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64 pages. A wonderful memento for Toronto Maple Leafs fans! Features: Front cover colour photo shows Leaf bench with George Armstrong, Frank Mahovlich and Eddie Shack; Colour photo ad for the Ford Country Squire Station Wagon inside front cover; Maclean's Reports - How one obscure report inflamed both sides of the Fluoride debate all over again; Editorial on Hypocrisy in the Criminal Code - "preventing conception" is an offense; The Maple Leaf Money Machine - a report on how they play and pay, by Peter Gzowski - fantastic two-page-wide black and white candid photo of the team spread out along the boards, complete with their names and positions - the following pages feature a similar two-page-wide black and white photo of the players spread out along the boards in their street clothes, complete with their names and second job, perhaps the most interesting of which is Myles G. (Tim) Horton, "Restaurateur" - little did he know how big his name would become with the eventual growth of his donut business; The Birth-Control Explosion; Portrait of Toronto's Little Italy - its citizens are 160,000 Italian Canadians; The Intimate Record of Sigismund Zippel's Open Heart Operation - artificial leaves in his main heart valve; Report from Africa's unreported war - in Portuguese Angola -Holden Roberto's rebels attack from the Congo; The Taping of Hamlet, starring Christopher Plummer and Elsinore; Colour illustrated Chevrolet centrefold ad; Colour photo full-page ad for TCA, Trans-Canada Air Lines/Air Canada; Cool all-red full-page photo ad for the 1964 Buick Special - with three models shown; Sidney Katz makes the case for a sane look at drivers who drink. Contents gently tanned with age. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Magazine
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Port Alberni operator's help save infant's life (photo); Abbotsford and Mission 'cut' to automatic - 8 pages of photos and text; Photo of laying cable between Mission and Abbotsford; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Script of two successive broadcasts by Dorwin Baird of radio station CJOR re: proposed telephone rate increases; Telephone growth sets all-time record in 1952; Interim rate increase authorized; Nice photo of North Vancouver automatic telephone being installed in preparation for cut-over; Photos of cable-laying near Lion's Gate Bridge; new buildings for Albion, Belmont and Colquitz; Company earns dividends but has surplus shortage; Mr. W.S. Pipes; Gerald Clarke - Memoriam with photo; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Photos of expansion of Vancouver Island; Doug Beckett, 19, - Big League Baseball Prospect - photo; New International Radiotelephone Link; The Telephone in our Air Defense Picture - article; farewell to Miss H.L. Montgomery; dramatic photos of conduit installation under and on Lion's Gate Bridge; Photos of Port Coquitlam progress; Cloverdale's automatic program; R.S. Argue is new traffic manager; John Dickson Johnston in memoriam, with photo; Fred Buckle winds up record career; great Cloverdale office photos; Expansion photos from Kamloops, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley; A.J. Jack retires after 41 years; Trail and Rossland favour 'Free Calling'; 18,000 attended civil defense show; Kootenay Company joins B.C. Tel.; wonderful photo of 'sky-riders' working on lines over the Columbia River at Trail; North Van. goes automatic; Stirling Ross closes 50 year career; Nice photos of some of the company's heavy work gangs in the field; Photos of the company's war against winter; Company expansion sets new record; List of Exchanges - # of lines operating per community; Albion-Belmont Colquitz Cut-over; Radiotelephone network still expanding - article with 2 maps; Stirling Ross - in Memoriam, with photo; Port Coquitlam Photos; photos of a cable repair off Mayne Island; new New West Plant Center building; Cranbrook construction - photo of breaking ground; Editor of Telephone Talk, Peard Sutherland passes away - article with photo; Chilliwack joins B.C. Tel; photos of some of the equipment used to serve the British Empire Games in Vancouver; British Empire Games Transmitted in Record time - 2 page article; Inside New Westminster; Victoria Expansion Photos; A.H. Lemmon - Memoriam with photo; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of company employee E.P. LaBelle stamped on top and bottom edges of text. Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: "All circuits are busy; I will call you" - the phrase of operators dealing with heavy traffic; Good-bye to the Seymour and Trinity manual offices - photos; Photo of the ladies of the Nelson small bore rifle club; adding switching equipment in Victoria; Gas masks, helmets, and more in Alma operating room - photo; Action photo of the First Vancouver Cadet Training Corps; Record load of telephone calls handled in B.C. in 1942 - article and photos; George Friend - Alma plant man - article and photos; Second birthday of the Van-Tel Credit Union; A few lines from the front lines - parts of letters from phone men on active service; John Jessop dies - photo and article; Back cover wartime announcement "Be Careful What You Say"; Photos of females filling in for males in the Vancouver Engineering department; Victory Bond ad.; Wire Shortage - here's why; "Behind the Lines!" - by George Matthew Adams; Wartime Problems of Telephone Business set forth in Annual Report; Great Cheque mystery solved by new payroll machine - 2 pages of photos and text; Popular traffic official dies - Robert A Henderson; Honour Roll, World War II; Honour Roll, World War I; Credit Union article; Letter by operator Elsie Forman; variety of photos emphasizing wartime parts shortages and recycling; Victory Bond ad.; E.E. (Slim) Sinden, wire chief at Chilliwack; Operator's form association; Roland Arthur Chute, former Kamloops Manager, retires; John Sowerby - survived fire and earthquake to become a phone man - article and photos; P.J. (Pete) McCormick retires; Illustrated letter from G.R. Peakes, Major-General, G.O.C.-in-C., Pacific Command, saluting the telephone industry; Many additional war photos/content; Using phones to report forest fires; Article on operator 'Quiz Kids' - information operators; honour roll of employees who have joined the war effort; Oliver Plant man Reuben Echlis retires; article from Reader's Digest arguing for wartime wage and price controls; James D. Baker passes away; William Henry Cooke retires; Update from Pipe-Major Edmund Esson in Sicily; Ex-operators rally to aid of telephone company, including newspaper ad.; Miss Leonie Michaud retires; Hockey star and telephone man Leslie Steel dies in Vancouver; many wonderful Victory Garden photos; war bond ad; Victory Loan depends on the Phone; Introducing Jack Veitch; Ads showing the wartime contributions of operators; in memory of Henry G. E. Goult; Victoria construction gang at work in photos; Photo of Victoria's operators at work; Farewell to Ernest F. Helliwell; Cranbrook operator, Minnie Egan, retires; Edward Dawson dies suddenly; Sergeant James Clark, R.C.A.F., reported a missing; Ernest S. Harris bids farewell; Cover photo of Pilot Officer Gordon Heselton, the first B.C. man to win a decoration in WWII (with story inside); photo of '25 club' war savings stamp booklet; 40 miles of phone bills - many photos; Record long distance load in 1943 but local calls show decline; John D. Johnston, general commercial manager; Full page instructions with the heading "Strict Conservation of Paper now a Necessity"; Jim Baigent and Arthur (Pop) Harness retire; "Lick Stamps to Lick Hitler" on back cover of one issue; Telephone Talk is shrunk to conserve paper; Net Revenue decrease in 1943; Full-page article o Book
Complete quarterly periodical nicely bound in green buckram - one volume per year ; State University of Iowa Library; 8vo
170 pp. Bibliography of books [in English] about Bethune. Eighty-five black and white reproductions of documents. Opens with an informative fifteen page footnoted introduction by David Lethbridge. Dr. Norman Bethune [1890-1939] is revered to this day in China for his front-line medical service to the Communist Army in the late 1930s. "But from the moment he joined the Communist Party of Canada, the RCMP secret intelligence division kept extensive and detailed files on his every move. Only recently declassified, and fully reproduced for the first time in this volume, are the actual secret police files on Bethune. Never before have Bethune's own words spoken so clearly about the political convictions and personal courage that have led him to be remembered as a revolutionary militant of 'absolute selflessness.'" - back cover. Former library copy with usual markings and above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
A livre d'artiste beautifully illustrated by Paul Baudier, one of the great book artists of the 20th century, with 20 ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE ETCHINGS (with aquatint) AND NUMEROUS WOOD-ENGRAVINGS. Edition limited to 580 numbered copies, of which this is ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES (tÍte) PRINTED ON FINE ANTIQUE JAPANESE PAPER, WITH THE ETCHINGS IN THREE STATES. 4to. Original wraps. Uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT. sxxi Paul Baudier
pp. xii, 306, [1] map. Eighteen black and white photographic plates. "The story of the campaigns is the framework in which is set the picture of our gallant men, and the actual conditions of their soldierlife, as I knew them during more than two years of close intimacy on the shell-swept Peninsula of Gallipoli, in the Egyptian desert, and along the banks of the Tigris, in that forlorn land of mighty memories." - Foreword. William Ewing (1857-1932) was a Chaplain attached to the 4th Battalion of the Royal Scots. Former library copy with usual markings. Above-average wear to publisher's navy blue cloth. Binding intact. Gilt lettering upon spine remains legible. 20 x 14cm. No dust jacket. Enser p.221. Book
Pages 321-360 plus xx pages of ads. Features: Mrs. Guy Norman's Sicilian Garden - The Seat and Canopy in the Garden Wall, plus color cover photo of her garden; Notable American Gardens - Mrs. Guy Norman's Sicilian Garden at Beverly Cove, MA; Historic Mansions of the James River - I - "Martin's Brandon," the Home of the Harrisons (including one-page photo of front entrance pocked with civil war bullet holes; Wonders of the Gourd Vine; Curtains and Draperies; The Wild Garden - a Plea for our Native Plants; An Old Brick House of Interesting Form at Wellesley Hills, MA - built for E.H. Fay, Esq.; The Summer Home of Thomas Nash, Esq., at East Hampton, Long Island; Something Concerning Driveways; The House of J.J. Storrow, Esq., Lincoln, MA; New Ant Lore; Great one-page photo-illustrated ad for the Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. and its porcelain enameled ware; Photo ad for Flandrau & Co., maker of Automobile Bodies and Carriages; One-page illustrated ad for Chickering & Sons pianos; Charming back cover two-color photo ad for Lenox Chocolates / Necco Sweets made by the New England Confectionary Co.; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
38" wide by 25.5" high. Dated June, 1944. Moderate wear. Nice copy. Map
20 pages. Features: The Big Sleep - There are now more than 300,000 federal civil servants; Ghost of the Hardy Boys - will the real Franklin W. Dixon please stand up; Great full-page colour ad for Colonel Sanders and Kentucky Fried Chicken; The War Brides, 30 Years Later; Frank Torpey - Director of Security for the National Hockey League - article with photo; Doug Wright's Family. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
116 pages plus advertisements. Fold-out map of Gallipoli Peninsula. Frontis portrait of author. Additional maps and portraits interspersed throughout. Thrilling World War I history. Above-average wear. Prior owner's name and date upon half-title page, which is the first leaf. A worthy copy. Book
xii, 323 pp. Black and white maps and reproductions of archival photos. First English edition. "Describes all the Estonian military units of the Second World War. These units fought the Soviets who invaded the independent State of Estonia in 1940, destroying its independence and freedom. The Soviets killed and deported to Siberian forced labour camps over sixty thousand Estonians in 1940/41. [This book is] a collective effort of a group of retired Canadians of Estonian heritage [which] shows what kind of people the communists are." - Foreword. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A must-read for anyone of Estonian extraction. Book
#355 of 800 printed. 52 unnumbered pages. Text in French. Oblong 27.5 cm x 21.5 cm. Undated but probably circa 1920. Approximate translation of handwritten inscription on second leaf indicates this copy was presented to Georges Soulier, officer des Chars d'Assaut 505e regiment A.S. under order of the American Army, 5th Division, 79e Division, 90th Division. On the same page an additional inscription signed by Nouliel (?) in 1928 appears to read "a mon bon ami Carlton B. Overton en Souvenir de la guerre 1914-1918." Profusely illustrated with black and white photos of French tank action in WWI. Includes photos of those killed in action and chronology of action on the French Front. Pencil underlining on one page. Covers and pages embrittled with age, with resultant chipping. Covers and dedication page almost loose. A rare surviving copy of this important history. Book
Boldy signed and generically inscribed by Piper upon title page. 128 pages. Index. Footnotes. Black and white reproductions of photos. "The secret history of how America's 'Neo-Conservative' (neo-con) Trotskyites came to power and orchestrated the war against Iraq as the first step in their drive for global empire." - subtitle. "Writing about these subjects is 'radical' and 'controversial,' but it's a dirty job and someone has to do it. I make no apologies for telling the truth." - page 128. A well-studied copy with considerable pencil underlining and marginalia throughout and spine rolled. Piper (1960-2015) was a prominent talk show host and prodigious author whose works include such titles as "Confessions of an Anti-Semite". Book
Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. 42, [2] one-sided pages. Black and white reproductions of photos, maps, and many fascinating wartime documents. Undated but appears to be circa 1989. "I compliment you on your vivid account of your capture and escape at Verrieres Ridge. It is fascinating and very well expressed. I wouldn't suggest you change a word." - Col. C.C.I. Merritt V.C. Author's address ink stamped inside back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. A sound copy of this important and dramatic personal WWII account. Book
Cover photo of Klansman holding child, both dressed in Klan attire. Features: What's wrong with germ warfare? - Dr. Clifford F. Rassweiler; Blandness in the White House; The Future of the Republican Party, by Dwight D. Eisenhower; The Klu Klux Klan - We've Got Nothing to Hide - article with many excellent colour photos; Bosses make lousy lovers - Helen Gurley Brown; Mastah Freddy's modest miracle - Lt. Fred Hargesheimer couldn't forget the natives who saved his life when he crashed in New Britain during the Pacific War; The house that art built - MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art; Filet of hippo, anyone? - the National Zoo Restaurant in Washington, DC; The masquerade of a counterfeit doctor - Thomas M. Novak. Several great full-page colour car ads, including the Ford Mustang. Great colour ad for a Honda 50 which gets 200mpg. Above-average wear to covers which have some tears, otherwise clean and unmarked. Book
Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
Signed and dated by author upon first blank leaf. 807 pages including extensive index, numerous fold-outs and black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. Describes in detail Canada's part in the Italian campaign - the operations which began with the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and, developing into an arduous advance up the Italian peninsula, ended with the German capitulation in May 1945. Directed primarily to the general reader, and particularly to the Canadian reader who wishes to know what the Canadian Army accomplished and why its operations took the course they did. Gilt emblem and lettering upon red cloth boards. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
[xii], 366 pages. Glossary. Index. Colour map endpapers. Black and white photographic plates. Diagrams. Ten appendices list various officers, appointees, those killed in action in WWII, the Korean Campaign, and with U.N. forces in the Middle East, and those who received awards in WWII, the Korean Campaign, and in peacetime since 1946. Four fold-out maps, three of which are in colour. Minor soiling and wear to blue cloth-covered boards. Contents very clean, bright and unmarked. Binding sound. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this important Canadian military history reference. DORNBUSCH 181, COOKE p.179. Book
x, 214 pp. Index. Foldout map. Seven black and white plates. First published in the U.S. in 1942. "Compiled under the auspices of the Research Institute for Peace and Post War Problems of the American Jewish Committee, New York. [The author] is able to lay bare every step taken by the Nazis to impose their evil will upon Poland; he describes too the resistance and underground activities of the population in opposition to the invader. Poland is being used by the Nazis as a testing ground for their scheme for a future German colonial empire in Europe. This book is of the utmost importance as an analysis of the evil which the United Nations have to combat." - dust jacket. Moderate wear to publisher's black cloth which is lettered in silver with red trim upon backstrip. Binding sound. Gentle toning to clean and unmarked contents. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this important work compiled while the final outcome of WWII was unknown. Kehr & Langmaid 5414, Wiener Library Catalogue Seven 983. Book
It is hard to imagine McCrae and Sousa had any idea their work would remain so prominent all these years later. 6 pages with cover illustration of red poppies adorning military cemetery lined with white crosses. Above-average wear. Music store stamp and bit of writing upon front cover. Small sticker removal mark on back cover. A worthy vintage copy of this historic work. Book
479 pages. Glossary. Footnotes. Index. Black and white reproductions of photos. "Phoenix was the final solution to the problem posed by those Vietnamese civilians who supported the armed Vietcong insurgents. In the end, an estimated 40,000 Vietnamese were killed and countless atrocities were perpetrated in the name of 'neutralizing' the Vietcong 'infrastructure'. This work is nothing less than a meticulous historical narrative of Phoenix from its roots through its tragic conclusions, based upon four years of research and interviews with over one-hundred program participants." - dust jacket. "Outlines in careful detail how the CIA ran a computerized assassination and torture program in Vietnam, violating laws and especially human morality." - John Prados. In 2014 NYU media studies professor Mark Crispin Miller selected this as one of the top five books actively suppressed and hidden from Americans. - RT. Unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
16 pages. Features: George Viereck responds to alleged inaccuracies in the New York Times; German Brutality - Louvain (Leuven), Belgium; Where the Jews Stand - Leon Sanders writes about the Czar; The Expansionn of Russia - by David S. Levy; S.C. Nukerji, President of the Independent Hindusthan Society, offers sympathy to the people of Germany and Austria; Are the Germans justified in punishing Antwerp?; H.G. Wells and the War, by R.L. Orchelle; The Treason - a poem by Ernest Bruncken; Illustration of an imagined conversation between the Kaiser and Uncle Sam; Four Weeks of German Strategy - a review of events of the war; Prof. John W. Burgess Champions Germany (part 1); What other publications are saying about us; Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this rare early issue. Magazine
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Michel the Spy - a remarkable WWI character; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part II - "Shooting" big game with a camera - article with great photos; A Bid for a Bride - love finds a way in the lonely outpost of Mersa Matruh, Egypt; Four-Figure Milestones; Seeking Six Million Pounds - recovering gold and silver from the White Star liner 'Laurentic' which was sunk off the coast of Ireland in January 1917; Through the East By Air - Part IV - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; Diamond Cut Diamond - farmhand matches wits with farmer who cheats his men of their wages; Adrift in Mid-Air - French artilleryman M. Clinckmaille was carried high in the air by a runaway observation balloon - suspended by his leg!; Restoring the Dead to Life! - The Secrets of Katsu, known to the Japanese for two thousand years, but jealously guarded from the outside world - fascinating article with photos; A Race for Life in Death Valley - The ordeal of two motorcyclists who attempted to drive through Death Valley during the hottest month of the year - article with great photos; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part IV - A trap is set for George Keene; Magalloway's Grizzly - life and death encounter with a Wyoming rancher; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, double-page facsimile and 2 large folding maps on japon; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presention. The original South African edition, published by Constable, was published a year before the standard trade edition.