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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
31 pages. Features: Queen of the fishing fleet - Mrs. Marie Penny of John Penny and Sons on the Ramea Islands of Newfoundland; Covent Garden's Canadian Invasion - Joseph Rouleau, Jon Vickers, Robert Savoie, Irene Salemka and Andre Turp of the Royal Opera House Company; Joyce Davidson finds the rewards of TV stardom are great; Great photo feature (with text) - Jim Baldwin and Ed Cooper climb the vertical rock face of The Chief, 1,700 foot mountain on the edge of Squamish, B.C.; Les Lear lambasts football 'jugheads' - he won the 1948 Grey Cup with the Calgary Stampeders as a Player/Coach; Lady, Beware of that Convention - men have begun taking their wives to big company conferences; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Top corner of spine nibbled. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
78 pages. Articles: What Every New Draftee Should Know; Ryder of the Comic Age - Fred Harman created Red Ryder and Little beaver; Road to the 19th Hole - an afternoon on the golf course with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 12) - Italy down for the count; Designs for Touring (part 11) - travel to Jasper Park. Fiction: Gentleman George; Stars in his Hair; A Lady for Ballarol; The Half-Naked Truth; An Affair of State; Where There's Smoke. Ads include: Studebaker trucks; Bell Telephone; Chevrolet trucks - Dubl-Duti Chassis; Zenith radios; Diamond T Trucks - super color-photo one-page ad; Monarch canned food; RCA Victor; Sal Hepatica; Pabst beer - featuring color photo of Miss Joan Fontaine; Good Year; Pontiac; Plymouth; "Key Largo" movie with Humphrey Bogard; Sheppard Diesels; 2-4 Dow weed killer; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features ace Steeple-Jack George Joyce. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
200 pages. Features: Cover painting of Gertrude Stein and some members of her salon; Great Jade East ad; Lovely fashion ads; Nice two-page color-photo Christmas ad for Longines watches; Nice two-page color photo ad for Omega watches; Gorgeous black and white photos Shiseido ad; Nice Van Cleef & Aprels ad features Piaget watches; Classic Rhodes shirt ad features boy working on his soap box racer; The (Gertrude) Stein Salon was the First Museum of Modern Art - photo-illustrated article; To a Name-Dropper, the Stein Salon was Heaven - photos and brief write-ups of Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Sitwell, Guillaume Apollinaire, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Alice B. Toklas and James Joyce; A Berlin Commune is a Big Happy Family (Sometimes) - hundreds of young leftist Berliners are experimenting with communal living at Linkeck - photo-illustrated article; A New Factory Product - 'Instant Education'; A westerner residing in Peking writes about the bitter struggle between Mao and Liu Shao-chi forces; A Ride Along the Suez Canal - photo-illustrated article; The Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn - "One-Man Think Tank"; Fantastic two-page color-photo ad for the Hat Corporation of America features 18 hats being modelled; Lovely Lancome ad for their Fidji product; Wonderful color-photo centerfold of Miss Springmaid, Dawn Gemay; Two-page color ad for eight models of Kodak Instamatic cameras; Centerfold Kodak ad for their movie cameras and projectors; Two more pages of Kodak ads for their flash cameras, slide projector, and more; What? Americans Hate Kids?; Many more pages of Christmas gift ads; Save the Children Federation ad features photo of Mary Carnwath; Nice Thom McAn ad features three ladies at shoeshine stand; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 51 plates on 21 and 3 folding plates, some light (and largely marginal) spotting to text, fore-edges lightly spotted; handsomely bound in full blue morocco, back gilt with raised bands, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 12pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Joyce Wethered, later Lady Heathcoat-Amory, is widely regarded at the finest British woman golfer of all time. She won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship four times (1922, 1924, 1925, and 1929) and the English Ladies' champion for five consecutive years (1920–24). This notable work provides a comprehensive account of style and play, and contains early examples of 'action' photography (including some sequences credited to Pathe) to illustrate technique. Very scarce in any condition.
64 pages. Features: Lovely color fashion ads; Anatomy of the Goldwater Boom - great photo-illustrated article; Once More - The K.K.K. - photo-illustrated article, including burning cross and Robert M. Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America; Hopeful Dialogue of the Races - Whites and Negroes set a bright example in Knoxville, TN; Britain's brilliant Minister for Science, Viscount Hailsham; Drama at the House of Morgan - Dramatic photos taken at the corner of Broad and Wall Streets, including the aftermath of a bomb which exploded in 1920 killing 30; The Titles attached to our Rulers' Names - Fhurer, Renovator of the Nation, Duce, Maximum Leader, etc.; Our teen-agers are suffering from 'Automania' - an overobsession with the automobile as a status symbol, as a means of getting someplace in a hurry, as a vehicle for a flight from tensions, or to indulge in a craving to show off; Cose View of Kremlin Boss Premier Nikita Khrushchev; Lovely color-photo ad for Helen Harper features Susie King of San Gabriel, California; Now the Earlier, Earlier Show - more and more movies are being shown on TV - even in prime time - article with photos; Motorola ad highlights their new 18-Amp silicon controlled rectifier used in home appliances; Fantastic color photo centerfold Rheingold Beer ad features contestants in the Miss Rheingold 1964 competition, Joyce DeHardt, Kay Hughes, Sondra Kates, Sheri Rice, Barbara Julian and Celeste Yarnall; Nice photos of college fashions; Nice color-photo Milk ad called "Milk Has Staying Power"; and more. Four ink stamps on Peugeot ad on page 25. Above-average external wear. Library stamp on front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
24 pages. Features: Dramatic one-page colour photo of America's Sputnik blowing up on launch pad at Cape Canaveral; Nice one-page colour-photo Campbell's Vegetable Soup ad; Wonderful four-page feature on the Community Farm of the Brethren at Bright, Ontario includes fourteen photos; Photos (one in colour) of "Bran", the Irish wolfhound and regimental mascot of the Irish Regiment of Canada; Photo and brief write-ups of Sylvia Murphy, Joan Fairfax and Joyce Hahn; Behind the Scenes at the CBC - costume-making for CBC productions - includes nice colour photo of Bill Yule and June Sampson - please note that 1/3 of the second page of this article has been removed and is not included; Wow! One-page colour team photo of the Stanley Cup Champion 1957-8 Montreal Canadiens, featuring captain Maurice (Rocket) Richard; Four amazing photos of the Xavantes tribe of Brazil - taken as part of Rolf Blomberg's trip; Photo of Canada's top horseshoe pitching team, W. Faint, G. Miles, E. Crawford and L. Cruise; Wow! - one-page colour pin-up photo of Frank Sinatra!; The MacKay family of Toronto's Forest Hills Village bands birds - ten photos with write-up - son Barry MacKay went on to become a well-known naturalist and artist; Back cover 1958 calendar features large charming colour photo of baby girl in pink bonnet Average wear. Unmarked. Centerpage and covers holding by one staple. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue.. Book
56 pages. Features: The Winter the Atlantic Went Berserk - men and strong ships are killed by multiple storms; Madeline Kronby - versatile Toronto actress speaks French - article with photos; George Plumb and his House of Bottles at Duncan, B.C. on Vancouver Island - Short article with great photos; Our Three-Year Drive Round the Americas - Hilary Dunsterville and Lou-Bette Herrick make a 55,000-mile adventure safari in a second-hand station wagon - article with great colour photos; Lovely full-page colour photo ad for Canadian Pacific Travel features good-looking couple enjoying a luxury meal aboard a train; Wow! - Full-page colour photo ad for the new Ford Mustang!; How Sandy Koufax and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Yankees four-straight in the 1963 World Series - article with photos of Koufax; Photos of child Kathy Bloom with her French bulldog Corki; Full-page colour ad for the Pepsi-Cola Shoppers' Sweepstakes; Gorgeous colour fashion photos in France; Two-page colour-photo ad for Simmons mattresses; Barbara Streisand portrays Fanny Brice - photos and article; University of Alberta Zoologist Dr. Stuart Altmann and his family are studying animals on the Amboseli game reserve in Kenya for a year - article with photos; Belvedere cigarette ad features with Ford Galaxie 500/XL convertible as a prize; Colour photo ad for Christie's cookies; Nice colour photo ad for Lowney's Glosette Raisins in the red box with the window; Canada's Team May Top the Bridge World - article with photos of Joyce Phillips, Louise Mark, Ruth Easto, Mary Bowden, Frances Pielsticker, Helen Smith, Sam Gold, Ralph Cohen, Ronald Forbes, Jack Howell, Eric Murray, Sam Kehela; Three great photos of Beba Loncar, now starring in the making of the movie The Long Ships; Colour ad for Lyons Furniture on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Nice colour Christmas Wabasso Cottons ad inside front cover; News digest includes nervous tension in Germany, turning the tide in Egypt, and fascism's twentieth anniversary; One-page ad for Trans-Canada Telephone System includes illustration encouraging citizens to minimize long distance usage in favour of wartime needs; Nice colour-illustrated Ritz ad shows ladies in grocery store; Secret Eyes - fascinating photo-illustrated article on wartime espionage, with photos of Lieut.-General H.R. Pownall and "The Lark", Marthe Richer; Houses of Glass (short story); Low Pressure Salesman (short story); Unprofessional Services (short story); After They Bale Out - photo-illustrated article on what happens to pilots when they have to bale out of their planes; Ace High (short story); Hollywood news and photos; Nice colour one-page ad for GM of Canada says "Victory is our Business" and shows armoured vehicles in service; One-page Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.) recruiting ad says "We're in another Team now"; Ford Motor Company ad shows wartime manufacturing; Woodbury Soap ad includes photos of Miss Mary Bishop of Toronto, in training as a field-to-field ferry pilot; Photo of Brenda Joyce in Woodbury Cold Cream ad; On the Kitchen Front - turkey recipe article; Nice one-page colour-illustrated Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Suggested gifts for women in uniform; Nice one-page Yardley ad; Fashion illustrations; Sayings from around the world; Nice colour Coke ad inside back cover shows Santa and Christmas scenes; Nice colour back cover ad for B.C. (British Columbia) apples includes illustration of men in uniform; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
Topics: Shocking mess in civil defense; Canada-US Partnership problems; Lester Pearson - Peacemaking to Politicking; New Surgery repairs the heart - Dr. Wilfred Bigelow; Nice 2-page colour GM ad with five illustrations of Chevrolet through Cadillac; Canada's CF-100 - Boldest and Costliest Aviation Venture; How the Price Squeeze hit the Newspapers; U.K. Trade Mission - what it achieved; How to make money when stocks go down; Colour Chevrolet ad; Toronto Exchange in Losing Battle with Skulduggery; Let's not panic on Canadian Education; Playground of Danger in the Middle East; Small Investors invade Real Estate; Cover photo - Dr. E.J. Pratt; Cover photo of Conductor Walter Susskind; Our Shabby Airports - a growing shame; The Cigarette war comes to Canada; How we cover up our Racia Abuses; Confused Tax Laws cost you money; Cover photo of TV's Joyce Sullivan; Our 'forgotten force' in the middle-east - Snafu in UNEF; Closed-circuit TV catches on in Canada; Revival of Freedom on Latin America; Natural Gas Stocks - profit possibilities; Cover photo of George C. Metcalf; Election Pollsters; Can a machine prove you are drunk?; What free trade would mean to Canada; Cover photo of J.E. Coyne of the Bank of Canada; What do we need most in Canadian schools - money or brains?; A Long-Term Payoff in Labrador Power; Spoon-fed patriotism won't work in Canada; New market technique for skillful traders; Cover photo and story on Sir Robert Watson-Watt; Rescuing a world bent on Suicide; How many people are really out of work?; Our moonstruck U.S. Neighbors; Sales Promotion brings in hard cash; Cover photo and article on Rev. Dr. J.R. Mutchmor; The Recession; Dilemma of Diplomacy; Parlor politics and the video vote; New play in the copper market; Cover photos and article on CCF leader M.J. Coldwell; How Canada built and abandoned the world's first Jetliner - designed by James Floyd; Gold's new glitter brings out old glamor; Our religious revival - new faith or old fear?; Boating craze booms business; Cover photo and article of CPA's Grant McConachie; Business in British Columbia; Could we stop Russian missiles?; Global triple play - Ike to Dag to Mr. K; Vancouver's Deas Island Project - Submarine Highway Under the Fraser; Cover photo and story on Stratford's Charmion King; Trade Policy; Why the CF-105 had to be built *Great Avro Arrow Article with Photos*; The case against the Grand Jury; Mutual Funds; Cover photo and article on Labour Minister Mike Starr; Why the market rises while business slumps; Will resurgent Tories take over in B.C.?; How the DBS figures can make you money; Can leadership solve the world's ills; Cover photo and article on Federal Finance Minister Donald Fleming; Canadian-UK banks combine to develop South American trade; Terror in British Columbia - the Sons of Freedom in the Kootenays; NORAD and NATO and their affects on our national interest; New Trend - Mutual Life Companies; Dollars and cents re: Air Conditioning; Jason Robards cover photo and article; Cover photo and artile on Davidson Dunton; Hoffa Muscles in - will labor racketeers strangle the Seaway?; Feeble defense policy cripples our armed forces; TV inquisitors give journalism new depth; Mining market madness; Cover photos and article on Dag Harrarskjold; The State of Alaska - partner or problem?; Sherman Adams Case - Pharisee's Prattfall; What Shakespeare did to Stratford; Who benefits from Gasoline wars?; Cover photo and article on Maurice Duplessis; Will foreign cars drive U.S. Makers to Model-T thinking?; How NORAD worked in Mid-East Crisis; Successful Pay-TV - a first for Canada?; TBill sale can fight inflation; Cover photo and article on CBC's Jack Duffy (who bears a resemblance to Mr. Obama); The Family Fortunes; TV in Russia; Arab Showdown; Buy a house and stay solvent; Cover photos and article on Claude Bissell; Does Ottawa connive in U.S. attempt to tax Canadians?; Why emotion rules in U.S. School Fight; Army faces atom war without atomic arms; A hundred-y Book
Paris, Mercure de France, 1970. In-8, broché, non coupé, couverture rempliée, 350 pp. Edition originale de la traduction française. Un des 60 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin pur fil Lafuma, seul tirage en grand papier. Très bel ex. N° 24.
104 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for Hilton Hotels features the Palmer House of Chicagp; Superb one-page color ad for Ford Trucks features green pickup in pleasant farm scene; Dow Chemical ad features illustration of kettle and steam inventor James Watt; (Labor) Strike Wave Threatens Essential U.S. Needs; Sam Rayburn - Texan; Joan Bennett's "Scarlet Street" is censored for 'tending to corrupt morals'; Photo of Jane Russell in low-cut blouse posing for painting; Fantastic color one-page Coke ad features crowded soda shop scene with boy singing into napkin holder microphone; Classic one-page color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes titled "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette"; World Watches First Assembly of UNO; Photo of Mickey Rooney shaking hands with De Gaulle; Classic color ad for White Trucks features soda factory and happy end-user; Trial of Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma in Manila; Religious Emancipation is the Jap's by MacArthur's Grace; Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan, chief of UNRRA's activities in Germany, states that the movement of Jews from Poland into Germany looked like a "second Exodus... a well-organized, positive plan to get out of Europe" to Palestine, and that he had seen Jews arriving in Berlin "well-dressed, well-fed, rosy-cheeked and (with) plenty of money..They certainly do not look like persecuted people."; U.S. Need to keep peace pledges slows homeward trek of troops; A Safe American Must be founded on Strength; Nice Firestone Tire color centerfold features race car; Nice Old Thompson whiskey ad features piano keyboard; Photo of ex-POW Pvt. Cleo Brown and his bride in Milwaukee hotel; Photos of changing Navy fashions; Doukhobor article with stripping photo; Oil strike in Chile; Color photo ad for Chrysler features Andre Kostelanetz leading orchestra; Classy one-page color ad for the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation; Brief obituaries for William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw); Hector Charlesworth; William T. Dewart Jr., Slim Summerville; Germ Warfare Article with photo of Major Merck inspecting Camp (Fort) Dietrich laboratories - US was set for biological war more terrible than enemy knew; Rare Great Northern Railway ad features the opening of modern China (very prescient); SN 7618 for Malaria; photo of Lt. Col. Margaret Craighill; Great photo ad by the Cuban National Tobacco Commission features Edward G. Robinson lighting up; Article on Branch Rickey; Jockey Woolf, 1909-1946; Sensational one-page color ad for Grace Line features illustrations of their new fleet of twenty "Santa" ships; Rare one-page ad for Cuba Mail Line entitled "Ice Cubes for Cuba" shows happy family table; Curious ad for National Company's Radios features small illustration of 'slant-eyed' Chinaman above text "Gung Ho"; The Press, the Radio, and Mr. La Guardia; Color-photo ad for Canadian Club features mountain climbing on Mexico's Popocatepetl; and more. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Mm 245x305 Brossura originale con copertina a stampa, 42 pagine. Copia eccellente, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
8vo., Third Impression thus, page-edges lightly browning as usual; handsomely bound in full green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Third impression of the first unlimited UK edition, first published in 1937 following John Lane's limited edition of 1000 copies (the eighth edition overall) in the previous year.
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations by Paladino; full blue morocco, sides and backstrip blocked in gilt and black, ribbon marker, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1760 COPIES [1750 FOR SALE]. This limited edition was published on 16 June 2004 to mark the Centenary of the day on which the action of the book is set.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title and text decorations in sepia and black, 18 coloured plates and green printed endpapers; full green calfskin BY SMITH SETTLE, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, two green ribbon markers, a fine copy in publisher's terracotta cloth clamshell case with mounted illustration and gilt back. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES SIGNED BY LORD (THIS COPY No. 331). WITH EXCLUSIVE COLOURED PRINT IN SEPARATE PORTFOLIO. Splendid memorial edition published to commemorate the centenary of the work's first publication.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 18 coloured plates and endpaper maps in silver; pictorial black cloth blocked in green, backstrip with green leather label lettered in silver, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
