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160 pages. Features: John Falter cover illustration; Nice color photo ad for the 1956 Mercury autos; Fantastic 2-page color ad for the 1956 Buick; Colour photo ad for RCA Victor televisions; Aurthur Godfrey - This is my Story - part 1 of 8 - lots of great photos; That Susceptible Age, by Robert Terrall; Bangkok - article and great color photos; Madman's Chain, by Gilbert Wright; Coach on the Spot - Bowden Wyatt is lured to Tennessee from Arkansas; We Licked the Veteran Problem - military veterans are concerned their pensions may be cut; The Mayor and Miss Casey, by Nord Riley; Those Half-Pint A-Bombers - jet pilots are proving it doesn't take a big, fat plane to delivery the Sunday Punch; One Night Together, by Jean Bell Mosley; Big Back Yard - large colour photo of goat ranchers in Texas; So You're Selling Your House! - how an exhuasted houseowner spent 78 frustrating days and sleepless nights disposing of his middleaged bungalow; Death in the Wind, by Edwin Lanham; Big Power Plant in the Sky - the possibilities of tapping solar energy; Adventures of Slippery Leo - Leo Irby - Escapologist; He was part of this land - Mitchell Stuart of W-Hollow, Kentucky, by his son, Jesse Stuart; Sensational 3-page color ad for Cadillac for 1956; The Golden Journey, by Agnes Sligh Turnbull; Nice color photo 2-page ad for 1956 Plymouth, with all new push-button driving; Two-page ad for Ford Trucks; Lovely 2-page colour photo ad for Philco televisions - with remote control!; Nice 1-page color ad for Sealtest ice cream; 2-page color '56 Pontiac ad; Crosley Custom V television ad; Color ad for Zenith televisions; Color ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Italian-style Ravioli; Nice color 1-page ad for Karo waffle syrup; Color Betty Crocker ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
84 pages. Features: Farewell to Sir Thomas Beecham; Colourful one-page ad for Libby's juices; Crocus got its Seaway - by W.O. Mitchell; George Hees - Ottawa's Biggest Surprise Package; The Strange and Savage World of Hollywood, by Bruce Hutchison; Sir William Macdonald - the strangest millionaire who ever drew breath; Does your face reveal your character?; Two-page colour-photo ad for Kodak movie cameras; One-page photo ad for Esther Williams swimming pools; Two-color half-page ad for film "Say One For Me"; Photo of Mickey Mantle in small Bantron ad; Canadian Club ad with colour photos features Gilbert Winfield in Sherwood Forest; What the New Pope Means for Canada; Back cover ad for Crane plumbing fixtures features designer Henry Dreyfuss; and more. Please note: missing page 7-8, 13-17, 39-40, and 69-74, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Douglas Harkness - the lonely ordeal of a rebel Tory; All federal Tories like Duff Roblin; Clayton Boston (Slim) Delbridge and the B.C. Lions of the C.F.L.; Songs to Break Up Canada By - and an Anthem That Can't Offend Anyone - Editorial; The Outstanding Canadians of 1963, with photos - Sister Marie Laurent-de-Rome, Woodrow Lloyd, Glen How, Jack Leitch, Leo Plouffe, Claude Jutra, Leon Major, Ed Mirvish, C.B. MacPherson, Sylvia Fricker, Ian Tyson, Sharp, Mitchell, Peter C. Newman, Pat(rick) Watson; The Growing Acceptance of "Harmless" Narcotics; How I Worked My Way through College Peddling Pot; Douglas Duncan - The Man Who Discovered Canadian Painting; Mad Assault on Everest by Canadian Engineer Earl Denman (a Maclean's Flashback); How John Chester and Family are beating $20,000 in debts; The Older You Get, The Harder the Crooks go after Your Money; Old Books - The Fastest-Growing Cult on the Cultural Front; Old (Antiquarian) Books - The Fastest Growing Cult on the Cultural Front - article with nice photos; Fantastic two-colour one-page photo ad for Ian and Sylvia feature in the next issue of Chatelaine; The Incredible Pace of Modern Master John O'Hara; Ottawa Should Build Schools for Bilingualism in every Province; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features youthful gang singing with player piano; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Cover illustration of McGill tennis courts (before they were converted to a parking lot) by John Little; Great colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover features red dump truck; Interesting one-page Parke-Davis ad features Robert Thom painting 'Susruta' of a surgeon of old India at work; Nice One-page photo ad for Matinee cigarettes features couple in floral scene; Why Not a Written Marriage Contract?; Why Herbert Morrison won't take his just reward; One-page colour-illustrated ad for Canada Steamship Lines; Death is Not Inevitable - says Dr. Hans Selye; Will Our National Emblem Vanish? - A Mystery Affliction is Killing Our Maple Trees; Our Magistrates and Judges struggle with one of the most exacting and thankless jobs in public life - article with photos of Ontario Supreme Court Justice D.C. Wells and Ontario Court of Appeals Justices Morden, McGillivray and Roach; Holiday Weekend in Calgary - Bill and Merna Mitchell and kids invade Alberta's oil and cattle capital to pack a surprising amount of cultural pleasure into one weekend; How to Curb Your Tensions; Jack Wells - Winnipeg's maverick of the sports mike - article with photos; Nice 2/3-page colour-photo ad for Puss'n Boots cat food features three ginger cats; Champion Spark Plugs ad features photo of Jim Rathmann in Italy after he won the world's fastest 500 mile race at Monza; Nice colour-photo ad for Labatt's India Pale Ale features topless man with towel over shoulders; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features photos of a tyrolean traverse being performed in Alberta, courtesy of Guide John Dodds; Interesting CNR passenger train ad with photo insert of napping passenger over traffic jam scene; Great colour GWG clothing ad inside back cover features back-to-school fashions; back cover colour-photo ad sponsored by Fleischmann's Yeast features many ways to serve bread; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 34 plates; original green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Bright copy of a scarce, valuable and important eye-witness account.
84 pages. Features: Fantastic three-panel colour photo ad for Ford's 1964 models inside front cover; Peter C. Newman on Paul Hellyer; Canada's first World's Fair, by Peter Desbarats; Can we save Latin America from itself?, by Ian Sclanders; The Mafia in Canada - Part 3 - The Inner Workings of the Crime Cartel; What is behind the new wave of TV think shows, by Robert Fulford; Honest Ed Mirvish - the least likely art patron in the world; Blair Fraser reports on The Violent Realities of the New Black Nations, where tribal warfare is less than a lifetime away; Rev. Leslie K. Tarr makes the case against Christian Unity; Boy Meets Girl in Naples on the Humber - a camera crawl of Toronto after midnight; Melvin Arbuckle's first course in shock therapy - a new short story by W.O. Mitchell; Colour centerfold featuring four Chevrolet models for 1964. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The rise and fall of the VNAF - the rise and fall of the South Vietnamese Air Force, from 1951 to 1975; America's Spitfires - the USAAF was second only to the RAF as a major operator of the Supermarine Spitfire - a review of their operational history in American service; The RAF in Greece - 1940/41 - the fulfillment of Britain's treaty obligations; CW-21 - the St. Louis Lightweight - the story of the relatively unknown Curtiss-Wright CW-21 fighter in WWII; Sixes and Sevens - completing the story of the 4-engined Douglas transport family, begun in AE/15 - the DC-6 and DC-7; The Blenheim in Yugoslavia - two successful years of Blenheim operations in Yugoslavia were followed by eight days of disaster in 1941; F13 - the Pioneer from Dessau - first flown in 1919, the Junkers F 13 was still serving after WWII; Armstrong Whitworth's Flying Wings - Laminar flow research and boundary layer control, as applied to the A.W.52 flying wings; Walrus - amphibious angel of mercy - designed by Reginald Mitchell; PR Flying and the Spitfire - an account of war-time photographic reconnaissance operations in the Middle and Far East; "Britain Captures Schneider Trophy" - this 1931 headline summed up the culmination of an 18-year endeavour; The MiG Killers of Korea - the North American F-86 Sabre achieved the greatest success in air-to-air combat; Fokker's D VIII - the reluctant Razor - the world's first operational cantilever-winged fighter; Caught by the wing-tip - C.E. 'Bud' Anderson's experiences as a test pilot in the wing-tip coupling experiments; Bombay - Pegasus Draught, Bristol Dray - the flying characteristics and operational career of the Bristol Bomber-transport; Quest for Altitude - The First Generation MiGs - a comprehensive account of the first fighters to bear the MiG appellation; Return of the Razorbacks - the restoration and flight demonstrations of the only Allison-engined Mustangs now extant; A seversky in the Spanish War - the SEV-3; Stratocruiser - ending an airline era - the role of the Boeing Stratocruiser in post-war air transport evolution; Destination - Disaster - how 8 new Saab B 18Bs of the Swedish Air Force met their doom, and how they came back; Estonian Air Power, 1918-1945. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
70 pages. Features: The Grand Manner - a modest young man in love (Frederick Nebel); Invitation to Dance - The girl who stole a lipstick (Libbie Block); White Man's Burden - in defense of a lady and a tropical isle (Will F. Jenkins); On the Bench - Harun-al-Rashid in modern dress (Frank Condon); Very Much a Lady by Alec Rackowe; Man with a Past - Romance of a stagecoach guard (Ernest Haycox); I Love You Again, Part VI - Suspicion of Murder (Octavus Roy Cohen); Castle Key, Part II - Get up and Fly Again (Dwight Mitchell Wiley); Under Chiang Kai-shek's Hand - Number One in Asia, with photos (Jim Marshall); The Minsky Kids, H.K. and Morton - Art School for strippers/burlesque (Henry F. Pringle); High School Hero - Mr. Bob Feller - The $100,000 rookie (Kyle Crichton); You're the Cook - Kitchen Calm (Betty Thornley Stuart); Who Taught You to Drive? - It's never too late to learn (T.R. Carskadon). Page 23 is a wonderful full-colour ad for a food product called Karo which features charming photos of the Dionne quints (quintuplets). Page 25 is a nice colour ad for Packard cars. Super colour centerfold for the Hudson automobile. Excellent two-page colour ad for Nash cars on pages 48-49. Interesting United Airlines ad on page 55 - does not resemble contemporary air travel! Two-colour Ford V8 truck ad inside back cover. Interesting colour Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover suggests that their product offers 'throat protection'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: 1980 - the turbulent year that was; Shelly Hack; Farley Mowat; U.S. Heads into Recession; Terry Fox Cover Illustration; Trudeau wants to patriate the constitution; Indonesia's struggles; Kayakers visit the rivers of the Himalayas; The NHL Comes of Age; Italians are returning home from Canada; The stench of political patronage in Quebec; Economic harship in Britain; Margie Gillis; Truedea's quest for a foreign policy; John Dowd creates the Ronald Reagan survival kit; Kim Mitchell - Max Webster is about to trade its cult status for international glory; Possible break in the hostage crisis; Frank Sinatra at centre of political storm in Washington; Enemy fire at Jean Chretien; Hostages Come Home; Crazy Weather; Jo Penney; Royal Trustco-Campeau hearings; Doris Anderson; Cover photo and story of Karen Kain; Roger Jouret/Plastic Bertrand; Jean-Luc Godard; CIA hostages return home; Saudi officials try to entice Chad from Libya's grip; Steve Podborski story and cover photo; Trappers; Nuclear mishap in France; van Gogh at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO); Raquel Welch sues over firing from film Cannery Row; Trudeau and Thatcher - who will stand down?; Sigourney Weaver; Did Ottawa encourage Inco to poison the skies?; The Schreyer family in Rideau Hall; Who will pay for the RCMP?; David Stockman - wunderkind in cabinet; Cover illustration "The Day Alberta Turns off the Oil; The Pope in Asia; Joe Clark faces severe damage; Carol Connors; Donald Sutherland; 4,000 year-old settlement unearthed in Labrador; Tony Tanti; Our Next Queen - cover photo of Lady Diana Spencer; Joe Clark survives leadership with likely mortal wounds; Reagan's team aggressive toward Moscow; Joe Granville says 'Sell!"; the Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell; Voyager I renews interest in Titan; Ontario's Crucial Vote; Ouellet's combines sleuths write seven green volumes on price-fixing by oil's big four; Atlanta - beseiged by fear; Lynn Seymour; Sally Field's roll in Back Roads; John Gray is home from Broadway; Alberta's sulphur industry; Will Reagan Deliver?; Canadians flock to the south; Kim Cattrall; passengers endure two weeks of desert runway heat; Compulsory measles vaccination; Panic buying in the home market; Khmer Comeback; Alice Arm, B.C. mine tailings dumping; Dave Broadfoot, and many more. Light wear. Firmly bound. Few library markings. Book
Almost two inches thick. Some of the many topics include: Blood feud between Iraq and Iran; Uniforms for white collar industries; Shelly Duvall; Helmut Schmidt; Pierre Trudeau and Canada's Arctic Oil; Lindsay Wagner; Urban Cowboy; Strike by PSAC; Anne Murray; Politically incorrect lawn jockeys; Burt Reynolds; William Pollock and Drake International; France's Nuclear Gamble; Rita Moreno; Vietnamese Boat People; CDC - Canada Development Company is now majority-owned by private shareholders; El Asnam Earthquake; Brian Peckford - Confederation's Bad Boy; Carter vs. Reagan campaign; Tennessee Williams; Monique Leyrac; Big Government Squeezes Big Oil; Trudeau's National Energy Policy (NEP); Sterling Lyon; Michaele Jordana; Reza Pahlavi assumes the mantle of Shah in exile; Reagan Beats Carter; Single parent poverty; Problems with the Dall Sheep in the Kluane Lake area of the Yukon; Lockeport Nova Scotia has lost three fish plants but the people remain strong; Melody Anderson; The Global Struggle for Human Rights; Discovering Saturn; Susan Jacks; Lynn Johnston; Roy McMurtry and RCMP wrongdoing; The West Goes Wild over federal energy policy; Douglas Christie and the Western Canadian Concept; Sharon Timmins; Nick Taylor; John Fraser views China; The Pain Threshold; Mood Drugs - cure or curse; Cherie Lunghi; Farewell to Jules Leger; Devastating earthquake in southern Italy; Search for an industrial strategy for Canada; Viktor Beleko lands his Soviet Union Foxbat aircraft in Japan; Two Hungarians defect to Canada; Soviet tanks roll into Poland; Joni Mitchell dons black face to play a pimp; John Lennon killed - cover photo; Brooke Shields; Poles in search of food; The Kent Commission looks at the concentration of Newspaper ownership; Light wear. Firmly bound. Few library markings. Book
40 pages. Features: Nice two-color addressograph ad inside front cover; AT&T charged with waste and extravagance; Gargantua the gorilla leads a streamlined new Ringling circus to town - article with photos; George Jean Nathan; Franco's offensive rolls forward; Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn defies clergy and puts over sweepstakes bill; Francis William Rickett and Ben Smith - mystery men of Mexican oil; Photo of smiling FDR with Marvin McIntyre; Photo of Father Charles Coughlin of Detroit; Negro politician Nathaniel Brewer, of Cambridge, MA; Squaws riot in Northern Minnesota; Interesting article on Key West, Florida; Nazis put their Nordic paganism into print - rules for marriage ceremonies in the Temples of Blood; Photo of the Prince of Liechtenstein and his wife; The Soviet Union's NSRA (Northern Sea Route Administration) is one of the few government agencies to escape the Stalin purge; Tsung Tsai Chiang becomes Stalin of China; Egyptian feud between Farouk I and Nahas Pasha; Fantastic hockey photo shows American goalie Earl Robertson playing against the Chicago Black Hawks; Nice photo of Joan Blondell with police; Burial announcement of Col. Edward M. House - and picture of him with Woodrow Wilson; Nice one-page photo ad for the Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera; Interesting photo of black children at Milk Bar - Rev. Amos H. Carnegie; Interesting picket outside Boyles Furniture Store in Utah; Labor Racketeers Still Flourishing; Nice photo ad for Warner & Swasey turret lathes of Cleveland; C.I.O. seamen picket Maritime Commission offices in Washington; Leonor F. Loree leaves the D.& H. (with photo); Nice color ad inside back cover for San Francisco tourism features illustration of rotating street car; Back cover color photo ad for Four Roses whiskey features letter from John Chapman. Average wear. Unmarked. Small clipping from page 7. A worthy vintage copy Book
48 pages. Cover photo of convoy watcher. Features: Arctic Convoy - photo-illustrated article describing the adventure and danger of escorting munitions to North Russia in a destroyer north of the Arctic Circle; Listen, Soldier! - a sergeant provides some army humour; Can the Conservatives Come Back? - at Winnipeg Canada's Conservative Party can resume its historic mission or write its obituary; All Are for the State - Canadian Editors tour Britain's military production facilities and are impressed - article with photos; London Letter - Should We Hate the Germans?; "The Crucial Moment" - Douglas Reed reports that war hope centres on a major victory in North Africa; He Saved Fundy's Eider - Taxidermist Allan Moses saved the American eider ducks from extinction; No Lady of Leisure - Elissa Landi, actress, author, ballet dancer, singer and lecturer will have a Broadway play produced. Fiction; Wimmen is Humans (by W.O. Mitchell); A Kind of Magic. Nice one-page recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Air Force Air Crew ("Women Too"). Half-page "Del Maiz" brand corn appears to be a predecessor to the Green Giant brand(?). Nice half-page ad for Waterman's pens includes illustration of Billy Bishop, a WWII airman, and a small photo of the company's plant in St. Lambert, PQ. Back cover colour G.M. of Canada ad shows brown armoured vehicles in action. Unmarked with moderate wear. Two neat vertical creases to front cover. Ads on half of page 3/4 missing. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this vintage wartime issue. Book
132 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Three generations of the Mitchell family are featured in Sohmer piano ad; Chinese Nuclear Research - article with photos; The World of the Unborn - the new medical specialty of Fetology; Holy Men of India - In Search of Seekers of the Truth; Don't Tell it to the Computer - the threat it represents to privacy; Toscanini - the Greatest Single Influence on Today's Conductors; George Plimpton - story with photos of his varied activities; El San Juan Hotel (Puerto Rico) ad features Lou Puro, Chairman of the Board; Sweater fashion photos; "Because I Say So" - raising children; Sensuous Cone Towel ad; 1966 Was a Happening for Home Furnishings; Save the Children Federation ad features the family of Nancy and John Seletti - and young Chang Sook of Korea; and more. Above-average wear to front cover which is almost loose. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
120 pages. Features: Beautiful color fashion ads; Bad Day at Cairo, Illinois - Rev. Charles Koen of St. Columbia's and the Black United Front; Is the Mediterranean Dying? - photo illustrated article on abuses to this Sea; The Taos Indians Have a Small Generation Gap; James Taylor - a New Troubadour - article with photo of J.T. with Joni Mitchell; A Short Course in the Three Types of Radical Professors - article with photos of Neil Postman, Edgar Friedenberg, Charles Weingartner, Douglas Dowd, Louis Kampf, John Froines, Charles Reich and Theodore Roszak; Chips ad features photo of young Andy Patterson; Drug abuse phone hotline; Nice one-page color ad for the Rainbow Bay real estate development at Fort Lauderdale; Photos of high-rise apartment decorated by Ruben de Saavedra; Ad for Fantastik cleaner offers free Zodiac posters; Photo of James Taylor's brother Livingston Taylor singing and playing guitar. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
56 pages. Features: Encounter Groupers Up Against the Wall - a psychologist says it is not for everyone; Is it Anti-Zionism oor Anti-Semitism? - article with reproductions of interesting contemporary graphic items; San Francisco - The Porn Capital of America - photo illustrated article with photos of Jim Mitchell, Alex de Renzy, Davey Rosenberg and Arlene Elster; Stop Raising Wages to Stop Inflation; Tasteful Mainstream ladies' swimwear ad; Beautiful Knit Row centerfold ad features models in alpine meadow; Photos of Long Island Victorian home redesigned by Karl Springer. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
Features: News piece on furor over new Social Insurance (SIN) numbers; The Battle of Nouveau Quebec - how the territorial ambitions of Rene Levesque may yet bring down our government; Can these men really figure out Canada? - the intricacies of the biggest royal commission ever, the Dunton-Laurendeau Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism; How K.C. Irving wields his power - concluding a three part series on the complex man who dominates New Brunswick; The Great Money Panic of 1963 - a recreation of the four days when Canadians learned who really runs the economy (a fascinating and little-known story); The Greatest Canadian-bred ever - how Northern Dancer, 'overpriced at $25k' earned his first quarter million; How Kahn-Tineta Horn became an Indian - a young native who has grown proud of his race; The Bachelor Party Circuit - a pretty girl (Marika Robert) describes her holiday in Jamaica with everything.. but bachelors; When Mounties were imported - a retired RCMP senior officer recalls colleagues like the Honourable Eustace; W.O Mitchell claims all westerners are snobs. Nice colour ad for the 1964 Chevrolet Impala Sport Sedan. Average wear and soiling. Book
165 pages. "Morenz was selected as the greatest hockey player in the first half of the twentieth century by the Canadian Press... Skeptics might argue that he won the poll on a sympathy vote because of his recent sudden and tragic death, but few who knew him and/or watched him play would share those sentiments." - from dust jacket. Includes photos reproduced from the Morenz family archives. Usual library markings. Binding sound. Average wear. Please note that library tape which secures dust jacket is tacky and gently adheres to free endpapers. A solid copy of this great hockey history. Book
86 pages. Articles: How Much Government can Free Enterprise Stand?; The Senseless Killing of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind" - article with photos; Report on the Far West - The News is Good from the Nation's "New Empire" - with focus on industrial development; Lincoln Collector, Oliver R. Barrett; Bashful Ben of the Bang-Bangs - Cowboy Ben Johnson - article with color photos; Donora, Pennsylvania - The case of the Poisoned Air - 19 died; Suppose He Had Two Eyes - Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Tommy Thompson has one eye - article with photo. Fiction: Bootlegger's Treasure (part 1 of 4); Floodwater; O'Brien; The case of the Negligent Nymph (conclusion); Dumb Bunny. Also includes great vintage ads for: Lord Calvert Whiskey - with great full-page colour photo of illustrator Mr. Bradshaw Crandell; Western Electric (showing switchboard operator; General Electric tvs; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring colour photo of Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton; Pontiac cars; Rexall - Druggists of America; Texaco; DeSoto cars; Nash cars; Mercury cars; American Airlines (centerfold); Botany 500 men's fashions; Great two-page color photo ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer features Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Lawrence Tibbett, Charles Laughton, Sid Luckman, Douglas Fairbanks, "Hap" Arnold, Mr. & Mrs. Jascha Heifetz, Mr. and Mrs. F. Warren Pershing and Mr. and Mrs. Jean Hersholt; GM Electro-Motive Division; Dodge Trucks; Trailways bus lines; Bicycle playing cards; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring bowler Joe Wilman and waterskiing stars Martha Mitchell and Margie Fletcher. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
42 pages. Features: Cover illustration of President Woodrow Wilson; Nice illustrated ad for the Mitchell Six car inside front cover; One-page illustrated ad for Johns-Manville coal preservation products; Illustrated one-page Fisk Cord Tire ad shows natives carrying crude rubber to a waiting ship; "Over Here" - fiction by E.D. Biggers; The President - a profile of Woodrow Wilson by Richard Washburn Child; A Shipbuilder on the Job - photo-illustrated article on Homer L. Ferguson (with photo of black men hard at work above caption "Don't you dare come and tell us that the black man in the South is an industrial failure!"; Is There a Ukraine? - interesting photo-illustrated article; Editorial "Ships and the Submarine"; Photos of inventor William T. Donnelly and his 'buoyancy boxes' which were installed in ships to keep them buoyant even if torpedoed; Tremendous Trifles - photos of simple yet vital items needed to support the war effort; The Adventures of Colin O'Rell (Third Adventure - The Interrupted Tea); God Gave Them Youth (fiction); From Baseball to Boches (Fourth Inning); Ferry's Seeds ad; Classy half-page ad for Kahn Tailoring of Indianapolis; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Waltham watches; Dr. Eugene T. Hurd of Seattle - photo-illustrated article on this military surgeon; Nicely-illustrated quarter-page ad for Colt handguns appears to show WWI officer displaying pistol to Civil War veterans; Article on the French town of Bruay and wartime activities there, by Pierre Hamp; Interesting quarter-page ad for The Pullman Company includes photos of "The Men Who Serve You" - they are all black; Back cover two-color ad for the Victor (Victors and Victrolas) Company features illustration of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (Johanna Maria Lind); and more. Above-average external wear with coverfold mostly open. Binding intact. Bits of writing on front cover. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent WWI issue. Book
124 pages. Features: Vogue's Point of View - be a natural; Pants - naturally; The new easy tailoring - wider legs; wider waistbands; cuffs and trouser pleats; pants with chopped jackets; Sweaters - naturally; The Piano Sweater; The sweater as a shirt, a muffler, the new sweater sets; sweater-dressing at night; Super Naturals - the chopped suede wrapper; the blouson - new jacket in the separates life; this year's trenchcoat - flannel plaid; the easiest jumpsuit; the sweater set you never saw before; sweater-dressing; tops for pants - the knit shirt-jacket; the suede wrap coat; Berry Berenson - a natural girl; The Sweatery Suits - the Sweatery Dresses; A Natural in Naturals - Pilar Crespi in jackets and pants; Rash words - remember poison ivy; Biking - a natural way of life; the miracle of skin; What's playing at the hairdresser's?; Every body wants to be a blonde now; News about protein, herbs, fruits and vegetables for skin and hair; Natural Beauties - Miranda Barry, Berry Berenson, Sarah Cubitt, Loulou de la Falaise; Marchesa de Montezemolo's 7-day natural food plan; Your Hair and Henna - the natural way to change color; Can the I.U.D. rival the pill?; People are Talking About - Elvis Presley; Four Young Artists living the loft life - Sylvia Stone, Rosemarie Castoro, Nancy Graves, Susan Crile; False Energy - what it is, how to avoid it and build new power; 13 powerhouses - real people with real energy; What Women Know About "Love" that Men Don't Know About "Loving" - an interview with Juliet Mitchell; Mega-Vitamins; Surprise - the young really like their parents now; A Guide to Ireland; Natural Style - Mr. & Mrs. Michael Santangelo's house on Centre Island; Horoscope of Peter O'Toole; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Clear tape along spine. A worthy reference copy. Book
52 pages. Cover painting by Thomas W. Mitchell features man with ax and oxen. Content: Fantastic International Trucks ad features photos of their largest and smallest models plus diagrams of their other 11 models; Investors Syndicate ad features Mrs. Martha E. Dodele; Nice Canada Dry ad features tennis-playing couple; She Who Walks the Waters, by Jefferson Cralle; Mr. Beatty - President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Aces' Race - proposed professional world's championship sculling race at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), by Frank Adams - with illustrations of Major Goodsell, Teddy Phelps, Bert Barry and Bobby Pearce; Fair by not Frail, Gladys B. Taber; Eye, Eye, Sir, by Hugh Grant Rowell, M.D. - an article on vision; Who's Next? - an article to help other Canadians understand how political trouble of Ontario's Conservatives may affect the rest of the country - with photos of George S. Henry, Mines McCrea, Col. W.H. Price, and Mr. Macaulay; Warden of the Flock, by Paul Annixter; Central Banking, by Harold E. Crowle - a monetary commission will in the near future investigate the desirability of a central bank for Canada; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; A Fall Out of History, by H.M. Blake; Feathered Speed - Pigeon Races, by W.T. Webb; Grain Fair, by Roderick Stuart Kennedy - The World's Grain Exhibition at Regina; Nice colour ad for Campbell's vegetable soup; President Roosevelt's Brain Trust; British M.P. W. Kirkpatrick supports Japan's conquest of Manchuria; Lux Toilet Soap ad features Loretta Young, Polly Ann Young and Sally Blake; Letters to the Editor; A Swedish Forest has supplied logs for 700 years and has greater supply than ever; The Great Auk may still live; The Summer Cottage - article by F.L. DeN. Scott; The Investor and His Stockbroker, by C.W. Stollery; Nice ad for Dominions Tires inside back cover; Nice ad for Chevrolet Standars Six and Master Six on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Great cover art of a confused Lineman atop a utility pole; Jergens Lotion ad featuring photos of Esther Williams and Barry Sullivan; The Greatest Three-Cent Show on Earth - The Toronto Star got to be one of the loudest, craziest and most successful papers in the world by unleashing an army of reporters on stories and stunts carefully calculated to please - as well as infurate - some of the people all of the time - article with photos of many famous personalities, by Pierre Berton (part 1 of 2); How Racketeers Sold Entry into Canada - Corrupt Canadian Government Officials and Unscrupulous Travel Agents Have Extorted Thousands of Dollars to Smuggle Italian Immigrants into Canada; The Princess and the Wild One - story by W.O. Mitchell, illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; The Lord Will Take Care of Us - The Hutterites of Alberta - article with photos, including colour photo of Ann Wurtz and her sister Susie Waldner posing with Anne's twins; The Beard - Feature photo-illustrated article on Robertson Davies; Qu'Appelle - The Saskatchewan Valley That Calls; Marie Dressler - Queen of the Movie Queens - a Maclean's Flashback to the Cobourg-born 1931 winner of the best actress Oscar; Chase for Killer Stanley Buckowski - How Detective A.J. (Trigger) Payne tracked the murderer of Alfred Layng, Robert and Gloria McKay, and Helen Edmunds - interesting article with photos; A Secret Manual for Week-End Guests - humour by Eric Nicol, illustrated by Harold Town; Royal Roads Military College ad; Nice colour photo Kodak camera ad; Li'l Abner-themed Cream of Wheat ad; Nice Sweet Caps ad; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario; Peter Whalley Cartoon; Virginia Mayo is featured in an Auto-Lite spark plug ad; The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment (Motor) is honoured in a colour ad sponsored by O'Keefe's Brewing Company; Murrell Belanger and his Belanger 99 Special and pit crew are featured in a two-colour Champion spark plug ad; Great Coke ad on back cover features attractive young nurse. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Nice CNE cover illustration; Colour International Crawler ad inside front cover; Unusual Molson ad presents small projects for around the house; Mackenzie King as I Knew Him - article with photos, including a full-page colour portrait; Unwanted Guest - story by Paul Ernst, illustrated by Mike Mitchell; The Murdered Midas of Lake Shore -a Maclean's flashback to the murder of gold discoverer Sir Harry Oakes in Nassau, the Bahamas; Two Million Dollars on the Dotted Line - S. Hume Crawford and W.E.N. (Bill) Bell sell lots of life insurance - article with photo; That Glamorous Goldeye - Manitoba's famous Winnipeg Goldeye fish has turned up again - 750 miles away in Alberta!; Danny Kaye; Just Call Me the Gadget King - Bernie Abbott sells gizmos at the CNE; Full-page Len Norris illustration "On the Midway" humourously illustrates the CNE; The Strange Death of Sam Fletcher - story by John Clare - illustrated by Jack Bush; Shes' the Only One of Her Kind - Speaker Nancy Hodges rules the B.C. Legislature with a gracious gavel - photos with story; Great full-page colour ad for movie 'The Black Rose' which stars Tyrone Power and Orson Welles; 1950 Plymouth ad; Sam Snead appears in Prest-o-lite battery ad; Colour ad for Canada Dry; Celeste Holm is featured in a colour ad for Avon Cosmetics; Nice colour ad inside back cover for the Watchmakers of Switzerland. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Lovely cover illustration of snowy Quebec church scene; Colour Canada Dry ad; How Much Was Exploded by the Atomic Bomb?; Photo of tractor train pulling into Yellowknife from Lower Hay River; Jergens Lotion ad with photo of beautiful Marie McDonald; The Prime Minister Sweepstakes; Knocking at the Door (short story); British Columbia (B.C.) Counts Her Trees - a general plan is required for the perpetuation of the province's timber stands - photo-illustrated article with aerial photo of Ladysmith fire, July 7, 1945; Laurie is so Optimistic (short story); Home Aides; Advances in Science; Buffalo Farmer Ed Butters of Michigan - photo-illustrated article on man who purchased a 250-animal herd in South Dakota and moved it east; Nearest My Heart (shrot story); Nice one-page colour ad for the 1946 Pontiac (maroon four-door Silver Streak); Photo ad for Woodbury soap features three photos of newlyweds Mabel Lucille Holland and ex-RCAF officer Thomas Mitchell Mills, both of Montreal; Charming colour Fry's Cocoa ad with kids running home from school; Photo of Gypsy Rose Lee in Arrid ad; The New Fashioned Woman; Back cover colour Frigidaire fridge ad shows trio admiring large cut of meat; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy. Book
Pages 473-500 plus advertorial covers. Features: Photos of German troops in Junkers 52 aircraft plus photo of planes in flight; Photos of the people of Marseilles being evacuated; Photo of mountain of landmine casings waiting to be charged in Palestine - a big local industry; Photos of 25-pounder guns on Valentine tank chassis on the Tunisian front; Photo of bomb-damaged London football ground being repaired for Easter Sunday; Photo of Berlin fire at Dresdner Bank (caption is partially censored - very uncommon for this publication); 3 photos of new German conical landmine recently discovered in Africa; Three photos of Britain's 'Tank Busters', the Hurricane II-D; Six photos of the amphibious Jeep used by the U.S. Army; Seven photos of the Greeks' revived ' Sacred Brigade" of Thebes; Six photos of the Allies' victorious advance in Tunisia, including General Montgomery; Two pages with twelve excellent photos illustrate Tunisia operations; Dramatic centrefold illustration of a convoy of 31 ME. 323s shot down in the Gulf of Tunis; Photos of personalities of the week include Longchamp racegoers running for cover as American bombers attack, The Duke of Portland, Thomas C. Dugdale, Steven Spurrier, Algernon Newton, British prisoners repatriated from Italy, Baron F. D'Erlanger, C.B. Crouch, Sir Courtauld Thomson, and The Duke of Connaught; Four photos of the Hawker Typhoon - fastest and most heavily-armed fighter in the world; Just released photo of Mitchell bomber taking off from the "Hornet" to attack Tokyo last year; Photo of "Hornet" and crew being inspected by Colonel Knox, Secretary of the U.S. Navy; Four illustrations of the work of the Royal Observer Corps - watchers of the skys; Two pages with eleven illustrations depicting life inside a British submarine on patrol; nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Archival tape along coverfold. A sound vintage copy of this excellent WWII issue. Book
