with photos); Through Central America on Horseback - Part V - riding through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - story with photos of earthquake damage in Guatemala City; Mountain Mysteries - the strange story of Mr. Crump who was lost for 18 days in the Lakeland crags, plus other cases of mysterious disappearances; Cheating Death - John Edwin Hogg recounts his most harrowing experience; A Bear-Hunt in Lousiana - interesting and successful hunt in the Louisiana Marsh - with photos; My Burglar - a Singapore encounter with a Chinese burglar, stripped naked and greased from head to foot, with fish-hooks in his pigtail and a double-edged sword between his teeth; The Rajah's Lift - the tragic story of a home-made hydraulic lift; The New Moon - information in a diary saves the lives of two men; A Man's Luck - Part III of Hjalmar Hutzebeck's story of life and love in the Far North; Photo and brief write-up of the world's most northerly police post; Photo of the smallest business house in the world in Duncan, Oklahoma; 'House of Gold' built by a wealthy miner in the California's Mojave Desert; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Back cover almost loose. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: General Dynamics F-111; Indian Air Force at War; Flying Jeep; Around the Airlines; No. 115 Squadron History; Fokker Fellowship; Between the Wars; Bridging the Production Gap; Below Zero Flying; Pakistan Air Force; Air League on Defense; Vickers Windsor; Stratoliner up to date; "The Blue Max"; No. 205 Squadron History; Power for the Concorde; The Spey-Mirage; Swissair in 1966; Kavochkins over Slovakia; British Production; LTV A-7A Corsair II; Skyways Coach Air; The British Spads; Beagle joins the R.A.F.; Bolkow Junior Air-Test; R.A.F. in the Far East; Britain's Defense Plans; Soviet Stratospheric Aircraft; Concorde Takes Shape; Supermarine Attacker; "Southern Cross" - Sir Charles Kingsfors Smith's Fokker Monoplane; British Spads - Part 2; Alpavia R.F.3 Air-Test; German Aircraft Industry; Aircraft Carriers after the 1966 Defence White Paper; Ancestor Airline No. 2; "Winter Express"; U.S.A.A.F. Paintwork - I; Sud Horizon Air-Test; Death of a Squadron; German Naval Air Arm; R.A.F. 'Nav.' Training; Aer Lungus History; U.S.A.A.F. Paintwork - 2; Potez 41; No. 114 Squadron History; West Country Museums; Dornier Do 28 Air Test; The European Airbus; Report from Hanover; U.S.A.F. Displays; Biggin Hill Air Fair; U.S.A.A.F. Paintwork - 3; Gliding Championships; Lufthansa Pilot Training; Sunderland at Pembroke; Military Miscellany; H.M.S. Theseus in Korean War; Reconnaissance Victors; Aircraft Oil Engines; 'Mods' to the Belfast; Brazilian Photo Review; VARIG, Brazilian airline; Atlantic Crossing 1922; Centre Est DR 250; Sheila Scott's Flight; Britain's Aircraft Industry - at the crossroads; What to see at Farnboro'; Tiger Meet; R.A.F. Persian Gulf; R.A.F. Strength 3/9/39; R.Ae.S. Centenary; Slingsby Dart 17R; Farnborough Report; Farnborough checklist; Argentine Airlines; Boulton Paul Overstrand; U.S.A.F. "Airevac"; No. 72 Squadron History; Slovak Air Force; Airshipping in 1966; Spanish Fighters; Ancestor Airlines - 3; Strike on Farnborough; Holland's Air Museum; Swedish Mustangs; Alon A-2 Aircoupe; Another look at the U.S.A.F.; South African Airways; Indian Air Power; Wassmer Super IV Baladou; and much more. Includes index . Gilt lettering to front board and backstrip. Moderate wear. Partial slant to spine. Book
200 pages. Features: California Evil - Death is most attractive in Californai; Charlie Manson's Home on the Range; Photo of topless SharonTate hugging Roman Polanski; Princess Leda's Castle in the Air; The Art of Evil; Banality of the New Evil; The Style of Evil; Light in the Heart of Darkness; Our Country 'Tis of Thee, Land of Ecology - by Jon Margolis; Femina Sapiens, by George P. Elliott; They're Going to Fry Ahmed's Black Skinny Ass - a Cleveland story; The Great Western Bus Ride, by Jack Kerouac; This is How the Ride Ends, By Jack McClintock; Robinson Crusoe Liebowitz; The Drinking Habits of the Very Young; Hurray for Hats; The Greatest Writing Ever Wrote, by Ed McClanahan; Fashion Photos; Stacked Up Over Stornoway - phooey on the great age of popular travel; Morton Sobell - Slightly at Large; Many other great vintage photo ads. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Nice colour ad for the Impala 6-passenger station wagon (blue); The Redeemed Children - the story of one of the great humanitarian acts of the twentieth century - Jewish orphans from WWII are brought to Canada - with photos; The Welcome Enemies - the happy accident by which 972 interned aliens became, in 1940, some of the liveliest immigrants Canada ever had; The public crime that seems to pay - Hit-and-run; Stop whitewashing black african demagogues, by John Phillipson; 15 days with the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, by John Phillipson - great colour photos; How Spencer Caldwell got a TV network (CTV) by the tail; In High Places, by Arthur Hailey (last of 3 parts); Molson's Canadian ad features photo of the newly launched 'City of Victoria' ferry; Tommy Douglas' first 6 months, by Peter C. Newman; Piano prodigy Hilda Irek; Nice Valentine-theme colour photo Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration of young couple and their noisy puppy by John Newton Taylor; Nice colour Palmolive ad inside front cover; Chevrolet Six ad; Nice ad for Magic Baking Powder; Men Don't Do Such Things - story by Addison Simmons; No Sense of Humor - story by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Senator Arthur Meighen - article by R.T.L.; The *Real* War-Debt Hoax, by Lieut.-Colonel George A. Drew who reflects on how the world watches anxiously while the Government of the United States remains in a state of suspended animation imposed by a constitution that it has long outgrown; The Ishmaelite - story by Leslie Roberts; Yes! I'm a Wrestling Fan, by Edgar March; What I Hope to Do with Radio, by Hector Charlesworth, Chairman of the Canadian Radio Commission; Water Under The Bridge - story by Martha Banning Thomas; Shacked! - Nationality laws lead to hardship and heartache as some people are refused permission to cross borders and join their families; Death at the Bath - story by Benge Atlee; Avalanche - story by Robert E. Pinkerton; The Waning Herds - Norbert Welsh on the decline of the buffalo; Lovely colour Campbell's Soup ad with illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith; Photo ad for Ponds creams featuring Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt; Vintage full-page black and white Maxwell House Coffee featuring Dixie; Full-page colour ad for Chiipso laundry soap; Full-age black and white photo ad for Walter P. Chrysler's new Plymouth Six; Uncommon black and white partial-page ad for Spud cigarettes; Fireside Accessories, by F.L. deN. Scott; Very stylish two-colour illustrated ad for 1933 Oldsmobile cars inside back cover; Wow! - Lovely colour photo ad on back cover for Kodak's new $39.50 Cine-Kodak movie camera!; Address label atop front cover. Faint erasure to front cover. Moderate wear. Small chip from bottom of back cover. A sound copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
Contents: Great military ad for Chevrolet military equipment; Doomsday strikes for the Nazis with Berlin dying, nation split - photo of American soldier mocking Hitler from the stadium box where the Fuhrer once harangued Nazis; Great full-page illustration of "Hitler's Two Fronts - Last Phase"; interesting photos of captured Germans, some being Nazi-saluted by passers-by; Lucky Count von Luckner is prize of Task Force Newman; photo of Russian tanks in Vienna; Davao (Little Tokyo) at bay; Government by co-operation is theme of President Truman's actions during first days in office; Great photo and coverage of Presidential press conference; GM Truck and Coach ad - with Leyte theme; Polish issue - Soviet failure to observe promises Stalin made at Yalta poses question of good faith; San Francisco prepares for United Nations conference; Nazi policy of organized murder blackens Germany for all history - civilized world shocked by evidence, living and dead, of Herrenvolk's brutality - article with graphic photos; Henri Dentz - a traitor's death; Vintage International Harvester Truck ad with caption "Till the Japs Say 'Uncle'"; English lady harnesses goats to pull her to market - uses almost anything for fuel!; Luis Carlos Prestes released from Jail in Brazil; OPA retreats under pressure of general public indifference - fight against inflation is revealed in Newsweek survey as losing on most fronts; Ernie Pyle shared the Doughfoot's lot, even to death in a roadside Okinawan ditch - photo and article; Seiberling Tire ad in color; Dr. Frondel's work with x-rays at Harvard; Nice Chesterfield cigarette color ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Address label at top of front cover. Unmarked. Two-inch opening to top of cover-fold. Cover attached by one staple. Book
Contents: Boeing ad boasts of their record coast-to-coast flight by a C-97, 6 hrs, 3 min, 50 sec.; Reo Truck ad; Full-page ad for a radio show called "Breakfast in Hollywood" with Tom Breneman on the Blue Network (ABC); Fisher Body color ad; Allies strike at Rundstedt's finest after 8-day race to the Rhine - Wehrmacht escapes disaster but loses heavily in pulling out and blowing up the bridges - great map; Sample of a 'safe conduct' pass showered down on Germans, as well as a humorous satirical German response; Two photos taken during the Bataan death march (stolen from the Japanese); News from Iwo Jima; Eighteen-year-olds fight and die as nation debates their status - European and Pacific wars were speeded by using youths Stimson says in defense; Photo of Erich Gimpel and William C. Colepaugh as they are led into court prior to being hung as Nazi spies; 67 Army nurses captured by the Japs on Bataan and Corregidor return the the US; Troubled return of vets - Mr. Jobe in Chicago; Britain accepts the Yalta Charter but U.S. keeps fingers crossed - F.D.R.'s report to Congress is received with reservation despite its urgent tone; Poland - scores to settle - General Anders; White Truck ad in color; Canada Calling - new CBC 50,000 watt short-wave transmitter; America's join in Alliance to keep hemisphere peace - the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, in Mexico City; Interesting ad for Bituminous Coas - presents its varied military uses; Coal owners are unlikely to sign UMW contract calling for pertentage on each ton; Kansas corn piled outside for lack of freight cars; Vintage color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and her family; Photo of 26-year-old Frank Sinatra with details of his draft classification; Wacs at work; Photo of Martin (The Blimp) Levy, a 640 pound wrestler; Studebaker color military ad inside back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Story with many colour photos in the wake of the FLQ crisis; What it means to Canada?; What it means to separatism?; The FLQ - what it is, who it is, how it works, and what makes it so hard to stop; Six basic skills of hockey - Ed Giacomin on goaltending, Bobby Orr on Balance, Gordie Howe on Passing, Norm Ullman on stickhandling, Bobby Hull on Shooting, Keith Magnuson on hitting; The widow of the man they called God - Father Divine, the famed Depression preacher, died in 1965 but his followers refused to believe it - now Mother Divine keeps five banquet tables waiting for him; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
178 pages. Features: Colour Parker Pen ad inside front cover; Douglas aircraft ad featuring the Skyrocket; Nice colour Brach's candy ad; Colour 2-page ad for Studebaker featuring the new 1955 models; Nice 20-page colour ad for Sun-Maid Sunsweet dried fruit products; The Mysterious Doings of CIA - America's Secret Agents - an exclusive report on its methods, how it recruits, how it is funded, and its accomplishments in Guatemala, Iran and behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; Frontier Frenzy, by John Reese; Will China Stay Red? - Joseph Alsop reports some curious and little-known truths about China - article with photos; The Man-Handler, by Williams Forrest; The Luckiest Girl in Hollywood - Grace Kelly - article with wonderful colour photos; Outcast of the Florida Keys, by Frank Skipp; The Truth About Congressmen - by Martin Dies, Congressman at Large, Texas; Confessions of a Football Recruiter - the hilarious adventures of Herman Hickman while hunting athletes - with photos; Tugboat Annie's Long Shot, by Norman Reilly Raine; My Old Man Groucho (Marx), by Arthur Marx (Part 7); The Zone of Sudden Death, by William Chamberlain; A Ten-Day Tiger Hunt costs $1,000 - with a kill guaranteed - Tigers are so plentiful in Central India that there is no limit on the bag! - with photos; Howard Morris has taught over 7,400 tourists to hula aboard the Lurline - with many great colour photos; House of Hate, by Storm Jameson; The Case of the Restless Redhead, by Erle Stanley Gardner - Perry Mason's informant learned the hard way that you can't make deals with criminals; Black and white photo ad by Chrysler Corp. shows their auto stylists at work; Nice colour 2-page photo ad for Admiral televisions; Two-colour ad for Pendleton shirts; Nice two-colour ad for Oliver tractors; Stromberg-Carlson television ad; Interesting 2-page Borg-Warner ad in 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' format; Glamorous colour Philip Morris ad; Two-page ad by REO Motors featuring the new mighty REO V-8 Gold Comet Truck Engine; Buck Skein Joe sport fasion ad; Colour ad by the Philadelphia Electric Company; Nice color Cream of Wheat ad features cartoon characters by Al Capp; Frank Thomas on "The Best Player I Ever Coached" - Dixie Howell; Colour ad for Dictaphone; Coke ad on back cover promotes Eddie Fisher on "Coke Time" NBC television twice each week. Average wear. Ink drops to top edge of last few pages. A sound copy. Book
Features: The House of Death; In Mysterious Senoussi Lana - a story from the heart of the Sahara; Pietro's Lost Mine - fortune knocks on a gold prospector's door, only to vanish in a strange way; The Turk at Play - interesting pastimes, including camel-fighting!; The Undoing of Ba Tin - a curious story of murder from Burma as told by a high police official; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Mrs. Maturin; An American Gretna Green - The Rev. A.H. Burroughs, the 'marrying person' of Tennessee; On the Shoals - a tale of desperate peril and splendid heroism on Lake Erie involving the steamer 'Clarion'; The Mountain of the Ark - a description of an ascent of Mount Ararat; Jim Christie and the Bear, by C.H. Gibbons of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria, B.C. - the story of an appalling adventure with a grizzly, the like of which does not exist in the annals of big-game hunting; My Wanderings in Crete; Professor C.H. Hawes studies head-forms and sets forth his experiences, incidentally describing some very curious customs which he encountered; Iveson's Trap - an extraordinary accident strikes a Yorkshire farmer while shepherding in Shunner Fell, Swaledale; Among Ryper and Reindeer in Norway - C.V. Pell hunts game and relates his experiences; Lighting a Bush Fire - an account of an experience in Victoria during the drought of 1898. Above-average wear. Covers holding but loosely. Bonus: Laid-in is a 2016 feature newspaper article on Jim Christie, who appears on the cover of this issue. The article includes an actual photo of the magazine we are offering. Magazine
64 pages. Fantastic photos of the band and its members in colour and black and white. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Death on Two Legs; Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon; I'm in Love With My Car; You're My Best Friend; '39; Sweet Lady; Seaside Rendezvous; The Prophet's Song; Love of My Life; Good Company; and the timeless Bohemian Rhapsody. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Songbook for one of the most popular and impactful albums of the 1970s. Book
Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
64 pages. Features: Great cover illustration by John Phillips shows lady munitions worker in pants looking at serviceman in kilt; Nice colour ad for Parker Vacumatic pens inside front cover is illustrated by Franklin Arbuckle with pastoral water pond scene; War News includes the exit of Mussolini, Marshal Badoglio's Record, and more; One-page Northern Electric ad shows fighting ship and explains their contributions to it; Wonderful half-page Pepsi ad illustrated by Frise shows kids outside shops and lovely lady; The Nazis Plan a Getaway - fascinating article on how Axis leaders plan to escape with their booty - and their lives; They Deliver the Goods - photo-illustrated article on the Services of Supply which keep fighting troops fed and equipped, with photo of Lt.-Gen. Sir W.G. Lindsell, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., in charge of Administration in the Middle-East; The Shibboleth of Von Eisenbaum (short story); "Hast Seen the White Whale?" (short nautical story); My Father and Culture (short story); Know Your Navy! - article with photos of Vice-Admiral P.W. Nelles, R.C.N., and Hon. Angus L. Macdonald, Minister of National Defense for Naval Services - explains Canada's various naval vessels; "East Block Handles That" - photo-illustrated article explains how men such as Norman Alexander Robertson, A.D.P. Heeney, Walter J. Turnbull, Dr. H.L. Keenleyside and Hume Wrong (all shown in photos) control much of Canada's important federal government policy; Home is the Sailor (short story); Little Miss Linnet - colour-illustrated poem by Phyllis Coulter; Nice one-page colour ad for GSW shows military scene and housewife in kitchen; Hollywood News; Sort article on increasing juvenile delinquency; One-page Ford Motor company shows action scene of Canada's mechanized army; Bold, Militaristic one-page ad by Hiram Walker-Dooderham & Worts shows bombs and heading "The 'Rain of Death' is deadlier because of alcohol"; One-page ad encourages readers to write letters to their loved ones fighting overseas; Canadian General Electric half-page ad says "A War Job Every Woman Can Do 'AVOID FOOD WASTE'; Woodbury Powder ad features photo of Maureen O'Hara; Nice colour Orange Crush ad; Nice one-page colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) shows uniformed lady driving Jeep beneath caption "This is Our Battle, Too!"; Attractive half-page colour Nabisco Shredded Wheat ad features rosey-cheeked lady saying "I keep my Jim fit and on his job", above bowl of cereal with peaches; Co-ed entertaining; Very attractive half-page colour ad for Fry's Cocoa shows well-dressed mother and daughter in grocery store; Fashion illustrations; How Parents Can Help the Schoo; Tangee Lipsticks ad features lovely colour portrait of Constance Luft Huhn; 3/4-page black and white ad for Helena Rubinstein fragrances; World Sayings; Nice colour Wabasso Cottons ad inside back cover; Old Dutch Cleanser colour ad on back cover shows long row of clean bathtubs; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
64 pages. Features: Humorous cover art of young couple and Niagara Falls slide show; Very classy colour Parker Pen ad inside front cover entitled "The Men Who are Planning the World of Tomorrow" shows serious draughtsman at work; Nice colour Orange Crush ad; What the Enemy Wants at the White House; Photo of Major Paul Triquet, recent winner of the Victoria Cross (V.C.); Photo of synthetic rubber plant under construction in Sarnia; Trans-Canada Telephone System one-page ad shows service men and women calling long distance; Boom in Booby Traps - photo-illustrated article explains their prominence in the present war, including photo of "Moascar Stocks" used in the training of soldiers to handle unseen mines; Dope Behind the Armies - photo-illustrated ad explains "Narcotic drugs were among Hitler's secret weapons, but they have proved a boomerang"; A Clean Sweep (short story); Sam's Girl (short story); Death in the Dance (short story); A Man and His Plane - photo-illustrated article on R.B.C. Noorduyn and his plane, the "Norseman," built in Montreal; The Sand-Lot League (short story); Movie News; Northern Electric one-page ad features their products used to keep Canada's Army on the move; When the Boys Come Home - article by the Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Pensions and National Health; Auto-Lite one page ad features inset photo of Ronald Colman; One-page Canada Post Office ad includes military illustrations and detailed instructions how to insure mailings will reach their intended recipient overseas; One-page Government of Canada entitled "The Story of Inflation" goes into considerable detail to encourage readers to resist price inflation for the good of the nation; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of newlyweds Eileen Thomas of Toronto and Douglas Haig of Montreal; Small Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) ad shows timbermen on floating logs with caption "Free Enterprise is the Driving Force!"; Interesting half-page Canadian General Electric ad addressed to "Canada's 500,000 War Brides" previews their after-victory electric kitchen; 1/3-page ad for the Canadian Association of Ice Industries shows ice refrigerator made by Sanderson-Harold Co., Ltd., of Paris, Ontario; Lovely half-page colour ad for Woodbury Powder features portrait of Veronica Lake; Fashion article with photo of peasant blouse; Salad article; Bright and colourful one-page GSW/McClary appliance ad shows housewife "Mrs. Johnson" in modern kitchen; Illustrations of fashions for ladies; Photo of Elizabeth Long of the CBC's "Women's Talks"; Super one-page colour ad for the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) shows marching women in uniform above a hectic Normandy-like beach landing scene; World Sayings; Ford Motor Company colour ad inside back cover shows their military and domestic trucks being serviced; Back cover Coke ad entitled "Have a 'Coke' = Pukka Gen" with illustration of returning R.A.F. flyers by Saul Tepper; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this particularly excellent wartime issue. Book
Pages 90-176 plus 18 pages of ads. Features: Where Cannibals Roam - Part I - Merlin Moore Taylor's adventures into the unknown interior of Papua (article with great photos); "Twisted" Harmon - an RCMP officer spends five years and travels thousands of miles to catch an escaped murderer hiding in the protection of the German Secret Service; Life in a Logging Camp - sensational photo-illustrated article on the Abernethy Lougheed Logging Company's operation in Maple Ridge, British Columbia; "Trawler Tidd" - a cat that went to sea; An Artist on a Tropic Isle - the adventures of Ellis Silas as he painted in the Trobriands group of islands north of New Guinea; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part 3 of 3 - the author's adventures as he penetrated deep into Amazonia, with photos (including shrunken head); Feedback on a recent article on the K.K.K.; Chasing the Pulajans - religious fanatics who gave the US authorities in the Philippines untold trouble; To the "End of the World" and Beyond - Captain Gault Macgowan, F.R.G.S. and his wife set out on an eventful journey in the Western Himalayas; Photo of large hawser (3" dia. rope) made of human hair at Kyoto's Higashi-Honganji Temple; The Fatal Slip; One Up on "Homie"; The Taming of the Sheriff - a ranch story from Death Valley, California; Down the Shaft - a West Australian miner's story of a terrible experience at the bottom of a six-hundred foot shaft; Five Hundred Miles in Open Boats - an arduous and eventful arctic journey recounted by retired Mountie, Sergeant-Major C.N.C.Hayter; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Pages 401-498, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: "Hoodlum" - the plucky deed of fireman Roger Berry aboard the tug-boat "Elmer" on Lake Erie one stormy night - article with photos; Some New British Climbs - George Abraham describes a new route up the famous Pillar Rock and more, illustrated with remarkable photos; Like a Rat in a Trap - a nerve-trying adventure from 1888 near Southall, Middlesex finding leaks in a sewer pipe; Hurri Singh's Cobra - an adventure from the lake district of Kumaon; A Remarkable Open-Air Theatre at Interlaken, Switzerland; The Ship of Death - a strange story of the awful experience which befell a party of Royal Navy officers and men who boarded a mysterious barque on the high seas in 1908; East Africa As I Saw it (part IV) - photo-illustrated adventures illustrate life in Portuguese East Africa; The Swift Saskatchewan - what happened to a man who fell asleep in a canoe in the mighty Saskatchewan River in 1907; "Back to the Land" - a man in South Africa discovers he is not likely to become a successful farmer; The Poacher-Catchers - adventures of the five-man teams which guard the fur-bearing animals of Yellowstone Park; Pedro the Ladrone - an exciting story from the Philippines told by an officer of the U.S. Army who was in charge of a company of native scouts, with photo of the surrender of General Ramon Santos at Liago; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part I) - the first and only attempt ever made to cross canada from Ocean to Ocean - this marvelously photo-illustrated article deals with Thomas Wilby's experiences on the way to Winnipeg, where his worst troubles began; The Fight in the Moonlight - H. Randolph Spencer and his adventure with two bears in the Olympic Mountains in 1905; Photo of huge floating (?) Burmese pagoda in the form of a hen; Photo of large metallic anklets riveted to young women of Southern Nigeria; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 89-176, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The House of Death - how an Oklahoma rancher saved his own life; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 6 - the continued story of this European adventure trip; Bali - Isle of Wonder - wonderfully photo-illustrated article; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - part 1of the adventure of Mrs. Idelle S. Meng and her husband on one of the loneliest islands in the Pacific; The Six Feathers - the unfortunate experience of a New Guinea trader who tried to smuggle the forbidden bird-of-paradise plumes out of the country; The Wood-Carvers of the Tyrol - great photo-illustrated article on a trip to the Groden VValley; The Romance of the Fur Trade - photo-illustrated article on fur trapping and fur farming in North-west Canada, including photo of a large polar bear being hauled into a boat; A Woman in Unknown Albania - part 3; The Trail of the Lonesome Postman - letters being delivered to some of the world's most remote locations; Caught by a Crocodile a British officer attempts to fill his water bottle at a river; The Idol That Jumped - the author purchased a 'devil-devil' figure from a Solomon Island chief, then startling things happened; The Merepur Mystery - a mystery is solved in India; The Man Who Fell Six Miles - Major R.W. Schroeder and his airplane - article with photos; The Written Word - Jim Carter saved himself in India with some clever writing. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
100 pages plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Real-Life Romances - six narratives of travel in Italy; Captain Thompson's 'Catch' - Captain Thompson of Knight's Key, Florida catches a huge bizarre 'whale/shark' - article with photos; Drifting Through Mesopotamia - Russian M. Dutkevitch and his photo-illustrated account of floating down the mighty Tigris to Bagdad; A Naturalist in the Arctic - Mr. Koren, a Norwegian naturalist, becomes a castaway in Siberia after his vessel is wrecked in the ice; The "Phantom Brigands" of Pegomas - how the puzzle of these these French criminals (described in the March, 1912 issue) was finally solved; Our Trip to the Kolahoi Glacier - a journey by two officers of the Indian Army to the source of the Jhelum River - with great photos; My Adventures in Sarawak (part II) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describes her time as the Rajah's bride; Two Years in Guatemala - Alfred R. Lamb describes his eventful time organizing the police force of Guatemala; The Bishop's Visit - what happened when a Bishop visited the bungalow of an Indian planter; The Fur-Buyer's Peril - Frank J. Scheider nearly froze to death in the wilds of Ontario; Moose-Hunting in New Brunswick; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Front page loose but present and presents six sketches of 'The Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow" - The Daphne capsized upon launch with much loss of life. New items: Mr. Gladstone immolates eight ministerial bills; Wimbledon competition more popular than ever; Malagasy envoys leave for home; Good news from Ireland - a lessening of crime and upset; Update on Cholera outbreak at Damietta; The Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow; Live-Saving Apparatus on the Serpentine; The New Steam-Ship Tartar; Banquet to Mr. Henry Irving; National Sports; Parisian Sayings and Doings; Death of the Duke of Marlborough; Royal activities; Church news; Benevolence and Self-Help; Ben Nevis Meteorological Station; Funeral of Mr. W. Spottiswoode; General Home News; The City of London College; Two pages of Classified Ads (please note that this page is loose but present). Full page of sketches of "Complimentary Dinner to Mr. Henry Irving at St. James Hall. Half-page illustration of 'Trial of life-saving apparatus on the Serpentine, Hyde Park. Half-page engraving of "The Union Steam-Ship Company's Royal Mail-Steamer Tartar. Very dramatic two-page engraving entitled "The Great Disaster at a Ship Launch on the Clyde - Sinking of the Daphne, with Two Hundred Men. Above-average but not excessive wear. Includes separate supplement which consists of two full-page engravings - the first shows a kneeling man gardening while tenderly holding an infant, the second shows a sad kitchen scene from a picture by W.H.Weatherhead with the caption "For men must work and women must weep, Though storms be sudden and waters deep, And the harbour bar be moaning - C. Kingsley". The Ben Nevis Summit Observatory - Six sketches on one page. Opening of the City of London College - two sketches; Funeral of the late Mr. W. Spottiswoode, F.R.S., in Westminster Abbey - 4 sketches. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling overall. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Magazine
