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8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in full navy morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small institutional press-mark on Foreword. The second part of Monsarrat's well-known 'Corvette' trilogy, published simultaneously with the UK edition. Taken in sequence the trilogy provides a near-continuous record of Monsarrat's early wartime service; furthermore they contain much of the inspiration and context, and in several cases actual incidents, which reappear in his masterpiece 'The Cruel Sea'.
194 pages. Features: Jimmy Hibbard's War; The Last Corvette; Maintenance of the Sea Kings; A Typical CP-140 Aurora Mission; Fast Dive with OJIBWA; Esquimalt Base Development; and dozens more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
Folio, 128p., illus. 34 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
114 pages. Features: Gorgeous two-page colour photo ad for Pontiac cars; Nice colour photo ad for 1968 Polaris snowmobiles; Bruce Hutchison's Unknown in Canada; How Laurier Lapierre Stays Famous; Can the Lapierre Generation Make the NDP Win?; Relic Steam-Age Tractors are now the pride of collectors - article with great colour illustration and photos; Clare Graves - the U.S. College Professor and his theory which explains why China is belligerent, why hippies act so cool, and why you're not getting along with your boss or your mate; Fur fashion article with great black and white photos; A Priest and a Psychiatrist reveal how they explore and cope with agonizing depression, self-doubt and disappointment - their own and that of the people they are trying to help; Recipes for Ontario's fall festivals - fruit, game and cheese; Nostalgic black and white photo ad for Sony's portable 7" TVs; Does it Pay to Go Bandrupt?; Great two-page colour photo ad for four models of the Ford Torino; The Salmon are back in the Great Lakes! - transplanted Kokanee; There's a New Way to Have A Baby - Psychoprophylaxia; Nice two-page photo ad for Ontario Hydro shows the Pickering Nuclear Generation Station and the Mountain Chute dam under construction, plus a crew loading collant assemblies into the reactor at Douglas Point; Nice full-page photo ad for CKEY/590 features traffic man Bob Carter; Nice colour-photo half-page ad for Ski-Doo; Nice 3/4 page colour photo ad for International small trucks/Travelall; Half-page beautiful colour photo ad for the Chrysler 300 2-door hardtop; Nice two-page colour Chevrolet ad featuring the Camaro, Corvette, Chevy II Nova, Chevelle, and Chevrolet; Beautiful two-page colour photo GM ad features the Cutlass "S" Holiday Coupe, Cutlass Supreme Town Sedan, Delta Custom Holiday Coupe and the Ninety-Eight Luxury Sedan; Colour photo Coke ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
120 pages. Short Stories: Doomsday and Mr. Lincoln; Forbidden Zone; The Imaginary Heir; Marry the Boss' Daughter. Articles: Bright Young Boss of Princeton - Bob Goheen; Adventures of the Mind - 25 - How War began; Color-photo feature on the North Atlantic island of St. Pierre; Hectic Home of the Los Angeles (L.A.) Dodgers - Los Angeles Coliseum; Medicine's Legal Nightmare, Part 2, Doctors in Court; Making a Man Out of Charlie - great photo-illustrated article on 10-year-old Prince Charles; D Day, conclusion, Beachhead Established. Serials: The Dark Road (part 2 of 6); Comanche Captives (part 6 of 7). Ads: GE and Philco fridges; Bufferin; GE Appliances; Northern tissue; Lark Play Wagon (baby blue) by Studebaker; NAPA parts; Coffeematic by Universal; Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup; Pontiac (orange); Betty Crocker / Sunkist "Mystery Lemon Pie Contest"; Western Auto; Arrow Shirts; Ford Cars - featuring a blue Country Sedan station wagon in fishing/camping scene; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Ravioli; Benny Goodman is prominently featured in a Texaco ad; Centerfold Texaco color-photo ad; Karo Syrup; Band-Aid; Packard Bell TVs; Gulf - super color night photo of Corvette (?) filling up; Admiral fridges; Foremost 'Big Dip' Ice Milk; Canada Tourism; Cushman 780 Truckster; Hammond organs; Betty Crocker Devils Food Cake ad on back cover; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
411 pages including extensive notes, index and black and white photographic plates. Describes the life of a navy, going back to its roots in the nineteenth century and looking ahead to its prospects in the twenty-first. The Royal Canadian Navy is portrayed as a resilient institution, often starved for resources, capable of basic change, and on the brink of important new developments. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Very light wear overall. Dust jacket in clear protective cover. Excellent copy. Book
Pages 281-308. Features: Cover photo of General Sir Harold Alexander and Lieut.-General Bernard Montgomery - the two British military chiefs opposing Rommel; Air photo of U.S. bombers chasing German planes off the Martuba Airfield; Photos of minesweeping in the desert; Six interesting photos from the Russian Front - as seen through German eyes; Seven photos of the aftermath of the doomed Dieppe raid, including German medics tending to wounded British and Canadian troops; Photos from the front in the Desert War; Centrefold illustration of corvette pursuing a U-boat; Thirteen photos from the Solomon Isles (Islands) which U.S. Marines have re-taken in ferocious hand-to-hand combat; Photo of the world's mightiest battleship, "Iowa", slipping into the sea; Crowds in Rio cheer outside U.S. Embassy; Six Swedish Editors visit England; Five photos of Britain's national Day of Prayer on third war anniversary; Article on Penicillin; Page of explanatory drawings of the British Six-Pounder gun; Centrefold illustration of laying cable at high speed to establish communication lines during an advance; The Fog of War (article); Photos of U.S. Troops lunching with the Lord Mayor in war-scarred Guildhall; Seventeen sombre illustrations describe how Europe fights on with violence and sabotage, despite Nazi brutality; Photo of five famous Turkish journalists visiting England; Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
111 pages. Many photos in colour and black and white. Topics include: Preparation - Cost analysis and sequence plan; Disassembly - documentation, staging, body disassembly, body pull, chassis disassembly, engine disassembly; Research and Restoration - body, interior, chassis, engine; Assembly; The Presenation; The Art of Fiberglass Repair. Average wear to unmarked book. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy. Book
