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198527483New York: Ticknor and Fields 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. 414 pp collection of some of Wind's best essays on golf written for the New Yorker Magazine. Rear cover blurb by John Updike. A handsome near fine copy in dustwrapper. This copy has been graciously INSCRIBED by Wind "To the Gentlemen of the Garden City Golf Club" Wind is generally considered one of the greatest writers on the sport of golf in the 20th century. Ticknor and Fields hardcover books
1985210331985 Lithographie en couleurs signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche, (1985), 75 x 55 cm.
1920237981920 Encre noire signée en bas à droite du monogramme, (1920), 9 x 12,5 cm., sous Marie-Louise.
68 pages. Features: Cover illustration of lady golfer on blue background; Nice colour ad inside front cover for Chateau Cheeses; One-page Parker Pen ad mentions their "Full television ink supply'; "Nothing for Nothing and Very Little for Sixpence" - Rev. J. Richmond Craig; Canada's food manufacturing industries; The Honourable Amy (short story); Little Mother (short story); Robbers' Code (short story); Josef Stalin (part II) - photo-illustrated article on the cobbler's son who is mightier than all the Tsars; Mending Rifts in Home Sweet Home - Judge Hawley S. Mott and the Toronto Family Court; The Pied Piper of On-Track Gulch (short story); Only Let Me Live (short story); Senior Football and Sham Amateurs - football article with photos of "Brute" Strange, Gus Greco, and Coach Warren Stevens of the University of Toronto; Hollywood news includes photos of Sophie Tucker, Gracie Fields, Eddie Cantor, Christian Rube, and many more; Irene Dunne appears in Lux soap ad; Cooking article; Vintage Heinz ketchup one-page ad entitled "Not Only for beefeaters!"; Photo-illustrated fashion article; Sweet Caporals ad feature photo of racehorse "King Emperor", owned by Miss Diana Dawes of Montreal; World Sayings; Nice colour ads for Lifebuoy and Rinso inside back cover; Great colour ad for Westinghouse radios on back cover features illustration of old-time wood craftsman; and more. Average wear. Writing to bottom of front cover. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
72 pages. Features: Nice ballerina cover art by R. York Wilson; Colour ad for the Parker "51" pen inside front cover; One-page colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Army entitled V.I.P. shows young man in uniform walking on sidewalk; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1949 Monarch car shows a red two-door; Photos of the Sandler's Wells Ballet; One-page colour Waterman's Pen ad presents the Crusader, Stalwart and Dauntless; Excellent photo-illustrated article on the Women's Penitentiary in Kingston; The River (short story); Toronto the Terrible - photo-illustrated article by Hugh Garner; Daniel Boone and his trusty Five-Iron (golf short story); Can Les Lear and the Calgary Stampeders (football club) Make It? - photo-illustrated article; Ram's Way (short story about a cop); Simis - photo-illustrated article on the Service d'Information Montreal Information Service which answers questions about anything (permitted by law) by phone - with photos of Roger Nadeau - a fascinating predecessor to modern-day search engines; One-page Seagram ad features grain threshing scene with horse-drawn wagon; Morley Callaghan explains how to talk to high-brows; Massey-Harris one-page colour ad features tractor in rural European town; Elegant half-page colour-photo ad for Sovereign Potters presents their Montcalm Pattern, Number 718; Nice half-page Canadian Admiral Corp. ad presents their model 5V12 radio-phonograph; Article on Teen-agers in Hollywood includes photos of Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Evans, Terry Moore, Shirley Temple, Barbara Lawrence and Claudia Barrett; Article on the wonderful freedom in Canada, compared to post-war Europe; Uncommon half-page ad for Black Horse Brewery explains why rice is thrown at weddings; Colour one-page Calvert Distillers ad says "The Canadian Family Owes Much to... Ireland"; One-page photo ad for Northern Electric's Gainaday 200 washing machine; Half-page colour-photo ad for Canada Dry; One-page colour-photo Marboleum ad shows nostalgic 1949 kitchen design; One-page colour-photo ad for Singer Sewing Centers; One-page colour-photo ad for Northumbria Sterling Silver cutlery; Back to school fashion photos; Nice half-page colour ad for Aylmer canned peaches; Half-page colour ad for Heinz Vinegars; Article on table manners for children; Half-page colour-photo Baker's Coconut ad; One-page colour-photo ad for Burns Corned Beef Hash, Wieners and Beans, and Chili Con Carne; Recipes for preserves; World Sayings; Colour ad inside back cover for Wabasso Cottons shows lady making bed; Back cover colour ad for O'Keefe's features lovely illustration by Rex Woods of penny bazaar scene with boy buying muffin; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A nice copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
32 pages. Features: Amazing cover photos of young lady with massive 2,700lb tire for the Douglas B-19 super-bomber; Photo-portrait of recently deceased General John Metaxas, Prime Minister of Greece; One-page photo of Marshal Petain being received on-board the battleship 'Strasbourg' by Admiral Darlan; Two-page contour map of Malta - Germany's target of attack by dive-bombers; Twelve photos of the beauties of Malta, the key to the Mediterranean - which has endured over 200 raids; Photos of personalities of the week include: Canadian Premiers in conference, B.P. Haugh, Sir W. Llewellyn, Wendell Willkie with the Chinese Ambassador to Britain, Cardinal Hinsley with Wendell Willkie, Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha, Walter Elliot, M.P., Baron Somers, and the King and Queen at a parade by the Polish squadron; Four excellent photos show how British warships conduct a convoy in the narrow waters of the Mediterranean; Three aerial photos of armoured divisions advancing for the final assault on Bardia; Seven photos of the deserted Libyan stronghold of Bardia; Twelve photos of British Army excercises; Photos in Eritrea and Murzuk; Five photos of Holland's Royal Marines in the Dutch East Indies; Photo of large crowd welcoming Wendell Willkie to Birmingham; Photo of Willkie in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral; Photos of A.T.C. recruits in training; Four photos of Caterpillar 'bulldozer' - a mechanical elephant - moving dirt and bomb wreckage; Four photos of A.T.S. women drivers of 30-cwt. lorries; Two pages of astonishing ultra high-speed X-ray photos show bullets in flight, golf club hitting ball, bullet passing through board, etc.; Two photos of fire damage at Dublin Castle; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this important wartime issue. Book
12 pages approximately 8" x 8" folded in half to make effectively 24 pages measuring approx. 8" x 4". Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white photos. Proposes fourteen days of activities/destinations for tourists to the Vancouver area. These include: Stanley Park and Marine Drive, English Bay Beach, Indian River Park, Grouse Mountain Resort, Grand Canyon Park and Capilano Canyon, B.C. Electric Observation Car and Crystal Pool, Bowen Island, Union Steamship Northern Trip, New Westminster and Cheakamus Canyon, Horseshoe Bay and the C.N.R. Triangle Tour, Vancouver Golf Courses, Hollyburn Ridge, West Vancouver, Squamish and Howe Sound, Lynn Canyon, Harrison Hot Springs, The Cariboo Road, and Vancouver Island Includes a great 3-panel aerial illustration of the lower mainland by H.E. White, looking inland from the southwest (there was no YVR in those days). Moderate wear. Unmarked. A high-quality example of this magnificent early Vancouver tourism booklet, undoubtedly highlighted by the colour illustration of a young lady in period swimwear on the beach at English Bay. Absolute magic! Book
72 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of boy celebrating summer vacation; Sisman's Scampers shoe ad inside front cover; Editorials deal with these topics - Partial Relief, A Doctor, Not a Nurse, Maintaining the Tradition, The Cooperatives, Farewell Toscanini, and Not Conquest but Murder; Trollop (short story); This Peace (short story); A Modern Odyssey - photo-illustrated article by Edgar N. Brown describes sea travel; Rough 'Un (short story); The Black Ace (short story); The Smooth Silence (short story); The Dilemma of Debt; Scotland Yard Versus Crime - photo-illustrated article on the system employed by this world famous organization to track down criminals, law breakers and lesser offenders; Golf Duds & Meteors - photo-illustrated golf article with photos of Charles A. Whitcome, Albert "Scotty" Campbell, Lex Robson, Tony Manero, Willie Lamb, and Tommy Armour; It's In the Bag - interesting article on the history of purses; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features Banff; Palmolive ad features photo of Montreal stylist and designer Doris Preston; Nostalgic half-page ad for McClary Stoves; Vintage half-page photo ad for Eddy's Sterilized White Swan toilet paper shows fellow in bathing suit at the beach; Movie news with photos of Clark Gable, Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino, William Powell, Jean Chadburn, Alison Skipworth, Warren William, Conrad Veidt, Renee Ray, and more; Lux soap ad features photo of Joan Bennett; Photo of Dick Powell in Quaker Puffed Wheat ad; Pond's ad features photos of Miss Barbara Hebbard and Lady Daphne Straight; Unusual half-page ad for Blue-Jay Corn Plaster, by Bauer & Black Scientific; Nice half-page Canadian Pacific photo-ad features the Empress of Britain; Business News includes mention of the recent Alberta default; Cooking article; Lovely one-page colour Kraft ad features their cheese products; Nice one-page Heinz ad features their vinegar and Olive Oil; Vintage half-page Rice Krispies ad; Beauty article; Why Baby Cries; One-page Carnation Milk ad features five large photos of each of the individual Dionne Quints; World Sayings; Colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy and Rinso; Rare colour back cover ad for Red Indian oil and Marathon Blue gasoline features illustration of native elders in feathered headgear, painted by Winold Reiss; and more. Covers loose but present. Average wear and soiling. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
72 pages. Features: Lovely cover illustration of young lady painting chair; Colour ad for the Parker '51' pen inside front cover; Colour Ritz Cracker ad; Three Problems of the Month - India, Russia, Spain (with photo of Field Marshal Lord Harold Alexander and his family at "The Vale" in Windsor Forest; One-page ad for the Trans-Canada Telephone System shows men from nine provinces; Colour Canada Dry ad features golf scene; Blue Top Brewing colour ad features "Gracious Home"; Nice one-page photo-ad for Canadian National features Jasper, Alberta; Greece - The Problem Child of Europe - photo-illustrated article; Kona Storm (fiction); Meet the "Met" - photo-illustrated article on the Metropolitan Opera Company; Through the Hawse-Pipe (fiction); Just One Chance (fiction); Yousuf Karsh in Wonderland - photo-illustrated article on portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh; Beware Spring Showers! (fiction); Ottawa Roundup; Nice one-page Champion Spark Plug ad features illustration of what may be a red International "H"-style tractor tying sheavves on family farm; Colour ad for Quink ink and Glo-Coat Wax (featuring Fibber McGee and Molly); Beautiful colour centrefold ad for the Ford Monarch features a red four-door Monarch; Woodbury Soap ad features lovely photos of Anne (Nanine) Newton Goode and William Geoffrey Preston; Great one-page vintage photo ad for Singer sewing machines features electric and treadle-powered models; One-page article by the Department of Trade and Commerce says "1/3 of your dollar' comes from the export business; Nice colour Swift's premium bacon ad features dad and daughter; Lux soap ad features beautiful colour photo of Lana Turner; One-page colour ad for Marboleum Floors; Sports Clothes for Ladies; Tangee ad features illustration of Mrs. Robert Montgomery; Woodbury Powder ad features beautiful colour illustration of Lana Turner; Nice one-page colour Cutex ad features mysterious lady behind veil; Arrid ad features photo of Carol Bruce; Beautiful one-page colour-illustrated ad for Gothic/Cordex bras/brassieres; Colour Maxwell House ad features Persians; Charming colour Wabasso Cottons ad inside back cover features mom, daughter and cats; Colour Old Dutch cleanser ad on back cover shows housewife scrambling to clean bathroom as guests arrive; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
64 pages. Features: Circus cover illustration; Interesting one-page photo ad says "You Can Play 9 Holes of Golf on 3 Slices of Bread", includes image of woman putting from on top of three slices of bread; Nice one-page ad for Frigidaire fridges; Only Let Me Live (short story); The Romance of Albania's Soldier-King and his strange little Balkan State - photo-illustrated article on King Zog; Call of the Hell Cats (short story); Safety First (short story); The Organist (short story); Dust over Canada - interesting article on million of dollars are spent to fight soot, dust and dirt; The Judges Robbed Me! - photo-illustrated article on how ultra high speed movie cameras are used to decide the winners of horse races; Cornishman's Chance (short story); Canada's Place in Cricket - article with photo of the Canadian cricket team in Britain last year; Palmolive ad features images of the Dionne Quints; Richard Hudnut cosmetics ad features photos of Canadian radio stars Billie Bell, Jean Haig and Kathleen Kidd; Colgate ad features illustraion of the Dionne Quints; Movie news with photos of Paul Muni, Charles Winninger, Mirian Hopkins, Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Flora Robson, Laurence Olivier, and others; Half-page Quaker Puffed Wheat ad features four adorable photos of Shirley Temple on Vacation; Business News; Quarter-page ad for the 1937 C.N.E.; Nice two-page Oldsmobile ad shows a green Oldsmobile Six Coach with Trunk; Sweet Caporal ad features photo of daschunds "Wanda" and "Otto" owned by Mrs. Herbert Yuile of Westmount, Quebec; When the Sun Runs a Temperature - beauty article; Vintage one-page Heinz ad entitled "In the best regulated families" shows mother and kids with cans of soup; Cooking article; World Sayings; Colour Lifebuoy and Rinso ads inside back cover; Nice colour-photo back cover ad for Maxwell House Coffee features dancer Paul Haakon, tennis star Carolyn Roberts, accordion player Charles Wright, and Mrs. John Carver; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy copy of this vintage issue. Book
70 pages. Features: Color Texaco ad inside front cover; Oakland 8 and Pontiac 6 ad on page 1; Classy color full-page ad for Maxwell House coffee; Mr. Peters makes his Train (short story); Where do we go from here? - an article about veterans and the nation's finances; Beginner's Luck - a short story about golf; What a Pal! (short story); A Way with the Women (short story); Yuan Hee See Laughs - continuation of short story by Sax Rohmer; Ridin' on Rubber - article and great photos of various types of transportation by bus and jitney - very nostalgic!; Gunsight Trail (short story); Through Russia Without a Guide - Lindsay Hoben recounts his 14,00 mile trip through the U.S.S.R. without a guide or supervision; Gorgeous full-page color ad for Life Savers candy; nice color full-page ad for the new Chevrolet six; Babies are Conservative (!) - practical advice for babycare by a lady doctor; April Prowess - predicting who will win the World Series; Nice Oldsmobile ad; The Sleeptalker (short story); Classy full-page ad for Hammond electric clocks; Smooching photo in Pepsodent antiseptic mouth wash ad; Spur Bow bowtie ad; Clicquot Club ginger ale full-page ad; B&O (Baltimore and Ohio) Railroad full-page ad; Bostonians shoe ad; Elgin watch ad; Nice 2-color Pebeco toothpaste ad; nice full-page color Arrow Shirts ad; Iver Johnson bicycle ad; Nice full-page color ad for Waterman's pens; Dixies drinking glass ad inside back cover; Nice Camel cigarette ad on back cover show's man lighting up with a candleabra. Above-average but not excessive external wear and soiling. Covers detached but present. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of lady on red background; Nice colour-photo ad for Swift's Premium bacon inside front cover; Brief news items include The Ledger of Life, A Good Resolution, The Glow of True Happiness, We are Mostly All Strangers, and Improved Seeing and Knowing; Nice one-page ad for two new Ford V-8 cars for 1938, the Standard Ford V-8 Tudor and the De Luxe Ford V-8 Fordor; Editorials touch on - The Farmer and the Income Tax, Fascist Influence in the New World, Sources of Wealth, and World Trade; Attractively illustrated one-page McLaughlin Buick ad features a blue Series 46-19, Five-Passenger Sedan with Trunk; London's Famous Underground - photo-illustrated article; The Batley Inheritance (short story); Liberal Reward (short story); The Vagabonds (short story); Junior G-Men - photo-illustrated article on Vancouver Police Constable Ronald Eveleigh and his initiative to reduce juvenile delinquency; Strange Achievement - Charles E. Jones is founder of the world bird sanctuary at Collingwood East, a suburb of Vancouver, B.C.; The Murder on the Links (part III/3 of this Agatha Christie story); Mystery Man of Golf - Laverne Moore, alias Johnny Montague - article with photos; Sweet Caporals ad features photo of dog 'Rathlin Roundalay', owned by Miss Katherine Savage of Montreal West, Quebec; Hollywood news with photos of Andrea Leeds, Nita NAldi, Lily Pons, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Douglass Montgomery, Jean Parker, and more; Photo of Alice Faye in Woodbury Cold Cream ad; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Old Scottie comic; Article on Curling; Beauty article; Cooking article; Recipes; How to make a dinner mat; World Sayings; Nice colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy (lady in tub), and Rinso (lady on cliff); Canadian fish ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
68 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration blonde beauty clutching her list of suitors; Lovely one-page colour-photo ad for McLaughlin-Buick features green car and flower saleslady; News digest includes 'President Roosevelt intervenes', 'The Washington Proposal', The 'Halt-Hitler' movement; 'Parallel Perfidies', and 'Albania and Poland'; If I Die Before I Wake (part I); Thank-you Too Much (short story); Wings Over Britain - photo-illustrated article on the balloon barrages and fighter squadrons defending against hostile bombers; The Sweet Shot (short story); Behind the Goose Step - photo-illustrated article examines whether the people of Italy and Germany desire war or peace; Not in Our Stars (short story); Golf article includes photo of Henry Cotton, Sam Snead, Mrs. P.J. Mulqueen, Canadian Ladies' Open Champion, and Ralph Guldahl; One-page Palmolive soap ad includes photo inset of Dorothy Phelan of 24 Prince Arthur St., St. Lambert, Quebec; Automotive Industries of Canada-sponsored one-page feature on the province of Manitoba, with map and text; Cecille Has a Birthday (short story); Personal finance article; Movie News - with photos of Jeffrey Lynn, Paul Lucas, Victory Jory, Shirley Temple, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexander Hall, Zazu Pitts, and George Raft; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad for the Banff Springs Hotel; Woodbury soap ad features photo of Miss Gloria Armstrong of New York; Fashion illustrations; Vintage Craven "A" cigarette ad includes small photo of couple smoking up; Classy one-page colour ad for Crane kitchen and bath plumbing fixtures; Interesting Hair-Dos - article with photos; Pond's ad includes photos of The Lady Rosemary Gresham, Mrs. Robert Armstrong, of Toronto, and The Hon. Ann Shaughnessy; Photo of The Lady Patricia French in skin-vitamin ad; Article on the health impact of sugar; Nice half-page colour ad for Sisman's Scampers shoes; Canaries (half-page article); Cooking article with Bridge Luncheon suggestions; Frigidaire one-page fridge ad; Weed control in lawns; Quotes from around the world; Very nice colour back cover Coke ad features young man with tie blowing in breeze, and inset photo of Coke machine at gas station; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
82 pages. Articles: The Kids Get a Night Club - Rochester's teenagers solve their entertainment problem; The A-Bomb's Invisible Offspring - the menace of radioactivity from atomic blasts - article with scary photos; The Balkan Follies - how Americans are browbeaten in Moscowized southeast Europe (Yugoslavia); Little Man on a Horse - sketches of backstage life of the big-time jockeys; I Stopped Stammering - how he was cured - Dr. Richard R. Hutcheson and the district speech clinic in Washington, D.C.; They Kicked Us Off Our Land (conclusion) - the misuse of public grazing lands. Includes ads for: Duraglas bottles; Ipana toothpaste - featuring Bryan Cornell and his mother; General Electric entertainment products (in colour); Admiral FM-AM phonograph with miracle tone arm; U.S. Royal tires; International Harvester products - trucks, dozers, tractors and appliances; Ford woody wagons; Borden - featuring Elsie the Cow; Colgate tooth paste; Lucky Stricke cigarettes; Ballantine Ale - featuring Victorian bathing suits; Good Year - centerfold; Kingsey gin; GM Electro-Motive Division; Veedol motor oil; "The Long Night" movie starring Henry Fonda; Schlitz beer; Polaroid sportglas - modelled by Bill Stern and Margaret Young; Acushnet golf balls; Back cover Chesterfield cigarette ad features large color image of actor Charles Boyer. A worthy vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Whitman's prestige chocolates inside front cover; Essex car ad; Mimeograph ad; Business is Business (short story); What's the Racket? - interesting article about rackets - what they are and how they work; Moonlight on the Water (short story); Beyond the War (a war short story); Position in Life - how a woman chooses her position in life; In the Strongroom (short story); A Ship Comes In - the dramatic story of Eugenie Leontovich, principal actress in Grand Hotel; - article with photo; Yuan Hee See Laughs (part VII); Gunsight Trail (part VI); Golf "Coarse" - how to make a smaller crop of divets; How Dry We Are - what is known about droughts and what measures for relief have been attempted i.e. photo of electrically-charged sand being discharged into the air; A Mere Detail (short story); Beautiful color full-page photo of a green car in Fisher Body ad; Wonderful two-page color ad for Dutch Boy paint shows Dutch Boy painting atop ladder; Full-page color ad for bananas by the United Fruit Company; Full-page Buick ad; Canada Dry full-page ad; Fleischmann's Yeast ad featuring Dr. Emil Fronz of Vienna; Two-page colour centerfold ad for General Electric refrigerators - very nostalgic!; Full-page ad for Chrysler Eights & Sixes; Nice two-color full-page ad for Williams shaving cream/Aqua Velva; Color ad for Seald-Sweet grapefruit; Two-page ad for Veedol oil - "so clear you can read a newspaper through it"; Full-page ad with photo for the Autogiro - an early helicopter!; Ad for True Temper step-down steel shafts for golf clubs with photo of the 6th Tee at Pebble Beach; Vintage ad for Wilson golf equipment inside back cover; Nice color Ford ad inside back cover shows policeman in car; Nice color Frigidaire refrigerator ad on back cover (soiled). Average external wear and soiling with a few peripheral chips/openings. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Nice Ford ad inside front cover features colour illustration of an old-time barn raising; Man From Missouri - A vivid close-up of Harry S. Truman, the onetime plowboy who was pitchforked into the White House; Here's a Fine Stymie! - humorous article about golf and the impact upon it by WWII; To Chuck - With Love (short story); "They're Full of Love and Mozart" - Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro tours Eisenhower's Germany; Sissy Fish? No Sir! - Charley Hartman and his Ontario Government Trout Rearing Station (fish hatchery) at Cold Water Creek take care of almost 3 million trout (with photos); 25,000 Miles to Battle - Lieut. Stuart Keate, an officer of Canada's new cruiser, the H.M.C.S. Uganda, describes why war in the Pacific is different than War in the Atlantic; Well, Good Night (short story); Charles H. Scott, Director of the Vancouver School of Art, chastises Vancouver's art patrons of not supporting Canadian artists; Stage set for an election in England; Ottawa political report; On the Corner in the Sun (short story); What About Russia? - Will the men of the Kremlin enter the family of nations or erect a Russian Great Wall?; Music By Adaskins, Canada's most musical family - Murray, Naomi, Yanova, Frances Marr, John, Frances James and Harry; Three-Way X-Ray - LeRoy J. Leishman, a Los Angeles inventor, solves the problem of bringing depth perception to the fluoroscope with his stereofluoroscope; Nice colour half-page Orange Crush ad shows girl with dog; Additional ads for Canada Dry, Kotex, Palmolive soap, Castoria, Lysol, Absorbine Jr., Vaseline hair tonic, and many more; One-page ad for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board encourages readers to use sugar sparingly; Back cover Coke ad features colour painting of a happy scene in Brussels where Canadian troops imbibe with friendly locals. 50 pages. Unmarked with average wear. Faint discoloration to back cover. Please note: missing first page. Last page loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage issue from the tail end of WWII, printed mere days before Truman, featured in this issue, authorized atomic bombs to fall upon Japan. Book
48 pages. Features: The Mafia in Canada - article with many mugshots of famous mobsters; McKenzie Porter looks at Golf; How Alvin Hamilton Keep the Prairies in his Pocket; Portrait of a Doctor whose specialty is people - Dr. Dave Lander of Turner Valley, Alberta; Armament and Disarmament in Central America - special report from the explosive half of our hemisphere; How to work your children's way through college; Michael Wade describes his visits with the women of the Seven Seas; Sculptors Gerald Gladstone, Walter Yarwood, Armand Vaillancourt, Yosef Drenters, Eli Bornstein; Vintage black and white Honda motorcycle ad - a row of motorcycles serve as a badminton net at a campsite. Small contest clipping from bottom corner of page 41. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
180 pages. Features: Look Great, Feel Fit, Have Fun; Good Looks - in and out of fashion; Great this Summer - crisscross sun-backs, covered heads, white-bright whites, the new mix of batiks, separates at night; Look Sharp - the swing of stripes and plaids on the golf course, layers of separates, shirtdressing, the blue-jeans suit; Gala wedding in Spain - The marriage of Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu y Franco and Don Alfonso de Bourbon y Dampierre; Balenciago 1895-1972; Veruschka - the most beautiful woman in the world, by Richard Avedon; Beach Report - the new sund-dressing; Ruffles of a summer night - worn by Michelle Gilliam; All Summer in Town - the best-looing clothes you can wear; Olympic Summer - what to wear for the fun and games in Munich; Swimming Shape-up; Fitness routine with a Chinese slant; Who Wears what perfume - the fragrantly famous tell about smell; Beach Report - beauty tips for the new sun-dressing - what to do about your hair; your makeup - how to save your skin; Munich - the fun of it during the Olympics '72; Olympic trainers tell how to get in shape and stay that way for life; Ten-day diet to high energy, by Melva Weber; People are Talking About - Marlon Brando; How Auguste Rodin liberated women in art; Chanel - what she knew that you should know; What to know about the Munich Olympics '72; Italian lessons in living; Gae Aulenti Designs for Emilio Pucci; Horoscope for Audrey Hepburn; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Quink ink ad inside front cover; Seagram ad shows man of the future listening to self-reading book (like a computer disk of the future); Repair work on a shattered world; photo of camp of Manitoba Indian muskrat trapper Lewis Head; Nice colour ads for Maxwell House coffee and Waterman's Taperite pens; Sombre one-page two-colour ad by the National War Finance Committee shows the burial at sea of an 18-year-old ordinary seaman, on board H.M.C.S. Assiniboine, killed by U-boat fire; Why Germany's V-Weapons Failed - fascinating photo-illustrated article; "Per Andrea" (short story); Wilderness Suburb - photo-illustrated article on Ocean Falls, B.C.; The High Side (short story); Golf Swings to the Left - photo-illustrated article on Byron Nelson, with photo of him putting out on the 18th green at Thornhill, Ontario where he won the Canadian Open (also included is a photo of B.C. golfer Stan Leonard); Tiny Fingers (short story); So the Captain Stopped Smiling (short story); Man of the Month - Jackson Dodds, C.B.E.; Vintage one-page C-I-L ad illustrates the range of their products; Half-page Champion Spark Plug ad promotes Victory Bonds with illustration of Pan American Flying Clipper; Fascinating one-page two-colour ad entitled "Miracles of Make-Do" by Canada's Wartime Prices and Trade Board encourages Canadian women to conserve textiles (#2 in a series of ads); Jergens Lotion ad features photo of Elyse Knox; Half-page ad for Blachford Shoes of Toronto; Woodbury Soap ad features newlywed photos of Ann Elizabeth Bowman of Montreal and her RCAF husband Hugh Basil Heath; Glo-Coat floor polish ad features Molly McGee; Is it Measles? - health article for juniors; Mexico's Public Enemy - illiteracy; Rolex ad; Advances in Science; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1946 Ford Super Deluxe (red); Fashion illustrations; One-page photo-illustrated Singer sewing machine ad; Colourful Chase & Sanborn ad features Charlie McCarthy comic; Colour Frigidaire fridge ad shows birthday party scene; Colour Shredded Wheat ad shows boy in old-style football helmet; Photo of Jean Parker in Arrid ad; Portrait of Mrs. Randolph Scott in Tangee ad; Nice colour half-page ad for Clark's cream of mushroom soup shows chef; One-page illustrated ad for Helena Rubinstein White Flame perfume; Lovely colour illustration of Ava Gardner in Woodbury Powder ad; World Sayings; Fantastic colour-illustrated Canadian Pacific ad inside back cover celebrates their sixty years of progress; Back cover colour-photo ad for Jordan grape juice features lady at harvest; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy. Book
136 pages. Features: Nice color photo Lord & Taylor ad; Cuba - Profile of a Revolution - the old order has been swept away forever - many photos; Lament for the Rocking Chair; The Bantu Listens to a Louder Drum - the South African Negro call to freedom frightens the ruling whites; America's 500,000 Migrant Farm Workers; 'Marxist Mandarin' on Another Sales Trip - China's Premier Chou En-lai Revisits his South Asian Neighbors; Long-Run Plays - The Top Ten; photos of ice-breaking in the Great Lakes; Photos of interesting Senatorial Doors; Nice color photo ad for B. Altman & Co.; Photos of excavation in New York City; Peter M. Dawkins compares the attitudes toward collegiate sports in the United States and Great Britain - he was captain of the West Point Football Team and a unanimous All-America choice at halfback; 'April in Paris' for New York - Joseph Wechsberg is excited at the prospect of bringing Gallic imports to NYC; First Night Party for "Bye Bye Birdie" sponsored by L. Slade Brown; Let the Native Indian Be the Hero, by Stanley Walker; Rudolph Valentino was born 65 years ago - 5 nice photos; Restless Ports for the City's Food - Washington and Fulton Markets are colorful, obsolete, and about to be moved - article with photos; Golf Fever in Japan; Cut Out for Leisure - sexy photos by Gleb Derujinsky; Color photo ad for Knickerbocker Beer; Nice color Pepsi ad "The Sociables Prefer Pepsi"; About Polygamy - a fading practice in Africa; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Some yellowing with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
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135174aafParis, Chez Didot, 1747, in-8vo, XII + 532 p. Avec 6 vues et 5 cartes dépl., reliure en veau de l’époque, dos à cinq nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches rouges, bel exemplaire.
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original decorative cloth, covers very lightly age-worn at extremities else a very good, firm copy. First appearance in book form of a series of newspaper articles written under the pseudonym 'Tee Shots'. Scarce
2000129397Sleeping Bear Press 2000. First Edition 1st printing . Leatherbound. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 189pp. Black textured covers with title in gold lettering; with photo of Alister MacKenzie on front cover. Illustrated with black & white period photos by Julian Graham the official photographer at Pebble Beach from 1922 to 1962. Cypress Point golf links site plan details on end papers. 1st Printing with complete number line. Pages are clean unmarked but lightly age-toned. Binding is tight and secure with a straight spine. Rear board is lightly scuffed. Light rubbing to extremities. Nice copy overall. <br/> <br/> Sleeping Bear Press hardcover
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.
