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Features: Transforming the Food Axis - Houses, Tools, Modes of Analysis; Machines in Suburban Gardens - the 1936 T. Eaton Company Architectural Competition for House Designs; Tompkinsville, Cape Breton Island - Co-operativism and Vernacular Architecture; Slag Houses in a Steel City; British Army Officer Housing in Upper Canada, 1784-1841; Managing Household Pests the Old-Fashioned Way - Defenses against pest damages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Also includes the following exhbit reviews: Love, Leisure and Laundry - Why Housework Just Won't Go Away; Finding a Space for Children and Their History; Power and Planning - Industrial Towns in Quebec, 1890-1950. Seven book reviews. and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. 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
84 pages. Features: Nice one-page photo ad for Ipana tooth paste features model Mrs. Frances Nalle Crider and her two children; Page 4 provides a valuable history of this publication with a photo of founder Lieut-Col. John Bayne Maclean and Horace T. Hunter; Nice one-page ad for Canadian General Electric Radios; One-page illustrated ad for The Coffield Washer Company Limited of Hamilton, Ontario presents their laundry equipment; Where's the Money Go? - the facts and figures of who's cashing in on the post-war price jumps; Nice photo and write-up of Montreal vocalist Pierrette Alarie; Biggest Show on Earth - early article on the United Nations by Pierre Berton - with photo of the General Assembly in its initial Flushing location on Long Island; Leave the Song to Me (fiction); When a Princess Marries - looking forward of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Lieut. Philip Mountbatten; Toronto? E-r, u-h - an adopted son finds some odd skeletons in her closet; Photo of A.V. Roe employees (Avromen) with the first Canadian jet engine; Born Out of Wedlock - each year 12,000 illegitimate Canadian babies are born into a world of adoption rackets, orphanages, legal tangles and shame - article with photo of four children (whose eyes are whited out for confidentiality); One-page colour ad for Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup; Love Me, Love My Doghouse (fiction); Peace on a Dark Knight - the first peace treaty after WWII comes into effect, and peace came to Italy across a barbed wire fence; Sea-borne Shantytown - photo-illustrated article on Vancouver's 1,800 tax-free float town houseboat colonists; Jack of Diamonds - The fabulous story of Jack Williamson, diamond hunter from Quebec who found a fortune in Africa under a stalled car; Two Women (fiction about a love triangle); Can They Read Your Mind? - interesting article on telepathy with photos; Classy one-page colour ad for Snyder's Living Room Furniture, of Waterloo, ON and Montreal; Half-page colour ad for Ganong's Chocolates; Nice one-page colour ad for Heinz Baby Foods was intended to be shipped out and folded into a 4-page booklet; Cream of Wheat ad features Li'l Abner; Castoria laxative ad with photo of 'peevish' child and mother; Excllent two-page vintage colour ad for Chevrolet Trucks features seven great illustrations; Nice colour ad for Frigidaire appliances; Two-page black and white Buick ad; Polident ad shows man with 'denture breath'; Vintage British Columbia (B.C.) Packers half-page colour ad for their new Rupert Brand Fish Fillets; Interesting ad for Kraft's pimento cheese spread; Great one-page colour ad for General Steel Wares highights founder John McClary and the subsequent history of their McLary and GSW products; Old Dutch colour ad shows husband in apron trying to wash dishes; Deilcraft furniture ad; Photo of Lovely Joan Greenwood in Kleenex ad; Westinghouse fridge and range ads; Photo of Dick Haymes in Auto-Lite battery ad; Nice colour Waterman's pen ad with Christmas theme; Half-page orange and black Aunt Jemima pancake mix ad; Attractive back cover colour ad for B.C. Apples; and more. Front cover barely holding. Back cover loose but present. A worthy copy of this precious vintage issue. Book
68 pages. Patriotic cover painting by Eilleen Wedd. Contents: Nice full-page ad for Moffats Electric Ranges; One-Way Ticket, by Jefferson Cralle; Mr. Sise, by R.T.L.; Fakes and Fakers, by James Young; Girl + Man + Boat, by Dale Collins; Circumstantial Evidence, by G.R. Malloch; Australia Sees it Coming - The Japanese Menace; How to Make Money Grow - Key #4, by Herbert N. Casson; Hidy Has a Memory, by Joseph Dwyer; An Inside History of Canada, Part V, by R.K. Hall; Dusky Diamond Limited, by Hugh Grant Rowell (with photos); The Bay of the Big Killing, by Bertrand W. Sinclair; Shots and Angles, by Candida (movie news); Westinghouse Refrigerator Ad; Should the N.W.T. (Northwest Territories) Shut the Door? - Canadian government issues no more permits for trading or trapping to people going to the N.W.T.; Dodge Truck Ad; Fantastic two-page black and white ad for the new Plymouth Six; Lovely Ceylon Tea Bureau colour ad prominently features the painting "Moraine Lake, Valley of the Ten Peaks", by Richard Jack, R.C.A.; Ad for the Cine-Kodak movie camera; Great full-page two-colour ad for the T-14, T-16, T-18, T-23, T-33, T-43, T-51 and T-61 General Motors Trucks; Nice ad for the new Studebakers of 1934; Article on Cheese Dishes; Colour ad for Swift's Premium Bacon inside back cover; Chipso laundry soap colour photo ad on back cover. Address label atop front cover. Assorted chips and tears. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Cellophane inside front cover; Great two-colour full-page ad for International Trucks - Chicago Century of Progress Theme; Nice full-page ad for Investors Syndicate featuring photo of Roy A. Hunter of B.C.; Nice 2-page Mobiloil photo ad features large photo of four cars; Chipso Laundry Detergent ad; Heritage, by Albert M. Treynor; The Cinema Murder, by Phillips Oppenheim; The Oriental Threat - regarding oriental immigration "... In British Columbia the proportion is catastrophic, being one Asiatic to every twelve whites." - with photos, by Charles E. Hope and W.K. Earle; Garden Jungle, by C.R. K. Allen; Ace of Our Judges - Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff, by M. Grattan O'Leary; Invitation, by Will R. Bird; Critic on the Hearth, by Arthur T. Munyan; Pud, by W.A. Fraser; Tides o' Fundy, by H.V. Chambers; By Express - stories of shipping animals long distances; There's Money in Stamps - Paul Montgomery writes about valuable early Canadian postage stamps - illustrated; Love Letters in a Jar, by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Nice colour Campbell Soup ad; My Hate of Jig-Saw Puzzles, by Edgar March; Every Russian to Bear Arms - Women and Children are Being Trained to Take Part in Soviet's Next War; Article titled "Inventions Are Badly Needed"; Nice two-color full-page ad for the New Chevrolet Sixes; Article on how motion pictures have almost displaced theatre in North America; Australia Sells its Steamships - claims operation a failure; Canada Needs Air Museum; Lovely Prudential Insurance ad features girl on roller skates on sidewalk rolling, arms open, to her dad; Nice ad for the Northern Electric Gurney Range; Lovely ad promotes golfing at Jasper Park by taking Canadian National; Cereals - article by Helen G. Campbell; Investing in Bank Stocks; Fantastic two-colour full-page ad for General Motors Trucks features a dumptruck being loaded by a large clamshell bucket; Nice ad for Dominions Tires; Excellent back cover colour photo ad for Winchester cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
92 pages. Lovely A.J. Casson painting of a bustling winter street on front cover Features: Great vintage photo ad for the New International "Special Delivery" Truck; Cream of Wheat ad claims it keeps pupils more alert; When Men Kill for Whisky - Millionaire Carling Breweries Executive Sam Low of Walkerville, Ontario was kidnapped by Gangsters for a $35k ransom - great photo-illustrated article about rum-running between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit; Brummagen Love, by Thelma Rudge; What I Learned from Europe, by Ontario Premier G. Howard Ferguson; Ottawa-Vancouver in 32 Hours - The Stirring Story of Canada's First Transcontinental Air Mail Flight - with photos; The Mystery of Number Nine, by Leslie McFarlane - Part 1; Louis Letourneau, Leo Dandurand and Joe Cattarinich - a colorful description of the adventures and achievements of The Three Musketeers of Modern Sport; Canada's Pictorial War Records - Adequate Housing Required, by W.W. Murray; Lights in the Windows, by Lillian Beynon Thomas; Full-colour colour reproduction of painting "Canada's Answer" by Norman Wilkinson, R.I.; The Work Cure - Vetcraft has brought health, happiness and economic being to hundreds of veterans; By Especial Corespondent, by Geoffrey Hewelcke; The Devil Guards His Own, by Victor Lauriston; Amazing photo of Malahat Drive on Vancouver Island - not much more than a couple of ruts through the forest; Nice ad for the De Soto Six, by Chrysler; "New York Now Huge Negro City - Black Invasion of Harlem"; Art Deco-style ad for the New Frigidaire refrigerator; Science Teaching Weather Control - Man has made enormous progress in combat with nature; Fantastic colour full-page ad for Packard cars; Great colour full-page ad for Wahl-Eversharp Pens, Pencils, Desk Sets; Wonderful full-page ad for Erector Set toys; Color ad for Chipso Laundry Soap; *Magnificent* Colour Centerfold ad for Parker Duofold Pens, Pencils and Duettes; Great full-page colour ad for Westclox Clocks; Ad for Mueller Faucets of Sarnia, Ontario; "Let the Laundry Do It" - a two-colour ad encouraging readers to let laundries clean their clothes; Nice Hupmobile Ad for their Century Six and Eight; Colour photo ad for Kodak cameras; Lovely colour full-page ad for Moirs Chocolates; Article about collector Walter McRaye; Buses Hurt British Railways - with photo of their first auto Pullman which allows passengers to sleep on the bus; The Road to Perth - short history article by Donald McNicol; Ad for the T-N Toilet which promises to 'banish embarrassment' because it is quiet; Colour ad for Swift's Premium Hams and Bacon; Two-Colour full-page Christmas-themed ad for Eveready flashlights and batteries; Home-Made Christmas Gifts; Short write-up and photo of Elizabeth Styring Nutt; Rug Magic, by Mary Agnes Pease; Stewart Warner radio ad; Business Article - "Adventuring in Speculation is Highly Specialized Business"; Colour ad fo Sun-Maid Puffed seeded Muscat Raisins inside back cover. Average wear to textblock. Crossword completed on page 83 otherwise unmarked. Chips and openings along cover fold. Covers loose as one but present. Back cover in rough shape. Particularly wonderful content to go with the excellent front cover artwork. Book
170 pages. Black and white photos. "Author was assigned to the Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit during the Korean war. It was his responsibility to move huge vans and personnel to locations near the Front where there was some form of running water, so he could provide weary troops with the luxury of a shower and clean clothing. The process of locating these sites was in itself an adventure." - from back cover. Bookmark custom-made for this book and bearing author's hand-printed name is laid inside front cover. In his retirement, Mr. Ringma served as a highly popular Reform Party MP and Opposition Whip in the Canadian House of Commons. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
in-8 oblong, 128 pp (papier couche), tres nombreuses illustrations n/b et couleurs, cartonnage editeur illustre en couleurs. Excellent etat. [109B-2]
Hardcover; 1 volume grand in-4° 112 pages, nombreuses photos couleur et n&b, cartonnage, jaquette illustree. Legers accrocs a la jaquette sinon bel exemplaire [PIL-HA1@]
in-4° 198 pp, tres nombreuses illustrations n/b et couleurs, cartonnage editeur avec jaquette illustree. Excellent etat. [VU-5]
Cm. 24; pp. 64. Bella brossura illustrata colorata. Interessante catalogo della Ditta Bernardi, numerose illustrazioni nel testo che presentano i vari tipi di lavatrice sterilizzatrice automatica, di centrifughe, asciugatoi a legna e carbone ed a vapore. Illustrazioni di mangani per stirae, di macchine per stirare a liscio, per stirare colli, polsi e petti di camicia. Qualche piccolo difetto, buon esemplare. 308
Mm 300x405 Fascicolo in folio di pp. 8 con prima carta illustrate in bianco e nero, alcune illustrazioni in nero nel testo. Buono stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
La Martinière 2002, In-folio relié cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée. Non paginé. Très bon état
Book is in excellent condition: new, Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Full of large, full color photos of women in lingerie.
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Spring Toilettes - cover illustration; Ill-Regulated Temperament; Female Conversation; New York Fashions - summer bonnets, dinner and evening dresses, about dresses; Personal; Waist with square neck for girl from 14 to 16 years od; Medalions in application and satin stitch; silk and bead wall basket for dusters; Needle and Pin Case; Crochet edging for lingerie; Work-bag in Byzantine embroidery; Corners of borders in Byzantine embroidery; Netted Guipure edging for covers, curtains, etc.; Boy's Suspenders; Tapestry design for slippers, sachels, cushions, etc.; Spring Toilettes for children; Cashmere Shawls; My Private School; Sayings and Doings; Nice full-page illustration entitled "Fifth Avenue After Church" by C.G. Bush; Illustration "A Reception at the White House" by Henry J. Morgan; The Cryptogram - continued; Bridal Toilette - lovely illustration; Illustration - "Spring Flowers"; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
14 pages. Contents: Cover illustration of Ladies' and Children's Summer Dresses; Working, Trading and Cheating; New York Fashions - Lingerie, Under-Clothing; Persona; Eight wonderful illustrations of umbrellas; Crochet Garter illustration; Many great illustrations of cuffs and collars; Jewel Case with Pin Cushion; Six Fichu illustrations; Hannah (Continued); Great full-page illustration by Thomas Nast of a drunk father coming in the door, entitled "The First Drop Too Much"; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Pages 349 and 350 missing. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's toilettes; The Eye; Recovering from Illness; New York Fashions- wedding dresses, the trousseau, etiquette of weddings; Personal; The Scene-Painter's Wife; The Mapleton Mystery, by Annie Thomas; Embroidered clothes rack; Crochet fraises for children; watch and jewel case; cambric cravat ends; crochet cap crown, toilette cushion cover; Promenade Toilette; Insertions for Lingerie; Afghan customs; Paris fashions; Debenham's Vow - continued; Harry's Anti-Society - great large photo; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Cover illustration of an Apron-Polonaise Walking Suit.; The Jewel of Constistency, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions - The Apron Polonaise, Imported Suits, Spring Paletots; Personal; Tapestry Border for Chairs, Sofas, etc.; Neglige basket trimmed with ruches; Brioche with cloth and knitted cover; Netted Guipure Edging; Trimming for blouses, lingerie, etc.; Hannah (continued); Old Ladies' Flowers; Bizarre full-page illustration shows new bride and groom emerging from church... but bride is an elephant!; Illustration on page 201 has been removed; Familiy breakfasts and dinners - recipes; Sayings and Doings; Common Ugliness; Tricks of Countenance; April Showers - with illustration; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Lady's and Child's Dresses; Home-made carpets; Drying Flowers in the Sand; Siesta; Manners Upon the Road - of Safety-Valves; New York Fashions - wraps, the dolman, the sacque with cape, yak lace, house sacques, opera cloaks, the national dress trimming; Box for ironing utensils; Cover for Flat-Iron; Alphabet for marking Linen; Breakfast Caps - many nice illustrations; London's Heart; Service; Sayings and Doings; Fantastic centerfold consists of dozens of illustrations of shirts, caps, under-drawers, chemises, collars, etc.; At Rye - by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Paris Fashions; Niss Nilsson's Last Appearance - with illustration "Christine Nilsson's Last Night at Drury Lane Theatre, London"; Subsitute for Cream; Needle-work and tatted chemise yokes; buttons and button-holes for lingerie; needle-work, point lace, and crochet borders, rosettes, insertions, and edgings for lingerie; humor. Average wear. Clipping from cover page. Large clipping from page 619. Book
16 pages. Features: Marguerite polonaise walking suit; Pocket-Money; New York Fashions - the Marguerite Polonaise, coats and vests, mantelets, fall bonnets, round hats, Balmoral skirt; Personal; Crochet work-stand cover darned in point d'Esprit; Cover for quilt; Venetian embroidery and point lace insertion for lingerie; point lace edging for lingerie; crochet and tatted rosette; boots, gaiters, and slippers; glass eyes; Miss Phippeny's Heir; In a Club; Crochet lambrequin worked in point de reprise; ladies' and children's morning dresses; corner of border for covers, sofa cushions, etc. colored embroidery; ladies' and children's house and walking dresses; Chines Grotesqueness; Ladies' fall carriage and visiting dresses; Bert's Monogram; Paris Fashions; Full-page illustration "In a Club", by William B. Myers; large illustrations of ladies' fall carriage and visiting dresses; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Features: light gray poplin wrapper; Old Pensioners; Leaning on our petty vices; New York Fashions - under-clothing, sets of under-wear; Personal; chemise yoke and sleeves of jaconet tucks and insertion; trimmings for under-clothing; crochet edging for lingerie, etc.; tatted rosette for trimming under-clothing, lingerie, cravats, etc.; rosettes for trimming lingerie, or making fanchons or caps; Aunt Patty's Boy; Professions for Women; Excellent centerfold compilation of dozens of items of night-wear; The Magic Jar; Self-Reliance in Children; The Cryptogram - continued; Circumstantial Evidence; Illustration "Angels of Mercy" shows nurses tending to the ill; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Lady's Evening Dress; Manners Upon the Road - of stoves and fires; New York Fashions - double-breasted jacket and worth over-skirt, crinoline, silk suits and over-skirts, elegant black costumes, reception dresses, the Josephine coiffure, evening bonnets, opera cloaks, colored jabots, lingerie, fancy jewelry; Personal; crochet guipure edging for lingerie; Russia-leather chatelaine belts; tortoise-shell comb and hair-pins; knitted shawl worn as a hood; Been-Porridge Hot; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' Fall and Winter Suits; Paris Gossip; To the Bitter End - continued; English Gossip; Full-page illustration for the month of October; The Three Emperors at Berlin; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 705. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's fall dresses; ladies' fall and winter suits; A Future Style; Manners Upon the Road - of honesty and policy; New York Fashions - the princess polonaise, the double talma and apron-front suit, the dolman suit, the scarf mantle, velvets, passementerie ornaments, wool goods; Personal; Needle-work medallions for cravat ends; child's crochet caps; hem-stitching for lingerie; ladies' fall hats and bonnets; tatted and crochet edging and insertions; needle-work insertion and trimming for lingerie; Paris Gossip; Victoire's Faith; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' Fall and Winter Suits - nice full page illustration; Capture of a Shark in the Tropics; To the Bitter End - continued; Lady's Walking Dress; Prince Charles in Hiding - with nice illustration; Red; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Lady's wrapper - front and back; Bridget; New York Fashions - cashmere wraps, cloth wraps, velvet garments, house jackets, fur cloaks; Personal; Point Lace Collar; Tatted and Point Lace Rosette for Lingerie, children's caps, etc.; tatted rosette for lingerie, children's caps, etc.; tapestry foundations; braided barathea jacket; cashmere jacket; crape fichu; Toys as Teachers; Hannah - continued; Ladies' Winter Wrappings - full page of great illustrations; The later revelations of Pompeii; Trimmed Dresses; Paris Modes; Ricardo's Benefit; Mrs. Charles Moulton; Irish guipure collar; passementerie trimmings for winter wrappings; Clocks and Watches; humor. Average wear. Book
